Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 354 Return to the Computer Factory
"Dad, Mom, Qing'an, I'm back."

It was just past seven when Zhou Xianyang got home, so he didn't eat out and took a bus straight home.

When we came back, although we had finished the meal, Master Yang was still there, so we asked him to fry us a bowl of noodles before we were done.

After eating lunch boxes on the train for a whole day, Zhou Xianyang could eat even the simple fried noodles with relish.

After finishing his meal, Zhou Xianyang half-lay on the sofa and said happily: "Dad, guess how many orders I got at the Canton Fair this time?"

"Thirty-three million six hundred thousand dollars."

"Huh? How did you know?"

Zhou Xianyang was startled, then asked: "Did Uncle Bai Kang tell you?"

"Do I need anyone to tell me? Now, everyone in the city and even other cities knows you, Deputy Factory Director Zhou, as long as they read the newspaper."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he pointed to the newspaper on the coffee table. He had paid attention to all the reports about Zhou Xianyang in recent days and kept a copy of them.

"Look for yourself. It's either the first three or five editions."

After hearing Zhou Fengnian's words, Zhou Xianyang also picked up the newspaper and started reading. After finishing one, he picked up another one. His expression became more and more solemn as he read.

After watching all of them, Zhou Xianyang couldn't help but curse, "Damn, which bastard did this? Do you want me to be a national star?"

Bai Qingan said with a smile: "Being a national star is not good. I have been in the art troupe for six years and have never been in the newspaper."

Zhou Xianyang curled his lips and ignored this silly wife, then asked Zhou Fengnian: "Dad, what should I do next?"

"Hmm? You come to me for help for such a small matter. You should at least use your brain."

Zhou Fengnian said dissatisfiedly: "A few newspapers have stumped you, what's next?"

“That’s what you said.”

Zhou Xianyang frowned and thought, then said: "I will first settle the university graduation issue. After I get my diploma, I will start a new OEM production factory, and let my cousin be the owner of this factory."

He had this plan a long time ago. He had originally wanted to expand the Feiyang Electric Factory, but now it seems better to build a new production plant.

By then, everything from patents to production of the MP3 music player will belong to him alone. Even if someone shamelessly plans to take the factory back, it will be useless.

The most valuable MP3 is always in his hands.

Zhou Fengnian said, "It's up to you. Talk to your cousin and tell him to hang as many as he wants. Now that you have an idea, go ahead and do it."

Zhou Xianyang nodded, and then said to Zhou Yan: "Mom, I will open a new factory in a while, and then I will go to your place to recruit people."

"Row."

Zhou Yan smiled and said that now her son can also help her.

If all the unemployed young people in the jurisdiction can be cleared out, it will definitely be a notable political achievement. When the leaders above see it, it will be inappropriate not to promote them.

Then Zhou Xianyang looked at the newspaper and thought for a while, and chatted with Zhou Fengnian about other things. When Bai Qingan started yawning, the couple went back to the house.

Zhou Fengnian also prepared to rest when the time came. His rest time had been strictly monitored recently. If he did not rest on time, Zhou Yan would forcibly put her hands on his eyes and prevent him from opening them.

As for Zhou Xianyang's affairs, Zhou Fengnian was really not prepared to intervene.

First of all, the tone for the reform of state-owned factories has been set, which is basically a national policy. If Feiyang Electric Factory is changed because of greed for a little money, it would be like a dam thousands of miles long being breached by an ant hole!

It can directly destroy the entire policy of state-owned factory reform, and whoever proposes it will be a sinner.

So they can only use some tricks within the rules and signed contracts, but Zhou Xianyang is not without a backer. He has a father who is a deputy in a ministry and a grandfather who is a retired full-time employee.

Anyone who wants to use any means against him should think twice.

Moreover, Zhou Fengnian had his own things to do and had limited energy to devote to his son. Besides, Zhou Xianyang's condition did not require him to worry too much.

Under Zhou Fengnian's promotion, the Nuclear Power Energy Committee was quickly established, and then a state-owned enterprise was established under this committee to be responsible for the construction of nuclear power plants.

This plan was originally made a few years ago, and at that time we also planned to introduce foreign nuclear power plant technology.

But the foreigners are making huge demands and have been eyeing China's semiconductor industry.

After several rounds of negotiations failed to reach an agreement, they were still eyeing China's core industries, and since the nuclear power plant was not urgent at the time, it was temporarily shelved.

Later, Zhou Fengnian brought it up again and was confident that he could design it completely independently, so the construction project that had been shelved for a long time was restarted.

Moreover, Zhou Fengnian also had the memory of later generations, and he remembered very clearly some time-saving information such as site selection and investigation. Once construction started, he could quickly enter the project establishment stage.

It is a bit busy, but it is much easier than before. At least there are no so many complicated things.

This should have been led by the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, but now it is under the preparation of Zhou Fengnian. After all, he is responsible for more than half of the technical guidance and preparation of key technical components.

However, he does not stay in the Nuclear Power Energy Committee all day long. Three days a week is enough. Now he is more focused on preparing the report and completing the preliminary preparations before National Day.

While preparing for the Nuclear Power Energy Committee, Zhou Fengnian also published many articles on the utilization of other energy sources.

But they were all published internally and people outside didn’t know about it.

Local governments can adapt to local conditions and make full use of local natural energy, etc. They can even form technical supervision teams to go to local areas to provide guidance on construction.

Even a slightly larger river can generate enough energy and electricity to help a town, so it can be fully utilized.

However, Zhou Fengnian will not participate in this matter. He will point out any slow or unreasonable developments he sees, but he will not participate in subsequent improvements.

His energy is limited and it is impossible for him to be involved in everything. The previous incident with FAW Automobile Factory may be the last time.

In the future, unless it is a major national project, Zhou Fengnian is unlikely to go there privately unless he retires.

However, it will be another sixteen years before he retires.

Now Zhou Fengnian wants to retire but doesn’t want to retire at the same time. He wants to retire because he has done too much and is indeed a bit tired.

There is always work to be done, especially since the more meetings Zhou Fengnian attends, the more responsibilities he has to take.

He didn't want to retire because he still wanted to put into practice all the technical knowledge that was instilled in him. In the future, he might really have the opportunity to build a "computer terminal" in China.

Even if biochips are not used, other chips can be used as a second choice to complete the establishment of the terminal. Once successfully established, this computer terminal will be able to dominate the destiny of mankind and even deduce and calculate the future.

After the country becomes strong, Zhou Fengnian wants to watch the Japanese emperor being pointed at by a gun and then order the demolition of the Yasukuni Shrine.

Now that the domestic economy has developed rapidly, the next step is to work hard to develop cutting-edge technology.

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"Xianyang, are you back?"

"You're really great, Xianyang. Did your electrical appliance factory really make hundreds of millions?"

"Senior Xianyang, are you free today?"

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As soon as Zhou Xianyang returned to school, he was pestered by many students who knew him, and almost all he heard were compliments.

In response, Zhou Xianyang could only respond with a smile and then leave quickly.

He had come back once before, when the electrical appliance factory was not yet established, but it wasn't such a sensation at that time.

This time, several newspapers made him famous for several days, and the entire Tsinghua University knew about his existence.

Before, he was somewhat famous in the School of Computer Science because his father was Zhou Fengnian, but today he is famous all because of the Feiyang Electric Appliance Factory he founded, which has a profit of over 100 million yuan.

"Dear classmates, dear classmates, let's talk some other day. I have to deal with graduation matters today. Let's talk some other day."

After Zhou Xianyang got rid of his classmates' entanglement, he quickly rushed to the professor's office.

I was a little flustered when I ran into the office. I was so anxious that I started panting as soon as I entered the room.

"Take it easy, kid. Why are you in such a hurry to come back?"

A professor named Wu said with a smile, then he took out a graduation certificate from the table, handed it over and said: "Here, it's a pity that your grades are not distributed. You are the first in the whole college. I estimate that you will become a cadre who benefits the people in a few years."

With strong ability and background, Professor Wu felt it was a pity that Zhou Xianyang refused the assignment at first. After all, there were only a few good talents in their School of Computer Science, and Zhou Xianyang was the top student in his grade. But now he heard that Zhou Xianyang had built a factory with an output value of over 100 million yuan, so that was not bad.

After Zhou Xianyang received his graduation letter, he smiled and said, "Professor, as long as it can benefit the people, I will do anything. I am doing well now."

“That’s what you said.”

Professor Wu smiled, then suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, there have been a lot of reports about you these days. It doesn't look like a good thing. Think about it yourself."

"Don't worry, Professor Wu, I already know about this kind of thing."

After Zhou Xianyang received his graduation letter, he chatted with Professor Wu for a few more words before leaving. He put down the tea gift he brought with him, and then went to the dean's office and other tutors' offices to say goodbye to them all.

These people often took care of him when he was in school, and Zhou Xianyang gave each of them a gift of tea before leaving school.

There was supposed to be a graduation ceremony or something, but Zhou Xianyang was very busy recently, so he said goodbye to the teacher and left.

He is indeed very busy and there is a lot of things to do at the factory when he comes back.

With such a big order coming in, we have to get busy first, and only after we are done can we talk about happiness.

If the order cannot be completed, it will not be happiness.

Zhou Xianyang has been busy with his wife's affairs recently, so he handed them over to his mother Zhou Yan. After asking her several times in a row, Zhou Yan said that he was so willing to give the car away, probably because he wanted to get rid of the matter.

After hearing what his mother said, Zhou Xianyang smiled and said nothing. He did think so in his heart, but he could not admit it.

After returning to the factory, Zhou Xianyang immediately arranged the production orders, but some of them were still unable to be produced.

Zhou Xianyang had anticipated this. Before going to the Canton Fair, he knew the production efficiency of the factory workshop.

One-third of the workshops are still producing portable music players. There is still great potential to be tapped in this area, and they can be sold for at least several more years, so Zhou Xianyang will not simply switch to producing MP3s.

The best option is to build a new factory, and Zhou Xianyang has no shortage of money to build a factory now.

Soon, Director Zhang from the factory office came to Zhou Xianyang's office, pushed the door open and asked, "Director, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, I have something for you to do. Go to Chaoyang District and choose a suitable place to build a factory. It doesn't matter if it's a little far away, but it has to be accessible by transportation. It's best to be near Dongcheng District."

Zhou Xianyang said to Director Zhang: "I plan to build a new music player production plant. The production efficiency of the current factory cannot keep up, so I must build a new factory."

After hearing this, Director Zhang asked, "Is it a branch factory?"

"No, it's a new factory. You choose a location and prepare the application report. I'll take care of the rest."

Zhou Xianyang shook his head and said that the branch factory still belonged to Feiyang Electric Factory, but the new factory would be his own.

It's not that he didn't trust the people in the Industrial Bureau, but it's better to have an insurance policy for things like this, just in case a few greedy idiots come to him. He can't always go to the parents every time he encounters a grievance.

Whatever he can solve, he still has to solve on his own.

"Director, is the new factory a self-employed workshop?"

Director Zhang asked again to confirm, if it is not a branch factory, then it can only be a personal factory, but isn't that a workshop?

There are very few self-employed individuals who are successful now. The most powerful ones should be Zhou Weitian and Zhou Jiaan, the first and second self-employed individuals in the city.

They are truly the first and second, and the numbers on their business licenses are 01 and 02.
However, most people don’t know their business conditions, and only insiders know how much money they make.

Zhou Xianyang sighed and said, "Why are there so many questions? Are you going or not? Otherwise, let Li Hao come to my place."

"I'll go, Director, I'll go right away. I'm not just curious."

After Director Zhang finished speaking, he quickly said goodbye and left. Although he could not be fired now, Zhou Xianyang could write a report to ask him to leave Feiyang Electric Appliance Factory.

Once you leave, you may not be able to get such a generous salary in other factories; and it is obvious that Feiyang Electric Factory is going to soar, so being kicked out at this time would be a big loss.

The factory manager also guaranteed that there would be a salary increase this year and at least one increase in the next two years.

After Director Zhang left, Zhou Xianyang called the director of the purchasing department and asked him to purchase production lines for the new factory.

Before, he didn’t want to start a factory on his own because he started too slowly; he didn’t have a production line, equipment, or skilled workers, and even the factory logistics had to be rebuilt from scratch.

But now he can use his experience to lay eggs. After the new factory's site and equipment are in place, he will let the skilled workers of Feiyang Electric Factory go to the new factory to train the new employees.

In less than a year, the new factory will be up and running. By then, Feiyang Electric Factory will be important to Zhou Xianyang, but it will not be the only important one.

He also had to make some preparations so that he wouldn't be held hostage and unable to do anything, and could only go to his father and Qing'an's grandfather to cry to.

At least have some ability to resist.

". Experiment in this direction. Collaborative division of labor will definitely improve computing efficiency. If you want to perform more than a quadrillion operations, it is best to use this architecture."

In a spacious conference room, a group of people were watching and listening to Zhou Fengnian talking about a new supercomputer architecture model, taking notes as they listened.

If they continue to develop in this way in the future, they will be able to break through the quadrillion times mark. If they can develop it within five years, foreign computer research centers or companies will be far behind them.

Zhou Fengnian will also take some time to be responsible for the research and development of supercomputers. As for personal computers, he does not need to worry too much about it, as the Shenzhou Computer Factory can achieve performance breakthroughs on its own.

Once supercomputers of this level are developed, it will be possible to train artificial intelligence on a large scale.

However, Zhou Fengnian knew that the artificial intelligence trained in this way could not get rid of the "machine flavor". If he wanted to make a breakthrough from artificial intelligence to artificial intelligent life, he would have to involve biochips.

But it’s enough to break through to this foundation.

Zhou Fengnian spoke for four or five hours in a row. During the period, many people asked questions, and he explained them in detail one by one, and then finalized the next research route and planned tasks one by one.

"The task this time is huge. The new architecture is completely different from the previous ones. There are also breakthroughs in hardware. You need to coordinate with various research institutes.
But the time still needs to be finalized. I told the higher-ups that it would be five years, but my requirement for ourselves is only three years. "

Zhou Fengnian knocked on the table and said that he has always been like this and has extremely high demands on the team.

However, when it comes to research and development, he always leads by example, and no one can outlast him in terms of working overtime.

"Yes, leader."

"clear."

People in the conference room started talking one after another, saying that there were not only people from the technical department of the Shenzhou Computer Factory, but also people from the technical departments of other electronic component factories and other research institutes.

The project team of the fifth-generation Shenzhou Son supercomputer is not just the work of one factory, but also involves several research institutes.

Recently, the leaders above wanted to split up the Shenzhou Computer Factory, and the reason was very reasonable. A factory with an annual output value of more than one billion US dollars and continuous breakthroughs has become too large to be managed.

There are a large number of workers, a large scientific research team, and the output value is increasing. There are many reasons, and they are all reasonable.

The number of workers alone and the welfare units provided by the Shenzhou Computer Factory are enough to make the Shenzhou Computer Factory become a small county town.

Although it was not elaborated, there was an intention to separate the technical departments and reorganize them under the name of the Academy of Sciences.

Zhou Fengnian had no objection to this. He was the one who took advantage of the special period at that time to poach all the talents from the Computer Research Institute, and then started a computer factory from scratch.

The specific details of the reform have not been told to Zhou Fengnian. If it is benign, he will not stop it. However, if someone wants to take advantage of the chaos, then he has not gotten to this position for nothing.

By the time he finished speaking, it was already past nine o'clock; Wang Mingjie had just reminded him once, but Zhou Fengnian hadn't finished his thoughts yet, so he would definitely not just go home after get off work like that.

"Okay, that's all for today. We'll continue tomorrow morning. Be careful on your way home."

Zhou Fengnian said that it was getting late and he could not drag others to endure with him. Some people who were older than him might not be able to hold on any longer.

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, the people in the conference room slowly stood up and dispersed, and some people even rubbed their waists.

After sitting for so long without moving, they almost got numbed by their sudden standing up.

After a while, just as Zhou Fengnian packed up and was about to go home, Liang Yongsheng suddenly approached and said, "Leader, I have something to report to you."

Upon seeing this, Wang Mingjie behind him wanted to interrupt and remind him that it was time for the leader to go home and rest; if he continued reporting, it might be delayed until twelve o'clock.

However, Zhou Fengnian guessed Wang Mingjie's action, and waved his hand to interrupt him after he said a word.

"Director Liang, what's the matter?"

(End of this chapter)