Li Weidong in his previous life was only assigned a building in 1987, and he was assigned as an old man Li Dengke.

Although Li Dengke is retired, he is, after all, a veteran of a transportation company, and he is relatively high in terms of seniority. If you replace a young worker like Li Weidong, you may not be able to get housing when the transportation company closes down.

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

The two buildings of the first phase of the family home were concrete-poured and very sturdy. Later, for the construction progress, the family buildings were all floor houses, and the construction quality directly dropped by several grades.

In the 80s, in order to reduce costs and facilitate construction, a lot of floor houses were built in China, and the safety factor of these floor houses was not high, and the most important thing was that they were not earthquake-resistant.

Once there is an earthquake, the floor house is worse than the brick house, if the brick house collapses, the bricks will become broken pieces, as long as people protect their heads, there is a good chance of survival, but if the floor house collapses, the whole floor is broken and slapped on the face, and people are afraid that they are more than lucky.

Li Weidong remembers that in the 90s, a 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck Qinghe City, and half of a building in the family home of the transportation company was trampled down. Fortunately, everyone walked to work at that time, and there were no casualties.

Of course, Li Weidong was reluctant to live in inferior floor houses, so he started the idea of these 48 sets of concrete pouring houses. It's just that Li Weidong is not even a middle-level cadre, and it is almost impossible to get a house.

During the whole meeting, Li Weidong was thinking about the house, and until the end of the meeting, Cui Dashan came to his side, and Li Weidong didn't notice it.

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

"Where are you going?" asked Li Weidong.

"Go to Jicheng City, Yellow River Automobile Factory. Cui Dashan replied.

"Aren't they producing heavy-duty trucks?" Li Weidong frowned, and then asked, "Our company is going to buy heavy-duty 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 Factory are nothing more than two kinds, one is Roman, the other is the Yellow River, I guess what we want to buy, it should be the Yellow River 62 that was just launched last year!" Li Weidong continued.

"You guessed it right again, I heard that the performance of the Yellow River is very good, so our company plans to buy a batch, this time we will send you to the Jiqi manufacturing plant, is to inspect the performance of this car on the spot. Cui Dashan said.

Li Weidong thought for a while and said: "If it is the Yellow River 62, then there is no need to investigate, there should be no problem." This car uses the technology of Austrian Steyr heavy trucks, and it is also half a German car, and its performance is definitely the top in China. ”

"You kid knows a thing! Cui Dashan looked at Li Weidong in surprise, and then continued: "In fact, it has nothing to do with you to inspect the performance of the car, the company specially dispatched two experienced drivers from the freight department to test drive." ”

"There are old drivers who have gone, so what else do you want me to do?" Li Weidong asked puzzled.

"Your task is to visit the repair workshop of the Yellow River Automobile Factory and see how people repair 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." ”

"Just watch someone else repair a car? Why is that?" Li Weidong has a black question mark.

Cui Dashan explained: "Isn't our company without heavy trucks, I'm worried that it will be difficult to repair a batch of heavy trucks this time, so I will send you to see how other manufacturers repair cars." If even you can understand it, I think the masters in our workshop can also repair heavy trucks. ”

"I can even understand what it means!" Li Weidong complained in a low voice.

Cui Dashan's idea is very simple, Li Weidong, as a bastard in the workshop, represents the lowest level of the auto repair workshop, if even the lowest level of Li Weidong can understand how to repair the Yellow River, then other masters in the workshop will naturally be able to repair this car.

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

"Since I am going to buy a car, Wang Haibin from the procurement office must be going, but I don't know how many people from the procurement office will go. Cui Dashan replied.

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

"Well, the second place should be you, who work for work. Cui Dashan nodded.

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

"He's too busy talking to the Yellow River Automobile Factory about procurement, and he doesn't have time to direct you. Cui Dashan then comforted: "Your trip to Jicheng City will take four or five days, of which two days are on the way back and forth, and the real stay at the Yellow River Automobile Factory is only two or three days." You don't have to pay too much attention to Wang Haibin, just do your job well. ”

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Back at home, Li Weidong reminisced about the heavy truck while packing his clothes.

In Li Weidong's memory, it was not until 1986 that Qinghe Transportation introduced the first batch of heavy trucks. It is now New Year's Day in 1985, which means that this trip to the Yellow River Automobile Factory to purchase heavy trucks is doomed to be in vain.

It may sound impossible now that a state-owned transport company in a prefecture-level administrative region did not have heavy trucks, but in the early eighties, almost all state-owned transport enterprises did not have heavy trucks.

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

China's first heavy-duty truck was born in 1960, that is, the Yellow River Automobile Factory referred to the appearance of the Skoda 706 heavy-duty truck, hand-built a heavy-duty truck, that is, the famous JN150. Mr. Zhu personally inscribed the word "Yellow River" for it, and so far there is a Yellow River car.

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

For example, the Yellow River Factory at that time did not have a large stamping machine, so it was impossible to make girders, and finally the Yellow River Factory bought six jacks and pressed out a girder with a jack.

In the sixties, it was an inspirational story of overcoming difficulties with wisdom and was widely sung. However, how can the girders made of jacks be compared with the girders made by stamping machines?

After all, automobile manufacturing is to talk about science and technology, and the auto parts made by local methods look the same, but the process level is not reached, and the quality is not good.

There is no special machine tool, no technical data, lack of funds, shortage of materials, and no experience of staff, and the heavy truck made is destined to be a flower shelf that cannot be used.

High-end manufacturing industry is not something that can be done well by hard work and cleverness, but technology is fundamental. Domestic heavy trucks have an empty shelf, and the quality is very poor, so before the eighties, China's heavy trucks mainly rely on imports.

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

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

This production line is just an assembly line, all the parts need to be imported, and then assembled in China, and even many parts are assembled abroad to complete the assembly, and then shipped to China.

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

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

This China Heavy Duty Truck Joint Venture Company is the later China Heavy Duty Truck Group, a well-known "Zhongzitou" enterprise.

The Yellow River Automobile Factory has the foundation of producing heavy-duty trucks, and they took the lead in digesting the technology of some Steyr heavy-duty trucks and launched the Huanghe JN162 heavy-duty truck. This car eventually derived more than 30 models, which was the main model of heavy trucks in China in the 80s.

Nowadays, Qinghe Transportation Company values this Yellow River JN162 heavy truck.

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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 drivers 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 freight department drivers with it, so there was no special driver, and five people could just squeeze into a jeep.

Although the old jeep was faster than the old liberation, it was not much faster, and it took nearly six hours for the group to arrive in Jicheng.

Stayed in the guest house and didn't say anything 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, and then the group was divided into three parts, Wang Haibin and the clerk went to discuss procurement matters, the two drivers went to the venue to test the car, and Li Weidong was taken to the repair workshop of the Yellow River Plant 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 in place and wait, he went in first, and after a while, the reception staff walked out with a middle-aged man in his forties.

"Director Wei, this is Comrade Li from Qinghe Transportation Company who came to visit and study with us. The receptionist said, and 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 humbly nor arrogantly, and looked at Wei Bin at the same time.

The blue overalls on Wei Bin's body were spotless, not even the slightest oil stain, he didn't look like a mixed auto repair workshop at all, he wore a pair of black-framed glasses, and the whole person was polite, like a teacher.

Wei Bin just glanced at Li Weidong, and then asked a little condescendingly: "Comrade Li, what kind of work are you doing in your unit?"

"I'm in the garage. Li Weidong replied.

"Oh, it turned out to be a peer, that's much easier, you know all the safety regulations in the workshop, right?" Wei Bin asked again.

Li Weidong nodded: "I understand, our workshop will organize safety assessments every month." ”

"That's okay, what do you want to see, go in and see it yourself, if you don't understand anything, you can ask the master in the workshop directly. In addition, the sink is over there, there is soap, and if you get your hands dirty, you can wash it directly. After Wei Bin finished speaking, he no longer bothered Li Weidong, but returned to the workshop.

Li Weidong knew that Wei Bin probably saw that he was young, and it was impossible for him to have any leadership positions, so he didn't plan to greet himself 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" placed on the right hand side.

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