Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 184: Recruiting People (Subscription Request)

"This idiot really pissed me off!"

When Zhou Fugui came back, he was still cursing. Seeing Zhou Fengnian already sitting at the table to eat, he immediately asked, "Old Third, when did you come back?"

Before Zhou Fengnian could answer, Zhou's father said angrily, "You shouldn't have to pay for your eldest brother's fight. Give him thirty dollars to teach him a lesson!"

"Forget it, Dad. My eldest brother only did it because he heard someone scolding me. Besides, it's already happened. With this lesson, he won't do it next time."

Zhou Fengnian picked up a steamed bun and handed it over: "Eat first. By the way, Dad, what are you doing in the city this time? Where is the commune secretary?"

"You knew already?"

Zhou Fugui took a bite of the steamed bun, as if he was organizing his words, and after a while he spoke: "It seems that those villages in the commune that grow mushrooms have all been troubled, and so has our village.

A pound of mushrooms was six cents last year, but this year it suddenly dropped by two and a half cents, almost half the price.”

"Is this so much less because mushrooms are expensive in winter?"

"Mushrooms in winter are worth eight points less!"

Zhou Fugui glanced at his third son and continued, "If we don't go to the farmers' market, we can sell it for seven cents a pound, but it's too dangerous.

Even if the joint defense team finds out that it is not speculation, it will still take up an entire afternoon."

He came with the commune secretary, and just because he asked around about the price of mushrooms, he was reported to the joint defense team and interrogated for an hour.

Zhou Fengnian nodded and said, "It seems that the farmers' market has raised the price privately. Doesn't our factory collect mushrooms?"

"Your factory can't possibly buy all of them. The ones that aren't sold out still have to be sold at the farmers' market, but they're bargaining too much. This can't be sold at all."

Zhou Fugui sighed and said, "The secretary said he would go to other factories to ask tomorrow. Anyway, if the farmers' market doesn't raise the price, they won't be able to sell it. Sanfenwu has no way to explain to the villagers."

"Then go ask around tomorrow. Now that you're growing more and more mushrooms, I think we can build our own factory."

Zhou Fengnian thought for a while and said, "Dad, when the secretary of Sanshui Commune comes tomorrow, I will talk to him about building the factory.

If he doesn't want to, then you can go back and call Secretary Changshan, and our village can build a factory in the name of Hongjia Village."

"Build a factory? Is that possible?"

After hearing this, Zhou Fugui asked with some uncertainty in his heart: "Fengnian, didn't you say that we should make use of our strengths and farm well? Besides, farming can bring in a lot of income now. What if we lose money by building a factory?"

"How can I let you lose money? Many rural communes have opened township factories, and they have been reported in the newspapers to make money."

Zhou Fengnian said confidently: "Bring the mushrooms here, and tomorrow afternoon, bring Secretary Changshan here, and you will know why I asked you to build a factory."

He will process the mushrooms later and make several kinds of mushroom sauce tomorrow.

The most common mushroom chili sauce includes mushroom egg chili sauce, mushroom beef chili sauce, etc. With Zhou Fengnian's cooking skills, he can make a lot of mushroom sauces.

The production line for canned sauce is also easy to buy. You can just order it from the machinery factory in the name of the group. Glass bottles are not expensive either. They can be customized according to specifications for about 0.6 to 0.12 yuan.

The mushroom chili sauce can be sold for around 40 cents.

The price is a bit high, but Zhou Fengnian guarantees that it will taste delicious.

Moreover, as more and more factories are moving to rural areas, they can also build a small mushroom chili sauce production line. Half of the mushrooms can still be sold to the factory, and the other half can be used to make mushroom chili sauce to see how it works.

Liubiju’s pickles sell so well that Zhou Fengnian feels that his pickle craftsmanship is no worse than Liubiju’s.

"Then I will talk to the secretary tomorrow and bring Secretary Changshan over from the village."

When Zhou's father saw his son's confident look, he also thought of his third son; from a few years ago to now, this son of his had never made any mistakes.

After dinner, Zhou's father watched Zhou Fengnian process the mushrooms for a while, then went to the room arranged by Zhou Fengnian to rest. There was nothing to do if he didn't go back for a day.

There was still a lack of some peppers and seasonings. After Zhou Fengnian processed the mushrooms, he gave Zhou Xiaomei some money and asked her to go to the market to buy the missing seasonings tomorrow.

The next morning, Zhou Fengnian had just arrived at the factory when Gao Zhiyuan, who was blocking the door, pulled him into his office.

Zhou Fengnian asked in surprise: "What's wrong, Brother Gao? What's wrong with the factory?"

"No, the problem at the factory is that the leader is coming."

After Gao Zhiyuan finished speaking, he walked a few steps in the room and said with some concern: "Fengnian, do you think the current achievements of our factory are good?
Last year’s output tripled compared to the previous year, but this year’s output value can only increase by 60% at most. Do you think the leaders will think we are slacking off?”

"Don't think too much, Brother Gao. The leader probably didn't come here for our factory's achievements."

Although Zhou Feng was a little reluctant, he still broke Gao Zhiyuan's fantasy: "The leader's visit to our factory should be related to what I developed in the integrated circuit workshop.

It is possible that he will come to visit our factory, but don’t hold your hopes too high, as the boss is probably very busy.”

The last time he came was when we merged our factories, and he hasn't come since.

To control the development of the whole country, it is impossible to always focus on one factory; besides, their factory has developed so well and there has been no trouble.

'Good baby' is what makes adults feel most at ease.

“It’s not because of our factory’s achievements.”

After hearing this, Gao Zhiyuan lost a lot of his energy and spirit, and a feeling of disappointment filled his whole body.

Zhou Fengnian quickly changed his tone after seeing this and said, "Of course you can take the initiative to report. We should be the 'No. 1 Factory in the Country' this year.

The factory's output value may reach over 100 million within three years. There is nothing wrong with actively reporting such an outstanding achievement."

"That's right, Fengnian, you're right!" Gao Zhiyuan said with more energy, "We've done so well, why don't we take the initiative to report to the leadership?"

Zhou Fengnian guessed that it might be due to the development of medium-scale integrated chips and the application of integrated chips, so he went to the integrated circuit workshop to prepare.

Not long after the machine tool factory started operation, the leader's convoy arrived.

People were arranged in advance at the factory gate, and their convoy drove straight in and stopped in front of the factory office building.

Gao Zhiyuan, Zhou Fengnian, Kang Hongnian and their group, who received the news, quickly came downstairs and stepped forward to greet the leader.

Gao Zhiyuan stepped forward with some excitement and said: "Leader, welcome to the machine tool factory to guide our work. We are all looking forward to your coming."

"Haha, I'm not here to give you instructions. You have done a great job in your revolutionary work. You have developed a small factory into what it is today in the past two years. As an outsider, I won't give you blind instructions," the leader said in a humble and kind manner. He then shook hands with Gao Zhiyuan and Kang Hongnian and said a few words to affirm their work.

He couldn't have any say in how the second-rate machine tool factory had developed to its current state, but maintaining it would be the best reward for the people.

After that, the leader turned to look at Zhou Fengnian and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, I have heard Xiang Cheng praise you several times. You have worked so hard to achieve so many results."

"Leader, you can call me Xiao Zhou or Feng Nian, I want to call you Duke Zhou."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, "The country treats people like us so well. If I don't produce some results, I will be too ashamed to receive the treatment of a technician."

Just after saying this, Zhou Fengnian suddenly found that several people behind the leader lowered their heads at the same time.

"Scientific research is very difficult. It doesn't matter if you can't produce results for a while. I understand your difficulties. Sometimes you can't come up with any ideas for several days."

The leader explained, and then realized that Zhou Fengnian wanted to say something, and was worried that he would inadvertently mock others, so he continued.
"Fengnian, I will call you this from now on. Let me introduce you to Director Yan. He was originally in charge of the Computer Research Institute, but now he is also in charge of the Electronics Research Institute."

"He wanted to meet you after reading your article on the technical application and future development of medium-scale integrated chips."

After listening to his leader's words, Zhou Fengnian suddenly realized that his previous remarks seemed to have caused some harm.

"Hello, Director Yan. I've heard a lot about you. I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time."

After listening to this, Director Yan immediately became interested and asked, "Oh, Mr. Zhou, you have also read the article I wrote about the development of computers."

"Of course, of course"

Zhou Fengnian said this with an unchanged expression, but he silently thought in his heart that he should not beat around the bush with technical people in the future, otherwise it would be too embarrassing to be chased and questioned.

The leader smiled and said, "Let's go in and talk about it, Fengnian. This time we came here just to talk to you about the medium-scale integrated chip you mentioned and the future development of computers."

"Okay, then let's go directly to the integrated circuit workshop. That's where all the theoretical technologies I developed are."

After hearing Zhou Fengnian's words, Director Yan and other technical personnel who came with him were also very interested, because they came here just for this.

However, not too many people could enter the workshop. In the end, the leader of the machine tool factory did not follow in, but the leader and others went in.

After Zhou Fengnian brought them in, he introduced and explained, and also talked about their next plan, which was to build a medium-scale integrated circuit computer here.

Then continue to develop the next generation of integrated circuit chips, shrinking the computer to a size that one person can carry with them within ten years.

Director Yan and other technical personnel became more and more interested after listening to Zhou Fengnian's words, and the fog on the road of scientific research was almost cleared.

However, Zhou Fengnian also relied on his memories from later generations and the skills gained from the golden finger to have his current understanding of integrated circuit technology and computers.

The more they talked, the more excited they became. They even looked at Zhou Fengnian's design for a medium-scale integrated computer and began to praise it.

This type of computer has been reduced in size and cost, so more can be manufactured and used in universities for teaching.

As for what Zhou Fengnian said about a computer that is small enough for one person to take away, Director Yan also agreed with it after listening to what Zhou Fengnian said.

If integrated circuit chips can be developed to have thousands or tens of thousands of electronic components, then the size of computers may actually be reduced to a level that can be carried by individuals.

Watching the group of people in front of them discussing with each other, the leader's assistant came forward and whispered, "Leader, it's past twelve o'clock, and someone outside asked if we wanted to eat?"

"It's been so fast, I was so engrossed in what they were saying."

After the leader came back to his senses, he also sighed, mainly because of the scenario that Zhou Fengnian described, from computers becoming widely available in universities to everyone being able to use computers in the future.

If they can develop to this level, they will truly be considered a modern industrial power, comparable to the world's top power.

"Fengnian, you have been discussing this for so long, why don't you take a break and continue in the afternoon or later?"

The leader stepped forward and asked, trying to calm down their excited discussion.

Zhou Fengnian looked at his watch and said in surprise: "It's already noon? Oh no, time flies by so fast. I said I would cook for you personally."

"Oh, Fengnian, you can cook too?"

"My cooking skills are a little lower than my mechanical research and development. This is a real hobby!"

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "Leader, Director Yan, let's have lunch first."

"Okay, but Mr. Zhou, you should come to our place. Your research has been delayed in the machine tool factory. Although the equipment here is good, there are too few relevant technicians."

Director Yan has not given up the idea of ​​poaching people. How come he has never heard of such a talent who knows so much about computers before, and why did he come to the machine tool factory?

Such a waste!

If he came to him, he would even be willing to give up the position of project leader or even director.

Whoever is capable will get the job, it’s that simple in the research institute. After a conversation, Director Yan felt that he was not as good as Zhou Fengnian.

"I heard from the people in the Mechanical Department that Mr. Zhou has been recommended as a member of the academic department. I have already inquired for you, and they are speeding up the approval process. When the time comes, you can come directly as a member of the academic department."

After leaving the integrated circuit workshop, Director Yan had not stopped thinking about poaching people, and what he said was overheard by Deputy Leader Li who came rushing over.

Deputy Leader Li quickly stepped forward and said, "Commissioner Yan, this is wrong. How can you just poach people casually?"

"That's wrong, Deputy Leader Li. We should make the best use of people and put professional people to their professional positions."

"But Mr. Zhou is also the top mechanical R&D engineer in our mechanical department!"

Deputy Leader Li said unyieldingly that if Zhou Fengnian was transferred away, it would definitely be a loss for their machinery department.

"We can discuss these topics later. I'm a little hungry now, so let's have lunch first."

The leader interrupted and said that this allowed both parties to calm down temporarily.

The group walked towards the cafeteria. Zhou Fengnian had originally thought of cooking for lunch himself, but that would take too long to wait, and the leader didn't want to waste time the most.

So they each got a meal in the cafeteria and started eating.

I also plan to take a look around the machine tool factory in the afternoon. Since I'm here, I must understand the development status of the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory. I have seen it in documents many times, but it is still better to see it with my own eyes.

As for Director Yan, he pulled Zhou Fengnian aside and planned to continue chatting. He was not interested in mechanical machine tools, he just wanted to talk to Zhou Fengnian about professional matters.

(End of this chapter)