Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

After handing over the drawings of the construction machinery, the machinery factory finally welcomed the long-lost peace.

However, the branch factory welcomed wave after wave of visitors. Zhou Tian had no choice but to hope that the impact of the construction machinery would be reduced as soon as possible.

However, good things did happen during this period. At least four branches were finally built.

On the day of completion, Zhou Tian originally invited Xie Yuanchang to come for inspection, but Xie Yuanchang declined because he was busy with official duties. Zhou Tian had no other ideas about this.

Soon, as machine tools were moved into the new factory one by one, finally in early June, with the veterans' training completed, the four branches finally started operations, with each branch assigned nearly eight to nine thousand workers.

Including the logistics staff, the total number of employees can be considered a large factory with tens of thousands of people, and each branch is even no less large than a steel mill.

Similarly, the production of machine tools in the machine tool factory was gradually getting on track. Zhou Tian was also transferring various technologies to branch factories step by step. Among them, the home appliance factory mainly produced home appliances, starting with simple small appliances such as flashlights and radios to accumulate technology.

As for large items like televisions and air conditioners, production can only officially begin after the electronics factories go into production.

The Engineering Machinery Factory also deployed engineering machinery and mining machinery, and sent some technical backbones from the machinery factory to speed up the production and development of the machinery.

The agricultural machinery factory itself was a merger of the Sijiucheng agricultural machinery factory, so Zhou Tian was not worried. The only thing he was worried about was the electronics factory, both in production and research.

The construction of a refining workshop is already quite complicated. Zhou Tian built five refining workshops and five packaging workshops in the electronics factory. He also personally led people to assemble the transistors and diodes.

It can be said that among the five branches, Zhou Tian is the most dedicated to the electronics factory and also invests the most.

However, even so, it will still take a long time for the electronics factory to officially start operation.

Moreover, Zhou Tian has his own plans and layout for the electronics factory. He does not intend to let the electronics workshop continue to use the current master-apprentice model, but wants to go directly to the production line.

After all, the master-apprentice model may be more suitable in machine tool factories, agricultural machinery factories, and machinery factories, but it is not very suitable in home appliance factories and electronics factories.

Compared with precision manufacturing, these two factories themselves need a large number of products every day.

Of course, this does not mean that electronics factories and home appliance factories do not need precision manufacturing. It’s just that compared with previous traditional industries, these two industries are still new industries both domestically and internationally, so they naturally want to innovate.

The production line of a home appliance factory was not that difficult for Zhou Tian, ​​who had already mastered home appliance manufacturing. It was just that perhaps people had not thought about it before, or perhaps because of the lack of talent and national conditions, so they were not very familiar with the production line.

But Zhou Tian was familiar with it, and soon he set up a production line research department in the original machinery factory and changed the machinery factory into the Bayi Red Star Research Institute.

Of course, there was no objection to the name change of the machinery factory. They had already become numb to Zhou Tian's endless research talent, and the machinery factory was originally built to allow him to conduct research freely. Now that they wanted to change the name, naturally no one had any objection.

After the name change, Zhou Tian naturally became the dean of the Bayi Red Star Research Institute, and Song Weiguo and others became vice-deans, and the five branch factories became Zhou Tian's product testing sites.

In order to completely transform the machinery factory towards the research direction, Zhou Tian even dispatched most of the workers in the machinery factory to five branch factories, leaving only three workshops, one refining workshop, and the oxygen top-blown converter. Zhou Tian asked the engineering team to renovate all other places.

It was built into five experimental buildings, corresponding to the research of its five branches.

The number of workers was reduced from nearly 10,000 to 3,000, and the number of technical personnel was reduced from more than 300 to 100. With the reduction of a large number of workers and technical personnel, the logistics naturally decreased accordingly. Since the transformation, there are less than 5,000 people left in the entire institute!

All of a sudden, the machinery factory, which was once bustling with activity, became deserted.

Of course, Zhou Tian did not reduce the number of canteens and workers' dormitories. Although the branch factory has started construction, it will take at least one or two months, or nearly three months, to build the family buildings. He can't leave the workers with nowhere to go.

As for the accommodation of the 30,000 veterans, Zhou Tian could only ask them to build a simple house that could shelter them from wind and rain at the branch factory first.

"Director, Dean Song is here!"

On this day, Zhou Tian was studying some technical modifications on the production line with a group of technicians. Liu Yuan walked in directly from outside and whispered to Zhou Tian.

"Oh, why is he here? Didn't I ask him to apply for talent from above?"

Hearing this, Zhou Tian stopped the work in his hands, wiped his hands that were covered with engine oil with a towel, then stood up and said, "But think about it, the research institute is lacking too many talents now. Could it be that the higher-ups have already given a reply?"

A hint of anticipation flashed through his mind, and he looked at Jiang Long beside him: "Old Jiang, you take them to continue their research first, I'll go out first!"

"Okay, Dean!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Long nodded without even raising his head, still immersed in his research on the production line for home appliances.

"Let's go!"

Zhou Tian was obviously accustomed to Jiang Long's behavior. He turned around and took Liu Yuan out of the workshop and walked towards the administrative building.

When he returned to the office, he saw Song Weiguo sitting comfortably on a chair in the office drinking tea. Zhou Tian couldn't help but laugh and scold: "Weiguo, you, I asked you to apply for talent, did you do it? You are so leisurely!"

After saying that, Zhou Tian came to the chair, pulled Song Weiguo up, and sat down himself, which made Song Weiguo's mouth twitch.

"Dean, what do you think? If I don't complete the task you assigned me, would I dare to come back?"

Thinking back to the time he spent in the Ordnance Bureau and the Machinery Department, he even felt that it was not as comfortable as when he first worked in the workshop with the workers.

Now that he had finally returned from the Ministry of Machinery and the Ordnance Bureau, he did not expect the dean to not even show any concern for him but directly snatched away the tea he had prepared.

"Okay, stop complaining and tell me, can the higher-ups really send us a hundred experts this time?"

When Zhou Tian heard Song Weiguo's words, his eyes suddenly lit up and he asked with anticipation and joy.

The research institute is really short of talent. Although there was a shortage in the past, the machinery factory has now become a research institute, so more and more talent is needed, especially with the completion of five branch factories. It can be said that there will never be a shortage of talent here.

It will even become increasingly scarce.

"One hundred? Dean, you really underestimate me!"

When Song Weiguo heard this, a hint of disdain flashed across his lips. He looked at Zhou Tian complacently, then stretched out two fingers.

"Not one hundred, but two hundred!"