After thinking about it, Su You looked at Cheng Wenying and asked carefully: "Uncle-in-law... can you estimate the price of this wine?"

Cheng Wenying hesitated for a moment and said: "It's such a good wine, and if the utensils are exquisite, it should be worth four bottles."

Su You was dumbfounded. This was the price of top-quality wine in the Meishan market, but they added a high shipping tax! He murmured: "Isn't it a bit expensive?"

Cheng Wenying looked at the wine and shook his head: "Smell the aroma of the wine in the room, and you will know that the price is really not expensive. My nephew, look, a set of Chinese books in the shop is priced at five guan. Is it possible that a bottle of Yongchun Dew like this is still worth it?

Is it not worth a book of Han Dynasty?"

After saying this, Su You understood that it was worth it, Si Guan, a must!

A bottle of 1,573 in later generations will cost you 1,573, so how many books will you have to buy?!

Cheng Wenying went on to say: "In the past, wine in Sichuan Gorge, like salt and tea, was left to the discretion of the people. In the past few years, the court saw the benefits and began to focus on it. To gain profits from wine, you need to negotiate with the government.

Well, then we can sell it."

After speaking, he pointed his finger at the wine jar: "However, in the past few years, the market has been getting worse and worse. Compared with the small amount of fees every year, there is a lot of waste and no results. It is difficult to cope with the main tasks of the winery."

"The county magistrate has talked to me several times, and what he said is that he wants to restore the old system in disguise. Since my nephew is proficient in this, how about I give you a winery?"

Su You quickly waved his hand: "I don't dare to work for my brother-in-law. It's too troublesome."

Cheng Wenying smiled and said: "Actually, it's not troublesome, and I also have benefits. I helped the states and counties in these places, and the states and counties will help me in other places."

"No one wants to buy it at Guan Liquor House because the wine is too ordinary. The annual fee of 500 guan is sandwiched between the two major wine producing areas in Jiayi, so it is not easy to earn."

"But once my nephew's eternal spring is revealed, this problem will no longer exist. Then wine merchants from all over will flock to Meishan City, and there will be a big bustle in Meishan City."

"My dear nephew, please don't refuse. If you want to study and socialize in the future, it will definitely not work without the support of industry."

After saying that, he was like a fox that got the chicken: "But this method cannot be known to the official wine shop first, there must be a cover up."

Su You looked serious: "I have been in Meishan for a few days, and Su You has been thinking about how to help the folks in Kelongli. These distiller's grains are going to be sent to Kelongli by water transportation, so that the villagers can raise chickens.

Raising ducks, pigs and fish.”

Cheng Wenying clasped his hands together: "Okay, this makes sense! There is no reason to only take care of the people in the city and not the township party. This is what should be done by cultivating one's morality and raising one's family."

"The charity shed at the wharf has been set up, so it is a good idea for the two to cooperate. I will help my nephew with a batch of young suckling pigs, which will benefit the hometown and accumulate merit."

After speaking, he added: "But you are still young, so this winery cannot be named in your name for the time being."

"When we take down the wine shop this year, we will let your sister-in-law take care of it for you, and the money earned will be kept for you. When you have a wife in the future, it will be best to use it as a gift for your wife."

After saying this, I thought it was funny and couldn't help laughing.

Su You was no longer polite and bowed respectfully: "My nephew would like to thank my uncle-in-law on behalf of the folks. This wine still needs to be stored in the cellar before the flavor becomes softer. We can first purchase the lees from the official winery regularly and steam them out.

After drinking, he stored it in a cellar."

"After we win the right to buy, we will start selling it, and the spent distiller's grains will be sent to Kelongli for food."

"Ducks grow fast. This Spring Festival, every family should be able to eat fish and duck. By next year, every family will have chicken and dolphin on the table. This is all the blessing of my in-laws."

Cheng Wenying said with a smile: "I don't need to be polite. You have helped me so much, so I can repay you. Otherwise, I will have nowhere to show my face."

At this time, the fried tofu was served, and Su You smiled and said: "Brother-in-law, hurry up and try this Yongchun dew. This is a good dish to go with wine, and the taste is unparalleled."

Cheng Wenying picked up the hairy tofu and looked at it, frowned and took a bite, then took another sip of wine, and suddenly his eyebrows were beaming: "It really is a good wine and good food!"

The old man and the old man were enjoying the snack, while the eighth mother and the old aunt wrinkled their noses and refused to touch it.

After dinner, I called Lao Yu and his two sons, and the group took the plaster molds and engravings and headed to the ceramics workshop.

Passing by a gold and iron shop, Su You went in and handed the shopkeeper a bunch of drawings and asked him to build the thing.

The shopkeeper looked at him with interest and agreed with a smile.

Arriving at the ceramics workshop, Shi Dongxiu looked like he hadn't slept all night. When he saw Su You, he waved at him: "My dear nephew, come and see, how about this vessel?"

This is a pink-green glaze plate with a sunflower mouth. The glaze is a little thick, and there are slight flowing lines on the bottom ring.

It seems that the historian's porcelain master knew that his glaze application skills were poor, so he deliberately made it this way.

Since there is no way to avoid glaze accumulation, we simply let them outline the darker color on the edge of the six sunflower petals on the plate, thus creating a change in color shades, which is a unique and ingenious idea.

This piece of porcelain was obviously made by firing the porcelain body at low temperature, then applying glaze and firing it at high temperature, as Su You had reminded.

However, Su You soon discovered a problem with this piece of porcelain: the kiln was not warm enough.

There was no problem when making the test piece. The sagger required for the test piece was very small. Shi Dongxiu was able to use porcelain pieces to smash the Yue kiln cup without damaging it. This clearly shows that the test piece fully meets the standards of hard porcelain.

But this single-fired plate, judging from the circle at the bottom, is still somewhat different from the test piece.

Shi Dongxiu originally came here with the intention of showing off, but Su You immediately turned over the plate to look at the circles, and the second time was looking for the test piece and preparing to scratch it with the tip. This was going straight for the defect.

. He quickly stretched out his hand to stop him: "My dear nephew, my dear nephew, give me some face..."

Cheng Wenying took the porcelain plate and looked at it over and over: "What? There's something wrong with this plate?"

Shi Dongxiu stared and defended: "What's wrong? There's nothing wrong! Have you ever seen such a white ring foot? Such a beautiful glaze color?"

Su You complained quietly on the side: "Shi Shibo, bone china must not only be white, but also be able to be eaten like jade, be hard, and produce a melodious voiceless sound..."

Cheng Wenying stretched out his finger and flicked it on the porcelain plate, and the porcelain plate made a ding sound: "Okay, it's much cleaner than my Yue kiln plate."

Shi Dongxiu said angrily: "Mr. Cheng, you don't understand. My nephew is not competing with Yue Kiln at all, but with the porcelain pieces fired yesterday."

Cheng Wenying immediately said with a smile: "Oh, it means that your cooking is not as good as my nephew's cooking."

Su You quickly stopped his brother-in-law from joking and said, "It's not because of this. It's because the porcelain pieces are small and the plate is big enough. If you want me to guide you, it's not as good as Shibo's."

After finishing speaking, he added: "But there is no solution. In this way, we need to fire porcelain plates today. This does not require too high a temperature, let alone glazing. It just happens that we can use firepower to prepare something, and then use that thing to burn the kiln.

Let this small steamed bun kiln get a higher furnace temperature."

Shi Dongxiu was overjoyed: "I knew my nephew would have a way!"

…

Not long after, the two old men took the coke inside and looked at each other.

Comparing it with the previous coal, we can find that the physical properties of the two have become different.

The kerosene is moist, and the coke now looks more like fine silver frost charcoal.

After the coke is burned here, the porcelain plate over there is also fired.

White, but not crystal clear.

Lao Yu Shi Da and Yu Da Er were busy using new rulers to measure the errors after firing.

With the same materials, same workers, and the same furnace, plus Su You's small reform measures, the shrinkage ratio of the fired ceramic plates is very consistent.

This small reform measure is to add circles of spoilers on the inner wall of the pottery kiln.

This is the wisdom of the intangible inheritors of later generations. The heat flow trend of the steamed bun kiln is to burn, rise, and then flow back downward along the hemispherical kiln wall.

This small measure is to allow the heat flow to be directed into the center of the kiln body in layers when it goes downwards, changing from a large circulation to countless small circulations, making the kiln temperature more uniform.

With just this small improvement, the quality of porcelain produced by the entire porcelain kiln has been raised to a higher level.

While Shi Da was busy working with Lao Yu, he kept praising him. How could he not think of such a simple method before?
Chapter completed!