Chapter 163: The Harvest Season
The steward of the jade carving factory was introduced by Hou Da, who was sent by the Marquis of Yongchang to manage the soap factory, this steward is called Han Rang, who is in his thirties this year, and looks very elegant, and has only one son in the family, who is only fourteen years old this year. Han Rang used to think that he was the big housekeeper in the mansion of the powerful, but because he offended people, he was thrown out. It's all about getting to the pearls.
This Han Rang is a very qualified subordinate, never nosy, the jade carving factory is well managed, because of his unique vision, the fine products left for the pearl are very satisfied with the pearl, and for those rough stones with slightly worse quality, he also has a way. Drawing on the drawings given by Pearl, the work is very capable, Pearl gave him a salary of five hundred taels of silver a year, and the silver given during the New Year's holidays is also more than one hundred taels, and sometimes he will send some jade pendants and jade pendants and so on.
After asking for instructions on the largest piece of jade, Han Rang mentioned the other four stones, the most valuable is the dragon stone jade, according to Han Rang, this one-meter-large dragon stone species, made into a large thing, even if the carving is very good, at most it is sold for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, if they are all cut into small pieces, they can be made into hundreds of jade pendants, and bracelets can be made into two hundred. Pearl thought about it, it was definitely right, and said to Han Rang,
"Just do as you say, you can do it with bracelets first, and you should make that kind of flat bracelet, and you should do less round bracelets and chaise bracelets. The rest of the materials are made into beads, rings, rings and pendants, and jade pendants must also be made, and the workmanship must be meticulous, I will give you some more drawings, and you let the craftsman refer to them. Then send it to a jewelry processing shop for them to make. ”
"Yes, please rest assured, Madame. What about the other three? One piece is ice-seeded, with a hint of pale green. One is a purple jadeite with a darker color and a glass species, and a large one is a glass species of water blue. ”
Pearl thought for a moment and said, "The ice species is pale green, you look at the materials and make them into ornaments, such as Guanyin, Buddha statues or maids, and the rest are made into bracelets and pendants." Purple and aqua blue jadeite. All are made into small pieces of bracelets and pendants. The rest of the material is made into beads and ring faces, so don't waste them. "Pearl's favorite liquor is purple and aqua blue bracelets and pendants too.
Han Rang said, "Madam, don't worry, I'll watch it myself." ”
"What is the quality of the other jadeite?"
"All the best. Available in a variety of materials. Han Rang said.
"The workmanship must be good. To be meticulous, the design must be novel. Let the craftsmen also use their brains a lot. The design I give is the best to use, and if it can't be used, let them study it themselves. That's right. What about the Hetian jade that was brought back? ”
"It's already half done, the first ones to be sent to you are small, not high-quality, and the best ones are now in the warehouse, guarded by special personnel." After thinking about it, Han Rang said again, "There are a lot of mutton fat jade, and there are also a lot of large pieces, can Mrs. go and take a look?" ”
Pearl nodded, and then told Han Rang about ivory carving and the processing of rhinoceros horn and agate. Pearl followed Han Rang to the jade warehouse first, this warehouse is divided into two floors, there are five or six hundred square meters, there is more than one meter high ice full of green Buddha statues, a nearly two meters long, sixty centimeters high lilac and emerald green jade carved Guanyin lying statue, half a meter high white and green lotus carp, ice yellow jade peanut fruit plate, more than one and a half meters of Buddha statues and Guanyin more than 20, all of which are ice species, bean species, glass species, jade jade cabbage has 12, all of which are glass species and ice species. The color is also full of green, light green, yellow, purple and white, there are 78 carvings of Guanyin, Buddha statues, maids and so on about one meter, the best landscape bonsai is the ice emperor green, and the worst is also the bean full green. There are also 23 see multicolored jadeite.
There are more carvings of small pieces, and those that can be put in this warehouse are all superb, all of which are dragon stones, glass, and ice, and the carving is very fine, and the design is also novel. There are 1,123 statues of Kannon and Buddha, as well as children and mountains. In terms of jewelry, pearls like dragon stone, glass, ice, oil blue and violet, as well as blue water jade bracelets, so there are 3,219 bracelets here, 1,645 pendants, and 9,981 jade pendants. 454 beaded necklaces. There are 8,111 bracelets, 6,545 rings, and ten boxes of rings and jewelry. It's all a one-meter-high box. Pearl was so satisfied that in the evening, she put all these things into the space.
As for the storehouses of Hetian jade, most of the pearls were also swept, and they were all jewelry, large sculptures and some exquisite ornaments.
Now the space is a little too much, fortunately the ten or so floors of the shopping mall hall are very large, otherwise I really don't know where to put it.
Zhuangzi is divided into three kinds of people: guards, secret guards, and servants, and they are not allowed to be involved with each other. The people who guard the treasury are also very loyal people, and when the pearls are finished with these treasures, they will rotate their positions. In the jewelry processing workshop. Only two sets of jewelry are sold to Jumbo House every month, and 20 pieces of jewelry are given to each other during the New Year's holidays. They don't work very efficiently, because pearls want quality, not speed. In the jewelry warehouse, the pearl also puts all the jewelry in the space. These pieces of jewelry are ingenious! None of them are bulky, especially the filigree process, which is a fine gold process that processes gold into silk and then makes gold jewelry by means of coiling, pinching, filament, and stacking. Cloisonné is to use the filigree to make a groove, pinched into plum blossoms, peony flowers, birds, dragons and phoenixes, pavilions and pavilions and other patterns, weaving is the gold wire weaving edge patterns and different shapes of the shading, pearls even see a foot-long, with gold wire woven into a gold gourd, which is also inlaid with gemstones, it is really beautiful, not to mention those jewelry. In addition, the gemstones processed by the machine tool are shiny, and they will feel dazzling in the sun, and most of the jewelry has broken diamonds, which are even more dazzling.
Pearl later found the chief steward Qiao Dazhu, this person is very loyal to the pearl, upright, very careful, she asked Qiao Dazhu to find a carpenter with very good craftsmanship, so many red sandalwood and ebony on the Zhuangzi, just can carve out some things, pearl also needs the base of the screen. There is also a golden silk nanmu. This wood is only available to the royal family, but it is allowed to be used as a Buddha statue. Pearl is going to do more. Then there's the mirror frame. The glass factory has already made flat glass, and the mirror is not far away, and the pearl makes people hurry up to make a mirror frame, both large and small.
Now there are so many gemstones of pearls that she can't finish processing them in a similar space alone! All, take out a portion of the thumb-sized or even smaller gems and give them to the jewelry factory, as well as crystal sapphires, spinels, peridotes, zircons, moonstones, crystals, beeswax, clams, agate, and amber, and of course charolite, lapis lazuli, spodumene, aquamarine, and two large chests of topaz from Shopkeeper Liu and Tom.
Other golden green cat's eyes, common cat's eyes, alexandrites, diamonds, pigeon's blood rubies, Kashmir sapphires. The finest emeralds. That's something you won't trust to anyone else.
Mingqian also sent a letter, but he didn't blame Pearl for not going home, but just told her to be careful when she went out, saying that the children missed her very much. Such a man. How could you not like it?
Since the pearl got the horses. It's like learning to ride a horse. As if she was crazy, Liu Zi and Liu Xuan both looked at her. Occasionally led her to the suburbs to walk the horse, from the beginning let people lead the horse. Later, I was able to trot for a while, and Pearl felt satisfied.
Liu Huang and Liu Lan sent a letter asking for money, and the pearl farm of the two of them tripled in size and bought a lot of descendants who signed the death deed. They put in new seedlings every year, which guarantees that there are pearls to harvest every year. In addition, this matter needs to be kept secret, and the number of guards they hire is also increasing, these guards are all dead soldiers who have undergone strict training, Liu Huang also once reported that two people wanted to steal pearls and were executed by them, and some people came to investigate, and there was no return. Although Pearl also feels that it is not good to kill people, but if she doesn't do this, she will die, and Pearl can only choose someone else to die.
Liu Huang and Liu Lan sold all the beads that were not of good quality, and all the silver they got was used to continue to expand the scale of production. It is also necessary to send people to the South Seas to find the white lipped oyster and golden lipped oyster that produce golden pearls, because of its huge size, it can be cultivated out of 9~16mm white or golden South Sea pearls, the output of golden pearls is very small, and the price is expensive. Those people are literally exchanging their lives for pearl oysters, and all the wages are very high.
The 100,000 taels of silver that Pearl gave them not only bought the mother tree of Dahongpao, but also bought two tea gardens in Jiangnan that produced excellent tea. All of them have no liquidity anymore. And these two men came up with a very amazing plan for Pearl, which was to go to sea and open up a new route from Asia to Europe. If pearl's memory is correct, it should be the Suez Canal. This idea is too heartwarming and too bold, Pearl did not agree, if it was his own son, Pearl would definitely fully support it.
Write a letter to Liu Huang and Liu Lan, first, hand over all the business in her hand, she will let Liu Qing and Chu Yan take over, and the two of them will change their names and surnames from now on, and deal with the merchants of Nanyang, especially pay attention to Luzon, Luzon's resources must be obtained. And other countries in the South Seas should also pay attention to buying their grain, and at the same time pay attention to a person named Zhao Qingyu, Pearl is very suspicious of this person's true identity. No money! No money! It's really humiliating that the things in my hand can't be sold. It seems that the only way to sell the original things in the space is to find a way.
On this day, she went horseback riding in the suburbs, and Pearl also wanted to try her archery skills, in fact, she knew archery in her previous life, and when she saw the female athletes who won gold medals in the Olympic Games, she was envious. All are picked up again, this time Pearl took the guards and girls to hunt, and told Liu Zi and them that he would definitely have a harvest today. Everyone laughed and said nothing, which made Pearl even more depressed.
Everyone began to scatter to look for prey, Liu Zi followed Pearl together, and suddenly saw a yellow sheep, the two women were so happy that they chased the yellow sheep and went. As soon as she arrived at a somewhat open place, she asked for a strong floral fragrance, and then, she didn't know anything.
When the pearl line came over, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, and looked around, a and ordinary farmhouse, the clothes on his body were intact, but they were all tied to the rope, and Liu Zi was not far away.
Damn, who is so bold to kidnap themselves? Someone behind it? Or did you show your wealth? It's useless to think about it, although the body and wrists are helped, but you can still get things from the space in your hands, and you started the dagger, but unfortunately you can't use it, think about it, make a lighter, burn, burn! Sometimes it burned his hand, and Pearl's heart became even angrier. Wait and see how she cleans up these villains who kidnapped her. (To be continued......)