Chapter 378: Artillery Factory
In fact, this is related to the perspective everyone stands, in Ji Wanchang's eyes, Fang Lang gave him advice, which is to help the Malayan Chinese community, and everyone should remember his contribution.
It is best to vigorously publicize and establish Fang Lang's image, and in the future, Fang Lang will help them with more advice.
In the eyes of Fang Lang, Fang Xinshui and others, everyone is Chinese, and if you want to fight for a new independent country for the Chinese in Malaya, we will raise our hands to take advantage of it.
It is only natural for you to be advised.
But now your enemy is the British old, although the other side has declined, but the influence is still there, if you let the other side know that your Brazilian generals actually help the anti-British forces to give advice, if you don't do well, you will put pressure on the Brazilian government.
Let Fang Lang's position in Brazil suffer.
Therefore, neither Fang Lang nor Fang Xinshui wanted the British to discover their existence.
Although Ji Wanchang didn't understand why Fang Xinshui didn't want people to know about Mr. Fang's existence, but now that he was asking for someone, he could only pinch his nose and let the other party threaten him.
"Hall Master, please rest assured! Since you think that we should keep Mr. Fang's existence a secret, I will definitely strictly enforce it.
However, our business still needs Mr. Fang's guidance, if we encounter problems that cannot be solved, I hope you can help me contact Mr. Fang and answer for us.
Ji will have a good reward at that time. ”
Fang Xinshui naturally would not refuse this, and without thinking too much, he directly nodded and agreed to the other party's request.
At the same time, Fang Lang had already returned to the Overseas Chinese Village, went out to practice martial arts early this morning, and went to Hongyitang in the afternoon to talk about things, Fang Lang didn't have time to accompany his girlfriend.
So, after chatting about business, I hurriedly ran back to the village to accompany my girlfriend.
"Oh my God! My dear, is our hospital so big? ”
Before it got dark, Fang Lang took Lilith and Vivian to the construction site of the hospital to see the construction of the hospital.
After seeing the plan of the hospital, Lilith couldn't believe her eyes, and she thought that what Fang Lang wanted to build was just a small hospital.
But who knows, Fang Lang simply referred to the famous large-scale tertiary hospitals in later generations to build.
Therefore, both the construction area and the scale of the hospital greatly exceeded Lilith's expectations.
Hearing Lilith's exclamation, Fang Lang smiled and said:
"Haha....... My dear, what I want to build is not an ordinary small hospital, but a large research-oriented general hospital.
Seeing a doctor is just his basic function, and I hope to make him a medical institution that integrates teaching and research.
In the future, many medical laboratories will be set up here for doctors, experts, and professors from all over the world to conduct medical experiments.
And that's all up to you. ”
When Lilith heard this, she suddenly felt a lot of pressure, and stammered a little:
"Ahh Can..... But I'm just a student myself! Even the most basic medical knowledge is still being learned! ”
When Fang Lang heard this, he smiled and said:
"Don't worry! Isn't it for you to start managing now, aren't you learning?
Besides, running a hospital doesn't require you to be medically proficient.
In addition to studying, you can ask Olivia Berg for some management knowledge, he is a top graduate of the relevant major, and we need to learn to extract his surplus value to the fullest. ”
When Lilith heard this, she glanced at Fang Lang angrily and said:
"What do you say?"
Vivian, who was on the side, heard this, and said with a smile on her face that she had been caught by me:
"Good! My dear! I'm going to tell Olivia that you want to drain her. ”
Hearing these words in Fang Lang's ears, it felt as if something was not right, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
Instead, Lilith slapped her sister directly, signaling the other party not to talk nonsense.
Turning his head to Fang Langdao:
"Honey, you said that Olivia is alone in Rio de Janeiro, will it be boring, should we arrange someone to pick her up!"
Fang Lang glanced at Lilith helplessly, thinking to himself that his father was very dissatisfied with going home this time and bringing two girlfriends home.
If Olivia Berg were to be brought over again, the family would ask and say that he was an assistant at Universal Company, and no one would believe him.
I didn't think it was my third girlfriend, although I didn't dislike making Olivia the third, but now Olivia's uncle is the vice president of his own media company.
It wouldn't be good for him to know, so he said with a nonchalant face:
"How could she be bored when she came to see his uncle?"
Lilith glanced at Fang Lang with a smile and said:
"Do you think she really came to see his uncle?"
When Fang Lang heard this, he looked at Lilith with a puzzled expression and asked:
"Or else?"
Vivien, the girl, was already on the side, and said without any scruples:
"My dear, you're a hypocrite to believe you don't have any thoughts about Sister Olivia!
Otherwise, you would have made such a beautiful sister your personal secretary.
Hum! Hypocrisy! ”
Fang Lang's face was full of embarrassment when he said this, and this time Lilith on the side also looked at Fang Lang with a smile on her face, wanting to see how he was going to answer.
As soon as Fang Lang looked at Lilith for help, he saw Lilith with a playful expression.
I could only shrug helplessly and said:
"Alright! I admit Olivia is beautiful, but I promise I only love you guys!
Besides, does it have anything to do with whether or not she came to see her uncle? ”
Vivian hugged Fang Lang's right arm indifferently and said with a playful expression:
"My dear, the elders say that men have roses on their mouths, but they are not credible at all!
You say you love us, but I believe it! But if you say you only love us, I don't believe it that much!
Hey hey ........"
Lilith also said on the side:
"Alright! My dear, you are not honest at all, whether Olivia came to see her uncle or not, and now that you are in Brazil, you have to do your best landlord's friendship. ”
Hearing this, Fang Lang thought seriously for a while before he said to Lilith with a serious face:
"Hmmm! Lilith has a lot of truth when she says that hospitality is a tradition for our Chinese.
I have a friend who has come all the way to my hometown, and it is really necessary for me to welcome her warmly.
Then I'll ask him to buy him a ticket to São Paulo early tomorrow morning. ”
Lilith rolled her eyes at Fang Lang angrily, and Vivian, who was holding Fang Lang's arm, pinched Fang Lang's arm with her hand, and said angrily:
"Humph! What a hypocritical man! ”
Fang Lang looked ahead as if he was unconscious, and continued to discuss with Lilith the future construction plan and development blueprint of the hospital.
Vivien and Lilith didn't continue to entangle, but looked at their own man who was scolding Fang Xuan with admiration.
This time Fang Lang is on vacation, naturally it is impossible to really take a complete vacation.
Fang Lang, who rarely had time to return to São Paulo, arrived at the artillery factory early the next morning, accompanied by Qi Qingshan and other guards.
The location of the factory is very remote, nearly a three-hour drive from the city.
When Fang Lang and the others went to the factory, the chief engineer of the artillery factory, Girard Bull, was already waiting at the gate of the artillery factory early.
Seeing Fang Lang's arrival as soon as he arrived, he greeted him without hesitation, and the two of them shook hands while complaining:
"Boss, you've finally come to see us.
I thought I was very unhappy with my work! So you don't want to see our artillery factory! ”
Hearing this, Fang Lang shook hands with the other party, patted the other party's arm with his left hand and said:
"How is it possible, although I don't have time to visit you in the factory, I have heard a lot about you.
No, I just heard that your 155mm howitzer has been finalized, so I took advantage of my vacation to come and take a look.
I heard that our model is almost 100 kilograms lighter than his prototype, the American M1A1? ”
Speaking of his products, Girard Purna said with pride:
"Yes, boss!
We replaced some of the parts of the gun that did not require the use of steel and chose a lighter aluminum alloy.
Now the weight of the gun has been reduced, but the performance has not been affected in any way.
The military representatives stationed at the site, very satisfied with this artillery of our own production, have already submitted a report to the Ministry of Defense.
Just wait for the Ministry of Defense to complete the acceptance, and then you can start slowly supplying to the military. ”
Hearing this, Fang Lang nodded, and the two walked into the artillery production workshop accompanied by a large group of people.
Girard Bull walked in front and kept introducing Fang Lang to the production process and processing equipment of artillery.
Although some of the equipment looks second-hand, it is clear that it does not make any difference when you use it.
Among them, there are also a lot of new processing equipment.
Fang Lang in his previous life had only heard of electroslag remelting, and this time he saw the real thing in the factory.
According to Girard Bull, this is the most advanced processing equipment he has obtained from the United States using his own connections.
After visiting the entire manufacturing process of the factory, Fang Lang finally understood why the guns produced by the artillery factory could reach the performance level of the original.
It turned out that in addition to the equipment shipped by Fang Lang from Japan, the factory purchased a lot of more advanced equipment from the United States.
Most of the workers in the factory are American workers, so it's no wonder that the product can reach the current level of performance, which is no different from producing in the United States!
This is not what Fang Lang wants, so after visiting the shooting limit experiment of the artillery.
Back in Girard Bull's office, Fang Lang said directly:
"Girard, I'm very satisfied that you were able to give the artillery factory real artillery production capacity so quickly, and to make improvements and innovations.
But I noticed that many of the positions in the factory were skilled workers hired from the United States, which would greatly increase our management costs.
I believe that the cost of the artillery we produce now will definitely exceed that of what is produced in the United States, right? ”
Girard Bull, who thought he would continue to be praised, did not expect that the first question his boss asked in the office was the cost that he was the last willing to mention.
However, this is indeed an inescapable fact, so I can only bite the bullet and say to Fang Lang:
"Yes, our production costs are 15 percent higher than those of American factories.
Among them, labor costs account for 5 percent, and the other 10 percent is because we use new materials to reduce weight.
In addition, we are only trial production in small batches now, which is used for experiments and acceptance, so the cost is high. ”
When Fang Lang heard this, he thought, "That's really the case!" ”
He knew that it would take a process and that it couldn't be done in one step, so he smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter, I can understand that the first thing we have to solve now is whether there is a problem, and in the case of innovation, the cost is a little higher, which is also acceptable.
However, you have to understand that our factory is not only aimed at the Brazilian army, you must know that the Brazilian army alone cannot support an artillery factory as large as ours.
If we want to survive, our products have to go international, and compete with the products of European and American countries, if the cost is higher than theirs, it is not conducive to our sales.
Skilled workers in the U.S. are very easy to use, however, the cost is simply too high.
So, I hope you can find a way to train more cheap local skilled workers for us.
It is used to reduce our production costs. Do you understand what I mean? ”