"Consul, can this forklift help us North Korea at a low price, you know, we North Korea also don't have any foreign exchange to buy things from the Soviet Union."

The Soviets bought China's self-produced forklifts, which were deliberately publicized by diplomats in Sijiu City, and many foreign diplomats who were stationed in Sijiu City got the news.

The first to come to the door was North Korea, which had just signed a military alliance agreement with China this year, and North Korea is a neighboring country, and the border is only separated by the Yalu River. Moreover, ten years ago, China also did everything it could to resist the 'eagles' and aid Korea, sending nearly one million volunteers alone, with countless casualties.

At present, the DPRK's relations with China are at the peak of friendship, and they have always assisted each other militarily. However, both of them are very backward in their own domestic economy and industry.

65,000 yuan a forklift, for the North Koreans, this is several times more expensive than the Soviet forklift. Of course, several times more expensive refers to the forklifts that the USSR itself is eroding. The lifting is still spiral, that is, the forklift imitated in Liancheng. Good forklifts are not good for takeaway at all.

North Korea is also poor, and no other country wants North Korea's money. Like China now, if you ask for your country's money, what can you do, it is different if you want money from the Soviet Union, at least you can buy a lot of equipment and machinery in the Soviet Union. And, of course, the US dollar.

However, even if there are US dollars, China and North Korea will not go to the United States to buy anything at present, and the current relationship is still in a confrontational situation. But dollars can go to other Western countries to buy things, and even Japan, which has a very high degree of hatred now, can also buy things with dollars.

As soon as the diplomats on the North Korean side opened their mouths, in fact, the diplomats of their own country who received them also had a headache. This price is easy to negotiate, but there is no point in selling North Korea, and North Korea itself is also below the subsistence line, and it cannot open its mouth if it wants their food.

In the end, the price was not discussed, so it was reported first. And then almost as conjecture, you don't want the money from North Korea, and don't talk about buying at a low price, just give you ten cars. A few years ago, I resisted the invasion and sacrificed so many volunteers and didn't say anything, but now this year I just signed a military alliance, some forklifts, hundreds of thousands of 'just'. As long as you don't think about it anymore, just send it.

Then in the evening, Director Chen received a call at home, and asked him to deal with the matter.

Give? If it is the forklift produced by their rolling mill, it will be sent, just like the forklift factory in Liancheng, the above will speak, and the delivery will be sent, and the most places will be reported, and then everyone will lose some materials.

It feels a little unrealistic to let Luo Cheng's car factory get ten more forklifts for free. You must know that Luo Cheng is still raising money to build a transmission production line.

After thinking about it for a long time, this money is not easy for the rolling mill to come out, and the rolling mill has to use hundreds of thousands, and it is troublesome to report. After thinking about it for a long time, I thought that I could only use things for things. To the USSR was also the North Korean one, a total of twenty vehicles, plus four at the beginning. Eighty tons of grain were directly given to the automobile factory, and a transmission production line was cleared.

Of course, the cost of producing these 24 forklifts, diesel engines, wheels, plates, and various components still needs to be borne by the automobile factory itself. You can't sell more than 20 cars in an automobile factory and make a net profit from a production line worth more than 700,000 yuan and 80 tons of grain that ordinary people can only buy with food stamps.

The next day, when the automobile factory was in a meeting early in the morning, Luo Cheng was about to announce the sale of the forklifts produced in the factory to the Soviet Union. The phone in the office rang, and Director Chen of the rolling mill called, asking him to increase the production capacity of ten more units here. Give eighty tons of grain, a transmission production line.

Originally, the good production line was sold to the car factory, and the money would be paid off next month. But now, if the production line directly arrives at the car, it means that it will be purchased this month. The forklift is a production cost that also needs to be borne by the automobile factory. If this is the case, by the twenties, the car factory will not be able to pay off all its debts.

Although there are more orders and more profits, there is a month less buffer time.

Putting down the phone, Luo Cheng continued to hold a meeting and directly announced the matter of forklifts, and Director Zhao had to arrange for the people in the workshop to get out the body panels of twenty forklifts as soon as possible. The other is that the cube car 2.0 he designed must also be arranged for someone to start working on, and there is a three-wheeled truck, which will be changed to a single group of variables from the motorcycle factory in the future, and another batch must be built this month.

Anyway, the order is coming, and everyone brought by Director Zhao almost doesn't want to stop. It may not even be enough, the body production requirements of the cube car are lower than that of the car, and it is easier to knock out than the body of the forklift, but it can be arranged in an ordinary workshop, but it requires a senior technician to sit in charge. The six-speed transmission gears were also produced manually by high-level skills, at least until the transmission production line came, and the six-speed transmission could only be produced by hand.

And the real headache is the personnel department, the new workers have been arranged by the street office every day to report, I thought it was almost the New Year, Director Luo seems to have slowed down the progress in terms of expansion, and the new workers are basically in place. But now that I think about it, it was clearly the calm that preceded the storm.

The transport fleet of the car factory has expanded again, and the trucks are all docked at the transport station. The number of three-wheeled trucks increased by more than a dozen, bringing the total number of docks to 20.

The basketball court that was built that week was temporarily occupied by the transport team and used as a parking lot. And the car yard does plan to build a parking lot for the distribution of goods.

And their own transport team also has to get a person in charge to come out, the car transport station has a vehicle dispatcher, and there are so many transport teams in the car factory here, and they also have to recruit dispatchers and personnel responsible for fleet management.

When the truck runs long distances, it has to recruit a driver, that is, a trainee driver who can drive.

All the transport teams alone need to arrange more than 30 people, and the assembly of forklifts is dozens of people. If the variable production line is sent, although there is only one production line, dozens of people are indispensable.

Coupled with the increase in the production capacity of other workshops, more than a dozen people in each workshop are not conspicuous. The security department and office staff should also be increased, anyway, if you count it casually, 300 people will be recruited first, and even if the production of the cube car 2.0 is not high in the early stage, it still needs to be assembled.

At present, the personnel of the military factories are basically all in place, and the personnel who were pre-recruited are also basically in place, and the automobile factories have long exceeded the 1,000-person mark. This will require another 300 people, and the number of people in the factory can reach nearly 1,500.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng built a large multi-window canteen, otherwise he would not be able to receive so many workers to eat. Fortunately, the canteen is not the kind of fast food restaurant in later generations, and there can be twenty or thirty dishes a day. Now Master He and Master Liu lead a team to stir-fry and cook rice in the kitchen.

It is not difficult for a team to make dishes for more than 500 people, but the difficult thing is that the current canteen is not only steaming rice, but also steaming wowotou and steamed buns. The people who pack wotou and steamed buns have added two people to each team. But if you recruit people like this again, both teams will be too busy.

There are many windows in the canteen, so I have to recruit another team.

Luo came to build a multi-window and multi-kitchen canteen according to the canteen method of later schools, and the initial idea was to diversify the characteristics of dishes. Make all kinds of vegetables, more than a dozen kinds of vegetables, all kinds of meat, fish, and sell pastries. But the idea is very good, but it is unrealistic, there are no out-of-season vegetables in this era, and the transportation capacity is poor, and there is no way to transport vegetables in Guangdong now.

The current canteen is considered a mistake, and the varieties of vegetables that have become are almost the same, but they are divided into several teams.

However, Luo Cheng will not easily give up the idea of his fast-food canteen, isn't it just that the transportation capacity is poor, and when the factory slows down and has capital, he will not toss any truck with you, and directly engage in a large front truck, not for anything else, just purchase vegetables for the whole country, even if the transportation is at a loss, it doesn't matter, anyway, the profit belongs to the country, and the good things you eat belong to you.

(End of chapter)