The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 174 No retreat
Liu Tao looked embarrassed.

It's not that he doesn't want to help.

In fact, there are hundreds of these third-line factories, distributed in the three provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and they are all located in hidden places, often far away from cities.

There are more than 200,000 people, including their families, which is a million people.

Panshan Machinery Factory was completely powerless.

With the updating of machinery, assembly line operations and skills training of workers, production efficiency has been greatly improved, and in fact, so many workers are not needed.

There are hundreds of military factories, but their daily output is almost less than that of the current Panshan Machinery Factory.

Not to mention, the production capacity of Panshan Machinery Factory is still in a rapid growth stage.

When these factories are built, Panshan Machinery Factory itself will be able to produce millions of Type 78 pistols, millions of Type 78 pistols, more than 78 Type general-purpose machine guns, more than heavy machine guns, more than heavy sniper rifles, and tens of thousands of anti-aircraft machine guns a year.

As for the production of bullets and artillery shells, it is extremely astonishing.

It is no exaggeration to say that the output of bullets and artillery shells can catch up with the total of other military factories.

Although there are many third-line factories, the production capacity of many of them is not high. The production capacity of hundreds of military factories is probably not as good as that of Panshan Machinery Factory.

This means that if these military factories are incorporated, there will be no need for them to produce weapons and ammunition at all.

But judging from the leadership's attitude, these military factories must be handed over to Panshan Machinery Factory.

Liu Tao frowned. This meant that he had to open up civilian business and build new factories to produce civilian industrial products to feed so many people.

Even though there are more than 200,000 people, and each person's average monthly salary may be only 30 or 40 yuan, there are so many people that if they are paid only according to this salary level, the monthly salary would be 60 to 80 million yuan. It is even possible that the salary alone could reach hundreds of millions.

This is definitely a huge burden.

"Before, when your Panshan Machinery Factory took over other third-tier factories, didn't you do it in batches? Now you can do it in batches and take over all these third-tier military factories in a few years." The leader said slowly, "If we don't have the ability, we won't say anything. If we have the ability, we have to take on the responsibility. We Communists must be brave and responsible."

The other leaders all looked at Liu Tao with agreement.

Liu Tao couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling. This left him no way out.

"Leader, in this case, our Panshan Machinery Factory can take on this burden. However, I also have conditions, and I hope you can agree to them." Liu Tao said with a stiff upper lip.

The leader said, "Just tell us. As long as it's not excessive, the department will definitely support you."

As long as Panshan Machinery Factory takes over these third-line military factories, the burden of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building will be reduced by at least half, and it will have more funds and energy to deal with other third-line military factories and large military factories.

"First of all, our Panshan Machinery Factory will develop business in the civilian field, and we need to adjust the organizational structure, such as learning advanced foreign experience, forming a group, and dividing it into military business and civilian business." Liu Tao kept writing in his notebook, and then spoke.

These were originally his thoughts and plans about Panshan Machinery Factory, but he did not bring them up because the timing was not right.

"This will involve personnel adjustments, including the establishment of a group, which requires strong support from leaders. As for sales in the civilian field, we also need to coordinate and communicate with other ministries," said Liu Tao.

At this time, each system is clearly separated and each is responsible for its own affairs.

"I agree to this in principle. The ministry will coordinate and communicate with other ministries and commissions." The leader said in a deep voice: "If you have any other difficulties, please tell me." The state-owned factories originally implemented the factory director responsibility system.

The factory director is also a senior party official and has great say.

The superior only manages the factory director. As for internal personnel, it is mostly the factory director who makes the appointments and then files them with the superior.

"Secondly, Panshan Machinery Factory will build two production bases in Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, one for weapons industry and one for civilian use. The land needed for the production bases needs to be coordinated by the Ministry, and the construction also requires help from the provinces." Liu Tao said, "Finally, the first batch of college students will graduate after the resumption of the college entrance examination. Please ask the Ministry to assign some of the college students to our Panshan Machinery Factory."

The first batch of college students, junior college students will graduate next year, and undergraduate students will graduate the year after.

As the first batch of college students after the resumption of the college entrance examination, these people are very popular.

Liu Tao naturally hopes that Panshan Machinery Factory can assign more college students.

These college students are easy to train and become talented. After a few years of training, they can become technical and management backbones.

"Your Panshan Machinery Factory will make a list of the required professions and corresponding number of people and submit an application report to the department. In principle, we will support you." The leader nodded slightly.

These conditions are not excessive.

As a pilot for reform, Panshan Machinery Factory can still allow these.

Liu Tao seemed to remember something and patted his head: "Leader, there is another condition. We want to send some people to Hong Kong, Europe and the United States every year to study, broaden their horizons, gain knowledge, and learn some modern corporate concepts."

"This." The leader hesitated for a moment and said, "Comrade Liu Tao, this is not a trivial matter. If someone goes out and doesn't want to come back and runs away, you as the factory director will be held responsible."

"Leader, if it rains, it will rain, and if it gets old, it will get old. If you don't want to work with us for the rejuvenation of China, and don't want to come back and run away, then let him go!" Liu Tao's eyes were full of determination: "Everything has its pros and cons. We can't not do it just because there are disadvantages."

The leader hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, the organization agrees in principle."

If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it.

The leaders agreed to these conditions, which were not excessive.

After the meeting, Liu Tao came to Wang Baoguo's office and couldn't help but complain: "Leader, why didn't you inform me in advance? Can you help me say something?"

"The leaders have said that those who are capable should work harder. I have confidence in you!" Wang Baoguo laughed with a smile on his face.

What Liu Tao didn't know was that it was he who proposed this.

The Fifth Ministry of Machine Building has to deal with so many things that it can be said that even if it has money now, it is still unable to do so.

Originally, various ministries communicated and coordinated and planned to transfer these third-line factories to the local industrial bureau. However, after investigation, they found that the situation was much more serious than they had initially estimated.

If it is simply and crudely assigned to the local industrial bureau, it will be a huge burden for the local industrial bureau and create great pressure on the local government.

Moreover, for these third-line military factories, I am afraid that many of them will eventually be unable to operate and go bankrupt.

Although the word "bankruptcy" is a taboo in this era, state-owned factories are iron rice bowls and the country will not ignore them. So far, no state-owned factories have gone bankrupt. Everyone's understanding of bankruptcy is still stuck in Western capitalist countries, where it is caused by evil capitalists.

(End of this chapter)