Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 103 Promoted to Section Chief, Luo Cheng Leaves (Subscription Request)

"Third brother, our factory has achieved good results again, and we will be busy again."

"Although I get overtime allowance every month, my free time has become much less."

The fourth sister Zhou Chunhua chirped like a sparrow beside Zhou Fengnian, but Zhou Fengnian didn't mind at all. After Zhou Chunhua finished speaking, he smiled and asked
"Fourth sister, tell me the truth, is there a young man in the factory chasing you?"

Zhou Chunhua's pretty face turned red, and she lowered her head in embarrassment and said, "Third brother, what are you talking about?"

"I heard from my eldest brother that there was a boy who was not afraid of being beaten and invited you to the movies. Why didn't you go? Don't you like him?"

Zhou Fengnian sold out the boss without hesitation, even though Zhou Weitian repeatedly warned him not to reveal him.

"If you don't like it, then Third Brother will go and tell him to stay away from you."

After hearing this, Zhou Chunhua quickly raised her head and said, "Brother, stop making trouble!"

Zhou Fengnian narrowed his eyes and said, "Fourth sister, now for the sake of outsiders, I am asked to stop making trouble. I am uncomfortable, third brother."

"Third brother, I'm not going to pay attention to you anymore."

When Zhou Chunhua's secret was revealed, she immediately stood up and left shyly. She also took away Zhou Fengnian's clothes and prepared to wash them together later.

It seems that his fourth sister has taken a fancy to that young man. If Zhou Chunhua didn't like that guy and kept being harassed.

Zhou Weitian and Zhou Jiaan had already taught the man a lesson.

However, Zhou Fengnian still had to find out more about the man’s reputation and his family situation.

In their previous lives, the fourth and fifth sisters all had a hard life, especially the fourth sister, who was always bullied by her in-laws because she didn't have children.

However, Zhou Fengnian did not doubt his sister's affairs. After Zhou Chunhua became a worker, he took Chunhua to have a check-up and there was no problem at all.

Zhou Chunhua can't have an easy time getting married this time. If her husband's family is not acceptable, she must not marry into their family, otherwise she will be tortured.

After coming up with an idea in his mind, Zhou Fengnian thought about what his fourth sister had just said.

The First Electrical Appliance Factory received another order at the Canton Fair this time, but it was still far from what their leaders required.

The request was 12 million, but this time Bai Kang only brought in an order for 3 million. Even if there was another chance in the fall, it would be impossible to triple it at once.

At first glance, three million is not a small amount. There are not many factories in the country that can receive orders of three million, not to mention that the Electric Appliance Factory No. 1 is only a small factory that has been established for less than three years.

But their light industry leaders don’t think so.

'Doubling every year? Why did it stop this year? Is there something wrong? Reflect on it, reflect on it carefully! '

He has too high expectations and cannot accept disappointment. If this continues for two years in a row, it will be difficult for Bai Kang to hold his position as deputy factory director.

Bai Kang is still very caring towards Zhou Fengnian's brothers and sisters. After the expansion of recruitment, some skilled workers will be selected from the existing workers to become regular employees.

His eldest brother and sister-in-law, second brother and fourth sister are all on the list.

All four apprentices were converted to regular employees at once. Although Zhou Fengnian and his sister performed well, it would have been impossible for them to be converted to regular employees without Bai Kang's care.

In the future, the fourth sister will be able to have her own room, and the eldest and second brothers will have the opportunity to become team leaders.

In addition, Zhou Fengnian has a good relationship with Bai Kang, so he would not be stingy if he could help.

Zhou Fengnian has already thoroughly mastered the product technology he has decided to produce in the simulation space. As for whether he can make it, Zhou Fengnian still needs to give it a try.

He knew how to make a convenient and portable Walkman, but if some electronic components were missing, Zhou Fengnian would be at a loss.

But he is not in a hurry now. He has already talked to Bai Kang and it will be fine as long as there is a movie next year.

Even if we fail to complete the task this year, it doesn’t matter. At most, it will disappoint the leaders of the Ministry of Light Industry.

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The next morning, as soon as Zhou Fengnian and Luo Cheng arrived at the machinery factory, they were stopped by the ministry secretary who was waiting at the door.

The person who stopped Zhou Fengnian was an acquaintance. He was the one who made tea and poured water for Zhou Fengnian last time he went to the ministry. When he saw Zhou Fengnian riding over, he waved and said, "Engineer Zhou, Engineer Luo."

Luo Cheng was also praised by the ministry last time and was promoted to engineer level, so Liu Senyuan knew him.

"Secretary Liu, why are you here so early in the morning?"

Zhou Fengnian had a guess in his mind, but he still asked.

"My boss asked me to pick you up. I have something to do today, so I might have to delay your time."

Liu Senyuan said very politely: "Mr. Zhou, if you don't have anything to arrange, let's set off now."

Zhou Fengnian was very surprised when he heard this. He called people away before the work started. How anxious must he be?

"I haven't arranged the tasks for the technical department for today yet."

Before he could finish, Luo Cheng on the side said, "Fengnian, I will arrange the tasks for the technical department today. If the leader wants to see you, go ahead.

Secretary Liu, I don't need to go with you, right?"

Liu Senyuan said: "Just go one."

After hearing what Luo Cheng and Liu Senyuan said, Zhou Fengnian had no choice but to entrust the bicycle to the security department and said, "Well, I'll trouble you with the technical department and the workshop today, Engineer Luo."

After saying that, Zhou Fengnian followed Liu Senyuan into the car.

After a while, they arrived at the First Ministry of Machine Building. After getting off the car, Secretary Liu took Zhou Fengnian to Li Hetong's office.

After entering the house, Zhou Fengnian saw Li Hetong eating.

"Mr. Zhou is here. Have you had breakfast?"

"I have. I always go to work after breakfast."

Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, and then asked: "Leader, do you have any tasks?"

"It can be considered a mission. Although we had a lot of arguments with them, after discussion, we decided to exchange the machine tools for the technology we need."

Li Hetong said slowly: "There are several experts in the negotiation team who are responsible for selecting and negotiating the technology we need. You developed the CNC machine tools, so you are also on the list.
But don't worry, you just need to answer their questions about our machine tools."

Zhou Fengnian agreed immediately after hearing this: "Okay, I understand, leader."

"Xiao Zhou, let's talk privately. No one else will know. Do you think it's feasible to exchange machine tools for technology?"

Li Hetong asked. He was one of the people who was most wary of the Russians.

Now people all over the country are shouting to defeat the Russians. In this atmosphere, if the Russians do not change their tyranny, friction and conflict will probably not be far away.

Li Hetong thought that exchanging the machine tools with them would increase the strength of the Russians.

Everyone knows that the majority of machine tool production is military products, and manufacturing various weapon parts is the mission of machine tools in this era.

The Soviet Union's military industry was already among the top two in the world, and now it may be even more powerful.

"I'm not sure about this, but if they push for it, it means they really need high-precision machine tools."

After thinking for a while, Zhou Fengnian said, "I think it doesn't matter whether we change or not. If we don't change, we won't suffer any loss. If we change, we can also gain an advantage. After all, the technology there is world-class."

Li Hetong nodded, then took out a cigarette and lit it: "If the Soviet Union takes the machine tools back and makes a breakthrough, then our advantage will be gone."

"The higher-ups are still very angry about the Russians' behavior, and you'll see articles criticizing them in a couple of days.

But we still have to give us the compensation and benefits we deserve. Otherwise, if you just ask for information and call him "big brother", you really want to be the head of the family!" Zhou Fengnian nodded and said, "The old Russian is really too domineering."

Just cooperate. Being the big brother is not enough, you also want to be the father?
"Leader, rest assured, I will also speed up the progress here and strive to develop large-scale high-precision machine tools as soon as possible, and strive to be one step ahead of the Russians."

Zhou Fengnian said that the machine tools previously manufactured by the machinery factory were all small and medium-sized machine tools, which could not process too large parts, at least those required for airplanes and submarines were difficult to process.

Most of the domestic machine tools inherited the technology from the Russians, but they did not have large, high-precision machine tools, so they had to buy machine tools from the Japanese more than ten years later.

"Okay, you should pay more attention to the machine tools. If you need anything, report to the ministry and we will help you with whatever we can get."

This was exactly what Li Hetong wanted to say. As soon as Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he immediately slapped his thigh in agreement.

The development of domestic machine tools was very good before, but as soon as the Russians withdrew their troops, the prototype was revealed, and the development could not be accelerated all of a sudden. Too much waste made it impossible to produce good machine tools.

However, the CNC machine tools researched and manufactured by Zhou Fengnian suddenly pushed domestic machine tool technology to a new level and directly reached world-class level.

Although it is just one machine, the fact that the Russians come to us for a request is enough to show the progress of domestic machine tool technology.

However, one machine was not enough, so Li Hetong asked Zhou Fengnian to come over and let him join the expert team to deal with the Russians who came to see the machine tools.

I also hope that Zhou Fengnian can continue to upgrade the level of machine tools and produce more high-precision world-class machine tools.

There is still one machine tool in the First Ministry of Machine Building that has not been shipped away, and this is the one the Russians want to see today.

When I got back to the machinery factory, there was still an hour left before the end of work.

The driver of the First Ministry of Machine Building originally asked Zhou Fengnian if he wanted to go home directly, but he had to go back to the factory to get his bicycle and pick up his partner after work, so he was sent back to the machinery factory.

Seeing Zhou Fengnian coming to the workshop at this time, Luo Cheng was surprised and asked: "Why are you back at this time?"

"There's nothing to do when I get home, so I'll go back to the factory for a while. I'll also go buy some things after get off work."

As Zhou Fengnian spoke, he took today's task list and checked it, then handed it back after confirming that it was correct.

He also has to order clothes today for his wedding photos, as well as new quilts and other things. Zhou Fengnian plans to buy a new set of everything.

Luo Cheng asked: "Are you going there tomorrow?"

"I shouldn't go. My mission is over."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head. Although he joined the expert team, he was not needed at other times. Only when the Russians asked about machine tools would it be Zhou Fengnian's turn to appear.

This afternoon, the old Russian watched for a long time and observed in detail the process of machine tools processing semi-finished parts, and then kept nodding.

What was discussed afterwards had nothing to do with Zhou Fengnian, and he had no say in anything, so he told Li Hetong that he planned to come back.

"Very good. My ticket has been issued and I will leave on the 25th. You should be more careful during this period and don't rush around after I leave."

Luo Cheng patted Zhou Fengnian on the shoulder and said that he had been working in the machinery factory for eleven years, which was earlier than the engineer who was transferred away before.

Now he is also going to be transferred.

"Don't worry, nothing will go wrong."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "When you come back in the future, you may be able to see that the machinery factory has become the largest factory in the country."

Luo Cheng immediately laughed and said, "Haha. Okay, if you fail to do so, you will owe me a hundred meals!"

There is no standard for the largest factory in the country, but Zhou Fengnian is confident that he can make the machinery factory the country's largest heavy industry.

But now one machine tool workshop is not enough, and we need to expand by one or two more.

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"Dear workers and leaders, we are now announcing a personnel change within the factory. The former technical section chief Luo Cheng has been transferred to the northwest for organizational reasons. The technical section chief will be replaced by eighth-level engineer Zhou Fengnian."

"Dear workers."

The broadcast was repeated three times in a row, announcing the news to the entire factory.

The leaders of the machinery factory had no objection. Luo Cheng took the initiative to apply to be transferred to the northwest construction. This showed a high level of dedication, and the machinery factory could not stop him even if they were reluctant.

Zhou Fengnian had to take over as the new head of the technical department.

Although Zhou Fengnian is relatively young, he is capable and is valued by the leaders of the ministry. So the factory director Li Zhengyang received a call from Minister Zhang.

Let him try his best to meet Zhou Fengnian's needs no matter what.

What else could Li Zhengyang say? He had to cooperate with him fully.

However, Zhou Fengnian did not come today. After arranging the tasks in advance yesterday, he went to the train station to see Luo Cheng off.

Last night, the families of Zhou Fengnian and Zhou Yan, as well as Luo Cheng and his wife, had a wedding banquet in advance.

This morning, Zhou Fengnian and others came to the train station to see Luo Cheng off, but Zhou Xiangde and Lu Honghui left.

One had to go to work, and the other was not familiar with Luo Cheng at all, so he didn't come.

Zhou Fengnian's entire family came to Sijiu City last night, but today only Zhou Fengnian and his son came to the train station to see Luo Cheng and his wife off.

When he was about to board the train, Zhou Fengnian saw the train ticket and complained, "Mr. Luo, you are the same. I gave you a seat ticket and you really used it. If I had told you earlier, I would have asked the minister to change it to a sleeper ticket for you.

Can you bear these few days? And what about Aunt Li? "

Luo Cheng said: "Don't bother the organization, it's good enough to have a seat."

Zhou Fengnian interrupted, "Don't be too picky. We should use what we can, otherwise the empty ones might be wasted. Aunt Li, when you get on the bus, take Engineer Luo's ID and ask him."

The eighth-level engineer definitely qualifies for a sleeper ticket. I don't know which bastard did this, but he will definitely report it to his superiors when he returns.

Zhou Fengnian also stuffed a lunch box over: "Take this and eat it on the way. If it gets cold, just heat it up in the car."

"Okay, we're getting in the car, let's go back."

The train was about to start, so Luo Cheng and his wife didn't waste any time. They got on the train and sat down. They waved to Zhou Fengnian outside and said, "Go back. We'll keep in touch later."

"Okay, be careful on the road."

After the train started, Li Nianhua did as Zhou Fengnian said and took Luo Cheng's ID to ask if there were any vacant soft sleeper seats.

When I asked, I found out there were indeed a few, and the train attendant was also puzzled. It was impossible for an eighth-level engineer to not be able to buy a soft sleeper ticket, so why did he have to sit in a hard seat?

However, the train crew still arranged for them to stay in the soft sleeper compartment.

Later, when Li Nianhua was sorting the package, he opened the lunch box bag that Zhou Fengnian had sent him and found an envelope inside with some words on it.

"My dear, get up and take a look at this. Fengnian gave it to you."

Luo Cheng stood up and took the envelope. Just by touching it, he knew there was a lot of money in it without even opening it.

The envelope also said: [Uncle Luo, this is the New Year's money for my eldest nephew. When he comes to Sijiucheng to study, I will take him in as my apprentice! Remember to give it to my eldest nephew.]

"This brat."

Luo Cheng rubbed his eyes. He left his bicycle and a bunch of things to Zhou Fengnian, and this kid stuffed an envelope of New Year's money into his hand.

"Haha, keep it. When we get there, give it to our eldest grandson and tell him that he can only use it when he goes to college."

(End of this chapter)