Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 183 The Leader is Coming (Subscription Request)

"Leader, you are required to be dust-free inside. You must change your clothes before going in."

Zhou Fengnian explained that although this is a workshop, it was originally built according to the scale of a research institute.

Now, except that the place is a little smaller, the equipment, instruments and environmental requirements are almost the same as those of the research institute.

"I only have one set of clothes left. How about you come in with me? But there's nothing to see. I can bring out the medium-scale integrated chip for you."

After hearing how troublesome and demanding it was, Deputy Leader Li immediately gave up the idea.

"So do you have time now? Let's go to the office and talk?"

"Of course, I just finished assigning them tasks, and I won't be needed for the time being."

Zhou Fengnian said that after completing the progress of the medium-scale integrated chip, he had assigned tasks to others.

Moreover, they were in a part-time work and study state, manufacturing medium-scale integrated chips while learning the theoretical knowledge taught by Zhou Fengnian.

Now Zhou Fengnian has mastered electronic science and other skills to a very high level, which is enough for him to become a professor in a university.

Zhou Fengnian then had someone assemble and take out the manufactured medium-scale integrated chip, and then went to the office with Deputy Leader Li to discuss it in detail.

After entering the room, Deputy Leader Li couldn't help but say: "Fengnian, the leader just said at the meeting some time ago that we should gather our strength to deepen research and develop our own electronic industry.
But the Institute of Electronics and the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building have not taken any concrete action yet, and you have already figured it out!"

"Did the leader mention this in the meeting?"

Zhou Fengnian thought about it and it seemed that it was indeed proposed during this period; he was also one of the few who wanted to promote production development during the movement.

"I really don't know, but if we want to further improve the performance of machine tools, we can't avoid computer numerical control, so we must develop integrated circuit chips.
Next, I plan to build a medium-sized computer in the workshop, which can be regarded as a third-generation computer, which is much smaller than the second-generation computer."

"If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to come here."

Deputy Leader Li pointed to the box containing the medium-scale integrated chip and continued, "We have to send it to the Institute of Electronics to let them take a look. They may even ask you for advice.
I am a little worried that the leader will transfer you away, and then our First Machine Department will lose its most powerful general. "

Originally, it was thought that Zhou Fengnian was a top talent in mechanical design, but unexpectedly, he was good at a little bit of everything, not to mention electrical manufacturing. If Zhou Fengnian was interested, the Minister of the Ministry of Light Industry might personally come forward to talk Zhou Fengnian back.

There is also someone who seems to know a little bit about car manufacturing and computers, just like an all-round talent. It is really lucky that the Ministry of Machine Building found such a talent.

"I don't know whether I will be transferred or not, but I certainly hope to stay. It would be nice if I had more help."

Zhou Fengnian scratched his head and said: "Leader, I now have a very complete research and development idea, three years.
Five years, maybe. I am sure I can catch up with the foreigners in the computer field within five years, but I need enough support. Can you transfer some people from the Electronics Research Institute and Computer Research Institute to help me?"

"Wow, you are really rebelling against the Tian Gang. I'd be very lucky if I didn't transfer you to their place. Now you want me to fight them for people."

Deputy leader Li said with a twitching mouth. Not to mention him as the deputy leader, even Minister Zhang had no other choice but to pull his hair after hearing what he said.

As for the five years mentioned by Zhou Fengnian, Deputy Leader Li had automatically cut it in half in his mind.

This kid always leaves himself enough time, but he always finishes it ahead of schedule; cut it in half, cut it in half from five years, and the remaining two and a half years should be the specific time.

"Only leaders can do this. Their status is higher than that of the ministries. I can't do it. But since you developed this, there should be some hope."

Deputy Leader Li said that he would discuss the matter with Lao Zhang after returning and would immediately go to report to the leader, as this matter could not be delayed.

Reporting it earlier can save a lot of manpower.

"I may call you then, so tell your assistant to wait for my call at any time."

Zhou Fengnian immediately said, "Okay, I'll be there whenever you call me."

Deputy Leader Li then asked Zhou Fengnian some other questions and asked him to add a lot to his report before driving away.

When leaving, he said hello to Gao Zhiyuan whom he met, and then left the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory without saying anything.

This made Gao Zhiyuan feel a little unsure, so he went to Zhou Fengnian's office and just stopped Zhou Fengnian who was about to go to the workshop.

"Fengnian, what happened to the leader just now?"

"Well, it's related to something developed by the integrated circuit workshop. It's a new thing that can be used in many places."

"So amazing, Fengnian, you are worthy of it."

When Gao Zhiyuan heard that it was developed by Zhou Fengnian, he nodded and stopped asking questions; even if he asked, he still wouldn't understand what was going on, as the technical stuff was a bit difficult for him.

"By the way, Fengnian, our Shenzhou Automobile Workshop has also developed, and I heard that at the beginning of the year, FAW manufactured a car similar to the Shenzhou car. They named it the Oriental Car and received a good order at the Canton Fair."

Gao Zhiyuan suddenly remembered this incident and told Zhou Fengnian about it.

He also has friends there and happened to hear the good news about FAW Automobile Factory.

"Dongfang Automobile is similar to our Shenzhou Automobile. Except for some changes in the body shell, the rest is almost exactly the same. Unfortunately, our factory's productivity is not enough."

Zhou Fengnian laughed when he heard this and said, "Forget it, Brother Gao. Maybe people will envy our factory for being able to export CNC machine tools. If we produce cars, wouldn't it be like throwing away the watermelon for the sesame seeds?"

"That's true, but it's also a good thing that they earn orders. At least they are rarely available in China, and the surrounding areas can only order Shenzhou cars from our factory."

Gao Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Deputy Director Hong just told me that more than 500 vehicles have been lined up this year, and they will barely be completed by the end of next year.

Our factory's sideline business has made quite a bit of money, and this year is definitely a 'good year'."

The reputation of a sedan is much higher than that of a jeep, and the Shenzhou sedan drives so elegantly, so many departments that are planning to change their cars have come to the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory to place orders.

Unfortunately, there is only one production line and not many people, so we can only produce slowly.

Previously, all profits had to be handed over, but now they can keep a portion, and the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory has made at least hundreds of thousands of dollars from its side business this year.

If he could buy enough meat, Gao Zhiyuan would give each worker in the factory three pounds of meat so that they could take it home for the New Year.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to buy them even if the factory has money. However, this year we can be generous and send people to the Northeast or other places to collect supplies. Anyway, we can afford the money.

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A few days later, Director Yan reported to the leaders the performance of the medium-scale integrated chip and the estimated application direction, which made the leaders happy. "Are you sure it's the same as in the report? It's confirmed?"

"Yes, I have to say this is better than what I made. Our initial research idea was not as good as this."

Director Yan said a little embarrassedly: "We are still in the stage of studying the 'walking', but Engineer Zhou has already produced the result of 'running', and judging from his ideas, he will run faster and faster in the future.
Boss, can you transfer him to our company? Keeping him in a machine tool factory would be a waste of talent."

"Hahaha, you all have the same idea. People are trying to poach people from you."

After hearing this, the leader smiled and said, "The Mechanical Department guessed that you wanted to poach people, so they sent me an application in advance, hoping to transfer more computer talents to them."

"Isn't this a joke? It's a waste of our people to go to the mechanical department. How many professional equipment do they have?"

Director Yan shook his head and said that the division of labor must be clear. They can't transfer people from the machinery department just because they want to produce mechanical equipment.

"That's true, but Engineer Zhou Fengnian is also a very capable mechanical R&D talent. By the way, the Ministry of Machinery seems to have submitted an application for him to become a member of the academic department."

"Member of the faculty? That will definitely be approved. I will talk to the dean when I get back."

Director Yan was immediately happy after hearing this, and then continued: "I have to have a good talk with him, and then overturn the previous R&D progress. Boss, I think it's okay to let him be the person in charge."

No, this is not possible. The research and development direction that they as a group of people came up with is much more backward than that of the other party just a few people, and the other party is not even in the theoretical stage, but has already manufactured physical products.

There is no comparison, absolutely no comparison.

He had also heard of the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory. There were only so many talented people in computer and semiconductor fields graduating every year, but many of them were snatched away by the First Ministry of Machine Building.

At first, Director Yan was a little angry, thinking that the Ministry of First Machine Industry was wasting talent and delaying research and development progress.

Now it seems fortunate that he endured it and didn't make a fuss, otherwise he would be slapped in the face now.

"I'll ask Comrade Zhou Fengnian if he has time to come over. He really likes being on the front line. The last time I saw him, I almost disturbed him."

The leader was deeply impressed by Zhou Fengnian. Unlike other big talkers, he was confident in the goals he stated and patted his chest as if he could achieve what he said.

In fact, this is true. He is also concerned about the five-axis machine tools, which have a great impact on domestic precision machining. Moreover, he also developed new steelmaking and rolling technologies some time ago, which can be called an industrial heavyweight.

Director Yan said, "Boss, we can go. I want to see their research and working environment."

"Is that so? Then I'll go with you. I forgot to send him the book last time. If I don't send it, I'll be breaking my promise."

After the leader finished speaking, he asked his assistant to arrange his itinerary; his work almost filled the entire day, and his rest time was squeezed out.

If there is a sudden change, other non-urgent tasks should be postponed.

"Okay, then, Boss, I'll wait for your notification and I'll go back and bring a few people with me."

After Director Yan finished speaking, he went back to select people; he planned to bring all the main technical personnel of the computer project with him to have a good discussion with Zhou Fengnian.

"Mr. Zhou, are we going to make computers next?"

In the integrated circuit workshop, Liu Sihai scratched his head and said, "Although we know a little bit, it seems a little..."

"Can I assign you a task that you can't complete? Have you never gone to the next door to communicate?"

Zhou Fengnian said, "You may be the only one who has never been to the computer numerical control workshop next door. Don't worry, our factory also has sufficient strength. Except for the lack of staff, all other conditions are met."

He did not make the conditions to the ministry casually at the beginning. If they were simple, the Ministry of First Machine Building would not have been in such a difficult situation for so long. However, they finally agreed to his request.

Apart from the small number of people, the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory fully meets the conditions for manufacturing computers, and with Zhou Fengnian as the leader, there will be no mistakes when manufacturing medium-scale computers.

"Let's get started. Now that we have the computer, we can move on to the next step. Time waits for no one, comrades. I will be with you in the workshop from now on."

Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, then thought for a moment and said, "Comrade Liu Sihai can take leave for his blind date. The organization absolutely supports this."

"Hahaha"

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Liu Sihai blushed and said, "I don't want to talk recently. Let's finish the task first."

"Don't make up your mind casually. Blind dates and marriage are both necessary. If you don't go on blind dates, the organization will really arrange it for you. You can have better development after you get married. Otherwise, no one will wash your clothes."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "Other people can also ask me for leave when they go on blind dates. I'm not kidding."

Another technician smiled and said, "I see, Mr. Zhou. My family will arrange a date for me next week. But I also want to invite my blind date to the factory for a private meal. I feel the food here is better than that in state-owned restaurants."

"Then you can go directly to the kitchen and ask the chef to come back to cook. The chef in the cafeteria is my eldest brother. If he is not busy, there should be no problem."

"Really? I'll go ask after I get off work. Thank you, Mr. Zhou."

After chatting and laughing for a while, everyone started to get busy, and Zhou Fengnian also started designing a medium-scale computer.

Although it is medium-sized, it is almost as big as a person, and there are also procedural issues to be resolved, all of which Zhou Fengnian has to deal with.

The busiest person in the third-generation computer project was Zhou Fengnian. In the end, he was the only one responsible for everything, and the others could provide little help.

After a busy day, Zhou Fengnian stayed in the workshop for two or three hours after work and was ready to leave only after finishing his work.

When I was riding the bus back home, it was gradually getting dark. Fortunately, it was summer now, so it got dark later.

Arriving at the door, Zhou Fengnian pushed the door open and closed it. When he returned to the backyard and saw his wife coming out to greet him, he said embarrassedly, "I'm back late. Do you have any food?"

"We haven't eaten yet. We'll wait for you to come back for a piece."

Zhou Yan stepped forward and took the briefcase with a smile, then she remembered something and said, "By the way, Fengnian, Dad is here today, and the commune secretary and others are here too."

"What about people?"

"The commune secretary went back, but dad stayed. He just went over after hearing about my eldest brother's fight. My younger sister and I were unable to persuade him to stay."

Zhou Fengnian couldn't help laughing and said, "Haha, let's prepare the meal. I guess Dad will be so tired after he comes back that he can eat five steamed buns."

(End of this chapter)