The skill "True Word Eye" can be said to be tailor-made for Yi Zhonghai!
Having some free time today, Liu Kai Xuan decided to give his small farm a good tidy-up.
The system had unlocked the farm some time ago, but it had remained idle.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully upgrading the farm, consuming 1000 points!"
The farm was upgraded from level one to level four, and the cultivated land expanded from the initial one mu to ten mu.
Seeing that he still had plenty of system points left, Liu Kai Xuan chose to upgrade the farm further.
"Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully upgrading to a super farm, consuming 2000 points!"
"Cultivated land area increased to 20 mu, unlocked super fish pond function!"
The area of the fish pond was exactly equal to the farm area, also 20 mu.
A level three super farm could achieve up to an eight-fold time-space acceleration. One day in the outside world would equate to eight days within the farm space.
Unlocking the automatic farm management function required reaching level 5, but Liu Kai Xuan's remaining points were not enough to upgrade the farm to level 5.
"Never mind, I'll just get some fish fry and put them in the fish pond to raise!"
With the farm's automatic operation function not yet enabled, Liu Kai Xuan would need time to manually cultivate the 20 mu of farmland.
Moreover, now that Liu Kai Xuan had passed the junior technician qualification certificate, his wages were more than enough to buy food.
He wasn't as desperate for farm produce as before.
However, to have meat to eat every meal, he still needed to develop the fish pond.
In this era, buying meat from the market wasn't just about having money; one also needed ration coupons.
The system's farm store sold finished fish fry.
Liu Kai Xuan immediately purchased a large batch of fish fry and put them in the fish pond.
This batch of fish fry included: 1000 grass carp, 500 common carp, 200 soft-shelled turtles, 500 hairy crabs, and 500 crayfish.
In addition to these, Liu Kai Xuan also specifically bought 50 goslings, which were also released into the fish pond.
Actually, the system farm also had a super ranch specifically for raising poultry and livestock.
However, the ranch could only be unlocked at level five, and he didn't have enough points now.
He would raise the goslings in the fish pond, and the idle land around the farm was also sufficient for the geese to rest and forage.
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Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill.
At nine o'clock the next morning, Liu Dakui brought a new colleague.
He was a young man in his early twenties named Chen An.
Chen An was a classmate Liu Yuqian had met in the technical training class, and he was also a probationary technician who had just graduated. Liu Yuqian had introduced him.
Liu Kai Xuan simply greeted Chen An briefly and did not engage in deep conversation.
The training classes of this era were not comparable to the mixed bag of vocational schools in the 21st century; they were highly valuable.
The technicians graduating from the training classes all had a university education background.
Another name for the training class was "Cradle of Engineers."
Of the technicians who graduated from the training class, at least 30% would become engineers after seven or eight years of frontline experience.
As time went on, the proportion of them becoming engineers would only increase.
Therefore, even though they were all technicians.
Chen An and Liu Yuqian, considered elites with superior backgrounds, looked down on apprentice workers like Liu Kai Xuan who came from the frontline.
Liu Kai Xuan realized that Chen An was not genuinely seeking his friendship, nor did he have any intention of flattering him.
At this moment, Liu Yuqian said, "Dad, we now have three junior technicians in the technical department!"
"But according to the staffing, there are only two positions for junior technicians!"
"Shouldn't some unqualified personnel be promptly dismissed to prevent them from being dead weight in the technical department, just loafing around?"
As Liu Yuqian said this, she stared at Liu Kai Xuan, almost directly naming him.
"Qianqian, what are you doing?"
Liu Dakui said loudly, "Our technical department has a total of seven positions!"
"One senior technician, two intermediate technicians, two junior technicians, and two apprentice positions!"
"We are currently short of a senior technician, and I am the only intermediate technician. Kai Xuan's apprentice status has been removed!"
"The three of you junior technicians working together does not constitute overstaffing!"
"I will communicate the specific staffing arrangement with the factory!"
"Today, the three of you will work together to maintain the 7 machine tools in Workshop No. 9!"
At this point, Liu Kai Xuan added, "By the way, Master, please make the work arrangements more detailed!"
"It's too chaotic with three people working together!"
"Uh..." Liu Dakui vaguely sensed the gunpowder in the air.
However, Liu Dakui was not blind. He had just seen Liu Yuqian clearly targeting Liu Kai Xuan.
If it weren't for his old face, Liu Kai Xuan would have likely clashed with Liu Yuqian on the spot.
"How about this!"
Liu Dakui thought for a moment and said, "Chen An is new today!"
"He will be responsible for maintaining three machine tools. Kai Xuan, you are also a master craftsman in the machine repair workshop, so maintaining four machine tools should be no problem for you, right?"
"No problem!" Liu Kai Xuan nodded.
Similarly, Chen An also indicated that it wasn't a big problem.
Liu Dakui continued, "Qianqian will still be responsible for record-keeping!"
"Additionally, today is Chen An's first day on the frontline. Kai Xuan and Qianqian, you two should provide him with some help as appropriate!"
"Okay, I understand!" Liu Kai Xuan nodded and picked up his tools to go to the workshop.
...
Liu Kai Xuan had worked as an apprentice for two years, accumulating extensive frontline work experience.
Maintaining one machine tool only took him 40 minutes.
Liu Yuqian only helped Chen An with record-keeping, and did not help Liu Kai Xuan.
Liu Kai Xuan, recording his own machine tool maintenance, only took two hours to maintain two machine tools.
Liu Dakui had assigned Liu Kai Xuan the task of maintaining four machine tools. Liu Kai Xuan had allocated time for himself: two in the morning, two in the afternoon.
As a result, Liu Kai Xuan had already maintained two machine tools, while Chen An hadn't even finished his first one.
Chen An was on his first day of frontline internship, with absolutely no experience in dismantling and maintaining machine tools.
Although Liu Yuqian had interned at the factory for a period, she was a girl, and Liu Dakui had assigned her the job of maintenance record-keeper.
She was only responsible for keeping records and had never actually done the dirty and arduous work of dismantling and repairing.
Now, the two paper tigers were looking at each other helplessly.
Liu Kai Xuan didn't have the time to be a do-gooder and flatter Liu Yuqian!
After completing his assigned work, Liu Kai Xuan immediately compromised and prepared to go to the rest room.
"Liu Kai Xuan, stop right there!" Liu Yuqian shouted loudly!