Chapter 167: Selected Golden Pearls
The arrangement has been decided, Wang Yan still did not fly back to Qingshan directly, but made a detour to Chunshen City and stayed for a day, mainly to visit Qin Donglai's family, and by the way, to reserve some side dishes for Qin Donglai. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this is Wang Yan's biggest backer, and he must not lose his courtesy.
In addition, Wang Yan met with Cao Enzhong and Fang Ruili again, mainly to contact feelings, as for work matters, Wang Yan basically listened to the report symbolically, and Fang Ruili was very relieved to do things.
Before getting on the plane, Wang Yan called Zhang Hong to inform him that he was ready to board the plane, and she could prepare for the opening of the business. In fact, the so-called preparations for the opening of the business are just to arrange the scene and notify the important guests, but Wang Yan is not there, Zhang Hong has no bottom in his heart, and Wang Yan is quite satisfied with Zhang Hong's attitude. In fact, one of the main estrangements between them is that Zhang Hong does not take Wang Yan as the backbone or takes Wang Yan as the backbone but does not admit it, and denies Wang Yan in order to compete with Wang Yan on an equal footing.
Back in Qingshan, Zhang Hong's beauty salon was still informing the guests of its opening, and it would not be officially opened until three days later, so Wang Yan reported to Xiao Hong first.
In Wang Yan's stay in Myanmar, Tengchong for a few days, the timber has been transported to Qingshan, Xiao Hong, Rong Qiming, Wang Song is guiding Xiao Yue to take the selection of materials: small leaf red sandalwood is not much, only 2, 3 tons, to the bark and sapwood is not left one-third, Xiao Hong let the bead machine tool rotate the bark, and then according to the old material, new material, ordinary, full star classification, and then according to the thickness of the classification of preservation, other Burmese Huanghua pear, blood dragon wood, golden camphor is also classified according to this.
Wang Yan had a whim, just making bracelet products is too simple, and some slightly coarse wood is wasted, so it is better to get some other cultural toys.
As soon as he told Xiao Hong, Xiao Hong smiled bitterly: "The idea is right, but the level of these people can't keep up!" These deaf and mute people have not undergone formal learning, and it is impossible to carry out systematic artistic training, after all, there is a communication barrier, so they can only drive beads, and it is impossible for them to carve dragons and phoenixes! ”
"We can get some gourd handles!" Xiao Yue reacted quickly, "Turn the coarser wood into a gourd, just add some turning tools!" ”
"Good!" Several people who understood agreed with Xiao Yue's proposal in unison.
"Also," Wang Yan took out another bag of gold pearls, in order to prevent the gold pearls from rubbing against each other, he could only use the original silk cloth bag to package and transport them separately, "I have some gold pearls here, I have to use your polishing machine to process them!" ”
"Wow-" Xiao Yue couldn't help but exclaim when she saw the golden pearls shining with round and jade pearls.
Everyone is a veteran player, and their eyesight is all vicious, and they immediately pick out the big round and round beads. Unfortunately, there are not enough people, and there are 4 or 50,000 beads!
But Xiao Yue has a way. Deaf people can't speak, but someone has said that God is fair, and often closes a door for you and opens a window for you, so many deaf people have excellent eyesight.
Xiao Yue called a group of 7 or 8 deaf-mutes, all of whom were the first to enter the factory, and told them in sign language to choose perfectly round beads and round beads to come out.
So, Wang Yan, Xiao Hong, Rong Qiming, Wang Song, and Xiao Yue took 8 deaf and mute people to start picking beads: first select the oversized beads, more than 14mm, regardless of roundness, and select them for Wang Yan to optimize roundness, and more than 12mm, regardless of roundness, select them for Xiao Hong, Rong Qiming, and Wang Song for roundness optimization, and the others are handed over to the deaf-mute for screening; Xiao Yue is in charge of supervising the work.
First, this selection method is the easiest and fastest, and secondly, the reliability of these deaf and dumb people is not enough, in case of losing a few beads, the loss will be great, so the high price of the big beads for their own candidates, the others are only for the deaf and dumb candidates, in case of losing a few beads, it is not a large bead with a super high price. It's not that Wang Yan doesn't believe in people, but this is a precautionary measure that must be set up in the way of business, not for the deaf and mute, but for all foreign employees who have not been tested.
Soon, more than 700 beads above 14mm were selected and handed over to Wang Yan, more than 2,000 beads above 12mm were distributed to Xiao Hong, Rong Qiming, and Wang Song, and the remaining more than 40,000 beads were distributed to the deaf and mute to continue to subdivide with 10mm as the boundary.
Wang Yan also screened from large to small, and soon selected 1 22mm round beads, 20mm 2, 6 other 16mm or more, 5 round beads 20mm, 10 other 16mm or more, 10 positive round beads above 14mm, and 32 round beads.
These beads can no longer be priced by grams, they can only be negotiated individually one by one, each worth tens of thousands of dollars; Other beads that were not round enough and round were handed over to Xiao Yue by Wang Yan and asked the jade carving scientists to grind them into perfect circles little by little with a polishing machine.
Others also selected 29 13mm round beads, 83 round beads, 77 12mm round beads, and 242 round beads, all of which were also worth thousands of dollars, and also handed over the remaining beads that were not round enough to Xiao Yue to deal with.
A few people then screened the slightly smaller beads with the deaf and mute, first divided into two parts above 10mm and below, and then did not look at them one by one, took a large white porcelain plate, grabbed a handful of gold pearls into it, and then shook the white porcelain plate slightly, affecting the rolling of other gold pearls to pick out, it must not be round enough, and the gold pearls that are not round enough are picked out after a few turns. This is what the ancients called the principle of walking the beads.
Then by adjusting the inclination of the white porcelain plate, the round beads and round beads are selected, and then the beads of different diameters are screened out with holes.
In the end, Wang Yan obtained a total of 1 22mm round bead, 2 20mm round beads, 5 round beads, 6 positive round beads above 16mm, and 10 round beads; 10 round beads above 14mm, 32 round beads; 279 11mm, 12mm, 13mm round beads, 827 round beads; 10,541 round beads of 8mm, 9mm and 10mm, and 29,991 round beads; 541 gold pearls above 14mm, 1721 over 12mm, 1917 over 10mm, 1516 over 8mm, and 127 below 8mm; It seems that the seller of gold pearls is not a full pit person, the proportion of large beads is not round enough, and the proportion of small beads is not round enough but low, and people can also explain that the size makes up for the roundness.
Wang Yan roughly estimated it to see whether it was a loss or a gain, and the result was about 35 million euros based on the retail price, but it was not enough to count the beads. It shouldn't be a loss, but it's too much worse than the profit from purchasing jadeite, but the business has to be average, and it can't always be compared with the best, right? Besides, coupled with the post-design and processing into jewelry, the profit will be further increased, and the value-added of post-processing is greater than that of jadeite, not to mention that Wang Yan has a plan to raise the price.
The problem now is that Wang Yan does not plan to sell a few gold pearls above 20mm, but wants to make some jewelry for his women: the 22mm round beads must be Du Yanji's, the 20mm round beads are for Ma Minsu, and the 20mm round beads are for my mother and Zhang Hong. Although he has divorced Zhang Hong, Zhang Hong's contribution to the family is indelible, and it is appropriate to give her a little comfort.
Wang Yan told Xiao Yueyi about his plan, and Xiao Yue proposed to ask for a 20mm gold pearl for manual fees, including processing gold pearls that were not round enough.
Wang Yan couldn't afford to provoke him, so he had to agree.
Wang Yan asked Xiao Yue to make a 22mm gold pearl into a ring, which was for Du Yanji; Two 20mm beads are made into a pair of earrings, which are given to maminin; The other 4 20mm round beads were made into two pairs of earrings, which were given to my mother and Zhang Hong.
After finishing the work of the golden pearl, Xiao Hong dragged Wang Yan to see the amber he got back from Myanmar, and the amber was also bought back in Myanmar, so he had to carefully select the good quality.
Amber is divided into golden amber, blood amber, and brown amber, and as for the famous root amber in Myanmar, Xiao Hong didn't like it and didn't buy it at all. Pick out the good transparency first, and then optimize the rest on the machine. Then select the one with high purity and no impurities from the high permeability amber, and the one with clear inclusions, which is the best, and can be directly made into ornaments, handles, pendants or something; For others, large chunks of high permeability are cut off, and the rest is sent for optimization.
With the progress of technology, many jewelry have been heated and pressurized and other means for so-called optimization, in order to improve transparency or color, which is Xiao Hong and Wang Yan are opposed, the material of jewelry is natural beauty, through artificial technology to improve the color of the material, do you say it is still natural beauty? However, the market is becoming more and more accepting of this so-called optimization, and of course, there is also the helplessness of identifying difficulties. Blind market demand, lack of morality, asymmetry of knowledge and other reasons, resulting in a pursuit of beauty and lower the demand for naturalness of the consumption concept, helpless!
Wang Yan also persuaded Xiao Hong: "Existence is reasonable, anyway, these things are all things, and they won't harm people's lives, people spend money and buy a good mood, and they will achieve their goal, so why should you be obsessed?" ”
"But some people are ...... to maintain and increase their value," Xiao Hong was unwilling.
"The appraisal standards have also changed with the times, according to the current standards, these optimized things also have collectible value, and besides, they are all speculators, willing to gamble and lose, do you care if they live or die?" Wang Yan looks down on those speculators who blindly follow the trend, life and death are all self-inflicted, and they are not as serious as life and death, at most they are just breaking some money.
Xiao Hong disdains to do those so-called optimization things, but he has to suffer huge losses. Wang Yan doesn't care, anyway, the production market has defaulted to the optimized things, which is not considered fraud, so nothing can make Xiao Hong lose money, so let Xiao Yue pick the remaining amber from Xiao Hong to find someone to optimize, and then take it back and process it into ornaments, pieces, jewelry and other currency crafts, and then send it to Tengchong, let Wang Dong and Fang Zhongyi sell it, or sell it in the love toy store, Xiao Hong's pure natural amber works are sold in his studio or sent to auction.