Du Juan is not a bad person. Firstly, she sympathizes with the difficulties of several female workers, and secondly, because they are skilled workers.
Skilled workers are the treasures of the factory. The fabrics they weave rarely have defective products and they can earn money for the factory. Of course, they must be well protected and not fired at every turn.
Manager Sheng Yihe also told Sheng Di about this. After hearing this, Sheng Di just said: Well, it's not very good.
Du Juan starts from the bottom of the workshop and goes deep into every link of the factory. Once he discovers any shortcomings, he immediately requires rectification.
She actually doesn’t understand factory management, but if she practices many things with determination, she will understand that the most important thing in management is responsibility.
Perhaps Du Juan herself didn't realize that she was fully managing the factory, although this was Lu Ming's original intention in letting her go to the spinning factory.
For Dujuan, she has to take care of things that she can't stand. She especially cares about every aspect of the work and life of the female workers, and feels that these female workers are her sisters.
Some of them were locals in Shanghai, and many were recruited from rural areas. Almost all of them were sold to the factory.
Looking at these female workers, Du Juan often thinks that if she had not been sold by her parents and grown up in her hometown, she might have come to Shanghai to work as a textile worker. A job means independence for a woman.
Du Juan sympathizes with all the difficulties and toil of the female workers, and does everything possible to make their work easier and their food better.
She took the initiative to call Sheng Di and asked the factory to give the female workers half a day off every week so that they could wash their clothes, go shopping, and have their own living space like a normal woman.
Sheng Di pinched his nose and agreed.
After agreeing, Sheng Di felt something was wrong, so he called Sheng Youde and reported what Du Juan had done.
Sheng Youde laughed after hearing this: "According to what you said, this little girl has quite an idea. I don't expect the spinning factory to make any money. Just don't close it for me. It used to be lifeless, but now it seems to be there."
Some life. Isn’t that right?”
"Uncle, if she does this, I'm afraid other factories will follow her example," Sheng Di said.
Indeed, with Du Juan's messing around, the efficiency of the spinning mill not only did not decrease, but actually increased.
The female workers' food has been improved and they have an extra half-day of rest. The subtle changes may not seem obvious, but the effects are obvious.
The girls' physical condition is much better than before, their mental state has been greatly improved, and their work efficiency has naturally improved.
The spinning factory originally had a stale atmosphere, the female workers were slovenly, and there was little communication between people.
After some reforms by Du Juan, the factory has a completely new look. The personal hygiene of female workers and the environmental sanitation of the factory have also improved. The factory is much brighter, with more freshness and vitality.
"If other factories can be like the spinning factory, I don't think it's a bad thing." Sheng Youde was generous.
Sheng Di felt cowardly. He didn't believe that his uncle didn't care about Du Juan's mischief. His uncle was being too partial to Lu Ming by saying this. Because Du Juan was the woman Lu Ming cultivated, his uncle allowed her to do whatever she wanted.
Although Sheng Di thought so, he didn't dare to say it out loud. He could only suppress the unhappiness in his heart and echoed his uncle: "I will call the manager of the spinning mill later and tell him that he will follow Du Xiangli's arrangements for the spinning mill.
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It's not that Sheng Youde didn't care. He admired Du Juan's energy and courage and her courage to revitalize a dead factory. This showed that she had ideas, methods and abilities.
Sheng Youde has always been courteous to those with ability, because this is how he developed step by step.
However, he was still a little worried about Du Juan's energy and methods of mingling with the female workers, and felt that it seemed a bit tainted.
Isn’t the Communist Party always accustomed to doing this? It first gets along with the workers, then tries to get the factory to improve the workers’ working and living conditions, and then it may organize a trade union and organize the workers to go on strike.
It doesn't matter if he goes on strike, it's troublesome if there are forces behind him. This is what he fears most.
After taking Sheng Di away, Sheng Youde immediately found someone to investigate Du Juan's situation in detail.
The news came half a day later that no matter Du Juan's words or deeds, or everyone she came into contact with, there was no red tendency. This result surprised Sheng Youde.
Sheng Youde breathed a sigh of relief.
Worrying about Du Juan was secondary. If Du Juan had red tendencies or even had secret contacts with the Communist Party, he would have to reconsider Lu Ming's position in the Sheng family.
He is not against the Communist Party, and even sympathizes with the Communist Party somewhat, but the Communist Party he sympathizes with is the Communist Party that fights side by side with the Kuomintang people in the Kuomintang government, rather than pulling in his own
The Communist Party came out to engage in armed revolution.
These are two completely different things.
Sheng Youde supported Mr. Sun Yat-sen's cooperation with the Communist Party to overthrow the oppression of feudalism, imperialism and bureaucratic capitalism, so that China would have hope for new life.
Last time Mr. Jing (Zhang Jingjiang) visited Sheng Mansion in person, they had an in-depth discussion on this issue and reached a consensus.
Both of them believed that Jiang and Wang were too intolerant and failed to understand and implement Mr. Sun Yat-sen's last wish, and the future of the country was still uncertain.
Sheng Youde's worries were well-founded. Last time he helped Lu Ming release the batch of arms sold to the Communist Party by Caobang, and he felt a little uneasy.
Of course, he was forced by the situation and had no choice but to do it. It was to protect Lu Ming, and he also felt that a shipload of arms could not make the Communist Party's armed forces much stronger. Compared with this shipload of arms, the military expenditure he raised for the Kuomintang was
That's the difference between a cow and a hair.
He thought for a while and thought he should call Lu Ming to confirm.
"That kid of yours is quite capable. She recently started a revolution in my factory, so why don't you just leave her alone?" Sheng Youde asked Lu Ming with a smile.
"Du Juan... is making a revolution? No way, I really don't know anything." Lu Ming couldn't believe it at all.
Sheng Youde talked about what Du Juan was doing in the factory, and then said with a smile: "I actually admire her drive, but tell me honestly, did anyone teach her to do this? Did she?
What tendencies do you have? You must tell the truth." Sheng Youde asked sternly.
"Tendency? Old man, you mean red tendency, right? How is that possible? She doesn't even like red clothes. She likes plain colors. I can vouch for this with my head." Lu Ming said solemnly.
Sheng Youde laughed so hard on the phone that Lu Ming's hair stood up.
Lu Ming didn't tell lies. He could guarantee that all the people Du Juan had come into contact with before were either drunkards or parasites addicted to wine and sex.
How could any red person go to Chang Sanshu's apartment? Unless Du Juan is a red spy, how is that possible? Apart from a few contacts with him, Du Juan seems to have no other friends of the opposite sex.
"I'll rest assured if you can vouch for your head. Go and see her when you have time. If no one instructs her, it means she is really talented and has made great progress." Sheng Youde smiled and hung up the phone.
Lu Ming hung up the phone and felt a daze in his mind.
He never expected that Du Juan would change so much. Not only would he become involved with the female workers in the factory, but he would also constantly challenge the manager and make various demands. Even he felt that Du Juan had a red tendency.
But he knew very well that it was not Du Juan who had a red tendency, but himself. The philosophy of life he taught Du Juan was colored unconsciously.
Lu Ming has recently read a lot of red books given to him by Andre, from "Das Kapital" to "The Communist Manifesto" to "State and Revolution," he read them all.
He read some chapters several times. Of course, he read them all in English. After all, these were red books strictly prohibited by the government and were prohibited from being sold in any bookstore.
Lu Ming not only read many classic theoretical books, but also read many revolutionary books and pictorials from the Soviet Union that Andre managed to get for him, some reflecting life on Soviet collective farms and some reflecting factory life.
He was really inspired by the pictorials showing the streets and residents' lives in various cities in the Soviet Union. It was a brand new world.
These pictorials were originally in Russian. In order to win over Lu Ming, the bearded Peter had them translated into English in China, and pasted the Russian descriptions on them one by one with paper slips, and then managed to transport them to Shanghai to give to Lu Ming.
The bearded Peter has identified Lu Ming and will do whatever it takes to bring Lu Ming into his camp.
He felt that the value of Lu Ming alone was higher than that of a conventional intelligence network. With Lu Ming's connections in Shanghai, he could build a huge intelligence network covering East Asia at a very low cost.
With this plan in mind, Bearded Peter devoted almost all his resources to Lu Ming and used all means.