Director Bai of Dongran Locomotive Factory happily walked into the gate of his factory, greeting all the acquaintances he met along the way. Everyone in the factory was very surprised to see him so happy.
Dongran Locomotive Factory has been having a hard time in the past few years. Now the Railway Corporation has been thinking about deepening reforms and reorganizing some of its subordinate factories. Those that cannot be reorganized will be reorganized, and those that cannot be reorganized will be merged. Dongran Factory has struggled a lot.
With the power of a tiger, there is no way to escape being annexed.
The railways for flower farmers are developing too fast these days. Things that used to be considered quite advanced will be eliminated in the blink of an eye. For example, domestic combustion locomotives have spent great efforts to develop them, but within a few years they were replaced by electric locomotives.
Comparison continued.
The technology of Dongran Plant is concentrated on diesel locomotives. However, under the slogan of "Railway construction needs to be bigger and stronger", the factory is getting worse every year. So the factory director who saw Bai Bai smiled happily,
The workers and masters in the factory looked puzzled.
"Comrades, the fate of our factory has changed. The head office originally planned to abolish and merge six subordinate vehicle factories, but now it has been reduced to five. We are lucky to have escaped!" Director Bai laughed at the factory's employee meeting.
The old face is wrinkled.
However, the workers at the meeting did not appreciate it. Someone openly said strange things below: "Director, with the current situation of our factory, we can't escape this disaster, but we can't escape the next one. The key is to find a job!"
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"Isn't life just around the corner!" Director Bai said happily: "I just received an order from the army to build an armored train."
Armored trains? Everyone in the factory has a questioning look on their face - someone in the army must be stupid. What kind of armored trains are they doing these days? These are all things that have been out of use for many years.
After Director Bai said that, he was not confident enough, but he continued to encourage: "Maybe it is a prop that the military film studio wants. Don't think too much about it. In short, our factory has already received a deposit of five million for the modification. The entire
The project amount is as high as 20 million."
When the whole project situation was explained in detail, everyone in the factory really felt that there was a lot of work to be done. Because the things the customer wanted were not advanced gadgets, but mature technologies. The so-called 'mature', in the field of flower cultivation
It means cheap!
The locomotive uses 'Dongfeng 10D', an eight-axle heavy-duty diesel locomotive with a maximum power of 3,500 kilowatts. This was a high-horsepower locomotive used to transport coal in the past, but today's electric locomotives can easily reach 10,000 kilowatts.
'Dongfeng 10D' was decisively eliminated.
The Dongran Plant has the Dongfeng 10D in stock. Pulling it out for refurbishment is almost equivalent to reusing waste. Moreover, this 'prop locomotive' only has a dozen carriages. According to the design plan, hiss..., it actually has guns and cannons on it.
This is really unpredictable!
"Director, are you really going to install a cannon?" someone in the factory asked.
Looking at the design drawings that had been sent, Factory Director Bai was not sure. He could only wave his hand and said: "Never mind it, the military orders, they can install whatever they want, we just use people's money to do things for them.
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Due to the tight deadline of the project, Director Bai even decided to work in three shifts and work 24 hours a day. First, two 'Dongfeng 10D's were pulled out for test runs - yes, the front and rear locomotives of this 'prop' were used as power
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After the test run, the armor plate was welded, with 50 mm thick high-quality armor steel covering the entire body. Welding was not a difficult task, but in the splashing sparks, the workers really had the awe-inspiring illusion of building a war monster.
What pushed this illusion to its peak was that the troops actually brought artillery, two Type 66 152mm howitzers, two Type 56 160mm heavy mortars, and four quadruple Type 56 heavy machine guns.
Long-range shooting, curved shooting, and close combat protection are all available, and they are all second-hand goods.
Oh dear, is this really a movie prop? Everyone in the Dongran Factory was dumbfounded and completely confused!
Factory Director Bai immediately jumped out to calm the workers' emotions, "Our customers have already begun the deadline. Starting today, wages will double and overtime pay will triple. Don't worry about what it is? The money you make is real."
Yes, everything is fake these days, only making money is real. Especially since these guns and cannons are given by the army and they are not illegal, so what are you afraid of?
Someone threw money happily, and the work enthusiasm of the workers in the Dongran Plant was aroused like an explosion. Everyone rushed to work and worked overtime. The overtime pay was so high, it would be a fool not to earn it!
Each carriage was remodeled, each armor plate was welded, each artillery piece was installed in place, and the turret of the gun emplacement stood tall and majestic. Finally, the appearance of the entire train had to be repaired so that it looked no bigger than an ordinary train.
Variety.
As long as you give me money, it doesn't matter!
In less than a week, the armored train with more than a dozen carriages was renovated, basically using the existing obsolete locomotives and heavy-duty coal carriages, which cost less, are faster and more efficient.
After the transformation was completed, the entire armored train was sent by the army to drive away. As expected, Dongran Locomotive Factory received a total of 20 million in project funds.
Hmm..., after deducting the money for the army's guns, deducting the locomotives and carriages that are state-owned assets, deducting small amounts such as scattered decks, there is still a profit of six to seven million. The Dongran Plant is now
There are only two to three hundred people left. It is unexpected to make so much in one week.
Director Bai happily paid wages and bonuses to the workers, and everyone laughed happily all night long... But the next day, when the project ended, the factory became deserted again. All the workers took a deep breath and took a long breath.
Sighed.
The time of happiness was too short, and I fell into deep despair. It felt like a person who fell off a cliff had just grabbed a withered vine on the edge of the cliff, only to find that the withered vine was too solid!
What to do? It seems that these good days will not last long. Next, we will continue to wait for the day of merger and reorganization. The workers dispersed, and Factory Director Bai was also very frustrated. The factory also returned to silence and lifelessness.
Some people occasionally think of the liveliness and enthusiasm not long ago, and all laugh at themselves, saying that it was just the last moment for the factory to regain its glory. Even Director Bai reads the newspaper and sees bad news every day. The northeastern part of the country where the factory is located is the worst news in the country.
Negative growth at the bottom.
The environment is so bad.
"It would be nice if I could do this armored train modification thing again. I can quote you eighteen million. No..., fifteen million. There are many places where you can save money, such as the scrapped diesel locomotives in the factory.
There are many more, and repairing them at a discount can reduce most of the cost."
Factory Director Bai had nothing to do. He could only play numbers games in his office, thinking about what he should do to do better and earn more. But every time he counted at the end, he could only sigh: "What's wrong with this customer?"
Just purchase one armored train? We can obviously produce more."
Ding ding, ding, ding, ding, the phone rang.
Director Bai, who was bored, grabbed the microphone and said "hello". Half a minute later, his expression quickly changed from laziness to surprise, and then from surprise to surprise. He grinned so much that it reached the back of his head, and said repeatedly into the microphone: "No.
No problem, no problem, we have a complete set of modification solutions.
The customer is satisfied, and there are still ten more modification tasks? There are really ten! Oh..., what's so difficult about this? We don't need help from our brothers, our factory will definitely complete the task with quality and quantity.
Right, right..., just leave this matter to us. Leaders, please rest assured that our factory has strong technical force, and the workers' enthusiasm for work is burning like a flame. I dare to issue a military order and we will definitely satisfy our customers again.
Absolutely satisfied!”
After putting down the phone for a long time, Director Bai smiled so hard that his face stiffened, and he yelled loudly. He ran out of his office and shouted, "Young and old men, we have made a fortune this time. Someone came here to collect the junk!"