Chapter 1147: Three Years of Open Management
The evaluation of national masters has always been very strict. Later, it even included how many years you have been in the industry, how many awards you have won, how many exhibitions you have participated in, and how many national and provincial level works you have received. Collections in museums and art museums, as well as innovations in artistic creation, must all be included in the evaluation criteria.
This phenomenon lasted until one or three years. After one or three years, the country decided that the master assessment should be handled by social organizations and the Light Industry Federation. This kind of governmental "master" title has just been reduced. It contains gold, and it was only from that time that all kinds of "masters" became everywhere.
Knowing this, you can know the importance of the mountain "Wanfang Music Plays in Khotan". Just based on the two identities of the creator, the first national arts and crafts master and the director of the Suzhou Jade Carving Factory, This has already determined the immeasurable appreciation potential of this jade carving.
When Zhou Zhi looked through the old reports about this group of jade carvings, Manager Zhou was very patient.
This Mr. Zhou seems to be knowledgeable, and he seems to value handicrafts very much. The more he knows, the more confident I will be in determining the wages. As for the national craftsman, I don’t charge other wages, but only this amount. Thirty-two thousand is not too much for carving work, right?
Isn’t it... too much?
This set of jade carvings took a total of half a year from design to finished product. It took half a year to carve three households worth 10,000 yuan, which seems quite excessive when you think about it.
If Mr. Xiao Zhou brings this up later, how should I respond?
However, what Zhou Zhi then asked had nothing to do with Manager Zhou’s thoughts, and there was a bit of surprise in his tone: “The authors of Wu Feitian are actually two women?!”
Judging from the introduction in the pictorial, Suzhou jade carving was mainly done by male workers at first. Female workers participated in the jade carving industry because of the earliest cooperative movement.
The form of cooperatives in Suzhou is much earlier than other regions in the country, and the jade carving factory is one of them, because Suzhou workers pay attention to exquisiteness to the extreme, especially the latte art, which requires jade materials to touch extremely fine rotating steel The steel piece can draw extremely fine patterns on the jade material. Women's patience and carefulness have a unique advantage.
So later on, female workers almost always played the leading role in Xiu jade flower pieces, a special local jade carving form of Su Gong.
There are more than ten processes involved in making flower pieces, such as printing, drilling, drawing, chopping, flat carving, etc. Most of them are performed by female workers, especially the drawing process, which is all performed by female workers.
This is a highly professional technical job, and their skilled latte art skills are beyond the reach of even male workers.
Although latte art has since been replaced by needle grinding, women soon found an area where they could play - polishing.
Polishing is the last step in jade carving. It is also a step that adds luster to jade carving and should not be underestimated.
Polishing has four processes, which require great care and patience. Therefore, in the polishing workshop, female workers soon accounted for the majority.
Even though the polishing method has evolved from traditional yarrow polishing and transmission polishing to full manual polishing, the tools have also been changed from thallium to whetstone sand strips. However, the requirements for polishing have not only not decreased, but are also much higher than in the past, and vision is even more important, and it also requires patience and care, as well as being able to sit still.
Therefore, the young Suzhou girl with a gentle temper is particularly suitable for this job.
Of course, this is just the beginning. As a large number of women entered this industry, some of them, who were smart and willing to learn, soon emerged in the factory and became the backbone of technology.
These top female jade carving craftsmen are particularly powerful in the jade carving categories of ladies, figures, and antiques.
Among this group of jade carvings, the Han sword and jade equipment, the animal-faced waist buckle, and the picture of a ringed pepper were created by Zhu Qinghong, a female artist from the Suzhou Jade Carving Factory, who was one of the few antique masters in China at that time.
As for Wu Feitian, it was jointly created by Lu Man and Zhang Mingyu, two masters of figure sculpture in the factory. "Times have really changed, men and women are the same." Zhou Zhi praised him repeatedly.
In the jade carving industry, the finished products look bright, but the processing involves water and mud in addition to machinery. It is dirty, tiring and dangerous. Women can have a place in it. In addition to the upgrading of processing tools, the independence of women in the new era is also part of the reason. Self-improvement is the key factor.
But in any case, as a gift unit, the creators are both male and female, which is also very significant for the progress of the times.
What's more, the level of these two people is very high. Perhaps because they are both women, the appearance and expression of the two Feitian are particularly beautiful and vivid.
The decorative lines on the auspicious beasts, pepper pictures and jade sword costumes are also particularly neat and delicate.
Therefore, there are innovations and breakthroughs in this set of jade carvings, no matter from the creator, from the subject matter, or from the artistic expression techniques. If I don’t give a good price, Zhou Zhi feels very sorry.
However, Manager Zhou has just set the upper limit for the number of master workers, so Zhou Zhi cannot pay more. After thinking about it, he finally closed the pictorial: "That's it, let's just pay it per head. Master Huang's salary is 30,000 yuan." , each of these craftsmen is counted as 10,000, so the salary is 10,000 A total of 60,000, but there is a condition, that is, all these materials must be packaged for me."
"Ah? Okay, okay..." Manager Zhou was really overjoyed, and he just quietly let Zhou Zhi flip through the pictorial. No need to talk much in return, here it comes.
Originally, I thought the price was 32,000 yuan for a package and I could bargain with it. However, Zhou Zhi paid special attention to the work of a female craftsman and directly raised the price to 60,000 yuan!
Both parties are very satisfied, and everyone thinks this is an unexpected but valuable harvest.
This is a big business of almost 400,000 yuan. The Gongmei Hall has completely confirmed what Manager Zhou reported to his superiors - three years after opening!
This amount is not a small amount. For example, the jade trading market that Liu Ping'an in Hotan wanted to build would only cost this amount.
In such a transaction where both parties believe that the benefits are huge, the social atmosphere cannot be better.
The next step is the requirements for packing and transportation. Zhou Zhi has extremely strict packaging requirements. Fortunately, Gongmei Hall has extensive experience in exhibition delivery before, so this aspect is not a problem. As long as it is packaged and handed over to Director Qin Just ship them together.
As for the woven splendens jars that Zhou Zhi likes, as well as the high-end Adelaide silks, wool scarves, etc., Manager Zhou gave them all as gifts.
Ayiguli also received a scarf, and Xu Gang received a men's suit, including a metal buckle belt rich in ethnic minority flavor, a tie clip inlaid with small jade stones, and a Set includes enamel decorated nail clippers and razor for men's grooming set.
This time Zhou Zhi issued a cashier's check directly to Manager Zhou. The difference between a cashier's check and a check is that the check is spent first and then paid back. There is no guarantee that there will be money in the account, as long as there is money in the account on the payment day.
This form can only be opened when there is so much money in the account, and once it is opened, the corresponding money in the account cannot be moved and can only wait for the other party to pay.
Therefore, the credit of the promissory note is much higher than that of the check, and the promissory note has another feature, that is, it is only issued to the account, without the signature of the account owner, and it can also protect the owner of the promissory note well. identity privacy.
After both parties sign the contract, this matter is over, and the remaining matters will naturally be left to Director Qin and Father Xu to keep an eye on.
Logically, a successful transaction like this requires a big drink, but Zhou Zhi declined politely. He only said that he had to take a flight tomorrow morning, and there were still many things to deal with and a lot of luggage to pack, so he and Several people in the Gongmei Hall shook hands and said goodbye.
(End of this chapter)