Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 70 External Factory Support
"Hey, there are malted milk tickets? The factory manager is quite generous."

After Zhou Fengnian returned home, he looked at the tickets issued by the factory today, two malted milk tickets, tobacco and alcohol tickets, and industrial tickets.

There are only four of them, which is not a lot.

Maybe the factory director Li Zhengyang didn't have much money left in his own treasury, and he was able to use it for rewards only because Zhou Fengnian had earned him face in front of his superiors.

Zhou Fengnian doesn't have any spending needs recently. He doesn't smoke or drink. His few hobbies before traveling through time were foot washing, spending money, and eating delicious food.

Now, only delicacies can achieve these three things, but they cannot be eaten often.

The malted milk tickets will not expire for some time yet, and the tobacco and alcohol tickets can also be used during the New Year, so save them together with the industrial tickets.

Zhou Fengnian's small tin became richer. He now had 1,400 yuan and a lot of bills.

The salary was fifty-five, and I received many rewards, so it was impossible for one person to spend it all.

The reward for the research and development of CNC machine tools has not yet been issued. It is estimated that the reward will be issued by the Ministry of First Machine Building, and it will definitely be more generous than that issued by the factory.

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The next day, Zhou Fengnian and Luo Cheng held a small meeting as soon as they arrived at the factory.

"Engineer Luo, the machine tool team cannot be disbanded for the time being, but I will teach Yu Cheng and Wei Bing how to use CNC machine tools first. Then we can process parts and make new CNC machine tools."

Zhou Fengnian said: "I revised the machine tool drawings. In order to speed up production, some parts were not standardized, including the control system."

Luo Cheng asked: "Does the control system need to call those people from the Sixth Institute?"

"Just let them take care of the key parts, and I can help a little bit."

In fact, Zhou Fengnian knew more than Huang Weijiang and the others, but he had never learned it openly before, so it was difficult for him to explain it suddenly.

But after following a professional team for two months, and with several books on the subject at home, Zhou Fengnian can now proudly say that he is good at electronic programming.

Next he will buy more professional books and slowly show them to the world. If someone asks him about it, he will say that he learned it by himself.

Zhou Fengnian is a genius who loves self-study!
"For some non-critical parts drawings, I'll let Gan Ming and the others directly copy them, and I'll be responsible for checking them when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll leave this to you. I'll go arrange the production now. Give me some of the drawings first."

Luo Cheng now trusts Zhou Fengnian very much. Even if Zhou Fengnian suddenly says that he wants to manufacture an engine, Luo Cheng will probably hesitate and ask where to start.

After taking away half of the machine tool parts drawings, Luo Cheng was about to go to the workshop when he suddenly remembered something and turned around and said
"Fengnian, you can draw the picture in my office, it's safer."

Yesterday, the department leaders asked them to keep the drawings confidential. Today, the factory also arranged for security personnel to patrol near the technical department.

Although the people outside were all members of the technical department, there were also workshop workers and other personnel coming to the technical department on a regular basis. It was not absolutely safe for Zhou Fengnian to draw outside.

If an outsider comes, there may be a risk of leakage, and the technical department cannot prevent other people from coming, as others also need to connect with the factory workshops.

"I'll ask someone to move your table in. You'll be working on your drawings here for the rest of the time. Don't let them in during normal times."

Zhou Fengnian was startled and asked, "Engineer Luo, is this okay?"

"What's the big deal? It's a room that can be used by anyone. I may be in the workshop a lot recently, so keeping the drawings confidential is the most important thing."

Luo Cheng said this decisively, and then went outside the office to call for someone to help Zhou Fengnian move the table.

Zhou Fengnian also joined in and quickly moved the table in.

As soon as Luo Cheng left, someone soon asked, "Fengnian, did you get promoted?" "It's not that easy to get promoted, it's just convenient to draw pictures, and whether I get promoted or not, I still need to take an exam, otherwise it's a fake promotion."

Zhou Fengnian casually said that now the levels and salaries are transparent, and except for subsidies, it is what it is.

His promotion speed is already exceptional among exceptional ones. Now, promotion is not only based on skills, but also on length of service.

Zhou Fengnian has only been in the factory for four years, but his current status is indeed almost the same as Luo Cheng's, and sometimes Luo Cheng even has to listen to him.

Although I didn't get promoted, it's almost the same as getting promoted.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Fengnian returned to the office to start editing the photos. His task was not an easy one.

He is responsible for revising and standardizing the machine tool drawings, and also for connecting with the machine tool control system over there. Fortunately, the workload is not too heavy, otherwise Zhou Fengnian would be busy until the end of the year.

Now Zhou Fengnian feels that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

The more abilities he demonstrated, the more things he had to do. The key was that many things could not be handed over to others, so Zhou Fengnian had to do them himself.

Others may not understand it. Luo Cheng already trusts him very much, but Zhou Fengnian also put in a lot of effort when the CNC machine tool was first manufactured.

Even the entire process was almost entirely controlled remotely by Zhou Fengnian.

As Zhou Fengnian was revising the document, he thought that most of the people in the technical department of a machinery factory now graduated from technical secondary schools, which meant they were already highly talented.

However, the foundation of technical secondary school is still too weak. Only people like Luo Cheng, who graduated from university and have worked as engineers for decades, can barely understand many of the technologies proposed by Zhou Fengnian.

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Zhou Fengnian spent almost the entire morning drawing.

After having lunch with Zhou Yan at noon, Zhou Fengnian returned to the technical department.

Zhou Yan also knew that Zhou Fengnian was responsible for a lot of things, so she kindly helped him tidy up his clothes and said with a smile that she would knit a scarf for Zhou Fengnian.

After Zhou Fengnian told her about the replacement job last time, Zhou Yan also asked a lot of questions herself. After finding out that it was really as Zhou Fengnian said, she was no longer worried about what her mother said.

The selection of candidates for the post also depends on whether they are qualified. Zhou Yan became a member of the Propaganda Department because of her academic qualifications and outstanding appearance.

Now let a person who has not even graduated from primary school take over the job, it would be strange if the head of the Propaganda Department wanted such talent.

If there is a job change, the Propaganda Department will be short of people, and there is no shortage of people in other positions either, so no one will be willing to do this troublesome thing.

In addition, Zhou Fengnian is becoming more and more outstanding. With such a partner, Zhou Yan's character at home has become stronger and stronger. She is willing to contribute money and effort to help the family.

But Zhou Yan ignored the unreasonable request.

If the incident happened at the factory, both sides would suffer. If he was caught by the security department, they would definitely notify Zhou's father at the steel rolling mill, so Lu Honghui was just making trouble with words.

After Zhou Fengnian learned about Zhou Yan's family affairs from her, he comforted her and told her to come to him if she had any problems.

After lunch, Luo Cheng went back to the technical department and talked to Zhou Fengnian about some arrangements in the factory.

"Fengnian, some senior workers from our sister factories will be transferred here tomorrow. You can arrange the work then. You can send as many people as you need."

"By the way, the ministry seems to be planning to have some universities cooperate with our factory. The CNC automated production line you mentioned yesterday is very interesting. It seems that Tsinghua University is also conducting research in this area."

(End of this chapter)