Chapter 36
36.
Yi Hanxing tried his best but failed to get his manuscript back from Cather Wu. Cather Wu even outmaneuvered him and opened the office door just like Yi Hanxing had done before. He said in front of everyone, "I've accepted the manuscript. Don't worry, I'll let you know when it's published and I'll even send you a sample copy."
Yi Hanxing: ...This is teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death!
The apprentice was still there saying, "These first three chapters are quite interesting, but we have to submit at least one chapter per week for the serialization. You'd better start saving your manuscripts now and don't let it go in vain."
Yi Hanxing saw the ears of the people outside the door pricked up. What else could he say? He could only agree: "Okay, don't worry."
After the two separated, Yi Hanxing went back to find He Zhifeng and told her what He Yuexun had done.
"This brat has been corrupted by his mother. He has liked doing this kind of things behind people's backs since he was young." He Zhifeng understood what was going on as soon as he heard it and said angrily.
"Then Sister Zhifeng, how do you plan to solve this problem?" Yi Hanxing asked hurriedly.
"Everyone calls students "student masters" now. You can tell how powerful they are when you hear that. If they find out about this, there's no way to suppress it." He Zhifeng said, "There have been so many incidents of Japanese goods being smashed and looted before. I'm sure they'll smash and loot our goods this time too."
"Oh, then we won't be able to keep our things!"
"Isn't it? It doesn't matter if the lathe is broken. I can't use it now. It's a loss. But if a half-finished watch is broken, the delivery time will be delayed and the turnover will be reduced, then He Yuexun will win, right?" He Zhifeng said sarcastically.
"Sister Zhifeng, do you have any way to deal with it?" Yi Hanxing asked.
"Instead of letting a group of students destroy it, I might as well start a good show and destroy the machine tool myself to show that we have not interfered with any machine tool production." He Zhifeng said gritting his teeth.
After hearing what He Zhifeng said, Yi Hanxing knew that his guess was correct. He Zhifeng really wanted to destroy it on his own initiative.
In this case, we can only hope that the skilled craftsmen in the organization are capable enough, so as to avoid missing out on such a good opportunity because the organization is unable to replicate it in time.
Kaiser Wu also passed the news back very quickly and informed the base in the rear by telegram.
Hearing the request from Cather Wu and Yi Hanxing, the engineer who had always been in charge of this work scolded: “This is complete nonsense!”
"It sounds quite feasible to me, how can it be considered nonsense?" someone asked in confusion.
"Don't you know the production capacity of this base? How can we produce the same shell for them in such a short time?" said the engineer.
This is also Yi Hanxing's blind spot, because
Growing up in a country with a strong construction industry, Yi Hanxing never thought that it would be impossible to manufacture replacement parts with the current manufacturing capabilities.
“Are we just going to give up like this?” The people in the base also felt that missing this opportunity would be heartbreaking.
"What are you giving up?!" The people at the base immediately said, "I'm going to Shanghai right now. If I can't get this shell back, can't I get everything inside back?"
So the next night, He Zhifeng secretly opened the factory door a crack.
"Master, come in quickly." The strong young man slipped in, whispered a few words to the workers in the factory, and then quickly summoned the engineer.
As soon as the engineer entered, he looked around the machine under the light of the oil lamp, saying, "Good stuff, good stuff."
"How can it not be a good thing? I heard that the boss spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy it, and he even arranged for someone to smash it two days later. Don't you think this is a waste?" said the worker who brought people in.
"The rich have rotten dogs in their houses, but there are frozen corpses on the roads." The engineer sighed.
"What do you mean?" the worker asked the young man he knew.
"What I mean is that those capitalist bastards are not good people and they are wasteful!" the young man explained.
"That's right!" the worker continued. "In the factory I worked at before, the Japanese were so rich now that if we didn't produce 500 pieces a day, our wages would be deducted! If they blamed me, they should be hanged! But our current boss is pretty good. I can make 300 pieces a day, and the wages are more than before. If I hadn't known she was planning to destroy it, I wouldn't have agreed to help you replace the machine."
"If we hadn't known she was going to smash it, we would have found a way to buy it instead of running over and stealing it." The young man also replied: "We have discipline."
"Aming! Stop talking nonsense! Come and help the master dismantle the machine!" Someone on the side called out softly, afraid that the noise would be too loud and attract the attention of people outside.
"I'll be right there." The young man named Amin also responded softly and cooperated with the engineer to remove the entire outer shell of the machine.
"Be careful, if even one gear goes wrong it will be a big trouble. Unload the ones I brought first, and then move everything out of here," said the engineer.
"Okay, no problem." Amin said.
"The parts in here are not small. How do you plan to transport them?" asked the engineer.
"Hehe, don't worry. Although it is not small, a cart is enough. We will put it in the golden water and transport it out." Amin smiled confidently.
"What is golden water?" the engineer asked curiously.
"Sewage!" Amin replied, "We have to transport sewage to the villages outside the city every day."
"This part has come into contact with sewage and has rusted. What should I do?"
The teacher immediately said, "This is not right."
"Put it at the bottom of the bucket first. The upper layer is the manure!" Amin said, "We are very skilled at this job. We used to transport medicinal herbs for consumption this way. There is no way a machine can do it."
Hearing this, the engineer suppressed a twitch in his mouth and said, "You guys really have a solution."
"That's right, snakes have their own ways, and rats have their own ways." A Ming grinned. "Those officials wouldn't think of investigating the dung collectors."
With the assistance of Amin and others, the engineer quickly completed the disassembly and loading of the internal parts of the machine, and then put in the discarded parts he brought with him.
It was time to leave, but the engineer touched the machine tool reluctantly and said, "These drill bits are really good. Without them, the machine tool would be much less efficient. It's a pity we can't replicate it quickly."
After hearing what the engineer said, the workers who had been working in the factory asked A-Ming, "Which parts do you still need? Can't we copy them now? Does that mean we can't copy them later? When I tell my brothers to smash them, please be careful not to come here. You can come back later to replace them."
Before Amin could say anything, the engineer's eyes lit up and he grabbed the worker's hand. "Comrade, I'm going to trouble you then. Let me tell you, the shell of this machine can be moved at will. We can build a shell ourselves to cover it. Even if you smash the things inside, it doesn't matter. I built one out of discarded parts that can fool an amateur. It's just these few seams and joints. Be careful not to damage them when you come."
Seeing the engineer so excited, Amin also understood that this was a good thing, but he still asked hesitantly: "Don't you have to destroy this after you smash it? Otherwise, won't it be discovered and replaced? Will there be enough time for us to replace it again?"
"That's definitely in time," the worker replied firmly. "I can't say anything else, but I'm confident the owner will wait until after you've replaced the unit."
"What do you mean?" Amin asked immediately.
"She is busy fighting with her father and brother now. She can't take care of what to do with this machine after she smashed it. At least she has to sort out the affairs with her father and brother before she can find a place to deal with this machine." said the worker.
Speaking of this, Amin started gossiping: "Can your boss really pass over his son to inherit the family business?"
"Why not?" The workers also gossiped, "Her uncle is a high-ranking official! And her brother is said to be a brother, but in fact, his cousin's wife got him pregnant outside. Who knows if it's her father's child?"
"Wow, do you have some inside information? Tell me!!"
"Aming!" the leader shouted seriously.
"Okay, okay." Ah Ming knew that this was against the rules, so he curled his lips and said to the worker, "Brother, I'll come and chat with you next time."
The workers saw this and knew that the Workers and Peasants Party had many rules. Seeing that Amin looked unhappy, they agreed immediately: "Okay, anytime.
I haven't satisfied my gossipy desire yet.
The leader gave them a stern look. Seeing that the engineer had already used charcoal pencil and paper to draw the parts that needed to be replaced next, he urged everyone, "Everyone, pack up and leave as soon as possible. The longer the night, the more trouble there is. Don't run into the patrol later."
The group came and left without anyone noticing. If Yi Hanxing had not been told by Kaiser Wu when he was urged to finish his work that the internal parts had been replaced and asked him to find a way to delay He Zhifeng from dealing with the lathe until the drill and other external parts were replaced, Yi Hanxing would not even have known that anyone had entered He Zhifeng's factory. This shows how ignorant the He family was.
On the weekend when Yi Hanxing was visited by Cather Wu to urge him to submit his manuscript, He Zhifeng, as expected, saw the students gathered outside the factory gate to protest, and immediately ordered the workers to pull the lathe outside.
He Zhifeng stood outside the door, explaining loudly on the table. The workers inside the door were nervously preparing beside the machines: "Remember this? When you hit the lathe, focus on the main body of the lathe. Don't hit the protruding parts. They will be useful later.
“I know, I know.
"The workers in the factory were all rushing to finish the work, and the boss happened to need it, so I volunteered and said that there were brothers nearby who could take on the job. Otherwise, a good machine would be wasted, and the base was anxious to start work." said the worker.
"You are good enough now, you can even recommend yourself." Someone laughed and said, "It seems that the literacy class you took when you went to visit relatives in the countryside a few months ago was not in vain."
"That's right, I wrote my own application to join the party!" The worker said with a little pride: "Now I know at least 800 words, if not a thousand!"
While several people were discussing, He Zhifeng said outside the door: "I, He Zhifeng, am a man of my word! If I say it is fully handmade, it is fully handmade! I know that because I have machines, you are being schemed by cunning people to cause trouble here! I want to appeal to everyone here to open your eyes and not be taken advantage of!
"Then how are you going to prove it?!
"Yes! How to prove it?
"To prove it, I've had the workers pull out a lathe. Now I'm going to have it smashed to pieces so you can see we don't use any foreign machines at all. We do it all by hand!
He Zhifeng turned around and said to the workers holding hammers, "Go ahead! Smash it!
The students were in an uproar: Well, although we also wanted to smash it, you did what we did, isn’t that inappropriate?
After He Zhifeng actually smashed his own machine tool, the students looked at each other and dispersed.
He Zhifeng calmed down the protesting students in a neat and efficient manner and returned to the intensive production work. Yi Hanxing hinted that He Zhifeng had no intention of dealing with the smashed machine in the short term. In He Zhifeng's own words, he said, "Just leave it there for now. I don't need a few square meters of land anyway. I'll deal with it when I have some free time. Maybe I'll even have to contact foreign companies and take video and photos of the process.
After Kaiser Wu got the promise, the people at the base felt relieved, and Yi Hanxing also began to pack his luggage.
Summer vacation began shortly after the final exams. Seeing Yi Hanxing's progress, Cather Wu urged her to finish at least 30,000 words during the summer. Remember, the entire novel might not even reach 50,000! Yi Hanxing was so exhausted by Cather Wu's pressure that she decided to go out of town.
Happy holidays! Who wants to write an update?!
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