Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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However, He Yuzhu could not manufacture all the lathes himself.

Some unimportant parts need to be handed over to the apprentices, but there are no other skilled workers besides He Yuzhu, which worries him a lot.

Just as he was sitting in his office worrying, Xu Xiaomei knocked on the door and came in. Ever since she secretly held his hand last time, Xu Xiaomei had become shrewd and would never come to his side again.

Instead, he stood opposite, reporting his work across the desk, placing the documents on the table, and then said, "I just received a call that District Chief Guo is coming down to inspect our work today."

"Why is he here again?" He Yuzhu said irritably.

"It was Director Li from the neighborhood committee who instructed us; it must be about our factory producing the lathe."

He Yuzhu nodded to indicate that he understood, and Xu Xiaomei immediately turned around and left, as if there were hooligans in the office.

He Yuzhu curled his lips. This Xu Xiaomei really has a wild personality. She doesn't leave herself any chance at all.

She now walks alone to and from get off work and no longer walks with He Yuzhu.

Then I thought about the leader coming down to inspect the work later.

If anything bad were to happen, Director Li would give a heads-up, but since he only instructed us to come for an inspection and prepare to receive us, the disgusting incident from last time should not happen again.

He Yuzhu left the office and then instructed his apprentices to clean the factory thoroughly again and prepare the meeting room and offices, since sanitation work had to be done well whenever there was an inspection by leaders.

It wasn't until after 10 o'clock that the sound of a car came from outside, and He Yuzhu came out to greet them.

The first person to get out of the car was Leader Guo, whom I met last time. This time he was all smiles and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Welcome, leaders, to inspect our work."

Leader Guo smiled broadly and shook He Yuzhu's hand:

"It's clear that Director He is a capable person. He independently completed the research and development of the machine tool in just one month. It's truly remarkable. He can be described as a young talent."

"You're too kind, leader. It's all for the sake of building our motherland."

Leader Guo nodded, then pointed to a middle-aged man who came down next and introduced him: "Let me introduce you, this is Niu Baokang, the factory director of Beijing Machinery General Factory."

He Yuzhu was taken aback. He hadn't known about it before, but he had learned about some machinery factories in Beijing after taking over the machinery factory.

The Beijing Machinery General Factory also has another name: Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, but many people prefer to call it by its original name, Beijing Machinery General Factory.

The new name tells you that this is a factory that mainly produces machine tools.

The other party came today, it seems they have taken a liking to the machine tool blueprints and technology I developed.

"Welcome, welcome, leaders, to inspect our work."

Although the other party had ulterior motives, He Yuzhu still had to put on a show and warmly welcomed them.

Behind them were Director Li and two accompanying staff members from the street office. He Yuzhu invited them all into the factory.

Leader Guo requested to visit the workshop again, so He Yuzhu led them into the production workshop.

He was an outsider, but Niu Baokang was an industry insider who knew these machine tools very well and could recite their technical parameters off the top of his head.

They had all these machine tools, but there wasn't much to see. Soon they spotted the three machine tools in the workshop that didn't have nameplates.

Time was still short, and He Yuzhu had only managed to make one more machine tool.

"Is this the new machine tool you produced?" Director Guo asked first.

“Yes, I was also shocked when Director He made it; I didn’t expect him to have this ability,” Li Hongying said.

"That's right, I didn't expect that either."

"Can I try it out?" Factory Manager Niu asked.

He Yuzhu gestured for him to enter and said with a smile, "Of course."

Factory Director Niu didn't stand on ceremony and, after receiving permission, immediately got to work.

Li Hongying was still a little nervous. After all, although it wasn't explicitly stated, the district head had invited Factory Director Niu to inspect the machines.

If the inspection fails, wouldn't it be incredibly embarrassing?

Li Hongying was very uneasy, but He Yuzhu was very relieved. How could there be any problems with the products he made by hand?

Factory manager Niu took it very seriously, spending almost an hour making two parts by hand before wiping the sweat from his forehead and turning off the machine.

He nodded: "It's even better than I expected, no worse than the original."

Hearing this, everyone felt relieved. Leader Guo led the applause, and then everyone started to applaud and celebrate.

Leader Guo offered a few words of encouragement, followed by congratulations from Factory Director Niu. He Yuzhu quickly expressed his modesty, saying that this was all thanks to the effective leadership and the support of the street office.

Back in the meeting room from the workshop, tea had already been prepared. After we sat down, Leader Guo praised us again.

Factory Director Niu said, "Factory Director He, I wonder if our two factories could strengthen our cooperation?"

"What kind of cooperation?" He Yuzhu asked.

Niu Changzi had already inquired with the leaders beforehand. He Yuzhu was a difficult person to deal with. It was unlikely that he would end up humiliated and even have Li Huaide pay him extra money last time. He even borrowed a technician to be a teacher and let it go.

Factory Manager Niu said, "I wonder if you could give us a copy of these technical drawings?"

“That’s not impossible.”

As previously mentioned, there is no such thing as a technology patent at this point. Besides, this is just copying someone else's machine tool. As long as the other party has a sample, they can disassemble it and copy it again. It's just a matter of some effort.

If He Yuzhu can replicate and produce it, then others can certainly replicate and produce it as well.

"I wonder what Director He's requirements are?"

He Yuzhu thought for a moment and said, "I have an idea, but I don't know if Director Niu will agree."

"Director He, please speak."

He Yuzhu said, "We will establish a research and development center together."

He Yuzhu knew that the set of blueprints wouldn't bring much practical benefit, so he wanted to make a grand promise instead.

He Yuzhu's idea was to have Factory Director Niu provide some technical personnel, and then establish a research center with He Yuzhu, not only to study lathes, but also to jointly imitate several other machine tools.

The second point is to have Factory Director Niu provide some mid-to-senior level technical workers, and then train apprentices so that Limin Machinery Factory can quickly develop lathe production capacity.

Although He Yuzhu can manually polish a prototype, there is still a big gap between that and actual production.

Currently, he is the only senior technician in the entire factory. Training intermediate and senior technicians will not be possible in just two or three years.

In other words, lathe production can only be carried out sporadically in a short period of time.

This speed is not fast.

He Yuzhu looked very anxious. Since Factory Director Niu had come to discuss cooperation, He Yuzhu brought it up as well.

Factory manager Niu already knew that the factory had only been established for a short time, and asked:

How many intermediate and senior skilled workers do you have?

"It's just me. There isn't even a single third-level worker in the factory."

"This..." Factory Manager Niu couldn't help but complain in his heart, this is too much of a rip-off.

Level 2 workers can only produce the most basic parts and slightly more complex ones; they are not allowed to produce anything else.

After thinking for a moment, Factory Manager Niu said, "How about this: our factory can train your factory's workers. You can produce the parts that you can manufacture on the lathes, and we will be responsible for producing the rest."

He Yuzhu also knew that this was the best solution.

As long as the other party can send highly skilled workers to train the workers, they can improve their skills as quickly as possible.

After all, it's too slow to teach someone by yourself alone.

After discussing the details further, the Wagyu beef factory manager finally reached an agreement on the cooperation.

Both parties agreed on the scale of the training, the number of senior technicians, the time, and other details.

In reality, Limin Machinery Factory was more like an outsourcing company, producing parts that didn't involve much technical expertise.

Of course, there are advantages to doing this, namely that some of the lathes produced by the Beijing Machinery Factory will be given to the Machinery Plant in proportion.

This way, the machine factory can quickly expand its scale and have more lathes, and it can't rely on He Yuzhu to make them all himself.

It seems the machine factory has put in a lot of effort, but both parties will continue to cooperate to replicate other machine tools.

The cooperation between the two parties can be described as mutually beneficial, with neither party suffering a loss.

"Happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

He Yuzhu said with a smile, "Don't go back today, try my cooking."

Niu was often surprised and looked at District Chief Guo and Director Li.

Li Hongying laughed and said, "Director Niu probably doesn't know this yet, but our Director He not only has a talent for machinery, but is also a first-class cook."

"Ah! He's a first-class cook! I'd like to try Director He's cooking."

After He Yuzhu prepared a table of food and drinks and invited them to taste it, the head of the cattle farm exclaimed that both sides must strengthen cooperation in the future and give full support to Limin Machinery Factory so that they can learn better technology as soon as possible.

After that, Director Niu personally led people over to exchange ideas on several occasions, and each time he pestered He Yuzhu to do his best to receive them. Of course, that's another story.

Faced with a table laden with delicious food, the guests and hosts were all delighted.

After seeing off the inspection team, He Yuzhu was also quite drunk. He lay down in the rest room and after a while, when he was thirsty, he asked his younger sister to bring him a glass of water.

Xu Xiaomei agreed and brought in a cup of strong tea two minutes later.