Chapter 325 The Seven Waters Brigade Sets Sail

Bai Nuo, far from Kyoto, had no idea that her father was alive and had returned. Right now, she was busy delivering materials to the Qishui Textile Factory.

The textile factory of Qishui Brigade was finally built with the joint efforts of the brigade leader and the secretary. The site was chosen to be the old warehouse behind the brigade headquarters.

After the old warehouse was demolished, a small textile factory was rebuilt. It was actually a large courtyard with a spacious factory building and several small offices in two rows.

Although it wasn't a large project, it was enough for a rural production team, especially since it was only in its initial stages.

Regarding the workstations, although everyone had their own ulterior motives, Team Leader Wei Zhongping and Secretary Lu showed exceptionally tough measures in this matter. After all, no one could get a job without a back door during the assessment, and if someone failed the assessment, no one could be allowed to work there.

Anyone who dared to cause trouble would have their work points deducted. Work points were the lifeblood of rural people, and after making two examples of them, no one dared to cause trouble anymore.

After the factory was built, Bai Nuo went out and brought back the ten textile machines using her old Jiefang truck.

The big machine reappeared in Qishui Brigade. The villagers were no longer surprised except for their envy. What surprised them was that Bai Zhiqing had actually brought back those ten textile machines.

These ten textile machines were all won by Bai Nuo in a lottery held at the entrance of the city textile factory. They were said to be second-hand, but everyone could tell that they were no different from new ones. As a result, Bai Nuo's status in Qishui Brigade rose again in an instant. The old men and women who already adored this girl wished they could worship her.

Although the number of work positions is limited, as long as the textile factory generates revenue, it can boost the economy of the entire Qishui Brigade, and the brigade will only get better and better in the future.

As the brigade becomes wealthier, there will surely be more than just this small textile factory in the future, and one day the entire brigade will prosper.

Those with discerning eyes can see and understand these things clearly, and naturally feel grateful to those who bring them these things.

As for those who are short-sighted and can only see immediate benefits, hardly anyone pays them any attention.

As for these ten textile machines, Bai Nuo had asked his uncle before. There are some well-connected people in the black market in the city and province who secretly sell some modified second-hand machines. They are basically discarded from factories and are priced lower than new machines. However, because they are special and you don't have connections or influence, you can't even get these second-hand machines.

Therefore, the price is not cheap; a ring spinning machine costs around one thousand to one thousand two hundred.

This price is not cheap by today's standards, but this big machine is an important piece of machinery in a textile factory, not a civilian sewing machine, so the price is reasonable.

After thinking it over, Bai Nuo finally sold each machine to the Qishui Brigade for 1,000 yuan, but she only charged 8,000 yuan for ten machines.

As the heir of the Wei family, she would definitely not do a losing business. The price she gave for selling the new machine as a second-hand item was already a friendly price given out of respect for her captain uncle. If it were any lower, she was afraid that her great-grandfather would come to "play" with her at night.

So he used the remaining two thousand yuan to invest in Qishui Textile Factory and acquired a five percent stake.

Perhaps her actions suddenly sparked the minds of her friends, and Xie Weidong, You Jin, Sun Yuxi, Chao Xianhua, and Qin Xuehua pooled together 1,000 yuan to jointly own one percent of the shares.

Not only that, in order to keep up with his partner's pace, Fang Meng also called back and asked Bai Nuo to take out 1,000 yuan from his savings account and invest it, taking a 1% share. As for the later dividends, he could just give them to Bai Nuo to keep; he was just nominally joining in the fun.

With this money, plus the three thousand yuan that the brigade headquarters had painstakingly saved, the entire textile factory was finally able to get back on its feet.

After the money arrived, Bai Nuo went to pick up the machinery and also contacted the director of the city's machinery factory.

Bai Nuo had already arranged with him beforehand to get a batch of raw materials from the city textile factory through the factory manager's connections.

Three days later, the raw materials arrived, and Bai Nuo drove to pick them up. The textile factory of Qishui Brigade was finally officially established.

"Quiet down, everyone!"

Captain Wei Zhongping stood on a makeshift platform, with the factory compound they had recently built behind him. Whenever the elderly villagers saw the spacious and bright factory compound, they felt an indescribable sense of joy.

Their Qishui Brigade is different now!

Today is the day for the factory's workstation assessment. Two days ago, several cadres from the brigade headquarters and Bai Nuo held a meeting and officially appointed the factory director and deputy factory director.

The factory director was Wei Jianshe, the second son of the brigade leader, and the deputy factory director was Lu Wenming, the second son of Secretary Lu.

Both of them were high school graduates and often helped their fathers go to the commune. They were quite familiar with the people in the commune, which made it easier for them to get things done in the future.

In addition, both of them were quick-witted and hardworking, and they each had their fathers backing them up in the village, so few dared to oppose them.

As for why the eldest sons of both families weren't allowed to participate, it was simply because the two families had already planned to hand over their businesses to their respective eldest sons in the future, so the responsibility of running the factory naturally fell on their second sons.

As for the factory logistics coordination and marketing department, they have already been internally appointed by the shareholder, Bai Nuo, so today's assessment is about the workers' workstations.

"As everyone has seen these past two days, our Qishui Brigade's textile factory has successively received ten textile machines, and we have also successfully obtained a batch of raw materials through Bai Zhiqing."

Now all that's left is for the workers to be in place. I'll now tell you what workstations the factory needs, and you can choose the ones you're best at and participate in the assessment.

After the captain finished speaking on the high platform, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and began to read: "The Qishui Textile Factory is currently looking to hire one warehouse manager, two security guards working two shifts, and twenty female textile workers."

As soon as the number of people was announced, many of them immediately protested.

With so many people in their Qishui brigade, they finally got a factory, but in the end, there are only a few workstations. How can that be enough?

"Captain, why does such a big factory only need so few people? Besides children and the elderly, there are still several hundred people left in our village. How can this be enough?"

"Yeah, I heard that the logistics and sales departments were all given to the educated youth. Why? We don't even have enough for ourselves."

“That’s right, Captain. Even if those machines were brought by Bai Zhiqing, we can’t give them such a big favor. This is our Qishui Brigade’s factory. We should give priority to our own people.”