Scholars in the courtyard.

Chapter 3265 New Year, New Mission: One Trillion Dollars
After leaving the West Garden, Yang Xiaotao took his great-grandfather and Duanwu back to Yangjiazhuang.

We had dinner at Yang Dazhuang's house that evening.

In the past two years, thanks to the farm, Yangjiazhuang's life has been among the best in the surrounding villages and towns. In the past, the family didn't have much surplus grain, and at the end of the year, they even owed the state grain.

Even during the lean season, the whole village had to rely on wild vegetables to survive.

After Yangcun No. 1 was built, Yangjiazhuang slowly began to improve.

Then it became a pilot farm, with schools and greenhouses. Now the roads have been repaired, and the whole village and its surroundings have changed.

Two years ago, Yang Dazhuang's two sons, Yang Shengli and Yang Jiefang, got married and the village helped them build new houses. Last year, they each had a son, ensuring the continuation of the Yang family line.

The next morning, a group of Yang family members walked toward the cemetery in a procession.

Walking on the cement road, the elderly people in the group talked about how muddy the road used to be, especially when it snowed, the road was really difficult to walk on.

Now that it's a cement road, we're not afraid of heavy snow anymore.

The people in the ranks listened with admiration, marveling at how well the revolution had progressed.

After paying respects to the ancestors, the great-grandfather wanted to stay in the village for two days. Yang Xiaotao had no choice but to ask Yang Dazhuang and Yang Shitou to take care of him more, as he had to go back to Beijing and it was his turn to be on duty tonight.

I rushed back with the Dragon Boat Festival in hand, accompanied Ran Qiuye to her parents' home at noon, and then rushed to the Ninth Department in the afternoon.

After taking over from Li Hongfeng, Yang Xiaotao immediately got to work, either sitting in the office processing documents or leading the security team on patrols.

At this time, workers at headquarters had already begun production.

In particular, the production of aircraft and machine tools is a heavy and urgent task. In the near future, the Ninth Division will need to complete the production of three models: Panda, Eagle, and Chongming Bird. There is no time to lose.

Besides that, there's the research institute.

According to Yang Xiaotao's instructions to the college, they should return to work after the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

When I arrived at headquarters today, I found that many research institutes had people working there.

Yang Xiaotao was pleased with this outcome.

He himself also had to get busy, after all, India had already jumped out, let alone those dogs that didn't bark?
Thinking about this made Yang Xiaotao angry.

What angered me wasn't that the other party was copying Dawn 1, because I was already mentally prepared for this when we were selling it to the world.

Yang Xiaotao was angry because his carefully laid plans had been disrupted, and the time he had originally set aside to earn credits was going to be cut short.

This made him very unhappy.

Yang Xiaotao was already in a bad mood, and he couldn't let the person who was making things worse get away with it.

Therefore, Yang Xiaotao decided to work harder to increase the panda's production.

Aren't you a knock-off of my computer?

Then I'll just copy your panda.

Didn't you sell Dawn One everywhere?
I'll sell my panda too, let's see who can disgust whom.

So, Yang Xiaotao started planning his time again.

I spend my mornings researching computers and my afternoons pushing forward with the Panda project, aiming to complete both projects within six months.

It wasn't until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year that Yang Xiaotao finally visited all the elders, including Huang, Wang, and Xia, and the New Year's greetings were finally completed.

The seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Monday.

All staff in Department Nine are working.

Yang Xiaotao then chaired a high-level meeting of the nine departments.

In the small conference room, everyone gathered together to exchange New Year's greetings, and then started chatting.

Yang Xiaotao and Li Hongfeng had not yet arrived, so everyone spoke more casually.

"Old Chang, Happy New Year!"

Yu Ziming sat down next to Chang Mingjie, still looking a little tired.

Chang Mingjie nodded. "Happy New Year, Director Yu!"

"You just arrived yesterday?"

Yu Ziming nodded. "I arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon, and last night I had a drink with Director Wang and the others. I'm still not over it."

Yu Ziming was referring to Wang Guodong.

Since the special medicine required a large amount of ginseng, the person in charge of ginseng cultivation began to cooperate with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Later, it was determined that the cultivation site was in the Northeast region, so they began to pay attention to the affairs of that place.

"Old Chang, you guys should allocate a bit more machine tools this year, right?"

Yu Ziming approached Chang Mingjie and made a request.

The current aircraft production workload is too heavy, not only for new aircraft but also for existing aircraft.

With the current factory workforce, it will be difficult to achieve General Manager Yang's goals.

Unless we increase manpower and add machines.

The best machines are machine tools, all types of machine tools.

Of course, CNC machine tools are the best. They are highly precise and efficient, and one machine tool can replace several ordinary machine tools.

Chang Mingjie rubbed his hands together with a smile on his face, but it was really hard to get him to agree.

For no other reason than that there are really not many spare machine tools.

There's only one like it in the whole country, everyone's counting on their factory, what else can he say?

Let alone CNC machine tool orders, even Mercury machine tools are booked until August next year.

This makes it impossible for them to have a good New Year.

Otherwise, do you really think that being recognized as an advanced collective is so easy?

Those were all earned by the workers through countless days of hard work.

Of course, it's also thanks to Mr. Yang's presence; otherwise, it would be hard to say what would have happened if they had encountered someone who didn't know their stuff.

"Try your best, try your best!"

Faced with Zi Mo's gaze, Chang Mingjie could only give perfunctory answers, unable to come up with a decent reply.

Yu Ziming didn't mind. Their aircraft factory was struggling, so he naturally knew that other factories were not doing well either.

This is much better than before.

Back when they were still the Shengjing Aircraft Factory, it was considered good if they could produce twenty or thirty aircraft a year.

But now?

The minimum price is 100, and it still includes high-tech aircraft such as the White Horse and Blue Horse.

If it were replaced with J-7s or similar aircraft, the number would definitely exceed two hundred.

Even with such productivity, it still cannot meet the ever-growing demand.

"Old Chang, you're here just in time. You absolutely have to give us more machine tools this year!"

The two had barely exchanged a few words when Sun Guo interrupted from the side.

Chang Mingjie smiled wryly again, then looked at Guan Zhiyong and An Zhongsheng beside him and pointed at them, saying, "Don't expect me to do all your machine tools."

"Without them providing the materials, we couldn't have produced the machine tool!"

"And those CNC machine tools, we need the help of the computer experts too, we can't make them on our own."

Guan Zhiyong and An Zhongsheng, who were being looked at by Chang Mingjie, immediately trembled. Before they knew what was going on, they saw Sun Guo and the others looking over and then they started complaining.

"Old Guan, is it possible for your steel mill to increase its production capacity?"

"We only received 80% of the steel last year in the second half of the year, and the remaining 20% ​​has not been replenished yet."

"And tungsten alloy, we've been experiencing a shortage in our machine tool production."

Chang Mingjie also complained from the side, "If the supply of materials could be guaranteed, we could produce at least 20% more machine tools."

Upon hearing this, Guan Zhiyong blushed.

Originally, their steel plant only won second prize in this year's performance, and the workers in the plant were very angry.

In their view, steel mill output increased by 20% compared to last year and by 30% compared to the year before. It's fair to say that output has increased year after year for the past two years.

They considered this result to be quite good.

But these guys aren't satisfied yet. Do they really think the people in their steel mill are made of steel?

Just as Guan Zhiyong was about to explain, Yu Ziming, Wu Zhe, and others joined the fray. They needed a large amount of titanium alloy to manufacture the aircraft, and the demand for raw materials would only increase in the upcoming production tasks.

However, many departments within the Ninth Division needed titanium alloys, and the alloy plant's production was simply insufficient to meet the demand.

"I'm telling you guys, have some conscience!"

Guan Zhiyong couldn't take it anymore. Everyone was bringing up their own issues, but they themselves felt wronged.

"What's all the noise about!"

Just as Guan Zhiyong stood up to refute, a voice came from outside, instantly quieting the noisy conference room.

Then everyone turned their heads and saw Yang Xiaotao, Li Hongfeng, and Lao Hong walk in.

Xu Yuanshan and Chen Gong followed behind them.

Liu Lixue and Lou Xiao'e walked at the very back, carrying a stack of documents.

Upon hearing Yang Xiaotao speak, Guan Zhiyong immediately reacted and began to complain, "President Yang, please be the judge. They all say that the failure to complete the task is due to our steel plant and alloy plant. Isn't that just trying to pin the blame on us?"

"Secretary Li, you know the situation at our steel plant. Our comrades are working day and night!"

Yang Xiaotao walked to his seat and glanced at everyone. Those present were the main leaders of the nine departments in Beijing, as well as some people who had come from other places to attend the meeting.

It can be said that the people in front of us are the top leaders of the Nine Departments.

"Alright, everyone sit down, let's start the meeting."

As soon as Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, everyone immediately found a seat.

His gaze then swept over Guan Zhiyong, Chang Mingjie, and the others, causing them to feel a jolt in their hearts and even slow their breathing.

When the others saw Yang Xiaotao looking over, they all sat up straight and looked serious.

Then, Yang Xiaotao looked at Li Hongfeng, who nodded and said, "Comrades."

"The purpose of this meeting is just one thing."

"This is our new task for this year; it has already been issued by our superiors."

Upon hearing Li Hongfeng's words, everyone immediately had a guess in their minds.

Last year, their target was 300 billion in foreign exchange. He made a lot of money from computers, pagers, and special drugs, so much so that he had already completed the task by November of last year.

Later, I heard that the higher-ups were planning to give the Ninth Department more responsibilities.

They even speculated about it privately during the Chinese New Year.

Some say fifty million, others say sixty million, or even eighty million.

Of course, the person who said 80 million was given a drink and was probably drunk and talking nonsense.

I might as well just drink another glass and pass out.

Hearing Li Hongfeng say this today, I guess he's received a task from above.

Seeing the curious looks on everyone's faces, Li Hongfeng smiled and looked at Yang Xiaotao, "Mr. Yang, you tell us."

Yang Xiaotao took a deep breath, then held up one finger. "After considering both the domestic and international situation, the higher-ups have given us a task worth one trillion US dollars."

"One trillion?"

"How many?"

"It was only three thousand last year, how come it's ten thousand this year?"

"This, this leap is too big, too big."

As soon as he finished speaking, the conference room erupted in chaos, with people immediately starting to discuss it.

"okay!"

Yang Xiaotao spoke again, tapping his fingers twice on the table.

Then everyone watched as Yang Xiaotao stood up, and smiles suddenly appeared on their faces.

Are you scared?

"Afraid of not being able to complete the mission?"

Yang Xiaotao's gaze swept over the crowd, passing over each of their faces. "Or is it that you have no faith in our comrades?"

Everyone hesitated to speak, but Yang Xiaotao spoke again, "When I first entered the industry, I was a fitter."

“Back then, Wang Fa was my team leader.”

Wang Fa nodded slightly when he saw many people looking at him from the crowd.

"Back then, our steel rolling mill wasn't so busy. I could even spend half of my day reading."

"I asked him then, 'Brother Wang, are we all this free?'"

"Brother Wang, do you remember what you said back then?"

Wang Fa stood up and looked at Yang Xiaotao. "I remember, of course I remember."

“I said, we don’t have that many tasks.”

"Then you asked why we didn't give you more tasks?"

“I said, the higher-ups are worried that we’re doing too much and won’t be able to use it all.”

After Wang Fa finished speaking, everyone present lowered their heads and remained silent.

Yang Xiaotao nodded to Wang Fa, then continued, "Back then, we had no work to do, no tasks to complete, but we felt empty inside, like we had energy but nowhere to use it. Can you understand that feeling?"

"But later, we changed. The whole steel rolling mill was so busy that the workers had to run to eat so they could finish eating as soon as possible and come back to watch the machines."

"But it makes me feel at ease."

"That year, we built a steam tractor and took the first step in establishing our machine shop."

"I still remember it to this day. When Lao Xu and I took Lao Yang home, the three of us sang like idiots on the road, howling like ghosts. The passing patrol team almost sent us to jail."

Xu Yuanshan looked up at the ceiling, the memories in his mind like dewdrops hanging on the corners of his eyes.

Yang Youning crossed his arms over his chest, his chest heaving violently.

That was the beginning of their glorious years.

"That year, we made Morningstar machine tools, the first in the country, and then one first after another."

"Even now, our nine departments are still number one."

What enabled them to achieve these first-place rankings?

"It is our determination to build a revolution, our lovely workers, and those big words written on the walls of our nine departments."

"Innovation, Struggle, Revolution!"

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, everyone present looked excited.

At this moment, Lao Hong slowly stood up and stood next to Yang Xiaotao. "Comrades, revolution needs miracles, and we are the ones who create miracles."

"I believe that there is no mission that cannot be accomplished in our nine departments."

"I also believe that all of you here will join us in meeting the challenges and accomplishing this glorious and sacred mission."

Li Hongfeng stood up, and at that moment everyone present stood up in unison.

Then Li Hongfeng shouted, "Innovation, struggle, revolution!"

"Complete the mission, build the revolution!"

As soon as the voice was called out, everyone present raised their right hands.

At this moment, no one backed down, no one hesitated, and no one thought that one trillion was a joke.

At that moment, loud and clear voices rang out in the conference room.

"Complete the mission, build the revolution!"