—Story Synopsis—
The Great Liang Dynasty had well and truly fallen.
As the rebel army approached the city gates and the capital was on the verge of collapse, the idle Prince Shen Sh...
Chapter 83 Chapter 83 1st update (revised)
Zhou Ping'an refused to tell her who the other person was, so Shen Moer could only give up for the time being. Then she used indirect methods, inducements and threats, and finally got Zhou Ping'an to tell her that the two were discussing a deal.
If it was speculation, Shen Moer was not interested in it. After all, although this world forbade people to do business for unknown reasons, it was normal to do business in Daliang. After all, goods from the north and south could not be circulated by the government alone without merchants. The "government" here was doing a good job, but Shen Moer was an "outsider" and could not understand the meaning of doing so.
At first, she suspected that Zhou Ping'an wanted to report the two people, but after staring at Zhou Ping'an for a few times, she intuitively felt that the young man would not do such a thing.
Zhou Pingan looked alert: "I, I, I, I told you everything I can tell you!"
That is, anything that has not been said cannot be told.
Like who the other person is.
Like what they were trading.
Shen Moer nodded: "Let's go."
Although the weather is hot, it is not so hot that you have to soak in cold water all day long. If you do this continuously, you will get sick sooner or later.
The two of them returned to the family compound one after the other. When Shen Moer walked to her door, she heard Liu Guizhi next door screaming, "Why did you do this again?" Shen Moer inserted her key into the keyhole and listened for a while, thinking, I want to hear what excuse you will make next. As a result, she heard Zhou Ping'an say lightly, "I'm going to take a shower."
You are really great.
If I can’t explain it, I’ll just not explain it.
When she returned to school in the afternoon, Shen Moer couldn't help but glance at Teacher Fei Lin as soon as she entered the office. Teacher Fei Lin was sitting at his workstation, tuning the strings of his erhu. Luo Maoshi beside him said with a smile: "Oh, the students who have music class in the afternoon are blessed."
Fei Lin smiled gently: "Teacher Luo, please stop joking. I am just forcing you to do something."
Shen Moer walked into the office and said with a smile: "Teacher Fei is too modest. I took classes next to you, and the erhu was really nice."
This is not an exaggeration by Shen Moer. She has heard many people play music. Fei Lin plays the erhu very well. Her level is not very high, but she is definitely professional.
Chen Moer asked curiously, "Who did Teacher Fei learn to play the erhu from?"
Fei Lin paused while tuning the strings, then said nonchalantly: "I learned from a master teacher. I just learned for fun when I had nothing to do. I can't compare with Teacher Cui."
Fei Lin smiled and changed the subject: "I see Teacher Shen often drawing in the office. Those pictures look quite complicated. Are they embroidery pictures? There are very few people who can draw this kind of pictures nowadays. Many patterns have been lost. Teacher Shen is really good at this. No wonder he was able to attract the golden phoenix of the embroidery factory."
Shen Moer sat down and said with a smile, "That's right. When I was learning, I just thought they were some pretty patterns. It was only when I met the comrades from the embroidery factory in the provincial capital that I realized that this embroidery pattern is really expensive."
She said casually, "I didn't expect that Teacher Fei also studies embroidery?"
Fei Lin smiled and said, "I can't say I'm studying Erhu. I learned from a master who has embroidery skills at home. I've heard him talk about it a few times."
While packing up the lesson plans, Kong Meijuan joked, "It seems that I haven't completed the task assigned to me by Principal Kong well enough. I didn't know that Teacher Fei also knew about embroidery. It seems that I need to keep working hard."
The others burst into laughter: "Oh, you are a spy hiding among the people, please let us go!"
In the afternoon, Shen Moer happened to have a class with Zhou Pingan's class. During the class, Zhou Pingan was as serious as usual. After school, he went home obediently. Shen Moer judged that he should be fine today.
The next few days were uneventful, except that the ninth workshop's building was finally completed. The Embroidery Factory and Liuqiao Commune held a grand ceremony to inaugurate and unveil the building. Not only did several leaders from the Embroidery Factory come, but many city and county leaders also came.
Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei were all over the place, introducing the factory design plan, the various difficulties encountered during construction, and then vividly describing how the two of them withstood the pressure, solved all kinds of difficulties, and completed the factory construction task half a month ahead of schedule.
Deputy Director Qin, who was in charge of the ninth workshop of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory, highly praised Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei's spirit of not fearing hardship or fatigue, and then changed the subject and turned to ask Shen Moer: "What does Deputy Director Shen think?"
With so many leaders present, Shen Moer naturally stood aside, but she didn't care. She had seen many big scenes, and except for her uncle the emperor, she had never seen anyone who could always stand in the center.
Although the ninth workshop was established at her suggestion, her original purpose in establishing this workshop was to find herself a job that was close to home, had little pressure, and allowed her to rest easily after a short work. Now that her goal has been successfully achieved, what could she be dissatisfied with?
She had been watching with great interest, thinking that throughout history, no matter how the world changed, this person really wouldn't change much.
She had often seen Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei, who were eager to report to their superiors for three days and three nights, in some court officials.
Shen Moer was watching happily. When she heard Deputy Factory Director Qin call her by name, she continued to praise him very politely: "Director Mao and Deputy Director Jin have indeed done a lot of work. They have done it personally and devoted themselves to it. The factory building is very well built and the layout design is also very reasonable. With such responsible comrades, I believe that the Ninth Workshop will definitely develop very well in the future. I suggest that we applaud Director Mao and Deputy Director Jin."
After she finished speaking, she took the lead in applauding. Several leaders were slightly startled, but soon joined in the applause.
During the free visit later, Chen Jiahua, who came with the leader, said to Shen Moer with a smile: "Your move of taking the initiative and proposing applause is quite impressive."
Chen Jiahua originally wanted to build a branch factory in Jiangbei County, but later the factory decided to build a workshop, so it was naturally impossible for her to come down.
Chen Jiahua originally thought that the factory would appoint Shen Moli as the workshop director, but he didn't expect that the factory would directly assign a workshop director.
Moreover, she recommended several candidates to the factory at that time. They were not key business personnel, but also had rich experience in workshop management. However, due to the game of interests among all parties in the factory, these candidates were rejected in the end. Finally, the factory sent Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei.
These two people have working abilities, but they are not outstanding. Their greater "abilities" are in other areas.
Chen Jiahua himself came up in the business world, and was very dissatisfied with the atmosphere of nepotism and interest transfer in the factory, but he had no choice, so he did not have much good feelings towards Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei.
It is true that factory building construction is very important, but they are an embroidery factory, not a construction company. No matter how well the factory building is built, it ultimately still depends on production tasks.
It was obvious that Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei wanted to marginalize Shen Moli, which was very stupid in Chen Jiahua's opinion. After all, could you really bypass Shen Moli when it came to production in the factory?
Shen Moer blinked, indicating that she didn’t quite understand: “Is there anything wrong with me suggesting applause? They did a good job and deserve applause.”
Chen Jiahua choked, and after observing for a long time, he found that Shen Moli was not joking, she seemed to really think so.
However, Chen Jiahua had a complicated expression for a moment, and thought to himself, but didn’t you feel that your tone at that time was very similar to that of their superiors? Didn’t you see that the smiles of Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei froze on their faces at that time?
Shen Moer didn't think so, after all, that's how she always spoke.
How humble can you expect a princess of a feudal dynasty to be?
Shen Moli’s thinking is, since you like to do it, then just do it well. At most, I will praise you if you do a good job.
If you want her to reflect on whether she is not doing enough at work, just dream on.
Besides, Shen Moer was justified and it wasn’t like she didn’t do any work.
At the organization work meeting chaired by Deputy Director Qin in the afternoon, Shen Moer took out the work results of this period -
A production plan carefully polished by Fu Zhiqing.
Shen Moli did write a draft, but after Fu Mingze read it, he found that her choice of words and sentences was very formal, and some of the words were even a bit like classical Chinese, so he changed it immediately, making it more concise and clear, and more in line with the current environment.
For example, Fu Mingze discovered that although his wife was highly conscious, she was very pragmatic when writing manuscripts. She did not even copy the highest instructions or quote some of the leaders' insights.
The production plan, polished by Fu Zhiqing, was highly praised by Deputy Director Qin.
Especially after hearing that Shen Moer had organized a group of embroiderers to carry out technical training for nearly half a year, initially trained and selected a group of painters, and even used her spare time to organize and draw ten exquisite embroidery pictures, Deputy Director Qin praised repeatedly and said with a smile: "It seems that Deputy Director Shen has a plan in mind. Okay, let's wait and see, just wait for Deputy Director Shen to lead the Ninth Workshop to soar into the sky."
He led the applause and the participants immediately followed suit.
The smile on Mao Jianxin's face could hardly be maintained, and Jin Caifei's face was also stiff.
Shen Moer led the Ninth Workshop to soar into the sky, so what were they?
The plaque-hanging ceremony and the organizational work meeting ended in such a seemingly harmonious but actually turbulent state. A wooden sign with the words "Ninth Workshop of Nan Province Embroidery Factory" was hung next to the gate of the new factory building, attracting many residents of Liuqiao Commune to rush to the factory gate to see the new thing.
This brand is much more impressive than the Liuqiao Commune Kiln Factory and Liuqiao Commune Textile Factory. The name of this brand is South Province!
This is rare, there is none in the county.
After the listing, Shen Moer immediately became busy. She borrowed two staff members from the commune and started recruiting people with them.
First of all, all pre-selected embroiderers will undergo a technical assessment.
Of course, Shen Moer had notified each team in advance that anyone who had relevant skills and felt they were capable of doing embroidery work, even if they had not participated in the preliminaries before, or had not passed the preliminaries but now felt their skills had improved, could sign up to participate.
So when the formal assessment started on Sunday, a total of seventy-six comrades showed up, including three men!
"Wang Laowu, are you kidding me? You can also embroider?" The people in the same brigade as the male comrade couldn't believe it. "You say you can kill tigers, which is more reliable than saying you can embroider, okay? You look so big and strong."
Wang Laowu scratched his head, smiled and said, "I don't know how to embroider, but I think our workshop can't just recruit embroiderers, right? We can also use one or two men to guard the gate, carry bags, clean, and cook, right?"
Shen Moer: “…”
It turns out that he is here to recommend himself for other positions.
She waved her hand and said, "Comrade Wang is right. We do need to recruit for other positions in our workshop, but not today. We will notify each team separately when we recruit later. The three men deserve praise for their active participation in the recruitment. You can leave your name and address with Xiao Zhang. When we recruit for other positions later, your team leader will notify you."
Wang Laowu and another gay man walked away awkwardly.
The remaining slightly thin male comrade pursed his lips and insisted: "I will, I want to take the test."
Shen Moer looked at him for a few times and nodded: “Okay, since you know how, stay and take the test.”
She doesn't think there is any job that must be done by men or women. She had chosen women before because most of the people who do sewing and mending are women.
However, when the final assessment results came out, this man named Bai Junwen actually passed the assessment.