Chapter 149: Cao County, the center of the universe! Taking charge of Sakura's afterlife!
Trees originally planted for real estate construction have become a burden.

If we don’t have money to build a house, why plant trees?
And since they couldn’t sell them domestically, they set their sights on China.

China had a huge demand for timber, so the bid was high, allowing Xiao Yinghua to make a lot of money.

However, what they didn't expect was that sooner or later they would have to pay for what they had done!

Just after making a profit from China, it was lost again!
Sakura's funeral industry is a very large industry, with annual net profits calculated in trillions!

And they bury their dead in a very traditional way, cremating the coffin together with the ashes, then putting them into an urn and burying them in a cemetery.

However, almost all the coffins they used were imported from China!
It can be said that every Sakura person cannot escape the fate of being put into the Chinese coffin!

[Nani, the coffin my grandfather used was imported from China? ]

[I don't believe it! You little kimchi, stop talking nonsense! ]

[Do we at Sakura need Chinese coffins? 】

[Why are you in such a hurry? Read on, this is backed up by data! ]

According to statistics, more than 90% of the coffins used by Sakura every year come from China!

To be more precise, it comes from a magical county, Cao County!
It is the pearl of Asia, the Jerusalem of the East, and the end of the world!
As we all know, New York is the center of the world and Cao County is the center of the universe.

I would rather have a bed in Cao County than an apartment in Shanghai!

It can be said that Cao County has a complete monopoly on cherry blossom coffins.

For Sakura, which has a seriously aging population, finding a stable supplier of coffins is an urgent issue that needs to be resolved.

Sakura's cremation is to put the deceased into a coffin and let the coffin and the deceased ascend together.

This places extremely high demands on the coffin board, it must be burned quickly!
Otherwise the deceased would have ascended to heaven before the coffin was even burned.

On the other hand, Xiaoyinghua has always advocated the spirit of craftsmanship and has extremely strict requirements on the quality and carving craftsmanship of coffins.

Although most of the coffins bought by Sakura people are very thin, the requirements are very high.

The wood used must have a certificate of conformity and must be guaranteed to burn fully without leaving too many impurities.

If there is any flaw on the surface of the coffin, it must be returned for repair.

[It's just a coffin, why do you need craftsmanship? ]

[This fits my impression of Sakura very well. ]

[Sakura loves to take off her pants and fart! Wasn't there a rice fairy and a cup fairy before? ]

[Wait, is this cup fairy of yours serious? ]

[Of course I am serious! What do you think I said? ]

Therefore, under such two strict conditions, Cao County stood out!

They secretly made up their minds to make a coffin quietly and then surprise all the Sakura people!

First of all, thanks to its unique geographical advantages, Cao County produces paulownia wood.

Lankao is to the west of Cao County, and Jiao Yulu planted a large number of paulownia trees in his past.

Unexpectedly, the action taken to control sandstorms back then has now become the confidence of Cao County!
One pole per year, as thick as a bowl in two years, and can be sawn into boards in three years. This is the growth speed of Paulownia, which is so fast!

China also has the tradition of burial, but we never use paulownia.

In the eyes of the Chinese, this thing is a very low-end wood.

Apart from papermaking, its biggest use is as firewood.

This thing is quite useful for making fire because it burns quickly.

In addition, it is very easy to plant and can survive in Lankao, which is enough to prove its vitality. There is basically no place where it cannot survive.

So the price is very cheap, almost on the same level as corn cobs.

The kind that you have to think about even if it’s given for free.

What we are pursuing are high-grade woods such as sandalwood and huanghuali!

The wood of Paulownia is loose and very easy to rot.

Anyone who uses paulownia to make a coffin for an old man will have his spine broken by the villagers!

What an unfilial descendant!
However, cherry blossom people regard Paulownia as a treasure.

Because this thing burns very quickly, it helps the deceased to ascend to heaven along with the coffin!
[What? Another thing that no one in China wants? ]

[You still laugh at us for eating corn cobs? Your coffins are made by others! ]

[I am dying of laughter! Didn’t you, Sakura, also pick up things that China doesn’t want? ]

[You two countries are the same, so stop making fun of each other! ]

[No one wants Paulownia in China? Then why does my grandfather's coffin cost one million Sakura coins! ]

[Then we can only say that the middlemen made a profit from the price difference! ]

At the beginning, not many people used Huaxia coffins, but when Xiao Yinghua saw them, she found that the quality of these coffins was really good and they burned so quickly!
More and more people choose Cao County’s paulownia coffins.

Cao County has rapidly risen thanks to its coffin business, with more than two thousand manufacturers, and is truly the hometown of coffins!
As the number of orders increases, there is a tendency for supply to exceed demand.

The people of Cao County are not limited to the small workshop model, but learn humbly and introduce advanced assembly line automation technology in the industry, truly turning coffin production into an industry!
From sawing to cutting the board, to peeling and adze marking, from cutting to splicing, all can be done without manual labor and realized by large-scale machine production!
[Wow, can coffin production be automated? ]

[Who said that China's technology is backward? Isn't this amazing? ]

[This is the true spirit of craftsmanship! Love what you do! ]

[I cried my ass off! Huaxia was really worried about Xiaoying's afterlife! ]

[All the Little Sakura people should kneel down and kowtow to the Chinese! ]

Although they have occupied almost the entire coffin market, the people of Cao County are not content with the status quo.

Instead, he keeps PUAing himself, striving to make the coffin perfect!
Give every Sakura person the ultimate cremation experience!
We carefully select raw materials and will never substitute inferior products for good ones.

The size error of each coffin is controlled within two millimeters.

We also often send people to Sakura to learn about their folk culture and people's aesthetic taste.

Make sure to make a good coffin that suits the taste of Sakura people!
But most of the coffins exported are cheap.

Since most Sakura people don’t have money, they can just buy a cheap coffin and make do.

I just want to send my dad to heaven.

The people of Cao County saw that this was not a good idea, as there was no profit in selling cheap coffins!
So they give full play to their subjective initiative.

It doesn’t matter if the raw materials cannot be changed, we can work on the appearance!

Aren’t you, Xiaoyinghua, advocating the spirit of craftsmanship?

Then let me show you what the true spirit of craftsmanship is!

So they took out the Cao County wood carvings that were listed as intangible cultural heritage!
We can carve all kinds of dragons and phoenixes on the coffin, whatever you want!
The design also considers the aesthetic tastes of cherry blossom lovers and adds various cherry blossom elements so that they can feel the full sense of history!

What about ink painting style, Ukiyo-e style, pink girl style...

(End of this chapter)