Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Is this true? Logically speaking, their identities should be kept secret, right?"

After reading the identities and backgrounds of the two people, Zhou Tian couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He shouldn't have asked Liu Yuan to check it out just now. Now that he found out, he felt uncomfortable.

Zhou Tian was not too shocked by Wu Lei's identity, but Zhang Min's identity. When he saw Wenchang City, Guangdong Province, his native place, he knew that trouble was coming. He never expected that there would be two such "big Buddhas" in his factory. He couldn't help but have a headache and rubbed his eyebrows subconsciously.

"Xiao Liu, this matter ends here. Don't continue. If we continue investigating, we might get into trouble!"

Zhou Tian said helplessly.

"I understand, director!"

Liu Yuan had actually panicked when he learned about Wu Lei and Zhang Min's identities. But when he heard the factory director's words, he felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, this matter must be kept secret, you go down first!"

Zhou Tian waved his hand, signaling Liu Yuan to leave. Then, he lay down on the chair, closed his eyes, and thought about the next development of the factory.

He didn't care about asking Liu Yuan to investigate Zhang Min and Wu Lei. Although he was a little afraid of their identities and backgrounds, as the director of the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory, he didn't think he was wrong to want to investigate the backgrounds of his employees.

On the contrary, he was quite curious about Zhang Min's appearance in the factory, and the key point was that their files did not conceal anything about their family background.

But after thinking about it, he put the matter behind him.

For him, the most important thing now is to produce tractors and combine harvesters, and other things are not within the scope of consideration for the time being. Thinking that the tractor manufacturing was completed today but he had not reported to his superiors yet, he got up and called the Ministry of Industry to report the situation.

After the Ministry of Industry received Zhou Tian's message, everyone felt like banging their heads against the wall. They had just digested the news that Zhou Tian had drawn up the design of the oxygen top-blown converter, and Zhou Tian brought another surprise.

Even Elder Tang couldn't help but feel a headache when he heard about this. He really didn't expect that Zhou Tian had just designed the oxygen top-blown converter and then built a tractor in the blink of an eye.

"Is this kid made of iron?"

He was both happy and worried. Zhou Tian's research into tractors was a good thing, but the problem was that the country's iron ore production was insufficient, and the supply to steel mills and rolling mills across the country was stretched to the limit, so how could there be any extra iron ore to produce tractors? Unless iron ore mining could be greatly increased in the short term, it would be impossible to popularize tractors in the shortest possible time with the current output.

And most importantly, this does not seem to be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry!

"Hey, this guy is causing trouble for me!" Mr. Tang shook his head and smiled bitterly. However, he still called his old comrade in the Food Department and told him about the tractor.

"What? Old Tang, are you telling the truth? Xiao Zhou really developed a tractor, you're not kidding me!"

The old friend asked with surprise on the other end of the phone. Obviously, the old man knew something about Zhou Tian. After all, he approved the agricultural machinery project. In order to increase grain production, the old man would not miss any opportunity.

"Lying to you? What good would it be for me to lie to you? Believe it or not!"

Mr. Tang looked unhappy because of his old friend's suspicion.

"Okay! Okay! Okay! I believe it. Is that enough? What arrangements have you made in the Ministry of Industry? Our country is in urgent need of such machinery!"

The old man opposite heard the unkindness in Mr. Tang’s tone and apologized quickly.

"You think I don't know? But the problem is that we can't produce it now! You know the situation of iron ore mining in the country. It's difficult to supply steel mills and rolling mills. If we want to manufacture tractors, we can't do anything with just the raw materials!"

Mr. Tang sighed deeply.

As he said, the mining industry in the country seems to be growing every year, but the number of steel mills and rolling mills is also increasing. In addition, the more than 50 projects assisted by Big Brother this year require an astonishing amount of steel, which still gives him a headache.

Now there is another tractor project, and just thinking about it makes him feel like his head is going to explode.

"No, Old Tang, you can't let us down this time. You know, this is related to our country's agricultural harvest and the food problem of the people across the country. The tractor must be built!"

When the old man heard Mr. Tang's complaints, he ignored him and spoke in a stern tone.

"No, no, Lao Zhang, please don't hurt me. If I agree to you, the people below will curse me. I can't agree to this!"

Mr. Tang immediately shook his head and refused.

"You, you... You Old Tang, how can you be so insensitive to the importance of things? Never mind, I will report this matter to my superiors and ask for an order!"

Having said that, the other party hung up the phone.

Listening to the dead tone on the other end of the phone, Mr. Tang's originally anxious expression gradually eased, and he even revealed a satisfied smile.

"Xiaotian, this time the old man borrowed someone else's knife, so don't let me down!"

After muttering to himself, he sat down again and buried his head in the documents on the table.

At the same time, Zhou Tian in the office of the Bayi Red Star Machinery Factory couldn't help sneezing.

"Director, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Yuan asked with concern.

"It's nothing, I just sneezed suddenly!"

Zhou Tian waved his hand to indicate that it was all right, but he thought to himself: "I wonder who is thinking about me, could it be Yulin?" He immediately put this thought aside and said to Liu Yuan: "Okay, continue reporting!"

"Yes, factory director!"

"Now, according to what Chief Liu said, even if we add the personnel from the third workshop, we still have two difficulties to solve if we want to mass-produce tractors. One is the lack of manpower, and the other is the lack of raw materials!"

Liu Yuan repeated Chief Liu's original words.

"Insufficient staff? Insufficient raw materials?"

Listening to Liu Yuan's words, Zhou Tian's expression instantly became silent, perhaps because he had never worried about this issue before, but neglected the problem of low efficiency of domestic iron ore mining.

He remembered seeing a set of data in his previous life. In 1952, my country mined only 429 million tons of iron ore, which was not even as much as the amount used by a steel plant in his previous life. But now he had to supply the whole country. To be honest, he had no idea what to do in the face of such a difficult problem.

"Well, I understand the difficulty. But tell Chief Liu that we can ask the army for personnel, or we can expand or open a branch factory. But as for the raw materials, forget it. Let's organize the production of a few units first!"

Zhou Tian originally planned to say that he would help find a solution, but he swallowed the words back when they came to his lips.

After all, doing so might offend many colleagues in the steel mill, which is not worth it. And most importantly, even so, he doesn't think he can get such a large allocation from Mr. Tang!

It would be fine if Mr. Tang agreed, but if he didn't, he would be embarrassed, and he didn't think he could really influence the country's iron ore distribution issue.