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　　 When Hudik left Groot for the Basque whaling site, Olaf also got an exciting good news.

Old Gelder finally came back a month after leaving the city of Groot with six potters, and told Olaf that they had found a clay mine suitable for making pottery in the plateau in the middle of Wenlan hinterland. Clay mines have also been found in the southwest of Wenlan and the north and south Changling Mountains in the northwest. These clay mines are very large and have good clay texture.

Olaf looked at some of the samples they took and found that these were not kaolin. Some of them were similar to kaolin or Guanyin clay, but most of them had dust similar to broken glass slag. This made his mind flashed and reminded him of later generations. Canada is home to the world's largest asbestos mine, and these clays are almost always a subsidiary product of asbestos mine.

　　 Asbestos mine has many functions, and it can be used in textiles, construction and other aspects, but Olaf only knows that later generations of asbestos tiles are very good, and cement can be used to make them.

　　Because he didn't think of how to use it, Olaf temporarily put aside the idea of ​​mining asbestos, but with a big wave of his hand, old Gelder took his 30 male slaves to mine the clay mine.

When Olaf founded Viking Ray in Hadar, he got 50 private slaves who could be assigned to the first level of oars. He was in charge of two Atangs, so he got one hundred private slaves, which he usually gave to two selected production captains. management.

In order to collect clay mines this time, Olaf asked Old Gelder to pick thirty of the strongest servants. In the afternoon, the slaves carrying shovels, shovel and other tools took two Viking captains under the leadership of Old Gelder. The ship left.

Five days later, the first ship returned under the leadership of two potters. They mined the clay full of the ship, but because Wenlan’s livestock is small now, the slaves are not as valuable as the cattle and horses, so they can only be carried by the slaves. It finally took two days to transport all of them to the factory.

　　 After the clay from the second ship was also transported back to Groot, Olaf began to make pottery with six pottery craftsmen.

To make pottery, we must first build a kiln. This work does not require Olaf’s participation. He just watched the craftsman instruct the apprentices and slaves to use stones and mud to build a huge cave dwelling as high as three people, and then set it aside to let it dry naturally, and then Add a layer of mud.

　　 A week later, the pottery kiln was built, and then the six potters personally made clay, blanks, shapes, patterns, etc., from start to finish, but after the production, they dictated the apprentices' experience.

　　 A few days later, the first pottery was released, but because it was a new kiln, various problems appeared. The potters were very dissatisfied, so they smashed the pottery, then continued to strengthen the kiln and fired the second pottery.

　　 Burned paper continuously to make defective products in two kilns. Until the piles of firewood were used up, the pottery of the third kiln met the requirements of the potters, and it was enough for sale in terms of hardness and appearance.

But after seeing it, Olaf was still very dissatisfied. These pottery is enough for his life, but Olaf wants to make a saleable product, but even if the pottery is loaded into a ship and brought to Europe, it can’t sell for a few pounds. Gold coins, ordinary Arabic porcelain can be worth dozens of hundreds of pottery, if the porcelain from the Far East can be exchanged for a ship of pottery.

　　 Olaf himself does not know the skills and knowledge of making porcelain, but he knows how to make bone china.

In the actual history, bone china was invented by the British in 1794. This kind of porcelain, which was made by mixing animal bone powder in clay, was a technique developed by Westerners to imitate Eastern porcelain. It was considered a novel system at the time. Porcelain technology, and then a set of crystal clear bone china sold at sky-high prices at that time, basically close to the high-end porcelain from the Far East such as thin porcelain.

Olaf knows that bone china is made by mixing ordinary clay with kaolin and bone meal. The first time it is fired into pottery, and then it is glazed and fired the second time it becomes bone china, but bone china is more than 100 years old. The success rate of later inventions is extremely low.

Olaf only knew some theories, and didn’t know if there were any omissions, so he told the old Gelder and six potters. They were also the first to hear that they were made with animal bone meal and white kaolin. Pottery can become the beautiful and expensive porcelain in the East, which makes them full of energy.

After making thousands of pots, pots, bowls and other tools, the apprentices gradually mastered the skills, and then two of the six potters every day knew that the apprentices made pottery, and the others made a small cave at the foot of the mountain. Then study the firing of bone china.

　　 These six potters are all experienced master craftsmen. When they were in their hometown, they were skilled workers in the noble master kiln. They can fire thousands of high-quality pottery every year, both in technology and technique.

　　 Therefore, after receiving the bone china recipe taught by Olaf, he quickly entered the trial production stage, and quickly kneaded the rough blank, then finely carved and patted the shape, and finally fired.

However, bone china does not know that it can be successfully made by mixing clay, china clay and disappointment. If it can be made casually, porcelain will not become a symbol of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, and bone china will not become the West. Representative works of porcelain.

　　 Generally speaking, no matter which type of porcelain is, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of one or even multiple civilizations. It is a technological product developed through the efforts of many generations.

　　 Olaf, after seeing the successive failures of the potters, also reflected on his eagerness for quick success and quick gain, and then encouraged them to explore slowly.

　　 Time soon entered June. After more than 20 failures, the potters finally found a complete vessel in a cracked pottery.

　　 This is a one-foot-diameter, two-foot-high clay pot. The shape is in the Nordic traditional style, which looks simple and primitive. The engraved patterns are also cross patterns and lion mane patterns.

　　Traditional pottery is khaki or gray with rough surface. If you apply paint on the pattern, it is a good vessel.

　　 And this kind of pottery made with bone meal and other materials mixed and fired in a certain proportion is smooth to the touch, and when you look closer, the texture is somewhat like white plaster, but the hardness is far better than plaster.

　　 Olaf asked the potters to prepare the glaze again, and after firing it for the second time, the jar was very close to the ordinary white porcelain jar. Both the appearance and the texture were basically the same.

　　 Olaf picked up the jar and placed it next to the fire. The fire shined through the jar to reflect the porcelain jar with a jade-like texture~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although the light transmittance was poor, it was indeed a successful bone china.

"Very well! Keep up the good work. This time, all six potters will reward the dried fish with one hundred pounds. If you can find the correct recipe and fix the bone china, I will ask your father to give you a place of Wilgert without asking him. !"

　　 Olaf is not stingy about the treatment and rewards of scientific research personnel. After speaking, the six potters happily thanked them, and then hurryed to continue their research.

I don’t know if it was due to luck or a problem with the material. After that, the potters burned more than ten kilns, wasting fifty to sixty models and tens of thousands of pounds of firewood. As a result, a finished bone china failed. After firing, it is basically either cracked or broken.

Olaf watched it once, and then reminded them to adjust the proportions. After dozens of attempts, they were finally able to fire the bone chinaware again, but there were only one or two of them in a kiln, and the rest were deformed and cracked. , Became a waste product, and the average firing of five kilns can only produce bone china from another kiln.

Olaf is very satisfied with this success rate. After all, the bone china of the fired product is as fine as jade and white as milk. In Europe, it fooled the rich and foolish nobles and rich men from various countries, and it was enough to pretend to be the fine porcelain produced in the Far East. Up.

　　 Now a set of fine porcelain produced by Ming Dynasty can be sold at a price of tens of thousands of pounds in silver. In addition to the royal families and church leaders of various countries, only the top nobles and rich people can enjoy it.

Although 　　 bone china is not comparable to high-quality porcelain, it is definitely not a problem to pretend to be a medium-grade porcelain. This grade of porcelain can also be valuable, and the price far exceeds **** skin and royal jelly.

　　 Olaf believes that as long as his factory can slowly produce bone china, it will bring benefits beyond **** skin and royal jelly next year, and become another pillar industry of Wenlan.