Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

Sure enough, the news spread quickly the next day, and many people in the factory were discussing the matter, but basically most people praised Xu Damao and few supported Yi Zhonghai.

Xu Damao was not affected at all. After dealing with Corey's affairs, he found a shady spot and started fiddling with his bicycle.

Two weeks later, Xu Damao felt that the time was right, so he took the drawings of the speed bicycle to find Li Huaide.

"Brother Li, take a look at this blueprint."

"Oh, the rumor in the factory is that our Section Chief Xu is obsessed with tinkering with his bicycle. What's the result of his tinkering?" Li Huaide took the drawing and started to look at it, then he found that he couldn't understand it a little bit, as he was not a technical person.

"You'd better tell me about it. Forget it, you can tell me later. I'll have someone call Lao Wang, Lao Wu and Engineer Zhang over, and we can have a simple meeting."

"Xiao Zhao, go inform the two deputy factory directors and Engineer Zhang from the technical department and tell them to go to the small conference room for a meeting in ten minutes."

"Okay, Director." Zhao Guodong's status has also risen recently, and many people have followed his channels to join Li Huaide.

Ten minutes later, several people gathered in the conference room. Deputy Director Wu was looking at the drawings drawn by Xu Damao. For Deputy Director Wu, who came from a technical background, these drawings were not complicated. The difficulty lay in the idea of ​​the speed change gear. Sometimes a flash of inspiration is really important, otherwise why didn't so many people in the country think of it.

After several people took turns to look at the drawings, Li Huaide said, "Everyone, please tell us what you think!"

Zhang Tianchi from the Technical Department said: "This blueprint is not difficult. It is just an ordinary bicycle with speed gears and a transmission added. The transmission is then used to control the chain to run on different gears to achieve the purpose of speed change. Except for the tires, our steel rolling mill can completely produce all the main components by itself."

Wang Jinshan also said: "We have a lot of new factory buildings now because of the expansion. I suggest setting up a bicycle workshop, and we can even gradually develop it into a branch factory in the future. This is unique to our steel rolling mill, and we will have an advantage in exchanging materials with other brother factories in the future."

"I suggest that we try to make a few samples first. It will be much better to take the real products to our superiors than to just talk without any evidence." Deputy Director Wu also said.

"Da Mao, you made the blueprint by tinkering with the bicycle, do you have any ideas?"

"This speed-changing bicycle is definitely feasible. Just as Engineer Zhang said, it is just a certain modification made to the original bicycle. The question is whether we can keep this technology after it comes out, and whether our superiors will keep it in our steel mill?" Xu Damao said in a firm tone.

"You know, we now have three nationally renowned bicycle brands in our country: Phoenix, Forever and Fei Ge, but our city, as the capital, does not have its own bicycle brand. So I hope everyone here can do their part to keep this technology in our city and in our steel mill!"

Several people looked at each other and nodded to express their determination.

Li Huaide concluded, "This is the top priority for our steel mill. Damao, you work with Engineer Zhang to make three, no, ten finished products as backup. Lao Wang, you coordinate the materials, especially the bicycle tires, and try to get a batch here first. It would be best if we can have a production line in the future. Lao Wu and I will go and build relationships with the higher-ups to avoid someone taking advantage of us! We must keep this project in our steel mill! Do you all know your tasks?"

"understand!"

"Clear!"

"I will try my best!"

"I'll contact you after the meeting!"

"Everyone, this is related to the future of our steel mill. Please pay attention to it. Okay, let's adjourn the meeting!" Li Huaide said finally.

Engineer Zhang said, "I'll go and coordinate the venue first," and left in a hurry.

"Old Zhang is still as impatient as ever. But this time, Damao, you really impressed me!" said Wang Jinshan.

Xu Damao said modestly, "No, no, it's mainly because I've experienced the hardship of pushing a bicycle up a hill with projection equipment before, and at that time I thought it would be better if the bicycle could be lighter. Later I kept thinking about this, and I remembered the gears I learned before. This time I was lucky enough to tinker with it and figured it out."

Wu Changzheng also patted Xu Damao on the shoulder and said, "Old Li wanted to promote you before, but I voted against it because of your qualifications and background. Now it seems that Old Li has a good eye for talent!"

"Someone has helped change the background of my wife's family. They are no longer capitalists." Xu Damao stretched out a finger and pointed upwards.

Everyone understood immediately and tacitly stopped talking about it. Li Huaide smiled and changed the subject, "Da Mao, you have made such a great contribution this time, the higher-ups will definitely not forget you, go back and submit your application to join the organization, and I will be your introducer!"

Wu Changzheng also said: "I will also be your introducer. Such an outstanding young man should join the organization as soon as possible."

Seeing this, Xu Damao was not reserved and nodded and agreed directly, "Okay, I'll submit the application later."

In the following days, Xu Damao and Zhang Gong stayed in the eighth workshop, sometimes guiding the workers to process parts, sometimes assembling them by themselves. This caused a lot of discussion among the workers, who didn't know what they were doing in secret.

After a week of hard work, ten brand new bicycles were finally completed, and the paint of various colors sparkled in the sun. All the leaders in the factory came to the scene, and they also wanted to see what the speed-changing bicycles that Xu Damao and his team had finally made after a week of tinkering looked like.

Xu Damao was standing in front of a bicycle and explaining to everyone how to use the transmission.

A group of factory leaders nodded in agreement, and Li Huaide couldn't wait to ride it and try it out. This was his first political achievement after becoming the factory director.

"Well, it's basically the same as a normal bicycle. Anyone interested can come and ride it to try it out."

It was said that anyone who was interested could have a try, but how could so many low-level leaders dare to compete with the factory leaders for this opportunity? Nine leaders came out according to their positions to strengthen Xu Damao, which was exactly ten people. Since this speed-changing bicycle was invented by Xu Damao, no one had any objections.

"Let's form teams and go for a few laps, then gather at the factory before noon and try to find a place with slopes. The road surface in our factory is too flat, and the performance of this car cannot be demonstrated." After Li Huaide finished speaking, he couldn't wait to pedal hard and sped away.

Several other people also rode their bikes out of the factory gate, and then dispersed in groups of three or four.

At around 11 o'clock in the morning, the nine people returned and gathered in the factory square to talk about the advantages of the speed bicycle, which also attracted many people to watch from a distance.

"I'm old and my legs and feet are not very good. It's very difficult to ride a 28-bar bicycle. This bike is lighter and can adjust the gear according to different situations. It's really suitable for an older person like me."

"I rode directly to the countryside and tried it on the big dirt slope in Wangjiazhuang. In the past, I always got off the bike and pushed it when I got there. This time, I shifted to fifth gear and rode up in one breath without feeling tired. This bike is really easy to use."

"I went directly to Chang'an Avenue, where the road conditions were relatively smooth, so I shifted to first gear and drove so fast that even small cars couldn't catch up with me."