Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 74 Chang'an Porcelain

Not long after returning to Chang'an, news came from the kiln——

"There is auspiciousness coming out of the furnace."

The auspiciousness of this era is particularly outrageous.

If the clouds in the sky are a little longer, it can be said that the dragon was born.

If the ears of grain are a little fuller, you can say Shennong protects you.

Even a hen jumping through a fire hoop can invent a phoenix rising from the ashes.

At first, Liu Yizhen thought that someone wanted to do something wrong and came to flatter him to make up the auspicious omen, but after careful questioning, he found out that it was really not like that.

Instead, a piece of "beautiful jade" was produced in the brick kiln.

A gentleman is like jade.

This is of course auspicious.

But Liu Yizhen felt something was wrong.

Pull it down, if you can really burn jade, it's almost the same as turning a stone into gold.

Liu Yizhen probably knew what the so-called "jade" was, but he had to go to the scene to see for sure.

Because Xiangrui came out of Guanzhong, almost all the big shots came.

Wang Xiu, Du Ji, Zhu Lingshi, and even Mao Dezu and Fu Hongzhi, who didn't care much, ran to the brick kiln to eat melons out of curiosity.

"Mr. Chang'an is here! Everyone, make way!"

Liu Yizhen scoffed at the words of auspiciousness, and was not so eager, so it was long overdue in the end.

After being courteous with Wang Xiu and the others, someone handed Xiangrui to Liu Yizhen.

Liu Yizhen took a look and secretly thought that it was so.

It's not jade at all.

But porcelain.

Clay is used to make bricks, and kaolin is used to make porcelain.

It should be that some craftsmen did not distinguish the difference between the two kinds of soil, and mixed the soil together, so the porcelain was fired.

The difference is that the porcelain fired this time is white, so it was mistaken for "jade".

Porcelain is not uncommon, but due to soil quality problems, the current porcelain is basically blue.

White porcelain had to wait until the late Southern and Northern Dynasties to be born from Hebei criminal kilns.

Only in this way can it be regarded as the official creation of the situation of "southern green and northern white" of Chinese porcelain.

The reason why it didn't appear before is probably not a matter of luck, but Liu Yizhen improved the brick kiln to increase its temperature and meet the conditions for firing porcelain, so that white porcelain can be fired.

"It's unintentional to plant willows and willows."

Although it is not jade, the birth of white porcelain is no less valuable than the appearance of jade.

"Mr. Chang'an! You see, this jade is big and round. If it's not auspicious, what is it? It's an order from the heavens!"

The craftsmen in the brick kiln were not uneducated, and they came to flatter Liu Yizhen soon.

Before Liu Yizhen came here casually, he transformed waterwheels and brick kilns, and invented slaked lime. Almost all brick kiln craftsmen regarded Liu Yizhen as a god. Today, the appearance of this auspicious auspiciousness has already driven the other party into a frenzy.

"This is not jade."

Liu Yizhen explained patiently.

"You can't burn jade in the soil, it's just a kind of pottery."

Explaining the principle of porcelain generation to everyone is obviously playing the piano to the cow, so Liu Yizhen intends to perform a practical operation directly.

The steps of firing porcelain are not complicated, just wash the mud, stack the mud, pull the billet, and then fire it.

Since it's a demonstration, the shape doesn't matter.

When pulling the embryo, Liu Yizhen went crazy and made a long cylindrical model, which made the corners of other people's mouths twitch.

In the end, Liu Yizhen threw the soil stick into the brick kiln and clapped his hands easily.

"Firing it for one day and one night, and everyone will come here tomorrow to see it."

Everyone was skeptical, but anyway, it was only one day, and everyone could afford to wait.

When the stick was taken out the next day, everyone was surprised to find that the thick, long and ugly stick turned into a thick, long and ugly jade stick.

"This is a kind of porcelain, not jade!"

This will relieve everyone.

Porcelain is still a bit high-end for the common people nowadays. After all, the furniture is basically made of wood, but it is very common for high-ranking officials and nobles.

It's just that they used to be celadon from the south, but the appearance of white porcelain now makes everyone a little surprised.

Only Du Ji watched the appearance of Bai Ci with a gleam in his eyes.

He came to Liu Yizhen's side, holding the white porcelain stick: "Mr. Chang'an, since this is a kind of porcelain, can it also be made into utensils?"

"of course."

Du Ji's eyes were even brighter.

"Mr. Chang'an, I have an idea."

Seeing Du Ji's appearance, Liu Yizhen also knew what he wanted to do.

"Master Du wants to make a fortune?"

It's convenient to talk to smart people.

"That's right, such utensils can be made with a little effort, and when they are sold to the south, they will definitely make a lot of money."

Du Ji has already seen the commercial value of white porcelain, and now he is looking for Liu Yizhen to cooperate.

Of course, Du Ji is not qualified to cooperate personally.

But behind him is the Du family.

Even the Guanzhong family.

Liu Yi really had to give this face.

"Can".

Liu Yizhen is also short of money, so it is of course good to be able to create a way of making money.

Moreover, taking this opportunity may even tie the interests of the Guanzhong family to himself, which is a harmless business.

"These days I'm trying to improve."

"Waiting for the good news from Chang'an Gong."

In the next few days, Liu Yizhen didn't go back to Chang'an at all because of work, and because he was a little upset about "The Legend of Heroes", but lived in a brick kiln.

The most important thing about porcelain is the carcass and glaze layer.

The body quality of white porcelain can be divided into thick and fine. The body color of the coarse body is grayish white, the body quality is rough, and some have fine grains. The glaze color is grayish white or milky white, and some are yellowish white. It is not enough, as long as the phenomenon of air hole sand inclusion in the carcass and the phenomenon of undercooking are solved, it can become delicate.

The carcass of the fetus is dense, the color of the fetus is as white as snow, the enamel is shiny and smooth, as thin as an eggshell, and the transparency is very good.But the cost and process are much more cumbersome.

Liu Yizhen intends to do both.

In the future, the thick tires will be sold to the common people, and the thin tires will be sold to local tyrants.

To put it simply, he wants to earn money from both sides, and every penny is indispensable.

The glaze layer of white porcelain is magnesium glaze, which has a high viscosity at high temperature, and the glaze surface is easy to be smooth and smooth, with good gloss, but the glaze color is milky, opaque, stable, and mostly white or white with bluish hue.

This problem can only be handed over to craftsmen for continuous improvement.

For example, the Ding Kiln of the later Northern Song Dynasty could make the glaze layer of white porcelain into ivory white color.

It all takes time, not to say that it can be easily made by giving a formula.

After about a month of busy work, the first batch of white porcelain was finally fired.

The color of this batch of white porcelain is still a little yellowish, and the texture is also very rough, but this does not prevent the local tyrants in Guanzhong from rushing to buy it.

Whether the purpose of snapping up is to flatter or hype, in short, the reputation of this batch of white porcelain has been slapped.

Because it was made by Liu Yizhen, some good people simply named the white porcelain "Chang'an Porcelain". On the one hand, it corresponds to Liu Yizhen's title, and on the other hand, it also represents the origin of the white porcelain, which is the best of both worlds.

The aristocratic family in Guanzhong naturally wanted to take a share of the pie, and with Du Ji's instigation, Liu Yizhen and some aristocratic spokespersons finally sat at the same table and started to make deals.

(End of this chapter)