Enter the room 2

Chapter 190
When Shao Qing came out from Song Jiyun's place, it was already time for dinner.

The autumn wind is blowing.

Shao Qing wrapped up his clothes and trotted into Yin Yu Hall.

The flowers and trees in the yard were blown to this side by the wind, rattling and rattling.

Yuan Yunzhong actually stood under the eaves like a loose body.

As if waiting for him.

Shao Qing hurriedly shook his head, put the thought aside, and said, "My lord, what are you doing standing here? Where's the boy? You'd better go into the house quickly, I see that the weather is not right, maybe it will cool down tomorrow. "

Yuan Yunzhong gave a "hmm" and ignored him, but said: "How is Miss Song?"

Shao Qing was embarrassed to say that he ate several pieces of shrimp crisps there, drank several cups of Biluochun, laughed a few times, and said: "Miss Song is very good! What kind of monochromatic porcelain is she burning? It's red, and it's orange when it's burnt. It's very beautiful. Ms. Song racked her brains, but she couldn't cook anything satisfactory. I watched Ms. Song worried, flipping through the book, and Burning ashes, and mixing glaze water, I was so busy that my eyebrows were stained with ashes, so I was there to help."

Yuan Yunzhong frowned: "Burn ashes?"

"Yes! Yes!" Shao Qing followed Yuan Yunzhong since he was a child, and no one knew better than him how smart Yuan Yunzhong was.He was afraid that Yuan Yunzhong would not believe it, so he hurriedly showed off what he had just learned from Song Jiyun, "It is glaze ash. After calcining limestone and melting it into water, it becomes slaked lime. Then we burn Osmanthus fragrans into ashes and add them together. It becomes glaze ash. It is used to adjust the glaze. This time the porcelain is very, very difficult to fire. Ms. Song said that she is not at ease to hand it over to anyone. From drawing the blank to adjusting the glaze to firing, it is all Ms. Song. One person, burned out with one hand and one foot."

"Really?" Yuan Yunzhong looked at him with the corners of his mouth curled up, clearly not believing his words, "Didn't you say that all the porcelain ordered by Duke Huai's residence has been handed over? Why do you have to adjust the glaze and burn it yourself?"

Shao Qing hurriedly said: "What are the things in Prince Huai's mansion? Ms. Song fired it in one kiln. The seven kilns after that are all burning that alum-red porcelain. If you don't believe it, you can go to Ms. Song's workshop to see. Otherwise Why did Miss Song burn eight kilns but still not come out?"

Yuan Yunzhong didn't ask anything, turned around and went back to the study.

Shao Qing breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and ran away.

He ate a lot of snacks at Miss Song's place in the afternoon, and if he had dinner with Yuan Yunzhong, he would definitely reveal his secrets.

When it was time to light the lanterns, it began to rain cats and dogs.

The rain washes everything in the world, forming small ditches on the ground.

Song Jiyun, who was watching the fire by the side of the kiln, felt a burst of coolness.

She went to close the windows of the east wing, which she used as a studio, and then went to the backyard to look at the warehouse where firewood was piled up.

When I came back, I found that the hexagonal box she had put on the shelf in the east wing seemed to have been tampered with.

She called out to the apprentice on duty in the small workshop: "Has anyone been here?"

"No!" The apprentice is Luo Zixing's closed disciple. Not only is he skilled, but also honest and loyal. "I've been staying here, and I haven't seen anyone coming."

Or she was wrong.

Song Jiyun didn't care.

However, Shao Qing found that the hem of Yuan Yunzhong's straight skirt was a little wet.

He asked Yuan Yunzhong: "You went out? Where did you go under such heavy rain?"

Yuan Yunzhong was lowering his head to tie the belt of his coat, when he heard that his hands tying the belt paused, and lowered his eyelids, he said: "It's raining so hard, what am I going to do?"

Under the dim light, Shao Qing didn't notice.

He let out an "oh", and took Yuan Yunzhong's changed clothes out of the inner room.

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Yuan Yunzhong really clashed with her red porcelain!
Song Jiyun looked at the two hexagonal boxes on the table and heaved a long sigh.

Forty hexagonal boxes of porcelain blanks were put in, and two were fired! !

Of the twenty cups of justice she put in, eight were burnt! !
Not to mention the burned green flowers.

It's all done!

Do you want to burn another kiln?

Song Jiyun was hesitating.

Zhou Zheng brought his apprentices to deliver pine wood to him.

While helping Song Jiyun fill up the small workshop's warehouse for storing pine timber, he said, "Do you want to continue burning alum red?"

That tone, as if something happened.

Sure enough, he frowned and told Song Jiyun: "The Liangyu Kiln Factory sells blue and white porcelain at a reduced price, which is one-third cheaper than ours."

In other words, it looks like a [-]-[-]% discount.

Very powerful.

Song Jiyun couldn't help but frown upon hearing this.

Porcelain in Jingdezhen never drops in price.

And defective products are cheaper than mud.

They eat by hand.

Cutting prices will only lower their value.

What's more, every household in Jingdezhen burns blue and white flowers, which are the most popular.

Song Tao's price reduction will affect all the blue and white burners.

"The business of our kiln has also begun to be affected in the past few days." Zhou Zheng said worriedly, "I asked people to go to Liangyu Kiln to have a look, and there was a long queue, not to mention, many people left after hearing the news. There are almost no people in front of some small workshops. The merchants who come to our house to buy goods are also clamoring for us to lower prices."

The implication is to ask Song Jiyun if they want to follow suit.

Anyway, what they burn is dragon kiln, the yield is high, and the cost is much cheaper than others.

Liangyu Kiln Factory can afford it, so can they.

Unexpectedly, Song Jiyun heard it, and without thinking about it, he said: "We don't lower the price! You go tell those merchants that the products that our family sells are all flawless and genuine products, and it is impossible to lower the price."

"But..." Zhou Zheng said hesitantly.

Who sells porcelain that is not flawless and authentic?

Song Jiyun said: "You don't have to worry. The newly built toilet smells good for three days, not to mention the price reduction, which has never happened in Jingdezhen. You just wait, the more we insist, the more hesitant those merchants will be. Sometimes, what you sell is not the thing itself, but its premium.”

Zhou Zheng couldn't understand.

Song Jiyun smiled and said, "Believe me, we can wait a few days before talking."

In the end, he comforted him: "If it doesn't work, we will burn another dragon kiln, and all problems will be solved!"

Zhou Zheng listened, his eyes lit up.

yes!As long as their boss is willing to make a move, who can lower the cost than their family!

He left happily.

Song Cuiyun fired the ninth kiln.

This time she put sixty alum red hexagonal boxes!

In addition, there are more than 100 various alum red cups.

In this way, she can still use several justice cups and Sancai cups, and burn several sets of tea sets!
However, if the hexagonal box cannot be burned this time, she will not burn it.

And she didn't have time to burn either.

She has to prepare for the bidding for the Royal Kiln Factory.

It's just that before she had time to open the kiln, Zhou Zheng came to the door with a sad face: "The business of Liangyu Kiln Factory is in full swing these days, but the business of our kiln factory has not improved, and the situation of other kiln factories is even worse.

"Several old merchants in our kiln factory couldn't sit still anymore, and they came to discuss with me in private, not asking for a one-third reduction like Liangyu Kiln Factory, but it's also meaningful to reduce it more or less.

"Boss, it's not a problem to go on like this!
"You still have to think of a way!"

(End of this chapter)