Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"No, no, no! Dear Yue, it's wrong for you to do this!"

Wilson suddenly panicked. He thought he could force the other party to give in by canceling the order, but he ended up making things worse. You know, he had already promised his superiors that he would buy back the machine tools from China at the lowest price.

But he never expected that the other party would be so tough. If he failed to complete the task, he would be in trouble.

"Comrade Wilson, I'm really sorry. It's not that I don't want to help you, but the reality is that the machinery factory is holding on to the price and won't budge. So if you can't agree, then I can't do anything about it!"

The middle-aged man said with regret.

"Okay then, I'll ask the higher-ups!"

After hearing what the middle-aged man said, Wilson was at a loss for a moment. After all, for such a large order, the price had increased nearly five times, and he had no say in the matter.

Moreover, this was related to the domestic industrial development, so he could only give up for the time being and see how the higher-ups would deal with it. However, thinking of his superiors' outrageous remarks, Wilson's face suddenly turned ugly.

In the blink of an eye, three days passed.

"Director, good news, good news!"

Liu Yuan pushed open the door and hurried in from outside.

"Xiao Liu, what's the good news?"

Zhou Tian stopped the work in his hands and looked up at Liu Yuan.

"Director, Big Brother has agreed. They have agreed to buy our machine tools at a price five times higher than the domestic price!"

As Liu Yuan spoke, a hint of pride and excitement could not help but flash across his face.

The truth is, in that era, due to the country's poor industry, very few things could be exported abroad. Even if they could be exported, most of them were canned meats.

There has basically never been a precedent for exporting industrial products, and most importantly, with the domestic industrial base, there are no industrial products that can be appreciated by foreign countries. Who would have thought that their machinery factory would set a precedent.

"So that's what happened!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tian shook his head with a very calm expression.

"Okay, I get it. Go inform Director Song and ask them to work overtime first!"

The positions of factory directors reported by the branches have not been approved yet, but the construction of the branches has already begun. Four of the branches are built outside the city of Sijiu, close to Chaoyang area. They belonged to the third ring road in the past, but now they are part of the countryside.

Since four branches were built here at the same time, the state specially allocated nearly 1,000 acres of construction land to the machinery factory and guaranteed that it could continue to develop and expand in the future.

As for the agricultural machinery factory, the higher-ups merged the agricultural machinery factory in Sijiu City and put it under the management of the machinery factory.

Although Zhou Tian was not very satisfied with this, he had no choice but to agree to it.

The construction of the branch factory has not been completed, so it is basically impossible to expand the production scale. Now we can only let the workers work overtime for a while.

"Okay, Director! I'll go right away!"

Liu Yuan nodded, turned around and left the office.

Zhou Tian looked at Liu Yuan's leaving back and sighed helplessly. In fact, deep down, he did not want the machine tools he researched to be exported. It was not that he did not want to earn foreign exchange, but he was very clear about the significance of it.

Especially the big brother, who is extraordinary in the field of machinery. If the performance of machine tools can be understood, it will be a huge boost to the national strength.

This is not a good thing for our country.

This is also the reason why Zhou Tian never wanted to expose the machine tool. Unfortunately, he didn’t know what went wrong and the machine tool was exposed so quickly.

Of course, he knew that the exposure of the machine tool was a matter of time, but he would rather go slow.

Although he was very confident in his machine tool, he couldn't say that Big Brother's engineers could not copy the machine tool. Now he could only hope that the process would be as slow as possible.

Be able to leave yourself some buffer time.

Thinking of these troubles, he immediately became restless and got up and left the office, heading towards the workshop.

Along the way, many workers greeted him enthusiastically. Zhou Tian nodded and agreed, without stopping, and went straight to the first workshop.

As soon as I entered the workshop, I heard the roar of machines. Countless workers were busy at their respective workstations. Apprentices kept walking through the workshop, taking out cartloads of rough blanks from the warehouse and placing them next to the masters.

There are also many apprentices who try to process parts under the guidance of their masters.

Everything seems to be orderly and organized in chaos.

"Director, why are you here?"

Zhang Yuanchang, who was on patrol, suddenly saw the factory director walking in from outside and immediately ran to greet him.

"It's okay. I came to see how you are doing recently. Are you able to handle the mission?"

Looking at Zhang Yuanchang, Zhou Tian waved his hand and asked.

"Don't worry, Director, we can still handle it!"

Zhang Yuanchang assured that, to be honest, the country's task volume this year was not that much with their current factory's production capacity, especially after reducing the military's orders for gun barrels.

Compared with last year, it can be said that the factory's tasks this year are much easier.

"Well, how's the machine running? Are there any problems?!"

In fact, he also knew about this matter, but he was more concerned about the operation of the machine tools in the factory. After all, it has been basically three years since the machinery factory replaced the new machine tools, and he wanted to know more about the operation of these machine tools.

As they talked, the two of them continued to patrol the workshop.

"The machine tools are running smoothly, but the factory manager said that many workers complained that some of the machines were too sensitive and they could not keep up with the cutting speed!"

Listening to Zhang Yuanchang's words, Zhou Tian nodded. In fact, he had already expected this. Originally, the master chefs in the factory basically came from military industrial enterprises.

Many of the masters are not young anymore, some are even in their sixties, close to retirement age. The reason why they are still busy in the machinery factory is that Zhou Tian hopes they can train more apprentices. At this age, such problems will naturally arise in terms of physical function or speed reaction.

Therefore, he was naturally aware of this phenomenon, but there was nothing he could do. He couldn't let them use the old machine tools to teach their apprentices!

"This is also a problem, but we can only let them overcome it and try to let the apprentice do it!"

"Yes, Director, I've already said that!"

Zhang Yuanchang nodded. Obviously, he had also thought about this issue.

"Well, that's fine. Alright! Since everything is fine, I'll leave first!"

After inspecting the workshop and seeing that everything was fine, Zhou Tian decided to leave with peace of mind.

As they spoke, the two of them walked towards the workshop door, but when they were about to walk out of the workshop, Zhou Tian suddenly stopped and turned to look at Zhang Yuanchang.

"Our factory may receive a huge order next. I hope you can adjust the manpower as soon as possible and make preparations early!"