A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Zhao Dezhu, head drooping, pulled out a special receipt and quickly signed it for Jiang Xia.

However, when signing the amount, he wrote 600 yuan.

Ma Weihong, with her sharp eyes, raised an eyebrow at the amount and gestured for Jiang Xia to remain silent.

Everyone present remained silent, watching Zhao Dezhu complete his signature. The moment the signature was finished, Ma Zhendong swiftly snatched the receipt and handed it to Jiang Xia.

"This money is supposed to be handed over to the factory's finance department, right?"

Zhao Dezhu said angrily, "Of course, these are special receipts, who can forge them?"

"Alright, you can let me go now. After all, this thing only counts if it's handed over!"

The four guards at the entrance made way for Zhao Dezhu, who got up and ran out.

"Clerk Zhao, come visit again sometime!"

Ma Weihong called out from behind in a feigned manner, startling Zhao Dezhu so much that he stumbled.

"If I ever come here again, I'll be a dog!"

Perhaps feeling he had escaped the clutches of evil, Zhao Dezhu became arrogant again. He turned and shouted at Jiang Xia and the others.

Ma Weihong and the others ignored him. After all, this guy had suffered a great loss, so couldn't they at least say a few harsh words?

Our technical department is very democratic!

Jiang Xia felt a little regretful, as he hadn't yet settled things with this kid about Uncle Jiang and the others. If they missed this time, things would get complicated!

We should pursue the fleeing enemy to their full strength!

Just as Jiang Xia was about to chase after him, someone at the stairwell pulled Zhao Dezhu back down.

"Master!"

"Director Yang?"

"Li, Deputy Factory Director!"

Why did these three appear as a group?

Before Jiang Xia and the others could react, Li Huaide berated Zhao Dezhu: "Do you even have the demeanor of a clerk? What kind of dog are you! Where has your manners gone!"

After saying that, he looked at Jiang Xia and asked, "Comrade Jiang Xia, did he handle the matter I asked him to do for you?"

Jiang Xia chuckled to himself and replied repeatedly, "It's done. Clerk Zhao was very helpful; he came to our office personally to handle it!"

"I wish there were a few more suckers coming to my door!" Jiang Xia thought shamelessly.

"Wow, Clerk Zhao is very enthusiastic! From now on, Clerk Zhao will come to our office to handle all our technical department's matters!"

Li Changfu looked at Zhao Dezhu and said slowly.

"Ah!" Zhao Dezhu's eyes rolled back.

Good heavens, I got ripped off for 500 yuan in just one visit!

If this happens a few more times, I'll have to pawn my underwear!

Li Huaide glanced at the old engineer, knowing he was standing up for his apprentice.

"Sure! The technical department is an important department in our factory. From now on, any personnel matters will be handled by Clerk Zhao coming to our door!"

Li Huaide was in charge of logistics, so he naturally had the authority to issue this order.

However, being cunning, he still added a qualifier.

Whether Zhao Dezhu was willing or not was not within his consideration.

Then, Deputy Factory Director Li glanced at Yang Youning, and after receiving his consent, he took out a green notebook.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, this is your new work permit! We were worried about it affecting your benefits, so thanks to the factory manager and me, it was processed right away. Here, take it!"

Jiang Xia took it and saw that, apart from the green cover, it was no different from his old work ID.

The title column has been changed to Junior Engineer.

Huh? Jiang Xia was puzzled. According to the factory's regulations, shouldn't we wait for the machine department to issue a notice before re-processing?

After Jiang Xia put the drawings away, Yang Youning and the others went into Li Changfu's office. At the same time, they had the other drafters in the technical department hand over all the blueprints to Jiang Xia for review.

Jiangxia used a fault scanner to carefully review the drawings and corrected some parameter errors.

He also marked the several hidden structures he discovered on the drawings.

They even used red pen to mark which part was a sleeve and which part was a linkage.

The main focus is on meticulousness!

Upon hearing Jiang Xia say that the review was completed, Factory Director Yang immediately jumped out.

After packing up the blueprints and leaving the words "Wait for my good news," he hurriedly headed to the First Ministry of Machine Building with Li Changfu and Li Huaide.

Li Huaide deliberately lagged behind the group and whispered a few words to Jiang Xia.

After saying that, he smiled at Jiang Xia and then followed Director Yang.

For a moment, only Jiang Xia and Zhao Dezhu remained in the small office.

"Ding!"

Task complete. Please explore the new features on your own!

Oh ho, so the system finally remembered poor Jiang Xia?

However, Jiang Xia didn't have time to pay attention to it right now. Instead, she turned her attention to Zhao Dezhu, who was huddled by the door, trying to make himself as inconspicuous as possible.

Jiang Xia tossed a cigarette over: "Clerk Zhao, are you free? Let's chat?"

Zhao Dezhu took the cigarette and gave Jiang Xia a wary look: "What are you talking about? Don't act innocent after getting the benefit!"

"Consider the 500 yuan my apology! From now on, we're even!"

After saying that, he opened the door and left, cursing all the while.

Thinking of his 500 yuan, Zhao Dezhu couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

After lighting the cigarette he received, he took a deep drag.

Hmm, the flavor is quite rich. Upon closer inspection, it turns out to be Zhonghua cigarettes.

Zhao Dezhu took a few more deep drags; these cigarettes are hard to come by these days.

"Damn it, after living in fear for so long, only five people have come to process their rural-to-urban residency conversions. They gave some money as bribes and some as gifts. I barely got any of them!"

How about we lower the service fee?

"Yes! We'll charge 150 for a few wealthy customers, and 100 for the rest of the average ones!"

"So that if the policies tighten, nothing will be able to be secured!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Dezhu slammed the cigarette butt down and stomped on it with his big foot, twisting it a few times.

Jiang Xia watched Zhao Dezhu raging downstairs through the upstairs window.

Ha, you greyhound, I gave you a chance and you didn't take it!

Jiang Xia watched expressionlessly, his eyes flickering somewhat behind the smoke.

Just now, Li Huaide, for reasons unknown, revealed an important piece of information to Jiang Xia.

It seems that Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill is going to expand again, and the First Ministry of Machine Building intends to merge several machinery plants and steel mills that are about to collapse.

The Ministry of Machinery originally planned to do this two years ago. However, with the production of that bending machine, the steel rolling mill's capacity declined sharply.

The steel rolling mill itself is struggling to survive, so naturally it won't implement this restructuring and support plan.

But with the bending machine back online, the machine department seems to have revived this idea.

When Jiang Xia went to get the certificate, Director Yang received this phone call.

In this case, the steel rolling mill's current manpower is insufficient to support these projects, and in addition to absorbing the original factory employees, it will inevitably need to recruit more workers.

In this way, Uncle Jiang and the others won't need to go through the process of changing their status from rural to urban. They can be directly absorbed as formal employees, wouldn't that be wonderful?

However, even if they do recruit, the scale probably won't be too large. They still need to seize the opportunity first!

The heavy burden that had been weighing on Jiang Xia's heart was finally lifted!

Moreover, Li Huaide is a shrewd man; he didn't bring this up through Zhao Dezhu. That means he has probably already given up on this person.

When the time is right, Zhao Dezhu should become Zhao Buzhu.

"They've probably already prepared a backup plan!"