Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 236 Finally Arriving at the Red Maple Ceramics Factory

As the car moved faster, the rain gradually intensified, and even Li Feng could clearly hear the raindrops hitting the car window.

The car drove along the muddy road, making Li Feng feel a little dizzy.

The road from Fuliang to Jingdezhen is actually not easy to travel.

Jingdezhen is located south of Fuliang. Geographically speaking, Fuliang's location is definitely better than Jingdezhen's; otherwise, a fifth-rank county government office would not have existed in ancient times.

In ancient times, Jingdezhen was under the jurisdiction of Fuliang.

Then, at this point in time, it's the other way around.

Li Feng didn't know the specific reasons, after all, he wasn't a history major, and he didn't know the specific changes either.

But the only thing Li Feng knew was that Jiangxi Province had four small cities due to reasons such as mineral resources.

The term "four small cities" refers to places that were suddenly upgraded from the jurisdiction of a county or city to prefecture-level cities.

Although the term "local special district" still existed in this era, it was essentially the same as that of a prefecture-level city.

Jingdezhen is in this situation now.

While in the car, Director Wang asked Li Feng about his life. Li Feng had nothing to hide, so he told Director Wang directly.

Then Director Wang began to ask Li Feng about the project. Actually, there were no secrets about the project, but Li Feng didn't say anything specific. He just briefly described some of the processes and didn't say anything else.

Moreover, with Deputy Director Zhu sitting right next to him, Li Feng wouldn't say anything carelessly at this time.

It would be bad if I said something wrong and upset Deputy Factory Director Zhu.

After all, Deputy Factory Director Zhu was practically Li Feng's boss's boss.

At this moment, Deputy Factory Director Zhu was very satisfied with Li Feng's demeanor, at least he was proper and measured in front of Factory Director Wang.

In this way, Deputy Factory Director Zhu will also have face in front of Factory Director Wang.

In terms of rank, Deputy Director Zhu and Director Wang are at the same level. However, Wuxing Ceramics Factory is a state-owned enterprise at the deputy provincial level, while Hongfeng Ceramics Factory is a provincial-level state-owned enterprise at the division level.

Although the ministry and the province are at the same level, the standards they set for the enterprises under them are different.

Just like state-owned enterprises under ministries, there are deputy ministerial level, department-level, and of course, deputy department-level and division-level positions.

The same applies to provincial state-owned enterprises.

This is based on the above standards. If a company wants to upgrade its level, it will have to make a lot of effort, such as expanding its scale, increasing export profits, or other reasons.

But the highest level will definitely not exceed the ministry level.

Next

After navigating a muddy road, Li Feng and his group finally arrived in the city by car. The Hongfeng Ceramics Factory was built on the banks of the Changjiang River, with a road in front of the factory.

On the other side of the road is a river.

When Li Feng entered the factory area by car, he saw huge factory buildings and chimneys.

In terms of scale, it is definitely larger than the Five Star Ceramics Factory, but its level is not as high.

However, after seeing the scale of the ceramics factory here, Li Feng couldn't help but sigh in amazement!
As expected of one of the birthplaces of ceramics, the ceramics industry is very developed. Although Wuxing Ceramics Factory is located in the Beijing area, it is considered a very famous ceramics factory.

However, it is still slightly inferior to the ceramics factories here.

At this moment, it wasn't just Li Feng who had this feeling; even the other apprentices and first-level workers in the ceramics factory sighed in admiration upon seeing this scene.

After all, the scale here is indeed much larger than that of the ceramic factories in Beijing.

最后

The two cars stopped in front of a five-story dormitory building.

Subsequently
Li Feng got off the car with Factory Director Wang and Deputy Factory Director Zhu.

The others got off the military trucks one by one.

Before long, several staff members from Hongfeng Ceramics Factory quickly approached Director Wang and bowed to him, offering their respectful greetings.

"Factory Manager!"

Factory Director Wang nodded slightly to the group, and then he instructed several staff members to settle the trainees who had come from Beijing.

The staff members quickly nodded in agreement.

Subsequently
Factory Director Wang said to Deputy Factory Director Zhu with a smile.

"Director Zhu, please put your luggage down first. I'll come back at noon to welcome you back. I have some left now, so I'll go take care of it."

Upon hearing this, Deputy Factory Director Zhu nodded to Factory Director Wang.

"OK!".

"You go first."

Seeing this, Director Wang nodded to Deputy Director Zhu and then left in his car.

Li Feng and the others then entered the dormitory under the guidance of several staff members.

Li Feng and the others were assigned to the third room on the second floor.

That is, 203.

Room 203 is a standard five-person room, meaning that Li Feng, Zhou Jianjun, Wang Liu, Zhang Jiefang, and Jiang Fei were assigned to one room.

As for the others, they will naturally be accommodated in a standard five-person room.

The extra person was assigned to share a room with the local factory workers.

After all, a private room doesn't exist here.

Only Deputy Factory Director Zhu was entitled to a two-person room; he lived with Commissioner Zhou.

After all, this way, Deputy Factory Director Zhu can provide guidance to Commissioner Zhou at any time.

Commissioner Zhou can also report his work to Deputy Factory Director Zhu at any time.

Being close to the leader like this will make it easier to get promoted in the future.

Although he couldn't make decisions from a high position, Deputy Factory Director Zhu still had some say in the appointment of grassroots cadres.

After all, he was already the deputy factory director. Although there were several deputy factory directors in the factory, he was still a factory leader and part of the leadership team.

As for whether Commissioner Zhou will get closer to Deputy Factory Director Zhu, that's his own business.

Anyway, Li Feng is still too far from this floor.

After Li Feng and his group entered the dormitory, Li Feng looked at the beds in front of him. There were two bunk beds and one single bed.

In terms of separate beds, Li Feng's dormitory room was basically assigned according to his length of service.

Among them, Brother Wang has the longest tenure, followed by Zhang Jiefang and Jiang Fei, while Zhou Jianjun and Li Feng have the shortest tenure.

However, Zhang Jiefang gave the lower bunk to Li Feng, saying that it was a matter of good manners.

Li Feng, of course, didn't stand on ceremony, since the lower bunk was definitely more comfortable to sleep in than the upper bunk.

It's also very convenient for getting up at night.

Therefore, Li Feng was quite grateful to Zhang Jiefang, and he couldn't help but smile and thank Zhang Jiefang.

"Bro! Thanks."

Zhang Jiefang then smiled and said to Li Feng.

"If you become the leader of the new color team in the future, then you can assign me some easy tasks."

When Jiang Fei heard Zhang Jiefang's plan, he immediately shouted at Zhang Jiefang.

"Is it still possible to do this?"

"You're so shameless."

As soon as Jiang Fei finished speaking, he immediately turned to Li Feng and smiled.

"Li Feng, why don't you switch with me? My requirements aren't as high as Zhang Jiefang's."

"From now on, just give me half of the easy tasks."

"Unlike Zhang Jiefang, who was so greedy."

Li Feng felt somewhat helpless after hearing what the two were saying.

However, he still explained to the two of them.

"The idea of ​​me becoming the head of the new color group is still far from being realized."

"Moreover, before that, Deputy Factory Director Zhu said he intended to make me the leader of the light color painting group."

"The position of leader of the new color group may not fall to me."

After hearing Li Feng's explanation, Zhang Jiefang immediately shook his head at Li Feng and said, "In our new lottery team, who doesn't know that you're someone Master Deng approves of?"

"From now on, you will definitely be the leader of our new color team."

"And as you know, the other two masters in our new color team basically don't get involved."

Upon hearing this, Li Feng couldn't help but sigh.

"If you agree, there's no problem."

"But as you know, Shinsai basically relies on colors to create its designs."

"In many cases, lines serve the purpose of fixing the line."

"Actually, as long as you master color theory, learning new colors isn't that difficult."

Wang Liu and Zhou Jianjun were both stunned to see Li Feng being so fawned over by Zhang Jiefang and Jiang Fei.

Although they knew that Li Feng might become the leader of the New Color Group, but it was more likely that he would become the leader of the Light Color Group, they were just too good at coaxing him.
After thinking about it, the two realized that it wasn't a big deal to fawn over someone for a paycheck, since nobody hates money.

If you can do something that will support you, you can earn more money.

However, Wang Liu and Zhou Jianjun were somewhat envious of this, since Li Feng was genuinely helpful.

But they didn't dare ask Master Wang to do simple tasks.

If they go and ask, they might get scolded by Master Wang.

Next

After Li Feng and the others made up the beds.

The rest is much simpler; all we have to do is wait for dinner.

At this moment, Li Feng didn't know what he would be eating next. What if it was spicy food again, like in Hongdu? That would be bad.

After all, for people like them who can't handle spicy food, eating the food here is a bittersweet experience.

Next up was the welcome banquet.

In reality, what was called a banquet was just a few extra dishes added to the cafeteria.

The food here is actually not as good as in the capital.

At this moment, Li Feng couldn't help but guess that it was probably because of the relative scarcity of resources here.

Although the capital city does not produce resources, it is a capital city with a high concentration of resources; these are two completely different concepts.

Although the food at the welcoming banquet wasn't as good as in the capital, it was still the best meal Li Feng had eaten since coming to this place.

At least it's not spicy.

Li Feng believes that this might be to cater to the tastes of northerners; otherwise, it would definitely be spicy.

Li Feng believed that most people in this region ate spicy food, and Jingdezhen was no exception.

It doesn't matter, as long as the food is edible, it's fine. I'm here for further studies anyway.

After finishing their meal, Deputy Factory Director Zhu announced that they would have half a day off today and would begin training at the factory tomorrow.

Since he had the afternoon off, Li Feng felt he should let Ding Qiunan know he was safe.

After all, it took me almost a week to travel by car and transfer.

Fortunately, this month of study time is genuine learning time; the time spent transferring trains and staying in hotels outside the area is not counted.

After announcing the disbandment, Li Feng told Wang Liu, Zhang Jiefang, and others that he was going to make a phone call.

As for them, they said they didn't need to make a phone call.

In the end, only Li Feng made the call.

Regarding the phone call, Li Feng first went to see Commissioner Zhou.

After learning that Li Feng was going to make a phone call, Commissioner Zhou immediately spoke to Li Feng.

"Perfect!"

"I'm going too later. Their liaison office called, let's go together."

"Making a call outside will cost you a lot of money!"

"Go to the liaison office and make a call; it's free."

After hearing from Commissioner Zhou that the phone call was free, Li Feng immediately said that he must contact Commissioner Zhou to handle the matter.

After all, who doesn't like free things?

Moreover, phone bills were very expensive in this era.

It's not something an ordinary person can afford to fight.

Therefore, in this era, most people communicate long distances by writing letters.

Next

After Li Feng followed Commissioner Zhou to the liaison office, he found that there weren't many people there at the time.

At this moment, Li Feng quickly asked Commissioner Zhou this question, and then Commissioner Zhou began to explain to Li Feng.

“The external liaison office of Hongfeng Ceramics Factory doesn’t have many people to begin with.”

"Moreover, this external liaison office currently only handles some orders related to the ceramics factory; the sales department handles the rest."

"So they are idle most of the time."

"Look!"

"There are two empty seats over there. You can just pick up the phone and make the call later."

"I need to go and coordinate some work with the factory now. You can make the calls first."

At this moment, Li Feng quickly thanked Commissioner Zhou.

"Thank you, Commissioner Zhou."

Next

Li Feng started calling Ding Qiunan.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Li Feng finally got through to Ding Qiunan on the phone.

At that moment, Ding Qiunan was overjoyed to hear Li Feng's call.

After all, more than a week has passed, and they still haven't seen anyone.

So she quickly answered Li Feng's call.

After Li Feng finished letting her know he was safe, she couldn't help but frown.

Finally, she couldn't help but utter a sentence.

"So, you've been away for a week and you still haven't started your studies?"

Li Feng quickly explained to Ding Qiunan.

"That's exactly what happened, but it did take that much time on the road."

You might not believe it, but it's true.

"I only arrived today, and my first day of training will begin tomorrow."

"This trip has given me a glimpse into the local customs and culture."

"That's right!"

"How have you been lately?"

"well enough".

At this moment, Li Feng showed a rare moment of concern for Ding Qiunan.

After all, it was only natural for Li Feng to care about her since he hadn't seen her for so many days.

When Ding Qiunan heard Li Feng's words of concern, her initially cold tone softened.

So she answered Li Feng at that moment.

"I've been so annoyed these past few days."

"There's so much to learn in medicine; Director Liu gave me a lecture."

At this moment, Li Feng immediately began to encourage Ding Qiunan.

Li Feng knew that this would definitely make Ding Qiunan feel better.

(End of this chapter)