Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In his previous life, Li Weidong was not allocated a building until 1987, and he was allocated it as Mr. Li Dengke.

Although Li Dengke is retired, he is still a veteran of the transportation company, and he is relatively high in terms of seniority. If he were a young worker like Li Weidong, he might not be able to get housing when the transportation company goes bankrupt.

However, Li Weidong knew that the quality of the subsequent phases of family housing was very poor.

The two buildings in the first phase of the family home were made of poured concrete and were very solid. In order to keep up with the construction progress, the later family buildings were all floor-slab buildings, and the construction quality dropped several grades.

In the 1980s, in order to reduce costs and facilitate construction, many floor-slab houses were built in China. The safety factor of these floor-slab houses was not high, and most importantly, they were not earthquake-resistant.

Once an earthquake occurs, a house with floor slabs will be worse than a brick house. If a brick house collapses, the bricks will turn into pieces. As long as a person protects his head, there is a high chance of survival. But if a house with floor slabs collapses, the entire floor will break.

On the face, people may be in bad luck.

Li Weidong remembers that a 5.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in Qinghe City in the 1990s, and half of a building in the family home of a transportation company was destroyed by the earthquake. Fortunately, everyone was walking to work at the time, and no casualties were caused.

Of course, Li Weidong didn't want to live in a low-quality slab house, so he came up with the idea of ​​these 48 concrete houses. However, Li Weidong was not even a middle-level cadre, so it was almost impossible to get a house.

Throughout the meeting, Li Weidong was thinking about getting a house. Until the end of the meeting, Cui Dashan came next to him, and Li Weidong didn't notice it.

"Xiao Li, don't go back to the workshop for a while. Go home to rest and tidy up. I'll send you on a business trip tomorrow." Cui Dashan said.

"Business trip? Where to go?" Li Weidong asked.

"Go to Jicheng City, Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant." Cui Dashan answered.

"Huanghe Factory? Don't they produce heavy-duty trucks?" Li Weidong frowned, and then asked: "Is our company going to buy heavy-duty trucks?"

"You guessed it right." Cui Dashan nodded, and then asked: "Guess what car our company wants to buy?"

"There are only two types of heavy-duty trucks from Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant, one is Loman and the other is Huanghe. I guess the one we want to buy should be the Huanghe Ya62 that was just launched last year!" Li Weidong continued.

"You guessed it right again. I heard that the performance of the Huanghe Ya62 is very good, so our company plans to purchase a batch. This time we will send you to the Jiqi Automobile Manufacturing Plant to inspect the performance of this car on the spot." Cui

Dashan spoke.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said: "If it is the Huanghe Ya62, there is no need to inspect it. There should be no problem. This car uses the technology of Austrian Steyr heavy trucks. It can also be regarded as a half-German car. Its performance must be

Top in the country.”

"You know your stuff! You also know something about this car." Cui Dashan looked at Li Weidong in surprise, and then continued: "Actually, inspecting the car's performance has nothing to do with you. The company specially transferred two experienced people from the freight department

Rich driver to go test drive.”

"There are already experienced drivers, so what else do you need me to do?" Li Weidong asked puzzledly.

"Your mission is to visit the repair shop of Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant and see how they repair Huanghe Ya62." Cui Dashan replied.

"I was sent to learn repair techniques!" Li Weidong nodded.

But Cui Dashan shook his head: "You don't need to learn repair techniques. You just go and see how others repair cars. As long as you can understand them."

"Watch other people repairing cars? As long as you can understand? Why is that?" Li Weidong, a black man, asked.

Cui Dashan explained: "Our company doesn't have heavy-duty trucks. I'm worried that the batch of heavy-duty trucks we bought this time will be more difficult to repair, so I'll send you first to see how other manufacturers repair cars. If you can even see it,

If you understand, I think the masters in our workshop can also repair heavy trucks."

"What do you mean even I can understand!" Li Weidong complained softly.

Cui Dashan's idea is very simple. As a workshop gangster, Li Weidong represents the lowest level of the auto repair workshop. If even the lowest level Li Weidong can understand how to repair the Huanghe Ya62, then other masters in the workshop will naturally also

This car can be repaired.

"Apart from me and the two master drivers at the freight office, who else is going to Jicheng City?" Li Weidong asked again.

"Since we are going to buy a car, Wang Haibin from the purchasing office must be going, but I don't know how many people there are from the purchasing office." Cui Dashan answered.

"It's really a narrow road for enemies!" Li Weidong sighed, and then asked: "So, the person with the highest position who went this time is Wang Haibin?"

"Well, the second one should be you who works for work." Cui Dashan nodded.

"Then I have to listen to Wang Haibin's command?" Li Weidong asked with an unhappy look on his face.

"He is busy negotiating purchases with Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Factory and has no time to direct you." Cui Dashan then comforted: "Your trip to Jicheng will only take four or five days, and two of them are going back and forth.

On the way, we only really stayed at Huanghe Automobile Factory for two or three days. You don't need to pay too much attention to Wang Haibin, just do your job well."

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Back home, Li Weidong was packing his clothes while recalling the heavy truck incident.

In Li Weidong's memory, it was not until 1986 that Qinghe Transportation Company introduced the first batch of heavy-duty trucks. It is now New Year's Day in 1985, which means that this trip to the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant to purchase heavy trucks is destined to return without success.

It may seem impossible now that a state-owned transportation company in a prefecture-level administrative region has no heavy-duty trucks, but in the early 1980s, almost all state-owned transportation companies did not have heavy-duty trucks.

At that time, domestic heavy-duty trucks were given priority to mining companies, and transportation companies were not allocated heavy-duty trucks.

China's first heavy-duty truck was born in 1960. It was the Yellow River Automobile Factory that referenced the appearance of the Skoda 706 heavy-duty truck and hand-built a heavy-duty truck, which is the famous JN150. Mr. Zhu personally inscribed the word "Yellow River" on it,

So far, there was the Yellow River Car.

However, this Huanghe JN150 is a failed product. As a product of the special period of "superior Britain and the United States", the design and quality of the Huanghe JN150 have major flaws.

For example, the Huanghe Factory at that time did not have a large stamping machine, so it was unable to make girders. In the end, the Huanghe Factory bought six jacks and used them to forcefully press out a girder.

In the 1960s, this was an inspirational story about using wisdom to overcome difficulties, and it was widely praised. However, how could the beams made by jacks be compared with those made by stamping machines! The quality is really inferior by several grades.

.

After all, automobile manufacturing requires science and craftsmanship. Auto parts made by local methods may look the same in appearance, but if the craftsmanship is not up to par, the quality is not good.

Without special machine tools, no technical data, lack of funds, shortage of materials, and inexperienced staff, the heavy-duty trucks produced are destined to be useless.

High-end manufacturing cannot be achieved through hard work and cleverness. Technology is the foundation. Domestic heavy-duty trucks are just a showpiece and of poor quality. Therefore, before the 1980s, China's heavy-duty trucks mainly relied on imports.

Foreign exchange is so precious, so imported heavy trucks must of course be given to mining companies that can earn foreign exchange. As for transportation companies, they are not eligible to use imported vehicles.

After the reform and opening up, Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant introduced a heavy-duty truck production line from Romania to produce Roman heavy-duty trucks.

This production line is just an assembly line. All parts need to be imported and then assembled domestically. Many parts are even assembled abroad and then shipped to China.

This assembly model is simpler than SAIC's assembly of Santana, and is obviously not what the country needs.

So in 1983, China National Heavy Duty Truck Co., Ltd. spent US$600 million in foreign exchange to introduce Austrian Steyr truck technology, filling the gap in the domestic heavy truck industry.

This China National Heavy Duty Truck Co., Ltd. later became the China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, a well-known "Chinese-prefixed" enterprise.

Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant has the foundation to produce heavy-duty trucks. They took the lead in digesting part of Steyr heavy-duty truck technology and launched the Huanghe JN162 heavy-duty truck. This truck eventually spawned more than 30 models and was the leading heavy-duty truck in China in the 1980s.

Main model.

What Qinghe Transportation Company values ​​​​now is this Huanghe JN162 heavy truck.

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A total of five people went to Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Factory on this trip. In addition to Li Weidong and the two master drivers from the freight department, the purchasing department also sent two people, namely director Wang Haibin and another clerk.

Qinghe Transportation Company specially sent a BJ212 jeep. Since there were two freight department drivers accompanying it, there was no need to send a special driver. Five people could just squeeze into one jeep.

Although the old Jeep was faster than the old Jiefang, it was not much faster. It took the group nearly six hours to reach Jicheng City.

After checking into the guest house, we spent the night without talking. Early the next morning, the group arrived at the Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

There was a person from the sales department of Huanghe Factory to receive them, and then the group was divided into three parts. Wang Haibin went to discuss purchasing matters with the clerk, the two driver masters went to the site to test the car, and Li Weidong was taken to the repair workshop of Huanghe Factory to visit and study.

The receptionist of Huanghe Factory led Li Weidong to the door of the rework workshop and asked Li Weidong to stand there and wait. He went in first. After a while, the receptionist came out with a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Director Wei, this is Comrade Li from Qinghe Transportation Company who came to visit and study with us." The receptionist said, and then introduced to Li Weidong: "Comrade Li, this is Director Wei Bin of our rework workshop."

"Director Wei, hello, my name is Li Weidong." Li Weidong said in a neither humble nor overbearing tone, while sizing up Wei Bin.

Wei Bin's blue work clothes are spotless, with not even a trace of oil stains. He doesn't look like he works in an auto repair shop at all. He wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses and has a gentle personality, more like a teacher.

Wei Bin just glanced at Li Weidong, and then asked somewhat condescendingly: "Comrade Li, what do you do in your unit?"

"I'm in the auto repair shop." Li Weidong replied.

"Oh, it turns out we are colleagues, so that will be much easier. Do you understand the safety regulations in the workshop?" Wei Bin asked again.

Li Weidong nodded: "You all understand, our workshop organizes safety assessments every month."

"That's fine. If you want to see anything, go in and see for yourself. If you don't understand anything, you can just ask the master in the workshop. In addition, the sink is over there with soap. If you get your hands dirty, just wash them." Wei Bin

After saying that, he stopped talking to Li Weidong and returned to the workshop.

Li Weidong knew that Wei Bin probably thought that he was young and unlikely to have any leadership position, so he had no intention of greeting him at all.

Li Weidong didn't take it seriously. He followed Wei Bin and walked into the rework workshop of Huanghe Factory.

As soon as he entered the workshop, Li Weidong saw a "baby" placed on the right side.

"There is such a car, what a good thing!" Li Weidong couldn't help but get closer.