Chapter 826 Going to the Trade Fair Again
Lu Jun got married, and many colleagues from the education department came. When Zhu Weijie appeared at the wedding, it naturally surprised these people.
In particular, one of Lu Jun's superiors could not sit still when he saw Zhu Weijie appear. He quickly stood up and greeted Zhu Weijie. Zhu Weijie shook hands with him with a smile and chatted with him briefly. Then he refused the invitation to sit at the front table and sat down at their table with Song Yuanchao.
"It's very lively today." Zhu Weijie said after sitting down and looking around.
"For a wedding banquet, the more lively the better." Song Yuanchao handed over a cigarette and they both lit it up: "Wei Jie, you didn't come here on impulse today, did you?"
"Hahaha, did you see that?" Zhu Weijie said with a smile, "Let's take this opportunity to come and meet each other. I'm going to go to the district after the holiday. I plan to start arranging transfer matters for Lu Jun after I arrive at the district. So I came here today to wish him a happy wedding and to support him."
Song Yuanchao also laughed after hearing this. Zhu Weijie was very thoughtful. Once he came today, someone would soon notice him. It would be much easier to transfer Lu Jun later. At the same time, this was also a way to tell Lu Jun that he and Song Yuanchao were friends and they were all family. This also dispelled Lu Jun's concerns about working under Zhu Weijie after he went to the district.
I have to say that Zhu Weijie's seemingly random arrangement was actually very thoughtful.
Song Yuanchao chatted with Zhu Weijie for a while, and soon Cheng Mengshan and his friends came over. Song Yuanchao introduced Zhu Weijie to Cheng Mengshan and his friends. They were all about the same age, and Song Yuanchao and Luo Yang had a good relationship, so the conversation was very casual.
When the wedding banquet officially began, Zhu Weijie sat happily and ate and drank with Song Yuanchao and the others. Soon the bride and groom came to toast. Zhu Weijie did not put on airs and was just like an ordinary friend. He also joked with Lu Jun.
Lu Jun's wedding was successfully completed. Everyone went to the bridal chamber to have fun that night, and it was already past ten o'clock when they returned to the hotel.
The next morning, Cheng Mengshan and his friends were about to leave. Song Yuanchao and Sun Yaoliang drove to see them off. Lu Jun couldn't come because he had to accompany his newlywed wife to her parents' home, but he still came to the hotel first to say goodbye to everyone. Everyone hugged each other again and said a lot of words before saying goodbye.
On October 3, the day after returning home, Song Yuanchao, Sun Yaoliang, and Lu Jun and his wife left Shangdu and flew to Shanghai.
Before leaving, Song Yuanchao and Zhu Weijie met again. Secretary Ma was supposed to come too, but he had some urgent matters to attend to and couldn't spare the time. The two chatted in the room for more than an hour before Zhu Weijie left with a happy face.
Shanghai, Du Wenting's home.
Du Wenting was helping Guo Tao pack his luggage, carefully packing each piece of clothing into the box, while at the same time carefully calculating what was missing.
"Stop busying yourself. Didn't you look at it all last night? Why are you rummaging through it again?" Guo Tao came in from outside and couldn't help asking when he saw his wife still packing her luggage.
"I suddenly remembered that I need to bring a few more sweaters and other things, so I found them and put them in for you. Autumn is coming soon, and the weather can get cold easily, so don't catch a cold." Du Wenting turned around and said to her husband.
Guo Tao smiled and said nothing more. He walked closer to Du Wenting and gently put his arm around her shoulders. "It's not that exaggerated. It's in the south, so it won't be cold for me. But I won't be back for more than half a month after I go there. I'm sorry to have troubled you..."
Listening to her husband's words, Du Wenting felt a little sad and almost shed tears.
Sometimes people's feelings are really strange. Husband and wife get used to seeing each other every day. After a long time, they will dislike each other and even quarrel. But when she thought that her husband would be separated from her for a long time in the future, Du Wenting felt very reluctant.
"Are you reluctant to let me go? Or... I won't go?" Seeing Du Wenting's gloomy expression, Guo Tao said in her ear.
"Not going? Are you kidding me?" Du Wenting rolled her eyes at him. "The factory has been built and the money has been invested. How can you not go? Go ahead, go ahead. You have been preparing for this factory for so long. Remember to take good care of yourself when you get there. Call me when you are free. Oh, and remember one thing. You are not allowed to mess around outside, or I will not forgive you!"
At the end, Du Wenting glared at Guo Tao fiercely. Guo Tao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Was he that kind of person? Besides, he was going to the trade fair. He had a wife and children. How could he have such messy thoughts?
Guo Tao resigned last summer.
That’s right, resign!
Guo Tao previously worked as the director of a hardware factory. He was able to obtain some orders for the factory through the Southern Trade Fair, which helped the factory to improve significantly.
In the following days, Guo Tao worked hard to turn the situation of the factory around, but as a state-owned enterprise, many tasks were very difficult to do, which made Guo Tao very distressed.
Guo Tao is a capable and thoughtful person, but even the best farmers can only do so much when farming on poor soil. Moreover, it would take a lot of effort to truly change this factory, and coupled with some other factors, many of his tasks were difficult and difficult.
Especially when he was chatting with Song Yuanchao before, some of the things Song Yuanchao said made Guo Tao deeply empathize, which was about what Li Daqi did when he set up Tengfei Factory. As the situation of the factory gradually improved, although had not yet suffered the pressure that Li Daqi had back then, he could vaguely feel these difficulties.
In addition, the reason why Guo Tao went to work in this hardware factory was, to put it bluntly, that he was kicked out, and he doesn't want such a situation to happen again in the future.
After much thought, Guo Tao finally made up his mind. He decided to do it on his own instead of just being a leader of a state-owned enterprise as before.
He finally understood that only his own career was worth striving for. No matter how well he did in the company, it was just a mirage. A transfer order could wipe out all his efforts and contributions. He didn't want to experience this again.
When Guo Tao came back from the south last year, he started working on this matter. After a long period of preparation and investigation, he finally decided to open his own factory.
The Guo family still has some background. Guo Tao used his connections and paid to rent a factory building in a place west of Shanghai near Suzhou. This factory was originally a small electromechanical factory in a township. The factory had long been closed down due to poor management, and the original employees were relocated to other factories, leaving only a piece of land and a fairly adequate factory building structure.
After taking over this place, Guo Tao bought some second-hand equipment, hired several newly retired technicians through old connections, and found a few local workers.
In this way, a township enterprise named "Haitao Hardware Factory" was born. Guo Tao was the legal person and director of the factory. At the beginning, there were only 9 people in the entire factory, including Guo Tao. Except for a financial officer, Guo Tao not only served as the factory director, but also worked in various positions such as engineer, technician, cashier, purchasing and sales.
This factory is small in scale, but it carries Guo Tao's hope for the future. He believes that with his own efforts, this factory will gradually grow bigger.
Du Wenting supported her husband's decision. She resolutely took out all the family savings and gave them to her husband, and invested them in the construction of the factory.
After a year of hard work, Guo Tao's factory was doing pretty well. Not only did it survive, it also made some money.
However, Guo Tao did not spend the money he earned, but reinvested it all in the factory. In addition, he borrowed a sum of money from a credit union. In May of this year, Guo Tao's factory added new equipment, and the number of employees in the factory increased from the original 9 to the current 22.
He still clearly remembered the conversation between Song Yuanchao and Guo Tao, which had helped Guo Tao a lot since he established the factory. In addition, Guo Tao had the ability and technology to design several new products according to his own ideas, and soon gained a foothold in the market.
"I'll go out for a while and ask about the information." After chatting with his wife for a while, Guo Tao stood up and said.
"Come back early!" Du Wenting urged.
"I'll be back when I'm done." Guo Tao said this with a smile, put on his coat and left home.
Riding a bicycle, Guo Tao spent half an hour to reach a street printing factory and found the factory director, Lao Zhao.
"Mr. Guo, why are you here?"
"Come and take a look at how the printing of the materials is going. When will it be ready?" Guo Tao handed a cigarette to Lao Zhao, who thanked him and put the cigarette between his ears.
"It's almost done. I was planning to notify you tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to come today. Let's go to my office and talk." Lao Zhao called Guo Tao, and the two left the rumbling workshop and came to the office located in another part of the factory.
After entering the office, Lao Zhao poured Guo Tao a glass of water, then took the cigarette from his ear and lit it. Guo Tao also lit one.
"Here, take a look at it." Old Zhao walked to a filing cabinet nearby, opened it, took out a folded brochure and handed it to Guo Tao, who took it and looked at it carefully.
This is a brochure about hardware products. The brochure uses coated paper and is printed in color, which makes it look very bright and colorful. The brochure not only contains Chinese and data, but also English translations. The entire brochure is folded in three places. It is a small booklet when not unfolded, and a large piece of paper when unfolded.
Guo Tao looked at it carefully, and after a moment he nodded with satisfaction: "The work is good, can it all be completed today?"
"Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, everything can be completed before leaving get off work." Lao Zhao answered easily.
Guo Tao took out an envelope from his pocket, put it on the table and pushed it over: "This is the final payment, please count it."
"Haha, Mr. Guo is a particular person!" Old Zhao smiled immediately when he saw the money. He said that Guo Tao was trustworthy and didn't need to count it, but his hands were not idle. He quickly opened the envelope and took out a stack of big unity banknotes from it. He counted it quickly with a few fingers and put the money back with a smile.
He opened the drawer and took out a receipt. Lao Zhao wrote the amount on the receipt, signed and stamped it, and handed it to Guo Tao: "Mr. Guo, here's the receipt. By the way, when the goods are ready, should they be mailed directly to the address you gave me before?"
"Yes, that's right!" Guo Tao replied, then thought about it and asked Lao Zhao to give him a few brochures to take with him first, and mail the rest. At the same time, he reminded Lao Zhao to send them out tomorrow, as he was very pressed for time and must not delay.
