Chapter 1105: Armored Train

Director Bai of Dongran Locomotive Works walked into the gate of his factory happily, and greeted the acquaintances he met along the way. Seeing him so happy, everyone in the factory was very surprised.

The past few years have been difficult for Dongran Locomotive Works. Now the Railway Corporation has been thinking about deepening reforms, and wants to restructure some of its subordinate factories. Those that cannot be restructured will be reorganized, and those that cannot be reorganized will be merged. The East Burning Plant worked hard, and it seemed that it could not escape the road of being annexed.

These days, the florists' railways are developing too fast. Things that used to be considered advanced will be eliminated in the blink of an eye. For example, internal combustion locomotives have been developed domestically with great efforts, but they were compared to electric locomotives within a few years.

The technology of the East Combustion Plant is concentrated on diesel locomotives, but under the slogan of "Railway construction must be bigger and stronger", the plant's performance is not as good as every year. So this time, seeing the happy face of the factory manager, the workers and masters in the factory all looked puzzled.

"Comrades, the fate of our factory has changed. The head office originally planned to abolish and merge six subordinate vehicle factories, but now it has reduced to five. We are lucky to have escaped!" Director Bai laughed at the factory staff meeting. The old face is wrinkled.

It’s just that the workers at the meeting didn’t appreciate it, and someone blatantly said strange things: “The factory manager, with the current state of our factory, we can escape this disaster, but we can’t escape the next disaster. The key is to find a job! "

"Isn't this coming!" Director Bai said happily, "I just received an order from the army, and they want to build an armored train."

Armored train? The people in the factory counted one by one, all with questioning faces-someone in the army is stupid, what kind of armored trains are they doing these days? This is something that has been eliminated for many years.

Director Bai didn't have enough confidence after he finished speaking, but he continued to encourage: "Maybe it's a prop that the military film studio wants. Don't think too much about it, anyway, our factory has already received a deposit of 5 million yuan for the modification. The project amount is as high as 20 million."

When the whole project situation was described in detail, everyone in the factory really felt that the oil was dripping. Because what this customer wants is not advanced gadgets, but mature technology. The so-called 'mature' means cheap in a flower grower!

The locomotive uses 'Dongfeng 10D', an eight-axle heavy-duty diesel locomotive with a maximum power of 3,500 kilowatts. This is a high-horsepower locomotive used to transport coal in the past, but the current electric locomotive can be powered by 10,000 kilowatts at every turn, and the 'Dongfeng 10D' was decisively eliminated.

Dongfeng 10D is already in stock at the East Gas Plant, pulling it out for refurbishment is almost equivalent to reusing waste. Moreover, this 'prop locomotive' has only a dozen carriages. According to the design plan, hiss..., there are guns and cannons on it.

This is really unpredictable!

"The director,

Shouldn't it really be a cannon? "Someone in the factory asked.

Looking at the design drawings that have been sent, Director Bai is not sure. He could only wave his hand and say, "Whatever, the army's orders, people can pretend to be whatever they want, we just use people's money to do things for others."

Due to the tight delivery schedule of the project, Director Bai even decided to work in three shifts and not work 24 hours a day. First of all, two "Dongfeng 10D" were pulled out for a test run—yes, the front and rear locomotives of this "prop" were used as power.

After the test run, the armor plate is welded, and the high-quality armor steel with a thickness of 50 millimeters covers the entire body. Welding is not a difficult job, but amidst the flying sparks, the workers really have the awe-inspiring illusion of building a giant war beast.

What pushed this illusion to the peak was that the troops really brought in artillery, two Type 66 152mm howitzers, two Type 56 160mm heavy mortars, and four quadruple Type 56 heavy machine guns. Long-range shots, curved shots, and melee protection are all available, and they are all second-hand.

My dear, is this really a movie prop? The people in the East Burning Plant were all a little dumbfounded, completely confused!

Factory Manager Bai immediately jumped out to ease the workers' emotions, "Our customers have already started to urge the deadline. Starting today, the wages will be doubled, and the overtime pay will be doubled. Don't care what it is? It is true to make money."

That's right, everything is fake these days, only when you make money is it real. In particular, the guns are given by the army, and they don't break the law, so what are you afraid of?

Some people threw money freely, and the enthusiasm of the workers in the East Burning Plant was aroused like an explosion. Everyone is rushing to go to work, rushing to work overtime, overtime pay is so high, it's a fool not to make money!

The carriages were remodeled one by one, the armor plates were welded one by one, the artillery was installed in place, and the turrets of the gun positions stood tall and majestic. Finally, the shape of the entire train needs to be repaired, which doesn't seem to have changed much from ordinary trains.

As long as you give money, it's not a problem!

In less than a week, the armored trains with more than a dozen carriages were remodeled, basically using the existing obsolete locomotives and heavy-duty coal carriages, which cost less, took less time, and were more efficient.

After the transformation was completed, the entire armored train was sent by the army to drive away. Dongran Locomotive Works really received a total of 20 million project funds.

Hmm..., after deducting the army's gun money, locomotive heads and carriages belonging to state-owned assets, and small money such as scattered armor decks, there is still a profit of six to seven million yuan. There are only two to three hundred people left in the East Burning Plant. It is really unexpected that they can earn so much in a week.

Factory Manager Bai happily distributed wages and bonuses to the workers, and everyone laughed happily all night... But the next day, the project ended and the factory was deserted again. All the workers took a deep breath and let out a long sigh.

The happy time was too short, and then fell into a deep loss. It feels like the person who fell off the cliff just grabbed a dead vine on the edge of the cliff, only to find that the withered vine is too strong!

What to do? It seems that this good day will not last long. Next, we will continue to wait for the day of being merged and reorganized. The workers dispersed, and Director Bai was also very disheartened. The factory also became quiet again, lifeless.

Some people occasionally thought of the excitement and enthusiasm not long ago, and they all laughed at themselves and said that it was just the last moment of the factory's return to light. Even Factory Manager Bai reads the newspaper by himself, and what he sees is bad news every day. The northeast area where the factory is located has the lowest negative growth in the country.

The environment is so bad.

"It would be great if this good thing about modifying armored trains can be done a few more times. I can quote 18 million. No... 15 million. There are many places to save money, such as scrapped diesel locomotives in the factory. There are quite a few more, repairing and discounting can reduce the cost by half."

Factory Manager Bai has nothing to do, he can only play number games in his office, thinking about what to do to do better and earn more. But at the end of the calculation, he could only sigh: "Why does this customer only purchase one armored train? We can obviously produce more."

Jingling, ringing..., the phone rang.

The bored director Bai picked up the microphone and said 'Hello', half a minute later his expression quickly changed from laziness to surprise, and then from surprise to surprise. The corners of his mouth could hang to the back of his head, and he repeatedly said into the microphone: "No problem, no problem, we have a complete modification plan.

The customer is satisfied, and there are still ten modification tasks? There are really ten! Oh... what's so difficult about this? Without the help of brother units, our factory will definitely complete the task with quality and quantity.

That's right...just leave this matter to us. Leaders, please rest assured that our factory has a strong technical force, and the enthusiasm of the workers is burning like a flame. I dare to issue a military order, and I will definitely make the customer satisfied again, absolutely satisfied! "

Putting down the phone for a long time, Director Bai laughed so hard that his face stiffened, followed him and yelled loudly, ran out of his office and shouted loudly, "Old and young men, we got rich this time, someone came here to collect the trash! "