Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 134 Reason for transfer: bad character (Subscription required)
"Mr. Zhou."

After Liu Hanfei came back from inspecting the workshop, he quickly found Zhou Fengnian who was drawing a picture.

“The optimization and improvement of the machine tools you mentioned a few days ago has been completed in the second workshop.

And we tested it, and the performance has really improved, the accuracy has increased a little, the energy consumption has decreased a little, and the processing time has shortened."

"Really? Then continue to optimize and improve other machine tools and send these to the workshop as well."

Zhou Fengnian took out two more machine tool improvement and optimization plans, handed them to Liu Hanfei and said, "Improve and optimize these two machine tools according to this plan."

"I understand. I'll send someone to the workshop to provide technical guidance, Engineer Zhou."

Liu Hanfei was about to turn around and leave after he finished speaking, but he stopped after taking two steps, turned around and asked, "Mr. Zhou, is this the optimization plan you made privately?"

Zhou Fengnian looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"No, nothing. I'm just curious. Mr. Zhou, you're always busy in the factory every day, and you go back to optimize the performance of the machine tools by yourself. I admire you."

Liu Hanfei said sincerely that although Zhou Fengnian was not as old as him, he was still working overtime after returning home, and this hard work was beyond his reach.

"Haha, it's not that exaggerated. Go do something."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said that he completed these during his lunch break, mainly because the difficulty was not great as the previous independent technological improvements were not thorough.

These machine tools were nominally independently developed and produced by the Second Machine Tool Factory, but in fact they used optimized machine tool technology from the Russians.

So it didn't take long before, thanks to Liu Hanfei's big mouth, the people in the technical department found out that Zhou Fengnian was also working on the machine tool optimization after he returned.

When Zhou Fengnian went to the technical department again and took the lead in the work of the five-axis linkage heavy machine tool, everyone else looked at him with admiration.

The driver class is also called the transport class.

Now the factory is divided into large and small shifts. The drivers in the small shift drive cars and they all drive for the leaders.

It seems glorious on the surface, but the income is not as much as that of a shift driver.

Those who drive large trucks for long-distance transport receive a subsidy of 60 cents a day around the cities, and one dollar a day to other provinces.

Even if you are a deputy level 5 driver who has just been promoted, if you encounter a long-distance driving mission lasting one month, your monthly salary will double and almost catch up with that of a level 7 worker.

The team leader of the driver class came back today and frowned when he saw Song Weinan mopping the floor with a bucket.

This is the person the factory director asked him to take care of, so why is he still doing hard labor now?

"Wei Nan, come here for a moment."

Yao Bofeng called Song Weinan over and asked, "How much have you learned recently? Have you ever been in a car?"

Song Weinan answered honestly: "Not yet, the master said I should be steady when I get on the car, so he let me work first."

"I'll go talk to Mr. Xu about this."

After Yao Bofeng finished speaking, he walked towards the driver class. If he was not too busy and had no time, he would have taught his own apprentices.

"Xu Lao Shu, what's wrong with you?"

After Yao Bofeng entered the room, he saw that he was the only one in the room, so he called Xu Shu by his nickname without any courtesy.

After walking to Xu Shu's side, he lowered his voice and asked, "I told you that this person was arranged by the leader. Why did you let him do the work of an apprentice?"

"Captain Yao, it's only been a few days? It's been less than a week and you've come to my door?"

Xu Shu immediately protested: "You can't learn a skill without doing anything, just come here and learn; we all learned how to drive, are you going to learn right away?"

"I learned it right after I got here. The army didn't ask me to do this or that. What's the problem?"

Yao Bofeng immediately retorted that he was a retired driver from the army. A few years ago, truck drivers were needed in various places, and a group of them retired at that time, and Yao Bofeng was one of them.

"You are considered an old member of the driver class, but you don't have much vision. The young man outside got in as the assistant to the deputy director, and the director approved it.

I have been asked to teach you how to drive a large or small car. Do you think this kind of person will steal your job? If you don't want to teach, forget it. Song Weinan will follow me from now on."

Apprentices cannot follow the car, and Yao Bofeng is often out driving and has little time to teach him; but now it seems that Song Weinan will not learn anything by following Xu Shu, so it is better for him to follow him.

Xu Shu was stunned when he heard this. He thought the leader was some section chief in the factory. He had never heard of a factory director and a deputy factory director.

"Team Leader, which deputy factory manager?"

"It has nothing to do with you now. I will teach that young man myself from now on."

Yao Bofeng left after he finished speaking. Today he just happened to feel that there was something wrong with the car, so he started by identifying it.

It was Song Weinan's own idea to learn how to drive a truck. Although being a truck driver is dangerous, the pay is good and he can make money.

Learning how to drive a car is a must. After all, Song Weinan occupies the position of Zhou Fengnian's assistant. After learning how to drive a car, he can also drive him around on weekdays.

Although Zhou Fengnian had nowhere to go, even if he went to a ministry, the ministry would send a car to pick him up.

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"Master Yi, please come out for a moment."

During the break, Zhou Xiangde called Yi Zhonghai outside the workshop and said to him seriously, "Master Yi, I can't take that piece of cloth. Where is your home? I will send it back to you after work."

I didn't bring it directly to the factory, otherwise if someone saw it, it would be another misunderstanding.

Yi Zhonghai quickly said: "Lao Zhou, I don't mean anything else, just..."

"Master Yi, I know what you mean. Let me be clear with you. I can't ask my son-in-law to do anything for me."

Zhou Xiangde interrupted Yi Zhonghai and said solemnly, "I don't care about others, but this kind of thing can't happen in my family."

He knew that the relationship between his son-in-law's family and his own family was still good, all because of his care for his daughter. His daughter gave money and came home to visit because of his face.

Otherwise, Zhou Xiangde might not see Zhou Yan once a year.

If he accepted gifts to ask his son-in-law to do something now, his daughter would definitely be angry with him; even those who have not been educated know that accepting gifts is almost the same as bribery.

"Master Yi, where is your home? I'll take it there after work."

"Lao Zhou, that's not necessary."

"Master Yi, if you don't tell me, I'll go ask someone else."

When Yi Zhonghai saw Zhou Xiangde's determined look, he knew that there was no hope, so he directly told him his home address.

"Nanluoguxiang. OK, I got it. I'll send it back to you after work today."

Zhou Xiangde suddenly remembered that his son-in-law was also in Nanluoguxiang, so he decided to go there to deliver the clothes and talk about this matter after delivering the clothes.

"Mr. Zhou, this is our team's proposal. The design concept is as follows."

Zhou Fengnian listened and watched, and quickly went over the plan in his mind. He nodded and said, "Okay, your team is quite efficient. Keep going. If you keep going like this, your team may be the first to come up with a complete plan."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou, let's go back and continue."

The team leader said with joy that very few people could get Zhou Fengnian's recognition, and their team was the first.

After seeing this, the others worked even harder on research and development, hoping to complete their team's tasks as quickly as possible.

The part that Zhou Fengnian is in charge of actually has the fastest progress, because he has almost all the data of the finished five-axis linkage heavy machine tool in his mind, and he only needs to draw the dimensions of the parts.

However, he is responsible for many areas. Zhou Fengnian spends most of his time in the technical department, where he also has his desk. He rarely goes back to his deputy director's office.

When it's time to get off work, you can hear the chaos gradually rising in the factory, with workers outside shouting to go home after get off work.

However, there was no sign of people leaving get off work in the technical department. Even Zhou Fengnian, who was always the first to go home, was now much later.

The technical department is filled with the sounds of writing and drawing. Even if there are discussions, the noise is not loud and will not affect others.

After Zhou Fengnian finished drawing the blueprint in his hand, he stretched and looked at the time. Seeing that it was almost six o'clock, Zhou Fengnian packed up and prepared to go back.

He rode his bicycle out of the factory and originally planned to go home first, but thinking that Zhou Yan would be resting at home today, he took a detour to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought some snacks.

You can try it when you have nothing to do at home. You won’t gain weight even if you eat less.

After returning home, Zhou Fengnian suddenly found that his father-in-law was also there, so he smiled and greeted him: "Father-in-law, why are you here today? Please stay for dinner later."

When Zhou Xiangde saw his son-in-law, he immediately smiled and said, "I'm here to give my grandson some clothes. Yanyan's mother made them."

"Wow, this craft is great. Yanyan also made two sets, so the baby won't be short of clothes after he's born."

Zhou Fengnian took a look at the baby clothes and thought they were pretty good and looked very thoughtful. However, Zhou Yan's expression was average, as if she didn't like the clothes very much.

Maybe because she didn't like making clothes, her relationship with Lv Honghui never improved, and she didn't believe that Lv Honghui would take the initiative to make clothes for her children.

"My eldest brother will come to cook later. Do you want to have a couple of drinks today, father-in-law?"

"Forget it, forget it. I won't be busy anymore. I'm leaving soon."

Zhou Xiangde waved his hand, then hesitated, and wanted to say something but stopped himself. But in the end, he made up his mind and said

"Fengnian, there is something I need to tell you."

"What is it? Just tell me, father-in-law."

"There is an eighth-level fitter in our workshop. He wanted me to ask you to help him solve a problem, so he secretly sent a lot of cloth to his home. But I didn't take any of it. I just sent it back to him."

Zhou Xiangde said slowly that this was the first time he had encountered such a secret gift giving, so he thought about discussing it with his son-in-law.

Zhou Fengnian was startled, then asked, "Solve the problem? What problem? Is it Xie Weiqiang or Yi Zhonghai, the eighth-level fitter in your workshop?"

"It's Yi Zhonghai. He also lives on your street, in a hutong not far away."

Zhou Xiangde said, "He seems to want to be transferred back to the steel mill. Last time he heard that you are my son-in-law and the deputy director, he wanted to ask you for help."

Zhou Yan, who was standing by, said somewhat unhappily: "Dad, I told you before not to take advantage of the good harvest."

"It's not my father-in-law's fault, and he refused, didn't he? It's okay."

Zhou Fengnian interrupted and said that his father-in-law was very concerned about his reputation but was also timid, and would definitely not accept gifts behind his back.

I came here today because I felt it was inappropriate. I felt uncomfortable keeping it in my heart, so I told him about it.

"Father-in-law, you are right. We can't afford a few pieces of cloth. If we drag our family into this for a few pieces of cloth, we will suffer a great loss."

Zhou Fengnian praised his father-in-law for a few words, and then asked: "Why does Yi Zhonghai want to go back to the steel mill?"

"He said he didn't know anyone here and felt a little uncomfortable."

"He thinks he's living a good life. Besides, aren't you, father-in-law, an acquaintance of his?"

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, "It's not that easy to transfer back to the original factory. How can I answer when the union of the steel mill asks about it? The excuse of not having any acquaintances is simply not feasible."

"You can't involve the machine tool factory. The factory hasn't treated him unfairly. Tell him that he can be transferred back to his original factory if he wants.

However, there is only one reason that can be written on the file, which is 'personal skills are not up to standard and personality cannot handle high-intensity work'."

If you want to transfer, just transfer. There is no need for the machine tool factory to keep such a person. Level 8 workers are rare in other places, but they are not uncommon in machine tool factories where senior workers gather.

After hearing this, Zhou Xiangde quickly shook his head and said, "I don't think he will agree to this reason."

"That's not the best way. What will we say if the higher-ups ask about it? We can't say the machine tool factory mistreats senior workers. It can't be the machine tool factory's fault, and his excuse doesn't make sense. We can only dismiss him like this."

Zhou Fengnian paused and continued, "Father-in-law, just tell him this, and don't worry about the rest."

"Don't worry, son-in-law. I don't even want to pay attention to him. How can you give a gift when someone is not around? If others know about it, there will be no explanation."

Zhou Xiangde assured, and then talked about other things: "Yanyan, you won't go to work tomorrow?"

"Well, maternity leave is fifty-seven days, and I have handed in my work today."

Zhou Yan smiled. She had been feeling more and more inconvenient recently, and her fellow workers were a little worried about her when she was working.

I felt much more relaxed after I came back.

Zhou Xiangde said: "Don't just lie there at home, if you need help..."

When Zhou Yan heard this, she felt unhappy. She knew that her father was going to ask Lv Honghui to come and help, but she felt disgusted when she heard it.

She was about to say something, but when she thought of her husband's advice, she suppressed her unhappiness and said, "Don't worry, Fengnian's second sister-in-law is nearby. She can accompany me during the day. It's not inconvenient."

"Okay, that's good."

Zhou Xiangde nodded awkwardly, not knowing what to say, so he stood up and said, "That's it for today, I should go back too."

"Father-in-law, please stay for dinner. It will be ready soon."

Zhou Fengnian just went out for a while, and now his elder brother is cooking in the kitchen.

"No, no, no, you didn't tell me when you came out. I'm sure they're cooking at home. Maybe next time."

Zhou Xiangde was really rude and was already planning to step out the door while speaking.

"Then father-in-law, take this. I don't smoke much when I put it here."

Zhou Fengnian took out a few packs of cigarettes and stuffed them into Zhou Xiangde's hands: "They are specially supplied and are almost impossible to buy outside. Father-in-law, just take them back and smoke them."

Level 7 engineers are given two packs of cigarettes every month, but Zhou Fengnian hardly smokes. He either gives the cigarettes to his eldest and second sons, or saves them for his father.

The rest of the time, I carry a pack with me to use when I need to smoke.

(End of this chapter)