Back to 80: My Literary Life

Chapter 815 This is a state-owned enterprise

This time, Fang Minghua declined Sun Yuanchao's company and did not take the Santana. Instead, he followed the employees who went to work down the mountain in the morning, got on the factory commuter bus, and went straight down the mountain.

Walking along the not very wide road, Fang Minghua saw through the car window that there was a railway not far away on the left following the road looming. Later he learned that this railway was specially built by the state for the 182 Factory to transport aircraft. parts and resources such as coal.

Compared with the mountain, the terrain at the foot of the mountain is much flatter. The factory area also has a wall. Outside the wall are large tracts of rapeseed flowers in full bloom. I am used to seeing noisy roads outside the factory in Xijing City. Now this scene makes Fang Minghua feel excited. A different feeling.

Fang Minghua took the letter of introduction from the factory department and quickly entered the factory area and found Ke Bing working in a gray building.

In a somewhat messy office, he and a group of technicians were discussing something while holding a drawing full of electrical wiring.

There are more than ten technicians in the big office, including young, middle-aged and old people.

"Chairman Fang, are you here? Come and sit in my office first. I'll be right over." Ke Bing greeted.

Ke Bing's office is next door. It is small and a bit shabby. It has an old-fashioned desk with a heavy desk. There are various books and numbered file boxes in the cabinet. Fang Minghua dare not move around.

After a while, Ke Bing came over and said to Fang Minghua: "Let's go, I'll take you around."

"It won't affect your work, right?"

"It's okay. After the regular meeting, everyone will be busy with their own business."

After getting off the office building, Ke Bing took Fang Minghua around the factory area.

Compared with the mountain, the layout of the factory buildings of state-owned enterprises is typical at the foot of the mountain, with rows of workshops, one of which is very eye-catching.

"That is the aircraft assembly workshop, the largest in Asia." Ke Bing explained.

"Can I go in and have a look?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Normal people can't go in. I can take you in to have a look, but you can't get on the plane." Ke Bing said with a smile.

Following Ke Bing into the assembly workshop, I saw three transport planes parked inside, with workers standing on the scaffolding busy around them.

Apparently Ke Bing comes here often and many workers know him and say hello to him.

"Director Ke, you came just in time. I was about to call you." A young man wearing a safety helmet, who looked like a technician, said to him hurriedly with a picture: "Look, you guys This place and the system room are in trouble again. "

Ke Bing glanced at the drawings and frowned immediately.

"That's not right. I told Director Ma of the system room, isn't this location reserved for our special room? I'll go take a look." After that, he followed the technician into the cabin.

Fang Minghua was a little curious and wanted to follow, but he didn't move after thinking about it.

It's better to abide by the rules and regulations.

After a while, Ke Song came down and it seemed that the problem was solved.

"What is blacksmithing?" Fang Minghua asked curiously.

"This is our common saying." Ke Bing explained with a smile: "It is a certain part of the aircraft, such as the place just now. There is a hydraulic pipe installed on the drawings of their system room, occupying the space of our special system. One of our cables couldn't be installed and they conflicted with each other, so we called it blacksmithing. "

"When something like this happens, the two departments need to coordinate with each other. Just now I asked the workshop technician to change the drawing, and the cable passed through the side. I will go to Director Ma to settle the account later!

Is this how to assemble an airplane?

Fang Minghua was stunned when he heard this.

Seeing his expression, Ke Bing laughed loudly: "Surprised? This is just like decorating a house. Various pipe lines often conflict with each other. Of course, important parts cannot be moved randomly. Some branches and branches can be modified temporarily."

"Isn't that a mess?" Fang Minghua asked again.

"It's not messy. I just processed it temporarily in order not to affect the assembly progress. This revised drawing will be returned to our special room immediately. The technician will re-modify the base drawing, and then it will be countersigned by other relevant departments of the design office, such as systems, structures, etc. , and finally signed by the director, and some have to be reviewed and signed by military representatives. Finally, a blueprint is printed and distributed to the relevant units for archiving. The engineers and technicians behind will know where to change the cable when they see the blueprint. "

I see!

Fang Minghua suddenly realized that he didn't do whatever he wanted.

"The steps are quite troublesome."

"Yeah, it's increased the workload and it's annoying! So I'm going to go find that guy named Ma to settle the score later!" Ke Bing looked menacing.

Fang Minghua smiled. It seemed that this kind of wrangling happened often.

After that, we visited the cable workshop, heat treatment workshop, and flight test workshop. The workers were all busy.

"Director Ke, it seems that your production is very busy." Fang Minghua said as he walked.

"I have only been busy in the past two years. I used to have nothing to do." Ke Bing said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, people often get bored at work and go to the river outside the factory to bask in the sun."

Oh?

"Come on, I'll take you to see it."

Fang Minghua followed Ke Bing out of the back gate of the factory and saw low brick houses built on both sides of the road, with people still living inside.

"All the family members of factory workers live here. Housing in our factory is particularly tight. Some workers' families have no place to live, so they have to build their own houses." Ke Bing explained.

Fang Minghua nodded. He also saw rows of simple houses like this on the mountain.

After walking for less than a few minutes, we came to a river. The water was very clear and the trees on both sides were lush.

"This place is good for fishing." Fang Minghua said while looking at the slowly flowing river.

"Yes, fishing, and bird hunting. There was no work in the factory in the past few years. We often took air guns and walked up the river bank. There were woods on both sides of the river, including turtle doves, sparrows, and night herons. After working for a long time, we could kill more than a dozen Only."

"The ones in your class." Fang Minghua said with a smile, "It's very colorful."

"There is no other way. There is no work in the factory. What's the point of sitting in the office all day? Those who have left will just hang around in the factory."

"Leaving?"

"Yes, go to the south, Huacheng, Shenzhen, Dongguan. Especially Dongguan, a lot of people go there. In the early 1990s, there were a lot of people walking in the factory, especially our design office. Someone counted, there were enough people walking there A full third!"

"So many?" Fang Minghua was surprised after hearing this.

"Yes, these assigned college students don't have as deep a relationship with the factory as Mr. Wang and Chairman Sun do, and they don't have a sense of belonging." Ke Bing explained:

"Think about it, students who graduated from Beihang University, China Southern Airlines, NPU, and even Tsinghua University, these famous universities, crossed the single-plank bridge and finally went to university. After living in the big city for four years, they were suddenly assigned to How do you feel about this place where “everything smells like rice flowers when you go out”?

"In addition, the factory's performance is sluggish, wages are not paid in full and on time, and arrears are delayed for several months. Who can bear it?"

"Then why don't you leave?" Fang Minghua asked.

"Haha, I got married and found a son from a factory. My parents-in-law didn't let me go out because they were worried that I would run away and never come back." Ke Bing said with a smile.

Ke Bing told Fang Minghua that in the 1980s, college students like them who were assigned to the factory from school were very popular. They were cadres when they came in. They basically worked in the design office and various departments in the factory. The working environment was good, so there were many people in the factory. Employees are willing to marry their daughters to them.

"My wife is a child of the factory. She graduated from the factory's technical school and works as a worker in the workshop. It's the same assembly workshop we went to just now, but we didn't meet her," Ke Bing said.

"As an undergraduate from a prestigious university, don't you think it's a disadvantage to find a worker?" Fang Minghua asked deliberately.

"Let's put aside our feelings for now. It's also good to find someone from the factory. You'll have a backer in the factory, which makes it easier to be assigned to a house or even promoted."

Ke Bing said with a smile: "These large state-owned enterprises are actually a small closed society, full of sophisticated people. As a native of Chenggu, I am actually an outsider here."

"My father-in-law is now the workshop director of a sheet metal workshop on the mountain. He can be considered a middle-level worker in the factory."

"I would like to ask, is it because of your father-in-law that you were promoted to the director of the special department and a middle-level leader?"

"Haha, Chairman Fang, you are wrong. College students like us who came in the 1980s should have taken the lead long ago, but our positions are occupied by a group of workers, peasants and soldiers. There is nothing we can do about it."

"Worker, peasant, and soldier college students?"

"Yes, our factory started with people like Mr. Wang and Mr. Liu who came here in the early 1960s. They were also serious college students and their standards were quite high."

"Later in the 1970s, the country abolished the college entrance examination and relied on recommendations to go to university. They were called workers, peasants and soldiers college students. To be honest, they did not receive systematic education, and their level was really average. But they had qualifications and backgrounds, and now they are all middle-level in the factory. We stand aside first.”

"To be honest, if it hadn't been for the research and development of this early warning aircraft project, these people wouldn't have been able to win it, and it wouldn't have been our turn to come forward." Ke Bing said with emotion.

This is a state-owned enterprise.

Fang Minghua sighed in his heart.

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