Riding the wind of rebirth

The so-called "giant red skin" means that the surface of Hetian jade seeds is a dense red aggregate. Because of its bright color, it is close to the cinnabar color of the palace wall, but it has the same surface gloss as "jujube red skin" and is particularly beautiful, so it is called Giant red skin.

"This piece of material comes from Khotan." Sun Gong said truthfully: "It is a bit far away from the traditional jade-producing area, but the skin color and flesh are very uniform and transparent, so it is a good piece of material."

"Did you open the window?"

"The biggest feature of jujube and jujube leather is that the texture of the meat is fine and even, and the luster can be reflected on the leather surface." Sun Gong said: "So we only rubbed one area, the leather is only about three millimeters, and the bottom is a first-grade Mutton-fat white jade meat.”

"Then remember this piece too." Zhou Zhi patted the piece of material and said, "How many have you written down?"

"It's 27 yuan." Sun Gong said: "Not to mention fractions, adding up to 1000 and [-] kilograms, there is only so much aniseed in the factory that can reach first-grade whiteness."

"After reading so much, it's only over 1000 kilograms?" Zhou Zhimo calculated and found out that based on the standard of 1000 yuan per kilogram given by Xu's father and a 90% discount, it would be about [-] yuan.

"Lao Sun, how much material do we still have for small and medium sizes in our factory? Xiao Zhou said before that we can also collect them." Director Qin said quickly.

"That's a lot." Sun Gong said: "We still have at least 30 pieces of first-grade white materials of more than one kilogram and less than five kilograms. If it is smaller, it will no longer be in this warehouse."

"Are they all of the same quality as these aniseed?"

"Generally, the smaller the Hetian jade material, the better the skin and flesh." Sun Gong said with a smile: "The quality of the medium-sized jade material is of course slightly higher than these aniseed materials. We select very strictly."

"I also want to see some small and medium-sized foods."

"But the small ingredients are not here, and the price of the small ingredients is much more expensive than the large ingredients..."

"Ahem, cough, cough..." Director Qin quickly interrupted: "Look at it all, look at it all, let's talk about the price after reading it!"

After looking at the medium-sized materials, Zhou Zhi understood a little bit. This large warehouse was probably used to store the "backlog of materials" for the jade carving factory. Not to mention the secondary materials, more than 2000 kilograms of first-class white, large and medium-sized sub-materials were stored here!

Although these materials are inventories accumulated over decades, the anxiety of never being able to be cashed in has always existed in the hearts of successive leaders of the jade carving factory.

Not to mention the past, even now in [-], the price of a piece of jade the size of a steamed bun is equivalent to that of a large imported TV. It still takes an ordinary cadre family two or three years to accumulate savings. How many people can afford it? ?

What is really easy to sell is the small seed material that weighs more than ten grams to dozens of grams. That’s why Sun Gongcai just let it slip that the small seed material and the large seed material are not the same price, they are much more expensive!

This inversion phenomenon made Zhou Zhi laugh and cry, but it cannot be said to be unreasonable.

This reminded him of the second-hand housing market later.

The average unit price of small apartments is high, but they are still easy to sell.Although the total price of large apartments is high, when discounted to the price per square meter, it is much lower than that of small apartments, and the transaction volume cannot be compared with the sales volume of small apartments.

This is a market economy, and sales are subject to both price and average purchasing power of customers.

Until today in [-], the market's purchasing power for Hetian jade is still sluggish. The reason is that nine-tenths of the country's people have just left the subsistence line, while the remaining one-tenth are still working hard to surpass this line. Goal moving forward.Most Chinese people are still far away from "luxury goods" such as Hetian jade that cannot be eaten or drunk.

Next came the bargaining session. In the conference room of the jade warehouse, Zhou Zhi began to argue with Director Qin. Sun Gong occasionally helped with a few words, but Father Xu and Director Zhang turned into sawed-off gourds. , without saying a word.

Zhou Zhi is really not very good at bargaining. Firstly, his psychological price is actually much higher than the current market price. Secondly, he is not short of money. Thirdly, it is a matter of personality. He is thick-skinned in front of acquaintances. But I lose face in front of strangers.

But that is something he is not willing to do. If he is willing, the bargaining level is actually not low.They were all trained at Lin Wanqiu's place.

In Lin Wanqiu's words, Zhou Zhi becomes more shameless with people he knows more. He was quite generous before, but now he is really trying to bargain with her.

In fact, most of the time Zhou Zhi regarded this as a means to enhance friendship with Lin Wanqiu and a game to relieve boredom. Sometimes it was fun to bicker with people who were in good relationships, and bargaining was actually just an excuse.

In order to negotiate the price this time, Zhou Zhi simply took part in the plot, thinking about what would happen if Lin Wanqiu found out about the "high hand", and Zhou Zhi's heart would immediately become extremely hardened.

What's more, there is Xu's father, a "spy", who has already revealed the bottom price of Dazhong jade, so it's no wonder Zhou Zhi is guilty.

The overall process was as Xu's father expected. Factory Director Qin finally won a half-percent price increase on the grounds that he was responsible for the freight.

Similarly, Zhou Zhi also added two conditions. The first is that the freight director Qin can be responsible for the freight, but he needs to be responsible for all the jade materials for Zhou Zhi's trip, and a balance payment will be deducted. After receiving the goods in Shudu, deliver.

The second condition is to hire Sun Gong to help him with the inspection. Next, he will go to Hotan and entrust him with the work of inspecting the materials.

The first condition is very reasonable. The cost of these jade materials in the jade carving factory is very low. Some items are still from decades ago, and they can almost be regarded as zero cost.Now that a large amount of funds can be exchanged, Factory Director Qin is naturally very happy and said: "With this money, our factory can send several apprentices to learn the craftsmanship from the masters in Suhang and wait for them to finish their studies." When we come back, our factory can also become the factory of Suzhou. If we join forces, life will be easier in the future."

It should be said that this idea is a good one. If the local jade carving factory has superb carving skills and relies on the advantages of the production area, it will indeed have great potential in the future.

It's just that Director Qin thinks people's minds are too simple. As far as Zhou Zhi knows, the craftsmanship of all the gemstones, jade, jade and agate in the world are extremely poor. The origin of raw materials and the origin of handicrafts are never in the same place. Some even Thousands of kilometers apart.

And this phenomenon is very magical, and it has been like this for thousands of years from ancient times to the present.

Advantageous resource-producing areas such as Hotan, which have been in demand by the Central Plains dynasty for thousands of years, have not become rich because of jade for thousands of years.

Even if Director Qin trains the jade workers in the factory to become carving craftsmen, it is estimated that the colorful world in Suzhou and Hangzhou will make them unwilling to return to Northern Xinjiang. The most likely outcome of Director Qin's move is to cultivate talents for others.

However, it was impossible for Zhou Zhi to persuade Director Qin and tell him that this method would not work. Others have the right to decide how to use the money earned by others.

Zhou Zhi could only silently wish him good luck.

The second condition is even less problematic, because during the Spring Festival, Zhou Zhi followed the rules of later generations and paid Sun Gong three times the salary. Not only that, Zhou Zhi also promised to count overtime work from the beginning, which made Sun Gong very happy. . (End of chapter)