The Pentium Era - South to North

Wan Jianguo and the others move very quickly. They are contractors. If they finish the work a day earlier, the time saved belongs to them. Not only do they start working at dawn, they spread a mat on the ground at noon, take a nap, and then get up and continue working. , even at night they had to burn the midnight oil, and the indoor work of removing paper, tendons, ash and laying floor tiles was completed in only two days.

The weather is hot, so the paper plaster and mortar under the floor tiles dry quickly. After finishing one room, it will be completely dry in the next night and day. Then, you can paint the fourth room with lime. The walls of the first room are dry again, so come back and paint them a second time, and you're done.

Wan Jianguo called one of their fellow plumbers, negotiated the price with Zhang Chen, and began to lay out the grid on the roof. He hung steel wires directly from the rafters of the house, installed ceiling fans, and finally installed aluminum alloy profiles and wires. , install the socket.

Install the water pipes for the toilets, the water pipes for the pool in front of the dormitory, and the water pipes for the bathroom and canteen.

Wan Jianguo and his fellow villagers really do a lot of things. He called a welder for Zhang Chen and welded the iron frames one by one with square tubes. He also called a carpenter and worked with the welder to make cutting machines and post-processing work. Road and proofing plate.

The cutting bed is made of nine-centimeter boards. One layer is laid on the iron frame first, and then a layer of dark green fire-proof board is glued on the nine-centimeter boards. This way, the smoothness and firmness of the cutting bed are improved. That's enough.

By this time, Wan Jianguo and the others had moved outside and were building toilets and laying the foundation for a simple house.

Zhang Chen travels between the construction site and the stall every day. Everyone who works on the construction site knows that Zhang Chen is an expert. He can tell at a glance whether the work is done well and whether corners are cut, and it cannot be hidden from him, so he is very serious.

Zhang Chen also directly paid Wan Jianguo to buy whatever materials were needed on the construction site. He may have known that Zhang Chen was an expert, or that Wan Jianguo himself was a good character, so the quality and price of the things he bought were outstanding. Two words.

Zhao Zhigang would also go to the construction site every day to watch. When the first workshop was completed, they were eager to move it over. He told Zhang Chen that Caidi and Zhao Zhilong had already called to ask for help.

Zhang Chen was worried that it would be too early. After all, the dormitory here had not been built yet. When people came, Zhang Chen was afraid that he would not even have a place to live.

Zhao Zhigang told him that it was not early, and it was not easy to leave there. It would take a few days to resign. Fortunately, it was easy for the unit to recruit people at that time. There were a lot of people outside through relatives and friends. The connections from fellow workers want to come in, so the boss doesn’t care too much about who wants to leave and won’t set many conditions to make things difficult.

Unless you are a good player like Caidi Zhao Zhilong, the boss will be reluctant to give up. If you don't even want your salary for that month, the boss can't do anything to you.

Two girls came over immediately, and Zhao Zhigang asked them and Caidi to sleep on the cutting bed first, while he and Zhao Zhilong slept on the table in the back passage.

The house on Sanbao Street was due to expire in more than a month, and they didn't want it anymore. Only when they got here did they feel like they wanted to become the masters.

Zhang Chen asked Zhao Zhigang to be the director of the factory, Caidi to be the supervisor of the sewing workshop, and Zhao Zhilong to be the garment worker. Before the large army arrived, the three of them, plus the two little girls who had already arrived, had to work hard every day. .

It turns out that they already have three flat sewing machines and one hemming machine. Zhang Chen calculated that they need to add twenty-five flat sewing machines, three hemming machines, a button stitching machine, and a buttonhole machine. Machine, a set of large ironing table and steam generator, which is a small boiler, six sets of small ironing, and an electric cutting knife.

Zhang Chen and Zhao Zhigang went to Taipingmen Zhi Street. The boss was so happy when he saw that they needed so many things, so he took the twenty yuan himself. Zhang Chen looked at the electric scissors and the big perm. He felt that these two The things were too dangerous. Although Zhao Zhigang said that the old ones could be used, he insisted on buying new ones. Although the boiler was small, it was an explosive thing, so he couldn't afford to be careless.

He chose imported electric scissors, which were three times the price of domestic ones. The boss showed them one and said it was a spare one from his Hong Kong boss's factory. The factory closed down before it was used. Zhao Zhigang took it out to try. Yes, it's really good. Even though the price is one thousand nineteen, they still want it.

They selected a domestic buttonholing machine, and Zhang Chen saw in the warehouse a Chongqi 781 flat-head buttonholing machine with a blade that automatically cuts buttonholes. Zhang Chen picked up a piece of cloth placed beside it. There is a row of locked buttonholes on it, the stitching is fine, and the stitching is very beautiful. It is simply incomparable to the domestic one I just bought.

The stitches on the domestic sewing machine are similar to those produced by Singer's home sewing machine. They are very sparse, but the speed is a little faster. After locking the holes, you also need to cut the buttonholes by hand.

"This buttonhole is so beautiful!"

Zhang Chen admired that the boss knew that a factory like theirs could not use such a high-end keyhole machine. He smiled and said:

"Of course, you get what you pay for. This new one costs 36,000 yuan, and one can buy dozens of domestically produced ones."

"How much does your machine cost?"

"Twenty-four thousand."

Zhang Chen was shocked, so expensive?

Zhang Chen hurried over. When he walked to the batch of machines he had chosen, he couldn't help but pick up the buttonholes of the domestic keyhole machine locks and look at them. He felt that it was better not to compare. Once he compared them, he couldn't stand it even more. Don't look at the buttonholes of a piece of clothing, but everyone, from the moment she tries on the clothes, picks it up with her hands, the buttonholes are what her eyes see.

It can be said that a row of buttonholes raises the level of a piece of clothing.

Zhang Chen couldn't bear it anymore, so he walked back to the heavy machine, picked up the piece of cloth and looked at it. The more he looked at it, the more he couldn't bear it. He asked the boss:

"If I buy it, what's the lowest price you can give me?"

The boss looked at him and thought he was joking. He said, "If you want it, no problem, I'll give you a discount of one thousand or twenty-three thousand."

Zhang Chen gritted his teeth and said yes, I want it.

"real?"

"real."

"No, no, no, we can't afford such a good one. This is for foreign trade factories." Zhao Zhigang was also startled and hurried over to stop it.

Zhang Chen shook his head and said to him:

"Our products are meant to be comparable to those of foreign trade factories. I looked at them and found that the buttonholes produced by the two machines are very different. Also, this one cuts buttonholes automatically, and that one requires manual cutting of buttonholes. Cutting buttonholes requires one person every day, but in the long run, this is a good deal."

"Yes, you, the boss, can settle accounts." The boss also shouted.

After talking to this point, Zhao Zhigang had nothing to say, so they used this heavy machine to replace the domestic keyhole machine.

The boss called a truck. Zhang Chen and Zhao Zhigang said, "I don't have enough money. I'll go get the money. You can watch them load the truck here." Zhao Zhigang agreed.

A carload of machines was delivered, and even Wan Jianguo and the others came to help. They lifted the machines off the car and set them up in each room. It looked like a garment factory. Zhang Chen and Zhao Zhigang watched with joy. Mouth from ear to ear.

Zhao Zhilong looked at the neatly arranged machines, the clean floor, the white walls, and the red grid ceiling above his head, and couldn't help but say: "Our factory is really high-end!"

He really wanted to go back to work in the workshop.

The people who called came one after another, and Wan Jianguo's simple house was also built. Zhang Chen went to buy a cart of bunk beds, three in a room, with more than 80 beds upstairs and downstairs. Even the opening of a second sewing workshop will be enough for living.

The first room on the first floor is the canteen, and the second room is the warehouse. Fabrics, accessories, needlework, etc. are all stored here. Beyond that are Zhao Zhigang and Caidi's rooms. The rest are staff dormitories. The one at the end of the first floor That room, with two doors in the middle partition, is the men's and women's bathroom.

Not only were the two rows of peach trees planted, Zhang Chen also asked Wan Jianguo to break open the cement on the drying ground in front of the house and make a small flower bed. Zhang Chen planted a five hundred-dollar tree in the middle of the flower bed. He bought a very big peach tree, but he hesitated, not even daring to tell Xiao Zhao that the tree cost five hundred yuan.

Otherwise, Xiao Zhao would say that in our hometown, peach trees are planted to make money, and there are no people like you who waste money by planting peach trees.

Zhang Chen thought to himself, what's the point? Isn't it worth spending five hundred yuan just to see the splendor of that tree in early spring next year?

After Wan Jianguo finished painting the wall facing the sun drying area in front, his work was completed. After Zhang Chen gave him all the money that was due, he stood there, looking over his shoulder, as if he still refused to leave. .

"Lao Wan, what else can you do?" Zhang Chen asked as he got acquainted with him and already called him Lao Wan.

Wan Jianguo hesitated for a moment, then summoned up the courage to ask: "Boss Zhang, can I work here?"

This was beyond Zhang Chen's expectation. He asked, "What can we do here?"

"You can do anything."

Zhang Chen thought for a moment and said, wait a minute.

He walked to the cutting room, where Zhao Zhigang was doing layout. Zhang Chen said to him, "I think that Lao Wan is a good person. He wants to stay with us and says he can do anything. Do you think we can arrange it?"

Zhao Zhigang said: "Let him first come to the cutting room to work as a handyman, help spread cloth, bundle cut pieces, and learn while doing it. I will teach him how to use electric scissors for cutting and typesetting. We are still short of a cutting bed."

Zhang Chen called Wan Jianguo over, told him what Zhao Zhigang wanted, and asked him if he was willing. Wan Jianguo quickly said yes.

"Okay, you can move here today." Zhang Chen said, "By the way, sell your tricycle to the factory. I will give you another job, which is to use the tricycle every morning. Go deliver to the market.”

With so many workers, once production officially starts, they can't carry so much goods on bicycles. Besides, don't they have to import fabrics frequently? They can't ask the landlord to borrow a tricycle every time. They should also have one of their own. Tricycle.

The landlord came over to take a look and told Zhang Chen that you have made this shabby place look great. Before starting work, we need to set up two tables of wine and set off firecrackers to make it lively.

Zhang Chen felt that what the landlord said made sense. The night before work started, five tables of wine were set up on the drying ground. The landlord and his family came, as did his uncle, the village secretary, the director of the village committee, and the village accountant. Even Sister Huang, the village women's director, also came. When she saw Zhang Chen and the others, there were so many female workers here, she told Zhang Chen, please be careful, don't stay here with those who are superborn.

Zhang Chen hurriedly said, no, no, these little girls here are not even married, they are not even born, and besides, you, Sister Huang, are so powerful, you can see through other people’s bellies at a glance, even those who are born are afraid to come. ah.

Everyone on the side laughed.

Qu Tianlin and Xiao An, Hai Gen and Sister Gui Hua, and A Yong also came.

When the firecrackers went off, the sky was getting dark little by little.

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