Chapter 236 Ten More Orders Came

"Consul, can you help our North Korea with this forklift at a low price? As you know, we in North Korea don't have any foreign exchange to buy things from the Soviet Union."

The Soviets bought forklifts produced in China. The diplomats in Forty-Nine City deliberately publicized this, and many foreign diplomats stationed in the country got the news.

The first one to come to the door was North Korea, which had just signed a military alliance agreement with the country this year. North Korea is a neighboring country, and the junction is only separated by the Yalu River. Moreover, ten years ago, China spent all its resources to fight against the "Eagle" and aid Korea. It sent nearly one million volunteers alone, resulting in countless casualties.

Now, the relationship between North Korea and the country is at its peak period of friendship, and they have always assisted each other militarily. But both are very backward in their own domestic economies and industries.

A forklift costs 65,000 yuan. For North Koreans, this is several times more expensive than a Soviet forklift. Of course, several times more expensive refers to those forklifts in the Soviet Union that they themselves are eliminating. The lift is still of the spiral type, which is the imitation forklift from Liancheng. Good forklifts don't do takeout at all.

North Korea is also poor, and no other country is willing to ask for North Korea's money. Just like China now, what can you do if you ask for your country's money? It's different if you ask for the Soviet Union's money. At least you can buy a lot of equipment and machinery in the Soviet Union. And of course there are American dollars.

However, even if there are US dollars, China and North Korea will not go to the United States to purchase anything at present, and the current relationship is still in a confrontational situation. But U.S. dollars can be used to buy things in other Western countries. Even Japan, which has a very high level of hatred, can use U.S. dollars to buy things.

As soon as the North Korean diplomats opened their mouths, the foreign diplomats they received actually also had a headache. The price is negotiable, but selling North Korea is meaningless. North Korea itself is below the subsistence line, and cannot ask for food from them.

In the end, we didn’t even discuss the price, so we submitted it first. And it’s almost as I guessed. You don’t need North Korea’s money, and don’t talk about buying it at a low price. I’ll just give you ten cars. In the past few years, we resisted the invasion and sacrificed so many volunteers without saying anything. Now this year, we have just signed a military alliance, with a few forklifts and hundreds of thousands of them. As long as you stop worrying about it, just give it away.

Then in the evening, Director Chen received calls at home and asked him to handle the matter.

deliver? If the forklifts produced by their steel rolling mill are given away, they will be given away, just like the forklift truck factory in Liancheng. If the higher-ups say it, they will be given away. Most places will report it, and then everyone will lose some materials.

It seems a bit unrealistic to ask Luo Cheng's automobile factory to get ten more forklifts for free. You know, Luo Cheng is still raising money to build a transmission production line.

After thinking about it for a long time, I realized that it was not easy for the steel rolling mill to provide this money. The steel rolling mill would have to spend hundreds of thousands, and it would be troublesome to report it. After thinking about it for a long time, I figured I could only give something for something. Also given to the Soviet Union were North Korea, a total of twenty vehicles, plus the original four. Directly give 80 tons of grain to the automobile factory and a transmission production line, and the two will be settled.

Of course, the cost of producing these twenty-four forklifts, including diesel engines, wheels, plates, and various components, still needs to be borne by the automobile factory itself. It's impossible for an automobile factory to sell more than 20 cars and earn a net profit of a production line worth more than 700,000 yuan and 80 tons of grain that ordinary people can buy with food stamps.

The next day, when the automobile factory was having a meeting early in the morning, Luo Cheng was about to announce the sale of the forklifts produced in the factory to the Soviet Union. The phone in the office rang. Director Chen of the steel rolling mill called and asked for an additional ten units of production. Give 80 tons of grain and a transmission production line.

Originally, it was said that the production line would be sold to the automobile factory, and the money would be paid off next month. But now if the car payment is received directly from the production line, it means that the car will be purchased this month. The production cost of forklifts also needs to be borne by the automobile factory. If this is the case, the car factory will not be able to pay off all its debts by the 20th.

Although there are more orders and more profits are made, there is less buffer time of one month.

Putting down the phone, Luo Cheng went on to hold a meeting and directly announced about the forklifts. Director Zhao had to arrange for people in the workshop to get out the body panels of twenty forklifts as soon as possible. Another one is that the cube car 2.0 he designed also needs to be started. There is also a three-wheeled truck. In the future, it will use a single set of transducers from the motorcycle factory. Another batch must be built this month.

Anyway, once the order came, everyone brought by Director Zhao could hardly think of stopping. It may not even be enough. The production requirements for the body of a block truck are lower than that of a car, and it is easier to knock out than a forklift body. It can be arranged in an ordinary workshop, but it requires a senior technician to be in charge. Six-speed transmission gears also require advanced skills to be produced manually. At least before the advent of the transmission production line, six-speed transmissions could only be produced manually.

The real headache is the Human Resources Department. The new workers are reported by the sub-district office every day. I thought it was almost the Chinese New Year, but Factory Director Luo seemed to have slowed down the expansion progress, and the new workers were almost in place. But now that I think about it, this is clearly the calm before the storm.

The automobile factory's transportation fleet has expanded again, and four trucks are anchored at the transportation station. A dozen more three-wheel trucks were added, bringing the total number of trucks to 20.

The basketball courts that Papi hired someone to build that week were temporarily occupied by the transportation team and used as parking lots. And the car park does plan to build a cargo distribution parking lot.

In addition, our own transportation team also needs to find a person in charge. The bus transportation station has vehicle dispatchers, and the automobile factory here also has many transportation teams, and it is also necessary to recruit dispatchers and personnel responsible for fleet management.

When trucks run long distances, they also need to recruit drivers, who are trainee drivers who can drive.

The transportation team alone requires an extra thirty people, and the forklift assembly requires dozens more people. If the inverter production line is delivered, although there is only one production line, dozens of people will be needed.

Coupled with the increase in production capacity in other workshops, a dozen or so people in each workshop are not conspicuous. The security department and office staff will also need to be increased. Anyway, if you calculate it casually, 300 people will be recruited first. Even if the output of the cube car 2.0 is not high in the early stage, it still needs people to assemble it.

Now the personnel of the military factory are basically in place, and the personnel previously recruited are basically in place. The automobile factory has already exceeded the 1,000-person mark. This will require the recruitment of another 300 people, bringing the number of people in the factory to nearly 1,500.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng built a large multi-window canteen, otherwise it would not be able to accommodate so many workers. Fortunately, the cafeteria is not a fast food restaurant like that of later generations. It can have twenty or thirty dishes every day. Now Master He and Master Liu each lead a team, cooking and cooking in the kitchen.

It is not difficult for a team to provide food for more than 500 people. What is difficult is that nowadays the canteen not only steams rice, but also steams steamed steamed buns and steamed buns. The people who make Wotou and steamed buns have already added two people to each team. But if we continue to recruit people like this, both teams will be overwhelmed.

There are so many windows in the cafeteria that we need to recruit another team.

Luo originally built a multi-window and multi-kitchen cafeteria based on the canteen style of later generations of schools. His original idea was to diversify the dishes. They prepare various kinds of dishes, more than a dozen kinds of vegetables, various kinds of meat, fish, and sell pastries and so on. But the idea is good, but it is unrealistic. There are no off-season vegetables in this era, and with poor transportation capacity, there is no way to transport vegetables from Guangdong.

The current canteen is a strange combination of circumstances. The variety of dishes is almost the same, but it is divided into several teams.

However, Luo Cheng will not give up his idea of ​​a fast-food canteen easily. Isn't it because of the poor transportation capacity? When the factory slows down and has capital, he will not bother you with trucks and will just build large-head trucks for no other reason. Yes, just purchase vegetables for the whole country. It doesn’t matter even if you lose money on transportation. Anyway, the profits belong to the country, and the good things you eat belong to you.