Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

A few days later, at the Capital Airport.

A Boeing 707 slowly landed on the runway, and the boarding stairs accurately docked. Passengers disembarked from the plane, carrying bottles of Moutai given as gifts on the plane.

An elderly man in a suit and tie, with a full head of white hair, walked out of the cabin. He looked up at the blue sky and took a deep breath. The air here was fresh, and the sunshine was brilliant.

He pushed up his glasses and walked down the boarding stairs. As he was about to follow the crowd towards the customs checkpoint, a voice came from below.

"Mr. Gressich, welcome to the East!"

Gressich turned his head and saw a young man standing next to a beautiful girl. Were these two calling him?

Suddenly, Gressich thought of something and tentatively asked, "Mister Qin?"

"That's right, it's me," Qin Yang said. "I was so happy to hear that you were flying over so quickly that I dropped all my work to pick you up at the airport."

Nie Xiaoqian chuckled inwardly. 'Dropped all your work'? You haven't had any work lately, okay? All the work is being done by your subordinates. You, the top leader, have become a hands-off manager.

"Qin, I really didn't expect you to come and pick me up in person," Gressich said happily, giving him a hug. "Thank you, my friend."

They became friends on their first meeting? Nie Xiaoqian was even more curious.

"Qin, when I was in Germany, I often heard your name. At that time, I wondered what kind of person you were. Today, I finally met you. Just like the legends say, you are so young, which doesn't match your skills at all. As you Easterners say, 'You can't judge a book by its cover'."

"I'm just lucky," Qin Yang said. "Old experts like you, who have worked your whole lives, are the real technical experts."

After exchanging pleasantries and introducing Nie Xiaoqian, they took Gressich through the special customs channel. After coming out and getting into the car, the two continued to chat animatedly.

"President Qin, I heard that you personally modified a CNC machine and wrote the relevant program to process the sabot of the armor-piercing projectile. Where did you learn CNC programming?"

"President Qin, you are also very knowledgeable in materials science. The core material of your armor-piercing projectile actually uses the most advanced liquid phase sintering technology!"

"President Qin, we in Germany also purchased a batch of your bulletproof inserts. Everyone has been studying them, but we haven't made any progress."

As he kept asking questions, Nie Xiaoqian finally understood: this old German expert really knew Qin Yang. Her Yang-ge was too amazing; he was so famous even abroad.

Qin Yang also didn't expect that so many people abroad would be familiar with him. Fortunately, it was the 1980s, a honeymoon period between the East and the West. If it were ten years later, these guys might find an excuse to detain him or even sentence him.

"That's right, I have many subordinates, but there is a lack of management talent, and there is also a lack of talent with both technical and management skills. I hope you can bring Western advanced management experience to our factory, to our East."

"Don't you have cooperation with Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks?"

"Yes, we have cooperation with Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks, but we are only introducing technology, not establishing a joint venture, let alone letting them hold shares. Therefore, we absolutely cannot let their people be the factory director."

Gressich shook his head. "I still don't understand."

"Okay, then we'll go to the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory. You'll understand when you see it," Qin Yang said.

Nie Xiaoqian frowned. 'Yang-ge, wasn't our original plan to take the guest to the hotel and hold a banquet? Why are you taking the guest to the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory?'

Besides, we didn't even notify the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory.

However, Gressich's face showed joy. "Great! On the first day of coming to the East, I can visit your engine factory. That's the best thing!"

For someone like Gressich, coming to the East was definitely not for enjoyment or tourism, but to help with a great internationalist spirit.

Now that he had come, being able to inspect was the best thing.

The Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory had not received any prior notice. When Factory Director Zhang Heping received the call from the gatekeeper, his expression instantly changed.

"What? President Qin is here? Which President Qin? From Fangbei Company? What is he here for?"

Zhang Heping was shocked. Although the diesel engines they produced were also supplied to the military industry, they didn't have a direct relationship with Factory 960. This President Qin was very powerful, criticizing people everywhere. Could he be here to cause trouble for him?

"What? Bringing foreigners to inspect? Okay, let him wait. I'll personally go to the gate to greet him."

"What? No need? President Qin wants to go directly to the workshop? Okay, let President Qin and the others go to the workshop. I'll go there directly."

Workshop Director Zheng Xiangjun looked nervous.

President Qin, the famous President Qin, bombarded this and that in the capital, regardless of the industry or how high and mighty they were, he could bring them down. He had fought countless battles and never lost. He had the support of the old leaders behind him, and no one could afford to offend him.

President Qin bringing Nie Xiaoqian was already a scary combination, but that wasn't the main thing. There was actually a foreigner! This foreigner seemed to be of a very high level, and President Qin was talking and laughing with him.

"President Qin, our Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory has a long history. Its predecessor was the North China Agricultural Machinery General Factory, and it was renamed the Capital Agricultural Machinery Factory in 1954," Zheng Xiangjun decided to first introduce the history of the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory to calm himself down.

Bang, bang, bang! Just then, the sound of hammering came from the front.

Gressich's gaze went over, watching a worker holding a cylinder liner with his hand, and another worker using a wooden strip to pad the top of the cylinder liner with his left hand, and hammering hard with his right hand, smashing the cylinder into the iron lump below in a few strokes. After smashing one, he smashed the second.

Gressich's face turned ugly. "You're still using this method to assemble cylinder liners?"

The cylinder liner is a device for accommodating piston movement. In the era when the quality of the cylinder block was not high, engines were additionally equipped with cylinder liners. Later, they could be disassembled and replaced with new ones during overhauls. This type of cylinder liner installation requires special tools to slowly press it in.

In more advanced factories, cold fitting is used directly, cooling the cylinder liner and then gently inserting it. After returning to room temperature, it can fit perfectly with the cylinder block.

"We have special tools, but they are too complicated. Our master craftsmen are very skilled, and hand hammering is fast and good," Zheng Xiangjun explained.

"Give me a dial bore gauge," Gressich reached out his hand.

After receiving the testing instrument, Gressich took a deep breath and began to measure the assembled cylinder block next to him, shaking his head as he measured.

"According to the requirements, the deformation of the water stop ring should not be greater than 0.02 mm. The shoulder on the cylinder liner should protrude 0.06 to 0.12 mm from the cylinder block plane. This installed cylinder block is completely unqualified!"