Chapter 257 Secretary Jiang Feels Bad

The new office building was finally completed more than ten days ago. There are only three floors in total. If you want to hurry up, it is actually very fast. However, Luo Cheng also requested that the exterior walls should be painted with cement and painted white. He wanted the office building of the automobile factory to be more stylish, but this will have to wait until next year. At least the internal structure is completed.

The electricity is on and easy to install. The main reason is that the current circuits are all exposed wires. The internal floor is directly made of bright cement. There are no grooves or holes in the wall. It is painted white directly, so it is completed. easier.

Fortunately, the office rooms requested by Luo Cheng are all large. In this way, even if they are only painted white, they will look grand because of the large space.

Some special slogans from this era will also be placed on office buildings in the future.

In order to prepare the office building in advance these two days, the automobile factory entertained them with food. The main reason is that the factory director Luo Cheng suddenly wanted to hold a product display and invited many department leaders to visit. The previous office and reception room could not accommodate so many people.

Of course, Luo Cheng also invited people, and department leaders who had no power did not invite them. Companies that have no strength are not invited. This is not because Luo Cheng is snobbish, but what is the use of inviting them? Let’s talk about the fishery and forestry departments. When the forestry department does not plant a large number of commercial fruit trees, it depends on how much revenue the trees can generate.

Even if there is breeding in the fishery, there is no large-scale breeding these days, and no oxygen supply equipment will be invested in the fish ponds. If they are fed, they will be ordinary feed. So you can't raise many fish in a fish pond, but the good thing is that even the fish raised these days taste good. At least they are fed bran and vegetable leaves, not high-tech grade feed.

The same is true for enterprises. Some small businesses don't have much money. After maintaining expenses, they still have to hand over profits every quarter. The real invitations have to be big companies with high profits. If the company is not big, it is useless even if it has money. If the level is not enough, even the company is not qualified to allocate cars.

So Luo Cheng thought that getting more than 20 kilograms of vegetables from the system was enough to contribute. This was the contribution he had accumulated recently by signing in with the system. There was not much left in the system, so he had to keep it for himself.

However, what Luo Cheng was doing was just a display tour, and he did not provide any invitations or require any documents to participate. It was also notified nearly a week in advance, which also resulted in many people getting the news.

There are many people who come uninvited, such as the director of the lumber factory. Many car factories purchase wood from the lumber factory. But the lumber factory bought a square truck 1.0 last time, and now it is equipped with ordinary glass. It is used when going out, and for delivery, it is still pulled manually by a wooden truck, and it is not willing to spend money to buy a three-wheeled truck. .

It's not that the lumber mill doesn't want to buy it, but their profit can actually buy one in a quarter. Thanks to the cooperative relationship between the lumber factory and the automobile factory, even if three-wheeled trucks are in short supply, they will be sold one to them, but if they want to buy one, they will have to buy another one in the new quarter after the new year.

And this cube car 2.0, even if it is the regular version, is not something that the lumber factory can get involved in. Firstly, it has no money, and secondly, it is not qualified. It is normal that the factory director was not invited, but on the day of the product display, the factory director came shamelessly. No reason, I just came to see the fun, and I know that the car factory seems to have invited many big leaders to this exhibition, so I came to see it.

There are quite a few people like the director of a lumber factory, and a director is somewhat of a rank. Even a factory director in his dozens of years is still a cadre.

Fortunately, there are conference rooms on the second and third floors of the new office building. The conference room on the second floor is used by the leaders of the following departments to hold department meetings. The third floor is the leadership conference room, used by various departments such as the factory director, deputy director, and logistics director to hold meetings.

The conference rooms are quite large, so the uninvited heads of units and companies were arranged to be received in the conference room on the second floor. The third floor is naturally where the people in charge of places and companies are received.

There were tea, melon seeds and peanuts, all bought with tickets given by the local finance department. As for cigarettes, those on the second floor serve ordinary high-end cigarettes, while those on the third floor serve Huazi specially. Special supplies are divided into local special supplies and military region special supplies. Naturally, Luo Cheng used the military region special supplies.

Originally it was just for product display, but many small businesses and units came in advance. We arrived relatively early, so it turned into a factory display. I brought many people to the workshop to watch. Of course, the workshop that Director Zhao is in charge of is not allowed to watch. There is a separate engine assembly team inside, and the anti-counterfeiting steps of the engine cannot be leaked.

And with Director Zhao here, let alone your small unit or small business, even if the top leader of a local unit comes, you will not be allowed to visit unless the national security department issues an order.

Of course, the workshop that Director Zhao is in charge of is actually not very interesting to see. What is interesting is the assembly workshops. With assembly line production, manual forklifts can now easily assemble dozens of units a day, with a monthly production of thousands. The previous agreement with the steel rolling mill was 500 units per month, but it was actually exceeded that month. But now the car factory has no shortage of formal labor quotas, and there is no need to renew the production agreement. In any case, it is still necessary to produce as much steel as the rolling mill needs.

Now many workers in charge see this and feel that it is a very good product, but it seems that it has not been shown much in the Ngee Ann area. But after asking about the price and learning that they were all bought by the steel rolling mill, I didn't say anything. There are two hundred manual forklifts, which are not cheap, and the kind of cart that cannot be lifted or lowered may not be cost-effective.

This manual forklift is suitable for transporting heavier items, and is not necessarily needed in factories. Machinery shops, machine repair shops, heavy machinery factories, etc. do need them, but these are just tool vehicles after all, so there won't be many if they are needed.

As for Cube Car 1.0, due to engine problems, the output is still only ten units per month. It is planned to produce eight vehicles, and the other two will basically be sold to related households. And since someone took the lead in installing ordinary glass, this car has become a magical tool for small units and enterprises.

Anyway, the passengers in the car sit in the back. Even if the ordinary glass is hit and hurts the driver, it will not hurt the passengers in the car. The smaller the factory and the smaller the unit, the more they want to experience the feeling of having a driver, and they will definitely not be able to drive themselves. Therefore, there are many units and companies that want them but cannot get them at all. The planned cube trucks must either rely on their own finances to purchase them, just like the postal units. Or it can be arranged according to demand, with the public security police station giving priority to improvements.

As for the three-wheel truck workshop, except for those with industrial interests, such as agriculture, fishery, forestry, etc., local units are not very interested. However, this is a truck for hauling goods, and companies and units will have ideas for it, and it costs 5,000 yuan a piece, less than half the price of a truck. But except that the model is not as big as a truck and has one less wheel, the performance is actually not much smaller than a truck. The minimum load capacity is not much different.

The engine horsepower of the three-wheeled truck may not be as powerful as the Jiefang truck, but the light body more or less makes up for this shortcoming. Driving is flexible and convenient, and it is more popular among people below. Ordinary people can master it with practice, and do not need to learn to drive specifically.

Especially when I saw several rows of three-wheeled trucks in the parking shed, many companies were jealous. The automobile factory had its own transportation team and helped many companies pull goods. The load capacity was really not bad. It may not be as fast as a truck. After all, a three-wheeled truck only uses one transmission, but it is much faster than a tractor.

And when everyone saw the forklift, to be honest, many people had never seen such a truck these days. Even the machinery factory couldn't buy one if it wanted one. Both ports and airports need this kind of special vehicle. As a machinery factory, you just need to arrange more people to move it, but you are not qualified to use such a special vehicle.

If the forklifts produced by the automobile factory are also backward imitations, and the machinery factory has the advantage of localization, it may still be able to buy forklifts. However, most of the forklifts produced by automobile factories are exported, and newspapers in Tendo and Shijiucheng have reported on them. Therefore, even if it is an important port, it is not something you can have if you want it. At least the Soviet Union's debt must be paid off in the past two years. Now that a forklift is exported, at least hundreds of tons of grain can be used to pay off the debt domestically, and how many people will go hungry.

So when everyone saw the forklift, they all talked about it, but no one dared to make such an idea, so everyone just looked at it curiously.

But what surprises everyone even more is that there is currently no truck assembly workshop for the product. It was still a semi-finished truck, but with a nine-meter-long carriage and a two-meter-long front end, the total length was more than twelve meters. Even if it is a semi-finished product, the size of this car is enough to shock people.

There are four sets of large wheels alone. The first two sets are single tires, equivalent to a set of two tires, and the rear two sets are double tires, a set of four tires. Just the tires alone, this car has twelve. And the tires are not cheap. These twelve tires alone are worth more than a three-wheeled truck. There is no engine specifically designed for this type of truck. The engine I bought is a marine engine, and the price is not cheap.

Even the transmission was specially customized. Luo Cheng didn't want to get a big truck that could only go 70 yards. As for the braking system, Team Leader Jiang and Teacher Hu Ping worked together to come up with pneumatic brakes, and the brake pads were also specially designed. This aspect of the design was all completed by Team Leader Jiang and his people. After all, Team Leader Jiang brought several people here at the same time this time, all of them engineers. If they can't make improvements, then engineers are too worthless these days.

Anyway, the cost of this truck easily exceeded 10,000, and this was in the early 1960s. Not to mention breaking ten thousand, a car can sell for tens of thousands, but if the cost of the car does not include R&D and technological content, the overall cost is actually only one or two thousand.

In the 1980s, the cars exported from Japan to Hong Kong were sold in Hong Kong for only 5,000 yuan. Even with this 5,000 yuan, there was still a profit. If glass is nationalized, the cost of tires will actually not be high. If these two aspects are reduced, and the automobile factory is already producing many parts in-house. Other factories dare not say that. Luo Cheng feels that if he produces cars in the future, the cost of each car will be one or two thousand at most.

Of course, it was impossible for Luo Cheng to deal with glass and tires. Although they were both for cars, they were completely cross-industry and cross-technical. Although Luo Cheng is also planning to develop household refrigerators and air conditioners, which can be considered a cross-industry move, the technology is incidental. Just like those who sold refrigerators in later generations, they also developed air conditioners by the way. There are many ways in which refrigerators and air conditioners are connected.

As the visit progressed, some important leaders from large companies and local places arrived, and Luo Chengcai began to personally take charge of hosting them. Luo Cheng's announcement was also at ten o'clock this morning. According to his plan, it was actually very simple. He would first go to the conference room to introduce the performance of the car to be launched, and then visit the site and even take a test drive.

What Luo Cheng didn't expect was that these small businesses could just come uninvited. At best, the car factory is more atmospheric. Anyway, the factory has food and meat other than the standard for hospitality, and there is no reception process.

But it is impossible for leaders of these small units and small businesses to arrange private rooms in the cafeteria, where there are dozens of people, and the private rooms must be used to entertain big shots. What's more, there are only three private rooms in the canteen, and each private room can only seat about ten people.

The problem now is that the top leader of Ngee Ann City invited the top leader of Changcheng. The top leaders of Changcheng have long heard of the automobile factory in Ngee Ann City. The original cube truck 1.0 has been reported, but its shape is not good. It cannot be used as a car for traveling, and it cannot be compared with a truck for hauling goods. In addition, it is a storage and assembly type, so it has a lot of noise and little rain.

Later, after the automobile factory came up with a three-wheeled truck that was purely for hauling goods, people actually paid more attention to it. But before the production of three-wheeled trucks has increased, the automobile factory has directly given you a bomb, a new forklift, and exported it directly. As for exports, no matter how low the output is, no one in this province dares to underestimate the automobile factory.

So this time, the leader of Changcheng was originally here to discuss the city's development with the leader of Ngee Ann, but Secretary Jiang from Ngee Ann suddenly changed the content of the meeting a few days ago and asked him if he was interested in participating in the new product display of Ngee Ann Automobile Manufacturing Factory. This also aroused the interest of Secretary Changcheng, and he simply brought some people to study and visit.

You must know that Changcheng is the provincial capital city, but the bicycle and motorcycle factory is in Hongcheng. Finally, a car factory came out, but it was in the even more backward Ngee Ann City. There is a car factory in Ngee Ann City, and the steel rolling mill is also here to join in the fun. The living standards of Ngee Ann City will definitely be greatly improved in the future.

Two city secretaries came at once, plus the second and third leaders at the front. Fortunately, the new office is ready, otherwise we might have to go to the cinema to receive them. At least the cinema has enough space and seats.

But even so, when the conference table is full, many leaders of large companies can only move stools for them to sit. Fortunately, now everyone is down-to-earth and doesn’t think this arrangement will lose face, and there are more practical people.

In the conference room, Luo Cheng directly introduced the performance of Cube Car 2.0 without wasting everyone's time. Many leaders may not understand cars, so some parameter data will not be discussed. Just tell me how fast it can run, it has air conditioning, it has a lot of space, and it has strong shock absorption effect. The object of comparison is a sedan. Anyway, its performance is overwhelming. This has not yet mentioned the operability of driving, such as key start and easy steering of the steering wheel. These are all things that drivers have to face. There is no need to mention this on such an occasion. You will find out later when you experience it physically.

Then the focus is on its practicality, because it has enough space and can be mixed with people and goods. But when you buy this car, the price is so expensive, you can only load it with cargo at the most, and there is no deliberate loading of cargo. Therefore, the introduction direction is still on office vehicles.

Just like an ambulance, the compartment is large enough to store first aid equipment and several people. A bed frame can be placed on the vehicle for patients to lie on.

The leaders of Ngee Ann don't have to worry about this, because the automobile factory has already set up an ambulance station. The current use is hospital transfer, leadership escort, and accident first aid.

In addition, it is convenient for the police to carry out their tasks, such as arresting criminals and so on. They have to stay on guard. You can prepare dry food in the car, and you can lie down and sleep in the car. A car can easily carry a dozen people. This is a very modest statement. You must know that this cube truck 2.0 is originally an extended version of a van, and it can accommodate more than 20 people without any problem.

It can also be used to escort items and transfer prisoners.

At the meeting were the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security, whom Luo Cheng specially invited. After hearing Luo Cheng's introduction, I was instantly moved. He was so suitable for a criminal police officer. I had to declare it. Get it as soon as possible. It's the Chinese New Year. In addition to the disaster, locals used to commit more crimes at the end of the year. Now there are also many migrants who come from other places to beg.

In ordinary times, petty thefts can be solved by the police at the police station, but the investigation of criminal cases still depends on the criminal police. Having a car like this is very convenient. Even if you are assisting in an investigation across the city, you don't need to take a shuttle bus or something, you can just drive there.

What Luo Cheng is introducing now is only the regular version. After this introduction, it is naturally the business version.

For the business version, facing the secretaries and other cadres of the two urban districts, Luo Cheng did not dare to mention the word enjoyment in this era. If you meet someone who is above the line, it is tantamount to having trouble come out of your mouth.

Instead, they directly introduced the office functions of the car, including sofas and coffee tables, which are all for leaders to work better. This is designed to allow leaders to work better. Whoever opposes it is in favor.

Some leaders have secretaries, courtyard rooms, chefs, and drivers, all of which are not for the leaders to work more safely. So the sofa and coffee table are also for work. For example, when Secretary Changcheng comes to Ngee Ann, the journey takes at least two or three hours, and the round trip only takes half a day. But with this business car, you can also think and discuss work conveniently in the car.

Even for the physical safety of the leader, what should I do if I get heatstroke while riding in a car in the hot summer? We also specially developed car air conditioners. This kind of car air conditioning is only available in luxury cars abroad.

When domestic leaders ride in a car on a hot day, the driver will first use ice cubes to cool down the car. However, ice cubes are too humid to cool down. Many leaders now have experienced wars and have many hidden injuries on their bodies. Old wounds and joints will ache as a result of moisture. The seats in the car are all made of leather, just to improve the comfort in the car. It is not too much for the boss to lie down in the car when he is tired. Isn’t it right to let the boss have a good rest so that he can work immediately after returning to the unit.

Anyway, this business car is not for enjoyment, but for squeezing the leader's time. If you rest in the car, you will have a good rest. Don't say you are tired after getting off the car. Gotta work right away. If you don’t rest in the car, you have to work in the car. The car provides such good conditions, so why don’t you work?

Society belongs to the people, and leaders serve the people. The time of a senior leader cannot be wasted. If you, a senior leader, do not buy this car or ride in this car, you are wasting your own time and being irresponsible to the people.

So Luo Cheng suggested on the spot that Secretary Jiang would try out the commercial version of the cube car later and let the finance allocate money to buy one.

And because the leather sofas are all made by hand, of the more than 20 cube cars 2.0, only five are actually commercial vehicles.

Luo Cheng described the commercial car as so good and classy that it made people feel that only big leaders were worthy of getting in this car. And the performance seems to be a bit too good. None of the domestic Hongqi cars seem to be this good. And there are only a few people in any province who can get on the red flag car.

Damn it, a city secretary, Luo Cheng has been bragging about, seems a bit unworthy of the business version of the cube car.

When Luo Cheng was finishing his sentence, he seemed to have thought of something, so he added something. Domestic Hongqi automobile factories all call to purchase their own engines, shock absorbers, and power steering pumps. There is a high possibility that car air conditioners will be purchased. This is all true and is not meant to fool everyone.

From now on, many parts of Hongqi cars will use parts produced by Ngee Ann Automobile Factory, so many of the parts of the Cube Car 2.0 that you buy now are the same as those of Hongqi cars.

So don’t think the price is too expensive. It costs 50,000 to 60,000 yuan to buy an ordinary car, but Hongqi cars can be bought if you have money. But the business cube car is different. Although it is more than 20,000 yuan more than the sedan and priced at 80,000 yuan, the accessories of the Hongqi car are all purchased from the car factory and use the same parts.

As for the regular version, it costs RMB 65,000, and its travel is no worse than that of ordinary cars. How many people can sit in an ordinary car? Does it have air conditioning? At the same price, sedan and cube car 2.0 need to be considered.

More importantly, there is a shortage of cars in China. Even if you have money now, you still can't buy a car. The same goes for cube cars. There is only such a small amount of inventory at the end of the year. This car will also be exported after the year. Once exported, this car may be more in demand than sedans, so if you are interested in it, give it money as soon as possible.

This time there is no need to buy a ticket, but the form is still the same as buying goods. Register after buying and the money will be delivered within the next two days. If you can't afford it, it won't hurt if you come here today and have a free meal and leave.

You can buy it without a ticket. When Secretary Jiang heard what Luo Cheng said, he suddenly felt bad. I originally thought I was here to see new products, so I invited Secretary Changcheng to come, which was a bit of a show off. The good development of the automobile factory is also his political achievement. But when Luo Cheng just introduced the new product, they all saw the cube car 2.0 parked at the bottom line of the shed. It came in two colors and was quite atmospheric. Now it actually has air conditioning inside, a sofa and so on.

There is a shortage of transportation vehicles, so as long as it is a car, there is no need to worry about selling it, not to mention that this time the vehicle is for the leaders. Not to mention the business version, just the regular version. It would be very embarrassing for the director of a bureau to sit out to do things. Although what Luo Cheng introduced was for office use, the regular version has air conditioning. Those at the director level of each department must at least get one to use as a car first, and then consider working.

As for the twenty or so cars from the automobile factory, Guang Yi'an could eat them all. But now Secretary Changcheng and many leaders of Changcheng are here. If they say they are not moved and do not want to take away a few vehicles, Secretary Jiang will not believe it even if he beats him to death.

Especially since Luo Cheng didn't go through the formal purchase process this time and got the purchase certificate first before selling it. Don't you understand that if the car is not sold enough, it will offend people.