A moment later, in the square in front of the small office building, Wang Ye and the six giants of the machinery factory watched Director Li leave.
"Wang Ye, do we really want to build a tractor?"
When the military green 212 Jeep disappeared from everyone's sight, the old factory manager Zhao Old Man next to him turned to look at Wang Ye and asked. Wang Ye neither confirmed nor denied, but asked:
"Old-timer, do you think tractors are a good business?"
Regarding this question, the old factory manager smiled and nodded quickly and said:
"Of course, now that the land has been divided, farmers are very motivated to farm. The demand for agricultural machinery will definitely be higher and higher in the future, and tractors are the most important agricultural machinery!"
"And if we build tractors, we can be worthy of the name of our machinery factory."
"Although we were a military factory in the past, we mainly produced long and short guns. The artillery could only produce small-caliber mountain cannons, mortars and the like. There were no big things like tractors that looked exciting!"
"only......"
After saying this, the old factory director hesitated for a moment, the smile on his face faded, and he said slightly worriedly:
"Director Li is right, tractors are big machines."
"I'm afraid it won't be easy to do it!"
Regarding the old factory director's concerns, Wang Ye chuckled, waved his hand and said:
"You are right. Farmers are now very motivated to farm. Moreover, China is a country with a large population. It is not easy to feed the country's population of more than one billion."
"So agricultural machinery is bound to flourish in the future, and tractors are the first to bear the brunt."
"But in a short period of time, farmers are still relatively poor. They may not be able to afford expensive tractors. They mainly focus on livestock farming. Only large state-owned farms can afford to buy them, resulting in a market that is not big enough."
"Without a big market, it will cause us difficulty in sales."
Having said this, Wang Ye turned to look at the old factory director and the other five giants of the machinery factory next to him and asked:
"However, we must build a tractor."
"But we can't limit ourselves to tractors in our ordinary cognition. This won't work. We have to broaden our horizons!"
"We even need to produce tractors specifically for export and continue to generate foreign exchange for the country!"
Hearing what Wang Ye said, the six giants of the machinery factory who had already tasted the benefits of creating foreign exchange nodded in agreement, while the female director hesitated and asked:
"Little factory manager! What does a tractor specially designed for export look like?"
"We haven't met before either?"
Under the gaze of everyone, Wang Ye explained while making gestures:
"This is not a fixed form and requires everyone to brainstorm and improve it, but I can give you an example."
"First of all, I think exported tractors should use crawler tracks. After all, the land in foreign countries may not be so flat, and it may be difficult for wheeled tractors to walk. Five or six pairs of road wheels should be used."
"The overall mass should also be heavier, such as 20 tons or 30 tons. This will show that the materials we use are more generous."
"Of course, our products must be strong and durable, so we must have thicker steel plates at the front, bottom, sides, and rear, and the angle needs to be slightly angled."
"At the top, a circular rotating flange can be reserved. According to the operation requirements, hook machines, cranes, winches and other equipment can be installed."
"The crew is driving inside the car, with an observation window reserved in front..."
At first, the six giants of the machinery factory listened very patiently. Although they didn't quite understand, they nodded frequently. But soon their expressions began to become strange, because according to Wang Ye's description, what appeared in their minds was not a tractor at all, but another. A familiar machine!
"Wang Ye! Are you really talking about a tractor?"
"Old man, why do I sound like a tank?"
The old factory director, who was more or less familiar with Wang Ye's style, couldn't help but hesitate and said, while Wang Ye shrugged his shoulders and said:
"You're overthinking it. This is a tractor, just a track tractor."
“Foreigners love this stuff!”
"Let's go back and have a meeting to discuss the money issue first."
"As for the tractor, we have to wait for the news from Director Li. It's not certain whether it will happen or not!"
As soon as Wang Ye finished speaking, the expressions of the six giants in the machinery factory were already excited, because Wang Ye's tone of voice was exactly the same as when he talked about gas tanks!
For everyone in the machinery factory, although they have accepted the military-to-civilian transition, this is a reality that they have to accept due to the country's decision, but deep down in their hearts, they still have the pride of being military workers!
Nowadays, Wang Ye plans to build a crawler tractor, so how can everyone not be excited?
After all, in the era of military factories, Hongxing Machinery Factory had never built such a big thing!
"Okay! Okay! Let's talk about the crawler tractor."
"Let's talk about money first! Hahaha!"
The old factory director was very happy, and so were the others.
The fact is just as the Big Six guessed, Wang Ye wants to build tanks, but under the current conditions, they can only be "earth tanks", but for the current international market, it is enough!
After all, the war between Iran and Iraq started two years ago in the desert, and the war will continue for another six years.
It's just that now, the war between Iran and Iraq has only been fought for two years. The United States and the Soviet Union are still reaping the benefits and continuing to sell arms. However, they soon discovered that the situation was wrong and the two countries could not continue to fight!
Under such circumstances, they began to reduce or even stop exporting arms to the two countries. These two countries had to start looking for new arms dealers, and then they found China invariably.
A year later, Rongfei, which gave birth to China's most important fifth-generation machine, the Veyron, had to build a washing machine to stay alive. Lanzhou 504 Factory, which was in charge of the production of enriched uranium, China's most important nuclear weapon raw material, began to use centrifuges. Producing popsicles!
Even for such an important military industrial unit, third-tier factories like the Red Star Machinery Factory have become the dust of the times.
And if it weren't for the fact that China exported a large amount of arms during the Iran-Iraq war, mainly tanks and fighter planes, China's military scientific research system might have suffered a real fatal blow.
In eight years, more than 13 billion US dollars saved the Chinese military industry!
Even during the hottest stage of the fight, representatives from both sides of Iran and Iraq lived in a guest house at the entrance of the Yituo Factory in Luoyang City, China's second largest tank production base, preparing for the next day's negotiations!
There were not enough tanks to sell at that time! Not enough to sell!
That's why Wang Ye plans to build "earth tanks", because as long as they are armored vehicles, there is no need to worry about sales. Besides, although he can't get tank guns for the time being, it won't be a problem to get some other weapons and gain combat effectiveness!
On the way back to the conference room, the old factory director hesitated and said:
"Wang Ye! I'm thinking about it."
"Let's go to the Guomaoshan Air Force Station not far away to express condolences to the garrison?"
