The First Branch Factory rapidly grew busy after the Spring Festival.
The main factory could not wait to transfer Zheng Qiang, a master's student from Jilin University, to the First Branch Factory. Then it kept pressing the branch factory to help the main factory complete the expanded production of the 1041 automobile as soon as possible.
The two production lines imported from Mitsubishi Japan also arrived one after another, along with Ludwig, the German engineer from the Lighthouse Mitsubishi factory.
The moment Ludwig arrived at the First Branch Factory, he drew a crowd. Even Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang's stern scoldings could not curb everyone's enthusiasm for "watching a foreign spectacle." If they were not allowed to get close, they watched from afar.
It was not that the young men at the First Branch Factory lacked manners. Foreigners coming to the mainland were not quite as rare as three-legged toads in those days, but they were certainly as scarce as giant pandas. A few good looks at one gave them something to brag about to their friends afterward, didn't it?
"Hey, did you know? Our factory has a foreign engineer. Yellow hair, a high nose bridge. In this late-spring cold snap, he wears only a shirt, and his chest is covered in fur. That guy can really withstand the cold."
"Did you know? He used to be from West Germany and worked at that Santana factory, then he went to the Lighthouse. How strange—wasn't it the Lighthouse that defeated them before?"
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In the days just after Ludwig arrived on the mainland, he was actually very unaccustomed to it. Anyone would grow restless and anxious after being stared at like that all day.
But after he worked alongside the workers to sort out the equipment, set up the production lines,