What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 172 Native Team
After accompanying the reception for a whole day, and since they were all acquaintances, the final discussion was held in the hotel restaurant. We had snacks from time to time and talked until 12 o'clock in the evening.

Before the meeting ended, Lu Jun pulled Tang Wen to stay. After checking that there was no one else around, he lowered his voice and asked:
"You're planning to build a car factory with over a billion?"

"Just an idea. The car factory is a big deal. Maybe..."

Lu Jun interrupted him: "Listen to me, the Agricultural Bank told me that I happen to have a classmate at FAW who owns a factory that Southeast doesn't want. I think we can buy it."

FAW is the Fuzhou State-owned Automobile Group. It is not well-known, but another brand it jointly established with Yulon Motor in the 90s: Southeast Motor, was also a household name before 2010.

Now that the Southeast brand is being established, FAW is basically betting on Southeast and is undergoing a comprehensive transformation.

Some of the former small factories were too small and had poor technology, so FAW would disband or merge them.

It was through his classmates that Lu Jun heard about a small FAW light truck factory that introduced a Nissan truck production line in the 80s. Due to geographical factors and poor management, it was almost bankrupt, and it would not cost much to buy it.

Not only the qualifications, but also at least a few hundred skilled technical workers can be brought to Echeng. In fact, it can be done for about 10 million. If the land is not needed, it can be sold for about 2 million.

It's really the price of scrap metal. FAW originally planned to shut down the company and had no intention of selling it, but Lu Jun happened to have connections and was able to find out about it. If he proposed an acquisition, it would most likely be successful.

Even so, the cars produced must have the word "Fuqi" on them, such as the "Fuqi Gaijin" car.

Tang Wen closed his eyes and thought seriously about whether to build a car.

Almost three minutes later, he looked at Lu Jun and shook his head firmly:
"Now is not the time. My next goal is Nansha. I don't have the energy to build cars."

Gai Jin’s current operation of Nansha takes up all his energy, not to mention the tourism area business. These two items have already occupied all of Tang Wen’s energy.

Moreover, the upstream and downstream industries in the domestic automobile manufacturing industry are so bad now that Tang Wen would rather give up.

In fact, shipbuilding is also extremely dependent on the industrial chain environment. If Gaijin were to manufacture traditional cargo ships, the technology that was capped in the 60s would also be taught a lesson by foreign manufacturers.

Lu Jun couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes. After all, it was an investment of more than ten billion.

Although Tang Wen couldn't build the entire vehicle, he had an idea for the accessories:

"Is there any decent machinery factory in Goose City? Perhaps Gaijin could take control and try producing automatic transmissions and diesel engines, which should still be a promising area in China."

Lu Jun: "Aren't these produced by Gaijin himself?"

Tang Wen: "This is not the shipyard's main business. In fact, I already think this part of the business is a bit troublesome."

……

Big ripple.

Tan Qing and his design team practically lived on the battleship. There was plenty of space anyway - although it wasn't very good.

Every day he was either in the drawing room or wandering around on the ship, thinking about what to demolish and how to renovate.

The giant ship under his feet has a maximum displacement of 7.3 tons when fully loaded, which is large enough to accommodate almost all the equipment he can think of.

No one in the country has designed such a giant ship, and every step needs to be taken with caution.

The Navy hopes to complete the battleship's transformation within 12 months and commission it in the spring of 1998. By then, it will be required to have C301A launch capability, 120 km area air defense capability, gun-launched rocket capability, and automation transformation.

The last one is the most important. They hope to reduce the staff to 1000 to 1500 people, which requires considerable modernization.

Of course, this is just one of the options: there is also a dispute between battleships and aircraft carriers within the North Sea Fleet. Some people believe that it should be transformed into an aircraft carrier like the "Shinano", which is more practical than a battleship.

In short, the direction of the transformation is still a mess. The only things that can be confirmed are the removal of the secondary gun group and modern electrical transformation. A total of two months are left for Tan Qing to design the general plan.

"Two months isn't enough time to fully understand the structure."

Tan Qing muttered to himself, leaning against the bridge with a frown on his face. "Oh, even Old Tan has his downfalls?"

A joking voice sounded from behind.

"Zhu Ziping?"

Tan Qing turned around immediately, and then the two of them punched each other.

Half a month ago, he was still complaining that Zhu Ziping had taken the position of designer of the 011 aircraft carrier, but he didn't expect that this guy would come to Dalian.

"What are you doing here?"

"I heard that Chief Engineer Tan lives and eats on board every day. He has to sort out the structure within half a year to check the progress. The higher-ups said that the two teams should strengthen communication, and Team 011 should support Team 001.

Can you do it? If not, let me handle it. I'll give you the aircraft carrier."

"Who can't? You only have experience with battleships? It takes hours to walk through this ship inside and out. The blueprints are heavier than a truck. The archives are exhausted for several young people."

Seeing that Tan Qing was a little excited, Zhu Ziping quickly stepped back and explained:
"Hey, listen to me, not only me, but also foreign aid."

After saying that, Tan Qing noticed that another group of people were climbing the ladder. When he walked over, he saw seven or eight old men, and Old Zhang who was communicating with Uchimura Tomohiro.

Perhaps it was because of the attraction between people of the same kind, the old man walking in front took the initiative to step forward and introduce himself to Tan Qing:
"Hello, my name is Nao Horikawa. I worked at the Kure Shipyard 58 years ago and participated in the construction of both the Yamato and Shinano."

……

Several former designers of the book were only allowed to stay on the deck and were not allowed to enter the bridge or the hull. They were reluctantly asked to leave after an hour.

After they left, Tan Qing quickly grabbed Lao Zhang and asked:
"How did you get these old notebooks here? Won't that give us away?"

The 001 battleship was claimed to be manufactured domestically. Once these veterans arrived, they would definitely be able to see that it was copied exactly from the Yamato. They would definitely raise questions and reveal many flaws.

So the question is: China builds its own warships but does not understand their structure, and many of the design ideas are still the same as those in the book 50 years ago?
In the past hour, Tan Qing wanted to avoid them. He kept his mouth shut and dared not say a word, for fear of revealing a flaw. He was very dissatisfied with Lao Zhang's rash action.

Old Zhang said:

"All Gaijin gave you are paper blueprints. If you spread them out, they're bigger than a shipyard. It will take you half a year to fully understand them.

With their guidance, the renovation process would be much faster and there would be no future problems."

Tan Qing: "The youngest is already eighty years old! And they will definitely leak the secrets!"

Lao Zhang: “So they won’t leave.”

"Did you see their reaction this afternoon? I was waiting for them to ask to stay, and then sign a confidentiality agreement on the grounds of military secrets, prohibiting them from returning to China within ten years.

With them, we will be able to fully understand this warship, its design principles, and any issues that need to be corrected within a year at most."

"This……"

Tan Qing had to admit that this was a good idea. The design of large hulls was very complicated, and it was very troublesome for non-designers to carry out modifications, even with drawings.

The original world line Varyag returned to China in 2002, and it took until 2005 for the surveying and mapping to be completed before the confidence to continue construction was reached. All the time during this period was spent on studying the hull.

The Navy had considered asking Tang Wen for experts, but the latter said he could not provide any, so they had to give up.

Now that we have a native design team, it will definitely save us a lot of trouble.

(End of this chapter)