Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 207: Saving People in a Curve (Subscription Request)

Zhou Fengnian took a look and then asked, "Master Yi, why did you come to see me?"

"Let me make it clear first, I don't accept gifts. The country has been very good to me, and I don't need anything now."

To put it bluntly, his current living conditions are among the best among the top group of people, and Zhou Fengnian simply doesn't even look at the gifts given by others.

After hearing this, Yi Zhonghai didn't know where to put the gift in his hand, but he still smiled and said, "Deputy Director Zhou."

"I am no longer the deputy factory manager. Although I still work at the machine tool factory, I am just an ordinary engineer now."

Zhou Fengnian interrupted and said that his attitude was average; he could guess a little about the purpose of Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu's visit, so he didn't look very happy.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm here to take care of your child. I thought the child might like it."

After Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he pointed out the gifts in his hand, which were all toffee, pastries, milk powder, malted milk and the like.

The milk powder and malted milk alone cost fifty or sixty yuan, and if you include other things, these gifts are not cheap.

"Master Yi, Huaxia Machine Tool Factory has been established for five or six years. You are considered an old man. You have won the first place in the workshop several times and were rewarded with a washing machine, so I will talk to you a little more today."

Zhou Fengnian said, "What on earth are you thinking of, someone who has repeatedly tried to plot against me and my family? And you came to me, thinking I would save him?"

"Mr. Zhou, I."

Zhou Fengnian waved his hand to interrupt, and then continued: "Don't talk first, I can tell you, if he complains about me behind my back, I don't bother to argue with such a person; I am too busy every day, and he is not the only one who says bad things about me behind my back.
But instigating those people to do something to my family? I'm telling you this, he won't be able to come back to the city in the next ten years. He should just work hard and make corrections."

"Whoever is transferred back, I will deal with him!"

After hearing what Zhou Fengnian said, Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu showed a trace of fear on their faces. Not only did they not agree to help, but Zhou Fengnian would punish anyone who helped them.
If they continue to think about transferring He Yuzhu back, maybe... No, they will definitely deal with them.

Qin Huairu stuttered as he spoke: "Comrade Zhou Da, He Yuzhu is just a fool."

"Comrade Qin, I have helped you. I don't ask for anything in return, but I hope you won't repay me with evil."

Zhou Fengnian paused, then glanced at Yi Zhonghai and continued, "You can come to the machine tool factory and earn more than 40 yuan a month, and it was also my decision; otherwise, even if Master Yi worked hard, no one would help you transfer to the factory!

Do you really think that if an eighth-level worker completes a few unplanned tasks, you can transfer the workers who have not been regularized to the factory?"

"Master Yi, go back, but remember what I said; whoever brings He Yuzhu back, I will take action against him.

If you don’t believe me, you can try and see if a level 6 engineer like me has the ability to do this.”

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he closed the door and went straight to Zhou Weitian's house.

After everyone left, Yi Zhonghai, who was left behind, sighed and said with some sadness: "Zhu Zi really can't come back this time, but fortunately it's only ten years."

"Uncle, are we going to ignore it?"

"What can we do? Look at Xu Damao's family, they've all been taken away, and we just came to beg for mercy because we're workers from the machine tool factory, but now they won't accept us, and they're even warning us that Zhuzi is such a fool!"

Yi Zhonghai said with regret that he was living a good life but he had to provoke the leader just to get the upper hand. It was all caused by this idiot Zhu himself that he had come to this point.

"Forget it, let's go back, we have tried our best"

After saying that, Yi Zhonghai picked up his things and walked towards home. They had all been warned, and if they continued to think about saving He Yuzhu, their entire family might be implicated.

Having said that, he finally gave an explanation to the old lady in the backyard.

A level six engineer, or even a level nine engineer, is not something a worker like him can afford to offend; although many intellectuals are in trouble now, Zhou Fengnian is still going in and out of the machine tool factory, so he is definitely not an ordinary intellectual.

Qin Huairu didn't dare to say anything else. She was called here purely because she had dealt with Zhou Fengnian before; but if the other party didn't recognize her at all, there would be nothing she could do, and she also had a family to support.

"Big brother!"

Hearing the noise outside, Zhou Weitian quickly opened the door. After seeing the person coming, he smiled and asked, "Third brother, why are you here? Come in and tell me..."

"I have something to ask of you. Are you free this Sunday?"

Zhou Fengnian said as he walked into the house. When he saw Zhou Xianzhe trying to hide, he immediately said, "Why are you hiding? Hide when you see me. Come here and give you some candy!"

When he heard about eating candy, Zhou Xianzhe, the eldest nephew, immediately rushed over and said with a grin while taking the candy, "Thank you, Third Uncle."

"Eat the candy and go to school next year instead of wandering around the streets all day."

Zhou Xianzhe, who had just put candy in his mouth, suddenly didn't want to eat it after hearing these words; but he was reluctant to spit it out, so he dodged away with a frustrated look on his face.

Zhou Weitian then said, "It's time to go to school. This kid causes me trouble all the time. He beats up those who are two years older than him.

Third brother, I don't have anything to do this week, and no one wants me to be a guest, so just tell me what you want to say."

They are already seven years old and should have started school a long time ago; but the primary school was closed last year and they didn’t know who to turn to.

"This strength is quite similar to yours, big brother. I'll go ask about the schooling and send all three of them there after the New Year."

Zhou Fengnian then continued, "Brother, go home and tell your parents that you will spend the New Year in the city this year, and then ask them to come over."

"Aren't you going back to celebrate the New Year?"

"There are too many things to do this year and next year. I'm going to be the director of a new factory, a subsidiary of a machine tool factory. I originally wanted to transfer you there as well, but you're so popular, the factory can't do without you, hahahaha."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile that his elder brother's cooking skills have been honed.

I like cooking because it tastes good. I have the recipes given by Zhou Fengnian, and with so many cadres from the machine tool factory eating his special meal, my cooking skills have improved a lot over the past few years.

If you take the exam for a cook’s rank now, you can at least get a level five cook.

"They are all delicious, but I don't get any overtime pay. There is no benefit other than letting me practice my skills."

Zhou Weitian complained casually, and then asked quickly: "Old Third, have you been promoted again? Or become the factory director?"

"It's considered a downgrade this time. It's a subsidiary of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory. But I went there mainly to research and develop something. The salary hasn't changed."

"Anyway, he has been promoted from deputy director to director. Dad doesn't understand. When he finds out, he will definitely go to the city to celebrate the New Year."

Zhou Weitian patted his chest and said, "I will go back this week, don't worry."

"Okay, thank you for your help, brother."

After saying that, Zhou Fengnian prepared to go back, but before leaving, he saw that his sister-in-law was retching and felt that something was wrong, so he felt like being a doctor.

After checking her pulse, she asked her eldest brother to take her eldest sister-in-law to the hospital for a checkup. She thought she was pregnant again. Zhou's mother always felt that the brothers had few children. Except for Zhou Yan who had two children, the eldest and second oldest brothers only had one son.

This time my sister-in-law is pregnant, which can be considered as a happy occasion at the end of the year.

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Computer Research Institute
There was a sudden knock on the door of the movement leader's office.

"Come in!"

The leader in the room put away the things wrapped in red cloth and said with a unhappy look: I was just admiring the good things when I was interrupted.

After a subordinate entered the room and put some documents on the table, he said in a panic: "Leader, look at these, what do they want to do?"

"Don't panic. No matter what happens, don't panic. What's the use of panicking?"

After the leader reprimanded him, he picked up the document on the table and started reading it;
After looking at one picture, his face looked a little ugly, and the more he looked, the uglier his face looked.

More than twenty applications to go to the countryside were all the targets of their criticism.

"What do they want to do? No, not a single one of them!"

The leader just finished speaking angrily, but his subordinate reminded him awkwardly: "No, leader, look at their reasons."

According to the corresponding policy of going to the countryside, they had to grow their own food while receiving re-education from the farmers, and strive to repent while not causing trouble for the city.

The consciousness of repentance was very high, and the leader couldn't find a suitable excuse after reading it.

They responded to the policy and made deep repentance. Why stop them? Give me a reason.

"Just drag it out and pretend you don't know!"

The leader thought for a moment and said, "The project team may still need them. You can tell them and they will be allowed to go back if appropriate. But if they continue to cause trouble, they will have to work there for the rest of their lives."

He was not stupid and knew that the project team would definitely need people to do the work; he had asked them to do the work before in order to temper their tempers and to prove to his superiors that they were indeed trying to make them correct their mistakes.

But it is definitely not possible to just leave. If people leave and problems arise in the project team in the future, who will take care of it?
"They definitely won't want to, and they might even find other ways."

The person reporting the incident hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Leader, they are determined to go to the countryside as if they had discussed it beforehand, and they also said that if we don't allow them to do so, they will go to the street office to sign up."

"What? These bastards!"

After hearing this, the leader angrily slammed the table, stood up and said, "Tell them, I won't approve it!"

"Then you, leader, need to say hello to the street office where they live."

It's okay as long as you say hello. Just say it's their unit's business. The street office might give them face, but it depends on whether the leader is willing to say hello.

It's a bit embarrassing to beat someone up for this kind of thing. I can't even discipline a few of the people being worked for, and I still have to report to the street office.

But asking them to work is already the limit, after all, they have just made a contribution; if they do some more fighting,
"These bastards. Good! Good! If they like to go to the countryside, then let them all go and arrange for them to stay far away!"

The leader was also furious, and then he approved each one, and then told his subordinates: "Don't you like farming? Then go and open up wasteland, and don't come back."

"Yes, I'll go say hello."

After hearing this, the subordinate who made the report immediately took the documents of Zhong Xingling and others applying to go to the countryside and left. The leader was so angry this time that he would at least send them to the southwest.

However, after these applications were submitted, they were quickly intercepted by a deputy director of the department assigned to the countryside, and then the address was changed to a commune in Changping so that they could work nearby.

After finishing the work, he returned to the office and quietly called Gao Zhiyuan, asking for a meal. Not only that, he also told him that the car ordered by their department was put in the front of the queue and would be ready to be driven away next month.

Moreover, he sold five washing machines to this friend at cost price. Huaxia Machine Tool Factory had a lot of good things, so it was just right to use them as a favor.

After some arrangements, these twenty-odd people would report to a commune in Changping after the New Year. Gao Zhiyuan also planned to send someone to contact the local commune after the New Year to bring them over.

Zhou Fengnian felt a little relieved after hearing the news. With the joining of more than 20 people, the research and development team of the electronic computer factory was complete.

Together with the dozen people in the integrated circuit workshop, there are a total of forty-three people, enough for Zhou Fengnian to move all the achievements of the Computer Research Institute project team to the electronic computer factory.

The next things are the front-line technical workers and production equipment. It all depends on what Deputy Leader Li can negotiate with the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

Three hundred people would be enough!
There are more than a dozen factories related to electronic components in Sijiu City and the entire Yanhe River, with tens of thousands of related technical workers. Three hundred people are really not many.

The most important thing is that Zhou Fengnian can produce results. It almost means that if you give him resources and support, he will be able to give you a surprise after a while. How could Deputy Leader Li not support him?

With five days left before the Chinese New Year, Zhou Fengnian has been busy in the integrated circuit workshop of the machine tool factory.

Although he had not returned to the machine tool factory for a long time, the factory still paid him salary and New Year benefits.

This year, there is still a full range of benefits. With the welfare provision capabilities of the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory, the treatment of workers is getting better and better.

Zhou Fengnian will become the director of the electronic computer factory next year, and the factory benefits will still have to be allocated by the machine tool factory.

However, he also needs to show some results. Mainframe computers and personal computers must be built, and the lithography machine technology must be improved as much as possible, although the current projection lithography machines are sufficient.

Zhou Fengnian took time out to develop personal computers. The new factory started construction after the New Year and was completed around May. He planned to manufacture a personal computer within one or two months after the completion of the electronic computer factory.

Now that they are able to manufacture large-scale integrated circuit chips, they can try to manufacture microprocessors.

Zhou Fengnian has been trying to find a way to create this during this period of time, and for this reason, he uses it immediately whenever there is a simulation space every month.

Unfortunately, the simulation space only lasts for twenty-four hours at a time, which is not enough for Zhou Fengnian who is fully committed to the research.

Three days before the Chinese New Year, it was also the day when the machine tool factory closed for work.

Zhou Fengnian rode his bike home with his briefcase. He was just thinking about how to make microprocessors. Even when he was riding his bike, he was still thinking about it.

It was Zhao Qiang who reminded him when they arrived at the door, otherwise he would have ridden past.

After opening the door and returning home, Zhou Fengnian walked towards the study. Zhou Fugui, who was playing with the children in the backyard, shouted, "Old Third, why didn't you say hello to me?"

Zhou Fengnian turned his head and said immediately, "Dad? You're here. Sit down there and take a rest. I'm busy first."

After saying that, he walked towards the study without even looking at it a second time.

Zhou Yan came out with a cup of tea and said, "Dad, Fengnian has been like this lately. He's been so busy that he often forgets things. Don't be surprised."

(End of this chapter)