Chapter 144 Chapter 144 1st update

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. This year, more people are going to department stores to buy ready-made clothes than in previous years. Moreover, there are many fashionable girls with permed hair who always ask if they have any fashionable styles.

Salesperson at Wanquan Road Department Store: Isn’t this a coincidence!

They really do have it.

In normal times, when people ask them if they have any fashionable styles, they have to carefully select and compare the goods of various garment factories for a long time before they can pick out one or two slightly fashionable styles.

This year, there is no need at all!

Don’t talk about radishes and greens. Everyone has their own preferences. No matter whether you like it or not, when it comes to fashionable, eleven out of ten people will choose the braid that the purchasing department just got.

The little V-neck, the little waist, the wide skirt, and the small leather shoes, she is definitely the most fashionable and stylish girl in the capital.

Needless to say, she likes every one of them.

But the salesperson was surprised that in addition to these girls who came up to ask if they have fashionable clothes, some girls asked if they have Huacai Garment Factory's blouses as soon as they arrived at the counter, and they asked for V-neck, waist and large skirts. The

salesperson asked curiously and found out that these girls had seen people from Huacai Garment Factory on the street and fell in love with the clothes at that time. Not only did they want to buy blouses, but also the knitted sweaters and small leather shoes that they wore.

They wanted the exact same combination.

As a result, a lot of knitted sweaters and small leather shoes from the department store were sold.

The factories that make knitwear and small leather shoes were all puzzled. Why did the sales of the Wanquan Road Department Store suddenly increase? They quickly called the department store and learned that their products were promoted by the bragi of an unknown garment factory. They were all a little confused.

Is this bragi so beautiful?

They immediately ran to the nearby department store to ask if they had such bragi for sale.

As a result, the department store nearby didn’t have any. People were also surprised and said that they had never heard of the name of Huacai Garment Factory.

So these people rushed to the Wanquan Road Department Store again.

The Wanquan Road Department Store has been doing very well recently. Not only bragi, knitwear and small leather shoes, but also other things have sold much better.

It's not surprising. Since we're here, everyone will go shopping. Maybe they'll bring some food and other things. It doesn't matter where they buy them.

So, Deputy Section Chief Li was approached by his colleagues from other department stores again. They were the ones who wanted to ask him about the source of colored electric fans last time.

This guy was really thick-skinned. He was rejected by Deputy Section Chief Li last time, but he approached him again this time.

"Old Li, we have been neighbors for many years..."

Deputy Section Chief Li immediately said, "Oh, hey, hey, it's not true, really not true. You live at the other 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's a fact that we have been in the same system for so many years, right? We have both fought in procurement positions. Have we ever attended professional training together? We have known each other for so many years, you can't be so heartless, can you? I don't need you to introduce me. Just tell me an address and I'll find it myself."

Deputy Section Chief Li: "..."

You still want me to introduce you. Why are you dreaming so much?

Moreover, it is true that we have both been fighting in the procurement position for many years, but it is precisely because we have both been fighting in the procurement position that we have a lot of old grudges. Whenever there is something good, you always take advantage of your thick skin and ask for more. Have you ever thought about those of us who are fighting in the same position?

However, Deputy Section Chief Li still has a beautiful heart.

What goes around, you will always have to pay for what you have done. Look, isn't it 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 willing to listen, the man could only leave with a grumble in his heart and turned around to run to the guard room to inquire about the situation.

The comrades in the guard room were very vigilant: "When you registered your name and 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 doubt.

"..."

The man could only leave again.

It was not just Longqiao Road Department Store. Other units that wanted to inquire about the source of goods all returned empty-handed.

Many people even inquired about the news and found out about several large garment factories in the capital, thinking that they were all in the same industry after all, and there is a saying that goes, the person who knows you best is your opponent, so the large garment factories must know something about the situation of Huacai Garment Factory, right?

Who would have thought that the people in the large garment factories were also confused.

"Hua Cai Garment Factory, is there such a garment factory in our capital? I've never heard of it."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. There are only a few factories producing ready-made clothes in the capital. How could we not know each other? What kind of V-neck, waist-pinched, big skirt, and braided clothes, who would like this stuff?"

"Hua Cai Garment Factory, I've never heard of it. Could it be a large garment factory in a surrounding province? I know Manager Wang of the Wanquan Road Department Store. She has a wide network of contacts. Maybe she gets the goods from other provinces, maybe from the Suzhou and Shanghai area?"

"Oh, I've seen the bra you're talking about. Someone in our factory bought it. Come on, we own a garment factory, but we actually bought ready-made clothes from other garment 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 asked his connections to look for it in surrounding provinces and even in Shanghai, but still found nothing.

Shen Moer, who didn't know 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 hired ten female workers, but also two female comrades who had learned tailoring for several years to be responsible for cutting, which freed Bai Junwen from the job of cutting.

Bai Junwen was a little confused: "Then what should I do?"

Shen Moer laughed and said, "Do you want to keep working as a tailor? Okay, I'll get you a certificate to audit the art academy. Go and listen to the classes and think about what our next product should be." Liu Yinshuang,

the part-time financial officer, said while calculating, "That's good. Although these schools don't have a formal fashion design major yet, they definitely have design concepts. You can draw embroidery, right? Just learn a little more and you'll be the chief designer of our garment factory."

Shen Moer looked at her and thought, "Sister, you're telling the truth, don't you know that?

There's no formal fashion design major yet, but there will be one in two years, right?"

Chief designer, don't you think this term sounds like something that can be found in China these days?

However, another person present didn't think it was strange at all. Instead, he thought about it seriously and nodded seriously: "Okay, I will do my best."

Shen Moer: "..."

Okay.

Although the scale of the garment factory has doubled, Shen Moer has no intention of continuing to promote and expand the business. The ten newly recruited female workers are still making the same braid. It's just that Shen Moer recently got some plaid and floral fabrics from the textile factory, and the patterns of the skirts are a little different.

The factory's production capacity is limited. It is a bit difficult to supply the Wanquan Road Department Store. No more can be produced.

So Shen Moer asked Bai Junwen and Zhao Zhenghui to take turns to look after the factory, and to audit classes when they had time.

Bai Junwen's auditing certificate was obtained by her father-in-law, but Zhao Zhenghui's was simple, she went directly to the department to get one.

After all, Zhao Zhenghui didn't know anything else, so he just audited some finance and management knowledge.

Zhao Zhenghui didn't expect that he, who had finally graduated from junior high school 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 his face and leave, but since Shen Moer asked him to go, he had to pinch his nose and go obediently.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand the class, you have to go, as his cousin said, it's part of the job.

He was provided with food and accommodation in the factory, and he didn't have to operate a sewing machine. He could get a salary of several tens of dollars every month. Not to mention just attending a few classes, even if he was asked to go to the podium to give a lecture, he had to go!

Moreover, Zhao Zhenghui found that he could actually understand some classes, and they even inspired him. After a long time, he even dared to ask questions to the teacher after class.

August came in a blink of an eye.

Although it was summer vacation, Shen Moer and Fu Mingze were busier than usual.

Fu Mingze followed the professor of their department to the laboratory to do chores, while Shen Moer was looking for a place to move the garment factory.

Their style of bragi 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 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 waited until Shen Moer came to ask her to buy some goods for them.

At that time, state-owned factories had to save face and abide by the rules and would not copy other factories' models. If it had been a few years later, this style of bragi would have been so popular that the streets would have been full of imitations.

The buyers from various units were dumbfounded when they saw that the Huacai Garment Factory, which has recently become popular in the entire capital, was actually such a small workshop with only a few dozen people. While they were demanding goods, they also urged Shen Moer to quickly move to another place to expand the scale.

Shen Moer wanted to run a small workshop for a few years and produce a casual style of clothing every quarter, but she never thought that the first style of braid would be a hit.

Moreover, these comrades from the department stores and supply and marketing system were very enthusiastic. When they heard that their factory was short of raw materials, they said that they could provide channels and connections to help them fight for 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.

But it was really hard to find a suitable place. This time was not like the 1990s, when large numbers 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 they would use any factory they could get.

Shen Moer could only ask for help from people everywhere, and finally it was a teacher from the Economics Department who helped her find a place.

It was a factory on a certain street, which originally made hats. Because the styles were conservative and the quality was average, they were not easily sold, and the efficiency of the factory had been declining in the past two years.

At the beginning of this year, it finally couldn't continue, and the factory distributed the hats in stock to the workers to pay their wages, and then the factory went bankrupt.

In this day and age, it is impossible for state-owned factories to go bankrupt, but "small collective industries" such as social enterprises and street factories are still very easy to go bankrupt.

This factory originally made hats, and there are 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 a few stops by bus.

Shen Moer had also looked at several social enterprise factories in the suburbs, or warehouses in suburban villages, but they were too far away. It would take at least more than an hour to get there by bus, and the time cost was too high.

She originally thought that if she couldn't find a nearby one, she would just choose one of these.

Unexpectedly, they finally found a suitable one in all aspects.

On one side is the street factory, and on the other side is a social enterprise. Both sides are collective small-scale industrial enterprises, which is much simpler than dealing with state-owned factories.

The street cannot directly sell all the collective assets. It signed a lease contract with Huacai Garment Factory. At Liu Yinshuang's strong request, the contract was signed for 20 years.

The street didn't care. The longer the contract was signed, the less trouble they would have in the future.

They were also afraid that Huacai Garment Factory would regret it. After all, they also had a lot of "small collective industries". To be honest, many of them went bankrupt. It was hard to say whether Huacai Garment Factory could last for 20 years... Most likely it couldn't.

The comrades in the street silently felt that they had picked up a great bargain.

After renting the factory premises, it took several days for Huacai Garment Factory to move out of the large compound.

At the same time, Shen Moer also began to recruit workers intensively.

Some of them were still recruited from Liuqiao Commune, and she simply entrusted this matter to Lingjiang City Embroidery Factory.

Anyway, the embroidery factory has very rich experience in temporary recruitment. After all, every time they participated in the Canton Fair, the embroidery factory had to recruit workers to expand production.

In addition to Liu Yinshuang, Bai Junwen, and Zhao Zhenghui in the capital, Shen Moer specially hired two school teachers and two classmates from the same class 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 work, 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 is not to support her brother. Her life should be to study hard and strive for the rise of China.

This is her interpretation 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 felt more like a teacher, and she felt more like a student.

In short, after Zhou Wenhua and Chen Yu waited for the admission notice at home after the college entrance examination, they packed their bags and came to the capital together.

They all got into the Capital Academy of Fine Arts.

This is just the right time to send people to fight.