Chapter 307 Fans sell well
Seeing Yang Fu coming, everyone was both happy and surprised.
"Why did you come here? Jiujiuer is alone in the city."
Mr. Yang was a little worried about Nian'er. The child knew she was pregnant and was unhappy for several days. Only then did he coax well, and the whole family left him alone in the city.
"I'll go back tomorrow morning." Yang Fu said.
"Then I'll go back with you." Yang said hurriedly.
"Mother, you don't have to worry about Nian'er. He doesn't have a rest period. We will go back together in a few days after we settle things here. It will be the Double Ninth Festival soon, and we agreed to take him to climb the mountain this year."
Huo Erhuai nodded: "Okay, let's deal with the matter earlier these two days, so we can go back to the city earlier."
Yang Fu followed Huo Xi around the village, listened to what she had to say, nodded repeatedly, and then explained his purpose of coming.
"The waist fan is sold out?" Huo Xi opened his mouth in circles.
With so many types of fans, why are the waist fans sold out? There must be a lot of waist fans made, there must be hundreds of them in the two shops.
Yang Fu nodded: "They're all sold out. They're all sold for a penny, and they're still rushing to get them."
Huo Xi showed an incredible expression.
There are many types of fans in Guangfengshui. In terms of production materials, there are bamboo fans, paper fans, silk fans, and feather fans. There are no less than ten or twenty types of each type.
The waist fan is also newly installed. Didn't expect it to sell so well?
Nowadays there is no good anti-heat artifact, and big families with ice can’t walk around with an ice basin when they go out. The fan has become the best magic weapon for relieving the heat, and almost everyone has one.
In Guangfengshui, even in winter, the fan has never been off the shelf.
Fan is not only used in summer, it can not only relieve heat.
In winter, everyone uses charcoal to keep warm. When they enter the room with a brazier, it is steaming hot, dry and dry, and they can use fans to help remove the heat. You can't go into someone else's house and take off your clothes right after entering the door, can you?
It’s okay to take off a big cloak, but you can’t even take off your coat. That picture is not generally beautiful.
The fan can remove the heat and heat, and can also cover the face. It can be used as a veil for half-covering the face. People who don’t want to see it can be blocked by the fan, and others can’t get up to see it.
So it is normal to carry a fan in winter.
Fans are one of the goods that Guangfengshui can sell all year round.
Huo Xi also went to the countryside to receive goods in the past two years. Seeing that there are many craftsmen making fans in the countryside, he used the talented scholars in Qionghua Lane to draw a picture, write a fan, inscription, etc., and then recruit some to make fans. A craftsman, began to sell fans.
I didn't expect the fans to sell better and better.
Although Guangfengshui is not specialized in selling fans, fans have become a serious business that Guangfengshui has been doing all year round.
The waist fan has not been on the shelves for long. It didn't sell well before, so why did the sales soar ahead of other fans all of a sudden? selling so well?
Although paper fans and bamboo fans don’t take up much space when folded up, they don’t take up much more hands than silk fans, but maybe waist fans are more innovative? Huo Xi didn't think of any reason why this waist fan became popular all of a sudden.
At night, Huo Xi discussed with Yang Fu.
"Uncle, find some fan artisans, so you don't have to buy from the countryside every time. Let's sign a few of our own artisans and get them in our workshop. When new products are released in the future, they won't be imitated so quickly."
"Do you want to rent a yard as a workshop?"
"No, clean up our other yard in Qionghua Lane. There are two yards in that yard, and it is enough to be a small workshop. Let the little ladies who make velvet flowers and fan noodles go to that house, and Lou Qingyao, who makes mother-of-pearl, also moves Go over there. There will be our small handicraft workshop in the future. It will be more efficient for everyone to work together than to take materials back for processing."
After finishing speaking, he explained: "Let her mother and daughter live in the small house with Grandpa Zou and Grandma Zou, instead of moving to the workshop, the little girl will also be watched by Grandpa and Grandma."
Yang Fu nodded and wrote down: "Although the yard has two entrances, there may not be enough space for handicraft workshops. There are many fan-making processes, and I am afraid it will not be laid out."
"There is no need to get it all in the courtyard. All the preliminary preparations are put in the Zhuangzi. For example, sawing bamboo, breaking the edge, splitting the bamboo, scraping green, steaming, peeling, grinding, polishing, etc., are all carried out in the Zhuangzi. The processed semi-finished products are sent to the workshop, and the fan craftsmen can complete the last few procedures."
To make a bamboo fan, it is said that dozens or hundreds of processes are required.
Good craftsmen should liberate them from basic processes. They only need to instruct the work on how to choose materials and how to make them, and let the apprentices and workers do the preliminary process. They don't even need to do polishing or coloring, they only need to be responsible for designing, finalizing, engraving and making fans.
And said: "All the snail shells and shells that will be shipped back in the future will also be transported to the Zhuangzi, and the semi-finished products will be polished on the Zhuangzi, and then sent to Lou Qingyao, so that her benefits will be higher."
"Okay. As for the bamboo fan craftsman, I will personally invite them."
Huo Xi nodded.
It didn't take much effort to invite the craftsmen they worked with.
There is food, drink, someone to take care of and money to earn, and they don’t have to worry about the things they make, no one will take them, and they have to worry about selling them. They just need to be responsible for the production.
Many craftsmen are very talented, but they are not good at socializing, let alone doing business. The good things they make are either cheated by people at low prices, or they are unwilling to sell them at low prices, and hide the ashes at home.
Invite these craftsmen and let them, like Lou Qingyao, not sign a personal contract, but only a cooperation contract. The finished products will be underwritten by Guangfeng Water, and the operating costs of Guangfeng Water will be deducted. The profit will be divided in half with them.
No firm is willing to give such a cooperation model and such conditions. The bigger the firm, the more self-reliant it is.
Seeing a capable craftsman, he wants to turn him into his own domestic slave, or the conditions are harsh, and he is locked up and hidden.
But the more skilled a craftsman is, the more tempered he is. The more you circle and hide him, the more these craftsmen will hide and hide, unwilling to show their craftsmanship.
One is afraid of being abandoned by others because of no use value, and the other is afraid that the disciples of the church will starve to death of the master.
In the end, many crafts were not dared to be revealed, for fear of being coveted by others, and gradually lost.
So cooperation is the last word.
If your east wind overwhelms his west wind. If you overwhelm him, what you get in your hands is of little value.
Huo Xi thought, with the conditions she offered, those craftsmen who had worked with her in the past would be willing to come.
Still the same sentence, what can be produced will not be sold, and what can be sold has no production capacity. Let folk craftsmen use the platform of Guangfengshui to sell their own goods and achieve a win-win situation.
Yang Fu nodded in response: "Okay, the arrangements for going back to the city tomorrow are made, and I will pick them up in person."
(end of this chapter)