The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 220 Reorganization
Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, conference room.

A group of leaders sat on chairs, and there were enamel tea cups and a notebook on the table.

The leader occasionally picked up the enamel teacup to drink water, but more often he listened to Liu Tao's report and took notes.

Finally, after Liu Tao finished his work report, he sat down, picked up the cup on the table and took a sip of water.

The most important thing for this visit to the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building is to report on the work.

The first was about the preparations for the restructuring, the second was about the previous resettlement of the third-line factories of the Southwest Ordnance Industry, and the third was a report on the Panshan Machinery Factory's development of the Type 81 heavy tank, Type 81 light tank, Type 81 amphibious tank, and the formation of a combined brigade.

"Comrade Liu Tao, you have done a good job in preparing for the restructuring. Should the headquarters be located in Beijing or in the current Panshan Machinery Factory?" asked Leader Zhang.

Liu Tao thought about this and said, "Leader, the company's headquarters should be located in Kunming."

To be honest, from a geographical perspective, the most suitable place for the headquarters is actually Chengdu or Shancheng.

Chengdu is the real hinterland, and has been the core of the southwest since ancient times, far surpassing Yunnan Province in all aspects. The mountain city has been a military stronghold since ancient times, and now it is a military industrial base, with the Yangtze River as a convenient transportation, making it convenient to go anywhere.

But Liu Tao thought about it carefully and finally decided to place the headquarters in Kunming City.

Firstly, the core Panshan Machinery Factory is in Kun City, which will be the core of the core in the next few years. Secondly, Panshan Machinery Factory originated from Kun City and took root in Yun Province. Now if the headquarters is set up in Rongcheng or Shancheng, he will not be able to face the elders and folks in Yun Province in the future.

Of course, there is another aspect, that is, his layout in Nanyang allows him to understand the latest situation more quickly in Kunming.

Choosing Kunming City as the headquarters has close ties with all levels of Yunnan Province, making it more convenient to get things done.

If the headquarters were placed in Rongcheng or Shancheng, then what he did would be seen by the Yunnan Province as creating trouble.

"According to the resolution from above, the First to Eighth Ministry of Machine Building will be changed into a head office after this year's National Day. Your restructuring will also be carried out at the same time, and you will be established after the National Day." Leader Zhang said in a deep voice.

Liu Tao was secretly surprised. He had thought that the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building would be restructured first, but he did not expect that other ministries would be restructured at the same time.

It seems that the higher-ups are very determined.

Reform and opening up has two meanings: internal reform and external opening up!
This road is not easy to walk on, it is full of thorns and bumps. No one has experience and they are truly crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Such a big move this time is definitely rare.

"I understand!" Liu Tao nodded solemnly.

It is not as simple as just putting up a sign, but it represents the need for transformation in both top and bottom and in thinking.

Even the job titles will be adjusted.

Even after the headquarters is built in Kun City, Liu Tao will have to leave the current Panshan Machinery Factory and go to Kun City.

"Your Panshan Machinery Factory production base has already started construction, which is very good. We agree with your report and will go to the production base in batches, with military and civilian production bases separated." Leader Zhang said, "It will take three to five years to settle all the Southwest Third Line military factories of our weapons industry system!"

Hundreds of third-line factories in the weapons industry system were all handed over to Panshan Machinery Factory. This greatly reduced the energy and financial resources of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, and also avoided bringing burden to the local Yunnan Provincial Defense Management Office and Industrial Bureau.

However, this also caused Panshan Machinery Factory to bear tremendous pressure.

The stall was suddenly set up in a big space.

If it weren't for the smooth military trade exports of Panshan Machinery Factory, which made a lot of money and had continuous income, the capital chain would have been broken long ago.

During this period, people kept mentioning that Panshan Machinery Factory should pay a portion of its profits, but the leaders were unmoved because they knew how big the plate of Panshan Machinery Factory was now. "As for your proposal to ask for some tank production workers to support, in principle there is no problem." Leader Zhang looked at Liu Tao, "But there is a question, can the tank manufacturing plants such as the First Machinery Factory produce these tanks?"

"You must be aware of the current situation at the First Machine Factory. It's not an easy time," said Zhang. "And the troops are also very dissatisfied. The export of Type 59 tanks will have a great impact on the armored strength of the troops."

The streamlining plan is to streamline ordinary troops, but it will have little impact on tank troops, air force and the like, and they will even receive more resources.

As a result, the armored strength of the troops has been weakened because the Type 59 tanks are being exported.

"After the workers are trained, the First Machine Industry Department can produce these three tanks, but it will take at least three years to mass produce them," Liu Tao said. "It involves the construction and improvement of supporting factories, the training of workers, and the upgrading and reconstruction of the production workshop of the First Machine Industry Plant."

"Moreover, these three tanks were developed by our Panshan Machinery Factory. We have a condition. There is no problem with the production by the First Machine Factory, but the three tanks produced cannot be exported. They must be produced by our Panshan Machinery Factory for export." Liu Tao did not think that all the tanks were produced by the Panshan Machinery Factory.

That's unrealistic!

No matter how you consider it, it is unrealistic.

"We agree to your condition." Leader Zhang nodded.

They had encountered a similar problem before, that was the firearms developed by Liu Tao!
The firearms developed by Liu Tao can also be produced by other military factories and equipped to the troops, but they cannot be exported.

Firstly, this is a firearm developed by Liu Tao, and secondly, the price is deliberately lowered to prevent someone from smashing their bowl while eating.

The same goes for tanks.

Advanced weapons are never lacking in buyers in the international market, and they are very popular and in short supply. Many countries have money but cannot buy advanced weapons.

Liu Tao continued to prove this with facts.

Even if they were required to pay half of the contract amount as a deposit, those wealthy individuals wouldn't even blink an eye.

As for the matter of the combined brigade, since the other troops have agreed to it, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building has nothing to say.

A combined forces brigade has 6000 people, which may seem like a lot.

But you have to know that the armed department of Panshan Machinery Factory already has more than 20,000 people.

Each factory has at least one battalion of security forces. There are more than a thousand people in Tazania, and the security company in Hong Kong also has more than a thousand people.

All in all, the number of people belonging to the armed department of Panshan Machinery Factory has exceeded 20,000.

This kind of armed department exists in many state-owned factories, but none of them is as exaggerated as the one in Panshan Machinery Factory.

The combined brigade has 6000 people, which is only about a quarter of the current armed forces of Panshan Machinery Factory.

Of course the most important thing is that the military leaders have agreed, and the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building naturally has no objection.

Departments like the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, which manage the weapons industry, are closely related to the military.

Even in the past, they were directly under the leadership of the military.

Even now, once a war breaks out, military factories will obey the leadership of the troops and produce weapons and ammunition according to the requirements of the troops.

(End of this chapter)