Chapter 917: Accelerate! Charge!

"Leader, work briefing."

Seeing the leader enter the room, Peng Xiaoli poured tea, served water, took his coat, fetched water, handed him shoes, and steamed a towel.

After a flurry of activity, he finally handed over the work briefing.

"Whoa~ is it already Thursday today?"

Li Xuewu flipped through the date on the briefing and sighed, "Time really flies!"

"It's because you have so much work, you've been too busy to notice."

Peng Xiaoli rinsed the towel clean and hung it on the basin rack. While chatting, he picked up a shoe brush and gave the leather shoes the leader had just changed out of a quick cleaning.

It had turned cold, and the temperature outside was dropping rapidly. Looking at the weather changes these past few days, it looked like it was about to snow.

It was said that the big rivers had already started to freeze over, and the lakes in the city had long since frozen solid. There were always daredevils who went out to play on them, and every year, people drowned.

The colder it got outside, the hotter it became in the rolling mill's offices and workshops.

It wasn't anything else; those big boiler rooms were burning day and night. In the summer, they had to use Tuanjie Lake as a cooling pond, but in the winter, heating was supplied very early on.

In other units, when it got cold, employees mostly huddled around the radiators.

But look at the rolling mill—good heavens!

It was dry in the room. Peng Xiaoli had learned a trick from Sha Qizhi: from time to time, he would splash cold water onto the radiators.

When the cold water hit, one only heard a "hiss," and white mist instantly rose by the windowsill.

That's how hot it was!

The hot water in the boilers went through the heating pipes first; it was a hundred degrees when it came out, and it was still sixty or seventy degrees when it reached the Tuanjie Lake cooling pond.

You can do the math—how many degrees could it possibly lose after traveling through such a long circuit of radiators?

Those who sat in the office for long periods all brought a pair of cotton slippers from home.

As long as they weren't walking around constantly, they basically couldn't keep their own cotton shoes on.

Li Xuewu's leather shoes were issued last year; this year, the Third Guard Regiment issued new ones.

He was particular about food, but casual about clothing, so he gave the new shoes to his third brother who had returned home last week.

The leather shoes from this era were truly made of leather. With his large frame, he had worn them all winter without seeing any signs of them wearing out.

The fur inside had matted down a bit, but since he got into a car the moment he left the house and entered a room the moment he got out, he didn't feel cold.

So, when he was in the office, he mostly wore a pair of spring/autumn leather shoes or just slippers.

Peng Xiaoli had been his secretary for two weeks, and he was gradually getting the hang of the work.

He didn't complain about it being uncomfortable or tedious; instead, he appeared willing to work hard without complaint.

He was cleaning the leather shoes because they were stained with mud.

Leaving home in the morning, Li Xuewu had followed yesterday's plan and didn't go to pick him up, but went to the Third Guard Regiment first.

On Tuesday, they held a meeting at the base to study the experimental team's tactics and training syllabus, and simultaneously discussed and researched winter logistics support work.

This morning, he and the Third Guard Regiment's Chief of Staff, Zhang Chenggong, inspected the dormitories, the main cafeteria, and the mechanical repair team's work.

In particular, he inspected the special operation store located at the entrance of the Third Guard Regiment base and had a brief communication with the personnel from the rolling mill's sales department responsible for its operation.

Because the reorganization work had just been completed and the regiment had launched a series of training and land reclamation tasks, the soldiers' logistical supplies had to keep up.

On top of the existing basic support, Li Xuewu also formally proposed a nutritional plan at the meeting.

Training troops couldn't just be about training courage; if there was no fat in their bellies, they might only be able to exert sixty or seventy percent of their strength.

Li Xuewu wasn't an expert in training, but when it came to logistical supplies, he was Qi Yaowu's greatest reliance.

To put it bluntly, if you have money, nothing is difficult; if you don't have money, everything is difficult.

The special operation store's business was developing very well. Excellent goods from the First Prison, the rolling mill, the Third Prison, and other joint enterprises were gathered here, truly giving the common people of Beijing a green light.

Because these weren't goods within the planned production scope, the items in the special operation store didn't require ration coupons.

This was somewhat similar to the sales rules of negotiated-price stores, but the prices of goods in the special operation store were definitely not as high as those in negotiated-price stores.

It was a "special operation," after all—the goods had special sources, special management channels, and the nature of the goods was special.

After all, it was rare to see factories setting up stalls to do business directly, with the exception of the sauce factory.

Take the rolling mill's hardware and automobiles, for example; the Beijing Automobile Factory didn't put cars on "shelves" or in "display cases."

You really shouldn't say that—when it came to fire-fighting utility vehicles, the Willys refurbished by the rolling mill really did have a market.

In a few months, they had sold seven units. Units really did drive the cars away from here, and every time they did, it attracted crowds of onlookers on the street.

Gradually, it became widely known that cars could be sold here and special equipment could be bought here.

Actually, more young people knew about this place. They would also go to see the car showroom when they came here, but they were mostly there to buy training shirts and training pants.

There were also fitness equipment like arm strength trainers and sports goods that the little rascals loved.

Half of the revenue and profit from special operation goods had to be turned over to the Third Guard Regiment, which counted as rent and also as the cost of cooperative operation.

No one had ever scrutinized exactly what account this money should be entered into; the finance department used "rent" when it was convenient for rent, and "allocation" when it was convenient for allocation.

Because the rolling mill had new investment projects, the goods in this special operation store had to add new categories.

The Third Guard Regiment naturally saw the store's revenue increasing day by day with joy and became even more convinced of Li Xuewu's management methods.

Returning from the regiment base, he didn't stop to rest and met up with the rolling mill's engineering department to inspect the construction site along the Liangma River.

According to the preliminary planning, after removing the planned land for the workers' new village, functional areas were re-divided based on the existing industrial land.

The winery, cannery, and multi-functional food processing plant were arranged in order with the tertiary industrial production workshops to create an industrial park and form a supply chain advantage of mutual complementarity.

The fiberglass manufacturing plant to be invested in later would also be laid out along the Liangma River. Without obtaining a clear land division, Li Xuewu intended to occupy one piece at a time.

Of course, the land was now frozen, so there was no way to carry out earthwork, but all the necessary plans were being made.

Unlike the shipyard, the investment in industries like the food factory and glass factory had already drafted construction schedules at the beginning of contract negotiations, so there was no need to rush.

This Monday, Li Xuewu also received a coordination letter from the shipyard, applying for a quota of special steel for basic project construction.

Li Xuewu also knew that Xu Sinian was in a difficult position in Yingcheng and that the work was very hard to do, but under the current situation, if one wanted to achieve something, whose work was easy to do?

Just say whether Li Huai De's work was easy to do—sitting in the office every day, with Li Xuewu helping him share the business, Jing Yunong helping him manage finance, and someone responsible for every item of work.

But you only saw the thief eating meat; you didn't see the thief getting beaten.

These past few days, Old Li was also panicked, under great pressure—on one side watching the movements inside the rolling mill, and on the other listening to the turmoil outside.

If you wanted to talk about being terrified and walking on thin ice, it had to be Old Li.

Isn't that right? Li Xuewu saw from the work briefing Peng Xiaoli handed over that Old Li was taking the train at noon today and still had to rush to Yangcheng.

This was a travel plan that had existed for a long time, but the decided time was Monday.

That is to say, after hearing that news on Sunday, Li Huai De gave him a reminder and made his own travel adjustments.

The foreign exhibition part of the Yangcheng Trade Fair was ending this Sunday, and the team participating in the trade fair would also be withdrawn.

According to the original plan, after the exhibition time ended, the participating units were to extend the participation time until the middle of next month.

This period was mainly for the progressive teachers and students of Yangcheng to visit and learn.

Considering the participation cost and actual benefits, the rolling mill decided not to comply with the conference group's regulations and withdraw from the venue in advance.

To put it bluntly, the rolling mill actually only intended to participate this one time and wouldn't come to play anymore in the future, so there was no need to give them face.

And this Sunday, the organizer would hold a grand closing banquet. As the person in charge of the rolling mill, Li Huai De wouldn't be absent from such a scene of showing off and becoming famous.

If it weren't for the fact that the rolling mill's projects needed to be arranged for implementation and discordant voices had appeared internally, Li Huai De would have dragged Li Xuewu along.

Now it wasn't possible. Li Xuewu saw from the work briefing the news that Li Huai De had formally signed contracts with three Japanese enterprises on behalf of the rolling mill on Monday, which had already attracted the attention of the leaders above.

This might also be the reason why Li Huai De chose to go to Yangcheng to avoid the limelight; he also didn't want to become a pawn in the game above regarding economic issues.

Old Li was very smart and very sensitive. He knew very well what it represented and what kind of impact it had produced that the rolling mill had signed a cooperation agreement with Japanese businessmen during the high-level talks this time.

Under the overall framework of foreign trade agreements, the rolling mill not only had export business but also technology and equipment import business.

Politically, it might have gone the wrong way, and ideologically, it might have slipped, but in terms of economic management, the rolling mill was ahead of many enterprises.

This form of compensation trade undoubtedly provided ideas and exploration directions for economic and trade management departments.

As far as the current situation was concerned, there was no clear pressure from any direction regarding the decisions made by the rolling mill.

But discussions were inevitable. Everyone was observing and wanted to see whether this path of the rolling mill was passable.

Those who wanted to strike and apply pressure were also deliberating. The industrial field, especially the economic and trade field, had changing contents and deep meanings; if they didn't handle it well, they would drag themselves into it.

So the series of flashy operations by the rolling mill really made them a bit confused; they didn't know what exactly was going on here.

Li Huai De was just taking advantage of this gap and opportunity to flee to Yangcheng. Even if he was going to flip the trade fair table, he had to absorb the last bit of foreign air from there.

As long as the banner of foreign trade and creating foreign exchange didn't fall, then the rolling mill's decisions were not wrong.

If one really wanted to examine whether the rolling mill's political stance was firm, ordinary people really didn't have the qualifications.

Heavy industrial enterprises were the foundation of the planned economy. While managing its own construction, the rolling mill also pulled in enterprises including those in Beijing and the Northeast to participate.

Investigating a rolling mill, following the economic chain of foreign trade, could involve trust enterprises in other fields and industries such as the Beijing Chemical Plant, the 17th Plant, and the Bincheng Shipbuilding.

These two old foxes, Li Huai De and Li Xuewu, were weaving a relationship network that shocked and intimidated everyone.

This relationship network was transparent, had nothing to do with private interests, connected enterprise cooperation and development, and was a typical public-to-public relationship.

It could be said that the rolling mill was a bit radical on the development path, but the two of them would definitely not let others grab their pigtails and say they were wrong.

They were old enterprise people; what did it have to do with them if the enterprise made a mistake!

"Director Li doesn't even plan to eat lunch at home; he's leaving after the two meetings in the morning."

Peng Xiaoli stood by the desk and reminded, "Do you want to go see the leader off?"

"Let's meet."

Li Xuewu flipped through several documents, organized some briefing contents, and while signing his opinions, arranged, "Help me make an appointment with Director Li; there's some work to discuss in person."

"Okay, I'll contact the Management Committee Office right away."

Peng Xiaoli agreed softly and went out to find his office to make a phone call.

Sha Qizhi was very considerate of him. When the secretary work handover was finished, he immediately vacated the small office for him.

According to rank, Peng Xiaoli was a staff member, and his office position should be in the large office.

Sha Qizhi also worked in the large office before; he only got this small office after being promoted to Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Office.

Now he had picked up a bargain. With Sha Qizhi supporting him and Sun Jian not expressing any opinions, he directly possessed his own independent office space.

This tiny office really wasn't very convenient or spacious, but it was independent, which was especially status-signaling.

Why else would Peng Xiaoli call him Director Sha and Brother Sha every other sentence? He knew very well how much effort the other party had put into supporting his promotion.

If you wanted to talk about a leader's secretary, having an independent office wasn't a very difficult thing, but the leader had to take the initiative to speak up.

Li Xuewu would never care about this. If Sha Qizhi didn't speak, that office would rather be left empty than given to him.

People working in government agencies knew very well that sometimes a person in the starting stage often lacked such means to raise their status.

Peng Xiaoli liked this small office. Sitting here, he could fully exert his imagination, and his body was full of drive.

Importantly, when he used the phone, he no longer had to go to the leader's office; he could also achieve a confidential effect in his own room.

Li Xuewu was busy all morning. It wasn't until near the end of work that Peng Xiaoli returned with definite news.

The leader would head to the dispatch workshop after coming out of the conference room; things could only be discussed on the way.

Fine, Li Xuewu originally didn't intend to see Li Huai De off, fearing that a large scene wouldn't be very good for the current influence.

But Li Huai De's time arrangement before departure was so tight that he had no choice but to get up, put on his coat, and change his shoes.

It didn't feel like it when he was in the room just now, but as soon as he went out, the northwest wind was howling fiercely, and the sun was even more tightly covered by the clouds.

"Don't tell me it's going to snow?"

Li Xuewu raised his head and looked at the sky. Some places were white, some places were pitch black; it seemed like the first snow of this winter was about to fall.

"Come, time is a bit tight, let's talk on the way."

Li Huai De came out of the office building, saw Li Xuewu standing in the courtyard looking at the sky, and beckoned him over.

Just now, Li Haiyang had already reported to him from the conference room that Li Xuewu had work to discuss with him.

Just right; he was in a hurry on this trip and had many things he hadn't explained clearly to Li Xuewu.

Although he was leaving today and could return around next Tuesday, the situation in the rolling mill was just like today's weather: cloudy, with snow (blood).

"Why aren't you even eating lunch?"

Li Xuewu pulled his coat tighter and got into the sedan through the left door opened by Peng Xiaoli.

He first glanced at Li Huai De, then signaled Peng Xiaoli to hand over the things he had prepared to Li Haiyang.

"Don't mention it, a bunch of debt-collecting ghosts are yapping at you—you tell me how I could eat!"

Li Huai De glanced at the bag handed over by Peng Xiaoli, gestured to each other with his hand, and smiled helplessly and angrily, "If those people at the Six-Nation Hotel don't leave, neither you nor I will have anything to eat; the rolling mill is being eaten poor by them."

"Hehehe~"

As the sedan started, Li Xuewu also chuckled, his laughter carrying the same helplessness as Li Huai De's: "It's my fault; I shouldn't have given you bad advice in the first place."

"Hey~~~"

Seeing Li Xuewu take the initiative to shoulder this responsibility, Li Huai De waved his hand and said, "Where is there any blame for you? It was my bad idea; you even opposed it at the time."

Old Li was a man who spoke the truth. He certainly had this or that shortcoming, especially in business—using Nie Chenglin's words, he was worth nothing.

But in terms of organization and conduct, you had to admire his ability in the workplace, especially after becoming the number one person, he could show a grounded side at any time.

Daring to admit work mistakes to subordinates wasn't a heaven-collapsing event, nor would it damage his authority; instead, it would deepen the subordinates' good impression of him.

Li Xuewu was actually just saying it. In this kind of private communication, even if he took the blame for Li Huai De, how much influence could it have?

After Li Huai De finished speaking, he also sighed heavily, then patted Li Xuewu's arm and said, "This is the how many-th time? The seventh time, right?"

"Yes, the seventh time."

Li Xuewu nodded and confirmed, "I estimate that it's cold now, so there won't be any more receptions, and the progressive teachers and students from other places will be leaving soon too."

"Sigh~ I hope so~"

Li Huai De sighed and said helplessly, "It's easy to invite a god but hard to send one away. Since we can't send them away, let it be!"

He himself was probably regretting it so much that his intestines were turning green. He had paid so much meal money for no reason, and in the end, the local area wanted to default on the debt.

The rolling mill had contacted Beijing several times but couldn't get this meal money, so they could only be like a mute eating coptis—having bitterness they couldn't speak of.

Last time, Li Huai De had scraped a portion from the special funds to ensure the food for these students, and this time, just before leaving, he heard that another fee had been signed.

Just like he said himself, he was the one who invited them, so he couldn't let them go hungry anyway.

This reception station for progressive teachers and students from other places, in Li Xuewu's estimation, would have to wait until after it snowed.

Because these young people from other places came in the summer and didn't bring cotton clothes.

Now it was freezing outside, and these people were huddled in the hotel unable to come out. If it really snowed, wouldn't they all be running home one by one?

Anyway, the rolling mill wouldn't provide cotton clothes and pants. Suffering the loss once was enough; Li Huai De wished these people would leave sooner.

"Hey, right."

Li Huai De patted Li Xuewu's knee, looked at him, and said, "The technology department sent word that the prototype car will be out this afternoon, right?"

"Can't you wait one more day?"

Li Xuewu smiled and suggested to Li Huai De, "If it really doesn't work, changing to a plane is fine; the flights from Beijing to Yangcheng can still be guaranteed."

"Forget it, forget it."

Li Huai De waved his hand and said, "I don't dare to sit in that thing. I've never sat in one in my life; I'm really afraid it will fall down while flying."

After he finished speaking, he felt cowardly himself and couldn't help laughing. Li Xuewu and Li Haiyang in the front row also let out kind laughter.

"You young people still have strong ability and skill in accepting new things."

Li Huai De sighed, "I heard about two plane accidents when I was working; I don't want to sit in one for the rest of my life."

While speaking, he explained to Li Xuewu, "Xu Zhimo died in a plane crash in '31, right? Dai Chunfeng was in '4?"

"You can't calculate it like that."

Li Xuewu smiled and pressed down the fingers he was counting with, saying, "You only see the ones that crashed; aren't the ones that didn't crash operating every day?"

"Forget it, forget it. Once something happens, people are gone; what's there to talk about?"

Li Huai De seemed to be really resistant to planes, preferring to sit on a train for several days rather than a plane for several hours.

"It doesn't matter; the prototype car also needs a process when it comes out."

He patted Li Xuewu's knee and exhorted, "You must keep a good check, communicate well with the technology department, and must ensure the vehicle's quality issues and ensure the road test passes smoothly."

"Okay."

Li Xuewu nodded and agreed, "Then let's not announce the news for the time being, conduct internal testing, and hold an acceptance ceremony after you return."

"You arrange it."

Li Huai De had a posture of "I trust you to do things," patted Li Xuewu lightly, looked at the dispatch workshop arriving, and exhorted, "Leave the factory matters to you; contact me if there are any problems."

As the two were talking, the vehicle went directly onto the dispatch workshop's platform.

Li Xuewu saw that the train had already stopped in position, so he signaled the bag in Li Haiyang's hand and exhorted, "Inside is the food and white liquor prepared by the guesthouse for the leader to use on the road."

"Thank you, Deputy Director Li."

Actually, Li Haiyang had already made arrangements, but of course, he couldn't say that right now and could only express thanks on behalf of Li Huai De.

Li Huai De smiled and didn't say anything, but pulled Li Xuewu to stand on the platform and talk about work.

Li Xuewu also reported on the work he had prepared.

Only when the signalman reminded them to depart did he send Li Huai De onto the train.

On the platform, Li Xuewu stood straight like a pine or cypress, waving to see him off.

Li Huai De sat in the carriage, watching the young man gradually moving away, as well as the Management Committee Office personnel who came to see him off.

After the train left the platform and the rolling mill could no longer be seen, Li Huai De opened the newspaper on the train.

On November 13th, at the conference of personnel from military academies and cultural/sports units coming to Beijing held at the Beijing Workers' Stadium, Chen, Ye, Xu, and others criticized the various extreme practices of certain units since the start of the "Great Learning" activity.

The three pointed out in their speeches: the scope of the Great Learning activity was too wide and too large; it was very worrying to develop like this.

Relevant units must not lose their footing and must have order...

"This little car is really beautiful!"

In the modification workshop, which was the second-hand car refurbishment workshop still in operation, three jeeps of different styles were parked side by side.

According to what Li Xuewu and Li Huai De discussed, the prototype car off-line ceremony was postponed until he and Jing Yunong returned with the exhibition team.

But since the prototype car was already out, Li Xuewu couldn't not come here to take a look at the first jeep he "designed."

The rolling mill's chief engineer, Xia Zhongquan, wasn't home and was still in Yangcheng. The person presiding over the simple prototype car delivery ceremony was the designer, Zhou Dahai.

Although only one factory leader, Li Xuewu, came today, his excitement was still overflowing.

"Deputy Director Li, according to the initial design standards and process requirements, we have made sample cars in three directions."

Although the ceremony was small and few leaders came, there were many onlookers.

The technicians and workers in the refurbishment workshop were all watching from the outermost periphery; some even stood on the machines.

The engineers in the design department, as well as the professors from Huaqing Vehicle Engineering and the students who participated in the design and manufacturing, were in the innermost layer.

Standing in front of them was Li Xuewu, as well as Peng Xiaoli, who had just let out an exclamation of surprise beside him.

Zhou Dahai pointed to the three jeeps with some differences in style and introduced, "City, mountain, and special-purpose vehicles."

"Under the current situation where the popularization of city-level highway roads is not high, we have made comfort-oriented chassis tuning for the first vehicle."

"And aiming at the mountain off-road environment, as well as remote villages and mountainous rural environments, we have made an overall design biased toward driving performance for the second vehicle."

"And for special operations, such as fire-fighting, patrol, security, and other dangerous operating environments, we have made special equipment for the third vehicle."

Zhou Dahai was an old engineer; the time he spent hunched over his desk was much longer than the time he spent chatting, and he rarely had the opportunity to preside over a ceremony.

So Li Xuewu could also see his nervousness, and the introduction he made was also read from a script.

Actually, he also participated in the car's design work and could just introduce it according to the actual situation; he really didn't have to prepare a script.

Li Xuewu waved his hand, and after his introduction came to an end, he interrupted his speech.

"Let's have something practical."

After saying that, he beckoned to the outside, and Han Jiankun walked over from the direction of the entrance with a few people.

The onlookers also knew what the leader was going to do, so they all cleared a path.

Han Jiankun walked up to Li Xuewu and reported two sentences, then took the comrades from the small car class onto those three cars.

"Whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a stroll."

Li Xuewu said to Zhou Dahai, "Just listening to your introduction is useless. You know the core of this car, and I know it too; let's not deceive each other."

After saying that, he didn't look at Zhou Dahai's embarrassed expression, patted his arm, and signaled him to follow him.

Seeing Li Xuewu's current appearance, Zhou Dahai couldn't help but recall the acceptance scene of the fire truck back then.

When the fire water truck and special operation vehicle commissioned by the security department and developed and modified by the technology department were accepted, Li Xuewu drove the car and ran away directly.

At that time, the technology department director, Xia Zhongquan, was almost scared to death and ran two miles behind him.

Until they reached the big open space behind the rolling mill, watching Li Xuewu drive the vehicle and frolic in the mud, he was really jumping and cursing.

Didn't expect it~ didn't expect it, the situation Director Xia encountered was about to be encountered by him again.

It was better this time; it wasn't Deputy Director Li himself, but handed over to a professional driver.

Actually, they had done countless road tests and special environment experiments; the imitated chassis, imitated engine, and imitated gearbox.

What really changed was nothing more than the cylinder block material and related technical upgrades.

Under the condition that the chassis didn't have much change, they redesigned the box body and internal structure, including adding electronic equipment and electronic control equipment.

Very rarely, all three cars were equipped with radios and heating functions that were rarely owned by current domestic commercial vehicles.

Although the related technology was still very backward, and the heating was supplied by relying on the engine's heat, the breakthrough in technology and function was still epoch-making.

Li Xuewu actually marked the cooling function on the design draft, and the design principle given was the kind of compressor used by the refrigerator factory.

But the chief engineer, Xia Zhongquan, directly rejected this suggestion of Li Xuewu's.

There were channels to learn from for heating; after all, heating could also be seen in other high-end cars.

But cooling was really embarrassing; it could be broken through technically, but he was under pressure in terms of time cost.

Li Xuewu also said Li Huai De was a hot-tempered person; actually, his own personality wasn't very tolerant either. Facing the requirement of delivering the car before the New Year, Xia Zhongquan said more than once in private that he was a bad egg.

Zhou Dahai also agreed with this point of view, especially when he was taken by Li Xuewu to the big open space outside the factory's back door.

This place had undergone not small changes compared to the spring.

Most obviously, this place itself was the rolling mill's reserve industrial land, and now it had been planned as a tertiary industry and food industrial plant area.

Before freezing, in order to protect production and rush the construction period, many workshops were built quickly and put into operation quickly. Construction waste and earthwork were piled up here, forming a not-so-small hill.

Next spring, construction would start here again, and modern factories would rise one after another.

Of course, making the best use of everything, you might find this pile of earthwork waste an eyesore, but Li Xuewu felt that this place was just right for testing the newly off-line vehicles.

"Go a few people, spread out the wood, and make it into obstacles."

Li Xuewu stood on the side of the road with a group of people, gestured at the open space with his fingers, and called people to scatter the wood piled by the wall to create a forest off-road environment.

Actually, this was also an indicator for testing vehicles in later generations, whether it was a city-level off-road vehicle or a standard off-road vehicle, they all had a hard capability of continuously crossing obstacles.

When the three jeeps drove over from the factory area, they had already attracted a large group of people to watch.

Hearing Li Xuewu's request, those who liked to watch the fun had long been unable to hold back and ran over to arrange the roadblocks.

Li Xuewu signaled Han Jiankun to take a driver first, driving the city-level off-road jeep to do experiments on the hill.

Han Jiankun was also happy to see the hunt; just coming from the workshop to here, he already had a relatively intuitive driving experience.

Now that the leader let him frolic and test the car, he was even more eager to try and rushed to the driver's seat before his companion.

This jeep was one size smaller compared to the 212 he usually drove, but he didn't feel crowded sitting inside.

That 212 had already been modified, and the middle console was still holding a radio; the driving space wasn't more spacious than this car now.

This car was smaller, but from the appearance, it gave people a very comfortable and very foreign feeling; at least it was more refined than the 212.

Don't even mention the 212's center console; the mixed process of wood and leather looked solid in workmanship, but actually, it wasn't very friendly to the driver.

And as soon as he got into this car, he felt a different driving experience. The center console used a lot of plastic materials, and a small part used wood, which looked more classical in its foreignness.

The seats were knitted, the steering wheel was pure leather, the dashboard was plastic...

Anyway, it looked more delicate, more refined, and had more of a sense of belonging than the 212.

He was just looking normally, but he didn't dare to delay the leader's time. He closed the car door, saw the passenger seat was ready, started the fire, stepped on the gas, and rushed out.

Amidst a burst of exclamations from the crowd, he first did a dragon-tail-swing emergency brake in the open space, then a rabbit-kicking-eagle emergency start, and then a monkey-diarrhea dash out.

Han Jiankun used to be in the car class, driving big trucks in the border areas, and didn't know how many risks he had encountered on the road of death.

He knew very well the test of road conditions on cars and knew very well how cars should respond to road conditions, so Zhou Dahai, standing on the side of the road, saw that jeep jumping around on the big construction site like a monkey, and his heart was about to jump into his throat.

Nothing else, so many people were watching; if it was really played broken by those two rascals, the technology department would lose all its face.

Fortunately, the previous road tests were qualified enough and harsh enough, and they weren't compared down by this kind of environment.

The city-level jeep's adaptability to road conditions was relatively poor, and Li Xuewu didn't give him any difficult problems.

Don't really think that city-level jeeps must be running in the city, and don't feel that the roads in the city are all like those in later generations.

At this time, gravel roads were considered good highways; asphalt roads were rarely seen, and cement roads were even rarer, almost non-existent.

So gravel roads and hard dirt roads were the daily routine for city-level jeeps.

Li Xuewu letting Han Jiankun drive the car into the big wild fields was exactly in line with this kind of driving environment.

The road conditions in the factory were good; they were either brick roads or asphalt roads. Any car driven on them was comfortable and had no problems.

If they really wanted to face the challenges of the market and really wanted to adapt to the diversified road conditions across the country, the rolling mill's jeep still had a long way to go.

The three jeeps, the classification made at the beginning of Li Xuewu's design, was actually a bit rigid.

Willys itself was an excellent off-road vehicle with relatively outstanding off-road performance and war-tested experience.

The Red Star first-generation off-road vehicle designed and developed on this basis actually already possessed this innate off-road condition.

Calling it city-level was actually just cutting off some passability under extreme conditions and installing more comfort equipment.

For example, shock absorption; Li Xuewu dared to say that the original Willys would definitely not make the shock absorption so soft for the sake of comfort.

But even dirt roads and gravel roads absolutely didn't have the extreme road conditions on the battlefield, so there was no need to make it so absolute.

So from the overall performance of this car, Li Xuewu was still very satisfied.

Han Jiankun was also very satisfied. Unable to resist the request of the passenger, he didn't even drive the car back and just changed positions with the other party in the big wild fields.

The one in the passenger seat was even more mischievous, and his driving skills were even more reckless than Han Jiankun's.

The round wood was neatly placed in the open space, and both ends were fixed with wood pliers.

The diameter of the wood was thick and thin, but they were all within the passing range of the chassis.

This wasn't a big beam, just some rafter and purlin materials, which would still sink quite a bit when pressed in the wild.

So when this jeep rushed to the wavy road surface made of wood, everyone looked blank.

What is this for?

Why walk on such a road surface?

But when they saw the jeep suddenly slow down and then start dancing and jumping on the wavy road surface, everyone widened their eyes.

Holy crap! Can it still be played like this?

They were really a bit shocked. What kind of terrible road surface could reach this degree? And the jeep's continuous and stable advance made the designers sweat after pinching, and then they let out a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, reducing off-road performance for the sake of comfort wasn't too harsh, allowing the jeep to maintain its original excellent performance.

When the jeep passed the wavy road surface steadily, the onlookers spontaneously applauded.

Li Xuewu also smiled and nodded at Zhou Dahai, applauding the jeep's excellence.

Zhou Dahai really couldn't be happy; he pulled the corners of his mouth hard, just as if he had laughed.

If the vehicles they designed in the future had to go through such harsh road environment tests, he really didn't know whether he should continue to stay in the Vehicle Research Institute.

"Wow~~"

Just as everyone was applauding, the car door on the driver's side of the jeep was pushed open, the driver stumbled and jumped out of the car, then held the car door and started vomiting.

The crowd who were still applauding first looked at each other, then started laughing loudly; it was the first time they had seen someone get carsick from driving.

On one hand, it was the recognition of the jeep's superior performance, and on the other hand, it was the curiosity about the wavy road surface; the driver's reaction gave them quite a lot of talking points.

Seeing Han Jiankun go to take care of the driver, Li Xuewu didn't care and waved his hand to signal the second group to go up.

The city-level off-road jeep's performance was so superior, what would the mountain off-road jeep, which fully retained Willys' off-road performance and made special technical upgrades, be like?

Not only Li Xuewu wanted to see, but the onlookers were also waiting and seeing.

With the colleague who vomited earlier as an example, the driver of the second group didn't dare to play with the car so recklessly.

Under the radio command of the command vehicle, they first accelerated through the wild road surface, then rushed to the high point of the hill.

Li Xuewu didn't have any amazing expression on this performance, stood under the car, took the communicator, and called the jeep on the hill to drive back along the construction waste.

Good heavens, this instruction was issued, and Zhou Dahai, standing beside Li Xuewu, felt his teeth ache with heartache.

Construction waste had everything; waste bricks and cement blocks were common, and there were steel bars that hadn't been processed in time.

If they really encountered a wooden board with nails, the brand-new tires would basically be declared scrapped.

Even if they didn't encounter these, after passing over the construction waste pile, the four tires would basically have nothing good to look at.

These three cars were made by them for the leaders to see, not for the leaders to play with.

He also didn't expect that such a good car would meet Li Xuewu; if Director Li were here, he absolutely wouldn't test the car like this.

"Accelerate!"

"Charge! Rush over!"

Li Xuewu shouted with the communicator in his hand, "Take the road conditions in front of you as mountains, Gobi, or stone beaches, and test out the vehicle's extreme performance!"

Vroom~

Just as he issued the instruction, the jeep in the distance was stuck on a stone.

The driver in the car wanted to go down to check the situation, but Li Xuewu pinched the communicator and shouted, "Don't worry about it, judge the current situation as critical, you need to accelerate and rush out!"

"... Received... static..." ===== CHAPTER 918 =====