Men and women eating in the courtyard

"Leader, write an application."

Zhou Yao knocked on the door and walked into the office when Li Xuewu looked up.

"Did I bother you?"

"You've already come in. Isn't it a little late to ask at this time?"

Li Xuewu glanced at her, took the document, and asked: "What application? Don't ask for money?"

"Look at what you said," Zhou Yao smiled embarrassedly, muttered: "I dare not bother you for this application that doesn't cost money-"

"So I'm a bank?"

Li Xuewu opened the document and looked at it, dotted a few points on it with a pencil, raised his head and asked: "It's easy to ask for a car, but what do you think of asking for a fuel storage depot?"

Without waiting for Zhou Yao to answer, he picked up the phone again, turned the wheel and said: "Help me ask for the Engineering Planning Department."

"Leader, our vehicles now use a lot of fuel. If it is considered the fire department..."

"Well, this is Li Xuewu," Zhou Yao only said half of her words, and the call was connected.

Li Xuewu pointed at the chair opposite to signal her to sit down, and he started talking on the phone.

"Let me ask, how is the gas station project that we discussed some time ago going?"

...

"Well, well, is there any need to discuss above-ground tanks and underground tanks? Build underground tanks."

Li Xuewu said firmly: "Build two gasoline tanks and three diesel tanks."

"Well, use 30-cubic-meter tanks, and the total cubic meters should not exceed 150. Well, well, good."

After explaining a few more words, he hung up the phone.

"You don't have to worry about the oil depot. The factory has already communicated with the oil company."

Li Xuewu unscrewed the pen at hand, and while making instructions on the application, he explained.

Red Star Factory can produce cars, so it must also consider the use of oil.

Other units don't have to worry about it. Although the current domestic refined oil sales market is still dominated by oil tickets, it can basically meet the supply and demand.

The Petroleum Corporation has not yet been separated. The whole country is a chess game. If you want to buy refined oil, you can only deal with them.

It seems that in the future, people no longer go to the oil depot to get oil, and it is still very convenient to buy and sell finished oil from one company to another.

Mainly, many large enterprises, or industrial, communication, transportation and other systems will build their own gas stations.

This type of gas station will not be open to the public, but only used to ensure the oil supply of internal vehicles.

Since the second half of last year, the oil consumption of Red Star Factory has been increasing every month. In the middle of this year, the oil company even needed to arrange tankers to serve the factory.

Why? Where did the oil-drinking tigers come from?

Construction sites, the engineering machinery collectively assisted by the French Santaya are all oil-drinking kings.

The larger the size and the louder the sound of the machine, the more oil it can consume.

The arrival and use of these engineering machinery consumed the oil consumption indicators of Red Star Factory throughout the year.

Lao Li used the relationship with the oil company to find the First Ministry of Machinery for coordination, and then applied for special indicators.

Of course, this is also a helpless move, because Red Star Factory does not have its own gas station.

Two years ago, the Red Star Factory had less than 200 cars in total, and most of them were in the transport fleet.

The transport fleet used diesel, which was basically purchased and used in the form of oil barrels. Small fleets or cars used oil, and they mostly went to the oil company's gas station to refuel.

Some people asked, is it a bit too extravagant for the Red Star Factory to build its own gas station just because of a few broken cars?

Don't compare the gas stations of this time with those of later times, and don't compare the cars of this time with those of later times.

Li Xuewu asked to build a 150-cubic-meter gas station. Do you think it's too big?

After all, according to the standards of later times, this is a first-class station, which can supply the volume of a small county town.

We still have to look at the displacement and fuel consumption of cars of this time.

In later times, if you drive a car with a fuel consumption of more than 8.0, you will feel that it is fuel-consuming, and you will feel annoyed if you run frequently and refuel every week.

But at this time, motorcycles are generally 250CC and 500CC.

Diesel cars basically have a fuel consumption of 30 to 50.

Gasoline cars also consume 20 to 30% of fuel. Just imagine how far you can travel with a tank of gas?

Luxgen 7 is the king of fuel economy. Do you believe it?

It's not that Red Star Factory is arrogant and wants to build a gas station just because it has a few broken cars, but it has to build one.

Liangmahe Industrial Zone has at least two years of construction period, and the construction machinery on the construction site will have to run for another two years. Without a stable oil supply channel, the construction period will inevitably be delayed.

The cargo transportation project of Red Star Factory in cooperation with Beijing Railway Station has added 20 trailer trucks. Counting the previous transportation vehicles, how much diesel will be used every day?

Think about the fact that Red Star Factory has acquired 16 companies, and its size has exploded, and the number of employees has soared to more than 90,000.

In this case, the number of transportation tools will also increase suddenly. How to ensure the fuel consumption of so many vehicles?

The application submitted by Zhou Yao is not to build a gas station, but a skid-mounted station similar to later generations.

The internal fuel storage depot of the Security Department is to get a 15-cubic-meter ground tank, with external pipelines, and a gas station to serve the fuel consumption of all vehicles in the Security Department.

The idea is good, but it is not considered sufficiently.

This approach of treating the symptoms without addressing the root cause is the most common problem within the organization.

In other words, the vision of looking at the problem is not long-term enough, and the thinking ability to solve the problem is not solid enough.

The above-ground tanks, external pipelines, etc., expose the problems of risk control and cost control.

It doesn't cost much to build a skid-mounted station, but who is responsible for the risk of gasoline tanks?

Who is responsible for the purchase, transportation, unloading, storage, use, etc. of fuel?

Zhou Yao, the person in charge at this level, is limited in her comprehensive view of the problem because of her perspective.

In other words, when she encounters a problem, she can only propose solutions within her ability.

Li Xuewu stands higher, sees farther, and handles problems more comprehensively and cautiously.

This is also the reason why Li Huaide persuaded him to put down the security team and serve as the deputy director of the management committee office with a more complex working environment.

Only in a higher and more complex environment can he be exposed to more opportunities and learn more thinking patterns for dealing with problems.

Of course, this situation is not absolute.

In later generations, more and more capable cadres do not want to take over the position of office director. I won't say more about the specific situation here.

"The engineering department has already lined up the gas station project, you hold on a little longer."

Li Xuewu pushed the approved document back, twisted the pen, and said: "Think about the car again."

"My opinion is that sidecars should not be used. There is no need. It is just a compromise product of the shortage of cars."

He knocked on the table and looked at Zhou Yao and said: "You discuss with Director Sun and others, and the security team and several departments will go down to investigate and discuss and study."

"You mean..." Zhou Yao hesitated for a moment and asked: "If you apply for the purchase of vehicles, will it still be mainly Red Star Antelope and Comet motorcycles?"

"The size of the factory guard team will not increase."

Li Xuewu looked at her and reminded: "At the beginning of next year, the security department will be given a quota of 150 people as a reinforcement of public security management capabilities."

The personnel quota can be given to 150 people at one time because the Red Star Factory is facing the upgrade and the establishment of multiple departments.

After the establishment of the Red Star United School, the security team specially established the school security department.

After the establishment of the Red Star United Savings Bank, the security team specially established the bank security department.

…

With the emergence of more and more independent management departments, the security team is also facing the dilemma of personnel shortage and increased number of departments.

Not to mention Li Xuewu, even Zhou Yao feels that her job level should be raised, otherwise she really can't do anything in management.

The establishment of various branches and professional factories has been put on the agenda one after another, and the supporting security departments must also keep up.

As a result, there are more and more security offices managed by the security team, and the pressure on job levels is getting more and more severe.

The gap between professional security personnel and security personnel is also getting bigger and bigger.

Li Xuewu did not approve Zhou Yao's application for a car, because he wanted to remind her to take next year's work into consideration.

"Do you want a special security vehicle?" He flipped his palm and asked, "In the future, public security management will be the main work. Can the Comet motorcycle meet the needs of public security patrols?" "You need to know whether the security departments of various units have already used up their vehicles and how many gaps there are." "Leader, how should the indicators of these 150 people be divided?" Zhou Yao sat up straight, looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "I think it is necessary to expand the public security unit, and the security unit..." "Research, all work can be solved with scientific management methods." Li Xuewu pointed at the table and said, "You can't just sit in the office and do whatever you want." "Public security The security unit said it was short of staff, and you said to expand it. The security unit said there was too much work, and you said to expand it. If you let them say everything, what would you do? "

He tapped the application he had just approved and said, "My advice to you is to clench your fist and do big things."

"The public security unit should hand over the patrol and daily safety management work to the security unit, so that they can free up their hands to handle more public security issues."

Li Xuewu found a newspaper in the pile of documents and handed it over, asking, "Did you read the newspaper today?"

"Ah? Read it, what do you mean?"

Zhou Yao was a little stunned, took the newspaper hesitantly, and read the supplementary article of the People's Daily at Li Xuewu's suggestion.

At the beginning of the month, a group of progressive young people in Beijing spontaneously organized to go to the Xilin Gol League in Mongolia to settle down as farmers...

"Leader, what do you mean..."

"Look at the problem, but also think about it."

Li Xuewu tapped his temple with his index finger and said, "The future public security management situation will change, Comrade Zhou Yao, you have to keep up with the times."

"It's October now," he looked up at Zhou Yao and reminded her, "There are quite a few people who retired this year, and our factory must be a big recipient."

"What should be done specifically? Please write a work plan and submit it, and attach the application."

...

——

"Have you read today's newspaper?"

Li Huaide rubbed his hands vigorously, grabbed the shovel and dug the soil while asking Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu and others around him were also working with shovels in the same way. Today is the voluntary labor day.

Since the National Day, the Red Star Factory Management Committee has issued a labor advocacy notice.

All factory cadres and workers should participate in voluntary labor in the Liangmahe Industrial Zone under the command and arrangement of the Engineering Command Center of the Engineering Department.

In order to show support for this movement, Li Huaide took the lead and personally led the members of the management committee to the construction site to do voluntary labor on October 4, which was Sunday.

The purpose of voluntary labor is very clear, that is, to complete the main construction work of the ecological industrial zone before the first half of 1969 with guaranteed quality and quantity.

Ensure that the Red Star Factory smoothly completes the transition to the Red Star Steel Group, and that all units and departments can be transferred to the new office area in an orderly manner to start work.

This is an important project to cooperate with the Red Star Factory's upgrading, groupization, personnel changes and industrialization changes.

To this end, the project command specially coordinated with the factory management committee and further put forward the call for voluntary labor.

Tens of thousands of people in the factory will strongly support the construction of the Liangmahe Industrial Zone in the next three years.

Not only to call on workshop workers to use their rest time to come to the construction site, but also to require employees from all departments of the agency to actively join the labor team.

During this period, whether it was the workshop or the agency, there were not many objections and complaints about voluntary labor.

Red Star Factory belongs to everyone, and building Red Star Factory is like building your own home. There is nothing to refute.

However, there are more people and more troubles. There will always be mischievous people and lazy people in the labor project of tens of thousands of people.

The Personnel Department, Engineering Department and Security Department set up a labor picket team. If they find this situation, they will not deal with you, but will only record it and count it together when the houses are divided.

Only in this way, the Liangma River bank divided into residential areas has been broken ground, and six factories that have been merged and relocated have been demolished and renovated one after another.

The planning map on the roadside has been established, with high-rise buildings and garden landscapes, which can greatly enhance the workers' enthusiasm for participating in voluntary labor.

The underground structure with the functions of three-defense projects has completed earthwork operations, and is currently being filled and poured with cement. These professional projects are completed by the engineering team.

The main direction of voluntary labor is the widening of the river bank, the cleaning of construction waste, the demolition of the merged factory area, the repair and paving of roads, etc.

Li Huaide and Li Xuewu brought a group of cadres from the organs to the site of the river bank widening project.

There are also large bulldozers and cranes working here, and heavy trucks are transporting soil out.

The laborers are mainly responsible for the repair of the river bank, the laying of stones, and the construction of cement embankments.

What Li Xuewu didn't expect was that Old Li, who had been sitting in the office for a long time, also worked very well.

"Are you talking about the news about progressive youth going to Mongolia to join the team?"

Li Xuewu dug a shovel of soil and threw it on the bucket car, and said casually: "I didn't pay much attention to it."

Listen, can you still believe what Li Xuewu said?

How did he and Zhou Yao analyze and teach, but when it came to Old Li, he didn't pay much attention.

"The weather is going to change--"

Li Huaide looked up at the blue sky and sighed: "It is said that you can dress casually in February and August, but you must be careful not to catch a cold."

"You are talking about, cover yourself in spring and keep yourself cold in autumn," Li Xuewu smiled and agreed: "But don't freeze yourself, right?"

"Hahaha--"

Li Huaide has maintained a good body. He has made friends with so many dancers, but he is still very strong.

"You know more about health preservation than me. Tell me, is it better to wear more or less clothes?"

"I say?" Li Xuewu replied with a smile: "I say wear less when it's hot during the day, and wear more when it's cold at night, hahahaha-"

"Look! You know more about health preservation than me!"

Li Huaide straightened up, pointed at him with a finger, and said with a smile: "You must have listened to the weather forecast a lot?"

"Hey, how can I have so much time?" Li Xuewu stood up straight, wiped the sweat from his face with the towel on his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Fools look at the wall on the street during the New Year-"

"Hahaha-"

Li Huaide held his waist with his hand, stood there and laughed for a while, so that the people from the Commission Office could take good pictures.

Once the young people from the Commission Office left, the smile on his face also restrained a lot.

"I feel that the situation has changed suddenly and I am powerless," he looked at the wide highway built in the distance and the buildings rising on both sides of the highway, and said with emotion: "I hope this wind blows well and blows correctly."

"What? Are you still concerned about the future of the progressive youth group?"

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, leaned his arm on the shovel handle, and asked with a smile: "You worry too much-"

"Me? I feel distressed-"

Li Huaide glanced around and saw that there were no outsiders around, so he whispered to Li Xuewu: "The funds for our factory to receive progressive teachers and students last year have not been returned yet?"

"Tsk, are you still thinking about this money?"

Li Xuewu looked at him with amusement and reminded him softly: "It's not popular to mention this now. Just think of it as a good deed and donate it on behalf of our factory."

"If it really counts this Some bad debts, I am afraid that I will offend many people, after all, no one has surplus food in their hands. "

"I didn't think about settling the accounts, but I didn't want to fill new accounts."

Old Li calculated very stingily: "Now we have made so many people jealous, and they all want to take advantage of this time to bite us. Can I not cry poor and ask for debts?"

He touched Li Xuewu with his arm and whispered: "No matter who the other party is, as long as he eats our food and stays in our hotel, give him a bill."

"It's time to ask for debts. It's their business to give or not. It's our attitude to ask or not."

Li Huaide pointed his chin at the river bank under construction and said: "Just cry and make a fuss on the grounds that the project budget has exceeded the target and the factory's financial situation is tight."

"With my crying and making a fuss, we can be quiet by the end of this year, right?"

"Hiss——"

Li Xuewu pretended to be surprised and took a breath of cold air, quietly gave a thumbs up, and said with admiration: "High, you are still high!"

"Hey——"

Li Huaide stretched out his hand to press down his thumb, smiled reservedly, and said: "It's just a trifle, not worth mentioning."

"You are still too modest——"

Li Xuewu pretended to be dissatisfied and said: "I will criticize you at the next organizational life meeting."

——

How big is the Liangmahe Ecological Industrial Zone?

In fact, it is really not that big. Including the Liangmahe River, it is less than ten square kilometers.

But considering that the location of the Red Star Factory is the East District of Beijing, it can be regarded as the core area of ​​future urban development.

At this time, Beijing has already planned and laid out the surrounding land.

It can be seen that when the Red Star Factory applied for industrial and residential land, Beijing was very hesitant to approve it.

That is, the Red Star Factory agreed to replace 16 industrial enterprises and integrate them into a group-type enterprise headquartered in Beijing.

At the same time, the capital's industry was supported to build a complete set of steel rolling industry, so it was allowed to collect such a large area of ​​land.

The Liangmahe Industrial Zone designed and planned by the Red Star Factory integrates residential, industrial, educational, medical, scientific research and other projects, relying on the Liangmahe River to build an industrial park with ecological demonstration.

From the perspective of urban planning and industrial development, the capital supports the Red Star Factory to do so.

But from the perspective of economic development and urban development, the Red Star Factory's doing so is quite a bit of self-government.

An area that can accommodate 100,000 people for living, education, work and life can be called a city.

Even if the Red Star Factory reported an ecological industrial zone, it is difficult to conceal the fact that a satellite city suddenly appeared outside the second ring road.

Looking at history and the overall situation, what the Red Star Factory did was actually to put the postmodern advanced city in this era rather abruptly.

A small county town of 24 years suddenly appeared outside the capital in the 1960s.

Of course, the contrast of this urban construction is not as great as imagined.

Many facilities and equipment that small cities have in the past 24 years are not available in this era.

There are no buildings more than ten stories high in the residential area of ​​Liangmahe Ecological Industrial Zone, and most of them are 6-9 stories high.

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Because of the engineering design assistance of the Santaya Group, the residential area that has been under construction has a relatively young French minimalist style in overall design.

As Li Xuewu and Jing Yunong talked about, Red Star Factory did not intend to hold on to this piece of land.

Of course, while providing permanent residence rights, it is impossible to provide houses to employees completely according to the allocation system.

Either replace them with current urban residences, apply for cash purchases, or take out loans from the United Savings Bank.

The last one is to apply for guaranteed housing allocation.

Red Star Factory retains the right to live in the house and provides it to employees in the form of leasing.

The most special one, which is also the one with the least supply of houses, is the expert building.

No need to buy or apply for it, it is allocated completely according to the technical level and actual needs.

This supply method of the houses under construction at the Red Star Factory has received some criticism and opposition, but some people hope to stick to it because they want to purchase permanent residence rights.

At present, the housing management agency has not yet formed a complete system for the management of housing, which also gives the Red Star Factory more room for operation.

Employees who replace and buy houses are in one community, and guaranteed rental houses are in another community, forming a differentiation.

If you think that the housing supply method proposed by Li Xuewu is contrary to the characteristics of the times, then you might as well learn about the Fusuijing Building in Xicheng, the Beiguanting Building in Dongcheng, and the Anhua Building on Guangqumennei Street.

More bizarre housing allocation methods, more strange housing use rights, and more confusing housing management systems.

During this period, the development of everything is still under exploration, and no one dares to say what is right or wrong.

The residential area built by the Red Star Factory itself is supplied in the form of allocation, replacement, sales, and leasing. Without violating relevant regulations, no one can affect the implementation of this decision.

Many employees are dissatisfied and want the factory to provide free residential buildings.

The management committee of Red Star Factory did not reject this request, but the residential area currently under construction has no such consideration.

In other words, the factory will not reject the employee's application for free residential buildings, but they have to wait.

When the factory has money, it will build a batch of protective residential buildings like last year.

Last year, despite the tight financial situation, Red Star Factory still built a batch of residential buildings and provided them to the families of needy employees for free.

However, it is the same as renting houses, and the ownership of the houses is in the hands of Red Star Factory.

The Engineering Department has coordinated with the Propaganda Department to explain several supply modes very clearly, and it has also been published in the factory newspaper.

Now that the residential area has begun to be built, all the workers are looking forward to it and calculating at the same time.

Do they have savings? How big a house can the existing savings buy? How to apply for a house without savings? How much loan can be applied for at the salary level...

Why does no one want to refuse these housing supply methods of the factory and choose to continue living in the existing houses?

There are several main reasons:

The first and most important thing is that the housing provided by Red Star Factory to employees is at pure cost price.

Second, many employees do not own their own houses, but rent them.

Third, these residential buildings provide free heating, are close to work, and provide more convenient living.

Fourth, there are too many children in the family, and the existing houses can no longer accommodate them.

…

Don't use the concepts and impressions of commercial housing in the future to fit the housing of this era.

Let alone the quality of commercial housing in the future, can it be supplied at pure cost?

If these houses of Red Star Factory were used in the future, people would be crazy about them.

It is the same in this period. The factory will provide many free facilities for the houses, which are welfare.

Shuttle bus, nursery, heating, gymnasium, tap water, bathhouse...

Red Star Factory has built a threshold residential area with high welfare benefits and low living costs.

Workers will complain why they are not allocated for free, but no one will refuse to buy these houses.

It is a very simple truth that even elementary school students can calculate clearly. The welfare cost of buying a house multiplied by how many years can equal the purchase price.

The attachment to houses and land is a gene engraved in the bones of the Chinese people.

Then someone asked, Red Star Factory worked hard to build a building, housing, and welfare, but finally sold it at cost price?

That’s right, because the project was not profitable, Red Star Factory did not think about making a profit on the residential project.

As long as the project is not profitable, no department can attack the decision of Red Star Factory.

——

"Deputy Director Li, it’s time to get off work——"

Zhou Miaomiao pushed the Comet motorcycle past the gate and saw Li Xuewu standing there, so she smiled and greeted him.

Li Xuewu looked at the motorcycle she was pushing seriously and asked with a smile: "What are you wrapping?"

"It's a knitted seat cover, in case it gets damaged while riding."

Zhou Miaomiao explained with a smile: "My mother is very careful. She even has a sweater on the thermos at home."

"Haha, she is very careful--"

Li Xuewu smiled, looked at her, and continued to ask: "Does this car consume a lot of fuel? How much does it cost to fuel per month?"

"I haven't really calculated this," Zhou Miaomiao was stunned by the question, then thought about it and said: "Now 70-grade gasoline costs 2.2 yuan per kilogram, and a full tank costs less than 80 yuan, which is enough for more than a month of riding."

How big is the fuel tank of the Comet motorcycle?

A little more than four liters, which is about the same as the amount of water an adult drinks in a day.

But it can run much farther than an adult.

The fuel consumption is less than one liter per 100 kilometers, and it can run just 500 kilometers. Otherwise, how can Zhou Miaomiao ride for a month without using a tank of gas?

Another thing, she said one kilogram, but it is actually about 1.2 liters, and the unit price is about 1.8 yuan.

Is the oil price expensive?

"Well, one pound of meat can run for more than a month."

Wang Yimin looked at the Comet motorcycle with interest, and joked: "Give me a pound of meat, I can't run 500 kilometers."

"Haha, you can still calculate like this-"

Zhou Miaomiao said with a smile: "This is a machine, how can people compare."

"Are you jealous? Get one-"

Zhou Yao smiled at Zhou Miaomiao, took the motorcycle from her, and sat on it.

"Well, it's more comfortable to ride than a bicycle!"

"I can't afford it, it's more than 400!"

Wang Yimin smiled and shook his head, looking at the motorcycle with some envy and said: "It's equivalent to a 10-square-meter house."

"Brother Wang, you are really good at calculating!"

Zhou Miaomiao joked: "It seems that you are planning to change to a bigger house?"

The factory has announced the standard replacement and purchase price of the residential area under construction, 40 yuan per square meter.

For people of this era, it is not cheap, but it is not daunting.

If you work in the capital of the future, can you earn the price of one square meter of housing in a month?

Wang Yimin can, deputy section level, more than 80 years old, can buy two square meters a month, is this housing price expensive?

A formal worker who has just joined the work for a year earns about 33 yuan per month. How old are the employees at that time?

About 16 to 18 years old.

Don't believe it? If there are elderly people in your family who entered the factory in that era, go and ask them when they started working.

According to the worker grade standard that is generally assessed every three years, when a worker is about 22 years old, his salary can buy one square meter of housing.

Of course, this is a calculation model under ideal conditions and can only be used as a reference.

However, based on the basic situation of all members of the employee family in the factory in this era, the consumption capacity is not low.

Wang Yimin is almost 50 years old, and there are two children in the family who are studying. If the whole family wants to live together, the house area is really not small.

"We can't compare with you young people, we have families, right?"

He smiled and looked at the people standing beside him, and everyone looked at the motorcycle with envy.

The Red Star Factory has matched the purchase quota for each worker with the motorcycles produced by itself.

Within a year, you can ride a Comet motorcycle home at a price of 449 yuan.

It's October now, and the major supply and marketing cooperatives in Beijing and the Red Star Factory's own brand demonstration store can clear their inventory every day.

As many as they are shipped from the steel city, they can be sold out.

This kind of light motorcycle is in short supply due to its absolute price advantage.

In the case of fully meeting the unit's purchase quota, the number put on the market is not large.

So, what we can see is that most of the people riding motorcycles on the street are employees of the unit, and a small number are young people.

The young people in the factory have no resistance to motorcycles. Those who have money will definitely buy one.

However, Zhou Miaomiao didn't buy this motorcycle herself. She saved all her salary.

The motorcycle given by the big brother on the list, no matter how she rides or pedals, she doesn't feel bad.

"You're still talking about booking a house," she looked at Li Xuewu and asked, "Leader, when can we move into this residential area?"

"How do I know that--"

Li Xuewu smiled and replied, "The specific time depends on the construction period. I know it won't be after the year after next at the latest."

"Why, you want to buy a house in our factory?"

"What if I don't buy it? Wait for the factory to allocate a house?"

Zhou Miaomiao said helplessly, "I dared to think about it a few years ago, but now? Dream on."

Now the city of Sijiu has few things, but many people.

There was no house to be allocated the year Li Xuewu started working, and the house behind was still relying on connections.

"I'm getting married to Zhou Tan, and his parents gave me 1,000 yuan as a gift. We plan to use it to buy a house."

Zhou Miaomiao explained: "We both earn wages now. If we save for two years, we should be able to buy a house of 80 or 90 square meters."

"Okay, we are jealous, right?"

Wang Yimin laughed and teased: "I have never dared to think about a house of 80 or 90 square meters in my life."

"Don't joke, I believe what Section Chief Zhou said," Zhou Yao smiled and hugged Zhou Yao's arm, and said to Wang Yimin: "If you say so, I don't believe it."

She gestured to Ren An who was standing aside and said: "My situation with Zhou Tan is similar to that of Captain Ren's family. Ask Captain Ren if he can afford a house of 80 or 90 square meters."

Ren An's partner is Fan Hua, deputy section chief of the third section of the Commission Office. Both of them have high salaries, so the house issue is naturally not a big deal.

But he didn't expect Zhou Miaomiao to mention his name.

"Stop it, we don't have a thousand yuan dowry."

"Hahaha——"

The people standing at the door laughed out loud, and Zhou Miaomiao also covered her mouth and laughed.

They are all cadres in the factory. Li Xuewu was here to inspect the work today, and no one really cared.

"What's wrong? Envious?"

Li Xuewu looked at Zhou Yao's expression of serious thinking, and deliberately teased her: "Let's find someone to give dowry."

"No——"

Zhou Yao blushed when he saw him say that, and said angrily: "I didn't think about that!"

"Hey, talking about us, we also want to ask you," she jumped off the motorcycle, pointed to Li Xuewu and asked: "How big a house do you plan to buy?"

"Hehe! You really asked!"

Zhou Miaomiao covered her mouth and explained with a smile: "The factory stipulates that cadres above the department level are not allowed to buy houses."

——

In mid-October, Li Xuewu came to Gangcheng again.

This is the third time he has come to Gangcheng on a business trip this year.

The first time was to accompany Li Huaide to Gangcheng for research, and the second time was to accompany Jing Yunong to Gangcheng for research.

This time, he also accompanied Jing Yunong, but Cheng Kaiyuan and Robin, vice president of Santaya Group, were also present.

In September, Hongxing Factory officially supplied contracted domestic and foreign trade goods to Santaya Group, and Yingcheng Shipyard also began preparations for the construction of 10,000-ton cargo ships.

Correspondingly, Santaya Group also efficiently purchased oxygen top-blowing steelmaking technology from Austria.

This time, Li Xuewu accompanied Jing Yunong and Cheng Kaiyuan, and accompanied Chantal to Gangcheng to discuss with Dong Wenxue the implementation of relevant technologies and technological innovation of the steel plant, and also discussed the next step of technology introduction.

In fact, Li Xuewu did not know much about steelmaking technology. He listened to the speeches of the engineers at the discussion meeting, and he did not understand some professional terms.

If you ask him to talk about safety, sales, and engineering, he can still say some feasible views.

But if it is really put in a particularly professional discussion meeting, he is only a little better than Jing Yunong.

Why not talk about Cheng Kaiyuan?

Because Cheng started as a workshop director and was a full-time deputy director in charge of industrial production.

Although mechanical manufacturing and metallurgy have little to do with production business, they both belong to the steel industry.

So, in terms of professional knowledge, Cheng knows more than him, just look at the speech at the meeting.

However, Li Xuewu is also studying, and he is also reading books related to metallurgy and steelmaking. When talking with professors from the Iron and Steel College, he also asked many questions that he didn't understand.

He can be a manager, but he definitely can't do a full-time job in the workshop.

The main force of this meeting was not Li Xuewu, let alone Cheng Kaiyuan and Jing Yunong.

It was mainly the engineers of both sides who discussed the existing innovation and transformation plans of the steel mill.

In the next two years, the Santaya collective will act as a white glove to help the Red Star Factory introduce these advanced technologies from abroad, corresponding to the steel mill and rolling mill to complete technological innovation, transformation and construction within two years.

This project is so huge that the Red Star Factory cannot afford to build three 10,000-ton cargo ships. It can only play a long game and strive to complete industrial technology innovation as soon as possible.

At the very least, after three years of rebirth, it must be able to catch up with the quality of Xiaoguiza's steel industry.

That's right, after spending huge sums of money to introduce technology from all over the world, it still takes hard work to have the ability to catch up with Xiaoguiza's steel production.

This is not inferiority, but a fact.

The original production model of the steel mill and rolling mill was learned from Maozi, but it is outdated.

If it really develops in this way, when Xiaoguizha comes to inspect in a group ten years later, that face of disdain will be in front of Li Xuewu.

Can he let Xiaoguizha ride on his face and act recklessly?

On the one hand, we must innovate the steel industry and not fall behind, and on the other hand, cooperate with it to shorten the gap in strength as soon as possible.

Working for the French for free, working for Xiaoguizha for free, and working for Italy for free, do you think Red Star Factory is willing?

There is no other way. We must create foreign trade conditions as much as possible, and exchange as many advanced technologies and equipment as possible in the face of a technological blockade environment that has not yet deteriorated at a not so cheap price.

All the countries in the world are compared with us, and there is no country that is more sad and more difficult than our development.

Those bastards look down on us and fear us, restrict us everywhere, threaten us, and establish us as a threatening existence. Their hearts are extremely hateful.

Therefore, the more such conditions and environments we face, the more we must stand up bravely and let those bastards kneel down and sing "Conquer".

Li Xuewu's ability is limited, but a little change is also a change, at least it will not be so hard for future generations.

Back to the top of the world, respected by the world, with great scholars debating for us, who knows how much we have paid.

A little bit, Li Xuewu just wants to change a little bit.

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PS:

A: Congratulations to Sichuan Province for losing its aircraft carrier!

B: Don't say I'm lazy! It's accelerated, some content will be explained directly at the end, don't ask why then.

C: Guess why Li Xuewu and Li Huaide think that the situation in the newspaper news is changing, and how to change?