I want to be emperor

Chapter 854 Family Letter
As the Spring Festival passed, people who returned to their hometowns during the holiday returned to the city one after another, and those who chose to celebrate the New Year in Songjiang City instead of returning to their hometowns also resumed walking or going to work.

This revitalized Songjiang City, which had been silent for two days... The most obvious example is that some traffic arteries in the city have started to get stuck in frequent traffic again...

Especially during the rush hours of commuting to and from get off work, some busy traffic arteries are even more blocked.

When the traffic jam started in Songjiang City, Sun Xu's childhood friend and roommate Sun Dawei also returned to Songjiang City from his hometown smoothly, and brought Sun Xu some things and letters that his family asked Sun Dawei to bring.

In addition to some food, there are also a pair of new leather shoes made by my father, two clothes sewn by my mother, a middle coat for home use, and a cloth business suit for daily wear.

In addition, his younger brother also gave him something special, a report card.

His younger brother won No.6 in the whole grade in the school exam at the end of the year...

His younger brother is studying at Fengxiangfu Senior High School, Fengxiang Mansion is just a small mansion with only one senior high school.

The strength of Fengxiangfu Senior High School is naturally far inferior to that of Xi'an Senior High School or No. [-] Middle School next door. The sixth place in their school is estimated to be dozens of others in Xi'an Senior High School.

But even so, it was not easy for his younger brother to pass the sixth grade exam.

If you want to do it, you need not only talent, but also hard work!
According to the results of their school’s students in previous years, it is difficult to apply for a full scholarship for a four-year undergraduate university, and it is basically unreliable, but the half scholarship for a four-year undergraduate university is not a big problem...

It's just that the undergraduate course is too expensive, even if it's a half scholarship, the tuition fee for this year will be about a hundred or so. To be honest, my family can't afford it, so it doesn't make much sense to get a half scholarship.

If it is a three-year junior college, there is some hope of getting a full scholarship for this score, but it is not big, and there is still some distance. As for the half scholarship for junior colleges, it is relatively safe.

The younger brother also said in the letter that he will make a final sprint in the first half of this year, desperately trying to get a good result in the joint autumn college entrance examination in the second half of this year, and compete for a full scholarship to a three-year college.

What is it that although he is only a student and cannot make money for his family now, he still wants to save money for his family!

Sun Xu can feel his brother's determination from the lines in the letter... and the fact is indeed the same as his brother said, if he really gets a full scholarship, it will really earn more money than ordinary people, at least a year Save more than 100 tuition fees, the top of the three-year annual income of ordinary workers.

It's just that for students like them who come from ordinary families, whose brains are clever but not geniuses, and who have limited educational resources, if they want to compete for full scholarships with those students from areas with developed education in big cities, even if it is only three years A full scholarship for an annual junior college requires real hard work.

An ordinary person, you don't have the determination to hang your ass, how can you compete with students from big cities and those real geniuses?
After reading his younger brother's letter, and then seeing the letters from his mother and father that his younger brother wrote for him, Sun Xu didn't speak for a long time, and his eyes seemed a little moist.

Sun Dawei on the side didn't speak at first, but just packed his things by himself. After a long time, seeing that Sun Xu's expression was normal, he came over and sat down directly, talking.

"Too many people take the train during the Chinese New Year, and it is very difficult to buy a ticket. When I go back, I can't buy a direct ticket, so I have to take a transfer train!"

"You don't know how difficult it is to buy a ticket when I was in transit between the capital and Zhengzhou. In Zhengzhou, I waited in line for more than a full day before I could buy a ticket!"

"I was delayed on the road for several days, and I didn't get home until the New Year's Eve. I was almost exhausted, and because of the delay, I arrived several days late. My family thought that something happened to me on the way. , my old lady was crying..."

"Ugh……"

"When I came back, I learned how to be smart. I bought a direct ticket in advance. This direct journey from Xi'an to Songjiang is a bit easier!"

"However, it is too uncomfortable to take a ticket. If you have money and go home in the future, you will have to take a sleeper berth."

"Going home during the Chinese New Year, I spent many days on the road, and I only stayed at home for two days. I went out on the third day of the Lunar New Year!"

"Oh, it's not easy to go home!"

"It's not easy to go back. For two days at home, my parents didn't say anything, and they patronized me to get married... You say I'm in such a mess now, I don't have much money for a month, and my pockets are a little empty I don't have any savings, so what do you do with marriage, you can't hurt other girls."

Sun Dawei pulled Sun Xu and cried, and finally looked like he had no love in his life!

At this time, Sun Xu could pick up the conversation and said, "You've made a lot of money, more than seven yuan a month..."

Sun Dawei is considered a senior glass technician, and his monthly salary is much higher than that of ordinary workers with no skills. In fact, the salary is not low among young people.

The reason why his pockets are empty all the year round is purely because he spends so much money on weekdays... not only eating and drinking, Lei still has to go to the small courtyard of the brothel several times a month to listen to the little sister sing and drink tea... To hell with saving that money.

Even though Sun Dawei earns more than ordinary workers, he still can't stand the pressure of the young ladies!
But people have their own ways of living, and they live well, live happily, and have no interest in starting a family or anything. Sun Xu has no intention of dissuading him...it's unnecessary.

But after a few days, Sun Dawei pulled Sun Xu, and said with a mean expression: "Xuzi, what's the matter with you, did you catch eyes with Miss Meng next door? It's only been a few days, she I have brought you delicious food twice.

"I didn't see it, Xu Zi, you can do this, you can hook up with Miss Meng, tsk tsk..."

"I've known Ms. Meng for a while, but to be honest, I didn't even have the courage to hook up with her before... Don't mention me, there are quite a few bachelors in the apartment, but few of them dared to do it."

"It's Xu Zi, you are so brave!"

"Tell me, do you have any secrets..."

Sun Xu was speechless when he heard this, how could it be called a hookup after getting to know each other well, how ugly it is!
Besides, I don't have any secrets, that is, I have a lot of daily contact, and then we walked together naturally... And now it's just staying at the stage of sneaking a little hand when no one is around, and it's not even a successful hook-up.

Just thinking of the scene where the two of them held hands occasionally these days, Sun Xu couldn't help showing a little smile.

Sun Dawei saw it, well, another buddy is finished.

Even if this woman isn't around, she just smirked... Seeing that she was poisoned, she couldn't be saved.

In the future, I should still eat, drink and visit brothels alone.

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On the 36th day of the first month of the 26th year of Chengshun, in the mansion of the Wang family in the outer suburbs of Xicheng District.

Mrs. Wang saw that her husband didn't go out in the morning, but ran wildly with the two children in the lawn garden outside the house, and immediately asked, "Why did you go out so late today, the factory doesn't need to watch?"

At this time, Wang Liqing picked up his little daughter with one hand and held his son with the other, and said at the same time: "I've been busy for almost two months. The installation and commissioning of the first batch of equipment is almost finished. The mass production has been carried out smoothly the day before yesterday. Although there are still follow-up matters, But you don’t have to stare at it every day like before!”

"I'm exhausted during this time, so let's wait for two days!"

Mrs. Wang said: "That's good. After busy work on weekdays, you still have to pay attention to rest and pay attention to your health. It's fine to leave the affairs of the factory to the director and section chief. There is no need to do everything yourself!"

After Madam Wang finished speaking, she said again: "Look at me, I haven't been to the restaurant once for ten days and half a month. The restaurant is not good!"

After Wang Liqing heard his wife's words... he was very depressed immediately, but he still insisted: "Your restaurant has nothing to do on weekdays, so naturally you don't need to go there, but my factory is engaged in technology, technical things and serving people. can it be the same!"

Mrs. Wang didn't bother to roll her eyes after hearing this: "Okay, okay, you're a technician, I'm just a waiter... You're amazing, come on, the old man will bring the children in quickly, the servants will serve you for breakfast!"

After hearing this, Wang Liqing laughed, and led the children into the house one by one.

After breakfast, Wang Liqing handed the child over to the tutor. Wang Liqing originally wanted to go back to his room and close his eyes to rest for a while. It was a rare day to rest. He didn't plan to do anything else today. He would just spend time with his family and children, and then sleep .

But after a while, the housekeeper came in with a letter: "Master, Master Dexingfang sent someone to send a letter!"

"Oh?" Wang Liqing took the letter, tore off the wax seal and looked at it, with a pensive look on his face.

Seeing Wang Liqing's expression, Mrs. Wang immediately asked, "Is it Lao Fang from Long'an Company? He has something to do with you."

Wang Liqing said: "Well, it is said that I was entrusted by someone to invite me to drink and talk about new cotton yarn!"

Mrs. Wang said: "If you are invited, go, at least you are an old comrade-in-arms, but don't drink too much, it will hurt your health!"

After saying that, Mrs. Wang went upstairs.

Mrs. Wang has never interfered with the operation of Wang Liqing's Anhua Spinning Factory, and she doesn't know anything about new cotton yarn. Although her father and husband are both engaged in cotton spinning, Mrs. Wang really knows that Many, after all, she was raised in a deep boudoir before... I don't know much about these things outside.

After marriage, she is also a husband and a child!
Besides, she really doesn't have much interest in these things... It's just that small dilapidated factory, working hard for a year, earning less than the rent she charged...

Not to mention the massive investment to upgrade equipment this time, which is equivalent to throwing in the money earned in previous years...

So after working so hard for so many years and spending so much money one after another, what do you want?

It's better to buy a few more pieces of land and a few buildings.

It's just that although Mrs. Wang thinks that the spinning business is not good, she will not stop her, and even supports her husband in doing it... After all, men still need a career.

I can't be the same as my own woman, who is fine every day, just lying at home and collecting rent.

Although rent collection is also rich, it is quite different from a serious business.

Although Mrs. Wang often said, "Why don't you just stop doing it... I'm tired and can't make much money, but she actually supports her husband's career very much."

A factory owner with more than 800 people is far from being comparable to a rent collector in terms of connections and social status.

For a family like theirs, they are rich, but they are not super rich... If you only have electricity and small money, you won't even be able to enter the real upper class...

This requires a reliable and influential career.

If we can make our business better and bigger, then it will be even better.

Naturally, Wang Liqing didn't know his wife's many thoughts. He looked at the letter in his hand and thought it over for a while, and basically figured out what Lao Fang and the others were going to do.

This is a medium-sized textile company that also does business in Songjiang and has taken a fancy to its new type of cotton yarn.

After thinking about this clearly, Wang Liqing couldn't help but smile.

It seems that the step of investing in upgrading equipment to make new cotton yarn is the right step. Although the investment is large and the pressure is greater...but it will become a fragrant steamed bun in the market, and the cotton yarn will not worry about selling!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, we have to find a few more stable strategic customers...

Relying solely on Shenghua Textile Company is still unreliable. Although their purchase volume is large, they have not reached the point where they can monopolize all the production of new cotton yarn in their own factory. Even if they can... neither of them will do it.

For Shenghua Textile Company, the supplier is too single, entrusting all new cotton yarns to Anhua Textile Company, it is tantamount to handing over eggs to Wang Liqing, and Wang Liqing must not let Wang Liqing handle it at will in the future.

Conversely, if Wang Liqing relied on Shenghua Textile Company for his shipping channels, he would be entrusting his life to the other party... If the other party had any problems, it would directly kill his own factory.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish more channels and engage in several strategic cooperation factories.

Eggs cannot be put in one basket.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered the housekeeper: "Let the person who delivered the letter take the message back, and just say that I will be on time for the appointment at night!"

Anyway, the dinner will be held at my own Suzhou Creek restaurant...going to eat is considered a contribution to my wife's performance.

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In the evening, Wang Liqing went to the appointment on time and met Lao Fang and Lu Huai, the boss of Lu Huai Textile Company whom he had introduced.

This person also owns this factory. Wang Liqing also knows that it is a medium-sized textile factory in Nancheng District. Its business type is similar to that of Shenghua Textile Company. It buys cotton yarn and produces cloth, which is then printed and dyed for sale.

It's just that their sales channels are not in the local area, but go overseas. I heard that their products are very popular in Fusang.

After the two parties were seated, they chatted briefly and then got down to business. The discussion went fairly smoothly... After all, one wanted the goods and the other had the goods, so the talk went smoothly. The only small difference was the price.

The other party lowered the price, so naturally Wang Liqing would not give in easily...but we can negotiate slowly later.

On the whole, the cooperation intentions of both parties are relatively strong, and the possibility of subsequent negotiations is also high. It is nothing more than some differences in price, which ultimately leads to the size of the cooperation.

Wang Liqing is not in a hurry either. There is a shortage of new cotton yarns on the market, and they have great advantages in terms of quality and cost compared to old cotton yarns.

However, there are not many textile companies that can produce new-type cotton yarns in the market, and most of them are their own spinning mills of large-scale integrated textile companies.

In the eyes of many small and medium-sized weaving factories and textile companies, Wang Liqing's independent cotton yarn factory, which can produce new cotton yarn, naturally became a fragrant bun.

In fact, this was indeed the case. After several discussions between the two parties, even though Wang Liqing was more insistent on the price, the other party finally gave in and signed a long-term supply agreement.

Moreover, Wang Liqing had just signed an order here. After hearing the news, the weaving factory that had planned to take a look at it became anxious. They were afraid that Anhua Textile Company's new cotton yarn production capacity would be robbed, so they rushed up immediately. place an order.

So Wang Liqing was suffering but also happy... The happy thing was that the new cotton yarn was so popular that there were so many orders.

The painful thing is that because the production has just been changed, and only part of the production has been changed, the production capacity of new cotton yarn is still relatively limited, which cannot meet the demand of the order at all.

But there is no way around it. Even if Wang Liqing wants to increase investment at this time, it is impossible to quickly upgrade and switch production.

Because the new cotton yarn equipment of Hantian Machinery Co., Ltd. sells better and is more popular... Especially after last year's deliberation, orders for new cotton yarn have increased significantly this year.

That is to say, Wang Liqing acted early last year. He placed an order early and queued up for production. He will deliver a batch every month, and it is expected that the delivery will be completed by the middle of the year...

If the equipment order is only placed this year, the goods will not be available until the next year... After all, the orders for new cotton yarn equipment from Hantian Machinery Company have already been scheduled for three years...

Therefore, there is no other way but to dig deep into the capacity of existing equipment, minimize downtime and maintenance time, and avoid failures, keep the equipment running for as long as possible, and produce more new cotton yarn.

And this also puts higher demands on the mechanics in the Mechanics Department... Even Section Chief Wang, a boss who only talks but not hands, now has to do maintenance and repairs by himself... Others If the technology is not good, letting them do it alone is prone to various problems.

It didn't take long for Sun Xu to enjoy this kind of treatment, leading a team alone to overhaul and maintain the new equipment...Because he is the second mechanic besides Section Chief Wang who can be solely responsible for the maintenance tasks of the new equipment.

As a result, Sun Xu, who had just worked for a short time, became the leader of a separate mechanic repair team, and took two ordinary mechanics to carry out inspections and maintenance. Although this so-called team leader was only in name, he was not counted. Official position, and only temporary.

But Sun Xu was still very excited... because if this situation continues, he has a hunch that he is not far away from a real promotion and salary increase.

(End of this chapter)