Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

March 1951, Beijing.

Lou's Steel Rolling Mill

"Master Zhou, Master Zhou, come and take a look. Can you process this part?"

In Workshop No. 2, the workshop director hurried in from outside with a drawing, and came to a young man in a blue work suit and asked.

"Director, is this part urgent? If not, wait until I finish the work at hand before processing it. If you need it urgently, then I will process it now!"

The young man did not stop the work in his hand. He glanced at the drawing in the director's hand and asked calmly. Although he did not answer, his tone was full of confidence.

"This is a special order from the factory director, so thank you Master Zhou for your help!"

When the workshop director heard what the young man said, he made up his mind and quickly handed the drawing to him.

Hearing this, the young man stopped the machine, took the drawing and started to look at it. After a while, he said, "Director, if I'm not mistaken, this is the bearing for the Bald Eagle car. It's not easy to process it! It will take a long time!"

It's not that Zhou Tian is shirking responsibility, but with the current machine tools, if you want to process the bearings on the Bald Eagle Ford car, you need to do a little bit of fine grinding, which takes longer time than for ordinary bearings.

"Master Zhou, don't worry. As long as you can process the bearings, I will find someone else to do your work in the next few days. How do you think about this?"

As the director of Workshop No. 2, he was very clear about Zhou Tian's abilities. As a boy of only seventeen years old, he had already become the top intermediate master in Workshop No. 2. How terrifying was his talent.

You know, he only entered the factory as an apprentice last year, but in just one and a half years, he became an intermediate master in the factory. Although it is undeniable that he worked hard, his talent can also be said to be extremely amazing.

"Okay! I estimate it will take at least three days. You can arrange the time accordingly!"

Since the director had already assigned his work, he naturally had no objection.

"Okay then! I'll leave it to you. As for the workpiece, I'll have someone deliver it to you!"

After saying this, the workshop director left in a hurry.

After watching the workshop director leave, the workers who were working around Zhou Tian at this moment came up to him and asked.

"Xiaotian, did the director ask you to process precision parts?"

"Do you even need to ask this? In the entire No. 2 workshop, besides Xiaotian, who else has this ability?"

"Xiaotian, I envy you so much. I wonder when I can become a mid-level master? You know, the monthly salary of a mid-level master is as much as 540,000!"

"Forget about you! Xiaotian is the fastest apprentice I've ever seen. It only took him half a year to upgrade from an apprentice to a junior master, and only a year to upgrade to an intermediate master. I estimate that in two years at most, Xiaotian will be able to upgrade from an intermediate master to a master master. By that time, Xiaotian will be awesome!"

Zhou Tian was annoyed by the constant inquiries, but facing the questions from his co-workers, he could only respond with a smile, because he knew how important a person's reputation was in this era, and he didn't want to be regarded as arrogant.

"Okay, okay, what are you all doing here? Have you finished your work? You all don't know how to work. Do you think you can improve your skills by surrounding Xiaotian? Why don't you go and work?"

At this moment, a loud shout rang out in the workshop, causing the surrounding workers to tremble and scatter, each going back to their own workstation.

At some point, a middle-aged man in a blue work suit stood not far from Zhou Tian, ​​frowning and looking at everyone. He had a burly build and exuded an invisible aura.

It was not until he saw everyone leave that he came to Zhou Tian and asked with concern.

"Xiaotian, how is it? Are you sure about the parts the director gave you this time?"

Zhou Tian looked at the middle-aged man with gratitude.

"Master, don't worry. Although the parts of the bald eagle are very delicate, I am confident that I can replicate it!"

This middle-aged man was Zhou Tian’s master Liu Wuming. When Zhou Tian first entered the factory, he wanted to recognize Yi Zhonghai in the yard as his master, but Yi Zhonghai declined. In the end, he chose Liu Wuming from the second workshop as his master.

Although Liu Wuming was no worse than Yi Zhonghai in locksmithing, he had a bad reputation as an apprentice in the steel mill because of his straightforward personality and his willingness to fight and scold.

However, he was extremely good to his apprentice Zhou Tian. He taught him everything he knew, and as a result, Zhou Tian was able to become an intermediate master in the steel rolling mill in just one and a half years. This was inseparable from Liu Wuming's teaching.

Of course the biggest reason is that Zhou Tian was cheating, but no one else knew about this except Zhou Tian.

"That's fine, as long as you can do it. If you can't, tell Master. Even if Master has to sacrifice his reputation, he won't let anyone punish you!"

Liu Wuming's way of protecting his son.

"Thank you, Master. But rest assured, I will never let you down!"

Liu Wuming's words made Zhou Tian feel warm at heart. To be honest, he hadn't been so moved for a long time since he was reborn in this era. Only his master could make him let down his defenses.

"Okay, your locksmith skills are no worse than mine. From now on, you can only rely on yourself. Master can't help you much! I won't bother you anymore!"

Liu Wuming patted Zhou Tian's shoulder heavily and walked towards his workstation with a look of satisfaction on his face.

Zhou Tian watched Liu Wuming leave, then lowered his head to look at the drawings in his hand. As a software engineer who worked in the computer industry in his previous life, to be honest, he was actually willing to stick to his old profession. Unfortunately, in this era, not to mention computers, even calculators can be considered high-tech.

And if he remembered correctly, on February 1946, 2, the world's first electronic digital computer ENIAC was born at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

However, my country's computer was first invented in 1958, and it was still composed of vacuum tubes. This made Zhou Tian very helpless. After all, he studied software engineering. If he had studied hardware, perhaps he would have really engaged in computer research.

Fortunately, he was reborn in this era. Although he was a little hungry, it was not known whether it was because of the fusion of the two souls, or because of the awakening of the memories of the previous life. In short, his understanding in this life was greatly enhanced, even to the point of being against the will of heaven.

He had learned most of the locksmith skills in just one and a half years after entering Lou's Steel Rolling Mill. This was because he tried his best to suppress his learning. Otherwise, he estimated that he would have learned all the skills that his master Liu Wuming had acquired throughout his life in just half a year.

"Master Zhou, this is the workpiece the director asked me to give you!"

Just as Zhou Tian was slowly figuring out where to start with the bearing, an apprentice came to him with a part.

"Okay, please!"

Zhou Tian took the workpiece, nodded to the apprentice, then lowered his head, restarted the machine tool and began processing.