Chapter 161 The Amount of Gasoline Engine Is Stuck

Know how to advance and retreat, know gains and losses.

Not long after he came out of the garment factory, Luo Cheng suddenly came to his senses. This time it seemed that he was not taking advantage of others, but was getting in with a favor.

It cannot be ruled out that some workers these days like to take advantage of the factory. They always feel that some things are useless and the factory cannot use them, so they might as well take advantage of themselves.

But Luo Cheng is now the factory director, and the workers don't know the process. Isn't he still clear about it? At least there were some things that Director Zhang didn't say deliberately, but Luo Cheng didn't shy away from asking them before.

Just like a repair shop, people bring cars in for repairs and replace damaged parts. It seems that they are not allowed to be disposed of in private, such as tires. If they are replaced, they can be disposed of casually. Then they can be used to make shoe soles and sandals, which are very durable.

Luo Cheng had heard that in order to solve the problem of food, a large amount of urea was imported from Japan as fertilizer. At that time, rural people still lacked cloth and used urea bags to make clothes.

Chinese people will not let go of even a bag, let alone now. Anything previously replaced by the repair shop must be recycled and reported. In this era, there are no personal belongings and they are not sold to individuals.

The cloth cut from the garment factory is not sold to outsiders, and employees cannot take it home. Scrap from the machinery factory can also be taken to the steel rolling mill for recycling.

Even if there are defects in the fabric dyed by the garment factory, they must report it before it can be treated as defective. It can also be sold back to the cost price and even make money, but there is no need to issue tickets. And it cannot be done intentionally. Defective products are substandard products, and a factory must ensure a certain pass rate of its products.

According to the relationship between the garment factory and the sewing machine factory, there will definitely be a lot of sewing tickets in the factory. If Luo Cheng buys this machine, they will definitely use the extra quota to make up for it. Then we may have to make up some money from the factory's own retention fund, and we will definitely not let the amount fail to match the accounts. Because something went wrong, the factory was held more seriously accountable.

After shopping, Luo Cheng did not go home immediately, but went to the lumber factory. The efficiency of the lumber factory is also good. There are many master carpenters in the factory. Just making furniture is actually not very profitable these days. In an era when people don't have enough to eat, there are many people who would rather squat to eat than buy stools.

The main reason is that there is a lot of wood for industrial use, which makes the lumber factory still profitable. Otherwise, how would you have the money to buy a car worth 5,000 yuan. However, the benefits are relative to their size, which is only two to three hundred people. There are still many porters, and there may be many apprentices and temporary workers.

The remaining sawdust and wood chips produced by the wood can also be sold for money, but they are very cheap, and they are regarded as additional income for the lumber mill, not counting the cost. It is mainly supplied to some places that burn boilers. Large quantities can also be supplied to thermal power plants.

Wood chips and wood chips are mainly sold in quantity and are not worth much. Ordinary people can also buy them directly. But there are so few people burning this in the city. Why are there so many briquettes for cooking in the city? That’s because the houses assigned to many workers are not complete sets and do not necessarily have kitchens. If they do, they were renovated later. The houses do not have chimneys and burn firewood. The smoke is too big to be discharged.

For coal stoves, you only need to install an exhaust pipe with an iron sheet. There are even those who are not afraid of choking, and there are those who do not install a pipe, because there is not much smoke when burning briquettes. Maybe it's a little bit worse when cooking.

When Luo Cheng came, he was directly received by the director of the lumber factory. The so-called good efficiency of the factory was relative. There was not even a truck in the factory, not to mention small cars, and all nearby deliveries relied on pallet trucks. If the construction site requires lumber, we have our own trucks to haul it.

I went to the lumber factory and got a bag of sawdust and two bags of wood chips, which can be used for cooking for a long time. Usually when other people come to buy this, they can buy a bag for a few cents, and you can pick it up on a pole and burn it yourself. The pallets here are specially used to pull finished wood cubes and furniture. There are also loaders and unloaders in the factory who can help pull the goods. It usually costs one or two cents to cover the distance.

The shipping cost is more expensive than the purchased wood chips. This is normal, because this is not what the wood factory mainly buys. When Luo Cheng came this time, he was interested in something. He asked for a bundle of wooden cubes, which he planned to use to build a wooden cage in his yard for raising chickens in the future. In addition, Luo Cheng fell in love with the unprocessed wooden pillars in the factory, especially a tree pillar with a diameter of seventy or eighty centimeters.

These days, there are still many big trees in some mountain forests, and we don’t pay much attention to trees now. Nowadays, we can often see centuries-old trees that can only be hugged by several children. In future generations, they will have to go to Africa and import big trees. The board is gone.

This wooden block can be used directly as a table and chair when placed in the yard. Placing it in the room may not look good and make you look poor. But if you put it in the yard, it would be elegant.

Luo Cheng spent one and a half yuan for everything plus shipping. After all, the wooden piers are actually useful and can be used as furniture. A stool costs seventy or eighty cents in the market, and it also requires a bundle of wood cubes. This is cut wood and can be used as a bed board, but he uses it to make chicken coops. Most rural people make chicken coops out of bamboo sticks. If they raise one or two, some people will also make a frame out of branches.

People raise chickens for life, and Luo Cheng raises chickens for the breath of life, which is a kind of fun. So don't care about the cost of the chicken coop.

After coming out of the lumber factory, Luo Cheng went home immediately. Xiaoyu and Shishi didn't take off the cotton-padded jackets they bought at the garment factory. They said they were really warm along the way. It can be seen that now that I have lived in the city, I am somewhat obsessed with comparison. This is relatively normal, but just don’t be obsessed with comparison.

After Xiaoyu and the others came back, they really dug out the cotton from their old cotton-padded jackets, planning to take it all out and put it in the yard to dry. Then get some thread to seal it, and then get some cloth to make a small quilt cover.

After Luo Cheng came back, he lay in bed and thought about things in the factory. Every day, the materials for the manual forklift were collected and delivered to the factory. This belongs to the research and development of new products. Unfortunately, the purchase costs now have to be borne by the factory, because automobile manufacturers are commercial enterprises. This year also happened to be a reform, allowing companies to bear the costs of developing new products themselves.

The advantage of this kind of reform is that you don’t need to report it to the leadership, you can make your own decisions. The disadvantage is that commercial enterprises without funds can only produce old products unchanged. It is very likely that a product or style will not change for decades.

Before having dinner, Luo Cheng went to the supply and marketing cooperative to sign in. He wanted to try if he didn't sign in for a day, and whether the system would add up. But I am afraid that I will waste an opportunity if I don't sign in. I feel that when I am not rich in materials, I should not try some things easily.

At the supply and marketing cooperative, Luo Cheng felt that he was lucky to sign in this time and got another bed sheet, which could be changed into a small quilt cover. The other items are a bottle of wine, a pair of rubber boots, a bottle of malted milk, and hairpin short ribs.

Luo Cheng had never drunk malted milk before and didn't know what it tasted like. However, this hairpin gave Luo Cheng a little surprise. It was made of a small steel wire and had the same shape as a hairpin. This thing can be used to remove ear wax, mainly because there are no products specifically designed to remove ear wax in this era.

Early the next morning, after Luo Cheng took a shower, he went to work in work clothes instead of the Chinese tunic suit. The Chinese tunic suit made it difficult to work.

The first thing Luo Cheng did when he came to the factory was to purchase a batch of cube car parts. How to set up the factory was not something he needed to consider anyway.

Only by producing cube cars can the factory be profitable, and if it is profitable, it will not have to worry about life.

Director Zhang Lin arrived earlier today. He no longer has the position of factory director and does not stay in the office. He just wanders around the workshop. I plan to teach other car repairmen to repair cars in the future. The position is different. In fact, it's more relaxed. I don't have to report to him on many things.

Luo Cheng found him and asked how to handle the purchase of auto parts and how they used to operate it.

This question made Director Zhang scream, what's worse, Luo Cheng chose the automobile factory to become a local enterprise yesterday, instead of becoming a branch of the No. 1 Automobile Factory. If it were other companies, it would be okay and they would just develop themselves, but automobile manufacturing companies are different.

Whether it’s a car driver or a car mechanic, they are all people who come into contact with cars. Everyone knows what the first domestic car after liberation was and why it was produced at that time.

In 1954, leaders said that apart from tables and chairs, we could not build a single car. This means that at that time, China had zero foundation in the automotive field, and it was not until 3 years later that the first Jiefang truck was produced. And a total of 12 vehicles were produced.

As for cars, research and development and production started because leaders said they needed their own cars.

It can be said that every car factory in China before produced cars through the cooperation and support of many departments, and it took several years.

But Luo Cheng's current car manufacturing plant is completely different. The only bright spot of this cube car is its structural form. The chassis and body were crude and there was no windshield, resulting in an inexpensive car. But this car looks really unattractive. If it weren't for the shortage and high price of cars, it would be impossible for the demand for his car to increase.

The cars produced by other car factories are not like Luo Cheng's, where they change the shape and then assemble them with various parts. Instead, everything from the body, engine, gearbox, to a car light or a screw is produced by itself.

The first sedan in China, the Oriental sedan, was modeled after the French Shimca in appearance. The body was hammered out by a forging door. Many structures could not be manufactured with lathes and stamping equipment, so they were all started by hand.

The engine is also a copy of the German Mercedes-Benz 190, and almost all other parts are the same. They are mainly imitations, with a little bit of self-design to change the appearance.

So a real car factory has R&D funds from the beginning, and hundreds of departments cooperate. Whatever is needed, there will be departments to tackle it.

At present, Ngee Ann's car manufacturing plant requires certain departments to cooperate in the production of square cars unless there is strong approval from superior leaders. Otherwise, a car like this that simply changes the body structure is just peach picking. Engines and other parts that others have spent several years counterfeiting must be produced in their own factories first.

Moreover, domestically produced cars are now produced for leaders of various industries, and many business leaders only ride in jeeps. And don’t even think about the accessories for Jeeps, they are from military industrial companies.

The reason why there are so many jeeps in the army is because the factories that produce jeeps are enterprises of the army. And why many business leaders now mainly use Jeeps? It is for the sake of production funds. Only local governments assist the military industry, and there is no military industry to assist local governments.

Director Zhang took Luo Cheng and went directly to the office to make a call in front of him. When they learned that Ngee Ann needed it, they were not as embarrassed as Director Zhang expected, but they would not help with coordination. Ask Director Zhang to call the department in charge directly.

Now is the era of planned production. Producing too many things is really useless. For example, transmissions, apart from being sold to automobile manufacturers, what use can they be used for? The output of gasoline engines has not increased at all. This is the main component of the car. Why do we still rely on imports now that we can produce cars domestically? Isn’t it because some things are imported because their technology is backward and their production cannot keep up with the minimum demand?

After calling them one by one, the goods are all available. Some things are easy to produce. If they are needed for a long time, they can also be included in planned production. Only gasoline engines cannot keep up with production. Even if they support the local government, they can only reluctantly provide ten units. If you want more, unless there is a leader from above to specifically allocate quotas here.

Just ten engines, what's the use? Luo Cheng and Director Zhang were sitting in the office, a little unsure of what to do. There are only a few car factories in the country, and they all have previous backgrounds. Jeeps have dual-purpose military and civilian uses, and hundreds of people were engaged in research and development from the beginning.

"Director Luo, why not change it to a diesel engine? Diesel engines are available in our province. If necessary, let the local unit report it. At least there will be no problem."

Director Zhang suggested that diesel engines are easier to manufacture than gasoline engines, and many industries that require engines use diesel engines.

With a diesel engine, because it starts in a compression mode and has a low ignition point, it takes a certain amount of time to generate enough power. This means that the start is slow. For many tractors, if you just start the engine, the power will not be strong at first. Many experienced tractor drivers will start the engine and then let the engine rotate for a while before starting.

In addition, the diesel engine has the same horsepower as the gasoline engine, but the diesel engine is larger than the engine and has a larger displacement.

The last point is that the principles of diesel engines and gasoline engines are different. Diesel engines vibrate and make more noise.

But there are also advantages, that is, fuel saving. Long-distance buses and trucks are basically diesel engines, which have low fuel consumption and cheap fuel prices.

Luo Cheng did not immediately agree to Director Zhang's suggestion. You must know that the engine of the cube car is installed under the seat. If it uses a diesel engine, there is no problem in lowering the starting speed and top speed. Because the car is small, the actual car engine is already a bit over the limit. Driving too fast is not good for a square car.

But the diesel engine vibrates too much and makes too much noise. Changing the engine is no different than driving a tractor. It would be better to produce an agricultural tricycle. The engine is behind the seat and is directly separated from the cab. Even if there is vibration, you won't feel much.

And for three-wheeled vehicles, there is only one wheel in front, so you don’t need to use a steering wheel to operate it, just swing it left and right. It's also easy to learn.

"We also need ten gasoline engines. In this case, Director Zhang, please go and communicate with the local unit. Anyway, the official planned output has not been released, so it is said that the engine production capacity is insufficient. Currently, the planned production can only be eight units. If they can help purchase imported gasoline For engines, we will add more production capacity.”

Luo Cheng said to Director Zhang, and suddenly Luo Cheng discovered a problem. Director Zhang did not become the factory director but became the workshop director, which seemed to be a bit of a humiliation. With his professional skill of Level 6 automobile repair, it seems that he is very suitable to be the director of a repair shop. But after being the factory director for many years, he is familiar with many things and has a professional understanding of automobiles.

Luo Cheng felt that it would be more reasonable to move Director Zhang to logistics procurement, and he was also familiar with the heads of many units in Ngee Ann.

But we’ll talk about this later. To be honest, Luo Cheng didn’t value square cars at all. He started doing this just for vanity, to get some car purchase tickets so that others could come to the repair shop. But now that it’s done, I’m not willing to be stuck with production materials. What's the point of providing ten engines in one month? We can't even go overseas.

Luo Cheng has been speculating on better uses of the sign-in system recently. This sign-in system is actually very detailed. When you sign in at the security room, you will get security items. It does not classify the security room as a car repair shop as a whole.

A workshop is a workshop, and this is also true in many places outside. This caused Luo Cheng to have to run around wherever he wanted something. According to the logic, the rules seem to be very clear, but Luo Cheng guessed, what if it was a venue built by himself.

For example, the repair shop is currently renovating the breeding ground. Before it was renovated, it was a small wasteland. You may sign in to obtain items based on the wasteland environment. But after the transformation, will the system obtain items based on the breeding location?

If this is really possible, I would take an office and turn it into an engine design room. In other words, it is the engine drawing design room. Will they sign in and produce the corresponding drawings, and then set up an engine production workshop? According to the system's stingy practice, the engine is not expected, but as for the parts, giving some parts can save a lot of detours.

I have been looking at the information, and the updates are not coming soon. I found that many automobile factories in this era have low output, which is entirely because the industry is too backward. Just like forklifts, it took more than ten years to barely reach an annual output of 1,000 units. There were only 50 cars in the first year, and later when the equipment became mature, there were only a few hundred cars. Everything is stuck on the production capacity of the engine. It is a complete imitation. The principles are not fully understood and no parts are dared to be modified. Even some advanced engines cannot be copied. If it weren't for domestic production, it would be more cost-effective to import some parts.

I want to write about the mass production of cube cars. If I actually write about it, it will be unreasonable. Don’t look at how quickly a few units are built at the beginning. According to the speed of test production, let alone dozens of units a month in the beginning.

As for diesel engines, they have always been available. The one I found is a joint venture with foreign capital.

Military industrial companies are all developing engines in the aviation field.

Anyway, if you don’t do your own research and development, you won’t be able to get up in this era, and everything will be restricted. As for research and development, we can only rely on the system. If you don’t overtake in corners, your character design will be unreasonable and you can’t always be omnipotent.