Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 302 Chinese New Year
Li Song initially planned to use 1.3L and 1.5L cast iron engines for his vans.

These are also the two most basic models planned for the BMW factory.

However, later on, the 1.5-liter engine displacement of the van was a bit too large, so it was changed to mainly 1.0, 1.2, and 1.3 liters, with a 1.5-liter engine also available!

The mainstream model is the 1.2, which is paired with a manual transmission to achieve high torque at low speeds and meet the requirements for heavy loads.

This is actually a copy of the historical Wuling van.

The manufacturing process for cast iron engines is not as advanced as that for aluminum alloy engines.

The core technology of all the engines produced by BMW is the same, which is why they have mastered the production process of the 1.2L engine.

Then there's absolutely no problem with the larger displacement engines later on.

If an automobile company has just one classic engine, it can fully support the company's development for decades or even centuries!

Of course, the van's body is still made using welding technology.

The completion of the mass production process means that the engine can be officially put into mass production.

This is good news for Li Song.

This means that the engine has undergone internal testing.

The next step is to send this engine to the higher authorities for acceptance testing.

Li Song plans to license the technology of this engine to several domestic companies!

Because Li Song knew how much demand there was for this type of affordable minivan in China.

Of course, the demand overseas is also quite high!
BMW's car factory follows the same path as its motorcycle factory.

That means low-end products will have their production limited, and the focus will be on mid-to-high-end products.

And the huge domestic market needs a sufficient number of products.

So Li Song handed over the market to other companies, took a lower licensing fee, and made pure profit.

Moreover, it can produce affordable cars using a 1.5L cast iron engine.

Before the new year, Li Song did not plan to report this matter to his superiors.

Let's talk about it after the New Year.

Because the gearbox project team has not yet completed the mass production process.

The gearbox project team is mainly focused on the factory and equipment installation and commissioning.

The production process for cast iron engines is relatively mature in mainland China, which is why mass production was completed so quickly.

The mass production process for aluminum alloy engines is not yet complete.

The main reason is that aluminum alloy engines require a casting press.

However, the factory still rewards those who deserve it.

Li Song gave the engine project team a bonus of 100,000 yuan.

This further motivated the other project teams.

Then a briefing was held inside the car factory.

The car factory is currently under construction, with equipment being installed, debugged, and trial production conducted simultaneously.

There are still two or three months until the first minivan rolls off the production line.

Because the manufacturing process of a complete vehicle involves many things.

Because BMW's car factories cannot achieve full-chain production.

BMW's factories primarily produce engines, transmissions, and chassis!
Other components, such as air conditioning instruments, radios, seat belts and seats, tires, wheels, drive shafts, brakes, lights, bumpers, airbags, glass, windshield wipers, radiators, batteries, motors, and so on, all need to be manufactured by component suppliers.

The automotive industry is a very large industry.

At noon, Li Song attended the annual meeting at the BMW motorcycle factory.

The main purpose of BMW's motorcycle factory annual meeting is to allocate housing to outstanding employees.

In theory, all employees of the BMW motorcycle factory should be allocated apartments, and they can obtain property rights after working at the BMW motorcycle factory for fifteen years.

However, we can't build that many buildings all at once, so only outstanding employees will be allocated housing first!

The houses for BMW motorcycle factory employees are located on the way from Huangpu Port towards Guangzhou.

River-view apartments built along the Pearl River!
Li Song believes these houses will appreciate in value in the future.

If these houses appreciate in value, then the factory employees will be even less likely to leave, because if they leave, they will lose the property rights!
Li Song also enabled these employees to benefit from the dividends of the times.

The next day, January 31, 1981, I attended the annual meeting at the automobile factory at noon!

Then in the afternoon, I took a plane to Shanghai.

The cast and crew of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms began their vacation on the 2nd. Zhu Ling returned to Kyoto on the 2nd, while Li Song returned to Chang'an on the 2nd.

Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant has completed the assembly of turbofan engines for medium- and long-range passenger aircraft, and one prototype has been sent to the capital for testing!

In addition, the test flights of the Star Shine aircraft went very smoothly!
After the Lunar New Year, the StarShines passenger plane will travel to other locations for test flights.

First, there's the extremely cold environment in the north, then there's the marine environment and plateau environment in Hainan.

Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant will begin its holiday on the 3rd, but the holidays are taken in rotation!
Most of the technical staff here are from Shanghai. After we allocated them housing, they also want to go back and visit!
In addition, dormitories are also being built in Chang'an, mainly to provide housing for local employees or employees who intend to settle in Chang'an.

Li Song finally had time to go back to his hometown on the third day, and he went to his master's house first.

Then I went back to my hometown!

A two-story brick house has been built, and a small boiler and heating have been installed!

After Li Song returned home, all the neighbors came to his house.

Then Li Song dashed off into the mountains to his maternal grandparents' house.

Then he went hunting with his two uncles, carrying guns. Guns haven't been banned in mainland China yet!
That's why there are so many homemade firearms in the countryside!

In addition, supply and marketing cooperatives now openly sell air guns.

Li Song bought an air gun, but it was a hand-operated type.

It didn't have the long range of the later cylinder-type projectiles, and this one used lead bullets.

The house where my maternal grandparents lived was also built to be quite large.

They were all built using local materials sourced from the mountains, specifically stones.

Li Song knew that this place would be designated as a protected area in the future.

Building a house is easy now, but it will be very difficult in a few years.

In the future, when I have free time, I can come to this mountain for a vacation.

"Big Uncle, Little Uncle!"

"Then I'll arrange two jobs for you!" Li Song planned to place his two uncles in the Chang'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant.

“Okay!” Li Song’s two uncles did not refuse.

Li Song spent New Year's Eve at his maternal grandparents' house because a matchmaker would come to propose marriage as soon as he got home.

Meanwhile, his adoptive parents' eyes lit up when they heard someone propose marriage.

My two older sisters are also worried about this!

Li Song will never get married in this lifetime!

Such a large business of your own!

She would never refuse anyone who wanted to have her child.

Li Song's idea is out of step with the times.

Moreover, Li Song didn't value having descendants that much; if he had them, great, if not, so be it.

Even if you raise several sons, they may not be able to inherit your business; they might even be spendthrifts.

In any case, I should enjoy what I'm meant to enjoy while I'm alive.

As for dying, well, go beg, whatever.

Li Song lived a hundred years later, so his attitude towards these things reflected the attitude of people at that time.

Because in a few decades, who knows whose son is after marriage and childbirth? Some people have been married for more than ten years and have several children, but none of them are their own!
Moral standards are getting worse and worse!

It forces people to adopt a passive, even detached attitude, or even to resist marriage.

To put it bluntly, the legal system is not handling these issues well enough, and the cost of breaking the law is too low.

How many decades does a man have?
Raising several children over a decade, all of whom belong to other people, must be incredibly emotionally damaging!

What kind of response has been made at the legal level?
Of course, this may be a strategy of the elite class, who would love for the lower class to do this!
On New Year's Eve, Li Song was watching Romance of the Three Kingdoms at his maternal grandparents' house.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms officially began airing in mainland China on New Year's Eve.

Two segments will be played starting at 8 o'clock.

Before the TV series starts, several large words appear: This TV series is sponsored by BMW!

Li Song chuckled!
After the TV series ended, in addition to the cast and crew credits, special thanks were given to BMW and Phoenix TV Hong Kong.

This is exactly the effect Li Song wanted.

After watching the TV series, Li Song and his two uncles took their miner's lamps and batteries and went out to hunt rabbits!
If the battery shines on the rabbit's eyes at night, the rabbit's eyes will turn red, and if a strong light shines on the rabbit, the rabbit will be temporarily blinded!

This is the best time!
Although it was cold in the mountains at night, the harvest was good; more than a dozen rabbits were caught in just three hours.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Song's parents came to the mountains and began to complain about him.

Li Song's maternal grandparents still dote on him, saying he's still young.

Then on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I went home to pay my respects to my master, and then on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, I happily left my hometown.

Li Song went straight to Kyoto!
Zhu Ling now lives in a courtyard house, where it's relatively quiet.

Moreover, this is the only place Zhu Ling owns; her parents' workplace also owns a house there, but the area is crowded and noisy.

During the day, the two of them wandered around Kyoto. Fortunately, it was winter, and everyone wore hats and scarves so they wouldn't attract attention.

We would spend our evenings together watching TV.

The news broadcasts daily reports on the Taihu Lake motorcycle team's races.

Li Song was a little surprised that the BMW Motorcycle Team advanced to the top 24, given its short history.

The KTM team is ranked first, a long-established motocross team, followed by Honda in second place and BMW Motorrad in nineteenth place.

Then I also watched the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Song flew to Guangzhou, while Zhu Ling flew to Shanghai to continue filming Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Zhu Ling was also scheduled to participate in the filming of Journey to the West.

Upon returning to Guangzhou, Li Song immediately went to the Electronics Research Institute.

"Boss, this is the list of interns." The Electronics Research Institute has recruited forty-two interns, all of whom are senior students. These students will be interning at the Electronics Research Institute for the second half of the semester.

Research has already begun here.

It wasn't really research; it was just converting the technology Li Song presented into mass production technology, so it was much easier than developing it on your own.

"How are the new interns doing?" This was what Li Song was concerned about, because he needed enough manpower to turn the technology he had developed into a product.

"It will probably take some time to adapt. After all, universities in China are still relatively behind in this area. Many experiments are being done for the first time, and our lab's rules are much stricter than those of the university," the head of the Electronics Research Institute said.

"Yes, they all learned it," Li Song said as he looked at the student list.

(End of this chapter)