() The person who opened the door was a young man in his twenties, wearing thick-rimmed glasses, disheveled hair, and dull eyes. He was a head taller than Lu Yang, with a thin body wearing loose dark blue work clothes, and a mouthpiece
Smoking and holding a stack of documents in his hand.
"Hey, it's Lu Yang. He's here to see your dad. He's at the foundry. Just wait, I'll call him for you."
"No! No need!"
Lu Yang saw clearly who it was, his heart moved, and he spoke politely.
"My dad just went out not long ago. Brother Zhou, you brought so much. I'm here to help you."
Taking a step forward, Lu Yang took the document from the other party's hand, turned around and put it on the table, then sat back down with a smile.
Surprise flashed across Zhou Hongnian's face. Lu Jiangan's son was not usually so polite. What happened today?
Zhou Hongnian didn't worry about some uncertain situations. It's normal for children to have changeable temperaments.
Zhou Hongnian walked to his seat, took out a piece of chocolate from the drawer, and threw it away.
"Xiao Yang is so good today. Brother Zhou treats you to some chocolates. I'm still busy. I'm moving and things are piling up. You can have some fun by yourself."
After saying that, Zhou Hongnian buried himself in the pile of documents.
Lu Yang thanked him and picked up the beautifully packaged chocolate with a big dove printed on it.
Although Dove, a Sino-US joint venture chocolate brand, entered the Chinese market in 2009, it was still rare in the west in 1995. Even in the urban area of Chongshan, it can only be purchased in a few places. In valleys like Yaoquan
Even more rare.
The transportation conditions in this era were very basic. Although Nanlong County was less than 100 kilometers away from Chongshan City, and Hong Shipyard was only a dozen kilometers away from Nanlong County, before the 1990s, the most convenient way was from Hong Shipyard to Chongshan City.
You need to first take a bus to the train station in the Qiansheng area, and then transfer to a train for six hours to the Chongshan Railway Station, so that you can travel to various places more conveniently. Although conditions have improved in recent years and you can go directly there, it still takes seven or eight hours by long-distance bus.
Zhou Hongnian is a college graduate from Chongshan Institute of Technology. He was assigned to the factory a few years ago and worked as a technician in the casting and forging workshop. He usually keeps a low profile.
I'm afraid not only is there no one in the Red Shipyard at this time, but even Zhou Hongnian himself can't possibly imagine that in more than ten years he will be a big boss with a net worth of more than one billion and a guest of the mayor of Chongshan?
Lu Yang secretly lamented that it is really difficult to explain clearly the fate of people.
Zhou Hongnian's father was originally an ordinary stock-level cadre in the government of the lower district of Chongshan City, and he offended the leadership and was not satisfied with his job at the workplace. Therefore, after graduating from college, he could not go to any good workplace and could only work at a third-tier factory in this mountainous area.
Unexpectedly, during the great changes in Chongshan two years later, Zhou Hongnian's father was lucky. Not only was the leader he had offended been kicked off, but he was also appreciated by the new leader. From then on, his official career was prosperous, and within a few years he became the deputy director of the Industrial Bureau of Chongsheng City.
Although the director is not a very big official, he has considerable power.
Zhou Hongnian's opportunity also came at that time. After 1998, the Xinjiang General Factory underwent major adjustments and a group company was established. All branch factories were dismantled and reorganized. He saw the opportunity and gathered a group of laid-off workers, and rented them at a low price with nothing.
Many equipments have skyrocketed since then, and they have a net worth of more than one billion in just ten years.
Although it is inseparable from the factor of Zhou Hongnian's father, he must be a very capable person if he can start from scratch and build such a big business.
Lu Yang knew that despite Zhou Hongnian's slovenly appearance, he was actually a proud person on the inside.
It has been several years since he graduated from college, and he must be in his late twenties or late twenties. Among state-owned enterprises, there are not many people at this age who are still unmarried.
But this week Hongnian keeps declining the red lines drawn by the enthusiastic state-owned enterprise aunts around him. Now let alone marriage, he has never even heard of a serious girlfriend. What is this if he is not a high-minded person?
After all, Zhou Hongnian graduated from university and was well-informed, so it was understandable that he would look down on the children of ordinary leaders in the factory.
Lu Yang had been confused once before, and now he knew the importance of connections. The technician in the casting and forging workshop in front of him belonged to a gold mine that no one knew about, and the exploration investment cost was the lowest.
Unfortunately, Lu Yang also understood that he was still a little kid, so he could only use some childish methods to attract attention, and he would have a chance to have a more intimate relationship later.
Lu Yang peeled off the chocolate wrapper, put it in his mouth and chewed it, pretending it was delicious.
"Brother Zhou, this chocolate tastes very special. I haven't seen it in the county department store. Where can I buy it?"
In 1995, the commerce in Yaoquan was underdeveloped, and most of them were small grocery stores. The so-called department stores in the Red Shipyard area were just a little bigger than grocery stores. They belonged to the same system as the department stores in Nanlong County, and the goods were not complete, so I rode a bicycle to Nanlong on weekends.
Shopping in Long County is a habit of many employees.
Zhou Hongnian raised his head from the pile of documents and smiled.
"They are sold in the city and I brought them from home."
The city refers to the center of Chongshan. People in the old factory said so at that time. Even for a long time after moving to the main factory, when people talked about going to the city, they often talked about going to the center of Chongshan. It used to be like this
"It's been a long time." It's hard for factory workers to go home during holidays or to take leave for work. Even Zhou Hongnian, an ordinary technician, has no chance to go on business trips.
"Oh, I went back last month. It was a weekend break. I had nothing to do anyway."
On the May Day holiday in 1995, the whole country began to implement double holidays, and Red Shipyard, as a state-owned enterprise, naturally took the lead.
"Xiao Yang, if you like to eat, I still have some here, and I'll give them all to you."
Zhou Hongnian took out a few more pieces from the drawer, put them on the table, and nodded to Lu Yang to get them.
"That's so embarrassing..."
Lu Yang pretended to be polite, picked up the chocolate and quickly put it into his trouser pocket.
"Brother Zhou, what are you doing?"
"It's just some reports that need to be organized and packaged."
"You treat me to some chocolate, and I'll help you."
"No, no, no, you have fun."
"Try it for me, try it!"
Zhou Hongnian couldn't resist, so he had to give part of it to Lu Yang. Then he found that Lu Yang was much quicker at organizing documents than he was.
Although Lu Yang is a homebody, he is still very skilled at organizing documents in the office.
The two of them worked together and finished it in less than an hour. Then Zhou Hongnian dug out the cartons from the filing cabinet and packed them.
lie!
Zhou Hongnian patted the cardboard box, relaxed his shoulders, stretched out, lit the cigarette, puffed out eye circles, and looked at Lu Yang with a much more friendly look.
"I can't tell, but you're not bad at what you do."
Lu Yang chuckled and didn't answer.
"Look what kind of work you do? It's just such a grind every day!"
A powerful roar came from the window.
Hearing the voice of Lu Jiangan coming from the factory opposite, Zhou Hongnian frowned and then smiled.
"Xiao Yang, let me go over and take a look. You can play by yourself."
After saying that, Zhou Hongnian pushed the door open and was about to close it when Lu Yang followed him out. He raised his eyebrows and was about to speak.
"I'm going to see the fun too."
"Your child is in danger in the workshop, so you should stay in your father's office."
"It's okay. I won't run around. What's the danger in following you?"
Besides, work has not started yet, so of course Lu Yang would not say this.
Zhou Hongnian had no choice but to take Lu Yang there.
The foundry team and the blacksmith team in the casting and forging workshop have always had a close relationship. It is said that the relationship can be traced back to the early days of the founding of the factory.
At first, the Red Shipyard had little demand for castings due to its products. It did not design a separate foundry workshop at the beginning. The caster's furnace, the forger's steam hammer and the heat treatment equipment were all arranged in one factory. In order to facilitate management, a
Casting and forging workshop.
It is said that the hostility between the two parties was originally just a small matter, but later it gradually developed into a large group fight. Although many people were punished, the feud between the two parties was thus forged. Generations of old workers instilled this hatred into the newcomers.
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After the opening up, the Red Shipyard's orders for military products disappeared, and it had to work hard to develop civilian products. At first, it did well, but these civilian products required more and more castings. By the end of the 1980s, a set of advanced precision casting equipment was introduced.
A foundry building was built opposite the workshop. It was originally planned that the casting and forging workshop would be split into two workshops: the foundry workshop and the forging workshop, but this was temporarily shelved due to the relocation.
However, Lu Yang remembered that after the relocation of the Red Shipyard, there was no casting and forging workshop. At that time, the operating conditions of the Red Shipyard were very poor. The director of the factory engaged in the so-called asset revitalization and rented the workers of the casting and forging workshop together with the factory building to a nearby joint venture.
Swallowed.
This also caused many workers in the casting and forging workshop to suffer later. Because the forgers and heat treatment equipment in the casting and forging workshop were relatively old, the joint venture planned to introduce advanced equipment on its own, so they first stated that they did not want forgers and heat treatment equipment over thirty-five years old.
Heat treatment industry.
This group of older workers, including his father, became abandoned. The Red Shipyard lost its casting and forging workshop. This group of people were older and had more working experience, so it was not suitable for them to be transferred to other jobs. As a result, more than 100 men were assigned to several jobs.
Although the so-called brother company ten kilometers away still continued to work in the same field, his wife and children separated from him, and he wandered around for several years before returning to the factory.
At that time, Lu Yang was in high school, and Lu Jiangan could only come back on weekends. Since Zhang Shufen was not young enough, it was difficult to find a job at that time, so she had to work as a handyman in a private company, which exhausted her body.
Lu Yang felt a dull pain in his heart when he thought of this.
As soon as the two of them walked out of the factory, Lu Jiangan came over with an angry face. However, when he saw Lu Yang, his anger immediately subsided and he put on a kind smile.
"Dad, is it time to get off work?"
Lu Yang rushed over and grabbed Lu Jiangan's arm, without asking any other questions.
Lu Jiangan nodded to Zhou Hongnian and smiled to Lu Yang to discuss.
"Yangyang, dad has to work overtime, can you go and eat by yourself?"
"Working overtime again..."
Lu Yang pretended to be dissatisfied, then smiled and nodded.
"Okay, then I'll eat it myself."
"I'll give you a meal ticket."
The Red Shipyard has two canteens in the factory and in the family area. You can go there to eat when the restaurant is not open.
“Don’t eat in the cafeteria, it’s not delicious!”
"Okay, whatever you want."
Lu Jiangan took out ten banknotes and stuffed them into Lu Yang's pocket.
"What's this?"
"Brother Zhou gave me the chocolate," Lu Yang said with a proud look on his face, "Brother Zhou, keep an eye on my dad at night and don't allow him to drink too much!"
"This child..."
Lu Jiangan smiled fondly, and Zhou Hongnian, who had been silent but just smiling, watched Lu Yang ride away.
