Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"What's the matter? Why do you look so hurried?"

When Zhou Tian saw Zhang Mingzhi's expression, he couldn't help but have an ominous premonition in his heart and asked directly.

"Dean, this is the task assigned to our research institute this morning. Please take a look for yourself!"

Zhang Mingzhi handed the document in his hand to Zhou Tian with a serious expression.

Zhou Tian took it doubtfully, and first looked at the name of the file. It was correct. Then he opened the file and started reading it. As he read it, his expression became more and more serious.

After a long while, after reading all the documents, he looked at Zhang Mingzhi and asked, "Is this really the task assigned to our research institute?"

It's not that he didn't believe it. After all, the seal on the document couldn't be faked. But the content was too absurd. According to the task from above, this year, that is, 1960, the foreign exchange tasks of the research institute and its subordinate branches must at least double. What kind of concept is this?

In other words, this means that the workload of the institute's subordinate factories will be doubled. Although the annual export workload of each factory is indeed increasing, isn't it a joke to double the exports all at once?

"No, this is simply nonsense, no, I will go to the top right away!"

Zhou Tian immediately changed the clothes he had just put on and walked outside with the documents.

"Hey, hey, hey, Dean, wait for me, I'm going too!"

Zhang Mingzhi saw the dean's departing back, then he came to his senses and chased after him outside.

The two drove directly towards the palace.

After arriving at the Forbidden City, the two got out of the car and went directly to the leader's office, where they were stopped by Secretary Luo.

"Secretary Luo, is the leader not here?"

Looking at Secretary Luo, Zhou Tian couldn't help but ask. You know, on normal days, when he came to see the leader, Secretary Luo would generally not stop him. But now he stopped him, obviously there was something important going on.

"No, Dean Zhou, the leaders are having a meeting inside, you can't go in now!"

Secretary Luo explained with a smile that he naturally knew Zhou Tian, ​​and knew that he was a close confidant of the leader, so he did not dare to offend him.

"Okay then, let's wait a minute!"

Since the leader was in a meeting, Zhou Tian naturally didn't want to disturb him. What's more, the leader himself was in charge of a government department, and the research institute was just a department under the leader's jurisdiction.

Soon, an hour passed, the office door opened, and more than a dozen old men walked out of the office one after another. However, when they saw Zhou Tian waiting at the door, they were all stunned, but still greeted him with a smile.

"It's you, kid, come in!"

The leader naturally also saw Zhou Tian. He was stunned at first, then pinched his eyebrows and let Zhou Tian and the other person come in.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Tian smelled a strong smell of cigarette smoke, which showed that the meeting just now was not going very smoothly.

Zhou Tian watched his leader sit down without saying anything. He just opened the window. As a breeze blew, the smell of smoke in the room became a little lighter.

"Okay, sit down, kid. What is the matter that you two came to see me for today?"

The leader naturally noticed Zhou Tian's performance and a look of satisfaction flashed across his face, but he still asked.

"Leader, please take a look at this document!"

Zhou Tian didn't say anything after hearing this. He put the document in his hand on the leader's desk, then sat back on the sofa, staring at the look on the leader's face.

The leader first looked at the two of them in confusion, reached out to pick up the document, and then began to read it carefully. As he read it, the leader's eyes changed slightly, a flash of anger passed by, and then he took a few deep breaths before putting the document down.

He asked with a slightly deep tone.

"What do you think, kid?"

"Leader, isn't this obviously nonsense? We clearly wrote down the institute's annual work report, progress, and even the international market share in the report. But now the higher-ups are suddenly asking us to double the export exchange rate. This is not only forcing us to lower our quality, but also forcing us to give up our market share!"

Zhou Tian said unhappily. The more he spoke, the angrier he became. You know, the reason why the institute has achieved what it has today is the result of the joint efforts of him and all the staff of the institute. But now, an order from above can negate all their previous efforts. How is this possible?

"Yes, Boss, when I received this document, I thought I had read it wrong, but who would have thought!"

At this time, Zhang Mingzhi also spoke up and said that this matter was really too outrageous.

Although they all know the above problems, they cannot blame the research institute. If there is really a problem with the research institute, then the country's foreign exchange will be in big trouble.

The leader listened to the two people's dissatisfaction. In fact, he felt the same way in his heart. However, this was the decision made by the top after all. Even if he wanted to deny it, it would not be so easy, unless...

But if he did that, it would completely tear the relationship apart, which would not be a good thing for the country. After thinking about it, he could only advise: "Okay, stop complaining, I already know about this matter. In fact, let alone the research institute, even the people below have complained to me several times!"

Recalling the complaints of his old subordinates at the meeting just now, even he couldn't help but have a headache. It stands to reason that with the current speed of national development, if it continues like this, the country's development will naturally get better and better, but the problem is that no one expected that the higher-ups would set such an unrealistic goal.

Especially as the other party's influence grows, this is actually not a good thing for the country.

"Alright. Leave this matter to me. You guys go back and make arrangements as you should. As for this document, just pretend you didn't receive it. If anyone asks about it, just put the blame on me!"

Finally, the leader waved his hand and said to the two of them.

"Well, leader, we'll leave first!"

Seeing that the leader started to chase people away, the two men tactfully stood up, said goodbye to the leader, turned around and left the palace.

"Dean, are we really going to let this matter go?"

After leaving the palace, Zhang Mingzhi couldn't help but speak unwillingly. As the vice president of the research institute in all these years, he had never been bullied like this by his superiors.

"What are you going to do?"

Zhou Tian couldn't help but roll his eyes at him and got into the car in silence. Originally, Zhou Tian thought that the task might have been assigned wrongly, but when he heard that in the leader's office just now, how could he not understand that the wind had risen.

Originally in 1958, he thought everything was calm and that the matter had just passed. But who knew that things would still happen again. He just hoped that nothing would involve the research institute!

Zhou Tian said secretly in his heart.