The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 55: Pride and Complacency? Too Small!
Wang Tiezhu and others just left.

As a result, that evening, Liu Tao received a call from Wang Tiezhu.

"what!"

"What did you say!?"

Liu Tao looked shocked.

The title of China's Advanced Science and Technology Worker is an honor of great value.

It is usually only awarded to nationally renowned scientists.

Liu Tao has won honors before. He has received awards from Kunming City, Yunnan Province and even the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building.

Liu Tao couldn’t count all these honors with just his two hands.

However, this is the first time that such an honorary title has been awarded by the state.

That's why he was shocked.

"A total of 33 people were selected nationwide this time, and you are one of them. This is the country's recognition of you and a great honor for you." Wang Tiezhu said in a deep voice: "I hope you will guard against arrogance and complacency, continue to work hard, and make more contributions to national defense construction."

The National Advanced Science and Technology Worker is selected from all workers engaged in scientific and technological research across the country. There is only one Liu Tao in the entire military industry system. It is because Liu Tao has continuously developed various types of firearms, which is of great significance to China's national defense construction.

The development of a firearm takes ten or even twenty years.

However, Liu Tao was able to develop a firearm with superior performance in a very short time.

Although these guns have only been on the market for a short time, they have already been tested on the battlefield, are deeply loved by soldiers, and have excellent performance.

These guns will be the weapons and equipment that the army will replace in batches in the future.

Liu Tao is very young, and Wang Tiezhu is well aware of how difficult it is for him to obtain the honor of National Advanced Science and Technology Worker. To be honest, when the list was reported before, no one had any expectations.

This honor requires seniority, and the person who can obtain it must be a nationally renowned scientist.

Wang Tiezhu is now very worried that Liu Tao will become proud and complacent, so he can't help but remind him again and again.

Liu Tao put down the phone, his head was buzzing, he was overwhelmed by this great honor.

If it was at the provincial level, or an honor from the department, Liu Tao would not be like this, he would just be a little excited.

However, this honor as a National Advanced Science and Technology Worker was a huge surprise.

It took a long time for Liu Tao to recover.

He clenched his fists, waved them vigorously a few times, and roared excitedly.

At this moment, his heart was filled with immense excitement and surprise, and he was full of motivation to move forward.

arrogant!?
How can it be!

He is a man with a golden finger, how could he be so proud and complacent after such an achievement? !
If we become complacent with just this little achievement, we will be too petty!
This is just the first step in a long journey, and better things are yet to come!

Afterwards, Liu Tao began to make arrangements.

He only has one month!

A month later, he will go to the capital to attend a conference and receive the honor.

The first things Liu Tao worked on were the machine tools shipped in from other places. These machine tools could be used to produce bullets and firearms, but these machine tools had been used for many years and were all old. Their accuracy and efficiency were far inferior to before.

What he needs to do is to reset these machine tools to new condition.

Liu Tao is unable to upgrade the machine tools because he is not a machine tool manufacturer.

But there was no problem repairing the machine tool. It was a bit hot and stuffy that night.

In a newly built production workshop, Liu Tao is busy assembling the produced parts.

This production workshop will be used specifically to produce heavy sniper bullets in the future.

Otherwise, relying solely on manual production of heavy sniper bullets would be too inefficient.

If we can rely on machines, we still have to use large machines to improve production efficiency.

Liu Tao believes that the appearance of modern human history is modernization, but its essence is industrialization. Only by realizing industrialization and mastering modern manufacturing can we control our own destiny.

The reason for the rise of the West is industrialization. With the power of large-scale machine production, it "dominated the world" in terms of economic and military efficiency, and formed a "dimensionality reduction attack" on agricultural civilization and gathering civilization.

After the founding of New China, China has always had a goal, which is to transform an agricultural country into an industrial country.

In the past few decades, the United States and the Soviet Union were the two most powerful countries in the world. In order to achieve industrialization, China first learned from the Soviet Union and paid a huge price to obtain 156 industrial projects assisted by the Soviet Union. These 156 major projects can be said to be the largest transfer of intellectual property rights in the history of human industrialization, and they immediately established China's industrial framework.

It can be said that no matter how highly we praise the 156 industrial projects assisted by the Soviet Union, it is not an exaggeration.

It directly gave China the framework for industrialization, and even now it is still a beneficiary.

Kissinger made a secret visit to China in 1971 and Nixon made an official visit to China in 1972. The relationship between the two sides was reconciled and China began to learn modernization knowledge from the United States.

Liu Tao has never thought of relying on manual labor for everything, because even if he was given dozens of eighth-level and ninth-level workers, it would not bring about fundamental changes. However, machines are different. They can greatly improve production efficiency and quality.

For example, once this heavy sniper rifle bullet production line is completed, only a dozen people will be needed to complete the production capacity of several thousand people.

This is because he cannot develop a too advanced production line, otherwise the production efficiency will be further improved.

This is a very embarrassing situation that Liu Tao is facing now. The machines he makes cannot be too advanced, otherwise no workers will be able to operate them. The workers have to be retrained, and it will take a long time for them to master them slowly after a long period of trial and error.

"We have to find some time to get air conditioners installed in dormitories and factories." Liu Tao was sweating profusely.

It is the height of summer and even at night you will sweat profusely while working.

Of course, this is just a thought in my mind and cannot be realized for the time being.

It's very simple. To make air conditioners, we need electricity to use it. But now the hydropower station has not been built, and there is not enough electricity for current use, let alone to supply air conditioners.

In order to save electricity, dormitories even use fewer lights and instead use candles and kerosene lamps.

Before I knew it, it was already dawn outside.

Liu Tao looked at the assembled production line and smiled.

After working so hard for so long, this bullet production line was finally built.

Liu Tao began to debug the production line. After the production line was built, it was not known whether it could be used, so it had to be debugged continuously.

With the help of the upgraded system, Liu Tao continued to correct errors.

Brush brush brush~~
The light keeps flickering.

Every glimmer of light is Liu Tao repairing the defects.

It was not until around nine o'clock in the morning that Liu Tao debugged the production line. He yawned, looked tired, and lay down to sleep in the production workshop.

Even though Liu Tao is young and strong, he cannot handle the continuous high-intensity work.

After one trip, Liu Tao's snoring could be heard in the production workshop just after he closed his eyes for three seconds.

(End of this chapter)