Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 95 Steel Mill Research, Parents Moving to the City (Subscription Request)
The issue of housing allocation in the factory was quickly resolved. Deputy Director Gao was efficient in his work.

It may be difficult to exchange several individual rooms for a large house, as there are too few large houses nowadays.

However, exchanging a small house for a small one is very easy to do. Just say hello to the street office and it can be done in almost the morning.

The street offices sometimes rely heavily on large factories directly under ministries such as the Second Machinery Factory. They are like a small family, and the factory guarantees everything from production to the schooling of employees' children.

After the people from the Housing Management Department moved the house to No. 86 Compound in Nanluoguxiang, they came to Zhou Fengnian to handle the formalities.

It's a wing room, but it's very big. It was expanded by the previous resident and now has more than ten square meters.

It is 52 square meters, which is enough for a family of three to live in, and can even be divided into two small rooms.

Zhou Fengnian has not yet transferred the house to Luo Gong. Theoretically, he can be allocated this house. In fact, considering his status as an eighth-level engineer, it seems a bit unfair for him to be allocated this house.

Engineers rarely live in slums; they either live in apartments or single-family homes.

After helping Zhou Fengnian complete the formalities, the people from the Housing Management Section handed him an envelope and quietly told him that it was from Deputy Director Gao.

Zhou Fengnian did not refuse. After receiving it, he went to a deserted place to look around and found some furniture tickets inside.

"Haha, this kind of leader is really considerate"

Zhou Fengnian read it through and put it away carefully. He didn’t say that all the logistics issues were solved, but he solved each problem as it came up, and if there were any that couldn’t be solved, he would find a way to compensate.

Deputy Director Gao gave a lot of furniture tickets. He would give two to his second brother Zhou Jiaan and use the rest for himself.

Given Zhou Jiaan's frugal nature, he would probably only put two or three pieces of furniture in his new home, a bed, a table, chairs and a cabinet. Zhou Jiaan would not spare the trouble to buy anything else.

The scale of the machine tool workshop is getting bigger and bigger. Since the emergency task last year was completed, four senior workers who came from other factories to provide support were left behind.

Moreover, after the start of work this year, the factory added a dozen people, so the manpower is more sufficient.

Section Chief Luo Cheng often stares into the machine tool workshop, looking like a workshop director.

Although he did not hold the position, it was almost the same meaning; the machine tool workshop was under the control of the technical department, and there was no other leader.

Now, the production of every CNC machine tool requires the coordinated efforts of three places.

The research institute helps produce transistors and integrated circuit boards, which are then sent to the university to help perfect them into control systems, and finally sent to the machine tool workshop of the machinery factory for assembly.

In fact, the research institute can also help improve the control system. They helped with the first control system.

But they also have tasks over there, and they continue to help the machinery factory manufacture machine tools, so they need to allocate more manpower.

This is almost like treating the research institute as a subsidiary of the machinery factory, so some leaders there strongly opposed it.

If it weren't for the help from acquaintances like Wang Suo, the manufacturing of transistors and integrated circuit boards would probably have come to a halt. In the end, Zhou Fengnian could only coordinate to find a university.

Tsinghua University and several other universities agreed very readily. Their students are expected to contribute to the development of the motherland after graduation, so they should adapt to work before graduation.

The outside helpers are responsible for the electronic control system, and the machine tool workshop is responsible for the machine manufacturing part.

Recently, Zhou Fengnian has often appeared in the machine tool workshop, about once every other day, to check the progress or give instructions.

This was Luo Cheng's request. He would be leaving in a few months, and Zhou Fengnian would definitely take charge of the technical department by then. It would be a way for him to familiarize himself with the leadership process in advance.

During the following period of time, Zhou Fengnian devoted himself to production tasks and R&D and manufacturing.

I spend most of my time in the office studying and drawing, and a small part of my time in the workshop supervising the production of CNC machine tools.

Many factories across the country need CNC machine tools that can process semi-finished parts, and the planning tasks are very tight.

Almost every month, the few machine tools produced would be sent away by the army transport team before the next month.

In the northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest, many domestic factories allocate CNC machine tools according to demand.

But now the priority is definitely the northeast and northwest, and the factories in the south are still queuing up.

Zhou Fengnian also took the time to ask Professor Feng about the mushroom seeds and used his connections to contact a professor at an agricultural university.

We got some mushroom spores, which were cultivated in their school.

This thing may be difficult to buy outside, but there are a lot of it in the Agricultural University, and Zhou Fengnian didn't spend any money. The other party's only condition was to give them some after growing it.

Zhou Fengnian naturally agreed immediately. It was okay to send a hundred kilograms. After all, he was doing the other person a favor.

After getting the mushroom seeds, Zhou Fengnian took time to return to Hongjia Village.

More than twenty days have passed, and Hongjia Village has already led people to build a brick kiln. Although the style is a bit rustic, the key parts have been built according to what Zhou Fengnian said.

They have already started picking mud and making bricks, and the results will be seen in a while.

The places for growing mushrooms have also been sorted out, and the selected places are particularly suitable for mushroom growth. After Zhou Fengnian returned, he directly instructed them to plant the mushroom spores.

If all goes well, the fruits can be harvested in more than a month. The first batch will have a larger quantity, and if they grow well, we should be able to harvest about two to three hundred kilograms.

When the collective industry of the Hongjia Village Production Brigade makes money, Zhou Fugui can also become the team leader of the production brigade.

Hong Changshan told Zhou Fengnian that Zhang Dezheng would step down on his own initiative.

Zhang Dezheng is ten years older than Zhou Fugui, and it is time for him to retire. It doesn't matter if he retires early or late. Anyway, the collective industry is making money, which is the credit of the Zhou family.

After finishing the collective affairs of the village, Zhou Fengnian went home and told his parents that he would come to the city to propose marriage in a few days.

And he is now an eighth-level engineer.

As a result, Zhou Fugui and his mother were focusing on completely different things.

Zhou's mother kept asking what he needed to prepare when going to the city to propose marriage, but Zhou Fugui particularly wanted to know how powerful an eighth-level engineer was.

After talking for a long time, I finally made it clear to my parents. Zhou Fengnian will prepare the gifts for their visit, and it will be enough for the two of them to arrive.

There are places to stay in the city. When you have finalized the marriage, you can stay in the city for one night and come back the next day.

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"Mr. Zhou, Deputy Director Gao has something to ask you. I hope you can come over when you have time."

One day, Zhou Fengnian was drawing in the office when Deputy Director Gao’s secretary suddenly came to him and said to him respectfully.

"Did Deputy Director Gao say anything?"

Zhou Fengnian thought for a while and asked, there seemed to be nothing going on in the factory recently, and two CNC machine tools had been moved away.

There are now three CNC machine tools, six other machine tools, boring machines, etc. in the machine tool workshop for workers to work on.

Therefore, the production speed remains constant and cannot be made any faster. Only by catching up can one or two CNC machine tools outside the planned task be produced.

"The leader didn't say anything, but he asked me to come to you after receiving a phone call."

Zhou Fengnian nodded after hearing this. He couldn't get anything out of Secretary Zhao, so he could only pack up the drawings and go over. When he arrived at Deputy Director Gao's office, Zhou Fengnian knocked on the door skillfully and walked in, then asked with a smile:
"Director, what do you want from me?"

When calling him the factory director in private, if there was a third person present, Zhou Fengnian would formally call him Deputy Factory Director Gao to avoid giving anyone else a handle.

"A good harvest is coming. Please take a seat first."

After Zhou Fengnian sat down, Deputy Director Gao continued, "Our factory, especially your technical department and machine tool workshop, has become very popular.

Look, the calls kept coming in, and finally an old friend from the steel mill came to me and asked me to go to their factory for research. Fengnian, come with me.

"Research?"

Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and said, "Isn't the steel rolling mill a factory of the Ministry of Metallurgy? The direction of our factory is completely different. Why go there to conduct research?"

One produces steel and the other manufactures machines. Even if they want to conduct research, they have to go to other machinery factories.

However, there are not many outstanding things in the entire city, and the First Machinery Factory is in the northeast.

"They said they were conducting a survey, but in fact they were just discussing the exchange of unplanned materials. They wanted a CNC machine tool."

Deputy Director Gao said: "The steel rolling mill also has a processing workshop, which often takes on confidential tasks.

However, they have relatively few senior workers, so the processing efficiency may not be improved. They want to buy a CNC machine tool to better complete the task. "

"Is that so? Then you, the factory manager, will make the decision. The workshop will just focus on production and manufacturing."

Zhou Fengnian thought for a moment and said, "There is only one unit left now. By the middle of the next month, we will have two more."

"Although I have decided to make the exchange, I still need to consult you, Mr. Zhou, on what materials to exchange."

Deputy Director Gao smiled and said, "The steel rolling mill is good at metallurgy, otherwise it wouldn't be so valued by the Ministry of Metallurgy. When the time comes, you can choose carefully and order more if you see what you need."

"Director, you know what, this really works."

Zhou Fengnian immediately laughed and said, "The supplies we planned are too limited. If we could get more supplies outside the plan, we could exchange for a lot of things."

They are a machinery factory. They just got the exchange back and are now engaged in processing and production. The products they produce can also be exchanged with other factories.

The material products within the plan are strictly controlled and no tricks are allowed. Many benefits of the machinery factory rely on unplanned adjustments.

For example, the parts used in the production of CNC machine tools have a certain damage rate, but Luo Cheng personally supervises and directs the damage rate, keeping it very low.

That’s why we were able to produce several unplanned CNC machine tools and exchange them with our sister factories.

"Director, when are you going?"

"Next Monday, I'll send someone to call you then."

"Okay, I'll wait for your news then. I'll go back and think about what to exchange with the steel mill."

Zhou Fengnian smiled and said that there are many types of steel. He had to plan what useful products to produce and then find a steel rolling mill to adjust the steel.

After returning to the office, Zhou Fengnian quickly figured out what to replace. After making a list, he started working on the drawings.

Take a break from work on weekends.

Zhou Fengnian got up early and went to the bus stop to wait for someone.

Zhou Fugui and his mother are coming to the city today to propose marriage to Zhou Yan's family.

When he went back before, he told Zhou's father and mother which bus to take, where to get on, and where to get off.

According to their departure time, Zhou Fengnian arrived at the bus stop at about the same time, and soon saw a bus approaching.

When Zhou Fengnian saw his parents getting out of the car, he immediately stepped forward and greeted them, "Dad and Mom, here."

Mother Zhou was carrying a net bag of things and said excitedly, "San'er, the bus in the city is so fast. We are in the city in such a short time. It took five or six hours to get there before."

"Okay, stop making so much noise, this is the city."

Zhou Fugui tried to calm himself down, and when his mother calmed down, he asked again, "Third brother, where are we going next?"

"Go home and pick up the gifts, then go directly to Zhou Yan's house."

Zhou Fengnian asked his mother, "Mom, what are you holding?"

"I exchanged them at the commune for dried persimmons and jujubes. It cost a lot to exchange them for these things."

Zhou's mother said with some distress: "But it's the first time to visit my in-laws, and Zhou Yan is such a nice girl, it's worth it no matter how much it costs."

Zhou Fengnian said helplessly: "You have said all the good and bad things. Forget it, let's go back first. There are some things I need to tell you in advance."

On his way back, Zhou Fengnian told his father and mother about his current situation.

He rented Luo Cheng's house and lived in the front yard with his fourth sister. Luo Cheng took good care of him in the factory and was about to be transferred and planned to leave the house to him.

However, after hearing the price of the house, Zhou's father and mother were shocked and almost dropped the net bags in their hands.

"Six hundred yuan? Third brother, why did you spend so much money on a house?"

"Shh, shh, Dad, don't say it loudly, and I've made a lot of money with six hundred dollars."

Zhou Fengnian explained in a low voice: "That yard is at least 2,000 yuan, with more than a dozen houses, and it is an independent yard.
At first, Mr. Luo wanted to give it to me, but it was too expensive. I wanted to give him more but he refused and only wanted 600 yuan."

Mother Zhou was surprised and a little happy and said: "This is a good person, son, you have met a noble person."

Zhou Fugui also reminded him: "Third brother, they have taken such good care of you, you must thank them."

"Needless to say, you've taken so much care of me, I don't know how to repay you. Forget it, let's not talk about this for now, Dad and Mom, the situation in Zhou Yan's family is a bit complicated, but I've almost figured it out."

Zhou Fengnian briefly described the situation of Zhou Yan's family, which left the old couple stunned.

After listening to this, Zhou's mother said with shock on her face: "Son, what about Zhou Yan's family..."

"Her parents shouldn't have any problem. They already know that I'm a level 8 engineer, so they won't object at all. It's just that Zhou Yan's brother and younger brother are not serious people."

Zhou Fengnian shook his head. He was afraid that Zhou Yan's brothers would cause trouble today.

However, if Lu Honghui had not acted like a demon, she would definitely not have allowed Zhou Yan's brother and sister to cause trouble today.

"Go back first. After we finish discussing the marriage, I will take you around the city. You can go back tomorrow morning."

After Zhou Fengnian finished speaking, he took Zhou's father and mother back home first, picked up the gifts he had bought in advance, and then rushed to Zhou Yan's house.

The gifts I brought were very ordinary. Cigarettes and alcohol were not expensive, and pastries were only three yuan a box.

In addition to what he prepared in advance, there were also rural mountain products brought by Zhou's mother.

(End of this chapter)