After more than 2,000 kilometers of road for seven days and seven nights, Li Lu and his party entered the city of Luoyang on the morning of the eighth day. I didn't take a shower and change my clothes for a week, and I basically didn't stop driving.

The reliability of the LC80 has withstood the test, and it is worthy of a generation of famous cars, a generation of magic cars in the minds of many automobile off-road enthusiasts.

Li Lu and they directly found Yituo, and directly used the letter of introduction to open a guest room in Yituo's guest house, the first thing was to take a hot bath, and then sleep steadily.

Li Lu no longer knows how many times he swore in his heart - he will resolutely not drive such a long distance in the future. This is still a full-size wide and comfortable off-road vehicle like the LC80, and if it is replaced by another car, it is estimated that it will be scrapped long ago. The road conditions are really bad these days!

Because he arrived several days later than scheduled, Li Lu was no longer able to get in touch with Ma Jintao's students, so he had to go to the telephone office to call home. In order to facilitate communication, Li Lu asked Secretary Zhou for help, and installed a telephone for the Red Star Tractor Factory before he set off, and specially pulled a line for this purpose, so he could call the Red Star Factory directly. Of course, this is not a program-controlled phone system, so it still has to go through a cumbersome transfer.

It took a few minutes to get through, and it was another few minutes to wait for the person who answered the phone to call Ma Jintao over. Get in touch with Ma Jintao, and Ma Jintao will contact his students again. He and his students could only communicate by telegram, and when his students saw the telegram, they would come to the guest house to meet Li Lu.

No matter how fast the process is, it will take two days.

Therefore, while waiting, Li Lu waved his hand and asked the other three to go out and go around Luoyang, the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, while he stayed and waited for Ma Jintao's students.

In the history of China, Luoyang has a pivotal position, is the witness of history, established in the Xia Dynasty, through the Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou, Eastern Han, Cao Wei, Western Jin, Northern Wei, Sui, Tang, Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin and other thirteen dynasties of the capital, before and after more than 1,500 years.

The site was decided to be placed in Luoyang, which is said to be because Taizu jokingly said, "Can you accommodate so many emperors, but can't you accommodate a tractor factory?" ”。 In fact, from the geographical point of view, for various considerations, it is the best choice to establish a tow in the Central Plains, which can better radiate all parts of the country.

The most impressive is undoubtedly the red Soviet-style complex of Yituo, which in another twenty years will be turned into a protected cultural relic. The guest house, in one of the tall red buildings, Li Lu had the opportunity to live in the old Maozi-style building for a few days.

He was not idle, because he had a letter of introduction, he could walk around the guest house, see the famous Yituo throughout the country, and see the Yituo that made the first tractor factory to bid farewell to the agricultural era in China. In the minds of people like Li Lu, Yituo is sacred, not so much a huge factory, but a symbol of spiritual totem.

In its heyday, Yituo manufactured more than 80% of the country's tractors.

At this time, Yituo is experiencing the first wave of pain brought about by the market economy, and is gritting its teeth to overcome the difficulties. This is the only opportunity for Li Lu to dig skilled workers from Yituo here in recent years, and he will not come again. Therefore, even if he has worked hard, he has to come here.

Li Lu can't attribute all the opportunities of the Red Star Tractor Factory to his advanced consciousness, which has a lot of luck. For example, when I met a new director of Guangming Factory, an open-minded new factory director, for example, I encountered a crisis when I encountered it.

The contract signed between the Red Star Tractor Factory and the Guangming Factory clearly stipulates the time, if the specified number of Nanfang 15 tractors cannot be delivered within the specified time, it will be punished at the same time, and the Red Star Tractor Factory will also lose an opportunity to work for the Guangming Factory to gain manufacturing experience and related technology.

The best way to do this is undoubtedly to poach a tow of workers, and the mature workers will be able to start production as soon as they are in place.

In fact, Li Lu didn't have much hope for this.

Before the reform of state-owned enterprises was launched in 1992, no one would be willing to give up their establishment in a state-owned enterprise and go to work in a small private factory. Such a phenomenon can even be said to be non-existent. After all, Ma Jintao's situation is very rare, and he is forced by research funds. Therefore, Ma Jintao has no hope at all for Li Lu's thoughts.

Whether it works or not, you have to give it a try, even if you can poach one or two people, this trip is worth it.

Faster than Li Lu expected, Ma Jintao's students came over.

The people from the guest house knocked on Li Lu's door with Liu Guisong, Li Lu was holding a letter of introduction from Guangming Factory, and the people in the guest house were still very polite.

"Section Chief Li? Section Chief Li, a comrade named Liu Guisong is looking for you. The man from the guest house knocked on the door and said.

Li Lu was flipping through the daily newspaper and hurriedly opened the door.

The person at the guest house smiled and pointed to the young man with glasses of medium stature next to him and said, "Section Chief Li, this Comrade Liu Guisong is looking for you." ”

Liu Guisong helped his glasses, and was a little surprised to see Li Lu so young. The teacher said in the telegram that he was the head of the security section of the Guangming Factory, and he thought it was a little old man.

"Li, Section Chief Li, hello, I received a telegram from Mr. Ma, and he said ......"

Li Lu was overjoyed and said with a smile, "You are Xiao Liu, okay, please come in." ”

Inviting people in, Li Lu handed a flue to the people in the guest house and thanked him, and then brought them to the door.

poured a teapot of hot water for Liu Guisong, and Li Lu sat down and looked at him. This should be a very mild-tempered young man, about twenty-four years old, which is the age when he walked out of the ivory tower, the distance between his eyebrows is relatively wide, and he can see that he has a good temper, and his slightly rounded face has two small dimples when he smiles, and he looks more like a big boy, if not in a gray tunic.

"Xiao Liu, thank you for your hard work." Li Lu handed him a cigarette, "Do you smoke?" ”

"Pump, thank you, Section Chief Li." Liu Guisong took it with both hands, and took a sip with some restraint on the spot, but he saw it clearly, the front door of the big one, selling a piece of May Day pack.

The third class of graduates from a prestigious school, Liu Guisong has the capital to walk in a factory with his head held high, but in the face of such a young section chief, even if it is a deputy section chief, he does not have the courage to hold his chin high. He knew that the Guangming Factory was a division-level unit, and the factory director and secretary were senior cadres who enjoyed the treatment of deputy military ranks, and the deputy section chief of the dignified security section, which corresponded to the local town mayor and deputy county magistrate according to the administrative level.

Comparisons are odious.

Li Lu smiled, "Don't be nervous, it's all your own people." You know that your teacher is now working in my factory, and I set up a materials research institute specifically for him. ”

"The teacher mentioned it." Liu Guisong admired it even more, not only was he the deputy section chief, but he also opened a factory by himself and invited a great person like the teacher, which shows that he has strong financial resources, why does he have a research fund of 10,000 yuan a year, right?

Liu Guisong, who has a salary of more than 100 yuan, is already very imaginative of 10,000 yuan, what a huge amount of money. The research institute they dragged for so many years, according to the capita, the average research fund was only more than 1,000 yuan per year.

Li Ludao, "Xiao Liu, let's get down to business, the purpose of my coming here is to recruit some skilled workers." You are a technician of Yituo, and I am not afraid to tell you directly, mainly to recruit people from Yituo. In the past two years, the situation has not been very good, and I heard that many employees have eaten the last meal without the next meal. ”

Liu Guisong nodded and said, "Yes, since the planned production tasks have been stopped, the situation in the factory has been getting worse day by day. are waiting for the full mass production of small four-wheelers, the sales of small batch production are very good, and the factory is making improvements for some of the problems exposed. ”

Li Lu laughed.