Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 235 Super Factory Merger, Made (Subscription Request)

After hearing the news that all five people had been dealt with, they all stayed at home, waiting for the notice of transfer.
Zhou Fengnian finally calmed down, but he felt a little bit sorry that these five people did not go to raise pigs. They should have been asked to do more farm work.

He then sent people from the technical department to five factories to guide the production of electronic components.

The electronic components used in supercomputers cannot be ambiguous at all. Those five people always use similar words to fool Zhou Fengnian, and they are anxious to force them to experiment.

It should have been done long ago.

After resuming normal R&D and manufacturing, Zhou Fengnian's temper improved a lot. His bad temper last year was all caused by these bastards.

The newly dispatched technical personnel had to strictly follow Zhou Fengnian's orders. Any performance degradation was unacceptable and they had to be re-experimented and manufactured.

In the past, they did not test the products after production and sent them directly to the computer factory. As a result, when Zhou Fengnian tested them, they found that they failed the test. They sent them back to be redone, and they thought that Zhou Fengnian was finding fault with them.

The electronic computer factory has been making great strides in the past two years. Not only has it been a small factory with only a few hundred employees, it has exported more than 4,000 personal computers and has also made significant breakthroughs in photolithography technology.

Now last year they have manufactured a UV lithography machine and have tried to manufacture super large integrated chips.

In order to meet the computing needs of the second-generation Shenzhou computer, Zhou Fengnian and his team maximized the number of electronic components that can be accommodated on a very large-scale integrated chip.

This is already the limit of current technology. No matter how hard Zhou Fengnian tries, it is impossible to increase it.

As long as other critical electronic components are manufactured and delivered, they can proceed to the next step.

Zhou Fengnian became furious when he thought of this incident. The progress was delayed for almost two months by that group of people.

Fortunately, if everything goes well, there will be enough time and it should be produced before the New Year. If not, Zhou Fengnian will have to work a little overtime during the New Year.

However, five first-generation supercomputers had just been completed and shipped to them for installation and use, and they had also built a second-generation supercomputer.
If Director Qian and Director Yu and their group knew about this, they would probably have complicated expressions on their faces.

After completing the production task of the personal computer, Zhou Fengnian did not ask another group to help the supercomputer group, but instead gave them the task of developing the second-generation personal computer.

Let them try the research and development first, and then he will lead the team to study and upgrade after the new year.

Years ago, the electronic computer factory was just one thing left. Now it was stuck on some precision electronic components. It was useless for Zhou Fengnian to work overtime, so when the time was up, he went around the workshop and went home after get off work.

After returning home, Zhou Fengnian just entered the backyard and saw a person rushing towards him. He quickly picked up his daughter and asked with a smile: "My dear daughter, do you miss me, your father?"

Zhou Yiyi pretended to cry and said, "Brother, he bullied me!"

Zhou Xianyang quickly jumped out and shouted, "I didn't have any. My sister wanted my candy, but I didn't give it to her and she pretended to cry. My uncle-in-law is watching!"

Zhou Fengnian took a quick look and saw Zhou Xianyang looking righteous, and Xu Zhenyu smiling embarrassedly, so he knew what was going on.

So he put his daughter down, pinched her tender face and said, "You can tell me if you want candy, but you can't falsely accuse your brother."

Zhou Yiyi immediately smiled and said, "Then I want to eat milk candy!"

"No, there's only so much for a month, and it'll be gone after you finish it. Go play, and I'll check your homework later."

Now one is eleven years old and has just entered junior high school, and the other is nine years old and in the third grade of elementary school, which is the time when they are being naughty.

Together with the other five nephews and nieces, the Zhou family's small team is well-known throughout Nanluoguxiang. When they go out, they are a small gang of seven people.

After sending his son and daughter away, Zhou Fengnian said to Xu Zhenyu, "Zhenyu, why are you here today? Where's Xiaomei?"

"Xiaomei just went shopping with her sister-in-law."

As soon as Xu Zhenyu finished speaking, he heard a sound at the door of the outer courtyard, and then the two of them saw Zhou Yan and Zhou Xiaomei coming back.

"Brother, you're back. Look at the chili peppers I bought for you."

Zhou Xiaomei proudly raised the vegetable bag in her hand and said, "I heard that you have no appetite recently. I will make you some chili sauce later."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "Then I'll do it myself. You didn't learn cooking from me, Xiaomei."

Zhou Xiaomei immediately said confidently: "When I came to the city, you were too busy to teach me."

After chatting and laughing for a while, Zhou Xiaomei and Zhou Yan went to the kitchen to clean up and prepare dinner.

A few months after their blind date two years ago, Zhou Xiaomei and Xu Zhenyu got married. At that time, there was no big ceremony. The family just had a meal together and gave some wedding candies to Xu Zhenyu's neighbors.

At that time, when Xu Zhenyu's neighbors saw the dowry that Zhou Xiaomei brought, their eyes almost popped out with envy.

They all thought that Xu Zhenyu was in debt because of his sick parents, and the wife he married might have been defrauded.

But after seeing the bicycle and sewing machine, the neighbors realized how lucky Xu Zhenyu was.

Not only did he marry a girl from the city, but the dowry he brought directly filled the Xu family's assets.

After that, Xu Zhenyu and Zhou Xiaomei lived a good life, but their residence was a bit far from Nanluoguxiang, so they seldom came here.

I came here today probably because I have something to tell him.

After Zhou Fengnian put down his briefcase and came out, he sat on a stone chair in the yard and asked Xu Zhenyu, "Zhenyu, what's up today?"

"It's something, Third Brother. The technical department has encountered a difficult problem. I have been researching it for a long time but have not made any progress, so I wanted to ask you for advice."

Xu Zhenyu also followed Zhou Xiaomei's way of addressing Zhou Fengnian and directly called him "third brother" to appear close.

He has been shouting this for two years, and he still gets excited every time he shouts this. Zhou Fengnian, such a great man, has become his third brother.

"The factory received a task to develop a deep well oil drilling rig, but there has been little progress in its operation."

"Oh? Your stupid factory manager also knows how to do research and development? That's rare."

Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. Of course, this laughter was not directed at his brother-in-law Xu Zhenyu, but at the director of the Second Machinery Factory.

The director of the Second Machinery Plant came to power through special means. After taking office, he did not engage in production and construction, but instead used crooked means to stabilize his position.

Now that the situation is getting worse, are you thinking about doing research and development?
Xu Zhenyu scratched his head. He didn't even have a high position in the technical department, let alone in the entire factory. He really had no say in what Zhou Fengnian said.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. There's nothing wrong with the drawings you brought out. Why do you want an outsider like me to see them?"

"The section chief said that I was the only one who could bring it out."

Xu Zhenyu said honestly that he had kept the fact that he was Zhou Fengnian's brother-in-law well hidden at first, but later it was revealed accidentally, and he became quite popular in the technical department. "Zhao Yucheng has started to play tricks. Before I left, I told him to study the technology well, but he has probably forgotten most of it now. Let me have a look."

Zhou Fengnian said to Xu Zhenyu, and the latter honestly took out the research and development plan of their technical department.

They were almost ready to make their little plan public, but since they couldn't keep up with the research and development progress, they planned to ask Xu Zhenyu to use Zhou Fengnian's connections and ask him for some advice.

Zhou Fengnian took it and looked at it, and soon he laughed out loud. No wonder he was not afraid of the secret being leaked. Logically speaking, the matter between the two factories should be kept secret.

But the research proposal of the machinery factory is almost better than writing a 'solution' to a math problem.

"What is this? The R&D plan was wrong from the beginning. You only thought about the power of flying bricks, right? Has any of you seen the drilling equipment we have now?"

Zhou Fengnian criticized the research and development plan, and then talked to Xu Zhenyu about how to modify it and how to develop it.

After hearing Zhou Fengnian's ideas, the latter was enlightened and soon understood how to develop the technology. He even took out a pen and paper to take notes while listening.

Although Zhou Fengnian has rarely engaged in mechanical design and research and development in the past two years, his mechanical design level is more than level nine, which is definitely the best in the country.

He participates in the technological upgrade of Huaxia Machine Tool Factory every year. The machine tools produced by the factory are still the most technologically advanced machine tools in the world.

Gao Zhiyuan was promoted to a ministry this year and became the director of an important department, which is two levels higher than before.

Now Hong Bowen is the factory director. Although Wang Jinghui did not become the factory director, he has accumulated a lot of merits in the machine tool factory in the past two years. Next year or the year after, he may be transferred back to the Sijiucheng Industrial Bureau to serve as deputy director.

Now Zhou Fengnian can tell at a glance what’s wrong with an ordinary mechanical design plan and help make adjustments.

Zhou Fengnian talked to Xu Zhenyu for more than an hour and only stopped after dinner was ready.

Zhou Fengnian's instructions just now were enough, almost replanning their R&D plan, especially some technical points, which made Xu Zhenyu feel that he had gained a lot after listening to them.

He is a technician, and if he could follow Zhou Fengnian for a few years, he would definitely gain a lot.

After dinner, Xu Zhenyu and Zhou Xiaomei said goodbye and went home before it got completely dark.

The two of them finally got over it. Although Xu Zhenyu borrowed a lot of money for his parents' medical treatment, he paid it all back within half a year after their marriage.

I have also bought a bicycle, but I borrowed the industrial coupon from Zhou Fengnian.

As soon as the two left, Zhou Yan came over and said with a smile: "Xiaomei is doing well now. The couple is very loving, but they go to and from get off work in completely opposite directions."

Zhou Fengnian immediately said alertly: "She doesn't want me to transfer her to the machinery factory, does she? Tell her to forget about it and just work hard."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Haha, you know Xiaomei quite well. But she just said that and I rejected her. Although Xiaomei was a little unwilling, she didn't say anything."

"That's good."

Zhou Fengnian said with relief that his younger sister didn't have any special skills and only finished half of high school. As a warehouse manager, she could only increase her salary by gaining experience.

This kind of work is the same everywhere, and he can take care of it under his nose.

Moreover, after a few years, Zhou Fengnian wants his younger sister to continue to study on her own and then take the college entrance examination. Her family has complete textbooks, and Zhou Fengnian can teach her, so her chances of getting into college are not low.

There has not been a serious college student in their family. Although Zhou Fengnian is now a professor at Tsinghua University, he graduated from a technical secondary school.

Having a college student can make Old Man Zhou happy for a whole week; it will also be beneficial to Zhou Xiaomei in the future, as she will not have to work in warehouse management for the rest of her life.

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The next day, Zhou Fengnian arrived at the factory early, walked around the factory, and then returned to the office to get busy.

The second generation of the Shenzhou Son computer is almost completed, and Zhou Fengnian has to make plans for the next thing.

The second generation of personal computers and the establishment of local area network offices in the former Soviet Union.

Zhou Fengnian thought that he could start with government offices. He planned to enrich the program functions of the second-generation personal computers and then establish a local area network in the city.

Gradually use computers and local area networks for office work, which can also save on telephone calls.

The plan prepared by Zhou Fengnian was a very comprehensive summary, and he started his report by describing the functions that the second-generation computer could achieve.

In the next few decades, office work will absolutely be inseparable from computers and the Internet. Moreover, computers are the key to the information industry, and the information industry is the main direction of future development.

So they should get a head start and, within the next ten years, implement the use of computers in offices in two steps, while also offering computer courses in junior and senior high schools.

We have earned a lot of export orders in recent years. Although the economy in some parts of the country has stagnated, some factories are thriving.

At least the No. 1 Electrical Appliance Factory, Huaxia Machine Tool Factory, the Third Steel Rolling Mill and several automobile manufacturing plants have been increasing their export share due to their advanced technology.

The computer factory had just completed a two-year export order. If the Coordinating Committee had not sanctioned their personal computers, the computer factory would have continued to export computers.

What are the personal computers that Xiaorizi and Amei imitate? Their functions and performance are so far behind, and they have the nerve to price them the same as what they sell?
Zhou Fengnian mentioned this in his plan proposal. They had to expand production in advance to prepare for the shortage of production capacity that would occur after foreign trade relations eased.

To put it bluntly, Zhou Fengnian wanted to reorganize all the electronic component factories around Sijiu City. After what happened to those five people, he didn't trust these people at all.

It would be best to split and merge, focusing on the electronic computer factory, and merge them into one large factory.

The important parts were directly incorporated into the electronic computer factory, and the less important parts became affiliated factories of the electronic computer factory.

After completing this plan, coupled with the easing of foreign trade, Zhou Fengnian is confident that the annual export orders for computers will reach more than 100 million US dollars.

During this period, Zhou Fengnian was busy with this plan in addition to staring at the supercomputer.

This is related to his future development of the domestic computer industry, so he was very cautious when summarizing it.

One day, Zhou Fengnian was thinking at work when he heard a knock on the door.

"Come in."

After he finished speaking, Yan Zhengzhi pushed the door open and Zhou Fengnian couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Yan, where is your assistant? Why do I always see you running errands yourself?"

"I sent him to another factory. I came here today to tell you the good news. The electronic components produced by the 724 Electronics Factory have been successfully manufactured and have passed performance tests!"

Yan Zhengzhi said excitedly that several key electronic components have been manufactured and the second-generation supercomputer will be ready by the end of the year!
(End of this chapter)