A Generation of Craftsmen 一代匠师 Episode 21

Liu Tianqiu lost to Liao Xi in the recruitment and lost a big order from Mrs. An. He poured out his anger on the masters in the workshop, and the masters complained.

Boss Wu looked at the chairs Liao Xi displayed at the recruitment meeting. It gathered the strengths of all the families, and it was perfect in terms of carving and style, but he still had a little worry in his heart, so he told Liao Xi bluntly that Boss Wu Worried that this move would affect the development of Xianzuo, Liao Xi realized the seriousness of the problem.

Liu Tianqiu asked Master Qin to keep a close eye on Liao Xi's every move, and learned that Liao Xi continued to recruit people, and even went to the timber yard to buy goods. Master Qin proposed to recruit people from Xingshengyuan. Liu Tianqiu also wanted to directly monopolize the timber market and control Xingsheng from the source. source development. Liao Xi sent two masters to the lumber yard to place an order. They took the opportunity to drive up the price of timber, and the owner of the lumber yard gave them a kickback. When Liao Xi learned of this, he gave them a hard lesson.

Master Qin dug the two masters who received kickbacks into Tianqiu Pavilion. Liu Tianqiu felt that they were useless, so he monopolized all the precious wood. Mei Luodan had to take Liao Xi to the Shanghai ghost market to buy wood. Going to the ghost market to join in the fun, Sun Huaitang also came here to order. Today, Uncle Quan is in charge of the ghost market. According to the old rules, the wood will be wrapped in advance, and the merchant owners will use the feel and smell to further price each wood, and the one with the highest price can buy the selected wood.

Liao Xi, Liu Tianqiu and Sun Huaitang gave prices for the three piles of wood based on their own experience. Liao Xi deduced from years of experience that the third pile was the precious red sandalwood. Liao Xi led the masters to work overtime to complete Mrs. An's order. He specially held a grand handover ceremony, which attracted many people to watch. Liu Tianqiu felt aggrieved, Rou Er persuaded him well, and Liu Tianqiu vowed to beat Liao Xi next time.

When Liao Yihui went to work in the newspaper office, she was deeply moved by the blood and sacrifice of the revolutionaries, and wanted to join them as soon as possible. Li Xia was deeply relieved to see her progress little by little. Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and Mrs. An came to Xinghua again to hold a recruitment fair. All merchants came to participate, and Liu Tianqiu was determined to win. The order for this recruitment was 1,000 sets of jewelry boxes. Mrs. An sent the bids to merchants who did not add them. Liao Xi saw Liu Tianqiu's ambitions, so he made careful arrangements to go to the lumber yard to buy mahogany and various precious woods. Then they asked people to bring back the money borrowed by Boss Hua with great fanfare, and finally sent Su Zhe and Daqiang to Jiuli Lake to buy longan wood quietly.

The reason why Liao Xi made careful arrangements was to confuse Liu Tianqiu, so that he would not make trouble out of it. Liu Tianqiu was really fooled. He thought that Liao Xi used precious wood to make jewelry boxes. He stayed up all night to design the blueprints of jewelry boxes, and let Master Qin take them to the workshop. custom made. Liao Xi also designed the style of the jewelry box, and wanted to make it with the longan wood purchased by Su Zhe and Da Qiang. The villagers of Jiuli Lake sold the longan wood to Liao Xi, and they are very grateful to Liao Xi.

Liu Tianqiu used a large sum of money to monopolize the precious timber, which caused the account to make ends meet. He came to ask Ye Zhiqiu and Sun Huaitang for money, but Ye Zhiqiu flatly refused. Liu Tianqiu threatened to make public his bribery from the Liao family. Liao Xi used longan wood to make a jewelry box sample, and quoted the lowest price of 25,000. Liu Tianqiu questioned it on the spot. Liao Xi used the most common longan wood to make jewelry boxes. Liao Xi wanted to win with carving and patterns. Mrs. An After discussing with the foreign comprador, he gave the order to Liao Xi.

After the recruitment meeting, the bosses from Shanghai and Guangzhou came to Liao Xi to order jewelry boxes. Liao Xi was worried that it would not be completed as scheduled, so he asked them to go to other merchants in Xinghua to order jewelry boxes. Liu Tianqiu speculated that Mrs. An would exaggerate the longan wood in front of Nanyang merchants, he was not willing to admit defeat, and sent Master Qin to order longan wood in the village, trying to block Liao Xi's way out.

Cheng Tian hosted a banquet to celebrate Liao Xi, Mei Luodan and Liao Xi discussed about making ordinary furniture, Cheng Tian made an excuse to leave beforehand, Mei Luodan thought he was strange and didn't care about Xingshengyuan's business at all, but Liao Xi didn't Seriously. Zhang Zinan often visits Liao Yihui in the hospital, and even sends flowers to Liao Yihui. Liao Xi accidentally sees this scene.