Recently, however, the workers of the auto repair shop have been focusing on another thing, and it seems mysterious that even the progress of their main car repair business has slowed down.

In front of Wang Yue was an indescribably simple tricycle, which could be depicted as ugly.

On the ladder axle welded by square steel, the welding joints are obvious, the diesel engine on the car has obvious traces of manual polishing and looks very rough, and the fuel tank of the car is not painted, and it can be seen that this is a self-made fuel tank with iron sheets.

"Is this the car? You made it yourself? When Wang Yue asked, his tone trembled.

The auto repair shop is making a car, which Wang Yue's wife Zhang Ziyun said to Wang Yue on the phone as a joke, because she has already seen this car with her own eyes, and in her eyes, this simple car can no longer be simple, and it can't be seen at all.

But Wang Yue is not calm, he can't imagine that people in this era have such ability to build cars?

So Wang Yue quickly rushed back to the starting point city from Tianjin, and now the fixed telephone between Tianjin and the starting point city has been opened, and the telephone line is laid along with the road construction. This line is a trench made of cement slabs, and the future cable line will also pass through here, and after the Shijingshan power plant generates electricity, Tianjin will also be electrified.

"Yes, my lord! We made everything but the bearings, rubber wheels, and transmission belts, and we tried to pack a little less than the original five-wheeler, but we didn't have to worry about two wheels. Li Chaogui, the director of the auto repair shop, was a little embarrassed and said that this car was indeed too simple.

Li Chaogui was the driver assigned to Zhang Ziyun by Wang Yue, and because of his excellent skills, he later assisted Wang Pengyuan to become the captain of the automobile team. After the establishment of the auto repair shop, he became the director of the repair shop. He can become a factory director not because he has a high level of technology, but because his theoretical knowledge is higher than others, and his knowledge of vehicle principles is more comprehensive.

Wang Yue was in a good mood and said, "Open it and give it a try!" ”

Looking at the miserable tricycle that was turning left and right in the repair shop, Wang Yue asked, "Is this diesel engine also produced by you?" How much horsepower? ”

Li Chaogui said: "If you go back to your lordship, this diesel engine is produced by our own workers, and it has twenty-four horsepower. ”

"What about the drawings? Let me see! Wang Yue asked.

Li Chaogui ordered someone to take the drawings and handed them to Wang Yue to see.

Wang Yue took a closer look, this is the three views of the diesel engine, divided into three parts: the main view, the top view, and the left view, and the painting is already very professional.

"Good, good! You are all heroes, great heroes! All the employees involved in the car building, you count the report, and each person will be rewarded with three hundred taels of silver. Wang Yue said excitedly.

Li Chaogui and the workers present were stunned for a moment, which they didn't expect at all, and then they hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, Lord Wang, for the reward, I dare not be ashamed!" ”

Originally, this car building was an unintentional interest, but I didn't expect it to be so valued by Wang Yue.

Can a car repair shop in a previous life make a car? It must be able to be built, so why haven't you heard of a man-made car? The reason is that it is not necessary, building your own car is not only time-consuming and laborious, the cost is also higher than buying, and the performance is not as good as buying, so why build it yourself? Even if you build it, you won't be able to get on the road! The formalities can be very cumbersome.

What Wang Yue attaches the most importance to is that the workers of this time and space have finally imitated the diesel engine, which is the rarest.

"Not bad, not bad!" Wang Yue circled around the tricycle a few times and suggested: "You guys build some more tricycles to practice!" Then think of a way, make some improvements, change the belt drive to the drive shaft drive, and change the tricycle to the front two and rear two or four wheels. Director Li, what do you think? ”

The stability of the three-wheeled vehicle is not as good as that of the four-wheeled one, and Wang Yue plans to let them produce four-wheeled light agricultural vehicles.

Even the county-level agricultural machinery factories in later generations can produce thousands, or even tens of thousands, of these three-wheeled or four-wheeled light agricultural trucks a year.

"Of course, of course, we've thought about this for a long time. Our starting city is full of four-wheeled vehicles, and we are already planning to build another four-wheeled car in the next step. Li Chaogui nodded again and again.

"Who made this diesel engine?" Wang Yue asked.

Li Chaogui said: "If you go back to your lordship, it was Master Xu Yuanbao Xu who took a few of his apprentices to do it. Seeing that Wang Yue had a question in his eyes, he hurriedly beckoned to the side and said, "Master Xu, Master Xu, come here!" ”

"Xiaomin has seen Lord Wang!" It was a weather-covered face, with unkempt hair but a sturdy figure, and the stains of oil could still be seen in the overalls of the body, although they had been washed and discolored.

Xu Yuanbao looked like he was in his forties, standing in front of Wang Yue was very restrained, he didn't know whether to kneel or not, Wang Yue's official was very big, but he knew that the starting point city was not a kneel.

"Thank you for your hard work, Master Xu, you are an excellent employee of my starting point city!" Wang Yue stretched out his right hand with emotion.

Of course, Xu Yuanbao understood that this was a handshake ceremony, which was the characteristic of the starting point city, he stretched out his hands to hold Wang Yue's hand, bowed again and again, and said: "Don't dare to be so elevated by Lord Wang!" ”

Wang Yue felt that these were a pair of very rough hands covered with calluses, he let go of Xu Yuanbao's hands, lowered his face and said coldly to Li Chaogui: "Director Li, all the labor protection supplies in my starting city are complete, didn't Master Xu receive gloves?" ”

Li Chaogui's heart tightened, and he was about to answer. Xu Yuanbao hurriedly explained: "Lord Wang, you misunderstood, Xiaomin's hands are calluses left by craftsmen for more than 20 years, and it is not about Director Li, these labor protection gloves have a pair every month." ”

These labor protection supplies are also rare in the materially scarce Daming. For example, this glove, there are now special merchants who bid 30 yuan to buy this, and then resell it. Wang Yue doesn't mind the workers who can't run out of gloves or save them sell their gloves, and he is most worried about corruption.

Wang Yue nodded and asked Xu Yuanbao, "Master Xu, how old are you?" Where did he beg for a living? ”

Xu Yuanbao replied: "If you go back to the adult, Xiaomin is sixty out of thirty. He was originally a resident craftsman of the Ordnance Bureau. ”

Li Chaogui added softly to Wang Yue: "According to the regulations of the imperial court, shift craftsmen are required to serve for three days a month. Resident craftsmen serve in the official handicraft workshops for 10 days a month, and if they do not go to work, they have to pay a penny a month to be hired by the government. Therefore, Master Xu has to go to the Ordnance Bureau every month to report for service, and there are many craftsmen like them, because they work for less than a month, they can't get the full monthly salary. ”