“The heart is broken...”

In a two-story small building in the family area of Dongxiang Machinery Factory, the old engineer Gu Jianhua shook his head and said to the visiting Feng family uncle.

People's minds, this is the deepest point that Feng Xiaochen feels in these days.The factory is still this factory, the employees are still these employees, but everyone's spirit has dispersed, and the whole factory is filled with agitation, loss, and confusion.

In the past few days, Feng Xiaochen, accompanied by Wu Suyang, has visited various workshops, laboratories and some functional offices of Dongxiang Factory.As Feng Fei had previously introduced to Feng Xiaochen, the technical strength of Dongxiang Factory was quite spectacular, and a large number of imported machine tools were placed in the workshop, many of which were numerically controlled machine tools rarely possessed by domestic and local enterprises.A series of heavy equipment such as large presses, large electric furnaces, and ganduler processing centers are enough to make the domestic equipment manufacturers contacted by the reloading office envy.

The talent team is equally luxurious.The whole factory is just the graduates of major universities have more than 200 students, some of which are from studying abroad back, what Harvard, Massachusetts, Princeton and so on, any education can blind people's eyes.In terms of skilled workers, seven-level and eight-level technicians abound, if you only have four or five levels, you are embarrassed to say that you have learned technology.According to Wu Suyang, these workers are transferred from various enterprises in the country when they built factories, originally said to borrow temporarily, take out qualified apprentices to go back.Who knows that this loan is more than 20 years, and now these people want to go back can not go back.

In the finished product library, Feng Xiaochen saw the product made by Dongxiang Factory, which is a howitzer with blue light.Feng Xiaochen did not understand the military and did not understand the indicators of the performance of the weapons, but he could see the good in the manufacturing process of these products.The machining accuracy of any part is difficult for many local enterprises to achieve.

But such a powerful enterprise, but can not give people a lively feeling.Whether it was walking in the workshop or walking into the office of the room, Feng Xiaochen saw a face of Zhang Xiaotang.Most people do nothing, read the newspaper, play poker, see Feng Xiaochen such a stranger walk, few people are curious to ask, as if everyone has lost interest in everything.

Feng Xiaochen's investigation was divided into two lines of light and darkness.The inspection on the face is to follow Wu Suyang in the production area, in private, Feng Xiaochen let his uncle Feng Fei take him, came to the home of the employees, in the form of Lajiayuan, to understand the views of the employees of the Dongxiang factory on the future of the factory.

"Alas, our factory was more beautiful, self-defense to fight back, count our factory gun quality is the best, there is no fault, and then the troops sent us the banner!"

"When the state called us to go to a hard place, we didn't say anything, carrying a backpack to this deserted mountain."Xiao Feng, don't look at our factory this factory is still very lively, when here are the original old forest, the factory land is we with a spade and picks to cut out.

"When we said we were going to prepare for war, we came and built such a large factory."Now, in a word, if we don't go to war, throw us away."

"Alas, in the past, only thinking about giving youth for the country, who knows, giving youth for life, and giving back to my children for life, I already knew that this was the case, I would rather throw my work at the beginning, I would not have come to this ghost place!"

"Xi Feng, you are in Beijing, the news is well-informed, you say, the state intends to treat us of these three-line enterprises?"

"Well, anyway, I'm not worried, the country still dares not give us food?"We have also contributed to the country.”

This is a variety of words Feng Xiaochen heard during the visit, Feng Fei took him to visit, are also close to Feng Fei's colleagues, everyone in front of Feng's uncle's nephew is not taboo.Some people say that the finger will point to the leaders in the factory, or criticize the leaders who only care about their official hats, regardless of the death of employees, or complain about the incompetence of the factory leaders, and have not been able to compete for good projects like some other third-tier enterprises to transfer to the property.For these words, Feng Xiaochen did not write to his notebook, so as not to worry about the other party, but he can still draw some judgments from these discussions, analyze the ability of the factory leader and the person.

Today, Feng Fei took Feng Xiaochen to visit the Gu Jianhua, is the oldest engineer in the factory.He was an expert on the return of the United States, and had already worked in the military system at the beginning of liberation, and had participated in the construction of 156 key projects assisted by the Soviet Union.When Dongxiang Machinery Factory was established, he was transferred from other enterprises to serve as the deputy chief engineer of the factory, and has retired, but he is still working hard on design.Feng Fei was working in the factory as a small-character generation, and Gu Jianhua was his leader and his teacher.

When Feng's uncle and nephew came to the expert building where Gu Jianhua lived, he found that there was already a guest in Gu Jianhua's house.It was an old man with all-white hair, and he looked sore.His waistplate is very straight, a look is from the professional military, but this is not surprising in the Dongxiang factory, because Dongxiang factory is a military enterprise, the emergence of some soldiers is very ordinary things.

“My name is Dong, so call me old man.”My husband and I are old friends, he makes guns, I shoots guns, we have had a relationship for almost 40 years."

Without waiting for what Gu Jianhua said, the old man smiled and introduced himself.

“Oh, that’s the old man.”Feng Fei and Feng Xiaochen respectfully called at the same time.Feng Fei usually called Gu Jianhua is also called "Gu Lao", the old man claimed to have 40 years of friendship with Gu Jianhua, naturally has to be called Dong old.

"The old man used to be in the army, and now he is retired, this time he came to Qingdong to see me."Gu Jianhua explained.

"Oh, I'm sorry."Feng Fei said, “I didn’t know you had guests in your house, and I would bother you.”If not, you and Dong Lao talk slowly, and we will visit you again another day."

Gu Jianhua waved his hand and said, “No problem, Xiao Feng, and you... Little Feng, you all sit down.”He's not an outsider, so talk to them."

The old man also said, "Yes, I and the old man are old friends, there is nothing to talk about."I heard that this little Feng comrade is a master from Beijing, although I am a big and old coarse, but I like to talk with cultured people.If you don't like my low level of education, sit down and talk."

Speaking of this degree, Feng's uncle's nephew can't go, if you insist on going, it is equivalent to not wanting to chat with Dong Lao, which is obviously very impolite.

After the people sat down, after a few words, Gu Jianhua first introduced the word to the topic.Before Feng Fei took Feng Xiaochen, he and Gu Jianhua passed the gas, telling his nephew to study for a master's degree in the Academy of Social Sciences, this time to Dongxiang factory, want to examine the operation status of the third-tier enterprises and the feasibility of "military to civilian", this topic is Feng Xiaochen this time to use the guise, he said to anyone.Gu Jianhua looked at Feng Xiaochen and asked, “Master Xiao Feng, are you going to visit our factory this time, is it your own subject, or the task of the country?”

“Both of them.”Feng Xiaochen said bluntly.

“What do you say?”Gu Jianhua asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "From my own, because my uncle is in the Dongxiang factory, if the Dongxiang factory is not good operation, it will also affect my uncle's life, so I came to Dongxiang factory, want to see if I can find a way out for Dongxiang factory, not only to help the East Xiang factory more than 5000 employees and family members, but also to help my uncle."

“Oh, my son, you’re very filial.”Gu Jianhua said with a smile to Feng Fei.

Feng Xiaochen also smiled and then said: "From the national point of view, the third-tier enterprises are also part of our country's equipment industry."I used to work in the National Rearification Office, and things about the equipment industry were also my work.In addition, before I came to Dongxiang Factory, the comrades of the Science and Industry Committee also specially told me to find a way to solve some difficulties for Dongxiang Factory.So, in that respect, I am also fulfilling the tasks entrusted to it by the CST.”

“What have you gained from your visit these days?”Gu Jianhua asked again.

Feng Xiaochen said: “The harvest is still very big.First of all, I did not expect our country's military industry system to have such a strong strength, only in terms of Dongxiang Machinery Factory, the technical strength is not inferior to the local equipment industry, such a strong manufacturing capacity if idle down, is a great waste."

“You are right, the President has said that waste is a great crime.”The old man interjected next to him.Neither he nor Gu Jianhua did disclose his position and identity, but Feng Xiaochen could imagine that he must have been a considerable leadership position, with a single mouth and a strong political tone.

"Secondly, the professional characteristics of Dongxiang Factory determine that it is very difficult to turn to the production of civilian products.Our advantage lies in precision manufacturing, artillery parts are some high temperature, harsh working conditions, high precision requirements of the workpiece, such technology for the consumer goods industry is basically not used, if it is engaged in civilian industrial equipment, it is also reasonable.

"Gu, I remember if you have a plan to prepare for the conversion of the pressure cooker?"From Master Xiao Feng's point of view, this is a completely false idea.”Dong Lao continued to comment, it seems that he is still very concerned about the topic of people's chat, Feng Xiaochen said, he listened to, and some of his own.

"The most important point is that Dongxiang Factory currently lacks the courage and determination to meet the challenge, which is the biggest problem."No matter what opportunities others can find for Dongxiang Factory, the final decision that the East Xiang factory will only be the cadres and employees of the whole factory.Without that feeling, nothing could have been done.”Feng Xiaochen continued to say.

Then there was the sigh of the narrator:

“The heart is broken...”