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 a meal, and received a fashion magazine from Paul.
Paul is a fashion designer with his own clothing brand. He often travels around the world to find fabrics and accessories he likes, and also to find inspiration. He said that Shen Moer's embroidery gave him a very good inspiration. He will design a few dresses when he returns, and then he will mail the drawings to Shen Moer.
Because he found that Shen Moer has very good aesthetics and painting skills, and this aesthetics is beyond the current public aesthetics, and even has a kind of ancient mystery. He is very happy to keep in touch with Shen Moer.
Shen Moer reported the situation to the Southern Province Department of Commerce and obtained special approval from the leaders, allowing her to take the clothing magazine back to Jiangbei County, and the province would also contact Jiangbei County. Based on work needs, she was allowed to keep in touch with Paul.
Shen Moer returned late and missed the scene of the Southern Province beating gongs and drums to welcome the trade delegation back victoriously, but when she arrived in Jiangbei County, she still couldn't escape the welcoming ceremony organized by Jiangbei County.
When she got off the bus, Shen Moer was stunned.
The parking lot was empty. The main leaders of the county were standing there with the leaders of various government agencies and street communes. When they saw her, everyone 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 the glorious return of Comrade Shen Moer, the great hero of Jiangbei County."
Shen Moer: "..."
This was even more exciting than when her father had to drag her to dance for the emperor's uncle on his birthday, making people want to find a crack to crawl into.
Especially the other passengers on the bus were clinging to the window and making a fuss.
County Chief Gu stepped forward and shook hands with Shen Moer, smiling: "Comrade Shen Moer, welcome back!"
The only good thing about this scene was that the county sent a car to take Shen Moer and her luggage back to Liuqiao Commune.
The car drove all the way into the commune's family compound and stopped at the building where Shen Moer lived. The driver had to help carry the luggage upstairs, but Fu Mingze came down from the building in just a few steps, followed by Shen Shaoyuan, Zhou Ping'an and Liu Guizhi.
When they left, they only had one luggage bag, but when they came back, they 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 with 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 be a little tanned, and smiled, "I am tired, but I am not tired when I see you."
Fu Mingze curled his lips. Deputy Director Shen was so sweet sometimes that it was really deadly. No wonder the father-in-law treated his daughter like his own heart.
For more than half a month, the daughter was not around. The father-in-law was worried that she would freeze outside, and then worried that she would not eat well or sleep well. He repeatedly said that the weather in Guangzhou was hot, and she might have to wear a shirt at this time. In addition, people in Guangzhou are the best at enjoying food, and there are many more delicious things there than in the southern provinces. Only then did the father-in-law half-believe and half-doubt and feel a little relieved.
When Shen Moer heard Fu Zhiqing say how her father was worried about her, she asked, "What about you? Don't you worry about me?"
Fu Mingze stopped, his dark eyes hidden in the dim light of the evening, and said in a deep and low voice, "Come here, I'll tell you."
Shen Moer didn't doubt him, and took two steps forward, and walked in front of Fu Mingze, "What?"
Fu Mingze bent down and quickly kissed her on the face.
"Oh, sorry, the young couple has a great relationship!" Mrs. Deng, who was walking downstairs on the third floor, was caught off guard by this scene and smiled immediately.
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 stepped back and gave up the stairs.
Grandma Deng smiled and said: "Okay, I heard that Comrade Xiao Shen has made great contributions in Guangzhou. Hey, everyone in Liuqiao Commune has to thank you! You must be tired, go back and have a rest!"
Shen Moer: "Okay, Grandma Deng, be careful when you go downstairs."
The two said goodbye to the old lady. Shen Moer couldn't help but reach out and pinch Fu Mingze's waist. This guy is really, he looks serious at ordinary times, but he is actually very timid and courageous. He dared to "do bad things" on the stairs, making her embarrassed.
Fu Mingze hissed, his eyes looked somewhat dangerous: "Deputy Director Shen, don't provoke me."
Shen Moer giggled, walked quickly in front of him, to the door of the house, turned around and gave Fu Mingze a provocative look.
Fu Mingze gritted his teeth.
Fu Mingze made dinner. Shen Shaoyuan's talent in cooking was really average. Fu Mingze was slightly better than him, but not much better. Compared with the delicacies in Guangzhou, the gap was naturally a bit big, but thinking that this was made by Fu Zhiqing himself, Shen Moer still gave face and ate two bowls of rice. After being away for more than half a month, she actually missed her father and Fu Zhiqing very much.
When I was in Guangzhou, I was busy from morning till night. Whenever I was awake, I was thinking about how to sign more orders and how to more accurately grasp the needs of foreign businessmen and adjust the future production direction. When
I had almost no free time, the first thing I wanted to do was to go to bed. It was not
until I returned home that I finally relaxed and the longing buried in my heart seemed to surge up.
A short separation is better than a new marriage. Shen Shaoyuan went to bed early at night, but the two young people were busy until midnight.
The next day, Shen Moer rested at home for another day. It was not until the third day that she went to the county with the commune secretary Geng Liming and the director Zhang Zhengxiang.
With orders worth tens of millions of dollars, the Ninth Workshop could no longer operate as a small business as before. Shen Moer and County Magistrate Gu Yangbo had the same idea. After discussion, they immediately reported to the province to apply for the establishment of the second branch of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory. At the same time, the county asked the city for funding, and the city and county jointly paid part of the funds to expand the factory building.
This time, the construction of the factory building was not the responsibility of Liuqiao Commune alone. The county transferred people from the four surrounding communes. Under the premise of ensuring that the autumn harvest would not be affected, each commune took turns to send people to support the construction of the factory building of Liuqiao Commune.
Although it was not stated explicitly, everyone knows that the workshop of the Nan Province Embroidery Factory in Liuqiao Commune signed an order of more than 10 million US dollars at the Canton Fair, which is twice the amount of the Nan Province Embroidery Factory headquarters. Now the county is taking the lead in expanding the factory building at full speed, which means that there will be a large number of recruitment quotas in the future. These nearby communes definitely have a geographical advantage and can get the moon first.
This is not to build a factory building for Liuqiao Commune, this is clearly to build a factory building for themselves!
Exports are the top priority. The provincial leaders who attended the Canton Fair knew that the production capacity of the ninth workshop of the Nan Province Embroidery Factory was far from enough. It was imperative to expand the factory and even set up a branch factory. So after Jiangbei County submitted the report, the province approved the establishment of a branch factory soon, and at the same time, the Provincial Department of Industry directly allocated a sum of support funds for the construction of the branch factory.
The Nan Province Embroidery Factory had some ideas. After all, after the establishment of the branch factory, the personnel, finances and materials were independent, which was equivalent to not being under their control.
Seeing such a big piece of fat meat slipping away from their mouths, many people beat their chests and stamped their feet, very unwilling.
However, the decision to build a branch factory was made by the provincial leaders themselves, and all relevant departments jointly issued a document to approve it. No one asked for the opinions of the leaders of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory.
Moreover, probably considering that the production task was too heavy, the decision to build a branch factory was made very quickly. By the time some people in the Southern Province Embroidery Factory reacted, the document had already been issued to Jiangbei County. Speaking of
this matter, the most regretful person in the Southern Province Embroidery Factory was Chen Jiahua. She ran around everywhere, trying to build a branch factory, but failed to achieve it due to various reasons.
But Chen Jiahua had nothing to be unwilling about. This time, the branch factory could be built thanks to Shen Moer's own ability. Chen Jiahua was now convinced of her. At the same time, a different kind of pride surged in her originally somewhat quiet heart. Seeing Shen Moer achieve such results, she couldn't help but have the idea of striving for progress.
Let them deal with the dirty things in the factory. Now she just wanted to work hard and lead the first workshop to produce better embroidery products, so as to win more orders at the Canton Fair next year.
Of course, not everyone has the mind and ambition of Chen Jiahua, such as 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 did he have to find trouble with Shen Moer?
After returning to the provincial capital, Mao Jianxin recalled everything that happened in Liuqiao Commune countless times, and even he had to admit that from beginning to end, Shen Moer had never taken the initiative to find trouble with 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 guilty.
If he had a good relationship with Shen Moer 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 be the deputy director?
Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in the world, and the things that are said will never happen.
Shen Moer didn't know that the establishment of the branch factory had affected so many people. She was so busy that she had no time to think about it.
The provincial document directly appointed her as the director of the second branch of the Southern Province Embroidery Factory and gave her a lot of autonomy to set up the factory leadership team locally.
Although the second branch factory was slightly lower than the Southern Province Embroidery Factory in level, it was actually very high compared to the county. Geng Liming even joked that he would recommend himself to be the deputy director of the second branch factory.
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. She also promoted Xing Fangjie to be the deputy director in charge of business. Jin Caifei also became the deputy director, still in charge of acquisition and sales. The heads
of the following departments also rose accordingly. Li Xinmei was pleased to get the important position of workshop director, Liu Yinshuang was also 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, the only male comrade who passed the embroidery assessment, Bai Junwen.
Actually, he was quite good at embroidery, but not long after he entered the factory, Shen Moer discovered that he was also secretly learning to paint. Within a few months, he had already learned several embroideries currently being produced in the workshop.
Shen Moer saw that he was interested, so she lent him some teaching plans that she had accumulated so that he could study on his own. Perhaps he really had talent, as Bai Junwen's painting skills were now better than those of the painters he had hired before.
In this way, she assigned people to positions one by one, and Shen Moer herself felt that she was ready to be crowned king after conquering the country.
In short, she spent a few days sorting out the personnel in the factory, and then assigned all the tasks.
The first thing was to recruit workers, embroiderers, painters, and other miscellaneous workers. All of them had to be recruited.
This time, the recruitment was open to the entire county. Of course, Liuqiao Commune and several nearby communes occupied a large area, so there would naturally be more people.
It wasn't just thirty or fifty. The first time, embroiderers recruited 400 people, painters recruited 30 people, and other departments recruited 50 people.
At the same time, 30 administrative and logistical personnel were also recruited.
Before the expansion of the factory was completed, all embroiderers were trained as a unit of the commune, and painters were all taken to Liuqiao Commune Middle School for intensive training.
At the same time, Liu Yinshuang led a group of women with bad class backgrounds but good embroidery skills in various communes. These people naturally could not enter the state-owned factory as workers, so they were organized to carry out "labor reform" in the name of the second branch factory.
The Yangliu Brigade vacated more than ten rooms, and repaired several empty rooms left by the five-guarantee households in the village and some old houses that were about to collapse. They vacated five large dormitories and more than ten "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 household items where they ate communal meals in the early years and let them open a canteen directly.
Although they were not really listed in the name, it was actually equivalent to building an "extra-staff workshop" in Yangliu Brigade, which was composed entirely of "skilled workers".
Compared with the more than 300 newly recruited embroiderers who still needed training, these people could start production after a few days of training.
Moreover, because they had done the hardest and most tiring work in their respective brigades before, after arriving here, they especially cherished this rare opportunity. Everyone worked hard, and they did it well and quickly, almost as good as the original batch of workers in the ninth workshop.
For a time, Liuqiao Commune was full of a scene of striving for glory.
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 dormitory was 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 signboard with the words "Nan Province Embroidery Factory Second Branch" was hung at the factory door.
With the official opening of the second branch of the Nan Province Embroidery Factory, 1972 finally came to the end of the year. With the sound of firecrackers, another year passed.
Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye. It is now 1976.