The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhangjiagang is not a big city, but it is the cleanest city that Zhang Chen and He Hongmei have ever seen. Zhang Chen always thought that Haicheng was clean, but Zhangjiagang was even cleaner than Haicheng.

During the meal, I chatted with the restaurant owner. The boss told them with some pride that of course, our Zhangjiagang has been a national civilized city and a patriotic and hygienic advanced city every year.

A diner at a table nearby interrupted and said that the whole country is now learning from Zhangjiagang, and we came from Changzhi, Shanxi Province to visit and learn from their experience in building a civilized city.

Zhang Chen thought that the Mr. Li who talked to him on the phone yesterday had a particularly good attitude. Could it be related to the fact that this is a civilized city?

After eating, Zhang Chen asked the boss where they wanted to go. The boss took a piece of paper and drew it carefully for them. He told them that the map was not accurate. Zhangjiagang was changing so fast now that it would change in a few months. In this way, if you follow the map, you won't be able to get there.

Zhang Chen and the others took the drawing drawn by their boss and drove for twenty minutes before arriving at the industrial development zone located on the south bank of the Yangtze River. After arriving at the development zone, they found the Sino-foreign joint venture Zhangjiagang Sancai Weaving Co., Ltd. The company is easy to find.

There are camphor trees on both sides of the road in the development zone. It was lunch break when they arrived at the door of the company. They drove the car into the yard and parked it under the shade of a tree. The size of this company was larger than the one they went to in the morning. It is several times bigger. There is a small river running across the factory area. On one side of the river is an office building, in the middle is a parking lot, and on the opposite side is a two-story house.

Crossing a bridge, there are three rows of identical production workshops.

Zhang Chen and He Hongmei walked into the office building. Every office inside was closed. They found the sales department on the first floor. They hadn't gone to work yet. They returned to the car, put down the seats, and simply sat in the car. Take a nap.

When Zhang Chen woke up, it was almost three o'clock. Looking at He Hongmei next to him, she was still sleeping soundly. Zhang Chen quickly woke her up. The two of them went to the sales department and found Mr. Li. Mr. Li was actually a junior Li, who is about the same age as He Hongmei, smiled when he saw them and told them, I thought you wouldn't come.

Zhang Chen hurriedly said, let's come ahead. You haven't gone to work yet. You came out early in the morning, so we slept in the car.

Zhang Chen felt that when the other party heard that he was driving here, he immediately paid attention to them and no longer regarded them as the kind of people who cheated on them all the way. It seemed that He Hongmei really did the right thing by driving here.

Xiao Li introduced them to them and said that their products are mainly exported, but if there are orders domestically, they will also make them. Now, flax, especially ramie, is China’s national treasure. Our output accounts for 90% of the world’s production. As mentioned above, foreigners call ramie Chinese grass. Ramie fabric has become particularly popular abroad in recent years, but it seems to be rarely used in China.

"You are very discerning." Xiao Li looked at them and said, "The clothes made of ramie are very beautiful, especially the ones made of yarn-dyed fabrics, which are much more high-end than cotton."

Zhang Chen and He Hongmei looked at each other. When they heard the word yarn-dyed cloth from Xiao Li's mouth, both of them felt uncontrollably excited.

"Does your company have yarn-dyed fabrics?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Of course, I'm not bragging. Let me tell you that in the field of linen fabrics, we can be said to be the strongest in the country. We do everything from dyeing to weaving to post-processing ourselves. Let's go, I'll take you. You guys go and take a look.”

Xiao Li took them out of the office building, crossed the bridge, and arrived at the production area. He led them into the first workshop. Zhang Chen and the others saw that the more than two thousand square meters of workshop were all the ones they had seen in the morning. Rapier loom.

Xiao Li told them that this is a rapier loom workshop, specializing in the production of fabrics with thicker yarn counts, harder and thicker feel.

Xiao Li then took them to the second workshop. Zhang Chen saw that the equipment here was different from the previous ones. Xiao Li told them that this was an air-jet loom workshop.

"Are the products produced by these two types of equipment different?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.

"That's for sure. In terms of the equipment itself, the air-jet loom is faster, with a 190cm reed air jet of 600 revolutions and a rapier of 400 revolutions." Xiao Li said.

These are all professional terms, such as 600 to 400 turns and reed width. Zhang Chen only had a vague understanding of what he said, but Zhang Chen completely understood what Xiao Li said next. Xiao Li said:

“If it’s high count and high density, rapier looms can’t make it, so we can only use air-jet looms. The linen and ramie fabrics we make with air-jet looms can be used as down jacket fabrics, and the down will not escape. , you will know this later when you see the finished product."

Zhang Chen and He Hongmei nodded repeatedly. After Xiao Li said this, they became even more excited about the products they were about to see.

The third building is divided into inspection, shaping and finishing workshops. The innermost one is their sand washing and water washing workshop.

Xiao Li led them forward, crossed the bridge, and walked to the two-story building opposite the office building. The door on the first floor was closed, and there was a "No Visitors" sign at the door.

Xiao Li told them that this is our yarn dyeing, winding, warping and sizing workshop. Our yarns are all dyed by ourselves. I'm sorry, I can't take you in to visit here.

Xiao Li led them from the side stairs to the second floor and walked in. Zhang Chen and He Hongmei took a breath. They saw that the entire hall of more than 1,000 square meters was lined with rows of iron shelves. On each iron shelf, there are rolls of rolled fabrics arranged layer by layer, colorful and dazzling.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have known that linen and ramie could be so colorful. Is this still linen? But they are indeed linen, and you can tell from the texture and feel of the fabric.

"This is the surplus we have after completing orders over the years. I don't know what you need." Xiao Li said.

"Can we buy these fabrics as samples?" He Hongmei asked.

"certainly."

"Then we have run out of sample fabric and need to place an order. What should we do?" Zhang Chen asked.

"The minimum order is 20,000 meters. The fabrics you buy from us have serial numbers on the labels. You just need to tell us the serial numbers. When the production tasks are not very tight like now, large quantities will be ready in about a week. You can come out now.”

Zhang Chen shouted in his heart, great. Zhang Chen and He Hongmei looked at each other and laughed.

"Then you choose it yourself, record the number, and give it to me later, and I'll ask them to get it for you."

Xiao Li handed Zhang Chen a folder with paper and a ballpoint pen on it.

Xiao Li walked away to chat with the people in the warehouse. Zhang Chen and He Hongmei looked at the rows of shelves. The fabrics here were of different sizes and thicknesses, but each roll was about forty meters long, with a transparent cover on the outside. The plastic film is well packaged. Under each fabric, there is a piece of paper on the shelf with the fabric number on it.

Zhang Chen thought to himself that Wang Hainiao and others might have been to this company, but in this company, all their fabrics would not be treated as garbage. They should not be able to reach an agreement. Zhang Chen felt that this place was different from Cai Jinxiang's. The stall, the smell is somewhat in tune.

Zhang Chen and He Hongmei were walking in rows among the shelves. They had to speed up. It was almost four o'clock. This warehouse could take a whole day if they selected carefully. Today, it seemed that they could only choose urgently needed fabrics first. , it doesn’t matter, anyway, they have already determined in their hearts that they will definitely come again.

They quickly picked out more than twenty kinds of fabrics, some with one tube, some with two or three tubes, all for color matching. As for the main fabric, Zhang Chen liked an indigo color. At first glance, It looked like denim. Zhang Chen secretly tore open the outer plastic film a little, pulled out a corner of the fabric, and touched it with his hands. The fabric felt very good, very thin and light, and the yarn count was very fine.

"How about using this to make cotton-padded clothes?"

Zhang Chen asked He Hongmei, and He Hongmei nodded and said yes. After it is done, the garments will be sand washed and they will definitely look beautiful. I said that what I saw in my teacher's shop seemed to be this kind of fabric.

In addition to indigo, this fabric also comes in other colors, even bright red and emerald green. It seems that this is also their regular fabric here. Probably many customers have placed orders, and there is a lot left over from each order.

They saw that this fabric was more numerous than other fabrics. Each color occupied an iron shelf, and there were always thirty or forty tubes. Zhang Chen wrote down on the paper that the indigo one required twenty tubes, and the other ones required twenty tubes. Ten tubes.

Zhang Chen and He Hongmei walked to the door. Xiao Li saw them and asked: "Have you chosen?"

Zhang Chen agreed. There are so many fabrics here that it’s hard to pick out. I’ll just pick these today and come earlier next time.

Xiao Li said yes, welcome.

Xiao Li handed the folder to a girl. The girl took out a price list from the drawer, compared it, wrote the price behind each one, and handed the folder back to Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen looked at the price and found the cheapest. The one they picked was indigo, which cost 8.5 yuan per meter, and the others were between 9.5 and 15.5 yuan.

It seems that the fabrics of this company are not cheap. The sample fabrics they picked up in Jiangyin in the morning were 1.5 meters wide and cost 5.8 yuan. But Zhang Chen felt that the fabrics here were worth the price.

"How are you doing? Do you want to take it?" Xiao Li asked Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen nodded and said yes.

The girl took the clip from Zhang Chen's hand and told the two male workers to move it out.

Two male workers pushed a flatbed cart and disappeared among the rows of iron racks. When they appeared again, there were tubes of fabrics piled on the flatbed cart. They piled the fabrics in front of Zhang Chen and the others, and then pushed the empty cart. , disappearing between the iron frames.

Xiao Li looked at the indigo fabric and told Zhang Chen that this fabric was woven with an air-jet loom and could not be made with a rapier loom.

Zhang Chen asked Xiao Li: "If we order these goods, the price will be..."

"It's very simple, just remove the zero and a half at the end."

Zhang Chen smiled and nodded, and then asked: "We can only take a little of our own car with us. Can you help us check in the rest?"

He couldn't wait to return to Hangzhou in the evening and was about to start proofing. He had told Lao Wan yesterday that he would go to the stall next to Wang Hainiao today and bring back four rolls of elastic cotton.

"Okay, just give us your address."

Xiao Li said and looked at his watch. It was almost time to get off work. He told the girl to make a call and ask the accountant to wait. The customer would have to settle the bill later.

Two male workers pulled out all the goods Zhang Chen and the others needed. The girl took a clip and reported the name and quantity of an item. The two male workers took out the fabrics she reported. Xiao Li and Zhang Chen said , let them put aside what you want to take away.

The two male workers piled up the other fabrics in layers in the open space next to them, forming a square stack.

He Hongmei and the girl counted them together. There were one hundred and fifty-three tubes of fabric in total.

Xiao Li asked two male workers to load a dozen tubes of fabrics picked out by Zhang Chen onto a flatbed truck and deliver them to the parking lot downstairs.

When they arrived at the parking lot, Zhang Chen followed Xiao Li into the office building to check out. He Hongmei directed the two male workers to load the fabrics into the back seats.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Li went to the financial room to settle the accounts and came out. He Hongmei and the others had also installed their bags here. Xiao Li looked at his watch and told them that it was time to eat. How about going to our cafeteria and having a simple meal?

Zhang Chen quickly said, thank you, thank you, we'd better eat on the way, it's important to be in a hurry.

"Okay, then I wish you a safe journey, drive slowly on the road and pay attention to safety."

When Xiao Li said this, Zhang Chen laughed. He thought, it is impossible to slow down. If it is not safe, just leave it to fate.

He Hongmei stood by and knew why he was laughing, so she hit him.

After starting the car, He Hongmei became excited and shouted happily: "Haha, it's stable now, that Audi, come back if you have the guts."

They had dinner on the road. When they were about to arrive in Hangzhou, it was already past nine o'clock. The BB machine in Zhang Chen's waist kept ringing. Zhang Chen looked at it and saw that it was the factory number. He said that the factory kept ringing What am I doing?

"What else will she do? It must be my sister. Seeing as we haven't arrived home yet, we should be worried."

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