Yu Zixian carefully observed from the side, carefully checking his thoughts.

Master Zhou carefully flashed his flashlight, apparently picking something from the pile of vegetable leaves and putting it in a bag.

This leaf is clearly not meant to be fed to pigs!

At this time, Liu Jian had already squatted down, and the big man was secretly wiping his tears on the side.

Yu Zixian took a deep breath, and didn't dare to make any other moves, for fear of disturbing the old man who was picking up vegetable leaves in the distance!

He beckoned to Liu Jian and tiptoed to the side.

Liu Jian followed.

"Master Zhou?"

"Hmm. ”

"How long?"

"Since the shutdown of our workshop this year. ”

……

After Liu Jian's reminder, combined with the memories of Master Zhou's family in his mind, Yu Zixian quickly figured out the cause and effect.

As the 208 workshop responsible for the research and development of electron tubes in the second branch, after the Quartet fell into a predicament, it naturally had nothing to do, and the sharp blade of stopping work and waiting for work was finally cut to the 208 workshop, and it is unknown whether the next step is to lay off or be laid off.

A branch factory is better, responsible for military orders, as long as military orders exist, the factory has to maintain no matter what.

However, the second branch factory in charge of small electron tubes and small integrated circuit boards was not so lucky. Now the second branch factory has almost completely stopped production, and the wages of workers are naturally gone. Occasionally, it is only the 201 and 202 production workshops that are responsible for production, and the workers can more or less symbolically pay a little salary, but the 208 workshop of the research and development nature has nothing, and all the wages are only recorded in the account book, looking forward to the factory will be able to improve its efficiency one day.

This is nonsense, is the salary recorded in the account book still considered a salary? This life oil, salt, sauce and vinegar is not in arrears!

The factory has lost its revenue, and Master Zhou's retirement salary has also been deeply affected and has shrunk significantly. Even more unfortunate is that the youngest son is in workshop 208. What can a family of people do with his shrinking retirement salary?

Picking up vegetable leaves, what kind of embarrassment is life in?

"Zixian, do you know why I insist on staying? That's why I stayed: so that our masters don't come here to pick up vegetables and leaves to eat!"

"It's true that there is a problem in our factory, but there is always a way, and there is still a rescue, right?"

"At the beginning of the year, Zuo Saburo left, you have to leave now! You all go!" At this time, Liu Jian was already crying a little.

Liu Jian said that Zuo Sanlang's original name was Zuo Fubin, and he was also a child of a factory worker, but he successfully applied for the opportunity to study abroad at this university at the end of last year, and left less than a month after the Spring Festival this year.

When they were in the compound, the three of them had a good relationship. And more than five years ago, in the college entrance examination, the three of them were admitted to Yenching's university together, which became a beautiful talk in the compound. And due to the environment, all three of them chose to major in microelectronics or near electronics. After graduation, Yu Zixian and Liu Jian returned to the factory, while Zuo Fubin saw the backward reality of the domestic microelectronics industry, gave up the job opportunity to take the exam desperately, and finally successfully applied for the opportunity to study abroad. And San Lang's nickname is a condensed portrayal of Zuo Fubin's serious study and research spirit since he was a child.

Zuo Saburo is gone, and now Yu Zixian is also leaving...... This made Liu Jian feel confused, but he never doubted the meaning of his persistence!

A suffocating silence filled the air......

"Stay, Zixian, okay, my strength alone is too small!" Liu Jian seemed unwilling, and pleaded in a low voice.

"Zixian, don't forget, we are from the military industry, and Sifang used to be one of the top factories in China's electronics industry, and we have the pride of our military workers: even if we die standing up, we can't survive!"

At this time, Liu Jian regained his calmness and confidence, and his voice was almost roaring!

……

Liu Jian's series of slightly crying roars made Yu Zixian's eyes also fill with some kind of liquid, and the blood in his body began to gush to his head.

"Liu Jian, it's not that I don't want to stay, but ...... What can I do if I stay in this mess at the moment? We are all small technicians, who will listen to me? It depends on you and me? Relying on the two of us with a bunch of old, weak, sick and disabled?"

"I've made a lot of suggestions to the factory before, but every time I have been in the sea, there is no ripple at all! To tell you the truth! I really planned to leave this time, and I originally wanted to take you with me, but looking at your appearance, I still forget it......

Seeing that Liu Jian was still looking at himself with a painful face, Yu Zixian continued: "Do you think I'm not uncomfortable!? I his uncle, I dream every day that our Sifang Electron Tube Factory is in full swing, earning countless amounts of money, leading our country's electronics industry to kill the international bunch of idiots and fat guys, and go to his uncle's 'Batumi embargo'!"

Yu Zixian was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "But, after all, it's a dream! My good brother, it's time to wake up!"

Yes, Yu Zixian had a dream in his last life, dreaming that one day the electronic industry of the Republic of China could stand at the forefront of the world, change the appearance of the Republic of China with "lack of cores and fewer screens", and finally kill those international crocodiles!

It's just that it's a dream after all!

However, in this life, God played a joke on him, but he was reborn in an electronic company that was already in serious trouble!

In such an enterprise, if a technician wants to stand out, although it is not impossible, after all, he is not a vegetarian, but it will be very difficult, and it will take a lot of time and energy to deal with twists and turns, and the system, and a group of old stubborn people!

Yu Zixian's mouth opened and he wanted to continue talking, but no sound came out of his dry throat, he sighed heavily, patted his friend's shoulder, and waved his hand, "Go back." ”

just said silently in my heart:"After the crazy and disorderly introduction of the TV production line,Overcapacity will be inevitable,And after the technology is seriously backward,We will find that we haven't learned any technology,In the end, all that is left is chicken feathers all over the ground,There is no survivor。 This is the cruelty of market competition, and the television industry, which now accounts for more than eighty percent of the current output value of the electronics industry, is obviously not clearly understood by most people. Survival of the fittest, this is just the beginning. When we are forced to push from the era of the planned economy to the market economy, we are doomed to a large number or even 99 percent of the enterprises to be eliminated, suspended, closed, or reorganized...... We can only blame ourselves for not being angry, blaming others, and it's too late for others to see the jokes!"

Liu Jian stood in a daze for a long time, looking at the back left by Yu Zixian, what else did he want to say......

When they passed, Master Zhou had already left.

Someone at the other end of the market is picking up leaves, and hopefully it's not people from all over the world.

I didn't say anything all the way, but when I went back, this time it was Yu Zixian pedaling the car, and Liu Jian was sitting behind.

Yu Zixian and Liu Jian's Sifang Electron Tube Factory was born during the first five-year plan of the Republic and was one of the 156 key projects built with the assistance of the Soviet Union.

That was the heroic era of the republic's industry: at the end of the "First Five-Year Plan" period of large-scale industrialization, the republic's heavy industry gradually developed from the original poor and white to the production of heavy-duty automobiles, jet aircraft, and so on......

Construction began in June 1954 and was completed in July 1956, and the Sifang Tube Factory became the first tube factory established in the New Republic. In the early stage, it mainly produced electric vacuum tubes for military communication equipment, radar, navigation, and cutting-edge weapons for national defense, just like integrated circuits in the 21 st century; in the later stage, it developed various semiconductor devices, such as semiconductor transistors, digital circuits, linear circuits, large-scale integrated circuits, and so on.

In the more than 40 years after its completion, Sifang Electron Tube Factory went all the way to glory, until entering the eighties, the country opened the curtain of economic reform, and the organization under the operation mode of the previous planned economic system slowly revealed her various shortcomings, until today's complete decay......

Beginning in 1986, the state decided to large-scale disarmament and reduce military spending, and the national defense orders of the Sifang Electron Tube Factory dropped to 70% of the original orders; at the same time, affected by the impact of imports, the orders for civilian products also dropped sharply, compared with the total sales of 65 million yuan in 85 years, the sales of the whole factory in 86 years (semiconductor and electron tube products) plummeted to more than 4,000 yuan.

What makes Sifang Electron Tube Factory even worse is that the economy of the Republic has been increasingly inflationary since 85 years, the state has adjusted capital, increased the depreciation rate, increased various cost standards, and the prices of raw materials, fuel and power have indeed increased significantly, so that the factory expenses have risen sharply, and these sharp increases in costs have seriously exceeded the Sifang Electron Tube Factory's own digestion capacity.

Since then, with the passage of time, the business situation of Sifang Electronics is getting worse and worse, orders are decreasing year by year, and workers' welfare has been growing slowly.

In the past five years from 1986 to the present, although Sifang Electronics has also carried out some reforms and attempts, it has achieved little success. If there is no major change this year, even if the factory wants to launch new projects or engage in technological innovation to raise funds, banks will stay away.

But is it easy to think that an old factory with thousands of employees will suddenly be reborn?

Not easy!

The Sifang Electron Tube Factory has not paid wages normally for four months now.

Seeing the scene of Master Zhou picking up vegetable leaves in the evening made Yu Zixian feel very heartbroken and sad! He wondered if he was a little too selfish to leave like this?

Although he once thought about staying, like Liu Jian, a military child who has a strong change in the status quo, to shoulder the mission and responsibility of promoting the development of the electronics industry, or at least let this factory "live", but the reality is very cruel!

But whether you go or not, you have to talk to the old man formally after all.

Noisy to noisy, noisy to noisy, the business is still clear.

Before, Yu Zixian had a quarrel with the old man because of his resignation, and he lived in the factory dormitory in anger. I haven't been home for a week, and although my mother called and told me to go home, he only verbally agreed.

After coming back with Liu Jian, Yu Zixian got out of the car directly in front of his house.

During this period, Liu Jian did not say a word, and Yu Zixian directly ignored the resentful eyes of the "slut".

Yu Zixian opened the door of his house and found that the old man Luo in the factory was also there, watching TV in the living room with his old man and mother.

When the old man saw his son coming back, he glared at him after a glance, and seemed to be still angry with him.

Yu Zixian shouted "Mom" to the old man who got up, but he didn't say anything to the old man Luo and the old man on the side! He was now very angry, or very sad, that the two "old men" were indifferent to his suggestion, and he really didn't want to pay attention to them now!

However, speaking of his current home, it took him a long time to get used to the love and warmth given by his mother and this family, and now the two titles of "Dad" and "Mom" have finally reached a smooth level.

It turned out that he was an orphan, and he cherished this hard-won warmth very much.

However, for "Dad", in his heart, he prefers to be called an old man.

My mother asked eagerly, "Come back so late, it's good to come back, have you eaten?"

"Not yet. Yu Zixian slept all day, and wanted to eat something at night, but was tossed by Liu Jianyi, only to find that his stomach was still empty, which would seem to be a little hungry.

"Then you wait, I'll clean it up for you......" Mom turned around and ran to the kitchen.

Yu Zixian changed his shoes and just wanted to go to his bedroom, when five words floated behind him: "Come to my study." ”

The old man's tone was flat but powerful, and it seemed irresistible.

Although the old man has retired at home in recent years, he is domineering and leaky, and he is not angry and arrogant, especially when he is angry or in his face.

"Resignation report handed in?"

"Hand it in. ”

With a "snap", Yu Zixian saw a document bag flying on the coffee table in front of him.