Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

Liu Feng didn't know how to explain. He looked at Zhang Renkang and then turned to look at Xue Jinfeng and Chen Huayi. His meaning was very clear. He didn't want to spread some things.

Zhang Renkang looked at the three of them and said

"Director Xue, you need to do a few things now."

"First, all vehicle R&D groups in the R&D department have begun to separate from the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. In the future, our factory will only retain the steel R&D cooperation group with the main factory, and the rest will be borne by ourselves. The main factory will support the funds until December. Starting next year, the funds will mainly be invested by the special R&D funds of this industrial department and the investment of the factory."

"Secondly, Professor Chen helped to sort out the R&D department and plan the progress of several projects we have on hand."

"As for the production-side issues and other problems mentioned by Professor Chen, I will consider them."

He motioned Xue Jinfeng and Chen Huayi to go out first, then looked at Liu Feng and said

"Tell me, what's the difficulty?"

Liu Feng said helplessly

"Secretary, we have reduced the number of cadres in the factory to more than 100 people, but more than 20 of them are the sons and nephews of the leaders of our superior units and some other people who were arranged to come in."

"These people are mainly concentrated in publicity, logistics and office work, and there is a lot of resistance to their movement."

Zhang Renkang sat back in his office chair, looked at Liu Feng and said

"So, I plan to restructure the departments in the factory, and everyone's work will have to be adjusted later."

"Just spread this message during this period of time, the capable ones will be promoted, and the inferior ones will be demoted."

"On the one hand, according to the instructions of the superiors, we will carry out skill assessment and evaluation, and comprehensive assessment of the quality of cadres. Those who fail the assessment will be demoted, and those who fail the assessment three times in a row will be dismissed or transferred."

Liu Feng nodded and said

"Secretary, how do you plan to adjust the factory?"

Zhang Renkang smiled and said

"How many years has Director Liu worked here?"

Liu Feng said with a smile

"I took over the mobile phone repair shop in 57, and it has been nine years now."

Zhang Renkang said with a smile

"More than nine years. This year will mark your tenth year in the machine repair shop. You must know every detail of the shop like the back of your hand."

"Logically speaking, you should be appointed as the secretary."

"It's just that we need to further develop the manufacturing plant in the future, so I took the initiative to take charge of the development of the manufacturing plant."

Liu Feng said with a smile

"Secretary, I have no other ideas, you know this"

"I have worked in the factory for nearly ten years, from deputy director to director. The machine repair shop was barely able to survive under my leadership, and sometimes it was difficult to even provide food for the workers."

"My greatest achievement in life would be to keep the machine repair shop from closing down until retirement."

"If you hadn't come, how could we have developed from a machine repair shop to a manufacturing plant? Sometimes when I go down and see the pride on the faces of the workers, I feel fortunate that I went to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill to inspect it."

"At that time, our original superior factory had already given up on us. If the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill had not taken us in, I don't know how I would have explained to the thousands of employees in the factory."

"I just have one attitude, I will do whatever you say"

Liu Feng is actually very satisfied with his current situation. His old superiors can't give him much help. If nothing unexpected happens in the future, with the dissolution and adjustment of the machine repair factory, Liu Feng will most likely be held accountable and demoted. Now not only is the factory developing more and more promising, but he himself can at least have the hope of making further progress.

If the plan Zhang Renkang just mentioned could be implemented, Liu Feng would even have the opportunity to advance to a department-level cadre. Not to mention letting him continue to be a factory director, he would even be willing to be a workshop director.

Zhang Renkang nodded with satisfaction and said

"Well, for the factory, we will start with production. First, we need to ensure that the production tasks are carried out in an orderly manner. As for the task indicators, I will communicate with the head office and the Ministry of Industry to give us some time to adjust."

"We will adjust four of the existing production lines to produce Red Star tricycles. We will complete the delivery of the orders and task targets we have and gradually adjust to two production lines to produce Red Star tricycles in the next three months."

"The remaining two production lines are responsible for the production of all-terrain vehicles and the production and assembly of experimental vehicles."

"By the way, what does the military think of the all-terrain vehicle we developed?"

Liu Feng said

"We have currently rolled off 355 prototypes of all-terrain vehicles. According to the military's requirements, there are still 1,650 vehicles that need to be delivered to them for testing."

"During the initial testing at the factory, they were not very satisfied with the engine's loud starting noise and high fuel consumption."

"For other structural adjustments, we have made different functional modules in five directions: infantry transport, ammunition and material transportation, medical rescue vehicles, assault reconnaissance and front-line command vehicles."

"All five types of modifications have been approved by the troops cooperating with the test. Now there is a platoon of soldiers assisting with the experiment at the test site behind our factory."

The test site of the rear factory mentioned by Liu Feng is the location of the big lake. There is a small hill here that can simulate the terrain of the mountain. It has now been temporarily surrounded by barbed wire by the vehicle manufacturing plant and requisitioned as a test site.

Before Zhang Renkang went to Hong Kong Island, in order to ensure that the manufacturing plant would not be affected by others, he specifically told Zhang Renjia about the all-terrain vehicle. After Zhang Renjia took several old generals from the city of Sijiu to visit the only prototype, he witnessed and understood some basic combat uses of the all-terrain vehicle.

Without Zhang Renjia's operation, a company from the city defense army came directly to protect the factory, and also sent a mechanized platoon from Zhang Renjia's new armored regiment to the factory to test and study new tactics.

The truth is that there is too little support for the mechanization of the army in China. Not only is there funding, but more importantly, there is weak research and development capabilities and a lack of understanding of mechanization. Until the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the soldiers in China had never seen a tank.

Not to mention the coordination between infantry and tanks, the research on mechanized tactics, and most importantly, the development of other armored vehicles to support tank assaults have long been neglected.

To put it bluntly, apart from the fact that China is now able to systematically produce tanks and has done some research on some armored tactics, the scale of mechanization is not necessarily much stronger than that of the previous transport captain.

The emergence of all-terrain vehicles has allowed them to discover an excellent means of transport that is low-cost, can be quickly mass-produced, and can accompany tank assaults and frontier reconnaissance.

In particular, it also has a certain mountain movement ability, which is very important for improving the combat effectiveness of infantry units in the north that need to quickly assault and fight with tanks.

Especially when facing the millions of troops on the grasslands advancing rapidly on the vast and flat terrain, simply modified all-terrain vehicles carrying infantry with anti-tank rocket launchers and other means can at least slow down their marching speed and buy time for the troops in the rear.

China has been researching new combat vehicles in recent years, but the military research and development team, with rigid thinking and little vision, could not come up with these ideas all at once. It was not easy to find out that the manufacturer had developed this new all-terrain gadget, and the military's interest was immediately ignited.