Factory with strong momentum and its director

  The petrification machine is located in the suburbs of Nancheng, the capital of Jiangnan Province. It was built in the early 1950s and is a state-owned large factory with over 2,000 workers. At that time, such a large enterprise was absolutely prosperous, with workers receiving a steady income and various benefits. The factory's scale is huge, covering an area of over 5,000 mu, with complete facilities, including its own kindergarten, primary school, middle school, and a technical school. The trade union club shows movies every week, and the factory hospital can even perform minor surgeries such as appendectomies. It can be said that everything needed for a person's life, except for a public cemetery, is provided here.

  Han Hua Machinery Factory is a large enterprise in Fenghua County, and the people who walk into the county town are all proud and confident. But when Lin Zhenhua and Zhu Tiejun stood together at the gate of the petrochemical plant, he only thought of one sentence: People die compared to people, goods are thrown away compared to goods, this is what a state-owned large enterprise is like.

  Han Hua Factory and Shi Hua Machine are both under the Light Industry Department, so they move around each other quite frequently. Except for Lin Zhenhua, everyone else has been to Shi Hua Machine before, so they don't find its scale surprising. The Liberation-brand large truck carrying Han Hua Factory's group arrived at the entrance of Shi Hua Machine. Feng Xu got out of the driver's cab and said a few words to the gate guard, who then pressed an electric button and opened the sliding gate, letting Han Hua Factory's group in.

  "The stone gate is really magnificent, I hope our factory can also have such a big door someday." Yang Chunshan said to Lin Zhenhua while standing in the truck's cargo bed.

  "This gate is just so-so, but the factory area of the petrification machine is really big enough." Lin Zhenhua sighed.

  This retractable gate was indeed a rare plaything at that time, even the provincial government used those large iron fence gates. This is an interesting contrast of the time, government departments often didn't have as much money as factories, nor were they as stylish. Because factories had various resources, making a gate only required finding some scrap metal and welding it together, something the government couldn't do.

  However, Lin Zhenhua was not interested in such a big gate. In later generations, every residential area had several such gates, and they were even equipped with remote control. What Lin Zhenhua was interested in was the environment of the petrochemical plant's thousands of acres of factory area. Row upon row of neat bungalows, wide factory roads, trees planted over 20 years ago when the factory was built, now grown very tall, and the trucks they rode on drove under the dense shade of these trees.

  In the cities of later generations, trees with decades of tree age are already very precious. If a newly developed community can have several such trees, developers must indicate in prominent positions on promotional materials: There are five native trees in the community, allowing you to enjoy forest life... In the factory area of the petrochemical plant, there are thousands of such precious "native trees". Although it is already deep winter, many trees in the south are evergreen all year round. Looking around, the lush greenery makes people feel relaxed and happy.

  What a wonderful place! If the business doesn't work out in the future, just developing the land into real estate will be enough for all the workers to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Lin Zhenhua thought wickedly. In his previous life, he didn't know much about the situation in Jiangnan Province and didn't know what would become of this petrochemical plant. Would it end up like many other state-owned enterprises, going bankrupt in the 1990s and becoming a feast for developers?

  "We're here, Xiaohua, get off the bus."

  Yang Chunshan interrupted Lin Zhenhua's daydream, and Lin Zhenhua came back to his senses. He looked carefully and saw that the truck had already entered the production area of the petrochemical plant and stopped in front of a workshop door. Judging from the structure of the workshop, Lin Zhenhua could tell that this should be the container workshop of the petrochemical plant, which was much higher and larger than the container workshop of Hanhua Factory.

  As soon as the car stopped, several employees of Shi Huajian came up to greet them. The first one had a somewhat leadership temperament and a proud smile on his face, shaking hands with Zhu Tiejun who had just come out of the driver's cabin.

  Fan Shibin, Yang Chunshan, Lin Zhenhua and others got down from the carriage, put down the baffle of the carriage, and carefully lifted down their self-made buried arc welding machine. Petrochemical machinery is No1 in the province in terms of pressure vessel manufacturing, and Hanhua Factory needs to pass the second-class container certification, many links need to be tested by petrochemical machinery. The purpose of this visit is to let the technical personnel of petrochemical machinery inspect their buried arc welding machine.

  "This is our factory's technical department head, Fan Shibin, Old Fan." Zhu Tiejun led the leader to Lin Zhenhua and others, introducing his subordinates.

  "Oh, okay." The other leader replied casually, directly ignoring Fan Shibin's outstretched hand, as if he thought the other party's small section chief was not worth shaking hands with. This small detail made Fan Shibin feel quite embarrassed, and Zhu Tiejun's face also showed some discomfort.

  "Lin Zhenhua, Little Lin, a retired soldier and an expert in renovation." Zhu Tiejun pointed at Lin Zhenhua as he introduced him to the other party.

  "Hello." Lin Zhenhua took a lesson from Fan Shibin and did not try to shake hands with the other party, but just nodded slightly. Even nodding his head, he was doing it for Zhu Tiejun's face, and he didn't care what kind of big shot the other person was.

  "Old Zhu, put down your things and I'll have Xiao Wang arrange for you to eat and stay. We can discuss the test arrangements tomorrow. I'm a bit busy with some things over the next few days, so I won't be accompanying you. If there's anything, just let Xiao Wang know." The other leader interrupted Zhu Tiejun as he continued to introduce others' intentions, saying this casually to Zhu Tiejun. The Xiao Wang he mentioned was probably some kind of secretary, standing behind him and nodding slightly at Zhu Tiejun in greeting.

  "Then thank you, Director Niu." Zhu Tiejun said with an unnatural smile on his face.

  "What kind of thing is this?" Lin Zhenhua asked Feng Xu in a low voice, watching the cattle factory director walk away with his head held high.

  Feng Xudao said: "A deputy factory director of the petrification machine is called Niu Beisheng."

  "How arrogant! Not even giving our factory director face."

  Feng Xu explained: "What can we do, they are a big factory, and their level is higher than ours. The Petrochemical Machinery Factory is a deputy prefectural unit, and Niu Beisheng's deputy position is equivalent to the county team level, while our Director Zhu is at the deputy county team level, so he seems more capable."

  "Isn't it unnecessary?" Lin Zhenhua muttered, "After all, we're brother units, the mountain may not turn but the water will flow, who knows who'll be asking for help from whom in the future?"

  Feng Xu patted Lin Zhenhua's shoulder and said, "Little Lin, you're right. However, for now, we have to ask for their help, so we can only put on a smiling face. Do you think Director Zhu will agree?"

  Would Zhu Tiejun be willing? Lin Zhenhua soon found out. After being arranged to stay in the reception house, Zhu Tiejun cursed loudly in the room: "Damn it, according to my previous temper, I must slap this surname Cow twice, what kind of thing."

  "Director Zhu, don't be angry." Feng Xu hastily advised.

  "This son of a bitch, in the past when he was having meetings at the Light Industry Hall, it was also like this. He acted as if someone owed him money, not just to us Hanhua Factory, but also to other factory leaders. He thought that his petrochemical machine was the greatest under heaven and we were all small potatoes." Zhu Tiejun grumbled.

  Feng Xudao said: "Director Zhu, there's no way around it. We're still counting on them to stamp their approval for us."

  "I really don't want to delay your hard work of more than a month because of him. If I were asking for his help for my own sake today, I would definitely fall out with him." said Zhu Tiejun.

  "A weak country has no diplomacy, who let our factory be inferior to theirs?" Lin Zhenhua also advised.

  Zhu Tiejun shouted, and his anger dissipated a bit. He looked at the crowd and said, "This matter with the surname Niu shouldn't affect you all. You must perform well tomorrow, pass this level, and we won't have to beg them again."

  "Don't worry, Director Zhu, we won't let you down." Lin Zhenhua said with a pat on his chest.

  Secretary Xiao Wang of the petrification machine led a group of people to have a meal in the cafeteria, which was served through the window. It is clear that the petrification machine did not take Hanhua Factory, this brother unit, seriously. Otherwise, when the deputy factory director came with his team, according to the rules at the time, they should have been treated to a banquet.

  After dinner, Fan Shibin organized everyone to prepare materials for the test the next day, and various forms had to be filled out in advance. Feng Xu, however, went missing and didn't return until very late. He used to move around with Shi Hua a lot, so it's likely that he went to visit some friends.

  The next day, a group of people from the Hanhua factory went to the container workshop of the Petrochemical Machinery Factory to prepare for the acceptance test of the submerged arc welding machine. When they arrived at the scene, everyone was surprised to find that Niu Changchang, who claimed to be very busy, had also come, and there were some smiles on his face.

  "Old Zhu, how did you rest last night?" Niu Beisheng greeted Zhu Tiejun proactively.

  "It's all right, thank you Director Niu, Secretary Wang has arranged everything very well for us." Zhu Tiejun said, no matter how dissatisfied he was with Niu Beisheng in his heart, he could only pretend to be happy. Moreover, Niu Beisheng's attitude today was obviously much better than yesterday's.

  "Our conditions are relatively simple here, so you all just make do for two nights." Niu Beisheng said hypocritically.

  "The conditions are very good, the conditions are very good." Zhu Tiejun also responded vaguely.

  "Come on, let me introduce you." Niu Beisheng pointed to a female worker wearing welding protective clothing and introduced her to the crowd at Hanhua Factory: "This is Xiao Shen, Shen Jiale. Don't look at her youth, she's the top welder in our factory, trained in Japan for half a year. Today, she'll be in charge of testing."

  He then turned to Shen Jiale and instructed, "Little Shen, Hanhua Factory is also our brother unit now. During the test, just grasp it appropriately and don't make things difficult for our brother unit."

  Shen Jiale, who was sitting in the chair with her head down, looked incredibly young, probably around 20 years old. She had short hair, wore a work hat, and was dressed in welding overalls, with cotton gloves on her hands, looking like an old worker. Her figure and appearance were still quite pleasing to the eye, but her facial expression was wooden, cold as ice.

  When Niu Beisheng gave the order, Shen Jiale just nodded lightly and said: "I know, Director Niu. However, second-class pressure vessels have quality requirements. If it's not done well, people will die if something happens. The factory specified that I am in charge of signing for acceptance, so I must be strict."

  "I know, I know." Niu Beisheng said repeatedly, "I didn't say you're not strict, I just said it should be appropriate. Hmm, do you understand what's appropriate?"

  "I understand." Shen Jiale said woodenly.

  Niú Běi Shēng turned his head towards Zhū Tiě Jūn, dryly laughing and saying: "Little Shen is just this kind of temperament, extremely serious about work, you all worry too much."

  Zhu Tiejun hastily replied: "It is right to recognize it, we fully support it."

  Everyone at Hanhua Factory is not a fool, of course, they can see that Shen Jiale is obviously unwilling to give up, and Niu Beisheng's words are just an empty favor for the people of Hanhua Factory. In the future, how Shen Jiale scores, Niu Beisheng will definitely not intervene again. However, whether the favor is empty or not, Niu Beisheng can do this, which also gives face to Hanhua Factory, and everyone feels a little warmer in their hearts.

  "Director Feng, what's wrong with this cattle factory director today? Why is his mouth so sweet?" Lin Zhenhua asked quietly from behind the crowd.

  Feng Xu smiled slightly: "I gave him 20 kilograms of white sugar last night, otherwise his mouth wouldn't be so sweet."

  Haha, this surname Niu is really cheap, 20 kilograms of white sugar, at market price it's not even 20 yuan, and yet he was bought over, after all, he's a deputy general manager of a state-owned enterprise in his prime, don't you have some self-worth? Lin Zhenhua couldn't help but secretly exclaim: The social atmosphere of this era is really too... whatever.

  "Does Director Zhu know?"

  "I've already reported to him, he said he doesn't care about this matter. With his temper, he can't handle these things, I got the approval of Director Jiang for this. Last time, our factory got a truckload of white sugar from Rui Ping's side, and the people at Shi Hua Machine also knew about it, they weren't happy about it either. So this time, I asked Director Jiang for 100 catties and brought them over, last night, all the relevant people were taken care of." Feng Xiang didn't hide anything from Lin Zhenhua, these things are really nothing to hide, in those days, pulling connections and going through the back door was an open secret.

  "Didn't you go and greet Miss Shen?"

  "What can't be done?" Feng Xu said, "Yesterday I've already inquired about it, this Shen surname girl is the key person we're investigating, last night I went to her house and was refused entry."

  "Oh, so this girl is quite clean after all?"

  "Who knows, little girl, she's a bit stubborn. I've also asked around, this girl only cares about technology, as long as our technology can pass the test, she shouldn't give us any trouble."

  "This little girl, at such a young age, has become the key person in the inspection. Is there someone backing her? Could she be the daughter of some high-ranking official?" Lin Zhenhua speculated wildly.

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