When will I have a long tassel?

Wulang City, Chutian Province, is the location of the 17th National Defense Science and Technology Institute.

A jeep with military plates carried Tang Zifeng and Han Weichang and drove into the 17 heavily guarded gates. After driving along the boulevard for several hundred meters, it turned onto a fork in the road and finally stopped at a In front of a two-story red brick building.

As soon as the car stopped, a young man stepped forward and opened the door for Tang Zifeng and the others. Tang Zifeng and Han Weichang jumped out of the car, and the young man stepped forward to greet them enthusiastically: "Excuse me, are they Chief Han and Assistant Tang from Linhe?"

"My name is Tang Zifeng." Tang Zifeng introduced himself to the young man.

"My name is Hou Jiangtao. I am run by the Chief Engineer of the 17th Institute. Chief Engineer Xiao asked me to come down to greet you." The young man said politely.

"Oh, it turns out to be Hou Gong, thank you for your hard work." Tang Zifeng said. The other party did not declare his official title, so he was probably an ordinary staff member. Eighty percent of the staff in the chief engineer's office should be technicians, so calling them "Hou Gong" would not be a big mistake.

Sure enough, Hou Jiangtao did not correct Tang Zifeng's title, but stretched out his hand and said: "Please, please, Mr. Xiao is waiting for you in the office."

The two of them followed Hou Jiangtao into the small building and followed the stairs to the second floor. Hou Jiangtao led the way and took them into an office with the words "Chief Engineer's Office" written on the door. The office is quite large, with a writing desk in one end and a conference table in the other direction, with some folding chairs next to it. It seems that it is often used as a conference room, or where the chief engineer discusses the design with his subordinates. place.

Xiao Ming, chief engineer of the 17th Institute, Xiao Wenjun’s father, was sitting behind the desk reviewing documents. Hou Jiangtao led Tang Zifeng through the door and reported to Xiao Ming respectfully: "Mr. Xiao, Section Chief Han and Assistant Tang have arrived."

Xiao Ming raised his head and saw Tang Zifeng and Han Weichang. He quickly stood up with a smile, walked around from behind the desk and walked towards Tang Zifeng and his party. At the same time, he extended his two hands as if to shake hands with the guests.

Tang Zifeng hurriedly took a step forward, stretched out both hands as well, and then watched in stunned silence as Xiao Ming ignored his actions and went straight to Han Weichang.

"It's Section Chief Han, you've worked hard all the way!" Xiao Ming refused to say anything else, grabbed Han Weichang's hand and greeted him warmly.

Han Weichang was confused for a moment: What kind of rhythm is this? Why did you come to me first? He struggled to take his hand out of Xiao Ming's hand, and said awkwardly: "General Manager Xiao, I, I..., that's our Assistant Tang."

Xiao Ming shook hands with Han Weichang seriously, then turned his head to Tang Zifeng, stretched out a hand to him, and said: "Is it Xiao Tang? You are very young. How long have you been an assistant to Lao Qin, haha , has Lao Qin ever told you that he and I were college classmates?"

"Uh..." Tang Zifeng didn't know what to say. He stretched out his hand, and Xiao Ming simply shook it, then turned back, intending to continue chatting with Han Weichang. It was obvious that he regarded Tang Zifeng as a transparent person.

Han Weichang also understood at this moment, and the other party mistook Tang Zifeng as Qin Zhongnian's assistant. Seeing that he was so young, he preconceptionally concluded that Han Weichang was the person in charge of the trip, and Tang Zifeng was just Han Weichang's follower. This also explains why Xiao Ming did not go downstairs to greet them just now, but only sent one staff member to greet them. If the people sent by Linyiji were headed by a deputy chief of the technology department, Xiao Ming, a dignified chief engineer, did not have to go to greet him in person.

"General Engineer Xiao, you may be mistaken. Assistant Tang... is the assistant director of our factory." Han Weichang didn't dare to chat and laugh with Xiao Ming, he just tried his best to explain.

"Assistant to the factory director?" Xiao Ming was stunned. He turned to look at Tang Zifeng again, and then asked Han Weichang suspiciously: "Is he the assistant to the factory director of your Linyi machine, or the assistant to the factory director of the branch factory?"

Nowadays, many large enterprises are adopting the branch factory system, that is, renaming the original workshops as branch factories. Of course, the corresponding management models will also be different, such as relatively independent accounting. After changing to a branch factory, the original workshop director became the branch factory director, so it is not surprising that there are assistant factory directors and the like.

The assistant director of a branch factory and the assistant director of the main factory are two completely different levels. At Tang Zifeng's age, even being an assistant in a branch factory was considered exceptional, and being an assistant in the main factory was simply unbelievable. Xiao Ming is a knowledgeable person, so he feels that Tang Zifeng is at best an assistant in a branch factory.

"He is the assistant to the factory director of our Linyi Machinery and my leader." Han Weichang confirmed with a grimace.

"This..." Xiao Ming was finally dumbfounded.

He first received a call from his daughter Linyi Machinery, recommending Linyi Machinery to him as the contractor for the renovation of machine tools in the 17th school. Later, his old classmate Qin Zhongnian also called and asked if Institute 17 had such a business. After receiving a positive answer, Qin Zhongnian said that Linyi Machinery would send an assistant to the factory director named Tang and a person from the Technology Department of the Technology Department. A deputy section chief named Han went to No. 17 to handle this business.

The conscience of heaven and earth, when Qin Zhongnian introduced Tang Zifeng, he was indeed talking about the assistant factory director. But perhaps because the phone call quality was not good, Xiao Ming only heard the word assistant. At that time, Xiao Ming asked one more question, about where Assistant Tang was from and how old he was. Qin Zhongnian told him that this man was a young man who had just graduated from college a few years ago, but his ability was pretty good...

Qin Zhongnian's introduction gave Xiao Ming the impression that this so-called assistant should be Qin Zhongnian's assistant, because at the level of Linyiji, there might be an assistant to the factory director who had just graduated from college a few years ago. In addition, even if Tang Zifeng is Qin Zhongnian's assistant, he is definitely not a high-level assistant, but just a small assistant.

The reason why he was so attentive to Han Weichang just now, but seemed negligent to Tang Zifeng, was precisely due to this misunderstanding. In his opinion, Tang Zifeng was just a young man, he could just say hello, there was no need to ask questions. Now that Han Weichang had revealed it, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"This..., oh, look at me..., sorry, sorry, Assistant Tang, don't mind."

Xiao Ming didn't even know what to say. It was indeed a taboo thing to mistake someone's level. Who knew if this young and successful young man would mind?

Although Xiao Ming and Qin Zhongnian are classmates, they have quite different personalities. Qin Zhongnian has been working in the research institute and is quite academic. Although the name of the 17th institute where Xiao Ming works is also a research institute, it is actually an enterprise integrating science and industry, more similar to a factory like Linyi Machinery. Xiao Ming is the chief engineer in this kind of unit, and his pyrotechnics must be heavier.

Tang Zifeng smiled and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Xiao, look at what you said. In fact, I am an assistant to the factory director. The department sent Factory Director Zhou to Linyiji to be the factory director. Considering that he is older, So I was assigned to work as an assistant to Factory Director Zhou. In fact, I am just a person who runs errands and carries bags. You must not take it seriously."

Xiao Ming said: "Where is it? Assistant Tang looks young and promising. He must be a cadre trained by the Machinery Department. Come on, please take a seat, Xiao Hou, and serve the guests tea."

Tang Zifeng and Han Weichang took their seats respectively, and Xiao Ming also sat down on the stool next to them. He even offered cigarettes to the two of them, took out a lighter and lit it, waiting to light the other's cigarette. In normal times, even if Xiao Ming knew that Tang Zifeng was the assistant to the factory director of Linyiji, Xiao Ming would not need to be so polite. After all, his level and qualifications were much higher than Tang Zifeng, so it was okay to give Tang Zifeng a cold face. But since he had made an own goal just now, Xiao Ming could only lower his posture a little.

Han Weichang took the cigarette and lit it with Xiao Ming's lighter in fear. Tang Zifeng said that he did not know how to smoke, so he won some praise from Xiao Ming.

The conversation between the host and the guest started with the classmate relationship between Xiao Ming and Qin Zhongnian. Then Xiao Ming talked about Zhou Heng, saying that he had interacted with Zhou Heng several times and had a good impression of Zhou Heng, and so on. After talking about these meaningless nonsense, Tang Zifeng got to the point and said:

"Mr. Xiao, Section Chief Han and I came to Wulang this time because we heard that our 17th company has a batch of old machine tools that we want to renovate. Chief Engineer Qin also talked to you on the phone before, right?"

"That's true." Xiao Ming nodded and said, "Most of our more than a thousand machine tools were purchased from the 1960s to the 1980s, and now some of them can't keep up with the situation. So we thought about it. Renovate some machine tools. It happened that Lao Qin was transferred to Linyi Machinery as the chief engineer. When he heard the news, he called me and said that Linyi Machinery is an old machine tool company with strong technical strength. He hopes We handed over part of the machine tool refurbishment work to Linyi Machinery.

"I mentioned this situation at the factory affairs meeting. Everyone feels that the technical level of Linyi Machinery is still trustworthy, so I invite you to give it a try."

"This is great." Tang Zifeng said, "Our factory has rich experience in machine tool repair and refurbishment. Not long ago, we also helped Xiye Heavy Machinery Factory repair several damaged imported grinders. According to our tracking, , these grinders have all reached their original processing accuracy after maintenance. For more than a month, they have worked very stably.

“Institute 17 is an important enterprise in our ordnance industry system. After Chief Engineer Qin reported the situation of the 17th institute to our Factory Director Zhou, Director Zhou attached great importance to it and instructed the technical department and production department to deploy elite troops and ensure high-quality, Efficiently complete the renovation work of 17 old machine tools.

"No, that's why Section Chief Han and I are here. Section Chief Han is the most experienced process engineer in our factory. He and I came here this time just to have an on-site inspection of these old machine tools and how they relate to the 17 Institute of Technology. Agree a refurbishment plan so that the work can begin at the earliest possible opportunity.”