Chapter 37: Saturation Production
At this moment, the buzzing sound of hundreds of thousands of drones converged, like the land roaring in anger.
The light from hundreds of thousands of high-brightness lighting lamps converged, like the sun falling to the ground.
In such an environment, Cheng Dong felt a sense of unreality welling up in his heart, as if he were in some illusory nation.
He sighed and turned back into the observatory base building.
Tonight, there was probably no hope of sleeping.
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A convoy left the bustling city and entered the industrial zone on the edge of the city.
The general manager of Hongyi Precision Machinery Manufacturing Factory, who had been waiting here early, respectfully ushered these uniformed guards into the meeting room.
Looking at the performance and specification requirements data marked on the document in front of him, he gradually frowned.
“One day to produce 300 optical modules? This, this is impossible. Our factory doesn’t have this production capacity, nor this technology. We can’t meet such high standards, let alone this speed…”
The leading soldier looked at him calmly: “We’ve calculated that for this type of optical module, with General Manager Zhao’s factory technology and equipment, the yield rate is about 20%.
That means the cost per good unit is about 2000 bucks. Our purchase price this time is 50,000 bucks per good unit, totaling 300 units, 15 million.
General Manager Zhao’s eyes suddenly widened.
Calculating the cost at a 20% yield rate, then marking it up 25 times on top of that cost?
He knew the level of his own factory and equipment well. A 20% yield rate was just a conservative estimate. If everything was tightened up, the yield rate could probably reach 30%, which would make the cost even lower and the markup 37 times!
His breathing instantly became heavy, and his eyes couldn’t help but turn red.
“Comrade, if I may ask boldly, what exactly happened? We’ve never received a military industry order before…”
“War.”
The leading soldier did not avoid the question and directly said these two words.
“War? Then, fuck it, what more is there to say? Let’s do it, let’s do it!”
General Manager Zhao was like he had been injected with chicken blood, his spirit instantly surging: “Even if I personally go on the assembly line and work myself to death there, I’ll do this job! We must do it!
Comrades, rest assured, come pick up the goods at this time tomorrow, 300 optical modules, I guarantee they’ll be produced with quality and quantity!”
The leading soldier slowly stood up, saluted General Manager Zhao, and turned to leave.
Once the group had disappeared, the deputy looked at him in some shock: “General Manager Zhao, it’s the middle of the night now, the workers have long gone off duty. What are we going to use to produce this stuff!
Besides, even if the workers were all here, with our low yield rate, how could we produce 300 units in one day! This is a military industry order, messing it up means going to jail!”
General Manager Zhao looked at his deputy with bloodshot eyes: “Call the workers! Call them all back to work!
For those whose phones don’t connect, go to their homes to find them. In one hour, I want to see all workers back!
Tell them, the profit from this batch—no, even the cost and taxes will be covered by the company. This 15 million, the company won’t keep a single penny, it’ll all be given to them as bonus!
As long as production is completed within one day, everyone gets at least 20,000 bucks in bonus!”
The deputy general was shaken: “Old Zhao, have you fucking lost your mind!”
“Old Zhu! You’ve fucking been with me for over a decade, tell me yourself, have you ever had a chance like this to contribute to the nation? Not even once, fucking never!
Now that we finally have the opportunity, even if I have to bankrupt my family, I’ll get it done! Fuck it, the villagers and kids are all watching us, we can’t lose face!”
Manager Zhu’s facial muscles twitched, slowly becoming ferocious too: “Fuck it, do it, do it! I’ll go right now! You hold down the fort, I’ll go rally the people!”
“Procure another truck of Red Bull, coffee, and midnight snacks!”
“No need to tell me! I’m off!”
Wave after wave of radio signals were released from the factory, one vehicle after another left the factory, racing like race cars on the night roads.
Without waiting too long, the vehicles returned to the factory one by one.
Workers got off the vehicles one by one.
Hair disheveled, some with eye gunk in the corners of their eyes. Some even had a white shoe on the left foot and a black one on the right.
In front of the factory building, General Manager Zhao held a loudspeaker, his high-pitched voice clearly reaching every worker’s ears.
“…Comrades, if you’re sleepy, there’s coffee, tea, and Red Bull; if you’re hungry, there’s midnight snacks; if you’re sick, there’s a doctor. In short, if it won’t kill you, work yourself to death!
I’ve discussed with our Manager Zhu, and Manager Zhu suggested I take this batch’s payment, 15 million, and give it all out as bonus to everyone! The company keeps nothing!
I agree with Manager Zhu’s suggestion!
Not only that, I’ll add more. Once this order is done, I’ll give everyone ten days of paid vacation!
The chance to bring honor to the family is only today. Now, let’s get to work!”
The workers’ eyes turned red one by one, like mad bulls, howling as they rushed to the production line.
The machines began to roar.
Manager Zhu smiled bitterly as he glanced at General Manager Zhao, who seemed decades younger, and muttered: “I sure thank you…”
Turning around, he also ran to the production line and began directing production on site.
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At this moment, in another city, a military vehicle convoy also drove into a precision machinery factory.
In a moment, the matters were settled, and the convoy left.
“Commander Sun, the progress table from the command department shows that this batch of 300 optical module orders has been accepted by a total of 15 factories, plus the one just now makes 16.
Even if the yield rate is low, 16 factories should be able to put together this batch. Isn’t that enough? Still placing an order with the 17th factory?”
Commander Sun said gravely: “Better to produce it and not need it than to need it and not have it. This matter allows no accidents.”
The accompanying personnel fell silent. Moments later, they sighed: “Only our nation could have such a complete industrial category. No matter what it is, we can find a manufacturer to produce it.
In foreign countries, barely scraping together one set would be the limit, let alone finding more factories and adding more insurance. Dream on.”
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Time slowly passed, the sun rose and slowly set again, and the land fell back into darkness.
A military vehicle drove into Hongyi Precision Machinery Factory on time.
General Manager Zhao, with bloodshot eyes, went to greet them, his voice hoarse: “Mission accomplished.”
Next to him were 30 wooden boxes, each with a label on it stating the quantity and model.
300 optical modules, not one short.
Looking at General Manager Zhao in front of him with bloodshot eyes and a hoarse voice, looking at the workers behind him who looked gaunt and extremely exhausted, this soldier slowly raised his arm and saluted the people.
