Before Lu Su could finish speaking, Liu Zhang suddenly hurried to a shop, leaving Lu Su standing alone in the middle of the street, embarrassed and angry, but when he raised his head and looked at the shelves of the shop, his eyes suddenly opened wide.
Liu Zhang walked to the container and saw several pieces of porcelain placed in the container, all pure white, smooth and bright in color, very luxurious and eye-catching.
"Boss, take out these pieces of porcelain and have a look."
The boss was painting the clay pots on the shelf at the back. He only glanced back at the corner of Liu Zhang's clothes and said casually: "Those things are very expensive. If you want to see them, just look outside. If you want to touch them, pay first."
"You have to pay for touching it. Are you looking for a slap?" Hao said loudly, and he was about to step forward, but was stopped by Liu Zhang. The boss was not frightened, and said casually:
"My guest, it's not that I look down on you, but your clothes are made of Jiangzhou cotton and the workmanship is pretty good. I guess they come from a wealthy family, but they are not the top rich. Those white porcelain items cost tens of thousands of dollars each.
If you can't afford it, you should look at other celadon and yellow porcelain."
"You blinded me, look who my young master is?" He said angrily. Looking at the boss's calm and calm look, he wanted to hit his head with a hammer.
"Hey, I'm being polite, you think I'm afraid of you, right?" The boss put down the pottery in his hand and turned around with a small brush, "On the ground in Chengdu..."
Before the boss finished speaking, he saw Liu Zhang's face clearly. In Chengdu, he is also a man with some skills. Otherwise, how could he deal with precious porcelain? How could he not know Zhou Mu? When he saw Liu Zhang standing behind him, his face was frightened.
It all turned white. My hand shook and the small brush fell to the ground.
"Oh, Mr. Zhou Mu, I am blind, please forgive me." The boss said and was about to kneel down at the counter, but the counter was too narrow and he was too fat, so he was sweating profusely.
, Lu Su looked on with a smile at the door to see how Liu Zhang would deal with this murderous butcher.
"Okay, boss, we just have a look, we don't know how to touch it, so you can take it out." Liu Zhang said, he was really interested in those pieces of porcelain.
"Okay, okay, right away." The boss agreed hurriedly. He took out all the white porcelain from the cabinet, placed it in front of Liu Zhang, and said, "If you like it, sir, I will give all the small ones to you."
"Do we look like people who take advantage of others?" Liu Zhang said casually while looking at the porcelain carefully. Hu Che'er stared at him so fiercely that the boss immediately shrank his neck in fright.
"Where, where." The boss smiled awkwardly and said: "Without the enlightened management of adults, how would we businessmen be where we are today? I am here to repay the favor.
Your Excellency, you may not know that these white porcelains. Look at the color and luster, you can’t find many of them in the world. Pure white porcelain symbolizes the purity of the earth and the people’s political integrity. It is because of your sage and wise rule that the white porcelain comes out of the kiln."
Liu Zhang listened to the boss's flattery casually and was already accustomed to flattery. He pointed to the small brush on the ground and said, "Can I use it?"
"Of course, of course."
The boss quickly picked up the brush and handed it to Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang gently brushed the surface of the porcelain with the brush. At this time, Lu Su came in, took a look at the white porcelain on the counter, and said to the boss: "Boss, don't talk nonsense, white porcelain is extremely
Difficult to burn, although it has appeared, they are all rare and abnormal.
When firing white porcelain, it takes a thousand pieces of scrapped gray porcelain to produce one piece of white porcelain. And white porcelain with such a good color has probably never appeared since ancient times, right? The boss may have used some whitening powder or something like that.
Paint, just deceive others, deceiving Zhou Mu is a capital crime, aren't you afraid of having your head moved?"
What Lu Su said is right. Liu Zhang had read a TV series script of the Sui Dynasty before, which talked about how difficult it was to make white porcelain. As far as Liu Zhang knew, white porcelain appeared in large numbers at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and in the Three Kingdoms,
Liu Zhang had never seen white porcelain before.
As a commodity equal to silk, porcelain plays an important role in commerce. If white porcelain can be produced in Shu, it will be a huge income like Shu brocade, so Liu Zhang would be surprised.
The boss was not happy when he heard Lu Su's words. Lu Su was not only questioning his products, but also questioning his own character. He had been selling porcelain for generations, but he still couldn't tell the difference between real and fake porcelain? What's more, he was still being supported by others.
Questioning in front of Lord Zhou Mu is intolerable.
The boss noticed that Lu Su did not come in with Liu Zhang. After another look, he found that the clothes he was wearing were not of a luxurious style. Adding a foreign accent, the boss immediately replied rudely: "Where did you come from? You didn't listen to me.
Is it because Lord Zhou Mu was in power that white porcelain came into being?"
"This is Mr. Lu Su and Lu Zijing, the Commander-in-Chief of Jiangdong Navy." Liu Zhang raised his head and said. He scanned the porcelain and realized that no paint was added. However, he didn't understand this very well and still didn't know whether it was authentic or not.
"It turns out that he is the governor of Jiangdong, not from Shuzhong. No wonder he doesn't know anything about it." The boss snorted, but he remembered that Jiangdong and the Sichuan army were hostile.
Ren Lusu was a good-tempered man with a somewhat unhappy face. At this time, Liu Zhang handed the brush to Lu Su and said: "Mr. Zijing, come and see if it is real porcelain. If it is fake, it can be mistaken for real." Liu Zhang looked at the boss and said: "
I want to close the shop."
"That's it, that's it." The boss laughed quickly, but his face was determined.
Lu Su took the brush and took a look, then went from the grocery store to the porcelain store. After Lu Su's observation, Liu Zhang's behavior was really different from the rumors. He inspected the store under the scorching sun and was polite to the store owners.
I can put down my body and do some trivial things without showing my cold-blooded and cruel side at all.
If Liu Zhang was as stubborn and ruthless as he was with his family, and governed Shu strictly, Lu Su believed that Shu would collapse in a few years.
But now it seems...it really worries Lu Su.
But thinking about it, Lu Su was still very interested in the white porcelain. He really didn't believe it was white porcelain. If it were true, if so many pieces were produced at once, tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain would have to be scrapped. How high would the cost be?
And the color is much better than the previous white porcelain.
However, Lu Su was surprised as soon as he brushed it twice. He then brushed all over the porcelain, gently touched and slid it with his fingers, changed several pieces in succession, and said in surprise: "It's really white porcelain."
Since Lu Su said this, Liu Zhang also believed it and looked at the porcelain in surprise. The boss was obviously very satisfied with the customer's reaction and smiled proudly.
Liu Zhang said to the boss: "The color of these white porcelain is so good, I'm afraid the cost is very high. Can you make a profit by selling it for 10,000 yuan?"
The boss chuckled and said: "You are Mr. Zhou Mu. I dare not lie to you. I earn at least half of the porcelain and pottery in my shop. Otherwise, how can I maintain my shop? As a porcelain seller, I can't compare
A tofu bread seller would make little money.
And this white porcelain costs 10,000 yuan. I earn more, at least 7,000 yuan."
The boss spread out his two palms and stretched out seven fingers. Xicheng used to be the poorest place in Chengdu, but now it is the most prosperous place. The rent and tax on shops are sky-high, so the goods are naturally more expensive.
"Seven thousand?" Liu Zhang and Lu Su looked at each other, both showing disbelief. Lu Su said: "I remember that during the reign of Emperor Huan, a piece of fine white porcelain sold for 80,000 yuan, and was finally buried with the queen. What do you think?
You earn 7,000 yuan, how can this white porcelain be worth only 3,000 yuan? Could it be that you want to give Uncle Liu Huang a discount as a favor, right?"
"I asked you, why is your psychology so dark?"
The boss said to Lu Su politely, and Liu Zhang lowered his head and smiled. The boss probably saw that Liu Zhang didn't like Lu Su anymore, so he didn't hesitate to speak. Lu Su was very embarrassed by the side. God knows he just wanted to watch.
Let's see if Liu Zhang will take the people's goods at a low price.
The boss turned to Liu Zhang and immediately smiled: "Sir, you don't know. This is still a secret. I quietly told you, please don't tell others that I said it, otherwise the Qu family will not cooperate with me in the future.
"
The boss was mysterious, which aroused Liu Zhang's interest. He whispered: "Young adults also know that Brazil is a good place to produce blue bricks, celadon and pottery. After Quxi inherited the family business, he even carried it forward.
, and successively introduced porcelain and pottery with better colors.
Not long ago, the Qu family's craftsman's room discovered that a special kind of clay porcelain embryo could be fired into pure white porcelain. After several firings, the yield was over 90%, and there was no need to scrap it.
White porcelain is produced from the Qujia kiln, and the cost is more than a thousand pence, and the further it goes, the lower the cost of firing it."
"In this case, why not release them all? Can't we make more money?" Lu Su asked.
The boss looked at Lu Su with disdain: "If you don't know how to do business, don't interrupt. Isn't it annoying?" Lu Su froze on the spot, and the boss turned to Liu Zhang and said: "If you want to say why not let them all out, even if you are young, you won't be able to do anything."
I understand, but later the Qu family’s servant told me.
Sir, what do you think will happen if a large amount of white porcelain comes out all at once? The first customer will not believe it and will think you are a fake, just like this tall and thin man." The boss glanced at Lu Su.
"Secondly, isn't this white porcelain rare? So the Qu family first released a small amount of white porcelain and sold it for 10,000. The merchant earned 7,000 and the Qu family earned 2,000. In this way, not only did they make more money, but they also completed the white porcelain
Marketing and distribution opened up sales channels, and at the same time created momentum for white porcelain. More and more white porcelain appeared later, and it was natural that no one would doubt the authenticity.
And when the dignitaries, wealthy businessmen started to buy them, they showed off, and the people below were not envious. Later, when the price became cheaper, how could they not rush to buy it?"
After the boss finished speaking, both Liu Zhang and Lu Su looked surprised. Liu Zhang found that he was completely out of control in business. Businessmen are indeed an explosive and powerful group with infinite wisdom.
In the first year of the establishment of business, most of Chengdu's business was handled by official workshops. But now, a large number of business masters have stood up. The Qu family, Yin family, Huang family, Wu family, etc., all have transformed from traditional aristocratic families to
The wealthy business families went too far and began to crowd out the government market in large numbers.
Private individuals not only opened workshops, but also opened craftsmen's rooms to develop technology and innovation. From the chairs in the grocery store to the pottery and porcelain here, the products of the official workshops were basically reduced to defective products. However, Quxi's method of marketing white porcelain was comprehensive.
Completely equipped with modern business marketing acumen.
Although the income of official workshops will inevitably shrink, Liu Zhang is happy. Business will be explosive as long as there is a market, which strengthens Liu Zhang's determination to open the Southwest Silk Road.
And Lu Su once again saw the vitality of Yizhou.
"Do you have any money with you?" Liu Zhang turned to Wang Xu and asked his personal guard.
Wang Xu, Hu Che'er and others all shook their heads. Liu Zhang looked at the porcelain and sighed. When the boss saw it, he immediately said: "If you like it, you can use whatever money you want. You can take it as you like. This is not a small flattery. It is the hard work of your management."
Shuzhong deserves it."
Liu Zhang waved his hand: "Forget it. I'll buy it later."
Liu Zhang looked regretful, and Wang Xu, Hu Che'er and Hao Sheng were puzzled. First, they didn't think there was anything good about white porcelain, and celadon was obviously more fancy. Second, they hadn't noticed that Liu Zhang had a hobby of collecting porcelain.
The owner of my house is very simple, and basically doesn't buy anything to eat or drink.
'At this time Lu Su said: "Uncle Emperor, I came from Jiangdong and brought some money, please let me pay."
As he spoke, Lu Su took out two ingots and ten taels of silver (again, silver was circulated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and many nobles carried silver with them. If you say that the poor silver in the Han Dynasty was completely uncirculated, check historical data) and said to the boss: "This white silver
Just sell the porcelain bottle and this white porcelain pot to me."
"This, this..." The boss looked at Liu Zhang and was very embarrassed. He even said that he had earned seven thousand. How could he have the nerve to sell it at full price? Liu Zhang said casually: "Since Mr. Zijing gave it to you, just accept it. From now on,
Be polite to the people in Jiangdong, we are all Han people."
Liu Zhang said generously.
"Yes, yes, yes." The boss collected the money and hurriedly wrapped the two pieces of porcelain.
Hearing Liu Zhang speak like this, Lu Su consciously got closer to Liu Zhang. The twenty taels of silver were well spent, so he immediately hit the snake and followed the stick: "Uncle Emperor, what you said is right, Bashu, Jiangdong.
It is the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the people of Sichuan and Wu are all Han people. They should live in harmony. There were some misunderstandings between the two of us before. The emperor thinks we should take some time..."
At this time, the boss handed the wrapped porcelain to Liu Zhang. Liu Zhang took it and gave it to Lu Su. He said with a smile: "Mr. Zijing, you are a great sage from Jiangdong. You have come all the way. Liu Zhang doesn't have any gifts to give you. These two pieces
Just give the white porcelain to Zi Jing as a meeting gift."
Lu Su looked at the two large jars containing porcelain and was speechless in surprise. Is there anyone in the world who spends other people's money to buy things and then gives them to others?
Lu Su took it over in a daze, and Liu Zhang turned around and walked out. He felt a little bit at a disadvantage for being so powerful, and said to Liu Zhang: "Master, why did you give this thing worth 20,000 yuan to him? What a waste."
It was so powerful that I roared in my heart, this is my salary for a hundred months.
"When it gets cheaper in the future, I'll buy two of them for you as a betrothal gift for marrying Miss Bao'er." Liu Zhang said with a smile, so powerful that he suddenly felt depressed.
Liu Zhang also thought of it impromptuly. White porcelain is rare in the world. Since the Qu family can fire white porcelain in large quantities, there must be a market, right? Now that the Southwest Silk Road has not been opened, other prefectures and counties besides Jingyi are markets that cannot be missed.
Giving white porcelain to Lu Su and bringing Lu Su to Jiangdong is a kind of propaganda, isn't it? Lu Su was the governor of Jiangdong, and he had a high prestige among the people and noble families. Everyone saw that he had come all the way to bring two pieces of white porcelain.
, Jiangdong must be proud to own white porcelain, why not buy it like crazy?
This is the star effect of future generations, and the effect will definitely be better. Lu Su is equivalent to the Minister of Defense of Jiangdong, and is much more domineering than those entertainment stars.
That's why Liu Zhang did it conveniently.
Lu Su walked out of the shop, holding a jar on each side of his elbows. Lu Su really regretted not bringing his entourage. He was holding these two jars of things for fear of breaking them. How could he be a celebrity? Even if Lu Su was informal
Small sections should not be too eye-catching.
"That guy is following me again." Hu Che'er saw that Liu Zhang didn't want to talk to Lu Su.
"Let's go over there and have a look and try to get rid of him."
Liu Zhang walked towards a place with a lot of people. He was no longer worried that Lu Su would use Jing Yi to negotiate terms with him. From Lu Su's performance just now, it could be seen that Jiangdong desperately wanted peace.
It's just that Liu Zhang still has some peace negotiation ideas that he hasn't thought through and needs to be straightened out, so he doesn't want to talk to Lu Su at this time. Lu Su is a wise man, and he can't defeat him if he is not prepared.
Liu Zhang walked outside the crowd. Everyone was watching something. Liu Zhang winked at Wang Xu. Wang Xu said to a young man who was watching on tiptoe: "Friend, what are you doing here?"
The young man said without turning his head: "There are women for sale inside. Ouch, she's so good-looking, with big breasts and fat butt. I'm going to do it to you. She's the daughter of a wealthy family from the past. It's my fault. Rich people can do it."
I walked in from the side door and saw that I couldn’t help but want to buy one, but I didn’t have the money. I was so worried.”
"Brother" rubbed his hands, looking impatient and regretful, but couldn't help but jump up and look inside.
"Let's go and rob the bank." A young man next to him stared inside for a long time without blinking, his mouth watering. He couldn't bear it any longer. He shouted loudly, and everyone around him turned to look at him. The man said hehe:
"Just kidding, just kidding."
At this time, the bank's reputation was not as bad as that of later generations. For loans and deposits, purchasing unsaleable items, selling out-of-stock items at low prices, and investing in business, both businessmen and ordinary people felt that the bank was a great institution.
Liu Zhang shook his head. It was normal in this era to buy and sell slaves. Since he was the initiator, there was nothing to sympathize with. He was about to leave when suddenly Fatty Jin walked out of the side door. He recognized Liu Zhang at a glance and kicked the man who was watching.
On the servant of the door.
"What's that look in your eyes? Don't you recognize Mr. Zhou Mu?"
When the people around heard Fatty Jin's words, they all turned around, saw Liu Zhang's appearance clearly, and all bowed to Liu Zhang: "See Mr. Zhou Mu."
Liu Zhang signaled to everyone to get up, and Fatty Jin came over with a smile and said: "Sir, come in and have fun? Whichever girl you like, I will give it to you, hehehe."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Does the Lord care about a girl like yours?" Wang Xudao.
"That's, that's, I mean, choose someone with hard-working hands and feet and give it to the Lord as a slave." Fatty Jin said with a smile.
ps: #tyrantliuzhang# Thanks to Jiang Yujie km, Yu Shutian for the reward