Chapter 749: Changes in the Research Institute

Chapter 749: Changes in the Research Institute

"Uncle, this matter is probably not that simple. Besides, this is a matter for the research institute, so I'm afraid it will ultimately require the research institute to resolve it!"

Zhou Tian said solemnly, as the former president of the Red Star Research Institute, he naturally knew that the Red Star Research Institute was above the Changping District Government in terms of rank, and his uncle would not be able to investigate the institute at all.

There might be other things involved. Otherwise, based on Zhou Tian's understanding of Zhang Mingzhi, he would not make such a decision.

"Then what are you going to do?"

When Liu Wei heard what his nephew said, his expression also stiffened slightly.

"I plan to ask someone about this matter first to see what happened in the institute?"

As he spoke, Zhou Tian stood up, walked to the phone in his uncle's office, picked up the phone and called Song Weiguo, informing him to come to the Changping District Government. After the call, he sat down on the sofa again, waiting for Song Weiguo to arrive.

"Xiaotian, is the person you are looking for reliable?"

Liu Wei saw everything Zhou Tian did just now, and couldn't help but ask with some concern.

You have to know that this is a problem with the Red Star Research Institute itself, and his nephew has been away from the institute for so long. He doesn't think that the people in the institute will obey his nephew's orders.

"Don't worry, uncle. If it were someone else, I might not believe it, but I know him very well!"

Zhou Tian naturally knew his uncle's suspicion and assured him.

About half an hour later, there was a knock on my uncle's office door.

"Come in!"

Zhou Tian said, and stood up hurriedly. Sure enough, the door opened, and Song Weiguo walked in quickly. When he saw Zhou Tian, ​​surprise flashed in his eyes, and he rushed forward in two steps, tightly holding Zhou Tian's hand, his voice trembling with excitement.

"Dean, you are finally back?"

"Weiguo, long time no see!"

Although Zhou Tian was very excited when he saw Song Weiguo, he suppressed his excitement. After all, the most important thing now was to figure out the changes in the research institute first.

"Okay, Weiguo, sit down first, I want to ask you something!"

Zhou Tian was also unable to hide his excitement, but the situation was urgent, so he suppressed the surging emotions in his heart, patted Song Weiguo on the shoulder, motioned him to sit down, and began to ask about the changes in the research institute in recent years.

Hearing Zhou Tian's question, Song Weiguo was silent for a long time, then he sighed heavily, with a complex look in his eyes, and slowly recounted the tremendous changes that the institute had undergone over the years.

It turned out that after Zhou Tian was transferred, under the leadership of Zhang Mingzhi, the Red Star Research Institute continued to move forward steadily according to the established plan, foreign exchange earnings continued to rise, and its subordinate factories also developed prosperously.

However, misfortune came quietly. Around the end of 1963, Jiang Long, a core technical backbone, was transferred away, and the machinery factory came to a standstill at the key node of machine tool transformation and upgrading.

Although there is no immediate impact on the conventional machine tool production of the export big brother, the research and development of new machine tools has run into trouble.

Immediately afterwards, Dean Zhang Mingzhi was secretly transferred to the Northwest to be in charge of a top-secret project.

Without its backbone, the management of the institute quickly fell into chaos.

Later, although the superiors appointed a new dean and vice dean, these two people were only focused on fighting for power and knew nothing about the development and management of the institute.

In order to firmly control the institute, they placed their cronies everywhere, and many project leaders promoted by Zhou Tian were sidelined. The once pure scientific research holy land has now become an empty shell with only a good appearance.

At this point, Song Weiguo's face was full of bitterness: "If I hadn't kept your instructions in mind and guarded those core factories tightly, and if I hadn't had some military background, they wouldn't dare to easily touch these factories that can earn foreign exchange stably. I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to keep this little fortune!

However, although they dared not touch these core factories, the surrounding meat processing plants, brick and tile factories, and textile factories could not escape their clutches. Previously, they also wanted to get involved in the Chinese medicine hospital and the furniture factory, but I stopped them. "

"Dean, to be honest, if it weren't for your instructions, I would have given up long ago..."

When Song Weiguo said this, a trace of bitterness appeared on his face, especially when he thought back to the various restrictions he had been subjected to in the past two years. He himself didn't even know how he had managed to get through it.

"Old Song, thank you for your hard work."

Zhou Tian felt mixed emotions, and all his words finally turned into a sigh. He patted Song Weiguo's shoulder hard, wanting to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start.

Song Weiguo took out a cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath. Amid the smoke, he let out another long sigh.

The office fell into silence, and Zhou Tian and Liu Wei were both in a particularly heavy mood.

They had seen too much chaos like this in the past two years, but when the Red Star Research Institute, which he founded, fell into such a state, Zhou Tian felt heartbroken.

He was especially heartbroken when he saw that Song Weiguo had grown a lot of white hair on his temples in just a few years.

He originally thought that the pork supply problem was just accidental, but now it seems that someone clearly wants to completely destroy everything he has worked so hard to build!

"Weiguo, tell me about the specific situation in the factory. Are the factories stable now?"

Zhou Tian suppressed the anger in his heart and asked in a low voice.

"What's going on at the factory?"

Song Weiguo smiled bitterly and took another long puff of his cigarette. "Think about it, if the meat processing plant fell into the hands of those people, would it be good? You set up the breeding farm specifically to ensure the nutritional supply of the workers, but since the meat processing plant changed its director, it has been harder than climbing to the sky for the workers to buy some meat.

In the past, you set a rule that every worker could get at least one pound of meat coupons per month, but now there are only three ounces left, and even if you have coupons, you often can't buy meat. I went to the current dean to argue, but he always used moral principles to put me off.

I heard that the meat from the meat processing plant is now supplied to Sijiu City first. Logically, our factory director can go to the countryside to purchase, but I don’t know what kind of shameful deal he has reached with the factory in Sijiu City. Now the countryside is full of buyers from other factories.

We wanted to buy some meat, but we were rejected everywhere. The little meat we bought was just a drop in the bucket for the hundreds of thousands of workers in the factory!"

"This is simply outrageous!" Zhou Tian was furious. He slammed the coffee table, stood up, and paced back and forth in the office.

Although he anticipated that the situation at the institute was not good, he never imagined that the situation would deteriorate to such an extent.

You know, this was the basic plan he set at the beginning, and it was also the last resort for the country to be less restricted by foreign countries in the future. But now, in just two years, things have changed so much.

How could he tolerate this?

After turning around, he immediately turned around and walked out the door.

"Xiaotian, where are you going?"

Seeing Zhou Tian's actions, Liu Wei and Song Weiguo couldn't help but stand up and ask.

"Go find the old leader!"

Zhou Tian said this without even turning his head, and hurried downstairs, leaving the two of them looking at each other, with a hint of worry in their eyes.