Not far from Jintangmen is Wang Mingde's military camp. Li Defu entered the military camp under the escort of several guards and immediately heard a jingle and knocking sound. Li Defu was very familiar with this sound, because he could always hear such cheerful ensembles in his military camp now.

The guards guarding Wang Mingde's tent saw Li Defu coming and saluted him politely: "General Li is here? My head and Governor Gao are discussing matters in the back tent."

Under the leadership of this guard, Li Defu was taken to another camp. As a Shanxi general, he had a very distant relationship with his colleagues in the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp, but after crying at Deng Ming's banquet last time, Li Defu suddenly became the most popular Shanxi person in the Shaanxi general circle, and Sichuan Governor Gao Mingzhan also looked at him differently.

In the camp, Wang Mingde was holding up a piece of crystal clear light green jade and checking in the sun. Gao Mingzhan stood beside Wang Mingde, and also squinted his eyes to observe the reflection of the surface of the stone.

"This piece looks very good." Although he saw Li Defu coming in, Wang Mingde and Gao Mingzhan did not immediately stop their work. They commented on the jade in their hands, and then reluctantly put it back on the table and greeted Li Defu: "Come?"

"Admiral Deng just sent someone to deliver it." Li Defu, who was ordered to guard Futu Pass, took out a few pieces of paper from his arms.

"Take it and take a look." Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde both knew that this must be Deng Ming's latest jewelry style design drawing. The two shouted in a hurry. After getting the paper, they immediately spread it on the table and carefully observed and pondered it.

Jade raw stone does not have particularly outstanding ornamental value, but after careful polishing, the finished products are still quite beautiful. Deng Ming's earliest design drawings are the simplest, just six-sided cubes. However, even for this kind of processed product, the Qing generals of Chongqing thought it was quite beautiful. Jade was hard and bright. Although it did not meet the traditional scholars' requirements for gentle and restrained gentlemen, these generals were more beautiful than jade they could not appreciate.

In the second generation design drawings, Deng Ming added more inclined surfaces, and the polished jade blocks would become more brilliant in the sun. Before Li Guoying left Chongqing, the Qing army generals in Chongqing learned that some of their jade had been sold in Xi'an, and people from the Manchu and Han Eight Banners also liked it very much. They wanted to leave some and took them back to Beijing through the post station system.

After confirming that this thing could be sold for money, the Qing army in Chongqing continued to expand the scale of jade processing. Since Li Guoying left a month ago, the towns have stopped practicing on weekdays and polishing jade without black and white all day long. For example, the Jintangmen Bar, which was in charge of Wang Mingde, all armored soldiers and armorless soldiers are now dealing with jade rough stones. The people with the best skills are selected and concentrated in two tents to fine-process those simply processed rough blanks.

Although it has only been two months since then, Chongqing's jade processing technology has improved a lot. Now Wang Mingde's military camp can produce several top-quality pieces every day. What Wang Mingde just showed Gao Mingzhan was a piece of jade he had just produced with outstanding quality. When this piece of jade was reflected in the sun, it was crystal clear and green. Wang Mingde asserted that someone would buy it when he went to Beijing.

The drawings sent by Deng Ming today have new requirements for processing. This is a set of jewelry containing elements of the twelve zodiac signs. Deng Ming has not yet planned to let Chongqing carve fine jade zodiac portraits, but they only let them carve the zodiac patterns on the jade blocks. In order to design this pattern, it can make people understand the animals at a glance without spending too much labor, but it took Deng Ming a lot of thought, and it is not easy to take into account both beauty and simple processing.

"Admiral Deng said that these twelve zodiac signs are a circle," Li Defu introduced, and drew a circle on the paper: "Many people might just want to buy an jade zodiac sign for their children at the beginning, but then they will continue to buy it and want to get a set."

Li Defu drew a large circle, but at the very least, he did not close the mouth, but stopped the tip of the pen at a short distance from the starting point. Then Li Defu put down the ink pen and told Gao Mingzhan and Wang Mingde that the marketing idea brought by Deng Ming's entrusted person was to stimulate the buyers' desire to collect and lead them to buy more jade jewelry.

"This method is good. Although it is a bit troublesome, if you can sell the whole set, you will definitely make more money than you are now."

Wang Mingde and Gao Mingzhan both nodded. But both of them seemed a little unconscious and kept looking at the circle drawn by Li Defu. Seeing that Li Defu had no intention of picking up the pen again, Gao Mingzhan finally couldn't help but reminded: "Your circle has not been finished yet."

"It turns out that I didn't think of this alone." Gao Mingzhan's words made Li Defu shout happily. He told the other two that when Deng Ming's messenger sent the drawings to Futu Pass, he also drew such a circle that was close to completion and threw the pen down. At that time, Li Defu felt that the incomplete pattern was a bit annoying, and finally picked up the pen and completed the circle, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Admiral Deng said that this is called perfectionism, that people like to do things with a beginning and an end." Li Defu also took out the other half of Deng Ming's marketing strategy: "Admiral Deng suggested that we should not carve the most difficult dragon patterns to carve first. We will sell the other eleven types first, and sell as much as possible. After a while, we will carve ten dragon-patterned jade blocks with the best quality. What is the 'limited version'? If it is sold out, change the color and carve ten 'collector's version'... Red, green, yellow, white, yellow and green... These limited editions can be desperately asked for prices. There are always a few rich people who don't care about this little money, and in the end they will be unable to help but buy the full set of dragon-patterned versions."

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Gao Mingzhan, Wang Mingde and his gang were studying how to turn Deng Ming's design into reality, and they reported that someone asked for a visit at the door, which was two groups of merchants from western Sichuan.

The first person who was brought in was a seller. This is the most popular Sichuan merchants in Chongqing that civil and military officials in Chongqing. Generally, they will bring all kinds of good things, and they can buy them as long as they have money. Now Gao Mingzhan's psychological pressure on selling waste and exchange for money is getting lighter and lighter. Chongqing will give up sooner or later. Governor Li returned to Beijing this time to persuade the court to withdraw everyone from Chongqing. If this is the case, it would be better to sell the things that cannot be moved to Sichuan merchants. The officials pretended to be invisible to the soldiers' theft. Now that Chongqing is living such a hard life, it is necessary to polish jade all day long to prevent the soldiers from eating better, and drink a few sips of wine. What if the camp is blown up? If the jade can be exchanged for more money, the generals will even take the initiative to add food to the soldiers so that they can work harder to deal with the hard stones from Burma.

Today, in addition to various luxury goods, this western Sichuan merchant also brought a new product that he had never seen before.

"This is called soap, which is used to remove greasy." Sichuan merchants took out a square light yellow thing for Wang Mingde and others to see, and asked them to get water and oil for experiments on the spot.

"This thing is really useful." After the experiment, Gao Mingzhan and others came to this conclusion. The sludge and oil stains stuck to their hands and cloth are difficult to wash with clean water. If you apply this brick a few times, rub it and then wash it off easily.

"This is the goods of a newly opened alchemy shop in Chengdu." Sichuan merchant said with a smile. The price of the new varieties will of course be a little more expensive. In order to strengthen the persuasion, Sichuan merchants also told Wang Mingde and others that the Imperial Army had just issued an order to purchase a large amount of soap from this alchemy shop. In the future, this goods will become a military necessity for the Imperial Army.

The patent rights of soap do not belong to the business that produces it. There is a research association with the same name as this business. The patent rights are shared by this research association and another alchemy research association. The alchemy research association also has an alchemy business with the same name.

When I first saw the addresses of these two alchemy research associations, the first reaction of this western Sichuan merchant was to meet a scammer, because the address of the alchemy research association only had a pavilion number but no specific door number. You should know that all addresses in Chengdu are now standardized. If an open-minded chamber of commerce is in the city, it must be XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

However, after careful investigation, it was not a false business, but a special provision of the Fifty-One Pavilion. It is said that the entire Fifty-One Pavilion is under the control of the military, from the head of the pavilion to the pavilion, are active personnel of the Imperial Army. The letters entering the house are not marked with the door number, but are forwarded by military police personnel according to the name of the unit. Considering that the Imperial Army has ordered their products, the merchant's suspicion has disappeared.

This regulation aroused the curiosity of the merchant. He wanted to see the mysterious inventor with his own eyes and ask for a cup of tea. But when he walked down the Fifty Pavilion, he saw the Fifty Two Pavilion, with no open space in the middle, and he could not find the Fifty One Pavilion that should be at this position. Since that is the case, it is important to remember the name of this unit. If the product has quality and supply issues, it is better to protest or claim compensation from the other party.

"DuPont Alchemy Research Association." A merchant in western Sichuan silently read the name in his heart. He estimated that this was the name of the owner of the research association, but why not called the Dushi Alchemy Research Association? Isn't that more in line with traditional habits? The DuPont Alchemy Business, which produces soap, has an address with a house number on Chunxi Road. If there is a product dispute, the merchant can try to negotiate with the alchemy business first. If it cannot be resolved, he will consider finding the 51 Pavilion. In fact, no merchant can find the specific location of the 51 Pavilion. When he went to the Chengdu Prefectural Office for inquiries, the officials just told them repeatedly that the letter only needs to write the 51 Pavilion and indicate the name of the guild.
Chapter completed!