Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 272: Recruitment Assessment of New Products and Mysterious Objects
In mid-to-late July 1964, an urgent telegram from California was delivered to Mayne Lillard.

When he saw this urgent telegram, his face changed instantly because something had happened to his family.

There is a saying in the underworld that misfortune should not affect one’s family!
But in reality, once the other party is pushed into a corner, how can it not bring harm to the family?
However, this telegram is not real, because it was forged by Zhao Mancang. Of course, the photos of Maine Lillard's family are real.

Zhao Mancang had no intention of killing Maine Lillard's wife and children, nor did he have the idea of ​​killing his lovers.

The reason for sending a telegram to the other party is actually very simple, which is to lure the snake out of its hole.

Sure enough, that night after Mayne Lillard received the telegram, two armed helicopters arrived at the farm from outside.

The purpose of these two helicopters was not to pick up Lillard, but to serve as bait.

It must be said that Mein Lillard's brain is really good. He has come up with new tricks. Even Zhao Mancang wondered if he was familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War. Otherwise, there is no way to explain how he could come up with such tricks.

In fact, the reason why Maine Lillard has become one of the top arms dealers in California today is not only because he is brave enough, but also because he really likes reading.

He understands Chinese and has read many ancient Chinese history books, among which Sun Tzu's Art of War is regarded as a classic by him. This book has always been placed at his bedside and he takes it out to read once or twice every day.

The book was almost torn to pieces, and all the words in it were engraved in his mind, but he still continued to keep the book and was reluctant to throw it away.

The cunning Maine Lillard never expected that Zhao Mancang used the insect drone to see through his plan, so the two helicopters did take off, but Zhao Mancang, Zou Xinmin and others did not take any action.

Only after the drone left did Maine Lillard quietly leave with a team of fifty bodyguards from the path at the other end of the farm under the cover of night.

But it was no use, the insect drone was staring at them.

Just after Mayne Lillard and the others left the farm, Zhao Mancang and others had already set up a dragnet in front of them, waiting to catch them.

This time, there were no accidents. The moment the mechanism was touched, Maine Lillard's fate was doomed.

A huge explosion sounded, and Mayne Lillard's face changed drastically. He never figured out until his death how he was ambushed.
After killing the target person, the fifty special forces bodyguards were also buried here. After the incident was done, Zhao Mancang and the others quickly left the scene.

More than half an hour after they left, a special forces unit of several hundred people arrived here. Unfortunately, when they arrived, they could only see corpses all over the ground, and Maine Lillard was among them.

At Rock Springs Farm outside Del Rio, Zhao Mancang glanced at Zou Xinmin and the others, then said:

"Now the mission has been completed, but you haven't reflected on yourselves properly, so you still need to reflect deeply on yourselves and don't make similar mistakes again."

"This time, Xiao Shen and the other four are in trouble. After you return to the capital, take a rest first. After your vacation, you can make adjustments. Wait for my notification on the specific adjustment plan."

"Also, when you return to the capital this time, you must be extremely careful and not allow any more accidents to happen. Otherwise, you will all retire. I can't afford to lose face."

After hearing these words, Zou Xinmin and others felt ashamed.

Zhao Mancang did not stay here for long. He left after making the arrangements.

By this time, he was 100% sure that some people could do things well, but some people really needed to be whipped, or could only serve as assistants.

In addition, the pace of technological development needs to be accelerated, otherwise the advantages of the Jiaolong Army cannot be brought into play.

Jiaolong Foreign Trade Company definitely needs to engage in arms trade, and it not only needs to produce those arms of Dongda, but also needs to produce some extremely best-selling products. Otherwise, it will not be able to become stronger and bigger, let alone confuse the public.

After all, although Ye Guangmin and Sun Zhonghan have Chinese faces, if the products they sell are American equipment, even missiles, they will not be labeled as Dongda.

Just like the Jiaolong Army, they appear and disappear mysteriously. In the eyes of the outside world, they are a group of ghosts. Since no one has seen their true faces, there is no need to worry about being exposed.

After leaving Texas, Zhao Mancang went to New York and then returned to California.

It was not until early August that he flew to Tokyo, then came here to find the local museum, took away some antiques, and then returned to the capital.

There are many antiques in Tokyo, and it would not be appropriate to put them here. Zhao Mancang also doesn't like them because those antiques don't belong to Kimura.

In the office in Guozi Lane, Beijing, Zhao Mancang went to the Lingjing Hutong compound after he came back. After reporting his work to his leader, he came back here.

Something happened to the third team led by Zou Xinmin. He said he wanted to adjust the team, and he must really mean it.

So after he came back, he immediately asked Wei Huayong to contact all the major troops, and the Jiaolong Army began to recruit new members.

"Are you really going to recruit new members? It hasn't been that long, are you going to recruit new members again?"

Wei Huayong didn’t quite understand. Zou Xinmin’s third team just made a mistake. Was it necessary to make adjustments immediately?

You know, the 108 departments had at least three chances before, but Zhao Mancang didn't even give them a single chance?
"Of course we need to recruit new people, but this time not all of them are new, and we also need to test their intelligence."

Zhao Mancang explained that in his opinion, having strong limbs is not necessarily a bad thing, but if the brain is not smart enough, accidents can easily happen.

For the Jiaolong Army, any mistake would be fatal.

This time, Shen Gengnian and the other three were seriously injured. It was a blessing in disguise that they were able to return to the capital alive.

But if next time, their souls return overseas, or even their bodies cannot be found, wouldn’t that be even more pitiful?
When faced with possible situations, Zhao Mancang will try his best to avoid them, so he will make all preparations before things happen and provide better resources to these people, instead of waiting until things happen to regret it.

Upon hearing this, Wei Huayong knew that he could not persuade Zhao Mancang, so he could only agree.

Zou Xinmin and his men had returned to the capital a few days ago, only about five days earlier than Zhao Mancang.

So Wei Huayong had met Shen Gengnian and the others and knew the physical condition of the four of them. Even though half a month had passed, Shen Gengnian and the others were not much better.

It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone. This is no joke.

So Wei Huayong picked up the phone and notified those troops to help recruit people. This time, the Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization would have to bleed heavily again.

Recruiting people from these troops does not mean that Zhao Mancang does not need to provide resources, because they are all treasures from various major troops. How can they just come for the selection obediently when they are arranged to do so?
However, Jiaolong Foreign Trade Company is now engaged in arms trade. Secondly, Zhao Mancang has been staying abroad for inspection in the past few months. This time he must have brought back many projects, and the leaders of various troops are all envious.

So the next day, Zhao Mancang was surrounded by leaders including Zhong Xiaodong and Lin Kewei.

The news of Zhao Mancang's return to Beijing could not be hidden from people like Zhong Xiaodong, so it was soon known to everyone, and then everyone came to Guozi Lane to block him.

"Dear leaders, if you want to hear about any investment plans, please wait. I would like to inform you that our Jiaolong Army is recruiting new members. This time, we need talents who are both civil and military."

After hearing what Zhao Mancang said, Zhong Xiaodong and the others agreed without hesitation, and then eagerly urged the former to inform them of the specific investment projects as soon as possible.

"Leaders, I reported this investment project to the higher-ups yesterday. They told me not to make it public for now. They still need to discuss it, and they will definitely make it public when the time comes."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhong Xiaodong and others were immediately disappointed. However, although they were itching to try, they could only wait.

Perhaps the plan Zhao Mancang came up with this time was very big, otherwise the higher-ups would not have treated it so cautiously.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The leaders above are still discussing this matter, and the discussion is very intense. After all, air conditioners, washing machines, televisions and other home appliances are industrial products that require a lot of high-tech and technicians. In addition, it is hard to say whether they can really earn back a certain amount of foreign exchange.

Take televisions for example. If it is a black and white TV, the current price in Sam's Club is about four hundred to six hundred. There are TV screens of different sizes. The larger the screen, the more expensive it is. The better the brand, the more expensive it is.

In addition, there are color TVs. The prices of these things are even more different. The starting price is US$900 per unit. The larger the screen and the more famous the brand, the higher the price.

However, the current popularity of color TVs is not very high, because black and white TVs are still popular in the low-end market, so naturally not many businesses will lower the prices of color TVs.

Capitalists are all profit-seeking, and their pursuit of profits has reached an extremely crazy level.

This time, during Zhao Mancang's inspection of Sam's Club, he also discovered that additives such as corn syrup had begun to appear on the market.

It is estimated that the capitalists are starting to conduct preliminary tests. Once something like corn syrup can be accepted by the general public, a series of plans will be officially launched afterwards.

In the history of the original time and space, the reason why Richard Milhouse proposed to use food as a diplomatic weapon and wanted to improve relations with the University of Tokyo was actually because of the appearance of corn syrup.

The emergence of corn syrup is just a technical issue, and the increasing corn production in Sam's territory year by year is also a more urgent practical factor. After all, as productivity increases, technological breakthroughs in other areas will also occur. For the sake of profit, capitalists will try every means to sell these increased corn.

Everything came naturally, so in order to achieve their goal, the capitalists directly suggested to the squad leader Richard Milhouse to sell more corn to Dongda, because the ordinary people in Sam's territory could not digest so much corn.

In addition to selling to Tokyo, other countries around the world also need to export more food.

From the mid-1960s to around the 1980s, capitalists used grain exports to digest more corn, and on the other hand, they used a winning magic weapon such as corn syrup to turn the excess corn into corn syrup, and then sold it to the poor through products such as hamburger fast food, chocolate, and happy fat water.

But after the 1980s, genetically modified corn technology emerged, and corn production would be even higher. By that time, the capitalists' strategies would become even more radical.

It was now August 1964, and Zhao Mancang was able to confirm one thing: corn syrup had appeared.

In addition, Wanjia Supermarket has encountered some resistance in the process of acquiring farms, simply because the price of farms has increased by about 5% in the past year or so.

This is an unusual signal.

In the absence of good economic news, farm prices generally will not rise, and may even fall, because there are too many farms in Sam's territory. This is a buyer's market. As a commodity, farms are in oversupply and prices should not rise.

There is only one truth, and that is that there are still many competitors who are also acquiring farms in large numbers.

There was almost no need to ask, Zhao Mancang also knew that it must be the three mountain grain giants, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, and Cargill, that were causing trouble.

In later generations, there were four major grain giants in the world, and Bunge and the other three were three of them. The other giant was Louis Dreyfus Company from Gaul.

In later generations, these giant companies controlled about 80% of the world's agricultural output value, which was extremely powerful.

In this time and space, Zhao Mancang doesn't want to see this scene, so he needs to come up with more funds to acquire the farm.

However, Zhao Mancang had many other plans of his own, so he had to find a way.

Capital has become crazy, so once Zhao Mancang enters the market of home appliances such as televisions, air conditioners and refrigerators, it will inevitably cause the market to go crazy again.

In this way, if we fight on multiple fronts, it is easy for something to go wrong.

So Zhao Mancang must think clearly about how to deal with these things.

In the short term, Zhao Mancang's approach was very simple. He first acquired shares of Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge and Cargill through the dark market in the stock market to control a certain amount of shares.

Anyway, just take it step by step and don't reveal any clues.

The second plan is to continue to acquire farms through Wanjia Supermarket. After all, Wanjia Supermarket has enough profits, so it can expand its operations while acquiring farms. In short, the pace cannot stop.

A large number of farms can also reduce the operating costs of tens of thousands of supermarkets, because supermarkets must sell large amounts of grain, fresh vegetables and fruits.

Fresh vegetables and fruits, in particular, put a huge pressure on the supermarket supply chain. For example, in New York, if there were several farms around New York, then the tens of thousands of supermarkets in this city would not have to worry about the supply of fresh vegetables and fruits.

Two days later, the top soldiers from all the major armies gathered at a base outside the capital to start a new round of assessment and selection for the Jiaolong Army.

Since a written test is required this time to test the level of all soldiers participating in this assessment, the assessment time will be appropriately extended.

Zhao Mancang confidently handed the matter over to Wei Huayong, but what he didn't expect was that Gu Haidong also came to watch.

The reason why he was so confident in Wei Huayong was not only because he trusted the latter, but more because he was not afraid that the leaders of other troops would hide something and not call the real elites to participate in this assessment.

The Jiaolong Comprehensive Organization had already held the lifeline of these military leaders in its hands in the past, let alone now.

Gu Haidong also came to watch, and Zhao Mancang felt even more relieved.

He did not personally take charge of this assessment, naturally because he had more important things to do.

This time he was away for several months, and even after returning to the capital, he didn't give himself a break. This caused Lin Wan to have some complaints about him: "Big Black and Little Black at home know they miss home, but some people don't miss home at all. They're gone for several months and don't even take a break when they come back."

In this regard, Zhao Mancang could only comfort her, but the work still had to be completed.

At the Tenglong factory, Zhao Mancang appeared here. Xu Wenrong, who rushed over after hearing the news, hurried to him to report his work in person, but was stopped by him with a wave of his hand.

"Call the people over and have a meeting!"

Ten minutes later, when everyone gathered in the conference room, Zhao Mancang began to speak:
"Okay, now that everyone is here, let's get started. Let's start with you, Old Jiao, and tell us about the current situation in the vacuum clean room."

As the person in charge of the vacuum dust-free workshop, Jiao Mingwu was not surprised at all to be named. He was very well prepared, so he spoke freely and reported the situation in detail.

There are two photolithography machines inside, which have been fully mastered and can produce chips smoothly starting from July.

"Then what is the yield rate?" Zhao Mancang asked the key point, because the lithography machine is directly aimed at the silicon wafer for etching, engraving the circuit diagram on the template onto the silicon wafer.

However, due to technical limitations, it is impossible for all chips on a silicon wafer to be successfully etched into qualified chips during this process; there will always be damage.

"In July, the yield rate was 41.2 percent, and so far this month it's around 46.8 percent."

Zhao Mancang nodded silently upon hearing this and said, "As the person in charge, you must personally oversee and improve our chip yield rate. This is the most effective way to reduce costs."

"Also, tell all the experts and technicians that if anyone can raise the yield rate to 60% or 80%, our Tamron factory will reward them with a TV or a car."

Giving technicians a car is definitely a fantastic reward. Many professors don't even have cars, so this kind of reward is incredibly attractive.

Rewarding houses is useless because many people already have houses and they are not very valuable.

In comparison, cars are the most valuable things.

The TV is also quite good and not cheap, but for experts and professors, rewards like TVs are not that valuable.

Among the professors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences such as Mo Gensheng, Wei Daozheng, Kang Jichang, Yu Chengxuan, and Tao Fangqi, which one’s salary is not more than two hundred yuan?
How could a professor with a monthly salary of 200 yuan not be able to afford a TV?
Moreover, they are professors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and have a high status. There is no problem of them being ineligible for television industrial coupons, so the reward of a television is not very attractive to them.

Zhao Mancang doesn't care about so many things. He just wants to see the yield rate increase to more than 80%. Although this may require some cost, it is inevitable.

In addition to learning about the vacuum clean room, Zhao Mancang also learned about the progress of the lithography machine research center.

After the lithography machine business ended, Zhao Mancang began to understand other businesses. His attitude can be seen from the importance he attached to different products. Jiao Mingwu and others also roughly knew the inner thoughts of this leader.

As a subordinate, it is certain that you will try to figure out what your leader is thinking.

But no matter how they speculated, it was of no use to Zhao Mancang, because he only looked at the results and did not care about the closeness of the relationship.

Bulletproof vests are the first product of the Tamron factory. There are four levels of bulletproof vests in total, but the most produced product is the weakest level, because this is a product that needs to be sold abroad.

In addition to bulletproof vests, the Tamron factory now has several other products, such as signal jammers, aramid fibers, etc. The product variety is relatively small, but starting today, the product variety will increase a lot.

"Starting today, our factory will add three new products: color TVs, air conditioners, and refrigerators. These three products are extremely critical and require a large number of technicians. We also need experts to come to your site to guide your production."

"You all need to understand that these three products require strict technical control. Product quality must be meticulously maintained. No defective product can leave the factory. If I discover any, they will be sent straight to the sewing machine. No mercy will be shown. Do you understand?"

Hearing what Zhao Mancang said, Xu Wenrong and others were shocked. Is he going to use his ultimate move?

Since the product quality is so high, it should be exported to earn foreign exchange, right?
If the purpose is really to export and earn foreign exchange, then it is not surprising to have such high requirements. After all, the bulletproof vests produced now also have such high requirements.

There are currently no color TVs in Dongda. Such production technology is undoubtedly extremely advanced. Can Tamron Factory grasp it?

It is still unknown now. Anyway, Zhao Mancang has assigned the task, and the specific implementation will be left to the university professors and college student technicians in the factory.

Tenglong Factory also has a lot of places for college students this summer. After all, Zhong Xiaodong and others had already contacted Zhao Mancang before he left Beijing in April.

The quotas were given when needed, and the people were given when needed. The Tamron factory expanded rapidly and soon exceeded a huge scale of 15,000 people. In Beijing, it is a large factory.

In today's Beijing, there are neither too many nor too few large factories with more than 10,000 workers. The North China Metal Structure Factory, Red Star Steel Factory, Capital Steel Factory, Beijing Glass Factory, Beijing Rolling Mill and North China Agricultural Machinery Factory are all large factories with more than 10,000 workers.

There are even more factories with thousands of employees, such as the State-owned Garment Factory, the State-owned Second Cotton Mill, the State-owned First Flour Mill, etc., and the number of workers in these factories is also quite large.

The reason why this large factory has so many workers is actually related to "Comrade Li", or it has a lot to do with Wanjia Supermarket.

There are many steel mills around Beijing, and many bicycles are sold through Wanjia Supermarket every year.

These bicycles require a large amount of steel. If we did not import large quantities of copper, iron ore, oil and other materials from abroad, the current domestic steel production would not be able to support the export of such a large number of bicycles.

The bicycles sold in Wanjia Supermarket all have a certain level of technology, and the price is not 150 RMB per bicycle, but 280 US dollars per bicycle.

This type of bicycle is similar to the road bicycle of later generations. It can adjust the speed. Of course, it will be faster and more expensive.

If Tamron's factory now needs to add three new products, namely color TVs, refrigerators and air conditioners, the number of workers will continue to increase dramatically.

"The production line equipment needed to produce products like televisions, air conditioners, and refrigerators will arrive in the coming week. You must arrange for personnel to receive them and do not slack off."

After a pause, Zhao Mancang continued:

"We need to contact professors and experts from various universities to provide guidance, debug the production line, and start specific production technology training courses as soon as possible. While it is summer, we need to send the recruited junior high and high school graduates to the training room as soon as possible."

In the summer of 1964, there would be more college and high school graduates, but even with the appearance of Zhao Mancang, there would still be many people without jobs.

This year, there are 367,000 high school graduates. Excluding the 147,000 who were enrolled in colleges and universities, there are still 220,000 left.

Even if the major factories in Beijing and other factories across the country can absorb a part of the workers, there are still tens of thousands of people left.

And these are just high school graduates, not counting those who are the same age as these high school students but have not received any education. Most of them are in rural areas, but there are still many people in cities.

Anyway, it is very easy for Tamron factory to recruit people, but the training of technicians is relatively troublesome.

Even for high school students of this era, it is not easy to become qualified employees on the assembly line, because the products they need to produce are air conditioners, televisions, and refrigerators, which are not industrial products with low technological content.

After the arrangements were made, Zhao Mancang was not without work. He still needed to keep an eye on everything. What's more, he hadn't been to the Shaya Laboratory in the northwest for several months, so he definitely needed to make time to go there.

But before going, he still had to find Lu Guangyuan, Xi Wenrong, Yuan Zuliang, Zuo Changsheng and Zhou Zhengli, the transport team, to understand the situation.

In the Guozi Lane office, Zhou Zhengli and others who had just returned to the capital were reporting their work to Zhao Mancang.

From them, Zhao Mancang roughly understood that the solar power plant in the Shaya Laboratory area has now begun to take shape, and the electricity consumption of the entire area is now completely supplied by the solar power plant.

The roadside lights and all the electricity used in the laboratory are supplied by solar power plants. Even though the scale is not very large now, a lot of electricity can be generated every day.

Hearing this, Zhao Mancang couldn't help but smile. As long as the power plant was built, the Tenglong factory branch could be built there.

After all, the solar energy there is almost inexhaustible. As long as there is electricity, you can do a lot of things.

At this time, Zhao Mancang was already impatient to go to the Northwest to take a look.

Two days later, the plan to sell home appliances such as televisions, refrigerators, air conditioners, radios, washing machines, etc. to foreign countries was discussed and approved.

In addition to the Tamron factory, production tasks will be allocated and arranged in other large state-owned factories. For example, the Jincheng Radio Factory has been assigned the task of producing black and white televisions.

In 1958, the Tianjin Radio Factory successfully trial-produced the first black-and-white TV at our Southeast University, modeled after the Moscow Flag brand 14-inch tube TV.

Therefore, the strength of this radio factory is naturally beyond doubt.

There are also the North China Radio Equipment Factory, Beijing Cable Factory, Sichuan Hongming Radio Equipment Factory, etc. Many related factories have received production tasks.

However, the air-conditioning factory no longer exists, because in the history of the original time and space, the first factory that successfully developed the first air conditioner for the University of Tokyo was the Magic City Refrigerator Factory, which was not successfully developed until 1965.

Therefore, the production of air conditioners can only be entrusted to the Tamron factory at present.

The production task of radios is relatively simple because there are many factories that can produce radios, such as Jinling Radio Factory.

Refrigerators and washing machines can also be produced by relevant factories.

However, all of the above companies cannot simply imitate others during the production process, but need to strictly produce according to foreign products. The most critical point is that the quality must be up to standard.

Therefore, we must be very strict in product quality inspection, otherwise it will easily destroy the export earnings.

For Zhao Mancang, after assigning these tasks, he can actually let them go. Anyway, he will just have to strictly control the quality inspection later.

With the issuance of these tasks, many factories have ushered in new development opportunities. This year's recruitment work is more lively than in previous years, even comparable to the Chinese New Year.

Many technical experts are also busy. Fortunately, it is summer vacation now, and most of the experts who are professors in universities have been invited to the front line of the factory to guide production work.

For example, in the Tamron factory, a group of people are busy working in the factory building which was just built in the first half of this year.

Zhao Mancang followed in front of the main group, watched the experts complete their guidance work, and left here with peace of mind.

In less than half a year, Dongda will definitely be able to produce high-quality and low-cost industrial products such as air conditioners, color televisions, black and white televisions, refrigerators, etc.

Zhao Mancang has already thought of the specific brand name, which can be the same as those brands in later generations.

The color TVs produced by the Tamron factory are called Haier TVs, the air conditioners are Midea air conditioners, and the refrigerators are Galanz.

The reason for having so many brand names is to distinguish them and to confuse the public, making it easier to fish in troubled waters.

After all, these products are representatives of high-quality and low-priced products. They go abroad to dominate the market, so they are just inferior brands.

The brand effect of high-end brands is not something that should be considered at this time, because foreigners will definitely not recognize such brands.

At this stage, the issue is survival, not considering other things. Besides, won’t it be easy to produce high-end products in the future?

You can simply acquire a high-end brand and process it, or create a high-end brand name. This is a very simple thing.

In addition, high-end brands need to spend money on advertising to bombard consumers in all aspects, so the initial investment cost is too high, and it is not suitable to carry out such high-end operations immediately.

After leaving the Tenglong factory, Zhao Mancang went straight to a steel plant on the outskirts of Beijing. He was accompanied by Zhong Xiaodong, Lin Kewei, Wei Huayong, Gu Haidong and others.

This time they didn't come here to play, but for something.

"Comrade Mancang, is this the new product you're talking about? What's the point of having a steel pipe like this? What use can it have?"

At Zhao Mancang's request, several level 7 and 8 workers at the steel plant produced a steel pipe. However, this was only preliminary processing and not a truly finished product, so he ignored Zhong Xiaodong and continued to guide the workers in their operations.

"Here, here we need to continue cutting. Just follow the drawing."

Zhao Mancang transformed himself into a technical instructor, guiding the workers in their operations. One end of the originally flat and smooth steel pipe immediately turned into four large serrations.

This kind of steel pipe is really a hodgepodge. Zhong Xiaodong and others were confused and didn't understand what he wanted to do.
On the other hand, fertilizer plants, sugar factories and other factories have already delivered a batch of goods. Although the quantity is not large, it is enough.

After Zuo Changsheng and his men brought the sugar over, they stood on tiptoe to look inside, but they were blocked by Zhong Xiaodong and his men and could not see what was going on inside at all.

Recently, Zhao Mancang has been talked about by Zhong Xiaodong and others for a long time, so this morning, he arranged for Zuo Changsheng and others to collect some supplies, and he personally took care of the steel pipes.

"Leader, this is a trapezoidal steel plate. Do you think it's okay?"

One of the eighth-level workers, Wei Hongzhou, picked up a steel plate and spoke carefully to Zhao Mancang.

At this time, Wei Hongzhou did not dare to recognize Zhao Mancang, because the two had not seen each other for five or six years, and the latter's temperament and image had changed a lot.

When Zhao Mancang lived in the east wing of the central courtyard at No. 18 Huguo Temple, Wei Hongzhou lived in the north wing of the central courtyard next door. They were neighbors, or even colleagues.

It’s just that at that time Wei Hongzhou was a seventh-level mechanical worker in the steel plant, while Zhao Mancang was a fifth-level breeder.

At that time, Zhao Mancang was still relatively young and sharp, but now, he exudes the leadership temperament of a superior. Although he is not scary, he is definitely not someone people want to get close to.

In just five or six years, Wei Hongzhou also rose from a seventh-level worker to an eighth-level worker, but Zhao Mancang's change was even greater.

"Okay, no problem." Zhao Mancang nodded and didn't say much.

Wei Hongzhou was a former neighbor, but that was in the past. Not to mention that Zhao Mancang did not reminisce with him, the current occasion was not right.

Moreover, the two parties have no friendship, so a few simple polite words will be enough. There is no need to put on a show, and Zhao Mancang does not need such a show to consolidate his position.

There are still many old acquaintances in the steel plant, not to mention the security staff such as Li Baoguo, Xiao Shutie, Guan Lishan, Han Xiaochuan, etc., as well as doctors such as Guan Changchun, Yang Qingshan, Mei Xiye, He Zhongyong, Yi Guohua and others from the steel plant hospital, and many others. They are all old acquaintances in the past, but now they are so unfamiliar.

"Boss, do you think this needs any further processing? I see no improvement on the drawings."

Qiao Dawei, an eighth-level worker, said excitedly. Zhao Mancang nodded in surprise, took the trapezoidal steel plate from Wei Hongzhou, pointed it at the end of the steel pipe, and said to Qiao Dawei:
"Well, that's just right. Now we need to use the sledgehammer and the welder, and follow the blueprints to sew it together."

If Zhao Mancang remembered correctly, Qiao Dawei was originally a seventh-level worker in the second workshop of the steel plant. He came to Zhao Mancang for help with treatment because of gastric mucosal erosion caused by bad habits such as overeating.

So this is another old acquaintance.

At this time, old acquaintances standing in front of Zhao Mancang included Zhang Wenlong, Yin Xuechang and others. Zhang Wenlong used to be an eighth-level worker and is still an eighth-level worker now.

As for Yin Xuechang, he was already the workshop director when Zhao Mancang was still a level five breeder. However, when leaders such as Xing Shuqi and Shen Zhongxin were inspecting the workshop work, the second-in-command Shen Zhongxin was accidentally injured.

Then Yin Xuechang was removed from his position. At that time, Shen Zhongxin was rescued by Zhao Mancang using his superpowers. Otherwise, the second-in-command would have had to be replaced.

Zhao Mancang has too many old acquaintances at the steel plant.

However, there was no old acquaintance at the leadership level. The original three leaders, Xing Shuqi, Shen Zhongxin and Yang Shourong, were nowhere to be seen.

Zhao Mancang did not feel any emotion, but at this time Zhang Wenlong and others were busy using a sledgehammer to bend the front end of the steel pipe that had just been cut into four teeth, so that they could fit tightly together.

Once all this is done, one end of the steel pipe is closed to form a pointed cone shape.

Zhong Xiaodong, Lin Kewei, Gu Haidong and others were completely confused. They really didn't understand what the purpose of making such a thing was.

"Dear leaders, I know you are very anxious, but don't worry, the answer will be revealed soon." Zhao Mancang smiled, and everyone had to continue waiting patiently.

(End of this chapter)