Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 313: Super Rich Village, the Birth of Robots (Subscription Request)

Time flies, and soon it is approaching the end of the year.

During the period of rapid development, every factory is developing rapidly, and those that do not develop at this time will be abandoned.

If we can’t keep up with the team now, we will face bankruptcy in two or three years, and then we will be sold off and become a people’s enterprise.

However, the several industries that Zhou Fengnian presides over and focuses on are always at the forefront of this era.

Even though he has little control over the Hua Xia Machine Tool Factory, it is still the largest heavy industry in Asia, with an annual output value of around US$200 million.

Although it cannot catch up with the Shenzhou Computer Factory, it is still the second in the country, far ahead of the third place.

These two factories have left the other factories so far behind that there is no possibility of catching up at all; if the accumulation of technology lags behind by one generation, the gap will gradually fall behind by two or even three generations.

The number of self-employed individuals has gradually increased, and there are not many who are the first to try it out. At the beginning of the year in the city, there were at most about a hundred self-employed individuals, but now there are at least two to three thousand.

However, the business of the Zhou brothers is still making a lot of money.

Zhou Weitian's two restaurants had a revenue of nearly 20,000 yuan in November. After counting the bill, the couple happily drank two glasses of wine.

Zhou Jiaan's garment factory had a net profit of more than 40,000 yuan, and he earned more than 400,000 yuan in a whole year.

He wanted to move to the suburbs of Beijing and build a garment factory directly; now Zhou Jiaan has the only one in this field and no one is competing with him for business.

Although state-owned garment factories have many people and machines, they will not produce such clothes with capitalist tendencies. If something goes wrong, the factory director will not be able to bear the consequences.

Other self-employed individuals do not have the financial resources to purchase machines, nor can they employ so many people.

Zhou Jia'an had someone backing him up, so he bought the machines directly and produced whatever was popular. He didn't buy the machines himself, but sold them all to middlemen and let them deal with them.

It saves time and effort, and no one is competing with them for this track.

Zhou Jiaan also plans to expand immediately once the policy is slightly liberalized. By then, the clothes produced by their factory will be able to be sold throughout North China and Northeast China.

However, the person who made the most money this year was Old Man Zhou. Two years ago, the fertilizer factory in Hongjia Village planned to expand production, so it raised funds from villagers to buy machines and production lines.

Zhou Fugui invested hundreds of thousands of yuan at the time, directly increasing the dividend ratio from 7% to 10%.

The fertilizer factory in Hongjia Village sells its products to almost the entire Yanhe Province this year. Song Weinan, who just benefited from the cargo transportation, has earned more than 20,000 yuan from the fertilizer factory this year.

The fertilizer is of good quality and the production technology is almost world-class. Zhou Fugui also listens to Zhou Fengnian very much. He uses all the money earned in the first two years to expand production and distributes dividends in the third year.

There is no other village collective factory like this one that sells fertilizer to almost all fertilizer factories in the province.

Due to many reasons, the fertilizer factory made more than 9.7 million yuan this year.

All the money was distributed as dividends to every household in Hongjia Village, with Zhou Fugui alone receiving 970,000 yuan.

The household with the least dividend in Hongjia Village received 90,000 yuan. A village collective factory made the entire village "hundred thousand rich"!
On the day after the dividends were distributed, the Hongjia Village slaughtered pigs and cattle and held a banquet for the whole village. Hong Changshan also hoped that Zhou Fengnian could come back and give a speech to everyone at the village banquet.

If it weren't for Zhou Fengnian, there wouldn't be the prosperous situation that Hongjia Village is today.

However, when Zhou Fugui called Zhou Fengnian, he was busy leading his students to build robots, so he directly refused. However, Zhou Fengnian promised to go back for the New Year at the end of the year.

He hadn't been back for several years and almost forgot what Hongjia Village was like.

The incident in Hongjia Village not only alarmed the commune and township and county secretaries, but even newspapers in the old city rushed to report it.

The fertilizer factory is not afraid of exposure. All the development processes are legal and reasonable. They have developed slowly from a small factory.

Even the highest leader knew about this and called Zhou Fengnian to inquire about it.

The leaders are still thinking about common prosperity for all people, but a village next to the old city has already achieved it?

There are not many households with an annual income of over 10,000 yuan in the city of Beijing. The household with the lowest dividend in Hongjia Village received 90,000 yuan.

After learning the details, the leader also sighed. He understood that Hongjia Village was a special case and it was almost impossible to replicate it in other places.

After all, not every village has the help of China's top scientists. With Zhou Fengnian's ability, it is not difficult to make several villages rich.

Hongjia Village was reported in the newspapers several times at one time, and now the fertilizer factory in Hongjia Village no longer employs people from the village.

This was Zhou Fugui's rule. As the villagers began to become lazy, he gradually asked them to withdraw and hired people from other villages.

The young and strong men in the village were summoned by Hong Changshou to organize militia training. If they don't want to work and don't want to protect the village's collective industry, then don't enjoy the village's dividends.

Hong Changshou and Zhou Fugui are the most prestigious people in Hongjia Village. The things they discuss and decide can even drive the villagers out of Hongjia Village.

Since this matter could not be resisted, the fertilizer factory would hire people from other villages, and then the villagers would organize militia training.

People from other villages had no complaints as the wages were not low, at least on par with those of city workers. This led to all the strong laborers from Sanshui Commune rushing to the Hongjia Village fertilizer factory.

It can also be regarded as indirectly helping other villages to get rich. In the past, villagers were looking forward to working in the city; now they can get the same salary as in the city without going to the city, and it is still close to home.

Hongjia Village was even praised by leaders as: a prosperous village in the new era!
After Hongjia Village became rich, many more people came to borrow money from Hongjia Village, all of whom were relatives from outside the village. Fortunately, the Zhou family moved here, and there was no relative within the fifth degree of mourning, so no one came to Zhou Fugui to borrow money.

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In the computer production workshop, Zhou Fengnian and all the students were doing the final operation test.

The first industrial robot is being tested and run. Zhou Fengnian is debugging it very carefully. Even the layout of the entire workshop has been changed, and it is arranged completely in accordance with the machine-environment interaction that the industrial robot can adapt to.

"Wang Ying, go plug in the cables and check the power supply."

"Luo Shubin, why are those things still there? None of them can be left."

It was the first actual test of the industrial robot, and everyone except Zhou Fengnian was extremely nervous.

He has experienced too much, from CNC machine tools to computers, and then each generation of supercomputers or personal computers. If he was nervous and excited, Zhou Fengnian would have a heart attack sooner or later.

Before the first actual test, Zhou Fengnian had already run a simulation to ensure that the operation was correct before starting field testing with the students.

For this purpose, the production workshop has been renovated. If the other two types of industrial robots are successfully developed and manufactured, this workshop can be used as an unmanned production workshop.

It doesn't matter if no one comes 24 hours a day, you just need to transport the produced things away on time.

"We are ready to start. We will first conduct a repeatable positioning accuracy test and then start the semi-automatic production line."

After Zhou Fengnian called back all the students, he announced the launch of the robot.

After the successful startup, the assembly robot quickly started working according to the pre-set program.

The robotic arm flexibly grabs a part and then brings it to the front for fixed assembly with other electronic components.

Because of the programmed function, the robotic arm is also very flexible, sacrificing the ability to grab heavy objects in exchange for flexibility, which shocked most people.

It is also much more efficient than manual assembly. A part of a computer can be assembled quickly and then sent to the conveyor belt.

There was no mistake at all. The accuracy of the robotic arm of this assembly robot should be within 0.5 mm, which is completely sufficient for assembling computers.

"Success!"

The students around Zhou Fengnian suddenly burst into loud shouts, which not only scared Zhou Fengnian, but also scared other workers in the workshop.

However, other assembly workers also understood these students. After all, they were able to make such high-tech products and assemble part of the computer much faster than they did.

"Teacher, we succeeded. This robot works so well!"

"It's amazing! It was so simple and yet it worked? Did we build this robot?"

One student was a little bit unbelieving because it was too easy. He had heard from others that scientific research experiments were not like that and that it took extremely hard work to achieve results.

Why don’t they feel how difficult it is?

However, in making this robot, all of them did understand the principles and manufacturing of robots, or at least had a deep control over this robot.

"With the teacher's guidance, of course you can succeed! You, don't doubt the teacher's ability."

"Yes, our teacher is too strong."

Zhou Fengnian quickly stopped him and said, "Alright, alright, you who just flattered me will be responsible for writing the summary report later. First observe and summarize this robot, and then flatter it."

His words slowly calmed down the excited students, especially the one who had just flattered him. He slapped himself in the face and secretly cursed himself for being too talkative.

A successful assembly alone does not mean anything. At least the robot needs to be operated for a long time to determine the error and error rate.

Moreover, one assembly robot cannot make the entire workshop operate. People are now needed to control the semi-automatic production line and the remaining electronic component assembly.

According to the previous production efficiency of this workshop, it is necessary to prepare ten more equipment robots, a set of control equipment robots, and eight handling robots to make it an unmanned production workshop.

Zhou Fengnian and his students stayed in the workshop for an entire afternoon, and only decided to leave when they got off work at the Shenzhou Computer Factory.

There were more than thirty of them, recording, adjusting, and discussing at the same time.

In short, I was busy the whole afternoon and got a lot of useful data and ideas. I also knew what to do next.

When leaving the Shenzhou Computer Factory, Wang Ying smiled and said, "Teacher, I am really tired today. I have been busy all morning and stood all afternoon."

The other person reacted instantly and also pretended to be tired and said: "Yes, teacher, I am so tired today that I can hardly lift my shoulders."

"Okay, I know you guys won't miss any opportunity. Tell me, what do you want to eat? Bian Yi Fang or Dong Lai Shun?"

Zhou Fengnian pointed and said with a smile: "Think about it quickly, otherwise they will all be closed soon and you won't be able to eat anything."

(End of this chapter)