Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 186 I have never fought such a rich battle (please subscribe)
Zhou Fengnian talked to Zhou Yan about the job transfer to avoid worrying his pregnant wife.

However, he didn't say what he was doing specifically, he just mentioned the unit he was going to.

The academicians and the research institutes established by the Academy of Sciences sound very important. Zhou Yan also knew the importance of this. After knowing it in her heart, she nodded silently and planned not to tell anyone.

Anyway, Zhou Fengnian still holds the position of deputy director of the machine tool factory. If someone asks him about his absence from home for a few days, he can just say he was on a business trip.

However, it is unlikely that he will not come back for a few days. After all, he is in the capital city and can come back after work every day. If he comes back even later, he can ride a bicycle.

The security guards sent by the First Ministry of Machine Building were not recalled. Zhou Fengnian was already a public figure, and the important machine tools he developed had long been known to foreigners.

The Russians, Japan and other countries all know about Zhou Fengnian. It is too late to hide his identity now. Unless he hides his identity from the beginning, he will not be able to hide it.

If the First Ministry of Machine Building withdrew its security guards and encountered Zhou Fengnian riding a bicycle on the road, a burst of bullets from a pistol would be enough to take Zhou Fengnian's life.

It's just that on the surface the number of security guards has been reduced to one, and he is only responsible for driving and dropping off guests, while the secret situation remains unchanged.

At the age of 25, Zhou Fengnian was appointed as the deputy project leader as soon as he arrived, and this was the result of his strong efforts to refuse the position and not wanting to be the leader.

He is only responsible for the project and doesn't care about other things. Zhou Fengnian also feels that being a team leader is troublesome because once he becomes a team leader, he has to be responsible for everyone.

These days, Zhou Fengnian has been busy handing over factory affairs, but it only took him one day to complete all the work.

After the suspension of technological innovation, Zhou Fengnian was not responsible for much; after he went to the factory, he only arranged the integrated circuit workshop and CNC workshop, and started to manufacture medium-scale integrated computers.

This was the assignment he had given to the two workshops, and Zhou Fengnian might come back once every two weeks, so he could solve any unresolved problems for them.

In addition to the factory affairs, Zhou Fengnian also took care of the things he promised to Li Huaide when he had some free time these days.

For hot rolling mills and other types of rolling mills, Zhou Fengnian draws and marks the key points.

The time was too short and he didn't finish it completely, but the rest was not difficult and could be solved by the technical department of the machinery factory.

After receiving the call, Li Huaide went to visit after work that afternoon and brought some gifts.

After getting the rolling mill manufacturing drawings from Zhou Fengnian, his face was as bright as a flower.

"Mr. Zhou, our steel rolling mill is now a real key unit of the Ministry of Metallurgy, and is no longer the 'key unit' that was ridiculed before."

Li Huaide looked very happy when talking about this. Before, the steel rolling mill had nearly 10,000 employees and the annual output value was not low; but the main output value was earned from parts processing, so the brother units would always make fun of them.

A cook who is good at driving, is this a compliment or an insult? Anyway, Li Huaide felt very uncomfortable listening to it.

But now it is different. Their rolling mill has become a key fine steel production unit. Although the workload is heavy, after meeting with all the workshop directors, Li Huaide believes that it is not a problem to complete it by the end of the year.

He has now officially become the factory director, and Yang Weimin has directly become the deputy secretary of the factory, assisting the trade union and the Youth League Committee. Although he has not retired to the second line, it is almost the same.

If no one helped Yang Weimin, he would be strolling on the streets of Beijing in ten years.

"Whenever the ministerial leaders hold a meeting, they always praise our factory. By the way, the top and bottom blowing steelmaking method and the four-roller rolling mill you invented should be promoted in steel mills across the country."

Li Huaide suddenly remembered and said that this machine was researched and manufactured by Zhou Fengnian, so he had to tell him about it.

"Well, that's good. The output of refined steel is estimated to increase by at least 30%. Unfortunately, we don't have enough domestically, and we can't export even if we have the conditions to do so."

After hearing Zhou Fengnian's words, Li Huaide was shocked, as it was the same thing he heard at the ministry meeting.

If he didn't know that Zhou Fengnian was from the Machinery Department, he would have doubted whether Zhou Fengnian was also present during the meeting.

Zhou Fengnian said, "Director Li, I may be on business trips frequently in the next period of time. If you have anything to say, just leave a note for my family. I will contact you as soon as I see it."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou, if I have something to talk to you about, please ask Deputy Director Bai to pass it on."

Li Huaide immediately understood and said, Zhou Fengnian was not there, and the rest were all women, so it would be inconvenient for him to visit them, so it would be best to ask Deputy Director Bai to pass on the message.

Moreover, when Li Huaide was on a business trip, he immediately thought of the confidential project. The fact that a level 6 engineer could be on a business trip so frequently must be related to this.

Afterwards, Li Huaide felt even more respectful, and after some polite conversation, he said goodbye and left.

These few days are the time Zhou Fengnian uses to handle the handover of work at the machine tool factory.

However, after Zhou Fengnian stopped developing machine tool technology, he paid little attention to production matters.

In just two days, all the work of the machine tool factory was done, and even the matters of the integrated circuit workshop and the CNC workshop were arranged.

Afterwards, Zhou Fengnian went to the Personnel Department to handle some formalities and was suspended from work without pay. From then on, he would temporarily collect his salary from another place.

By Saturday, Zhou Fengnian was already resting at home. He could go to the machine tool factory or not, but the Academy of Sciences would send him certificates on Saturday and Sunday, so Zhou Fengnian waited at home.

Someone came to the door in the morning. It was Director Yan and people from the Institute of Electronics.

Not only did they send Zhou Fengnian his academician certificate, which had already been made public at the Academy of Sciences, but they also planned to take him to the Institute of Computer Science to complete the employment process.

The microelectronic computer project system was established by the Computer Research Institute, so Zhou Fengnian had to join the institute first. This was an order from the leader, and special matters should be handled specially.

He was caught in a double-edged sword. The Ministry of First Machine Industry would not keep Zhou Fengnian's file, so the Computer Research Institute simply set up a new one.

After Zhou Fengnian learned about the situation, he collected his academician credentials, went back to Director Yan, and completed the recruitment process for the Computer Research Institute. He also met with the project team members.

"From now on, I will call you Team Leader Zhou. You have to take the lead in establishing the direction for the microcomputer project."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian waved his hand and said, "Director Yan, you can just call me Fengnian."

"No, that won't work. In the project team, I'll call you team leader, which will save a lot of trouble. You can call me whatever you want in private. You can also call me Old Yan."

Director Yan shook his head and said that Zhou Fengnian was inserted midway. Even if he developed and manufactured medium-scale integrated chips and planned the development and manufacturing of medium-scale integrated computers, many people would probably question it.

Normally there is nothing wrong with doubts, but now the project team is very anxious. Computers are related to many national defense constructions. Once they slow down, many projects will slow down as well.

There is no time for others to question, and Director Yan has already questioned it on behalf of others. Zhou Fengnian must be responsible for the leading direction of research and development, and others, including himself, will only contribute to the supporting aspects.

He was extremely confident in Zhou Fengnian's ability. In fact, medium-scale integrated chips alone were enough to get the job done, but if they could make better ones, they would of course try their best to do it.

"Team Leader Zhou, what are you going to do next?"

"Director Yan, I just heard from you that the project team is so strong, so let's make a few medium-scale integrated computers first."

Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and said, "Three months, tentatively three units, we will learn while manufacturing, and after we understand the process, procedures, and technology, we will proceed to the next step of development and research. I also have some ideas that need to be sorted out."

When he was working at the machine tool factory, Zhou Fengnian did not have such generous support.

There are more than ten electronic factories under the production guidance of the Computer Research Institute and the Microelectronics Research Institute alone.

When he wanted to entrust production, he had to ask the machinery department to step in, otherwise no one would pay attention to him.

"Three is too slow, let's go for six."

Director Yan said, in such a critical situation, shouldn’t Santai be manufacturing while on holiday? They are not so lazy.

".Then six."

Zhou Fengnian nodded in agreement. He suddenly felt as if he had entered a nest of struggle. However, with such abundant energy, he could not even be unable to survive among the middle-aged and elderly.

Zhou Fengnian then continued, "As for electronic components, I think the process can be improved further."

Next, I talked with the technicians from the Microelectronics Research Institute about the manufacturing process and discussed many directions to be developed in the future.

Having more technical personnel is an advantage. For some things, Zhou Fengnian only needs to give instructions and someone will naturally arrange for them to be done.

Compared with the machine tool factory, Zhou Fengnian really likes the feeling here.

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After coming out of the Computer Research Institute, Zhou Fengnian took the bus home with a smile on his face.

As soon as he came back, he happened to meet Zhou's father, Hong Changshan and Wu Youhai coming to the door.

"Dad, you guys are here so soon, how was the discussion going?"

Zhou Fengnian greeted him at the door with a smile, then pushed the door open and said, "Come in and talk."

When they arrived at the backyard, several people walked on the stone bench, and Zhou Fengnian poured a few cups of tea and brought them out.

"Secretary Changshan, Secretary Wu, I have already contacted several factories for you. I will give you the list later. You can just deliver the mushrooms directly to their door."

"Thank you, thank you so much, Director Zhou."

Wu Youhai took the note and thanked him happily; regardless of whether to build the factory or not, at least he had an explanation to the villagers about selling mushrooms this time.

"Director Zhou, we went back and discussed it, and there are four villages that agreed to build the factory. The production teams in other villages felt that the risk was too great and were unwilling to join, so we gathered the production teams in these four villages to build the factory."

"Sure. We have a glass bottle factory in Sijiu City. Once the factory is built, you can come to place an order. I will help you contact the mechanical production line.

I can also give you the recipe, and you can take it back and ask the person who is mainly responsible for making the hot sauce to try it a few more times."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile that he didn't care about the money at all; he might as well give it to his hometown and let them use it to get rich.

Having a good reputation can also save some people from nagging; there are so many ways to make money. Zhou Fengnian, who knows the future changes decades later, can make money with his eyes closed.

"But Secretary Wu, since this is a collective industry, every household in these four villages must participate in it, otherwise it will have nothing to do with the collective.
As for how much to get, it will be distributed according to the degree of labor contribution."

Wu Youhai nodded and said, "This is what I should do, Director Zhou, thank you very much. Without you, our commune would still be poor now."

"No, no, Secretary Wu, don't be so polite. I'm from Hongjia Village as well, and it's my duty to do something to help my hometown."

Zhou Fengnian waved his hand and said, "When the commune becomes wealthy, we can build more schools so that children in the village can go to school."

Wu Youhai nodded and said, "Don't worry, Director Zhou, we have been thinking this for a long time; when the commune is well off on paper, we will build a commune school."

At the beginning, Zhou Fugui tightened his belt and asked the eldest and second sons to go to school to support the third son. Many people laughed at Zhou Fugui.

Now there are no people who laugh at Zhou Fugui anymore, instead they all envy him.

Zhou Fengnian, this educated rich kid, led the entire Zhou family to success; all five brothers and sisters moved to the city, and Zhou's mother received pension money every month.

The exact amount is unknown. Zhou's mother boasted about it once, but she quickly realized her mistake and stopped revealing it.

However, the Zhou family only had one person earning work points, but they still lived a comfortable life.

Seeing that the Zhou family was living so well, other families had already started to follow their example, and when their lives became a little easier, they sent their children to school.

Zhou Fengnian wrote two copies of the recipe, and Wu Youhai and Zhou Fugui each took one.

As for the mechanical production line, he will notify the commune once he has contacted the machinery factory.

Zhou Fengnian basically doesn’t have to worry about anything, he just makes a phone call to make the connection.

The other two left quickly before it got dark so that they could catch the last bus.

Zhou Fugui was kept to rest for a night and go back tomorrow morning; and today Zhou Fengnian planned to buy a pound of meat and a chicken and have a good meal at home.

It can also be regarded as a celebration of his becoming a member of the academic department.

Zhou Yan's belly is now three or four months old. In another five months, her mother will come to the city to help.

The person who used to live in Zhou Fengnian's house was Zhou Chunhua. As his fourth sister, she was good at housework, so Zhou's mother was not worried at all.

But after Zhou Xiaomei took over, Zhou's mother was a little confused, so she proposed to go to the city to take care of Zhou Yan; and her children and grandchildren were all in the city, and Zhou's mother had always wanted to live in the countryside.

After buying the chicken and meat, Zhou Fengnian called his eldest brother and his second brother's family to have a family dinner, except that his mother was not present.

Zhou Weitian cooked this evening's meal. His skills have indeed improved. If he keeps up this improvement for another five or six years, his cooking skills will be no worse than those of the chef at Hongbinlou.

During the meal, Zhou Fengnian said that he would not work in the machine tool factory in the future, and also told his elder brother not to act rashly in the future.

If he is not there at the first moment, the security department will not give him face, but keeping him for two days is unbearable.

Before Zhou Weitian could say anything after hearing what he said, his father continued to scold him.

If this tiger son dares to fight again and gets someone in trouble, he, as his father, will go to the city to teach Zhou Weitian a lesson.

(End of this chapter)