Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 148 Cunning Devils (Subscription Request)
The entire Huaxia Machine Tool Factory was not very satisfied with this reception mission.

However, this was arranged by three foreign-related departments, so the Ministry of First Machine Building could not refuse. Moreover, they must have obtained the consent of higher-level leaders.

The leaders of the ministry could only privately instruct the people at the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory to take charge and be more flexible in their work.

The day after the discussion, all workshops producing five-axis machine tools were posted with slogans such as "No entry for non-workers from this workshop".

In addition, every worker has been interviewed by the workshop director and is not allowed to disclose any information about the workshop, such as production procedures, part styles, and part data, to outsiders.

Otherwise, the security department will intervene and you may even be fired.

The workshop director was very serious when giving the warning, and all the workers took note of it very carefully, not daring to joke about such matters.

At this time, a job is a family heirloom. If you are fired, you will be the sinner of the whole family.

The higher-ups sent people to the machine tool factory to receive them, causing them to be in a state of panic.

Zhou Fengnian was quite relaxed, he just went to the technical department, collected all the key drawings, and locked them in the safe in his office.

He also told all the people in the technical department not to answer any questions from outside factory personnel. Otherwise, even if others said it was okay, he, as the deputy factory director, would punish the person who answered the question.

Zhou Fengnian is usually very approachable and smiling, but now that he is serious, no one in the technical department dares to take it lightly.

After blocking all possibilities of technology leakage, Zhou Fengnian continued to busy himself with his own affairs.

During this period, he also made a phone call to Deputy Leader Li, and after asking about the origin of the matter, he had nothing more to say.

Previously, domestic machine tools had three main sources: technology provided by the Soviet Union and purchases from Japan and Germany; however, most of them were purchased from Japan, and they also provided after-sales maintenance.

However, in the past two years, the number of domestic machine tool imports has been halved again and again, so the Japanese machine tools may be a little anxious after losing a major customer.

That's why I want to take this opportunity to visit the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory.

They make money from selling machine tools and another from repairing and after-sales service, and the profit from repairing and after-sales service is the big and lasting profit.

The income was suddenly cut off. How could the Japanese not be anxious? They at least wanted to find out the situation.

A few days passed.

Five cars suddenly drove to the gate of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, and then a group of people got out of the cars, some wearing Zhongshan suits and shirts and trousers.

Several of them came to the gate of the machine tool factory and showed their credentials to the security department.

After the security department members confirmed that the documents were correct, they notified their superiors of the matter.

Soon, Gao Zhiyuan, his assistant and two clerks came to the gate and greeted the comrades from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Director Qiu, Director Li, Huaxia Machine Tool Factory welcomes you. I am the factory director Gao Zhiyuan."

"Sorry to bother you today, Director Gao."

"Of course not. If the higher authorities need our cooperation, we will definitely do our best. At noon, you can also taste the cooking skills of our factory chef, who I specially hired."

Gao Zhiyuan said with a smile that he originally came from a logistics background and was often involved in building relationships and making friends, and was adept at handling interpersonal affairs.

After a few words, he coaxed the directors of the two departments into smiling faces.

In the opinion of Director Qiu and Director Li, the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory also welcomed them solemnly. After all, the factory director came out to greet them, which was enough to represent their attitude.

They couldn't ask the factory director, secretary and all the other leaders to come out to greet them at the same time. They knew very well that they were at the same level as the factory director, and it was already a great honor for them to be greeted by the factory director alone.

Gao Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Please come in, Director Qiu, Director Li, and Mr. Matsushita from Japan.
Our factory has just been merged and reorganized, and this is the first time we have received foreign guests. If there is anything wrong with the hospitality, Director Qiu, please help me explain it. "

"Don't worry, Director Gao, we all know the situation of your factory."

Director Qiu came close to Gao Zhiyuan and whispered, "The leader has also told us not to embarrass our brother units. We won't make it difficult for you."

Gao Zhiyuan's smile widened, and he prepared to lead the way and said, "Come on, let's talk inside."

The Huaxia Machine Tool Factory is quite large in area and has a large number of employees. The total number of employees in the factory is now approaching 6,000.

It is one of the largest companies in the country. At that time, there were only a few large companies with more than 10,000 employees, and many of them were not disclosed to the public. They were all treasures in the hearts of various departments.

When Gao Zhiyuan took them to visit the factory, he started boasting when he arrived at the ordinary workshop.

They also emphasized that this was the technology they introduced from the "big brother", which has been producing the country's top machine tool technology, and all of them are manufactured by senior workers.

If Zhou Fengnian were here, he would have doubts after seeing Gao Zhiyuan's performance, wondering whether the Russians had given them particularly advanced machine tool technology.

After hearing what Gao Zhiyuan translated, Mr. Matsushita, who came to visit from Japan, nodded frequently in agreement.

No one can say that the Russians' industrial level is bad.

However, the two technical engineers who came from Japan were communicating in a low voice, and they felt something was strange.

Looking at these machine tools, it seems that the Russians' industrial level is not very good. These machine tools are based on the technology from six or seven years ago.

However, they also heard Gao Zhiyuan say that the machine tools had not been upgraded for a long time since the Russian engineers were withdrawn, and they couldn't help but believe it.

This is not a difficult matter to find out. The Russians are almost at odds with China. There seems to be something wrong with their several diplomatic speeches.

We didn't visit many workshops in the whole morning, mainly because Gao Zhiyuan could drag out the time.

Moreover, when the Japanese engineers wanted to get closer to study, Gao Zhiyuan solemnly stopped them and said that it was very dangerous and that workers were often injured or killed in their factory.

And list the number of casualties.

Director Qiu and Director Li, both local people from Beijing, felt something was wrong after hearing this. How could a factory that had just been merged and reorganized have dozens of accidents in half a year?

One casualty accident is considered a big deal. There have been dozens of such incidents in half a year. Logically, the news should have spread throughout the city. How come there was no news at all from the machine tool factory?

After the two looked at each other, they guessed what was going on; however, they were not stupid enough to expose the words of their brother unit for the sake of the Japanese, so they agreed with the casualty data.

Anyway, it is impossible for Japan to investigate this information.

I wandered around for the whole morning, visited a lot of places, and listened to a lot of words, but I didn't get much useful information.

Afterwards, Gao Zhiyuan took the group to the cafeteria's private kitchen, where he not only prepared some delicious dishes, but also bought two bottles of good wine at his own expense.

When Director Qiu saw it, he was immediately surprised and said, "Director Gao, your wine is too expensive. This table of food doesn't even match this wine."

"It's at my own expense. I'm going to treat you all to a meal out of my own pocket. That's for today. I definitely won't be able to afford it tomorrow."

Director Gao looked like he was in pain, but two bottles of Moutai really made him feel like bleeding.

Two bottles of Moutai cost 16 yuan, and you need a wine ticket, but two years ago it only cost 3 yuan.

The two bottles of wine, including the ticket, cost more than fifty yuan, which was one-third of his salary. And it was given to the Japanese, so Gao Zhiyuan's pain on his face was not fake. Mr. Matsushita asked the translator: "What are they talking about?"

The translator said, “This wine is very good. The factory director here paid for us with his own money. Even with the factory director’s salary, it’s very painful to drink this kind of wine.

And the food on this table doesn’t seem to match this good wine.”

When Mr. Matsushita heard this, he looked at Moutai differently; this was the first time he accompanied the company to China, and he was also a wine lover in Japan before.

Afterwards, under Gao Zhiyuan's deliberate toast, people at the table gradually started to toast each other.

The lunch alone lasted for more than an hour; in the end, the two Japanese engineers were not very drunk, but Mr. Matsushita was a little unable to stand up.

In the past, he only drank sake in Japan. When he suddenly drank Moutai, he couldn't control himself and was a little confused.

In this situation, the afternoon visit naturally could not continue, so Director Qiu simply had someone send them back.

Before leaving, he secretly gave Gao Zhiyuan a thumbs up, saying that this factory director was truly a talent and quite suitable for their Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Upon learning that the person had left, Zhou Fengnian came to Gao Zhiyuan to inquire about the situation; he was kind to his own people but average with outsiders, so he did not join in the reception.

Gao Zhiyuan also drank some, but the wine was not enough to make him drunk. Besides, it was impossible for him and the other two directors to get drunk after drinking a little.

"Fengnian, it's just as you said. Those little devils are here for our machine tools. Damn it, they've been trying to learn about our technology time and time again. Do they really think we can't see it?"

Talking about what happened in the morning, Gao Zhiyuan couldn't help but curse.

It's just like asking about their underpants. How could the Japanese be so shameless?

Zhou Fengnian asked, "How many days will they stay?"

Gao Zhiyuan thought hard and said, "Three days. They may come again tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I guess they will realize it by tomorrow. By then, they won't drink no matter how much we persuade them."

"Let's be frank. We can't let them see the machine tools. When we asked the Japanese to repair a machine before, they were very cautious. Tell them that we learned this from them."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he planned to go back and said to Gao Zhiyuan, "Thank you for your hard work, Director."

“Who let me run into this?”

Gao Zhiyuan waved his hand, and after Zhou Fengnian left, he also took a rest.

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The next day, the Japanese people did not come. Gao Zhiyuan asked around and finally found out that the Japanese had gone to the First Machine Tool Factory.

Among the two major machine tool factories in the entire city of Sijiu, the output value of the First Machine Tool Factory is only slightly lower than that of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory.

But the machine tools they produce are not as good as those of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, and they do not involve CNC machine tools.

The Japanese invaders gained nothing wherever they went, so Gao Zhiyuan stopped caring after hearing the news.

Zhou Fengnian never took the Japanese's visit seriously and did not tell his family after returning home.

Instead, Zhou Yan talked to him about things in the factory. The machinery factory not only apologized and made amends to their family, but also arranged a job for Shi Sanhua's wife.

I originally went to the warehouse to work as a temporary manager, but later I was asked to work there by Sister Zhang from the Women's Federation.

This kind of woman is suitable to be absorbed into the Women's Federation, learn new ideas, and then save more women.

The matter has finally come to a successful conclusion. Shi Sanhua has been sentenced to the price of a peanut and the sentence will be executed next month.

Shi Sanhua's family came to make trouble once, but they were dealt with by the factory's security department, which was full of anger. Shi Sanhua's family was so scared that they returned to the village and dared not make trouble again.

Fourteen yuan a month as a temporary worker is enough to cover Shi Sanhua's wife's living expenses, and she is not too old, so she can still remarry.

After resolving this matter, Zhou Yan became much more cheerful and came out of the shadow of the fright she had received that day. Zhou Fengnian didn't have to work hard to comfort her at night.

However, Zhou Fengnian did not agree, and still comforted Zhou Yan three times, and improved her proficiency in the art of sex three times.

"Chief Liu, the higher-ups have adjusted the planned tasks. From now on, the horizontal five-axis and vertical five-axis machines will be produced in a ratio of 7:3.

You can adjust it yourself, the quantity can only be more, not less."

"Okay, I know Mr. Zhou, he's from the new batch."

Before Liu Hanfei finished speaking, a technical staff member suddenly trotted over and said to Zhou Fengnian, "Engineer Zhou, there's a sneaky guy outside who was caught by the security department. He looks like a Japanese soldier."

"Why are they here again?"

Zhou Fengnian frowned after hearing this, and said to Liu Hanfei before leaving: "Keep a close eye on the production, and we'll talk later if there's anything."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou, go ahead and get busy."

Zhou Fengnian quickly came to the outside of the workshop. After looking around, he found the people who were intercepted by two security officers. The three of them were arguing.

"what happened?"

Zhou Fengnian stepped forward and asked. When the security staff saw that it was Zhou Fengnian, they immediately saluted and said, "Deputy Director Zhou, this man is not a worker in our factory. He came here and tried to break in. After I stopped him, he kept mumbling something."

Another member of the security department asked with some suspicion: "Director, could this be what the Japanese said?"

Before Zhou Fengnian returned, some people came from afar. They were Gao Zhiyuan and the people who were supposed to receive the Japanese.

Gao Zhiyuan approached and asked, "Deputy Director Zhou, what happened?"

"This guy wanted to enter the workshop, but luckily he was stopped by two members of the security department, otherwise he would have been able to get in."

Zhou Fengnian asked solemnly, "Director, how come the person you are receiving has been asked to leave the team?"

"This bastard might have done it on purpose!"

Gao Zhiyuan whispered, "Just now he said he wanted to go to the toilet, and I didn't pay attention and asked someone to take him to the toilet. I didn't expect him to come here."

The other side also talked for a while, and then said to the Japanese translator: "Mr. Matsushita thinks this is a misunderstanding, but they want to visit the workshop here, I wonder if it is possible."

"No, this place is not open to the public. Don't get close to it from now on. You can go where we let you go, but it's best not to get close to places we don't let you go."

Zhou Fengnian said directly: "The first time, we will pretend that you don't know, but if you come close to here again, the security department will arrest you and interrogate you directly."

After that, Zhou Fengnian patted the security member on the shoulder and continued, "Well done. Next time you meet a stranger, arrest him first."

(End of this chapter)