Chapter 541 If you have the intention, just drink this cup
"Divide, divert?" The two officials, Sun Zhifu and Ji Zhixian, were fine, but Cheng Qian, the head of the porcelain industry, felt like he was struck by five thunders.
It’s all connected, everything is connected!
Why did His Highness the King of Chu suddenly come to Jingdezhen with those Jiangnan maritime merchants?
Why did you attack yourself as soon as you arrived and label yourself and the porcelain industry guild as smugglers?
Why did he propose to form a porcelain industry federation yesterday and set up so many branches?
Why are you asking Jizhi County again about the floating population in Jingdezhen today?
Everything is foreshadowing, and the purpose is to poach some of Jingdezhen’s industries!
It's a pity that it's too late to wake up. Now His Highness has taken every step to push himself into a corner, leaving him with no choice but to agree...
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In fact, Cheng Qian was forcing some drama on himself. If Zhu Zhen wanted to mess with him, he didn't even need to speak, just a look was enough.
Only considering the particularity and complexity of Jingdezhen's porcelain industry, His Royal Highness the King of Chu had the patience to do enough foreplay to make it easier for Cheng Qian to accept it.
The relationship between the two parties should be smoother, so that the subsequent cooperation can be better, instead of causing a lot of chaos due to disharmony between the two parties.
Zhu Zhen has learned that the porcelain industry in Jingdezhen is a very tight-knit group. They jointly keep industry secrets and are consciously exclusive to maintain the monopoly of Jingdezhen porcelain.
And through these few days of visits, he also understood how Jingdezhen keeps secrets. In addition to various secret formulas, the most important thing is the extremely detailed division of labor.
A worker has been working for several years, repeating the same process. While practice makes perfect, he also has little understanding of other processes.
Therefore, simply poaching people is almost useless, and it is difficult to poach all the workers for more than a hundred processes. Even if you poach them all, you will not be able to organize production, let alone select ingredients and ingredients, which are secret recipes that only the boss has.
In addition, there is a very practical problem. Even if the human problem is solved, do all the raw materials have to be transported back to Suzhou from Jiangxi? We still have to try our best to find substitutes from the local area.
This requires the subjective initiative of everyone from top to bottom, and even the collective efforts of the entire industry. Only then can it be possible to successfully replicate Jingdezhen in Jiangnan.
Therefore, he did not want to ruin his relationship with Cheng Qian and the others.
To put it simply, they want to rob you but also want your cooperation happily.
But for Cheng Qian, it is easy to be robbed, but it is really difficult to be happy.
That's like cultivating a competitor in person! Moreover, the opponent is backed by Jiangnan, has strong financial resources, convenient transportation, and all conditions are unmatched by Jingdezhen.
Once they really succeed, they will definitely become Jingdezhen's strongest competitor, and it is even possible to defeat Jingdezhen directly.
When Cheng Qian thought that he had to dig his own grave with his own hands, it was too late for him to cry, so why should he laugh? What a joke!
"Hey, don't be like this." His Royal Highness the King of Chu was very understanding of his difficulties. He poured a glass of wine for Cheng Qian with his own hands and gave it to him: "Come, drink this glass and listen to me and you."
explain."
"Thank you, Your Highness..." Cheng Qian took the wine glass tremblingly, raised his head and drank it. He felt that this was the bitterest glass of wine he had ever drunk in his life, and his whole face immediately wrinkled into a chrysanthemum.
"Cheng Qian, don't look so sad. Your Highness will pour you wine. What a shame!" Magistrate Sun saw Cheng Qian's bearish look and wished he could eat him alive to avoid bringing trouble to himself.
"Yes, Cheng Qian, smile." Ji Zhixian had the same idea, fearing that this guy would offend Lao Liu, the smiling tiger.
"Hey..." Cheng Qian struggled to squeeze out a smile, which was uglier than crying.
"Okay, okay," Zhu Zhen looked unbearable, waving his hands and said: "Don't stand and talk without hurting your back. Shut up, both of you. It's normal for Lao Cheng to have emotions. It's not sweet to twist the melon.
You have to relieve him of his worries so that he can untie his knot."
"Hey." Both officials shut up obediently.
"I know what you are worried about." He walked up to Cheng Qian, pressed his shoulder and said, "It's just that this group of people who were separated will come back to compete with me for business?"
"Yes, that's the case. Jiangnan is very wealthy and is His Highness's biological son. If we let them get involved, how can we still have jobs?" Cheng Qian nodded and said with tears in his eyes:
"As a leader in this industry, I have to consider the more than 500 colleagues in Jingdezhen."
"Understood, I understand everything." Zhu Zhen nodded, tightened his hands and said:
"That's why I want to establish this porcelain industry association to curb vicious competition and promote the healthy development of the national porcelain industry. And I have decided that you will be the first president of the association, okay?"
"Cheng Huishou, this is a huge honor." Eunuch Zhou said bitterly: "His Highness told our family yesterday that all porcelain exported in the future must be certified by the Porcelain Industry Federation. Those who have not been certified
Export is strictly prohibited.
"Furthermore, the price for exporting each type of porcelain and the share of each branch are all decided by the General Association. If you become the president, all the kilns in the country will be opened or destroyed. It's all a matter of your words. What's the matter?
What’s there to be afraid of?”
"That's what he said..." Cheng Qian was indeed moved, but he was too embarrassed to agree immediately and had to be reserved first.
Seeing that he had taken the bait, Magistrate Sun and Magistrate Ji on the side couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The businessman only looked at what was in front of him. So what if you are the leader of the meeting? With His Highness here, how can you turn the world upside down? If you make His Highness unhappy in the future
, is it not just a matter of his words to replace you?
But then I thought about it, how could His Highness play such petty tricks with him given his status? As long as Cheng Qian didn't go too far, I guess His Highness would still protect him. After all, he was the first president promoted by His Highness.
Thinking about it this way, the two officials were quite envious of Cheng Qian. His Highness really looked at him and Jingdezhen Porcelain Industry in a different light...
It's more than ten times better than being an official.
Of course, this meeting is not a curse.
After all, the condition for His Highness to let him be the leader of the guild is to help him establish the porcelain industry in Suzhou. If he fails to work hard, not only will he not be able to become the guild leader, but they will also have no share in exporting in the future.
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"Haha, Old Cheng, why are you so coy about it?" Magistrate Sun teased Cheng Qian.
"Cheng Huishou is thin-skinned. It's normal." His Royal Highness the King of Chu smiled and poured him another glass of wine and said, "If you have the intention, just drink this glass, how about it?"
"Hey, I obey." Cheng Qian picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
"Hahaha, okay!" Everyone clapped their hands and cheered.
"Is this glass of wine delicious?" Zhu Zhen asked with a smile.
"Yeah, it tastes good." Cheng Qian smiled sheepishly. Then he quickly stood up, knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Highness is so generous and loving, how can a villain not know how to appreciate it? From now on, I will follow His Highness's lead and go through fire and water.
Without hesitation."
"Haha, okay." Zhu Zhen laughed happily and said: "From now on, the porcelain making industry of the Ming Dynasty will be entrusted to Cheng Huishou!"
"Yes." Cheng Qian responded loudly.
Everyone also congratulated His Highness on taking in another tiger general.
