Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 177: Come to ask for mercy and nominate faculty members (Subscription required)
"Someone from high school? I actually know one."

After Bai Yujie pondered for a while, she said to Zhou Fengnian, "The wife of the vice-principal of the Third High School is from the Women's Federation of the Steel Mill. I will ask her for you tomorrow.

If it's just about further studies, it won't be a big problem, and the high school isn't too far from where we live, it only takes about ten minutes to walk there."

Zhou Fengnian smiled happily after hearing this and said, "Thank you very much, Comrade Yujie."

"No need to thank me, Fengnian. I wasn't so polite when I asked for your washing machine. You helped me more because of that rolling mill. I am in charge of more things in the machinery factory than before."

Bai Yujie smiled and said that she has now intervened in production matters, although not much, but she has more power than the other deputy director.

If Li Zhengyang retires in the future, he will most likely be the director of the machinery factory.

Zhou Fengnian saw the cut vegetables and the small pot on the coal stove and asked, "Are you just about to cook?"

"Yeah, just eat something at night."

Zhou Fengnian said, "Then I'll help you. It's a handy thing."

After hearing this, Bai Qingan, who was standing by, ran out with his legs stretched out, hugged Zhou Fengnian and said, "Okay, okay, Uncle Zhou's cooking is delicious, let mom stop cooking."

"Bai Qingan!"

Bai Yujie's pretty face rarely showed a blush, and she scolded in a stern tone: "Don't be rude, come down quickly."

Her daughter was almost like a monkey, climbing up Zhou Fengnian's thigh.

"Haha, it's okay, I'm just helping out, besides you've already cut the vegetables."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile that he came at a bad time, as Bai Yujie might be cutting vegetables before he entered the house.

It’s just that her cooking skills are probably not that good. Just looking at Bai Qingan’s performance, you can tell that Bai Yujie’s cooking skills are probably just at the cooked level.

A dish of stir-fried vegetables doesn't show much, but if you compare it with Bai Yujie's previous cooking skills, you can see the importance of cooking skills.

Zhou Fengnian took over and started cooking directly, controlling the heat and seasoning, and a plate of fragrant stir-fried vegetables was soon ready.

Then Bai Yujie took out the steamed buns she bought from the canteen and heated them up on the coal stove.

The Bai family's dinner was ready. Bai Qing'an, who was standing by, tasted it secretly and said loudly, "Uncle Zhou, your food is indeed better than Mom's."

Bai Yujie was a little embarrassed and rushed forward to catch her daughter who was eating secretly. She spanked her daughter twice and said, "Go back and do your homework. Come out when the steamed buns are ready."

Bai Qingan walked into the house reluctantly.

Then Bai Yujie turned around a little embarrassedly and said, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Fengnian, I'll give you these tickets;
There is a performance held by our city's art troupe. Let's take Zhou Yan to watch it then."

"Thank you very much. Eat the steamed buns right after they are cooked, before they get cold."

Zhou Fengnian took the ticket, thanked him and planned to go back because his family had not cooked yet.

When Zhou Fengnian was about to go out and return, he happened to meet Yi Zhonghai again, who was still on the way out, and there was someone beside him.

Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but ask: "Master Yi, do you have anything else to do?"

It was almost blocking his way to leave. If he couldn't spot it, then his job as deputy factory director would be in vain.

"Yes, there is a little bit. Deputy Director Zhou, this is our factory chef He Yuzhu, who often cooks for the factory."

After hearing this, Yi Zhonghai hurriedly smiled and apologized. He didn't expect that Zhou Fengnian would see through his thoughts before he even said it.

"Oh, I see. The chef who cooks good Sichuan cuisine."

Zhou Fengnian glanced at He Yuzhu, although they lived so close, it was the first time he saw this 'Silly Zhu', he looked quite ordinary and could hardly be distinguished in a crowd.

"What can I do for you, Master He?"

When He Yuzhu heard Zhou Fengnian's evaluation of his Sichuan cuisine, he was immediately unhappy. His cooking skills were just okay? How many factory leaders had enjoyed it before.

Seeing that He Yuzhu didn't say anything, Yi Zhonghai spoke for him, "It's like this, Deputy Director Zhou, the factory was pulling out a few days ago, and by the way, he found out that Zhuzi brought vegetables with him, and he was punished.
Deputy Director Zhou, is there any way to get Zhuzi to cancel this punishment? Zhuzi is feeling very uncomfortable with this punishment."

How shameless!

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but think, is this someone coming to him to ask for help from his connections?

It is indeed inconvenient to bear the punishment, but it only takes one month of ideological transformation at the beginning, and I have to report and study every day.

Everything will return to normal after a month, but the person who was punished will not be able to receive any awards for three years, and other benefits will not be given to him.

"Master Yi, I can't do this. I don't manage personnel in the factory. Besides, if Master He wants to cancel the punishment, then he should do more good deeds."

Zhou Fengnian said, "He has done a lot of good things and received many awards. The factory may consider canceling his punishment."

"Deputy Director Zhou, this..."

"If there's nothing else, I'll leave first, Master Yi."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he walked past the two of them and went home.

After Zhou Fengnian left, Yi Zhonghai immediately said to He Yuzhu in a frustrated tone, "Zhuzi, why didn't you say anything just now? Who did I do this for?"

"Uncle, what can I say? That guy clearly looked down on my cooking skills. Oh, I said I would cook for him, and he said no, doesn't that make me look bad?"

He Yuzhu said indignantly: "You are the factory leader and you look down on my cooking skills? Have you ever eaten good food?"

"Shut up, that's our factory's chief engineer!"

Yi Zhonghai quickly said that other people might not know, but as an eighth-level worker he knew too well Zhou Fengnian's position in the factory.

Although level eight workers are the highest level among workers, in front of Zhou Fengnian, they are just qualified to be scolded.

There is no senior worker in the factory who has not been scolded by Zhou Fengnian. Sometimes, if they make a slightly bigger mistake, they will be pointed at and criticized, but they, the senior workers, cannot refute.

Their proudest status as level eight workers is nothing compared to level six engineers, and they can't even fight back when being scolded.

Deputy factory director is just Zhou Fengnian's insignificant identity. All the front-line workers in the factory call him Worker Zhou.

"Didn't you see that the factory secretaries were all respectful to him, Zhuzi? You are such a bad mouth; you don't say anything when you should, and you keep saying it when you shouldn't!"

"How would I know? At worst, I'll just be punished, but I won't have those extra benefits. I'll just have to endure another month of study and report back."

When He Yuzhu got stubborn, he even refused to accept the welfare subsidies, which amounted to several dozen yuan a year.

"I am a chef, I don't have the heart to apologize to a young man for a little favor, who is he?"

"Uncle Zhou is better than you!"

Yi Zhonghai and He Yuzhu suddenly heard someone talking. They turned around and found it was Bai Yujie's daughter.

He Yuzhu was immediately furious and said, "Hey, little girl, I gave you food for free before!" "Humph!"

Bai Qing'an made a face and then ran straight home.

Before Yi Zhonghai could say anything, he could only point at He Yuzhu and said, "You have such a big mouth..."

Before he could finish his words, Yi Zhonghai went back and he no longer cared about this matter.

After everyone left, He Yuzhu said nonchalantly: "What's the big deal?"

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The next morning, the atmosphere at the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory changed a lot.

The workers who come into the factory are full of vigor and can't wait to start working. Even if the workshop director is late, his fellow workers will complain and ask him to quickly assign tasks.

After receiving the production task, everyone started to perform. Now when they saw strangers wandering around the workshop door, they thought they were people secretly observing them.

In the morning, the factory placed the washing machines that were to be distributed as rewards in front of the factory office building.

Now all the workers passing by can see it, and when they see the big reward on the washing machine, they work more enthusiastically.

The assembly of the washing machine was also very smooth. The internal mechanical rotating parts were easy to manufacture. Zhou Fengnian provided the drawings and led the manufacturing process.

With the factory's careful care, two washing machines were completed by two or three in the afternoon.

After receiving the notice, Zhou Fengnian immediately asked someone to prepare a transport truck, loaded the washing machines onto the truck, and drove to the Ministry of Machinery.

They soon arrived at the Ministry of First Machine Building, but Zhou Fengnian had not been notified, so he found Assistant Liu and told him about the washing machine before heading to Deputy Leader Li's office.

The minister's office is now open to him freely, and he does not need to inform his assistant in advance. However, when Zhou Fengnian arrives at the door, he still knocks first and only goes in after hearing the sound inside.

After pushing the door open and entering, Zhou Fengnian greeted with a smile: "Leader, are you not busy now?"

"Fengnian, you came pretty quickly. I thought I wouldn't see you until almost the end of the day."

Deputy Leader Li looked up and saw Zhou Fengnian, then smiled and said, "Since you are here, did you bring the washing machine as well?"

"I've asked Secretary Liu to take care of it. I didn't know where to put it when I brought it here."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he continued to ask: "Leader, what did you talk about yesterday?"

"You can see for yourself. We have submitted it, but the washing machine incident was too sudden and was not recorded."

"What's this."

After Zhou Fengnian received the document, he quickly saw the title on it: Application for recommending Comrade Zhou Fengnian to serve as a member of the Department of Technical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
At the back is his personal information and all his inventions, from the small appliance called Hot-Delicious that was introduced in 1961 to the nine-axis five-axis CNC machine tool and four-roll rolling mill that were introduced a while ago.

Behind every R&D product, there is the Ministry of First Machinery’s evaluation of these products.

In a simple word, electrical appliances and the like have made some contribution to domestic foreign exchange earnings.

But when it comes to CNC machine tools, a lot was said, such as the development of domestic industry and the technical evaluation of CNC machine tools.

He was also responsible for the research and development of computers, and this document clearly recorded Zhou Fengnian's investigation.

"Leader, are you asking me to go to the Chinese Academy of Sciences?"

Zhou Fengnian was very surprised. He was only 25 years old, but looking at his personal information, he really looked like an old revolutionary. His achievements were listed on two pages.

But it cannot hide the fact that he is a young man. Although age is rarely considered in the selection of academician members nowadays, it seems that there are no people in their twenties.

"Age doesn't matter. Cover up your age and no one will dare to say you are not qualified."

Deputy Leader Li shook his head and continued, "And don't worry, this doesn't mean you have to report there, it just means your name is in, but you will stay in the First Ministry of Machine Building."

"Is that so? I have no objection. Just stay in the First Ministry of Machine Building."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian immediately agreed. It seemed that he got the benefit of reputation, but the risk was minimized.

If he remembered correctly, there was quite a big impact there, and nearly half of the people were arrested a few years later; although Zhou Fengnian was confident in his background and prudence, he did not want to be implicated in any risks.

It was good to be in the Ministry of Machine Building. Both the superiors and subordinates valued him and gave him everything he asked for research.

Zhou Fengnian was the technical leader in the Ministry of First Machine Building. If he went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, he might not be able to become the leader.

"We discussed reporting your name last time, but you have been taking things out one after another in Fengnian, bringing us many surprises."

Deputy Leader Li smiled and said, "We won't have to wait this time. Just use these materials and recommend them in the name of the First Ministry of Machine Building. I think it should be approved this year. By then, you will also be a member of the academic department, Fengnian."

"It's just a new title, but I still have to keep working hard."

Zhou Fengnian saw the last section, the Department of Technology and Science, and said with some surprise, "A member of this department, then when I develop a personal computer, will the comrades in the Computer Research Institute be surprised?"

Deputy Leader Li asked, "Why do you study computers?"

“Leader, the integrated circuit workshop cost so much money to build, it is not in vain;
Furthermore, if we want to further improve the accuracy and performance of machine tools, computers are an inevitable hurdle.”

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "Anyway, leader, you just need to wait and see the results, but it will take some time."

"Okay, then I'll wait for good news."

After Deputy Leader Li finished speaking, he stood up, walked around the desk and said to Zhou Fengnian, "Come on, accompany me to look at the washing machines. Let me see the difference between the washing machines made by your factory and those made by other factories."

"Okay, let's go together."

After coming out and finding Secretary Liu, Deputy Leader Li asked him to lead the way, and they soon arrived at the place where the washing machine was placed.

Unfortunately, there is electricity here but no water, so it cannot be fully displayed.

But after Zhou Fengnian's explanation, Deputy Leader Li finally understood this washing machine.

The functions are good, and it also has dehydration and spin drying. After putting the clothes in, just twist the button and you don’t have to worry about it anymore.

"That's right, but don't give me that excuse again. What do you mean you invented this washing machine because you were too lazy to do laundry? Don't even think that way anymore."

Deputy Leader Li gave a warning, thought for a while and said, "You developed this washing machine because you couldn't bear to see pregnant women washing clothes with ice water in winter.

Remember this and say it again next time."

Doing it for yourself is completely different from doing it for comrades, and doing it for the vast number of pregnant comrades is even more different.

Although most people in China can't use this kind of washing machine
"I see. What if it wasn't for the old leader?"

Zhou Fengnian nodded immediately and said, "It seems I have to study more."

(End of this chapter)