Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 291: Really Fast Action (Subscription Request)

"Comrade Yongkang, Comrade Jianhui, today's meeting is mainly to discuss a foreign trade plan involving a joint application from Germany, France, and Canada."

Just after the holiday, You Lijun mentioned this matter at the meeting.

Bai Yongkang was a little surprised when he heard this. He also said that he would help Zhou Fengnian find out, and he felt that You Lijun would not be so anxious.

After all, their Foreign Trade Department is only responsible for promotion and cannot make decisions for other departments. The ultimate means is to report to the leaders and let the leaders talk to the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.

But now looking at what You Lijun means, it seems that he intends to persuade everyone in the Ministry of Foreign Trade to make a joint petition?
“If this plan can be successfully negotiated, it will be a great boost to our development;

The three parties are willing to provide seven banned military weapons and production lines, including howitzers, tanks, and four advanced industrial machinery technologies.

After You Lijun finished talking about the price the three countries were willing to pay, he paused and looked around at the expressions of the people in the room.

As he expected, the others were surprised when they heard that the three countries were willing to trade technologies and production equipment, which had previously been banned from sale to them by the Coordinating Committee.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade knows it best. If they want to buy it, it will cost at least more than 4 billion US dollars.

It is in no way inferior to Plan 43 eight years ago, and there was no military project introduced eight years ago, but there are seven this time.

"Deputy Leader You, what are they planning to trade? Why are they willing to pay such a high price?"

A director asked, "If the cost is too high, we simply cannot afford it, and we only have less than 100 million in foreign exchange at the moment."

It is the beginning of the year now. Even if you made a lot of foreign exchange last year, you should spend it by the end of the year. It is already very good to have a little surplus.

"They also plan to exchange technology and equipment. These three countries only want our country's lithography technology and equipment, as well as integrated circuit technology."

You Lijun paused, glanced at the expressions of everyone present, and continued: "Although these two technologies are very important to our country, it would be of great benefit to our development if the other party brought out similarly advanced military weapons technology.

We have been actively engaged in diplomacy recently, and facilitating this deal will also be beneficial to our country’s diplomatic development.”

"But the Fourth Machine Ministry refused, Comrade Lijun."

Bai Yongkang interrupted and continued, "I heard that you had a quarrel with Comrade Zhou Fengnian, the inventor of the photolithography process? It was in the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building."

You Lijun's face darkened after hearing this, and then he slowly said: "Although it is not good to speak ill of your comrades behind their backs, I still want to say that Comrade Zhou Fengnian has a very bad temper."

"Since you know that talking about people behind their backs is bad, Comrade Lijun should stop talking."

Bai Yongkang said calmly that the news of his granddaughter's marriage to Zhou Fengnian's son would get out sooner or later, so there was no need to hide it now.

If you can speak up for your in-laws, you should naturally speak up.

"The Fourth Ministry of Machine Building doesn't agree with this matter. It won't work even if we push for it. Don't they want to develop it? And you're saying that the inventor of the technology doesn't understand the technology?"

Bai Yongkang said, "They strongly opposed it, but we strongly supported it. What is this? Two departments fighting each other? The leader asked why, and it turned out that we wanted to sell the technology to the Fourth Machine Department, but they were not happy about it."

You Lijun suddenly realized that Bai Yongkang was speaking for the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building and Zhou Fengnian, but this trade plan was so important to him that he could not give it up.

"Comrade Yongkang, I don't need to explain the anecdote of cooperation brings benefits to both sides. We have also gained technology to strengthen the military and promote diplomatic relations. What's more, the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building can also develop more advanced photolithography technology."

You Lijun said a lot, all his words were full of benefits, and he also convinced other people in the meeting room.

Regardless of whether there are political achievements or not, the benefits of promoting strong development are real.

Once they get it, their military capabilities alone will be greatly enhanced, as well as their railway technology, mechanical engineering, and so on.

However, Bai Yongkang still objected: "I still say that our mission is to facilitate rather than trade. If we tell the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building about these things in detail, they will definitely agree if they think it is beneficial.

Since the Fourth Machine-Building Department did not agree, they must have had concerns. Comrade Lijun, do you have a written objection from the Fourth Machine-Building Department? If so, please show it to everyone, so that other comrades can know why they objected. "

"No, Comrade Zhou Fengnian was too irritable at the time and kicked us out directly."

"Why are you chased away and not others? Isn't there something wrong with the way you do things?

Director Li from the First Department had dealt with Comrade Fengnian many times when he was still at the Machine Tool Factory. Why wasn't he driven away? Director Li, did Comrade Fengnian get angry with you at that time? "

Director Li in the conference room was stunned and felt unlucky that he was involved in the fight between the two.

However, when he was exporting CNC machine tools, he did deal with Zhou Fengnian frequently, and many of the tricks for dealing with foreigners were taught by Zhou Fengnian.

In his eyes, there was nothing wrong with Zhou Fengnian except that he hated foreigners and wanted to stab them and make them bleed.

"I've never seen Commissioner Zhou get angry, leader."

Bai Yongkang said: "Well, look at how other people deal with their comrades. Of course, Comrade Lijun, I am not referring to you in particular. I just hope that our comrades will pay attention to unity when dealing with comrades from other departments. Unity is very important."

These words were almost like pointing at someone's nose and criticizing him. After hearing them, You Lijun's face turned red and black.

Then he could not help but say: "Comrade Yongkang, I don't understand why you and Comrade Zhou Fengnian don't agree to such a good thing that benefits the country and the people?

You don't even think about it. I seriously suspect that you and Zhou Fengnian treat our country's photolithography technology as your own. You are harming the public interest and enriching yourself."

Now we have been led into a ditch by Bai Yongkang. We had a quarrel and there is a disagreement within the department.

You Lijun originally wanted to say something to make amends, but when he saw that everyone in the conference room had already started writing down their opinions, the words he wanted to say got stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter them.

"Okay, let's talk about the next thing."

Bai Yongkang continued to preside over the meeting and ignored You Lijun.

After seeing this, the latter sat down with hatred in his heart.

After the meeting, Bai Yongkang returned to the office and called: "Fengnian, it's about the same as you expected. We still have to report to the higher-ups, but we don't have a unified opinion." "It doesn't matter. At least two-thirds of the people disagree. In addition to your development report, the leaders should also pay attention to your opinions."

"Okay, that's it for now, we'll talk about it another day."

On the other hand, after Zhou Fengnian hung up the phone, he was also angry at people like You Lijun.

However, his summary report on the development of semiconductors was almost completed. After signing his name, Zhou Fengnian asked Wang Mingjie to hand the report to Gu Wenjie.

After everyone in their department has signed their names, it will be sent to the central leadership.

The rest can be developed slowly, and Zhou Fengnian can also help with military weapons, but the cutting-edge lithography technology must not be passed on to outsiders.

Even though China was a slightly backward generation, Zhou Fengnian did not want to exchange with foreign countries. Moreover, the foreigners were very shrewd. They seemed to have guessed that China would exchange with them and conceal it. They also proposed to visit their semiconductor research and development factory.

How could Zhou Fengnian agree to such a request?

The Fourth Ministry of Machine Building acted quickly. Gu Wenjie took a quick look at the document, signed it, and asked his assistant to send it to Luo Yifeng.

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Wang Mingjie knocked on the door and walked in, saying to Zhou Fengnian, "Leader, Director Zhao is here."

"Let him in."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he collected the drawings and documents on the table.

When he saw Director Zhao coming in, he asked directly without any politeness, "What's going on at the factory?"

"Nothing, it's just that the factory has completed the task ahead of schedule. At present, more than 53,000 pagers have been sold in the city, and the public telephone and telephone exchange technology have all been completed."

Director Zhao handed a report to Zhou Fengnian as he spoke, then turned to thank Wang Mingjie who poured him some water and continued his report.

"Leader, we have trained the personnel as well. The deputy factory director will lead a team of 16 clerks and five technicians. We will be dispatched in April, and we plan to go to Shanghai and Hangzhou at the same time."

Wireless communication factories now have sufficient funds, abundant production, and abundant manpower, so they can "expand their territory" in advance.

Director Zhao is very ambitious, and Shanghai and Hangzhou are close to each other, so he can be taken care of at any time if there are any problems.

"Okay, the department will issue you a certificate, but our factory's research and development work cannot be stopped."

Zhou Fengnian said: "Although you have been given a lot of autonomy, the wireless communication factory will also have to hand in its operating income next year."

Next year will be the third year. All the profits from the first two years were kept for the development of the wireless communication factory. The department must collect some of the profits in the third year, otherwise they will have trouble explaining to their superiors.

In the name of developing infrastructure, it can be delayed for two years at most.

And I think everyone in Beijing knows how popular pagers are.

After the public telephone booths were built, the people who make the most calls are those who show off their pagers. They go to the public telephone booth to make a call when they have nothing to do, and they also call themselves.

The starting fee of one cent per minute did not stop those people. If the telephone company had not improved the telephone exchange technology, they would have been busy just for call transfers.

This year, the wireless communications factory's goal is to sell 150,000 pagers in three cities, and then start developing second-generation communications technology, which will be developed within two to three years.

The latter was the task assigned by Zhou Fengnian. Once the domestic people got accustomed to wireless communications, it would be easier to promote it in the future.

As a new factory, the Wireless Communications Factory has achieved outstanding results. Although it cannot compare with the performance of the factory that Zhou Fengnian was previously in charge of, it is already very rare to be able to maintain rapid growth in this environment.

After Director Zhao left, Zhou Fengnian became a little distracted.

The country is still too poor, although he has tried hard to make things flourish everywhere and to bring money back to the country from abroad.

But it will take at least five or six years for it to fully develop, but it is hard to say for the farmers.

However, Zhou Fengnian’s ability was limited. He could not study hybridization and could only promote agricultural machinery.

Now Zhou Fengnian is satisfied with material things and striving for spiritual satisfaction; let the country develop and step on foreigners in the future. It would be best if he could also serve as a spokesperson for the press.

Just as Zhou Fengnian was thinking, the phone on the table suddenly rang. After answering it, he found that it was Bai Yujie calling.

"Sister Bai, what's the matter?"

"Come to my house for dinner today? Okay, I'll go back early then."

It was just a small matter. After saying that, Zhou Fengnian hung up the phone. He had been focusing on research and development in the department recently. The wireless department and the affairs of several other factories were handled similarly, and there was nothing that needed his guidance.

Recently, the higher-ups are planning to loosen up restrictions on the factory, so Zhou Fengnian doesn't have to worry about many things anymore. In other words, developing new things can help him kill time.

But when he relaxes, other things come up.

The Computer Science School of Tsinghua University wanted to continue offering a course and wanted to invite Zhou Fengnian to give the lecture; however, this time Zhou Fengnian refused, but then fell into the trap and agreed to write a textbook, and then selected a lecturer on website interconnection for Tsinghua University.

He is from the Shenzhou Computer Factory. He is quite good at this and is also a level 10 technician. He has studied with Zhou Fengnian for a long time.

He has the qualifications, the ability, and the time, and the teaching materials written by Zhou Fengnian are enough to teach the students of Tsinghua University.

Although Zhou Fengnian knows that training students is beneficial to future development, the first batch of students who were admitted to university have not graduated yet. After they graduate, he can consider selecting a few students to guide.

However, Mr. Luo’s grandson was admitted to university last year. The day after Luo Jianye was admitted to university, Zhou Fengnian went to the school to see him and greeted the teacher. Luo Jianye would be his student in the future.

(End of this chapter)