Worthen is now quite proud.

Since stumbling into the acquaintance of Baron John Young in Hong Kong, Worthen has found himself in a state of good fortune.

In just three years, he has been promoted three times in a row.

The head office of the recently established Luohe Benz Heavy Duty Truck Manufacturing Co., Ltd. actually appointed him as the first CEO, which was really unexpected by Worthen.

The modification project of the Siberian Tiger main battle tank has been on the right track, and as the head of the project team, Worthen has no idea where his next work will be.

He found himself unconsciously in love with the magical land of the East, which seemed to have magical powers. The creative ability of the Chinese people, the conscientiousness and meticulous rigor they showed in the process of work, reminded Worthen of the words of Hitler, the former head of the Third Reich, that the Chinese nation and the Germanic nation are the two best races on the earth.

Germany and China have had a long history of cooperation in many aspects in the past 100 years.

Today, this kind of cooperation between the Federal German Congress and the government of mainland China has reached a record high.

During a phone conversation with his wife in Stuttgart, Worthen learned that the economy in the Federal Republic of Germany had fully recovered, that prices had just begun to skyrocket, and that inflation had been completely contained and was gradually disappearing.

In the context of the global economic recession, the Federal Republic of Germany took the lead in Europe to get out of the predicament, Watsen said, because the Federal Republic of Germany is the result of comprehensive cooperation with the Chinese government.

All this is Sir John Young, no, it should be called Director Yang Weiping! It is he who threads the needle and builds a solid bridge of friendship between China and Germany.

It can be said that the companies with a little strength in the Federal Republic of Germany have invested in the construction of factories involving various industries in mainland China.

It is said that he is now stepping under the yellow earth of Longbei. With more high-quality coal than the Ruhr coalfield, the Huaxia government intends to build a modern industrial zone here that is even larger than the Ruhr industrial zone.

Luohe Mercedes-Benz is the first Sino-German joint venture in the world to settle in this industrial zone. Received more favorable policy treatment from other investors who followed up.

Huaxia is really too big, there are really too many mines in Huaxia. Investing in a large heavy-duty vehicle manufacturing plant here is undoubtedly a great investment that can be called a strategic investment.

Manufacture of Actros heavy trucks, which is Worthen's old business. It is his strongest area of expertise. He has full confidence to build Luohe Benz into a world-renowned professional manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.

Worthen vaguely guessed that the reason why he was promoted this time and was fortunate to get the position of CEO of Luohe Benz Heavy Duty Vehicle Manufacturing Co., Ltd. It is likely to be related to the automatic loader he developed with Huaxia engineers at the Huaxia 541 tank base at that time.

The Soviet T72 main battle tank, which has a self-loader unique in Europe, has long been an open secret in Europe. However, it was too difficult to get a complete sample of an automatic loader from the Soviets. Even the Americans, the British, and the French can't do anything about this.

What the Americans, the British, and the French failed to do, the Chinese did. They captured the complete T72 tank on the battlefield of Annam, and also supplied various parts of the automatic loader from the wreckage of many T72 tanks.

With a large number of samples, the principle of operation and internal structure of the automatic loader were mastered. A new type of tank autoloader was recreated that was more precise and efficient than the Soviets' automatic loader. For the mechanical engineers in China and Germany, this was not difficult at all.

Worthen has already known that China is planning to modify the Leopard 2 main battle tank, and the new Leopard 2 main battle tank will be equipped with an automatic loader to further enhance the combat effectiveness of the Leopard 2.

Presently. The Chinese military also intended to redesign a more powerful main battle tank to be deployed on the northern border against Soviet armored clusters. In exchange for the automatic loader's technology, Huaxia's 541 tank manufacturing base obtained the production license of the Leopard 2 main battle tank.

The engine manufacturing plant supporting Luohe Mercedes-Benz heavy trucks received the first planned order to produce 500 MB873Ka-501 diesel engines.

Of course, Worthen attaches great importance to this order, and for this reason, he personally stared at and urged the domestic MTU company, in accordance with the cooperation agreement between China and Germany, to transport two sets of new engine production lines at the fastest speed, and now all have been installed and debugged in place and put into trial production.

This diesel engine manufacturing plant is also the first project to be operated by Luohe Benz Heavy Duty Vehicle Manufacturing Joint Stock Company.

Every morning and afternoon, I will go to the production workshop in person to go around at an irregular time, which is the working habit that Worthen has developed after coming to work in China.

Coming down from the office building, Waltson, who was wearing ordinary work clothes, just walked out of the door of the hall on the first floor, and saw two Chinese-made BJ212 jeeps stopped in front of the parking apron.

The car before the hit, Worthen is very familiar with it, this is the special car of He Guodong, deputy county magistrate of Jinnan County and director of the Management Committee of Hongqi Economic Development Zone.

Because Hongqi Machinery Factory is a supporting plant of Luohe Benz Diesel Engine Manufacturing Plant, Worthen has visited this Chinese state-owned enterprise many times to inspect the technical strength and management ability of this Chinese state-owned enterprise. Every time they were accompanied by He Guodong, they went back and forth, and they also established a good personal relationship.

"County Magistrate He, what kind of wind blew you here today. Worthen greeted He Guodong who got out of the car warmly in a slightly stiff Chinese.

"Mr. Worthon, I have brought you an old acquaintance of yours today. He Guodong pointed to the jeep behind him as he spoke, "Who do you see who is that?"

Worthen followed the direction He Guodong pointed out and saw the young man who got out of the back seat of the jeep, and immediately exclaimed: "Cake seller! Yang! Director Yang! It's actually you! This is really a surprise, a surprise!"

"Worthen, Mandarin is getting more and more slippery, it seems that you have basically adapted to the life in Huaxia for more than a year. Yang Weiping smiled and waved at Walsen.

"Yes, Director Yang, I'm already in love with Huaxia!" Worthen strode over and gave Yang Weiping a warm hug, "Welcome to inspect our new factory." ”

Worthen still vividly remembers the words of the young senior official of the Chinese government who reprimanded their German project team at the Beijing Automobile Factory. He will never forget the Chinese saying that the Berlin Wall is the greatest shame for the Germanic people.

"Worthen, look at your dress, I think you're going to go down to the workshop, right? It just so happens that I want to visit your workshop too. Yang Weiping patted Worthen's arm and said as he walked: "I have a tight time today, and I have to go back to the capital at night, so we don't want to say extra polite words.

According to the original investment plan, after 18 months, the first Mercedes-Benz heavy truck can start running on the roads of China. Worthen said with admiration in his eyes: "But the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the Chinese people are so exciting, I estimate that the overall construction period can be shortened by at least three months! The engine plant has already begun production, and the chassis plant can be officially put into operation in 45 days." ”

"Oh, the MB873Ka-501 engine imported from MTU has already been put into production? Yang Weiping laughed happily.

"Yes, I gave this diesel engine a Chinese name, Luoben Diesel Engine!" Worthen proudly praised Director Yang.

Running naked...... Yang Weiping immediately vetoed the bad name taken by the German, shook his head seriously and said: "I think Luohe Mercedes-Benz is a new symbol of Sino-German friendship, and the product model should have obvious international characteristics." Before the Luohe plant, there were two series of different models of diesel engines LC1976 and LC1978, so it is better to continue to use this prefix name, called LC1979-A. ”

"It is really our great honor for you to name the products of our factory!" "Worthen said with a smile on his eyebrows: "With your care, Director Yang, our LC1979-A diesel engine will definitely sell well in China, Asia, and the world, and be well-known all over the world!"

While walking and talking, Worthen had already led Yang Weiping, He Guodong and others into a spacious and bright assembly workshop.

This workshop, adhering to the style and layout of the German factory, is well divided into positioning divisions and meticulous positioning.

Terrazzo floors, clean and spotless. It doesn't look like a machining workshop, it looks like a large dust-free laboratory.

Workers and technicians in jacket-style overalls perform their duties. I didn't stop my work and watch the excitement because the factory leaders led outsiders to visit. As if the inspectors who came here and there were no inspectors.

Yang Weiping, who has always paid attention to details, from time to time with his hands wearing white gloves to touch everywhere in machine tools, fences, semi-finished products, finished products and other places, after a circle, the white gloves on his hands basically did not change color.

In a test room with very good sound insulation, three LC1979A diesel engines assembled with a deafening roar made on the test bench.

The computer numerical control detection system jointly developed by MTU and Siemens completely records various data during the operation of these three high-power water-cooled pre-combustion chamber supercharged intercooled diesel engines.

As a subsidiary of Mercedes AG of the Federal Republic of Germany, MTU of course implements the decisions of the head office unconditionally.

Now, after a series of equity mergers and acquisitions, Tiangong-Mercedes Heavy Industry Group has become the largest controlling shareholder of MTU. Without exception, Yang Weiping has also become the invisible major shareholder behind MTU. (To be continued.) )