Chapter 281 Let’s welcome the promising 1980s together (new
Happy New Year)
On New Year's Day in 1980, the whole world celebrated with joy!
Just when the three generations of the Jiang family, young and old, were happily studying the new modernization in their family,
Comrade Jiangshan, with a cheerful face, was chatting and laughing with Huang Hua on the steps of the guest house.
"Xiaojiang,"
Suddenly, a call that had just disappeared not long ago came from a place not too far away.
The two people on the steps stopped and looked around.
Then, he exclaimed at the same time: "Director Xu!"
Facing the surprised Jiang Shan, Xu Muchun, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, showed a rare smile: "Get in the car and follow me to a place."
country:"……"
The moment he saw Xu Ju, he and Huang Hua secretly shouted: No!
Judging from the prepared posture of the other party, their plans for the day should be ruined.
"Director Xu," Huang Hua said with a smile, working all year round: "Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year,"
Jiang Shan's smiling face was as sunny and sincere as ever: "Where are you taking us? I'm getting ready to meet some friends who have come all the way!"
"It's not in the way," to Xu Muchun, it was a trivial matter as long as it didn't delay the progress of the bureau.
After searching everywhere that day, Jiang Shan could not be found.
Director Xu frowned, and the phone line for Jiangshan's family was arranged.
At this moment, he pointed to a car behind him: "I'll pick them up later and let's go together!"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Shan knew that he couldn't run away: "Is the place we are going to go to soon...convenient?"
"Convenient," Director Xu waved to urge them to get in the car. The next second he suddenly asked, "How many people are there with you? Are two cars enough?"
"That's enough...that's enough!"
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After a short while, two Pujiang cars from the Light Industry Bureau parked at the entrance of the Propaganda Department Guesthouse.
The three people who were already waiting at the gate immediately looked over.
"Have you seen the license plate numbers of those two cars?" Chen Peisi pointed out based on local materials: "The level looks unusual."
"You're right," Pan Hong, who was born and raised in Pujiang, nodded: "As soon as I saw the beginning, I knew it was an agency car."
Listening to the science popularization of the two people beside him, Comrade Liu Xiaoqing took a second look.
While the three of them were looking at the car, several people sitting in the car were also looking at them in surprise.
"Look, Director Xu," Section Chief Han, who was riding in the same car as Director Xu, pointed out the window excitedly: "It's Liu Xiaoqing and Pan Hong."
"I've seen you earlier," Xu Muchun's calm tone slowly came from the back row: "Stay calm and don't make a fuss about anything."
"What are they doing standing here?" Section Chief Han looked out the window firmly: "The gay man next to me looks quite familiar."
There was a snap, and the driver had already noticed something about him, and he patted the steering wheel hard: "Isn't that the actor in the movie "Look at This Family"? What's your name?"
Section Chief Han: "I noticed it when you reminded me like this."
Director Xu: "Are they waiting for someone?"
"It looks a bit like it," Section Chief Han suddenly had a bold idea: "They are not waiting for...us, are they?"
New year, new atmosphere, all the bad things don’t work, but the good things work!
The next moment he said this idea, Comrade Jiang Shan, who was sitting in the back car, rolled down the window happily.
"Happy New Year to you guys," he said cheerfully, waving to the three people on the steps: "Come to the car quickly!"
"Hey,"
The sharp-eyed Chen Peisi was the first to react: "Okay, Jiangshan, he actually drove two cars to pick us up, that's quite interesting!"
"Jiangshan?" After seeing clearly who the visitor was, Liu Xiaoqing started laughing: "I thought he was some big leader, but it turned out to be you."
Pan Hong, who is two years younger than Liu Xiaoqing, also looked delighted: "Happy New Year to the country!"
"Happy New Year, Happy New Year!"
"Where are you taking us?"
Under the surprised eyes of everyone in the car in front, Chen Peisi jumped down the steps.
Fortunately, the snow in front of the door has been cleared away by the guest house.
"The person sitting in the car in front," Jiang Shan, who pushed the door and got out of the car, whispered to Chen Peisi, "is my temporary leader."
"temporary?"
Chen Peisi, who was full of doubts one second, remembered the word Jiang Shan had said on her lips the next moment: "Party A?"
"Smart," Jiang Shan really felt that the other party was very smart: "But this Party A... is more official."
"You can see it," Chen Peisi looked at the car in front and squinted her eyes: "As soon as I saw the license plate, I knew it was not simple."
Facing the well-known actors getting into the car one after another, Comrade Huang Hua, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was so excited that he even forgot to release the handbrake.
With a series of harsh tire sounds, two cars with unusual license plates set off again.
"Where are we going?" Chen Peisi was still waiting for Jiang Shan's answer: "You haven't said it yet!"
Jiang Shan: "Actually, I don't know much either."
Pan Hong: "Huh?"
Liu Xiaoqing: "How could you not know?"
"In the leading car, Director Xu from the Pujiang Light Industry Bureau is sitting," Jiang Shan introduced from a distance:
"They said they were going to take me to a good place, but I thought since it's a good place, I have to call you three to come!"
Pan Hong knew the depth of Pujiang Light Industry Bureau: "You...dare to make demands of him?"
Liu Xiaoqing couldn't imagine the other party's expression: "You just said it so bluntly?"
"You don't have to worry," Huang Hua, who was driving, followed Jiang Shan's words and said with a smile, "The person Xu Bureau values most now is Xiao Jiang."
This is the most endearing thing about Comrade Huang Hua. He sees through things without telling them, and we all get by together.
"Good guy," Chen Peisi patted the country in the front row: "Our country is getting more and more promising."
Liu Xiaoqing: "It must be related to advertising again, right?"
"Good place," Pan Hong asked, "What kind of good place is it?"
At this moment, Jiang Shan was also thinking about this issue.
Ten minutes later, as the car in front of them cleared the way, they finally saw a tall building: Pujiang Garment Corporation.
After many enthusiastic introductions, several leaders of the Garment Corporation led Director Xu's team into a small auditorium of the company with smiles on their faces.
The small auditorium has already been decorated with lights and colorful decorations, so those who have just set foot here immediately think of the four words "Happy New Year's Day".
Countless crepe paper ribbons and latte art were hung all over the roof of the small auditorium.
The four characters "Celebrate New Year's Day" posted on the rostrum are introducing the theme of today's meeting in detail.
The most eye-catching thing is the wooden catwalk in the middle of the auditorium.
But for the people in the auditorium, what attracted them the most was the group of people who had just walked in.
Not only because there are coffee table fruits placed next to their seats, but also because there are three actors in this team who are loved by the people.
Although the word "star" has not yet become popular here, it has not affected the brilliance of the stars in the slightest.
Looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, Liu Xiaoqing couldn't help but said: "Why did you bring us here?"
"That is to say," Pan Hong also looked around: "This is the good place they said?"
Seeing the two of them looking around, the people who had already taken their seats were screaming uncontrollably in their hearts.
Today's party is really worth it. No wonder you have to buy a ticket to enter. You can also see celebrities!
If the opponent's position wasn't too high-level, they would have rushed over.
As the greetings in the auditorium continued to amplify, the three actors also waved their hands in various directions.
But at this moment, Jiang Shan had some clues from the simple T stage in the center of the stage.
"What are you laughing at?" Chen Peisi beside her asked quietly.
"Have you ever seen a fashion show?" Jiang Shan took a step back and said, "It's just a costume show team."
"I heard that Yanjing once held a show, a French-French girl."
"This should be the same today," Jiang Shan pointed to the T stage in front of him: "However, it should be the Pujiang River... lesbians."
Pan Hong was shocked: "Really?"
"So, we can see female models soon?" Liu Xiaoqing was already excited: "I heard they are very beautiful in their clothes."
"I heard that too," Huang Hua also heard something else: "It is said that when they perform... they are all shirtless."
"Seriously?" Chen Peisi stood in her seat, prepared: "It seems that your leader is right, this is really a good place!"
"Well," Jiang Shan also nodded: "It seems we came to the right place today..."
Before he finished speaking, Section Chief Han came up to him and said, "Comrade Xiao Jiang, Director Xu asked you to sit with him."
"OK!"
After blurting out "OK", he quickly left the star team and quickly went to the front row to sit in the row of veteran cadres.
"Xu Bureau, you called me?"
"Sit down," Xu Muchun pointed to the empty seat next to him: "I have something to say to you."
"okay!"
"Have you seen this?" Director Xu pointed to the T stage in front of him.
"I met him once in Yanjing," Jiangshanhui reported: "Pierre Cardin from France."
"Were you there at that performance?" Xu Ju's voice rose a little higher.
"Here," Jiang Shan was also asking himself, why was he everywhere: "Director Zhou from CCTV helped me get two tickets."
Having said this, Jiang Shan unconsciously remembered Comrade Yu Sigui, his overseas partner who watched "The French Girl" with him at that time.
I don’t know if it’s snowing in Dongjing too!
"The year 1980 has arrived, the 1980s of the twentieth century have begun,
Looking back on the past and looking forward to the future..."
When the female announcer on the podium read out the New Year's greetings enthusiastically, the audience in the small auditorium gradually became quiet.
From the very first sentence, Jiangshan could hear that something was coming.
I just recite the New Year's Day message in the "People's Daily" this morning!
"Let us embrace the 1980s together with strong faith and determination to advance towards the four modernizations.
Next, please enjoy the show "Beautiful New Era" brought to you by the Pujiang Costume Performance Team."
After an exciting opening speech, several sets of lights arranged around the T stage all lit up.
Then, the music also started.
At this moment, not to mention the people related to the clothing system present, even the three performance system guests who had seen the world were all staring at the movement on the T stage without blinking.
Finally, they came.
In this era of alternation between old and new, 12 young female workers who have the courage to be at the forefront of the times have changed the concept of clothing in New China, and at the same time changed their own destiny.
Facing the fashion models who walked onto the catwalk one after another, the eyes of the audience were already too busy.
This also includes Jiang Shan's three friends.
The girls, each with a straight face, walked rhythmically and with full aura.
Cross your hips, cross your shoulders, swing your hips...it seems like you practice them all the time.
Especially the gesture of lifting up the hem of clothes when turning around, which is obviously an international style.
No one could imagine what these 12 female models looked like wearing clothing factory work clothes a few months ago.
"Do you know what they are wearing?" Director Xu began to ask questions.
"Chen Liang." After all, Jiang Shan is also the son of the workshop director of a clothing factory, so this little knowledge is not difficult for him.
Looking at the colorful bodies of the lesbians on the stage, Director Xu and Jiang Shan turned their heads together.
A really good base floral shirt or dress, with a long cashmere coat on top.
This is the uniform dressing style of the 12 lesbians on stage.
"In 1968, the Hongying clothing store on Shimen 2nd Road sold a batch of really good clothes," Director Xu said while watching:
"A large number of people who got the news started queuing up overnight.
We never expected that such a situation would occur.
It costs 15 yuan a piece and is really good. It didn't scare away the people at all.
When the store opened the next day, the glass counter was crushed to pieces by the customers who kept coming.
The stampede incident in which one person died and six were injured forced our bureau to consider the possibility of self-production of Deliang."
After hearing this, Jiang Shan understood: "The food in our country has always been imported?"
No wonder this chemical fiber stuff is so expensive!
"Ha, you just know," Director Xu smiled and continued to explain:
“One day in 1971, when MZX went to the south for inspection, he always liked to stop and chat with the local people.
One day, a gay man excitedly reported good news to his old man: I waited in line all day yesterday and finally bought a Deliang shirt.
Seeing the other party's happy appearance, ZX discovered that it turns out that the common people really like this kind of fabric."
"So, you received the mission?"
"Not only our bureau, but also various places have held seminars on how to solve polyester fabric production technology."
"This is a major matter related to people's livelihood."
"That's right," Director Xu continued: "In 1971, the national cotton output was only 43 million tons.
After the problem of difficulty in eating was initially solved, the difficulty in getting dressed became the country's biggest problem.
Seeing that the problem could not be solved for a while, the superior department decided to introduce equipment.
The next year, after paying a huge investment of nearly 300 million U.S. dollars, a production line with an annual output of 1.9 billion feet of polyester cloth was shipped back from France.
After this entire set of equipment is started up, it will basically be able to meet the domestic market needs."
However, the state's research on chemical fiber industry projects is still working intensively overtime.
"One hundred thousand troops from all over the country gathered in Liaoyang," Director Xu said with a slight emotion in his eyes:
“As long as the bones don’t fall apart, we must fight to build Liaohua,” the slogan kept ringing throughout the entire factory.
Under this atmosphere of hard work and unity, our country’s first batch of domestically produced fiber raw materials were finally born last year.”
By 1981, large-scale chemical fiber clothing products will be fully rolled out in China.
The market position of Deliang has since then been lumped together with that of "Wang Lao Wu".
"In that case," Jiang Shan pointed to Miss Zhenliang on the stage: "This batch of fabrics has already arrived in our Pujiang?"
"What you see now is indeed the best quality products produced by major printing and dyeing factories in our city."
"There are so many colors to look at!" At this moment, Jiangshan was dazzled by the girls.
"Xiao Jiang," Xu Muchun picked up the white porcelain cup on the coffee table: "Do you remember what I once said to you?"
"Of course," Jiang Shan pointed to this task: "When you collected imported fabrics for me before, you said that our city will soon have fabrics of various colors..."
"Although it's not rich enough now, we certainly can't wait long."
Director Xu's long and leisurely gaze towards the T stage caused the girl on the stage to gradually speed up her pace.
"Today's game..." Jiang Shan suddenly pointed at the T stage in surprise: "You didn't set it up specifically for me, did you?"
"Huh?" Xu Muchun was also shocked: "You really dare to think about it."
"It's okay if it's not, it scared me!"
"You scared me. Today is the first time the Pujiang Costume Performance Team performs on stage. I called you up on the way here."
"Thankfully you called me on," Director Xu's move really surprised Jiang Shan: "Otherwise, how could I have seen such a wonderful welcome program!"
Not only Jiang Shan, but also the few people sitting behind him now looked full of joy.
On the first day of the new year, I saw a model show that was the first in China.
For these literary and artistic workers who are in urgent need of broadening their horizons, there is no better New Year gift than this.
Until they walked out of the small auditorium together, they couldn't stop thinking about it.
"Jiangshan," Chen Peisi approached from the side: "Where should we go next?"
"According to the original plan, I have to go to Meiying Factory to shoot a commercial for colored pencils later," Comrade Jiang Shan told the whole story without reservation, "I won't accompany you this afternoon."
"Pujiang Meiying Factory?" Chen Peisi's eyes instantly brightened: "Can you take me with you?"
"You want to go?"
Chen Peisi: "I miss you so much!"
Liu Xiaoqing: "I want it too."
Pan Hong: "Don't even think about leaving me behind."
After everyone expressed their determination one by one, they remembered today's key person.
So, they all looked at Director Xu who was two meters away in a flattering manner.
"Let's go," Director Xu waved his hand: "Let's have a welcome meal here first, and then go to the Meiying Studio together!"
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After dinner, led by Xu Muchun, a lively group of people came to Pujiang Meiying Factory again.
Early this morning, before Comrade Tewei had time to step out of the house, he received a call for help from Section Chief Han of the Light Industry Bureau.
As soon as he heard that they wanted to borrow the factory's equipment to shoot a short commercial, the factory director Te Wei immediately agreed.
It's a coincidence that Meiying Factory also happens to have a celebration today.
So, when two cars drove into the gate of Meiying Studio.
The festive atmosphere with fluttering colorful flags and high banners makes it feel much grander than in previous years.
"Xiaojiang,"
The moment he saw the car door open, director Wang Xiang was the first to greet him: "We meet again!"
"Happy New Year to Director Wang," Jiang Shan quickly held Wang Chang's hand: "I'm here to trouble you again."
"You're still polite to me."
"Why is the factory so busy today!"
"One of the cartoons in the factory won an award at the Danish Film Festival!"
"Awesome, what award did you win?"
"Gold Award," Wang Chang said happily: "International Gold Award."
"Oh, it's time to celebrate."
In just a few words, Jiang Shan followed several representatives of Meiying Factory into an exhibition hall in the factory.
Before walking a few steps after entering the door, Comrade Jiang Shan, who was originally cheerful, immediately changed into a look of shock.
"This is……"
Facing the paintings and ink paintings on the four walls, Jiangshan seems to have entered a landscape world filled with ink mist.
Seeing Jiang Shan's surprised expression, another old acquaintance came over with a smile: "Can you tell who painted these?"
Jiang Shan turned around and saw that it was Yan Dingxian, the deputy director of Meiying Studio.
"Don't tell me," Jiang Shan raised his hand tremblingly, "These paintings...are all the works of Master Li Keran?"