The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 15: Touch and you will know
The next day, around ten o'clock.

Liu Tao arrived at the office late.

Colleagues in the technical department are no longer surprised by this.

"Comrade Liu Tao, these are the second batch of new pistols, 200 in total. Please check them." Zhang Hongjun came over with a large box.

Zhang Hongjun felt so aggrieved because he was the deputy factory director and was in charge of quality.

However, in the new production quality system, the person who finally signed was Liu Tao.

Only with Liu Tao's signature does it mean that this batch is qualified and can be shipped out of the factory and delivered to the troops.

Sometimes when Zhang Hongjun looked in the mirror, he would ask himself whether he was the deputy factory director or Liu Tao was the deputy factory director.

But there was no way out. Wang Tiezhu strongly supported Liu Tao, and Liu Tao had convinced everyone during this period. He had just made a big mistake, so he could only accept it with a pinch of his nose.

"Deputy Director Zhang, thank you for your help." Liu Tao said.

In the production quality system, Liu Tao is the leader of the leadership group, and Zhang Hongjun and Lin Shengli are deputy leaders.

Liu Tao had no choice but to accept this as these people were simply too unreliable.

Squatting down and opening the box, Liu Tao first looked at the list. Each pistol had a corresponding number. In addition to the signature of the final assembler, there were also signatures of the gun tester and the quality personnel.

In addition to giving one copy of this list to the delivery unit, another copy is kept on file at the factory to directly assign responsibility to each person.

The person who signed the list at the end was Liu Tao.

I checked and everyone signed.

Liu Tao picked up the pistol and could clearly see the three-dimensional image in the virtual panel.

Whether there are any problems, unqualified, qualified, good or excellent, they are all clearly displayed.

Liu Tao can know the condition of each gun without testing it.

After implementing the production quality system, although the efficiency was not high at the beginning, the pass rate and excellent rate have risen sharply.

The 100 pistols delivered earlier were highly praised by the troops in just two days.

"This kid just likes to cheat. He just picked up the pistol without trying it out. How can he know if it is up to standard?" Zhang Hongjun couldn't help but mutter to himself when he saw Liu Tao pick up a pistol and put it aside.

The same thing happened last time.

In Zhang Hongjun's mind, Liu Tao was just pretending in order to hold on to power.

"Hmm?" Liu Tao frowned slightly, picked out a pistol and placed it on the table.

This pistol is unqualified.

Red dot, very obvious.

Then, continue to pick them up one by one.

"Deputy Director Zhang, there is a problem with these two pistols." Liu Tao closed the box and pointed at the two pistols he had picked out and placed on the table.

Zhang Hongjun: "Comrade Liu Tao, how do you know there are problems with these two pistols if you don't even test them?"

There was dissatisfaction in his tone.

How can you do things like this? Just pick two guns at random and judge them as unqualified!
"Deputy Director Zhang, I improved this pistol. I know it very well. No one in the world knows it better than me." Liu Tao said confidently: "I'll touch it to see how heavy it is. Once I feel it, I'll know if there is any problem."

Zhang Hongjun was furious. Is this some kind of metaphysics?

What era is this!

Before, even Confucius, who was revered as the "teacher of all ages" by later rulers, was pulled down from the altar, not to mention demons and monsters.

"Comrade Liu Tao, if anything goes wrong, you will be responsible for it," said Zhang Hongjun.

If there is a problem with the quality of the gun, several people will be implicated.

At the very least, the bonus will be reduced, and at the worst, the whole factory will be criticized and recorded in the file. Liu Tao said: "If there is a mistake, I will take responsibility."

Then, he called the quality inspector, the production workshop director Zhao Gang, and the assembly workshop director Zhang Wan.

Several people stared at each other, unable to tell the difference between the two guns.

"Comrade Liu Tao, you may have seen it wrong, there is nothing wrong with this gun." Zhao Gang said: "It has fired three magazines of bullets, and there is nothing wrong with it."

"Everyone is very serious now, there will be no mistakes. I have loaded a magazine into this gun." Zhang Wan also said.

Liu Tao smiled faintly and said, "If there is any problem, you can tell after opening it."

As he spoke, Liu Tao picked up the first gun and quickly disassembled it into parts.

Then, Liu Tao picked up the trigger and said, "Look, look at this trigger, there is a corner missing."

Everyone looked at the small corner missing from the trigger and was shocked.

Liu Tao actually discovered such a small flaw.

"Don't underestimate the fact that it's just a missing corner. It has a ripple effect on the entire body. Maybe because of this missing corner, the trigger will break or loosen on the battlefield. Think about it, fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, and the trigger of our officers and soldiers' pistols breaks. Wouldn't that be fatal?" said Liu Tao.

Afterwards, Liu Tao dismantled another pistol.

This pistol has some deviation in the rifling.

Liu Tao picked up the measuring tool and started measuring.

After three consecutive measurements, all of them deviated from the designed values.

"Comrades, we must strictly control the quality. Any quality gun leaving our factory will endanger the lives of the soldiers and will be a crime." Liu Tao said in a deep voice.

The others had nothing to say at this time.

After all, there is a problem. It is obvious and cannot be denied.

After a few people left, Liu Tao drank some water.

Among 200 pistols, only two pistols failed to meet the quality standards. The pass rate is as high as 99%, which is already very high. He is very satisfied with this pass rate.

Next, they checked the bullets. The technology and process for bullets were very mature. Among the 20,000 bullets, Liu Tao did not find any problem with any of them.

Soon, the two pistols were reassembled and handed over to Liu Tao.

Liu Tao signed his name on the list only after he saw that there was no problem.

"By the way, Deputy Director Zhang, I have improved the automatic rifle. Let's go to the director later and call Director Tang by the way." Liu Tao said.

"So fast? Haven't you been mainly repairing machines during this period? How come the automatic rifle has been improved as well? Have all the problems been found?" Zhang Hongjun's eyes widened, with a look of disbelief.

Yesterday, they saw Liu Tao testing his gun at the shooting range.

Is it all resolved now?
Liu Tao smiled and said, "I am young, so three or four hours of sleep a day is enough. I can solve the problem and make arrangements as soon as possible to wash away the stain on our factory."

"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to deliver this batch of pistols to the troops, and then we'll go find the factory director," said Zhang Hongjun.

During this period, the idea that "practice is the sole criterion for testing truth" was prevalent in the factory and was deeply imprinted in everyone's mind.

Seeking truth from facts and not falsifying information has become everyone's code of conduct.

Whether Liu Tao has solved the gun problem or not, we will know when we take it out and try it out.

Whether it is a mule or a horse, you can tell clearly by taking it out for a walk.

The real can not be fake, the fake can not be real.

Zhang Hongjun then ordered people to take away a box containing 200 pistols and a box containing 2 rounds of bullets.

200 pistols may seem like a lot, but they are actually less than 200 kilograms, so a large box is more than enough. And 2 rounds of ammunition weigh only 225 kilograms, so two boxes are more than enough.

(End of this chapter)