Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 166: Solved, I came to worship Buddha (Please subscribe)
Even machinery factories are not so stingy, not to mention that the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory does not have much else but a lot of industrial coupons.

Moreover, there are many other allocations, so even if you have a ticket, you cannot buy meat through normal channels.

Even if the buyers rush to the farmers' market early in the morning, they are not allowed to buy all the meat at once, otherwise there will be nothing to sell later.

"It stands to reason that we won't just give money, Secretary Wu, what can our commune give?"

After Zhou Fengnian asked the question, the room suddenly became quiet and no one answered for several seconds.

Wu Youhai and Tang Xingfei seemed to be hesitant to talk, as if they wanted to say something but were holding it back.

"Secretary Wu, I also came from our commune. I won't tell you how much Hongjia Village has changed. You can go and see for yourself. You don't have to be so defensive against me."

"No, no, Director Zhou, you misunderstood."

Secretary Wu quickly waved his hands to explain that he did have some small thoughts, but after being exposed by Zhou Fengnian, he no longer concealed it and told everything.

"After learning the news a few days ago, we went to various villages to do some statistics. We found that we can produce one pig, thirty kilograms of eggs, and one thousand five hundred kilograms of mushrooms every month."

Zhou Fengnian nodded after listening to it. There are many villages in Sanshui Commune, so there must be many unplanned pigs.

As far as he knew, there were three pigs being secretly raised in Hongjia Village, and if Zhou's mother didn't really have the energy, their Zhou family would have wanted to raise two.

This year is much better than previous years. The grain harvested is enough to eat for a year, so naturally we want to pursue eating well.

Sanshui Commune must have planned to sell some of these unplanned materials, but it was too troublesome to sell them individually. Just as Zhou Fengnian introduced the machine tool factory, Sanshui Commune decided to sell them to the government.

It's just that the machine tool factory was too stingy in giving things, only money, without any other tickets, so Wu Youhai and Tang Xingfei went to find Zhou Fugui, hoping to talk them out.

"Logically, the machine tool factory doesn't need these. Please sit down for a moment. I'll go ask for you."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he called Pan Heng in and said, "Help me entertain them. I'll go find Director Ma."

"I understand, Leader."

Pan Heng knew that he was being asked to help look after the office and hospitality was secondary, but he didn't show anything. He picked up the kettle and went to add water.

Zhou Fengnian's office is only 20 to 30 meters away from Ma Sisheng's office, just around the corner.

After knocking on the door and entering, Ma Sisheng smiled unexpectedly and said, "Deputy Director Zhou, what brings you here?"

Zhou Fengnian pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Jiafeng, my father came to ask about it. He is in my office. That's why I came to disturb you."

Ma Sisheng was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Family style? What's going on?"

“You know my family, we’re from Hongjia Village in Sanshui Commune. Last time, the factory introduced Sanshui Commune as a counterpart to provide assistance for agricultural and sideline products. The secretary of the commune has already calculated the amount of agricultural and sideline products that can be provided each month.

One pig, 30 kilograms of eggs, and 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms of vegetables such as mushrooms and eggplants."

After hearing this, Ma Sisheng smiled and said, "This is a good thing. Mushrooms and eggplants alone are considered a snack. These two are much more expensive than cabbage and radish."

Cabbage and radish are one or two cents, and eggplants are three or four cents, depending on the season; mushrooms are even more expensive, and the workers may not eat mushrooms once a month.

Zhou Fengnian sighed and said, “It’s a good thing, but now the commune secretary is not willing to sell it.

They said that our factory only gives money but not tickets, and just now they asked me if I was making money from the villagers."

The expression on Ma Sisheng's face froze, and he understood what was going on.

He immediately cursed his subordinate Qi Weimin in his heart for causing him trouble with such things.

"Deputy Director Zhou, wait a moment. I will definitely give an explanation to the peasant comrades of Sanshui Commune about this matter."

After Ma Sisheng finished speaking, he dialed the factory's phone number and immediately said, "I'm Ma Sisheng, Director Qi, you should immediately investigate why the purchasing department only gave money but no tickets for the agricultural and sideline products matching assistance to Sanshui Commune!

Also, does this kind of thing happen in other communes? Tell me after you check it out. Come to my office tomorrow morning to report. If you don’t come, I’ll come find you!”

After saying this, he hung up the phone. His tone was extremely serious.

A deputy factory manager would definitely not tamper with these invoices. It must be that the purchasing staff under him had some idea.

Zhou Fengnian immediately said, "Hey, Deputy Director Ma, if the clerks violated the rules, they should be punished accordingly. There is no need to be angry about them.

Have a cigarette. I don't smoke much, so it would be a waste if I let it go."

"What Deputy Director Zhou said is that when the whole factory is working hard, there are always a few people who hold it back."

Ma Sisheng sighed and continued speaking, then he picked up the cigarette box and looked at it, and immediately said: "Oh, these are high-ranking official cigarettes, I am lucky today."

Level 13 cadres are also known as senior cadres, and their treatment is very different from that of cadres below level 14.

When traveling long distances, there will definitely be soft sleeper accommodation and you can also apply to take a plane. If you are sick, there will be a separate ward, and the supplies provided are different from those for cadres below level 13.

Ma Sisheng is at level 15, two levels away from being a senior official, and these two levels are too difficult to cross; Zhou Fengnian benefits from his technical level, and as long as he keeps producing technical results, his salary will continue to increase.

Once the machine tool factory becomes the best in the country, Ma Sisheng may be able to be transferred to another large state-owned factory as the factory director.

The premise is to not let the idiots under your command do anything bad. If Zhou Fengnian hadn't come to the door today and the supplies for the extra meal hadn't been purchased, the planned task might not have been completed.

If you don't complete the task, just wait to be criticized. Promotion is just a dream.

After Zhou Fengnian returned, he told Wu Youhai about the matter and asked them to go back and wait for news. Another buyer would renegotiate the matter as early as tomorrow and at the latest the day after tomorrow.

After hearing this, Wu Youhai immediately thanked Tang Xingfei and said that he would give Zhou Fengnian some agricultural and sideline products.

However, Zhou Fengnian waved his hand to refuse. His salary was much better than that of the farmers, and he did not need to satisfy his appetite by accepting gifts.

What's more, Zhou's father often used his work points to exchange for vegetables grown in the greenhouse, so Zhou Fengnian's family had no shortage of food.

When Zhou Fengnian was sending Wu Youhai and Zhou's father out of the factory, Zhou's father suddenly turned back and asked in a low voice: "San'er, am I causing you trouble by bringing people to our door all of a sudden?"

"It's not a problem. This is not partiality. It's just helping the villagers get the compensation they deserve. It's what we should do."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "I would definitely not be happy if you were to show favoritism, but you can always come to me for this kind of thing, Dad."

Zhou Fugui immediately said with a smile: "Okay, okay, as long as it's not too much trouble."

"Next time, bring mom and little sister to the city, and I'll take you to eat mutton hotpot."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he watched Zhou Fugui and his group leave, then returned to the office to continue practicing his skills.

There are so many skills that the skill list has more than 200 skills. Zhou Fengnian even looked for a book that explained Qigong in detail, but unfortunately, after reading two books, he didn't gain any skills.

He threw the last two books directly into the stove and burned them. What a lie!

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When it was time to get off work, the workers of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory went out one after another. Except for those who worked overtime, the rest went home. And when the night shift came, the security department would patrol again. If anyone who was not on the night shift or on duty list stayed in the factory, they would be detained by the security department.

"Uncle, you're going home so early today. Sister Qin? Why are you here too? Are you here to see Uncle?"

After He Yuzhu came out of the cafeteria, he happened to meet Yi Zhonghai at the door, so he walked up to him and prepared to go back together.

But I didn’t expect to see Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu looked happy and said with a smile: "Zhu Zi, I am also working in the machine tool factory today, thanks to the uncle who helped me transfer here."

"Did an uncle help you transfer here?"

He Yuzhu was shocked. It was the first time he knew that an old man could help people transfer factories.

"Well, I didn't get a raise at the steel mill, but after I transferred here, I became a first-class worker."

Qin Huairu is now looking very happy. Her salary has increased a little, and she has also joined the CNC machine tool training group. She only needs to learn how to operate the CNC machine tools.

It is much easier than processing parts before. The monthly salary is 33 yuan. If I work overtime a few more times, the subsidy can be almost 40 yuan, which is much more than the previous 27.5 yuan.

"Master, your ability is too great. It's beyond measure."

"What are you talking about, you idiot, how can you say such things casually!"

Yi Zhonghai hurriedly said to He Yuzhu that just one sentence could get him criticized.

And all of this was earned by working overtime. I didn't even have a break at noon throughout the day and only went to the toilet once. I kept working hard to complete the task and even processed a few more.

"Okay, it's not right that all three of us got a raise. The first uncle didn't get a raise, but the machine tool factory gave him a lot of subsidies, so the first uncle also got a raise."

He Yuzhu's last sentence hit Yi Zhonghai in the heart, and then he put a plaster on him; Yi Zhonghai was too lazy to pay attention to this guy with a sharp tongue. He was very tired every day recently and now he wanted to go home and rest.

When he returned to the entrance of Nanluoguxiang, He Yuzhu suddenly saw Bai Yujie, his eyes widened, and he asked
"Uncle, have you asked for me the last thing I asked you to do?"

"what's up?"

"Regarding Comrade Bai, I have been getting along very well with her daughter recently."

After hearing this, Yi Zhonghai glanced at He Yuzhu. No wonder he called him Shazhu, he had no idea at all.

"Don't even think about it, Zhuzi. It's impossible. Besides, if you give Comrade Bai's daughter some food, she will come to give you money the next day. From then on, no matter how much you give her, she won't want you anymore!"

Yi Zhonghai advised: "I will introduce you to him again some other day."

"Hey, why is it Li Huaide? How did that bastard meet Comrade Bai here?"

He Yuzhu didn't listen to what Yi Zhonghai was saying at all, his attention had already been on Bai Yujie; but when he saw Li Huaide from the steel mill, his anger suddenly rose.

This bastard was previously the leader of his leader, and his bad reputation was known to everyone in their logistics department.

Now seeing Bai Yujie and the bad guy Li Huaide standing together, He Yuzhu immediately planned to step forward and tell Bai Yujie who Li Huaide is.

"Silly, what are you doing?"

"Zhuzi, don't be impulsive!"

When Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu saw He Yuzhu like this, they quickly grabbed He Yuzhu.

But then they saw Bai Yujie and Li Huaide knocking on the gate of a large courtyard, and a young man came out and welcomed Bai Yujie and Li Huaide in.

He Yuzhu's eyes widened immediately and he asked, "Uncle, who is that guy? Why is he living in our Nanluoguxiang?"

"Zhu Zi, your nickname is correct. Even our deputy director doesn't recognize you?"

Yi Zhonghai sighed and continued, "They are all cadres. They will probably have something to discuss tonight. Don't follow them."

Comrade Bai Yujie is no simple person, as he can chat and laugh with their factory's Deputy Director Zhou and the deputy director of the steel rolling mill. No wonder he couldn't get any information from the neighborhood committee.

Then Yi Zhonghai dragged He Yuzhu away, and told him to be more down-to-earth on the blind date.

"Deputy Director Li, this is your first visit. When Comrade Yujie told me about this, I was surprised."

Bai Yujie called in the afternoon and said that Li Huaide from the steel rolling mill wanted to see him; but it was a bit inconvenient for him to come to the machine tool factory, so he agreed to go to his house after work.

He also brought some gifts, such as candy and beef jerky. Although they were not expensive, it showed his thoughtfulness.

Zhou Fengnian welcomed the two into the backyard, and then asked Zhou Yan to make some tea. He then asked without beating around the bush, "Deputy Director Li, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, to be honest with Mr. Zhou, I am here to ask for help."

Li Huaide smiled and said: "At the beginning of the year, the ministry held a meeting and issued an order to all steel mills, requiring them to carry out technological innovation and conduct more and more refining.
But Mr. Zhou, you have been to our factory and you know what our technical department is like. Let alone technological innovation, even daily machinery maintenance is barely adequate.”

When Zhou Fengnian heard this, he quickly understood what Li Huaide meant. He came to worship Buddha.

Previously, he had heard from Deputy Leader Li that domestic steel production was a bit behind schedule, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

But the fact that Li Huaide came to the door so blindly meant that the Ministry of Metallurgy was really a little anxious.

The output value of the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory more than tripled last year, and that of the First Machine Tool Factory nearly doubled. Other factories have also made considerable progress.

Although there is no plan to double the output this year, there must be at least a 50% increase. If all factories across the country were the same as them, the demand for steel would increase a lot.

"We are under pressure from above and we are all very worried. Although the steel mill has several thousand employees, its efficiency and technological research and development capabilities are average, and it all depends on manpower."

Li Huaide was very complaining. Not only did he, the deputy factory director in charge of logistics, even the trade union tried to find a solution.

"Director Li, I'm a mechanic, you've got the wrong person."

Although he sympathized with Li Huaide, Zhou Fengnian never made promises about things he was not sure about.

"I have no idea for now, and I need to research it."

"Mr. Zhou, you are the most capable person I know. I have also heard about the things going on at the Electrical Appliance Factory No. 1. See what you need. If I can do it, I will definitely do it."

Li Huaide assured that he was not good at other things, but he was an expert in making things.

"That's not the case."

Zhou Fengnian waved his hand and said, "Deputy Director Li, there are huge differences between industries. I majored in mechanics. Although I know a little about electromechanics, computers, and chemical materials, I am not very good at steelmaking and rolling."

"Let me study it and make sure I'm sure."

(End of this chapter)