Peizhou Steel Mill is a national key enterprise established after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the construction of the factory was very valued by the state, and a well-known architect was invited to plan the factory area and design the landmark building.

Just from its imposing gate and the same bluestone road as the small square in front of the gate, you can know how much manpower and material resources were used back then.

Wearing blue overalls, with the words "Peizhou Iron and Steel" printed on the chest, just these words, casually go anywhere in the country, can make people look up and stand tall, and say that I am a Peizhou steelworker! That's something to be very proud of and proud of.

Zhou Xiaoan walked to the bluestone main road in front of the factory, and walked to the factory with the flow of people going to work, the white marble doorpost stood at the gate, and in the distance were five towering blast furnace chimneys, spraying white smoke day and night.

On the nearby roadway, large trucks come and go, and you can clearly hear the whine of the train whistle, which is the sound of special trains carrying iron ore and steel entering and leaving the station.

Peizhou Steel Mill has its own special transportation railway, and the train runs directly into the storage area of the factory, unloads the ore, and transports away the steel, day and night.

Nearly 30,000 employees of the whole factory, with the operation of the blast furnace and the train, sweat like rain in the molten steel, for this great era is really putting all the passion- passion and blood.

In the morning, when the factory was entered, the loudspeakers played inspiring revolutionary songs, and bicycles and crowds spread like rushing water on the wide bluestone road, pouring into the tall factory gate and rushing to various jobs.

Zhou Xiaoan and Teacher Fan walked to the gate of the factory, and a tall young man walked out of the guard room, showing a bright smile at the two of them, it was the officer who helped Zhou Xiaoan move the furniture, "Section Chief Fan is early, Comrade Zhou Xiaoan is here to report today!" If you have anything to do, go to the security department to find me at any time, and I will be a colleague in a factory in the future, so don't be polite. ”

He also introduced to Uncle Sun of the doorman and a few workers around him, "This is Comrade Zhou Xiaoan, who has just been transferred to the personnel department of our factory, and Comrade Zhou Xiaoan, who picked up five catties of cornmeal and sent it to our factory the year before last!" ”

Everyone welcomed Zhou Xiaoan in a friendly manner and warmly extended their hands.

Zhou Xiaoan subconsciously swallowed his saliva, took a deep breath, stretched out his arm with a slight tremble, and held the hands of his class brothers hard.

After a few words of greeting at the gate of the factory, Mr. Fan took Zhou Xiaoan to the personnel department.

The personnel department and the factory department are on the second floor of the same gray cement building, and the offices are opposite the door.

When I went up to the second floor, I stopped in front of a large office with a size of 60 or 70 square meters, and there were several signs nailed to the door, and the personnel department, the procurement department, and the archives room were all installed.

The room is also the same as the government units of this era, there are several large filing cabinets against the wall, and the rest are desks facing each other, neatly arranged, and it is impossible to tell which department it is.

Zhou Xiao'an glanced at it, there must be at least thirty desks in the entire office, a large stove made of red bricks was installed against the wall, a young man was squatting there to add coal, and the silver tin stove barrel was erected high in the room, sticking out of the window.

Production tasks are more important than everything else, all resources are tilted towards the front line, and cadres of government organs and units must set an example by being hard and simple. In this day and age, this is not a slogan, but is embodied in all aspects.

Therefore, in the whole of Peizhou, except for the regular office buildings like the municipal government, the offices of many units have not been heated, and they rely on their own stoves to heat themselves. Just after the Spring Festival, the cold spring is still there, and a person must come to the unit early every day to make the stove.

Of course, this person must be a young man in the unit who strives for positive performance.

Seeing Teacher Fan and Zhou Xiao'an enter the door, the young man who made the stove hurriedly got up, "Section Chief Fan, morning." ”

He enthusiastically stretched out his hand to Zhou Xiaoan, "This is Comrade Zhou Xiaoan who is going to report today, right?" I am Wang Husheng from the purchasing department, welcome to work in our steel mill! In the future, we will actively devote ourselves to the national iron and steel industry and work hard to build a new China! ”

Zhou Xiaoan has been accustomed to this way of speaking, people in this era say these words are sincere and passionate, very infectious, she also stretched out the hand that was numb by the workers at the gate of the factory, "Hello Comrade Wang Husheng!" We will be colleagues from now on, so please take care of us. ”

The colleagues are very warm and friendly, of course everyone knows Zhou Xiaoan's identity, Section Chief Fan's students, in order for her always taciturn Section Chief Fan to be able to slap the table and quarrel with others at the meeting of the municipal party committee, just rush this, everyone has to look down on this new little girl.

Of course, Zhou Xiaoan himself also performed positively, put down his satchel on his desk and went to mop the floor, water the flowers and take out the garbage, and ran around to fill the six hot water bottles in the whole office with hot water, and even the procurement department was stained.

Teacher Fan focused on introducing her to Sister Niu of the Personnel Department, Deputy Section Chief Lu Yahua, Procurement Section Chief He Dayong and Deputy Section Chief Gao Mingwei, Zhou Xiaoan can see from the age of these people that this is a very high-level person in this office, and they can usually talk about anything.

Modestly and seriously greeted several old-timers, and introduced himself to all colleagues in the office, showing his determination to work hard for the cause of communism, Zhou Xiaoan's first day on the job was officially started.

Not in a hurry to work first, Mr. Fan took her to the factory committee for a walk, recognized the factory director Liu and nearly ten deputy factory directors of the factory committee, and introduced several officers and cadres of the factory committee to her, which was the official report was over.

Zhou Xiaoan is very normal to others, but he is very concerned about Director Liu.

This factory director Liu should be the old factory director who is often mentioned by his grandfather.

Grandpa and old workers are the director of Factory Liu mentioned with regret.

Director Liu came to the steel mill from the beginning of the establishment of the factory, and took everyone to build the steel mill brick by brick, hard and simple, and worked hard for the development of the steel mill, which won the love of the whole factory staff.

However, in the early 60s, several major production accidents occurred in the steel mill one after another, causing many casualties and causing heavy losses to state property.

Later, the food was tight, the people in the steel mill were unstable, production was affected, and there was a large-scale workers' strike, and some people reported that Director Liu was not in good management, and Director Liu was dismissed, and finally he could only stay in the steel mill to manage logistics.

But this is not the end, the steel mill imported a batch of advanced steelmaking equipment from abroad at that time, and spent a large amount of foreign exchange reserves of the country, but it could only be abandoned because of an accident caused by foreign experts in the installation process, causing international disputes.

When the whole factory and even the whole province and the whole country were anxious about this matter, everyone found that Director Liu, who had been silent for a long time, died next to the batch of equipment with an overseas Chinese engineer.

The international impact of this incident is very bad, and foreign experts have refused to come to China to install equipment again, and now they have enough good reasons to refuse.

Director Liu was designated as an enemy, which affected his family and ruined his reputation throughout his life.

Years later, the dusty past is revealed, the overseas Chinese engineer is an international spy, and he and his accomplices have infiltrated the equipment installers and caused the tragic death of foreign equipment experts.

Director Liu was rehabilitated, but his bones had long been disposed of by the angry people at the time, and some people said that he was thrown into the steelmaking furnace after being whipped...... (To be continued.) )