The Emperor Shun Zhishi

Chapter 14 Longshan Manufacture

Shun continued to ride the four elephants, and continued eastward along the banks of the Yellow River. After walking for another two months, the Yellow River turned a big bay, entered a valley, and continued eastward along the gap between a mountain.Even Little Xingxing felt strange about this terrain, because he had never seen the Yellow River pass through a crack in a mountain before in Shandong.Thinking about 300 years ago, the terrain of Shandong was very different from that of the 21st century.

The mountain is divided into two halves by the Yellow River, but it looks like a whole.The two mountains look like a giant dragon coiled on the ground from a high place. The mountain on the east is like the head of the dragon, while the mountain on the west is like the body and tail of the dragon.Little Xingxing looked at the mountain from a high place, and exclaimed that the mountain is so steep, like a coiled dragon lying in the abyss, waiting for the moment to fly at any time.

Shun couldn't help being amazed when he saw this mountain, thinking that this should be the capital of the Dongyi Alliance - Longshan.Shun no longer followed the river but walked slowly towards the valley along a path at the foot of the mountain.After walking for about half an hour, the road became wider and wider, and the terrain gradually became lower. In the distance, there was a rammed earth city wall two miles long and 20 meters high.Visually, the circumference is at least another ten miles, and the entire capital is divided into four parts by the imported Yellow River water.Three of them look green from a distance, like an artificial irrigation canal.Surrounded by steep mountains, it blocked three sides of Longshan City, which made Longshan look like it was covered with a hard shell, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Shun rode the four elephants and came to the gate of Longshan City. Unlike other places, this is the capital of the Dongyi Tribal Alliance, so it naturally has a stricter review system.Shun got off the four different images, walked to the gate of the city, and was about to report his intention to the soldiers at the gate of the city.Unexpectedly, an old man who was selling pottery at the gate of the city suddenly stepped forward, looked at Shun's mount, and then looked at Shun.

"May I ask if this strong man is Yao Chonghua?"

Hearing what the old man said, Shun couldn't help being shocked, he didn't expect that someone in the capital of Dongyi knew him, and he suspected that Bi Qing had written to Gao Tao that he was looking for someone to receive him.

"It's down."

When Shun said this, other merchants at the entrance of the city wall approached, surrounded Shun and his four statues, pointed at him, and asked him about his adventure experience.Some people also told related stories about Shun, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

"It turns out that this is the little hero Yao Chonghua who taught Lei's net fishing in Lei Ze."

"Could this sword be the mahogany sword that killed the snake in Mount Li?"

"So black, like a charcoal."

"What do you know? It's called ebony. I've seen it in the Tianshan Mountains before. It's made of wood buried under the river bed after tens of millions of years of high pressure and carbonization. It's three points harder than pig iron." Little Xingxing disdained Said.

The old pottery seller, listening to the people around him talking about the black sword in Shun's hand, immediately showed a contemptuous expression on his face, "What do you dolls know? Demon. This is the first time I have seen this kind of fairy baby in the world, how come you dolls have seen this thing before?"

Everyone chattered about the mahogany sword in Shun's hand, causing more people to watch and comment on Shun.It turns out that since Shun left the Youxin tribe, he went all the way eastward, fishing in Lei Ze, farming in Lishan, and learning art in Taocun. People say that there is a young hero from the Xin family, who carries a black sword on his back, rides four different images, and goes around fighting for righteousness. Some good people even make his myth into a story and spread it in Dongyi. .

Shun wanted to be more modest, but the black sword in his hand didn't look like anything ordinary.He also had no choice but to be surrounded by the people of Longshan Capital and walk into the city gate, which saved a lot of trouble.Shun wanted to go to Dongyi Palace to submit Biqing's recommendation letter and meet Gaotao.Not long after, a group of soldiers came to the palace to protect Shun.

The palace is a huge high-rise building with a circumference of more than 700 meters. There are statues of Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu at the four corners around it.The high platform in the middle is a square rammed earth building with a height of ten meters, and there are more than 30 steps carved in marble.In the center is a wooden pavilion building.There are more than a dozen 20-meter-high stone pillars standing in the northeast direction, which look like an instrument for stargazing. This building may have extraordinary historical significance, but for the little star who has seen the Forbidden City, he does not think it is interesting. How majestic, but in Shun's eyes, seeing a capital palace for the first time was like coming to the Heavenly Palace, and he was full of curiosity when he saw everything.Wandering around for a while, Shun was called into the hall.

In the main hall, there are six ten-meter-long stone pillars supporting the main structure. In the center is an exquisite wooden dragon chair. A man in his 40s is sitting on the dragon chair. Obviously he is Gao Tao, the leader of the Dongyi Tribal Alliance. , there were three men sitting on the ground beside him. Shun didn't know who they were, but it could be seen that they were ministers who were very trusted by Gao Yao.

"I heard from Bi Qing that you got his true biography?"

"Don't dare to be that," Shun didn't dare to admit after hearing Gao Tao's words, because Gao Tao was the greatest potter at that time, "I just got a little bit of his skin."

"Fur, hehe," Gao Tao walked down the hall, stroking a white pottery sculpture under the seat, which looked like a dragon, "Bi Qing once burned a piece of white pottery, but he couldn't burn it again. I I used to study white pottery, but I couldn’t burn it. Later, I heard that Bi Qing burned a lot of white pottery under your guidance. It’s not an exaggeration to say that you are his master, let alone his fur. .”

Hearing Gao Tao's words, Shun couldn't help sweating profusely. He learned pottery from Bi Qing well, but he didn't know how to burn the white pottery. When he said it, he was completely influenced by the little star. Asked, do not know how to answer.

"Can you tell me how to make white pottery?"

Sure enough, when Gao Tao asked about firing white pottery, Shun didn't know how to answer, so he had to give the problem to Little Xing Xing.Little Xingxing is not a potter either, but as a modern person, he has some knowledge of ceramics.

"This is a bit troublesome, and the villain knows very little. If I make a mistake, I still look at Haihan."

"But it doesn't matter."

"This white pottery looks white all over, but it is actually another kind of pottery. You Dongyi people call it white pottery, but we Huaxia people call it porcelain."

"Porcelain, this is the first time I've heard of porcelain. What's the difference between porcelain and pottery?"

Little Xingxing actually didn't know the specific difference, anyway, there was no porcelain in China at this time, even if he was talking nonsense, Gao Tao probably didn't quite understand it.

"Porcelain and pottery require different raw materials. Pottery only needs ordinary clay to be fired in a kiln, but porcelain requires a unique kind of soil. We Chinese call it macang soil. It is said that there is a small town on the bank of the Yangtze River in the south. The town is rich in this kind of soil. After making adobe with this soil, it is fired in a kiln, and the porcelain made is as exquisite as white jade. Secondly, the furnace temperature required for firing porcelain is much higher than that required for pottery. Pottery is made of wood, while we burn porcelain with a kind of black stone, which is produced in the mountains. We call it coal, because this kind of stone can be fired at a higher furnace temperature, so we Chinese people use this kind of stone to burn porcelain. It can be successful. That’s probably it. As for the white pottery you mentioned, it’s still a kind of pottery, but it’s all white, so it can’t be called porcelain.”

Gao Tao thoughtfully listened to Xiao Xingxing's words, and nodded slightly after a while.

"May I ask where this black stone is found?"

Little Xingxing knows that Shanxi produces coal, but he doesn't know how Shanxi was called in ancient times. He suddenly remembered that the mention of Jizhou in "Yu Gong" seemed to include Shanxi.

"I heard that Jizhou produces coal. If you send someone to Jizhou to see, maybe you can get this kind of thing."

After listening to Little Xingxing's words, although Gao Tao didn't understand many of them, he was still able to distinguish the real from the fake with regard to some knowledge about porcelain. He agreed with Little Xingxing's judgment, and indeed he had heard that there was a kind of black stone that could Burning, gradually he likes Shun even more.

"Very well, it's rare that you have such a wealth of pottery knowledge at such a young age. We have a large kiln factory in Longshan. I don't know if a strong man is willing to help us make pottery. I will definitely reward you."

"Since the leader speaks out to invite you, the villain is worse than obeying orders."

(End of this chapter)