In this year, the Nationalist Government of Nanjing was established, nominally unifying China, but the various warlords still maintained relative independence, and the country was still in a situation of independence.

Shen Mengxi looked through the books in the Wuling space and found that in many things, there was a big discrepancy between what was written in the book and the events that had just happened.

Both the history books and the barnyard official history are mixed with the personal subjectivity of the editors, or in other words, history is written by the victors.

Only those who have really experienced it know what the truth is, but once the person who has experienced it describes it, it still deviates from the truth with his subjectivity.

Therefore, there is no truth in the world.

Shen Mengxi is not entangled in this, there is never a shortage of Rashomon stories, everyone chooses what they want to believe to believe.

She thought about how she would spend her life, and she had thought about going to the other side of the ocean alone to find a quiet small city to spend the rest of her life, and she was a little ashamed of her greed for life and fear of death. And the experience in Europe has made her know that it is not easy to survive anywhere, and the Chinese in the United States sound lofty, but in fact they know bittersweetness.

She would rather have a good plan in Shanghai and advance and retreat with the Zhang family.

Zhang Jiasen reminded Shen Mengxi that he could consider expanding the business of the garment company to process military uniforms for the army. Shen Mengxi got the prompt, added a large amount of dye cloth to storage, and through Zhang Jiaxuan, Yunshang Company borrowed 100,000 yuan, and the four shareholders made mortgages respectively. With the support of Zhang's father and the help of several brothers, the garment factory was built in Baoshan.

Father Zhang's face was clear, his expression was indifferent, and a sixty-year-old person looked like he was fifty years old at most, as if he was a fairy spirit.

He advocated Wang Yangming's point of view: "Eat sparingly, quit games". Eating is for health, and quitting games is for determination. He believed that human desires, if left unchecked, would overflow.

The Zhang family treats the education of their children equally, no matter what your descendants, as long as you have talent or want to study, they will spare no effort to cultivate, but they are not allowed to waste time. Be stricter with your sons and grandchildren, don't go to Flower Street and Willow Lane, don't drink and smoke, don't gamble, don't sing, and don't keep dogs. Daughters and granddaughters must learn to cook and laundry, comb hair and makeup, female workers and musical instruments, and must graduate from middle school before they can get married, all the girls except for Zhang Jiayu's little feet wrapped for a few days, the rest of them have not wrapped their feet, except for Zhang Jiayu who got married without graduating from middle school, the rest of them are not, cough, it's really a bit weird and ironic.

His wife and two concubines get along harmoniously, and more than a dozen children are brothers, friends and brothers, so that now the four generations are in the same house, which is his pride, he has been strict with himself all his life, and he will still sit in the hall every day to see two numbers.

The third son, Zhang Jiaheng, has inherited all his mantles and has made more achievements in acupuncture. The other sons also have their own specialties, which makes him very pleased, a family depends on his son! The ancestors have been officials for generations, and although they have not been officials, the two sons and four sons have not insulted their ancestors.

The biggest headache is the eldest daughter, divorced in desperation, criticized by others, and has to teach in school, open a factory, in his concept, what factory can his daughter open, it is nothing more than to play behind her fourth brother, she can write articles, teaching is already very powerful.

Shen Mengxi didn't know Zhang's father's evaluation, so she relieved herself to hand over the initial construction of the factory to a few brothers.

The factory had just been built, the machines had just arrived, and the first order came.

It was actually Wang Shouqing, who was the chief of staff of the Five Provinces Allied Forces Command at the time, and helped Zhang Jiaxuan get an order for the production of 50,000 military uniforms. The first batch of 20,000 pieces was to be delivered within five months, and Shen Mengxi convened a general meeting of shareholders, thought twice, and decided to take over this large order.

Their factory currently has 50 sewing machines and 60 skilled female workers. Although the garment is processed with supplied materials, the shrinkage treatment of the cloth, the boarding, cutting, the car coating, ironing, and the inspection are all complicated and trivial work. Zhang Zhongshan recruited a group of skilled women and divided them into two classes, Zhang Youxin, the second son of Zhang Jiasen's family, studied the instructions of the sewing machine, and studied the sewing machine clearly and thoroughly within a week, so he became a technician in the factory. The third sister-in-law, Zhou and Zhang Jiali, helped Shen Mengxi to take charge of the management of the factory, and for a while, almost all of the Zhang family were mobilized by Shen Mengxi.

Zhang's mother was very displeased, thinking that Shen Mengxi did not abide by women's morals, a woman who was abandoned should pay more attention to her reputation, and it is inevitable that she will come into contact with all kinds of people when she opens a company, not for her mother's family, but also for Ah Huan. Every time Shen Mengxi returned to Baoshan, she always had to mention her life and talk bitterly.

Shen Mengxi laughed when he heard it, Father Zhang knew that he had received the military uniform this time, and felt that it was the handiwork of the fourth son, and he didn't say much, but considering the face of his old wife, he never refuted her on the surface.

Zhou and Zhang Jiali were reprimanded for this, but they also admitted their mistakes in person, what to do when they turned their faces, and Zhang's mother's range of activities was in the Zhang family's compound, and when she walked out, who would take care of her.

The youngest sister Zhang Jiarui is very talented in art, she is very interested in fashion design, she is currently studying at Shanghai Art College, when she saw Shen Mengxi, she couldn't wait to tell her about the school's recent news about nude models, saying that they also took a photo with a nude model, and took out the oil painting to show the eldest sister, "Look, don't let my mother know!" ”

Shen Mengxi also knew about the recent uproar of beauty models, and he didn't want to express his opinion on it.

"Your proportions here are obviously wrong, Xiaorui, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the bones and muscles of the human body first, it should help you to draw. You have a lot of potential in fashion design, study hard, and design fashion for our company in the future, so you don't have to import from France! ”

"Hmmm! Okay big sister! Zhang Jiarui's eyes lit up.

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Shen Mengxi applied for a patent for the bra, and asked Laura to apply for it in Europe quickly, and asked Zhang Jiayu, who went to the United States to study with Hu Hongxing, Xu Shizhe and others, to apply for a patent in the United States and register a trademark. found out that Europe had already been applied, and it was actually Christine who met by chance in the hotel, Laura was very angry, and Shen Mengxi smiled helplessly. What is there to complain about, she is not an inventor herself.

Through Laura's French connections, Shen Mengxi contacted Christine and sent a telegram to her, mentioning the name of the hotel in Hamburg and his own name, and saying that he would discuss the purchase of patent rights with her.

Christine quickly replied that she was very happy to contact Shen Mengxi, but regretted that her patent had just been sold to a French clothing company, and she was very remorseful and ashamed, and apologized to Shen Mengxi.

This is a big blow to the company, which means that the European market will be greatly reduced, and Laura is especially frustrated, and can hardly get up to do things.

Shen Mengxi was annoyed for two days and let go, the matter has become a fact, and it is useless to dwell too much on things.

Shen Mengxi's shops, real estate and land properties in Kipshi were finally disposed of, and she used the 20,000 yuan she earned to buy the big villa behind Mrs. Lin's house, at this time, the land in the French Concession was about more than 10,000 oceans per mu, and without Lin Yuesheng's relationship, she couldn't buy it.

This is a three-story single-family villa, covering an area of one and a half acres, plus the basement, it is eight hundred square meters, the furniture is ready-made, Shen Mengxi did not make big decorations, just changed the doors and windows, repainted the walls, and built grape trellises and swings in the yard, as well as dog kennels.

Xu's father specially sent someone to ask why he suddenly sold his land, whether he had encountered a difficult situation, he could contribute money and efforts to help her get through the difficulties, and if he didn't have the energy to take care of Ah Huan, he could send him back to Kipshi.

Shen Mengxi was secretly annoyed that he was not thoughtful enough and forgot to consider Father Xu's feelings. In fact, Xu's father and mother took great care of Zhang Jiayu in those years, and they got along very well, but in the past few years, Shen Mengxi has always wanted to have as little contact with Xu Shizhe as possible, and alienated them.

Shen Mengxi wrote a letter, roughly explaining the reasons for being anxious to cash out, declining Xu's father's financial help, and stating that opening a company was for a better life for Ah Huan in the future, because she never counted on Xu Shizhe's child support, nor could she pass on the burden to Xu's father. As for the female ****, there is no mention of the female self and the like. He also attached Ah Huan's recent situation and a few photos, and wished the second elder good health and so on.

Everyone in the Zhang family reacted differently to this. Zhang's father doesn't care, you have your own dowry in your own hands, and you also appreciate your daughter's courage; Zhang's mother blamed her for not discussing such a big matter with her father and brother; Zhang Jiaguang asked her privately why she didn't buy such a large house that could only be used for living instead of a profitable property like a storeyard.

"Fourth brother, I think the situation is uncertain, and the French Concession is quite safe now. Anyway, I don't have the energy to manage those houses and fields, so I might as well transfer them to Shanghai, where the land is more expensive. ”

"The British concessions at various ports are being recovered, so do you think the situation will be chaotic?"

"It's messy enough. I'm worried about the Japanese. ”

Zhang Jiaxuan glanced at his sister deeply, nodded, and didn't ask any more.

Shen Mengxi's plan was to move the property to safety, and in her memory, even if Shanghai was bombed in the future, the French Concession would be safe.

In the past two years, she has had a relationship with Ah Huan and the Zhang family. These people love her very much, and no one doubts her change, only thinking that it is a big change in personality caused by divorce and studying abroad.

The biggest difference in attitude is Zhang's mother, she dislikes what her biological daughter does more and more, the docile and virtuous daughter went to Europe once, and when she came back, she became vulgar and unreasonable, doing things she didn't allow, showing up, talking nonsense, and spending money indiscriminately. She is worried about her daughter's future, in her opinion, a good woman does not marry a second husband, and her daughter should not be divorced even if she dies, she must have been deceived by the man who has no heart to divorce. She is so young, if she doesn't marry in the future, there will be so many long years, and if she marries again, she will embarrass the Zhang family and several sons.

I was distressed for a while.

Her life has been smooth, her husband loves her, the two concubines are also soft-natured, and the sons are also promising, and when the three concubines marry well, there will be no big deal in this family.

is the only daughter born by herself, who is becoming more and more alienated from herself.