77: Does this thing catch your eye?

“Mu Bai, stop joking.”

“Your Uncle Zhao’s little heart is very tight right now, and I can’t handle jokes.”

Zhao Zhenghua waved his hand, forcing a smile.

He just thought Li Mubai was trying to joke with him.

With such a heavy responsibility at hand,

he only felt a stubborn rock pressing on his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.

How could he be in the mood to joke?

As for what Li Mubai said, he naturally dismissed it.

Something their Research Institute couldn't make, could the Steel Factory do it?

The answer was obvious: no.

One must know.

To obtain precision parts, High-Precision CNC Machine Tools are required.

And currently,

neither the country nor society has High-Precision CNC Machine Tools.

Many parts are still in the stage of being handcrafted by masters.

A few enterprises own Numerical Control Machine Tools.

However, these Numerical Control Machine Tools are all imported from abroad.

Not only are they expensive,

many aspects are also restricted by others, with no freedom whatsoever.

Such machines,

how could the country possibly use them?

Or rather… the country wants to use them, but simply doesn't have the technology to break through their restrictions.

Without breaking the restrictions, how could they be used?

“Uncle Zhao, do I look like I’m joking?”

Li Mubai smiled, his eyes full of confidence.

Zhao Zhenghua’s difficulties,

to him, were good news.

As long as he could solve Zhao Zhenghua’s difficulties, the news that their Steel Factory could process precision parts would naturally spread far and wide, without him needing to advertise.

By then,

many enterprises from all over the country would come to the Steel Factory.

Either seeking part processing or wanting to purchase Numerical Control Machine Tools.

However…

He would not sell the current stage of Numerical Control Machine Tools.

Even to the country, he wouldn't sell them.

This was a good opportunity to accumulate exchange points.

If he refined steel and sold steel, he could only accumulate three million exchange points a month.

But by processing steel using Numerical Control Machine Tools, its value would greatly increase.

Perhaps,

processing precision parts for one month could directly exchange for various modern main battle tanks in the System Store!

Even to exchange for modern 5th-generation fighter jets, it would only take one year of accumulation, or perhaps even less than a year.

As the number of machine tools increases, the Steel Factory’s speed in processing parts will become faster and faster.

“Oh, then do you know what is needed for the processing of precision parts?”

Zhao Zhenghua asked with a light smile.

Li Mubai nodded:

“Of course I know, High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools.”

Zhao Zhenghua’s expression darkened, and he sighed deeply:

“You also know that High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools are needed.

But all these technologies are controlled by those foreign countries.

It’s not that there are no Numerical Control Machine Tools domestically, but the precision simply isn’t up to standard.

Our country’s area ranks among the foremost in the world.

But such a large country like ours doesn’t even have High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools.

Even the Japan Chicken to our east has this thing.

Our country seems to be gradually prospering.

But truthfully, there are simply too few things that can rank among the world’s best.

We are missing too many things, so many that they can’t be counted, so many that even the country is willing but powerless.”

Listening to the roar of the machinery in the factory.

Under the sun,

Li Mubai’s eyes were bright and spirited, and he murmured in a very low voice:

“There will be, Numerical Control Machine Tools will be there, chips will be there, airplanes, tanks, and cannons will all be there!”

At this moment,

just as the two were chatting,

several large trucks were already loaded with steel.

Zhao Zhenghua also bid farewell:

“Ah, enough said. The steel is almost loaded, so I’ll be leaving now, Mu Bai. Let’s have dinner and chat again when we have time.”

Bid farewell?

Li Mubai grinned.

How could he let Zhao Zhenghua leave just like that?

If Zhao Zhenghua left, who would advertise his Numerical Control Machine Tools?!

“Uncle Zhao, wait a moment!”

Li Mubai interrupted Zhao Zhenghua, who was about to get into the car.

“Uh? Is there anything else, Mu Bai?”

Zhao Zhenghua had already stepped halfway into the car, but upon hearing Li Mubai, he pulled his foot back out.

“Uncle Zhao, I’ll take you to see something.”

“Something? What something?”

“Uncle Zhao, just come with me and you’ll know. It’s definitely something good that will make you happy.”

“You rascal, you’re even playing coy now? Fine, I’ll go and have a look with you.”

Seeing Li Mubai say this, Zhao Zhenghua also became interested.

He immediately left the Hummer and followed Li Mubai into the factory area.

Inside the factory, steam was rising.

The young faces of the workers were flushed red, covered in sweat, and their dark blue work uniforms were already soaked with sweat, appearing bluish-black.

The two walked for a while and arrived at a workshop where there was no activity.

“Uncle Zhao, come with me.”

Saying that,

Li Mubai led the way inside.

Zhao Zhenghua’s gaze swept past the door and looked into the workshop.

This workshop was not like other workshops, which were packed with machinery and materials; it was very spacious inside, with not many sundries.

The only things present

were the few machine tools standing silently in the center of the workshop.

“Mu Bai, you’re not just going to show me this, are you? Could these be the machine tools you spent time making these past few days?”

“The machine tools I’m talking about are not these manual machine tools, but High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools.”

Zhao Zhenghua’s expression was strange.

Those few machine tools were clearly old-fashioned manual machine tools; to process parts, they relied entirely on the fitter masters’ hand-crafting.

As for precision, that was even less guaranteed, as it depended entirely on the fitter master’s feel.

If the feel was right, then the precision of the part might be guaranteed.

If the feel was wrong…

Then the precision of the part would not be guaranteed.

As for the solution, it was even simpler: redo it until the feel was right.

“Hehe… Of course, I didn’t invite you to see this, Uncle Zhao. You should come in first.”

Inside the workshop,

Li Mubai’s voice came out.

“Alright.”

Zhao Zhenghua nodded and stepped into the workshop.

The workshop was spacious and shielded from the scorching sun.

As soon as Zhao Zhenghua walked in, he felt a coolness on his skin.

“Uncle Zhao, over here.”

Before Zhao Zhenghua could fully look around, Li Mubai’s voice sounded from one side.

Zhao Zhenghua looked in the direction of the voice.

He saw Li Mubai standing next to a huge, human-height white machine.

Numerical Control Machine Tool

“This… This is?!”

Seeing this machine, Zhao Zhenghua’s face showed surprise, his mouth wide open, stunned in place, his eyes full of disbelief.

He could already roughly guess what this white machine was.

Numerical Control Machine Tool!

This was definitely a Numerical Control Machine Tool, no doubt about it.

Because he had seen something similar to this machine when he went abroad before.

That was in German Country, during a visit when discussing the purchase of High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools with the other party.

However,

at that time, the people from German Country said that they needed to discuss it with the higher-ups before deciding whether to sell the High-Precision Numerical Control Machine Tools to them.

They waited for a few days in German Country, and then the other party notified them that they would sell the items to them, but the price was ridiculously high, even having a hint of taking advantage of the situation.

Subsequently,

he and the delegation returned to their country.

However,

the promised one-month delivery time for the Numerical Control Machine Tools turned into a three-month wait, with no news.

He immediately found someone to contact the other party by phone, asking what was going on.

They had paid a large deposit and signed a contract, yet the other party openly breached the contract, not even making a single call to explain.

Finally,

the reason given by the other party was that,

under pressure from Eagle Country, they decided not to sell the items to their Rabbit Country.

And,

even if they were to sell them,

many restrictions would have to be accepted.

This kind of backtracking behavior infuriated Zhao Zhenghua and a group of leaders at the time.

How could he forget such a deeply memorable event!

Seeing Zhao Zhenghua’s shocked expression, Li Mubai smiled slightly:

“How is it, Uncle Zhao? Does this item meet your approval?”