Approaching the Chinese New Year, Liu's International Group established Liu's Metallurgical Group Company, and merged Liu's Iron and Steel Company and Liu's Aluminum Co., Ltd. into it. It has been revealed through the grapevine that Liu's International Group has the idea of buying a factory that produces rare earths. So I smelled the blood .. A large number of fishy rare earth factory owners who are losing money have come over, intending to seek the maximum profit they can get in Liu's International.

Even the military sent people.

Compared with other small factories, the factory provided by the military is obviously more attractive. Confusing. Because this factory is not only a large factory, it has a very wide land, but also a factory that can produce tungsten powder. Although production can no longer be continued due to various reasons, there is still a kind of foundation for this.

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776 Special Metals Plant is one of the few altogether. And.. The country has not yet converted the military to civilian redundant military enterprises. Because the equipment of the plant is very old, it is completely unable to afford to work for the common people. And.. The task of producing new metal formulas in the country, some bigwigs have recently hoped to make this factory military to civilian use. At least don't let this factory drag down the military-industrial system anymore, it was supposed to be a total.. And.. The country's military spending has already been cut quite a bit, and now it is simply not enough to support a large number of guys who only eat and do not work.

The main products of the 776 factory are tungsten powder and rare earth, because their technology is completely fifty or sixty. Age of Sue.. The high cost of technology has also become a disadvantage for them, a disadvantage that cannot be changed. Tungstic acid and yellow: Color tungsten oxide is the main raw material for their production of tungsten powder, because of the various problems of this technology, not only high efficiency and low cost, but also the purity of the tungsten powder can not meet the military standard. So this factory can be said to have no productivity at all, the military gave a few orders before, but now there are not even orders, so this factory will not be able to eat.

Since it was a third-line production base in those years: So the 776 factory was built near Daba Mountain in Shudi. The mountains here are steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also a product of "preparing for war and preparing for famine" and "digging deep holes and accumulating grain" at that time. However, the land of this factory is not on the ground, but in the mountains and mountains, compared with the factories built in the city and the edge of the city, the environment of this 776 factory is still worth a lot of money.

Because it was a very important factory at that time, a small village was established in the middle of the mountains. Most of the people in the villages and towns are workers of Factory 776 and their families, and the rest are ancillary service personnel such as small traders and hawkers. There are very few of them, because now the economic efficiency of the factory is poor, and the workers have much less free money at their disposal, so most of them have left their hometowns to find other jobs.

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Because it was once a combat base .. so the benefits of infrastructure construction have also emerged,,This base.. There is a 2C [Note 1] runway on the edge of the ground. (YY here is a 1,100-meter-long, 34-meter-wide runway.) Therefore, it is convenient for Liu Fei to take the FBA710-200E (standard elite customized/standard harsh environment customized) shortened by FCA610-100 (standard shortened type) customized by Liu's International Group from Liu's Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd. to receive this factory.

After a few negotiations with the military, Mr. Liu agreed to take over the old factory, which had suffered serious losses. Out of nostalgia for this kind of factory, Mr. Liu thought that even if the factory lost all his family property, he would take over the factory.

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Since this is not a 3D runway that meets the design requirements, the landing is very thrilling, but fortunately, the on-board computer correctly determined the approach speed and did not rush out of the runway.

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Liu Fei, who stepped off the plane, could feel the clammy cold from the south in the air, and although he was wearing a thick casual suit with a coat, Liu Fei still felt as if he had flashed. After all, it was so warm in the repressurized cabin just now, so warm that I was going to sweat.

The airport (let's say it's an airfield for the time being, but in fact there aren't even ILS approaches systems and towers, and there aren't even a few planes here, and the DC-3 [Note 2] in the distance is still an airplane. There are several kilometers of mountain roads to the factory, although there are gravel roads, but they still cannot be opened to traffic, and even the fuel for this airport is not available. Liu Fei was told to make sure to fill up before coming here. Central spare fuel tank, otherwise you can't go back.

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The living quarters may have been good when they were first established, but after dozens of years... Years of ruthless pig-killing knife attacks are now in tatters, and Liu Fei even began to wonder if these houses should be within the scope of shoddy and dangerous houses.

Some houses have no glass windows or the glass is broken, so they simply paste old newspapers, which are at least a few years old judging by the color of the newspapers.

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"Sha radish, honey sweet, see that the New Year is going to be celebrated, the baby wants to eat meat, the old man has no money......" As soon as he passed through the living area of the factory, Liu Fei saw a group of little children wearing blue overalls to change their size, or simply wearing adult work cotton clothes as coats, and a group of little children tied with a thick hemp rope tied around their waists playing on the road outside the living area, playing tops, rolling hoops, and some little girls kicking shuttlecocks......

The nursery rhymes in the Bashu dialect were sung from the mouths of these simple children who didn't know what to worry about, which made Liu Fei's eyes red.

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One by one, it should have been in the eighties of the last century. The picture that appeared in the era appeared in front of Liu Fei, and Liu Fei felt that he should have entered the black-and-white TV when he was dreaming. At all, the picture in front of you should be black and white, so that it is more realistic.

But it's all true.

Liu Fei couldn't help but remember that when he was a child, the old man put himself poor on the edge of the army station, and it was impossible for him to eat some meat at that time, so he secretly found five or six half to go out one night to get something to eat. As a result, he was almost eaten by a wild boar when he encountered a wild boar, and after that time, the amount of meat in Liu Fei's recipe only increased slightly. At that time, Liu Fei was also very satisfied, but the treatment of these children was not even as good as Liu Fei's treatment before hunting.

Liu Fei simply didn't have the courage to continue watching, because the scenes in front of him were too amazing. It's hard to imagine changing. In the more than 20 years since the opening of the revolution, the living conditions of this factory are not even as good as when the factory was first built. To be precise, there is already a slight problem in the operating rate of military factories, at least the operating rate of these technologically backward military supporting factories is a big problem. Maybe other military factories that have no work to open will also be this virtue.

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Liu Fei followed the line of work. Letter.. Wu Guanghui, deputy section chief of the department, walked on the path between the factories, looking at the mountains of tungsten powder in the warehouse, Liu Fei was completely speechless.

Wu Guanghui explained with a wry smile: "Originally, this factory could still get some orders for production, but because of their high production cost, low efficiency and low purity, they could not meet the needs of the military industry, so they did not continue to place orders." Now they are completely relying on the supply of tungsten filament to the light bulb factory, because the light bulb factory has little demand and the competition is very fierce, so they can hardly pay their salary, and they come to us every month to work... Letter.. Ministry asks for money. Every time, I had to beg my grandfather to sue my grandmother to get enough money for Director Chen's salary. But because their capital chain has been broken, it is very difficult to continue to work. The tungsten wire that is now being transported out of the country is processed from the finished tungsten powder obtained from these warehouses. ”

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"Director Chen, we can't open the pot in our family, and the wages paid by the factory are not enough to support our families. You promised us before, that you would fight for some tasks for us before the New Year...... and get a little money for the New Year" As soon as they walked to the corner of the square in the center of the factory, Liu Fei and the others heard a commotion.

A large group of people, densely packed in the middle of the square, raised the flag... The front of the table.

Host.. Standing on the stage was an old man wearing a shabby black Lenin cap, a white-washed 65-style military uniform, and a smashed-up tweeter with a sad face in his hand. The few people standing beside him who were also not dressed very well were also sad, as if a mountain was pressed in their hearts.

"Same as. Listen to me. There was no money in our factory, and I paid my salary every month because I let go of my old face, and I went to Section Chief Wu almost every day every month to reluctantly come. Even this money was brought by Section Chief Wu after he broke his leg for us. Originally, I thought that I could fight for some production tasks for the factory, even the simplest production tasks, and send everyone a sum of money for the New Year, or find a way to buy some New Year's goods, at least I can have some meat to eat during the New Year...... But the situation in our factory, everyone also knows, we have produced too much inventory over the years, but because the quality of our tungsten powder is not up to standard, the country.. The military industry doesn't want these things at all, and those bulb factories don't need so much...... Country.. We can't produce the molybdenum wire needed by the family, and we can produce the tungsten powder needed to make guns, but it can't meet the requirements...... As the director of 776, I ...... I'm sorry everyone. I can't let you have a good year, a good year, I apologize to everyone. The old man in the Lenin hat said this, his face already full of tears. There is unwillingness and loss in these tears, but the most is guilt and helplessness.

Liu Fei was sad when he heard this.

However, the actions that the old factory director took made their hearts, including the workers in front of the old factory director, the factory leaders around the old factory director, Liu Fei and Wu Guanghui, feel like a knife: he first bowed ninety degrees to the people in the audience, and then his knees seemed to be no longer able to support the little bit of poor weight towards the hard master. The cement countertop of the table knelt down.

(PS: I also felt sad when I wrote this comma...... I forgot that this was what the elder in the family told Ben Teasing.,Anyway, Ben Teaser didn't feel anything at the time.,Now it's the fourth year of junior high school.,I suddenly felt it.。 It's called responsibility. This is the kind of self-blame that a leader can only feel when he can't fulfill the little need in the hearts of his subordinates. ）

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[Note 1] 2C flight area classification: refers to the runway length of 800 meters ~ 1200 meters, wingspan area of 24 meters ~ 36 meters, the main landing gear outer wheel spacing of 6 ~ 9 meters of runway, due to poor seaworthiness is now generally eliminated. Most of them are used for take-off and landing. Plugging small aircraft and below light aircraft and ultralight aircraft.

[Note 2] DC-3: The DC-3 is a propeller airliner adapted by Douglas based on the experience of the DC-1 and DC-2, perhaps this model is not very famous, but the C-47 is more familiar. The military version of the DC-3 is the C-47 transport aircraft that weaves the hump route. At that time, DC-3 was still very safe, far from arriving at the DC-8, DC-9, DC-10's DailyCrash (daily crash) or MD-11's Mayday (***, which translates to ...... Help, wow... ). Even a C-47 with a battered engine (indeed, 3,000 bullet holes) and a scrapped but simply repaired C-47 flew back to the Burmese airport with sparks and lightning all the way (it is said that it was raining at the time, so the engine began to breathe fire and then the bullet holes made the rain sound like an artillery battle), scaring away the five Japanese Zeros who came to intercept them. Soared for dozens. Years later, there are even DC-3 and its modifications flying in the skies.