Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 108: The Art of Sex, Being Followed (Subscribe)
"Mr. Zhou, there's something wrong with the machine tool in the workshop. The guards and I can't tell what's going on. Go take a look."

In the morning, Zhou Fengnian was thinking about drawing when Zhao Yucheng suddenly knocked on his office door and reported.

“Which machine tool?”

Zhao Yucheng said, "The one that Master Hong used is the C6 machine tool that you, Mr. Zhou, improved and repaired last time."

"Which one is broken? Let me go check it out."

Zhou Fengnian put away the drawings on the table, locked the office after leaving, and then followed Zhao Yucheng to the machine tool workshop.

The round trip distance is not short, about one thousand meters.

When Zhou Fengnian arrived at the machine tool workshop, he immediately walked towards the broken machine tool. Except for a few workers who had stopped working due to the machine tools, the rest were at their workstations.

"Master Hong, what exactly happened? Did any part make any unusual noise when it broke?"

Zhou Fengnian asked, Master Hong is also a level 6 fitter, it is impossible for him to make basic mistakes.

But this machine tool has been repaired by him. Among the skills that Zhou Fengnian masters, mechanical maintenance is the most advanced, and there is basically nothing he cannot repair.

How could it break down in such a short time since he had repaired and improved it?

"I just went to the toilet, and my apprentice was using it at the time."

Master Hong said a little embarrassedly, but his apprentice was also a level five worker, so there was no problem using the lathe. He was just caught and asked his apprentice to do the work for him.

Zhou Fengnian started the car and heard some strange noises, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

What followed was a long period of disassembly to find the damaged parts. After dismantling many lathe parts, a small cone head was finally found inside.

Zhou Fengnian took a deep breath, waved to Zhao Dewei who had just used the machine tool, and said, "Master Zhao, I have told you the rules for using machine tools many times, what's wrong with you today?"

Zhao Dewei said with fear on his face: "Mr. Zhou, I... I was distracted just now and didn't pay attention..."

"Are you distracted?"

Zhou Fengnian frowned and said, "How can you be distracted while processing parts? Fortunately, it's only the machine tool that has a problem. If something went wrong with you, the entire workshop would have to stop working."

Master Hong at the side could not help but say: "Mr. Zhou, it is my responsibility. I shouldn't have asked my apprentice to help."

"Forget it, Master Hong. I know something happened at Master Zhao's home, so I won't deduct your allowance this time. But please copy the safety manual twice when you go down."

Zhou Fengnian said: "Give me one side and stick the other side on the workshop door."

"Thank you, thank you Mr. Zhou."

Master Hong and his apprentice Zhao Dewei hurriedly expressed their gratitude. There were a lot of allowances in the machine tool workshop, and if any of them were deducted, Zhao Dewei would be really heartbroken.

And even if they were deducted, they would have nothing to say, after all, Zhao Dewei's distraction caused the machine tool to stop working for a long time.

Zhao Dewei thanked and said, "Mr. Zhou, I copied it four times and will remember it in the future. I will work overtime to make up for today's task."

"Mr. Zhou, I'll stay and work overtime as well."

"Okay, then hand it in the day after tomorrow."

Zhou Fengnian said that there were not many workers in the workshop. Zhao Dewei needed money because of an incident at home some time ago, so he borrowed a few people from the workshop.

But there was no movement later, so it must have been back.

If Zhou Fengnian deducted his allowance, he would definitely feel uncomfortable for a long time, so he chose other ways to punish him.

The workshop safety operation rules were quite long, enough for him to learn a profound lesson.

"Yucheng, you saw the disassembly process I just performed. The rest of the repairs will be left to you. If you have any questions, please ask me."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou."

Zhao Yucheng agreed immediately. Just before the maintenance, Zhou Fengnian asked him to watch and learn carefully, and he also wrote down a lot of the process. Zhao Yucheng felt that he could repair it step by step and put it back.

A lot of time was wasted that day, and after Zhou Fengnian returned to the technical department’s office, he had to work overtime.

Now many drawings of machine tool parts are in his mind, and he has to turn them into reality quickly.

Day by day passed.

Zhou Fengnian's life is quite fulfilling as he has endless design drawings to draw every day. However, the technical department and the machine tool workshop are running quite smoothly under his management.

After more than forty days, a total of five CNC machine tools were manufactured, and each of them was "improved" by Zhou Fengnian to prevent the Russians from disassembling and copying them.

However, domestic machine tools should also be updated. The last time Zhou Fengnian went to the First Ministry of Machine Building for a meeting, he saw a lot of domestic machine tool data.

Some machine tool factories are still producing old-style machine tools, which will gradually be eliminated within a dozen years due to performance problems and the low precision of the parts they produce.

Zhou Fengnian feels that it is necessary to proactively upgrade and replace machine tools. The old machine tools that are replaced can be exported to other countries, and they will replace them with machine tools with better technical performance.

Even if they are replaced by them, there should be many countries vying for them; the ones that Zhou Fengnian doesn't like are not the worst machine tools when placed outside.

After all, it is technology supported by the Russians, and some countries cannot buy it even if they want to.

Zhou Fengnian is now writing a report on this matter at home, and will submit it to the ministry after it is completed.

Saturday Night

"A good year."

Zhou Yan kicked the door of the study open, then walked in carefully carrying a bowl of soup.

Seeing this, Zhou Fengnian asked in surprise: "Is this soup? When did you cook it?"

"Just after dinner, I asked my co-workers about the stew, and I cooked it for you in a coal stove for two hours."

Zhou Yan said with a smile on her pretty face: "Try it quickly. Recently you often stay up until nine or ten o'clock, and then go to bed so late. Drinking some tonic soup can help you recover."

Talking about the bull's quarrel after ten o'clock, Zhou Yan's pretty face turned slightly red; she asked her colleague in the Propaganda Department for this tonic soup because she often dozed off in the Propaganda Department.

When her co-workers in the Propaganda Department saw her dozing off more than once, they jokingly asked her what she did at night to make her so sleepy the next day.

After some chatting, the inexperienced Zhou Yan was actually tricked into revealing some information, and then her colleagues were shocked and envious.

Not only did he ask for details, but he also gave many suggestions.

Women of this era can be conservative or open-minded. Some of the women in the factory are strong and aggressive, and they only show off to men. They are bold and unrestrained and do not act like women at all.

Zhou Yan learned about this tonic soup from a colleague. I heard that she had also cooked it for her husband and it worked very well.

Zhou Yan was moved and asked for clarification.

After work, he went to buy the ingredients needed for the tonic soup, and when he came back, he secretly stewed it for Zhou Fengnian.

Zhou Yan put the soup on the table and urged, "Try it quickly and see how it tastes."

Zhou Fengnian took a sip and smacked his lips. It didn’t taste very good, mainly because there were too many things added to it, maybe there was some Chinese medicine?
"It tastes okay, but Yanyan, why did you suddenly think of making soup for me?"

"Of course I see you are too tired, busy until so late every day"

Zhou Fengnian immediately laughed and said, "After drinking this bowl of soup, it will be you, Yanyan, who will suffer."

“Pure nonsense”

Zhou Yan blushed. Even after getting married, she still found it hard to resist Zhou Fengnian's words. She turned around and walked away with her long legs. "Just leave it there when you're done. I'll collect the bowls tomorrow."

"Forget it, let's stop here for today. It's time to rest."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he drank the soup in one gulp, then picked up Zhou Yan and walked towards the main house.

At night, the hard wooden bed began to shake again, accompanied by Zhou Yan's oriole-like babbling voice.

Maybe it was because of the tonic soup, the big bed was rocking extra long tonight.

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Weekend morning.

Zhou Fengnian, who should have had a good sleep, woke up unexpectedly refreshed.

After working hard for three hours last night, Zhou Fengnian didn't feel tired at all: "How strange, is it because of the tonic soup last night?"

However, Zhou Fengnian soon realized that it was impossible. If the tonic soup was so magical, it would have become popular long ago.

Zhou Fengnian suddenly thought of the sudden skillful technique he used on Zhou Yan last night. He immediately opened the proficiency simulation system, and after flipping through many skills, he found a skill that had just appeared.

The Art of Sex: (Level 0: 2000/)

"How could such a skill appear? Really..."

Zhou Fengnian didn't know what to say. This proficiency simulation system would record various abilities, but some would not be recorded.

At least running can be recorded as a skill, but walking cannot.

Therefore, after there were too many skills, Zhou Fengnian sometimes was too lazy to open them and look at them. It would take a long time just to look through hundreds of skills.

If he hadn't inexplicably learned many postures last night, Zhou Fengnian would not have thought that his sexual skills had been upgraded.

"It's really powerful. But it will take a long time to reach level 7 or 8. Let's go buy breakfast first."

Zhou Fengnian was too lazy to make a fire in the morning, and Zhou Yan was still sleeping soundly, so he simply bought breakfast outside to save trouble.

Not long after, Zhou Fengnian bought a bunch of breakfast and came back. When he came back, Zhou Yan and Zhou Chunhua had just woken up.

After breakfast, Zhou Fengnian planned to go to Bai Kang’s house today, so he said goodbye to Zhou Yan and asked her to have a good rest at home, then he got on his bike and set off.

Not long after, Zhou Fengnian arrived at Bai Kang's residence.

Because they had made an appointment in advance, when Zhou Fengnian arrived, he happened to see Bai Kang at the security guard station.

"Brother Zhou, thank you for your hard work."

Bai Kang greeted him with a smile, and said a little embarrassedly: "I asked you to run here on my day off. Your sister-in-law will make braised pork for lunch, and we can have a drink together."

"Let's drink tea, Brother Bai. Let's drink wine next time. I need to talk to you about this today."

Zhou Fengnian patted his briefcase and said that the things promised to him inside had all been packed up.

Bai Kang also nodded excitedly and said, "Then let's replace the wine with tea and drink it next time."

After returning to the house, Bai Kang asked his wife to make tea, and he went back to the house with Zhou Fengnian to discuss things.

"Brother Bai, what I'm researching this time... well, it all depends on whether you have the determination to do it. If your leader doesn't agree, then your factory has no hope at all."

As Zhou Fengnian spoke, he took out the blueprint from his briefcase, spread it on the table and continued

"Brother Radio Bai, you know, there are semiconductor radios overseas now.

Of course we will have it soon, and by then the size of the radio will be reduced by two or three times from the current large box."

“But it was still too big, so I tried to shrink it even more and changed some of the features.”

Zhou Fengnian explained it to Bai Kang in detail, but he did not talk about the technology, he just talked about the advantages of the portable recorder.

The size has become smaller, so it can be carried around or even worn on the waist; and Zhou Fengnian also added a recording function, so it is a bit inappropriate to call it a walkman.

Temporarily call it a portable tape recorder.

Although there are alternatives for both recording and playing functions, recorders and players have appeared a long time ago, but it is the only one that can combine these two functions and reduce the size to such a small size.

Bai Kang was no fool, he quickly saw the advantages of this portable recorder.

Not to mention earning foreign exchange with it, I'm afraid that if it is kept in the country, there will be many people with good financial resources who would want to buy it.

"Brother Zhou, what is this tape for? Why does it require the cooperation of so many units?"

Bai Kang suddenly felt a headache. Their factory did not have the technical skills, so they could not make it even if they had the drawings.

"So I told you, Brother Bai, you have to go find your leader. This requires coordination among many departments. Just the manufacturing process of the production line requires a lot of effort."

Zhou Fengnian explained that if the machinery factory was not a large heavy industry factory with no connection to light industry, he would rather keep this kind of electrical appliances that can earn a lot of foreign exchange in the machinery factory.

Unfortunately, light industry and heavy industry are clearly separated. The electrical workshop that produced hot pot and electric blankets only stayed in the machinery factory for more than half a year before being separated.

"Brother Bai, if you can get the manufacturing production line done and start mass production, it will be a good thing for you. You may even be able to build the country's number one electrical appliance factory."

"By then, you will be the director of the largest factory directly under the Ministry of Light Industry. Anyway, I have already researched the technical process. As long as you recruit people to verify that there is no problem, you can start production."

Bai Kang couldn't help but nodded after hearing that. Even though it was very difficult, he was very excited now.

The most important thing is that the product is good. If the product is not good, and it turns out to be a big box that is similar to a radio, Bai Kang would not even think about it.

Why bother? You can't sell the products and earn foreign exchange.

But Bai Kangshi really felt that he could earn foreign exchange, and a lot of it, with such a small portable recorder.

There are also magnetic tapes. After listening to Zhou Fengnian's explanation, Bai Kang quickly realized that magnetic tapes have many uses, and a factory can be established just with them.

The two talked for a long time, and only left the room to have lunch when Bai Kang's wife asked for the third time.

The braised pork had been reheated twice, and Bai Kang's son was so hungry.

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After leaving Bai Kang's house, Zhou Fengnian planned to buy a few books to read when he returned, so he rode his bike and took a detour to the library.

When he came out of the library, he suddenly found that there were two people who looked strange and were staring at him.

Zhou Fengnian became more cautious and kept paying attention to his back while riding his bicycle. He actually inadvertently saw the person he had met in the library before.

"Damn, who is targeting me?"

Zhou Fengnian immediately took a detour and rode towards the police station at a faster speed.

After arriving at the police station, Zhou Fengnian showed his ID and said to the guard: "I am a level 8 engineer at the machinery factory. I want to report a crime. Someone was following me just now."

Tracking a Level 8 Engineer! ?

After reading the ID, the guard immediately became alert, took out his gun and looked around outside, then said to Zhou Fengnian
"Comrade, come in with me. I'll take you to see the director."

(End of this chapter)