Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 250: Discount Days (Subscription Request)
The next morning, Zhou Fengnian took half a day off and went to the guesthouse where Li Nianhua and Luo Dechang were to pick them up.

Seeing Zhou Fengnian coming early in the morning, Luo Dechang was a little surprised: "Fengnian, you came so early?"

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said, "I've asked for a whole morning off. After I take you there, I have to go back to the factory."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll go call someone."

Luo Dechang could imagine how busy Zhou Fengnian was. Normally, as the chief of staff, he couldn't spare much time, not to mention that Zhou Fengnian's rank was much higher than his.

It's great to be able to spare half a day.

Soon, Luo Dechang called Li Nianhua, his wife and son. They squeezed in the car for a while and soon drove to the second-story house on Qianmen Street.

This place is relatively quiet and no one has come to disturb it in recent years, except for the street office who came once.

However, after Zhou Fengnian found out, he went to the house, showed him the land deed and sent him away.

Housing is becoming increasingly scarce these days, and the neighborhood office may know that there is a vacant house here and want to ask the owner. If the owner is no longer around or has run away, they will take the house back into the neighborhood office.

Those who can live alone in a two-story house must be considered capitalists, and it is absolutely impossible for them to be poor peasants.

But the neighborhood office on Qianmen Street happened to hit a tough nut. Just when they were about to take over the two-story house under the name of the neighborhood office, Zhou Fengnian appeared with the title deed.

So this idea was shattered. Even if Zhou Fengnian was not a substitute member at the time, he was not someone a street office director could afford to offend.

Moreover, their reasons are valid and they have spent real money, but the Housing Authority does not support private-to-private transfers.

But if Zhou Fengnian reported it to the higher authorities, it would most likely be him, as the director of the street office, who would be criticized and then help Zhou Fengnian transfer the house deed.

Soon, Zhou Fengnian and his party arrived at the door of the house. After getting off the car, Zhou Fengnian went forward to unlock the door and said, "Aunt Li, Brother Luo, just clean it up a bit and you can live here directly. I replaced all the furniture after the earthquake two years ago.

You have to buy your own daily necessities. Have you brought your household rations back?"

Luo Dechang quickly replied, "This has been done on the first day. It's a good year, don't worry. I will buy all the grain and coal later."

"That's fine."

After opening the lock, Zhou Fengnian took them in to take a look.

Six houses collapsed in the last earthquake. Later, Zhou Fengnian simply rebuilt all the houses in the yard and replaced the furniture with new ones.

It's a little dusty now, but it can be cleaned up in a day.

After looking at all the houses, Zhou Fengnian asked with a smile: "Aunt Li, this place is okay, it's close to Nanluoguxiang, I'll come to see you more often when I have time."

Li Nianhua was touched and said quickly: "It's already very good, Fengnian, you are so thoughtful, it's Lao Luo."

Zhou Fengnian quickly advised: "Aunt Li, you have to look forward. You still have to watch Jianye get married and have children."

"Yes, you're right."

Li Nianhua nodded after hearing this, controlled his emotions, then took the handkerchief handed to him by his daughter-in-law and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

Zhou Fengnian turned around and asked, "What does Jianye plan to study after he gets into college? Mechanical engineering?"

When Luo Jianye heard that he was being talked about, he quickly stepped forward and nodded, saying, "Yes, Uncle Zhou, I want to study the same major as Grandpa."

"Okay, if you get into Tsinghua University, I'll make arrangements for you. It will be difficult for me to go to school to teach you before you graduate; but after you graduate, I'll accept you as my student."

Zhou Fengnian said that there were also good candidates in other schools, but he had the deepest connections at Tsinghua University.

Upon hearing this, Luo Dechang's wife was shocked and immediately urged her son to agree.

Now Zhou Fengnian is even a substitute member of the committee. Who knows if he will make further progress in a few years.

Moreover, she often heard her father-in-law say that Zhou Fengnian was already the best in the country in terms of mechanical design, and might even be the best in the world.

His son is lucky enough to have him as his teacher.

Luo Jianye reacted quickly too. After a moment's pause, he agreed immediately and stated that he would try his best to be admitted to Tsinghua University.

Zhou Fengnian laughed and touched his head, then handed the key to Luo Dechang, and after telling them to change the lock, he left a little earlier.

With his workload, he could save a lot of time by taking half a day off.

After Zhou Fengnian left, Luo Dechang planned to buy some rags and basins and then clean the place.

The location and surroundings are both good. It doesn't matter if it's far away from his unit. He can only come back once a week.

Luo Dechang just sighed that his father's vision was ten times better than his, and he became a close friend with a man of such good character.

"Mom, take a rest. Yourong and I will go buy some rags and basins. We will move in after we clean up."

Li Nianhua said immediately: "I can work too, why should I rest? Even if I can't do heavy work, can't I do something like wiping the table?"

After hearing this, Luo Dechang said nothing more, and his family immediately started working, trying to move in tonight, which would save the money of a day's stay in the hotel.

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Zhou Fengnian returned to the factory before lunch and first found the manufacturing report on the Shenzhou's third-generation aircraft from the morning report documents.

The hardware has been basically manufactured successfully, and the next step is to complete the control program after assembly.

However, Zhou Fengnian had already raised the requirements with a group of technical personnel, and they all knew how to optimize and improve it next.

After reading the report, Zhou Fengnian smiled and said that if things go well, it might be manufactured by the end of the year.

The sale of the Shenzhou 2nd generation aircraft can already be discussed in advance, and as for daily life, Zhou Fengnian has even thought of a reason.

We have established diplomatic relations now, so it is only right that we give you some benefits.

All previous restrictions on supercomputers can be lifted, and we can even use supercomputers to conduct military research, but there is only one requirement.

That means purchasing five units at one time!

Zhou Fengnian calculated that five supercomputers could cover almost all of Xiaorizi's current market needs.

In other words, in the future, all the supercomputers in our daily lives will be monopolized by them, and they will have to give up their own computer research.

Whether you are a developmentist or a comprador depends on how you choose to live your life.

But if the price is slightly right, can a simple life block the greed in your heart?
If they develop it themselves, they will have to invest tens of billions of yen, and the supercomputer they develop may not necessarily surpass the Shenzhou-2.

This research funding is enough to buy several supercomputers.

Zhou Fengnian didn't believe that everyone in Xiaozi had such courage, especially those officials. In addition to the matter of the third-generation aircraft of Shenzhou Son, there was also a report on the replacement of housing for factory employees. Zhou Fengnian signed his name directly after reading it.

Another copy was a report from the branch applying for benefits; some time ago they developed new electronic components, which provided considerable help to the third-generation Shenzhou Son and the third-generation Shenzhou personal computer.

Zhou Fengnian himself said that if workers have made contributions, they should be given benefits, so he would naturally not refuse at this time.

After some calculation, he approved 150,000 yuan, arranged a dinner for the branch, and asked them to implement the employee bonuses.

He wrote the word "implement" with greater emphasis as it was his habit. Zhou Fengnian knew that corruption in the factory could not be eliminated, but it was definitely not possible where he worked.

Today, the living standards of factory cadres are still the highest. They choose to engage in corruption because of their greed rather than lack of material things.

Zhou Fengnian dealt with such cases one by one as they were discovered, and he had extremely high requirements for the Finance Department.

The head of the Finance Department was also in charge of the finances of the two branches. If there was a problem, Zhou Fengnian would not look for someone else but would scold the head of the Finance Department.

Last year, the head of the Finance Department was scolded in front of everyone and became very angry. After returning home, he picked out the Finance Department clerks of two branches and a deputy factory director and sent them to the Public Security Bureau in a swift and resolute manner.

No matter who came to plead for mercy, he refused to give in.

In the end, Zhou Fengnian privately gave him a pack of good tea, apologized and let the incident of him swearing go.

He was anxious and cursed but there was nothing he could do. At that time, the higher-ups were constantly draining money from the finances and there was still a shortfall of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Zhou Fengnian was so angry that he slammed the table at Deputy Director Liang.

dong dong!

There was a knock on the door, and Pan Heng walked in with two lunch boxes, saying, "Leader, I have prepared lunch for you. We have meat dishes at noon."

“Oh, that’s rare indeed.”

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian looked up and smiled. He had lost his temper with many people, but not with Pan Heng.

This assistant has followed him for more than ten years. Although he is older than him, he is really sensible and capable.

In two or three years, Pan Heng's qualifications will be upgraded again, and this time he can at least become a deputy factory director.

Li Huaide of the Third Steel Rolling Mill was only the deputy director at this age, but Li Huaide had a father-in-law who was a deputy leader and often gave Li Huaide advice and paved the way for him.

Pan Heng was able to be promoted so quickly purely because of his ability; Zhou Fengnian was relatively "lazy" and didn't want to worry about anything other than technological research and development.

Many things were assigned to Pan Heng, which enabled Pan Heng's abilities to improve rapidly. He was like an assistant doing the work of a deputy factory director, and like a director doing the work of a factory director. After a few years of experience, he improved rapidly.

In addition, Zhou Fengnian was also willing to promote Pan Heng, and once the credit book was full, he was willing to push Pan Heng up.

"Pan Heng, how is the food in the cafeteria recently? I remember that I haven't eaten meat for a long time. Our factory's performance is so good, won't the workers complain if there is no meat?"

Zhou Fengnian suddenly asked, he also ate in the cafeteria every day.

The Shenzhou Computer Factory did not have any reception tasks, so even the leaders had to eat from the same pot.

Although Zhou Fengnian likes to eat, he doesn't have such high requirements. He can satisfy his appetite when he goes home, but at the factory he is casual and eats whatever is available.

"The logistics procurement has been poor recently, but it seems that the entire city is short of meat. Although our canteen has less meat, we have provided the same benefits, and the workers don't complain much."

Pan Heng had investigated the matter very clearly, and after telling Zhou Fengnian, he promised, "I'll go and urge the logistics director to ask them to run more around in the purchasing department."

Their factory used to serve meat three times a week, but now it has been reduced to once a week, which is a significant reduction.

However, compared with other factories with poor performance, it is already very good; some factories do not have any meat for a month, and even the vegetarian dishes are cheap vegetables such as radishes and potatoes.

"Okay, thank you for your help. Tell me if you have any questions. I have already approved these documents. You can take them away later."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he started to eat lunch, while Pan Heng took the documents away and closed the door.

After finishing his meal, Zhou Fengnian took a rest for a while, drank a cup of tea and then called the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

"Hey, leader, you are in the ministry, right?"

[My dear Commissioner Zhou, if you have something to say, just say it directly. You are on the same level as me, but you still call me leader. You really want to give me heart problems.]

Gu Wenjie on the other end of the phone quickly said that he was not even a substitute member, but such a "powerful" person appeared under his command.

In a few years, when Zhou Fengnian's position as substitute is removed, he will take the initiative to greet Zhou Fengnian when he sees him.

[Commissioner Zhou, if you call me leader again, I will hang up the phone and come to your house to report on my work.]

"Okay, Lao Gu, let's do this; I really want to talk to you about my work.

Regarding the Shenzhouzi supercomputer, I want to discuss the second-generation machine with you. Are you in the Fourth Machine Department this afternoon?"

[I'll be here all afternoon, why don't you just come over or should I go find you? ]

"No need to trouble you. I'll go find you. By the way, I'll send the file directly to you and you can ask your assistant to print it out."

Zhou Fengnian suddenly thought that he didn't need to bring the files with him, so after hanging up the phone, he directly transferred the files in his computer to the No. 1 computer of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

Now, a small local area network has been established in the city, and there are dedicated people responsible for its maintenance; simply transferring files and printing them locally can save a lot of trouble.

In the past two years, each government agency has been equipped with at least one computer, and Zhou Fengnian also asked the technical department to optimize the office program, changing the original IP to the unit name, which makes it more convenient at a glance.

The promotion in government agencies was very smooth, but when it came to high schools, it was stuck.

Without money, we can’t promote it, and high schools can’t afford it.

Zhou Fengnian quickly sent the file to Gu Wenjie's computer. Now his computer is also managed by his assistant. The Fourth Ministry of Machine Building has more than 20 personal computers, which is the largest number among all government agencies.

Wait for the secretary to approve the document and hand it to Gu Wenjie.

When Gu Wenjie picked it up and took a look, his fingers were shaking a little, but he calmed down after he finished reading it. It turned out that the third-generation Shenzhou Son aircraft was about to be developed.

He thought Zhou Fengnian was so short of money that he was so bold that he even dared to buy the country's most important weapon.

If the second-generation Shenzhou aircraft is not the most advanced in the country, there is a possibility at that time.

Moreover, Zhou Fengnian's strategic thinking here is quite sinister. At least after reading it, Gu Wenjie agreed with it very much.

He and Zhou Fengnian have similar ideas. If they had different opinions, they would not have been able to cooperate for so many years and would have parted ways long ago.

Gu Wenjie is not as tough as Zhou Fengnian, and is more like a typical veteran cadre.

(End of this chapter)