Chapter 99 Chapter 99 1st update
After the Canton Fair ended, Shen Moer stayed in Guangzhou for a few more days, treated David and Paul to dinner, and received a clothing magazine from Paul.
Paul is a fashion designer with his own clothing brand. He often travels around the world looking for fabrics and accessories he likes, as well as inspiration. He said that Shen Moer's embroidery drawings gave him wonderful inspiration. He will design a few dresses when he returns and will mail the drawings to Shen Moer when the time comes.
Because he found that Shen Moli had very good aesthetics and painting skills, and this aesthetics transcended the current popular aesthetics, and even had a kind of ancient mystery, he was very happy to keep in touch with Shen Moli.
Shen Moer reported the situation to the Department of Commerce of Southern Province and obtained special approval from the leaders, allowing her to take the clothing magazine back to Jiangbei County. The province would also contact Jiangbei County and allow her to maintain correspondence with Paul based on work needs.
Shen Moer returned late and completely missed the scene of the Southern Province beating drums and gongs to welcome the victorious return of the trading delegation, but when she arrived in Jiangbei County, she still could not escape the welcoming ceremony organized by Jiangbei County.
When getting off the bus, Shen Moer was stunned.
The parking lot was empty. The county's main leaders, along with leaders from various government agencies and subdistrict communes, were standing there. When they saw her, they all started to applaud. There was also a group of primary school students wearing red scarves, holding plastic flowers in their hands, shouting in unison: "Welcome, welcome, warm welcome, welcome to Jiangbei County's great hero, Comrade Shen Moer, to return home with honor."
Shen Moer: “…”
This was even more heartbreaking than the time when her father had to drag her to dance for his uncle on his birthday.
Especially the other passengers on the bus were clinging to the windows and making a fuss.
County Chief Gu stepped forward and shook hands with Shen Moer, saying with a smile: "Comrade Shen Moer, welcome back!"
The only good thing about this scene was that the county sent a car to take Shen Moli and her luggage directly back to Liuqiao Commune.
The car drove all the way into the commune's family compound and stopped under the building where Shen Moer lived. The driver had to help carry the luggage up, but Fu Mingze came down from the building in three or two steps, followed by Shen Shaoyuan, Zhou Pingan and Liu Guizhi.
When we left, we only had one luggage bag, but when we came back, we had four or five bags of various sizes, but it was enough for each person to carry one.
Shen Moer thanked the driver and followed him upstairs.
Fu Mingze was waiting for her at the stairs, holding a bag in one hand. He looked her up and down for several times before asking, "Are you tired?"
Shen Moer had nothing in her hands. She looked at Fu Zhiqing, who seemed to have gotten a little tanned, and smiled, “I’m tired, but I’m not tired anymore when I see you.”
Fu Mingze curled his lips. Deputy Director Shen could be so sweet sometimes that it was really fatal. No wonder the father-in-law treated his daughter like his own heart.
During this period of more than half a month, my daughter was not around. My father-in-law was worried that she was cold outside, and then worried that she was not eating well or sleeping well. He repeatedly told me that the weather in Guangzhou was hot, and she probably had to wear a shirt at this time. Also, people in Guangzhou were the best at cooking, and there were many more delicious foods there than in the southern province. Only then did my father-in-law feel a little relieved with half belief and half doubt.
When Shen Moer heard Fu Zhiqing say how her father was worried about her, she asked suddenly, "What about you? Aren't you worried about me?"
Fu Mingze paused, his dark eyes hidden in the dim light of the evening, and he said in a deep and low voice: "Come here, I'll tell you."
Shen Moer didn't doubt him, took two steps forward, and approached Fu Mingze: "What's the matter?"
Fu Mingze bent down and gave her a quick kiss on the face.
"Oh, I'm sorry, the young couple has such a good relationship!" Old Mrs. Deng on the third floor was walking downstairs. She was caught off guard and saw this scene. She immediately laughed.
Fu Mingze cleared his throat, his expression unchanged: "Grandma Deng."
Shen Moer glared at Fu Mingze, her cheeks slightly hot, and greeted him with a smile: "Hello, Grandma Deng." She consciously took a step back and made room for the stairs.
Old Mrs. Deng said with a smile: "Well, well, well, I heard that Comrade Xiao Shen has made great contributions in Guangshi. Oh, everyone in Liuqiao Commune has to thank you! You must be exhausted, go back and have a rest!"
Shen Moer: "Okay, Grandma Deng, please go downstairs and be careful."
The two said goodbye to the old lady. Shen Moer couldn't help but stretched out her hand to pinch Fu Mingze's waist. This guy was really something. He looked serious at ordinary times, but in fact he was very mean and bold. He dared to "do bad things" on the stairs, making her embarrassed as well.
Fu Mingze hissed, his eyes looking somewhat dangerous: "Deputy Director Shen, don't stir up trouble."
Shen Moer giggled, walked quickly in front of him, reached the door of her house, turned around and gave Fu Mingze a provocative look.
Fu Mingze ground his back teeth.
Fu Mingze made dinner. Shen Shaoyuan's talent in cooking was very average. Fu Mingze was slightly better than him, but not much better. Compared with the food in Guangzhou, the difference was a bit big, but thinking that it was made by Fu Zhiqing himself, Shen Moer still ate two bowls of rice to show her respect. After being away for more than half a month, she actually missed her father and Fu Zhiqing.
When I was in Guangzhou, I was busy from morning to night every day. As long as I was open, I was thinking about how to sign more orders and how to grasp the needs of foreign companies more accurately and adjust the future production direction.
I hardly have any free time, and when I do, the first thing I want to do is go to bed.
It was not until the moment I returned home that I seemed to finally relax, and the longing buried deep in my heart seemed to surge up.
A short separation is better than a new marriage. Chen Shaoyuan went to bed early at night, but the two young people tossed and turned until midnight.
The next day, Shen Moli rested at home for another day, and only on the third day did she go to the county with the commune secretary Geng Liming and director Zhang Zhengxiang.
Having received orders worth tens of millions of dollars at once, the Ninth Workshop could no longer operate on a small scale as before. Shen Moer and County Magistrate Gu Yangbo had the same idea. After discussion, they immediately submitted a report to the province to apply for the establishment of the Second Branch of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory. At the same time, the county requested funding from the city, and the city and county jointly advanced part of the funds to expand the factory first.
This time the construction of the factory building is not just the responsibility of Liuqiao Commune. The county has drawn people from the four surrounding communes. On the premise of ensuring that the autumn harvest is not affected, each commune will take turns to send people to support the construction of the factory building in Liuqiao Commune.
Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone knew that Liuqiao Commune, a subsidiary workshop of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory, had signed an order of more than 10 million US dollars at the Canton Fair, which was twice as much as the headquarters of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory. Now the county was taking the lead in expanding the factory building at full speed, which meant that there would be a large number of recruitment quotas in the future. The nearby communes definitely had a geographical advantage and could get the moon first.
This is not about building a factory for Liuqiao Commune, this is clearly about building a factory for themselves!
Exporting and earning foreign exchange is the top priority. The provincial leaders who attended the Canton Fair actually knew that the production capacity of the ninth workshop of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory was far from sufficient, and it was imperative to expand the factory and even set up a branch. So after Jiangbei County submitted the report, the province approved the establishment of a branch soon, and at the same time, the Provincial Department of Industry directly allocated a sum of support funds for the construction of the branch.
The Southern Province Embroidery Factory originally had some ideas. After all, after the establishment of the branch factory, the personnel, finances and materials would be independent, which was actually equivalent to being no longer under their control.
Watching such a big piece of fat slip away from their mouths, many people beat their chests and stamped their feet, feeling very unwilling.
However, the decision to build a branch factory was made by the main leaders of the province and approved by a joint document issued by relevant departments. No one asked for the opinions of the leaders of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory.
Moreover, probably because the production task was too heavy, the decision to set up a branch factory was made very quickly. By the time some people at the Southern Province Embroidery Factory reacted, the document had already been sent to Jiangbei County.
Speaking of this matter, the person who had the greatest regret in the Southern Province Embroidery Factory was Chen Jiahua. She had run around everywhere, intent on building a branch factory, but was unable to do so due to various reasons.
However, Chen Jiahua was not unwilling to accept this. This time, the branch factory could be built thanks to Shen Moli's own ability. Chen Jiahua was now convinced of her. At the same time, a different kind of pride surged in her heart, which had been somewhat quiet. Seeing that Shen Moli could achieve such results, she couldn't help but have the idea of working hard to make progress.
Let them be about the dirty things in the factory. She just wants to study hard and lead the first workshop to produce better embroidery products, so as to strive for more orders at the Canton Fair next year.
Of course, not everyone has the mind and ambition like Chen Jiahua, for example, Mao Jianxin, he really regrets it now to the point that he can't help but vomit blood every time he thinks about it.
Sometimes he wondered if his brain was eaten by some evil spirit when he went to Liuqiao Commune. Otherwise, why would he have to cause trouble for Chen Moli?
After returning to the provincial capital, Mao Jianxin recalled countless times everything that happened in Liuqiao Commune. Even he had to admit that from beginning to end, Shen Moli had never taken the initiative to cause trouble for him. He was afraid that the strong dragon could not defeat the local snake, but it was all his own imagination. In fact, he was just feeling insecure.
If he had gotten along well with Shen Moli after going to Liuqiao Commune, if he had not done those stupid things and stayed in Liuqiao Commune... then even if he could not become the director of the branch factory, he could at least become the deputy director?
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world, and the things that happened will never happen.
Shen Moer didn't know that the establishment of the branch factory had touched the nerves of so many people. She was so busy that she had no time to think about it at all.
The provincial document directly appointed her as the director of the second branch of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory and gave her a great deal of autonomy to form the factory leadership team locally.
Although the Second Branch was slightly lower in rank than the Southern Province Embroidery Factory, it was actually already at a very high level compared to the county. Geng Liming even joked that he would recommend himself to be the deputy director of the Second Branch.
The county and the commune recommended some candidates to Shen Moer. In the end, Shen Moer chose Feng Wei, Geng Liming's former right-hand man, as the deputy director in charge of administrative affairs, and recommended Xing Fangjie as the deputy director in charge of business. Jin Caifei also became the deputy director, still in charge of procurement and sales.
The heads of the following departments also rose in status. Li Xinmei was awarded the important position of workshop director, Liu Yinshuang was promoted to deputy workshop director, and Duan Xiaoshuang was also promoted to deputy workshop director.
However, Shen Moer gave the position of director of the drawing room to someone no one expected, Bai Junwen, the only male comrade who passed the embroidery test.
He was actually quite good at embroidery, but not long after he joined the factory, Shen Moer discovered that he was also secretly learning to paint. Within a few months, he had learned several embroidery patterns currently being produced in the workshop.
Seeing that he was interested, Shen Moer lent him some teaching plans that she had collected so that he could study on his own. Perhaps he really was talented, for Bai Junwen's painting skills were now better than those of the painters he had hired before.
Just like that, people were arranged one position at a time, and Shen Moer herself felt that she was ready to be crowned a king or a duke after conquering the country.
In short, she spent a few days sorting out the personnel affairs in the factory, and then assigned all the tasks.
The first thing is to recruit workers, including embroiderers, painters, and other odd jobs. All of them need to be recruited.
This time the recruitment is open to the entire county. Of course, Liuqiao Commune and several nearby communes occupy geographical locations, so there will naturally be more people.
It's not just thirty or fifty. We recruited four hundred embroiderers for the first time, thirty painters, and fifty people from other departments.
At the same time, thirty administrative and logistical staff were recruited.
Before the factory expansion was completed, all embroiderers were trained as a commune unit, and painters were taken to Liuqiao Commune Middle School for centralized training.
At the same time, led by Liu Yinshuang, a group of women with bad backgrounds but good embroidery skills were organized in various communes. It was naturally impossible for these people to enter state-owned factories as workers, so they were organized to carry out "labor reform" in the name of the second branch.
The Yangliu Brigade headquarters vacated a dozen rooms, and renovated several empty houses left by the village's five-guarantee households and some old houses that were about to collapse, and vacated five large dormitories and a dozen "workshops" to accommodate these people.
There were more than fifty people in this group, and the number was too large. The Yangliu Brigade found the place and equipment where they used to eat in the big pot in the early years, and let them open their own canteen.
Although it is not actually listed, it is actually equivalent to building a "non-staff workshop" in Yangliu Brigade composed entirely of "skilled workers".
Compared with the more than 300 newly recruited embroiderers who still need training, these people can start production after just a few days of training.
Moreover, because they had previously done the hardest and most tiring work in their respective teams, after arriving here, they especially cherished this rare opportunity. Everyone worked with all their might, and did their work so well and quickly that they were almost as good as the original workers in the ninth workshop.
For a time, Liuqiao Commune was a scene of prosperity and hard work.
With the full support of the county, the expansion project of the second branch factory was completed in just two months. Half a month later, the factory dormitories were also completed.
Hundreds of cadres and employees moved into the spacious and bright new factory building. Under the witness of provincial and municipal leaders, a sign that read "Second Branch of Nan Province Embroidery Factory" was hung at the entrance of the factory building.
With the official opening of the Second Branch of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory, 1972 finally came to the end of the year. Another year passed amid the sound of firecrackers.
Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye, and it is now 1976.
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