The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 298 Surprise
There are many comprehensive considerations behind choosing Tin Shui Wai and Tung Chun Wai.

First of all, this place is very close to Pengcheng. Tin Shui Wai is less than 5 kilometers away, and Tung Chun Wai is only 200 meters away.

Secondly, he owns a large tract of land here, which is very cheap and suitable for building factories and development.

As one company after another announced plans to build factories in Tin Shui Wai and Tung Tin Town, and the Hong Kong government announced the construction of two roads leading to Tin Shui Wai and Tung Tin Town, these two places suddenly became hot spots.

Liu Tao arranged an office building for each of the companies, and then let them operate on their own. Those who needed to recruit people did so, and those who needed to find companies to build factories built factories.

The effect of this measure is very obvious. The number of people recruited by just a few companies in Hong Kong to work in their headquarters buildings totals more than 5000. Add to that the workers needed to build factories, and the number of jobs provided is tens of thousands.

The construction of trunk roads will provide more than 20,000 jobs.

This immediately made Hong Kong much more stable.

During the construction period, the number of jobs provided by engineering construction alone exceeded 50,000.

At the end of September, Liu Tao left Hong Kong and returned to Panshan Machinery Factory.

After being away for a month, what was left to Liu Tao were mountains of weapons, ammunition, shells, as well as tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and infantry fighting vehicles!
Liu Tao sighed and knew he would be busy for another day.

Liu Tao first tested the firearms. His eyes lit up: "The pass rate is over 95%? It seems that I won't be needed for firearms testing in the future!"

After years of hard work and continuous efforts in production quality, we have finally achieved today's results.

To be honest, it has not been easy to get to this point this year.

A special quality department was set up to control quality, and special production rules and regulations were formulated to regulate workers' production. Workers are required to produce in accordance with the rules and regulations. The emphasis is on quality and continuous corrections have been made since 1978, for a full four years.

What this shows is that the technical level of the quality inspection department has been improved and the quality inspection personnel team has received strong training.

As for the production department, the workers' technology in producing firearms has matured, the technical level has been greatly improved, and the corresponding supporting factories can provide military factories with parts with almost 100% qualification rate.

"Sure enough, the saying 'practice makes perfect' is still very applicable unless it involves the true essence of technology." Liu Tao thought to himself. When checking the bullets and shells, Liu Tao found that except for special bullets and shells, the pass rate of other bullets and shells also reached 95%.

For example, the pass rate of ordinary bullets for heavy sniper rifles is over 95%.

Liu Tao ordered people to move all the boxes containing guns to the warehouse.

He signed some relevant documents and said, "From now on, these firearms and ordinary bullets will no longer need to be tested by me. After your quality inspection department finally passes them, they can enter the warehouse."

"But don't be happy too soon. I will conduct random inspections in the warehouse from time to time. If I find that the quality has dropped significantly, then your quality inspection department will be punished." Liu Tao reminded them.

The quality inspection department is a very special department, which is directly led by Liu Tao and then extends to various companies. Their responsibility is to control product quality.

This product is both a military product and a civilian product.

Without inspection by the quality inspection department, it is impossible for the product to leave the factory.

Moreover, the quality inspection department not only checks its own production quality, but also controls the quality of spare parts and materials provided to them.

"Please rest assured, Director. We will keep up the good work and raise the pass rate to 80% as much as possible, and strive to raise the excellent rate to over %!" The people in the quality inspection department assured one by one.

As the porters carried guns and bullets to the warehouse, Liu Tao was also testing the shells.

Many of these shells were not produced by Panshan Machinery Factory, but by other military factories. After these shells were produced, they were transported to Panshan Machinery Factory for Liu Tao's final inspection.

These shells, of different models, have different weights.

Even tank shells have different diameter specifications, and even shells of the same caliber have different functions.

There is even a difference between training ammunition and live ammunition!

Each different type of shell will have slightly different logos and colors.

The most expensive shell is a special 120mm tank main gun shell. This shell has extremely amazing destructive power and extremely terrifying armor-piercing ability.

The shells without problems were moved to the warehouse by the porters, while the shells with problems were picked out and analyzed one by one.

If there is a problem with the artillery shells, the consequences will be disastrous.

It was relatively easy to accept that the shells did not explode after being fired, since there was no problem with the shells themselves. But if there was a problem with the shells, causing them to explode directly, then that would be a real problem.

If a shell explodes, the barrel will be severely damaged, and the barrel will be scrapped, which means the tank loses its combat effectiveness and needs to be replaced, which takes a lot of time. In serious cases, the entire tank will be destroyed or even the ammunition will explode, which is absolutely catastrophic. In this case, the loss may be millions or even tens of millions of dollars.

If there happens to be a commander nearby, the commander will be killed directly, or even the war will be lost as a result, the loss will be even greater.

It's not just tank shells, the same principle applies to other shells.

In this regard, Liu Tao is never careless.

Of course, these problematic shells will not be destroyed directly after being picked out, as that would be a waste. Liu Tao will take them to his own production workshop and repair the problems of these shells one by one.

Several quality inspectors looked at these defective shells, each with a bitter look on their face.

No one questioned Liu Tao's judgment, because countless experiences have shown that if Liu Tao said there was a problem, then there really was a problem.

Everyone has unconditional trust in Liu Tao because he has demonstrated time and again through experience that he is right and his judgment will never be wrong.

Although it is incredible, this is how metaphysical things are.

What they fear most is finding problems, as these may affect their bonuses, performance appraisals and promotions.

When he finished all this, the sky had begun to brighten, and Liu Tao couldn't help but stretch and yawn.

Even though he was very strong, he still felt a little overwhelmed to do so many things at once.

The driver took Liu Tao home. Liu Tao took a shower, then lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

As soon as he returned to Panshan Machinery Factory, he started to work busy until now, which really exhausted him.

This is because guns and bullets do not require too much time, otherwise the work in the quality inspection room cannot be completed.

It was probably only three seconds after Liu Tao lay down that he fell asleep and began to snore.

If someone were here, they would find it incredible that someone could fall asleep so quickly! The snoring would be deafening.

(End of this chapter)