Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

  Chapter 25 Yellow River Heavy Truck

  Li Weidong in his previous life was only assigned to the building in 1987, and he was assigned as the father of Li Dengke.

  Although Li Dengke is retired, he is the veteran of the transportation company after all. In terms of seniority ranking, he is more advanced. If you switch to a young worker like Li Weidong, you will not be able to get a house until the transportation company closes.

  However, Li Weidong knew that the quality of the family rooms in later phases was very poor.

The two buildings of the first phase of   Family House are made of concrete and are very strong. For the sake of the construction progress, the family buildings later were all slab houses, and the construction quality directly dropped several grades.

In the 1980s, in order to reduce costs and facilitate construction, many slab houses were built in China. The safety factor of these slab houses was not high, and the most important thing was that they were not earthquake resistant.

Once there is an earthquake, the slab house is worse than the brick house. If the brick house collapses, the bricks will become fragments. As long as the person protects the head, there is a good chance of surviving. However, if the slab house collapses, the entire floor will break. On the face, people may be ill-advised.

  Li Weidong remembered that in the 1990s, there was a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in Qinghe City, and one building of the transportation company’s family yard was crushed in half. Fortunately, everyone was walking to work and no casualties were caused.

  Of course, Li Weidong is not willing to live in inferior slab houses. He started the idea of ​​these 48 concrete pouring houses. It's just that Li Weidong doesn't even count as a middle-level cadre. It is almost impossible to get a house.

   During the entire meeting, Li Weidong was pondering over the house. Until the end of the meeting, Cui Dashan came to his side, and Li Weidong did not notice.

   "Xiao Li, don't go back to the workshop in a while, go home to rest and rest, by the way, I will send you on a business trip tomorrow." Cui Dashan said.

  "On a business trip? Where to go?" Li Weidong asked.

  "Go to Jicheng, Huanghe Automobile Factory." Cui Dashan replied.

   "Yellow River Plant? Don't they produce heavy trucks?" Li Weidong frowned, and then asked, "Our company is going to buy heavy trucks?"

   "You guessed it." Cui Dashan nodded, and then asked, "Guess what car our company wants to buy?"

   "The heavy trucks of the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant are nothing more than two types, one is Roman and the other is Yellow River. I guess the one we are going to buy should be the Yellow River Unit 62 that was just launched last year!" Li Weidong continued.

"You guessed it again. I heard that the performance of the Yellow River Unit 62 is very good, so our company plans to buy a batch. This time we will send you to the Jiqi Automobile Manufacturing Plant to inspect the performance of this car on the spot." Da Shan said.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said, "If it is the Yellow River Yao 62, then there is no need to investigate it. There should be no problem. This car uses the technology of the Austrian Steyr heavy truck, which can be regarded as a half German car. The performance is definitely Top in the country."

"You kid knows how to do it! You also know something about this car." Cui Dashan looked at Li Weidong in surprise, and then said: "In fact, it has nothing to do with you in inspecting car performance. The company has specially drawn two experiences from the freight department. Rich drivers go for a test drive."

   "All the old drivers have gone, so what do I need to do?" Li Weidong asked puzzled.

  "Your task is to visit the repair workshop of the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant and see how they repaired the Yellow River." Cui Dashan replied.

   "This is sending me to learn repair techniques!" Li Weidong nodded.

  Cui Dashan shook his head: “You don’t need to learn repair techniques, you just go and see how others repair cars, as long as you can understand it.”

   "Watch others repair the car? Can understand? Why is this?" Li Weidong asked a black question mark.

Cui Dashan opened his mouth and explained, “Isn’t our company without heavy trucks? I’m worried that I bought a batch of heavy trucks this time, which will be more difficult to repair. So I’ll send you to see how other manufacturers repair cars. If you can even see it. If you understand, I think the masters in our workshop can also repair heavy trucks."

   "Even I can understand what it means!" Li Weidong whispered.

Cui Dashan’s idea is very simple. Li Weidong, as a workshop man, represents the lowest level of the auto repair workshop. If even the lowest level Li Weidong can understand how to repair the Yellow River Yaoshen, then the other masters in the workshop will naturally also Can repair this car.

   "Apart from me and the drivers at the two freight forwarders, who else is going to Jicheng?" Li Weidong asked again.

   "Since I'm going to buy a car, Wang Haibin at the purchasing office must be there. I just don't know how many people will go to the purchasing office." Cui Dashan replied.

   "It's really a narrow road!" Li Weidong sighed, and then asked: "According to this, the person who went this time, the highest position is Wang Haibin?"

   "Well, you should be the one who is in second place." Cui Dashan nodded.

   "Then I have to listen to Wang Haibin's command?" Li Weidong asked with an unhappy expression.

"He has to be busy talking about purchasing with the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant and has no time to direct you." Cui Dashan then comforted: "This time you go to Jicheng, that is, four or five days, of which there are two days back and forth. On the way, the people who really stayed at the Yellow River Automobile Factory will only be two or three days. You don’t need to pay too much attention to Wang Haibin, just do your own job."

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  Back home, Li Weidong packed his clothes while recalling the heavy truck.

  In Li Weidong’s memory, it was not until 1986 that Qinghe Transportation Company introduced the first batch of heavy trucks. It is New Year's Day in 1985, which means that this trip to the Yellow River Automobile Factory to purchase heavy trucks is doomed to return without success.

  A state-owned transportation company in a prefecture-level administrative region did not even have heavy trucks. It sounds impossible now, but in the early 1980s, almost all state-owned transportation companies did not have heavy trucks.

  At that time, domestic heavy trucks were given priority to mining companies, and transportation companies could not be allocated heavy trucks.

  China’s first heavy truck was born in 1960. It was the famous JN150 that was built by Huanghe Automobile Manufacturing Factory based on the Skoda 706 heavy truck. Mr. Zhu himself inscribed the two characters "Yellow River" for his inscription, and now he has a Yellow River car.

  However, this Yellow River JN150 is a failed product. As a product of a special period of "surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States", the design and quality of the Yellow River JN150 have major flaws.

  For example, the Yellow River Plant at that time did not have large-scale punching machines, so it was unable to make beams. In the end, the Yellow River Plant bought six jacks and used them to force a beam out.

  In the 1960s, this was an inspirational story about overcoming difficulties with wisdom, which was widely praised. However, how can the girder made by the jack be compared with the girder made by the punching machine! The quality is really poor by several grades.

  After all, automobile manufacturing is about science and craftsmanship. Auto parts made by native methods look the same in appearance, but if the craftsmanship level is not up to the standard, the quality is just not good.

  There is no special machine tool, no technical information, lack of funds, lack of materials, and staff have no experience. The heavy trucks built are destined to be unusable.

  High-end manufacturing cannot be done through hard work and cleverness. Technology is the fundamental. Domestically produced heavy trucks are empty and the quality is very poor. Therefore, before the 1980s, China's heavy trucks were mainly imported.

  Foreign exchange is so precious. Imported heavy trucks must of course be given to mining companies that can earn foreign exchange. As for transportation companies, they are not eligible to use imported vehicles.

After the reform and opening up, the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant introduced a heavy truck production line from Romania to produce Roman heavy trucks.

  This production line is just an assembly line. All parts need to be imported and then assembled in China. Even many parts are assembled abroad and then shipped to the country.

  This assembly mode is simpler than SAIC’s assembly of Santana, which is obviously not what the country needs.

  So in 1983, the China National Heavy Duty Truck Joint Venture spent 600 million US dollars in foreign exchange to introduce Austrian Steyr truck technology to make up for the vacancy in the domestic heavy truck industry.

  This China National Heavy Duty Truck Co., Ltd. was later the China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, a well-known "Chinese prefix" enterprise.

  The Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant has the foundation to produce heavy trucks. They took the lead in digesting some of the technology of Steyr heavy trucks and launched the Yellow River JN162 heavy truck. This car eventually derives more than 30 models, which is the main model of domestic heavy-duty trucks in the 1980s.

  The Yellow River JN162 heavy truck is what Qinghe Transportation Company values ​​now.

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  A total of five people went to the Yellow River Automobile Factory on this trip. In addition to Li Weidong and the two driver masters from the freight department, the procurement department also sent two people, namely the director Wang Haibin and another clerk.

  Qinghe Transportation Company specially sent a BJ212 jeep, because there were two drivers at the freight forwarding department, so there was no special driver, and five people could be packed in a jeep.

  Although the old Jeep is faster than the old Jiefang, it can't go any faster. It took nearly six hours for a group of people to arrive in Jicheng.

  Stayed at the guest house and was speechless all night. Early the next morning, the group came to the Yellow River Automobile Factory.

  The sales department of the Yellow River Plant had a special person to receive them. Then the group was divided into three parts. Wang Haibin and the clerks went to discuss procurement matters, the two drivers went to the venue to test the car, and Li Weidong was taken to the Yellow River Plant’s repair workshop to visit and study.

The receptionist of the Yellow River Factory led Li Weidong to the door of the repair workshop and asked Li Weidong to stand there to wait. He went in, and after a while the receptionist walked out with a middle-aged man in his forties.

   "Director Wei, this is Comrade Li who Qinghe Transportation Company came to visit and study here." The receptionist said, then introduced to Li Weidong: "Comrade Li, this is Director Wei Bin of our repair workshop."

   "Director Wei, hello, my name is Li Weidong." Li Weidong said neither humble nor overbearing, and at the same time he looked at Wei Bin.

  The blue tooling on Wei Bin's body is spotless, not even a bit of oil stains, and it doesn't look like a hybrid auto repair shop at all. He wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, the whole person is gentle, but he looks like a teacher.

  Wei Bin just glanced at Li Weidong, and then asked condescendingly: "Comrade Li, what do you do in your unit?"

   "I'm in the auto repair shop." Li Weidong replied.

   "Oh, it turned out to be a colleague, it would be much easier to handle, do you understand the safety regulations in the workshop?" Wei Bin asked again.

  Li Weidong nodded: "I understand, our workshop organizes safety assessments every month."

"That's fine. If you want to see what you want, go in and see for yourself. If you don't understand, you can directly ask the master in the workshop. In addition, the sink is over there. There is soap. If you get dirty, just go and wash your hands." Wei Bin After speaking, he stopped talking to Li Weidong, but returned to the workshop.

  Li Weidong knew that Wei Bin probably saw that he was young, and he was unlikely to have any leadership positions. He did not plan to greet him at all.

  Li Weidong didn't care, he followed Wei Bin and walked into the repair workshop of the Yellow River Factory.

  As soon as he entered the workshop, Li Weidong saw a "baby" on his right.

   "There is this car, a good thing!" Li Weidong couldn't help but leaned forward.

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