Chapter 144 Chapter 144 1st update
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. This year, more people go to department stores to buy ready-made clothes than in previous years. There are also many fashionable girls with curly hair who all ask if there are any more fashionable styles.
Salesperson at Wanquan Road Department Store: Isn’t this just a coincidence!
They really do.
Normally, when people ask them if they have any more fashionable styles, they have to carefully pick and choose from the goods of various garment factories and compare them for a long time before they can pick out one or two styles that are a little more fashionable.
This year, no need at all!
No matter what, everyone has their own preferences. No matter whether you like it or not, when it comes to fashion, eleven out of ten people will choose the bragi that the purchasing department just got.
With that small V-neck, that tiny waist, that wide skirt, and those little leather shoes, she is definitely the most stylish and fashionable girl in the capital.
You know what, I like every one of them.
However, what the salesperson found strange was that in addition to the girls who came up to ask if they had any fashionable clothes, there were some girls who asked if they had any blazers from the Huacai Garment Factory as soon as they arrived at the counter, and the first things they asked were the V-neck, waist-hugging and wide-hemmed ones.
The salesperson asked curiously and found out that these girls had seen people from the Huacai Garment Factory on the street and fell in love with the clothes at that time. They not only wanted to buy the braids, but also the sweaters and leather shoes that the people wore.
It requires exactly the same combination.
As a result, a lot of sweaters and leather shoes from the department store were sold.
The sweater and leather shoe factories were all confused. Why did the sales of the Wanquan Road Department Store suddenly increase? They quickly called the department store and learned that their products were brought to the market by a little-known garment factory, Bragi. They were all a little confused.
Is this Bragi so good looking?
I immediately ran to a nearby department store to ask if they had this kind of bragi for sale.
As a result, the department store nearby was out of stock, and people there were surprised, saying they had never heard of the name Huacai Garment Factory.
So these people rushed to the Wanquan Road Department Store again.
Wanquan Road Department Store has been doing really good business recently. Not only the sales of blazers, sweaters and leather shoes, but also other items have increased a lot.
It's not surprising. Now that we are here, we will just go shopping around and maybe bring some food and daily necessities with us. It doesn't matter where we buy them, right?
So, Deputy Section Chief Li was once again approached by his colleagues from other department stores, the same ones who wanted to inquire about the source of colored electric fans from him last time.
This guy is really shameless. He was rejected by Deputy Section Chief Li last time, but he came to him again this time.
"Old Li, we have been neighbors for many years..."
Deputy Section Chief Li immediately said, "Oh, oh, oh, that's not the case. It's really not the case. You live at that end of the alley, and I live at this end. How can we be neighbors? We hardly run into each other all year round."
"Then it must be true that we have been in the same system for so many years, right? We have both worked in the purchasing position, and we have been together in every professional training. We have known each other for so many years, you can't be so heartless, right? I don't need you to introduce me, just tell me the address and I will find it myself."
Deputy Section Chief Li: “…”
You still want me to help introduce it to you. Why is your dream so beautiful?
Moreover, it is true that you have all worked in the purchasing position for many years. But precisely because you have all worked in the purchasing position, there are many old grudges between us. Whenever there was a good thing, you relied on your thick skin to take more and ask for more. Have you ever thought about those of us who are working in the same position?
However, Deputy Section Chief Li was still very happy.
What goes around comes around. You'll have to pay for what you've done. Look, now it's your turn to beg me.
He held the teacup in his hand and shook his head, saying, "No, I can't disclose someone's address without their consent. This is disrespectful to our partners. We definitely can't do this."
“…”
Seeing that Deputy Section Chief Li was not interested, the man could only leave cursing in his heart and ran to the guard room to inquire about the situation.
The comrades in the security room were very vigilant: "When you registered your name and work unit just now, you filled in Longqiao Road Department Store, right? We don't understand business matters. If you have any questions, just find someone in the relevant department."
His face was full of suspicion.
“…”
This guy could only flee again.
It wasn't just the Longqiao Road Department Store. Other units that wanted to inquire about the source of goods all returned empty-handed in the end.
Many people even inquired about the news and found out about several major garment factories in the capital, thinking that after all they are in the same industry. There is a saying that goes, the person who knows you best is your opponent. The major garment factories should know what the situation is with the Huacai Garment Factory, right?
Who would have thought that people from several major garment factories also looked confused.
"Hua Cai Garment Factory, is there such a garment factory in this part of our capital? I have never heard of it."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible. There are only a few garment factories in the capital. We all know each other. How can anyone like a V-neck, waist-cinching, wide-skirted bra?"
"I've never heard of Huacai Garment Factory. Could it be a large garment factory in a nearby province? I know Manager Wang of the Wanquan Road Department Store. She has a wide network of contacts. Who knows? Maybe she got the goods from another province, maybe from Jiangsu or Shanghai?"
"Oh, I've seen the style of blazer you mentioned. Someone in our factory bought it. You see, we own a garment factory, but we actually buy ready-made clothes from other factories. But we guess that this Huacai Garment Factory should be in Shanghai. Shanghai was a place of decadence and extravagance before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The people there have a petty-bourgeois style that cannot be killed even after ten years of movement."
…
So, this guy used his connections to look in surrounding provinces and even in Shanghai, but still found nothing.
Shen Moer, who had no idea that someone was frantically looking for Huacai Garment Factory, got ten old sewing machines at this time and slightly expanded the scale of the garment factory.
This time, she not only recruited ten female workers, but also recruited two female comrades who had studied tailoring for several years to be responsible for cutting, which freed Bai Junwen from the cutting position.
Bai Junwen was a little confused: "Then what should I do?"
Shen Moer laughed and said, "Do you really want to keep working as a cutter? Okay, I'll get you a certificate to audit the Fine Arts Academy. Go and listen to the classes and think about what our next product will be."
Liu Yinshuang, the part-time financial officer, said while calculating on the abacus, "That's great. Although these schools don't have a proper fashion design major yet, they definitely have design concepts. You can draw embroidery patterns, right? If you learn more about these things, you can become the chief designer of our garment factory."
Shen Moer glanced at her and thought, Sister, do you know that the secret has been exposed?
There is no formal fashion design major yet, but I guess there will be one in two years, right?
Chief designer, don’t you think this term doesn’t sound like something that can be found in China these days?
However, the other person present did not find it strange at all. Instead, he thought about it seriously and nodded seriously: "Okay, I will definitely do my best."
Shen Moer: “…”
Okay.
Although the scale of the garment factory has doubled, Shen Moer has no intention of continuing to promote or expand the business. The ten newly recruited female workers are still making the same style of braid, but Shen Moer recently got some plaid and floral fabrics from the textile factory, so the patterns of the skirts are slightly different.
The factory’s production capacity is limited, and it’s already difficult to supply goods to the Wanquan Road Department Store. We can’t produce any more.
So Shen Moer asked Bai Junwen and Zhao Zhenghui to take turns to look after the factory, and they would go to audit and learn when they had time.
Bai Junwen's audit pass was obtained with the help of her father-in-law, but it was easier for Zhao Zhenghui, she went directly to the department to get one.
After all, Zhao Zhenghui doesn't know anything else, so he just needs to audit some lessons on finance and management.
Zhao Zhenghui never expected that he, who had graduated from junior high school with great difficulty and failed to get into high school, would have to attend classes at Capital University after coming to the capital.
If his grandparents asked him to do this, he would definitely turn up his nose and leave, but since Chen Moer asked him to go, he had no choice but to hold his nose and go obediently.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand the class, you have to go. My cousin said it’s part of the job.
The factory provides him with food and accommodation, and he doesn't have to operate a sewing machine, but he can earn several dozen dollars a month. Not to mention just attending a few classes, even if he was asked to go to the podium to give a lecture, he would have to go!
What's more, Zhao Zhenghui found that he could actually understand some of the lessons, and they even inspired him. After a long time, he even dared to ask the teacher questions after class.
In the blink of an eye, it was August.
Although it is summer vacation, Shen Moer and Fu Mingze are busier than usual.
Fu Mingze followed the professor of their department into the laboratory to do odd jobs, while Chen Moli was looking for a place to relocate the garment factory.
Their style of braid was so popular that not only did the Wanquan Road Department Store urge them to expand production every day, but when Zhao Zhenghui was delivering the goods, he was also ambushed by people from other department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives. They shamelessly followed Zhao Zhenghui back to the yard of Huacai Garment Factory and insisted on waiting until Shen Moer came over and asked her to buy some goods for them.
It was at this time that state-owned factories had to save face and abide by the rules and would not copy other factories' versions. If a few years had passed, this Bragi would have sold so well that the streets would have been filled with imitations.
Buyers from various units were dumbfounded when they saw that the Huacai Garment Factory, which had recently become popular throughout the capital, was actually such a small workshop with only a few dozen people. While they were demanding goods, they also urged Shen Moli to quickly move to another place to expand its scale.
Chen Moli wanted to run a small workshop for a few years and produce a model of clothing every quarter. However, she never expected that the first model of braid would become a hit.
Moreover, these comrades in the department stores and supply and marketing systems were very enthusiastic. When they heard that their factory was short of raw materials, they all said that they could provide channels and connections to help them get fabric quotas, as long as the products they produced could be supplied to their department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives.
When Shen Moer heard this, she thought this business seemed promising, so she took advantage of the summer vacation to start working on the relocation and expansion.
It’s just that it’s really hard to find a suitable place. It’s not like the 1990s when a large number of state-owned factories closed down and it was relatively easy to find old factories and old machines. At this time, state-owned factories were thriving, and everyone had to use anyone’s factory.
Shen Moli had no choice but to ask people for help everywhere, and finally it was a teacher from the Economics Department who helped her find a place.
A factory on a certain street originally made hats, but because their designs were conservative and the quality was average, they were not selling well and the factory's performance has been declining in the past two years.
At the beginning of this year, the factory finally couldn't continue operating. The hats in stock were distributed to the workers to offset their wages, and then the factory went bankrupt.
In those days, it was impossible for a state-owned factory to go bankrupt, but it was still very easy for "small collective industries" such as social enterprises and street factories to go bankrupt.
This factory originally made hats and there were still dozens of sewing machines in the workshop. After Huacai Garment Factory took over, it didn't even need to purchase additional sewing machines.
The key is that it is not too far away. You can get there in just a few stops by bus.
Shen Moer had visited several social enterprise factories in the suburbs or warehouses in suburban villages before, but they were all too far away. It would take at least an hour to get there by bus, and the time cost was too high.
Originally, she was thinking that if she couldn't find any nearby, she could just choose one from these.
Unexpectedly, I finally found someone who is suitable in all aspects.
On one side are the street factories, and on the other side are the social enterprises. Both sides are small collective industries, which is much simpler than dealing with state-owned factories.
The street couldn't just sell the collective assets directly, so it signed a lease contract with Huacai Garment Factory. At Liu Yinshuang's strong request, the contract was signed for twenty years.
It doesn't matter to the street side. The longer the contract, the less trouble they will have later.
They were also afraid that the Huacai Garment Factory would go back on its word. After all, they had run a lot of "small collective industries" before, and to be honest, a lot of them had gone bankrupt. It was hard to say whether the Huacai Garment Factory could last a full 20 years... most likely not.
The comrades on the street silently felt that they had gotten a great bargain.
After renting the factory building, it took several days for Huacai Garment Factory to move out of the slum.
At the same time, Shen Moli also began to recruit workers in full swing.
Some of them were still recruited from Liuqiao Commune, so she simply entrusted this matter to Lingjiang Embroidery Factory.
Anyway, the Embroidery Factory has a lot of experience in temporary recruitment. After all, every time they attended the Canton Fair, the Embroidery Factory would definitely recruit workers to expand production.
In addition to Liu Yinshuang, Bai Junwen, and Zhao Zhenghui from the capital, Shen Moli specially hired two teachers from the school and two classmates to serve as interviewers.
Of course, the teachers and students of the Economics Department are mainly responsible for the recruitment of administrative personnel. Shen Moer herself, Liu Yinshuang and Bai Junwen are all very experienced in the recruitment of female workers.
Halfway through the recruitment process, they added two more assistants: Zhou Zhaodi and Chen Yu.
Oh, by the way, Zhou Zhaodi changed her name before the college entrance examination. She is now called Zhou Wenhua.
Her life was not about supporting her younger brother, but about studying hard and striving for the rise of China.
This is her interpretation of the meaning of her name.
Zhou Wenhua is a good name, but when Shen Moer heard it for the first time, she always felt that when their names were put together, Zhou Wenhua sounded more like a teacher, while she looked more like a student.
In short, after Zhou Wenhua and Chen Yu finished the college entrance examination and waited for the admission notice at home, they packed their bags and came to the capital together.
They all got admitted to the Capital Academy of Fine Arts.
Isn't this just sending people to do odd jobs?
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