The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 329: Stop working?
"You have to stay with the child for at least two months. He is too young."

Chen Xueru noticed Zhang Shenfei's intention and began to reflect on whether it was inappropriate for her to only think about men and business instead of her own man.

Thinking about it again, isn't Zhang Shenfei just concerned about his eldest son's performance? He began to feel happy again.

Regardless of whether Elena, Tian Xiaozao, or even Xu Huizhen will give birth to children for Zhang Shenfei in the future, his eldest son will always be different from others.

"I will come to see you when I have time in the next two months, and I will also bring you food and drinks. You should take good care of your health here..." Zhang Shenfei reminded them worriedly.

Even though she was reluctant, Chen Xueru knew that she and Zhang Shenfei would eventually have to say goodbye.

After leaving Lao Gu's house, Zhang Shenfei took a donkey cart, a passenger car and a bus back to Sijiu City.

The workers only have three days of annual leave: New Year’s Eve, the second day and the third day of the New Year, so Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong, Zhang Shenliang and other workers had already gone to work.

Compared with workers who only have three days of annual leave, Zhang Shenfei, who is still a student, obviously has a much longer vacation.

my country has had the habit of taking summer vacation since ancient times. Wang Pengyun, an official in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Jiangcun Ciyun": "I will study it carefully after the summer vacation and then tell you." It means: I will study it carefully after the summer vacation and then tell you.

But the summer vacation here is different from the summer vacation understood by later generations.

The current winter and summer vacation system originated from the introduction of Western learning to the East in the late Qing Dynasty and Yuan Datou's school system reform.

In 1901, Yuan Datou organized the formulation of the "Shandong University Charter", and the concept of winter and summer vacations was clearly put forward in the second chapter on "School Rules".

"Every spring, school starts around the 20th day of the first lunar month and ends on the Lesser Heat Festival for summer vacation. School starts six days after the Beginning of Autumn and ends around the 15th day of the 12th lunar month for annual leave."

Yuan Datou was very efficient. Since then, most schools in my country have started to implement the winter and summer vacation system.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state issued three H-headed documents in 1950, 1956 and 1958, gradually establishing the winter and summer vacation system that people are familiar with today.

In 1958, the "Instructions on Educational Work" proposed that summer vacation should be days and winter vacation should be days. Under this unified regulation, provinces, cities and autonomous regions have the right to implement the winter and summer vacation system according to local actual conditions.

According to regulations, Yenching University’s winter vacation will not end until the ninth day of the first lunar month.

Because he did not spend New Year's Eve and New Year at home, Zhang Shenfei stayed at home for the next few days. Except for occasionally getting together with Sha Zhu, Xu Damao, Liu Guangqi, Yan Jiecheng, or Siyan'er, he cooked for the old lady and Tian Xiaozao every day.

Although the family had to follow the old lady's advice to have a low-key diet, eating either steamed buns made from two kinds of flour or corn bread with pickled radishes and boiled cabbage every day, this did not pose a problem for Zhang Shenfei.

He took out from the space the braised beef, pork loin, pork head, pork jelly, braised duck, and pig's trotters that he had stockpiled in large quantities before the public-private partnership...

After a simple chopping, peel a few garlic cloves, smash a piece of ginger, use a garlic mortar to mash the garlic, add salt, sauce, vinegar, and thirteen spices, and it will be a great dipping sauce.

The chopped braised food can be eaten with mashed garlic. It is delicious, satisfying and addictive, and you don’t have to worry about your neighbors smelling it.

Finally, Zhang Shenfei was also responsible for garbage disposal. He threw all the garbage on the ground in the space and used it as organic fertilizer to moisten the soil.

After eating like this for a few days, Zhang Shenfei discovered that the old lady and Tian Xiaozao's complexions became increasingly rosy, in stark contrast to the neighbors in the courtyard whose complexions were still slightly pale even after the New Year.

This is not a solution.
So he found a way to buy some goose egg powder and kept it at home. It's better to be prepared. When the neighbors are starving and their faces are blue, it's good to apply some on everyone in the family.

The penultimate day of winter vacation,
After dinner and sending Tian Xiaozao to work, Zhang Shenfei stayed at home and chatted with Second Aunt, Aunt Yan, Aunt Chen and others.

"Oh, it has to be Dafei. Your joke is so good that it made me laugh so hard that my stomach hurt... Hey, where is Jia Dongxu? Why didn't he show up at today's symposium?" the second aunt was curious.

In the past, when the housewives of their courtyard house had a big gathering, Jia Dongxu, as the only househusband in the courtyard, was never absent.

Aunt Yan patted Yan Jie Di on the back and pointed at the Jia family: "Didn't you hide at home and not come out because you saw Da Fei coming???"

"Tsk tsk tsk, a real man is becoming more and more stingy... No wonder Qin Huairu and Zhang Cuihua look down on him now..."

"Last time I heard Zhang Cuihua scold him for being a disgrace to the Jia family and having no manliness at all. I can see that among the younger generation of Siheyuan, Jia Dongxu is completely useless."

"Let's not talk about him anymore, Dafei. Tell us some interesting stories about Yenching University. Auntie wants to hear..."

"Okay, since everyone wants to listen, I'll tell you another one." Zhang Shenfei didn't act pretentiously and just continued.

Jia Dongxu peeked out through the small window of his home, listening to the laughter of Zhang Shenfei and the aunties, his eyes filled with gloom.

No, why? You, Zhang Shenfei, have already taken away all my peers from the courtyard and isolated me.

Now they are trying to kill them all and trick away all my housewife friends???
Will I still have friends in Siheyuan in the future? ? ? They are planning to make me, Jia Dongxu, a loner in Siheyuan! ! ! !
Don't bully people like this!!! Don't bully... Sooner or later, my son...

Before Jia Dongxu could figure out how to get his girlfriends back, someone came in from the Moon Gate.

Isn't this Zhou Wuli, the propaganda officer of the factory? ? ? When I was working in the factory before, I always tried to curry favor with him.

Although I have left the steel mill, my behavior has already formed muscle inertia.

Jia Dongxu hurriedly got off the kang, put on his slippers and ran out of the house. When he opened the door, he suddenly stopped.

No, I've been away from the steel mill for six or seven years, why should I still curry favor with those people? ? ? ! !

Thinking of this, he immediately slapped himself lightly, stopped, and went back to the kang.

But his curiosity did not stop, and he continued to peek out from the small window.

Zhou Wuli walked up to Zhang Shenfei in the middle courtyard and handed him a cigarette with a smile: "Director Zhang, long time no see."

Zhang Shenfei took the cigarette and smiled: "It's been a long time since we last met. It's been more than half a year, right?"

When he was in the Propaganda Department, he always had conflicts with those people in charge.

It's not that he wanted to annoy the other party, but those people always disliked him and were jealous of the fact that he was promoted to a Level 22 clerk when he entered the factory.

Zhang Shenfei never thought about how to integrate into those people, nor did he try to curry favor with them or try to make them accept him. He would rather spend his time drinking some tea, smoking a cigarette and enjoying himself.

The tactic he adopted was to completely ignore the other party and pretend that these people did not exist.

In the entire office, he could only chat with Zhou Wuli, Xu Fugui and Niu Lili.

See you again,

Thinking of the drastic changes in the social status of the two, Zhou Wuli couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't forget the main business.

After a few pleasantries, he told Zhang Shenfei that the factory had asked him to go to a meeting. Zhang Shenfei raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Meeting, looking for me??? Do you know what it is?"

Although he is still the deputy director of the steel rolling mill, he has gone to study at Yenching University after all. Logically, he should not be found during meetings at the factory.

Zhou Wuli shook his head: "He said he has something very important to discuss with you, but I don't know what it is exactly. You should come with me."

Zhang Shenfei nodded, took a few puffs of his cigarette, and threw the remaining cigarette butt on the ground: "Okay, wait for me to push the bicycle, we will go over now."

"The factory has sent a car to pick you up." Zhou Wuli said hurriedly.

The steel rolling mill has a bus, although it is a very broken Volkswagen left by Lou Zhenhua, but not everyone can use it.

Previously, Director Yang and Deputy Director Li had some unpleasantness over train shunting.

Although according to the factory regulations, Zhang Shenfei, as the deputy factory director, was qualified to use the company bus, he had always ridden a bicycle for everything before and had never used a Volkswagen.

Sitting on this bus which had a strong sense of pushing back and vibration but a low speed, Zhang Shenfei complained in his heart that the riding experience was not much better than that of the three-wheeled vehicles of later generations.

He would rather ride a bike than sit on this.

I guess those who love to use the bus are more enjoying the privilege and the feeling of being above everyone else.

The car drove along Gulou East Street all the way towards Dongzhimen.

It wasn't long before we arrived at the steel mill.

While waiting for the doorman to open the door, Zhang Shenfei leaned out and offered Uncle Qin a cigarette.

"Brother, smoke."

When Lao Qin and Jia Zhang got married, they became sworn brothers.

Uncle Qin helped take the cigarette with both hands and put it behind his ear.

The one who sighed in his heart was his brother Zhang Shenfei, no matter he was a street thug or a cadre later.
Or he became the deputy factory director, and now he has worked all the way to Yenching University. No matter how high he has risen, his brotherhood with him has never changed.

If you become rich and powerful, don't forget me.

He is worthy of being Jia Dongxu's uncle. This alone makes him better than others.

The car drove all the way to the office building of the steel rolling mill. Zhou Wuli got out of the car first, went around to the back and helped Zhang Shenfei open the door. He even held the roof of the car for fear that it would hit Zhang Shenfei's head.

Under his guidance, Zhang Shenfei walked into the conference room and saw that all the middle-level and above leaders were in place.

"Director Zhang, we've been waiting for you. Please sit down." Director Yang looked at him and nodded.

Looking at the slightly solemn expressions of Director Yang and other cadres, Zhang Shenfei had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, after he sat down, Director Yang told everyone that since each village has now formed a commune, the farmers must earn their fair share and listen to the arrangements of the commune when doing things.

It’s not like before when I can allocate my own time, nor can I rest in the winter like before.

Even when it was freezing and they couldn't go out to the fields, they still had to dig canals, build ditches and dams, and weave straw mats. They were so busy every day that they had no time to come to the factory to work.

The factory once tried to communicate with those communes, but the reply it received was that the farmers' labor force had already belonged to the communes and they could not decide on their own what work to do.

This has led to a shortage of construction workers at the steel mill's housing construction site after the Chinese New Year, which has seriously affected the progress of the project.

"In fact, it's not just because of this. The workers from Long Kee were transferred to dismantle part of the city wall, and the remaining workers were not as efficient as before because they were not well fed...

"At present, it seems that the food problem and the migrant worker problem will not be solved in the short term. So this time we invited everyone here mainly to discuss whether the collective housing project should be suspended or postponed."

Zhang Shenfei was in charge of the establishment of collective housing from proposing the concept to its implementation. It can be said that a lot of Zhang Shenfei's hard work was put into it.

Although he is no longer in the steel mill, he still has to respect the labor he puts in. That's why Director Yang sent someone to invite Zhang Shenfei over.

After Director Yang finished speaking, he asked everyone to discuss and express their opinions.

Deputy Factory Director Nie, who was in charge of production, was the first to express his opposition:
“On the surface, the collective housing project was established by our factory to accommodate workers, but the meaning behind it is definitely more than that.

If the collective housing can be built and occupied smoothly, many factories will follow suit, which will greatly alleviate the tight housing situation in our city. I believe everyone knows this.

That is why the early stage of the construction of the collective housing in our factory attracted great attention and concern from the Municipal Party Committee, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments. Now that more than half of the houses have been built, if the construction suddenly stops, how will the higher authorities view us? ? ?
Will the leaders think that our steel mill is incapable of handling affairs and cannot overcome any difficulties???"

What he didn't say was,
If this collective housing is built, it will be a political achievement for their leadership team, especially for him who took over the construction of the collective housing after Zhang Shenfei left.

How can he be willing to give up this sweet thing that he has got? ? ?

Director Fang, the acting director of the cafeteria, had always been at odds with him, so Wen Yan immediately smiled sarcastically:
"The construction of the collective housing is to provide food and drink for the workers. You know how difficult it is to get food in the city right now. There is no guarantee that we will not be able to supply food on time and in the right quantity in the future...

The food stored in our factory is barely enough to feed our workers, so how can we have enough food to feed the people at Long Kee? ? ? ? "

Director Nie frowned and said, "As the canteen director, you should think of ways to deal with the shortage of food. You should increase revenue, not think about cutting costs.

Now because of food shortage, the construction workers are being driven away. If food shortage continues in the future, will some of the workers be fired as well? ? ? "

This was very impolite, and Director Fang immediately slammed the table: "Mr. Nie! You are trying to change the concept!!!

Those construction workers were not from the steel mill to begin with, so how can they be compared to the fired workers?

Besides, without migrant workers, there are simply not enough workers to build houses. Even if the construction site is barely able to start work, the efficiency will be greatly reduced.

You can’t ignore these existing difficulties just for the sake of your own political achievements!!!”

Why did Director Yang propose to postpone the collective housing project?

Because now almost everyone can see that the next few years will not be easy.

It is obviously unwise to insist on building houses and increase food consumption in the factory at such a time.

"Deputy Director Zhang, the collective housing is your hard work. Do you think we should stop the construction now?" After laying out all the difficulties, Director Fang stopped paying attention to Director Nie and looked directly at Zhang Shenfei.

(End of this chapter)