Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 158 Farewell Gift, Enrollment Expansion Plan (Subscription Request)
After Zhou Fengnian prepared the meal, he brought it to the table and shouted to the inner room.

Green peppers, bacon, hot and sour cabbage, three steamed buns made of 100 grams of flour and two bowls of egg drop soup, it was a good dinner.

Zhou Yan looked at it and asked with some surprise, "Are you cooking meat today?"

"There's still a small piece at home that I didn't finish the day before yesterday. It's only now that the weather is getting cold, otherwise it would have gone bad long ago."

Zhou Fengnian casually said that his current meat ration is very large, four pounds per month, which means he can eat more than one or two pounds per day on average.

Zhou Yan was also a frugal person, or it should be said that people living in this era were all frugal. Zhou Yan felt that eating one or two pounds of meat every other day was a bit of a luxury.

So they usually save their meat coupons until the end of the month, and then they go out to eat something delicious.

Usually Zhou Fengnian would eat meat in the factory canteen.

After Zhou Yan sat down, she picked up a steamed bun and said, "By the way, you just said you had something to say, what was it?"

"As for going home for the Spring Festival, it's only a little over a month away. The last time my dad came home, he talked to me for a long time and said that the house we have is big enough for us to live in."

Zhou Fengnian laughed when he thought of this. His father had now learned to beat around the bush, whereas he would always speak directly in the past.

"What tickets do you have at home? Buy some for the New Year. Do you want to go back home early then?"

Zhou Yan frowned after hearing this: "I'd better go back, but my mother will definitely try to find a job for her eldest son in a roundabout way.
So, how is he doing lately?"

"Your eldest brother? I'm not sure, but my father-in-law said he seems to be doing well. He earns enough to support himself by doing odd jobs every day."

"She will no doubt be mumbling something about finding a job or something. If she says anything, just pretend you didn't hear her."

Zhou Yan said unhappily that she was talking about Lv Honghui, who was planning to steal her job and "sell" it. She still remembers it.

"We still have quite a few tickets at home. There are more than 30 industrial coupons, and we also have other tickets. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative to check. If nothing works, we can exchange them for other tickets."

They may not have many other tickets, but the industrial coupons are definitely the most. Zhou Fengnian can get seven every month, plus Zhou Yan's one, which makes eight in total.

And there is no place to use them, so I bought all the big items. Usually I only buy a kettle, and the industrial coupons are saved up like this.

However, other families do not have so many industrial coupons, and they will definitely have to make adjustments at the end of the year; after all, not all families have such little demand for industrial coupons as Zhou Fengnian's family.

The two of them ate and chatted, and soon finished their dinner. Finally, Zhou Fengnian cleaned up the dishes, leaving nothing wasted.

In the evening, the couple counted their money and found that they had quite a bit of savings; there was a little over 2,000 yuan in the passbook and more than 70 yuan in the cash box for household use.

There are seven feet of cloth coupons, thirty-four industrial coupons, and tobacco and alcohol coupons, all of which must be used before the New Year.

And you have to bring food with you when you go back home for the New Year, otherwise you will have nothing to eat when you get back.

Now there are only two people in the family earning work points, and Zhou's mother is the type who works every day, working four or five days and then having one day off.

Her four children gave her 25 yuan every month as a filial gift, and they also sent back some miscellaneous things. Even Zhou Fugui, who did not earn any work points, lived a very comfortable life.

The work points were not many, and the food was only enough for Zhou Fugui and his wife, so Zhou Xiaomei had to buy all the food.

After discussing for a while, Zhou Yan even wrote down the things she wanted to buy on paper and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them all before the holiday.

I also prepared the money and bills in advance and put them away separately.

While lying in bed, Zhou Yan suddenly remembered something and turned around to ask, "Fengnian, Chunhua's boyfriend, will he go back with us this year?"

Zhou Fengnian said: "I don't think so. He may want to go back to his own home to see that he is just splitting up the family, not breaking off relations."

But there is no need to worry that Song Weinan will be taken advantage of by his family members. Song Weinan gives all the money he earns to Zhou Chunhua to save, so he won't have much money to go home for the New Year.

Song Weinan's family couldn't take away the driver's job; his family members were a bit vampires, and if the family hadn't split up, Zhou Fengnian would definitely not agree to Zhou Chunhua marrying him.

There's no need to step into an obvious fire pit!
"Chunhua is not young anymore, it's time for her to get married."

"That's right. Maybe I'll get married next year. If I'm not married after I'm past the marriageable age, my parents will definitely talk about it during the Chinese New Year."

When Zhou Chunhua got married, the only one the Zhou family hadn't made arrangements for was Zhou Xiaomei; the timing of her junior high school graduation was a bit tricky, but fortunately her family lived in the countryside.

No matter how much the job is done to streamline the workforce, Zhou Xiaomei won't be the only one left. If that doesn't work, she can just go back to the commune and be a member.

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Huaxia Machine Tool Factory.

The closer it got to the departure date, the harder the technicians from the three automobile factories who came to learn technology worked.

With tasks to accomplish and subsidies from the factory, if they fail to learn all the skills, they will definitely feel ashamed of all the employees in the factory when they return.

Now that these people have discovered that Zhou Fengnian really knows a lot, they have started to ask questions about other aspects.

After the people from the First Automobile Plant asked some technical questions about heavy trucks, the technicians from the other two automobile plants also started to learn in an orderly manner.

They sorted out all the problems they encountered when developing cars, and then asked Zhou Fengnian for advice.

At the beginning, Zhou Fengnian only taught for half a day and spent the rest of the time dealing with factory matters.

But later, he taught for longer and longer hours, almost from eight in the morning to eight in the evening, and also dragged Zhou Fengnian away and did not let him go home.

It was not a forced dragging, but they kept begging "Mr. Zhou" and "Mr. Zhou" so that Zhou Fengnian could not refuse with shame. He just had to teach them until the evening.

By the beginning of January, these people had already mastered all the technologies involved in the new car, and had also clarified many of the technical difficulties that had troubled their own car factory, before they were satisfied.

If they want to stay, they can apply for an extension. The Ministry of First Machine Industry will not care about the compensation for accommodation and meals.

However, the three automobile factories needed them to go back, so after receiving several calls from their own factory managers, they bought their return tickets.

Before leaving, Wang Ze, an engineer from Shanghai Auto Works, was reluctant to leave. He held Zhou Fengnian's hand at the gate of the machine tool factory and said:

"Mr. Zhou, can I write to you for advice after I return?"

Zhou Fengnian was startled when he heard this, then he laughed and said, "Of course, if I'm not busy, I will definitely write back to you."

"Then it's settled. This is the address of our factory and my home. Mr. Zhou, you must come to Shanghai when you have time. I'll treat you to pan-fried buns and drunken crabs. They're delicious."

Wang Ze immediately said with a smile, and took out a piece of paper with the address written on it and handed it to Zhou Fengnian. It seemed that this had been planned for a long time.

Not only that, Wang Ze also took out a pen. Although it was not a brand new pen, it was also well preserved.

"Mr. Zhou, I seldom use this pen, so I'm giving it to you. Just treat it as your guidance to us these days. Our factory has been stuck in technology for a long time, and with your guidance, we are almost able to overcome it. This is just a trivial gift, please accept it."

"That's not necessary. Since we are learning from each other, this is what we should do."

"Take it, Mr. Zhou, and consider it a gift between friends."

Wang Ze pushed the pen over again and placed it in Zhou Fengnian's hand somewhat forcefully, which made him feel embarrassed to refuse again.

If I refuse, it means that I don’t consider Wang Ze as a friend, which will hurt the face of this middle-aged man.

After seeing Wang Ze's behavior, the deputy directors of the other two car factories secretly cursed in their hearts. They didn't have anything to give as a gift because of this sudden incident.

Zhou Fengnian took the pen and said with a smile: "Thank you very much. I will send you some BJ specialties in the future."

Yang Tianbing quickly said, "Mr. Zhou, we will send you some special products from Northeast China after we return. We guarantee that they are not available in the city."

"Mr. Zhou, we are too."

Zhou Fengnian said quickly: "No, no, please don't do this. I will make a mistake if I do this."

It would be fine if it was just one or two, but it would be too much trouble to send things to so many people all of them; what's more, these people's family conditions are not as good as Zhou Fengnian's, so it would be inappropriate to accept their things.

These people arrived in early December, and now it is early January, just over a month.

They also participated in the manufacturing process of a new car. Yesterday happened to be the last step in building the new car, so they fully understood the technology involved in the new car.

After seeing these people off, Zhou Fengnian went back to work, but before returning to the office, he went to the workshop.

I looked at the progress of machine tool manufacturing and new car manufacturing.

This car also has a name, Shenzhou Automobile; and the automobile manufacturing workshop of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory is the Shenzhou Automobile Manufacturing Workshop.

As soon as the second car was built, it replaced Gao Zhiyuan's usual car. His car was given to a sister factory with the approval of the ministries and commissions, in exchange for a lot of good things.

The factory that wanted to replace the car also wanted a new car produced by the machine tool factory, but Gao Zhiyuan flatly refused.

They don't even have enough for themselves, how can they give it to others?
The third, fourth, and so on were also reserved by Secretary Kang and other deputy factory directors and deputy secretaries.

However, the Shenzhou Automobile Manufacturing Plant has not been completed yet, so most of the parts can only be manufactured by workers slowly, and the speed will be very slow.

It was too late to produce the third Shenzhou car before the New Year. After all, machine tool manufacturing is the main business, and CNC machine tools will never be enough.

The CNC machine tools needed domestically alone are enough for the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory to produce for ten years, and some CNC machine tools will also be taken away from foreign exchange earnings.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade has already negotiated business deals with several countries and brought back some orders; next year, the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory will have an even heavier task, with production having to increase by at least 20%.

Zhou Fengnian has already planned to suggest to the factory that they recruit more workers and train them to specialize in operating CNC machine tools and fully automatic CNC production lines to be used for night shift rotation.

The operation of CNC machine tools is not that difficult, and it would be unbearable to work night shifts all the time. By recruiting more apprentices, we can implement shift rotation and expand production.

If the CNC machine tools are allowed to run for more than sixteen hours a day, the production efficiency can be increased by about 40%.

However, it cannot be done before the New Year. It has to be implemented at least after the New Year. Moreover, if the recruitment of one or two hundred apprentices is to be expanded, it must at least be reported to the ministries.

"Deputy Director Zhou, the meeting is about to start!"

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go right away."

When he arrived at the factory conference room, most leaders, big and small, had already arrived.

This was the last meeting before the New Year, to summarize before the New Year and plan development after the New Year; the machine tool factory had to stay on until the last shift, so the meeting started relatively late.

Zhou Fengnian has the latest holiday this year, so Zhou Weitian and the others have to wait for him for a day.

"Deputy Director Zhou, here."

Gao Zhiyuan greeted everyone and then said to the leaders of the factory in the room: "Let me tell you about our achievements this year. As of December 300, our factory has produced G CNC machine tools."

The total number of machine tools is 1,760, with a production value of 45.73 million.

Compared with the Second Machine Tool Plant last year, it has increased by almost 3.8 times.

It is a good result, at least it shows that these leaders are fully qualified.

With such great results, the year-end benefits are also very good. Zhou Fengnian has not yet gone to claim them, but deputy factory directors like him basically get ten kilograms of meat and dozens of kilograms of flour.

We were planning to buy some food, but now we don’t have to.

“Comrades, although we have achieved good results in the first year, we should not be complacent. The tasks for next year are still very important.”

Gao Zhiyuan quickly announced the plan and tasks for next year. Production adjustments were made, mainly to manufacture CNC machine tools. The number of ordinary machine tools had already been reduced to save two workshops, but we still had to keep watching.

Before April, ordinary machine tools were completely discontinued, and the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory became a factory that only produced CNC machine tools.

Afterwards, Gao Zhiyuan assigned tasks to the directors of each workshop one by one, and also adjusted tasks for the logistics, publicity and other departments.

After Gao Zhiyuan, Ma Sisheng and Hong Bowen also spoke one by one, and they just supplemented Gao Zhiyuan's words.

When Zhou Fengnian arrived, he took out the recruitment plan document.
"I have one thing to say. Next year, the technical department will not have any other tasks. We will continue to master the technology of five-axis machine tools. At the same time, the factory will change the production workshop to provide technical guidance.

One more thing, I think the machine tool factory can hire more people, tentatively 150 people."

Zhou Fengnian said that he had just thought of this plan and had not had time to tell Gao Zhiyuan.

Deputy Director Hong asked, "Deputy Director Zhou, why are you suddenly hiring people?"

"The workload is too heavy, so we have to change the production plan. Moreover, many CNC machine tools don't even run for 16 hours. In short, we are short of manpower."

Zhou Fengnian handed the plan in his hand to Gao Zhiyuan and said, "Just one copy. Director, please read it and show it to others."

Senior workers cannot work night shifts because their poor sleep will affect the processing of precision parts during the day. The same goes for mid-level workers as they all have production tasks to complete.

Moreover, night shift operations are not very difficult and do not require intermediate workers. It is enough to train them to learn how to operate CNC machine tools.

Zhou Fengnian wrote a very detailed plan, even including the adjustments to the rotations and how much production efficiency could be improved.
After reading it, Gao Zhiyuan nodded in agreement and then passed it to others.

After reading it, the two deputy factory directors, a secretary and a deputy secretary all felt that there was nothing wrong with it. The most important thing was that the planned tasks for next year could be completed after the expansion.

(End of this chapter)