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Chapter 536 Jingzhai Porcelain Shop
In the parlor of Jingzhai Porcelain Shop filled with all kinds of porcelain, His Royal Highness King Chu sipped Yunwu tea while listening to Cheng Qian's explanation.

"Half of this hall is full of ancient porcelain from the previous dynasty. Your Highness has seen many, and the villain will stop making a fool of himself." Cheng Qian knew what he was here for, so he tried his best to introduce the other two kinds of porcelain.

"The other half are the two types of porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, blue and white porcelain and glaze red." Cheng Qian continued: "The firing methods of these two kinds of porcelain are similar, and they are all underglaze colored porcelain. Blue and white porcelain with white background It is blue and white porcelain, which has the largest output and is also the symbol of our Jingdezhen."

"This kind of red flowers on a white background is red in glaze." He presented a jade pot spring bottle painted with red peonies with twining branches to His Royal Highness for viewing.

Zhu Zhen played with it, and saw that the enamel of the spring vase was bright red, which made the peony lifelike and had an excellent texture.He exclaimed: "This is really beautiful, I think it looks better than blue and white."

"Your Highness knows the goods." Cheng Qian hurriedly praised: "How about someone say 'blue and white porcelain can go into the bone of the porcelain, and the red in the glaze can go into the bone of the glaze'?"

"Then why is the underglaze red not as famous as blue and white?" Zhu Zhen asked humbly.

"It's mainly because it's hard to get the right red." Cheng Qian said with a wry smile: "It's quite rare to have a pure red underglaze red like this, and it's often off-white when fired, or the glaze color is purple red or purple brown, and the color is not good. destroy."

"So difficult to burn?" Zhu Zhen asked curiously, "Where is the difficulty?"

"The atmosphere is too difficult to grasp." Cheng Qian replied in a simple manner in a language he could understand:

"To put it simply, the glaze is so red that the kiln door is closed and the fire is closed, and the door cannot be opened in the middle. The temperature of the furnace can neither be high nor low. If the temperature of the furnace is slightly lower, the color will turn black, which is very ugly; If it is higher, the color will be 'burned away', even for experienced masters, it is very difficult to grasp."

"That's really difficult." Zhu Zhen sighed.

"That's why there is the saying that 'one treasure is rare in a thousand kilns, nine out of ten kilns are impossible'." Cheng Qian sighed, and said with a smile: "So it's still easy to burn blue and white flowers, as long as there are qualified pile masters watching, strict' One yard, two burns and three fires out', basically no waste products will be burned."

"Understood." Zhu Zhen nodded and said with a smile: "It seems that this porcelain is just like human beings, so it's better to be more spicy."

"What Your Highness said is true, but the spiciness is only relative to the underglaze red." Cheng Qian said quite proudly: "Compared with the so-called porcelain outside Jingdezhen, our blue and white porcelain is the most delicate."

"Haha, that's true." Zhu Zhen said with a smile, "Jingdezhen's rule of the world is based on blue and white porcelain, isn't it?"

"Exactly." Cheng Qian nodded.

"So the sales must be good, right?" Zhu Zhen asked casually, playing with the porcelain vase in his hand.

Shen Rong and other accompanying personnel, hearing the words Qi Shushua's eyes lit up, knowing that the show was coming.

"Thanks to your highness, it's still reasonable." Cheng Qian was still immersed in the pride of the industry, and didn't notice anything wrong.

"Anyway, for decades, I have been taking orders and placing materials, never retailing, and orders from various provinces have been queued for at least three years."

"Wow. Have to wait so long?" Zhu Zhen asked in surprise: "Is it your family like this? Or is it the same as other people's family?"

"My name is more famous, and the waiting time is longer, but other companies have to wait at least a year before they can get the goods." Cheng Qian replied.

"It's amazing, how many pieces of porcelain can be produced in one kiln?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"There are many kinds of porcelain, with different sizes and styles, so we can't generalize them." Cheng Qian thought about it and said, "On average, there are about [-] pieces in one kiln."

"How long will the kiln be fired?" Zhu Zhen asked after breaking the casserole.

"It takes three hours to fill the kiln with code boxes, six hours to fire up the kiln, and another three hours to stop the fire." Cheng Qian replied: "So it takes a whole day from entering the kiln to leaving the kiln."

"Is it like this every day?"

"That's not possible. First, you have to wait until the kiln is completely cool before you can add materials into it." Cheng Qian said: "Second, each blank has to go through hundreds of processes, and dozens of craftsmen work together to form it. Into the kiln. It would be good to burn one kiln in three days.”

"Okay, let's do the math." Zhu Zhen performed the math on the spot and said:

"There are two folk kilns at 510 in the town. Let's be conservative and burn for [-] days a year, a total of [-] kilns. One kiln has [-] pieces, how many pieces can be burned in a year?"

"..." He held back for a long time before he said loudly, "It's amazing to burn more than [-] million pieces a year!"

"It's not that much." Cheng Qian realized that there was some danger, and quickly started to reverse the output: "There will always be a lot of burnt waste."

"Didn't you say that basically no waste products can be burned?" Zhu Zhen teased.

"Well, that's our family. Many people's piles of master's fire are not ready, and some waste will still be produced." Cheng Qian said, wiping off his sweat.

"Okay, then [-]% of the waste, can't there be more?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Yes." Cheng Qian nodded. As the leader of the industry, he can't smash Jingdezhen's signboard.

"That's more than 9000 million pieces." Zhu Zhen laughed and said: "The Ming Dynasty can share one piece per person."

As he spoke, he asked Shen Rong, "Old Shen, is that so?"

"Your Highness was joking. Jingdezhen's blue and white porcelain is a precious commodity. Even the wealthy families in Suzhou are reluctant to buy it. They usually use locally produced white porcelain." Shen Rong sighed clearly:

"Not to mention ordinary people in other places. If there are dozens of families in a county who can afford it, it will last for a long time."

"That's not right, then who sold more than 9000 million pieces this year?" Zhu Zhen pretended to be surprised and asked: "Just now Cheng Huishou said that the order will be placed three years later. Could it be Have you sold it overseas?"

"No, no." Shen Rong shook his head and said, "Now in the whole country, only Taicang Shipyard can export. We have never sold a piece of blue and white porcelain."

"..." Now Cheng Qian is a fool, and he can tell that this group of people is not kind.He was sweating profusely, and hurriedly looked at Ji Zhixian and Zhou Eunuch for help, but the two lowered their chins to the collarbone, fearing that they would burn themselves.

Cursing the two of them for being disrespectful, he had no choice but to deal with it alone: ​​"His Royal Highness, a large part of the porcelain is tableware, and they are all sold in sets, not in pieces."

"It's pure sophistry!" Zhu Zhen pulled his face and said, "Even my family doesn't use blue and white porcelain as tableware, although my father is indeed too frugal. But the living conditions of the Ming Dynasty are better than my family's, no more than one Wanhu?"

"This..." Cheng Qian complained secretly in his heart, because the yellow-glazed palace bowls used by Ye's family were thousands of times more valuable than blue-and-white porcelain!But how dare he say no?
"This king will give you another chance to organize your speech." Zhu Zhen looked at him coldly.

(End of this chapter)