Back to the Republic of China to open a department store

The customer flow of years ago basically ended in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. In order to reward everyone for their hard work in the past few months, the Luo family brothers hosted a banquet for all department store employees and Luo’s business in the Cantonese restaurant on the fifth floor of their house after the business closed on the 28th The employees held a grand "end teeth banquet".

The climax of the end-to-end banquet was that the Luo family brothers personally handed out year-end red envelopes to every employee.From the senior manager to the big class, down to the sweeping aunt and the doorman, everyone received a heavy red envelope from the two brothers, and they were very excited for a while.

Feeling the red envelopes, thinking about the nearly two years of hard work since the establishment of the department store, there was a moment of joy and sorrow, and many people on the spot shed tears of excitement.

This can also be regarded as the first entrepreneurial activity for a newcomer after "graduating from college" in the previous life, although it was achieved with the first pot of gold given by "cheap dad" and the full support of "genuine (non-decent) dad" , but no matter how you think about it, the Long March has come out first.Luo Xiazhi also couldn't hide his excitement. Under the influence of alcohol, he hugged his head with several secretaries and managers and cried loudly.

"Next year, next year..."

Luo Xiazhi was lying on the table, holding a wine glass in his hand, looking at the happy salesgirls at the table next to him, and said firmly: "At the end of next year, the red envelopes must be doubled!"

There are not only red envelopes, but also lucky draws!The first prize is at least one "little yellow croaker"!

Also, they have so many famous Yue opera actors ready-made, why don't they hold a theatrical performance?

At that time, reporters from several major newspapers in Shanghai will be invited to report and show them what is called "new fashion of team building". Look fresh.

On the 29th of the year, according to the Shanghai tradition, every family worships their ancestors, commonly known as "Little New Year's Eve". On this night, they will go to the ancestral hall to offer incense and worship, and the Luo family is no exception.

So that afternoon, the department store closed its business half a day early, and the employees returned to their hometowns with generous red envelopes and a year's savings, and agreed to meet again when the market opened on the fifth day of the next year.

Under the leadership of Luo Yunze, the men and women of the Luo family burned incense and kowtowed to their ancestors in the small ancestral hall behind the Luo mansion.

Looking at Luo Zhenhua's ranking above, and seeing Luo Yunze and Bai Fenghuang with expressionless faces out of the corner of his eye, Luo Xiazhi pursed his lips, but kowtowed harder and harder.

Logically speaking, as the eldest son who inherited the family business, Luo Yunze should go home to worship his ancestors, but at the beginning of the year there were still many social activities in the Shanghai business circle, so Luo Xiazhi had to go back to his hometown in Shaoxing with a smile.

After getting acquainted with the great achievements of the Luo family in Shaoxing, the estates and houses, and other wives and cousins ​​of Luo Zhenhua, Luo Xiazhi brought back not only a large number of local products, but also more than a dozen young Luo family members on his return trip—— They either wanted to come to Shanghai to "see the world", or they wanted to find a job in the Luo family's company because they had no land to cultivate.

In view of the fact that the future development of the department store will definitely require a lot of manpower, after confirming that they are innocent and have no bad habits, Luo Xiazhi brought them all back to Shanghai and placed them in the staff dormitory temporarily.

Just as Rorschach predicted, department stores fell into a long off-season at the beginning of the year.In this era of semi-agricultural society, even after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the passenger flow has not recovered to half of its original level, and merchants in the north are basically hard to find.

The entire Shanghai Bund fell into a lazy atmosphere, even the lace tabloids that followed the famous actors and actresses showed a weak trend, and there was no special "eye-catching" news.

At this time, a job advertisement appeared on a certain advertising page of "Shenbao", and next to the job advertisement, it was an advertisement for the opening of an evening school.

"Shimai Department Store is hiring again."

In a certain tea house, the "Dr. Bao" who was reading a newspaper for everyone squinted his eyes and looked at the recruitment notice.

"Shimai Department Store will expand its scale this year, and also recruit a large number of salespersons, as well as managers at all levels, both male and female, with favorable treatment. Recruitment is perennial, welcome to send resumes."

"Hey, Zhang, isn't your daughter graduating from middle school this year? Do you want to consider working as a female salesperson in Shimai Company? I heard that the salary is high and the tips are a lot!"

"It's more than that. Didn't you see that the charity school for girls opened by Luo's family is also recruiting people? People said that there is a large demand for female teachers and female nurses. You can apply for jobs after you graduate from middle school!"

"Yeah, I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about it."

The old man called Lao Zhang nodded triumphantly.

When he wanted to send his daughter to middle school, he was ridiculed by the neighbors, saying that girls can read two words after finishing elementary school, and it’s fine if they don’t have to be blind. Why waste this money, wouldn’t it be better to marry early?

I didn't expect it now, girls are now more than just married!Not only can you work in a department store, but you can also go to a girls' school to teach and take care of children!

The third young master of the Luo family has always been famous for his generosity.Working under his family's property has both face and benefits. After three to five years, you can save a lot to continue. If you really talk about marriage by then, you will have something to talk about in front of the matchmaker.

"What is this night school... Hey, isn't this address Nanyang Boys' High School? They are going to open a night school?"

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"If the night school can be opened smoothly this time, then I really want to thank Brother Gu."

Coming out of the Gu family's mansion, Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin walked side by side in Hongkou Park—this is the famous Shanghai Lu Xun Park in later generations.

"The evening school has really been able to operate smoothly. It is a very good income for our school and the teachers of the school. I should be the one thanking you, Xia Zhi."

What Gu Hanlin said was absolutely correct.

The evening school plan planned years ago was implemented under the leadership of Gu Hanlin the next year.

The first phase of this adult night school is tentatively scheduled to be all employees of Shimai Department Store. According to the implementation situation, it will be decided whether to recruit students from the public from the second phase.

The start-up fund for the evening school is contributed by HR Department of Shimai Department Store.For this reason, Luo Xiazhi deliberately recruited a few employees from the personnel department and set up a "staff training department" to deal with the training, training and assessment of Shimai employees full-time in the future, which can be regarded as his first step in promoting modern personnel management.

At present, in view of the actual situation of the employees of Shimai Department Store, the evening school has temporarily opened three programs: Mandarin, Abacus and English, which are set up after get off work every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, and the venue is in the classroom of Nanyang Boys’ High School.

The plastic Mandarin of the Shanghainese will be "famous" in a hundred years, not to mention the fact that Mandarin has not been implemented 100 years ago.For this reason, the school specially sent a lecturer from Peking to give them surprise training, so that they could speak and understand Beijing dialect correctly in the shortest possible time.

Abacus and English make many students daunted.

In this regard, the attitude of Shimai Department Store is: except for the Mandarin class, all students are not forced to participate in the training.However, starting from this year, employee assessments will be conducted in June and December every year, and the assessment content will only include one item: sales.

Those who achieve sales will be promoted according to the situation, and those who fail to achieve sales may be eliminated at the end.

As soon as this notice came out, many employees who felt that it was nothing to do without classes also felt a sense of crisis, and joined the army of studying and studying one after another—besides, tuition fees are completely free, and there is a free supper provided by the staff dormitory after class At night, there is really no reason not to go to school.

So after several rounds of mobilization a few years ago, basically all the young employees of Shimai Department Store signed up for the course, at least one course and at most three courses.

According to the secretary Zheng Jiesen's report, in addition to the grassroots employees, there are also many veteran managers who are also actively signing up.What made him even more happy was that all the girls in the "Xiantao Class" had signed up!

It is said that after this job recruitment notice was published, many women also came to apply.In addition to the salesperson, there were also people who applied to be managers, and even female college students and female students who had studied abroad came to deliver their resumes, which greatly surprised Luo Xiazhi.

"Thanks to Xia Zhi, you prepaid the classroom rental fee and class fees to us in advance, and taught our school to have a good year."

Speaking of this school, it is really a Qingshui Yamen. The current situation is not good, and the Ministry of Education has not given them any funding at the end of the year. It is considered good if they can pay their salaries in full.For them, Luo Xiazhi's sum was really a "send in a pinch" and solved their urgent need.

Flipping through the big red envelopes in his hand, Luo Xiazhi looked at Gu Hanlin suspiciously, "Is your father okay? Even the red envelopes for your own nephews don't need to be so big."

He brought a gift to Mr. Gu to pay New Year's greetings just now, and he also counted the etiquette of the younger generation. Who knew that the old man would give him such a big red envelope as soon as he got started. Living expenses for two months.

Not only Mr. Gu, but also the aunt of the Gu family took his hand and handed him a huge red envelope, smiling so much that he once again wondered if she meant anything to him...

"Isn't this... treating you as my 'daughter-in-law'?"

Gu Hanlin touched his nose, lowered his head and said.

"what?!"

After hearing this, Luo Xiazhi took a step back in fright.

"Did you tell the family?"

"I told you..."

"I haven't agreed yet, why do you say that!"

Luo Xiazhi was completely out of breath. No wonder the group of Gu's family smiled at him ambiguously just now. He thought it was a polite gesture, but it turned out...unexpectedly, unexpectedly...

"I like you, and it has nothing to do with whether you agree or not. I just told them that I like you, and they understand it. It's okay. It's up to you to continue thinking about it. You think about it, don't worry about it." I."

Gu Hanlin's statement like this is very shameless.

But in order to catch people, you have to be shameless.This is better than watching him go on a blind date step by step, get married, and have children.

Gu Hanlin considers himself not a gentleman, so of course he does not pursue any "way of a gentleman".

"You, you... bastard!"

Rorschach hopped his feet angrily, he looked around, there was nothing in the snow-fallen park.So he gathered a ball of snow at his feet, and threw it on Gu Hanlin's head with all his strength.

"I'll kill you bastard!"

Not far away, Ah Le was squatting by the tree, watching Luo Xiazhi and Gu Hanlin throwing snowballs happily, stamping his frozen feet enviously.

"Young Master and Principal Gu are really children at heart!"

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"Big bastard..."

Lying on the bed, looking at the curtains hanging from the ceiling, Luo Xiazhi gritted his teeth, his anger still lingering.

However, as Gu Hanlin said, he was really "considering carefully".

Knowing that it is basically impossible for him to return to the original world, how to integrate into this world, this question has always troubled Luo Xiazhi.

Sometimes, standing alone by the fence on the seventh floor of a department store, looking at the counters downstairs and the flow of people, listening to these people talking, watching these people with civilized sticks and old-fashioned cheongsam coming and going around him, It made him feel a sense of detachment.

It's like the feeling of going to Chedun Shanghai Film City in Songjiang with my classmates during the summer vacation in the "previous life" and watching the crew filming from the sidelines.

Very unreal.

Both lonely and confused, like a bystander who has to participate in the plot.

Especially when facing the Luo family, this feeling is even worse.

With such a mood, is it really possible to marry a wife and have children like ordinary people?

Just like what Bai Fenghuang expected, to find a so-called "lady from a famous family", live a life of a so-called "normal person", and completely integrate into this world...

Luo Xiazhi shook his head, upset for a while.

He considers himself a straight man, and has had one or two girlfriends in his "last life".However, there are also friends with special sexual orientation around me, so after being confessed by Gu Hanlin, there is no resentment.

It can even be said that after coming to this world, Gu Hanlin is the only person who can have a collision with him in thought!

His broad mind and precise and open understanding of the current situation and the world make Rorschach deeply impressed and become his confidant after each in-depth conversation.

The most rare thing is that Luo Xiazhi looks at all this from the perspective of a hundred years later, while Gu Hanlin is a "modern person" today!

"It's enough to be a 'friend', what's the 'base'!"

Luo Xiazhi hugged the pillow and cursed.

The author has something to say: Shanghai’s New Year’s Eve is quite special.

Generally speaking, Xiaonian is 23 in the north and 24 in the south.Shanghai will also worship the stove on the 24th, but the ancestor worship is usually on the 29th.

The mention of "Small New Year's Eve" in Shanghai refers to the 29th year of the ancestor worship, not the 24th year of the stove.

In addition, setting up an evening school for employees is also a pioneering work of Xianshi Department Store!

Tomorrow's preview of "Collaboration to Build a Factory" will be deeply missed by everyone (not yet). Young Master Liang, who has not appeared for a long time, is coming back hahaha