Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 162 Encountering a spy, someone from the Foreign Trade Department (Subscription Request)

"Dad, you don't have to send me off. The car is waiting for us at the intersection!"

On the last day of the New Year holiday, Zhou Fengnian was preparing to return home with his children. However, Zhou Fugui and his mother were reluctant to see them off until they were almost at the end of the road.

This annual holiday allowed Zhou Fengnian to relax well. He didn't worry about anything in the factory. All he did was rest.

After getting enough rest, Zhou Fengnian now feels that he has enough energy to start working.

After persuading their parents to go back, Zhou Fengnian and Zhou Yan got in the car and left for the city.

The eldest brother and the second brother's group are also going back today, but they will have lunch before setting off, so they will be able to arrive before the afternoon.

He also brought back a few pounds of cucumbers when he went back. In the city, you couldn't buy them unless you queued up early. But it was so cold that Zhou Fengnian didn't want to get up. He stayed at home and ate cabbage in the winter.

After returning home, Zhou Fengnian and Zhou Yan put their son on the bed and then began to clean the yard.

When you leave home, close the doors and windows. You will only be away for a few days, so there is not much need to clean the house, just tidy up the yard.

All the factories will start work tomorrow. After Zhou Fengnian cleaned the yard today, he had a simple meal in the evening and then went to rest.

Nothing else was done. Zhou Fengnian had originally intended to do this, but after being rejected by Zhou Yan, he was pressed tightly into the quilt and finally had to sleep.

The next morning, workers from all over the city returned to the factories one after another, as orderly as ants returning to their nests.

After Zhou Fengnian returned to the factory, he began to supervise production. Only when all workshops entered production state could he continue his machine tool research and development work with peace of mind.

After visiting several workshops in the factory, Zhou Fengnian planned to return to the office to continue designing the nine-axis machine tool.

However, when he arrived at the top floor of the factory, Zhou Fengnian happened to see a man coming out of his office, so he went up to him and asked

"Why did you come out of my office? Are you Hou from the factory office?"

Hou Shenghai explained, "Deputy Director Zhou, I'm Hou Shenghai. The leader asked me to come and do something, but you weren't there when I knocked on the door."

"what's up?"

"The boss asked me to see if you are busy. If you are not busy, I will tell you in person."

Zhou Fengnian felt a little strange after hearing this, but he still waved his hand and said, "Then you go and do your work. I'll go find the factory manager later."

After being sent away, Zhou Fengnian returned to the office and soon noticed a document on the desk.

The First Ministry of Machine Building sent a notice that the director of the Foreign Trade Department would come to the factory to discuss foreign sales.

"It'll be tomorrow. It's so tight."

Zhou Fengnian put the document down after reading it. This matter had already been discussed at the ministry meeting before the New Year, and this time he came should be to finalize the details.

The CNC machine tools in the factory are world-class technology, and preventive measures must be taken for machine tools exported abroad.

Otherwise, a machine tool sold to country A might inexplicably appear in country B a year later.

In short, if you leave the domestic machine tools, you have to take measures, and if they break down, you can only ask their factory technicians to repair them.

The maintenance fees have to be handed over to the factory, but travel expenses and subsidies are the technician's own income, and it is legitimate and white income.

Zhou Fengnian picked up the documents and walked out the door. He soon came to Gao Zhiyuan's office, knocked on the door and walked in.

Gao Zhiyuan smiled and asked, "Fengnian, you're done so quickly. I thought you were going to wait until after dinner to come see me."

"I came to ask you when the expansion can be completed. The Foreign Trade Department is in such a hurry. I guess they will place more orders."

Zhou Fengnian held up a notice from the First Ministry of Machine Building and said, "They came to urge us the next day after the start of work. They must be very anxious. I guess we added a little extra money."

“It’s possible if you say so.”

Gao Zhiyuan also sucked his teeth and sighed, "The task is already heavy, and with the temporary task of Fengnian, can it be completed?"

"How would we know? We need to first find out how many they have added. Our factory's task this year is 1,200 units. If we add 100 units, it's not bad. I'm afraid we will be overloaded!"

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and then asked, "Brother Gao, when can the enrollment expansion be completed? It would be best if all the staff can be in place within four days."

"I'll go and urge them. The personnel selection will only take two days. I'll personally monitor the Labor and Personnel Department's matter. I'll make sure you can see everyone on the fifth day."

Zhou Fengnian then talked to Gao Zhiyuan about some other things. He was only responsible for technical guidance at Shenzhou Auto and was not responsible for the production in the workshop.

There are a lot of machine tool issues one after another. Once the manufacturing of the nine-axis machine tool starts, we will be too busy to handle it all.

After the chat, Zhou Fengnian was about to go back, but then he casually said, "Brother Gao, are you not going to use Xiao Zhao anymore? Now I have other people delivering documents to me, why don't you give Xiao Zhao to me?"

Gao Zhiyuan laughed and scolded, "Get out of here. You can't even find a good excuse to rob someone. I use Xiao Zhao very well. The file you have was given by Xiao Zhao. You must have brought it from someone else."

Zhou Fengnian was startled and continued to ask, "Is this a gift from Xiao Zhao?"

"Yes, it was around nine o'clock, and I left it on your desk when you were not there."

Gao Zhiyuan saw that Zhou Fengnian's expression had changed, and asked quickly, "What's wrong? Did Xiao Zhao touch your things?"

"You didn't ask Hou Shenghai from the factory office to look for me?"

"Hou Shenghai, no. We live so close. If Xiao Zhao hadn't come to find you, I would have gone to find you myself. Wouldn't it be a detour to call someone from the factory office?"

Gao Zhiyuan shook his head and said that this was something that only a soulless person could do. The offices of the factory leaders were almost all on the same floor, so why bother calling people from downstairs?

"Wait a minute, I'll go ask the others."

Zhou Fengnian soon felt something was wrong. It was not the leader that Gao Zhiyuan was calling, and what Hou Shenghai said at the time was very vague.

However, Zhou Fengnian didn't pay attention to it at that time and was fooled by him.

After Zhou Fengnian left Gao Zhiyuan's office, he went to the offices of factory leaders such as Ma Sisheng, Hong Bowen, and Kang Younian. After asking them one by one, he immediately borrowed a phone to call the Security Department.

"Director Song, I'm Zhou Fengnian. Send a few security guards to the factory office building immediately. I have a mission."

After Zhou Fengnian hung up the phone, he planned to wait for the security department. Kang Younian beside him asked hurriedly: "Deputy Director Zhou, what happened? Why did you call the security department?"

"Hou Shenghai came into my office earlier and said that his boss asked him to find me. But I asked all of you and you all said that you didn't send this Hou Shenghai."

"This bastard, does he have other purposes?"

Kang Younian suddenly thought of spies and secret agents and stood up anxiously; the main leaders of the factory all knew that Zhou Fengnian liked to do research and development in the office.

And apart from them and their respective assistants, no one else could enter his office without Zhou Fengnian's permission.

Zhou Fengnian also ignored the fact that nothing had happened in the factory, so he didn't become alert.

The security department quickly sent four people over, all carrying pistols; but when they arrived at the factory office and asked, they found out that Hou Shenghai had just left and had not returned.

It was unclear whether he went to the toilet or where he went, but if he went to the toilet, it took a long time, more than half an hour. This was originally just a suspicion, but now it is basically certain that Hou Shenghai is in trouble.

The security department then divided into two teams, one team searched the factory and the other went to Hou Shenghai's home.

However, Zhou Fengnian suggested going to the station and other places to look for it, so the Security Department sent another team.

When Zhou Fengnian came back from the security department, he passed by the factory office and heard Gao Zhiyuan scolding the director of the factory office: "You Yunhua, how do you do things? You keep someone who always speaks highly of foreign countries by your side? If you can't do it, go clean the toilet as soon as possible.
No, it’s too late for you to clean the toilet now. If something really happens, I’ll take care of you.”

"Forget it, Director, don't be angry yet."

Zhou Fengnian stepped forward and advised: "I went to take a look, and I divided the important information into three copies, one in the office, one in the technical department, and the other at home.
Hou Shenghai has already failed, and he might not be able to escape, so we can make up for the loss by catching him back."

"Thank you, thank you, Deputy Director Zhou. I will definitely deepen my ideological and spiritual construction in the future."

Zhou Fengnian suddenly felt that dividing it into three parts was not safe enough. The ministry had backups, so he should think more about how to preserve them.

However, a copy of the ordinary machine tool information was lost. This was a machine tool technology that was optimized and improved by Zhou Fengnian, and they would stop producing this type of machine tool immediately.

Although it is important, it is not a confidential technology.

Buy a few machines from the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory or the First Machine Tool Factory, disassemble them and study them slowly, and you will be able to get it in a year or two.

You Yunhua, the factory director, wiped his sweat and apologized. He was really sweating this time.

Usually Hou Shenghai would talk about the advantages of foreign countries, but considering that he was a college student, You Yunhua did not criticize him. She just warned him to say less such things.

I didn't expect that he would get into such a big mess today, which directly implicated him and he is about to be unable to continue his position as director.

Several factory leaders were waiting for news, and Zhou Fengnian also returned to the office to check carefully.

There were no signs of violent unlocking, but he was not sure whether Hou Shenghai had the technical skills to unlock the door, as the locks these days were relatively simple.

Soon the Security Department sent back news that Hou Shenghai had been captured and was met at the train station.

Gao Zhiyuan and others breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked the security department to intensify the interrogation, while he went to report the matter to the ministry.

If something happens, it must be reported, but now that they have caught the person, it can be considered as remedying the situation.

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"A good year, good news and bad news!"

When it was almost time to get off work in the afternoon, Gao Zhiyuan suddenly came to the door.

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "If you are still in the mood to joke, then it must be good news."

"No, there is still bad news. Hou Shenghai was indeed tricked into stealing the machine tool technical data from your office, but the person behind him has not been caught."

Gao Zhiyuan sighed and said, "The factory and the department responded very quickly, but the person who bewitched Hou Shenghai left early, and his identity was also fake, so there is no clue at all."

Zhou Fengnian nodded and said, "The good news should be that Hou Shenghai didn't pass the information out. Didn't he find the confidential machine tool information?"

"Yes, he doesn't understand the technology. He just took all the drawings in your drawer and planned to take a bus to Tianjin and then go to sea from there."

Gao Zhiyuan sighed and said, "I was also criticized. You Yunhua gave me a serious warning. The ministry said they would send you an assistant who will arrive tomorrow."

Several factory leaders were scolded by their superiors, but Zhou Fengnian was not.

First, he was still young and had no experience in this area; second, it was Zhou Fengnian who alerted the public to Hou Shenghai's affair, while the other leaders did not notice it at all.

After this incident, the factory’s security efforts will probably have to be stepped up, as spies have already sneaked into the deputy director’s office.

"What will happen to Hou Shenghai?"

"Not sure, either a bullet or Northwest labor reform. But this guy has some problems with his thinking, so it's most likely the former."

"A college student, why bother?"

There are proper ways to go abroad. Just apply step by step. There is no need to make a letter of surrender.

Zhou Fengnian comforted Gao Zhiyuan and then he had to conduct a thorough inspection of the factory.

If there is a Hou Shenghai, there might be a Li Shenghai.

The next day, Director Liang from the Foreign Trade Department came to the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory.

Gao Zhiyuan arranged to receive Director Liang in the conference room and also called Zhou Fengnian; he was responsible for production and Zhou Fengnian was responsible for technology.

"Deputy Director Zhou is really young and promising."

Director Liang said with a smile: "Deputy Leader Bai told me about you before I came here. Today, seeing that Deputy Director Zhou looks so young, I feel even older."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "Revolutionary work knows no age distinction, Director Liang, and only veteran revolutionaries are popular."

"Ha ha."

Director Liang smiled, then took out a document, handed it over and said, "Let's get down to business, Director Gao, Deputy Director Zhou, this is the additional export plan from December to the end of January.

We have also considered a lot and cancelled the purchase intentions of some countries, and these are the ones left.”

After Gao Zhiyuan took a look at it, he showed it to Zhou Fengnian first.

When Zhou Fengnian picked it up and looked at it, his brows twisted and he said, "Director Liang, this is too much! And it must be delivered by the end of this year at the latest, there is no way we can make it in time."

There are suddenly three hundred more units, plus the previous plan, almost 50% of the CNC machine tools produced this year will be exported.

This conflicts with the plan drawn up by the ministry, which states that the amount of machine tools exported cannot exceed 30% of the total.

Two-thirds must be supplied domestically because there is a greater shortage of machine tools in China than abroad.

Gao Zhiyuan also asked, "Director Liang, did you discuss this with the First Ministry of Machine Building before coming here? Logically speaking, we don't have the autonomy to make decisions on export."

Director Liang said, "I've already informed you, but Director Tang asked me to come and discuss with you to see if we can squeeze out a little more."

When Gao Zhiyuan and Zhou Fengnian heard this, they immediately understood what the ministry meant.

No wonder they agreed to recruit more workers so readily, it turns out they were waiting for them here; they wanted to squeeze in more machine tools to meet the export needs, but 30% of this line cannot cross borders.

So they were forced to rush the work and complete it beyond the plan!

If CNC machine tools remain in the country, it can improve the domestic industrial level and accelerate the industrialization process; if they are exported, they can earn a lot of foreign exchange and materials.

A CNC machine tool may cost 20,000 or 30,000 yuan in China, but if it is exported, the price may become 20,000 US dollars, which is doubled!
The Ministry of First Machine Industry is trying to handle both issues at the same time and is not letting go of either one, so the problem is directly thrown onto them.

(End of this chapter)