Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

Chapter 901: Problems with the Car Factory

"Are you Sun Meng, the director of the base's car factory?"

Zhou Tian looked at the man in front of him and asked with a smile on his face.

"It's me. Who are you?"

Sun Meng looked at Zhou Tian and the other two with a look of doubt on his face. Although he was not clear about the identities of the three people in front of him, he could feel a strong sense of oppression from Zhou Tian.

"I am Zhou Tian!"

"Zhou Tian? Are you the commander-in-chief?"

When Sun Meng listened to Zhou Tian's words, a look of shock instantly appeared on his face. You know, he knew a few months ago that the former commander-in-chief of the base had been arrested for corruption and bribery, but he only knew that a new commander-in-chief would take office in the next few days.

It was not until a few days ago that he learned the name of the new commander-in-chief from some of his former leaders, and the leaders repeatedly warned him that the new commander-in-chief came from the old city and had a very powerful background, so he should be careful.

However, Sun Meng did not take it seriously. After all, in his opinion, he worked diligently every day, and with the current car factory at the base, it was hard to say whether the commander-in-chief knew about him or not.

But he never expected that today, he would actually meet the commander-in-chief in the car factory. For a moment, a trace of restraint flashed across his face.

"Commander-in-chief, I didn't know it was you, I..."

Just when Sun Meng wanted to apologize, Zhou Tian waved his hand and said with a smile: "Okay, this is my own decision. After all, apart from a few research institutes or machinery factories with technology, I have never seen any other units in the country that can apply for car manufacturing. It was only yesterday that I looked through several factories in the base and found that we also have a car manufacturing plant in our base."

"So I became curious and wanted to come and see the details of our car factory in person!"

Actually, when Zhou Tian took office, if it was a normal handover, he should have first convened a base meeting and met with the middle and senior management of the base. Unfortunately, the previous base commander was reported for corruption and bribery and was arrested in a hurry, so this process was omitted. This meant that Zhou Tian had no time to meet with the senior management of the base during this period.

Instead, he was constantly sorting out the situation in the base, which led to the situation that Sun Meng did not recognize Zhou Tian.

"Now that I've seen the car factory, I find that our car factory seems to be a little worse than I imagined!"

Zhou Tian said as he looked around, seeing that there were only a few bare factory buildings, his expression flashed with a hint of disappointment. Compared with the car factory under the Red Star Research Institute, the gap here is not a little bit.

"Commander-in-chief, this is my fault!"

After hearing what Zhou Tian said, Sun Meng opened his mouth to defend himself, but in the end he could not help but lower his head in disappointment. After all, the current car factory is just as the commander-in-chief said, it is really not good. In fact, the car factory was not like this at the beginning.

This place was very glorious in the past. When it was first established, it gathered many scientists from the base to imitate Big Brother's cars and to research their own car-making technology. Even the former commander-in-chief wanted to make a name for himself by building the first batch of domestically-made vehicles.

There used to be thousands of workers here, and they had their own manufacturing and assembly workshops. But later, as the scientists at the car factory were unable to break through the big brother's car manufacturing technology, and the Red Star Research Institute's car factory suddenly emerged, the former commander-in-chief became completely disappointed with the car factory.

As the subsequent investment became less and less, the car factory gradually declined. Even now, many workers have lost their original enthusiasm and started to slack off in the factory. Even the original scientists have been transferred to other departments of the base.

For several months, the workers could not even get their wages as all the money was embezzled by the previous commander-in-chief. It was because of this that the previous commander-in-chief was reported and Zhou Tian came.

To put it bluntly, the reason why the higher-ups let Zhou Tian take over as the commander-in-chief of the base was to let him solve various problems of the base. This was also one of the reasons why he was entrusted with such an important task.

"Old Sun, I know everything here. Why don't you take me around?"

Seeing Sun Meng's dejected look, Zhou Tian knew that it was not his fault that the car factory became like this, so he walked up to him, patted him on the shoulder and asked with a smile.

"Oh, okay, I'll show you around now!"

After being patted on the shoulder by his leader, Sun Meng came back to his senses from his guilt. He immediately forced a smile on his face and walked step by step with the three of them towards the factory, introducing the factory to them as they walked.

"Commander-in-chief, this is the assembly workshop, and in front of it is the manufacturing workshop... There are a total of 138 workers in the assembly workshop, including..."

With Sun Meng's introduction, Zhou Tian gradually had a clear idea of the layout of the entire car factory. To be honest, the entire car factory was not as bad as he thought, although the machine tools in the workshop were indeed a bit old and backward when it was first established.

But later, with the emergence of various advanced machine tools in the country, the machine tools in the car factory were replaced batch after batch. Although the current machine tools are not the most advanced in the country, they are not inferior to those abroad.

In the workshop, many workers were using semi-automatic machine tools skillfully, processing precision parts smoothly. Zhou Tian's eyes lit up because he could clearly see that the technical level of each of these workers was at level five or even above level five.

There are even more than a dozen level eight workers, and this is just an assembly workshop.

Such a group of excellent workers could be regarded as a wealth of profound heritage if placed in any factory in Beijing. However, here, he could not see any enthusiasm for work in the eyes of these workers.

There was even some numbness in his eyes, which made Zhou Tian feel uncomfortable. He couldn't help but curse the previous commander-in-chief again in his heart, turned his head to look at Sun Meng and asked: "Old Sun, can you tell me about the previous commander-in-chief?"

Because he knew very well that if he wanted to make the workers here enthusiastic about their work again, he must first resolve their concerns and regain their trust.

But before he came, he had no idea how big a mistake the previous commander-in-chief had made that caused these people to become so numb to their work.

"Hey, Commander-in-Chief, I was also wrong in this matter!"

As the director of the car factory, how could Sun Meng not understand the suffering of these workers? You know, they were all elites transferred from all over the country, and they came here with the purpose of serving the country.

But who would have thought that in the end, due to the actions of the former commander-in-chief, they suddenly felt desperate, and the delay of wages and wanton suppression were all normal things.

As Sun Meng told his story, Zhou Tian realized that corruption was only a minor crime committed by the former commander-in-chief. He also committed many other crimes, such as suppressing petitioners, colluding with the deputy director of the car factory, and physically attacking workers.