Chapter 36: A Beautiful Dream

Busy until 6 o'clock in the evening, the young man named Li Baojun once again brought dinner to Wang Ye.

In the past, due to poor performance and lack of production tasks, the workers in the machinery factory were not busy at all, and everyone was short of money. Therefore, the factory canteen had been closed for a long time. Recently, with the sharp increase in business, preparations were being made to reopen it.

So these days, for meals, Wang Ye, a bachelor, was not worth cooking for himself, so he could only rely on others for meals, all arranged by the former factory director.

After dinner, Wang Ye continued to be busy until ten o'clock in the evening.

"Phew! Finally finished the drawings!"

Looking at the mechanical drawings spread out on the table, Wang Ye nodded satisfactorily.

The reason why he was so busy for so long was, on one hand, because it had been so long since he had drawn, he had become rusty, and it took him a lot of time to get back into the rhythm. On the other hand, Wang Ye didn't just draw the drawings for the steel pipe rockets.

Regardless of whether the contracting plan succeeded or not, the large collective under the machinery factory must have work to do.

After all, such a large factory, relying solely on gas tanks and the soon-to-be-produced steel pipe rockets, was simply not enough to keep all the workers busy, let alone young people like Li Baojun.

And having too many idle people was not a good thing for the factory, as it would create many unstable factors.

Moreover, nowadays, population was wealth, so how could so much wealth be wasted?

Therefore, Wang Ye had to find work for the large collective, and after a series of considerations, Wang Ye decided on the first batch of products: the four-piece set of household appliances, namely washing machines, electric fans, refrigerators, and televisions.

In the 1970s, the three-piece set for marriage was a sewing machine, a bicycle, and a watch.

By the 1980s, with the development of reform and opening up and the economy, the three-piece set for marriage would soon become a refrigerator, a washing machine, and a television. As for the floor-standing electric fan, because of its large size and decent appearance, it could also be considered a major household appliance.

So in terms of market demand, there was absolutely no problem with these.

However, for the current machinery factory, the problem was how to produce these things. In terms of technology and production difficulty, washing machines and electric fans were the easiest, while televisions and refrigerators were more difficult because they contained cathode ray tubes and compressors.

Nevertheless, these two projects still had to be done.

Because Wang Ye was well aware that in the next three to four years, with the country's opening up, the reform of military-civilian conversion, the transformation of state-owned enterprises into joint-stock companies, and the increasing demand for electrical appliances in the market, countless factories across the country would blindly embark on these electrical projects.

But at that time, cathode ray tube and compressor technology would still be a significant barrier for domestic production. Various factories would have to find ways to import core components from abroad or directly import production lines.

So Wang Ye planned to tackle these two somewhat difficult projects.

For a large collective enterprise, retailing was one aspect, but the key was that in another year or two, they could directly supply domestic companies with core components or even entire production lines. That's where the real money was made, after all, why let others reap the benefits of your hard work? It would be pointless to let the hard-earned foreign exchange be taken away again!

"In any case, let's get the washing machine and electric fan on the market first."

"These two have the lowest difficulty, and the women in the large collective can wind the motors, while the overall assembly can be done by those young men, which is not difficult for them."

"As for the blades, iron shells, brackets, and drums, they can be outsourced to the machinery factory."

"Use iron wherever possible, sturdy and durable. It's important to establish a good reputation in the early stages, and there can be continuous development in the future."

Deciding on everything, Wang Ye breathed a sigh of relief, washed up briefly, and went to bed.

Perhaps because today's visit to the airfield had touched Wang Ye, he slept restlessly all night, until the latter half of the night when he suddenly had a dream.

In the dream.

Wang Ye saw more than a dozen nuclear-powered electromagnetic catapult aircraft carriers on the sea conducting a review ceremony, stealth fighters continuously taking off and landing, the new generation of electromagnetic battleships equipped with railgun roaring through the waves, and the new strategic nuclear submarines known as the Ocean Black Holes breaking through the surface and surfacing directly!

Looking up, fighter jets broke through the atmosphere and entered space, encountering sub-orbital bombers on patrol duty midway, and finally docked at the space mothership in orbit.

At this moment, the space mothership was conducting a test of combat assault mechas. One after another humanoid mechas parachuted down from the space mothership, plummeting towards the blue planet, turning into a ball of fire like meteorites.

In the starry sky not far from the space mothership was the orbit transfer space station of Huaxia. The rotating disc was an artificial gravity device, and at the spaceport, there were infrastructure warehouses brought up from the ground by electromagnetic track space elevators.

Then, under the traction of the plasma thruster, the infrastructure warehouse headed straight for the moon 380,000 kilometers away. There, the construction of the semi-underground Guanghan Palace Market was at a critical stage, the ecological sphere had been completed, and a few kilometers away from the smelting plant, mining robots were continuously transporting helium-3 ore over, refining them into finished products, and finally transported to the energy station by the maglev suspended train.

With the help of nuclear fusion reactions, electricity and heat were continuously supplied to Guanghan Palace Market.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Just as Wang Ye watched the scenes before him, unable to hide the smile on his lips, suddenly there came a knock on the door!

"Who's there?"

Opening his eyes and looking at the smoke-stained yellow ceiling above his head, Wang Ye asked irritably. Just as he was enjoying a sweet dream, he was suddenly interrupted like this, which made him very angry.

Outside the door came the voice of the former factory director:

"It's me, Wang Ye. Director Li has arrived. Get up quickly!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Ye didn't have time to savor the beautiful dream he had just had. He quickly got up, washed and dressed hastily, and followed the former factory director to the meeting room, where Director Li was already waiting.

Seeing Wang Ye walk in, Director Li, who was smoking, directly extinguished the half of his cigarette and smiled:

"I have two pieces of news, one good and one bad."

"Wang Ye, which one do you want to hear first?"