It happened that He Zhu's masterpiece "Song of Everlasting Regret", which he had written for many years, was about to be completed. The big boss had to summon him to give him face, so he discussed with Zhou Nan and went to Yingchang Mansion to select actors and rehearse the play.

Su You's reputation as a henpecker was well known throughout the world, and Han Chunyan often told Wu Yu as a joke, so Wu Yu did not dare to invite troupe prostitutes to entertain Situ.

Fortunately, Situ Taotie's reputation was almost equal to his henpecked reputation, so Wu Yu specially prepared some good dishes for Su You.

One dish is roasted fat belly with Bazhen old juice.

For this dish, you need to prepare eight ingredients including mushrooms, sea cucumbers, bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, lilies, red dates, wolfberries, and Codonopsis pilosula, then put them into the fat pig belly, and then simmer the old soup with chicken broth, big bone spices, until soft.

When it is cooked, take out the fat belly, cut it and pour out the eight delicacies, cut the pork belly into pieces, prepare the soup and simmer again until the juice is almost reduced, add the eight delicacies and season it.

This dish didn't come out for a few hours, especially the old soup, which was not available in most restaurants. Su You was really surprised and said to Wu Yu: "Unexpectedly, there is such a Kung Fu dish in Linzhang County. It can be called

You are a leader in Northern cuisine. Please call the shopkeeper here later, and I will write him a sign, change his recipe for this dish, and write it down in the "Kitchen Classic"."

There are two more ordinary dishes. One is Zhanghe yellow croaker stewed with white tofu. The yellow croaker is the spicy yellow diced food that Su You often eats in Sichuan. Su You has not eaten this dish for a while, and it immediately evokes Su You’s childhood memories.

The other dish is more simple, called meat pie.

Unexpectedly, Su You was amazed by this dish again. Even he, who was not very interested in cakes, couldn't help but praise it.

The skin is as thin as paper and elastic, and is divided into many layers. The outer layer is crispy and the inner layer is tough. The fillings and meat fillings come in beef and sheep flavors, and are served with scallion sesame oil, and there must be other spices.

, brown in color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, oily but not greasy, mellow and delicious.

When Su You was exposed to Damingfu, he was not particularly used to it, and his stomach and intestines were completely opened. The reason why Taotie is Taotie is that he adapts quickly, and eating it makes him happy.

After several days of research in Linzhang and a clear understanding of the road traffic conditions in Linzhang, Suyou crossed the Zhang River and arrived in Cizhou.

The first thing is to visit the famous Cizhou Kiln in later generations.

Cizhou kiln was founded in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and has just entered a mature period. Its characteristic is that it has an extra "make-up white porcelain" process than other kilns.

The so-called cosmetic white porcelain is actually cutting corners, using white porcelain slurry to cover up the lack of color of the carcass, and then decorating it with the special techniques of Cizhou kiln and firing it into a vessel.

Because Cizhou kiln is a private kiln, it cannot compete with the official kiln in terms of luxury and cost. We have to consider the cost.

Its products are mostly practical utensils necessary for daily life such as jade pots, flower-mouth vases, vases with bases, bowls, plates, stoves, boxes, cans, pourers, and bowls. The lines are smooth, free and unrestrained, and they appear not to be refined enough.

, but it has the bold and simple style of the North.

In addition to utensils, there are also small porcelain sculptures of sheep, dogs, monkeys, ducks, turtles, lions, etc., as well as toys such as whistles, bells, chess, Go, and dice.

Therefore, folk kilns also have the advantages of folk kilns, that is, they are less restricted, have a wide range of themes, diverse vessel shapes, and rich meanings. They dare to boldly break through the limitations of official kilns, and there are as many as fifty or sixty kinds of decorative techniques.

The old craftsmen have been crafting for decades and have reached the point where they can do whatever they want in one go, which is not something ordinary novices can do.

Among all innovations, the three most powerful ones are engraving, cutting, and underglaze twisting.

Jiaocai is to mix and knead pottery clay of different colors to make it show natural texture, and then make it into utensils and apply transparent glaze for firing, which is quite natural.

Engraving and deflowering are Su You's most important craftsmanship, because the glaze of Cizhou kiln is completely opposite to that of Meishan glaze - thick, so there are two more decorative techniques, which is to apply color on the body first.

After the glaze is dry, use a sharp knife to remove the excess part of the glaze shell, so that after firing, it will produce a bas-relief effect of colored glaze wrapped outside the porcelain.

Su You came here this time to use the processing technology of Meishan and the aesthetics and art of Cizhou kiln to create a kind of porcelain that does not exist in the Song Dynasty, and to upgrade Cizhou kiln to the level of official kiln.

In fact, the method is not complicated. It is to build a kiln here according to the method of Meishan high-temperature kiln entrance, and then fire the jade porcelain body. Use the most brilliant red color of Tubo Sherpa beads as decoration to wrap the jade porcelain body with a layer of

Glassy red "window grilles".

The kiln does not need to be big, but it needs to be sophisticated and requires the best craftsmen to work together to complete it.

After success, Cizhou's porcelain making technology will surely undergo a general upgrade like that in Meishan and Jingdezhen.

Then hehehe, this is the closest to Liao Kingdom, Korea, and Japan...

So Su You contacted Erqi Niang and asked her to call Dana Shi, who was now the top porcelain maker in the Song Dynasty.

Hearing that the young master wanted to bake wedding gifts for the official family, Shi Dapidianpidian rushed over from Jingdezhen and worked day and night in Cizhou for more than a month, opening a small kiln factory.

There are four or five famous local kiln mouths. I have visited Shi Da's kiln mouth before and found that this kiln mouth is very strange. There are enough equipment for refining mud and glaze, but the kiln mouth is pitifully small.

This is very different from the style of Cizhou kilns. Several people in the porcelain shop shook their heads at this, saying that they didn't know how to make money from such a kiln.

However, Su You sent a message to Cizhou Zhizhou, asking him to provide the best glaze-picking craftsmen to support Shi Da. Zhizhou did not dare to neglect, and found the most powerful glaze-picking craftsman in the Hebi kiln, the Deng family, to worship him, and he was arrested without saying a word.

come over.

After only burning the test piece once, the Deng family priest was shocked and quickly called his proprietor secretly. I know how Shijiayaokou plans to make money!

They only burn fine products for the royal family, and the rest is a business of cosmetic clay and colored glazes!

Such whiteness, such redness, the old craftsmen have never heard of it from the stories told by their ancestors since they were children!

The shopkeeper of the Deng family came over to see the test pieces and immediately signed a contract with Shi Da. Hahaha, Brother Shi, we are all in the same industry. I wonder how much the glaze color and makeup clay will cost?

Shi Da also laughed. Shopkeeper Deng has provided me with such great support for this small kiln. Why do I, Shi Da, have to take care of you first? But the first priority is to bake what Situ wants.

As long as Situ is satisfied, the rest is just a matter of his words?

The shopkeeper of the Deng family immediately decided, Brother, your business is my business. Old Deng, you will work well for Master Shi these days. If the matter is done, the money will be doubled this year!

By the time Su You arrived, it was the time when the first porcelain kiln was coming out of the kiln.

When Shi Da saw Su You, he was greatly impressed. There was a reason why a folk kiln was developed here. The refractory bricks made from several kinds of soil here are the best in the world!

The storekeepers and priests of the Deng family have also admired Shi Da's ability. The Shi family's method of firing refractory bricks is completely different from theirs. They first burn refractory clay and bauxite into clinker, and then mix it with ordinary clay.

Semi-dry pressing and sintering.

Such bricks are much looser than the bricks used in their kilns. As the inner layer of the porcelain kiln, the thermal insulation and fire resistance properties are immediately improved to a higher level. This improvement alone can increase the kiln temperature by hundreds of degrees, directly solving the problem.

The problem of the tire quality at the entrance of our own kiln not being strong during sintering.

Shi Damai said happily: "The fire was turned off last night, and we are just waiting for the young master to come and open the kiln!"

Su You joked with him: "Looking at you like this, you are very confident. But what if it is not cooked well?"

"That's not possible!" Shi Da looked uncomfortable, and suddenly thought of something: "Let's talk about it first. If the kiln turns black, it doesn't count as burning. The third young master told me that it is more valuable!"

The third young master in Shi Da's mouth was Zhang San. Zhang San once brought a Cizhou kiln plum vase with white ground and black flowers to Japan. Somehow it caught the eye of the emperor, who called it "white ground and black with scratches".

"Cherish the abnormal and treat it as a treasure.

Shi Da wanted to insure himself first, but Su You couldn't help but feel angry and funny: "With our current temperature control and oxygen control technology, can you still burn sorbet red to black? My name is Shi Da."

I will drive you out of the house!"

"You still have the nerve to talk, so hurry up and open the kiln!"

The advantage of a small kiln is that it is easy to control the temperature, the center and periphery temperatures are consistent, and the temperature is high. It only takes 24 hours from entering the kiln to leaving the kiln.
Chapter completed!