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Chapter 822 Our abilities are limited (first update, please subscribe)
"Craftsmanship, fabrics..."

In the Minfu Garment Company in Zamboanga, there was nothing to hide from fellow compatriot Shen Zhenbang who came to learn from him. Equipment adjustments, sewing and thread material reforms, fabric selections, and so on, these are not secrets. They are facts. , you only need to pay for it.

After all, the technology researched by the Technology Research Institute needs to be transferred to foreign countries. Of course, transfer requires money.

"For technical details, Manager Zheng can directly contact the Garment Technology Research Institute. For 2000 yuan, we can introduce the corresponding technology and provide technical guidance. This money is well spent."

"I understand, thank you Boss Shen for the introduction, but besides these, are there any other secrets?"

After managing a company for so many years, Zheng Hanjie certainly knew that things couldn't be that simple. His question made Shen Zhenbang smile.

"I knew you would ask that, but this kind of thing cannot be explained in just a few words. I think so, otherwise, you can work in the factory for a while."

"Work in the factory for a while?"

Zheng Hanjie said in surprise.

"Yes, it's just a traineeship. When the time comes, you will understand."

So that afternoon, Zheng Hanjie began his "trainee" career. However, with a Tang Dynasty appearance, of course he was not here to be an ordinary worker, but to participate in production as a foreman.

He was taken to the dormitory building. Although he lived in a single room, ordinary workers lived in a ten-person dormitory - five wooden bunk beds. The facilities in the dormitory were a bit rudimentary, with nothing else except beds and cabinets.

The washroom is public, and the toilet is also public. The first half is the washroom with only a few faucets and sinks, and the back is the toilet. Zheng Hanjie is no stranger to this kind of dormitory, because in Jiuzhou, workers also live in this kind of dormitory.

Although the environment was very poor, in order to learn the secret to reducing costs, Zheng Hanjie had no choice but to follow the locals and adapt to all this.

……

The next morning, as soon as Zheng Hanjie came to the cafeteria, he felt a different atmosphere here - all the workers were eating breakfast in a hurry like hungry wolves. When he finished his breakfast, he looked at the pictures hanging on the wall. Watch, it's already six-thirty!

"Oops, you're going to be late!"

Zheng Hanjie quickly stood up and ran towards the workshop.

Along the way, Zheng Hanjie met many workers, all of whom were trotting towards the workshop.

When you arrive at the workshop, the first thing you have to do is change into uniform work clothes in the locker room at the door. There are rows of lockers in the locker room. Each employee has a locker to store clothes and personal belongings.

After hurriedly changing clothes, Zheng Hanjie entered the workshop.

"Foreman, hurry up, Director Li will be here soon!"

A female worker shouted at Zheng Hanjie.

Zheng Hanjie ran over immediately. The clock on the wall showed that the time was six-fifty.

The workshop director came over and started a routine morning meeting, which was actually a lecture.

Arrived at seven o'clock, the work started on time.

While the female workers were busy, Zheng Hanjie started his day's work.

The work in the garment factory is boring and tedious. As the foreman, Zheng Hanjie, his job is relatively simple, which is to patrol back and forth. He noticed that the management cadres here are all from Tangshan, and the workers are all indigenous. It can be seen from the appearance.

"This is the so-called Tanggan."

Zheng Hanjie thought of a saying he saw in a magazine, "Tang cadres" are cadres from the Tang Dynasty. In these Tang companies, the bosses are from the Tang Dynasty, and the middle-level cadres are also from the Tang Dynasty.

The foreman is also a middle-level cadre. As a foreman, all he needs to do is to patrol back and forth constantly. However, as a trainee, he learns more from the old foreman. The foreman's job is to prevent anyone from being lazy and slippery. As long as he is caught If you stop drinking, you will stop drinking immediately.

For the whole morning, the female workers in the workshop were working non-stop without any chance to breathe. Even the time to go to the toilet was set - each person could only go twice, and each time should not exceed five minutes. minutes, if you exceed the time limit, you will be fined.

At twelve o'clock at noon, the workshop bell rang, and then everyone rushed into the canteen for lunch.

There are two dishes for lunch, one braised fish fillet, one stir-fried green vegetables, and one green vegetable egg drop soup. There are very few eggs and vegetables, and the flavor is mainly enhanced by salt and MSG. The staple food is rice as you like. For these indigenous female workers, this is already a very rich lunch.

Looking at the workers around him, Zheng Hanjie noticed that although he had an hour of free time at noon, apart from queuing up in the cafeteria to get food, eating and going back and forth, the remaining time was only enough to go to the toilet. .

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the workshop started to move again. The female workers began to repeat the work again. At this time, the thermometer in the workshop had already reached 38 degrees. Even with the industrial fan whirring, the female workers' work T-shirts were quickly soaked with sweat. Despite this, the female workers were still working hard, and it was not until 6 p.m. that the bell rang again in the factory.

“You’ll have an hour to eat, and come back at seven o’clock to continue working overtime!”

The foremen shouted instructions.

Dinner was even simpler, just stir-fried vegetables and cold cucumbers, and there was still vegetable and egg drop soup. There was still a little chicken in the soup, and the salty taste was still strong, but after the female workers finished one bowl, most of them were filled again. One bowl, probably from sweating too much.

After devouring dinner, the female workers hurried to the toilet and then returned to the workshop to continue working.

It's work, not overtime. Then, I work overtime from seven to ten.

He finally made it to ten o'clock, just when Zheng Hanjie thought he was about to get off work, but he never thought that work was still going on.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, Zheng Hanjie finally finished his day's work and returned to his dormitory. The female workers who were chatting and laughing in the early morning all looked exhausted now. …

In this way, half a month passed.

In fact, in the past half month, Zheng Hanjie only patrolled the workshop and did not need to work in person.

But even so, he still felt extremely exhausted - working overtime! work overtime! work overtime! Working overtime every day!

Zheng Hanjie felt that he had almost become a walking zombie, and most of the other female workers were the same. These female workers work seven days a week,
Finally, Zheng Hanjie persisted until the day when his wages were paid. On this day, he made a special trip to the accounting office. Watching the accountant hand a wad of money to the female worker, only then did the female worker's tired face show a smile.

Zheng Hanjie looked at the stack of money in the hands of the female worker - Mindanao dollars. They were not thick, and they were all in face value of 10 yuan. By visual inspection, it should be less than 150 yuan. According to the exchange rate, it was about five or six US dollars.

This is the result of the female workers' hard work for a month.

"You have worked so hard for so long and you have earned so much money?"

Zheng Hanjie's heart was trembling inexplicably. Looking at the female workers leaving happily and discussing what to buy, Zheng Hanjie finally understood - all low costs are an extreme squeeze on the workers!

Just at this moment, Shen Zhenbang came over and asked.

"How's it going? Did Mr. Zheng gain anything?"

The next second, Zheng Hanjie looked at Shen Zhenbang, looked at him with an extremely complicated expression and said:
"Here, work overtime like this, work overtime like this... Even an old donkey wouldn't be able to do this!"

At this moment, he really broke through. Even in Jiuzhou, they did not exploit the workers to this extent. At least in Jiuzhou, the workers could still go to the toilet freely every day.

But what about here?

There are even limits on the number and time of going to the toilet.

Look at the workers who only smile when they get paid. Zheng Hanjie's heart was trembling. After all, in the past days, he had seen how these people became walking zombies.

These people work almost 20 hours a day. A smile only appears in the morning, most of the time. They're just a bunch of zombies.

"Although I say that, but..."

Looking at Zheng Hanjie, Shen Zhenbang said.

"But it does work. How about it? Have you found the secret of "high quality and low price"?"

Shen Zhenbang's rhetorical question almost made Zheng Hanjie break his guard. It was really hard for him to imagine why Zheng Hanjie could say these words so grandly without any feeling of indebtedness.

"They, they are all human beings."

Zheng Hanjie said excitedly.

"Yes, they are all indeed. If they weren't, how could my factory hire them? Do you think so?"

Shen Zhenbang did not deny this, and then he said.

"But our capabilities are limited, and there are not many people we can take care of. You see, our supervisors here not only have higher incomes, but also have easier time. As for them... they are not our compatriots, why should we take care of them?"

This seemingly light sentence immediately silenced Zheng Hanjie.

Seeing that Zheng Hanjie was silent for a long time and was speechless, Shen Zhenbang said from the side.

"Actually, things in this world are just that simple. We can only take care of a small number of people. We can't take care of the vast majority of people at all, and we don't have the ability to take care of ourselves. This is our greatest ability. ”

Seeing that Zheng Hanjie didn't speak, he continued.

"Besides, we need to use some more popular products to enter foreign markets. How can we make our products more popular?"

"It has to be cheap enough."

Zheng Hanjie seemed to understand.

Shen Zhenbang nodded and said.

"So...there are some things we have to do."

Then the two of them stood like this in the factory, no one said anything, they just looked at the workers quietly. Seeing those female workers smiling happily, with the wages they just received, they will soon go to the market to consume and enjoy the fruits of their labor.

And these two are just like them, these women who have worked their best like zombies in the past month.

Maybe they work very hard, but the number of people they can take care of is very limited...

(End of this chapter)