Chapter 104 Chemical Machinery Plant

Under such social conditions, opening a clothing store can make money faster than robbing people, and this is not an exaggeration at all.

The clothing store's sales on the first day were a whopping 1,800 yuan. Yes, 1,800 yuan, which almost made back half of the money we spent on buying the store.

During this period, six loads of cargo were replenished. Wen Jiajia temporarily asked Jiang Ruowang to help, and Zhong Huisheng also called on her good sisters, so that they could cope with the situation on the opening day.

By the evening, my hands almost cramped from counting money.

Although 1,800 is not pure profit, it is still shocking enough.

Even Zhong Huisheng couldn't help but say, "It makes more money than my family's shop back then."

Wen Jiajia was in a trance. She had thought about making money, but she had never thought she could make so much money. She was tempted, really tempted. She had to open a clothing factory first to make some money.

After a month, the monthly sales figure came out, and Wen Jiajia became more determined to open a clothing factory to make money.

Although it was a bit difficult to open a factory at this time, Wen Jiajia did not back down at all in order to make money.

First, I went to a bank for a loan, and after getting the money, I directly bought land and built a factory.

Land is expensive in Puxi, so she bought a house in Pudong.

Wen Jiajia spent half of the money she borrowed on buying land and building a factory, and the other half on collecting old sewing machines and iron, adding some wood to make a batch of brand new sewing machines.

This greatly reduces costs, and we can also squeeze out money to purchase the first batch of fabrics and pay employees the first month's salary.

There shouldn't be too many unemployed young people nowadays. There are already more jobs than vacancies in the city, and with the return of educated youth, the factories will soon be filled up.

Because all the employees recruited were women, especially those with some basic sewing skills, the teacher hired by Wen Jiajia only trained everyone for three days before they were able to get the hang of it.

Wen Jiajia also designs and makes patterns herself. The samples she makes are all approved by the factory, and some young girls even want to buy a few pieces for themselves before selling them.

The advantages of all the female employees in the factory were reflected at this moment. They understand women's aesthetics very well.

The age range of the factory employees is also quite wide, ranging from teenagers to fifties. However, it is precisely because of the age difference that the clothes made by the factory can attract more women.

Wen Jiajia was obsessed with her career for a while and couldn't extricate herself. If Wen Chun and Wen Xuan hadn't been in the third year of junior high school, she would have forgotten about her family.

By the end of the year, after the factory had produced three batches of goods, it had established itself in Haishi. Many clothing stores knew that the clothes produced by her clothing factory were beautiful. Not to mention clothing stores, even supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores came to her to order clothes.

Under such circumstances, Wen Jiajia was ready to expand the scale and bought the land next to the factory. She also planned to expand her business, such as making zippers and buttons after the New Year.

At that time, zippers and buttons were in short supply, and you could make a lot of money by making zippers.

Due to the booming business and the increasing number of orders, Wen Jiajia led all the factory employees to work until New Year's Eve.

When the holidays come, each person receives a fat red envelope, plus generous benefits, forcing the workers, who want to stay in the factory and earn triple overtime pay even during the Chinese New Year, to go home for the New Year.

They don't want to, but she still wants to.

Wen Jiajia is really tired.

During these months, I not only have to purchase fabrics, make samples, perform quality inspections, and finally negotiate business with merchants.

She suspected that the severe hair loss in the past two months was due to fatigue. For the sake of her hair, she couldn't be so busy in the future.

Fortunately, I managed to make a lot of money.

Wen Jiajia successfully became a ten thousand yuan household in the early 1980s, a ten thousand yuan household with extremely high gold content.

She felt it was not enough. The housing prices in Shanghai were getting more and more expensive. The money she used to buy the small villa was not enough to buy a shop now.

It can be seen that prices are rising, so we have to save more money.

During the Chinese New Year, Wei Dai also came to Hai City.

He was so busy that he lost a lot of weight. When he stood next to Wen Jiajia, they looked like two brothers in distress, because Wen Jiajia had also lost a lot of weight.

Zhong Huisheng felt really annoyed watching this, as she cooked for the couple every day.

Breakfast is pancakes, dough sticks and steamed buns, and sometimes freshly baked egg cakes.

At noon, all kinds of fish and meat were served, including braised pork, braised pork, boiled fish, steamed fish, etc. Anyway, my aunt was dedicated to making up for the meat that the two had lost.

The same thing happens at night.

Wen Jiajia likes hot pot, and her family has lamb or beef hot pot every other day.

My cousin also got red sour soup from a friend from the southwest, so when people were tired of mutton hotpot and beef hotpot, red sour soup hotpot was served next.

Well, the red sour soup is sour and refreshing and appetizing. Drinking it in the cold winter makes you feel warm. Wen Jiajia can eat it for four or five days in a row without getting tired of it.

When he started working, the fat he had lost gained back, and only then did his aunt nod in satisfaction.

After the New Year, Wen Jiajia began to get busy with expanding the factory and business.

Now that she has a stable fabric partner, she no longer needs to spend a lot of time on this.

In addition, the winter clothing styles produced before the New Year have not been consumed yet, so the clothing factories have had a rare period of clean time.

But that was only temporary. Spring always comes very early in the south. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wen Jiajia had to lead the only two designers in the factory to design spring clothes.

She recruited these two designers from the south at a high price.

Today, Shanghai is considered the best developed city in the country. Shenzhen, which is still in its infancy, naturally cannot compare. Wen Jiajia offered a high salary and the two happily agreed.

They are quite talented. Although they are not graduates of fashion design major, they come from a family background of learning fashion design. All their elders are in this field, so they have been influenced by this and have developed special talents.

What Wen Jiajia likes most about them is that they are so eager to learn. They absorb all the design elements on the samples that Wen Jiajia draws, and then create something new with their own creations, making a brand new piece of clothing.

They were quite sensitive and suggested that Wen Jiajia make some clothes for actors in TV shows, and they sold quite well.

With the two of them around, Wen Jiajia has fewer and fewer problems.

In order to retain the two people and to invest in them, Wen Jiajia even gave them dividends.

1982 was a year of vigorous development for the factory. Wen Jiajia successfully accumulated enough blood bar, and the two designers also became households with an income of 10,000 yuan.

The garment factory was not without difficulties, but Wen Jiajianing was willing to pay a high price to purchase fabrics from Guangzhou, which meant that no one could cut off her raw materials.

Then there are the factory employees who have left.

A few ordinary workers were indeed fired, but many felt that Wen Jiajia's clothing factory offered high wages and good benefits, and they looked down on short-term gains, so they insisted on staying in the factory.

He even told Wen Jiajia who was trying to poach her. What else could Wen Jiajia do? She could only happily reward them with some money.

Not bad, not bad, keep it up.

As for the two designers, it can be said that they are poached every now and then.

The problem is that these two people are now the ones who receive dividends and have shares. For them, the words "the factory is my home, and I love the factory more than my home" are not empty words.

They will fight to the death with anyone who causes damage to the factory's profits!

They are very smart. Will the bosses who poached them give them shares and dividends? Forget it!

They only get bonuses because they are veterans of the factory. If they really change jobs, they will be people who joined later in life, and they have eaten at two restaurants, so they are not trustworthy. Besides, those bosses are very stingy. They only gave them 100 yuan for stealing the design drawings. How could they give them bonuses?

They easily became millionaires in their early 20s and devoted themselves to the factory. Their desire to make the clothing factory bigger and stronger was even stronger than Wen Jiajia's.

In June, Wenchun and Wenxuan took the high school entrance examination.

A teacher at school suggested that they take the entrance exam for a technical secondary school, but Wen Jiajia refused.

In fact, it is harder to get into a technical secondary school than a high school at that time, and you can go directly to work after studying for a few years.

This is the case with Fang Mingyan from my hometown. After she was admitted to a technical secondary school that year, she called Wen Jiajia and said that it was thanks to the books and notes she sent back that she was able to be admitted to the technical secondary school.

Wen Jiajia later found out that during the years she was away, Fang Mingyan had studied hard on her own and obtained her junior high school diploma, which enabled her to take the entrance exam for a technical secondary school.

She was still thinking about whether to invite Fang Mingyan to work in the factory. Like Hao Qingying, she studied accounting. She was not assigned to any good unit and now works as an administrator in a school in her hometown. She didn't know how the assignment was made. This was a mismatch. Fang Mingyan had complained about it more than once in her letter.

It just so happened that Wen Jiajia was going to work for Wei Dai, so the factory couldn't be without someone close to her. At least the financial aspect had to be in her hands.

Wen Jiajia invited Fang Mingyan to come, and Fang Mingyan packed her luggage and came with her husband without saying a word.

I haven't seen Fang Mingyan for many years, but Fang Mingyan hasn't changed much. She said happily: "I like big cities, otherwise why would I waste my time studying. Unfortunately, I'm unlucky and was assigned to the county town. I'm used to it there, so I'll definitely leave if I get the chance."

The familiar face eliminated the strangeness brought by time, and Wen Jiajia soon became close to her again.

After all, the two of them were friends because they had let the duck go together.

Wen Jiajia assigned Fang Mingyan to the Finance Department and recruited a manager to be the factory manager.

Her husband is a driver, and the factory happened to be short of drivers, so he also went to the factory.

Wen Jiajia also rented a house for the two of them. She held Fang Mingyan's hand and told her, "If you have the chance, try to buy a house. You don't know how fast the house prices have risen in the past two years, especially in Shanghai. Houses will definitely become more and more valuable in the future."

Fang Mingyan was very interested in what Jiajia said.

Because Wen Jiajia is her childhood friend and would not lie to her, plus she has an academic filter, as Wen Jiajia graduated from a prestigious university with a major in economics, so of course she would listen to whatever Wen Jiajia said.

Wen Jiajia also said, "Once things settle down, I will bring your two children here. Children need to stay with their parents. Your older child will be going to primary school soon. There is a school nearby. I have inquired about that school and it is not bad. Send the younger one to our factory's kindergarten. It is right inside our factory, so it is convenient for you to pick him up and drop him off."

Fang Mingyan gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the two children are currently with their grandparents.

But the child’s grandma still has to help take care of the other children, so she really has to take the child to live with her.

She nodded and decided to let her husband go home to pick up the children after settling down.

With Fang Mingyan around and the newly hired factory manager being very capable, Wen Jiajia left with peace of mind.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan...After discussing with them, Wen Jiajia decided to leave the two children in Hai City to study.

High school is so crucial. Wen Jiajia has checked out schools in the provincial capital, and none of them are as good as the Affiliated High School of Fudan University.

The scoreline is also a big problem, the scoreline in Hai City is always lower.

Wenchun and Wenxuan have their own circle of friends. They have been in Haishi for so many years and don’t want to leave. They also prefer Haishi. In addition, their aunt will stay in Haishi to accompany them. After thinking about it, they decided to continue to stay in Haishi.

Wen Jiajia did not go to the school to tell them about her transfer, and planned to go back to Hai City once a week.

It's the start of another school year.

After Wen Chun and Wen Xuan started school, Wei Dai took Wen Jiajia and the noisy Wen Xiaomei to the provincial capital.

When Wen Xiaomei was old enough to go to primary school, Wei Dai sent her to the primary school in his army. The teachers there were very strict, and the slave girl was tormented by the naughty Wen Xiaomei. Wei Dai couldn't bring himself to discipline her, so he could only rely on the teachers to discipline her.

"..." Wen Jiajia was speechless and felt that Wen Xiaomei deserved a beating.

If one meal is not enough, have two.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were also very naughty at this age, and Wen Jiajia is particularly experienced.

However, she currently has no time to educate her children. She is extremely busy, busy with loans, busy with buying land, and busy with finding excuses to take out machines that she had synthesized long ago and even updated several times.

This is a strange place, but the enthusiasm I had when I ran the clothing factory has returned.

Wen Jiajia suffered setbacks during this period and even thought about giving up. Obviously, the clothing factory was making so much money, and she could easily open a few more clothing factories to make money.

But when the chemical machinery plant she had longed for was completed, she couldn't help but feel tears in her eyes.

Unlike the garment factory, the chemical machinery factory was something she had been preparing for for several years.

The more you invest, the higher the sunk cost. Wen Jiajia has put a lot of effort into this factory and has great expectations for it.

Although it is still very small now, Wen Jiajia was excited when she stood at the gate of the factory and saw this factory that had been prepared for many years sitting in front of her.

This is completely her factory and completely her business.

On the first day of the factory opening, the factory was bustling with activity. Almost all the workers came to the factory early in the morning with smiles on their faces, looking forward to their future lives.

The morning sun broke through the clouds in the east and fell on the land, illuminating Wen Jiajia's profile at the door with golden light.

She looked up at the big words "Fuyang Pharmaceutical and Chemical Machinery Factory" with bright eyes and a firm look.

Fuyang is where she traveled to, and where the original owner and her family lived. She named the factory "Fuyang" to commemorate where she started.

Wen Jiajia is ambitious and wants to make the factory bigger and stronger. No matter in which time and space, she is always competitive and willing to work hard, hoping to stand at the top of the industry so that more people can hear her voice and know her name.