This is definitely a viable approach.

In the current situation of extreme shortage of transportation tools, Wan Feng believes that such a low-priced tricycle will surely sell extremely well.

The size of the cargo box is about the same as his motorcycle or slightly longer, and can accommodate two people in the cab.

For the style, Wanfeng chose the style of Shifeng New Countryside Golf fully enclosed three-wheeled vehicle. For the time being, the power will be a 195 engine. The gearbox can be appropriately reduced in size. Because of the experience of doing one-ton flips, there is no problem at all with a slight change in the transmission method.

As soon as he thought of this, the tricycle had a more specific appearance in Wan Feng's mind.

The truck bed is 2.2 meters or 2.5 meters long, with a fully enclosed cab, capable of carrying a load of 3,000 kilograms. It is started by hand, and can be started electrically if a starter can be made.

Electric start seems a bit of a pipe dream, and some materials are unlikely to be realized with the current level, but it is not completely impossible.

The disadvantage is that the engine of 195 is a bit too large, which hinders the utilization of space. It would be better if it could be made smaller, preferably as big as the engine of his motorcycle.

What if we could copy the 250 motorcycle engine and make it gasoline-powered?

The 250 engine itself is not a sophisticated thing. You can integrate the parts you can make yourself to manufacture it. If you cannot make the parts, you can buy the matching parts from the manufacturer.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to buy accessories now. The manufacturers who make accessories for Xingfu Factory may still be in the routine of planned economy, so there is little hope of buying them. It will probably take another two years before we can say anything about it.

If we can make a 250 engine, can we make other engines?

Although the 250 engine is not comparable to other motorcycle engines.

Two thousand years later in his previous life, Wan Feng once bought a second-hand Jialing 70. He had disassembled and installed this old car countless times, including the engine and other parts, and he was very familiar with the principles.

However, knowing the principles and being able to disassemble and assemble does not mean that you can build an engine. This requires some high-precision machine tools and materials, and preferably a three-axis lathe.

Wan Feng shook his head when he thought of this. It was still unknown whether a three-axis lathe could be purchased in China in 1985, let alone 1981.

Those military industrial units are probably having a headache buying lathes with more than three axes now, so they can forget about it in this remote mountain village.

It's a bit too early for me to dream about this. It will take nearly a year for Jialing Factory to produce the 50, and now I'm thinking of copying other people's 70. It's a bit funny.

This dream must be suppressed for a few years.

For now, let’s just focus on designing a diesel tricycle.

"Boy, what are you thinking about?" Zhang Hai had probably finished eating the peanuts, and came in with a red face. With him came a cold wind and a smell of alcohol.

"I think we should expand the scale of tractor production. Our current production scale cannot meet the market demand."

Wan Feng didn't mention making a three-wheeled vehicle. He hadn't even drawn a concept map, so what's the point of talking about it?

"How can we expand? We are already operating at full capacity, producing three or four units a day."

"There's no other solution. We can only add another production line."

To put it simply, today's production lines are purely manual, with no mechanization involved. If you want to design a mechanized, or even semi-mechanized, production line...

Wan Feng shook his head and thought, forget it. Not to mention that it cannot be produced domestically, even if it can be produced, they may not be able to afford it.

Even if it is a production line for manufacturing tractors, it will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars from design to finished product, and there is no guarantee that anyone can design it.

He couldn't play it either, as he had little contact with production lines in his previous life.

Even if one more production line with human labor is added, the output can only increase by 180 units per month.

Wanfeng's ideal is to produce at least 5,000 to 6,000 units a year. As for 10,000 units...

Just think about it.

"How about transferring all the people from the machinery factory to tractor production?"

Tractors are now the flagship project of Wahou Enterprises, and of course we must concentrate our efforts on making it bigger and stronger.

"We can't put all our eggs in one basket. We still need to produce other small machines; they're more profitable than tractors. So, we need to hire people. Luckily, when we built the factory, we had a very large one, so we can hire workers if there's space. But at the very least, we need people who have experience working with machinery. If that doesn't work out, I'll go to Factory 518 and lobby some people. After all, they used to make tractors."

"It would be great if we could get some people from Factory 518 over here."

But recruiting people at the 518 factory is also a difficult task. How much salary do you offer to recruit people? What kind of benefits do you offer them? If the benefits are high, the benefits of the factory workers must also be increased, which is another considerable expense.

Where do the recruits live? There's not even a dormitory.

"Next spring we have to build a building, a dormitory building. Many people will come to work here, and we need a place to live."

Zhang Hai considered this question seriously and nodded after thinking for a long time.

"That's fine, but where should it be built?"

Wan Feng thought for a moment and said, "Let's just build it in the old yard. It won't be of much use after we take it over anyway."

The old yard is behind the shoe factory, and the team headquarters building is now on the east side. This dormitory building can be built next to the team headquarters building, which just fills the vacant space. The only drawback is that the team headquarters building blocks the morning sunlight.

It was almost noon when Wan Feng saw Chen Wenxin's mother pushing a small cart down from Xiaonan Mountain and walking around in front of Luan Feng's house.

A wooden box covered with a layer of white paper was pushed on the cart.

There are vegetable buns and dumplings in the box.

Her steamed bun business has also expanded a lot, from the initial pure cornmeal vegetable dumplings to now including a certain proportion of white flour steamed buns. Now she can sell more than 100 steamed buns during the lunch period, and earn four or five yuan.

Later, some housewives also joined this group.

Seeing the women busy selling buns, Wan Feng said, "We still lack one thing here: a restaurant or a snack bar. We need to solve the problem of food for these outsiders. However, it's too late this year. Let's leave it at that for this year. After the New Year, we will try to open the restaurant. This task will be handed over to you."

"Wait for me to consult the commune."

Wan Feng had to ask for permission for everything he did. He really hoped that time would pass quickly. Even though it was 1984 now, the procedures for opening a small shop would not be so complicated and troublesome.

If there were a restaurant, wouldn't we have to go home to eat? We still have to go.

Wan Feng walked out of the team headquarters and wrapped his clothes tightly. Ever since he caught a cold two days ago, he seemed to be feeling a little cold.

This is not a good phenomenon.