A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Back at the factory, Jiang Xia was in high spirits. When he saw the Super Yellow River truck that had just been delivered, he grabbed a wrench and wanted to take it apart.

At first, Wang Tiezhu, the senior member of the transport team, was all smiles: "Hey, Xiao Jiang, here to inspect the truck again! Don't worry, this is our treasure, we do it every day..."

"Huh? What! You're going to tear it down!"

Wang Tiezhu let out a "howl" and lay down on the hood of the Super Yellow River truck, refusing to get off. His apprentices and their descendants followed suit, using their own bodies as human shields.

This~~

"Xiao Jiang, you don't know, this is the storefront of our steel rolling mill's transportation team! If you try to touch it, I'll kill myself!"

"Yes! We don't want to live either..."

Uh... Jiang Xia is in a bit of a dilemma, mainly because it's a bit slow to start from scratch without dismantling what's already there.

Wang Tiezhu patted his chest and said, "As long as you don't dismantle this 'big treasure,' you can use the dozens of people in the transport team as mules without any problem!"

Well, since everyone's saying so, let's just hand over the body structure to Director Liu from Jinan. It'll be a good opportunity for them to see what kind of chassis and frame the new generation is all about.

Anyway, it's not far away, we can just ask the railway company to transport it over later. After all, Jiang Xia plans to personally oversee the interior structure of the RV.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Xia turned around and went to the confidential workshop.

"Tiejun, how's the engine?"

"It can be put on the test bench tomorrow!"

"Hey, well done!"

Jiang Xia, who trusted his friend implicitly, didn't use the scanner. He simply walked around the twin-cylinder engine and casually picked up some components to be assembled to look at them.

Wow, aside from the production capacity issue, the processing technique is flawless.

If we continue proceeding step by step like this, we might even develop our own set of process standards ahead of schedule. Hehehe, who knows, during the honeymoon period in later generations, we might be teaching each other!

Speaking of the honeymoon period, Jiang Xia thought of the French. Why did Minister Jiang say that exchanging technology packages with them would be a good thing?

Thinking about this, Jiang Xia felt a surge of excitement. Unfortunately, he couldn't find anyone to ask about the situation; Secretary Liu had been taken to a meeting at the ministry by Yang Youning.

But as the saying goes, when in doubt about domestic matters, consult Baidu; when unsure about foreign matters, just look it up on Baidu...

No~

Now, when in doubt about domestic affairs, we should consult the daily newspaper; when unsure about foreign affairs, we should consult the internal reports!

These past two days, with the "poison gas bomb" attack, Secretary Liu, busy cleaning up the mess, forgot to bring the internal reference materials.

Jiang Xia rushed to the factory's confidential office, signed the document, and began reading the internal reference.

I looked at the two thin sheets of paper over and over again. Hmm? So many big things have happened lately!

I just saw that the bald eagle officially severed diplomatic relations with the cigar country a while ago, and today I saw that the bald eagle's famously unlucky president was inaugurated?

Oh, no wonder.

After taking office, this person proposed the concept of the "Atlantic Partnership" in an attempt to consolidate the bald eagle's dominant position in Europe through various means.

But the French are led by the man known as "the last man of France," who insists on a policy of independence and autonomy and emphasizes "Europeanization."

In this way, the French have become a stumbling block in the eyes of the bald eagle. But it's also good, as they have another target to draw fire for the newly established China.

France's current situation is similar to China's. Both emphasize independence and autonomy, and are outliers within their respective camps. Outliers are naturally inclined to band together for mutual support.

Strengthening cooperation is perfectly normal.

"I see!" Jiang Xia thought he understood why the big shots were so confident about this collaboration, and stopped worrying about it. He could continue refining the interior design of the "palace."

Oh, no, the right thing to do is to call Director Liu in Jinan first, in case he's busy, so we can make plans early.

Just as I was thinking this, the phone rang.

"Jiang Gong! Long time no see! Has the truck that delivered the goods to you the other day arrived yet?"

As soon as the call connected, Director Liu's cheerful voice rang out from the receiver.

"Uh, is it painted yellow? If I said it just arrived, wouldn't you think it's too much of a coincidence?"

Jiang Xia took the phone, walked to the window, and looked at the two Yellow River trucks that had just turned into the factory gate.

Factory Director Liu chuckled on the other end of the line. What a coincidence! The escort had just reported to him, and that's when he finally called. When you're asking for a favor, it's never shameful to be well-prepared.

If he hadn't been an old acquaintance of Engineer Jiang, he might not have been able to get through on the phone!

In response, Director Liu, who had some connections and knew some of the situation, was extremely grateful that he had found the right powerful backer from the very beginning.

"Yes! It's yellow. We made the corresponding modifications at the team's request. Hey, the engine you asked Factory 331 to make is excellent. Not only is it smaller, but the horsepower is still just as strong."

"This batch of vehicles just rolled off the production line, so we'll take them on a long-distance trip to check how well the various components work together. Therefore..."

"Ha! So you want me to help you with the repairs? To see if the structure of each part is reasonable?" Jiang Xia laughed heartily. But this was fine too; freeloading wasn't his style.

"Hehehehe, there's something else! With the approval of the higher authorities, I had someone bring you some documents. Could you give us some advice?"

Hmm, looks like they've come to ask questions. That's fine, at least the supplies won't be too hot to handle. Look at those two wobbly trucks, the flour sacks on top are practically overflowing…

"Great, I have a truck chassis design here. Can you help me produce a prototype as soon as possible?"

"No problem! Engineer Jiang, hand the design drawings to the escorts I sent, and I'll have them come back immediately!"

"That's going too far! You even called me a son-in-law of your Jinan! Your family has come, you can't not treat them well! They've traveled such a long way, it's too dangerous if they don't get some rest!"

"Alright, I'll arrange it. As for your question, I'll get back to you after I review the documents!"

Jiang Xia put the phone back, tidied up the drawings on the table, and waited quietly for her "family" to arrive.

A moment later, the voice of Ding Dana, the workshop director of Quancheng Automobile Factory, rang out from the doorway: "Oh my! Little Jiang! I've missed you so much!"

Ding Dana, carrying large and small bags, barged into Jiangxia's office accompanied by Lao Wang.

"Hey, Jiang, did someone bully you? Why were you put in an office like this? This smell, did the sewer burst?"

"I smelled it as soon as I entered the building! I thought it was coming from the guy next to me, and I held it in for ages!"

Ding Dana frowned, sniffing around like a hunting dog: "Where's your leader? I'll go up there and give him a good beating! Is this how you bully our son-in-law from Jinan?"

As he spoke, Ding Dana piled his belongings on Jiangxia's stool, turned around, rolled up his sleeves, pushed aside Lao Wang, and tried to run towards the main building.

Jiang Xia and Lao Wang covered their faces at the same time...

……

It took a lot of persuasion to calm this hot-blooded man down.

"Did you really do this all by yourself? Don't be afraid, I can get people here! One phone call and I can call over some good young men from Jinan. Our factory's fighting force is top-notch! We won first place in the militia competition not long ago!"

Jiang Xia silently accepted Ding Dana's confidential documents, signed the booklet, and opened it to find out: Oh, isn't this an armored personnel carrier?

Wait a minute, isn't this supposed to be the pride of North Vehicle Group? How did it end up at Quancheng Automobile Factory?

A car and an armored vehicle—their basic structures are completely different.

Furthermore, those "four pairs of wheels" have a legendary story no less impressive than those of the "five pairs of wheels." Why are they suddenly deciding to use wheeled transport vehicles?

Let's put that aside for now and see what difficulties the Quancheng Automobile Factory is facing.

Uh……

Take a look at the mission notes. After 58, the Logistics Department found a group of newly hatched chicks to work on this thing. Some of the students' drawings were described by some veteran workers as "looking like a comic book".

(Don't argue, it's true. Earlier, someone said that recent graduates couldn't draw good blueprints, and a bunch of people said it was impossible. I'm too lazy to explain, as if college graduates in the past were all rich.)

As for why these newly hatched chicks, still with eggshells stuck to their bottoms, are put in charge of such an important task, it's because they're short-handed! Nine out of ten people in the country are illiterate, and aside from those who are secretly working to protect others, they are already the elite!

To be honest, even so, none of our predecessors ever thought of giving up, which is why I call them great.

Fortunately, these students didn't have the aloofness of contemporary literati. They asked questions when they didn't understand, and some even went directly to the workshop to learn drawing techniques and process requirements from experienced workers.

That's how they managed to barely manage to roll out the four pairs of wheels.

However, because our ancestors were terrified of being bombed, their fear of insufficient firepower was even greater than that of today's casual netizens.

A 122mm howitzer is mounted on this vehicle, which weighs only 8.5 tons. Wow, isn't this a perfect example of wanting both?

Are you trying to rapidly deploy personnel to the battlefield, or are you planning to use them for fire support? Not every armored vehicle can be used as a tank; didn't you see they only have 100mm cannons mounted on their five pairs of wheels?

That wasn't all; they even made the armored vehicle amphibious, welding a wave deflector onto the front...

The prototype vehicle was recently tested.

As expected, he couldn't run fast, and he couldn't fake it.

Originally designed to carry 15 people, after being equipped with a 122mm howitzer, it can now fit 6 lightly armed infantrymen, all because the soldiers have been starving and thin lately...

The reason it can't run fast is naturally because the 6150L liquid-cooled 6-cylinder diesel engine imported from its older brother only has 260 horsepower...

Furthermore, during the amphibious test, the entire vehicle started bubbling and began to dive to the bottom. If it weren't for the "little cannon" on the shore providing power, several members of the crew would probably have been swept away.

Ugh, this is tough...

Looking at the carefully drawn design sketches in the document, Jiang Xia felt distressed. The initial design approach was flawed, so naturally the result wouldn't be good.

Change it! At the very least, the design concept needs to be changed. We can't keep making these mistakes; our resources are too limited to withstand further setbacks!

Jiang Xia pushed aside the bags and packages Ding Dana had brought on the table, took out the blueprints, and neatly wrote "Infantry Fighting Vehicle" at the very top.