Chapter 113: A New Look (Part II)

Not only Nanami Trading Company, but also many businessmen from Kyushu Trading Company also relied on their good relationship with the top management of Seven Seas Trading Company, and in this experimental order fair, a total of 122 merchants of all sizes and merchants from the order gang participated in the exhibition, with a total of 417 booths and booths, and a total of more than 40,000 kinds of goods on display. The Seven Seas Trading Company's order meeting was a demonstration of the strength of the trading company to merchants from all over the world, and it also allowed a large number of merchants, including those Hu merchants, to see the opportunity.

And there are as many as 2,200 kinds of goods related to Yip's Workshop alone. Most of them belong to the high-tech products of this era. This is when Yip's IKEA has only come up with some of the goods suitable for ocean trade.

Tissot Watch Lines' various styles of table clocks and marine clocks of various levels attract a lot of attention. At this order fair, Tissot even displayed and released the first portable type of this era for the first time, a small clock that should be larger than a can in Ye Tao's impression.

Whether Yi Zhan Lou is in line with the habits of Hu Shang and more Westerners, Ye Tao doesn't know. But he treated his merchants equally, so that Yizhan Building also occupied a booth. In this booth, in addition to a two-person chessboard and a schematic diagram of the grand strategy gameplay, only some marching chess pieces were displayed, as well as some marching chess and grand strategy playbooks translated into Frankish and Persian. However, many Hu businessmen have seen the booming business of Yizhan Lou in Yicheng, and these people tentatively bought some chess equipment and rule manuals, which is also a big order for Yi Zhanlou.

If there are two most eye-catching booths in the whole exhibition, it is also Yip's Workshop. Ye's Workshop has successively produced more than 30 kinds of precision measuring instruments such as various nautical surveying instruments, geological and topographic measuring instruments, military rangefinders, etc. Preparations are underway for the establishment of a dedicated sales organization called "Bosch Instruments". Although these instruments are expensive, they were sold out on the day of the exhibition, except for the samples, and as for the printed manuals, product catalogs and technical index manuals of Yip's Workshop, they are in short supply. Once you have tasted the benefits of the sextant for navigation, and understand the benefits of the rangefinder and the shooting solution ruler for naval warfare, the sales results of the "Bosch Instrument" in the future are unlimited.

The other booth was an emerging growth point for Yip's Workshop: porcelain. Originally, the process of producing porcelain in Yip's workshop was quite extensive. It is mainly to meet the low-end market. But with Ye Tao becoming a partner of the Baishi Guanshi clan, the situation changed completely. Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, and Guan Yinhang discussed and split the Guan family into two parts. After the improvement of Ye Taodi's process, the output of Yun kiln has more than tripled, and it can finally meet some of Dongping's domestic directional supply lists, and there can also be some surplus production. This surplus is delicately wrapped and becomes a precious gift.

The production and sales of low-end porcelain, which was not well-known in the Guan's past, was merged with the imperial kiln under the inner government and the porcelain workshop under the Ye workshop. The production process and management of Yip's porcelain workshop, the recipe of some special porcelain specially for the royal family mastered by the imperial kiln, and the craftsmanship of Guan's are organically combined. There is a faint trend of becoming the leader of the domestic porcelain industry. The three porcelain craftsmen and equipment were all relocated to a newly built town near Danyang, and the relocated craftsmen and their families occupied most of the town at once. As a result, this town was honestly and unceremoniously named "Jingdezhen" by Ye Tao and Tan Weixin. And this order meeting is the first time that the porcelain produced in Jingdezhen has been unveiled.

Bone china. Blue and white porcelain and thin porcelain can arouse the amazement and popularity of Hu merchants who have not seen much high-end porcelain in the East, and the vases and plates produced by the cloud kiln for display are regarded as "artifacts". But Jingdezhen booth. The most eye-catching thing is to show the colors in Ye Tao's dazzling style. In the booth, on the outside there were a row of shelves with 24 kinds of unglazed porcelain blanks, but simply fired, and at the back, there were eight rows of vases, a total of 256 vases with exactly the same shape and no one of the same colors. Ye Tao almost used a vase to create a set of color cards. Two hundred and fifty-six colors, according to video games, is eight colors. This is the year when the eight-bit color can be realized. How much time and effort he put into finding the right glaze and developing the production process. The gradual birth of a variety of colors is something that everyone is accustomed to in the Yip's workshop, but when these things are placed in a set of color cards, this kind of visual impact even those technicians who are trained in the Yip's workshop and specialize in glaze modulation have a feeling of dizziness. As for the merchants everywhere, especially those who had some knowledge of porcelain. while admiring. While racking his brain, he wondered how these colors were made. Looking at these people's expressions of awe, confusion, incomprehension, and helplessness. Ye Tao felt that his efforts were definitely worth it.

Some merchants in Chunnan and Northern Liao were interested in the various heavy weapons that Ye's workshop could produce, and no one could produce long-range strike weapons such as catapults, ballistas, and divine arm bows except for a few merchants in Dongping. As for the ballista, it is the unique one of Yip's workshop. The arms business has always been profitable, but Ye Tao, who knew this, did not dare or want to make money in this area. He already knew the ambition of the Tan family father and son to unify the Central Plains, so there was no need to trouble his future "family". For these "merchants" who obviously have an official background and can talk about smuggling weapons, although they can't sell things like ballistas and catapults, they can still make a fortune with consumables such as arrows and spear shafts of various specifications. The labor cost of Ye's rolling planer to produce these things is almost negligible, and in Dongping, he is afraid that the price of these military consumables cannot be suppressed too much, and he only directs the supply of the blood qi army and the Yicheng water division, the city defense army and other armies with a relatively iron relationship, but for the foreign sales of these things, there is no such scruples. The low prices of arrows and spear shafts of various specifications in Ye's workshop really surprised those "merchants" who knew a little about this door, and in addition to being surprised, they naturally ordered them in large quantities. What made Ye Tao even more satisfied was that the two merchants from Northern Liao actually proposed a trading method of exchanging wood for arrows. For the Nanami Trading Company, which is now booming, with a lot of construction and many ships to build, it is much more cost-effective than collecting money and buying wood.

Excellent and unique goods, orderly exhibition arrangement, and low-key but solid marketing have made Yip's business group a model for many businesses to learn from. Ye Tao already understood that instead of spending a lot of effort to make those businessmen believe that what they said was useful, it was better to let everyone actually see the results, and then learn to be effective by themselves. At this exhibition, Yip, as not the strongest member of Seven Seas Trading Company, achieved the best results, with an eye-popping 14 million taels of on-site orders and intended orders. Although there were 600 table clocks of various ranks, the results were announced at the internal meeting of Nanami Trading Company, and there was a lot of gasp. But everyone had to be convinced, not only the table clock, but almost all the goods sold by Yip's workshop were imitable by others.

The members of Kyushu Trading Co., Ltd. who participated in the exhibition were excited about the amount of money they had made at this kind of exhibition, and they also realized the power of the exhibition format, and they realized that Seven Seas Trading Company could be called far-sighted in recruiting Ye Tao as a member. Just the day before Ye Tao was about to leave for Danyang, he became the first person to be a member of the two major business groups in Dongping, Nanami and Kyushu, and the Kyushu Trading Company, where Tan Weixin was in charge, had a much clearer arrangement for his position than the Nanami Trading Company. His position is "Chief Technology Officer".

Ye Tao's stay in Yicheng and Crescent Island added up to a month and a half. During these times, he laid a good foundation for the construction and development of Crescent Island with his abundant work enthusiasm. As for the innovation of the business model of the order fair and trade fair, in Ye Tao's view, it is just ordinary.

Originally, Ye Tao wanted to go back to Crescent Island for half a month, and then return to Danyang after the lighthouse and watchtower were capped, but the letter from Tan Weixin received in Yicheng made Ye Tao feel a little strange. In Tan Weixin's letter, there is not a single mention of the commercial policies of the imperial court, not a single mention of the progress of her promotion of Dongping's monetary reform, or even a single mention of any chamber of commerce that has nothing to do with Ye Tao, but only about the fact that in the past few days, she has gathered the children of the boring family gathered in Danyang to engage in drama.

"Drama?" Seeing the word mentioned in the letter, Ye Tao frowned. It is true to say that Tan Weixin still retains a lot of petty bourgeois complexes, but she is not a person who squandered her energy. Especially her weak body, so that she is always careful to do only what is necessary, and now she is entangled in everything, where does she get the energy to do drama?

Ye Tao glanced at the plots of the plays mentioned by Tan Weixin, and knew that Tan Weixin had already copied "Thunderstorm", "Oedipus King", and even "Shajiabang...... In fact, the title is drama, but it also combines other forms of performance, at least, the famous battle of wits in Shajiabangli, except for changing some terms, can be regarded as a complete copy. Thousands of miles apart, Ye Tao naturally couldn't feel and imagine the huge sensation caused by the classic "battle of wisdom" when the three of them sang the carefully designed words and phrases in an extremely tight rhythm when Tan Weixin said about the premiere. However, Ye Tao still felt a little different from the transfer of Tan Weixin's interest.