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Chapter 138 Fishing

If this furnace of porcelain is a group of graceful young women, then this furnace of porcelain is an extremely graceful fairy.

Although it is not colored porcelain, which makes Wang Hua feel a little unattractive, it is also his first real porcelain in this world, and Wang Hua has very strict requirements.Many crafts are done by hand.Therefore, from the porcelain body to the glaze color, the quality is obviously much higher than other porcelains.

The most important thing is the pattern on the furnace wall of the porcelain furnace. Wang Hua used embossed carving techniques to make these flying fairies come to life. Wang Hua cleverly used tear stains to make the folds of the fairies' clothes in the image have different depths.There are also faint cloud-like willow leaf patterns, as if the group is covered with a layer of mist.

Originally, the shape of this porcelain stove was very elegant and simple, coupled with this picture of fairies scattered flowers, there is some ethereal fairy spirit in the elegant appearance.

In fact, this piece of porcelain is still Wang Hua’s rising work, because he has not prepared many materials, and there are differences in craftsmanship. Others are modernizing the ancient craftsmanship, but he is restoring the modern craftsmanship to an ancient one, so he is still figuring it out. .

For these reasons, he was not very interested in making this porcelain.

But this is for him, but for this craftsman, when has he seen such exquisite porcelain.

Hold it in your hand and just look at it like this.

Seeing his expression, they were all curious.Surrounding the past together, it even attracted a tut-tsk sound.

This furnace of porcelain caused a great sensation.Businessmen are after profit, no matter what Zheng family and Wang family are, as long as there is profit, they will try their best to drill in.These porcelains surpassed the official porcelains that Gong County paid tribute to. If these porcelains were brought to Luoyang, what kind of profit would there be?
In particular, the porcelain stove made by Wang Hua had to be a gimmick. Originally, Wang Hua fought against Hanlinzhai Baima Temple, and his songs and poems were well-known among the people.In addition, the craftsmanship of this piece of porcelain is exquisite, although it is not as good as the lacquer sculpture he made, it is also of great value.It may not be sold, and if it is placed in the store, this piece of porcelain can be used as a signboard in the store, a treasure of the store.

This time Wang Yi also invited some businessmen to open the furnace.

After they saw the porcelain, they immediately surrounded Wang Yi and his son.

But half of this batch of Porcelain King Paintings has been given to Baolin Zhai, and there is a time limit for what they can share.

And now it can't be out of the kiln, some porcelain has to be reprocessed, and all porcelain must be plated with gold and silver because of the mouth.This is a truly mature porcelain.

Wang Hua also handed over these operations to his father, and he still had to study.

Day after day passed, although the wind was still a bit cold, but the willow trees by the river began to bloom light yellow buds, and spring was coming.

The second batch of porcelain from the new furnace was released again.

However, Wang Hua did not participate in the second furnace. After the second furnace was opened, Wang Hua came to Wang Shen's home and greeted Wang Shen and his wife politely.

Wang Shen looked at this nephew suspiciously, knowing that he had no good intentions, so he looked at Wang Hua vigilantly and remained silent.

After Wang Hua finished asking, he said, "Second Uncle, I came here today for something. The two elder brothers owe me some money. But we are still a family anyway, so we can't put our fists inward. So I didn't ask for it, but how many times?" It's been a month, and the two brothers haven't even heard a single sound. I don't know what it means."

"What do you owe me?"

"Second Uncle, don't be nervous. The two elder brothers played Shuanglu with me that day. At first we gambled very small, just a few taels or tens of taels of silver. Later, the two elder brothers gambled bigger and bigger. I had no choice but to I will accompany you." Said Wang Hua and took out the IOU.

When Wang Shen saw it, he almost fainted on the ground.

More than 8000 taels of silver, this is not more than 8000 copper plates.His family can't afford so much money. Of course, if the family property is sold, it will exceed this figure.But now that the porcelain kilns are in good condition, can they be sold in exchange?
After Wang Hua showed it to him, he stood up and said, "I also know that this money is a big gamble. The second uncle will not be able to get the money for a while, so I will give you three months. Otherwise, when the time comes I summoned my clansmen and forcibly went to your house to ask for it."

Wang Hua used the other spear to fight the other shield.Since Wang Shen wanted to seize the suzerain position, he also recruited some clansmen.Now Wang Hua is also using the clan to deal with Wang Shen.After several months of operation, Wang Hua bought almost all the hearts of the Wang clan.At that time, hundreds of clan members surnamed Wang will go to Wang Shen's house to demand gambling debts, even if the county magistrate is called, it will not be easy to deal with.

Finished talking and left.

Wang Shen immediately called Wang Sheng and Wang Jian.The two brothers have been worried about this debt, but three or four months have passed, and there is no movement from Wang Hua.The two brothers thought that Wang Hua had "forgot" about it.Unexpectedly, Wang Hua came to ask for debts today.The two brothers narrated the events of the day, then knelt down and said, "We were deceived by him."

Definitely cheated.

But this matter is justified and unclear. If someone walks well, what are you doing to stop him?He also said that he would beat people to death.And there are witnesses, the great-uncle in the surname Wang has been watching.It's just cheating on gambling, so what, I didn't even cheat on gambling at the beginning, and colluded with Zhang Zhiliang to take his property directly with one life.It might be easier for Wang Hua to say something through a lawsuit.But Wang Hua made it very clear just now that they don't want to file a lawsuit, it's private.This forced Wang Shen to find a way to file a lawsuit to protect himself.

But he couldn't tell himself.

Picked up the whip and whipped it hard.

After smoking, Wang Shen sat in the room in a daze.This kid from Wang Yi's family is too scheming.I didn't want it at the time, and I have been forbearing until now.This time the new kiln successfully fired good porcelain, which also means that Wang Yi is making money every day.With money, there is power.When things get serious, Wang Yi's family is not afraid.Also, this is because my own children are not up to date, so it is not good to ask the Zheng family for help.Even the Zhang family can't tell, their son is going to marry his girl soon.When the news got out, the Zhang family was not willing to marry their daughter to a prodigal son.

Can't sit still.

So he thought of a way, and even sneaked to the two porcelain kilns of Wang Yi's house to check.Soon he discovered one of the biggest secrets, the clay for the Wang family's porcelain firing was not brought from Bengong County, but from Hebei.This is very strange, the composition of porcelain is mainly porcelain body and glaze.Porcelain bodies account for the largest proportion, and the raw material for firing porcelain bodies is clay.If the glaze is better, it doesn't matter much if it is shipped from other places, because the actual proportion is not large.But even the soil has to be transported back from other places, which is too expensive.

Of course, the cost of burning new porcelain that appeared in Wang Yi's house can be ignored.

He had a vague feeling that he could make a fuss about it.

He is not his two sons after all, he went home and thought about it.

In the evening of the next day, all the workers in the Wangjia Kiln got off work except for the workers who watched the kiln.He blocked a worker on the road.This worker is called Zhao Dashan, and he has a little relationship with him, but of course this kind of relationship is far away.He was originally a technician in another mine, but Wang Yi knocked him over with a lot of money.

Seeing Wang Shen, Zhao Dashan was a little nervous. The conflict between Wang Shen and Wang Yi's family was an open secret, and his association with Wang Shen was somewhat disgusting. After all, he was still holding the job of Wang Yi's family.

Wang Shen pulled him into a deserted forest, took out a piece of silver from his pocket, and said, "Zhao Da, I gave it to you."

The weight of this ingot of silver pancake is not light, there are more than 20 taels.

But Zhao Da didn't dare to ask for it, it was obviously not a good thing.I can get four or five pennies a month in Wangjiayao, and other aspects of treatment are more lenient, there are holidays, special circumstances can make exceptions for holidays, and even damage to things on the kiln, as long as it is not intentional, I will not accompany you. compensate.For this money, it is not worthwhile to break the road for a lifetime.

Wang Shen gritted his teeth, and took out another ingot from his bosom, it was not silver, but an ingot of gold.This ingot of gold is not as big as this ingot of silver, but every inch of gold is every catty, and gold is heavy.Under the evening sun, this ingot of gold emits a dazzling luster.

Zhao Dashan felt sorry that he had never seen such a large ingot of gold in his life, looked at it, and swallowed his saliva.He hesitated for a while and asked, "Erlang, what do you want?"

Wang Shen said, "I want the formula for Xinci."

"This won't work. This new kind of porcelain Wang Yi's Xiao Er has disassembled its process, unless you buy all the workers. And you signed a contract with us. If you leak it, you will be sued." But with this ingot of gold, Zhao Da was also a little bit reluctant, and he said, "But I can tell you that Wang's Xiao Er also did some experiments, and the results were not satisfactory, mainly because of the mud."

This sentence is also consistent with Wang Shen's conjecture.

He nodded his head and said: "Okay, Zhao Da, I don't want the formula, you tell me the source of these soil and glaze, this ingot of gold is yours."

As long as he gets the source of these clay and glaze, he can also do experiments and burn out new porcelain.It's a big deal to waste some labor money and firewood money.

Compared with the recipe, this difficulty is not that great, and it is easy to check. By chatting with those boatmen, you will know.Zhao Da was finally tempted, he nodded his head.

A few days later, Wang Shen and Zhang Zhi suddenly left Gong County. First, they came to Nanping Mountain, where they heard someone digging stones.They went over quietly and compared the stone with the glaze raw stone brought to them by Zhao Da, and they were exactly the same.

Then they came to Dingzhou and Xingzhou again. This time, the source of Wang Yi's new material clay gave them some headaches.This is not from one or two places, but from eight or nine places, mixed and mixed, and finally the effect of new porcelain can be produced.In order to get the ratio, Wang Jiaxiaoer burned thousands of porcelain pieces to get the exact soil mixing ratio.As for how the Wang family's Xiaoer knew that if these soils were mixed together, good porcelain would be produced, only God knows.Just like how he knew about lacquerware, perhaps as Wang Yi said, he learned it from books, or an ancient book recorded the craft and formula.

After arriving at the place, it was very easy to inquire about it. The local people were still wondering, what is so good about this mud, and it was transported so far to Gong County.Even if there is a waterway, the freight cost is unimaginable.Why transport all this mud so far away?

These places were quickly found out.

When we came to talk with each other, a problem emerged. These places are all barren mountains, and it is not too difficult to get soil.But they are all places with owners, and signed an agreement with Wang Hua. These places allow these owners to plant trees and flowers, and they can also grow crops, but the mud is only allowed to be sold to Wang Hua's family, otherwise they will be compensated.Of course, these masters must be happy, what is the mud on the mountain worth, and how much they want.As a result, several places that produce porcelain clay have signed agreements.

When they heard that Wang Shen wanted to buy soil, the owners' eyes were wide open. Could it be possible that this mud could be turned into gold? Why did a group of people in front want to buy soil, and someone behind wanted to buy soil?But when you take out the agreement, it's not that you don't offer a high price, it's that we dare not sell it.

After running to several places, both of them were a little disheartened. That night, when the two of them were drinking, Wang Shen's eyes suddenly lit up.I have an idea, now these masters dare not sell mud to them, but what about changing masters?

Zhang Zhi's eyes lit up when he heard that.

The two set off again the next day.But when people heard it, they disagreed even more. It is obvious that the mud in these places is no longer ordinary mud, and now they sell their brains and lose their minds.

But the two joined hands, especially Zhang Zhi's family has a strong fortune, if you don't sell it, I will just increase the price.

The price is rising step by step. These places are originally remote, uninhabited, and may be harassed by Turks going south at any time, so the land is worthless.At the beginning, the price of the poor land became the price of the middle field.Still not tempted, it finally became the price of fertile land.The owner of this family began to feel a little moved.

When the price exceeded one and a half times of the good land, the owner finally signed an agreement with them after hesitating for a while, and sold the land to them.

Time has also entered February, Wang Hua is studying, and Lu Ergou hastily came to report.

After Wang Hua heard this, he put down the "Book of Changes" in his hand, sighed, and said: "Pull it off, make it soft and hard. If the news is full and empty, it is the way of heaven. I am like peeling off the bed to distinguish it, and no one can help me, contempt!"

Lu Ergou had no idea what he was talking about.

Wang Hua was extremely melancholy in his heart, even though everything was in his budget and design, even though he never regarded himself as a good old man, this method inevitably lost its light.From the bottom of his heart, he didn't like his behavior very much.And it is possible that after entering the DPRK, there will be more and more such behaviors.

Outside the window is a hazy crescent moon, the moonlight is bleak, and the night wind in early spring is a bit steep, making the curtains rustle.

Wang Hua looked a little lonely.

He thought for a while, leaving Lu Ergou confused, Wang Hua went to his father's room.

(End of this chapter)