Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

Half an hour later, Qin Chuan finished adjusting the front toe box, opened the car door, and got into the driver's seat: "It's all adjusted. Now we need to take it out for a test drive. Please open the door!"

The workshop door was closed, after all, the things being worked on inside were confidential and couldn't be seen by unrelated people.

However, Qin Chuan is not a professional test driver, so how could he go up and drive it?

Fan Gui frowned, but still didn't say anything.

After all, it's perfectly normal for a mechanic to test the car after it's been fixed.

Experienced driver Zhang Guozhu jumped into the passenger seat, while Qin Chuan skillfully turned the start knob.

Military vehicles have one unique feature: they don't need keys!

There might be vehicles for logistics, but there certainly aren't any for combat troops.

After all, if you have a key, there's always the possibility of losing it.

When you arrive at the battlefield and are preparing to fight, you find that you have lost your key and cannot open the military vehicle. Do you have to call a locksmith?

The place where the key was inserted was originally a start knob. As Qin Chuan turned it, a familiar vibration and roar came from under his buttocks.

Buzz, buzz!

This type of vehicle requires ample power, so the Russians directly used tank engines. Although the power was sufficient, the lifespan was short.

The situation was different in China. In the late 1970s, the country opened its doors and imported a large amount of technology from the West, including engines.

Sitting on it is a V12 air-cooled engine produced with Deutz technology, which can output 500 horsepower. It is powerful enough to drive this multi-axle launch vehicle without any problem!

Depress the clutch and shift gears!

Automatic transmissions are popular in the West, but the East doesn't have that capability yet. This car is equipped with a manual transmission, but it has quite a few gears: 16!

In this era, few experienced drivers knew how to drive it, but for Qin Chuan from later generations, it was just a 16-speed gearbox commonly found on heavy trucks!

The main gearbox is a four-speed gearbox. Add a high-low gearbox in front to turn four gears into eight gears, and add a half gearbox in the back to make a total of sixteen gears.

For an empty car like this, you can just start in third gear!

Release the clutch and rev the engine!

The car started moving steadily. Qin Jiantai's eyes were filled with surprise. Had his nephew driven before? How could he be so skilled?

At this moment, Qin Chuan gently rubbed the steering wheel with his hands, and the two rows of front wheels began to turn to the left, while the last row of tires turned to the rear, allowing the long body of the car to steer flexibly.

"Alright, alright!" Zhang Guozhu shouted excitedly from inside the car.

This is really good now. Before, because the direction was hard to control, I had to swing it hard with both hands, just like trying to drive the Yellow River.

Now it can be easily turned by rubbing your palm, which means the steering is very light and the steering gear is working properly!

After messing around for ages, it turns out the problem was just the toe box wasn't adjusted properly.

As a veteran craftsman, Zhang Guozhu felt somewhat ashamed.

Looking at Qin Chuan again, his eyes were filled with admiration: "Engineer Qin, you are really amazing. Where did you learn to do front toe construction all by yourself?"

Where? Of course, it was before my rebirth that I learned it!

Currently, almost all vehicles in China have only one row of steering wheels, including heavy trucks. Only a few large-scale vehicles have double rows of steering wheels.

However, in later generations, 90% of the heavy trucks on the road had double-row steering wheels.

With more cars, there are more breakdowns. Over the years, experienced mechanics have honed their skills in adjusting toe-in.

Qin Chuan had also helped tinker with this kind of multi-axis launcher before, and he learned it from the master craftsman. This data is also from his memory.

Back then, in order to find the right toe-in value, the experienced mechanics adjusted and test-drove the car, and it took them more than half a year to finally determine it!

Now, it's just a matter of half an hour.

The people below all wore smiles.

Problem solved! We've finally solved one of those problems!

"Leader Qin, the chef you brought is really good!"

Fan Gui asked excitedly, "By the way, how much will it cost for the master craftsman to come over?"

It's no longer the era when all workers across the country were one big family.

It's only right that you get paid for your work.

"I don't know either, but he just solved a problem for the Yellow River Factory and got 500,000 yuan from them."

what?

Fan Gui was instantly stunned. Five hundred thousand! Five hundred thousand!

Even if their factory could come up with that amount of money, Qin Chuan had just spent half an hour crawling around underneath, and it was only worth 500,000?

But if I don't give it to him, wouldn't I offend the leader from the military who's next to me?

"However, this situation is different, and the fees will definitely be different too. You can ask him later!"

Qin Jiantai brought Qin Chuan here to solve the problem; the money was not his concern, and he didn't want to worry about it.

Qin Chuan drove the car around the area for a full five laps before finally driving it back, having had his fill of fun.

Once the car came to a stop, Qin Chuan jumped out and looked at Qin Jiantai with a smile.

"Second Uncle, the problem is solved!"

Second Uncle? Fan Gui's heart skipped a beat again.

They're relatives, so it seems like I'll have to pay at least 500,000.

"Xiao Chuan, didn't I tell you in the car? Don't call me uncle after we get out."

"Oh, Second Uncle, I was wrong."

Fan Gui forced a smile: "Engineer Qin, we owe you a lot for your help this time. Otherwise, we don't know how many more days we would have had to work on this!"

"It's not easy for you to come all this way. Our factory will definitely find a way to help you raise the 500,000 yuan!"

"What? Five hundred thousand?"

Qin Chuan shook his head: "My second uncle... Leader Qin brought me here to help, how could I take money? I don't want a single penny!"

Fan Gui's eyes widened. He didn't want a single cent?

Qin Jiantai looked at Qin Chuan with satisfaction. Not bad, a promising young man!

"No, no, Engineer Qin, you've helped us so much, how can we not take anything? We should still give you what we deserve..."

"Section Chief Fan, the thing you developed is for the purpose of protecting our country."

"The less you spend on research and development, the lower the price you can quote to the military, the more equipment the military can equip, and the more secure our country will be!"

"So, I definitely won't take the money."

Qin Jiantai was even more satisfied. It was very good that Xiao Chuan had such an awareness!

"However, if you don't give me anything, I'll feel guilty..."

"How about this, your factory has some unused machinery and equipment that you can sell to me."

Qin Chuan said, "For example, automatic welding machines and things like that."

When Qin Jiantai heard about the machinery and equipment, he thought his nephew had asked for it for free, but those machines and equipment were not cheap!

Qin Jiantai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that his nephew wanted to buy it. Sure enough, his nephew was very perceptive!

"Engineer Qin, we still need to use the machinery and equipment. Even if we can't use them, we can't just sell off the factory's fixed assets."

Fan Gui said, "However, our factory has a batch of fire trucks modified from Jiefang 141s that we haven't sold yet. If you're interested, I'll sell them to you for 35,000 yuan each, a total of fifty..."

The Jiefang CA141 was an advanced model produced by Jiefang Factory after 30 years of unchanging production practices. It was warmly welcomed by the market as soon as it was launched, and more than 60,000 units were sold in the same year.

In 88, China opened its doors to the world and began selling its products to many countries, including Western countries such as the United States.

This car sold for 35,000 yuan in the early 1990s, and now it has risen to 50,000 yuan.

This batch of vehicles has now been converted into fire trucks, still costing 35,000 yuan. This means the factory is paying the original purchase price and has even saved on the conversion fee.

Qin Chuan nodded: "Okay, I'll take them all!"