"We build the engine ourselves?" Xiao Dexiang asked doubtfully.
Wan Feng nodded. "It seems we will have to rely on ourselves more and more in the future. It's true that relying on others is not as good as relying on ourselves."
"But can we build an engine?"
"Why not? We've even built tractors, so why should we be afraid of engines?"
Xiao Dexiang shook his head: "I don't think it's easy. Many of the parts on the engine are beyond our current technological capabilities."
"There are still many things we can't make with today's tractors, but that doesn't stop us from making tractors. The principles are all the same. Listen to me as I explain them one by one. It's nothing special."
Wan Feng paused and continued, "The cylinder head and engine block are castings, which we can produce ourselves. We can also produce the flywheel, fuel tank, water tank, and oil pan. We can't produce much else. Things like the crankshaft, pistons, bearings, connecting rods, valve trains, diesel engine oil pumps, and nozzles have to be purchased from outside. Just like making tractors, we can make some of the parts ourselves and buy some from outside, and we can still make the engine. When I left the diesel engine factory, I went to the agricultural machinery company to inquire about it. Here's the price list I wrote down."
Wan Feng took out a piece of paper from his pocket, which was filled with the same parts and prices.
In order to avoid annoying the sales clerks at the agricultural supplies company, he used two bottles of high-end cosmetics to bribe two female sales clerks to get them to copy the bills for him.
The two of them added up the numbers one by one for more than half an hour.
"Based on the retail prices in stores, we can save 60 yuan by assembling an engine compared to buying a finished product. These parts are all retail prices. If we can contact the manufacturer to get the factory price, there will be a difference of about 30 to 40 yuan."
"It costs us over 400 yuan to buy a finished engine, but if we can make it ourselves, we can save over 100 yuan."
Wan Feng nodded. "This will further increase our profit margins and improve our technical skills. This is a good thing for us."
“Then do we still build the assembly line?”
"There's no point in building too many production lines if we can't supply engines. Let's use this one for now. Once we can supply engines, we'll have our purchasing agents find the manufacturers of these parts and get their ex-factory prices before the New Year. At the same time, we'll contact manufacturers closer to us that can produce this type of diesel engine and see if we can find another stable outsourcing source. It would be even better if we can buy a batch, whether it's spare parts or complete engines."
"I'll arrange it right away."
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It took a full week after the heavy snow for the popularity of Wahou to return to its pre-snow level, and the open space in front of the shoe factory and the team headquarters began to bustle with people again.
Old customers from afar also appeared here again, rushing to prepare the goods they needed before the New Year.
Wan Feng's classmates started selling couplets as soon as the twelfth lunar month began.
This year they adopted a different method from last year, which was to sort the couplets and take them away all at once.
For example, the Tan Chun brothers took away 800 sets of couplets, and Xu Bin also took away 400 sets at one time.
Anyway, out of the 15,000 sets of couplets this year, each person has an average of about 400 sets.
Therefore, after the couplets were sorted, they were all dispersed.
Wanfeng enjoys peace and quiet.
But you won’t be free for long. Even if you are free, there will always be something to keep you busy.
As the number of people at the market increased, some bad apples naturally appeared. Those thieves who picked pockets also appeared like ghosts at the Wahou market. Of course, some people who looked like thugs were wandering around in the crowd.
Wan Feng believed that the Wahou needed a security team, just like the security guards in later generations.
This is a must. There were many social security problems in the 1980s and 1990s, and many major cases occurred during this period.
Compared to robbery and murder, fighting and quarreling are trivial matters as long as no one dies.
Wan Feng remembered that when cement-filled prefabricated houses became popular in the late 1980s, a prefabricated house maker in the Housing Brigade of the Yongshi Commune earned 800,000 to 900,000 yuan a year and hired more than a dozen idle people in society as bodyguards. Even so, there were often people who came to ask for money at night.
Wan Feng didn't think these people would give face to the descendants of Wa. Sooner or later, they would come to Wa to ask for money.
People like Luan Fenghe and his team might become the targets of these people.
The period when this kind of thing happened most frequently was from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.
The 1990s were still far away, but the mid-1980s were just a few years away, and even the crackdown in 1983 could not eliminate these stubborn problems.
Under Wan Feng's guidance, people like Xia Qiulong in Hongya County have rarely participated in underworld affairs and have basically embarked on the right path. However, their non-participation does not mean that others will be idle.
A group of people have recently begun to rise in Hongya, and their arrogance is very arrogant.
Xia Qiulong and Wan Feng also talked about this matter. Wan Feng's comment was that as long as they didn't provoke him, he could just let others do what they wanted.
Can you control what others do?
Although these people had caused trouble for Wahou, Wan Feng still felt that he had to take preventive measures as soon as possible.
This is how the security team was born, and the task of forming the security team was handed over to Zhang Xian by Wan Feng.
Zhang Xian probably became the first security captain in the country. He selected ten people according to his own requirements to form the security team of Wahou.
These people all have one characteristic: they are bold, cruel and ruthless.
Of course, this is only relative to those bad guys. If they treat their own people like this, Wan Feng will be the first one to disagree.
The security team wears uniform and receives the same salary as workers. Their task is to maintain law and order in the market during the day, specifically dealing with petty theft and fights.
No matter if they were stealing or causing trouble, they would be beaten with sticks and fried, and then expelled and never allowed to come back.
After the security team was established, it handled several incidents and quickly became famous.
"Although these people are useful, they still earn 280 yuan a month!" Zhang Hai stood in front of the glass of the team headquarters and just watched the security team members pass by the team headquarters. He felt relieved but also a little distressed, mainly because he felt distressed about the wages paid to these people.
Each team member receives a monthly salary of 25 yuan, and team leader Zhang Xian receives 30 yuan. The security team's monthly expenses are 280 yuan.
"Haha, are you feeling bad? You have to spend the money you need to spend. There's no need to feel bad about it. The days of feeling bad are still to come."
Zhang Hai turned to look at Wan Feng: "Is there anything else that worries you later?"
What are some things that make you sad? There are so many.
"You'll know in two years. I'm afraid you won't have anywhere to cry."
"Tell me quickly, so I can be prepared when you leave next year."
"Alright, since we have nothing to do today, let's talk about the troubles we might encounter in the future. Not just the troubles we might encounter, but the troubles we will definitely encounter."
Zhang Hai left the window and returned to his desk to listen attentively.
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