Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 229 Full Power Mode (Subscription Request)

"Old Third, is this yard okay?"

After Zhou Weitian bought the two-story house, he took Zhou Fengnian to visit it.

It was a bit shabby and looked like it had rarely been taken care of, but it was slightly larger than the one Zhou Fengnian lived in now and had three more rooms.

It’s pretty good, quite close to Qianmen Street, but compared to where Zhou Fengnian lives now, it’s a little far from the computer factory.

"Not bad, quite good. Thank you very much, brother. If it weren't for your help, it would be difficult for me to find such a suitable house."

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile after taking a walk around.

"I didn't do anything, just ran some errands, and I rode my bike. I wasn't tired at all."

After Zhou Weitian finished speaking, he suddenly remembered and took out the house deed and the IOU written by the old man from his pocket as mortgage.

"Third brother, here are the property deeds and IOUs as collateral, as well as a certificate of gratuitous gift, with names and handprints on them. He is quite thoughtful, so I am not afraid of him coming to look for me again.

He said that the subdistrict office and the housing management office would not admit to this kind of thing. If they found that no one had lived in the house for a long time, they might still take it away if they came to reclaim it.”

"Brother, don't worry, it's ordinary people who can take it away, not me."

People at Zhou Fengnian's level are usually matched by deputy mayors. Which street office would be so inconsiderate as to go to someone's house to collect the property?

It can be habitable after a little cleaning. If Mr. Luo and his family come back in the future, I will give this place to them.

Zhou Fengnian would not look down on this two-story house even if it became valuable decades later; the most valuable thing in the world was his brain.

He can support an entire industry by just studying for a while. What is a Siheyuan in comparison? Is it worthwhile for him to have a high-tech invention patent after hoarding it for a long time?

Moreover, he is a member of the academic department, but he makes money by hoarding courtyard houses. It is so embarrassing.

"Brother, go back. Lock this place up first. It might be useful in a few years."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he called his elder brother to go back together.

After returning home, Zhou Fengnian talked about the matter with Zhou Yan, and then gave the house deed and other things to her for safekeeping.

Zhou Yan was much more frugal than him, and she kept the household in order. After Zhou Fengnian concentrated on his research, he didn't have to worry about any household matters at all.

The next day, when Zhou Fengnian woke up, he smelled the fragrance of breakfast.

When I came out, I found that Zhou Yan had already bought some meat buns and soy milk, which were still hot.

"You woke up Fengnian, go wash up and prepare for dinner."

While Zhou Yan was feeding Zhou Yiyi the food, she spoke to Zhou Fengnian. At this time, Zhou Xiaomei had already sat at the table and started eating.

While eating, he said to Zhou Fengnian: "Brother, come and eat, these meat buns are oozing with oil."

"Of course the real stuff is greasy. I'll go wash up first."

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Zhou Fengnian sat down to eat breakfast and asked, "I haven't asked you recently, little sister, are you doing well in the factory?"

"Of course, my current job is not tiring at all. There are many people who introduce me to potential partners, but I don't like any of them."

After taking a sip of soy milk, Zhou Xiaomei continued, "They either introduce older men or those who are unemployed, and they also try to find out if they can give the job to their husbands after marriage."

When she said this, Zhou Xiaomei felt a little disdainful; the person who introduced her to the company was really mean since he wanted to leave her job.

"You want to get married? Ask your sister-in-law to introduce you."

Zhou Fengnian said, "She is in the Women's Federation, which is considered a semi-matchmaking organization. She can definitely introduce you to someone with good conditions."

"Nonsense! The Women's Federation is an organization that aims to solve women's problems and protect women's rights. It is not a matchmaking organization."

Zhou Yan came over and retorted, then smiled and said to Zhou Xiaomei: "But if you want to get married, I can help you find out."

When they have nothing to do in the office, they like to chat about family matters, and their favorite thing is to introduce potential partners to others.

"Let's talk about it later, sister-in-law, I'll save some money first."

Zhou Xiaomei has been a little scared of the people in the factory introducing her recently, so she plans to take it slow.

After Zhou Fengnian ate two buns, he turned around and said, "Wife, next time you buy breakfast, just wake me up."

"It doesn't matter who buys it. I have the bike and it's not like I can't get it back. Eat quickly. You're so tired."

Zhou Yan urged with a smile. She rarely saw her man oversleep. In the past, his body was like it had set an alarm clock, but today he did not get up early.

If I wasn't tired, would I have slept so deeply?

"Then let me go next time, and you can call me then."

Normally he would get up early to buy breakfast, but he slept late yesterday and didn't get up today.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Okay, I'll wake you up next time."

After dinner, Zhou Fengnian picked up his briefcase and prepared to go to the factory. Zhou Xianyang held Zhou Fengnian and begged for a ride to school.

However, Zhou Fengnian decisively rejected it.

It would be fine for him to go home during the holidays, as he has reported this to his superiors, but he still wants to take the bus to school, which really shows his vanity.

"When you have my credit, you can ride in this kind of car, but not now. Walk to school with your two brothers."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking to his son, he left home and took a bus to go to work.

After arriving at the factory, Zhou Fengnian began to continue studying the overall architecture of the next generation supercomputer and the key electronic components that must be replaced.

With his current level of computer capability, it would not be difficult for him to research and create a supercomputer with a computing speed of over one billion, but that would be a technology that would only be available in a dozen years.

At present, many electronic components cannot be manufactured domestically and cannot be imported from abroad.

The only way is to find a way to replace it, but if we replace it, we have to consider whether the effect will be the same and whether it can be manufactured domestically.

It's a pity that the number of simulations is too small. If it were five times a month or even once a month, Zhou Fengnian wouldn't have to conduct experiments one by one.

A general meeting of all factory cadres was also held on Monday.

Computer factories have performed very well this year and achieved many results. They have sold a lot of personal computers and also developed and manufactured supercomputers.

The entire factory was praised, the technical department as a whole was commended, and some outstanding performers received individual rewards.

Zhou Fengnian's salary was also raised to the first-class chief engineer because of the supercomputer, but there was no need to announce it to the public, as long as the people in the two departments knew about it. Now all the meetings in the computer factory were chaired by Yan Zhengzhi, and he quickly got used to the position of secretary of the computer factory.

He even concurrently held some of the powers of the factory director because Zhou Fengnian did not really manage the affairs.

After talking about a bunch of unimportant things, Yan Zhengzhi took out a task issued by his superiors and said to all the cadres in the factory: "Here is another production task, which is about export, and the task is a bit heavy.

Next year, our entire factory will produce 2,900 personal computers and 500 switches, Director Liu?"

Everyone in the conference room looked at Director Liu, and after hearing the task, Director Liu was a little confused and pointed at himself with a puzzled look on his face.

Two thousand nine hundred units? Their workshop?
If it wasn't the factory secretary who spoke up, Director Liu would have started cursing.

There are not many people in their workshop. How can they complete such a heavy task all at once?
“Secretary, Director, this is indeed a bit difficult, not to mention the computer.

You all know the production efficiency this year. We have to produce 2,900 units by the middle of next year at least. We also have to support Workshop 2 with 500 switches."

Director Liu said with a bitter face that there were only two workshops in the factory, one for personal computers and switches, and the other for manufacturing supercomputers.

They also often send support personnel to the second workshop, but this task cannot be completed.

"Try to complete it. I will report to the leader and ask for support. Other electronics factories will also try their best to take care of you."

Yan Zhengzhi consoled them, saying, "Comrades, this is a considerable export order. We must do our best to complete it."

So many computers and switches add up to more than four million US dollars. Except for the China Machine Tool Factory, such a huge sum of money is enough to make any factory work hard.

You have to know that the output value of a heavy industry factory is basically between 10 million and 50 million, and a small factory like theirs will have so many production orders next year, which is enough to be proud of.

Zhou Fengnian also said, "Please try your best, Director Liu. We'll see how it goes in the middle of next year. If it can't be completed, I'll ask for some support for you, but you have to write a report."

"That's fine, Director."

Director Liu secretly groaned in his heart. Doesn't writing a report mean that he is powerless? Once this report is written, it will be difficult for him to be promoted to a higher administrative level in the future.

The computer factory is full of vitality now, and everyone else is working hard to gain credit, but he alone seems incompetent when writing reports?

Director Liu also secretly made up his mind to give birth earlier this year and not submit this report under any circumstances.

Zhou Fengnian then announced two plans, a project to optimize personal computer performance and improve technology, which means he planned to develop the second generation of personal computers.

There is also a second-generation supercomputer project, but the time for this project will be extended to three years.

There is also the research on photolithography technology, which Zhou Fengnian does not need to worry about. He only needs to propose a principle of photolithography and then let Zhong Xingling and others do the research and experiments.

If they encountered problems that were difficult to solve, Zhou Fengnian would use simulation times to help them solve them.

However, after hearing what Zhou Fengnian said, the cadres in the factory all looked surprised and smacked their lips.

For other factories to achieve a major breakthrough after several years is already a remarkable achievement and something worth celebrating for everyone in the factory.

Why is their factory director so crazy that he wants to launch three projects at once?

Needless to say, the second generation of personal computers will definitely be completed and manufactured next year; the second generation of supercomputers has only three years to go.

Although the photolithography process did not specify a specific time, when they saw Comrade Zhong Xingling, who was attending the meeting with a serious expression on his face, they knew that this task would make the old man very embarrassed.

After the meeting was over, Yan Zhengzhi chased Zhou Fengnian and followed him back to the office before saying, "Fengnian, isn't it too radical to announce the production plan like this?"

"There should be enough time. Besides, I am the one who solves most of the problems. These R&D plans are not for the factory, but for myself."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he sat down on the chair.

Yan Zhengzhi saw that Zhou Fengnian’s desk was full of documents and reports, piled high.

Some electronic component experiment reports are placed on the sofa because there is no room on the desk.

"Oh, Lao Yan, you came at the right time. Please study these and help keep an eye on them. Tell them to try again. Don't ask me for help when you encounter problems.
The place is quite far, you can take my car instead of riding a bicycle, it will waste time. "

"Okay, I'll go back and study it this afternoon."

Yan Zhengzhi was just about to say that they would set off this afternoon, but before he could finish his words, he saw Zhou Fengnian take out a dozen experimental report documents and hand them to him, so the word "set off" was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it.

"It may be too late this afternoon. I'll study it today and leave tomorrow."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he took out some documents and handed them to Yan Zhengzhi, saying, "It's okay. As long as these can be completed within this week, this is before the end of the month, you can do whatever you want."

This isn't just about letting him watch and do it, this is about giving it our all!

Yan Zhengzhi thought helplessly in his heart, and then suggested to Zhou Fengnian: "Fengnian, why don't you tell the leaders to send a secretary."

"What's the matter? Why don't you hand over the chores to Deputy Director Liang and Deputy Director Chai?"

Zhou Fengnian also noticed the documents in Yan Zhengzhi's hand, and there were indeed a lot of places he had to go to.

However, what if a new secretary is a troublemaker? Now that he knows that someone is secretly trying to undermine him, Zhou Fengnian is more alert.

The current leadership team is just right. There won't be anyone holding us back, except for Old Yan who is having a bit of a hard time.

"Leave the secretary's job to Deputy Director Liang. I've also handed the director's job to Deputy Director Chai and my assistant. I'm afraid something unexpected will happen if I send someone else down. From now on, we'll just take up the position and focus on research and development."

Zhou Fengnian said, "Besides, the research and development tasks of the computer factory are longer and more important, and production is not the main task."

There are only a few hundred people in the factory, and the logistics, management and technical departments account for more than 200 people. There are not many skilled workers.

The two deputy factory directors can also take charge of production matters, not to mention that they both have secretaries and assistants. Now Zhou Fengnian hands over all matters to Pan Heng and asks him to discuss them with Deputy Factory Director Chai.

"Okay, I get it. I have to learn from you."

Yan Zhengzhi nodded and said that he was also responsible for some management in the Computer Research Institute before, and did not have much time to concentrate on research and development.

Now it's time to change.

Afterwards, the two deputy factory managers found that they suddenly gained a lot of power, but their joy did not last long and they began to look bitter.

The power I gained was great, but I also got scolded a lot and was quite tired; I was either running errands and negotiating with other electronics factories, or reporting my thoughts to my superiors.

If you don't do well, you will be scolded.

In the past, when Yan Zhengzhi came to report, the leaders did not dare to say anything harsh because of Yan Zhengzhi's status as a member of the academic department.

But now it's little Karami, and he's not so polite anymore; when he finds a mistake, he criticizes it without mercy.

(End of this chapter)