Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 208: New Year, Pick Up Everyone (Subscription Request)
"Daughter-in-law, is the third brother like this every day?"

Zhou Fugui felt a little emotional. The last time he saw the third brother so serious was before the entrance exam to technical secondary school.

At that time, he ignored everyone at home and went back to his room to read, and he would get angry if anyone disturbed him.

Zhou Yan nodded and said, "That's about right. It seems to be something at the factory. He will come out to eat if you call him, but he will get busy again after dinner and won't rest until nine or ten."

After listening to this, Zhou Fugui nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Zhou Yan shook her head and said, "Dad, this isn't hard at all. Fengnian just does his job honestly and doesn't do anything else."

"He's so honest? He used to lose his temper at home."

"Maybe Xianyang, he is very patient with his son and daughter, haha."

Zhou Fugui sighed after hearing this, it would be great if his third son didn't lose his temper. But now it seems that the third son really has no time to go back.

Then Zhou's father continued to play with his grandson Zhou Xianyang. Every time he came from the countryside, he would bring some wooden toys for his three grandsons, which he bought from the old carpenter in the commune.

Zhou Yan went to the kitchen to help Zhou's mother cook. Together with Zhou Xiaomei, the three of them finished the meal in no time.

After the food was served on the table, Zhou Fengnian was called out by Zhou Yan.

While eating, Zhou Fugui couldn't help but ask, "Old Third, what have you been busy with recently?"

Zhou Fengnian picked up the steamed bun and said casually: "Didn't my brother tell you about the new factory?"

"Director? He didn't say anything. What did you ask him to tell me?"

Zhou Fugui immediately cursed: "This bastard has to be beaten up. He even dared to fool me."

"Maybe he forgot. Besides, you've been beating him for so many years, but there's no effect."

Zhou Fengnian laughed and continued, "I will be the director of the new factory after the New Year. It is a subsidiary of the previous machine tool factory. My position is neither promoted nor demoted. It is the same as before."

Originally, his most impressive identity was that of a member of the academic department, but now the impact on the academic department members is too great, so he would rather not say anything.

The remaining two identities are level six engineer and director of an electronic computer factory. If you are not from the technician and worker system, it is difficult to understand how powerful a level six engineer is.

If Zhou's father wanted to brag to others, the identity of factory director would be enough.

Father Zhou nodded and said, "It can be considered a promotion. Weren't you the deputy factory director before? Now you have become the full director."

Zhou Fengnian was too lazy to explain the difference between the large factories directly under the ministries and the affiliated factories, and answered casually: "It's about the same. There are more responsibilities. We have to produce some results after the new year, so I'm very busy recently;
Mom and Dad, you guys can discuss the New Year's Eve with my eldest brother, second brother, and Zhou Yan. I can do whatever you want."

"Okay, just do your thing and don't worry about the New Year's goods. Let the eldest and second eldest take care of it when the time comes."

When Zhou Fugui saw his son being so busy, he knew that he was busy with something important, so he agreed immediately.

Originally, he wanted to talk to Zhou Fengnian about the people from their commune, but Zhou Fengnian told him that the matter was confidential, so Zhou's father held back and planned to tell him later.

After dinner, Zhou Fengnian walked into the study room first, and Zhou's father followed in.

"Dad, what's the matter?"

"The people you said you would send here have now been arranged by the commune."

Zhou's father whispered to Zhou Fengnian that he was also shocked when he knew his son was going to receive these people; but in the end he helped Zhou Fengnian to get it done and talked to Wu Youhai of Sanshui Commune for a long time.

"The houses are habitable, and food is prepared. Our Hongjia Village also gave them five kilograms of meat and a chicken, which will give them an extra dish for the New Year."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian nodded and said, "Okay, thank Secretary Wu for me."

"They want to thank you. The sales of our mushroom hot sauce factory are increasing. Other communes have nowhere to learn from us."

Zhou Fugui smiled and said that the sales at the supply and marketing cooperatives and farmers' markets were also good, especially during the Chinese New Year period, when demand almost exceeded supply.

The reason why mushroom chili sauce is so popular is mainly because of its good recipe. If it doesn’t taste good, it’s useless even if you stuff meat in it.

Therefore, everyone in Sanshui Commune was grateful to Zhou Fengnian. This recipe could be passed down from generation to generation, but Zhou Fengnian used it to support the construction of a factory in Sanshui Commune.

Zhou Fengnian said: "After the New Year, I will ask the machine tool factory to pick up the people. The commune will help cover it up. It won't take long for our factory to pick up the people."

"Okay, I'll talk to Secretary Wu after I get back after the New Year, and I promise to take good care of the person for you."

After talking about this, Zhou Fugui asked about Zhou Xiaomei again. Although the relationship between the brother and sister was good, the two old bones of them were still able to work, and they could not let their youngest daughter be raised in the home of the third son forever.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Fengnian told his father that he planned to find a job for Zhou Xiaomei.

Zhou Xiaomei is now eighteen years old. Although primary and secondary schools have resumed classes, high schools have not yet resumed them. In addition, the street office has been constantly persuading unemployed young people to go to the countryside, and Zhou Xiaomei is one of the targets of their persuasion.

He had come twice. The second time, he found out that Zhou Xiaomei had a rural household registration, so he gave up trying to persuade her to go to the countryside. However, he began to persuade Zhou Xiaomei to go home, as people with a rural household registration could not stay in the city.

They all wanted to drive away the unemployed young people in the city, not to mention Zhou Xiaomei, who originally had a rural household registration.

Fortunately, a new factory will be built after the New Year, and Zhou Fengnian plans to let Zhou Xiaomei do an easier job first, such as a warehouse clerk or something.

By the way, let Zhou Xiaomei study high school knowledge while working.

When she was in high school, her grades were pretty good and she was among the top three in the class. Otherwise, that bunch of noisy little soldiers wouldn't have always been looking for Zhou Xiaomei to make trouble with them. It's because good academic performance brings prestige.

As for Zhou Xiaomei's marriage, Zhou Fengnian planned to let Zhou Xiaomei find one on her own first. If she couldn't find one within two years, he would find a matchmaker for her.

Given their family's financial situation and the fact that Zhou Xiaomei also has a job, there is no need to worry about not having someone hire them.

This year's Spring Festival gave Zhou Fengnian a good rest. Without so many visitors, the home was much quieter.

It was just that Zhou's father looked a little unhappy. He didn't have much time to look forward to throughout the year, and accepting visits and compliments from others during the New Year was a rare happy time for him.

Unfortunately, this little bit of happiness is gone this year, but with several grandchildren around him, and the eldest and second daughters-in-law are both pregnant, a smile appears on Zhou's old face again.

By this calculation, the Zhou family has a larger next generation. Including those that have not yet been born, he has at least seven grandchildren. The number of his descendants has surpassed his, and he has lived up to his old father.

The New Year celebrations in the city were nothing more than eating, drinking and having fun. The noisy soldiers in the streets didn't come out at this time. After taking a break for two days during the New Year, Zhou Fengnian became busy again.

Seeing that Zhou Fengnian was so busy, Zhou's father and mother only stayed in the city for a few days and went back after everyone went to work.

However, Zhou's mother plans to come to the city again in a few months and lend a helping hand then.

The eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law were conceived at about the same time. The youngest daughter had to go to work after the Chinese New Year, and there was almost no one to take care of the children, so she had to come to the city as a grandmother. However, the three oldest children had to go to elementary school after the Chinese New Year, which also reduced some of Zhou's mother's burden. Otherwise, she would be too busy to take care of so many children.

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After the New Year, on the second day after the machine tool factory opened, Gao Zhiyuan knocked on the door.

"Fengnian, I've already found you a person, but our factory's staff dormitory is gone, so I asked for a semi-abandoned yard for you from the street office.

The factory paid for the repairs, but the location is a bit remote, but it’s just right for them to live in and not conspicuous.”

Gao Zhiyuan said this after he entered the room. Zhou Fengnian could only nod and sigh after listening. He was indeed a logistics background man, and he could not find fault with his arrangements.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Brother Gao. Let's go and see them together?"

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he stood up and walked outside with Gao Zhiyuan.

Now they are all in the conference room. Their clothes are a little shabby, but they look fine.

When Zhou Fengnian walked into the conference room, everyone in the room stood up excitedly when they saw him, even Zhong Xingling.

"Team Leader Zhou!"

"Thank you, Team Leader Zhou."

"Team Leader Zhou"

More than twenty people thanked Zhou Fengnian, and they all knew how much Zhou Fengnian had done to help them.

Apart from anything else, the fact that they were assigned to the outskirts of Beijing was already something they were grateful for.

Their parents and families were all in Beijing. Although they were also implicated, they could at least meet each other in the same place.

If you go to a remote valley in the southwest, you may never be able to come back in this life.

What's more, they were well taken care of during the New Year and the local commune gave them a lot of food and meat, and now they are brought into the city.

If it weren't for Zhou Fengnian's care, the work they did would cost them half their lives; especially Zhong Xingling, who was in his forties or fifties and still did farm work for a day, which would cost him half his life after a month.

Zhou Fengnian said, "You guys will just stay in the factory for the next two days. The place we found for you is still under renovation. You will all live together in the future, so please take care of each other."

Zhong Xingling nodded and said, "Don't worry, Team Leader Zhou. We have lived together for a year or two, and we have lived in even the shabbier places. It's okay."

"You don't need to call me team leader anymore. We are not in the project team anymore. Haha. Next, we will rebuild a projection lithography machine in the machine tool factory. We will be supported by the higher-ups.

After the new plant is built, we will all go there to continue research and development, mainly in the areas of photolithography, integrated circuits and computers, which are our core expertise.”

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile, and the others also laughed in relief. Doing these jobs was much better than asking them to do hard labor.

The value created is different. If they work for a whole day, they may not be as good as an old farmer who works for four or five hours.

"Zhou Zhou Gong, can my family?"

Before the man could finish his words, Zhong Xingling interrupted him and said, "Xiao Xu, don't cause trouble for Mr. Zhou."

He also has family, but he can hardly protect himself now. Moreover, it must have taken a lot of effort for Zhou Fengnian to get them out, so how could he protect their families?

This can't even be considered as repaying a favor; it can be considered as a request for revenge.

"I can't take care of it for now. It's already my limit to let the leaders above ignore you and join the new factory. But if you can come up with new results, I will definitely plead for you."

Zhou Fengnian paused for a moment, then continued, "It's okay to secretly send some things at ordinary times. We don't have anything else, but we have more supplies."

Sanshui Commune has changed from a poor commune to a rich commune, and the Huaxia Machine Tool Factory has no shortage of supplies due to a large number of foreign exchange orders, so it is not difficult to deduct the supplies for dozens of people.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhou."

"Mr. Zhou, thank you."

After hearing this, the people in the room began to thank Zhou Fengnian.

But at this time, Gao Zhiyuan whispered to Zhou Fengnian: "Fengnian, I have something to remind you. You still have to do the usual farm work, but the factory will help you. You only need to do two hours a day.
If they do nothing and are discovered by others, the factory will not be able to keep them; even in your new factory, they must do some farm work every day for transformation. "

"Okay, I know."

Just as Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, Zhong Xingling and others also heard Gao Zhiyuan's words and continued, "Director Gao, Engineer Zhou, don't worry, we can still do this job;

Previously, we worked twelve hours a day, but now we only need two hours a day, which has greatly reduced our burden."

After hearing this, the others also agreed. It was indeed much better than before, and none of them felt dissatisfied.

If anyone is dissatisfied, just go back to the previous place and see how long they can last.
After talking about other trivial matters, Zhou Fengnian took these people to the integrated circuit workshop.

There were only a dozen people here before, and it seemed a bit empty, so some equipment required people to run back and forth to operate.

Now that we have added more staff, we have begun to look like a workshop.

After reading it, Zhong Xingling was a little surprised and said, "Mr. Zhou, this is completely a small research institute. How did you get so many equipment and instruments in the factory?"

These devices and instruments cost millions of dollars, and they have to be purchased in roundabout ways because many of them are blocked and cannot be purchased without finding an agent.

"I promised my superiors that I would produce results, and considering my previous contributions, they helped me buy it back."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "Engineer Zhong, you have a lot of experience in the project team, so I'll leave the manufacturing of the projection lithography machine to you. The internal committee will deliver all the materials to you in two months."

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou, I will definitely not let you down."

Zhong Xingling said confidently: "Although there are fewer people, we have all participated in it step by step, and we have all the equipment and instruments. We will definitely build it for you within three months."

Afterwards, Zhou Fengnian arranged the people into groups and started working.

The research and development progress of the project team is expected to come to a half-stop unless the top leaders take action, but slow progress is certain.

Once they have some results, they might be able to ask their leaders for people to make the electronic computer factory a research and development center and take over more than a dozen electronic component factories in Sijiu City and its surrounding areas.

Then Zhou Fengnian would be more confident in ushering in the computer age.

(End of this chapter)