Not far from Jintangmen is Wang Mingde's military camp, Li Defu entered this military camp under the escort of several guards, and immediately heard a clanging knocking sound. Li Defu is very familiar with this kind of sound, because he can still hear this cheerful ensemble in his barracks.

The guards guarding outside Wang Mingde's tent saw Li Defu coming over and saluted him politely: "General Li is here?" The head of my family and the governor of the high are discussing the affairs of the back account. ”

Under the leadership of this guard, Li Defu was taken to another camp. As a Shanxi general, he used to have a very estranged relationship with his colleagues in the Ganshan Green Battalion, but after crying at Deng Ming's banquet last time, Li Defu suddenly became the most popular Shanxi person in the Shaanxi generals' circle, and Gao Mingzhan, the governor of Sichuan, also looked at him differently.

In the tent, Wang Mingde was holding up a piece of sparkling pale green jadeite, looking at the sun, Gao Mingzhan was standing beside Wang Mingde, also squinting to observe the reflection of the surface of the stone.

"This one looks pretty good." Although they saw Li Defu coming in, Wang Mingde and Gao Mingzhan did not immediately stop their work, they commented on the jade in their hands, and then reluctantly put it back on the table and greeted Li Defu: "Coming?" ”

"Admiral Deng just sent someone." Li Defu, who was ordered to guard Futu Pass, took out a few pieces of paper from his arms.

"Take it and take a look." Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde both knew that this must be Deng Ming's latest jewelry style design drawing, and the two of them were busy screaming, and immediately spread it on the table after getting the paper, carefully observing and pondering.

Jadeite rough does not have a particularly outstanding ornamental value, but after careful polishing, the finished product is still quite beautiful. The earliest design drawings given by Deng Ming were the simplest styles, just six-sided cubes. However, even this kind of processed product, the generals of the Qing army in Chongqing thought it was very good-looking. The jadeite is hard and bright, and although it does not meet the requirements of the traditional scholars for gentlemen to be gentle and restrained, it is more beautiful in the eyes of these generals than the jade they cannot admire.

In the second generation of the design, Deng Ming added more inclined planes, and the polished jade blocks will become more shining in the sun. Before Li Guoying left Chongqing, the Qing generals in Chongqing learned that some of their jadeite had been sold in Xi'an, and the people of the Manchu and Han Eight Banners also liked it, so they wanted to leave some and take it back to their homes in Beijing through the guò post station system.

After confirming that this thing can be sold for money, the Chongqing Qing army has continued to expand the scale of jadeite processing, since Li Guoying left a month ago, the towns have even stopped their usual drills, and they have been polishing jadeite all day long. For example, Wang Mingde is in charge of the Jintangmen, all the armored soldiers and unarmored soldiers are now processing the jade rough, and the best craftsmen are selected and concentrated in two tents to finish those rough blanks that have been simply treated.

Although it has only been two months since the beginning, Chongqing's jadeite processing technology has improved a lot, and now Wang Mingde's military camp can produce several pieces of high-quality products every day. What Wang Mingde showed Gao Mingzhan just now was a piece of jadeite that he had just produced with a particularly outstanding quality. This piece of jadeite is reflected in the sun, so green that Wang Mingde asserts that someone will buy it even if it is shipped to Beijing.

Today's drawings sent by Deng Ming have new requirements for processing. This is a set of jewelry containing elements of the zodiac - Deng Ming has not planned to have Chongqing carve a delicate portrait of jadeite for the time being, but only asked them to carve the pattern of the zodiac on the jadeite block - in order to design this pattern, it can not only make people understand the animals at a glance, but it will not cost too much labor, but it takes Deng Ming a lot of thought, and it is not easy to take into account the beauty and simplicity of processing.

"Admiral Deng said that this zodiac sign is a circle," Li Defu said as he introduced it, drawing a circle on the paper: "Many people may just want to buy a jade zodiac for their children at first, but then they will continue to buy it and want to make up a set." ”

Li Defu drew a large circle, but he didn't close it at the most, but stopped the tip of the pen at a short distance from the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion. Then Li Defu put down the ink pen and relayed to Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde the marketing ideas brought by Deng Mingtuo, which is to stimulate buyers to collect ** and guide them to buy more jadeite jewelry.

"This method is good, although it is a bit troublesome, but if you can sell the whole set, it will definitely make more money than now."

Wang Mingde and Gao Mingzhan both nodded vigorously. But both of them seemed a little distracted, and they looked at the circle drawn by Li Defu vigorously. Gao Mingzhan saw that Li Defu didn't mean to pick up the pen again at all, and finally couldn't help but remind: "Your circle hasn't been drawn yet." ”

"Sure enough, it's not the last general who thinks like this." Gao Mingzhan's words made Li Defu cry out happily. He told the other two people that when Deng Ming's envoy sent the drawings to Futuguan, he also drew such a circle that was nearly complete and threw the pen down, and Li Defu felt that this incomplete pattern was a bit of an eyesore, and finally picked up the pen and completed the circle, so that he could breathe a sigh of relief.

"Admiral Deng said that this is called perfectionism, that is, people like to do things from the beginning to the end." Li Defu also took out the other half of Deng Ming's marketing strategy: "Deng Commander Jian yì, don't carve the most difficult dragon pattern first, let's sell the other eleven first, how many sell as many." After a period of time, the best jadeite blocks are carved with ten dragon patterns, which is called 'limited edition'; if it is sold out, it will be changed again, and then ten pieces of 'collector's edition' will be carved. …… Red, green, yellow, white, yellow-green...... These limited editions can be desperately priced, and there are always a few rich people who don't care about this bit of silver, and in the end they can't help but buy the full set of dragon pattern editions. ”

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When Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde were studying how to turn Deng Ming's design into reality, there was a report at the door that someone asked to see them, and it was two groups of businessmen from western Sichuan.

The first person to be brought in was a promoter. This is a kind of Sichuan merchant that Chongqing's civil and military officials like to see the most, and they usually bring all kinds of good things, and as long as they have money in their hands, they can buy them -- as for the matter of selling scrap products for money, the psychological pressure on them is getting lighter and lighter, and Chongqing will have to give up sooner or later anyway. Governor Li's return to Beijing this time was to persuade the imperial court to evacuate everyone from Chongqing, and if this was the case, it was better to sell what could not be moved to Sichuan merchants; And the officers also pretended to be invisible to the theft of the soldiers. Now Chongqing has such a hard time, and he has to polish the jade all day long, so that the soldiers are not allowed to eat better and drink two sips of wine, what if the camp is bombed? If selling jadeite could make more money, the generals would even take the initiative to give the soldiers extra food so that they could work harder to deal with the hard stones from Burma.

Today, in addition to all kinds of luxury goods, this western Sichuan merchant also brings a new product that has never been seen before.

"It's called soap, and it's used to get rid of greasy." The Sichuan merchant took out a square light yellow thing for Wang Mingde and others to see, and asked them to take water and grease for testing on the spot.

"This thing works so well." After the experiment, Gao Mingzhan and the others all came to this conclusion. The sludge and grease that stick to your hands and cloth are difficult to wash off with clean water, but you can easily wash them off with a few rubs and rubbing them with this brick.

"This is the goods of a newly opened alchemy firm in Chengdu." The Sichuan businessman said with a smile. The price of the new breed will of course be a little more expensive. In order to strengthen their persuasiveness, the Sichuan merchants also told Wang Mingde that the emperor's ** team had just issued an order to purchase a large amount of soap from this alchemy firm, and this kind of goods would become the military necessities of the emperor's ** team in the future.

The patent right of soap does not belong to the firm that produced it, and there is a research society with the same name as this firm, and the patent right is shared between this research society and another alchemy research society. That alchemy research society also has an alchemy firm with the same name.

When he first saw the addresses of these two alchemy research associations, the first reaction of this western Sichuan businessman was that he had encountered a liar, because the address of the alchemy research society only had a pavilion number and no specific house number - you must know that all the addresses in Chengdu are now standardized, and if an upright chamber of commerce is in the city, it must be a certain road and a certain number; If it is in the suburbs, the address will also be a certain pavilion in Chengdu Prefecture. However, the two alchemy research societies that shared the soap patent were both Chengdu Mansion 51 Pavilion, which was handed over by the pavilion chief without a specific house number.

However, if you inquire carefully, it is really not a non-existent business house, but a special regulation of the Fifty-One Pavilion. It is said that the entire 51 pavilions are under the control of the military, from the pavilion chief to the pavilion soldiers, all of them are active personnel of the imperial ** team, and the letters entering the pavilion are not marked with the house number, but are forwarded by the military security personnel according to the name of the unit -- and considering that the imperial ** team orders their products, the suspicions of the merchants will be dissipated.

This stipulation aroused the curiosity of the businessman, who wanted to see the mysterious inventor with his own eyes and ask for a cup of tea. But when he walked down the Fifty Pavilions, he saw the Fifty-two Pavilions, and there was no open space in between, and he couldn't find the Fifty-One Pavilions that should be in this position. In this case, it is important to remember the name of the unit, and if there is a quality and supply problem with the product, it is good to protest or claim compensation from the other party.

"DuPont Alchemy Research Society." The western Sichuan businessman silently recited the name in his heart, he estimated that this was the name of the owner of the research society, but why not call it the Dushi Alchemy Research Association? Isn't that more traditional? The DuPont alchemy shop, which produces soap, has an address with a house number on Chunxi Road. If there is a product dispute, the merchant can try to negotiate with the alchemy shop first, and if it can't be resolved, he will consider going to the fifty-one pavilion. In fact, the specific location of the 51 Pavilion could not be found by any of the merchants, and when they went to the Chengdu Prefect's Yamen to inquire, the officials just repeatedly told them, and they only had to write a letter about the 51 Pavilion and indicate the name of the guild.

As for the name of the partner of the DuPont Alchemy Research Association, this businessman in western Sichuan felt that he was completely patting Admiral Deng's sycophants - didn't he often hear Admiral Deng say that the law was the biggest and that the law was the foundation for governing Sichuan, so the boss of the firm would come up with a strange name, and that name was also firmly remembered by the businessman: "Faben Alchemy Research Association." ”