Compared with many of his peers who live in the countryside, Yu Jili is lucky. He is discussing with his girlfriend, whom he just met, who works at the ** Rayon Company, that their children will enter a technical school after finishing junior high school and continue to China like him.

Working in a car company should still go to school like everyone else, then go to college and do something else, such as becoming a silver employee of the company. In that case, their children may be able to live in those high-end communities in the future. Although Lianyungang is an extremely young city, it

Neighborhoods are clearly divided into various levels. For ordinary workers and ordinary citizens, their living environment may be much better than that of their compatriots. They enjoy modern living facilities such as electric lights, running water, and gas. However, for many Lianyungang people, they still have

A dream is to live in one of those high-end communities close to large parks, lakes, and green belts where the environment is more comfortable and the houses are prettier.

But in the end, they came to the conclusion that they should do what they like. It seems that whether they can become silver employees of the company is just a distant dream for them, but their current life still makes them feel extremely comfortable and satisfied, and the area where they live

It happens to be located in District 36 near the main factory of China Automobile Company.

This huge automobile industrial park is surrounded by automobile-related schools, parks, hospitals, and shops. People in blue overalls are walking on the streets. They pass through neatly planned streets. On both sides of the streets are two-story buildings.

The residential buildings in these factory areas are neat and clean. The residential development in these factory areas is rapid.

When Yu Geely finished its technical training and entered this car company, it was just an empty land. Now, in addition to the huge factory, there are also a large number of satellite factories and even street factories scattered around the factory. Of course, there are more

Residential Life Society Most of the residents here are workers of China Automobile Company

Cars are an extremely new product for Chinese people in this era. Even more than 99% of workers have never seen a car. However, for the residents here, their lives are closely related to cars because most of them

Either working for a car company or working in a small factory related to it

Many of them may have never witnessed the process of car production, but most of them have ridden in a car. In the past year, tens of thousands of cars raced on the streets of Lianyungang. This city can be said to be the largest in Asia.

car market

A month ago, accompanied by a burst of firecrackers, cars began to roll off the assembly line one by one on the first assembly line of China Automobile Manufacturing Company. This kind of car is the Lightning Truck produced by China Automobile Company. Compared with passenger cars, it is more important to China than passenger cars.

What is more urgently needed is trucks

Since the European War, China's industrial economy has entered a period of rapid development. A large number of machines have been continuously sold from Lianyungang to all parts of the country, but the market is mostly concentrated on both sides of the railway line. Just as China's industry is mostly concentrated on both sides of the railway line, the same is true for railway transportation.

For China, which is not densely populated, transportation outside the railway lines is still at the level of a thousand years ago. However, for the rapidly expanding industrial cities along the railway lines, the industrial raw materials they need are transported by horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws.

But for newly built factories, they can only use human and animal power to transport building materials. China is in urgent need of a modern means of transportation other than railways.

Realistic needs have led many subsidiaries of ** Company to start developing various modern means of transportation, from diesel tricycles to diesel five-wheelers that can carry two tons of supplies. Before cars were popularized, such cheap modern means of transportation such as mules and horses

Generally popularized quickly in China

Of course, this kind of popularization has great limitations. After all, as a manufacturer, ** Machinery Company only has an output of 20,000 vehicles a year. This output cannot even meet the needs along Longhai. In the opinion of ** Company executives, low-speed tricycles are

It's just a substitute product that really solves transportation problems for them - the truck Lightning Truck will solve all problems....

We must work hard to complete the infrastructure construction as soon as possible in the shortest possible time. As the most important leading enterprise along Longhai, the company has invested a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources in ** Company in the past two years. Initially, according to the construction plan, this plant required five years.

It was just completed in 2015, but now it only takes two years to complete the first phase of the project, six months ahead of schedule, which means it has a first-phase production capacity of 30,000 vehicles per year.

As a reporter, Qin Shaohua has heard about China Automobile Company for a long time. However, he missed the interview when the company's first car rolled off the assembly line. But now he still wants to come and see China's first real automobile manufacturing plant in person.

What kind of situation is it? Seeing is believing.

So after several applications, he finally came to the car manufacturing plant with several other colleagues from the newspaper industry. As soon as they entered the factory office, they saw the head of the company's public relations department walking towards them and gave them a simple welcome.

While being warmly received by the section chief,

Qin Shaohua looked up at the roof of the office, then at the walls and windows. The walls here were just a layer of cement. The gray walls were completely different from the white walls he was used to. How could this office be like this?

Well, Section Chief Liu, why is this wall not plastered?

Liu Wei, who was answering other reporters, quickly replied:

This was during the construction of the factory. In order to speed up the construction period, many unnecessary things were temporarily stopped to save more time. However, this was only limited to various non-production areas of the company...

At this time, he looked around again. Sure enough, in this large three-story building, which did not look very conspicuous from the outside, the circuits were just fixed on the roof. There were even traces of ceiling lines there.

Now because of the European War, the market has completely entered a seller's market. Any factory that can put into production one day ahead of schedule can gain one more day of profit. Therefore, whether it is companies along Longhai or other domestic companies, they basically dig the foundation while tamping it.

The factory floor will be laid immediately after the factory foundation is laid. Basically, the factory floor is basically completed when the factory building is just over one meter high. Equipment is installed and debugged at the same time as the factory building is being built. Even the factory has been put into production before the factory is closed.

Except for the two-and-a-half-meter brick foundation, the standard factory building is a steel frame structure, so construction is faster...

While listening to Liu Wei talking about the factory's rush for construction, Qin Shaohua was somewhat disappointed with this factory. After all, at least this dingy factory office building is difficult to associate with China's first automobile factory.

We are here to see the lightning trucks you produce, not the factory.

Qin Shaohua interrupted him sharply

Is it good or bad? Seeing is believing.

Although the air in the room became a little tense because of his words, Liu Wei still said with a smile:

Reporter Qin Da, look, this was my mistake. Let’s go to the factory.

After walking out of the company building for more than half an hour, they walked into the general assembly workshop. This factory building is a large factory building from the perspective of design and construction. Except for the brick foundation that is more than one meter above the ground, the entire factory is

The kind of steel structure factory building that is very common in Lianyungang. Although steel is expensive now, the use of steel structure factory buildings can shorten the construction period by more than half.

Entering the factory building with a span of more than 30 meters, thick columns and beams supported the factory building. At first glance, Qin Shaohua and every foreign reporter were extremely surprised, but they saw an orderly scene in front of them - vehicles one by one.

Cars are being assembled on the assembly line. Around each dark green truck are several workers standing on the assembly line rack in mid-air, hanging one door after another.

Different from the factories they had seen in the past, this factory did not appear chaotic at all. The workers often only needed to complete a few processes, and then the cars in front of them moved to the next work station...

Now, the assembly shop can manufacture 65 trucks per day. It is expected that by June this year, the assembly shop will be able to reach the designed production capacity, and by the end of the year, it is calculated that the production capacity can reach 100 trucks per day...

When he mentioned automobile production, Liu Wei looked at the reporter Qin again. He knew that the other reporter was obviously here to criticize today. This reporter Qin is different from other reporters. He is a news commentator. In the past year, his columns have been based on

Known for being critical, even the Prime Minister has been attacked by him many times, and even the Prime Minister's personal issues have been attacked by him.

Even so, I still have some admiration for this Qin reporter Liu Wei, because he not only attacks Prime Minister Yuan Shikai, but also cannot escape. In fact, almost everyone may not be able to escape his attack. What is even more rare is that he is still in the company.

Even though the two of them were not familiar with each other, he knew why he wanted to be a reporter.

Business schools will produce many successful businessmen, but business schools must have someone to uphold some basic moral things. Only in this way can business school colleagues be reminded not to forget that they are not just businessmen.

At the beginning, he chose to be a reporter to supervise business school alumni who were engaged in business. But now he has gone further. His supervisory vision is not only limited to business schools, but also extends to the whole country. Now, his Huasheng comments have already made him famous. Although he spoke before

Although he was harsh, Liu Wei still had a good impression of him because he had indeed brought out a few bad apples who graduated from business schools, and he had also brought down some corrupt officials.

After taking a photo of this factory and hearing about the output, Qin Shaohua raised his head and said

So where do you sell so many cars from your company? It seems that there are no lightning cars on the market now.

He silently calculated in his mind that a month and a half had passed since the car factory was put into production, but these cars still have not been put into the market. Where have these cars gone? When it came to the lightning car, he even looked specifically at the lightning logo on the front of the car.

glance

The first batch of cars had been ordered by the expeditionary force long before they left the factory. Those cars had already been shipped out. If I remember correctly, these cars should have been shipped to Europe by now.

Mediterranean

After disembarking from the bridge at midnight, he walked as usual and walked on the dark deck. When he passed a group of sailors sitting on the deck killing time, he even deliberately puffed out his chest and even imitated the appearance of the principal of Merchant Marine.

Holding a pipe in his hand, he would nod calmly and maturely when the sailor greeted him.

If someone sees this scene, they may think that he is a middle-aged man, but in fact, Fang Zicheng is only 18 years old and is an 18-year-old captain. His name and age have appeared in Chinese newspapers.

In foreign newspapers, many people think that this captain is really young. Some newspapers at home and abroad are saying that after the ship he commanded sank, maybe the Chinese will find that the young captain is not suitable for ocean navigation. This is experience.

and the realm of will, all of which are obviously not possessed by the young captain.

In the end, Fang Zicheng used his own efforts to prove that in the past year, he had gone from commanding a merchant ship of several thousand tons to now becoming the captain of the 10,000-ton Far East Hope ship in Vladivostok, Nagasaki, Tokyo, and Singapore.

, waiting in Chittagong, almost halfway around the world, this young captain has proven time and time again that he has finally silenced those who doubted the young captain.

But now his record has been broken. Just a month ago, a captain who was only sixteen years and seven months old broke his record. He also graduated from the Merchant Marine School and was an alumnus of his. He even made his first voyage with Fang Zi.

Cheng is in this fleet together

The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead

Looking at the Anji merchant ship in the distance, Fang Zicheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He thought his record would always be maintained, but he didn't expect it to be broken so quickly...

Hey Captain, that's how things go.

At this time, the first mate An Yumin walked over and said with a smile. Only those who know him know what the nineteen-year-old first mate is laughing about. He is laughing because he is about to see land. To be precise, he is seeing land in France.

I heard that Shanglun School even enrolls some children as young as twelve years old. According to the current training of one and a half years, they will not be brats by then...

Well, I've heard of this, but those people are not from Shanglun School. They are the school's assistant to the Army and Navy...

At the mention of the Army and Marine Corps, Fang Zicheng looked at the surrounding escort ships. They were members of the Jiangsu Army and Marine Corps. If it weren't for the consideration of international ocean navigation, they might have flown the army flag instead of the navy flag. This Army and Marine Corps is really

Very...

I know that they are young officers who are training for the Army and Marine Corps. They will study in our school for four years and then enter the Army and Marine Corps training team for three years. If there is a chance, they may go to the British or American naval schools in the future and then return to China.

Put on...the Army uniform. Captain, is there a chair over here that you want to sit on?

Sitting on an empty chair and taking advantage of the night at sea to look at the fleet of seventeen merchant ships in the moonlit night. This is a transportation policy formulated by the Admiralty to prevent German submarine attacks and concentrate the fleet to facilitate escorting the Mediterranean. It is a very pleasant night.

Fang Zicheng thought like this while leaning back on the chair lukewarmly.

We will enter Hong Kong tomorrow

An Yumin said with some expectation

I heard it from the radio operator

Well, it should be before tomorrow night. I guess it won't delay you to find some French girls when you get to the pier.

Fang Zicheng, who knew his first mate very well, said this
To be continued...