Since there is the National Cotton Mill No. 4 and the National Cotton Mill No. 1, there must be the National Cotton Mill No. 2 and No. 3.

When the textile industry was booming, the city built these four textile factories one after another. They were very prosperous and profitable at the time!

But now, they can only be described as lingering on.

Unfortunately, the basic accounts of these four textile factories were all in Li Cheng's branch. In other words, the four textile factories all owed money to Li Cheng's branch.

After Li Cheng became the director of the credit department, he visited all the borrowers as usual. The one that impressed him the most was the No. 4 National Cotton Mill.

The factory area is very large, with towering ancient trees and beautiful greenery.

Li Cheng was a little bit unconvinced that this was actually a textile factory. Later he learned that when the factory was first built, this was a small forest and people preserved all the big trees.

"The environment is great." After saying that, Li Cheng went to the next store.

Now, the National Cotton Mill No. 4 has sent a document to the branch, stating that the National Cotton Mills No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 will jointly form a textile group...

The document also specifically emphasized that the city has approved the establishment of a textile group.

Li Cheng was furious when he saw the document. When he had previously visited the Fourth National Cotton Mill, their management hadn't mentioned this matter at all. Furthermore, the people at the Fourth National Cotton Mill were using the city's approval to pressure the branch, which was a bit excessive.

You don't take the branch seriously at all. Do you really think that you can get out of this predicament by forming that useless group?

Don’t you know that it is difficult to turn a big ship around? At this time, the bigger the scale, the greater the risk.

At this time, several factories operated by Li Cheng all adopted the tactic of getting rid of their burdens and going into battle lightly.

These factories are now performing very well and have begun to steadily increase production, including the original printing and dyeing factory, battery factory, and light bulb factory.

At first, they were on the verge of bankruptcy and were about to be finished, but after Li Cheng's miraculous treatment, they regained their vitality.

Now the four textile factories are doing the opposite and taking the opposite path from Li Cheng. Not only are they not reducing their scale, they are also forming some kind of textile group. In Li Cheng's view, this is courting death.

Li Cheng has done his homework and now he has a good understanding of the production situation, financial status and personnel structure of these four textile factories.

It can be said that the person who knows the situation of these four textile factories best is Li Cheng.

Standing high and seeing far, Li Cheng looked down at them and felt that those who understood them were all in it, insiders, but they just thought they understood the situation.

"It's a dead end."

This is Li Cheng’s conclusion about the textile group.

According to Li Cheng's character, he would not do anything to let someone die without helping them. But this time, he decided to let them die first.

Li Cheng decided to comply with Vice President Fu's instructions on the document, which meant that he already knew about the matter and had no opinion for the time being.

Although this opinion of no opinion was actually Li Cheng's opinion, after being approved by Vice President Fu, it became the branch's opinion.

Li Cheng decided to wait and see. At the same time, he also asked Yang Hong to come forward and make arrangements in advance.

Some people say that after humans have solved the problems of food, clothing, housing and transportation, they will pursue spiritual enjoyment.

The purpose of a textile factory is to solve the problem of "clothing", which is a basic need of the people.

No matter what the future market structure is, textile mills will exist. Otherwise, will people have to go back to the old days of hand-spinning wheels?

History will not go backwards. Although the current market conditions are not good, textile factories are an important and indispensable part of the economic structure.

Li Cheng believes that what they need to do now is to reduce costs and improve technology rather than set up some bullshit group.

In order to prevent the four textile mills from losing their bank loans inexplicably when forming the textile group, Li Cheng decided to send people to the National Cotton No. 4 Mill, which was taking the lead in forming the textile group.

Li Cheng had considered the candidate to be sent, and that was to send Ye Xiaoyan, the clerk of the credit department.

Ye Xiaoyan's high sensitivity and familiarity with the business when handling the document made Li Cheng think that she was the best choice.

Of course, given Ye Xiaoyan's relationship with Ai Yi, Li Cheng still had to ask for her opinion. After all, during the period of establishing the textile group, Ye Xiaoyan had to stay at the National Cotton Mill No. 4.

Li Cheng suddenly remembered that when he went to the National Cotton Mill No. 4, the factory staff took him to visit the workshop. As soon as Li Cheng entered the workshop, he was immediately stared at by many beautiful women. The feeling made Li Cheng's legs weak, and he had a hard time walking around.

Thinking about it now, Li Cheng wanted to laugh. He felt that the textile factory workshop was a really interesting place. It was full of beautiful women, and their eyes were fiery. They stared at every man who walked into their place without any scruples.

It’s better to send a woman. If you send a man, he may not be able to yell at you!

Thinking of this, Li Cheng felt that sending Ye Xiaoyan was very appropriate.

Near the end of the day, Li Cheng called Ai Yi and asked her to invite Ye Xiaoyan to eat seafood together.

After Ai Yi agreed, he suddenly said, "Why don't you just tell her directly? Why go through so much trouble?"

Li Cheng said, "Avoid suspicion. After all, I am her boss. It seems inappropriate to ask a female subordinate out for dinner, right? Besides, I wouldn't dare ask another woman out for dinner without your consent!"

Ai Yi smiled, said "You are sensible", and hung up the phone.

The place where the three of them had dinner was the seafood restaurant where Li Cheng could sign.

The city is collaborating with a neighboring city to hold a beer fair in the area. Restaurants of all sizes, taking advantage of the proximity, are stocking up on beer.

Li Cheng looked for a while and chose an old brand of beer.

After the beer was delivered, Ye Xiaoyan said, "Eating seafood and drinking beer, life is pretty comfortable!"

Li Cheng smiled and placed an opened bottle of beer in front of her. Then, Li Cheng opened another bottle and placed it in front of himself.

Ye Xiaoyan looked at Ai Yi, and seeing that Ai Yi was just smiling, she looked at Li Cheng with some disbelief.

"You... are pregnant?" Ye Xiaoyan said, pointing at Ai Yi's belly.

Li Cheng did not hide it and said, "You have to hurry up, otherwise we won't be able to arrange the baby marriage."

Ye Xiaoyan suddenly felt a little lonely, thinking that Ai Yi was pregnant, but she didn't even have a boyfriend. This was too sad.

"I, this is how my life is. It's fine to live alone..."

"Is it really that good?"

Ye Xiaoyan almost collapsed when she heard Li Cheng's words to finish off the enemy.

She knows whether it is good or not. If it is good, she wouldn't be hanging around Li Cheng's house for no reason.

"Okay, that's great. By the way, after your child is born, I must be his godmother."

Li Cheng shook his head and thought to himself, you are just stubborn.

Ai Yi smiled and said, "Isn't it good to have a child yourself? What's the point of having a godmother? A biological mother is better."

The couple took turns to attack Ye Xiaoyan, and she was completely devastated.