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Chapter 564 We Can't Let Our Guard Down! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Factories in the 1960s, once they took off, were quite efficient, as Wu Aiguo has witnessed firsthand this time.

A week later, while the Gulou repair shop was busily assembling the first batch of five three-wheeled motorcycles, Beimo launched fifty of them into the market at once, achieving great success.

This thing is so simple; it's basically a variant of a motorcycle, and you can see its function at a glance.

I heard that if it weren't for some leaders intervening, Beijing Transportation Company alone could have bought up all of these three-wheeled vehicles that Beimo put on the market.

Even if the three-wheeled vehicles can only hop around in the city, the transportation tasks within the city are still quite substantial.

There simply aren't enough vehicles for light truck transportation alone.

Large livestock vehicles have been banned in the city, otherwise where would all those tricycles come from, and where would the old man still be?
In fact, the emergence of the three-wheeled vehicle inspired many factories.

If a motorcycle engine can power a three-wheeled vehicle, what about car engines, and diesel engines?
In fact, the three-wheeled vehicles assembled with diesel engines are the most effective means of transportation for unimpeded travel in urban and rural areas.

In the 1990s, the main mode of transportation in many remote mountainous areas was the three-wheeled motorcycle with a diesel engine.

Whether for carrying people or transporting goods, it has played a very important role!
Wu Aiguo hopes that machinery factories and automobile factories with strong R&D and production capabilities can focus their efforts in this area.

At that time, China was indeed severely lacking in mechanically powered transportation vehicles.

He understood the implications all too well!
If domestic transportation efficiency improves by even a fraction, the country's overall strength can increase by one, five, or even ten percent.

Some organizations have also set their sights on the three-wheeled vehicles that the Gulou Repair Shop is assembling, and quite a few of them at that.

Even the neighborhood committee wants a few vehicles.

As long as you build a canopy in the back of the truck, it's a pretty good mode of transportation, at least better than riding a bicycle, right?
Finally, after some arguing and pulling, the Gulou Repair Shop kept two vehicles, which became important transportation tools for the newly established transport team.

Putting everything else aside, with the introduction of three-wheeled vehicles, the food in the factory canteen has not only become more varied, but is also noticeably fresher.

Every morning, I would head to the spontaneous market near Deshengmen.

With a local bigwig like Tiger helping out, procuring all sorts of supplies is quite convenient.

With fish, meat, and eggs available every day, and the factory manager, Wu Zhi, specifically instructing them not to skimp on oil and salt, the repair shop's canteen quickly gained a reputation.

Putting aside everything else, the big meat buns in the morning, the rich meat soup at noon, and the fish soup with egg pancakes in the evening have become the employees' favorites.

If it weren't for the security department and the discipline supervision department keeping an eye on things, some employees would have actually taken the food home.

The factory also provides subsidies for the canteen!

The dishes mentioned above are quite inexpensive in the cafeteria. A large meat bun costs five cents, and you only need one food ticket to buy two.

The purpose, of course, is to ensure that the workers are well-fed and well-hydrated, so that they can participate in their work with high spirits.

If such benefits could also extend to family members, Wu Aiguo certainly doesn't think it's appropriate, and it's likely to cause quite a stir.

With Sha Zhu as a counterexample, regardless of the meal, there are comrades in charge of discipline supervision in the kitchen to check and resolutely prevent kitchen staff from leaving with so-called leftovers.

Just kidding, the food in the cafeteria is rationed!
Even if there were leftovers, it would be impossible for the kitchen staff to take them away.

There are some things that you absolutely cannot give in to.

If someone from outside eats leftovers and develops health problems, who is responsible?

Don't say that people in this era are simple and honest. Look at the bunch of scoundrels in No. 95 Nanluoguxiang. Which one of them is simple and honest?

Didn't Sha Zhu himself notice anything unusual?
How can it be?

He was simply enjoying the tussle with Widow Qin. But enough of that, a number of three-wheeled vehicles appeared on the streets of the capital.

There are naturally some 'smart people' who share the same ideas as Wu Aiguo.

I rode a three-wheeled motorcycle out of the city to the countryside to buy meat, eggs, and vegetables.

As a result, without exception, they all failed because of the terrible dirt roads.

Upon hearing the news, Wu Aiguo completely abandoned that idea.

Let's make hand-held tractors then!

This thing doesn't have high requirements for roads, but of course it can't be in terrible condition either.

"Isn't it a bit too fast?"

Wu Zhi said with a headache, "We've only just started assembling and producing three-wheeled motorcycles, and now we're starting to tinker with hand tractors. We're short-handed!"

What kind of people are needed?

Wu Aiguo asked directly, "As long as it's not a matter of borrowing an eighth-grade worker from another factory, asking the neighborhood committee for help shouldn't be a big problem!"

"Besides, our repair shop needs to have enough flagship products!"

"A three-wheeled vehicle is one thing, but anyway, there aren't many factories in Beijing qualified to produce them!"

"But relying solely on the three-wheeled vehicle as a product inevitably seems a bit weak!"

"If we had a hand-operated tractor, it would be much more reliable!"

"Aren't there various types of coal generators and honeycomb briquette stoves? Don't you count these?"

Wu Zhi asked doubtfully, "Didn't you say that this stuff would be enough for us to eat for many years?"

"I also said that next year there will be many factories in Beijing producing various types of coal generators and honeycomb briquette stoves!"

Wu Aiguo said irritably, "How many street factories in the capital are barely surviving?"

"Furthermore, any branch factory opened by those large machinery plants could easily crush our repair shop in terms of output!"

"This thing has such a low barrier to entry that for our repair shop, it's just a basic product that ensures we can at least eat and get paid!"

Well, the 1960s were the era of the workers!
At the same time, this is also the era of state-owned enterprises!
If this had happened in the 1980s, the numerous township and village enterprises would have been enough to bring down most of the state-owned coal-making equipment manufacturers and honeycomb briquette stove manufacturers in Beijing.

"Alright then, we'll do it your way!"

Wu Zhi had no choice but to listen to Wu Aiguo in this matter.

Otherwise, it would be highly unlikely that he and Gulou Repair Shop could develop smoothly and successfully.

The thought of becoming a deputy division-level cadre after the Chinese New Year fills me with excitement.

So, seeing Wu Aiguo pat his behind and leave, he didn't bother to ask if Wu Aiguo had been spending money too extravagantly lately.
I heard that this guy often secretly gets special treatment in the security department's main office, and I guess he spent a lot of money on it.

He knew Wu Aiguo well enough to know that when the repair shop was thriving, he would never tamper with the shop's finances and thus affect his own father's future.

Without his strong support as his biological father, even setting up a three-wheeled vehicle wouldn't be such a simple matter.

(End of this chapter)