However, the steel rolling mill has been expanded to accommodate 10,000 people.

With so many people it is already considered a large factory, and it is not easy to expand further.

There are already a lot of production tasks now, and these people are enough to complete them.

There are pressures from many aspects if we want to expand further.

One is the issue of production.

What we produce now are some common parts and some special parts.

All of these require advanced production equipment, which must be purchased from abroad.

These opportunities are priced sky-high, and the country simply does not have that much money to buy so much equipment.

Without these equipment, there would be no need for expansion at all.

The steel rolling mill has production targets every year, so this many people are enough.

Anyone who wants more is redundant.

One person means one salary, but if there are too many people, paying the salary would be a huge sum of money.

Unless the steel mill can produce its own equipment or manufacture its own machines.

If the tractor designed by Zhang Weiguo is to be produced, it will indeed require the construction of a new factory.

But there is nothing now, so no one is considering building a new factory.

There is just one problem, Zhang Weiguo did draw the picture.

However, in order to produce it, data is still needed, such as the dimensions of various parts.

These are things Zhang Weiguo didn't know, so they needed to experiment on their own.

Something like this is simply not something these workers can accomplish.

The assistance of at least one engineer is required.

There is currently no engineer in such a large factory as the steel rolling mill.

Most of today's engineers have gone to build the Northwest.

Those are the ones who can realize their greatest value.

There were steel rolling mills in the past, but they were all moved away later.

Many excellent employees of the steel rolling mill were withdrawn.

What's left now are the leftovers.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that this uncle, an eighth-level fitter, looks very capable now. In the past, he couldn’t even get a rank.

The excellent employees have all left, and the remaining employees are the tallest among the short ones.

The old man's level of eighth-grade fitter is just barely passing.

There was no other way. No one in the factory wanted him, so we had to bring him up.

The number of level eight workers in the factory can now be counted on two hands.

This is why an eighth-level worker is so prestigious in the factory.

There is nothing we can do about it; the best people are gone.

These ordinary people came up.

Their worth is also valuable.

However, many important equipment still require specialized engineers to work on them.

These people simply can't do it.

The distance between them and engineers is a chasm.

This distance is even farther than the distance between level one workers and level eight workers.

People like this uncle will never become engineers in his lifetime no matter how hard he tries.

This is not something you can achieve just by doing more.

There is no such thing as practice makes perfect.

Engineers are the most valuable group of people, they are the real treasures.

An engineer plays a huge role.

If you want to produce equipment like tractors, you still need engineers to take charge.

If we let these people in the factory do it, they won’t be able to do it at all.

I don’t have that ability.

If you don't have the skills, don't take on the job.

What the factory produces now are just some ordinary parts, nothing complicated.

As long as you have the basic requirement, it will be fine. You don’t need to design it yourself.

Others operate machines, and all production is done by machines.

But the same cannot be said for tractors, which have no specific dimensions.

You need to practice on your own, and only if you practice continuously can you get the real size.

At this time, engineers are needed to operate based on past experience and the design of the drawings.

Figure out a size yourself, then assemble and experiment, and keep experimenting until you finally get a specific size.

As long as the size is right, everything is assembled, and the experiment is successful, they can start production.

This also takes time and cannot be completed in one or two months.

Even for experienced engineers, it would take half a year to successfully assemble all the parts.

There is no engine production yet.

The production of the engine is more complicated.

This thing is easy to get, just take one from another car.

If you omit even the most difficult thing, the other things will be easier.

The main thing is the gear design.

Zhang Weiguo didn't know what this thing was.

Zhang Weiguo has driven a tractor and knows how to operate it.

But he didn't know the gear design and had never taken it apart to look at it.

I have no idea about the structure inside.

This requires engineers to design it themselves, and this is where engineers are needed. Others can do the rest.

The half year period was mainly spent on various debugging.

It won’t be suitable all at once.

All sizes require practice.

If this thing is done well, other things will be easy to do.

There is no need for a fixed size for the truck bed; it can be larger or smaller. It mainly depends on the power of the engine.

If the power is strong, make it bigger; if the power is weak, make it smaller.

The plow needs to produce molds, which also need to be produced last.

Only when the tractor is well made can this thing be produced.

Of course, these are things that happened later, and it mainly depends on Zhang Weiguo.

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