Four hundred and fifty-six chapters low talks (five)
It was late at night, and Zhou Tiecheng was still writing furiously on the desk in the living room. He wrote down everything he saw and heard in Chahar.
"To the Party Central Committee, Comrade Gu Yue, what I have seen and heard in Chahar in recent times is very different from that in the areas ruled by the Congress Party. Because our party's strength in Chahar is very weak, and Chahar's
The counter-reconnaissance force is very powerful, and we don’t know much about many things about them. From my visits and surveys in the past few days, it seems that the working class here is very large, numbering at least millions, but the Chahar government
The government has used high welfare and minimum wage guarantees to win over the past. The workers' stable lives and benefits have made their support for the government very high. It will be more difficult for us to work here than ever before."
After writing a paragraph, Zhou Tiecheng put down his pen, stretched out, and walked on the balcony for a while before returning to his desk and sitting down to continue writing: "As for Chahar's political chairman, General Su Tong, in my opinion
He has always been a mystery. Our organization also checked his situation, but found that there was no information about him before 1935. Moreover, his talent was extraordinary. From the few books he wrote
Judging from his writings, it is not an exaggeration to call him a master of Chinese and Western knowledge."
"I have been reading his book The Rise of Great Powers all day today. In this book, he pointed out that our country can only pay attention to education, improve the quality of its citizens, be good at learning from the experience of other countries, mobilize the enthusiasm of the people, and strive to promote the economy.
Only by developing and continuously improving people's living standards can we truly realize the dream of a powerful country. I think this is very reasonable, and the program of the Baath Party is also very interesting. The Baath Party pointed out that they represent the development of China's advanced productive forces.
The requirements represent the direction of progress of advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. I think this is similar to the purpose of our party."
When Zhou Tiecheng put down his pen and looked at the pile of manuscript paper on the table and stretched, he realized that the sky was getting brighter. It turned out that he had been writing all night without knowing it.
There was a knock at the door of "Tuk Duk", and Zhou Tiecheng saw that it was the guard Xiao Zhang who came in carrying a hot water bottle. He looked at the manuscript paper on the table and the tired-looking Zhou Tiecheng and said with distress: "Chief, you
Another night of no sleep. Don’t forget that we are going to visit their industrial area at noon.”
Zhou Tiecheng smiled and said, "Oh, Xiao Zhang, you see I have lost track of time while writing. I will take a nap now, and you can call me again at noon, and we will visit their industrial zone together."
At noon, accompanied by Su Tong, Zhou Tiecheng and others visited several factories in the industrial zone. The first thing they visited was a large-scale automobile factory. “This is our third automobile manufacturing plant and also our largest manufacturing plant.
One of the factories, it specializes in the production of various heavy-duty trucks and load-carrying vehicles. The vehicles produced are mainly used by the troops. It is also the main manufacturer of our military vehicles. When it was first put into production, it could only produce 1.5-ton small trucks.
After a large-scale expansion on the original basis, it now produces two main types of trucks: 2.5-ton and 5-ton trucks, with the largest production being 5-ton load-bearing trucks."
Li Shuyi, the director of the Third Automobile Plant, briefly introduced the situation of the factory to Zhou Tiecheng. When Zhou Tiecheng and the others entered the factory, they were stunned by the scene here. It turned out that the factory he saw when he was studying in France in his early years was also
However, the scale of the factory building and supporting factories was beyond their expectation. It took half an hour from the time the car entered the factory to the time it arrived at the factory to visit. "We pursue a centralized factory system. In order to
To expand production scale and improve efficiency, we will set up all factories in this generation, so that our production efficiency will be greatly enhanced. But it will also increase the risk. If Japanese planes come to bomb, it will easily kill us.
One pot is ready."
Wang Qiang asked puzzledly, "Why not spread them out? At least the risk is smaller. As the saying goes, don't put your eggs in one basket. It would be a pity if such a good factory was destroyed." Su Tong smiled, "
Those engineers advised me the same way at the beginning, and some experts said that it would take a year at the fastest to build these factories, but less than an hour to destroy them. But in the end, I read a lot and made the decision to centralize the factories.
It’s built here because if the factories are spread out, the production efficiency will be so low that I can’t stand it.”
Looking at the faint smile on Su Tong's face, Zhou Tiecheng knew that it was an expression of extreme confidence, which showed that he had absolute confidence in his air force's prevention and control system.
Looking at the confident smile on Su Tong's face and the playful smile on the face of Factory Director Li next to him, Zhou Tiecheng's heart moved. The boss in front of him didn't seem to be an arrogant person. How could he make such an obvious mistake?
He smiled and said, "General Su, you are not enough of a friend, and now you are still hiding me."
After listening to Zhou Tiecheng's words, Su Tongcai burst out laughing and said, "They say Mr. Zhou is extremely smart, and he is well-deserved." As Su Tong explained, Zhou Tiecheng and the other two realized that the important production workshops of the factory here were all built underground or underground.
In the mountain, the current aviation heavy bombs cannot be directly destroyed, and the security of the surrounding air defense artillery fire can also ensure the safety of the place. There is also a flying regiment stationed at a nearby airport, whose main task is to protect industry.
We can avoid the threat from the air. If the factory still cannot be saved, it can only be our fault.
Zhou Tiecheng nodded, that's right. To survive in a cruel war environment, you must have extraordinary means, otherwise the man in front of you would not be so confident in concentrating all the industrial zones in one place.
"What is your maximum annual output?" Wang Qiang on the side couldn't help but ask.
After hearing this question, Li Shuyi was stunned for a moment and looked up at Su Tong in front. Seeing Su Tong nod slightly, he answered: "The current annual production capacity of our factory is about 40,000 trucks for the time being. But this number is not fixed.
It can only be decided based on the orders placed by the army, and all this number will fluctuate with the orders."
After hearing this, Wang Qiang couldn't help but rolled his eyes secretly. He said this, but he didn't say it. What do you mean it is about 40,000 vehicles temporarily, and it still fluctuates up and down. Isn't this fooling people? If you give an accurate number, you will die.
When Li Shuyi answered the question, Zhou Tiecheng was also listening carefully for fear of missing a word. When he finally mentioned the output, he was still surprised. Although the number was not exact, it gave a general idea. Then
Even Chahar is far ahead of Asian countries in the truck manufacturing industry, and even the Japanese cannot compare with them. At that time, Japan's automobile manufacturing industry was also relatively backward, and the main producers of automobiles were the two factories established by the United States in Japan.
Two automobile companies, Ford and General Motors, produced only more than 20,000 vehicles in the early 1930s, and by the end of the 1930s, they only produced only 40,000 vehicles.
Next, Zhou Tiecheng and the others looked at the assembly line processing of parts in the factory. All the processes of a part are completed on one production line. Each worker is only responsible for one process of processing, and each process must undergo strict inspection to eliminate defective products.
After several times of rigorous processing, these parts became standard parts of the car and were directly transported to the corresponding assembly workshop. Finally, watching these assembled cars coming off the production line one by one, Zhou Tiecheng and the three people around him were all excited.
Full of curiosity and wonder.
Su Tong explained in detail: "This is assembly line production. The assembly line originated from the Ford Motor Company in the United States in 1913. Its biggest advantage is that it can subdivide each process. For example, a part
There are more than a dozen or twenty processes. We can maximize production efficiency by subdividing these processes into each person. For example, if there are twenty workers in this group, if each of them makes a separate part
Each person can make at most one part in a day, but if it is broken down into processes, twenty of them can make hundreds or even thousands of finished products in a day, and the labor efficiency is greatly improved."
Wang Qiang and the others felt like Grandma Liu who had entered the Grand View Garden. On weekdays, they had not even seen such a routine operation, but had not even heard of it.
"It's an eye-opener, it's an eye-opener," Zhou Tiecheng said sincerely, "General Su can build such a large factory from scratch in Chahar. It's really amazing, it's amazing."
Su Tong smiled faintly and thought that if his buddy hadn't ordered Niu Ben to build so many machine tools and production lines directly from the moon base, it would have been a dream for Chahar to build such an industrial base in just three years.
Then they went to the aircraft manufacturing factory and the tank manufacturing factory, and saw workers casting huge turrets with rolling molten iron, and then cutting them with machines and installing them on the tank site. The workers skillfully installed the barrels.
, the engine and various internal parts. After going through one process after another, such a formidable murder weapon is completed.
"General Su, is this the Northwest Tiger tank equipped with your army?" Looking at the mighty tank, Zhou Tiecheng couldn't restrain his excitement and asked.
"Yes," Su Tong nodded, "This Siberian Tiger tank is probably the best in the world. We were able to compete head-on with the Soviets in Siberia, and they made great contributions."
At this point, Su Tong noticed that Wang Qiang and the others changed their colors slightly and couldn't help but laugh: "We are not talking about doctrine today, we are only talking about the country. Minister Wang, you don't have to be so serious."
On the contrary, Zhou Tiecheng's expression remained normal, "General Su's words make sense. We only brought our ears and eyes today. We can only see and listen, but we can't talk. But General Su, will you take us to see the artillery factory?"
Su Tong chuckled, "Mr. Zhou, you are going to expose all my family assets."
Zhou Tiecheng also laughed: "There is no way, our ancestors have said that good things must be done to the end. If you invite me to visit, you can't just let me see half of it, right?"
In the afternoon, Su Tong and his party came to the artillery factory. As soon as they entered the workshop door, they heard dull sounds and a faint feeling of vibration on their feet. After entering the workshop, the party found that a tall hydraulic press was working
He kept beating the workbench, and under its beating, shiny shell shells were continuously uploaded from the conveyor belt of the workbench. The workers next to him carefully checked whether there were any defective or scrap products. If there were any
Just put it aside and recast it.
"This big guy is really awesome." Wang Qiang on the side couldn't help but marveled when he saw the originally hard metal being crushed into shell shells as easily as balls of dough under the squeeze of the huge machine.
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Su Tong explained: "This is a 5,000-ton hydraulic press. We use it to manufacture cannon shells, gun barrels and many other things."
After a while, when they entered the artillery shell assembly space, Wang Qiang watched the artillery shells made by the workers there being sent away on the conveyor belt like running water, and he couldn't help but feel sour in his heart. Their soldiers didn't even have enough rifles.
An artillery company needs the approval of the regiment commander before it can launch a mortar shell. What a gap is there.
Zhou Tiecheng felt uncomfortable at this time. At this time, he couldn't help but think of a passage written by Su Tong in the book The Rise of Great Powers: The battle is about comprehensive national strength, the battle is about the respective industrial levels, and the battle is about steel.
This book uses the sentence "steel is the country" to make a short summary. Now that I think about it, it really makes sense.
After returning home at night, Zhou Tiecheng thought about his visit to Chahar during this period. He was deeply touched and couldn't fall asleep in bed. The industrial and agricultural level displayed in Chahar shocked him, and Zhou Tiecheng believed that it was just them.
The tip of the iceberg of strength, there are more things hidden by them in a fog.
Su Tong invited them to watch the military industrial zone and factories. Firstly, it was to express his sincerity to his side. Secondly, it was also a demonstration. They were not afraid of the leakage of their strength at all, but showed their industrial strength openly and openly. This is also a kind of
As a sign of self-confidence, what they do is very aboveboard, and they don't bother to play with some small tricks. Because when one party's strength is higher than that of the opponent by a certain level, those small tricks and conspiracies have been reduced to supporting roles, and it doesn't matter whether they are used or not.
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In a cave in northern Shaanxi, a group of people were circulating a thick stack of telegrams that had just been sent. The leader, a tall middle-aged man, pressed the cigarette butt in his hand on the sole of his shoe twice and wiped it out before extinguishing it.
Then he asked slowly: "This is the telegram that Comrade Tiecheng just sent from Chahar. Everyone has read it. Now tell us your opinions. Mr. Zhu, you can talk about it first."
An honest-looking old man whose name was called smiled faintly, "Chairman, judging from this telegram, I can only say that the young man is awesome. He was able to establish a new business in Chahar in just over three years.
Having such a foundation shows that this person has extraordinary abilities. For such a person and such a force that has shown goodwill to us, we should also show our own goodwill."
At this time, a middle-aged man with glasses who looked like a scholar frowned, "But judging from Comrade Tiecheng's telegram, the programs of these political parties tend to be centrist. Their propositions are
It is quite different from ours. You see, the point they put forward is that no matter it is a white cat or a black cat, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. No matter what the doctrine is, the doctrine that can make China strong is a good doctrine.
This is simply a lack of opinion. Is it reassuring to cooperate with such a person?"
Faced with this middle-aged man's question, someone next to him put forward a different opinion: "I don't think this is nothing. It seems that General Su pursues pragmatism. Why do we socialist workers want to make revolution?
In order to let the people live a good life, as long as the goal can be achieved, is the doctrine really so important?"
"Also, everyone, see, Comrade Tiecheng said in the telegram that Chahar's industry is extremely developed now. You have roughly counted at least millions of workers in it, but they have used gentler methods to
The capitalists have reduced the exploitation of workers to the lowest level. For example, they have adopted minimum wage guarantees, pension insurance, the establishment of trade unions, unemployment benefits, a large number of tax exemptions for farmers, and even established a special labor law to protect workers and
It is truly remarkable that the interests of farmers can be taken away from the hearts of workers and farmers with just one hand."
Gu Yue lit another cigarette and said slowly, "I don't think it matters. Different opinions can be allowed to exist. We are not a one-spoken party, so why can't we tolerate different opinions? I think that General Su said something
Well done, seek common ground while reserving differences. Now we all have a common goal, which is to make our voices heard at the National Assembly in September. However, the voice of our party alone is too small and others cannot hear it. What should we do?"
Gu Yue said humorously: "Since one person's voice is too small for others to hear, then let's get others to shout together. If they can't hear one person's voice, then they should hear it if a group of people speak together."
"Hahaha" all the participants laughed.
Mr. Zhu smiled and said: "What the Chairman said makes sense. Since Chairman Chiang looks down on us mud-legged people who come from the ravines, then he should be able to hear the voice of General Su from Chahar."
"Well, let's call Comrade Tiecheng and agree to sign the agreement."
After everyone reached an agreement, they finally sent a telegram to Zhou Tiecheng from Chahar and agreed to what seemed like a fair agreement.