Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

After intense construction, the Capital Agricultural Tool Factory has begun to take shape. Factories, workshops, family compounds, and everything else are available. The once desolate Shahe area has thus become prosperous.

About one kilometer from the gate of the Capital Agricultural Tool Factory is Xiaowang Village. At the entrance of Xiaowang Village is a large courtyard with three layers. Before liberation, it was once the residence of the great landlord of Xiaowang Village. Afterwards, things changed, and the courtyard also experienced countless storms. The bullet holes on the walls and the old locust tree in the courtyard with its trunk burned out all demonstrate the complex past.

Due to its age, the houses here had been vacant for a long time until recently, when they became lively again.

First to be repaired was the outer courtyard. A layer of plastic sheeting was nailed to the roof here, and a round chimney made of thin sheet metal was poked out of the window. Thick smoke billowed out, and drops of black oil flowed down the chimney, falling to the ground and forming a coal tar icicle.

The chimney led to an iron stove in the room, where coal was burning vigorously, and the whole room was no longer like an ice cellar as it had been in the past.

Desks and benches were placed in the room, and dozens of people sat there, chin in hand, looking at the blackboard in front.

A young girl stood on the podium, wearing a goose-yellow woolen coat, revealing the collar of a red turtleneck sweater. With her ear-length short hair, bright eyes, and white teeth, the atmosphere of youth filled her. At this time, she held chalk in her right hand and quickly wrote letters on the blackboard, soon writing a whole line.

"Now, repeat after me," the girl said in fluent English: "I am Chinese, I love My Country."

The same voice sounded below, but the tone was a bit strange.

"This sentence means, I am Chinese, I love my country. Now, let me explain the grammatical structure. Here, it is a common subject-verb-complement structure…"

At the door, Qin Yang stood there, listening for a while. When he heard these words, he nodded in satisfaction, turned his head back, and said to the person next to him: "Uncle Dong, this teacher you hired is good!"

The two formally became partners, one as general manager and the other as chairman. When no one else was around, Qin Yang was polite in his address.

Leader Dong smiled and said, "That's for sure. Our group of salesmen will often deal with foreigners in the future, so we must never relax their patriotic education."

"Well, this foreign language teacher also serves as a ideological and political teacher, not bad, not bad!"

"Our class has been open for three days, and you haven't officially met the teacher yet. Do you want to chat with her?"

"No, I'm just here to take a look, I have to hurry back to the factory. Uncle Dong, I'll leave it to you here!"

Leader Dong's face was smiling: "You, you're not afraid of anything, but you're afraid of dealing with women. Are women tigers? Can they eat you?"

"I don't want to spend my time on women." As they spoke, they had already walked to the door. Here, the sign of Fangbei Industrial Company had just been hung up, and the paint was not yet dry.

"Engineer Qin!" At this time, several people were standing next to the sign looking at it. They happened to meet Qin Yang coming out and immediately called out.

Qin Yang looked over in surprise: "Old Wang, why are you here?"

"Well, Engineer Qin, we've come to you shamelessly." Old Wang said with a smile: "Let me introduce you. This is Director Luo of our Factory 296, this is Section Chief Zhu of our sales department, we…"

The three of them rushed from the distant mountain city, traveling long distances, and after inquiring for a long time, they found the location of this company. They had just looked at the sign outside when they happened to meet Qin Yang. It was a case of good timing.

"Old Luo, Old Wang, it's been a long time since we've seen each other, and Little Zhu, come on, let's go in and talk, President Qin, you come too." Leader Dong said.

Qin Yang had many titles. Some of the old people who were close to him called him Engineer Qin, others in the factory called him Section Chief Qin, and here at the newly established Fangbei Industrial Company, he was officially President Qin.

"That's right, you are already President Qin, we called you the wrong thing. President Qin, will you give Old Wang some face?" Old Wang said with a smile.

"Old Wang, you are too polite." Qin Yang said: "You are a senior veteran in our firearms manufacturing, how dare I not listen to your instructions? Come on, let's go in and talk."

The courtyard was large, but most of it had not yet been cleaned up. Only the outer courtyard was cleaner. The main room was used as a classroom, the east room as an office, and the west room as a warehouse.

Several people entered the east room, and Qin Yang naturally sat on a desk chair with English books on it: "Everyone, what are your instructions? I'm very busy, so let's skip the pleasantries and get down to business."

"Instructions are out of the question." Old Wang said: "President Qin, we heard that this time you have an export order of 50,000 Type 56 assault rifles with foreigners. Can you give it to our Factory 296 to produce?"

"Yes, now that our Fangbei Industrial Company has been established, we must seek benefits for our various military factories." Zhu Yongli said.

"Seek benefits? No, no, you are wrong." Qin Yang said: "These gun orders have nothing to do with Fangbei Industrial Company. They are agreements directly signed between our Capital Agricultural Tool Factory and the customer."

"But, your factory doesn't have much spare production capacity either. Although you have moved out and the scale of the factory has expanded a lot, your production tasks are also more numerous. Civilian air guns, military sniper rifles, recent heavy machine guns, and I heard there are also artillery shells. I'm afraid you don't have the spare capacity to produce this batch of exported Type 56s, do you?" Zhu Yongli continued.

Fifty thousand pieces, with a delivery deadline of one year. Can the Capital Agricultural Tool Factory produce them?

"Well, that is indeed a problem."

"President Qin, if our Capital Agricultural Tool Factory can't produce them, then divide some to the brother units." Leader Dong said.

"Chairman, what era is this? You're still talking about brother units. Now, the superior leaders have said that there must be competition, only competition can lead to development!"

"President Qin, our Factory 296 is the largest firearms production factory in the country, how can we be afraid of competition? You say how to compete!" Luo Jianshe spoke for the first time.

"Well, with Old Wang here, I can't not give you face. How about this, tell me, what is the quotation for your production of Type 56s?"

"Quotation?"

"Yes, you calculate the production cost and profit, and tell me how much money per piece is appropriate for us. If we think it is acceptable, we can give you this batch of orders for OEM production."

OEM production? Several people understood.

They originally wanted the Capital Agricultural Tool Factory to directly transfer the order to them for direct production. But now? The Capital Agricultural Tool Factory actually wants to be a middleman!

"Hmph, if you don't give it, then don't give it! Our Factory 296 has plenty of military orders, we don't care about these 50,000 rifles." Zhu Yongli stood up first.

This is clearly bullying!

"Everyone, take care." Qin Yang had no intention of retaining them: "Actually, when it comes to producing Type 56s, Factory 626 is more professional, they have already quoted us…"

When Qin Yang said this, he was a little thirsty, so he grabbed the water glass next to him and took a big gulp. Well, the taste of this tea is good!