The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 52 Rare leisure time
The next day.

Liu Tao got up earlier than usual, and got up at daybreak.

At this time, the bugle call had already sounded.

Construction is about to begin on the huge construction site.

Inside the factory and outside the factory are like two different worlds.

Liu Tao breathed in the fresh air and stretched lazily.

Since returning to Panshan Machinery Factory, I feel much more relaxed today, without having to be so tense.

Liu Tao took a rare walk in the factory early in the morning, listening to the birds singing and smelling the fragrance of flowers and plants.

Panshan Machinery Factory is located in a valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It has inconvenient external transportation and is quite isolated from news. But from a certain perspective, it is a beautiful place with clear water and picturesque scenery.

The negative oxygen ion content in the air here is absolutely off the charts.

I wonder if this will be the working environment that many urban white-collar workers will dream of 40 years from now.

Liu Tao took a walk for a while, then drove the 212 jeep to the construction site.

At this time, busy construction scenes can be seen everywhere.

With the huge investment of manpower, material and financial resources, this place is developing at a rapid pace, with changes taking place everywhere at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There are more than 5,000 construction workers. Although there is a shortage of construction equipment and fewer bulldozers and excavators, the progress of the project is not slow.

At this rate, the project is expected to be completed in another two months.

In order to ensure the safety of electricity and water use at Panshan Machinery Factory, this project also built three small reservoirs specifically for water and electricity supply. After completion, they will also be under the jurisdiction of Panshan Machinery Factory.

The construction of this reservoir required a lot of manpower. After all, the dam was being constructed deep in the mountains with inconvenient transportation, so they had to forcibly open up a passage.

Now is the flood season, and Liu Tao is always worried about safety. After all, if the dam is destroyed, the loss will be huge.

In theory, it would be best to schedule the construction of the reservoir dam during the dry season in September, but time was tight and we had to go ahead with it.

It rained during this period, but fortunately the rain was not too heavy and nothing happened.

"Director, there's a call from above asking you to call back as soon as you get back." Someone in the office shouted to Liu Tao just as he returned to the factory.

Liu Tao walked towards the office and asked, "Which unit is this call from?"

"From the Provincial Defense Management Office."

When Liu Tao heard this, he immediately understood what was going on.

Picking up the phone, "I am Liu Tao, the director of Panshan Machinery Factory. Please help me connect to the Provincial Defense Management Office!"

Soon, the call was connected.

Just as Liu Tao expected, Wang Tiezhu came to him to inform him that the expert group would arrive at Panshan Machinery Factory tomorrow to review the "Type 78" sniper rifle submitted by Liu Tao, and asked Liu Tao to make corresponding preparations.

After Liu Tao hung up the phone, he began to arrange the corresponding work.

By now, the troops on the Western Front had begun to gradually return to their bases, and the situation had eased greatly.

However, the production task of Panshan Machinery Factory is still very heavy. The troops need to replace their weapons with "Type 78" pistols, "Type 78" automatic rifles, "Type 78" light machine guns, and even a large number of "Type 78" heavy machine guns.

As for the Type 78 heavy sniper rifle, the troops no longer purchase it.

The truth is that even if the Type 78 heavy sniper rifle was sold at a discount price, the troops still thought it was too expensive.

The previously provided 'Type 78' heavy sniper rifles are sufficient for use on the front line, and the troops will not purchase them for the time being.

However, the production tasks for other firearms still exist, requiring Panshan Machinery Factory to complete basic production task indicators.

It can be seen that the troops originally wanted to replace the Type 63 automatic rifle, but now they no longer mention the Type 63 automatic rifle, but instead require the Type 78 automatic rifle. The Type 78 heavy sniper rifles produced in the past few days are all prepared to deliver the Iraqi army's orders.

At noon, had lunch.

Liu Tao went to a production workshop that had just been built and put into use.

The machines in the production workshop are all newly manufactured.

For Liu Tao, who has studied these machines thoroughly, manufacturing them is not a difficult task.

This production workshop is specially used to produce the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun.

The production technology requirements for the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun are much higher than those for the 'Type 78' pistol and 'Type 78' automatic rifle, and the production requirements for parts and components have been greatly increased.

The production of the 'Type 78' heavy machine gun is more complicated, which means that the same number of workers can only produce about one-fifth of the 'Type 78' heavy machine guns.

At this time, the workers are carefully producing and processing parts. Qualified parts are transported to the assembly room for assembly.

This group of workers can now produce about three Type 3 heavy machine guns a day.

As people become more proficient and the pass rate continues to improve, this production capacity will be further improved.

"Director, you're here!" Wang Dehua greeted Liu Tao hurriedly when he saw him coming.

Wang Dehua was promoted by Liu Tao to be the director of this production workshop, specifically responsible for the production of the "Type 78" heavy machine gun.

As each production workshop was built and put into use, a director was appointed for each workshop.

Above the director, there is a person in charge who is specifically responsible for the production of a certain type of firearm.

For example, the 'Type 78' automatic rifle production workshop now has three production workshops and three workshop directors.

"How is the delivery going?" Liu Tao asked.

The production of heavy machine guns is related to whether he can complete the order.

"It went smoothly. Everyone was serious and worked hard!" said Wang Dehua.

He originally produced machine guns, but because of his serious, hard-working and meticulous work, he was noticed by Liu Tao and promoted to the director of the heavy machine gun production workshop.

"That's good, you have a heavy burden!" Liu Tao nodded slightly.

The failure rate in the production of heavy machine guns remains high.

This gave Liu Tao a headache.

But he also knew that it would take time to improve the pass rate, time for workers to improve their skills, and time to understand. Only by learning from making mistakes can they make progress.

The more advanced and complex the firearm, the higher the technical level required of the workers.

The production workshop can now produce three qualified heavy machine guns every day, which honestly has surprised Liu Tao a little.

Because at the beginning, none of the heavy machine guns produced were up to standard, which made him so angry that he almost couldn't help but take action himself.

But he had to resist the urge, for he knew very well that he could not give birth himself, for one man's power was limited.

Just like at the beginning he was the only one who knew how to make heavy sniper rifles, and later with gradual teaching, other workers gradually learned how to do it, and slowly they could also produce heavy sniper rifles.

So sometimes when he was impulsive, Liu Tao would take a deep breath and calm himself down instead of acting impulsively.

"Don't worry, Director. I am confident that in two days, the number of heavy machine guns produced every day can be increased to 4, and 5 every day next week!" Wang Dehua said solemnly.

Although the production efficiency and pass rate of heavy machine guns are low now, the production workshop still adopts three shifts.

Everyone is making continuous progress, which gives Wang Dehua great confidence.

(End of this chapter)