The world begins with Hong Kong movies

Chapter 599 This shouldn't be happening! (Seeking monthly votes)

The good news from Hong Kong Island has shocked the top leadership!

In the following two weeks, leaders from relevant departments in Beijing took the initiative to visit the Gulou Repair Shop, most importantly to see the mountain bikes that are famous in Europe.

Not long after, the head of the Ministry of Industry also came to inspect the site in person.

Then, they were all stunned by the offer from Hong Kong Island.

A mountain bike sold in Europe can cost over a thousand dollars?
Are you crazy?
There are many wealthy people in Europe, and they won't be foolish enough to be taken advantage of.

Wu Aiguo disagreed, but he just couldn't bring himself to say it.

Wealthy Europeans, or rather, aristocrats, value style and class!
They wouldn't be willing to buy mountain bikes if the price weren't so high.

A thousand dollars? That's the price for goods shipped from Hong Kong Island!

Once we get to Europe, who knows how high it will be?
He didn't bother with the matter; he simply cooperated with the personnel dispatched by the industrial department to pack up the thousand mountain bikes that were piling up in the factory's warehouse and put them on the train.

The thousand mountain bikes in the repair shop's warehouse were secretly produced by Wu Aiguo's father, Wu Zhi, under immense pressure, at Wu Aiguo's repeated insistence.

If no good news comes from Hong Kong, it will probably take several years for the father to advance further.

Now that he's successfully blocked the road, his rank has naturally risen directly to the level of a full-fledged department head, the same level as Director Chen of the subdistrict office.

In addition, the Gulou Repair Shop was also taken over by the industrial departments of Beijing.

From then on, all the meetings I attended were organized by the industrial departments in Beijing.

At the same time, in terms of talent allocation and machinery configuration, they enjoy the same treatment as other large factories under the industrial departments of Beijing.

In other words, the repair shop's technical department will soon be staffed with recent college graduates.

Upon hearing the news, Liu Haizhong secretly wiped away a cold sweat.

This time, Gulou Repair Shop became a subordinate unit of the Ministry of Industry of Beijing, and its level was raised by half a level, becoming a division-level enterprise.

As a contributor to the development of mountain bikes, Liu Haizhong was promoted by half a grade and became a section-level cadre.

Of course, the farms outside the city also reached the level of a full-fledged section chief.

There's no way around it; the farm's achievements and contributions are undeniable.

At this moment, the farm manager, who was also Wu Aiguo's second uncle, patted his chest and guaranteed at an internal cadre meeting: "Next summer, the farm can supply half of the vegetables, meat and eggs for the entire repair shop's canteen!"

Not only the repair shop itself, but also the streets and industrial departments of the capital were quite satisfied with the performance of the repair shop farm.

The grain, vegetables, meat, and egg supplies for other factories are mostly allocated by higher-level units, supplemented by internal procurement departments.

Unlike repair shops, they can solve most of their problems by setting up their own farm!
Other factories are willing to learn, but they can't make up their minds!
It's all about the actual results and performance!

If everyone were in such a bad state, it wouldn't matter, but with the Gulou Repair Shop's farm as a benchmark, they didn't have the courage to follow suit.

By mid-September, the farm outside the city of Gulou Repair Factory had attracted special attention from the leaders of higher-level departments, who even made a special trip to inspect it.

Previously, Wu Aiguo's planned rice and wheat crops have gradually matured.

Then, the farm workers demonstrated to the visiting leaders what semi-manual, semi-mechanized harvesting meant.

The harvester was very rudimentary, only capable of harvesting, and could not compare with the combine harvesters of later generations.

But the harvesters, built primarily of wood, were incredibly efficient. Pulled by oxen and horses, with the cutting speed manually controlled, they flattened rice and wheat stalks in their path.

The fallen rice or wheat stalks are then transported by farm workers to a nearby threshing machine for semi-mechanized threshing.

In fact, achieving this level is not difficult.

On the farm, the repair department took the lead and invited several third- and fourth-year college students majoring in mechanical engineering to figure out and develop this rudimentary version of agricultural machinery.

The main materials used are all wood, with iron used for fixing only in key positions.

Its harvesting efficiency is much higher than that of manual labor alone.

Half an hour is enough to cover one acre of land, with half the time spent on steering machinery and adjusting vehicles and livestock.

In fact, what Wu Aiguo found most difficult to understand was the problem with the threshing machine.

Is it really that difficult to develop this thing?
In ancient times, there were primitive versions of threshing machines.

However, it's just manually threshing rice or wheat stalks, which is not much different from the threshing machines that have appeared in modern rural areas.

It simply means that one less threshing tool and one less power system are needed.

Similarly, the threshers that the farm tinkered with were mostly made of wood.

Furthermore, it is possible to manufacture subsequent blowers, as well as manual or animal-powered or hydraulic shell-removing devices.

It can be said that the farm produced a complete set of wooden agricultural tools, which dazzled the leaders who came to inspect the farm.

They even tried it out themselves, their faces full of surprise.

"Very good, the farm is doing a great job!"

When they left, their superiors were quite happy.

The next day, personnel from the agricultural department arrived to learn about the various agricultural tools that were made and actually used on the farm.

Wu Aiguo was actually quite dissatisfied with this.

In his understanding, it is not difficult to research and manufacture practical agricultural tools, at least for college students majoring in engineering machinery.

As for certain factory technical departments that specialize in machinery, it's even easier and simpler for them to tinker with it.

However, Wu Aiguo traveled to many places outside the capital but did not see any of these agricultural tools.

It can only be said that the technical departments of schools and factories are severely out of touch with rural areas, otherwise this situation would not have occurred.

Wu Aiguo found it hard to believe that none of the technicians who studied mechanical engineering in universities or vocational schools and worked in the technical departments of machine factories came from rural backgrounds or had ever worked in the fields.

If one had simply thought about it more, or read one or two ancient agricultural classics, this situation would not have occurred.

In my past life, whenever I saw period dramas or novels depicting backward farming and harvesting methods in rural areas, I found it unbelievable.

Even if China's industrial base is weak, it can't be weaker than that of the ancient imperial era. Yet, during the ancient imperial period, various agricultural tools were quite common. But by the 1960s, it seemed that China's agricultural development had regressed.

Anyway, Wu Aiguo can't understand it, so let's just use the farm outside the city to let certain people and beings see it for themselves.

Agricultural productivity can be improved, but we have to use all the available tools. Relying entirely on manpower would be such a waste.
(End of this chapter)