Chapter 272 Paid Off While Attending School Who says school is bad? ...
After Yu Guoliang took over the management of the factory, the atmosphere in the factory became extremely strange. The people brought by Yu Guoliang were arrogant, while the original key personnel, such as Secretary Li, Wang Youyou, the head of the logistics department, and many other veteran workers, as well as a whole string of people in the factory, felt aggrieved and angry.
They felt sorry for Factory Director Qin!
The changes at Shangpu Textile Factory over the past six months were all thanks to Director Qin's painstaking efforts. She reformed the canteen, eliminated Sun Youdao and Liu Manfu, those two parasites who oppressed the workers, led everyone to secure orders from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and even made the clothes herself... Such a good factory director, all the credit clearly belongs to Director Qin, this guy surnamed Yu is simply shameless!
"Shameless! Unscrupulous!"
Someone spat on my back.
Wang Youyou, a former young worker foreman, approached Qin Xiangxiang and said, "Factory manager, we can't let this guy surnamed Yu steal your credit. Everyone remembers your kindness!"
"That guy surnamed Yu is absolutely despicable!"
Qin Xiangxiang lazily flipped through the textbook in her hand and said indifferently, "Let him do it. I just want some peace and quiet."
"He's so capable, let me see what he's capable of."
Qin Xiangxiang is preparing to "slack off" in class at East China Textile University. Now she doesn't mind attending classes at all because she is already a popular figure at the university, with a large number of "fans". Many people feel that her family is a burden and that she has worked too hard, so they "help her" in various ways at the school.
Class notes – someone copied them for me!
Classwork assignment—someone helped… came up with ideas.
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This practically turned her into a "giant baby" student at East China Textile University. Who says going to university is bad? Isn't going to university great?
“I’m going to university and I can still get the factory manager’s salary every month for free. Isn’t that great?”
Qin Xiangxiang made up her mind to go to school and slack off, enjoying the treatment of a giant baby.
No one dislikes the feeling of being a "heartthrob".
Qin Xiangxiang told Yu Guoliang that she wanted to go back to school and make up for the classes she missed in the first half of the semester.
Yu Guoliang was dumbfounded: "...You're going to school?"
“Yes, the factory was busy in the first half of the year, and now I should go back to school to attend classes, otherwise how will I get my graduation certificate?” Qin Xiangxiang said confidently. She was both the factory manager and a student at East China Textile University, and she could stay wherever she wanted.
Okay, so you're going to take charge of the work?
You do the work, and I'll collect the salary!
Yu Guoliang was dumbfounded, but he felt that Qin Xiangxiang was definitely "retreating to advance" and was manipulating public opinion in the factory behind the scenes. The workers at the bottom were in a bad mood because he was a parachuted-in cadre and they had a lot of dissatisfaction with him. This kind of resistance was something Yu Guoliang had never encountered before.
Although he was parachuted in before, he could still find a lot of workers who were dissatisfied with the factory manager. But Qin Xiang has been in Shangpu Textile Factory for less than a year and is far less experienced than those people. How could she possibly win the hearts of so many people?
That's impossible!
Qin Xiangxiang patted her bottom and said she was going back to school. Yu Guoliang felt that she was using a retreat as a tactic to advance, but he also felt that this was a golden opportunity for him. He was determined to prove that he was stronger than Qin Xiangxiang.
Before he was fully familiar with the production process, Yu Guoliang took the initiative to accept a huge foreign trade order from Eastern Europe with extremely complex technology, and demanded that the workers "speed up production and increase output".
If he closes this foreign trade order, he'll have something to brag about! He'll be even more remarkable than Qin Xiangxiang.
Before Yu Guoliang arrived, he heard from someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that "Shangpu Textile Factory has a good foundation! In the past, it was probably corrupt officials stirring up trouble in the factory, preventing those who were truly skilled from being given important positions. But when the new factory director came, he made good use of the technical personnel and immediately turned the situation around!"
"The skill level of Feiyan Textile Factory is unprecedented. It is almost flawless. This level of quality is truly admirable! It is probably all the work of master craftsmen."
Yu Guoliang wholeheartedly agreed. He also felt that the technology of Shangpu Textile Factory did not arise out of thin air. It was all because the factory's veteran craftsmen were not given important roles. But as soon as Qin Xiangxiang arrived and started employing these experienced craftsmen, the factory's production technology immediately improved by leaps and bounds...
Therefore, as long as he makes good use of the experienced workers in the factory, he will definitely be able to maintain a high standard of quality.
However, he still didn't understand what it meant to lay off employees from vital arteries.
"Eastern European export orders? This... what should we do? The factory manager isn't here right now."
"Let the experienced workers take the lead."
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Yu Guoliang kept a close eye on production, and at the same time, he paid attention to all aspects of the factory. On this day, he suddenly discovered something: the canteen of Shangpu Textile Factory was "too wasteful" and the workers were eating too well.
"Replace these pickles..."
These vegetables were transported from Feiyan Factory No. 1. Yu Guoliang suspected that Qin Xiangxiang was behind it and taking kickbacks, so he was determined to cut off her main artery.
At the same time, Yu Guoliang wanted to separate the two factories. Feiyan Factory No. 1 was too far away, and Qin Xiangxiang's influence was deeply entrenched on the island. Many employees of Feiyan Factory No. 1 on the island were military family members, and they had a natural stance against Qin Xiangxiang, who was also a family member of a naval officer. The local military would also support Qin Xiangxiang. Yu Guoliang did not have the ability to reach out to them.
Therefore, he had no choice but to split the two factories.
"Secretary Yu, what kind of dye will be used for this batch of export orders?"
"What...what dye?"
"Well... the factory manager isn't here, so of course I have to ask you."
"There are also issues with the manufacturing process, Secretary Yu. This is an order you received, what are we going to do now?"
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Yu Guoliang and the workers stared at each other blankly. He began to think that Qin Xiangxiang was trying to "show him the power" by inciting the workers and concealing the technology in order to create difficulties for him.
He will surely break through them one by one—there is no wall that doesn't leak.
However, the harder he tried, the more he realized he was stuck in a quagmire. The factory was producing problems, and although he had the power, he couldn't control the real core of production because he didn't understand anything at all.
His skills in writing reports and holding large meetings were completely ineffective under the pressure of urgent foreign trade orders.
Then we asked Qin Xiangxiang again—she really wasn't coming to the factory anymore; she'd gone to school!
She also said that she was "exhausted and needed to recuperate," and that she was studying quietly at school.
After Qin Xiangxiang was sidelined by Yu Guoliang, she was happy to have some free time and returned to East China Textile University to enjoy herself. She would slack off in class and read novels after class, feeling like a fish in water and extremely comfortable.
However, her only complaint was about the school cafeteria, which was absolutely terrible.
I can't stand this cafeteria for even a day.
"These steamed buns are so hard they could knock a dog unconscious, and what's the difference between the vegetable soup and the dishwater?" Qin Xiangxiang sighed as she looked at the lunchbox.
The students next to her advised her, "That's how it is in the school cafeteria. Let's go out to eat together on the weekend. It'll save money if we all go together."
Students at school have long been fed up with the terrible food in the cafeteria, but what choice do they have? They might as well go out to a small restaurant every week and treat themselves.
At school, things still have to be tough... We young people should endure hardship, hardship, and even more hardship.
But Qin Xiangxiang simply couldn't endure a single day of hardship. She had reached her breaking point and no longer needed to tolerate it. Qin Xiangxiang's "love of food and laziness" became her primary source of motivation.
Instead of protesting to school leaders, she went to the school's logistics department and said in a self-righteous tone:
"Let me manage the school cafeteria for a month. At least let me have a few decent meals. If there's a loss, it's on me; if there's a profit, it's on the school."
Under the halo of her "honors student" status, the school gave her a chance with some skepticism.
"Qin Xiangxiang, that General Manager Qin, the factory manager among the students? She also manages the cafeteria? Our school cafeteria?"
"Qin Xiangxiang was nowhere to be seen last semester, but she finally came to school this semester?"
"How could a textile factory manager have experience managing a canteen?"
"This Factory Director Qin is so pretentious! Does he think the cafeteria food is worse than dog food? These young people don't know how to endure hardship at all!"
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Professor Zheng was shocked to hear that Qin Xiangxiang was a problem student. She had finally come to class obediently, but she was still complaining about the school cafeteria. She was really an unruly student.
"Hmph! I'd like to see what kind of mess she can make of the cafeteria!"
"I won't eat a single bite!"
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Qin Xiangxiang contacted Feiyan Factory No. 1 to have something delivered from the island. Coincidentally, Assistant He said that Factory No. 2 had stopped using pickles, and a batch of pickles could be delivered. "Let's send them over as a benefit for the students of the Textile University! It's our factory's support for the school!"
"These people will be the backbone of the textile industry in the future."
The pickles arrived, and Qin Xiangxiang wandered around the school cafeteria, thinking about how to make better use of the existing resources to create even more delicious food, especially since the cafeteria chefs should all improve their culinary skills!
"If you have a pot to fry the rice, don't waste it. Use the leftover rice to make fried rice cakes."
Qin Xiangxiang asked the chef to press the leftover rice into compacted pieces, similar to glutinous rice cakes, but soaked them in lightly salted water before frying. The outer shell was extremely crispy, while the inside was hollow, making it crunchy, fragrant, and delicious when bitten into.
Other dishes include the iconic braised pork from the Feiyan Textile Factory, seafood meatball soup, tofu pudding improved by Qin Xiangxiang, and her former favorite pan-fried buns.
"When stir-frying vegetables with pork cracklings, you should pay attention to the heat like this..."
"Using bean sprouts to make stock is..."
"This is my braising spice recipe, and this is the spice powder used in the minced pork..."
"This pickled vegetable, when used to cook fish, should be done like this..."
The cooks in the canteen were eagerly learning the techniques. They learned that there were details to pay attention to when cooking vegetables, and that this method of making bean curd balls was delicious. This Factory Director Qin was truly skilled!
Qin Xiangxiang skipped class as a matter of course and went to the cafeteria to supervise the chefs' work.
Happy to be a salted fish appreciating delicious food.
"This dish still has a lot of room for improvement!"
Who says going to school is bad?
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