A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Wang Kui looked at Jiang Xia with a smile.

"Oh! The busy man is back?"

Jiang Xia looked Wang Kui up and down. Old Wang had lost a lot of weight, and his face was sunburned, but his eyes looked even brighter.

"Hmm," Wang Kui took out a white flower and waved it at Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia took out a white cigar and waved it at Wang Kui. The two looked at each other and smiled.

“Come on, your family in Quanzhou sent you some things. I think you should take a look.”

As he spoke, Wang Kui rubbed a cigar in his hand and led Jiang Xia out.

"The exercise is over. Go and clear the ice off the road," Wang Kui said to the soldiers.

"By the way, you should also tell the transport team not to use the water-spraying brakes in the dead of winter! It's fine for you young and strong, but it would be a problem for an experienced driver!"

Wang Kui tugged at his tuft of hair, looking quite serious.

What?! So the ice on the road was caused by our own factory's cars?

Sure enough, a GAZ truck, panting heavily, poked its head out of the factory gate, carrying several large steel ingots on its back, leaving large water stains in its wake as it drove along.

Jiang Xia's lips twitched. Was this some kind of punishment from his mechanical soul? No wonder traffic police in later generations would chase and intercept trucks equipped with water sprinklers.

Regardless of the gifts from his "family," Wang Tiezhu arrived at the transportation team and was wiping down the two Yellow River trucks.

His apprentice lit a fire and heated the water tank of a car sprinkler.

I forgot to drain the water tank yesterday, and it froze solid.

After explaining the situation, Wang Tiezhu was quite helpless. He was used to using it, and it was really hard to get used to not being able to use it suddenly. After all, even though the temperature had dropped, overweight trucks still couldn't stop.

Then let's add salt; it's much better than letting the water freeze directly.

And we don't need table salt, industrial salt will do. Textile factories use a lot of this stuff, so we can just ask for some when we deliver the small cannons to them later.

At worst, we can fix it up later and make the retarder, which should make things much better.

However, it would be unfair to say that all the ice on the road was caused by the steel mill's transport crews.

With more than 10 vehicles in total, no matter how fast they drove, it wouldn't have resulted in such a large area of ​​ice.

Only after asking did I learn that the water spray cooling system, which had been overshadowed by the hand pump well, had actually been in the factory all along, and they had even made improvements by placing the water tank of the water sprayer in the gap between the carriage and the driver's cab.

This makes the water flow more smoothly.

"Not only that! We've also found that the water hammer effect you mentioned can be solved simply by installing a few partitions!"

As he spoke, Wang Tiezhu lifted the lid of a water tank and showed it to Jiang Xia.

Indeed, the wisdom of the working people is boundless; they instinctively try to make something more useful.

It's like a group of people who can't find their way, but as long as one person leads the way and clears a muddy path, the others will think it's a good path and automatically tread it down firmly.

It's not impossible that they might even overtake the leader halfway through.

Therefore, Jiang Xia could only give a thumbs up and hand over a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes.

Uncle Tiezhu lit a cigarette and continued, "After we made the improvements, we went out and showed them off, and that's how it started. At first, it was big parts factories that came to exchange their parts, but eventually word spread, and even textile factories came..."

It turns out that the drivers from various big factories do communicate in private. If they have something good to share and don't chat about it, that's not the style of a man from Beijing.

The word spread quickly, and soon almost every car in half of Beijing had this water spray system installed.

The case is solved! The case is solved!

In order to prevent the others from getting seriously injured, Wang Tiezhu also agreed to inform the drivers of the other factories that they should not drive if possible, and if they must drive, they should only drive for industrial salt processing.

"Hey Jiang, when are you going to install that steering system too? All the drivers outside are asking about it!"

Oh, right, the original plan for that system was to be modified, but the people in Quancheng had a keen eye and got it installed on the finished vehicle first.

However, the modification is quite troublesome. There are all sorts of trucks in Beijing now, older ones like GAZ, newer ones like FAW and Nanjing Qingyue, and each type has different specifications. The steering system will need to be planned out.

No, it's more accurate to say that the specifications of each vehicle are different. The current level of industrial development in China is simply amazing.

All birds that fly in the sky look the same, and those that crawl on the ground aren't much better!

While other gears and racks are relatively easy to manufacture, hydraulic pumps are a different story. Jiangxia only dared to proceed directly because a pump factory in Quancheng was providing them with a safety net.

It seems we haven't reached out to anyone in Beijing yet. Having it delivered directly from Jinan isn't impossible, but it's still too far.

Seeing Jiang Xia hesitate, Wang Tiezhu leaned closer and said, "It was someone from the Sijiucheng Pump Factory who asked us first. They said they could provide hydraulic pumps!"

"Hey, Uncle Wang, you seem to know people everywhere!"

"Hey, so-so. I might not know as many people in high places as you do, but as for ordinary people, even if you just want your ears cleaned, I can find someone for you!"

Wang Tiezhu raised his eyebrows smugly.

"However, there are conditions there. They have a batch of water pumps that seem to be substandard, and they are looking for help. Last time I delivered steel billets there, their factory manager pulled me aside and mentioned it to me."

Hydraulic pumps... Jiang Xia thought of the old hammer forging machine in Workshop 2 again.

I imagine replacing this forging machine with a hydraulic forging machine would be incredibly appealing.

I don't know what's wrong with these water pumps that made them make such a promise.

After arranging a time with Wang Tiezhu, Jiang Xia decided to go and take a look, since the subsequent series of actions would all require the support of hydraulic components.

For example, this thing right in front of you.

The bright red little steel cannon has a large shovel on top of it, which is connected to the vehicle body by several support arms.

Liu Hongjun stepped on the gas, and the large shovel swept along the ground, scraping away a considerable amount of the thin ice clinging to the surface.

Yes, this is yet another example of the ultimate self-innovation by the working people: a bulldozer with missing functions!

The shovel can't be lifted because it lacks hydraulic components, but does that really stump anyone?

After the small steel cannon shovel crossed a section of road, two soldiers pulled on the rope on the large iron shovel and lifted it up through two iron pillars attached to the back of the cab, with two gourds hanging from them. It didn't take much effort.

Once they reached the open space, they put the shovel down again.

The little cannon rolled back and forth a few times and cleared away all the ice fragments from the shovel.

After repeating this process several times, the ground in front of the steel rolling mill was almost completely cleaned up.

Liu Hongjun greeted Jiang Xia, then revved the small cannon and drove off again to continue his ice-shoveling mission.

The idea of ​​"everyone sweeps the snow from their own doorstep" doesn't exist in this day and age. If you have the ability, you should naturally get things done properly. There's still ice on the road ahead!

That's some damn talent!

A machine-powered, human-operated forklift – isn't that amazing?!

"The Red Army came up with this method, and they were already clearing the thin ice a while ago! Isn't that amazing!" Wang Kui smiled again.

Of course it's amazing! Every person in China is like a dragon!