Engineers no longer repair bridges but oil wells.

  While building the Darinor base on one side, Zhi Yiming was also discussing with Liao Huairou the grand plan of armed P.

  "The base's capabilities, I've seen them all, indeed a necessary way to enhance our equipment level. However, the difficulty of fully equipping is still relatively large. The Military Commission discussed and thought that on one hand, we should first arm our frontline land warfare troops, and on the other hand, transfer some transferable technologies to our military-industrial enterprises, after all, there's only this base, and its production capacity can't keep up." Liao Huairan said to Qi Yiming in his office.

  Qī Yī Míng's heart was clear, although the base had provided a large amount of valuable scientific data and other materials to the authorities in recent days, after all, the person in control of the base was not the Military Commission but Qī Yī Míng himself. Especially since the base possessed abilities that could make any ruler tremble with fear, Qī Yī Míng felt that it was already very difficult for the top leaders to agree to cooperate with him.

  Technology and skills that are mastered by one's own company can be considered as being in hand, while a base is still an external thing. Compared to importing from abroad, it is more cost-effective and closer, but essentially it is still an uncontrollable factor.

  He is well aware of the official consideration and expresses understanding, and of course he will not expose it in front of Liao Huaren.

  Those weapons in the Red Alert base, even if Zhiyi Miao wanted to teach them to military enterprises, they couldn't make them, let alone that Zhiyi Miao lacked those materials, and needed the combat lab to be upgraded to a certain level to get the complete data, not to mention that he can't even build a combat lab now.

  But the results of thirty years of military industrial development in China can be provided, but even so, it is not optimistic. The military industry is one of the most difficult categories in industrial production, testing a country's comprehensive manufacturing level. Under the wooden barrel effect, a single shortcoming cannot support high-performance weapons and equipment, let alone China, which has just experienced ten years of turmoil and lacks money, talent, proper management models, and experience.

  Firstly, in terms of weapon design, the lack of experience and systematic guidance for the Republic's military industry workers makes it difficult for them to surpass their competitors from the start. Considering that technology transfer has now taken place, the design issues have been compensated for. However, in terms of materials science, disciplines such as metallurgy and composite materials are lagging behind in academic theory, not to mention production capacity. Additionally, there is the issue of precision processing techniques. Firstly, there is a lack of equipment; CNC machine tools were just emerging at that time, and it was almost impossible for the Republic to obtain one. Those large five-axis CNC machine tools were considered national treasures and were strictly restricted from being exported. Secondly, there is a lack of processing experience; countries that have been industrialized for decades are absolutely not comparable in this regard. It's not possible for workers to master everything just because they have a complete set of instructions. Some German and American workers operating machine tools know when to make slight adjustments, such as how much to cut or when to shift, which cannot be recorded in writing, and these things are impossible for Chinese workers to grasp.

  After a thorough inventory, in the almost completely backward republic, even with technology transfer, having obtained various metallurgical formulas, composite material formulas, and knowing the processing techniques, it is really quite difficult to produce these things.

  Qī Yī Míng wanted to help, but the war chariot factories and munitions plants in his base were all strictly sealed off, and no one knew what kind of operating mechanism was inside. Qī Yī Míng guessed that with such an unreasonable production capacity, the operating principle must be completely different from modern industrial manufacturing.

  "I can solve some of the equipment problems for you, and next I will set up a second tank factory. The production capacity of this factory will be used to produce large hydraulic presses, free-forging oil presses, five-axis CNC machine tools and other heavy-duty equipment related to national defense. With these things, we have laid the foundation for any kind of production. Hehe, in my time, people always shouted 'leapfrog development', but now what we are going to do is truly leapfrog development! Although these heavy-duty equipment are not military products, they are inseparable from military products, and without them, it is absolutely impossible to manufacture advanced weapons and equipment."

  In the era before Zhiyi's crossing, China's heavy equipment was already world-renowned, continuously overcoming numerous difficulties. The world's largest free-forging hydraulic press and the world's largest continuous casting machine seemed to have put China's heavy industry on par with the world's best. A classic joke also indirectly confirmed China's achievements in some heavy equipment: after the subprime crisis, US President Obama delivered a speech at a certain port, claiming that he wanted to revive manufacturing and reclaim jobs that belonged to America. At that moment, a gentle breeze blew by, blowing away a red cloth on the giant dragon gate crane behind him, which symbolized the power of heavy industry. The crowd was shocked when they saw it, and Obama was extremely embarrassed, because the red cloth was specifically set up to cover four Chinese characters: "China Zhenhua".

  But China's heavy equipment took off after 2005, now it's not the era when the US built a Zumwalt-class super destroyer with Chinese-made equipment, nor is it the era when the F-35 can't fly without Chinese magnetic devices. Now is an era where even component standardization has not been unified, a comprehensively backward era.

  "No matter how long it takes, after the equipment is in place, a batch of heavy-duty equipment manufacturing enterprises such as First Heavy Machinery and Second Heavy Machinery must speed up the digestion and absorption of these transferred technologies. Heavy industrial equipment is not only a national treasure but also a high value-added product. If we can produce them 20 years ahead of time, relying on our cost advantage, it will be very helpful to boost the economy."

  He sat on the sofa with one leg propped up on the other, and suddenly thought of something. "My barracks can't recruit soldiers, right? You guys told me not to recruit combat personnel casually before, I agreed but forgot another thing. Besides mobilizing basic combat personnel, I can also produce 80 engineers a day here. These engineers can be specifically trained, such as some in aviation industry engineering, some in shipbuilding industry engineering, or those who work on power generation, or study metallurgical materials science."

  Liao Huairan's eyes lit up: "You have this skill? Why didn't you say so earlier!"

  Zhi Yi Ming also felt a bit embarrassed: "I couldn't think of such things, because I don't quite understand the technical transfer either."

  Although humans have created many machines, the core part of labor is still human beings themselves. Liao Huairen was also well aware of the importance of skilled engineers to a country. At that time, China's industrial capabilities were even weaker than those of colonial India, an agricultural country. The Soviet Union sent countless experts from all walks of life to support China in building its industry. At that time, the Soviet Union did not hold back, and we ourselves were also absorbing wildly under the national system and the enthusiasm for nation-building, finally catching up with the last historical opportunity to establish a complete industrial system, laying a solid foundation for the future takeoff of the Republic.

  In the 70s and 80s when Rabbit's family was "NATO's 16th country" outside, technical personnel from Western countries such as the UK and US also provided support to Rabbit's family, but it was quite limited. For example, Rolls-Royce gave Rabbit's family the Spey engine, which was indeed a good thing at that time. However, after providing relevant technical materials, they were unwilling to teach hand in hand. The two sides signed a technology transfer agreement in 1975, and it wasn't until 2003 that Xifei completed the localization project...

  So some things really can't be done just by mastering the skills, someone has to guide you step by step, take apart a few machines with the apprentices, and then put them back together, let the apprentices try it themselves, point out where there are problems, explain why this works and that doesn't, only in this situation is it most effective.

  80 engineers can be dispatched to various industries every day, and in a month, there will be 2,400 skilled engineers scattered into each large enterprise. They can immediately become the backbone of technology and become the best fertilizer for seeds, growing towering trees.

  Liao Huairan no longer needs to ask for instructions from his superiors. Originally, they forbade Qi Yiyong from recruiting combat personnel, which would have rendered his barracks' production capacity useless. Now, the barracks in the base are only producing light weapons such as rocket launchers and machine guns. The ability to re-recruit personnel is an unexpected gain. He also believes that if these engineers are really good, companies willing to pay a high price to hire them will recognize their value. These are not ordinary workers, but highly skilled ones who are the lifeblood of enterprises.

  In the past, there were often stories in the factory that a workshop had a master craftsman leading workers to produce. If the master craftsman was absent due to illness one day, the entire workshop could only do some trivial tasks and could not produce normally. The role of technical backbones in manufacturing can be seen from this. Even in the precision and complex aerospace engine manufacturing industry, if the high-skilled worker is absent, others are equivalent to coming to work in vain.

  The so-called base-produced engineers are actually those safety helmets that repair bridges, occupy oil wells and buildings in the game. After materialization, these engineers do not have the ability to enter a building and claim sovereignty, but the ability to cultivate engineers in a targeted manner allows Qiyimen to obtain a large number of technical backbones. The Rabbit Family continues to have these high-ranking workers, and with them, they can surely make China's industry reach a new level.

  After Liao Huaren reported the matter to Beijing, various companies almost broke their heads because of the order in which they obtained these talents. Originally, the Ordnance Industry Department could still assign who went first and who took how many with ease. Later, the Petroleum Industry Department, Aerospace Industry Department, Metallurgical Industry Department and other departments also joined in, and in the end, even the Light Industry Department, which was supposed to be a marginal role, felt that it couldn't lag behind others and wanted to grab whatever benefits it could.