Chapter 1,707 Everyone has it

Jiang Zhiqi, the former Guangnan East Road transfer envoy, was recently promoted by the imperial court to the position of Minister of Household Affairs because of his outstanding political achievements in the past two years. The move of Liu Zhi, the former Minister of Household Affairs, to take over the post can already show the importance he attaches to this prosperous area.

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However, Liu Zhi had not yet taken office, and Jiang Zhiqi did not like the idea of ​​a welcome and send-off. After receiving the order from the court, he set out on the road, leaving the entire Guangnan East Road to Xiao Su Tanhua as his temporary agent.

In December last year, Colander wrote to the court, suggesting that the Guangzhou Shipping Department would only be responsible for the foreign monopoly of the four major categories of tea, silk, porcelain, and colored glaze, and that the rest of the goods would be freely traded by merchants and seafarers.

For these trades, the Guangzhou Shipping Department is only responsible for supervising the signing and execution of contracts, mediating disputes, and collecting trade taxes.

The rest is to help merchants set up warehouses and guilds, be responsible for warehouse entry and exit, collect rent, management fees, help with ship repairs, and provide food, accommodation, reception and other details.

Zhao Xu was short-handed, so he issued an edict to take care of it.

After receiving the edict, Colander built the newly built "Yanchi City" in the south of the city into a handicraft processing base and business area. Thirteen luxurious and stylish shops were built along the city wall. They were only for rent but not for sale. All wealthy merchants could participate.

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In order to promote the atmosphere and lead by example, Colander first found the Meishan catering team and started a "Cantonese way to know the taste".

It was a huge guild-style place where everyone could drink tea and snacks to discuss business. The most famous food items were shrimp dumplings, pineapple buns, sauced pork buns, silky milk tea, cocoa, and coffee.

Of course, there are also Chinese tea ceremonies, rice cakes, braised roasts and other dishes.

It is inclusive of both China and foreign countries, and brings together the East and West. Everything is light in weight and very exquisite.

Because there are too many varieties, and we still have to chat and discuss business, we can’t eat just one or two items.

December is also the time when the wind turns, and the large ocean-going ships have not arrived, but there are many small sea traders from Zhejiang, Fujian and the south of Jinou, Cochin and Jinou.

As soon as I arrived in Guangzhou, I realized that Guangzhou had changed a lot!

The treasures here are exquisite and exquisite, no longer in the overseas style, but full of the elegant aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. This is the craftsmanship of the legendary inner workshop!

Copper stove, copper lamp, clear glass, colorful inlays...

Pearls and jade from the South China Sea have become exquisite products with unique inlays, restrained carvings, and elegant themes...

The precious wood from all over the South China Sea has now been transformed into armchairs, tables, screens, bed frames... that are either carefully carved and luxuriously decorated, or have natural and elegant lines.

There are also various kinds of fragrant cakes and fragrant beasts, there are hundreds of them, the expensive ones cost fifteen guan per pill, and the cheap ones can only cost five hundred yuan to buy a box.

There are also wines, glass bottles, and various kinds of fine wines packaged in glass bottles...

There are also perfume sets, with various floral and exotic perfumes, either rich or elegant...

All of these, except for tea, silk, porcelain, and colored glaze, which are organized by the city shipping department through its own channels and purchased and sold under a centralized system, the rest are completely left to the merchants for free trade!

The colander does not need to rely on his father. He has his own channels for generals to serve as supervisors, channels for Tibetan merchants and merchants, and channels for domestic merchants. After Guangzhou has the power to protect the interests of merchants, it will undoubtedly become the channel for all maritime merchants running offshore trade.

Our first choice.

Just like the prosperous Guangzhou Small Commodity Fair in the early days of reform and opening up, the first "Canton Fair" organized by Colander in the winter of the seventh year of Yuanyou also achieved a sensational effect. In one month, the city's shipping company's income was

It has exceeded the whole year.

Thirteen tall and spacious rows of brick buildings in Nancheng were occupied by thirteen wealthy merchants in the blink of an eye, including the clan's "Hefuxiang" and "Yijichang"; the Sichuan business group's "Fengyuanhao" and "Fengyuanhao"

"Yizhou Xueji"; there are two Zhejiang Qian's "Ruishenglou"; there are even "Shanfengyuan" and "Shengchanghao" from as far away as Hebei!

However, this is far from the biggest leader. The biggest leader lies in the winter fleet officially organized by the Song Dynasty.

They want to bring Guangzhou porcelain, glassware, inlaid copperware, and finished products processed from South China Sea jewelry, ivory and other treasures, and then sell them back!

Now the colander has opened a new kiln on the hilly land on the east bank of the Zengbu River in Xicun, Guangzhou. The fired products are divided into two categories: coarse porcelain and fine porcelain.

The former are clumsy things like water tanks and wine jars, while the latter mainly include bowls, lamps, saucers, basins, kettles, crested kettles, military kettles, cans, boxes, spit kettles, injections, net bottles, lamps, and incense burners.

, candlesticks, pillows and other practical utensils, as well as bird feeders, rollers, funnels, xuns, and pottery sculptures of dogs and horses.

The biggest feature that distinguishes it from other kilns in the Song Dynasty is that the Xicun kiln fired a large number of characteristic utensils customized by Western and Southeast maritime merchants, as well as a large number of colorful veneer ceramic tiles.

These things are collectively called "export porcelain" by Colander.

The ceramic tiles were originally customized by Xinadhara for the Guangta Temple. As a result, they became very popular among the wealthy merchants. Rich merchants put these snow-white jade "jade bricks" on the street side of their houses, covering some parts such as door frames, window frames, and corridors.

Columns are decorated with colorful line tiles or tile paintings.

This trend soon spread to the South China Sea, and now Xicun Kiln has so many orders.

There is also an important output material, printed wallpaper.

At first, Colander designed the wallpaper according to the patterns of Western custom-made porcelain. As a result, the Tibetan people said that they liked the kind that depicted the scenery or text of the Song Dynasty. Hehe, Tanhua official, don’t try to lie to us. We also know your calligraphy and painting of the Song Dynasty.

Gold is very valuable!

The colander is dumbfounded. This crazy printed wallpaper and celebrity calligraphy and painting, can they be the same thing?

The Tibetan people don’t care, we have to use the Song Dynasty stuff to show off when we go back. How can we do it without the characteristics of the Song Dynasty?!

So the colander follows the good example, if you dare to buy it, I will print it!

Because wallpaper is inherently different from rice paper, and more similar to stone paper. It already needs to be rolled, and you only need to spray the base color at the end.

For writing, it’s just a matter of laying the hollow engraving plate with multiple rolls of ink.

If you are painting, you still need to use an airbrush to create the rendering effect, and occasionally you need to manually intervene with a few strokes.

In short, these four words are not difficult, and you can make money with your blood.

"Hey! Don't move!" Colander was sketching with charcoal and scolding the boy who was riding on the back of an unusually strong black, yellow and white buffalo with small horns in the opposite ditch.

"Brother Tanhua, can I come down? How long do you have to paint?"

"Almost! Let me tell you, Xiao Ga, this painting is going to be sent to the capital for His Majesty to see. Think about it, His Majesty can see you riding a bull. Isn't it impressive?"

"Really?!" Ga Ya was a little excited now: "Brother Tanhua, if you didn't tell me earlier, then I'll put on new clothes and carry a new school bag!"

"Wearing new clothes to ride a bull? Your father can't beat you to death!"

Ga Ya touched the cow under him: "This is the biggest cow I have ever seen, but why is the name so long?"

"Well...because my brother had a pony when he was a kid, he named it Black and Yellow Cloud. The color of the big ox is the same as my pony, so he was too lazy to name it another one."

Ga Ya began to claim credit: "Did I train Er Se Yun well? Dad said that he and his uncle were exhausted during the trial farming. They plowed three acres in the morning! My Heiwa can only cultivate one acre in the morning and one acre in the afternoon.

One acre.”

Colander kept writing: "Then I'll give you a question. Ga Ya, Erse Yun plows three acres in one morning. How many acres will be plowed in one morning and one afternoon?"

"It's still three acres!"

"Uh...are you sure you calculated correctly?"

"That's right!" Ga Ya caressed Er Se Yun lovingly: "Dad said you can't let Er Se Yun work too much. He has to work for half a day and rest for half a day, but he has to take good care of him. Last fall, he made several cows in the village pregnant.

Yes, it’s awesome!”

"Ah? Hahahaha..." Colander was extremely happy: "Yes, yes, this question is correct, I will reward you with good food when I go back!"

A man in blue clothes ran over from Murakami. The clothes on his body were shiny, like silk.

When Colander came here for the first time, he was frightened by such clothes. He thought that all the people in Chacundong wore silk. After asking around again, he found that the effect was produced by dyeing linen with indigo and using a wooden mallet.

Colander feels that he has been deeply educated, which shows that everyone has a love for beauty and a yearning for a better life.

The man rushed closer: "Wizard Tanhua, prepare to kill the pig!"

"Okay, Dad, please wait a moment, there are only a few strokes left." After finishing a few strokes, the colander put the notebook and charcoal pens into his bag, and quickly turned over on Er Seyun's back: "Let's go! Look.
Chapter completed!