Chapter 175
While showing them around, Tao Dongliang explained the structure of each workshop, its approximate area, and the pros and cons of their use.
Qian Hai took a notebook and pen and took notes from the side.
Zhou Jiani and Li Jingdang also carefully observed the layout of their entire factory, the structures of the material handling workshop, processing workshop, fumigation workshop, warehouse, etc.
The current order model in Linshi is relatively stable. In order to improve efficiency, several processing workshops specialize in large items, and small items specialize in small items. Some products adopt the assembly line model, and some products are independently processed and woven by individuals.
Although the factory in his village is not big, it was built bit by bit under the personal command of Li Jingdang. With this experience, he has a deeper understanding of the construction of large factories than Zhou Jiani.
Worried that Qian Hai wouldn't be able to remember the key points, he took a pen and paper to take notes, and asked Tao Dongliang some questions from time to time.
There were some particularly professional issues in construction, and Tao Dongliang was worried that his vague explanations would mislead Li Jingdang again. In the afternoon, he asked someone to find the person in charge of the construction team that was responsible for building the factory at that time and asked him to talk to Li Jingdang.
After an enthusiastic afternoon of conversation, Li Jingdang gained a lot, and Zhou Jiani also benefited greatly from listening. At least she had laid out the general outline of the plan. To express her gratitude, Zhou Jiani treated Tao Dongliang and the construction team leader to dinner at a nearby state-owned restaurant.
To build such a large factory, it is impossible to fully understand all the aspects involved in half a day, so the three of them stayed there for another two days. It was enough for Li Jingdang to use it as a reference. When the project started, he could at least join in the conversation when supervising the work, so as to avoid ridiculous things like giving blind orders.
After returning to Bin County, Zhou Jiani and Li Jingdang went to report their work to County Magistrate Wang, and then rushed to meet the leader of the construction team responsible for the project.
This time the construction task was assigned to the county army's construction company. This construction company brought together the top bricklayers from all the brigades in the county and has been responsible for the construction and repair tasks in the county.
The two of them took the draft they had drawn in Lin City and met Wang Qichuan, the main technical person in charge of the construction company. Wang Qichuan was surprised when he took the draft and looked at Zhou Jiani: "Did you ask the people over there to draw the design drawings?"
This design drawing is not particularly professional, but it looks like it has some basic knowledge, and all the important parts that need to be marked are well-marked.
Zhou Jiani smiled and said, "I drew this myself. I haven't learned anything professionally. I'm sorry to bother you."
Li Jingdang said, "Many of the designs for the Qianjin Knitting Factory were drawn by Team Leader Zhou."
Wang Qichuan is very professional in drawing architectural drawings. He said with a smile: "Even though I haven't learned it professionally, it's already very good to be able to draw like this."
He waved his hand and said, "Let's go and conduct a field investigation." He called his assistant Xiao Sun, and they went to the west of the city together.
Wang Qichuan didn't know much about the weaving industry, and Li Jingdang added carefully that the material processing required a pool, so the use of water and drainage had to be considered.
If the finished product needs to be smoked with sulfur, the structure of the smoking workshop must be considered.
Wang Qichuan listened and took notes, and carefully measured the area. All the parts that needed road construction were included in the project.
"Should we build roads with cement or..."
Such a long road, whether it is a cement road or an asphalt road, would cost a lot of money. Zhou Jiani had to stick to the budget, and the county did not have much spare money, so she decided to save as much as possible. So she discussed with Li Jingdang to make it a gravel road first.
After Wang Qichuan drew more professional architectural drawings, Zhou Jiani also wrote a plan and submitted it. This time the approval signature was not so quick, and County Magistrate Wang himself could not make the decision. He took Zhou Jiani to report to the secretary, and after several meetings and discussions, it was finally decided.
The following busyness was unusually tiring. It was nothing like building a factory in the village where one could just sit back and do nothing. Zhou Jiani felt that she had only sat in the office for a few days after being transferred to the county. The next step was to go shopping for various building materials with Qian Hai and a comrade named Fan Dali from the construction company. Fortunately, this was a key project in the county, and a project that the province and the city paid special attention to. There were also requirements for the construction period, and they especially hoped that it could be officially put into production before the Canton Fair next year. So, apart from being a little tired when shopping for materials, sometimes materials that were not available in the county had to be transferred from other districts, which required traveling on the road for several days, but there were almost no other major difficulties.
She did not attend the groundbreaking ceremony at the construction site. She asked Sister Dai to help find someone to oversee the installation of the clay stove and the modification of the heating package at home. She also asked Sister Dai to help receive the ordered furniture. She kept the balance and gave Sister Dai some hard work fees.
The letter sent by Comrade Xiao Qiu stayed alone in the mail room for several days before being taken back by Zhou Jiani.
Back in the dormitory, Zhou Jiani didn't change the coal briquettes. Instead, she used some dried corn husks to start the fire and slowly lit the clay stove in the living room. While she was doing that, Sister Dai knocked on the door and brought her a thermos filled with freshly boiled water. She asked, "I haven't seen you in a few days. How are you having dinner?"
Zhou Jiani pointed to the bag hanging on the wall and said with a smile: "I bought some ready-made ones."
I'm almost exhausted during this period, and it's impossible for her to come back and cook.
"Okay..." Sister Dai was about to say something with a smile when she heard cursing from the next door, that is, Sister Dai's room. Her face changed and she cursed fiercely, "That old bastard at home is howling again. Sister, I'm going over there."
Zhou Jiani only found out about Director Song's mother's visit when she came back a few days ago. Sister Dai, the mother-in-law, had a bad temper and seemed to dislike Sister Dai. She would always say some unpleasant things to her.
"Sister-in-law, wait a moment." Zhou Jiani didn't want to make things difficult for Sister-in-law Dai, so she handed her a piece of coal. Water is free here, but boiling water wastes charcoal. She was afraid that Sister-in-law Dai would have a hard time, so she compensated her with a piece of coal.
Sister Dai's face flushed red, and she quickly evaded the question, "No, no, Jiani, you're slapping me in the face..."
After helping a few times and becoming familiar with each other, Sister Dai changed her mind.
"What's the point of saying it's a slap in the face? How much have I been helped by your family? Don't underestimate the exchange of coal briquettes. Even though it's just one piece at a time, people who care about it are happy to do it. I'm lucky to have a good neighbor. I exchanged with your family every day those days, and I didn't see your sister-in-law get impatient at all. I'm giving it to you because I don't treat you as an outsider. Take it and go back with your back straight."
Why is Sister Dai's mother-in-law cursing over there... Although she didn't say it explicitly, she could tell from the tone of her voice that she was dissatisfied with Sister Dai for taking advantage of her.
Zhou Jiani poured the hot water into her thermos. Sister Dai held the coal in her hand and felt so upset that she wanted to go back and tear her mother-in-law's mouth apart.
After Mrs. Dai left, Zhou Jiani locked the door from the inside. She was willing to use charcoal, and the fire burned brightly. Soon the whole house became warm. Zhou Jiani took out a box of instant noodles, a sausage, and a bottle of chopped peppers to eat with the noodles.
She actually didn't buy any ready-made meals. Her legs were so tired that they felt like they were filled with lead. She didn't even have the energy to run to the state-owned restaurant. She just thought about the fast food she had collected on the shelves and came back.
Dinner was simple but plentiful. After a short rest, I took my bath ticket and went to take a shower. When I came out, I wrapped myself tightly in a scarf and put on a wool hat. When I got home, I closed the doors and windows and dried my hair with a hair dryer.
The clothes are not washed openly, but directly put into the warehouse and put into the washing machine, and then washed and dried at the same time, so they can be worn the next day.
The room was warm enough for her to sit by the stove and nibble on a pear, or roast a few oranges and enjoy a couple of warm, sour, sweet oranges. Before bed, she could take out her desk lamp, read Comrade Xiao Qiu's letter, reply, read a little, do some homework, and practice sketching. During this time, her palm vibrated, and Zhou Jiani opened her hand and grabbed a red envelope.
I have been so busy lately that I haven't been checking my phone much. I missed a lot of red envelopes and haven't been climbing the stairs much. I occasionally take a look and buy what I need. If I don't find it, forget it. It just happens that someone is starting a group to raise chickens, so Zhou Jiani bought two and was thinking of stewing a chicken to nourish herself during her break.
She looked through the group and bought two more boxes of milk and two boxes of eight-treasure porridge, and then sold the vermicelli, rice paper, and peanuts she had saved some time ago. She was too lazy to sort them out, so she divided them into bundles of five pounds. When she woke up the next morning and checked the backend, it showed that they were sold out, and she had another income.
For breakfast, I boiled a can of eight-treasure porridge, fried two eggs, and fried a large slice of ham. I paired it with whole wheat bread, which I forgot when I bought it. After eating and drinking my fill, I wrapped myself up tightly and went out to work.
They had already written the most crucial beginning of the materials collection, and then handed it over to Fan Dali and Qian Hai to supervise, while she went to the unit to get the recruitment plan.
When she got to the office, she didn't go to fetch water. Instead, she took a thermos from the warehouse shelf and made herself a cup of jasmine tea. She poured the remaining hot water into the thermos in the office, looked through the newspapers of the past few days, and began to write the recruitment plan.
The recruitment time depends on the progress of the construction period, but the plan must be written in advance, and the training matters also need to be communicated in advance. She plans to arrange them in batches to various brigades under Xihe Commune for centralized training. After passing the assessment, positions and salary benefits will be arranged according to the results.
We will definitely not recruit all regular workers at the beginning. We will recruit half regular workers and half temporary workers, and arrange the quota for regularization regularly.
But when she took it to County Magistrate Wang for review, he reduced the number of her formal employees by half.
"One-quarter of the regular employee quota?" Zhou Jiani said, "Isn't that a bit too little?"
"It's quite a lot. More intense competition will highlight more talents." After saying this, County Magistrate Wang put the pen in his left breast pocket and hurried off to the meeting.
Zhou Jiani took the plan back and nodded with emotion. Only with competition can there be progress, and only with progress can there be results. The entire weaving factory is under tight schedule and talent is in short supply. In order to compete for the few regular worker positions, everyone will try their best to learn skills and work hard. Why worry that the new factory manager will not be able to keep up with the production capacity?
After being busy for several days, she originally wanted to take a day off in the office, but when she heard the howling north wind outside and thought about the people overcoming difficulties and building on the construction site, she really couldn't sit still, so she wrapped herself up like a bear again and went out.
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This winter was not easy for everyone. In order to meet the deadline, the construction site only planned to take one day off for the New Year. Zhou Jiani couldn't just walk away and go back to the province to celebrate the New Year. Near the end of the year, she called home and announced that she would not go home for the New Year this year.
Yu Huifang knew that her daughter had been promoted and was very busy this winter, so she had not been home all winter. Now she heard that she would not even come back for the Chinese New Year. In the evening, she discussed with her mother-in-law and others that they would go to Bin County for the Chinese New Year, stay there for a few days, and come back before work.
Zhou Jiani didn't know her parents' decision yet. It was a rare day off, so Yu Wanxia and a few others came to the county to buy clothes and visit her.
Zhou Jiani didn't let them come empty-handed. She specifically bought a lot of vegetables and asked them to help bring a batch of rice noodles and vermicelli from Zhao Hai.
I borrowed a small cart from the logistics department and pushed it to the intersection to pick up people.
Yu Wanxia was surprised to see Zhou Jiani after getting off the car. She said in surprise, "Oh my god, Jiani, how did you become like this?"
He became darker and thinner, with two slightly red spots on his cheeks.
After being exposed to the biting cold wind for a whole winter, how could Zhou Jiani's face be any better?
She is still considered lucky. No matter how hard or tired she is every day, she will take care of herself. She also bought a set of big-brand cosmetics from the group and applies a facial mask every few days. But she can't stand the daily tossing and turning.
Zhou Jiani was in a good mood. It would be unacceptable if she was too pale. She said optimistically, "I have a good foundation. I'll be back after the spring when it gets warmer. I'm still doing well. You haven't met Li Jingdang yet. You'll be shocked if you see him."
Sun Ping came over and rubbed her face distressedly, saying, "Poor thing."
Wang Qianjin climbed onto the roof to unload the goods and said loudly: "Don't feel sorry for her, have pity on me and take the goods..."
Everyone worked together to take the vegetables and rice noodles tied to the roof of the bus. Zhou Jiani went over and stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the driver's hand, said hello to the conductor, and waited for the bus to leave. They loaded the things onto a cart and pushed it to the government dormitory area.
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