Chapter 160 Caring for her, she really knows how to manage her finances carefully.
Since Gao Rong became pregnant, Lin Xiuqin could only see news about Qin Xiangxiang in the newspaper. She went to Mawangdui to protect national treasures and made the news. And that's not all. This Qin Xiangxiang also received the prince and princess of the Khmer Kingdom!
The Feiyan Textile Factory on the island also became a supplier of gifts to the province.
Lin Xiuqin's heart was bleeding. She couldn't shake off her feelings no matter what she thought about. She wanted to do business, she wanted to make money, she wanted to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, she wanted to become rich overnight, she wanted to be the richest person in the country!
But it was only 1973, and the tide of the times was sweeping everyone along. She couldn't do business openly, nor could she control the early resumption of the college entrance examination. She could only stay in the small clinic, raging helplessly.
We had to wait until December 1977, which meant another four years! And then until the 1980s when the individual economy started producing clothing, which meant another seven years! Moreover, individual clothing factories didn't have foreign trade quotas and couldn't do foreign trade.
And Qin Xiangxiang inexplicably became the director of the island textile factory. She clearly didn't mention a textile factory in the original book. The textile industry on the island didn't start developing until at least the late 1970s. How could a Feiyan Textile Factory suddenly appear out of nowhere? And Qin Xiangxiang even got the job.
In 1973, Feiyan Textile Factory secured a record-breaking foreign trade order worth nearly three million US dollars through the Canton Fair, and all of this was achieved by using the Mawangdui patterns, thus profiting at the expense of Liben's people! It was a complete win without lifting a finger!
If she could marry Chen Ruifeng, then the Feiyan Textile Factory should belong to Lin Xiuqin.
Lin Xiuqin felt increasingly resentful as she thought about it.
She was a textile major, so she should have been the factory manager. She could have found ways to generate more foreign exchange orders instead of waiting until the 1980s, when she was already in her thirties, to struggle to run a small garment factory.
In fact, the original plot of the book was that she would open a clothing processing factory seven or eight years later, while Qin Xiangxiang, the troublesome female supporting character, would be swindled because of the faulty machinery she bought, and would die tragically with huge debts.
Now that Qin Xiangxiang is the factory director of a state-owned factory, even if she gets ripped off when buying machines, it won't affect her personally.
Moreover, this Feiyan Textile Factory also produces "providing gifts"! Lin Xiuqin was increasingly worried about how many foreign guests she would be hosting in the future.
"What are those small-time businesses like restaurants and street stalls? What are those black market transactions? Can they compare to the current sky-high foreign exchange order of 2.88 million US dollars?"
Lin Xiuqin is now obsessed with getting into Feiyan Textile Factory. She wants to take over Feiyan Textile Factory, especially when Qin Xiangxiang makes a mistake, so that she can "turn the tide".
Since transmigrating into the book, Lin Xiuqin had barely spoken a few words to Qin Xiangxiang. Lin Xiuqin thought that if she could use the connections of "Zhao Yangyang" and "Gao Rong," she might be able to get close to Qin Xiangxiang and gain her trust.
She also wanted to find out who had transmigrated into "Qin Xiangxiang," and how this Qin Xiangxiang had become a female-oriented version of a "prodigy protagonist"? Why was this Qin Xiangxiang suddenly focused on her career?
"Lin Xiuqin, are you also signing up to go to the factory hospital of Feiyan Textile Factory?" Zhao Qiaoqiao, who works at the same clinic as Lin Xiuqin, whispered to her.
For medical personnel in the 1970s, working as a medical worker in a factory hospital was a very good job, because ordinary hospitals, like public institutions, didn't offer any good benefits. Factories were different; if you worked as a doctor or nurse in a textile factory, would you lack clothes or cloth?
These days, cloth is a very precious commodity!
Lin Xiuqin glanced at Zhao Qiaoqiao and nodded: "I've signed up too."
Zhao Qiaoqiao said worriedly, "I'm afraid I won't be selected."
"Many people want to go to the factory hospital!"
Lin Xiuqin asked, puzzled, "Why?"
"What else could it be? Of course, it's for the benefits at the factory hospital! This is the only textile factory on the island!" Zhao Qiaoqiao glanced at her. "Aren't you just after the benefits?"
Lin Xiuqin found it absurd that so many people wanted to go to a factory hospital.
Zhao Qiaoqiao said, "Many of our nurses have signed up, and the doctors from the county hospital also want to go."
Lin Xiuqin: "????!!!" Are people these days crazy?! Are they idiots?! They'll be swept away like sand in the torrent of time sooner or later, utterly foolish!
Why would someone leave a perfectly good public institution like the county hospital to go to a factory hospital that's just starting out? It's utterly ridiculous.
It should be noted that after the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of state-owned factories went bankrupt and laid off workers.
Lin Xiuqin, blessed by the prophet, despised these people for their shortsightedness, yet she couldn't help but feel anxious.
She originally thought that only she wanted to work as a medical worker at Feiyan Textile Factory, but it turned out that so many people wanted to work at the factory hospital. She might not be able to transfer to Feiyan Textile Factory through this recruitment opportunity at the factory hospital.
Zhao Qiaoqiao said, "We should wait a few days for the results, then we can go see them together."
A few days later, Lin Xiuqin and Zhao Qiaoqiao went to see the factory hospital's recruitment list together. Zhao Qiaoqiao almost jumped up: "Lin Xiuqin, I'm on the list, Zhao Qiaoqiao!"
Lin Xiuqin's heart skipped a beat. She looked closely at the list, but it only contained Zhao Qiaoqiao's name; her name, Lin Xiuqin's, was nowhere to be found.
Lin Xiuqin's eyes widened: "???"
She felt like throwing up!
Zhao Qiaoqiao, who worked at the same clinic as her, was hired by the factory hospital, but she was rejected by Feiyan Textile Factory. The Zhao Qiaoqiao in front of her had a few pockmarks and a heart-shaped face; she was just an ordinary nurse.
Lin Hsiu-chin: "You didn't hire me?"
"Lin Xiuqin, you...you're such a pity." Zhao Qiaoqiao covered her mouth, but couldn't hide the joy in her eyes. She could go to Feiyan Textile Factory. "I guess I'm just lucky, I got lucky!"
Zhao Qiaoqiao said, "Besides... some good benefits, the factory hospital doesn't have much else. The medical equipment must be very rudimentary!"
"Forget about ultrasound, they probably don't even have X-rays, it's very rudimentary."
“We’re friends, so when I go to Feiyan Textile Factory, I’ll check out their poplin and wave yarn. I’ll let you know after I see them! If you want some in the future, I can help you get some, hehe. I’ll go check it out first.”
Lin Xiuqin's face turned green. The smugness in Zhao Qiaoqiao's eyes was impossible to hide. Going to the "factory hospital" would ruin her future, and this girl was still so smug.
She had to force a smile and not fall out with Zhao Qiaoqiao. "Qiaoqiao, after you go to Feiyan Textile Factory, I'll come visit you at the factory hospital."
Zhao Qiaoqiao nodded: "Okay, if I can see the Blue Moon Pearl Silk Scarf, I'll take you there to broaden your horizons."
Lin Xiuqin turned her face away, feeling nauseous.
However, she was completely helpless. Although she majored in textiles, textiles are now all digitally operated, and process parameters can be entered with a single click. She simply did not know how to operate the textile machines of this era. Even if Lin Xiuqin had ideas in her mind, she could not realize them at all because she did not understand the old-fashioned machines of this time.
She's actually better suited to fashion design than textile factories; she should get to know more skilled craftsmen and be the one to give advice and suggestions.
It's a pity that conditions were so poor in the 1970s. Ordinary people couldn't even get cotton; they had to have factory quotas. Other synthetic fibers were even harder to obtain... She was like a skilled cook trying to cook without rice.
Qin Xiangxiang attached great importance to the construction of the factory hospital, and she could not afford to recruit unqualified medical staff, as that would harm both herself and others.
"In addition to recruiting experienced barefoot doctors, we also need to recruit educated youth or high school graduates and send them to the provincial hospital for training..."
“We need to pay attention not only to medical staff, but also to medical equipment. Assistant He, let’s apply to receive decommissioned equipment under the name of a wartime medical station. It would be great if we could get an old-fashioned X-ray machine.”
"We should take the factory hospital of XX Cotton Mill as our target. They have an inpatient department with more than 80 beds."
Assistant He nodded. "Factory manager, you're right. Medical matters cannot be taken lightly."
"Medical devices cannot be treated carelessly."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "You and Yang Zhixia and the others should try to contact the provincial steel mill and other heavy industries."
Assistant He was stunned: "Why?"
"Are you stupid? Steel mills are rich and powerful, their factory hospital must be well-equipped. I estimate they have a lot of idle medical equipment. Let's try to exchange some things with them."
Assistant He: "Should we use poplin or voile to make work clothes for them?"
"This expense is too much..." Qin thought about this little troublemaker who "wanted everything," and she was reluctant to spend the money. If she could get something for nothing, that would be the best. If not, then she would have to make use of her Shanghainese advantage of being "meticulous" and "exchange scraps for it!"
"The steel mills are rich and powerful, they wouldn't even look at scraps." In the 1970s, the most impressive state-owned factories, including the major steel mills, had to be on the list. Their gates were all incredibly grand, and each had a magnificent statue erected at the entrance.
Qin Xiangxiang was silent for a moment: "Even if you're rich and powerful, the workers will still have tattered pants, right?"
Especially for those working at the furnace, their crotches are exposed to high temperatures every day; it's hard for them not to break out.
Assistant He: "??????"
“Make them a batch of reinforced crotch linings for their trousers, and ask this wealthy steel mill if they want them.”
Although this approach is stingy, it's also called "hitting the nail on the head".
She really knows how to manage her finances carefully.
Praise Think!
"Assistant He, go and contact the steel mill."
Assistant He blushed. Contact them? How? Show them concern for their sweltering heat?
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