In Fanfang, there were a lot more people than the last time Huo Xi came.
Huo Xi was just a middleman at first. Later, when the business grew, she didn't expect to have a women's workshop and a fan shop.
Maybe all businessmen in the world have the same approach.
When you have no capital at the beginning, you will be a middleman, buying other people's goods to sell, buying low and selling high to earn some price difference. When your business grows and you have your own sales and brand, you will want to have your own products.
Just looking at other people's goods selling well will make you feel so itchy that grass will grow in your heart.
Huo Xi didn't expect that from the beginning, he was just wooing the women in Qionghua Lane and only planned to do some business processing. He didn't expect that he would actually have two workshops while doing it.
Coupled with the sugar factory on Zhuangzi, she now has three unique products of her own.
Now walking in Fanfang, I feel a little emotional.
There are many types of fans, and it is impossible to make all types of fans. Now the owner of the fan shop makes round fans, folding fans, waist fans, bamboo silk fans, and sandalwood fans.
Nowadays, even if half of the process is done in Zhuangzi, the fan workshop is still crowded.
A fan is not just about the fan surface, fan ribs, and fan nails. It also has many accessories, such as fan pendant, fan cover, fan box, fan box, and fan box and cabinet.
Even if the female workshop receives the production of fans, pendants and fan covers, the fan workshop only makes other things, which requires a lot of processes and craftsmen.
Walking in the fan square, you know that Shen Qianzhong's house is still too small.
When I walked to the folding fan room, I saw that the master craftsman was leading two apprentices to chop bamboo. The ground occupied a large area, and there were bamboo chips, sawdust, bamboo silk, bamboo skin and other items everywhere. I frowned.
Aren't the selection of materials, bamboo splitting, and peeling done in Zhuangzi and then sent to the workshop? How come the bamboo and wood are moved to the workshop?
Step forward.
The old man and the young man were very focused on their work. When they saw her approaching, they raised their heads to look.
When Huo Xi revealed his identity, Weng Liangyou hurriedly pulled his cousin Weng Yaofeng to stand up and say hello, but the old man sat still on the stool and only looked at her with a straight face, as if he blamed her for delaying his work.
Craftsmen all have temperaments, and the more skilled a craftsman is, the more bizarre his temperament will be.
Huo Xi was different from people nowadays who look down on craftsmen. She liked these professionals very much. She knelt down in front of the old man and hugged her knees to watch him work.
The old man's first two grandsons looked at her while they were working. They had heard that their boss was young, but they didn't expect her to be so young. Sure enough, what the grandfather said was right, there are people outside the mountains.
The old man ignored Huo Xi and just immersed himself in his work.
Huo Xi watched for a while and saw him splitting bamboo silk with his own hands, and said: "You old man is one of the best fan makers in a hundred kilometers. Why bother splitting bamboo yourself? Let Zhuangzi do these first steps. You are not a failure.
An easy one?"
The old man glanced at her: "What do you know, you kid?"
"I am a layman, so I want to ask you for advice."
Seeing that she had a good attitude, the old man glanced at her and said, "Do you think it's easy to make a fan? A good craftsman has to go to the mountain to select the wood and bamboo himself. For good wood, he may have to be beside him.
Keep it for a few years."
As he talked, his hands kept moving: "From cutting it back to doing every process by yourself, the fan you make has life. If you leave every process to others, it will be faster, but that is not craftsmanship."
Learn your own stuff.”
Uh... Huo Xi was actually speechless.
Nowadays, the industry has not yet sprouted, and everything is made by hand. A craftsman has to do everything himself from selecting materials to splitting materials. How many months and half a year does it take to make a fan? Are there any shops that sell it?
Huo Xi tilted her head and looked at him.
This is obviously a high-end custom-made master who disdains things that come out of the assembly line.
Of course she knows that there are differences between high-end products and products produced by assembly lines. But she is a businessman. Businessmen must first have products to sell, and have things to put on the shelves in the shop. How many fans can be sold a year? This is what Guangfeng Water is today.
What can be done?
Of course she wants haute couture or something.
I'm afraid that I can't protect it, so I can only sneak it in quietly and blend it into mass merchandise without being obvious.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to tell whether the brand would be sold as a high-end custom-made product. I am afraid that the old man and his two grandsons would be snatched away by big merchants.
She is very vulgar. At this stage, she still plans to focus on flow production. The gentle breeze is the original intention of the fan.
Then he started trying to reason with the old man.
Talk about the difference between mass merchandise and advanced customization, and why she wants to make mass merchandise.
The old man didn't stop, didn't look at her, and didn't know if he heard her.
I guess I think summer insects cannot be compared to ice.
You may also think that Huo Xi is a businessman who only cares about money, and his philosophy is different. He does not agree with the materials that need to be made by others, and all the processes must be done by himself.
"What do you know?" the old man said after a while.
Huo Xi's mouth was dry as she spoke, and then she felt a little angry when he said this.
She is going to sea next year and wants a large number of fans, and of course she hopes to mass-produce them. This old man has said so much, but remains unmoved and says she doesn't understand.
"Why don't I understand? You see, your idea has been solidified. No matter how good the craftsmanship of the fans you make is, there are some changes in the style. Look at the folding fans you made, the heads are still square.
appearance."
Now that the sea ban has been lifted, people in the Wei Dynasty are very fond of the fans of the Wei Dynasty. If your own fan shop does not have some new ideas, it will not be able to sell more than others.
"What's wrong with me slapping my head?"
The old man glared at Huo Xi angrily: "You little kid, you don't know how to talk nonsense. This folding fan is also called a gentleman's fan. After it is folded, it will be straight and upright, and it will look like a gentleman. What's wrong with it?"
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"It's not that it's bad. It's true that this folding fan is called a gentleman's fan, and it's true that it forms a standard square shape after being folded, but do all gentlemen in the world have the same character? Ten kinds of people have ten kinds of preferences. Of course, more styles must be made.
, so as to attract more people.”
The old man choked on his head and refused to listen.
He feels that this kind of fan head is popular nowadays, and everyone likes this kind of gentleman's fan. Just a kid who doesn't know anything is talking nonsense. The style is good and it is not suitable for eating or drinking. It still depends on the craftsmanship.
Huo Xi took a semi-finished folding fan next to her and saw that the fan nails were made of ox horn, and that the fan bones were even more delicate in workmanship. She then looked at the head of the fan.
The fan head is the gathering point of the folding fan, and the handle is the head shape of the fan. Huo Xi knows about more than ten types of fan heads. As a small business, if she wants to stand out, she must continue to innovate.
While letting Xiang Xiang go to the workshop to find charcoal pens and paper, he tore the old man's head off.
When Xiang Xiang found paper and pen, Huo Xi drew about ten kinds of fan heads on the paper.
"You see, there are many types of fans in the world, and there are also many styles of fan heads. In addition to the square head nowadays, there are also round heads, flat heads, and pointed heads. According to various shapes, there are magnolia heads, Piba heads, and monk heads.
The old man kept his hands on his head, but his eyes squinted.
"Look, there are so many styles, wouldn't there be more room for choice? So you still have to worry about selling the fans you make? If you add your craftsmanship and innovation, wouldn't you be able to sell them at a higher price? Or should you?
Aren’t the fans made for sale? You are not short of money, and you don’t plan to support your family. It’s just a hobby?”