Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 535

So it was finally agreed that the Bureau of Weaving and Dyeing would pay rent to Jiangxi Chief Secretary with one-third of treasure banknotes, one-third of copper coins, and one-third of food stamps.

At the same time, it was agreed that for all food stamps that have not been spent within a year, the Weaving and Dyeing Bureau will be responsible for repurchasing them with half of the copper coins and half of the precious banknotes...

Zhu Zhen has really learned a lot. Who said that the negotiations in this era are very simple and the terms are very crude?

It's not like that at all, is it?People in the Ming Dynasty were more serious. When negotiating contracts with later generations, they picked out the words one by one without any difference.

This reminded him of some bad memories from his previous life, which made him feel very bad.

So after helping the two parties to resolve the dispute, they hurried to Jingdezhen with the inspection team... Only Zeng Tai and Gu Yuanchen were left to continue their chatting in Nanchang City.

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Jingdezhen and Nanchang are connected by water, and from the Ganjiang River to Poyang, you can enter the Changjiang River.Then go upstream along the Changjiang River for more than a hundred li, and you will arrive at Jingdezhen.

Avoiding the annoying negotiations in Nanchang City, under the strong praise of Shen Rong and others, Lao Liu quickly regained his good mood and chatted and laughed happily with them.

The next day, Zhu Zhen was on the stern tower, posing with Shen Rong and others, bragging about his heroic deeds in the naval battle of Huaniao Island and his ability to capture the bandit leader.I saw white smoke rising in the distance, covering the sky.

He couldn't help being taken aback, and asked, "Is it on fire?"

"It's not Your Highness, it's Jingdezhen that has arrived." Sun Jia, the magistrate of Raozhou, who was the guide, hurriedly explained:
"Because there are hundreds of kilns in Jingdezhen, the kilns are fired day and night, so this kind of spectacle of 'white smoke covering the sky during the day, and red flames burning the sky at night' has been created."

"Doesn't the Environmental Protection Bureau care about it?" The sixth child muttered, only to realize that there is no Environmental Protection Bureau yet.Then silently took out his big mask...

Think about it, I took it off again, the image is still important...

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During the Song Dynasty, my country's porcelain industry reached its peak, and kilns spread all over the country.

But after the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, when entering the current dynasty, except for the Longquan kiln in Zhejiang, which was still mainly made of celadon, most other kilns were depressed due to stagnant skills, or disappeared due to wars and disasters. Suppressing the shortcomings of others and promoting one's own strengths, it has become the firing center of the country.

Jingdezhen has thus become a ceramic metropolis known as "five miscellaneous places" and "docks of twelve provinces".When Zhu Zhen arrived, he saw masts and oars on the pier like a forest, and boats like weaving.It looks more prosperous than the provincial capital Nanchang.

Martial law has been imposed on the wharf at this moment, and it is still the welcome scene of waving flags, gongs and drums, loess padding the road, and clean water sprinkled on the street.

The eunuch Zhou Ji, the supervisor of the Zhushan Imperial Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen, Ji Ming, the magistrate of Fuliang County, and the Porcelain Industry Guild have been waiting for a long time before the first journey.

"Welcome Your Highness to come to this place!"

After everyone saluted, Zhu Zhen ordered them to stand up with a smile on his face and said: "Everyone please stand up, don't be nervous, this king just admires the name of Jingdezhen for a long time, and came here especially for a visit."

"Welcome, welcome, warmly welcome." Everyone in Jingdezhen hurriedly smiled and said: "Please give me more instructions, Your Highness."

"Hey, I'm a layman, so I don't dare to command blindly." Zhu Zhen waved his hands with a smile.

As he spoke, he pointed to the clusters of white smoke rising from the town with great interest, and asked, "Are those kilns for firing porcelain?"

"Yes, Your Highness." Before the meeting, he hurriedly explained: "In the early years, there were small kiln workshops scattered in the countryside. With the vigorous development of Jingdezhen's porcelain industry, now the kilns are concentrated in the urban area. Now There are thirty official kilns and two 510 private kilns in the town."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but proudly said: "It is definitely the best in the whole country."

"Tsk tsk, amazing." His Royal Highness King Chu admired, and became more interested. He declined the arrangement of Fuliang magistrate to invite him to rest first, and went directly to visit the town.

The eunuch, the magistrate and the head of the meeting hurriedly gathered together, and the magistrate of Fuliang respectfully asked for instructions: "Your Highness, the Royal Kiln Factory is in Zhushan, and the journey is a bit far away. Why don't you visit Chenghui's first Jingzhai Porcelain Shop today? "

"My lord said that I'm here for a visit, not an inspection, so the guests can do whatever they want, and you can just follow the arrangements." Zhu Zhen smiled indifferently.

"Very well, please, Your Highness." The three hurriedly bowed to invite His Highness to get into the car.

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The guard of honor of His Royal Highness the King of Chu marched across the streets.The kiln workers, men, women, old and young in the town all went to the street to watch the excitement.

Although Jingdezhen's porcelain is popular all over the country and used by princes and nobles, there are really no nobles who have come here.After all, what everyone is interested in is exquisite porcelain, not this dusty, white and dirty production environment.

Zhu Zhen was an anomaly. He had someone raise the curtain of the car, and watched with great interest the porcelain stores, shops, stores, and shop entrances, all kinds of porcelain.It's like visiting the porcelain street of later generations...

It is indeed a completely different experience from other places. To be precise, this is a world different from other places.

When the vast majority of the world was still in the farming civilization, this place has quietly entered the commercial civilization.

He said to Shen Rong and others who were following his car: "This place is quite similar to Suzhou."

"Your Highness said so." Shen Rong nodded and said, "Suzhou relies on the silk weaving industry, while Jingdezhen relies on the porcelain industry."

After a pause, he whispered: "His Highness should firmly hold these two places in his hands."

"Then the king's hand is stretched too far?" Zhu Zhen laughed.

"No, only His Highness can protect them well and lead them to continue to grow and develop." Shen Rong said sincerely.

"Hehehe," Zhu Zhen couldn't help chuckling, "You old Shen, you're getting more and more flattering."

"Your Highness, this is not flattery, but the sincere words of this humble official." Shen Rong said with a righteous face: "There are only a few such handicraft centers in the whole country. It is not easy to form, but it is easy to destroy."

After a pause, he lowered his voice and said, "It's like Suzhou. If His Highness hadn't turned the tide last year, it might have been completely abolished..."

"Not at all." Zhu Zhen shook his head.

"In any case, there are too few people in Ming Dynasty who understand the science of breeding goods, and there are very few people as divine as His Highness." Shen Rong clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness has no shirkable responsibility!"

"Haha, let's have a look first." At this time, the Jingzhai Porcelain Store of the Cheng family arrived.When the team stopped, Zhu Zhen stopped talking.

Jumping out of the car, I looked up and saw that the porcelain shop was a three-story pavilion.

Because His Highness was going to visit, the staff of the Porcelain Shop cleaned the exterior of the pavilion two days in advance.So there is no such gray feeling around, and the carved beams and painted buildings, the bright colors, look very grand.

In the spacious foyer, there is a pair of couplets hanging on the left and right, which read:

"Break sand into a tool, and its quality is better than gold to produce everything; fan soil is porcelain, and painting and lacquer show thousands of poses." '

The horizontal batch is the plaque of "Jingzhai Porcelain Shop", which is both appropriate and heroic.

"It's a very ostentatious shop, no wonder you came to be the head of the meeting." Zhu Zhen smiled approvingly at Cheng Qian who was waiting on the side.

"Your Highness is absurd, a small business, not worth mentioning." Cheng Qian couldn't help but smile, and respectfully invited His Highness to visit inside.

"Go, go in and have a look." Zhu Zhen said happily.

(End of this chapter)