Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

Over the next two days, whenever they had the chance, the three of them would get together to drink and chat.

Zhou Tian also got a lot of news from various places from the two people, and at the same time he understood how much change the mechanical equipment he researched had brought to China.

Two days later, at eight o'clock in the morning, the train arrived in Sijiu City. Zhou Tian said goodbye to the two of them, got out of the station, got on the jeep that came to pick them up, and returned to the research institute first.

After all, he had been on a business trip for so long, and he wanted to know more about the current situation of the institute.

"Dean, you're back?"

"Hello, Dean!"

Walking in the office building of the research institute, many technicians coming and going greeted Zhou Tian respectfully when they saw him.

"Ok!"

Zhou Tian smiled and nodded to everyone. He finally returned to the office and rubbed his face which was almost frozen. Then he saw the office door being pushed open and Zheng Tianhua hurried in with a pile of documents, complaining as he walked.

"Hey, my dear Dean Zhou, you'd better go out and have fun. I'm almost exhausted! Come on, these all need your signature. I can finally be free!"

After saying that, he placed a pile of documents on the table without further ado, and couldn't help revealing a hint of relief on his face.

"So many! Old Zheng, are you mistaken? How can there be so many documents? I was only away for over a month, not a year?"

Zhou Tian seemed not to hear Zheng Tianhua's complaint, but took a look at the document that was a foot thick, and his eyes widened.

"Dean, this is already too little!"

Zheng Tianhua ignored the dean's words and started talking nonstop: "The second batch of housing for family members in the factory, the completion of the power plant, the agreement signed with Big Brother, the list of home appliances for export, the expansion of the vocational school, the commissioning of the automobile factory, the technical support for the oxygen top-blown converter, the expansion of the production of the electronics factory..."

"Okay, okay, I got it. I'll take care of it right away, okay?"

After listening to Zheng Tianhua's narration one by one, Zhou Tian felt overwhelmed. Even though he knew that he would be busy after returning to Sijiu City, he did not expect that there would be so many things to do. He could not help but interrupt Zheng Tianhua.

"Well, Dean, I've got all the documents for you. Just deal with them first. I'll be leaving now!"

Seeing that the dean had given in, Zheng Tianhua stopped talking and turned around and left the office. He really had too much to do and had no time to waste here.

As the scale of the various branches under the Red Star Mechanical Research Institute grew, he didn't know how many days he hadn't been home! Now that the dean had finally returned, he naturally wanted to relax.

"Oh, what a miserable life!"

After Zheng Tianhua left, Zhou Tian looked at the pile of documents in front of him, sighed in his heart, and picked up the documents to read through them. As he read through them, he gradually gained a better understanding of the institute's situation over the past month.

Just like the family buildings, with the completion of the last automobile production line, the Ministry of Machinery handed over the management rights of the automobile factory to the institute, and promised not to impose restrictions on the family buildings of the institute. He then contacted the engineering team to build five new communities. This time, the scale of each community can accommodate 20,000 people. A total of 260 high-rise buildings will be built to accommodate the current employees of the entire institute.

The previous residential complex had been completed in June, so many employees who did not get houses last time are waiting for this batch of family buildings to be allocated. However, they are eagerly waiting. As Zhou Tian is away on a business trip, no one dares to make the decision, so there has been no response yet.

Now that Zhou Tian is back, this matter will be left to him to handle.

As for the power plant, Zhou Tian had already set the tone when he was there. It was built to generate electricity for the residents of the surrounding communities and factories. Now the power plant has been built, but no one knows where the equipment is. This requires him to adjust and solve the problem.

As for the machine tool agreement signed with Big Brother, with the withdrawal of Big Brother's experts, the relationship between the two sides has taken a sharp turn for the worse. It is not known how to implement it next. This requires him, as the dean, to inquire at the higher authorities.

The home appliance list of the home appliance factory is good news for him. Of course, the premise is that the scale of the home appliance factory continues to expand. Otherwise, these lists will become a pressure on the home appliance factory.

Especially when he saw that the new orders from the home appliance factory had risen to more than four million units of various home appliances, even though Zhou Tian had long known that the past few years had been a period of explosive growth for the home appliance industry in the international market, he couldn't help but frown at such a huge order.

The prices they quoted when exporting home appliances were not low. For example, a television set cost 1,500 yuan, a radio cost 1,000 yuan, a refrigerator cost 2,000 yuan, and an air conditioner also cost 2,000 yuan.

You should know that after the second set of RMB was issued in 2.4, the exchange rate between RMB and the US dollar was 1 yuan to , which means that RMB could be exchanged for one US dollar.

The home appliances produced by their factory cost $625 for a TV set sold to France, more than $400 for a radio, and more than $830 for a refrigerator and air conditioner. These prices are actually much higher than those of ordinary home appliances on the international market.

He originally thought that the order of more than two million units received from the Ministry of Foreign Trade this year was already a sky-high order. After all, this order alone was enough to bring the country nearly US$1 billion in benefits.

Later, with the explosion of overseas orders, profits also grew. But who would have thought that before the end of this year, the other party actually placed an order for more than 4 million home appliances in advance, forcing Zhou Tian to continue to expand the scale of the home appliance factory.

But after thinking about it, he decided to keep it to himself or wait until tomorrow to ask his leader.

After all, the scale of home appliance factories is already very large. If they expand further, they will have to reach a scale of 50,000 people, which is no longer something that the research institute can decide.

Zhou Tian also put aside the matter of the expansion of the vocational school. There was no rush for this matter now. Instead, the production of cars was more important, if he remembered correctly.

Now with the breakdown of the relationship between the country and its big brother, the foreign debt of nearly 10 billion rubles will be completely repaid in the next few years. This is not a small amount for the newly established China.

Although home appliance factories and machine tools were earning foreign exchange continuously, due to the original decision made by the above, the price of machine tools sold to Big Brother was far lower than his expectations.

Even if these machine tools are used as collateral, there is still a large amount of foreign debt that needs to be repaid.

"Ah! It's such a long and arduous journey!"

Thinking of the huge foreign debt, even Zhou Tian himself couldn't help but shake his head.

“Perhaps, the beverage and candy factories should also speed up!”