Siheyuan: Returning from studying abroad, with extraordinary understanding

Do your best and leave the rest to fate!

"Okay! I understand!" The other party did not make things difficult for Lu Changfu. After all, they also understood the production capacity of the arsenal.

The purpose of assigning this task is to stimulate the enthusiasm of the arsenal and encourage it to produce as many guns and ammunition as possible.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Changfu breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there was no death order from above, Lu Changfu still felt the urgency of time.

Opportunities for war are fleeting. If we don’t have enough guns and ammunition, we will be stuck in a quagmire, which will be very bad for the country!

He didn't think about it anymore and immediately convened a leadership meeting.

In the conference room.

All the senior executives of the Arsenal are present.

Lu Changfu stopped talking nonsense, glanced at everyone, and said seriously:

"There's a mission coming from above!"

"This is no joke, the task is extremely difficult!"

The moment Lu Changfu paused, everyone started speaking.

"Director, what difficult task? No matter how difficult the task is, we will do our best to complete it!"

"That's right, along the way, there is no task we can't complete!"

"As an engineer, I can ensure the perfect operation of the machine! As long as there is a task, it will be completed!"

"Yes! Our logistics department can ensure that there is no shortage of supplies during production."

"..."

Everyone was talking at once, and Lu Changfu was very satisfied with what he heard, so he didn't interrupt them!

He asked everyone to stop only after they had almost finished speaking.

"This mission is different from the previous ones. Everyone should be mentally prepared."

Everyone disagreed. Every time Lu Changfu talked about the mission, he would say this.

Everyone is very familiar with it!

Seeing everyone's expressions, Lu Changfu felt bad, but he still decided to tell them the task:

"This time the mission is to produce one million rounds of ammunition, 100,000 rifles, and 100,000 grenades!"

He paused for a moment, and seeing everyone's expression of "that's it", he immediately said seriously:

"Only half a month!"

boom!

Suddenly, the entire conference room exploded!

The audience was silent.

Everyone was stunned and thought it was just hallucination!

"Director, what did you say? We didn't hear it clearly. Say it again!"

"Yeah! I must be hallucinating!"

Lu Changfu shook his head and said:

"You are not hallucinating. The mission is to produce one million rounds of ammunition, one hundred thousand rifles, and one hundred thousand grenades within half a month."

"This is the mission. There is no need for me to lie to you!"

Everyone finally heard it clearly, but they remained silent!

Lu Changfu gave them some time to digest it. When he heard about the mission, he didn't believe it and he also needed time to digest it.

Ten minutes later, Lu Changfu spoke:

"What suggestions do you have? Tell me, how should we accomplish this task?"

As soon as Lu Changfu finished speaking, the audience began to discuss.

But no one expressed any opinion.

"What's wrong? Didn't you just swear that you could complete the task? Why are you silent now?"

"Director, it's not that we don't want to, but this task is simply impossible to complete!"

"Yes, you know the productivity of our First Arsenal. How can we possibly complete this task?"

"The logistics department is here. Although we can guarantee some supplies, we don't have that much copper ore. It will take more than ten days to buy enough copper ore."

One by one they started to make excuses, and Lu Changfu became a little annoyed. He slammed the table, and the meeting room instantly became quiet.

"What I want is not how to shirk responsibility, but how to complete the task. Director Ning of the Technical Department, can your technical department improve the machines and increase production efficiency?"

Lu Changfu wanted to put some pressure on everyone, so he started calling out names.

The Minister Ning he mentioned is Ning Haisheng, a firearms expert who has studied with Russian experts for a period of time and is very capable.

After taking over the arsenal, he and his people repaired most of the equipment.

If it weren't for him, the arsenal would not have resumed production so quickly.

Hearing his name being called, Ning Haisheng stood up and said:

"Director, the equipment in the factory is old and has been repaired before. Some of it can be improved, but after the improvement, the efficiency can only be increased by less than 10%. Some of the gains are not worth the loss."

"Because it takes a lot of time to improve. A production line will take at least a month, and that's only if things go smoothly."

"If the improvement is not successful, not only will it fail to improve efficiency, but it will reduce efficiency. During the improvement process, the production line will have to stop production, which is even more costly!"

Everyone was disappointed when they heard Ning Haisheng's words.

It seems that we can no longer rely on the equipment. If we want to improve productivity, we have to think of other ways.

"Is there no other way? What about the bullet production line? Just improving the bullet production line will work!"

Lu Changfu did not give up. He believed that equipment was the most likely aspect to improve production efficiency. If the equipment was not good, other aspects would be even more impossible.

"The bullet production line won't work either! I have no other options, unless..."

Ning Haisheng didn't say it because it was simply impossible!

"Unless what? Minister Ning, please stop keeping us in suspense!"

Lu Changfu quickly asked.

"Director, this is impossible. I'm not trying to keep you in suspense, but we don't have the technology."

"What technology?"

Everyone was very curious.

"I heard about the copper-clad steel bullet technology from the Russian expert, but it is a national secret and they cannot possibly tell us."

"If we have the copper-clad steel bullet technology, we can produce not only one million bullets in half a month, but even two million bullets."

“It’s a pity that we haven’t figured it out yet.”

After Ning Haisheng finished speaking, he lowered his head in disappointment and sat back.

The country is backward, talent is scarce, and there is no advanced technology.

The same is true for everyone.

When Lu Changfu saw the disappointed expressions on everyone's faces, he felt a little disappointed too, but he did not give up.

He immediately stood up and said loudly:

"Are you just giving up like this? Have you forgotten how we got here before?"

"When we were fighting the Japanese, we had no guns or cannons, so we used knives and our own lives to fight the Japanese. Were we afraid at the time?"

"No, we are not afraid of death, so why should we be afraid of this difficulty?"

"Look at you all, are you so miserable? There is no other way. Can't we think of a solution?"

"Can a living person be suffocated to death?"

"Now that we have been assigned a mission, we will never give up. We will roll up our sleeves and complete the mission at the cost of our lives!"

"Do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" everyone shouted.

The entire conference room was deafening.

They were all awakened by Lu Changfu and thought about the past.

They fought desperately then, and they are fighting desperately now that they have been liberated. They just don't believe that they cannot complete the mission.

"Very good, this kind of unstoppable momentum is what we want!"