My system is not decent

Chapter 1264 Special Treatment
How precious is the enamel color that the first-class "Nian Gengyao" is greedy for?
In 1722 AD, Qing Shizong Aixinjueluo Yinzhen took the throne, and his reign name was Yongzheng.

However, Emperor Yongzheng was sitting on pins and needles at the beginning of his accession to the throne.

Because he has been pursuing the strategy of keeping a low profile before, he has not formed a clique, and he does not have many cronies in the court.

Moreover, there are not a few people who suspect that his throne was not justly obtained.

In order to secure the throne, Yongzheng urgently needs to win over the high officials in the court and establish his own prestige.

So he turned his attention to his brother-in-law, Nian Gengyao, who was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi at the time and was leading an army to guard the northwest.

And Nian Gengyao did live up to expectations. After taking over the General Seal, he quickly put down the rebellion in Qing Province.

Yongzheng was ecstatic when he received the good news, and thought: Now the dragon chair can finally sit firmly!

Therefore, with his extreme personality and extremely strong emotional changes, he even replied in Nian Gengyao's memorial: "Your efforts are to complete the unfinished business of my lord and father."In terms of reason, they are all my heroes; in terms of sentiment, everyone from you down to the generals, who serve their lives wholeheartedly, are all my benefactors!

As an emperor, he actually calls his subjects "benefactors", this is no one!

In fact, this also planted disasters for Nian Gengyao!

At the beginning, Yongzheng naturally did not treat this "benefactor" badly. He not only promoted Nian Gengyao to rank, but also rewarded countless rare artifacts.

In February of the second year of Yongzheng, Nian Gengyao wrote in his memorial: "Chen Fu saw that the enamel plume was exquisitely made and the color was beautiful. I was envied by the victory. I just copied it and thanked God. It is even more holy and merciful. If there is no new enamel object , Reward one or seven to satisfy the greed of the ministers, and the ministers have to be terrified."

It turned out to be the enamel plume that Nian Gengyao received from Yongzheng.

Just lower the discount to thank God, and asked for less franc rewards before.

So there is nothing: more cultivation of holiness, such as no new enamel objects, one or seven rewards to satisfy the greed of the ministers, and the ministers have to be terrified.

Lingguan, love is to let go, but you want even less.

Facing Nian Gengyao's "cowardly" request, how did Yongzheng respond in Zhu's criticism?

"Enamels have not had time to refine, and they will be quite impressive in the future. Today, countless pieces will be given to him. But if he uses this greedy word, he will also give one piece, and you will get all these pieces with the power of this word!"

It seemed that Nian Gengyao had a good grasp of Yongzheng's temper.

It was because of the word "greedy" that the emperor was so happy.

And the legendary Qi Ye, the domineering president, really did not break his promise.

Before that, "a box of various enamel utensils", "seven pairs of enamel porcelain", "two boxes of enamel teacups" and so on were rewarded.

Few big partners may have no doubts: Nian Gengyao, as a favorite minister, has very few rewards to ask for, so why must he be "greedy" for enamel?
That's because enamel was only used by the royal court and most nobles at that time, and it can be said to be an extremely precious and rare thing.

Even Nian Gengyao, who had already been granted the title of first-class public and junior general Fuyuan at this time, and an extremely human minister, was rewarded with legal treatment.

There is also a way to do that, even the emperor who is rich and has no seven seas, sometimes he can get what he wants.

For example, the glaze of enamel color, as mentioned later, enamel color material is a retreating material brought in by Western missionaries, so it is naturally very scarce.

In the early years of Yongzheng, the manufacturing office burned two of the seven wine glasses, and Prince Yi reprimanded "the remaining eight should be made with great care."

It was not until the eighth year of Yongzheng that domestic enamel materials were finally successfully developed.

It was also at this time that fourteen kinds of glazes including white, yellow, white, bright cyan, autumn fragrance, lotus root, deep grape, and bronze were tested.

In particular, there are some colors in it, which are all in the retreat paint materials.

Although Chen Wenzhe can sell enamel color materials at hand, what I buy are raw materials.

If you want to use it, you need to refine it.

It is also difficult to mix and match as few as fourteen kinds of Yongzheng enamel materials.

Enamel is also known as "Fulang", "Folang" and "Falan", with similar pronunciations, and they are all names for a vitrified substance processed artificially.

It uses natural feldspar, quartz and other minerals as the main raw materials.

Before adding soda ash, borax and other compounds as flux.

Then add titanium oxide, antimony oxide, fluoride, etc. as opacifying agent.

Add copper oxide, cobalt oxide, iron oxide, manganese oxide, antimony oxide and other metal oxides as coloring agents.

After crushing, mixing, calcining, and melting, it is poured into water and heated slowly to obtain enamel frit, and then crushed and finely ground to obtain enamel powder.

Before mixing the enamel powder, it is applied under gold, silver, copper and other metal utensils, and after firing, it becomes metal body enamel.

If glass is used as the tire, it is called glass tire enamel;
Those who use porcelain as the body are called porcelain body enamel.

That's just enamel material. To make a piece of enamel colored porcelain, even if it's just a big bowl, one of the unnecessary procedures can be saved.

For example, to make a large bowl, you must first refine the fetal mud. Before that, you have to pull the embryo, cool the embryo, and sharpen the embryo. Before that, it is the color!

The whole process, first of all, put the yellow clay under the so-called sharp car, and then sit under the car, and use special tools to make the surface of the utensils smooth.

It needs to be coherent and consistent in shape, so that the mud will show a bright white color.

That is an extremely important process in ceramic molding, which finally determines the shape of the utensil.

Jingzhen Porcelain is exquisitely manufactured and needs to be trimmed inside.

The sharp blank is only required for the properties of the raw mud. The straight and curved changes in the shape of the utensils, the mud retention and shrinkage of each part during firing, all need to be vague and grasped.

For example, to make enamel colored porcelain embryos, you must first learn to grind the types, and you are unfamiliar with dozens of iron tools.

Before completing the following procedures, it is the first time to enter the kiln, and the temperature is [-] degrees.

Before leaving the kiln, the production continues in the back method. At this time, it is necessary to draw the line and use the color you need.

The second is to divide the water, draw the outline color, and use the main color to divide the water.

After completing those two steps, the temperature needs to reach [-] degrees for the seventh kiln firing.

Fix the pigment that has been fired once, and then draw the line with raw material.

The eighth time it was fired in the kiln at a temperature of [-] degrees.

Before the eighth firing, there is no craft called color picking!

Color picking is actually separate dyeing. Use a material pen to dip in brilliant white, and a clean Baiyun pen to dip a large amount of camphor oil. Before the material pen is colored within the range of the desired sub-dyeing pattern, it is washed and dyed with Baiyun pen pigment to form a color from thick to thick. to light gradient effect.

That is the most complicated color picking. The color picking under enamel paint uses fewer colors, but it is also painted under white tires.

Before color picking, the seventh porcelain is fired in a kiln at [-] degrees.

The last step is to mine gold. It was the seventh time to enter the kiln before, and the temperature was [-] degrees!

When the firing is completed and there are flaws in the kiln, a work is considered complete!
Enamel color, hand-made process, complicated production.

There was an error while drawing, and it will be remade!
(End of this chapter)