Siheyuan Back to the 1950s

"Hello, Vice Minister Bai. I haven't seen you for a few years. You haven't changed at all." While shaking hands, Sun Zhengguo also greeted him politely.

"No, I'm old. Now the world belongs to you young people. You can't refuse to accept your age!"

Looking at the high-spirited young man in front of him, Deputy Minister Bai couldn't help but sigh.

once Upon a time.

This young man is also a capable person under his command.

But fate plays tricks on us!

Now, he has grown into a towering tree with his own abilities, and has become a great benefit to Li Datou.

Now let's look at Li Datou? Didn't he become the minister because of this young man?

And what about me...? I can only sigh endlessly.

"Lao Bai, what did you just say? From what you said, Zhengguo is married?"

Zhang Nan interrupted at this time, but his expression looked a little ugly.

"Sit down, Jungkook."

Deputy Minister Bai first asked Sun Zhengguo to sit down, and then spoke to Zhang Nan who was standing beside him.

"How could a man as outstanding as Comrade Zhengguo not be married? If I remember correctly, he seemed to have been married before he graduated from college."

"Humph!"

Feeling mentally hurt, Zhang Nan snorted angrily, stood up and walked out of the house.

This action made Sun Zhengguo feel a little embarrassed, and he reached out and touched his head awkwardly.

"Ignore her, let's drink tea."

Seeing Zhang Nan leaving in anger, Deputy Minister Bai smiled and shook his head.

"okay!"

Then the two began to chat and talked about some changes in recent years.

Deputy Minister Bai did not mention the main business, and Sun Zhengguo also tacitly did not ask. Anyway, he would naturally talk about it when the time came.

While they were chatting, two more people came in. Sun Zhengguo was very familiar with these two people. They were Director Gao of the First Steel Rolling Mill and Director Wu of the Second Steel Rolling Mill.

Seeing the appearance of these two people, Sun Zhengguo seemed to have understood the purpose of Vice Minister Bai's invitation today.

As soon as these two people came over, the living room instantly became lively, and everyone's topic shifted from chatting to work.

Not long after, a few more people came in, and Sun Zhengguo took a closer look.

Hi! What day is today? He actually knows all the people who came in later.

They are Director Yang of the steel rolling mill, Director Tang and Wang Lefeng of the Iron and Steel Research Institute, Sichuan cuisine master Liu Dachuan, and old classmate Xu Damao.

Among them, Liu Dachuan and Xu Damao were taken away by Secretary Hu without stopping.

The rest of the people were drinking tea and chatting in the living room, but Wang Lefeng didn't care about all that. In the entire hall, he only had eyes for Sun Zhengguo.

Therefore, after arriving, he sat down next to Sun Zhengguo, and the two of them chatted in low voices without restraint.

After a while, Secretary Hu, who had made all the arrangements, came downstairs and nodded to Deputy Minister Bai.

Deputy Minister Bai received the signal, stood up immediately and spoke to everyone.

"Come on, everyone, follow me up to the second floor and watch a movie first."

Sun Zhengguo looked at this scene and felt it was somewhat familiar, so he followed everyone upstairs.

Sure enough, when everyone came to the second floor, they heard Xu Damao and Zhang Nan talking.

And the content of their conversation was about Sun Zhengguo.

"Comrade projectionist! If Sun Zhengguo really lived in the same courtyard with you, then did he get married? What does she look like?" Zhang Nan was still not giving up and asked Xu Damao again.

Xu Damao, who was fiddling with the projector, also wanted to say a few bad words, but now the status of the two of them was very different, and as long as he was not stupid, he would not talk nonsense.

"Madam, Zhengguo is my old classmate. He was married when he was in school. His wife is very beautiful! She also gave birth to two big fat boys for him."

"Hahaha!" As soon as Xu Damao finished speaking, Deputy Minister Bai walked in from outside with a loud laugh.

Xu Damao was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, he didn't say anything nonsense just now, otherwise he would have been caught in the act.

"Comrade projectionist! It's a bit unkind of you to praise his wife's beauty in front of your old classmate."

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Deputy Minister Bai was just joking.

Xu Damao glanced at Sun Zhengguo and found that he was smiling and nodding at him, so he spoke boldly with confidence.

"Leader, I didn't say that, everyone in our compound praises it that way."

"Yes!" Deputy Minister Bai nodded, "Then please trouble the projectionist to show us a movie!"

"Okay! Leaders, please take a seat. Give me two minutes to prepare."

After saying that, Xu Damao picked up the film prepared by Secretary Hu, installed it on the projector, connected it skillfully, and finally drew the curtains and started the official playback.

Sun Zhengguo originally thought that it was a real movie, but as the screening began he realized that it was actually a documentary.

And it’s the original Russian documentary without any translation.

It mainly talks about some of the current steel mills, rolling mills, etc. in Damao, and some steel-related documentaries.

It not only shows the actual operation of the workers, but also displays a number of machines, including large steel-making furnaces and various rolling mills.

But to be honest, these machines are indeed more advanced than China's. After all, Russia's current industry is not weak.

As the documentary slowly played, several factory managers were discussing in low voices.

An hour later, the movie ended and everyone returned to the living room.

Deputy Minister Bai looked at everyone and said very seriously.

"With the explosive development of high-end machine tools in recent years, the amount of steel required has increased, but our steel production is seriously insufficient."

"Everyone just watched the movie. What do you think? Feel free to speak up and discuss it."

Everyone present looked at each other, and finally Director Tang from the Iron and Steel Research Institute couldn't stand it anymore and stood up and spoke.

"Everyone, to be honest, we are still far behind Russia in terms of industry. We can't even compare with Russia in terms of steelmaking furnaces."

"However, the quality of our steel is not worse than theirs. In some areas, we even slightly surpass them."

"Therefore, I think the top priority now is to improve the steel rolling process so that steel production can be increased."

OK! Director Tang's words made several steel mill directors very angry.

What does this mean? It seems that they are putting the blame on us. Of course, several factory managers refused to admit it. Factory Manager Gao immediately hit back.

"Director Tang, you are responsible for researching steel, and we are responsible for producing it. But you have to understand one thing: those machines can't keep up. What can you ask us to do?"

"Yes! Director Gao is right. Take our Second Steel Rolling Mill for example! Some of the machines are still left over from the Republic of China period. What do you want us to do?"

Director Wu immediately responded to Director Gao's words and expressed the difficulties faced by the steel rolling mill.

After seeing the two of them finish speaking, Director Yang couldn't remain silent.

As a result, he was interrupted by Deputy Minister Bai just as he was about to speak.

"Everyone, I asked you to come here today not to blame each other, but to ask you to think of ways to solve this current problem."

As soon as Deputy Minister Bai finished speaking, several people did not bother to shirk responsibility or argue, and started discussing in low voices on the side.

But there is no way to deal with this matter. What’s the point of just discussing it?