1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 84: Cultural Performance, Milan's Job Change~
As mentioned before, Shougang is negotiating with Luxembourg to export one of its own technologies.

Yes, we export technology.

Don’t think that we are completely backward at this time. The saying “the wisdom of the working people is infinite” is true.

Now, the people from Luxembourg are in Shougang, and the two sides are still discussing some details and have not yet reached an agreement.

In other words, since there will be foreign colleagues enjoying this art performance, it naturally has to be done in a more presentable way.

October 10th, Sunday.

This make-up National Day cultural performance started in the afternoon.

Because it was Sunday and the public was on holiday, most people came except for a few employees who were working overtime.

If family members are included, there would be more than 100,000 people, which is definitely not enough space.

Even though all the branch factories have been put under unified management, they still occupy the largest square in the factory.

The show began when the sun was not so scorching.

First, the review teams of various departments, then the representatives and leaders gave speeches...

By the time the show started, more than an hour had passed.

First there were songs and dances, and Xia Tian was also asked to sing a song called "Red River Valley", accompanied by the factory's orchestra. Su Xiaoming had also sung this song.

The bel canto baritone finished singing and received a round of applause.

Dad and Mom Xia heard many people around them praising them, and some of the rappers were better than those on TV and radio, and their voices were nice too.

Even the foreign colleagues sitting in the first row next to Director Zhou kept clapping loudly, and it was obvious that they were in a good mood after listening to the speech.

There are quite a few programs, and many of them are selected by the workers themselves after they sign up.

The performance ended in the evening, when the sun had already set in the west.

At this time, everyone was tired. After all, watching the show for more than two hours was quite tiring.

The last major show is the one about summer, spring and Milan.

"Are you nervous?" Xia Tian asked.

Milan smiled confidently: "I can't wait!"

Dachun suddenly raised his hand: "Me! I'm nervous and I need to pee!"

"Get out of here! You have to hold your pee!"

A big drum was carried up by several people, with a diameter of one and a half meters!

Dachun, who was following behind, was dressed in festive clothes, holding a drumstick tied with red silk. He crossed his arms and pretended to be an expert!

In fact, he was so nervous that he couldn't move.

In this grand scene tonight, with tens of thousands of pairs of eyes staring at you, the pressure seems to have become a real thing, piling up around your body and making it hard for you to breathe.

Fortunately, Dachun listened to the advice.

Xia Tian said, "Dachun, just think of them as a bunch of cabbages, waiting to be weighed and taken home to be pickled. Would you be nervous because there are too many cabbages?"

Dachun shook his head: "I will be hungry!"

Now, Dachun is not nervous anymore. He is a little hungry.
Milan, wearing a gorgeous gold and red classical costume made of very thick special fabric, also appeared.

"Ah? Whose child is this? He's so good-looking!"

"This dress is so beautiful!" Some female comrades were a little excited.

After all, the gold and red color combination is the typical clothing of our athletes, so it is naturally a "gorgeous color combination suitable for Chinese people"~
The last one to come on stage was Xia Tian, ​​he was shirtless, with a red belt around his waist, holding a tool in one hand and a bucket of golden-red semi-molten iron slag in the other!

The audience became alert and focused on the three people in the middle of the field. They didn't know what they were going to do.

In fact, the audience who were far away couldn’t even see the face clearly.

In summer, the blower is connected to the power supply to keep the molten iron slag in the barrel from cooling down.

Then, the sound of suona started!

Many suona players who had been hiding among the audience stood up, pressed their reeds, and waited for the sound of Dachun's drum!
More than a dozen suona players, including Chunba, played a cheerful version of "A Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix" at the same time!

The suonas scattered around the square formed a stereo surround sound in an instant, rising suddenly in the remaining afterglow of the setting sun!

At the same time, Dachun started beating the drum!
Accompanied by drum beats and suona, Xia Tian picked up a bit of iron slag with a clamp in one hand and threw it above his head, while he swung the iron racket in the other hand upwards!

Xia Tian struck with all his strength, and the iron racket made a strange sound, and the iron slag was instantly shattered and flew four or five meters into the sky, then spread out into the sky and fell like golden stars!

In an instant, the sky was full of flowers!

"Ah!" Many people couldn't help but exclaim, shocked by the sudden splendor.

At the same time, Milan swung her arms, and two red sleeves fluttered out. She began to dance gracefully in the iron flowers, accompanied by the sound of suona and drums...

Golden sparks fell and landed on Xia Tian's shoulders and back. He seemed to feel nothing, but just followed the beats of the suona and drums, hitting the iron slag faster and faster with a vigorous posture, making the sky full of golden iron flowers more and more.

One wave after another!
At this time, the afterglow of the setting sun has been completely replaced by countless iron flowers in the air. Among the dazzling iron flowers, a shirtless young man is swinging hard, his muscles rising and falling under the golden light, full of the beauty of power!

The beautiful girl waved her red sleeves and danced like an elf in the fire.

Golden flowers and fiery trees, shining brightly!
The passionate drum beats, the excited suona, the swinging boys, the dancing girls...it seems to have turned this place into a romantic world.

The east wind blows thousands of flowers into bloom at night, and blows down stars like rain...

The whole process of making iron flowers only takes more than five minutes. After all, this is a simplified version for summer.

But the audience was already so excited that they couldn't control themselves. In fact, within the first ten seconds, quite a few people had already stood up and cheered excitedly!

Even the Luxembourg delegation couldn't hold back and stood up to applaud, making the people behind them so anxious that they wanted to kick these tall foreigners down!
"It's open! Zhou, it's open! Great, my God #￥%%￥……@#..."

Director Zhou understood the first few words of the representative of the Luxembourg steel company, but he couldn't understand anything after that.

When he got excited, he started speaking his native language.

……

Not to mention the impact of this cultural performance.

Xia Tian almost didn't get off the stage - he was surrounded. If he hadn't climbed over the wall so quickly, he would have been surrounded.

The next day, the factory newspaper reported in detail the final iron flower performance of the show, and even luxuriously included a color photo.

I didn't dare go to the factory in the summer, but the uncles and aunts in the factory took care of the rest of the things - Milan's work relationship was transferred from the farm supply and marketing cooperative to Shougang, and he became a dancer of the Shougang Art Troupe.

Father Xia avoided suspicion and did not ask about the matter at all.

He only needs to exist, and does not need to say anything nice. Naturally, he has his own connections to lend to his son.

Besides, after this performance, Milan’s joining the factory’s art troupe can be justified.

Dad Xia: Boy, this won’t happen again!

Xia's mother was much more jealous. At night, while checking if Xia Tian was burned, she complained, "You're really spending a lot of money!"

Of course it’s fine in the summer, after all, this has been tried many times.

As long as you hit it high enough and spread it out widely, the iron flowers will cool down in mid-air. They will look beautiful but will not burn you.

This skill was taught to me by a friend of the ventriloquist Old Sun. It can't be said that he taught me, but at least he gave me some pointers.

Milan also practiced hard for a long time for this performance.

I learned the water sleeves from Xia Tian~
In order to show off his kung fu skills, Milan's two arms were swollen!
Although she is usually cheerful, she is really cruel and can endure hardships!
Xia Tian: Oops, why do I feel a little sad?!
The cultural performance was very successful, so successful that Director Zhou approached Xia Tian three days later and asked to meet and have a chat.

I heard from Xia's father that those foreigners started to relax because they were shocked by Xia Tian's show.

Now that the negotiations have reached the final stage, they are just some minor issues of wording.

In other words, it’s basically done.

Xia Tian naturally had to go and meet Director Zhou. After all, this was one of the purposes of the show.

Director Zhou is a tall and strong man with a square face, regular features, and an imposing aura.

He is in his early sixties and has served as a regiment commander and chief of staff of a military division in the army. He has the decisiveness and fighting spirit of a soldier.

In 78, Shougang became one of the eight major steel enterprises in China.

At that time, it managed 40 factories and employed 7.1 people.

Such a large factory has railway tracks, supply and marketing cooperatives, housing estates, hospitals, schools...except for a funeral home, it provides a one-stop service from birth to death.

In March 79, Shougang took the initiative to submit a "Request Report on Piloting the Expansion of Enterprise Authority in Shougang". In May, Shougang became the first batch of industrial enterprises identified by the State Council as a pilot reform unit, thus implementing a 3-year industrial contracting system...

Later, under the leadership of Director Zhou, the factory changed its mentality and began to be responsible for its own profits and losses. In the past, when buying things from state-owned enterprises, you had to give gifts and local specialties. Because there was no worry about selling!

In August this year, the Shougang Staff Representative Conference proposed a "three 8 percent" management system...

All these things show that Director Zhou is very extraordinary!

After all, they dared to become the first pioneers of the contracting system in the tide of reform and opening up, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

He held a cigarette but didn't light it. After Xia Tian greeted him, he was the first to speak: "What was the idea behind the labor clothing exhibition you organized recently?"

They have been through a lot of storms, so it’s not that Xia Tian can’t see that she is a little petty.

It’s just that there was no need to pay attention to it before, but since Xia Tian is a person who can stir up trouble and get things done, it might as well listen to it.

Xia Tian naturally told the factory manager his thoughts in a very humble manner.

"Sizzle," Director Zhou struck a match, lit the cigarette, and took a puff.

"In principle, the factory has no objection..."

Xia Tian left feeling a little excited, and Director Zhou also smiled and started to process the documents.

After the contract system was implemented, there were many things to deal with. It was not an easy task to cross the river by feeling the stones in the turbulent water.

He quite agreed with Xia Tian's idea.

To put it in a broader sense, I won’t use those clichés - to put it bluntly, if this matter is accomplished, it will be good for Shougang.

Now Shougang is going to become a "star enterprise"!
If this thing succeeds, it will be a great help.

After all, good wine needs no bush. Both its own strength and publicity are indispensable.

Even if it fails in the end, it's just a child's game. What's the loss?

However, Director Zhou only tacitly agreed and approved many things. How much power he can leverage in the factory depends on the young comrade himself.

On October 10, Shougang's top-fired hot blast furnace technology was exported to Luxembourg, marking the first technology export agreement signed with a foreign country in my country's metallurgical history.

As a pioneer in reform and innovation of state-owned enterprises, Shougang, as one of the first batch of pilot enterprises in China, has created a classic case of daring to be the first in the world...

Behind every sentence in the book, there is no telling how much sweat and hard work people have put in!

Thanks to book friends “Gugugugugugu” and “尾号8817” for the 100-point reward!
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