The Qiangong Babu bed is considered the pinnacle of furniture craftsmanship and a symbol of wealth.
Each Qiangong Babu bed is like a fully functional house. There are floors, corridors, windows, tables and stools inside, and steps outside the bed, and there are trusses on the steps like a house, that is, there are floating eaves, steps and flowers.
The railings, hanging eaves and horizontal eyebrows beside the bed are all carved with dragons and phoenixes.
Qiangongbabu beds are often used as dowries, so the fences, eaves, and horizontal eyebrows are mostly decorated with dragons and phoenixes as themes.
The Qiangong Babu bed is tall in shape and complex in structure, with more than 20 types of mortise and tenon structures, more than 500 mortise and tenon components, and a thousand processes.
The most important thing is that more than 500 mortise and tenon parts can be disassembled and assembled without a single nail. The assembled Qiangong Babu bed fits perfectly and will not shake after a hundred years of use.
It's not like those beds in later generations, which were used for two or three years. When the couple wanted to exercise at night, the bed excitedly played accompaniment.
The craftsmanship of the Qiangong Babu bed is unparalleled. Even if it is used for a hundred years, it will not help you accompany you when you exercise at night.
After negotiating the price, Zhang Junping began to inspect the parts of the Qiangong Babu bed one by one.
There are more than 500 mortise and tenon parts, and it can't be assembled even if one is missing.
Of course, Zhang Junping can also assemble it later, and he can ensure that the mortise and tenon parts that are installed later will be perfect. However, the mortise and tenon parts that are installed later will always give people a feeling that they are not perfect.
After careful inspection, the mortise and tenon parts of the Qiangong Babu bed were well preserved, not damaged, and every one was in good condition. Only then did I pay the money.
But Zhang Junping, who bought the Qiangong Babu bed, had a headache.
How to transport so much furniture back to BJ?
This is not the future, just find a logistics company. In this era, transportation across provinces and cities relies entirely on railways.
"Brother Zhen, I have something to trouble you about!"
"Master Zhang, you are so polite. If you want to trouble me, just give me your instructions!" Zhen Laosi said enthusiastically.
These words are just polite words. If anyone takes it seriously, he is a fool.
Zhang Junping took out a wad of money from his bag, which was about four to five hundred yuan.
"Brother Zhen, please help me find someone to dismantle these pieces of furniture into parts, and get something to wrap the parts separately."
In the 1980s, five hundred yuan had considerable purchasing power and was the total annual income of many workers.
"Okay! It's easy. We have carpenters in our trust store. It's not possible to assemble the Qiangongbabu bed, but it's no problem to dismantle ordinary furniture.
As for wrapping it, it's easy. I just don't know what kind of material Mr. Zhang wants to wrap it with?" Zhen Laosi readily agreed.
Although the trust store does not have the business of secondary packaging of sold goods.
However, Zhang Junping is a big customer with more than 100,000 yuan, so he will get a lot of extra bonuses at the end of the month.
In addition, Zhang Junping offered too much, and there was really no reason to refuse.
It is said that the best packaging material is bubble wrap film, but in this era, not to mention bubble wrap film, even plastic products are scarce materials.
Zhang Junping thought for a while and said: "You can do whatever you want. Sponge or cardboard will do. If you don't have any, you can wrap it in a few layers of old newspapers."
"Then use cardboard! I have a friend who works in a carton factory and can get some cardboard."
After discussing with Zhen Laosi, Zhang Junping left the money and the phone number of the guest house and left.
In this era, unlike later generations, the streets were full of hotels. Only big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou had star-rated hotels. They mainly received foreign guests, not Chinese.
Therefore, when traveling on business in this era, you can only stay in guest houses.
However, guest houses are also divided into three, six or nine grades. Some government guest houses or guest houses of large state-owned enterprises are no worse than star hotels.
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For example, the conditions inside the No. 1 guest house in SZ City where Zhang Junping lives, that is, the Municipal Party Committee Guest House, are quite good.
In fact, guest houses in this era had very complete construction standards. According to their scale, guest houses can be divided into first, second and third levels.
For example, the SZ Municipal Party Committee Guest House should be classified as a second-class guest house according to the guest house construction standards issued by the state.
The rooms in the guest house are divided into ordinary rooms, intermediate rooms and superior rooms.
The superior rooms are no worse than the business suites of later generations, with independent bathrooms, independent shower rooms, and some even have bathtubs. The bedrooms are all made of Simmons, fine wood floors or ceramic tiles, and there is also an independent reception room.
Zhang Junping stayed in a superior room. According to regulations, Zhang Junping was not qualified to stay in a superior room.
But, who made him an investor?
When he returned to the guest house, someone was already waiting for him.
"Master Zhang, I'm really sorry for making you laugh!" Zhou Chunhong apologized profusely as soon as she saw Zhang Junping.
Looking at the capable and ordinary woman in front of him, who was dressed in a gray Chinese tunic suit and had a haircut, Zhang Junping couldn't help but admire her.
It is not easy for anyone to reach the position of a senior county official, and it is even more difficult for a woman to reach her current position.
For an ordinary-looking woman to reach this position, she relies more on ability.
"Boss Zhou, you're so polite! Every family has its own scriptures that are hard to recite, so why bother with trivial matters?" Zhang Junping smiled and let Zhou Chunhong into the guest room.
“It’s great that Master Zhang understands!”
"It's a small matter, it won't affect our cooperation, and my investment will not change!" Zhang Junping simply gave Zhou Chunhong reassurance.
"However, you can't take me for granted, right?
You can have a few managers, but not many.
The most important thing is the potters who understand the technology, they are the real wealth of the kiln factory." Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"Don't worry, our county has set up an investigation team to thoroughly investigate the problems at the brick kiln factory.
We will definitely give you a clean brick kiln.
As for management personnel, we will arrange two people, one is the deputy director responsible for coordinating local relations, and the other is the accountant responsible for finance. The other management personnel will be assigned by you, and we will not interfere." Zhou Chunhong also hurriedly made a promise.
"Okay! Then, Leader Zhou, happy cooperation!" Zhang Junping smiled and extended his hand to Zhou Chunhong.
"Happy cooperation!" Zhou Chunhong was stunned and quickly held Zhang Junping's hand.
When Zhou Chunhong left the guest room, she still had an unreal feeling that she was dreaming.
She never expected that things would go so smoothly.
Zhang Junping actually didn't ask for anything, not even preferential policies.
This should be the smoothest investment Zhou Chunhong has made since the reform and opening up.
Of course, Zhou Chunhong did not attract many investments.
After all, it is still the early 1980s, and there are still many restrictions on domestic capital investment.
Most of the foreign capital is still on the sidelines, and even if there is any, it has been blocked by Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.