Spring and Autumn I Am King

Zhao Wuxi replied: "Exactly, Zigong thinks, what is the benefit?"

Zigong clasped his palms and exclaimed: "It will be a great profit! It will also be able to backhand Fan's army. They want to take a piece of the gentleman's wheat flour business. Not only will this plan fail, but they will find that their own The fundamental lacquer pottery market has also been severely disrupted by the gentleman!"

Zigong has also played chess, so there is a saying of "general", and Zigong has already been thoroughly exposed to the bottom, knowing that the firing method of this porcelain is almost the same as that of pottery, and the cost has not increased much.

Compared with porcelain, copper and tin, the raw materials of bronze casting, are not easy to obtain, especially the origin is mostly in the south, and freight and tariffs along the way must be added. Not to mention that when bronze is used as a raw material for weapons, countries also restrict circulation and export. Even if the raw materials are complete, the smelting and casting of bronze is countless times more troublesome than that of porcelain.

And what is lacquerware? Lacquer is a liquid that flows from sumac trees and forms a film that protects the wood from corrosion. The lacquerware craftsmanship in the Central Plains appeared as early as the Xiahou Dynasty, but initially the plain-colored wooden lacquerware was only used in daily life. When Xia Yu arrived, "it was used as a sacrificial vessel, the outside was dyed with ink, and the inside was painted with red", and two colors of red and black were often used to paint ().

In the original history, from the Spring and Autumn to the Han Dynasty, it was a process of bronze ware gradually weakening and withdrawing from daily life. Because porcelain did not gradually mature until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, lacquer ware, with its exquisite and gorgeous shape and simple production process compared to bronze, filled this blank period and occupied half of the daily utensils, especially in the Qin and Han Dynasties of the Warring States period.

Therefore, in this era, if you have a 100-acre lacquer garden, it is enough to make people worry about food and clothing for a lifetime! During the Warring States Period, as a lacquer garden clerk, Zhuang Zhou probably lived a well-off life. Otherwise, how can there be leisure and fun to "return all things to one, happy world"?

However, under the flapping of the wings of this little butterfly, Zhao Wushe. Porcelain, and more mature celadon and white porcelain. But it appeared in this poor and barren township a year ago.

The body of the porcelain is made of kaolin collected from the nearby mountains and fields. It is fired at a high temperature of 1200-1300 degrees Celsius produced by the burning of coal in a kiln with better airtightness.

Compared with pottery, the body of porcelain is harder, denser, thinner and less absorbent. The outer cover of the carcass is covered with a layer of glaze, and the glaze surface is smooth and smooth. The composition of the celadon glaze has been modulated many times by Lu Taoweng, and it is determined to be plant ash, which is blue-yellow because it contains a certain amount of iron oxide.

According to Zhao Wuxi's plan, a celadon pot could be sold for only a quarter of the price of a bronze pot and a third of a lacquer pot. Even so, he could earn more than ten times the profit. When it hits the market continuously, it can be used as a substitute for bronze and lacquer. Make taxis and Chinese people who have little money left at home affordable.

As far as daily necessities are concerned, whether it is in terms of cost, difficulty of craftsmanship, sufficiency and acquisition of raw materials, it is a general trend for porcelain to replace bronze ware and lacquer ware in the market. But this process may take decades, hundreds of years.

At present, Zhao Wuxi is only hoping that it can gain an advantage, paralleling bronze and lacquer. As for Fan's pottery, it is blunt to say that after the appearance of porcelain, it will be squeezed out of the market of middle and upper-class customers immediately!

"These are mostly trial firings, so there are different varieties. In the next few kilns, I plan to mainly fire Dinghegui, pots, etc. The buyer is naturally an old customer of wheat flour. In this way, you can also It is sold in sets with wheat flour. Those scholars and officials who love to decorate their halls with beautiful utensils, I am afraid that every time they have to buy five dings and four gui, or three dings and two gui."

"As for white porcelain, it is a pleasant surprise. Using the primary color of porcelain clay as the glaze, this object can be made. Now, it looks like white jade in appearance. If the shape is carefully crafted, it can also enter the pearl jade market. , I'm just worried, will it compete with the Han family? If so, it won't be beautiful."

From the time of Han Xuanzi, the Han family was famous for their expertise in pearls and jade. In the seven counties of Hanyi, there are three mountains of jade, and there are hundreds of craftsmen who attack jade in the home workshop. They also have trade relations with the Chen family of Qi State, and can get some Donghai mussel beads.

In Wu Xie's opinion, the trade of goods is just a continuation of politics, and he can use his hand to attack the enemy Fan, so he plans to do it with all his strength. But if it would harm the ally Han and cause conflicts between the two, he would have to be more cautious. Moreover, except for Han's daughter, he did not believe in the modest Han, and the handsome Han Hu had a good impression.

However, Zigong let him dispel this worry. It turned out that Zigong knew that the jade business is a hundred times more profitable, and the reason for it is that it is rare.

Pearls and jades are inherently expensive and extremely scarce. They are often needed by hundreds of people, but only one piece can be supplied. Moreover, the noble doctor is probably only interested in real beautiful jade, so he should not compete too much with the Han family.

Zhao Wuxi is right when he thinks about it. Hetian jade in later generations can be sold for tens of millions of dollars. In other words, the world has a great demand for jade and jade-like things, but the quantity is always the same.

In this way, white porcelain can be used as a substitute for small and medium pieces of jade such as Bi, Cong, Gui, Zhang, Huang, Hu, etc. The sales target is the middle class of scholars and Chinese. If there are thousands of people belonging to this class in Xinjiang City, each of them can buy a piece of porcelain, the income is also a terrifying figure.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, people liked bronze as a ritual vessel, and liked jade as the beauty of a gentleman and as a decoration. Although there are still some gaps between porcelain wares and jade wares in Shangshu, they are more expensive in novelty and cheapness, so there is a lot to do!

When the craftsmanship is more mature, he also intends to make the most exquisite and even pure porcelain~www.wuxiahere.com~ to sell as luxury goods and take the route of hunger marketing.

In the end, Zhao Wuxi instructed Zigong: "Chengxiang has been used for millet for two years, and there are enough cattle and horses for ploughing the fields, no matter how much it is, it will be a waste, so this time, we don't want millet, we only need money and silk!"

And these artifacts were also given unique names by Zhao Wuxi.

Into the kiln! Porcelain!

He believed that these two names would definitely be passed down countless times in future generations. Maybe, these few things in his hands could be copied for hundreds of millions of dollars in a thousand years, or they could be treasured as national treasures.

Wu Xie caressed the two exquisite porcelain deer and porcelain pillow with satisfaction, and asked people to wrap it in straw, wrap it in a layer of soft leather, carefully move it to the carriage, and put it in a bamboo basket. He will take it to the lower palace and give it to his sister Ji Ying and Le Lingzi as a gift.

In a few days, it will be the autumn festival, and he will enter the Xiuqi Palace to officially become the monarch's assistant. Moreover, when entering the palace this time, he will also accompany Le Lingzi to visit Le Qi, who has been imprisoned for nearly a year. (To be continued)

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