Surprise! The rough husband is the hidden boss of the period literature

Chapter 360 Reported
The spring "South Asia Trade Fair" is usually held on April 25th, while the autumn fair is held from October to November, making the exhibition last a long time.

This is one of the ways China earns foreign exchange each year, and one-third of its foreign exchange revenue comes from this.

Jiang Xingye also learned from Xu Qinghuan that China had such opportunities to showcase its products.

After the start of spring, the Shangjiang Brigade began a large-scale construction project. First, two more houses were built at the educated youth settlement. After Lin Yufei and Yu Xiaomin got married, they moved out of Xu Qinghuan's place.

Chen Dewen and Qiao Xinyu got married in early March. After the Chinese New Year, they took leave to go back to Shanghai to hold a wedding banquet. They then invited a few tables of guests when they returned. Now they live in the house that Chen Dewen expanded.

The Four Sisters Garment Factory has now expanded by about ten more people, making it quite large. Jiang Baohua partitioned off a large room from the brigade headquarters, hung a sign at the door, and set up the factory there.

Xu Qinghuan's place became completely quiet.

It's the weekend today, and it started raining. It's still very cold, and the rainwater froze into a thin layer of ice in the mornings and evenings.

Qiao Xinyu and the others came over to talk to her. Yu Xiaomin even took the melon seeds and biscuits sent by the Lin family. It was the first time she had received something from her family, and she felt quite complicated, both happy and a little sad.

This family was her husband's family. People say that life is hard in the husband's family, and only the wife's family can provide comfort. But for her, the first warmth of family she felt came from her husband's family.

Jiang Xingye boiled water and poured tea into everyone's teacup.

"The main thing is to discuss something with you internally first." He glanced at Xu Qinghuan, who was cracking sunflower seeds, her red lips slightly pouting, the seeds between her teeth, reminding him of a scene, and his heart warmed involuntarily, causing him to look away uncomfortably.

Xu Qinghuan looked back and immediately saw what he was thinking. Under the table, she gently kicked him with her toe.

Jiang Xingye remained completely still.

"I heard from Huanhuan that there is an import and export trade fair in Nanwu City, Dong Province on April 25th. I have an idea: could we also exhibit our products there and trade with foreigners?"

"Brother Ye wants to get into exports?" Chen Dewen asked excitedly. "That's great! We can earn foreign exchange now. But we can't understand that Russian accent. Are we going to hire a translator?"

Jiang Xingye felt a hidden excitement inside, but remained remarkably calm on the surface. "Don't worry about that, I'll figure out the translation. If we're going to do it, we need to act quickly. I've heard that it's extremely difficult to get a table at the 'Southern Trade Fair' every year, that's one reason."

Secondly, after receiving the exhibition booth, we need to set it up; thirdly, we need to prepare for transactions with foreigners, which requires a lot of attention.

What's there to care about?
Xu Qinghuan said, "We really need to be extremely careful. Every year, many foreigners come to the exhibition. Some are there to do business legitimately, but quite a few are there to cheat and swindle."

We haven't been in business for very long, and our experience is quite limited. We were too eager to earn foreign exchange, and we've gotten ripped off quite a few times.

Some buyers are fake; some don't sign contracts or pay deposits, and then deny responsibility after placing an order; some receive the goods but don't pay, and the buyers can't even be found.

Xu Qinghuan recounted all the historical cases of people being deceived and cheated, and even Jiang Xingye looked very solemn.

"Don't think that dealing with foreigners is just a matter of exchanging money for goods. The domestic market is full of our own people. If something goes wrong, we can still manage and find ways to make up for the losses."

But dealing with foreigners can be devastating; a loss can be fatal. They won't just bite us lightly; they'll give us a warning, sometimes even something as serious as a fatal one. So, if we want to get into the South Asia Trade Fair, we have to be extremely careful.” Zheng Siqi said ambitiously, “They want to cheat us? Let them try! I'm going to cheat them too.”

Dai Yifeng was actually considering this possibility. "The key is that the money is in their pockets, and it won't be easy to get them to take it out. However, anything is possible. Lao Zheng, think of a way!"

Zheng Siqi smiled, "There's still time, let's think about it slowly. Speaking of which, we'll be dealing with foreigners a lot in the future, shouldn't we learn some foreign languages?"

Xu Qinghuan said, "I think it's good. It's not only useful now, but it will also be very useful in the future."

After discussing it, Zheng Siqi and Chen Dewen decided to think about how to get into the South Trade Association, which might require finding someone in the city.

Jiang Xingye said, "I'll ask Haozi to think of a solution too."

When Jiang Baohua heard that they wanted to sell their products to foreigners at the South Asia Trade Fair, he was greatly surprised and even dropped his pipe. "What's that? Selling to the Japanese? Do they want these lumps of iron like us?"

Jiang Xingye said, "At that time, the 'South China Trade Fair' will not only be attended by foreigners, but also by many Chinese people from all provinces and cities. This will allow our products to go global, and it is something we will benefit from doing sooner rather than later."

Jiang Baohua was appointed as the commune director, but he had elderly family members to take care of, and he was also getting old. He had no desire for officialdom, and the organization talked to him twice, but he refused both times.

Accountant Li Mancang advised him from the side, "Uncle Baohua, if you ask me, it's not that you can't be the commune director. If you take on this important role, and the production brigade encounters these problems, and you contribute your efforts, wouldn't it be much easier for these young people?"

Li Mancang also had his own selfish motives. If Jiang Baohua went to the commune to become the director, he would definitely have his own team, and Li Mancang would have a chance then.

As for the position of captain of the Shangjiang Brigade, Li Mancang had considered it, but it was useless to think about it. The Shangjiang Brigade was bound to be controlled by the Jiang family, and this had been the tradition for many years.

Jiang Baohua was unusually tempted, and Jiang Xingye also advised, "Uncle, you're going to be the director of the commune. While I'm still here, I can help you out. Don't worry about your position being unstable."

"Then I'll go?" Jiang Baohua asked, somewhat uncertain.

“Go ahead, why can’t you go? Back when Director Tang was the deputy director, how prestigious he was, how much we fawned over him! If you become the director, our Shangjiang Brigade will be the only one of its kind. Over the years, which commune director wasn’t sent down from above?” Li Mancang became more and more excited as he spoke.

Jiang Baohua cleaned the pipe he had picked up, filled it with the tobacco that Jiang Xingye had gotten from Xu Qinghuan, took a deep drag, and looked on with anticipation. "Well... when the higher-ups come, I'll reluctantly agree."

The people from higher up who were supposed to do ideological work with him didn't come; instead, the people investigating Jiang Xingye came.

As a result, Jiang Baohua will also be subject to investigation.

Xu Ruiyang, who had been promoted to director of the educated youth office, said, "Captain, Comrade Jiang, we have received a report that Xu Qinghuan, an educated youth, was forced into a relationship with Comrade Jiang Xingye. We would like to hear the parties involved' views on this matter."

Both of them were dumbfounded, and for a long time they felt like they were listening to a myth.

Jiang Xingye was so angry that his face turned ashen. Jiang Baohua asked, "Director Xu, who is this person who made the report? What makes him say that?"

Enjoy reading, my darlings, and happy holidays!