Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 206: Wanted people, came to give gifts (Subscription required)

“Fengnian, I thought you would come back, but I didn’t expect you to only come back halfway and build an independent factory.”

Zhou Fengnian shook his head and said with a smile: "There is no other way. It is not the right place for me to stay over there. I'd better come back and feel more comfortable."

"It's a pity you didn't return to the machine tool factory"

"The machine tool factory doesn't really need me right now, mainly because there's no room for expansion. Building two workshops is too tight. The things I want to research will definitely require a manufacturing plant in the end."

Zhou Fengnian explained that if they returned to the machine tool factory, the scale of the factory would be too bloated.

The same is true for the subsidiary factories. If the results are achieved, the machine tool factory also deserves credit for its adequate support.

"Everyone, I have to take some people away from the factory, including the integrated circuit workshop and the technicians in the workshop. They have been with me for several years. With them, I can quickly produce results.
And Pan Heng, he will also come with me to the new factory and serve as the director of the factory committee office."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he thought for a while and decided that he was only responsible for technical matters. Other organizational and coordination matters had to be left to professionals, otherwise running errands and communicating would be enough to annoy him.

"By the way, Comrade Zhou Weitian from the First Canteen"

"Hey, Fengnian, don't hide it. We know that Zhou Weitian is your elder brother. But your elder brother has to stay in the factory for us. Once he leaves, there will be no good cooks in the machine tool factory."

Gao Zhiyuan quickly tried to dissuade them, saying that this concerned the welfare of the cadres in their factory. Without a chef, they would not be able to eat such delicious dishes in the future.

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, you should keep Master Zhou with us. He is the only chef in our factory."

Ma Sisheng also spoke up and said that there used to be two chefs, but He Yuzhu, who was always making trouble, had been fired and was now sent to the countryside to work and correct his behavior. It would probably take two years for him to come back.

So Zhou Weitian cannot leave, otherwise the middle-level cadres will blame them.

If all the people with such good factory benefits are let go, will he be able to become a leader?

Hong Bowen and Wang Jinghui both tried to dissuade Zhou Fengnian, and finally he had to give up and leave his elder brother in the machine tool factory.

However, he hired two chefs who were better at cooking big pot dishes, both of whom came from the same canteen. Zhou Weitian did not hide the dishes from them when he was cooking, so all the kitchen helpers in the canteen would try their hand at cooking.

After asking for some people, Zhou Fengnian stopped.

All he wanted were technical and logistical personnel, and Gao Zhiyuan and others arranged the rest. However, Zhou Fengnian had only one request, that when they arrived at the new factory, they had to listen to him obediently and everything had to focus on production.

If anyone wanted to cause trouble and disrupt production, Zhou Fengnian would simply submit a report and have the person transferred.

The discussions went very smoothly. In addition to the technical workers on the front line of production, the new subsidiary factory would also need more than 60 administrative organizing and coordinating personnel.

Zhou Fengnian did not participate and asked Gao Zhiyuan and others to discuss it.

However, they discussed until noon without reaching a conclusion, so they went to eat first and continued the discussion in the afternoon.

It was only after two o'clock that a list was finalized that was relatively satisfactory to all parties; Wang Jinghui was the first to withdraw. He had only been in the machine tool factory for more than two years, and few people had joined him.

He only asked for three places, two of which were for his friends, so that he would not be sent to the countryside.

The others also made a decision quickly. After all, the deadline was tomorrow morning, and Zhou Fengnian was still waiting. They couldn't really let Zhou Fengnian wait just because of this matter.

After the discussion, Zhou Fengnian didn't even look at it. He didn't know the people above him anyway, so he directly asked Gao Zhiyuan to hand it over to the ministry.

Afterwards, Zhou Fengnian went to Gao Zhiyuan's office to discuss some things. Some things can only be discussed between two people.

"There's one more thing, Brother Gao, you have to help me."

Zhou Fengnian said: "There is a group of people from the Computer Research Institute who want to apply to go to the countryside, and they are all technical personnel.

With them joining the electronic computer factory, we will definitely be able to produce the results in the shortest possible time. Please help me get them to the factory."

After listening to this, Gao Zhiyuan asked with a strange look on his face: "Fengnian, the technicians who are still going to the countryside at this time, are they having problems?"

"More or less, there are some, but they are just implicated. But that group of people went too far, magnifying a small problem; and many people were exploited to make a fuss."

Zhou Fengnian sighed and continued, "They should be sent to the rural areas around Sijiu City."

"Brother Fengnian, this is really a big trouble." "It's not easy for the minister and others to come forward, so I can only come to you, Brother Gao."

Gao Zhiyuan also had a headache. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Let me ask for you. It happens that a friend of mine is in charge of this area recently. I'll invite him to the factory for a meal. The problem shouldn't be big. It's just a few people working downstairs."

"Thanks, Brother Gao."

Zhou Fengnian suddenly thought of something and said quickly, "Brother Gao, we can open up a vegetable plot in the factory. It doesn't have to be very big, but it just needs to look passable.

In this way, if the factory needs to correct the laborers, they should be able to come here, right? At that time, as long as we communicate well with others, there shouldn’t be any big problems. "

It would take three or four months to build the electronic computer factory, so we had to ask the machine tool factory to send the people over first, and then transfer them over after the electronic computer factory was built.

"Hey, you know what, this really works."

Gao Zhiyuan seemed to get something all of a sudden. It was okay for them to apply if they were short of people. It wasn't like they were not allowed to work to make corrections. However, it was not up to them to decide how much work they were to do.

As long as no one inspects and no one reports it, it can be kept secret.

"Okay, I'll ask about this for you. If it works out, ask the logistics department to open up a vegetable plot in the factory and let them take time to grow vegetables."

After Gao Zhiyuan figured it out, he agreed to help contact his friend. Now some of his friends have been knocked down, while some have been promoted.

This is the advantage of working in logistics, you have a lot of friends to deal with on a daily basis.

After get off work in the afternoon, Zhou Fengnian also left the machine tool factory and prepared to go home; he had been working in the machine tool factory before the electronic computer factory was built.

Catch up on some progress in the integrated circuit workshop to avoid wasting time.

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"You're back? The meal is already being prepared. Go take a rest and wait for dinner to be prepared."

In the afternoon, when Zhou Fengnian just returned home, he saw Zhou Yan was already busy at home.

This surprised Zhou Fengnian and he asked, "I thought I came back early enough, why did you come back so early?"

Zhou Yan said as she kneaded the steamed buns: "There is not much work in the factory, and the Women's Federation is too idle right now. It would be better to come back early and do housework than to stay there."

"Won't the factory say anything?"

"They don't want us, the Women's Federation, to get involved. What else can we say? If we were busy, those people would be trembling with fear."

After Zhou Yan finished speaking, she suddenly remembered something and asked, "Fengnian, it's almost New Year's Eve. Have you told your parents about spending the New Year in the city?"

"No, I asked my eldest brother to run a trip on the last day off. My parents probably won't be coming to the city, so I have to notify them specifically."

Zhou Fengnian said that he has been very busy recently, as the personnel list for the new factory alone has to be finalized before the New Year.

He had to go to the Ministry of First Machine Industry for a meeting a few days earlier after the New Year, but he could use this excuse to say that he had no time to go back and let the old couple come to the city to celebrate the New Year.

Zhou Fengnian was about to become the director of the electronic computer factory. Although being the director of a subsidiary factory was a demotion, his salary and benefits remained unchanged, and no one looked down on him because of this.

He became the factory director in order to be able to manage all matters of the electronic computer factory legitimately.

He will not be responsible for management matters, as there will be a deputy factory director to help him deal with them when the time comes. Zhou Fengnian will be responsible for technical research and development.

This electronic computer factory will gradually become a place like the Computer Research Institute in the future, and by then the real Computer Research Institute will become a "fake".

Just when Zhou Fengnian was about to go out to talk to his elder brother Zhou Weitian about this matter, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

When Zhou Fengnian opened the door, he saw two people standing outside the door, holding some gifts in their hands. It was obvious that they were here to give gifts or do business.

Two acquaintances.

(End of this chapter)