"Xiao Wan, I have another question. Once these tractors are built, will there be any supporting products?"
"That's a lot. We can equip it with small farm tools, such as tilling and sowing. It can also be used for transportation with a small trailer. Don't underestimate it. It can pull a thousand bricks with it. How much can our 22-ton truck pull? Even if it's hauling sand, it can still pull one and a half cubic meters.
It is true that a four-wheeled vehicle can transport a thousand bricks. Wan Feng is not kidding.
Wan Feng even saw some Tiger trucks carrying 1,500 tons of cargo and then having their tires burst.
"Then do you think we can do some supporting services?"
"If you have the conditions and the manpower, why not do it? Who wouldn't want to lose money? In the next few years, tractors will become the mainstay of transportation. Four-wheeled vehicles are less expensive and will have a golden age for over a decade. Initially, they'll be primarily used for transportation. We'll make trailers first, and then farm implements and other things. There's plenty of work for you."
In 1983, Luoyang YTO's small four-wheeled vehicles sold nearly 10,000 units. How big is this market? If Wan Feng didn't know this, he would not have believed it.
He didn't expect to sell 10,000 units a year. Their post-industry industry didn't have that production capacity, so selling a few hundred units a year would be enough.
A tractor head costs more than 4,000 to 5,000 yuan, and hundreds of them a year mean sales of millions.
Xiao Dexiang and his colleagues were busy with their work day and night, and Wan Feng was too idle to do anything, so he wandered into the assembly workshop.
Some smart young people in Wahou, such as Yang Qilang, Jiang, Jiang Xishui, etc., were transferred here to be apprentices, which was to reserve strength for the future of Wahou's industry.
At this time, these guys and the masters brought by Xiao Dexiang were busy assembling the seeder.
After a few days of assembly, they are now assembling at a very fast speed, with one person being able to assemble two or three units in an hour.
"How many units have been assembled now?" Wan Feng asked as he squatted beside Yang Qilang.
"Probably more than a thousand, but I don't know the exact number."
"Less than 2,000 units?" Wan Feng was a little surprised. This speed was not acceptable. It had been a week since the supply, and there were not even 2,000 units. This was too slow.
Although he did not plan to deliver all these seed drills during the spring sowing period this year, he had to at least deliver nearly as many, at least three to four thousand.
But the progress is clearly too slow at the moment.
"Plastic accessories like seed containers are not in stock. The Qingshan Plastic Products Factory can only supply so many per day. They have their own products, so of course they can't give us priority. It's good that they can produce so many for us in one day."
That's true. They have their own flagship products, and these OEM orders are just for them. It's good enough that they can provide you with a certain amount of supply every day.
It seems that these plastic products equipment should be put on the agenda. Wan Feng originally planned to think about this indispensable part of the supporting project until the end of the year, but now he has to consider it.
In the future, many products will use plastic products, and we can’t always rely on others!
It is better to rely on yourself than on others. At least you should have an injection molding machine now.
With an injection molding machine, you can make molds and produce accessories yourself. The plastic factory in the blue farm seems to produce the raw materials, so this is not a problem that needs to be considered.
Even if the injection molding machine is not of much use for the time being, it can be used to make plastic basins, plastic bowls, and plastic stools to support a group of people.
Which factory in Beiliao Province produces injection molding machines?
In the 1980s, if you couldn’t find any mechanical equipment in Northeast China, you probably couldn’t find it anywhere else in the country.
But now there are no computers, no internet, no mobile phones, and even no landlines, so it is not easy to find this information.
You can only go to the Industrial Bureau to look for it.
Wan Feng walked out of the machinery factory with this question in mind. It was now past four o'clock in the afternoon and it was time to go home for dinner.
As soon as I walked out of the gate, I saw five or six people coming from behind the mountain. The one in the lead who was pointing and gesturing was Li Taixian. Wasn’t he?
Did this guy invite the masters from the shoe factory?
Wan Feng's guess was correct. The elderly people brought by Li Taixian were exactly the masters from the Pear Room.
While Zhang Hai was running around arranging accommodations for these masters, Wan Feng was chatting with Li Taixian.
"Zhang Guangchong left around two o'clock, and you came here when it was almost dark."
"Oh, Zhang Guangchong is here. Why didn't he come to the pear room to find me? I was planning to come over to get the goods."
"He brought a man named Shen Wei with him. He was mainly here to pick up some clothes. He didn't park at your Lifang and came all the way to the depression. By the way, isn't your Lifang also holding a market? Aren't you going to take some clothes back to sell?"
"Is that fun? Making three or five bucks a day is nowhere near as satisfying as selling a digital watch."
"You're so extravagant that even three or five yuan a day is not enough. Nowadays, many farmers in production teams can't even make a hundred yuan a year. Have you ever thought about what you'd do if your electronic watch stopped working one day?"
Li Taixian blinked and said, "Then why don't you take me some clothes and sell them?"
"Let your wife sell it."
"It's so embarrassing for a woman to show her face in public!"
"Damn it, aren't you ashamed of showing up in public? What's your thinking? Don't you see the current situation? The central government is encouraging side hustles. You took the lead and have an innate advantage."
Li Taixian was bewildered: "When did the central government encourage side hustles?"
This guy probably never reads newspapers or listens to the news.
But even if he read and listened to the clichés, he probably couldn't understand them. Those who can read and listen to the clichés in newspapers and on the radio are all state officials. How can a farmer like you understand the intricacies of it?
"Does your uncle, your uncle's, live in Haiyanghong or in Goudong County?" Wan Feng changed the subject.
"Uncle! I live in Goudong County. Why are you asking this? And you still want to make leather shoes?"
Wan Feng shook his head. "I don't do that kind of thing. I don't like wearing leather shoes. They're uncomfortable. The man Zhang Guangchong brought with him today is from Goudong County. I asked him to find the black market for bills in Goudong County. If you can see your uncle in the next few days, ask him to help find out where the black market is in Goudong County."
Li Taixian smiled, the kind of smile that said you don’t know the true face of Mount Lu.
"There's something wrong with your eyesight. Why don't you ask someone like me instead of asking someone else?"
Wan Feng was surprised: "You know?"
"After the Lunar New Year, I went to the black market to make some money and see if there were any bicycle tickets. I wanted to buy a bicycle, but unfortunately I didn't get one."
"Where is it?"
"Let me think about it. It must be in the southern part of Goudong Town. But I don't have much of an impression of where it is exactly. I think it's on Yuan Street, but I can't remember."
"That's basically the same as not saying anything. You can't remember going there after the New Year? Your memory isn't that good!"
"I'm not familiar with Goudong. My uncle took me there. How could I remember the exact address? But my uncle knows. How about I give you the address and you go find my uncle?"
Li Taixian took out a pen and quickly wrote an address to Wan Feng.
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