Siheyuan: First-class Merit at the Start

Of course, there wasn’t much Li Huaide could do about Li Polu’s affairs.

At most, he would be demoted from deputy section chief to ordinary clerk on the grounds that he was not doing his job diligently enough.

After all, this was an era where the dismissal of a worker needed to be discussed repeatedly at a factory management meeting, let alone a middle-level cadre like Li Polu.

In fact, it is similar in later generations. It is much harder to be expelled than to pass the exam.

Li Huaide, who had reached an agreement with Yi Zhonghai, walked slowly to the Propaganda Department's office, carrying his old hand on his back, at the time when he was about to get off work.

First, he pretended to ask why Li Polu was not at his post.

Then, after getting a satisfactory answer, he staggered towards Director Yang's office.

"Hey, Director Li, what a coincidence."

Just as Li Huaide was about to knock on the door, the bell for the end of work rang at the right time.

At the same time, Li Bolu opened the door and walked out, meeting Li Huaide's eyes who was standing at the door.

Li Polu was stunned for a moment when he saw Deputy Director Li standing at his door, and then he greeted him warmly.

Li Huaide forced a smile and said, "Unfortunately, I came here specially to look for you."

"Um, are you in a hurry?"

As soon as Li Polu saw Li Huaide's expression, he knew that he was up to no good. Having been in the factory for so long, he also knew that his parachuting in actually took the place of Li Huaide's people.

He immediately prepared thirty-six strategies, and the best one was to run away.

Moreover, he himself was thinking that his time was almost up, so he prepared to take the things and pretend to go to Wang He for reference.

Li Huaide was also stunned when he heard this. How could a subordinate talk to his leader like this?

"Well, it's not particularly urgent. What do you want?"

Li Huaide asked with some doubt.

Li Polu held a pile of information and said with a smile: "Isn't it time to get off work? I'm in a hurry to go to an elder's house for dinner. If you're not in a hurry, let's talk about it next week. I'm leaving. Goodbye, Director."

Before Li Huaide could react, Li Polu had disappeared in a flash.

Ministry of Industry compound.

Li Bolu greeted the guard skillfully, then walked in with a swagger.

When Wang He got home from get off work, Li Polu was cooking in the kitchen.

"Your year in the kitchen was not in vain. You can actually cook now."

Wang He joked.

When Li Bolu heard Wang He's words, his face suddenly turned dark.

"Old man, if you can't talk, just shut up. Don't bring up things that are not relevant.

Don't think I don't know what's going on here, that I'm the one being blamed, cuckolded, and forced to watch others have sex.

I don't care because you are old. I don't want to say anything to you, but you are wrong to ridicule me with this."

"Come on, come on, I can't argue with you. Tell me, why did you suddenly feel guilty and come to cook for me, an old widower?"

"Who can you blame? Sister Kun and I were planning to find a partner for you, but you didn't want one. Now you say you're a lonely old man?"

Li Polu raised his eyebrows and said, "Come on, let's hurt each other."

"Forget it. I won't argue with you. Tell me what's going on."

Li Polu, who had just come out of the kitchen, holding a plate of soup, raised his head and motioned Wang He to look at the location of the coffee table.

Looking at the pile of documents on the coffee table, Wang He asked in confusion, "What is that?"

"Look for yourself. Aren't you an authority? You can understand it, right?"

Wang He ignored Li Polu's sarcasm and walked to the coffee table and sat down.

There's nothing he can do about it. He's a scholar, and arguing with others is a disgrace to his manners.

If you want to hit him, this guy will run faster than a monkey. In the end, you will be the one who gets angry.

As soon as he picked up the information, Wang He frowned.

“You really did it?”

"How should I know? You are the authority on this. Isn't this specially given to you to review for me?"

Li Polu's voice came from the kitchen.

Wang He didn't reply because he saw a complete mechanical design drawing on the first piece of paper.

Then he began to read it attentively.

Soon, Li Polu brought all the dishes to the table. He sat on a chair and looked at Wang He, who was sitting not far away, frowning one moment and smiling the next.

He said helplessly, "Old man, let's eat first. The food is right there and it won't run away."

"Don't make a fuss, I'll be done with it soon."

After a while, Wang He stood up and said excitedly, "Is this all the design information?"

Li Polu rolled his eyes and said, "You must be joking. This is the core. I can't move all the information even if I die of exhaustion."

Wang He became anxious when he heard this and asked hurriedly, "What about the rest of the information?"

Li Polu said indifferently: "In the factory."

"Oh my god, you're such a spendthrift. How can you be so stupid? How can you leave such an important thing lying around?"

"How come? Is this really possible?" Li Bolu asked in puzzlement.

But this time Wang He ignored him.

Instead, he quickly walked to the landline, picked up the phone, and made several calls in a row.

Then he walked up to Li Polu and said seriously: "Give me the key to the room where you kept the information. Also, who else knows this information besides you?"

Li Polu answered one by one.

Soon, two jeeps stopped in front of Wang He's house. Several soldiers armed with live ammunition got out of the cars and knocked on Wang He's door.

Under the heavy protection of the soldiers, Wang He got into the car and left, leaving only one message for him to wait at home and not to run around.

"So you're not going to eat?"

"Eat shit."

Li Bolu looked at Wang He's scene and was speechless for a moment.

I muttered to myself: It’s just this thing, is it that important?

If Wang He heard this, Li Polu would probably have to climb the tree again.

But after thinking about it, I felt relieved.

Although the top and bottom combined blowing oxygen converter was developed in the 80s, it was not until the s that my country began to gradually put it into use.

What kind of era was the 1960s?

It was an era of extreme shortage of steel, otherwise such a ridiculous thing as using the food at home to make steel would not have happened.

Of course, this does not mean that with this technology, steel production can be increased immediately.

After all, this is a complete process.

In addition to equipment, there are also ores and other supporting facilities.

But with technology, we can speed up the updating of supporting facilities.

This is also the reason why Li Polu only performed for half a month before handing it over.

Otherwise, according to his original idea, it would take at least half a year to slowly bring it out.

On the other side, Wang He, who had just walked out of the door, ordered the guard of one of the cars to go to the steel rolling mill to pick up things, while he got in the car and went straight to the Ministry of Industry.

When he arrived, there was already a large group of people waiting at the gate.

As soon as they saw Wang He get off the car, everyone swarmed over him.

"Minister, what happened that you called everyone together so late at night?"

"Let's go in first. Guards, be on full alert." Wang He said loudly with full energy.

Ministry of Industry late at night.

In a completely blocked conference room, a group of old men, who had only a few hairs on their heads, were holding pens and writing and drawing something.

From time to time, he let out a laugh.

Although it was late at night, none of these old men looked tired. Instead, they were all very excited.

Just as the dawn light rose, the old man who was leading the group showed an excited look.

He said to Wang He: "Old Wang, this design is very feasible. But there are still some things we don't understand. Can we call the designer over so we can ask him in person?"

Wang He, who had been busy all night and didn't even have time to drink water, almost spit at the old man in front of him. He was immediately embarrassed.

"It's fine to call him, but there's no need to ask for his advice. Let's do it tomorrow. I'll ask someone to go find him tomorrow, and we can discuss this with each other.

We have been busy all night, so let's have breakfast first and then take a nap. We will check the calculations again to find out the missing parts."