60s: I have a store

Chapter 273 Special Car Pickup

Zhou Yimin slept soundly last night. Young people have good sleep. The insomnia in his previous life made him feel uncomfortable.

After getting up early in the morning, washing up and walking out of the guesthouse, he suddenly felt a little confused. There were no bicycles here. Did he have to walk to the rice cooker factory?

Last night, he was taken to the guesthouse by a car. If he walked from the guesthouse to the rice cooker factory, it would take at least an hour, so he could only pick it up inside the factory.

Just as he walked out of the guesthouse, he found a car parked beside the door, and a man standing next to it, who looked very much like the driver who brought Zhou Yimin back yesterday.

When the driver saw Zhou Yimin, he quickly stepped forward and said, "Expert Zhou, I'm Xiaoshang, who's here to pick you up at the factory. During your business trip, I'll be your full-time driver."

Zhou Yimin was stunned. You know, nowadays only some high-ranking officials have the treatment of having a dedicated car for pick-up and drop-off.

In this era, cars are not only a means of transportation, but also a symbol of identity and status. There is a strict classification of sedans, and the executive level of the passengers can usually be roughly inferred from the brand of the sedan.

……

However, the car in front of me is a Volga brand car.

Volga is a famous automobile brand of the Gorky Automobile Plant in Russia. It was once widely used as official vehicles in socialist countries and is also very common in Eastern Europe, China, North Korea and other countries.

Being equipped with a Volga car was a symbol of identity and status at that time.

The leaders of Big Brother all have great affection for it, and Volga cars are considered the symbol and pride of their industry.

Could this car have been obtained by the rice cooker factory?
At this moment, Zhou Yimin was a little doubtful.

It can be seen that the leaders of the rice cooker factory really valued him. This can also be seen from the guesthouse he stayed in last night. There are actually guesthouses near the factory, but they still arranged him to a place with better environment.

He even went so far as to get a car to pick him up.

Really thoughtful.

"You are too polite." Zhou Yimin couldn't help but say.

"Of course, of course! Without you, there would be no rice cooker factory."

Thousands of people in their rice cooker factory got jobs because of Zhou Yimin.

The driver Xiao Shang directly opened the back door and let Zhou Yimin get in the car, then turned around and got in the car and headed for the rice cooker factory.

Zhou Yimin asked: "Comrade, what is your name?"

He also didn't know how long the business trip would take, as only his leader knew. So during this period, they had to get along well with each other. It was impossible for him to say that he didn't know the driver's name. He couldn't really call him Xiaoshang, right?

She is older than him!

"Expert Zhou, my name is Shang Jianguo," Shang Jianguo replied.

The name Jianguo is very common in this era. However, when Shang Jianguo was born at this age, the country should not have been established yet, right?
It can be seen how high the expectations of this man’s father were for the founding of the country.

Zhou Yimin suggested, "We'll have to keep getting along, so why don't I call you Brother Jianguo and you call me Yimin."

Hearing others calling Zhou "expert" made him feel a little strange. You know, in later generations, "expert" is a derogatory word, so he didn't like the word "expert" very much.

"Okay! Then I'll be bold and call you Sheng Yimin." Seeing that Zhou Yimin was serious, Shang Jianguo agreed.

Although Zhou Yimin is an expert, I am not bad either.

A car driver, although not as rare as a truck driver, is also a driver. Moreover, if he is favored by some leaders, he can rise to the top in no time. They soon arrived at the rice cooker factory, and as soon as they entered the factory, Director Chen and his group were already waiting.

As soon as Zhou Yimin got off the car, Director Chen asked, "Comrade Zhou Yimin, did you have a good rest last night?"

That hospitality house was already the best place they could offer, and they couldn't let Zhou Yimin live in the factory! Others came here to guide the work, not to work.

"Very well, thanks for the factory's care!" Zhou Yimin said truthfully.

"Director Chen, you can just call me by my name."

Although there is still some gap compared to home, it is considered very good for the current environment.

"Okay, that's good." Director Chen also breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that Zhou Yimin was not satisfied with the environment of the guesthouse, and he didn't know what to do.

Asking others to call you by your name is also a way to bring them closer.

"We'll show you around and you can see what we need to improve."

Zhou Yimin nodded: "Okay, then I'll trouble Director Chen."

"There."

A workshop director was also very sensible and led the way in front.

You have to know that their rice cooker factory is not much smaller than a steel plant. The country attaches great importance to earning foreign exchange, and this kind of product has been proven to have a market in foreign countries.

The rice cooker factory has four workshops and
Arriving at the first workshop, Zhou Yimin observed carefully, trying to find out if there was any problem. Although the workers nowadays were in very good spirits, there were no fat people because they had not eaten well for a long time, which was just the opposite of later generations.

The mental outlook of later generations was not very good, but the food was good. As long as one had money, one could basically eat all kinds of delicacies from land and sea, unlike now when everything requires tickets.

However, some problems were still found. The materials in the workshop were placed everywhere, and collisions could easily occur if one was not careful. Also, the environment of the workshop was not very good. There were traces of engine oil everywhere on the ground, and no one was dealing with it.

If you are not careful, you can easily slip when walking on it.

Director Chen said proudly: "Yimin, what do you think of this workshop?"

You should know that the machines here are the better ones in the country. If you go to other factories, you will definitely not get such good treatment.

Now most of the factories in China use machines that have been eliminated from foreign countries, and then use them in some important places. After being replaced generation after generation, it is unknown how many hands the machines in a factory have.

It is conceivable that the country attaches great importance to this rice cooker factory and has high hopes for it. Most of the machines here are quite new, except for some important machines that are a little older.

"Yes, and the workers are in good spirits," Zhou Yimin responded.

The workers in workshop No. 1 were also very curious about Zhou Yimin.

This young man is the expert invited by the higher authorities, and he looks like he is not even 20 years old.

"Does such a young expert have real skills?" a worker murmured to himself.

Another person said, "Anyway, they must be more capable than you, otherwise they wouldn't have been sent here. Do you really think the people above are just sitting there doing nothing like you?"

"The information I received was that the rice cooker was invented by someone else," revealed an older worker.

(End of this chapter)