Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 493: Entering Porcelain
Xinzheng is the foundation of the Gao family. This "root" is not necessarily the foundation of the economic foundation—it could be counted in the past, but now with Gao Pragmatism, it can no longer be counted in this way.

Gao Wu has two "industrial clusters" in Henan: Weihui and Huaiqing in the north of Dahe, which are dominated by cement and supplemented by coal mines and iron factories.

The annual output of cement here is more than 80 jin, which sounds very powerful, but in fact it is only equivalent to the production capacity of a large cement factory in later generations. In addition, it also produces agricultural tools and coal. Needless to say, agricultural tools have always been in Henan. It is a large agricultural province, and all kinds of farm tools can be sold. Moreover, Gao Yushi has no plan to military-industrialize his industry in Henan. After all, there is no local demand, and it is not cost-effective to transport it far away.

But there is far more coal than iron in this area, so a large number of coal mines left over from iron making are transported directly through the Yellow River, flowing westward into Luoyang and eastward into Kaifeng.According to the highly pragmatic arrangement, Mr. Zhang has set up briquette factories in Luoyang and Kaifeng. After the coal mines arrive, they make briquettes and sell them in these two places. Being able to earn two to thirty thousand taels of silver is actually not a small amount, but it is relatively inconspicuous because it is under the real name of Gao Wu.

However, the Xinzheng and Yuzhou areas are different. The coal mines in Xinzheng and the iron mines in Yuzhou were built pragmatically to benefit the hometown and gain fame. At the beginning, they mainly produced farm tools, and later added other household iron tools. , such as iron pots, iron pots, etc., and later expanded to the production of iron sheets, which were used to supply the military to make armor, etc., and also provided a small amount of arrows (regardless of the arrow shaft).

The excess coal is still used to make briquettes, but it basically doesn't care about profit, and sells it to the neighbors at a low price, just as a prestige among the neighbors.

Later, the Zhang family was somewhat dissatisfied with the industry here, and kept writing to Gao Yushi, saying that Yuzhou was the birthplace of Jun Kiln, a famous porcelain in Song Dynasty. The Gao family is now a leader family in Xinzheng and Yuzhou, and they should enter the porcelain industry. industry, and strive to restore the status of Jun Kiln—but it can no longer be called Jun Kiln, because it has to be renamed Yu Kiln to avoid Jinshang (Zhu Yijun).

Because Gao Wushi has always felt that China’s porcelain industry does not need his intervention, he is not very enthusiastic about this matter, but Zhang is very enthusiastic about this matter-the value of Jun Kiln is not just for fun, the five famous porcelains in China, Jun, Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding, headed by Jun porcelain, are called the king of porcelain. "Gold is priceless, Jun is priceless", "Even if you have a lot of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of Jun porcelain", these are the words that have been widely circulated since the Song Dynasty.

So Mrs. Zhang has been looking for opportunities to persuade her son, and at the same time, she is not just waiting for the high-level to speak pragmatically, but to start preparing first.

Taking advantage of Gao Gong's power and her son's wealth, she has been recruiting master porcelain makers in Yuzhou (the production place of Jun Kiln) and Ruzhou (the production place of Ru Kiln) in Henan Province, waiting to persuade her son to approve the investment.

In order to persuade Gao Yushi, she also deliberately replaced the most conspicuous furnishings in the east house (Gao Shishi's father is still there, so he can't live in the north house) in Longwen Yayuan where Gao Yushi was going to live in with Jun. porcelain.

But it's a pity that Gao Yushi didn't know anything about porcelain at all, so he wandered around a few times, but he didn't pay attention to porcelain.Later, Mrs. Zhang became angry. In order to get all the Jun porcelain in front of you, my old lady even wrote to the third brother (Zhang Sijiao, the one who is really in charge of business in the Zhang family in Puzhou), asking him to put the Zhang family's porcelain in front of you. Some of the best treasures in Yangzhou have been sent, and even in order to escort this batch of national treasure-level Jun porcelain, a full 500 guards from Xinzheng and Yuzhou were dispatched to escort them all the way—you brat! Blind and didn't see?

As soon as Mrs. Zhang explained the situation with sullenness, Gao Wushi was a little confused. After a careful look at Mrs. Zhang's heartbroken introduction, he finally discovered the magic in it. Jade is like jade", "green is like spring water on the first birthday, red is like the morning glow when it is about to rise. The sky is full of smoke and stars, and the purple green suddenly turns into haze at sunset" and so on.

Then he suddenly said: "I have seen a lot of these Jun porcelain in the palace!"

Mrs. Zhang was furious: "There are naturally many in the imperial palace, because only in the imperial palace in the former Song and Yuan Dynasties, how can the common people see a few pieces? This is the precious thing!" She looked angry and indisputable, Dao: "When I was in the Ming Dynasty, the Jun kiln in Yuzhou declined, but some of the Jun kiln production methods were scattered in Yixing (in the territory of Jiangsu in later generations), Shiwan (in the territory of Guangdong in later generations), and some collaterals of Jun porcelain appeared... ...Pragmatically, this is our famous porcelain in Zhongzhou, we should revive it!"

"Oh...that's it." Gao Wushi thought for a while, and thought to himself: The decline of Jun Kiln in Yuzhou may be related to the loss of the Central Plains in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is not considered very important, so Jun Kiln has not been revived much, if this is the case... It is not impossible for me to invest one or two.

But he changed his mind: investment is fine, but it can't just take the upper-level route like the previous Jun Kiln, or simply say that it only takes the cutting-edge route.In the past, there was a saying in Jun kiln that "nine out of ten kilns will fail".

What's more, since we want to invest in the porcelain industry, it's not enough to just focus on the domestic market. I don't care how porcelain is in the eyes of others, but in my eyes, the biggest function is to earn foreign exchange through export!China's porcelain is a high-tech product monopolized by the world. It's simply too unreasonable for me not to use this to shear wool!
After figuring this out, Gao Wushi has no resistance to entering the porcelain industry, and he intends to wait for the recovery of the Jun Kiln to be somewhat effective, then take out the bone china craft as another part of the new Jun Kiln or Yu Kiln. a craft.

Anyway, the idea is ready-made, traditional Jun kiln can continue to focus on high-end, while bone china can focus on mid-end, as for low-end... low-end will not be done.

Of course, the name bone china has to be changed, otherwise it will be too easy for people to discover the mystery of it, for example, it would be good to call it Yu Kiln Light Porcelain.There are actually three real advantages of bone china: lightweight, strong, and less flawed.As for transparency, fineness, extra whiteness, etc., the inherent Chinese porcelain can actually be made. The reason why they are often not made too transparent is actually because of the Chinese cultural tradition - love jade.

Gao Yushi has read research before, and judging from the glazing technology shown by Chinese porcelain, China can produce glass, but why hasn't China developed crystal clear glass for so many years?Because jade is not transparent, and all kinds of Chinese crafts like to imitate jade, so there is no consideration to make the pure and transparent state of glass.

However, the lightness and sturdiness of bone china is indeed an advantage, especially for export. The sturdiness can ensure that the loss during transportation is minimized, and the lightness can reduce the difficulty of transportation, which is wonderful.

As soon as Mrs. Zhang heard that Gao Wushi agreed, she immediately turned her anger into joy, and said: "In this case, my mother will immediately call some master craftsmen to see you!"

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