A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Jiang Xia felt that the old man in front of him looked somewhat familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember who he was.

However, being able to get into the factory through the guards probably means they have some status. After all, only a big shot would grant access to such territory so readily.

"you are?"

The bespectacled old man didn't say anything, but walked around the excavator once.

"Is your rotating platform designed like a 'suspension basket'? What drives it? It seems to rotate quite fast."

Well, Jiang Xia could tell from the old man's technical terms that he must be playing "five-wheeled" games, since "hanging baskets" and the like were still a bit out of reach for ordinary people.

"No basket was used. After all, this is just an excavator, it only uses an inner and outer ring connection. This is a fully hydraulic motor, it's just for work, it doesn't need to rotate that fast!"

The old man chuckled. "Your hydraulic drive is quite impressive; it rotates faster than some turrets. Did you get this chassis from the Imperial Garden?"

"Wow, you're amazing! How did you figure that out?"

"Heh~" The old man sneered and beckoned a burly man over. "Go, give a demonstration for our brother unit."

The burly man nodded, took the hammer from one of his coworkers, and walked over to the excavator. He then struck a spot on the track with all his might.

Then he reached out and casually fiddled with it a few times, and the originally taut tracks drooped down like a dead snake.

!

The mouths of the crowd were agape, wide enough to fit two eggs.

"This……"

"Nail, young comrade, you know this word, right?" The old man smiled gently at the young boy again.

"They didn't receive any notification over at the Imperial Garden; they all use these old models. An accident happened after 50 kilometers of storage! Young man, want a chassis and want to cooperate with us? Our grassland tractor factory has upgraded all of ours!" The burly man weighed the iron hammer in his hand, looking at the young man with an extremely happy smile.

"Damn it!" Li Huaide's eyes turned red as he watched the conveyor belt droop.

This is a brand new machine. I don't care about nails or anything, but if you son of a bitch break it, that's unacceptable!

Just as Li Huaide was about to call on his coworkers to give the man who was damaging the machine a good beating, another loud sound came from the small mound.

"I don't care about the upgrade. If you can't put these tracks back on... Fanzhou, you've seen me chop meat with two cleavers, haven't you!"

Following the sound, Fan Zhou and the burly man looked towards the small earthen mound.

"Hey! You old bandit, didn't I tell you to go get some ping-pong balls? What are you doing here?"

The bearded man, pipe in hand, said with a thuggish air, "Don't ask! The only answer is that you broke my excavator! I'm waiting to use it!"

"You—it's you! Put the tracks back on..."

The burly man shrank back, his smug smile completely gone.

"Young man, call two of your coworkers over, one person can't pull the track..."

Tsk, showing off might feel good for a moment, but the whole family will suffer...

……

Steel rolling mill, conference room.

On one side sat the bearded man and his group, and on the other side sat Comrade Fanzhou and his group.

The little brat sat in the middle, while Li Huaide took over the work of Secretary Liu, busily serving tea and water.

Needless to say, the bearded man was also recognized by Li Huaide, who also knew the name of Comrade Fanzhou standing next to him.

Li Huaide secretly rejoiced that he hadn't gone too far just now; otherwise, if this guy in front of him got angry, he might have tied him to the ground and run him over by a hundred five-wheeled vehicles.

However, following the little brat was the right move. These important figures, who only existed in stories, appeared one by one before Li Huaide's eyes, making him feel inexplicably hot all over.

"Uh, alright. Comrade, you can go out now..." The bearded man waved his hand as he looked at the busy Li Huaide.

Li Huaide didn't think anything was wrong, and put down the thermos to leave.

“Hey, Uncle with the beard, don’t chase him away. This is the deputy director of the steel rolling mill. You’re asking about the workers’ stadium, right? Director Yang isn’t here. He’s the key figure in the factory. If you’re asking about things at the factory, I might not know as much as Uncle Li…”

"Oh? Is that so?" The bearded man began to scrutinize Li Huaide with his weathered eyes.

Li Huaide, though his face flushed with emotion at the little brat's actions, didn't lose his composure. He puffed out his chest, meeting the old man's probing gaze.

"I'm fine here, but what about you, Fanzhou?"

Comrade Fanzhou waved his hand, "Nothing much, just came to check. Hong Dage held a meeting a couple of days ago and gave the relevant comrades a hard time, so I came out of curiosity. I didn't expect to run into the testing of the new machine, what a coincidence..."

The bearded man glanced at the burly man following Comrade Fanzhou and sneered inwardly: "So you've learned to ambush people now, huh? You think you can just casually bring the director of the grassland tractor factory here? You're kidding me!"

No, I still need to keep an eye on the little brat. The navy guy is an honest man, and the little brat is still helping them with their testicles; it wouldn't do if he got kidnapped...

"Wait a minute. Doesn't your factory have a Party Secretary? The factory director isn't here, so how come the deputy director is taking on such a major role?"

The confidential secretary standing nearby was a little puzzled, and after obtaining the leader's permission, asked this question.

Li Huaide broke out in a cold sweat. That position was originally a task assigned to him by his family's top leader. He had planned to use this position at the steel rolling mill as a stepping stone to jump directly into the ministry after the reorganization of the machine department. However, before the plan could even begin, it was thwarted by the brat.

However, Li Huaide has now realized that even if he joined the ministry, what good would it do? He would still be just a pawn, and he wouldn't be as comfortable as he is now...

How should I put it? Li Huaide was a bit at a loss. Should he just blurt it out?

"Hey, isn't this a decision made by the Ministry of Machinery Industry? We're a department-level unit, so we just do whatever the higher-ups tell us to do! Uncle with the beard, shall we get back to the main topic?"

The bearded man exhaled a puff of smoke and casually tossed a pack of cigarettes to Jiang Xia.

"Alright, it's a trivial matter, not worth discussing. Deputy factory director it is. Come on, let me ask you, what's the deal with the central ring and steel cable on the roof of the gymnasium?"

Hey, I thought it was something else.

This is the factory's biggest event recently. I can't speak for other things, but Li Huaide answered this question fluently.

After all, he's a shrewd person and had already anticipated any surprise inspections from above.

"That's right. Our chief engineer discovered that using a new material shipped from the Northeast for the central ring not only reduces its weight..."

"The same goes for steel cables, sir. We've improved the relevant processes through Project 301, and we're preparing to cold-roll the hot-rolled wire rods. This will improve the strength and hardness of the resulting steel cables..."

"Moreover, although we improved the process, thanks to the newly developed auxiliary machinery and the hard work of our colleagues, we are still able to..."

Wow, you've really changed a lot in just three days!

Although Li Huaide was memorizing the report document given to him by Jiang Xia's master, Li Changfu, he still put his heart into it.

Didn't you see that even He Da Hu Zi was nodding repeatedly as he listened?

Leaving aside Li Huaide's eloquent speech.

Sitting to Jiang Xia's left, Comrade Fan Zhou nudged Jiang Xia and whispered, "Kid, is that new material he's talking about GH2747?"

"No, it's a different grade of steel. Using 2747 would be too extravagant."

"How about using it as tank armor?"

Jiang Xia was stunned for a moment: "Tsk, it's theoretically feasible. But if you really do it, the Air Force comrades will probably fight you to the death. The amount of fuel you make is enough to make more than ten aircraft engines."

That's right. The production of GH2747 is pitifully small compared to that of ordinary steel. If it weren't for the audacious factory director in Northeast China who ran away quickly, that whole truckload of cannon pipes would probably have ended up being melted down.

Hey, right? Didn't they say they'd keep it a secret? How come everyone knows?

Confused~~

Comrade Fanzhou knew exactly what the kid was thinking, and whispered, "That kid's scandal has been exposed, and he's probably been locked up in a dark room by Hong Da Ge now."

"If you don't want to end up like him, help your uncle come up with some armor?"

"Once it's built, we'll not only give you the chassis, but we can also consider the 'suspended basket' on top of it!"