Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 207 Shen Kiln Fine Porcelain
Hearing Shen Mu's yelling, Shen Zhezi got up and opened the door of the room, and then he heard that guy yelling in the court: "You closed the door on such a hot day... Eh, dude, dude... oh, I'm so rude, I'll come back later!"

Shen Mu was yelling, and soon he saw the princess standing behind Shen Zhezi, and saw Shen Zhezi's front was a little messy, like a gander suddenly choked by the neck, bowed his head, turned around and walked back quickly.

Seeing this guy's behavior, the two people in the room didn't know they were misunderstood. The princess gave Shen Zhezi a supercilious look, and then walked out, yelling, "Stop!"

Hearing this, Shen Mu quickly restrained the narrow smile on his face. He knew that the two of them couldn't do anything in the room, so this posture was intended to embarrass Shen Zhezi.But when facing the princess, I always feel a little guilty in my heart, not only because of the identity of the other party, but also because Shen Zhezi walked around the village a few times in women's clothes on the second day after his wedding, and then faced the princess again, he felt a little shy , without the majesty that an uncle should have.

"Since my uncle is here, why is there a need to leave in such a hurry. My husband and I are just talking about trivial family matters behind closed doors, so I don't know what Bozi Xun Weizhou has to talk about?"

In front of others, the princess had a stern face, which was a bit dignified, and she didn't have the savage posture in front of Shen Zhezi, which was probably a woman's natural endowment.

Shen Mu turned back with a droopy face, and felt even more ashamed when he saw Shen Zhezi's gloating eyes.He saluted the princess first, and said in a low voice, "I'm used to being careless at home, but my sister-in-law laughed at me. I'm here to find Zhezi, and there's nothing urgent about it. It's just that the porcelain kiln at home is open, and I plan to invite him to visit with me. "

Shen Zhezi was refreshed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "But the kiln guarded by Mr. Ma Fang? What's the color of the glaze? Is it blue or white?"

"How can I know this? I was also curious, so I came to ask you to have a look. This kiln cost hundreds of thousands of money, and I want to see what kind of unusual utensils can be fired!"

Shen Mu was placed in a brick kiln by Shen Zhezi in his early years, and he has also dabbled in the ceramic industry. He knows the cost of a kiln of porcelain, one hundred thousand yuan is simply unimaginable, so he is curious about it.

"Second brother, wait a moment, I will go with you!"

Shen Zhezi also couldn't wait to see the finished products made by his own porcelain workshop with a lot of manual materials. After returning to his room, he put on a wind fur, and then hurried outside.

"I'll go too!" the princess stood behind the door and whispered.

"Go together, go together!"

Shen Zhezi waved his hand and signaled the princess to go to the room to change clothes, and he didn't forget to add: "In the future, you will laugh at my writing skills, and I won't take you out again!"

"Haha, Yulang's wonderful pen is not inferior to Wei Zhang, how dare I laugh at it."

After hearing the words, the princess laughed again, and then called the maid into the room to change her clothes.

When Shen Zhezi walked into the court, he saw Shen Mu winking at him: "Husband and wife love each other very much."

"Don't be envious, my father has sent a letter asking me to accompany you to the He family in Kuaiji to discuss marriage in a few days."

Shen Zhezi patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said.

After Shen Mu heard this, his expression was bitter. Although he is no longer obsessed with that Wu Xinghan, but there are many beauties in his room, and he is happy and happy alone, and he does not want to find a high-ranking wife to control him at all. .After a while, he walked in front of Shen Zhezi and whispered with a bitter face: "Qingque, help me..."

"You don't have to ask me. When I returned from Wucheng, my uncle had already told me that if you continue to evade, I will break my leg and send you to Kuaiji. After the marriage proposal, go home and recuperate slowly. It will be fine if you don't delay the wedding."

"You guys are so ruthless!"

Hearing this, Shen Mu's expression became even more angry.He was about to say something, but seeing the princess had already walked out of the room, he quickly shut his mouth.

A group of people went out and got on the bullock cart and went to the porcelain kiln.

On the way, the princess suddenly slapped her forehead, and then said with a smile: "Just now I was only admiring the new and interesting brushwork of Qingque, but I forgot to ask you, what did you go to Kuaiji? Why didn't I hear you mention it?"

Shen Zhezi's face darkened again after hearing the words, probably this stain would be ridiculed by the princess for half his life.

"I'm not going to Kuaiji for fun, there are too many things to do."

This is true, he planned to go to Kuaiji long before entering the capital at the beginning of the year.It has been delayed until now just because I want to go to the capital to choose the emperor's son-in-law.After returning to his hometown, he was busy with his big wedding, and then he was running business alliance affairs, and now he finally found time.

Taking Shen Mu to the He family in Kuaiji for a blind date and marriage proposal is just a trivial matter, there are more things besides that.For example, he only entrusted Ge Hong to diagnose and treat the refugees rescued during the attack on Yan's family earlier, so it's not good to just ignore them all the time.There is also the problem of the connection between Kuaiji and Wuxing waterways, the development of wasteland, and the most important thing is that Xu Mao has contacted Jingkou Gujiu, and a group of refugees have been transported by sea, and they also need to be resettled.

Although there are people to take care of these things, Shen Zhezi takes care of the overall situation and always has to take a look to form a specific plan in his heart.

"It's not for fun, but you want to take your little maid who has just recovered from a serious illness? I'll go too!" The princess said again after hearing the words.

Shen Zhezi said with a smile: "I originally asked you if I wanted to go with you before the trip, but I was tired of traveling, and I was worried that you would not be able to bear it."

"What's wrong with this? I still came to your house from Jiankang!"

When Shen Zhezi agreed to go with her, the princess laughed again.She has an active personality, and she likes traveling around the world the most. She is really looking forward to traveling far again.

"It's fine if you want to follow me, but this time I go to Kuaiji to take care of my own business, which is related to the basic necessities of the family. Don't be self-willed, and listen to me in everything."

"If you don't provoke me, when have I never heard of you?"

Chatting along the way, they soon arrived at the porcelain kiln in the south of Longxi Zhuang.When Shen Zhezi got out of the car, he saw thick smoke billowing on the hillside. He should have turned off the engine to cool down and ventilate. He took the princess's hand and hurried up the hillside.The princess changed into a man's attire at home, and following Shen Zhezi up the mountain is not very eye-catching.

When we got to the hillside, we could see the old man Ma Fang standing in the crowd from afar.This Ma Fang is an old pottery craftsman that the Shen family relies heavily on. Earlier, when Shen Zhezi remodeled the brick kiln to fire red bricks, he asked this old man to take care of it.Nowadays, it is natural to entrust this kind of experienced experts to the intensive study of ceramic skills.

"Old Ma, can the porcelain be taken out? Is it green or white?"

When Shen Zhezi approached, he asked in a loud voice.

Today's ceramic technology is quite sophisticated, and more exquisite celadon can be fired.Porcelain is either blue or white, which are the original colors of the porcelain embryo. The reason why Shen Zhezi is entangled in this is that the firing technology of white porcelain is more demanding, and the selection of materials and the process are more complicated.Moreover, it is more expandable on the basis of white porcelain, and the color is hung on the glaze. Compared with celadon, white porcelain is a better base color.

Firing white porcelain requires white body and white glaze, but near Wukang, the required chalk is rare.Shen Zhezi also spent a lot of manpower and material resources to find some nearby.

The old man Ma Fang is also full of expectations for the porcelain that has cost a lot of manpower and material resources in this kiln, but after hearing Shen Zhezi's question, he is not very optimistic. After hearing the words, he just said: "Mr. gone."

As soon as the voice fell, someone shouted in front of him: "Get out of the way, out of the way!"

After a while, many porcelains fired in this kiln were displayed on the bamboo table one by one.Because the current focus is on the firing technique, these porcelains are just ordinary shapes, and not much effort has been spent on molding the body.

"There is actually white porcelain!"

Princess Xingnan saw that everyone was quite focused, so she also went up to watch, and picked up a porcelain bowl and put it in her hand to watch.Shen Zhezi also came over to observe carefully, and found that although the porcelain bowl was white at first glance, in fact, there was still a deep blue color in the white, and the glaze color was not transparent, it was gray and white, and there were many cracks.

The old man Ma Fang stepped forward, picked up a porcelain altar and observed it for a while, rubbed the surface with his hands, then tapped it lightly with his fingers, and finally threw it on the ground, the porcelain altar suddenly became fragments.

Seeing this scene, Shen Mu suddenly felt a pain in the flesh. The porcelain in this kiln cost tens of thousands, but it was broken so mercilessly, and his heart was full of regret.

Ma Fang ignored the emotions of others, squatted on the ground to pick up the fragments, and observed the shattered cross-section for a long time, and then smashed it into pieces with a small hammer, picked up the powder with his callused hands and rubbed it for a while.

Shen Zhezi was an outsider, and he didn't know how to judge ceramic skills, so he just stood aside and waited for the old man to make a conclusion.

"The chalky soil is still too hard. Although it has been sifted several times, it is not up to the top grade. The glaze water is a little dry, and the fire is too old..."

The old man Ma Fang rambled on for a while, and Shen Zhezi gradually concluded that the most important point was that the materials used did not meet the requirements.He only knew that the difference between blue and white plain porcelain was related to the iron content in the embryo soil, but he didn't understand the deeper knowledge.

But he also knows that it is really a little bit reluctant for him to force white porcelain to be fired in Wukang. In history, there must be regional differences in the pattern of southern green and northern white, which cannot be compensated by technology.This kiln white porcelain is hard to be called top grade, but he is not disappointed, as long as he can sum up the flaws in the craftsmanship, it is a success.

After a long time, the old man Ma Fang clapped his hands and stood up, and smiled apologetically at Shen Zhezi: "I'm not skilled enough, I've let you down."

"It's okay, if you know where the omissions are, there will always be a day of success. Later, Jiangzhou will send a new batch of chalk, and you will have to rely on Ma Lao to work."

Shen Zhezi said with a smile that he is indeed obsessed with white porcelain. While collecting chalk in the local area, he also sent people to search around Jingdezhen, and he already has some clues.

Although the white porcelain has not been fired, the porcelain kiln has not been fruitless recently.This place originally belonged to the Yue Kiln, and with the investment regardless of the labor cost, the Shen family can not only burn the best celadon, the body is thin and the glaze is smooth, like ice muscle emeralds.Black porcelain has also been fired, the color is as black as ink, and the glaze is as thick as fat.This is already far ahead of the current craftsmanship. Once it is launched on the market, it can be seen that Shen kiln fine porcelain can be called the crown of Jiangdong.

Dozens of different glaze color formulas can be summed up.If these formulas can be polished and matured one by one, it is an excellent skill that can be passed down for thousands of years!
Moreover, even if no high-quality white porcelain was fired, the finished products in front of him at least show that the path is on the right track.If it can be achieved overnight, it will underestimate the excellent ancient method passed down by the ancestors for thousands of years.Shen Zhezi's obsession is that more varied porcelains will be derived from the basis of later white porcelains, so he is full of confidence.

(End of this chapter)