Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 179 Criticism and Gifts (Subscription Request)

Zhou Fengnian looked back and felt it was embarrassing to quarrel with such a person, so he ignored him and continued to walk out with Zhou Yan.

However, the arrogant female member of the art troupe had no intention of letting Zhou Fengnian go. She quickly walked over to block Zhou Fengnian and the other two, snorting coldly and saying,
"Why, you have the guts to talk about people, but not the guts to admit it?"

Zhou Fengnian looked at the female art troupe member in front of him, suddenly laughed and said: "You half-baked people are really interesting, enjoying the welfare and convenience brought by the working class and the peasant class, and spiritually yearning for the enjoyment and treatment of the bourgeoisie.

You have betrayed your own working class and peasant class, and you are not accepted by the bourgeoisie. You are still so high-profile and don't know how to restrain yourself. Now you are standing in my way?"

"What did you say? Who do you say yearns for the bourgeoisie?"

Tang Yu, a member of the art troupe, turned pale but managed to stay calm and said firmly that she did yearn for a more prosperous world in her heart and would occasionally talk about it in private, but she could not admit it openly.

"Why do you start accusing others of your crimes?"

"That's right, what did Tang Yu do to you?"

The other two female members also stepped forward to accuse Tang Yu. They were with her just now, and if this matter became known, they would also be criticized.

So you must never admit it!
"You don't want to admit it? Are you going to say that I am slandering you next? Then do you know my identity?"

"The purpose of the art troupe's existence is to encourage the people's morale and spread the revolutionary spirit.

It is not for you to do easy work while yearning for the bourgeois enjoyment of foreigners. "

Zhou Fengnian spoke in a calm tone, but it made the three of them turn pale.

When Zhou Fengnian saw the staff of the city art troupe who had entertained them just now rushing over with the cameraman, he stopped talking and turned to the man and said

“Comrade, there is no need to take a photo. Some people in your city’s art troupe have some distorted ideas;

Tell your leader that it was I, Zhou Fengnian, who said these words, and I will never come here again."

After Zhou Fengnian showed the man his work ID, he left with his wife and sister.

After Zhou Fengnian left, the receptionist asked hurriedly, "What did you say to Leader Zhou just now? Why did he leave in such a huff?"

"Nothing."

"Didn't say anything? Then why did he just leave without even taking a photo? His wife wanted to take a photo with you, so I went to call for her."

Seeing that the three women were silent, the receptionist sighed and said, "It's up to you. You can explain to your boss when the time comes.

I must tell Leader Zhou what he said, otherwise if it is remembered one day, it means that I did not do my job well. "

"Xiao Wang."

Tang Yu called out to the worker in charge of reception, and then asked with some fear and concern: "Who was that person just now?"

"Level 6 engineer, deputy factory director, seems to be from some factory in Huaxia. He took back his credentials so quickly that I didn't see clearly."

Fortunately, I remembered the most important thing. He was the deputy director of a factory and a level 6 engineer.

Even if they are not front-line workers, they know the status of engineers, let alone the deputy director of a factory.

Although it would not affect their work, just passing on the message would be enough to get them criticized.

The three of them were immediately frightened. If they had known that Zhou Fengnian and the others were about to leave, they would not have chased after them.

"I didn't expect to meet such a person. I really thought she was Sister Chunhua. It seems that I can't believe this kind of stage play in the future."

Zhou Yan sighed and said that she wanted to rush onto the stage to help Sister Chunhua defeat the landlord bully.

I didn't expect that the person I met in private would be like this.

"There are only a few people like this. Most artists are good people. In the future, just watch the performances and don't worship the actors."

Zhou Fengnian consoled him, "Eat, don't think about that. We came out to relax today. The mutton has been cooked for a long time."

After coming out of the city art troupe, they went to Donglaishun for lunch; it was Zhou Xiaomei's first time to eat at Donglaishun, and she had long forgotten her unhappiness just now.

He picked up the mutton with chopsticks and started to eat it with relish.

Every time Zhou Xiaomei took a bite of the mutton covered with sesame sauce, happiness immediately appeared on her face.

"Fifth sister, you will eat it in the future. Once a month is a little difficult, but once every two months, I guarantee that your third brother can do it."

Seeing Zhou Xiaomei eating, Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but smile and said, "You will have many more good things to eat in the future, and my cooking skills are much better than Donglaishun's."

Zhou Xiaomei smiled embarrassedly, and then slowly started eating.

After finishing their meal, the three of them went to Beihai Park and walked for a while. When Zhou Yan felt tired, they went home.

Today would have been a perfect day if the group photo hadn't ruined my mood.

This kind of trend has emerged among the city's art troupe, and it will probably become even more serious by next year.

Zhou Fengnian thought about it for a while and then stopped thinking about it. No matter how strong the wind was, it would not reach him, a level 6 engineer who came from a poor peasant family.

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At the Third Steel Rolling Mill, Li Huaide welcomed the day of his most anticipated workshop production report.

In the past, Director Yang was always looking forward to days like this, but now the person looking forward to it is Li Huaide.

"Director Yang, Deputy Director Li, Deputy Director Gao, last month, Workshop 3 produced 560 tons of four-meter-thick high-quality steel plates, which is an increase from the previous month."

"Director, Deputy Director, Workshop 4 has produced 394 tons of 4-meter high-quality medium-grade steel."

Every time the steel rolling workshop reported a piece of data, Li Huaide's smile grew bigger, while Yang Weimin's expression grew more gloomy.

"Director, the steel plates currently produced by the new four-roller rolling mill have reached high-quality and are suitable for many industrial manufacturing applications.

After being tested by the superior department, the comrades have been ordered to transfer this steel plate into the planned production for the next season, and even "

The people from the production department did not continue speaking. They were Director Yang's people, but what they were about to say next was a slap in the face to Director Yang.

However, Li Huaide said, "Speaking of this, how can you say half of it? This is a production instruction issued by the higher authorities. Do you still want to hide it?"

"No, it's not."

The people in the production department quickly said: "It is recommended that the steel mill adjust its production plan to focus on producing high-quality steel plates."

"Well, it seems that the leaders of the Ministry of Metallurgy have made a good judgment. This kind of high-quality steel must be produced vigorously, and a few more rolling mills must be ordered."

Li Huaide almost couldn't help laughing out loud, but after a pause, he continued, "Director Yang, have you received the news? The ministry will come to our factory for a meeting next week to discuss the production tasks of the steel rolling mill."

".I know. So what does Deputy Director Li want?"

"Nothing, I was just worried that you, the factory manager, hadn't received the notice. Now that you know, it's okay. Let's continue discussing production."

Li Huaide is very proud now. The ministry and the commission came to the factory for research and meetings, and it was definitely not just to discuss production. He learned from his father-in-law that the factory leadership team would be adjusted at that time; Yang Weimin might not be transferred, but he would definitely not be the factory director.

The mistakes he made in production direction were too big and completely violated the main direction of the steel rolling mill's production. It can be said that he was completely unqualified.

At that time, not only the production direction of the steel rolling mill will change, but the positions of the factory cadres will also change.

Yang Weimin probably received a notice from his backers, so he hasn't looked good during this period.

The directors of the various production workshops have also noticed this and are now thinking of showing their goodwill to Li Huaide. Some have even met with Li Huaide privately.

As the meeting continued, some people began to report production difficulties to Li Huaide. At the same time, when they saw that Li Huaide was unable to give any solutions, they made their own suggestions and let Li Huaide make the decision.

Yang Weimin, who was standing by, felt like cursing after seeing this; he hadn't even stepped down yet, did these people have any shame?

If it was just a high-quality steel plate produced by a new rolling mill, Yang Weimin would not be so passive.

However, the top and bottom combined blowing converter technology proposed by Deputy Leader Lu also produced good experimental results and was better than the existing steelmaking technology.

These two technologies can completely raise the domestic steelmaking level to a higher level and produce more high-quality steels suitable for submarines and satellites.

But this can obviously be done by finding someone to study it and making a few more technological innovations. Maybe it can be figured out. But Yang Weimin never did so. Instead, he kept taking orders for parts processing.

Deputy Leader Lu used this point to attack Yang Weimin, saying that Yang was a good cadre with strong professional capabilities, but not a good director of a steel mill.

Deputy Leader Liu knew that what Lu Yixian said was nonsense. So many steel mills had been researching for a long time, but none of them had developed top and bottom combined blowing furnace technology and new rolling mills.

This is not just Yang Weimin's problem.

But Li Huaide asked others to do research and then produced results; one person did nothing, while the other took action and produced results.

Comparing these two people, it is natural that the latter is more far-sighted and does not blindly accept orders for parts processing.

Deputy Leader Liu couldn't even speak for Yang Weimin.

Now the Ministry of Metallurgy has planned to promote new steelmaking technology and new rolling mills to steel mills across the country. Once fully implemented, the domestic steelmaking industry will grow rapidly.

After the meeting, Li Huaide announced the end and Yang Weimin was the first to leave.

After returning to the office, Li Huaide suddenly received a call: "Who is this? Is that you, Lao Wang? I brought what I wanted, too?"

"Thank you very much, where are you? I'll get it now."

After asking for the address, Li Huaide happily asked his assistant to call a taxi. He was worrying about what gift to bring to visit Zhou Fengnian, and now the gift was ready.

Just now, many workshops feel that one type of rolling mill is too few. The current reversible four-roller medium and thick rolling mill is still cold rolling. They hope to have another hot rolling mill so that they can improve the variety of steel products.

Li Huaide did not agree at that time. After all, it was Zhou Fengnian who developed the machine, and he could not guarantee that Zhou Fengnian would help.

It’s different now. When this gift is delivered, Li Huaide is very confident.

Thanks to Zhou Fengnian, he was directly made the director of the third steel rolling mill, and Lao Yang was driven out by him.

Li Huaide didn't expect it to be so easy, but the ministry will come to the factory to make the announcement next week, and then he will be able to secure his position as factory director.

After asking the driver to take him to the guesthouse where they had agreed to meet, Li Huaide successfully got the tiger whip wine from his old friend.

This thing is not cheap, it cost him almost a hundred dollars.

Twelve jins of loose liquor costs ten yuan, tiger penis costs one hundred and forty yuan, plus other medicinal materials for soaking in liquor cost thirty yuan.

This can only be purchased through connections.

Li Huaide was delighted when he saw the tiger whip wine. He really needed this thing, but when he thought about maintaining his relationship with Zhou Fengnian, he gritted his teeth and decided to give it away.

After chatting with his friend for a while and agreeing to treat him to dinner tomorrow, Li Huaide rushed to Zhou Fengnian's house.

However, he was also in a panic. When he arrived, it was just time to get off work at the factory, and Zhou Fengnian had not returned yet.

This scared Zhou Xiaomei who stayed at home. At this time, besides Zhou Xiaomei, there was only Zhang Fangfang in Zhou Fengnian's house. Li Huaide left with some apology.

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"Deputy Director Bai?"

Li Huaide saw an acquaintance in the car, so he stuck his head out and greeted him.

Bai Yujie heard someone calling her, turned her head and asked in surprise, "Deputy Director Li, why are you here?"

"I'm waiting for Mr. Zhou to get off work. The things I promised him last time have arrived, and I have something else to do. But Mr. Zhou hasn't come back yet, so I'll wait in the car for a while."

Li Huaide explained with a smile.

Bai Yujie nodded, then turned sideways and introduced: "Deputy Director Li, this comrade Zhou Yan is Fengnian's wife."

Zhou Yan knew the person in the car was a deputy director when she heard the address, so she said politely, "Deputy Director Li, my husband may not be back for a while, do you want me to wait at home first?"

"No, no, I'll just stay outside. I guess I'll be back soon."

Li Huaide quickly shook his head and said that he would not go in if the male owner was not at home. He was particularly careful in this regard. Moreover, Zhou Fengnian's status was equivalent to that of a senior cadre, so he had to be even more careful.

Zhou Yan didn't continue talking. She was just being polite.

However, knowing that a guest would be arriving soon, Zhou Yan washed the teacups and boiled some hot water after returning home so that she could entertain Zhou Fengnian when he returned.

After a while, a car drove slowly and stopped behind the SUV where Li Huaide was sitting.

When Li Huaide saw the good-looking Shenzhou car, he knew that the person sitting inside was Zhou Fengnian. In the entire city of Beijing, the Shenzhou cars produced by the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory were very popular.

Even their factory wants to order one.

"Mr. Zhou!"

Li Huaide got out of the car holding the can and greeted Zhou Fengnian.
"Deputy Director Li?"

Zhou Fengnian asked with surprise, "Did they just arrive?"

"Not long. I forgot to check the time when I got here, but I didn't have to wait long. Luckily you came back early."

"Let's go inside and talk. This isn't the place to chat."

Zhou Fengnian invited Li Huaide into the study. As soon as he sat down, Zhou Yan brought him some freshly brewed tea and reminded him, "Deputy Director Li has been waiting for you for a while."

"I'm really sorry that I came back a little late today."

Zhou Fengnian apologized to Li Huaide, and then asked, "Deputy Director Li, what do you want to talk to me about today?"

(End of this chapter)