Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 143 Foreign Trade Department, Zhou Yan's Work (Subscription Request)
"When I came here before, I was afraid of the bad influence, so I didn't tell the people in the neighborhood committee, but now I have no choice but to tell them."

Bai Yujie held the child and sighed, "These matchmakers come more often, and it's annoying. Let the neighborhood committee talk to them."

She was not willing to use her position to pressure others, but when it was time for a break, someone would come to her door, and it was as if she didn't understand any refusal she made.

It would be fine if it happened once or twice, but after it happened many times, Bai Yujie realized that he was just pretending to be stupid.

"This is what a slum is like. There are a lot of people, all kinds of people. But luckily there are mostly workers nearby, so the security is relatively good."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "If you go further east, near Tongzhou, you'll find a mixed bag of people."

"Fengnian, have you been there?"

"No, our home is near Changping. I was always so nervous when I went back home at night. I was not at ease even with a gun."

Zhou Fengnian recalled his previous experience of going to the countryside, and he still remembers it vividly; at that time, even if he had a gun, he would not dare to walk at night unless he was escorted by the militia.

Bai Yujie sighed and said, "I thought living outside would help me avoid marriage proposals, but it turned out to be more common."

“Is the machinery factory still lined up in the tube building?”

"No, my cousin can help me line up at the Electrical Appliance Factory, but it will take at least until the year after next."

"That sounds worse than home. They're all urging us to get married anyway."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, Bai Yujie rolled her eyes at him and said, "Fengnian, you are here to lobby for my brother, right?
You don't know my dad. He's very annoying when he nags. He can make Qing'an scared and cry. For my daughter, I won't go back easily."

Zhou Fengnian's mouth twitched slightly after hearing these words. If he hadn't known the truth from Bai Kang, he might have really been deceived.

"Fengnian, have you ever been urged to get married before?"

"After we got married, I stopped urging you."

"Hahaha, Fengnian you"

Bai Yujie didn't react at first, but when she did, she couldn't help laughing.

Then he talked about other things: "It's okay here, but there are too many people and it's noisy. There's also a general meeting of the whole institute.
The mediators should have been removed in 1958, but they are still here. I need to ask the neighborhood committee why they keep them, or if there is something special about this courtyard. "

"hehe."

Zhou Fengnian wanted to laugh after hearing this. It was really interesting to add a temporary resident in this yard who was also the deputy director of the factory and had worked in the Women's Federation.

"Fengnian, what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, Comrade Yujie, it's almost time for dinner, would you like to try my cooking?"

Zhou Fengnian looked at the time. It was almost noon, so it was just the right time to go back and cook a meal.

I also invited Bai Yujie. I used to say I would treat us all, but after getting busy I never did it.

Bai Yujie looked at her daughter, then said with a smile: "Sorry to bother you and Zhou Yan."

She originally wanted to take her daughter to a restaurant. She rarely cooked at home, but when she heard that Zhou Fengnian wanted to treat them today, she agreed without much hesitation.

On the one hand, Bai Yujie has a good relationship with Zhou Yan, and on the other hand, she is also a little curious about Zhou Fengnian's craftsmanship.

Zhou Fengnian's craftsmanship has become famous in the machinery factory, according to his wife Zhou Yan; as the head of the family, there are two things she is most proud of, one is her brain, the other is her cooking skills.

Bai Yujie returned the child to Zhou Fengnian, and went to the inner room to bring Bai Qingan out; when she called her daughter, she was still greedily saying that she would just have a snack at noon.

But after being spanked twice by Bai Yujie, he became obedient and walked out holding hands obediently.

After leaving the house, Bai Yujie locked the door and walked out with Zhou Fengnian; they talked as they walked. Zhou Fengnian knew that Bai Yujie's father was in the foreign trade department, and he also wanted to know something about foreign trade.

The First Ministry of Machine Building must also go through the procedures of the Ministry of Foreign Trade when exporting machine tools. Confidential five-axis machine tools cannot be exported, but other CNC machine tools can.

As long as the technology is not leaked, it would be good to export more machine tools. At this time, the country is in great shortage of foreign exchange, and only factories that can earn foreign exchange are good factories.

When Zhou Fengnian brought Bai Yujie back home, Zhou Yan had just cleaned the house.

He was a little surprised to see Bai Yujie, but after learning about the situation, he immediately welcomed her.

After Zhou Fengnian handed the child to his wife, he went to prepare lunch.

Although he hasn't cooked for a while, the skill lock will not reduce his cooking skills.

When they sat down to eat, Zhou Fengnian's cooking skills made Bai Yujie and her daughter feast on the food.

The little girl had eaten a lot of snacks before, but she couldn't help but eat a lot after the food was served. If Bai Yujie hadn't stopped her, she would have eaten so much that she couldn't walk.

After dinner, Bai Yujie rested for a while at Zhou Fengnian's house, during which time Zhou Fengnian asked a lot of questions about the Foreign Trade Department.

Although the Bai family has few people, they are all cadres. Father Bai usually tells his descendants about what happens in the Foreign Trade Department, and he also trains his own daughter.

After a few visits, Bai Yujie knew a lot about the Foreign Trade Department, but today Zhou Fengnian asked her about it again.

"Fengnian, the ministry has given us a mission."

Work started on Monday, and Gao Zhiyuan came to Zhou Fengnian's office early in the morning and handed Zhou Fengnian the tasks arranged by the ministry for the next five months.

"35 units. Fortunately, we were able to complete it."

After reading it, Zhou Fengnian said that he ordered 42 units for the technical department and several workshops, and he still left room for more if they worked overtime.

However, large-scale overtime in factories is also troublesome. The subsidies alone are an expense, and the workers' emotions must also be taken into consideration.

Gao Zhiyuan nodded and said, "As long as you can complete the task, that's fine. By the way, the ministry also said that you have to go there in two days, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade will also go there at that time."

"Foreign Trade Department? What are they doing here?"

Zhou Fengnian looked surprised. He had just asked Bai Yujie about the Foreign Trade Department yesterday, so how come they would be visiting in two days?

"Minister Li said that he has found some people for the CNC workshop you want to build, but the equipment will be discussed with the Ministry of Foreign Trade. As for the specific requirements, you have to discuss with the Ministry of Foreign Trade."

Gao Zhiyuan said: "Minister Li will be there by then, and we may have to use foreign exchange to buy things, so we are so serious."

"That's it"

Zhou Fengnian probably understood that foreign exchange was extremely valuable at this time and every dollar was useful.

Although the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the First Ministry of Machine Tools were promised to purchase equipment for the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, if too much was spent at one time, neither the Ministry of Foreign Trade nor the First Ministry of Machine Tools could make the decision.

However, these devices are related to the efficiency of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory in producing CNC machine tools and are indispensable.

Zhou Fengnian stroked his chin and thought, he was afraid that he would spend too much foreign exchange, and what would happen if he was given a "discount" later.

"Please have someone notify me when the time comes, Director."

"Okay, Wednesday morning, around nine."

Gao Zhiyuan left after he finished speaking.

Zhou Fengnian put down what he was drawing and then thought of other things.

Although the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory manufactured five-axis machine tools, these machine tools were completely controlled by their superiors. Even if other CNC machine tools wanted to be exported to earn foreign exchange, they still needed approval from the Ministry of Machine Building.

Ordinary machine tools do not have this limitation, but ordinary machine tools are too difficult to sell.

This time is not like the 1950s. Although it is still a planned economy, the ministries have already given many factories more autonomy. The higher-ups can’t approve too many resources. If you can make private adjustments and earn profits, that’s your own ability.

Some factories want to make money but have no other choice but to raise pigs and grow vegetables on the vacant land within the factory to develop agricultural and sideline industries.

Previously, Zhou Fengnian was engaged in light industrial electrical products in the machinery factory and received support from the factory. However, due to his good development potential, he was separated out to form Electrical Factory No. 1.

Zhou Fengnian now wants to generate some by-product from the machine tool factory.

The main business is of course the research and development and manufacturing of CNC machine tools, which he will not ignore; but Huaxia Machine Tool Factory is also short of money!
70% of the machine tools produced are distributed to ministries and commissions, and almost none are retained by the factory itself, so there is no room for adjustment.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Fengnian quickly took out a piece of paper and wrote down a few ideas.

In other words, only because this year's tasks were completed ahead of schedule did Zhou Fengnian have the energy to do other things. If the five-axis machine tool was still being researched and manufactured, he would not be able to spare any energy at all.

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First Ministry of Machine Building, Office of the Women’s Federation.

"Sister Liu, Sister Zhang, does anyone want hot water?"

Zhou Yan came back with a kettle of hot water and asked other people in the office.

"Swallow, sit down and take a rest. You yawn all day long and you keep working."

Sister Zhang said with a smile that she is the deputy director of the factory women's federation and also a deputy section-level cadre.

"Sister Zhang, our Yan Zi is very comfortable when she is tired. The more tired she is at night, the more comfortable she is during the day!"

"Haha, I envy Yan Zi for this. She can eat her fill when she goes back~"

Zhou Yan was immediately embarrassed by the teasing words in the room. She put down the kettle and returned to her seat and said, "Okay, I'm kind enough to get you some hot water, but you're talking about me."

Zhou Yan knew that these people didn't put any thought into it. They just liked to say dirty words when there was no one around. Anyway, they, the lesbians, were the only ones in the room.

Sometimes when talking about factory gossip, Zhou Yan would also join in, and even Sister Zhang had been teased.

Among the twelve people in this office, eight have backers. They are either the daughter-in-law of the district government director or the daughter-in-law of the secretary of a large factory.

Zhou Yan also has a considerable background. She is the deputy director of a large factory directly under a ministry, and she is only in her twenties.

Deputy Director Bai also said hello, which was considered as the care of the two deputy directors.

Even though she was just a level five clerk, no one was rude to her; because everyone knew what the Women's Federation was, and only people like them with backgrounds could intimidate others.

dong dong!

"Director, someone is here, it seems the situation is quite serious."

Suddenly someone knocked on the door and reported. Sister Zhang immediately became serious and said, "Zhou Yan, Fang Li, come with me and take care of things first."

I called Zhou Yan because I wanted to take care of her and accumulate more experience in handling affairs, which will be beneficial in the future.

When the three of them arrived at the Women's Federation reception desk outside, they immediately saw a woman with wounds all over her face, sitting timidly on a chair, surrounded by a group of angry Women's Federation members.

Sister Zhang immediately asked after seeing this: "What happened? Why is he so badly injured? Send him to the hospital immediately."

"Sister, I'm fine, can you help our family?"

The woman with a wounded face quickly grabbed Sister Zhang and pleaded with her, treating Sister Zhang as her life-saving straw and refusing to let go.

"Tell me what's going on. The Women's Federation is an organization that helps women. As long as you have grievances, we can help you solve them."

Sister Zhang said in a gentle voice, "What's the matter with the wound on your face? Who hit you?"

With the comfort of Sister Zhang and other people from the Women's Federation, the woman finally told the story.

Her husband is a gambler who likes to drink and fight when he loses. However, this man is a bully at home and only dares to attack his family members.

She had been a little more restrained before, but today she was so scared that she ran out while her husband was looking for fire tongs.

Thinking that her husband worked in a machinery factory, she came to ask for help.

"Shi Sanhua, has anyone heard of the workers in our factory? Which workshop?"

"I don't know. We have so many workshops in our factory. Let's go to the personnel department and ask."

"He has not come to work today for gambling. Director, you can give him two serious demerits."

Three serious offenses will result in direct dismissal, and two offenses are considered the factory's ultimate warning.

Sister Zhang said, "Let's take care of their family affairs first, and let the factory handle Shi Sanhua's affairs."

After firing the man, she was afraid that Shi Sanhua would only resort to beating people, so she had to deal with this man fundamentally.

Soon, the people from the Women's Federation found out about Shi Sanhua, who was from the heat treatment workshop. He did not come to work today, and the workshop had already recorded him as absent.

After seeing this, Sister Zhang called out to someone, "Fang Li, Zhou Yan, come with me and ask for a few people from the security department. Go directly to his home and deal with Shi Sanhua."

"I understand, Director."

After the group went to the security department to explain the situation, they quickly asked for three people from the factory security department, and together with Sister Zhang, Fang Li and Zhou Yan, they rushed to Shi Sanhua's home.

When we arrived, Shi Sanhua was sleeping soundly and the door was not even closed.

There was also a strong smell of alcohol in the room. You could tell he drank a lot last night.

Sister Zhang frowned and said, "Wake him up."

After hearing this, Fang Li took a glass of water and poured it on him. They never showed mercy to men who gambled and committed domestic violence.

"Who is it, damn! Don't you want to live?"

Shi Sanhua hadn't opened his eyes yet, and after being woken up by the splash, he subconsciously started cursing.

However, Sister Zhang waved her hand and asked three security personnel to drag Shi Sanhua out of bed, take him to the yard and wake him up.

"Humph, Shi Sanhua, you skip work, gamble and drink, and beat your wife when you're drunk. Do you really think our Women's Federation doesn't exist?"

Sister Zhang said coldly: "If I don't teach you a lesson this time, our factory women's federation will have been established in vain.

Sorry to bother you three, please bring him back to the factory and lock him up in the security department first. We will come to you to solve the problem after we have worked out a plan."

The security team leader said quickly, "Of course, Director Zhang, let's take Shi Sanhua back first."

After seeing this scene, the neighbors in this slum did not dare to do anything.

The security department all carry guns, and they all heard that these were people from the factory women's federation, so they naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to come forward to confront the government.

I just watched Shi Sanhua being taken away. At first, Shi Sanhua was still struggling and yelling.

But after being punched several times by the security department, he was taken away with his face red and unable to speak due to the pain.

Afterwards, Sister Zhang asked Fang Li and Zhou Yan to lock the door and left together. However, they first sent the beaten woman to the hospital, and then returned to the factory to deal with Shi Sanhua.

(End of this chapter)