Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

Chapter 412: The Eve of the Draw for Housing

"What? How could Mom do this?"

As soon as Zhou Tian said this, Shen Yulin was immediately furious. She knew her husband's mind was on big things, but she didn't expect her own mother to have such a small mind. Her face turned red, and she wanted to go to the old lady to talk angrily.

"Okay, you're still pregnant, so don't be angry. I already rejected mom sternly at that time!"

Seeing his wife's face flushed with anger, Zhou Tian suddenly panicked. At this moment, his wife was pregnant, which was a special period. It would be a big trouble if she got sick from anger.

"No, I have to go find her!"

Unexpectedly, Zhou Tian's words were like a fuse, instantly igniting the long-suppressed anger in Shen Yulin's heart. She angrily got up and wanted to put on her clothes.

"Okay, okay! Don't be angry. Besides, Mom doesn't mean any harm. She was just confused for a moment and couldn't think straight! Besides, when it comes to one's own interests, people will inevitably be selfish. Don't be angry. Okay, go to sleep!"

Zhou Tian hurriedly stopped his daughter-in-law and comforted her with earnest words.

Time is like a trickle of water, flowing quietly without us noticing, and before we know it, it is already December.

Zhou Tian planned to complete the automobile production line by the end of November and had handed it over to Jiang Long and his team to start manufacturing. A series of coal mining machine equipment had been delivered to the Machinery Department for inspection as early as October. As for the innovation in home appliance design, he handed it over to several designers he had trained after completing the new design drawings.

At this point, the only task assigned to the institute was the military production line.

It is said to be a military production line, but in fact it is also the production lines for the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, multiple rocket launcher, and howitzer that he designed. These military products themselves were made by him, so there was no obstacle at all in the design.

Even in his hands, it was simpler than a car production line.

As December 1st approached, many workers were looking forward to the glorious arrival of the housing distribution day. Even the employees who were used to cheating and shirking their responsibilities on weekdays seemed to have changed into different people during this special period. They all mustered up their energy and devoted themselves to their work.

"Dean, this is the list of our institute's frontline workers!"

In the office, Zhou Tian was concentrating on the sophisticated and complex design of the howitzer production line. Zhang Mingzhi and Song Weiguo walked in steadily with the list in hand and handed it to him.

Zhou Tian took the list and started to read it. It was so densely packed that he felt a little dizzy. He put the list down and couldn't help but look at the two people.

"Lao Zhang, Weiguo, tell me, how many frontline personnel do we have in our institute now?"

"Now the total number of employees in the branch factory and the research institute is 63,000!"

Zhang Mingzhi spoke without hesitation, and his words revealed his clear control over the personnel structure of the institute.

"Sixty-three thousand? Is that a lot?"

Even though Zhou Tian knew that the research institute and its branches already had quite a few people, he didn't expect that there would be so many more people all of a sudden. At the beginning, the entire machinery factory had less than 10,000 people. It's only been nearly a year, and the scale of the entire research institute has grown so large? It's even as large as the population of a county town.

"Dean, the research institute has a small number of people now, and with the logistics department, there are only more than 4,000 people. The branch factory has resettled 30,000 veterans, plus the people who have been transferred out of the research institute, a total of more than 34,000 people. The original 2,000 people in the agricultural machinery factory, that's nearly 40,000 people! Add to that the 23,000 people deployed for the expansion of the home appliance factory this time, and the total is indeed this number!"

Zhang Mingzhi explained patiently that not only the dean, but even he was stunned by the huge number when he counted the number of people.

"Can our family building accommodate so many people?"

Upon hearing this, the two shook their heads and remained silent.

Sixty-three thousand people is not a small number. There are twenty-one residential buildings alone. If each building has two units, and one unit houses forty-two households, there are only eighty-four households in two units. Even if all twenty-one buildings are fully occupied, there are only one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four households.

The shortfall is actually quite a bit. Not to mention all the front-line workers, even for the old employees of the machinery factory, there are not enough houses to be allocated.

Thinking of this, Zhou Tian couldn't help but feel a headache and rubbed his eyebrows with his hand.

“Do we need to build a new building?”

He couldn't help but mutter to himself, but the problem was that the reason why his application was approved quickly this time was because of the popularity of home appliances in the international market. If he wanted to apply again, it might not be so easy.

Even if the newly built 48 residential buildings were added, they would still not be able to accommodate all the front-line workers. This was what made him most uncomfortable.

He originally wanted to gain more benefits for the workers, but now it seems that he was not thoughtful enough.

"Dean, how about we apply for another batch from above?"

Seeing that the dean looked like he had a headache, Song Weiguo stepped forward and asked tentatively.

"I'm afraid that's not going to work!"

Before Zhou Tian opened his mouth, Zhang Mingzhi shook his head and said, "Right now, the whole city is in an uproar because of the construction of a residential building for family members in our institute. If we apply for it again, not to mention the higher-ups, I guess even other factories will not agree!"

"Forget it, let's leave it at that for now. Let's discuss how to allocate rooms first!"

After thinking about it, Zhou Tian shook his head. Since things have come to this, there is no point in thinking about it any more. He began to discuss the method of dividing the rooms with the two. After discussion among the three, they unanimously decided to decide the order of room allocation by public drawing. After all, no matter how it is done, other methods will be suspected of being fishy.

This is the only way to rely on luck, and no one can say anything. Of course, this is only limited to the first batch of workers in the machinery factory. After all, the number of places is limited, and they have no choice.

After the decision was made, Zhang Mingzhi and his companion left the dean's office to prepare. They first came to the logistics department and asked someone to prepare some notes with numbers written on them. Then they found a sealed box and put the notes in it.

After preparing the boxes, the two left and went to the front-line workshops to symbolically consult the opinions of the front-line workers. After everyone agreed, they went to the Propaganda Department and had someone broadcast the lottery.

As soon as the news of the lottery for housing allocation was announced, the front-line workers of the entire institute were excited. Especially after knowing that the lottery was not participated by all the cadres of the institute, they all praised the dean for his noble style.

Although many workers were somewhat dissatisfied that the housing allocation was limited to the first batch of machinery factory employees, they also knew that the institute was still building family buildings. Even if they could not participate in it this time, they believed that it would be their turn in the next batch.

Even during lunch, countless workers were talking about it.

Especially the first batch of workers in the machinery factory, they were all smiling and talking happily.

After work in the afternoon, everyone was still in high spirits and worked even harder.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, in order not to delay the workers from getting off work, the first batch of employees from the machinery factory, both at the research institute and the branch factory, were asked to stop working and go to the research institute to start drawing rooms.

As people gathered, at five o'clock in the afternoon, nearly seven or eight thousand workers began to gather in front of the institute's square. The place was crowded with people, and everyone had an excited look on their face.

"Lao Zhang, do you think we can win this time?"

A worker looked at the dense crowd in front of him with excitement. Although his eyes showed excitement, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Originally, when he received the notice from the branch factory, he thought he would definitely be the protagonist and live in an apartment, but now seeing so many people, his heart began to become uneasy.

"Who knows? Didn't you hear what was said on the radio? The room allocation this time is entirely based on luck!"

Lao Zhang at the side couldn't help but say something unhappily. In fact, not to mention his coworkers, even he was full of confidence when he came here, but when he got here, he suddenly became uncertain. There were really too many people who took out rooms.

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