latelenovela Chapter 423 Truck and Tractor Production Line
Chapter 423 Truck and Tractor Production Line
A few days later, Zhang Guangsong and Bai Hongsheng jointly proposed a huge plan.
"Learn from White Eagle's proven experience, promote large-scale farms, and implement fully mechanized planting?" Zhang Chi glanced over the first few pages of the plan and looked up. "Your plan is quite ambitious."
Seeing Zhang Chi's positive reaction, Bai Hongsheng immediately started talking:
"We had previously considered importing General Motors' ten-wheel truck production line, namely the CCKW-352 (short wheelbase) and CCKW-353 (long wheelbase), and establishing the Nanhua First Automobile Company in Yangon to produce our own heavy-duty trucks."
Zhang Chi hummed. The CCKW-353, currently the most classic all-wheel drive, dual rear axle truck, boasts a standard load capacity of 2.5 tons, though it's often overloaded to 5 tons. With White Eagle's aggressive production, it's now ubiquitous in Allied forces around the world.
Russia alone received tens of thousands of these vehicles as aid, and many BM-13-16 'Katyusha' rocket launcher systems were also installed on the CCKW-353. The People's Army of Taiwan also received more than 2 CCKW-353s through the Lend-Lease Act, accumulating a wealth of maintenance experience, so it was only natural for them to produce them themselves.
Especially through the previous motorcycle and bicycle factories, Nanhua Group has accumulated a group of mature industrial workers and mechanical engineers, and the objective conditions for the implementation of the truck production line have been met.
"After that night's discussion about the Malthusian trap, I decided we should take advantage of the opportunity offered by General Motors to introduce a tractor production line alongside the ten-wheeled truck line, helping the people gradually transition to mechanized farming."
Zhang Guangsong also added, "This will also help with the resettlement of immigrants. After listening to your words, we all believe that the future will be an era of large-scale mechanized farming. Once the vast plains and rainforests are reclaimed, supplemented by tractors and fertilizers, it will be easy to feed a large number of immigrants."
"Before, we had to find a way to provide each immigrant household with a buffalo or donkey mule. Compared to purchasing breeding livestock, mass-produced tractors may be cheaper, especially since we have a lot of oil production. Compared to livestock that need to be fed concentrated feed and are more delicate and prone to illness, having several families share a tractor can actually reduce costs..."
"This plan is generally sound, and White Eagle's companies are very enthusiastic about investing and building here." Zhang Chi first affirmed the plan, "But it's not perfect yet."
"You can't just produce tractors and trucks and then forget about them. There should be agricultural machinery stations in every region and village to maintain them, right?
The military has a dedicated logistics unit responsible for refueling vehicles. What happens when people buy trucks and tractors? There should be enough gas stations in various places to provide them with fuel, right?
After production, it also needs to be sold, right? Currently, only businesses and merchants in cities are relatively wealthy and can afford to buy trucks and tractors as production tools. Rural residents may not have the financial resources to do so, right?
Should we organize rural households to jointly purchase and rotate use, or provide loans? It would be best if we could come up with a set of rules and regulations for all the various supporting measures.”
Zhang Guangsong and Bai Hongsheng glanced at each other and immediately said, "We were inconsiderate. We'll go back and continue to improve."
Zhang Chi smiled and waved his hand: "This is the first time for a young lady to get married, it's normal. First, we will select a site for the factory, and then talk to General Motors, and then we can take our time to complete the rest.
But I must say that the burden on your shoulders is heavy. For the sake of the future, the first shot of this tractor factory and truck factory must be fired!
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"It's so hot! It's going to kill me."
Cui Daqi, a worker at the Yangon Third Bicycle Factory, cursed inwardly, grabbed the towel hanging around his neck and wiped the sweat from his head.
The city of Yangon is located at 16° north latitude, which is quite close to the equator. The power of direct sunlight is naturally not small. Even Cui Daqi, an immigrant from Guangdong Province, feels extremely stuffy and even has a little heatstroke.
As a Nanhua-affiliated enterprise, this bicycle factory naturally has a logistics station, which is specially equipped with heat-relieving medicines such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water to prevent accidents among the workers in the stuffy factory.
In addition, the factory also supplies herbal tea and salty soda on a regular basis every day for workers to replenish their water.
Cui Daqi was naturally very satisfied with such welfare benefits, but the sultry weather still made him feel bored and dizzy.
The wet blue worker's uniform stuck to his body, making Cui Daqi feel extremely uncomfortable, but there was nothing he could do.
The factory bell for the end of work had already rung, and Cui Daqi walked out of the factory.
"Freshly made tofu pudding, sweet, salty, and spicy!"
Across the street, the owner of the tofu pudding stall was shouting. The stall was set up on the street with a few square tables and benches. You could get a bowl of tofu pudding by paying a few coins.
As a native of Guangdong Province, Cui Daqi couldn't imagine how there could be people in this world who didn't eat sweet tofu pudding?
He swallowed, walked over and found a bench to sit down:
"Shopkeeper, please bring me a bowl of sweet food and a plate of carrot cake."
The sun gradually set. Cui Daqi ate tofu pudding while calling a newsboy to buy a newspaper.
Occasionally, pedestrians passed by and saw Cui Daqi wearing a blue short-sleeved worker's uniform, eating tofu pudding with radish cake and reading a newspaper, and their eyes showed envy.
It's nothing. In this era, among the four evils of eating, drinking, girlfriends and gambling, eating ranks first because eating can really make you bankrupt.
In the Republic of China, because food prices were high, even for landlord families, eating refined rice and white flour for every meal would be a waste of money.
In Southeast Asia, although food prices are no longer high, industrial workers like Cui Daqi, who can feed their whole family, do not go home to cook after work, but instead take their salary and sit on the street to eat, which is really enviable.
Cui Daqi didn't care about their opinions. He spread the newspaper on his legs and read it slowly.
There is also a night school in the factory. The teachers there not only teach them how to read and write, but also occasionally talk about some life lessons. Cui Daqi feels that he has benefited a lot from it.
Reading newspapers to broaden your horizons was suggested by the night school teacher.
"The White Eagle Third Fleet is out in full force, and Fleet Commander 'Bull' Halsey vows to sink the main force of the Combined Fleet?"
Cui Daqi was reading the headlines in the newspaper, but his eyes were attracted by the map printed below.
By reading newspapers, Cui Daqi has learned a lot of geographical knowledge. He knows that the war in the Southeast Asian continent has basically been over. Except for the three countries of Annan, the rest of the places have been conquered by the Anmin Army.
I also know that Lion City is further south than Yangon, even closer to the equator.
Cui Daqi looked at the simple map printed in the newspaper and the marching route drawn on it, and suddenly realized that the Luzon Island that his hometown used to talk about was actually in this location.
Flipping through the newspaper, Cui Daqi saw the headline of the popular science section - "Natuna Islands, a maritime transit station for Zheng He's voyages to the West"