Chapter 248: Lu Yie
A red heart, two hands ready.
This is a slogan familiar to every Chinese.
In fact, Ning Weimin did the same thing. He couldn't keep all the treasures in one place.
So in addition to the two art academies, he also specifically asked Kang Shude for help.
He asked the old man to introduce him to several jade factory technicians who wanted to make extra money.
Then I drew a sketch in person with more detailed requirements.
Finally, we agreed to ask them to make a hundred stone carvings at a price of three yuan per piece.
As for the things he customized, they are actually products that have been fully verified by the market in later generations, and are loved by both foreign and domestic guests.
To be specific, there are only three things, ashtrays in the style of towers and Great Walls, door piers and stone lion bookends.
Needless to say, Ning Weimin is relieved that the old man will be the middleman.
So for Master Quan’s sake, without saying a word, he gave fifty to each person on the spot, which was regarded as a deposit.
With this, the elders are very satisfied and very happy.
Everyone patted Ning Weimin on the shoulder, raised their thumbs and said that he was a happy person.
Originally, they were a little bit dissatisfied with this job, and they were a bit embarrassed about it, but it was all gone immediately.
Of course, this is unavoidable and is considered to be a matter of fate.
After all, the Jade Factory in Beijing has a good reputation. Where is that place?
It is one of the top jade factories in the country, a major foreign exchange earner with an annual output value of over 10 million.
I think back then, everyone in the jade shop in Beijing knew this jingle.
"Beggars, Pan Bingheng, Xiaojiao, Liu Deying, Xiao Zhuge, Wang Datou, Xia Sanlan, it's He Rong."
These are not curse words, but each jingle describes the outstanding characteristics of each of the famous "Four Beiyu Monsters" in the capital.
Pan Bingheng devoted himself to carving jade. He was usually unkempt and loved to visit the "rag market". In 1943, he even begged for food.
Liu Deying is ruthless in his jade carving skills, clean and neat, and has a "spicy" energy.
Wang Datou, whose real name is Wang Shusen, is good at thinking when carving jade.
He Rong was not ashamed to ask his subordinates in order to seek skills, and he used various methods to acquire the skills he wanted to learn.
And these four jade masters all became masters of jade factories after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
So it can be said that the Jingcheng Jade Factory has been a representative of the highest level of northern jade production since its establishment.
It has won numerous awards and is full of talents.
Ning Weimin wanted these disciples and grandsons of the "Four Monsters of Northern Jade" to get him such gadgets and use their jade carving skills to make stone carvings.
Wouldn’t that be a killing of chickens with a bull’s-eye, who would be happy with that?
stone carving? That can only be regarded as a folk thing.
It is dirty and rough, and cannot be sold at a high price. It is far inferior to the jade carving.
That is, to give my wife and children something good to eat and wear.
These masters were the only ones who could show off Kang Shude to save face, and reluctantly agreed to take the job.
Don’t mention it, the world is big and the earth is big, and the human kindness is big, no matter how big it is, it is not as powerful as money.
No matter how many kind words and polite words you say, it's really not as good as Ning Weimin's "Great Unity".
This "Great Unity" definitely lives up to its name.
Everyone looks at it and is really "united".
My heart is all high.
At this point, it should be said that Ning Weimin has almost prepared everything he needs to raise.
Two things remain.
It's nothing more than asking Director Li and Aunt Bian from the street to help organize the housewives.
Make some cloth tigers, straw insects, red auspicious knots, etc. as a supplement to the rich products.
It can be regarded as a way to repay the street and get some benefits for everyone. This is not difficult.
The next step is to solve the problem of product packaging.
Ning Weimin certainly understands the principle of "goods sell for a piece of skin".
With packaging and without packaging are completely different things. The grade of packaging can also directly affect the price.
So he had to go to the Beijing Brocade Box Factory to see if there were any ready-made boxes, or to ask about the price of custom-made boxes. Speaking of this thing, it can actually be regarded as a unique handicraft in Beijing.
Jade box, also called brocade box or decorative box.
Since it became popular in the Ming Dynasty, in order to show its value, handicrafts in the palace were packaged in brocade boxes to give gifts to dignitaries.
Not only jewelry and antiques, but also local specialties from various places are decorated with brocade boxes to mark their value.
As a result, the number of private handicraft workshops for making brocade boxes continued to expand.
From the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, it was the most prosperous period for brocade boxes in Beijing.
There are more than 30 brocade box workshops outside Qianmen and Liulichang, specializing in packaging antique jades and jewelry.
There are more than twenty shops in the area outside Chongwenmen, specializing in making low-priced snack boxes, shoe and hat boxes, powder boxes, etc.
In addition, there are Sanduozhai, Zhidezhai and Zhimingzhai on Longfu Temple Street in Dongcheng.
There is Wenhua Zhai in Damao Hutong, Xinjiekou. There are Yihua Zhai and others on Yangmeizhu Xiejie outside the front door.
One thing to note is that the consumer market in this industry is not large.
There has never been a large workshop in the brocade box industry. They are all Lianjiapu, commonly known as "gluing boxes".
It was not until the founding of the Republic that the craftsmen from these shops were unified and a small factory with 300 people was established, which can be regarded as large-scale production.
As for the reason why Ning Weimin did not go to the store to buy directly, he had to go to the factory.
This is not because he wants to be cheap and wants to buy goods at the ex-factory price.
Mainly because of convenience.
Because the address of the Capital Brocade Box Factory is right outside the front door of Langfang Toutiao, which is the doorstep of his house.
He had agreed with the street on how to cooperate, and went for a stroll along the way.
Besides, Director Li was very familiar with the leaders of the factory and knew that Ning Weimin wanted to visit.
I took the initiative to hang up the phone for him and told him who to look for.
This relationship is even more different.
Ning Weimin can look more carefully and ask how many styles of boxes there are and what their prices are.
The result was unexpected. During this trip, I made an unexpected surprise discovery.
It was when Ning Weimin couldn't take his eyes away from those plum blossom-shaped, peach-shaped, diamond-shaped, long octagonal and other boxes covered with various colored brocades.
He accidentally discovered that a seven-person workshop in the factory was producing Peking Opera dolls.
That’s beautiful!
Sun Wukong wears yellow tassels, his mail coat has shining patterns, he wears a tiger tail feather on his head, and holds a golden stick in his hand.
Liang Hongyu beats the war drum, and her helmet, helmet, and facial makeup are all perfect. They really look like the real characters on the stage.
This made Ning Weimin immediately overjoyed.
There is a deep feeling in my heart that I can’t find any place even after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.
For no other reason than because he had already asked his master about the whereabouts of the Mane Man in the capital in order to make money from foreigners.
Unexpectedly, Kang Shude told him not to think about it at that time.
The old man said that this thing became extinct in the 1960s, and Wang Hanqing, the "mane king", had no descendants at all.
And Ning Weimin couldn't argue. How could he tell the old man that it would still be available thirty years from now? That thing was so expensive.
This is great, and I didn’t expect to bump into him unintentionally.
So he couldn’t wait to ask the workshop director who accompanied him to visit.
"Director Zhang, why do you still have this thing here? This is the mane man from the old capital, right? How much is the ex-factory price of one? I have always wanted to find this thing. Guess what, someone He actually said that no one has done it now. You said... this is just something under my nose. I almost missed it. I had to buy one to stop him."
Unexpectedly, extreme joy led to sadness, but he showed his cowardice again.
Because what the workshop director said next turned out to be a sign of humiliation for Kang Shude.
“Young man, alas, you are actually mistaken, this is not a bristle man.”
“In our capital, there have always been two types of actors. These are made of paper and bristle. It is made of yellow clay, etc., and is placed on a copper plate. It is called a mane when it is struck. "
"And ours is made of colored silk, but it is highly imitative and cannot be used. Moving, purely for viewing, is called Silk Man.”
Well, Ning Weimin never expected that his mouth would be blocked by him.
Look what a fuss this is!
Realize!
(End of this chapter)