Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 113 Textual Research
Sitting on the carriage to Lantian Industrial Zone, Fusu couldn't laugh or cry.

Daqin's popularization of the law has been made by these gangsters, as if he is a certain religion who sells atonement rolls.

Fusu recalled an article he had read in later life, in order to raise funds for the construction of the Sistine Chapel, a certain religious sect peddled indulgences on a large scale.

Although this is a lucrative business, people's desires are never-ending, just like a writer who wants to vote for more recommendations...

The priests also have the same idea, come more, come more!
Greed let their guard down and they embraced a new invention from the barbarians of the north—the printing press.

So the machine rumbled non-stop, and the gold coins jingled and rolled in.

It's just that in many cases, the development of history does not depend on people's will.

After just a few years, the situation has completely out of control.

Not only indulgences rolled out of the printing presses, but also political leaflets, and Luther's 95 theses...

In desperation, a certain religion, who had made up for it after a dead sheep, created a system of publishing censorship.

Of course, history has proved that the vitality of this system is much more tenacious than the printing press...

But this has nothing to do with the current state of Qin. My Great Qin not only accepts soldiers from all over the world, but also has an order to burn books...

Fusu recalled that when the "Detailed Rules of Civil Law" was just released, a group of old Qin clans who lived in Yongcheng for the elderly implicitly expressed their disapproval to him, and they also had the same view on the series of projects he carried out in Lantian. .

As vested interests, their core appeal is stability, not change.

The son of heaven replaces the herdsmen, and the heads of Guizhou do not need to be literate and understand the law, they just need to be honest in farming and fighting.

Fusu didn't want to pay attention to it at first, thinking that let these lifeless guys die in the countryside.

But when he threw the memorials aside, he suddenly thought that the timing of these memorials was too coincidental.

Don't come early, don't come late, it happened that when the pre-sale of brown sugar in Nanhai County started, this group of clan elders who had no sense of existence in the past suddenly jumped out, looking like they cared about everything about the country and the family.

Pooh!
It's nothing more than seeing that the brown sugar business is profitable and wants to get a hand in it!
This made Fusu feel as if he had returned to the student days of later generations in a trance.

The local products that Ren Xiao brought from Nanhai County gave him an idea, and then he boiled sugar in front of the clan in Lanchi Palace, just like he made a PPT with a few roommates, fooling investors into being angels together wheel……

Now that the output has been seen, more people want to do the A round and the B round...

This group of old nobles are like Tian Ji, they say no, but they are very honest... No, no, it should be like Zhao Ji, every time they want to go to bed, but they are too embarrassed to say so, so they send all kinds of Soup grounds, various hints.

But for Fusu, the fear is that they won't join!

He was going to wait until the ancestor worship and military parade in Yongcheng to gather the clan elders and talk to them about the second round of financing.

The focus of development should be on Bashu and Jiangnan, after all, the climate there is also suitable for the growth of sugarcane.

But the most important reason is that in the deep mountains and old forests there, like Lingnan, there are countless cheap laborers living there...

Moreover, they can also take this opportunity to take out those moldy and rusty Qin Banliang from the cellars of these old nobles for circulation in the market.

As for the money they earn from it, they earn it back in other ways!

Such as luxurious four-wheeled carriages, such as the horses of the Western Regions, such as another industry that Fusu will witness during this trip, porcelain!

As a time traveler, Fusu didn't know how to make porcelain, until one day he was delighted to check the treasure house in the palace, and saw a pair of white porcelain bottles that were said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang...

According to a servant in charge of the treasury, the pair of white porcelain vases were spoils of war seized from Chaoge during King Wu's defeat of Zhou in the past, and they were kept by the Zhou royal family until Qin destroyed Zhou, and the Zhou emperor's collection came into the hands of the first emperor.

Fusu browsed through the materials in the library all afternoon, and found that China had already started firing porcelain as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The reason why the porcelain vases of the Shang Dynasty are white has nothing to do with the glaze, but comes from the five elements theory since ancient times.

Business is Jinde, and when it rises, there is an auspicious omen of silver overflowing the mountains, so it advocates white.

However, Fusu summoned Zhang Cang and others for research and concluded that the Shang Dynasty white porcelain hidden in the palace should be a later imitation, not the original.

The first-generation porcelain obtained by King Wu's conquest of Zhou was already destroyed when the warlords of Fenghuo Xi and Gou Rong attacked Hao [hào] Jing.

The ancestor of the state of Qin officially became a vassal state of Zhou because of his meritorious service in protecting King Ping.

Later, in the period of King Zhou Nan (nǎn), he was chased by creditors and fled to the high platform of a palace because he owed money. In the end, he had to use the collections in the palace to pay off the debt.

This is also the origin of the idiom "high debt".

The subsequent Zhou royal family also did it for the sake of saving face. After all, the envoys from the princes of various countries came to ask for gizzard meat. It was customary to visit the exhibition hall that symbolized the majesty of the Zhou emperor, so they re-made the third generation of white porcelain representing the achievements of destroying the Shang Dynasty.

When the Zhou Dynasty perished, the third-generation white porcelain, like those second-hand tripods, became the collection of Xianyang Palace Museum...

The reason why it is called a second-hand tripod is because those bronze tripods, like the third-generation porcelain, are all fakes made by the royal family of Zhou. .

Fusu stroked the white porcelain of the third generation of mesh for a while, and it felt a little rough to the touch, which was not the same as the bright and clean jade in later generations.

This is because the porcelain industry in this period has not yet mastered the technology of glazing.

Glaze refers to a thin layer of glassy state or a combination of glassy state and crystalline state covering the surface of the ceramic body.

Fusu vaguely remembered that the earliest glaze was plant mortar, and the mortar left after burning different plants, because of the different rich elements, the color of the final porcelain was also different.

For example, rice bran ash is used for celadon glaze, straw ash is used for rabbit hair glaze, and pine ash with more iron is used for green glaze...

However, the specific collocation still needs to be determined by actual operation. In this regard, professional things should be left to professional people.

What Fusu needs to do is to improve the existing clay kiln for firing pottery so that it can withstand the high temperature of firing porcelain.

As for the kaolin clay used in firing porcelain, it is actually found in many places, and it has another famous name in later generations, Guanyin clay...

ps: Thanks to 'Jin Yang Yin' and 'Wen Chou Chou EE' for the monthly tickets! (*^ω^*)
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