Chapter 229: Learned at a glance, ruined upon doing

So the location of the incident was definitely not Jiangcheng.

Some places also had museums, and at that time, they should have been transported away in batches.

The curator was naturally the last one to leave.

Didn't expect a big fire in the museum that night. Fortunately, Zhen Xi's maternal grandfather had already transferred the treasures and sent loyal subordinates to guard them.

This transfer must have been transferred from Beidu.

It was very chaotic at that time. The planes at the airport were all transporting high-ranking officials. Of course, these were treasures, and the leaders at that time definitely wanted to take them all away.

When the general trend was gone, those people forced the common people to hand over all the gold in their hands, saying it was to exchange for money, but what they gave were worthless paper money.

Actually, what we took over was a landscape that was truly riddled with holes, and even the treasures had been taken away, not knowing how many.

Speaking of which, the last batch of treasures transferred from Beidu, did they go to the south or the north?

Going to the south, they definitely had to be transported by plane.

Going to the north, it was very likely that there were spies that year, and they wanted to transport the things to the Wa Kingdom through Jiangcheng.

Of course, all the premises were that the batch of things in the reed marshes was the batch protected by Zhen Xi's grandfather.

All thoughts faded away when seeing Zhen Xi get out of the car.

Lu Qiao smiled and exchanged pleasantries with Zhen Xi.

They were already very familiar, and Zhen Xi's attitude was also much more cordial.

Lu Qiao saw the gauze wrapped around his wrist and naturally had to ask: "Mr. Zhen, this is...?"

Zhen Xi frowned, then said lightly: "It's nothing, just accidentally touched by a razor."

Lu Qiao looked at his expression.

His mental state looked quite good, just with bloodshot eyes, as if he hadn't rested well last night.

Lu Qiao couldn't continue asking either.

Instead, Zhen Xi walked and talked with her: "I plan to go to Beidu with President Ming tomorrow to talk about setting up a Hong Kong clothing counter."

President Ming was the largest clothing merchant in Hong Kong, with his own factory storefronts and sales channels.

Actually, most of them did export business.

He was a very capable person, also dared to do things, and was also close to our side. When Zhen Xi went to find him, he agreed immediately.

The other two clothing merchants were also introduced by him.

Facts proved that they were all very reliable.

But this time, there were only two counter qualifications.

So it could only be given to Zhen Xi and President Ming.

Lu Qiao nodded: "Wish you success in the negotiations."

Zhen Xi touched his wrist. He had had a strange illness since he was a child, which would flare up whenever it wanted, without any reason or sign.

He had seen many doctors, but couldn't see the reason.

It could only be said to be a hereditary disease of his mother's family.

It flared up inexplicably yesterday, and he picked up a fruit knife and gave himself a cut.

Now it was normal.

Zhen Xi said to Lu Qiao: "It is very likely that I will return to Hong Kong directly from Beidu, so I am looking for you to talk about the follow-up of the melon seed basket order and the instant noodle production line."

While talking, Director Zhou, who came out to welcome them, had already enthusiastically taken them to the conference room.

The melon seed basket order was 10,000, and now the delivery was 3,000.

According to the current state and follow-up, it was not suitable to add orders.

Lu Qiao was also of this opinion.

What they made were all quality goods. Although golden grass was wild grass, it turned golden yellow after processing, similar to the color of bamboo weaving, had good flexibility, and was durable for storage. Team Leader Lin said that Old Du from the village used golden grass to weave objects that hadn't changed color much after five years.

But actually, a melon seed basket worth a few cents, in Lu Qiao's view, could be used for two years, which was already fine.

However, Zhen Xi said: "The merchant from Nanyang took a fancy to the melon seed baskets and wants to import goods from me. Do you have masters? Can you expand the scale?"

Lu Qiao's heart moved.

She really hadn't considered the merchant from Nanyang.

But that was also a big market for exchanging foreign exchange.

What she could stir up now was grass weaving.

But the difficulty now was that there were no skilled worker masters.

Chang An once led a batch of people, the aunts and sisters of the Neighborhood Committee, about dozens of people, but most of them learned at a glance and were ruined upon doing.

There were not many who could really learn it, but learning it wasn't enough; this had to be quality goods because it was for export.

Lu Qiao had seen the golden grass fan woven by Chang An.

It was very beautiful and also very practical.

Although she hadn't seen Chang An weaving with her own eyes, it should be very laborious to weave.

It must be a skilled hand like Chang An and Fan Xiaoyu.

But the problem was, this was all pure manual work. No matter how capable the two of them were, the output was limited.

If only she had a hundred such great masters.

Lu Qiao said in a deep voice: "Expanding the scale is not difficult, but the difficulty is finding masters, and this is pure manual work. It is really woven one by one. Actually, the craft of melon seed baskets is very complex, but what we are giving the noble company now is the price of consumables, not the price of art, which leads to the situation that if we hire a large number of workers, we will face the situation of income not covering expenses."

Consumables and art were simply not the same price.

Zhen Xi didn't speak, just looked at Lu Qiao with deep eyes.

Did she mean that her melon seed baskets were art, and then sold cheaply to him?

Secretary You glanced at Zhen Xi, then smiled and said: "This is what we are preparing to talk about with Factory Director Lu. We are preparing to customize a batch of grass-woven cattail leaf fans. You make a sample, and if it is what we want, we can continue to talk down."

But if there was no ability now, then forget it.

Director Zhou was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.

Lu Qiao, what are you hesitating about? Just agree immediately. Our comrades can overcome no matter how big the difficulties are, and the wisdom of the masses is also infinite.

As long as the other party puts forward requirements, we can even get it out with our lives.

If the Nanyang area was really opened up, the foreign trade share would be hard to say.

Grass weaving, grass weaving, not to mention that golden grass was a specialty of Jiangcheng and was everywhere, just expanding the scale, how many workers would be recruited to solve the employment problem?

This was a matter of merit in the contemporary era and benefit for thousands of years.

Lu Qiao glanced at Director Zhou and said: "Chang An has a grass-woven cattail leaf fan in his hand..."

Before Lu Qiao finished speaking, Director Zhou stood up immediately: "I will call your factory and trouble them to drive and send the fan over."

Lu Qiao thought for a while and said again: "Let Director Hu bring Chang An here. Tell Director Hu that maybe an order needs to be signed."

The phone call was made to the military factory duty room and reported to Factory Director Hao. The factory director instructed to send someone to pick up Chang An and Director Hu immediately.

Factory Director Hao directly instructed that it should be the same as before, without the interference of irrelevant people.

Twenty minutes later, Lu Qiao and Zhen Xi had already finished talking about the instant noodle production line, and the military factory's jeep also drove over like lightning.

Old Hu on the car had a very complex expression, really wanting to say: Lu Lu Qiaoge, can we handle it?

Before you can walk, you want to fly!

But seeing Director Zhou's eyes that were brighter than light bulbs, these words naturally were held back.

It could be done. As long as foreign exchange could be exchanged, nothing was a problem.

Chang An was very constrained, but what everyone was concerned about was the lotus cattail leaf fan he wove.

Secretary You picked it up, not to examine it but to appreciate it.

It had to be said that Chang An's ingenuity was innate.

Chang An was a bit anxious, but didn't know where to start with his full stomach of words.

Lu Qiao gave him a fountain pen and paper.

Chang An wrote: It could be nine plum blossoms, it could also be a circle of wheat ears, or even other patterns. This sample was a bit rough, and he could make it more refined.

Lu Qiao explained to Zhen Xi and Secretary You.

Zhen Xi glanced at the cattail leaf fan. Although it was very ordinary, it seemed that his father had one in his hand.

The fan handle was hung with top-grade jade. Although it was not often used, it was said to be woven by his great-grandfather himself. ===== CHAPTER 230 =====