Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

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"Director Yan, try this. This is the mushroom chili sauce our commune makes. It tastes pretty good."

During lunch, Zhou Fengnian sat behind Director Yan and took out the chili mushroom sauce made by their Sanshui Commune.

"Mushroom hot sauce? There's mushrooms in it?"

Director Yan took the hot sauce, opened it and smelled it, and a tempting spicy aroma lingered around his nose.

Just for the taste, Director Yan couldn't help but pick up a chopstick and touched the steamed bun. After taking a bite, he nodded and said, "Not bad, very delicious, good with rice."

After saying that, Director Yan picked up another piece of steamed bun with chopsticks, and started eating it. After he finished eating, he picked up more.

The large mushrooms are very tender, and the chili peppers are appetizing and flavorful, so you can’t stop eating them.

Zhou Fengnian then took out three more bottles and said to the people from other project teams in the cafeteria: "Try them all and see how they taste."

I shared the mushroom hot sauce, and almost everyone said it was delicious after trying it. Some people even wanted to buy a few bottles so they could have it with meals if they missed it.

“The commune plans to sell it for 25 cents, but if it goes to the supply and marketing cooperative, they might add a few cents;

I’m not selling it now. I’ll bring you more next year and let you know when it’s on the shelves of the supply and marketing cooperative.”

Zhou Fengnian replied, and after hearing this, others said that it was worth it even if it was only three cents.

A can weighs one kilogram and is so appetizing that it can be eaten for several days. It is much more worthwhile than a portion of food sold outside.

Everyone enjoyed the lunch very much. They took the leftovers home. If anyone was hungry at night, they would find a steamed bun or corn bread and eat it with mushroom chili sauce.

Many people wanted to buy some for their families, but Zhou Fengnian was not a man of speculation, so he could only let them wait for a while.

During this period, Zhou Fengnian went home a lot earlier at night. One reason was that Zhou Yan's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and in two months, by the end of the year, she could take a maternity leave.

Another reason was that Zhou Fengnian helped the commune promote the chili mushroom sauce. He did not have any connections in the supply and marketing cooperative, but he knew people who had connections in the supply and marketing cooperative.

Bai Yujie, Gao Zhiyuan, Li Huaide and so on, these people all have stronger connections than him, and two of them are in logistics.

It was a bit unreasonable to say that the people in logistics didn't know the people from the supply and marketing cooperative, so Zhou Fengnian went to find them after get off work.

Zhou Fengnian came home early for three consecutive days and directly settled the matter; not only did the supply and marketing cooperatives accept this kind of hot sauce, but even the steel rolling mills, machine tool factories and machinery factories had collection points.

We will collect a large batch during the Chinese New Year and use it as welfare for the workers.

In the past, the annual benefits were nothing more than a water tank and a towel, or a toothbrush and toothpaste; the mushroom chili sauce given this time will definitely make the workers more satisfied than a towel.

After the deal was reached, Zhou Fengnian asked his elder brother Zhou Weitian to go back to the village on his day off and tell the commune the good news.

Sanshui Commune can deliver the goods every three days by hiring a car and collecting hundreds or thousands of bottles to deliver at one time, thus saving trouble.

Now, with sufficient raw materials, the mushroom hot sauce factory in Sanshui Commune can produce 600 bottles a day, and it takes two groups of women just to fry the sauce.

However, the amount of mushrooms grown in Sanshui Commune is limited, based on last year's output.

The mushroom hot sauce factory in Sanshui Commune spends up to two-thirds of the year producing hot sauce.

But this is a lot of money. The net profit per month is about 1,500 yuan, and you can also make money from mushrooms.

The village that participated in the establishment of the mushroom chili sauce factory made double the money. They no longer had to worry about selling the mushrooms, as they could sell them directly to the commune's chili sauce factory.

Then after the mushroom chili sauce is made and sold, you can get a share of the profits.

Among the four villages, Hongjia Village has the largest occupancy. They trust Zhou Fengnian the most. The money they contributed when the village was built directly accounted for one-third of the money for the mushroom chili sauce factory.

At that time, other villages were somewhat fortunate. If they were asked to pay more, the village production team really would not be able to squeeze out the money; unless every household contributed money, but no one was willing to do so.

It's okay to let them earn money, but it's a bit difficult to let them pay; fortunately, Hongjia Village contributed a lot of extra money to help them share the burden.

However, when the dividends are distributed next year, the other villages will regret it; with a net profit of more than one thousand yuan a month, the mushroom chili sauce factory can make nearly 20,000 yuan a year.

Although it cannot be compared with the factories in the city, this is a township factory established by four villages, and Hongjia Village can take away about 5,000 yuan a year. After the mushroom chili sauce factory expands, it will earn even more.

After the mushroom chili sauce of Sanshui Commune was completed, there was nothing to disturb Zhou Fengnian in the near future, so he concentrated on the research and development work of the project team.

However, overtime is still rare, and Zhou Fengnian does not want the project team to suffer overtime now.

Some people feel listless the next day, and there are no particularly urgent tasks to rush them to complete. Zhou Fengnian thinks this is unnecessary.

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"Team Leader Zhou."

When Zhou Fengnian was working, someone suddenly came to see him. He looked up and found that it was Director Huang, the director of the ZZ Ideology Department and also the deputy secretary.

"Director Huang, what's going on?"

"Nothing, I just want to ask you about the progress of the mission."

Director Huang looked calm and said in a formal tone, "It should be reported once a month, but I haven't received a progress report for three months."

"Mission progress?"

Zhou Fengnian also felt that Director Huang was a little weird. Not only was his tone off, but his attitude was also pretty average.

So Zhou Fengnian asked back: "Director Huang, what is the progress of the task?"

Director Huang choked when he heard this, and then said a little louder: "You are the deputy leader of the project team. Do you need to ask me about the progress of the task?" "It is precisely because I am the deputy leader of the project team that I am curious. I don't even know the progress of the task. What do you want to ask me, Director Huang?"

Zhou Fengnian turned around and said to Director Huang who was sitting there, “The original intention of establishing this project team was to develop microcomputers to meet the needs of various confidentiality projects.

We have already completed this a few months ago and are currently manufacturing a medium-scale integrated computer. Don’t you know this? Director Huang.

The matter of computer production and manufacturing must have been reported to Director Huang. Zhou Fengnian didn't believe that Director Yan would make such a low-level mistake.

If he comes here to cause trouble, it means he has other purposes.

Director Huang asked relentlessly, "What about the others? Manufacturing is the responsibility of the electronics factory, so what are you doing?
And as far as I know, you, Team Leader Zhou, are the first one to go back to rest every day, while other comrades are still working hard at their workstations!"

"Continue to research new photolithography technology and the next generation of computers, as well as compilers. You don't know these either? Didn't Director Yan tell you?"

Zhou Fengnian was no longer polite, he stood up and pointed outside the window and said: "Director Huang, if you really have nothing to do, go outside and run a few laps to exercise.

It would be good to have a healthy body for the revolutionary cause, and not waste my time here; if I don't rest early and make a mistake due to fatigue, who will be responsible? "

"What's your attitude?"

"Hey, Director Huang, Team Leader Zhou, what are you doing?"

Director Yan rushed over, inserted himself between the two, and quickly said to smooth things over: "We are all revolutionary comrades who have fought together, why are you still arguing?"

Director Huang said sternly: "Team Leader Yan, I am not the one who wants to quarrel. It is Team Leader Zhou who is not cooperating with my work."

"What do you mean by cooperation? Have you made it clear? You can't even make your requirements clear. You just keep asking for cooperation. How did you become the deputy secretary of the institute?"

Zhou Fengnian slammed the table and stood up and asked rudely, what is he afraid of? Can he be kicked out of the project team? Then let's see who will suffer the most losses.

He returned to the machine tool factory and continued to develop computers, and he was also able to go back to his old job of mechanical design.

Director Huang immediately said angrily: "What is your attitude? I will report your improper and positive attitude to my superiors!"

"Do whatever you want. It's better to terminate my position as deputy project team leader. You'd better terminate it tomorrow, so that I don't have to get up early the day after tomorrow."

Zhou Fengnian then continued to say rudely: "Director Huang, this is my office, please get out now, I don't welcome you here!"

"you"

"Director Huang, Director Huang, let's go out and talk first, stop arguing, stop arguing!"

Director Yan quickly persuaded, and then dragged Director Huang away.

After a long while, Director Yan knocked on the door and walked in, closing the door.

Zhou Fengnian stood up and poured a cup of tea. After handing it over, he asked, "Director Yan, what does he do? Why did he suddenly cause trouble for me today?"

"He is eager to make a contribution. He just told me about the fourth-generation computer and asked me if I can make it before the end of the year. We need this achievement as a gift to our leaders."

"Ah"

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but laugh. What a bold idea! It should be built by the end of the year.

He didn't even dare to think about this 'bend', but others became excited.

"Then I told him that it was impossible. The fact that we completed the task a year ahead of schedule was your own achievement. Even if you saved a year, it would be impossible to use that year to develop and manufacture the fourth-generation computer."

Director Yan shook his head and said that they were most afraid of encountering outsiders. Although he was the director, Director Huang was in charge of ideology and was always talking about this and that.

I couldn't understand what Director Huang was saying when we talked about technology, so we asked them to work hard to overcome it, but the key was that they couldn't overcome it!
"Maybe we just established the research and development goal, and then you, Team Leader Zhou, completed it, which gave him a little illusion."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, "What should we do now? Judging from the way he looks, does he want us to finish it before the end of the year?"

"Probably not. I told him he couldn't do it."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said, "Even if he doesn't force us to shorten the development schedule, I'm afraid he will still cause trouble for me who has a low level of 'ideological awareness'."

"That's impossible. As long as I'm here, he won't do anything to you."

Director Yan immediately patted his chest and assured: "You are the core of our project team. Even if I am gone, you, Team Leader Zhou, cannot be gone."

"I hope he won't cause any trouble. Why did the higher-ups transfer such a person here? Is he here to assist us in our research?"

Zhou Fengnian complained a few words. His previous partners were very cooperative, from Luo Gong to Gao Zhiyuan, and then to the people from the machine tool factory.
Wouldn't it be better to just leave professional matters to professionals? Why does an amateur have to command the professionals?

It’s almost the end of the year, could it be that those people have shown up?

After chatting with Director Yan for a few words, Zhou Fengnian continued to work.

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The next day, when Zhou Fengnian arrived at the project team office of the institute, he found a group of people gathered at the door.

When he got closer, the project team quickly pulled him aside and said, "Team Leader Zhou, take a look at this."

"What's wrong? What's the hurry?"

Zhou Fengnian was pushed to the front and soon saw a notice posted on the door, which was about him.

Because of his improper ideological attitude and frequent leaving his revolutionary post prematurely, Zhou Fengnian is now asked to stop working and reflect on himself.

(End of this chapter)