In the machining workshop, the sounds of clanging, sizzling, knocking, hammering, cutting or welding can be heard.
Although the Red Star Machinery Factory is a military factory established in the 1950s, and its equipment is quite old, the equipment in the Soviet Union are all very stupid, big, black, and sturdy, and they are still in use today.
Of course, this is also related to good daily maintenance.
Moreover, as a military factory that can produce ammunition at the bottom and artillery at the top, it has a variety of mechanical processing equipment, including turning, cutting, planing, milling, drilling, welding and other things.
At this moment.
Several squad leaders over there have already taken action personally, although they are still full of doubts in their hearts. They don't understand why the old factory director would call a deer a horse and point to the simple bomb on the drawing and say it is a gas tank. They also don't understand how the young factory director prepared to use this bomb. To create foreign exchange.
But as workers in a military factory, no one understands the principle of doing more and asking less questions better than them, so even if they are confused, they still do the work under their hands very efficiently.
“The equipment is always a bit old, but it’s better in all aspects!”
“And everyone’s craftsmanship is really impressive!”
After watching for a moment, Wang Ye nodded with satisfaction and said to the two directors and the six giants of the machinery factory next to him.
Among them, what Wang Ye is most satisfied with is not the equipment, but the workers!
First of all, Wang Ye is very satisfied with the fact that workers rarely ask questions and do hard work, because Wang Ye has to do a lot of things next, and it can even be said that there are many "extraordinary" things. If every project starts, it has to be chewed up. Explaining it clearly to these workers would be too time-consuming and troublesome. In fact, they only need to do what they want, and they will understand in the end.
The second is the skill of the workers, which Wang Ye is equally satisfied with.
After all, the Red Star Machinery Factory has been half-operated for a long time. If the workers become rusty in their skills due to being idle for a long time, that would be the worst situation.
Because in this era, it is impossible to put everything on the production line. The cost is too high to balance. The best solution is to rely on low-cost labor and pure handcrafting. Simply put, it is "hand-rubbing" , and this is also a feature of this era.
In fact, in later generations, you can often hear netizens arguing about what kind of products could be produced in China in the 1980s. Even in this era, there are countless cases of reporting credit to superiors and defrauding rewards.
In fact, "capable of production" and "capable of mass production" are fundamentally two different concepts.
To give a simple example, in fact, the gap between China and the two giants of the United States and the Soviet Union in terms of microelectronics and integrated circuits is not that big, but this gap will become larger and larger as time goes by.
The reason is that in China at this time, many electronic technologies were at the laboratory level, while Millikin had reached the level of mass production. Coupled with the lack of finance for the economic development of reform and opening up, the idea that making is worse than buying was very popular, and domestic Development gradually fell behind, and the mass production plan was directly aborted under the impact of imported goods. In the end, nothing was done, and the gap became wider and wider.
"Yeah yeah!"
"Our equipment is the lifeblood of our business. We must use it carefully and maintain it properly."
"As for everyone's skills, hey!"
"Wang Ye, I'm not afraid of you making fun of me and saying I'm bragging. That's all! At least in our Luqi Province, they are all top-notch!"
Hearing Wang Ye praising the workers and equipment of the machinery factory, the one-armed old factory director Zhao looked quite proud and made a thumbs up gesture with his only hand.
Looking at these busy workers, Wang Ye was filled with emotions.
In normal history, due to the failure of the reform of third-tier factories, the widespread closure of state-owned factories and the reform of joint-stock systems, countless such outstanding skilled workers have fallen into society. At best, they can make a living with their skills, but at worst, they can only suffer as laborers. force.
But in fact, they are a country’s most valuable asset!
Thoughts flashed through his mind. Wang Ye coughed lightly, then smiled and said loudly:
"Everyone, do a good job! Our foreign exchange earning project is successful. Needless to say, all wages will be paid. Everyone will have a bonus!"
"Remember this, it was said by your factory director!"
"If I break my promise then, you can file a complaint with the two directors, okay!"
Along with Wang Ye's voice, there was a burst of laughter in the workshop, and at the same time, there were also voices saying in unison:
"good!"
Wang Ye nodded, turned to Old Man Zhao and said:
"Old factory director, are you ready with what I want?"
"It's estimated that our gas tank will be ready in half an hour. During this time, I have to fry the explosives."
Just when he left the conference room, Wang Ye made a list, which contained nothing more than ammonium nitrate fertilizer, sugar, a large pot, a gas stove, a scale, potassium nitrate, a thermometer and the like.
"They are all common things, already prepared!"
"but......"
Before the old factory director finished speaking, Wang Ye looked at the two directors on the left and right and said with a smile:
"In that case, it's my turn to miss something."
"Let's find an open place."
Hearing what Wang Ye said, Liang Jinsong hesitated and said:
"Wang Ye, do you want to do it yourself?"
"It's quite dangerous to speculate on this thing, why don't you forget about it?"
"Anyway, there are still explosives left in the factory. I'll just issue a note and use that for experiments!"
Regarding Liang Jinsong's statement, Li Gang and the six giants of the machinery factory all nodded in agreement with worried faces. After all, China in this era is quite loose in the control of weapons and explosives. There are countless people speculating on explosives, and you can hear someone from time to time. So and so blew himself up.
"It's okay, I'm sure about this!"
"I know everything about the ratio, temperature and time."
"And I'm afraid no one here knows this thing better than me. And since we are going to sell this thing, we have to do it comprehensively."
"Although it is indeed possible to experiment with explosives, many of our customers may still be under sanctions and blockades and cannot obtain explosives at all, and these conventional civilian materials are their only hope."
"Let's go!"
Seeing that Wang Ye insisted on going his own way, no one could persuade him. After a while, they arrived at the open space behind the machine factory and close to the valley. This is also the shooting range for weapons testing by the machine factory.
Under the setting sun, according to Wang Ye's request, others stayed away. Wang Ye wore a green coat and got busy.
Half past six in the evening.
The mechanical processing workshop sent the finished gas tank, and Wang Ye's explosives were also fried. After a lot of work, they were put into the gas tank. However, this time there was no steel ball iron sand filled, and it was full of explosives!
"Is the rack ready?"
"alright!"
"The detonator is inserted, and the fuse is two meters away."
Then Wang Ye and several young workers prepared intensively and orderly until they stuffed the gas tank into the metal tube fixed by the tilt bracket, reserved a fuse at the back end, and pointed it at the hillside in the distance.
"Everyone! After entering the bunker!"
"Countdown to ignition! Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven..."
Following Wang Ye's voice, the two directors, the six giants of the machinery factory, and other squad leaders and workers who were watching all hid behind a low wall and looked at the gas tank launcher, which was at least a hundred meters away from the low wall.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, Wang Ye struck a match and lit the fuse!
"Hiss!"
With the sound of the fuse burning, Wang Ye ran all the way back behind the low wall without looking back, and then stared at the gas tank launcher as time passed by.
"237, 238, 239..."
The burning speed of the fuse was only 0.8 per second. For safety reasons, a two-meter-long fuse was used, so the waiting time was very long. The old factory director looked over and muttered in a low voice.
"258!"
Of course when I read this number.
"boom!"
Accompanied by a loud noise and the ground trembling slightly, the fire of the launcher flashed, and smoke and dust instantly rolled up. At the same time, the gas tank was visible to the naked eye and turned into a black shadow, flying directly through the air at an extremely fast speed, heading towards the distance. Go up the hillside kilometers away!
"boom!"
An instant later, a violent explosion occurred on the hillside. You could see it in the golden sunset. Trees as thick as a bowl were broken and splashed, huge rocks rolled down, soil splashed into the air, smoke and dust enveloped the scene, and the scene was a mess!
