Chapter 130 Repair Shop, and Said You Don’t Know How to Build Cars

The grain station collects and sells grain. Generally, the grain collected is rice, sometimes called paddy, which is processed into rice. Get it to be sold in various grain stores. However, grain stations do not issue food stamps. Food stamps are issued in grain stores. To buy food every month, residents take a ration book to the grain store to buy grain or receive food stamps.

Go to the grain station to buy grain, which is also sold to individuals, but you need grain stamps.

The main purpose of the grain station is to collect grain and then process it, not just to store grain. How much grain is harvested is accounted for, not the grain they produce. Unlike a breeding farm, they have a high degree of autonomy because they raise the chickens and ducks. There is no fixed number of how many chickens and ducks there are, how much each one weighs, or how many eggs they lay every day. The main thing is that they can issue poultry tickets themselves.

Food is a top priority in this era, and inspections are very tight. Hu Dongyi can't decide whether to directly use rice to support it or something, but the grain station is not only about rice, they also squeeze soybean oil and rapeseed oil. Of course, if there is oil, the grain station has no right to move. Originally, this thing was just a processing process for them. There are records of how much is produced, how much is collected, and how much is processed. No one dares to tamper with it in this era.

But there are still good things at the grain station, and they have some autonomy over these things. The first one is rice bran, which is good for feeding chickens, ducks and pigs. Even when people are so hungry that they have nothing to eat, they will eat rice bran. The other is the bean dregs left after pressing soybean oil, also called soybean meal. This thing is used as feed, but people can actually eat it.

Although rice bran and soybean meal must also be recorded. But as long as the ratio of rice to oil is good, they will have the right to handle the extra stuff. Although money is required, tickets are not required. Many people want to buy it but can’t.

If the repair shop is really building cars, Director Hu intends to use these things to 'support' their work. Regardless of whether the things he provides are not valuable, he can measure and manage them, and of course he has to pay for them.

If you have bran and soybean meal, your repair shop can find an open space to raise chickens, ducks, or pigs. The factory can now solve the meat-eating problem on its own.

At the auto repair shop, Director Zhang didn't know that Director Hu from the grain station was so impatient and was already on his way to the factory.

He still had his legs crossed and was waiting leisurely for the call. I just received another call, and it turned out to be from a pastry factory, and he responded in a deliberately covert way.

However, the news that the pastry factory received was a bit dramatic, and I don’t know who bragged about it. It was said that the employees of the repair shop had pastries to eat every day because of the ‘support’ of the pastry factory. Then someone related to the pastry factory called to ask if this was the case. The director of the pastry factory was also confused and naturally denied it.

But just because the factory doesn't have this problem, it doesn't mean that other factories don't have this problem. It is doubtful whether the repair shop is actually building cars. Pastry tickets are very scarce, and there are few people in the pastry factory. The production requires flour, eggs, and frying, so it is a high-end food. The consumer group we originally faced were not ordinary people, so we produced less and received less votes.

If the repair shop is producing cars, the pastry factory also wants cars, and pastry tickets cannot be given randomly, because this is not just a matter of tickets, because there is a quota for the amount of pastry production. If you get more tickets and go out, you will consume more flour and eggs. Therefore, if the pastry factory wants to 'support' the auto repair shop, there is only one way. Take a pound of fine grain stamps and add some money. Their pastry factory can directly help the auto repair shop to process pastries. When the time comes, they can buy flour for the fine grain stamps and come back.

Anyway, many factories have their own workarounds.

In the workshop, Luo Cheng had been directing the work. There was actually not much welding on the chassis. After it was completed, he started to install it directly. Installing the wheels and brakes, he quickly pushed it outside for painting. No spray paint, just hand brushing.

It takes five welders and one person to weld two chassis in less than half a day. The body panels were also delivered in the morning, and what was even more coincidental was that the blackboard and chalk purchased by the logistics department were also delivered.

Luo Cheng no longer had to draw pictures one by one, and directly wrote the required iron plate dimensions and pipe dimensions on the blackboard. In order not to delay the efficiency of the master welder, Luo Cheng called a few more people. If the master welder wanted to cut any parts first, he would ask the people in the repair shop to cut them. They would only be responsible for the welding.

Anyway, Luo Cheng would never let the people around him stop due to the assembly line's operating arrangements. He wanted to produce as many cars as possible. Ten test cars are just a starting point. The market in Ngee Ann needs many cars. After all, the prices are cheap. And how can the car be sold only in Ngee Ann? This thing will gradually be sold nationwide.

The frame is welded in two parts. The lower body frame is the most difficult because of its concave and convex shape. An iron plate needs to be welded on the back, and many small accessories for fixing equipment need to be welded on the iron plate. Once the lower body frame is out, Luo Cheng will lead the repairmen to install the engine, fuel tank and some wiring pipes. The core of the entire car is here.

The steering wheel is not available now, so I asked Team Leader Jiang to go to the machinery factory to produce it. The thing is simple, just bend an iron pipe and weld it into a circle. The steering wheel installation device is on the list here. Then just reserve the designed position for the booster pump.

Luo Cheng predicted that as long as the customized parts at the machine factory can keep up with the speed, the car can be completed in three days. The last step is to weld the body iron plate, paint it, and install a seat, and it's done.

The seats are also simple. Just get an iron frame for the back seat and fix a cotton cushion on it. The iron frame is not welded, but fixed with screws. If you want to use the car for loading cargo, you can just remove the seats at the back.

The driver's position needs to be installed with a spring seat. Just get some small springs and weld them to the iron plate, and then fix a cushion on the iron plate.

The chassis of ten cars and the installation of wheels and other equipment were all used up all morning. Nowadays, paint is painted outside the workshop to dry. Placing them in a row is also particularly spectacular.

Luo Cheng never thought that he, a repairman at a technical school, would one day have a big career. Well, although in later generations it will just be to produce some old music without technical content.

Auto repair shop, security office.

"This is a car repair shop, what do you two do?"

"We are from a grain store and have sent rice and noodles to your factory. This is my work permit."

"It belongs to this comrade."

"I forgot to bring it. If you don't believe it, you can bring the phone to our store to verify."

"Okay, remember to bring your ID next time."

"I understand, comrade."

There were only two people delivering rice and noodles, and since one of them had the correct ID, there was no need to embarrass the other person. It's just a cart of rice and noodles, and it doesn't take long to get out. If something really happens, the person who took out the ID will not be able to escape.

"Director Hu, I took the risk this time. As you promised, just take a look and leave immediately. I will send the rice and noodles over now, and you will leave with me later."

"Okay, don't worry. Next time you are free, you can go to our grain station and get you fifty pounds of soybean meal. I promise to just take a look and leave."

"Okay, let's go, what's so interesting about this auto repair shop."

The two of them pushed the cart loaded with rice noodles and slowly walked into the repair shop.

At the intersection is a large courtyard, and you can see workshops and office buildings when you turn a corner. Factory Director Hu originally thought that he had to find a way to enter the workshop to see something. When he turned the corner, he saw a row of things with four wheels parked outside the door of the workshop. It was confirmed.

Lao Zhang, you bastard, and you said that your auto repair shop doesn't know how to build cars, so what is this row? Even if you park a row of cars, you can still say that they are other people's cars and are being repaired in the factory. But any fool would understand that that thing was building a car.

"Director Hu, what are you going to do?"

"You go deliver the rice and noodles. Don't worry about me. I'll go directly to the director of the car repair shop."

"No, then why did you sneak in like this with me in the first place?"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen to you."

Director Hu said to the people who came with him, and then he stopped helping push the cart and walked directly towards the office building quickly and confidently.

In the factory director's office, Director Zhang hung up the phone again with a smile on his face, and took out a pack of cigarettes that cost more than 10 cents from his pocket. They were cigarettes without cigarette holders. They were too expensive for him to smoke. It was just one cent more for a pack. I still have to spend four or five yuan a month.

I rolled up a cigarette holder with white paper, inserted the cigarette, lit the match, and felt happy.

There was a bang, and Director Zhang shivered in fright. The cigarette was only half smoked when it leaked out of the cigarette holder and fell to the ground.

"Zhang Lin, Director of Zhang Da Factory."

"Director Hu, why are you here? Sit down, sit down quickly."

Seeing that it was Director Hu of the grain station who opened the door, Director Zhang came to his senses and asked him to sit down while picking up the cigarettes that fell on the ground and continuing to smoke.

"Director Zhang, don't look at me carelessly. You don't know the cooperative relationship between the breeding farm and our grain station. And what is that row outside the entrance of your workshop?"

"Hey, Director Hu, I also have something to hide. It's not that I want to fool you. If you think about it from my position, although Ngee Ann is not a big city, it has a lot of factories. We are still testing production, and It has not been officially produced. Everyone wants a car, but how can we build it? We didn’t think so much about it at the beginning and promised several factory directors, but now we really don’t have the production capacity.”

"Director Zhang, you are still fooling people. Although there are many units and factories in Ngee Ann, how many units can afford to buy cars? Isn't it true that big manufacturers have that strength?"

"Director Hu, you must not understand that the car we produce is called a cube car. It is smaller and cruder than a normal car, but the ex-factory price we set may only be 5,000 yuan. This is a car. Where can you buy a car with 5,000 yuan? I believe there are many companies that can’t afford tens of thousands of yuan to buy a car, but if you can get a little benefit, if you can afford 5,000 yuan, it shouldn’t be too much.”

Five thousand~~, can five thousand buy a car? Factory Director Hu was also confused. However, Director Zhang has a structural diagram and has already prepared it. Just explain it to him in the office.

Then I told Factory Director Hu that our factory’s capacity is really limited. When we start production officially in the future, we will definitely not forget your grain factory.

"Don't talk to me about this. The rice bran and soybean meal at our grain station are directly paid for the car payment. If you want, you can ask someone to pick it up at any time and just keep accounts. You can raise chickens, ducks, or even pigs. , and these days, even if it is given to others, many people are willing to eat it."

After hearing Director Hu's words, Director Zhang took two puffs of his cigarette. It wasn't that he was not firm, but that the other party gave him too much. Money is sometimes of little use these days, and practical items are in short supply.

Director Zhang gave in. There was no other way. Director Hu was too arrogant. Rice bran costs a few cents per pound, and soybean meal only costs about a penny. No ticket is required. The main reason is that it doesn't matter. You can't buy it if it's pricey but not marketable.

One or two cars cost 5,000 yuan. How much do you need to exchange for them? One penny and one kilo is equivalent to half a million jins.

But then again, these five thousand yuan are worth a lot, and an ordinary repairman will have to work for ten years. Because the repair shop is in the service industry, it doesn't even have 2,000 yuan on its books.

Send Director Hu away, even if you don’t need the car to pay for it. Sell ​​a car to the grain station, and their factory will be able to raise chickens, ducks and pigs in the future. I really can't refuse, so I can only agree.

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