Seeing Yang Fu running over, everyone was happy and surprised.
"Why did you come here? Liu Nian'er is alone in the city."
Mrs. Yang was a little worried about Nian'er. The child knew that she was pregnant and was unhappy for several days. Only then was he coaxed, and the whole family left him alone in the city.
"I'll go back early tomorrow morning." Yang Fu said.
"Then I'll go back with you." Yang said hurriedly.
"Mom, you don't have to worry about Nian'er. He doesn't have a holiday. It will take a few days for us to take care of things here before we go back together. The Double Ninth Festival is coming soon, and we agreed to take him mountain climbing this year."
Huo Erhuai nodded: "Okay, let's settle the matter early in the next two days, so that we can return to the city early."
Yang Fu followed Huo Xi around the village, listened to what she said, nodded repeatedly, and then told him the reason for his visit.
"Are the waist fans sold out?" Huo Xi opened his mouth in circles.
With so many types of fans, why are the waist fans sold out? I guess they make a lot of waist fans. The two shops must have hundreds of them.
Yang Fu nodded: "They are all sold out. They are sold for one penny each, and everyone is 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 several categories: bamboo fans, paper fans, silk fans, and feather fans. There are no less than ten or twenty models in each category.
The waist fan was also recently introduced. Did you not expect it to be so popular?
Nowadays, there is no good artifact to combat the heat. Even wealthy people who have ice cannot carry an ice basin around when going out. Fans have become the best artifact to combat the heat, and almost everyone has one in hand.
Even in the winter in Guangfengshui, the fans are never taken off the shelves.
The fan is not only used in summer, it can not only relieve the heat.
In winter, everyone uses charcoal for heating. When you enter a room with a brazier, it is steaming, dry and dry. You can also use a fan to help remove the heat. You can't go into other people's houses and take off your clothes right after entering, right?
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You can take off your cloak, but you can't take off your coat as well. The scene is not that beautiful.
The fan can remove heat and heat, and can also cover the face. The half-covered face can be used as a curtain. If you don't want to see someone, use the fan to block it. Others can't come up and take a look.
So it is normal to carry a fan in winter.
Fans are one of the goods that Guangfeng Shui can sell all year round.
Huo Xi also went to the countryside to collect goods in the past two years. Seeing that there were many craftsmen making fans in the countryside, he used the talented scholars in Qionghua Lane to draw a picture, write a fan surface, inscribe something, etc., and then recruited some to make fans.
The craftsman started selling fans.
Unexpectedly, the fans sold better and better.
Although Guangfeng Shui is not a shop that specializes in selling fans, fans have become a serious business that Guangfeng Shui does all year round.
The waist fan actually hasn’t been on the shelves for long. It didn’t sell well before. How come it suddenly has sales soaring ahead of other fans? It sells so well?
"Maybe it's because it's convenient to collect and use?" Huo Xi thought this might be the reason.
Although paper and bamboo fans fold up and take up less space than silk and round fans, maybe the waist fan is more innovative? Huo Xi did not expect the reason why the waist fan became so popular all of a sudden.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu had a discussion at night.
"Uncle, you can find some fan craftsmen, so you don't have to buy them from the countryside every time. Let's sign a few of our own craftsmen and bring them to our workshop. If new products come out in the future, they won't be imitated so quickly."
"Then you want to rent a yard as a workshop?"
"No, let's clear out our other courtyard in Qionghua Lane. That courtyard has two entrances and can be used as a small workshop. Let the ladies who make velvet flowers and fans go to that house. Lou Qingyao makes mother-of-pearl and also moves it.
Go over there. From there, it will be our small handicraft workshop. Let everyone work together, it will be more efficient than them taking the materials back to process."
After saying that, he added: "Let her mother and daughter live in the small house with Grandma Zou and grandma. They don't have to move to the workshop. Grandpa and grandma will also watch over the little girl."
Yang Fu nodded and wrote down: "Although the yard has two entrances, there may not be enough space for a handicraft workshop. There are many processes involved in making fans, and I'm afraid there won't be enough space to lay them out."
"We don't have to do it all in the courtyard. We put all the preliminary preparations in Zhuangzi. For example, sawing bamboo, breaking edges, splitting bamboo, scraping green, cooking, peeling, grinding, polishing, etc., are all done in Zhuangzi.
The processed semi-finished products are sent to the workshop and the fan makers can complete the last few steps."
Making a bamboo fan is said to require dozens or hundreds of processes.
Good craftsmen should be liberated from basic processes. They only need to instruct them on how to select materials and how to make the work, and let the apprentices and workers do the preliminary processes. They don't even have to do polishing or coloring, they only need to be responsible
Just design, shape, carve and make the fan.
He added: "In the future, all the snail shells will be transported back to Zhuangzi, where the semi-finished products will be polished and then sent to Lou Qingyao, so that her efficiency will be higher."
"Okay. As for the bamboo fan craftsman, I will go and ask for it myself."
Huo Xi nodded.
It doesn't take much effort to recruit the several craftsmen they work with.
They have food, drink, someone to take care of them, and money to make. They don't have to worry about no one taking the things they make, or having to worry about selling them. They just have to be responsible for making them.
Many craftsmen are very talented, but they are not sociable and do not know how to do business. The good things they make are either deceived at low prices, or they are unwilling to sell them at low prices and hide in the dust 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. After deducting Guangfeng Water's operating costs, the profits will be split half and half with them.
No firm is willing to provide such a cooperation model and such conditions. The larger the firm, the more it maintains its own identity.
When they see a skilled craftsman, they want to turn them into their own domestic slaves, or they may impose harsh conditions and trap them and hide them.
But the more skillful a craftsman is, the more temperamental he is. The more he is surrounded and hidden, the more these craftsmen will hide and tuck in and refuse to show off their craftsmanship.
One is that he is afraid that he will lose his use value and will be abandoned, and the other is that he is afraid that his disciples will starve to death.
As a result, many craftsmanships were not revealed for fear of being coveted by others, and they were slowly lost.
So cooperation is the last word.
If the east wind overwhelms his west wind, and you overwhelm him, what you get is of little value.
Huo Xi thought that with the conditions she offered, the craftsmen she had worked with in the past would be willing to come.
Again, what can be produced will not be sold, and what can be sold cannot be produced. Let the folk craftsmen use the platform of Guangfeng Shui to sell their own goods and achieve a win-win situation, which is good for you, me, and everyone.
Yang Fu nodded in agreement: "Okay, after making arrangements for returning to the city tomorrow, I will pick you up personally."