Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 327: The Dragon Crossing the River with Vigor and Swiftness (Subscription Request)

On the train, Zhou Fengnian saw Luo Jianye enter the soft sleeper compartment and look around, and couldn't help but smile.

"Is this your first time riding a soft sleeper?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhou, this soft sleeper is quite high-end, it even has a sofa."

Luo Jianye said a little embarrassedly that when he and his father came back from the northwest by train, they took a hard sleeper, and the bed was far worse than the one now.

"When you graduate, there will be plenty of opportunities."

Zhou Fengnian said, "You can go directly to graduate school in your junior year. You don't need to pursue further studies after graduation. You can join the Robotics Research Institute.

By that time, it is probably time for us to vigorously develop robots; Jianye, you can learn more about war weapons, the peaceful situation may not last long."

"Uh, Uncle Zhou, why is this happening? Are we going to fight against the Soviet revisionists?"

Luo Jianye was stunned after hearing this, and then he remembered what his father often said at home, that they had the most friction with the Russians before, and even almost started a war.

"It's not them. They don't have the guts. Besides, the Russians are just like that. Anyway, if you know more about war weapons, the development of robots in the future will not only be used in industry, but also in the military!"

Zhou Fengnian shook his head, but didn't say much on this topic.

It was only when he was chatting with Luo Dechang and Guo Jinhuai that he realized that this time was not short.

The Russians are nothing to worry about. They are getting worse and worse. Their economy is seriously unbalanced, and people are complaining. Even food has to be imported, and this year it is even worse.

It is useless to have a strong military force, it will collapse sooner or later; Zhou Fengnian said before that we should pay attention to the internal collapse of the Russians, and when that time comes, they can take the opportunity to make a fortune.

Whether it's territory, military technology, or Russian talent, they can take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune.

When a whale falls, all things come to life. It could also be the Russians. Only when they collapse can more powerful countries be forged.

But there are also disadvantages. If the Russians collapse, there will be no superpower to stand in front of China. At that time, the new imaginary enemy of Ame and others will appear, and China will also stand in the front.

They are a strong country now, but they are still a little short of being a superpower. Once the Russians collapse, they will definitely be the next enemy of the United States. There is no doubt about that.

Zhou Fengnian felt that they didn't have much time, and they had to at least improve the country's strength before the Russians collapsed.

The accidental bombing must never happen again, otherwise Zhou Fengnian would feel that he had worked in vain for so many years.

"Uncle Zhou, are you okay?"

Luo Jianye, who was standing by, suddenly felt that Zhou Fengnian was a little strange. He was holding a book in his hand, but he didn't seem to be reading it, but his eyes were very sharp.

"It's okay. I just figured something out. Jianye, we can't be lazy anymore. If we work hard now, China will be more confident in the future."

Zhou Fengnian changed the miscellaneous books in his hand, then took out a book on thermodynamics and started reading.

Engine technology is very important. As long as Zhou Fengnian can master all the subjects related to engine technology and upgrade them to level nine, he will be able to develop and manufacture the most advanced engines.

Furthermore, once he upgrades his skills to level nine, he will not only control automobile engine technology, but all engine technologies.

Including engines needed for missiles and aerospace engines. Just as his medical skills improved, Zhou Fengnian became proficient in traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine.

Currently, Zhou Fengnian’s engine-related skills are only at level eight, so he has to try his best to raise them during this period of time.

Since he couldn't catch up by reading books, he used simulation times to catch up. He experimented continuously in the simulation space for 24 hours, which was equivalent to reading a hundred hours of books last week.

Zhou Fengnian has accumulated thirteen times. This year he has rarely had the opportunity to use simulation times, but this time he can use them freely.

Luo Jianye, who was standing by, didn't dare to ask Zhou Fengnian for a long time after seeing him like this. As they chatted, he suddenly got excited and replaced the novel in his hand with a book on thermodynamics.
He couldn't say.

However, Zhou Fengnian suddenly worked hard, and he felt embarrassed to take a break, so he took out his textbook and started studying on his own in the car.

The train stops several times and takes about ten hours to reach the Northeast. Zhou Fengnian and his group have to sleep on the train and get off the next morning.

The dining car was also well prepared in the evening. Two people could enjoy four stir-fries, and the others who followed Zhou Fengnian also had some. There were only twelve of them in the entire carriage, and the other beds were all empty.

After a night, when they finished their meal in the carriage in the morning, a conductor came and informed Zhou Fengnian that they would arrive at the station soon.

As soon as he got off the car, he could feel the temperature suddenly drop. Luo Jianye rubbed his nose and said, "Uncle Zhou, it's really cold in the Northeast. Fortunately, I prepared thick clothes in advance."

"It gets even colder at the end of the year, so let's try to get it done before the New Year, otherwise we'll have to stay here for the New Year..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Fengnian saw Yang Tianbing and another middle-aged man near the exit. They waved happily when they saw them.

After the security guard escorted Zhou Fengnian to the two men, the middle-aged man hurriedly said: "Comrade Zhou Fengnian, I am Zheng Weifeng, the mayor of CC City. I have finally waited for you. All the factories in the city are waiting for your arrival."

The above notice has been sent to their province. Just looking at the power Zhou Fengnian has gained here, you can know how important he is.

As soon as he arrived, he took over the entire CC's state-owned factory reform. He directly took away the most important task in his hands, but Zheng Weifeng did not dare to complain.

This was sent directly from the highest level to the province, and then quickly passed by the province, leaving no room for discussion or negotiation.

Zhou Fengnian said with a smile: "Comrade Wei Feng, I am Zhou Fengnian, these two are He Cai from the Policy Research Office and Ding Chengping from the Economic Research Office. We will disturb you for a while."

"What kind of disturbance is this? You are obviously here to help us. Comrade Fengnian, your special car has been prepared for you in the city. Next, let's..."

"Please preside over the project first, Comrade Wei Feng. We have eaten our fill in the dining car and are full of energy right now."

Zhou Fengnian probably guessed what Zheng Weifeng wanted to say next, so he interrupted and said, "Let's talk about other things after the project team's work is finalized."

"Okay, let's go to the Industrial Bureau first. We already notified them of the meeting yesterday."

After Zheng Weifeng finished speaking, he took Zhou Fengnian out of the station and got on the bus.

The province prepared three vehicles for them. After Zhou Fengnian got into the middle jeep, the group started driving towards the Industrial Bureau.

While on the way, Zhou Fengnian was thinking that this mission should be called his mission, not theirs.

It was a bit like being pushed to the position by the boss. At first, he wanted to transform into a car factory, and then suddenly it turned into taking over the reform of CC's state-owned factory.

The difficulty level increases from one to seven, and the tediousness level increases from one to seventy.

Maybe he performed too well, making his leaders think he was a reformer?
What a pity he is not!

Zhou Fengnian sighed inwardly. He only realized what was happening after Comrades He Cai and Ding Chengping discussed the matter with him on the train.

Of course, they are not the only ones involved in such an important matter. It is said that the second group of people has already set off, and the second group of working group members have already set off.

This group of people is strong, and Zhou Fengnian is still the leader.

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Industrial Bureau, after a group of people arrived here, they notified the main leaders and immediately went to the meeting room.

As the provincial capital, CC has a very developed industry and can be considered an old industrial city.

After arriving at the conference room, Zhou Fengnian sat directly in the main seat, and then Zheng Weifeng sat next to him. On the other side were He Cai and Ding Chengping, who were also at the deputy director level.

The main leaders of the Industrial Bureau also came into the meeting room and sat down, including Yang Tianbing. Although he was the director of the car factory, he was ultimately under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Bureau.

Luo Jianye moved a chair and sat in the corner behind Zhou Fengnian.

He was inserted by Zhou Fengnian. Originally, he was not on the list this time. There should have been eleven people, but the working group knew that Zhou Fengnian would bring one more person, so they added Luo Jianye's name.

However, he could only reimburse the accompanying expenses. As for the industrial factory reform, Luo Jianye could not say a word. He could only follow and learn.

Seeing that everyone was present, Zheng Weifeng asked Zhou Fengnian, "Comrade Fengnian, almost everyone is here, shall we start?" "Okay, let's get started. We will probably be dealing with each other for quite a while. Let me introduce myself first. I'm Zhou Fengnian, and I'll be in charge of the reform of the CC state-owned factory for the next period of time."

Zhou Fengnian looked around as he spoke, and then continued: "Everyone, please introduce yourselves, and then the director will introduce me to the industrial situation of this city."

"Then let me go first, leader. I am Qiu Ze, the director of the Industrial Bureau."

"Leader, I am"

Soon, everyone in the conference room introduced themselves, and Zhou Fengnian also got to know the local industrial bureau cadres.

Then Qiu Ze talked about the local industrial development.

Last year, the city's industrial output value was more than 8 billion yuan, with the ratio of light to heavy industries being about 1:4. Mechanical manufacturing and metallurgy accounted for the largest proportion, accounting for 60% of the city's industrial output value.

There are more than 2,000 factories registered with the Municipal Bureau of Industry, which is not a small industrial scale.

Among them, there are probably over 300 factories related to car manufacturing, but many parts factories make parts for both cars and other industrial machinery.

It is just a "miscellaneous" business, they make whatever can make money, which is equivalent to the previous steel rolling mill, it has no main business project of its own, and does a little bit of everything.

There are also smelting, chemical, aircraft manufacturing plants, etc. in the local area, which can be said to have complete industrial supporting facilities and the upstream and downstream are connected.

If you want to open a factory here, all the equipment and raw materials can be purchased.

However, the situation of most factories is not very good. There are many problems such as rigid system, aging equipment, etc. It can be said that nearly one-third of the factories are losing money.

There are more than 1,200 medium and large factories directly under the city's management, and nearly 400 of them are operating at a loss.

The rest were just so-so. Even the leading car manufacturer FAW was immediately in trouble. Two years later, if it suffered losses, it would lead to losses for 300 supporting factories as well.

It took three hours just to listen to this report. In the middle, Qiu Ze's throat became a little dry, so another deputy director took over.

Zhou Fengnian listened and took notes, and after the report was finished, he said, "Okay, thank you Director Qiu and Deputy Director Li for your hard work. Let's talk about how to reform and make most of the loss-making factories profitable.
I have some ideas, but I still need to discuss them with you. If you have any opinions, you can also raise them and we can discuss them with each other."

But everything must be based on him. These people are only qualified to make suggestions. Zhou Fengnian has the final decision-making power on what to do.

"Comrade Fengnian, do you think we should eat first?"

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, Zheng Weifeng suddenly asked; although they got off the bus in the morning, they had a three-hour meeting as soon as they arrived, and it was almost one o'clock now.

Zhou Fengnian checked the time and said, "It's time to eat. Does our Industrial Bureau have a cafeteria?"

Zheng Weifeng said in surprise: "Comrade Fengnian, why don't you go outside? Let us entertain you."

"Don't bother with that. Just have a meal at the Industrial Bureau. Today's mission is heavy and there are many things we need to understand."

Zhou Fengnian waved his hand and said that Zheng Weifeng could not change what he had decided.

Zhou Fengnian has many titles and holds many positions, and there is only one Zhou Fengnian in the whole country.

Just based on the power of the special working group, Zheng Weifeng must fully cooperate with his work.

Director Qiu and other leaders of the Industrial Bureau also noticed that Zhou Fengnian acted in a swift and decisive manner. If they could fool him...
It would be fine if you weren’t discovered, but once you were discovered, it would probably be worse than falling into the hands of the disciplinary inspection department.

The food in the Industrial Bureau canteen is pretty good, and there are meat dishes and soup at noon.

However, the chef who served the food probably saw so many leading cadres for the first time, and his hands were shaking when he served the food to Zhou Fengnian, so he served all the food like cabbage.

Later, before Zheng Weifeng could speak, the chef who served the food immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, boss. I'm sorry. I didn't hold it firmly."

"It's okay. You guys worked all morning."

When Zhou Fengnian saw that he had been given more food, he took the lunch box and went to eat aside.

After finishing his meal, Zheng Weifeng sat down next to Zhou Fengnian and said with a smile, "Comrade Fengnian, what are your plans for the afternoon? How about we go to your residence first? The organization has a small western-style building in the cadre residential area, which is just enough for you to live in.
Although the house is a little old, the foreigners have built it solidly, and the organization has also arranged a nanny and a cook.”

Zhou Fengnian said, "Okay, I'll trouble you after we learn about it this afternoon. Comrade Wei Feng, since we are here, I'll take care of all the logistics arrangements."

"Then we will definitely arrange it for you."

Zheng Weifeng said with a smile, and then started eating. Although the canteen of the Industrial Bureau was a little inferior to the small kitchen of the Municipal Government, the quality was still good.

Zhou Fengnian's food was okay. It was true that he liked to eat, but when he couldn't eat good food, he would just make do with whatever he had. He could even swallow steamed cornbread with boiled vegetables.

After dinner, Zhou Fengnian returned to the conference room and continued to listen to Director Qiu’s report.

He needs to fully understand the current status of CC's technology before he can prescribe the right remedy.

However, it would take more than a few days to understand everything, so Director Qiu only reported to Zhou Fengnian on the current situation of the factories with the most serious and greatest impact.

Even so, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon when we finished.

Zheng Weifeng left for a while in the middle, and came back when the meeting was almost over. He asked Zhou Fengnian and his group, "Comrade Fengnian, it's getting late now. How about we go have a meal, and then I'll take you to a place to rest?"

"Okay, I'll trouble you today, Comrade Wei Feng."

In the evening, Zhou Fengnian did not refuse again, but followed Zheng Weifeng out to eat a local specialty meal.

After enjoying the delicious food and drinks, Zheng Weifeng brought Zhou Fengnian to his residence.

Zhou Fengnian took a look and found that this area was indeed very safe. There were security guards standing guard at the intersection and senior officials lived around it.

The small villa arranged for them had three floors and sixteen rooms, which was definitely enough to accommodate all of them, including the nanny and the cook.

Zhou Fengnian looked around and said, "Not bad, this place is really nice. Comrade Wei Feng, thank you so much for accompanying us for the whole day and arranging it so well..."

Zheng Weifeng waved his hand and said, "This is nothing, Comrade Fengnian. If you need anything in the future, just tell me."

Originally, I was supposed to have a meeting with the provincial leaders today, then have lunch, meet with the city leaders in the afternoon and finalize the management scope of the working group, and then have dinner in the evening and go back to my residence.

However, Zhou Fengnian was too decisive. After arriving, he directly implemented the scope of work and learned about the industrial development.

There is no social etiquette, it's all about work handover.

Zheng Weifeng had no choice but to take some time off in the afternoon to leave when he saw Zhou Fengnian had this kind of personality. He warned the people around him not to provoke Zhou Fengnian, otherwise they would end up in a bad way.

He suspected that if he came into conflict with Zhou Fengnian, the latter would immediately report to Sijiucheng, and then he would receive criticism from the central government.

After making arrangements for Zhou Fengnian, Zheng Weifeng also left. He also needed a rest after a busy day.

As soon as everyone left, Zhou Fengnian asked the security personnel to make their own arrangements and would inform the security personnel about their future travels.

Zhou Fengnian then called over two comrades, Ding Chengping and He Cai, who were a few years younger than him and were considered young cadres who were learning to switch to politics.

"What do you think? Tell us what you think about CC's industrial development."

Zhou Fengnian had some ideas, but he had to pretend to listen to other people's opinions.

He Cai said, "Leader, I think we should treat this as a pilot. Judging from the policies released in the past few years, we can be a little bolder on the original basis."

After he finished speaking, Ding Chengping continued, "After listening for an entire afternoon, I feel that the losses faced by local factories are similar. We can start with the factories with the largest losses."

"What you said is similar, but data is still data. We will act separately starting tomorrow."

Zhou Fengnian pondered for a while and continued, "I will give you half a month to investigate the losses of the previous 'star' factory and ask for opinions from all parties, including workers and grassroots cadres.
I am temporarily responsible for the technological innovation of FAW's auto factory. If this area is well developed, it will help hundreds of factories increase their profits!"

(End of this chapter)