Siheyuan Back to the 1950s

After the formal engagement, seven or eight days passed and Sun Zhengguo was just as he said, very busy and stayed in the workshop almost every day.

This large machine tool is a behemoth. The workbench alone is about 6 meters long, the gantry is 3 meters wide, and the gantry is 4 meters high.

What’s even more exaggerated is that the weight of the entire machine tool is nearly 50 tons.

Faced with such a huge machine, it is quite difficult to assemble it even with complete drawings.

This is Sun Zhengguo, who knew this machine tool in his previous life. If any other expert were to take his place, it would be impossible to complete such a task.

In the experimental workshop of the Mechanical Research Institute, workers are busy working.

Sun Zhengguo was not idle at this time either. He was sitting at a workbench not far away, marking the drawings repeatedly.

At this time, Chen Lianshan came over and spoke in a low voice.

"Director, Minister Li is here to inspect."

"Oh!" Sun Zhengguo put down his pen and looked up into the distance.

Sure enough, Minister Li and others were walking in from the door. Sun Zhengguo didn't have time to think about it and hurried to greet them.

"Minister Li, Vice Minister Liu, and all leaders, welcome to inspect our work."

While delivering his welcome speech, Sun Zhengguo also shook hands with several leaders.

After a round of greetings, Minister Li asked worriedly.

"Comrade Zhengguo, I heard that you have encountered difficulties recently. How are you doing? If you need any support from the department, just ask. We will do everything we can to help you solve it."

"Minister Li, there are some difficulties, but they are not serious problems. We can solve them ourselves. Just give us a few more days, and our first domestically produced large-scale machine tool will be successfully rolled off the production line."

Sun Zhengguo patted his chest and promised solemnly.

There were indeed some difficulties during this period, mainly because the workers had no experience in assembling large machines.

As a result, Sun Zhengguo had to stay in the workshop and follow up and guide the whole process in order to achieve perfection.

But he really didn't expect that such a small matter would alarm the leaders of the department.

Minister Li and several other leaders felt more at ease after listening to Sun Zhengguo's words, but they were not completely reassured.

Because according to people's current logical thinking, people usually don't talk about difficulties, and try their best not to cause trouble to the country, and then rely on themselves to handle it all, even if they can't.

"Can you really eliminate it by yourselves?" Minister Li asked uncertainly.

"I can guarantee that it can be eliminated." Sun Zhengguo said it with the same finality.

"Okay, I believe you, Comrade Zhengguo, then please show us!"

"Okay, Minister Li."

Next, Sun Zhengguo brought a group of leaders to the place where the machine tools were being assembled.

Since the general outline of the machine tool had already been formed, several leaders showed expressions of disbelief when they saw such a huge machine.

"Comrade Zhengguo, are these two large machine tools really made by us?"

Deputy Minister Liu, who accompanied the inspection, asked in surprise with his eyes wide open.

It's not that he hasn't seen large machine tools before, and the country has imported quite a few of them.

But compared with the two machines in front of him, those imported machine tools completely overturned his three views.

This is not even on the same level, okay?

Because the imported machine tools can only be called crawlers in front of this machine tool.

When Sun Zhengguo saw Vice Minister Liu's expression, he just smiled faintly.

"Deputy Minister Liu, I guarantee that all spare parts are domestically produced. However, I want to correct one thing. These are not two machine tools, but one, because they have not been put together yet."

"What? It's unbelievable. These need to be put together to form a complete machine tool. Is our country's production capacity so strong now?"

Deputy Minister Liu was really shocked at this moment. He was already jaw-dropping when he saw one of the machines.

Now you tell me that these two machines need to be assembled and put together to be a real machine tool. This completely overturned his three views.

"Haha! Vice Minister Liu, maybe it wasn't possible before, but it's different now, because we have the most advanced precision machine tools in the world. Tell me, is there anything we can't make?"

Minister Li on the side explained with a smile.

Because he has always been in charge of machine tool matters, even now that he is the minister, he is still in charge, so he has the most say in this regard.

After listening to Minister Li's words, all the leaders suddenly understood.

At the same time, these leaders also feel guilty. The country already has such capabilities, but they don’t know about it. Are they suspected of dereliction of duty?

So, several leaders started the learning mode, asking questions when they didn’t understand, until they understood, so as to avoid making a fool of themselves in the future.

An hour later, after learning a lot from Sun Zhengguo’s explanations, the leaders returned satisfied.

After the leaders left, Sun Zhengguo did not leave, but continued to guide the workers and technicians to complete the large machine tool as soon as possible.

At noon, after lunch, Sun Zhengguo just returned to the office and Zhou Weimin followed him in.

"Director, this is this month's salary report. Please approve it so I can send it to the department for filing."

"Hmm!" Sun Zhengguo took the report and glanced at it.

In fact, there are very few people in their institute and the salary is very fixed, basically the same every month, so there is no need to look at it again.

"Hey! Weimin, what's going on?"

Sun Zhengguo pointed to a point on the report and asked.

"Hey! Director, you forgot that I was transferred from a technician to a secretary. There is an extra vacancy in this institute, so I marked it here."

Zhou Weimin looked at the place where Sun Zhengguo pointed and explained.

After listening to Zhou Weimin's explanation, Sun Zhengguo tapped the table with his fingers and pondered for a moment.

"Wei Min, this position is left by you, why don't I give it to you."

"Director, are you kidding me? Although I left the position, I didn't leave. I was just transferred to another position. I can't accept it."

Faced with such temptation, Zhou Weimin was relatively rational and refused directly without showing any greed.

"Wei Min, who said you were transferred?"

"Isn't it?"

"You are such an idiot. When I said I would transfer you to another position, it was just a nice way of saying it. In fact, you and my cousin were both directly hired. Didn't you see that my cousin's job quota is still reserved?"

After Sun Zhengguo's explanation, Zhou Weimin suddenly understood.

But no matter how much he coveted the job, he couldn't compete with the director.

"Director, whether it's a transfer or a job offer, it has nothing to do with me. I won't take this position."

"Zhou Weimin, are you stupid? You don't even want the job you got."

Sun Zhengguo also got angry at this time and asked Zhou Weimin.

"Director, please stop testing me. I really don't want it."

"Hahaha!" Sun Zhengguo was so angry that he laughed. It turned out that this cheap brother-in-law thought he wanted this position.

"Zhou Weimin, when the new workshop was established last year, I immediately got ten internal recruitment quotas. Do you think I need these quotas?"

"Really?" Zhou Weimin said in surprise: "If you don't need it, then... I'll accept it with pleasure. You know, my sister doesn't have a job yet!"

"Get lost, you just said you don't want it." Sun Zhengguo said with a stern face, as if he was doing something official.

"Director, I was wrong. No, no, brother, brother, please give me another chance! Or you can ask again..."

"Hahaha!"

Seeing Zhou Weimin's chattering and funny appearance, Sun Zhengguo laughed again.

He didn't expect that this cheap brother-in-law, who was always very methodical in what he did, would have such an unknown side at the critical moment.