National Tide 1980.

Chapter 497 Improvement
People have to be conscientious.

"Zhang Dashao" has greatly helped Ning Weimin's career.

Not to mention that the old man didn't take any more money except for the little things he sent at the beginning.

Let’s just talk about the effort and favors spent on this matter.

Even if a father treats his own son, it's nothing more than that, right?
People are not grass, can Ning Weimin feel at ease?

He is a man who loves to calculate because he loves to calculate, and if he can calculate, he can calculate.

Who can take advantage of it, and how should it be taken.

He has always been able to do it only to those who want to plot against him.

People who really repay themselves with kindness can't do such a thing
This is his moral bottom line, otherwise there is no way to maintain peace and tranquility of mind.

But having said that, even if he wants to make a proper return, he really can't think about it at present.

Because Zhu Jianhua, an athlete from Shanghai and Shanghai, jumped over a height of 2.37 meters in the [-]th National Games qualifier held in Beijing, setting a new world record for men's high jump.

With the headlines of the "News Network", the national TV station reported the news of the first large-scale hydroelectric power station built on the Yangtze River in my country - Gezhouba Erjiang Hydropower Station.

With the scorching heat, a TV series called "Talking about the Yangtze River" created a miracle in the audience ratings.

The renovation project of No. 87 Tiantan North Road is also approaching the final finishing stage.

So the work related to the opening became a top priority that had to be arranged, and there were too many matters that he had to decide on.

What's more, how to keep up with the boss crying for a loan, how to advertise, and attract a stable and continuous source of customers for the restaurant are also important tasks that he must start now.

Not to mention at this time, the first batch of [-] bunches of grape ornaments after the resumption of production of "Grape Chang" is catching up with the factory.

In addition to firing [-] sets of utensils, Liu Yong also fired an additional batch of small bionic porcelain pieces at his request, which were just in time to be released after the grapes in the feeder.

Then this will make him less distracted, and then think about things that can be delayed later and are not very urgent right now.

No way, with so many complicated things coming to Wuyang Wuyang all at once, his time and energy are simply not enough.

Then there is no better way than to deal with the situation according to the severity of the situation.

This is what it feels like if he doesn't want to live up to his status as a time traveler, wants to do big things, and races against time.

Time waits for no one, seize the day and night, both happiness and pain!
This is not really a contradiction.

Things in this world are not like this. When there is no particularly suitable time, most of the situations are painful and happy.

Not to mention anything else, let's just take the market reaction after the feeder and bionic porcelain were delivered to the Zhai Palace. Of course, it is a good thing that they sell well.

But if it sells too well, far beyond imagination, it will also have side effects.

Sunday, January 1983, 7.

This day is the day when the feeder of "Grape Chang" and Liu Yongqing's bionic porcelain will officially test the market response through the sales channel of the Zhai Palace.

To tell the truth, in fact, these two kinds of handicrafts that were newly put on the shelves in Zhai Palace were just made when the samples were made.

Ning Weimin was no longer worried about whether the product could be sold.

Because Chang Yuling and Liu Yongqing, the two master craftsmen, have extraordinary skills, and the things they make are so beautiful.

And this time, it is a multi-party joint effort to optimize and improve the product.

Successfully offset their personal limitations.

As long as people who have seen it, there is no one who does not say good things.

For example, the grapes in the feeder of "Grape Chang", where were the weaknesses in the past?

One is that the means of product display are too simple and simple.

The grapes in the feeder are placed on the plate and in the basket.

Although people can touch it directly and see it carefully without any cover, it will inevitably appear simple and humble.

The second is that the texture of the grape leaves of the fabric is really poor.

Although the image is similar, the weight is also light.

However, the elegant and dignified attributes of artificial gemstones are destroyed, and the grade of grapes in the feeder is lowered, which is not worth the candle.

As a result, it is obvious that the grapes produced by "Grape Chang" are still superior to those produced by the Beijing Feeder Factory.

But it can't be sold at a high price, and it has always been only out of the grade of folk pranks.

It is difficult to enter the room and become a high-end decoration like the decorations produced by the material equipment factory.

So in order to solve these problems, after the reopening of the street production company.

Ning Weimin not only hired two masters from the Beijing Material Utensil Factory with high salaries to work part-time, and cooperated with Chang Yuling.

Specially fired grape leaves for the feeder, replacing the original cloth grape leaves.

Moreover, a large order was placed for the Palace Lantern Factory, so that the woodcarvers there could use good hardwood.

A delicate wooden base and a matching glass box for the feeder are specially made for the grape feeder.

This time it was like that, directly raising the level of "Grape Chang".

Although the cost has increased a lot accordingly, from the original 13 yuan, it has increased to 28 yuan, more than doubled.

The effect that can be produced is not as simple as adding more than a dozen yuan.

This kind of decoration, just looking at the aesthetics and decorative effect, is already much better than the small flower feeder produced by the Jingcheng Material Utensil Factory in the Wangfujing Art and Beauty Service Department, with a price tag of about [-] yuan.

In terms of pricing, can Ning Weimin still be vague?

Such a good thing can't be sold at a lower price than the service department's price, right?
A single bunch of grapes is considered a small feeder, and he gave a price of [-] yuan in foreign exchange certificates.

The decoration of two bunches of grapes is considered a medium-sized feeder, and the price is 180 eight yuan foreign exchange certificates.

Ning Weimin believed that this was a relatively reasonable price.

Similarly, this batch of bionic porcelain fired by Liu Yongqing is also a masterpiece of reasonable learning from each other.

What is Bionic Porcelain?
It is a dazzling flower in my country's ceramic art.

The imitation is the porcelain that is often used in people's real life and fired with different objects from the common pastoral melons and fruits.

The objects of imitation can be people, animals and plants, utensils, buildings and so on.

All other species and artistic varieties can be imitated with porcelain.

It amazes the world with its vividness, lifelikeness, and the word "qiao", and is called "the most unlike porcelain" by the world.

This craft first appeared in the Yongzheng period.

However, during the Yongzheng period, there were few types of bionic porcelain, only a few types such as imitation wood and imitation jade.

In the Qianlong period, the craftsmen of the imperial kiln had superb firing techniques, and they could control the glaze color of the kiln fire to the point where they could do whatever they wanted.

In addition, Tang Ying, an outstanding pottery supervisor, presided over the production of various exquisite utensils.

The bionic porcelain produced has reached a variety of varieties, almost to the point of being fake.

Needless to say, doing this thing can especially give full play to Liu Yongqing's special advantages in color matching and filling.

But the biggest problem in production is precisely the lack and insufficiency of porcelain blank molding ability.

You know, this bionic porcelain is very different from the antique porcelain made in a set.

For things like cups, plates, dishes, and bowls, ready-made porcelain blanks can be bought, and this has always been the case from the Republic of China to the present.

Even if you can't buy it, it doesn't matter. The Jingcheng Handicraft Factory has a special production team for porcelain blanks, which is their own modeling workshop.

After all, it is an imitation of the past, and some non-standard porcelain blanks cannot be bought, so you can make porcelain blanks that are close to your needs according to actual needs.

But the problem is that most of the workers who make porcelain blanks have not received professional art training, and their ability can only make decent ones.

It is really difficult for them to make melons, pears, peaches, chickens, ducks, cats and dogs, and complex shapes of imitation eco-porcelain.

Even Liu Yongqing himself is similar in this regard.

Although he has great skills in color matching, it can be said that he is more than capable.

But to make porcelain blanks, he also learned how his master taught him at the beginning.

In terms of art modeling ability, there is no personal expertise and display at all.

At most, I can only make some simple birthday peaches, persimmons, and these small porcelain boxes.

Or get out cucumbers and corn, and use these most common crops as paperweights.

He can't even make a complicated porcelain cat pillow, or a Ganoderma lucidum pen holder. He hasn't learned it.

This greatly limits the ability of Jingcheng Arts and Crafts Factory to produce bionic porcelain.

but it does not matter.

Don't forget, didn't Ning Weimin step into the art world through the "Sculpture Art Exhibition".

He has a good relationship with the two art academies in Beijing.

Especially in the sculpture department, he is very popular and well-connected.

So he changed it a bit and directly entrusted the teacher of the sculpture department.

According to the difficulty of production, the orders for the bionic porcelain blanks were allocated to the graduates and current students of the Sculpture Department at prices ranging from ten yuan, eight yuan, five yuan, and three yuan.

Come to think of it, how fitting this is!

The teachers and students of the sculpture departments of the two Academy of Fine Arts all benefited from it.

Everyone is no longer afraid of losing their income every month.

As long as they want to, they can make a few porcelain blanks with porcelain clay raw materials, which is enough for their living.

And the artistic modeling level of these porcelain blanks also far exceeds the level of folk craftsmen.

It is enough to greatly improve the effect of the final product of bionic porcelain.

Then, coupled with Liu Yongqing's unique skill of color matching and coloring, is there anything wrong with the burned stuff?
What's more, what is even more unexpected is that there is a noble person who asks for help.

It was Ye Hemin, a ceramic expert.

Dare to feel that besides his work in the Forbidden City, he is also a visiting professor of the Ceramics Department of the Academy of Arts and Crafts.

Ye Hemin not only wanted to help Liu Yongqing repay Ning Weimin's favor, but also hoped to promote the students' academic progress.

So he took the initiative to find Ning Weimin, expressing the hope that his students could also participate in it.

This is a great thing, how could Ning Weimin not agree?

Sure enough, this is the right thing to do. Expert Ye led his students to design some exquisite porcelain blanks.

Such as birthday peach wishful, Ganoderma lucidum pen stand, fruit crab plate, Yangcai fruit high foot offering plate...

After firing, it is more professional than the porcelain blanks produced by the sculpture department, and it belongs to the category of artworks.

Because of this, Ning Weimin set a high price for these bionic porcelain.

Like lychees, peanuts, etc., which are purely for play with small items, each item costs ten or eight yuan.

For medium-sized paperweights such as cucumbers, corn, and eggplants, you can get twenty or thirty foreign exchange certificates for the price.

Porcelain boxes with useful value, such as persimmon boxes and peach jars, are sold at a high price, forty to fifty foreign exchange certificates.

And cabbage decorations, carp boxes, lotus leaf plates and other exquisite and large pieces almost cost eighty or ninety yuan.

There are not hundreds of them, because the real Ye Hemin brought the good things made by the students.

Ning Weimin was not willing to sell it anymore, so he directly bought it in the name of the restaurant, and kept it for his own use.

All in all, in Ning Weimin's eyes, whether it is grapes or bionic porcelain, it is impossible not to sell them.

He thinks that this price may make some foreigners feel pain.

But what you get for what you pay for is definitely not black.

So he didn't take this matter too seriously this day, and had a regular meeting with the girls in the fasting palace in the morning.

Just clarify the pricing standard.

Then tell the girls to put the grapes and bionic porcelain in a prominent place as the main varieties recently promoted.

He left the Temple of Heaven in the car and went to work on other things.

As a result, when he came back around four o'clock in the afternoon, he was dumbfounded.

I never expected that the real market reaction would deviate greatly from my own prediction.

These new items are selling like crazy!

All encountered a burst of buying!Almost to the point of being sold out!
The first-hand news that Ning Weimin got was fed back to him by Xiao Wei and Xiao Meng from the member store inside the Zhai Palace.

Because of the large business area of ​​the store, the utensils and porcelain are very delicate.

So most of the feeder grapes and bionic porcelain have to be sold here.

Needless to say, this day Ning Weimin wanted to know about the sales of new products, so he naturally came to the internal store to inquire.

At that time, when Ning Weimin entered the store, there were not many people in the store, and it was very deserted.

This is not surprising, the sign outside is to prevent the idlers from entering, if there are no foreigners, the place will be empty, and Chinese people will not come in.

Unexpectedly, when Xiao Wei and Xiao Meng saw him, they didn't have time to be polite, so they rushed to speak at the same time.

"Manager Ning, our new product launched today is a bit troublesome!"

"What's the trouble?"

Ning Weimin couldn't believe it.

Seeing the sad looks on the faces of the two girls, he mistakenly thought that the sales were not good, and his subordinates had complained.

But actually it's just the opposite.

"Oh, it's out of stock!"

"Yes, all sold out!"

Ning Weimin's head crashed on the spot, and his first reaction was that he heard it wrong.

Eighty bunches of grapes in feeders and fifty or sixty pieces of bionic porcelain just brought this morning, these two girls actually told him that they were out of stock?

Some asked in disbelief, "What? Out of stock? All sold out! Impossible!"

"Oh, it's the bionic porcelain. Because it's so beautiful and similar, it sells out quickly. Basically, it's all sold out before noon!"

"It's the same with the grapes in the feeder. Foreigners don't believe that they are fake. They always ask if they can make wine, and they are sold out before two o'clock in the afternoon."

Xiao Wei and Xiao Meng still complement each other one after the other.

Ning Weimin was even more confused, both happy and puzzled.

"Then... isn't this good?? You have sold so much goods, and you have a lot of commissions! Why are you still sour..."

Xiao Wei and Xiao Meng looked at each other for a moment, their faces were flushed, tears were about to flow, and they finally revealed the source of their distress

"But we took money from others, but forgot to keep the goods for them..."

"Yes, we sold all the goods they ordered. They will come to us to ask for it tomorrow. What should we do?"

(End of this chapter)