Siheyuan: Grassroots Counterattack

Section Chief Wang was also very puzzled. He and Minister Zhao had no bad relations, so why did he have such an attitude today?

"And Chief, is this secretary new? Where is the previous Secretary Li?"

"I know about this. It seems that the previous Secretary Li was assigned to be the factory director in the local area."

"What should we do? Do we really have to wait until after two o'clock in the afternoon?" Li Tianyi said depressedly.

Section Chief Wang patted Li Tianyi on the shoulder and said, "Engineer Li, you haven't eaten in the canteen of our Ministry of Industry yet? Let's have lunch here today. It's getting late now anyway. After lunch, take a rest and go back in the afternoon."

Li Tianyi had no choice but to listen to Section Chief Wang. At lunch time, Li Tianyi and Section Chief Wang went to the Ministry of Industry canteen together. Section Chief Wang originally wanted to treat Li Tianyi, but Li Tianyi disagreed. He exchanged the meal ticket at the canteen and bought his own meal.

It's not easy in this era, and he was embarrassed to take advantage of Section Chief Wang. After lunch, Li Tianyi returned to his workstation to rest for a while, and when he felt that it was about time, he went to Section Chief Wang's office.

When it was almost two o'clock, the two went to Deputy Minister Zhao's office again. This time the secretary did not stop them and asked them to wait outside while he went in and talked to Minister Zhao.

Soon the secretary came out and let the two people in. Looking at the secretary's arrogant look, Li Tianyi felt that this was more disgusting than eating a fly. He wondered where Deputy Minister Zhao found such a weirdo?

Of course, Li Tianyi would not say anything more. This had nothing to do with him. Besides, how many times could he come here in a year? Was it worth it to get angry with him?

After entering the room, Deputy Minister Zhao warmly entertained the two of them, and Section Chief Wang couldn't wait to hand Li Tianyi's application report to Deputy Minister Zhao.

Deputy Minister Zhao asked the two to sit on the sofa first, while he went back to sit behind his desk and began to read the report carefully.

The secretary came in to remind Vice Minister Zhao of what was happening later, but as soon as he said one sentence, Vice Minister Zhao asked him to put it off and served tea to Section Chief Wang and the other man.

The secretary nodded and agreed, then walked out. Section Chief Wang and Li Tian looked at each other.

An hour later, Vice Minister Zhao came to the sofa with a report and asked, "Xiao Li, how confident are you about this project?"

Li Tianyi said seriously, "Commander, I have already drawn the design drawings for this drilling machine. We can just make a sample according to the drawings and start testing."

"Okay, Xiao Li, you did a good job. As you know, our country is suffering from a severe drought. If your drilling rig can be successful, it will save countless people."

"Commander, I designed this machine because I saw the difficulties our country is facing."

The big leader nodded in approval, he believed in Li Tianyi's patriotism.

"Xiao Li, where are the blueprints now?"

"Commander, I have locked the blueprints in the safe at the steel mill."

The leader nodded. "In that case, I will contact the guards in the department and go back with you to bring the blueprints back. Then, we will arrange for the engineers and technicians in the department to copy the blueprints in the next few days."

"As for where to make the samples? Xiao Li, do you have any good suggestions?"

Li Tianyi thought for a while and said, "Let's split this project up. Let the steel mill make the frame and the motor factory make it. Once it's done, we can put it together for testing."

"Okay, let's do this. Go back and tell Xiao Yang to finish his last shift. He can only put down his current work after the new factory manager arrives."

Li Tianyi said he understood. After Li Tianyi left with the guards, Deputy Minister Zhao fell into deep thought. He had wanted to nominate someone from his faction to take the position before, but the several deputy ministers in the ministry were unwilling to submit to each other and all wanted to compete for the position, so the matter was delayed until now.

But now it seems that they can't wait any longer. Comrade Li Tianyi often brings them surprises. Because of Li Tianyi, their department has been praised by their superiors several times. The project cannot be delayed because of them. If their superiors know about this, they will all be criticized.

Thinking of this, Vice Minister Zhao went to Vice Minister Wu's office and talked with him for half an hour, after which Vice Minister Zhao walked out of the office with a smile.

As for Li Tianyi, they had already arrived at the steel rolling mill. Director Yang had received the notice and was waiting downstairs in the office building early. After seeing Li Tianyi, he immediately stepped forward. Li Tianyi greeted Director Yang and then took people to his office.

After opening the door of the safe, Li Tianyi put the information into the guard's briefcase. The guard locked the briefcase and left the steel mill.

Li Tianyi did not go with them. It was almost time to get off work and he would go to the Ministry of Industry tomorrow.

Director Yang and Li Tianyi came to Director Yang's office. After they sat down, Director Yang said, "Mr. Li, I really don't want to leave!"

"With you here, the steel mill is a hot commodity. As long as you cooperate well, there will be opportunities for promotion. But when you get to the ministry, it will really be a matter of seniority."

"Director, don't say that. No one will work in one place for a lifetime. Maybe I will be transferred one day."

Director Yang thought so too. With Li Tianyi's ability, it was only a matter of time before he was transferred. After leaving Director Yang's office, Li Tianyi rode his bike home. He had a lot of freedom in the steel mill, and no one required him to work.

When he got home, his daughter-in-law was coaxing the child. Li Tianyi washed his hands, then took his son from his daughter-in-law's arms and asked his daughter-in-law to go and have a rest.

Xiaoxue was indeed tired, so she didn't refuse and went back to the house to calm down, while Li Tianyi walked around the main room with his son in his arms.

Although it is not cold now, they still don't dare to take the child out to play, for fear that the child will catch a cold. After a while, Li's father, Li's mother and Li Tianhu also came back. The first thing the Li couple did when they got home was to see their eldest grandson.

After playing with her grandson for a while, Mother Li went to cook.

The next morning, Li Tianyi set off for the Ministry of Industry. He basically stayed there for the next few days and worked overtime every night. In this way, the drawings were copied. Li Tianyi had asked the guards to deliver the drawings used by the steel rolling mill to the steel rolling mill.

A week passed like this, and when Li Tianyi had some free time, he found that his younger sister had returned home. Then he was criticized by Li's mother, saying that as a brother he did not care about his sister at all, and he didn't even know that his sister had passed the high school entrance examination.

Li Tianyi could only listen to the lecture and said that he could treat the whole family to a hotpot at Donglaishun. But his sister refused, saying that if she was admitted to a technical secondary school, she would let her brother spend a lot of money.