Chapter Twenty-Six: Amber
Since the founding of the Great Yi Dynasty, the industry and commerce have paid equal attention to agriculture, industry and commerce, and the common people have no shortage of food and clothing. And Shangjing is the capital of the country, which can be said to be very rich.
In addition, Zheng Qiyan's pacification of southern Xinjiang is half, and it will bring the treasury to the five-year harvest, so this year's Beijing is far more lively than in previous years.
The cold winter wax moon can not stop the footsteps of the people in Beijing to buy and buy, the ten-mile long street is crowded with people, and the north and south dry goods stores, cake and dim sum shops, clothing stores, women's jewelry stores, etc. are all crowded.
Qiaogongfang specially picked a sunny and good weather, and sent more than a dozen ox carts with great fanfare, the first one, which carried a large peacock with amber on the screen, which immediately attracted countless people in Beijing to buy New Year's goods.
The cattle team was extremely coquettish and high-profile, and the people at the foot of the imperial city were very well-behaved, watching the excitement on both sides, and asking gossips.
The guys who drove the ox cart were quite good at coming to things, and while controlling the ox to move forward slowly, they loudly proclaimed: "Welcome the New Year, celebrate the harvest year!" There are a lot of discounts in the Splendid Pavilion, all kinds of amber hairpins, the minimum is only one or two silver! There is also a surprise blind box, a only 10 taels of silver, lucky customers, can get hundreds of taels worth of goods! ”
"What is a blind box?" The people below asked in a loud voice.
"Blind box, that is, you can't see the things inside, pick one by luck, bad luck, the things inside are just worth ten taels of silver. If you're lucky, you'll get twenty taels, thirty taels, or even one hundred taels! The guy replied loudly.
Jin Che got the artificial amber method provided by Jintong, and his inspiration was like the continuous flow of the surging river, and like the flooding of the Yellow River out of control, day by day like chicken blood. hairpins, hairpins, step shakes, all kinds of chains, fan pendants, ornaments...... There is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing he can't do! Besides, everything is not repeated, so the entire Shangjing instantly boiled again.
The first batch of Jintong was sold in Jinxiu Pavilion, and they were all ordinary style amber products. Ah Quan's family hand-me-down, the production of dried flowers and even insects, birds, butterflies and other large and small animals, all of which can be preserved for at least decades. The flowers, birds, and cordyceps contained in the amber are basically from his hands.
This little guy's head is flexible and easy to use, and he can actually use other objects such as bird feather animal fur petals to piece together some legendary strange flowers and plants, etc., as if they were natural, without any traces of patchwork, which makes Jintong breathtaking.
Even Ah Quan actually used the fur of other cats to make an amber cat ornament that was ninety percent similar to the brocade flatbread and gave it to Jintong, so angry that the brocade flatbread almost pounced on it and scratched Ah Quan's face.
Since Ah Quan has this ingenious craftsmanship, Jintong simply painted a batch of flowers unique to the 21st century, and Ah Quan happily took back the skillful workshop and continued to work hard. And these rare items, Jintong plans to store them first, and then think of an idea to hype them up and sell them at a high price.
The Splendid Pavilion has changed its usual style, and this time the amber jewelry is large in quantity and at a public price. All kinds of amber jewelry, starting from the lowest one tael of silver, the most expensive is only sixty-eight taels of silver.
There is also the blind box, which is only a hundred per day, and each is ten taels of silver. Every day, it was put out in less than a quarter of an hour, and it was robbed of everything.
Although the box is only made of ordinary camphor wood, the carvings on the outside are exquisite and unique, not to mention anything else, it is also excellent to take home as a jewelry box.
The worst thing in the box is two small things, ten taels of silver is not a loss at all, not to mention that such lucky people have opened a whole set of amber jewelry!
What's even more satisfying is that all the flowers, birds, butterflies and other amber products contained in them are all unique, and they are definitely not afraid of being similar to others. As a result, countless people rushed to buy, and the people in the Splendid Pavilion were next to each other, and the twenty-four private rooms were in short supply.
Even King Qing disguised himself as a rich and noble brother, went to buy a set of "brotherhood" fan pendants, and spent another 120 taels to buy a cute squirrel to gnaw pine nuts and send it back to Concubine Chen.
When Hu Chao, the Marquis of Xiping, learned of this, he almost spurted a mouthful of old blood into the sky.
Jintong's Niutouzhuang brewing workshop is impermeable, but the skillful workshop is different! In these days, there are strict hierarchies, and there are rules on what status people can wear and what materials and forms of jewelry they can wear.
For example, those musicians who belong to the lowly family, although they are not short of money, but strictly speaking, they are not allowed to wear gold, silver and jade jewelry, so even if the Da Yi Dynasty is the top lady, it is basically decorated with hairpins and silk flowers.
Therefore, the handicraft workshops are basically not very guarded, and they are not afraid that their own styles and patterns will be learned. There are few craftsmen with exquisite craftsmanship, and even if others want to imitate, they may not imitate it!
Hu Chao looked up to the sky and sighed: If he had sent someone to Jintong's "Qiao Workshop" early in the morning to learn this method of making amber, would he still need to spend so much effort to go to Niutouzhuang to steal the wine-making recipe?
This amber brocade can make so many people in one go, which is naturally much easier than brewing!
The piece of "peacock amber" that was no smaller than the "crane amber" was only 6,800 taels of silver. As soon as I arrived at the gate of the Splendid Pavilion, I was seen by Mrs. Jiang, who was "just right" to buy jewelry in the Splendid Pavilion, bought it, and sent it to the palace for the queen to enjoy.
If Hu Chao hadn't reacted at this time, he had been pitted by Jintong to his grandmother's house, then he wouldn't have to mess up. five million pieces of silver and six thousand eight hundred denarii! The difference between cloud and mud, the difference between heaven and earth!
Hu Chao hid in the study and sulked, aggrieved like a trapped beast who only wanted to be dissatisfied.
Since Li Wei compensated him, he has been holding on to it and not daring to use it. Losing the shipping business, Xipinghou just relied on a dozen Zhuangzi and Penglaidu to support his dignity.
Penglai for a year, can bring tens of millions of taels of silver to the Xiping Palace, but now, Jintong's Xiangruilou launched those few elixir wine, Beijing nobles rush to the capital, at least thirty percent of the customers have become Xiangruilou's loyal customers. This is not just a simple matter of less than 30% of the profit every year, the cost of paying is almost the same, the reduction of customers is equal to the increase in cost, this year's account room, the profit is more than 40% less than last year, which makes Hu Chao how not to be angry?
These five million taels of silver are the final bottom line. Now, Jintong told him with facts: The bottom line of his house is actually worth 6,800 taels of silver!
Hu Chao's biggest treasure was on Concubine Chen, and then he had some eyebrows with King Huai and King Qi. These relationships are maintained by white money. Now, he can only control himself from thinking about Jintong. can only comfort himself, at least, Chen Guifei's thigh, he successfully hugged it.