Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 151: Driving a New Car to the Ministry (Subscription Request)
Before Zhou Yan and Zhou Fengnian could speak, they saw a man following Bai Yujie.

He has a decent appearance and is probably around 30 years old.

But he was obviously walking towards Bai Yujie, but he was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhou Fengnian and Zhou Yan here, but he still walked closer and said: "Yujie, I just came to see you today. If you don't want to, then we can talk another day."

After saying this, the man turned and left.

After he left, Bai Yujie breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Zhou Yan and Zhou Fengnian, saying, "Thanks to you, otherwise I don't know how long that guy would follow me."

"Sister Yujie, who is that person?"

Zhou Yan asked curiously, it seems that he is not from their factory, could it be that they met through a blind date?

"This is not the place to talk, how about we go to my house and rest for a while?"

"That's disturbing you."

Bai Yujie hesitated for a moment and confided, "To be honest, I'm afraid that after I go back, that person will come again in the afternoon. It's like a plaster, it's hard to tear off once it sticks."

After saying that, Bai Yujie looked at a man not far behind Zhou Fengnian, standing on guard on both sides, who looked a bit like the security guard around her father.

Maybe Xi Tianrong decided to leave just now because he saw the security guard behind Zhou Fengnian.

Otherwise, with so many people talking about him in the courtyard just now, they wouldn't have been so shameless as to block the door; she was planning to take her child to hide at her cousin's place for two days, and by the way, let her cousin see how unreliable the person her father talked about was.

Only after entering Zhou Fengnian's house did Bai Yujie relax and let her daughter play by herself in the yard. Then she and Zhou Yan went to the inner room to discuss something.

However, Zhou Fengnian did not go in to listen. It was inappropriate for a man like him to listen to women's private conversations, so he went to his fourth sister's place to get the child back and bring him with him.

When Song Weinan saw Zhou Fengnian, he followed Zhou Chunhua in calling him "Third Brother" and then began to express his gratitude.

He has been learning to drive large vehicles very quickly recently. According to his master, he will be able to take the exam to become a deputy fifth-level driver in April next year.

At that time, you will be able to follow the car on missions, and not only will the salary be high, but the subsidies will also be high.

This job as a driver is much better than his previous job at the Electrical Appliance Factory. At the Factory, without the care of his leader, he could only slowly increase his salary level by increasing his years of service.

Although the No. 1 Electrical Appliance Factory has good performance, no matter how much subsidies it receives, salary increases are very slow.

Unless you are like Zhou Jiaan, who has someone behind the scenes giving him a heads-up and has now been promoted to team leader, you may have the opportunity to become a workshop director on a work-related basis next year.

At this time Zhou Jiaan also started to study and attend night school. If he wanted to work as a substitute for work, it would be impossible without some education. Even with Zhou Fengnian's care, he still had to be strong enough.

After obtaining a diploma from night school, he will be eligible to work as a substitute for work. After studying at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, Zhou Jiaan will be able to get a permanent position as workshop director.

Everyone around Zhou Fengnian has made great progress, even his wife was transferred to a clerk and promoted several levels.

But it is also because of their own abilities. If Zhou Weitian didn't have any skills, he wouldn't have been able to become the chef of the machine tool factory, and Zhou Jiaan would have been even less likely to become a team leader.

If Zhou Fengnian doesn't have the ability to help, he won't be able to do anything even if he wants to.

Hongjia Village is developing well now. Hong Changshan listens to him more and held a meeting with the villagers. After discussion, they decided to use the money earned from selling mushrooms to build a greenhouse.

In this case, you may get less this year, but with the profits, you can get more money next year.

Besides, it’s not like they have nothing even if they get less. If they can grow vegetables in the winter, the Hongjia Village can still make money.

Hong Changshan and others were also enlightened by Zhou Fengnian, and now he gets whatever is needed in the city.

After the greenhouse was built, Hongjia Village started to grow vegetables, which were in short supply in the city during the winter. When the time came, they could transport them to the city and they would have no trouble selling them.

They are not very good at making bricks and paper, but Hongjia Village is definitely good at farming, and taking care of the greenhouse is no problem at all, not to mention the advice given by Zhou Fengnian.

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A busy month.

Zhou Fengnian could feel the benefits of rapid physical recovery more and more, but he didn't know whether it was brought by the third-level bedroom technique.

Anyway, he rarely feels tired now. After a busy morning, he doesn't feel very sleepy in the afternoon and can still devote himself to busy research and development work.

When it came time to report the machine tool factory's gross domestic product for the previous month in November, all the factory leaders were smiling, even Secretary Kang, who was usually the most serious and solemn.

There's no way around it, everyone will be happy after hearing this number.

They thought that September had been a peak, but the total output value of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory in October gave everyone another surprise.

If the performance can be maintained in the next three months, it is estimated that the total output value of Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory in 1964 can reach more than 40 million.

The Second Machine Tool Factory had a production value of only over 11 million in 1963, but their leadership team actually quadrupled the output value.

When Zhou Fengnian said that the amount would triple or more, they all thought it was a little impossible. But this time they are not allowed to make false reports, so tripling the amount is quite difficult.

But now it has been done, and it hasn’t even taken a year.

And that's without counting the five-axis machine tools. If those are included, the annual output value would be around 200 to 300 million.

But they have to be sold first. Machine tools with heavy planning tasks cannot be counted, and we can't ask our sister factory to offer 10 million yuan for each machine.

Last month’s impressive output value was good news, but for Zhou Fengnian, another piece of good news was that the car would be ready soon.

The important components and chassis and body structures have been completed, and the rest of the work has been almost completed in this month.

The main reason was that ten people were a bit too few, so Zhou Fengnian transferred another twenty people without affecting the factory's tasks.

Now thirty people are building one car, and all technical support is provided by Zhou Fengnian, so the production efficiency is immediately improved.

After the mold of the shell was completed, it was used to stamp and manufacture the car body, and soon a qualified car body shell was brought back.

The seats were also made of leather, although it was rare, but after Gao Zhiyuan used his connections to inquire about it, he was able to get a batch of it and sent it to the factory that made the seats as soon as possible. The closer it got to the final step, the more concerned Zhou Fengnian was about the progress of the car. In the end, he came almost twice a day, and stayed in the workshop for two to three hours each time.

When it was finally completed, the entire workshop and the entire technical department came over to take a look.

The scene suddenly became chaotic and noisy, and everyone wanted to squeeze to the front to see. Zhou Fengnian saw this and shouted, "Stop squeezing. If you squeeze any more, you will have to climb on top of the car."

After hearing Zhou Fengnian's call, the people in the workshop calmed down a little.

However, someone couldn't wait to ask, "Mr. Zhou, can we drive the car now that it's built?"

A workshop worker immediately said, "Technician Zhang, what you said is true. The car built by Deputy Director Zhou must be drivable. There are so many complicated parts in this car."

"Mr. Zhou, please drive it for us to see. Now our factory can also manufacture cars!"

"Our factory has been able to manufacture cars for a long time. A lathe can also be considered a car!"

"Then run the lathe and let me see."

"Mr. Zhou, please open it!"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, open one."

Seeing that the scene was too chaotic, Zhou Fengnian waved and shouted again to stop the chaos: "Okay, let me drive, you have to get out of the way first!

It's so crowded, I'm going to hurt more than a dozen people if I step on the accelerator, please make way for me."

After hearing this, the others made way for the workshop door and looked at Zhou Fengnian and the car he built with anticipation.

The appearance of this car is very different from other cars. Others can’t really describe it, but when you see the streamlined body, you can’t think of any other words except “beautiful”.

After Zhou Fengnian got in the car, he thought about it carefully. The key parts of the car were assembled under his guidance, and he had checked them all, so there must be no problems.

After ignition, a buzzing sound was heard inside the car and it started up quickly. The onlookers and Zhou Fengnian himself felt inexplicably excited when they saw the car start successfully.

He modified the gear shifting system of the car. Zhou Fengnian found gear shifting in this era difficult and the steps were particularly cumbersome, so he modified it to be closer to later generations and optimized it slightly.

After stepping on the gas and releasing the handbrake, Zhou Fengnian slowly drove out of the workshop and soon started driving in the factory.

After circling twice, when Zhou Fengnian drove past the workshop, he asked other workers to go back as he wanted to drive out of the factory for a while, and then drove the new car to the factory office building.

After turning off the engine, Zhou Fengnian went upstairs to find Gao Zhiyuan, the person with whom he had the best relationship in the factory, and he always had to inform him when a new car was ready.

dong dong!

After knocking on the door and hearing the echo from inside, Zhou Fengnian couldn't wait to push the door open and go in.

"Feng Nian? What's the matter?"

"I don't have anything to do, but are you busy, Brother Gao? If not, why don't you come with me to the ministry?"

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "The tea is almost finished. I'll drive you to the ministry to get some tea."

"Why do you need a ministry for such a small matter? I'll get you some."

Gao Zhiyuan said with a smile, but before his hand touched the drawer, he suddenly reacted and asked in surprise
"Fengnian, you said you drive a car. Have you built that new car?"

He went to the ministry to ask for tea for no reason and was told that he would drive him there. Gao Zhiyuan could only think of the new car that was almost completed in the workshop.

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "You can see it if you go to the window."

Gao Zhiyuan stood up immediately after hearing this, and when he stuck his head out, he saw a new white car parked downstairs of the factory office building. There were already quite a few people gathered around to look at the new car.

"Come on, go down and take a look."

Gao Zhiyuan was a little impatient. He remembered that the new car looked very good, much better than the cars and jeeps in the factory.

Moreover, it was he who instigated Zhou Fengnian to build the car. Now that the car was ready, Gao Zhiyuan was naturally looking forward to it.

When the two of them came downstairs, many clerks were already looking and touching, and some even started knocking.

"Hey, what are you doing during work hours? Stop knocking and get back to work!"

As soon as Gao Zhiyuan arrived, he drove away the people surrounding the car. He also went to check the hood of the car that he had just knocked on, and only relaxed a little after confirming that it was not broken.

Zhou Fengnian went to call the security guard, then sat in the driver's seat and said to Gao Zhiyuan: "It's not that easy to break down. Brother Gao, get in the car. Zhao Qiang, you also get in the car and sit in the back."

Zhao Qiang is his bodyguard, and they have been following him for several months and have become familiar with each other.

But Zhao Qiang said, "Leader, let me do it."

"No, I'm not competing with you this time. The gears of the new car are different from the previous ones. I'm afraid you can't drive it."

Zhou Fengnian explained: "I will let you drive after you are familiar with it. Otherwise, you will need a long time to learn."

After hearing this, Zhao Qiang obeyed the order and sat in the back seat; one of them had to be with Zhou Fengnian when he left the factory, so Zhou Fengnian called him.

Gao Zhiyuan smiled and asked, "Where are we going? Are we really going to the ministry?"

"Of course, we have to order some good tea and test its performance."

But this is just an excuse. The engine and other things have been tested before. Now Zhou Fengnian just wants to drive the new car for a spin and then show it off to the ministries.

Ignition, then slowly start, Zhao Qiang watched Zhou Fengnian's operation from behind, and found that the new car's gear shifting was indeed different from what he learned, but it seemed to be simpler.
After the new car started, it drove towards the factory gate.

After leaving the factory, Zhou Fengnian increased the speed slightly and drove quickly towards the Ministry of First Machine Building!

(End of this chapter)