Chapter 1598 Baby

They are all small items such as bowls, plates, plates, and condiment bottles. The largest item is a plum vase.

You can't see the flowers in the bowl, only the snow-white and crystal clear inside.

When Su You carefully took out the small bowl, he couldn't help but praise: "Beautiful!"

The pattern around the entire bowl is a low-relief pattern, and the raised color part shows a very bright and pure bright red, while the background color is the snow-white color of jade porcelain. The color is strong, the contrast is sharp, and it is very festive.

The whole painting area is covered with colorful intertwining lotus patterns. This is called "big full ground" in the mouth of porcelain craftsmen. To make the flowers beautiful, you have to go to extremes, either filling the whole ground or leaving a lot of white space.

Every artifact was taken out, and the patterns were all traditional, but they were all exquisite.

The small bowls are all large and the floor is large, while the plate is large and blank. Only a few small bats and auspicious animals are decorated on the edge of the plate.

After the last plum vase came out, its bright red light was illuminated by the sun, and everyone was stunned.

This is a large red plum vase with beautiful women's shoulders and short neck. The top and bottom are full of color, and then there are lotus and pomegranate patterns growing from the top and bottom, covering the entire bottle body.

In order to achieve the "big floor" effect, the thin leaves and thin stems of the lotus pattern were enlarged, the flowers were also reduced and enlarged, and the entire bottle was extremely beautiful.

The quality of this bottle can be said to be excellent, and the artistic taste is not inferior to the literati paintings of Jingdezhen and Meishan in the south. Of course, it is still a grade lower than the plain-fired cyan series of Longquan and the best kiln-made products in Jun kiln.

But it is definitely qualified as a royal offering.

After Su You finished admiring the plum vase, he turned to shopkeeper Feng and said, "Look, Feng Xingshou... Ouch, Feng Xingshou, what's wrong with you... Shi Da quickly held Feng Xingshou down..."

Several people were in a hurry, and finally gave Feng Xingshou some relief. Feng Xingshou slumped on the chair: "Baby... this is an incredible treasure..."

Su You patted his shoulder: "Then I'll leave this matter to you and Shi Da. Your kiln needs to be renovated, re-paved with new refractory bricks, add spoilers, replace it with a coal kiln, and increase the furnace temperature. Big items

give it to you!"

"I will have the shape and color of the vessel designed by the Academy of Fine Arts of the Capital University. I will also introduce grouting technology to the Cizhou kilns to increase production capacity."

I don’t know if Shopkeeper Feng listened, but Su You came back and selected porcelain with Shi Da.

Finally, eight were selected from the twelve bowls, six from the nine plates, two sets of wine warmers, and sixteen wine cups. The rest were considered defective. Shi Da immediately took the iron rod.

Bang, bang, bang, smash.

Shopkeeper Feng was finally able to stand up, and he wailed "ouch" again, and sat back in his chair: "You two, why do you two waste so much natural resources..."

Su You asked Shi Da to pack up the fine products he picked out, and said to Shopkeeper Feng: "This is the style of his official kiln. The things offered inside must be flawless, and the rest cannot flow into the market and should be destroyed.

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"Can you still move at the beginning of the trip? Come on, let's go to your kiln to see the large vat manufacturing technology that has emerged in the northern sect in recent years."

After supporting Feng Xingshou to the entrance of Feng's kiln, Su You learned how the working people in the north could burn large vats without grouting tires.

It turns out that extremely fine flax wadding is added as an additive to the clay, so that large clay pieces with sufficient strength can be made, and then surrounded by the bottom of the cylinder. After trimming, a bundle of straw is put in and burned, allowing the embryo to be burned.

The body dries quickly and then a layer is built.

Add it layer by layer in this way, and finally it becomes the embryonic body of a large vat.

Then apply setting clay, apply coarse glaze, and then fire it into the kiln to make the finished product.

In the whole process, the embryo-making craftsmen did not use rulers or any tools. The dimensions were the various parts and steps of the hands. The rest was all based on experience. The size standards of the porcelain jars created were almost exactly the same. The essence of the craftsmanship made Su You

Breathtaking.

Two potters working together can only make twenty large vat embryos in one day, and each vat can hold one thousand kilograms of water.

This is also the limit that Da Song's handicrafts can currently achieve.

Su You smiled and said: "Congratulations to Shopkeeper Feng, your big business will be booming next time."

Feng Xingshou said with a smile: "I just made the envoy laugh. The water tank in ordinary homes should not be this big. But according to your auspicious words, I just took over a business from Feixiang a few days ago, and I actually asked for three of them in one go."

For a large vat with ten mouths, the drawings were recently sent to me. This time it is a small vat. I want a hundred vats."

Su You didn't tell him that these tanks were ordered by him. He handed over his hands and said, "It won't be long before you sell this tank to a big name!"

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After inspecting Cizhou kiln affairs, Su You began to go to the destination of this inspection - Handan.

The diesel engine ship could no longer continue after reaching Cizhou, so Su You and his party changed to a small boat and continued along the Fuyang River.

Along the way, Suyou has gained sufficient confidence in how to develop Hebei Fourth Road.

Hebei Si Road is a treasure land. If nothing else, take the piebald stone used as black glaze by porcelain workers. In fact, it does not need to be processed in this way at all.

Piebald stone, also known as "five-color aragonite", is a top-grade decorative stone with colorful textures and agate colors.

Among them, the piebald stone from Damingfu, Hebei Province, "is as bright as hibiscus, as smooth as grease, and as smooth as walking on solid ice."

The piebald stones in Xuzhou look like bamboo leaves, also known as "bamboo leaf piebalds".

Most imperial palaces in the Yuan Dynasty used this kind of stone for paving their floors.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, gold bricks were used, not because the emperors did not want to use them, but because this kind of stone was so expensive that even the royal family could not afford this luxury.

In the Ming Palace, only Fengtian Hall and Huangji Hall can be used.

By the Qing Dynasty, only Qianqing, Kunning, Shouning and Beihai Yingtai still had some decorations.

The stone needs to be polished to a certain degree of smoothness to show the beauty of the texture. Nowadays, people in the Song Dynasty only grind this kind of stone and use it as glaze.

In fact, with current science and engineering technology, it can be cut into squares and polished on one side to make high-end decorative materials.

In addition to processing capabilities, there are also issues of vision and thinking.

For example, the cinnabar painting that is popular in the capital today was originated in Dasu. This boy used red cinnabar as ink to paint bamboo, which created a novel aesthetic experience.

But before Dasu, and in the thousands of years of Chinese civilization, no one had ever thought that green bamboo could be painted with red cinnabar.

This is the lack of a pair of eyes that can discover beauty. Of course, such eyes also need to live a stable life for a long time and be able to have emotional understanding and experience before they can be cultivated.

The last development issue that Suyou is considering now is related to the westernmost road among the Hebei Four Roads - how to cross the Taihang Mountains and send the copper from Taiyuan Prefecture to Daming Prefecture for processing.

This involves the manufacturing of brass cartridge cases in the military industry.

And even if a development path is found, there is still another problem, which is the administration of officials on Hebei Fourth Road.

The paper used in the counterfeit banknote case can only come from two places - Hebei Fourth Road Development Bank, or the paper used for government accounting pages.

No matter where it came from, it made Su You vaguely worried about Hebei's officialdom.

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Today, the city wall of Daming Mansion is three feet six feet high, and the four gates in the east, west, north and south are named "Tiren", "Leyi", "Chongli" and "Chongzhi" respectively.

The structure of the city wall is more rigorous, the shape is grand, solemn and honest. There are crenels two meters high along the outer edge of the top of the city wall, and there are square holes between each crenellation wall for watch and shooting purposes during war.

There are turrets at each corner of the city wall, and there are four forts and bastions between the four turrets and the four city gates, for a total of thirty-six forts, which means "the pole star rises thirty-six degrees from the earth".

There is a ramp built on the right side of each city gate, which allows you to climb directly to the city tower. During war, troops and horses can also quickly climb the city from this road and gallop on the wide city wall.

Each of the four gates has three Xieshan-style floors, which are called the main tower, the arrow tower and the gate tower respectively.

In front of the main building is the archery tower, and there is a wall between it and the archery tower. Inside the wall is the "Wengcheng".

In front of the archery tower is the gate tower, also known as Qiao tower, which is the most outpost of the gate defense.

This kind of city wall defense system can be described as "a three-story tower, really as strong as a mountain, with the power of a tiger looking at it."

The Wengcheng is also a living area. The east and west Wengcheng open to the south, which means "Chaoyang"; the north and south Wengcheng open to the east, which means "welcome".

There is a temple in each of the four Wengcheng circles: Tianqi Temple in the East Wengcheng Circle; Yaowang Temple in the West Wengcheng Circle; Wuqi Temple in the South Wengcheng Circle; and Xuanwu Temple in the North Wengcheng Circle.
Chapter completed!