Chapter 153 Setbacks
Tao Nanfeng's design team has two new members: Fan Yajun and Ye Chu.
Fan Yajun was still breastfeeding, and she pulled Tao Nanfeng aside a little embarrassedly: "I am ready to resign and follow you, but now I still need to breastfeed my child..."
Tao Nanfeng hesitated for a moment, then took her to the children's room next door, pointed to the room full of childish fun and said, "I just renovated this room, and I plan to bring the children here to play when I'm busy at work."
Fan Yajun looked around, looking at the large red, yellow and blue color schemes, the small and exquisite children's tables and chairs, the small slide and the small swing, and smiled, "Nanfeng, you really care about the children."
Tao Nanfeng shook his head: "I am usually busy and have little time to spend with the children. There is nothing I can do about it. When I am at work, I keep them by my side, hug them occasionally, and coax them. They will be very happy."
Fan Yajun sighed and said, "So, this is the trouble with being a woman. After having a child, you have one more thing to worry about, and you feel a little guilty when you are busy with your career."
Tao Nanfeng comforted her: "There are gains and losses. The children are so cute. Holding them makes me feel like I own the whole world."
When Fan Yajun heard this, she immediately laughed: "Isn't it? Although my Junjun is still young, his smile is like a flower. It melts my heart just by looking at him."
Hearing this, Tao Nanfeng understood very well. They are all mothers, and it is very normal for them to smile brightly when they see their own children.
"I don't care about other companies, but our Nanfeng Company will definitely pay attention to female employees in the future. We will try our best to provide convenient conditions so that everyone can take care of their children while working."
Fan Yajun smiled and pointed to the children's room: "To emulate you?"
Tao Nanfeng nodded and said, "You can bring your baby here. I'll hire a professional nursery teacher to look after the child and set up a mother-and-child room. You can work with peace of mind and come over to breastfeed when you have time. Also... the second floor is the design studio, and the third floor is the staff dormitory. If you need one, I can give you one."
Fan Yajun was overjoyed. She held Tao Nanfeng's hand tightly and thanked him repeatedly.
"You've been so thoughtful! It's right to follow you. I was planning to wean the baby and hire a nanny to help take care of the child, but now it seems that's not necessary. Ye Chu and I will bring Junjun here during the day and go back after we're done."
Fan Yajun and Ye Chu are both nearly 40 years old. As new parents, they are afraid that the child will melt if they hold him in their mouths, and they are afraid that he will drop if they hold him in their hands. Both her parents had passed away, so she asked her aunt from the countryside to come and help, and her sister-in-law also gave her a lot of support, but she still felt too busy to handle it.
Now that Tao Nanfeng has solved her worries, Fan Yajun feels full of fighting spirit. Her passion for architecture is the same as Tao Nanfeng's. Now that the construction market is taking shape, it's time to make a big splash!
Immediately afterwards, Tao Shouxin brought Xiong Heping and Jiang Siling to the company.
Seeing that the teacher only brought two people over, Fan Zhicheng said, "Teacher, where are the people from the structure group? Why didn't Professor Ouyang come?"
Tao Shouxin's face looked a little unhappy.
The biggest problem facing Nanfeng Company now is insufficient staffing.
Tao Shouxin is the company's general consultant, and the architectural designers are Tao Nanfeng, Fan Yajun, and Fan Zhicheng. There are enough people to bid in the early stage. However, to continue to complete the construction drawing design, we also need professional talents in structure, water and electricity, HVAC, landscape design, etc.
The Kyoto Xicheng District Gymnasium project is time-sensitive and demanding, and requires a large number of people, which are difficult to recruit in a short period of time. Therefore, we can only look for partners from Jiangcheng University of Architecture first.
He returned to school yesterday afternoon to look for collaborators, but unexpectedly heard some discordant voices.
The first voice came from Ouyang Cheng.
Ouyang Cheng, who lived opposite Tao Shouxin's house, had always cooperated well with Tao Shouxin, but this time he was the first person to refuse.
The person who stopped him was Madam Ouyang Zhou Hongying.
To be honest, Zhou Hongying was jealous when she saw Professor Tao next door was living a more and more prosperous life.
Originally, Tao Shouxin was married to Feng Chun'e, who was a worker in a printing factory. She had little education and was very fawning towards Zhou Hongying. Tao Nanfeng is honest and obedient, Feng You is warm and thoughtful, and the family of four seems calm and peaceful on the surface. In fact, Zhou Hongying knows that this is just superficial harmony achieved through Tao Nanfeng and Tao Shouxin's humility.
Later, Tao Nanfeng was planned to go to the countryside, and the peace of the next door was broken.
The chaos in the neighbors' homes made her own family look happy and fulfilling, so Zhou Hongying would emphasize and criticize this from time to time at home.
"Ouyang Cheng, you have to thank me for giving birth to two sons for you, so that you will have successors."
"It's better to be married at the beginning, as married people who got married later in life have more things to say about them."
"A harmonious family is the root of everything. If the man can't keep the family stable, then it's over."
After hearing such words many times, Ouyang Cheng also felt a sense of accomplishment in front of Tao Shouxin. He felt that although his achievements were not as good as Professor Tao, he had two sons and a wife, which was much better than him.
What was unexpected was that Tao Shouxin later divorced and lived alone with Tao Nanfeng. Then Tao Nanfeng returned from the farm to attend college and graduate school, got married successfully, and had three grandchildren, two of whom had the surname Tao!
Compared to this, the two sons of Ouyang Cheng are totally unimpressive. After the eldest daughter gave birth to a daughter, the family planning policy came into effect, and it seemed that she would never be able to have another child. The second child refuses to get married and is still wandering around alone.
Now that Tao Nanfeng has started a company, how could Zhou Hongying be willing to let Ouyang Cheng go to help?
"Isn't she awesome? Then let her do the structural design herself. Why do we need to go to school to find someone?"
"Don't join in on this fun. Be careful that someone will sue you for taking jobs outside to make money. It would be bad if you lose your job."
"Let the Tao family enjoy their glory. If they are identified as capitalists, they will go to jail!"
Ouyang Cheng was originally not very satisfied with the school's high praise for Tao Shouxin. Now that Tao Shouxin came to invite him enthusiastically, he declined with a fake smile: "As a teacher, I still have to focus on teaching and educating people. It's not appropriate to help other companies draw pictures like this."
After saying this, he pretended to be concerned and recommended his graduate student: "If you are in a hurry to find someone to help, let my graduate student go. Just think of it as participating in engineering practice."
Structural design is related to building safety and cannot be sloppy at all. How could Tao Shouxin dare to let a graduate student with no design experience participate? Ouyang Cheng's words were clearly a mockery: You guys who run private companies, how can you afford to hire a senior professor like me! Only students are allowed to participate.
I don’t know what happened, but the teachers in the structural teaching and research department seemed to have spoken with one voice and politely refused in unison.
"I'm sorry, Professor Tao, I have too many classes this semester and don't have time."
"I'm sorry. It was fine when I helped privately before and no one said anything. But now that Nanfeng Company has become famous, our every move will be followed by the media. It would not sound good if the news of university teachers taking jobs outside to make money got out."
"It's good for schools to have their own design institutes like Kyoto University. It's a public-to-public relationship, so it's legitimate for teachers to participate in design tasks. Nanfeng is a private company, and it's a private-to-private relationship. We don't dare to do that."
Even the good guy Huang Jiafa whispered to Tao Shouxin: "As the saying goes, the first bird to stick its head out gets shot at. Nanfeng Company became famous because of the bidding for the Kyoto project, and you, as a consultant, also received rewards from the school. A lot of people are envious. I advise you to be a little low-key this time, and try not to ask school teachers to participate, so as to avoid being reported by villains and ruining your business."
Tao Shouxin suppressed his temper and went around several departments, only to find Xiong Heping, who was in charge of water supply and drainage design, and Jiang Siling, who was in charge of electrical and HVAC engineering. These two professors were young and energetic, and were not afraid of gossip from others.
Xiong Heping said carelessly: "What's wrong with university teachers? Who stipulates that teachers can't do something they like in their spare time? I earn my living by my own ability, so what's there to be afraid of?"
Jiang Siling smiled and said, "Times have changed. The central government wants everyone to free their minds, but those people are still clinging to old-fashioned ideas and gossiping. I'm not afraid. I'm participating in engineering practice and doing voluntary labor, right?"
Tao Nanfeng paid the teachers in cash. If you didn’t tell anyone and I didn’t tell anyone, who would know that they took the money? So Jiang Siling was not afraid at all.
Therefore, even though Tao Shouxin only brought two teachers today, they were helpers he had found with great difficulty.
After hearing Tao Shouxin's brief description, Fan Zhicheng was speechless: "Teacher, without a structural designer, we can't continue with the construction drawings! We have to complete all the construction drawings in half a month, and we definitely can't do it without overtime. With so few people... it's not enough."
Xiong Heping and Jiang Siling are responsible for water, electricity, and HVAC, which are supporting projects and do not pose any major problems. The structure is the highlight, which needs to be calculated according to the construction drawings and then designed from the ground up. It takes a long time and involves a lot of work, and requires the cooperation of multiple people.
Tao Nanfeng and Fan Yajun exchanged glances.
Fan Yajun thought for a moment and took the initiative to say, "I'll go find Zhou Bin. I had a good cooperation with him when I was in Jiangcheng Architectural Design Institute. You also cooperated with him on the towel factory project."
Tao Nanfeng nodded: "Okay."
While other design institutes worry about projects, Nanfeng Company worries about talent.
When she started the company, she had simple ideas; she just wanted to do something she liked.
Opening a cigarette factory in the north is very profitable, and there are already hundreds of thousands of yuan in the family account. Usually the family lives a simple and low-key life and does not spend much money, so Tao Nanfeng is a bit idealistic.
I wanted to start a company so I opened one, and I wanted to have an office so I bought a building. With super powers in hand, he can make money easily by participating in the completion and acceptance engineering consulting business for 500 yuan per order; if there is a design project, Jiangcheng University of Architecture has all kinds of majors from architecture to structure, water conservancy and electricity, and landscaping, so you can guarantee both quality and quantity when you hand it over to them.
When Tao Nanfeng got the Xicheng District Stadium project, he was full of expectations. He believed that with this favorable wind, he would be able to promote the name of Nanfeng Company and make a fortune together with the teachers of Jiangcheng University of Architecture.
Unexpectedly, the teachers at Jiangcheng University of Architecture did not buy it.
When Fan Yajun came to the Department of Architecture on behalf of Jiangcheng Architectural Design Institute to look for cooperation, didn’t the school show a high degree of cooperation?
Why are the teachers unwilling to do this when it comes to her?
It is obvious that teachers can earn some extra money, have more practical opportunities, and achieve win-win development for both the company and individuals, so why are they unwilling to participate in this project?
A strong feeling of frustration surged up in Tao Nanfeng, and he was stunned. It was at this moment that she realized that she had underestimated the difficulty of starting a business and starting a company.
People, money, materials and market are all indispensable. Especially for design companies, professional talents are even more valuable.
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