Villager of Daming

Chapter 905: Young man with filigree craftsmanship

"It's okay to change the taste! Gongmi, let's collect some and send them to my father and mother."

Zhu Fan didn't care whether the rice in Dingliao Duwei was good or not! Anyway, your place must be good. Local people don’t have to eat rice, as long as the rice can be sold at a high price.

"When I get to Bei Parallel Province, I'll see if there's anything I can use as a tribute."

Zhu Di also planned to get something valuable. He looked at the director and said, which one in Peiping can you think of?

Li Chang: "..."

"Maybe you will find something when you go there." The chief could only respond like this. If so, he said it last time.

There are no specialties in the North Parallel Province, but what is available there is available in other places, and is even better than it.

Zhu Wentian was grilling and eating skewers there. He wanted to laugh out loud. He had brought all the snacks from Peking to Nanjing, not just from Peking, but from other places as well.

Daily needs, such as roast duck, donkey rolling, preserved fruits, various snacks...

Unlike Jinci rice, this is grown by someone alone, and the same thing cannot be obtained elsewhere. Although Northeast rice is better, it is difficult to transport it to Taiyuan.

Peking is not famous for its chestnuts, which are difficult to peel when fried, and its persimmons are not the best here, as are grapes.

The only thing that has not been specially made is cloisonné, but this craft has already existed, and it reached its peak in the Jingtai period later in history. This is imported.

It would also be good if the good craftsmen in Peiping were to specialize in this technology. Talk to the chief later, so as not to make the King of Yan Zhu Di sad.

"Okay! Trouble is brewing!"

Zhu Di sighed secretly, obviously thinking that there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, he was in a good location and had enough resources.

"Your Highness, I'll go back and think about it tonight, maybe tomorrow will work."

The director was happy when he saw the little movements on Hanhan's hands. As expected, Hanhan was really good!

"Great!" Zhu Di understood that he was asking an expert to ask. It doesn't matter who the expert is. Invisibility is invisible, and ghosts can accept it.

Together with his father and the people in the harem, as well as the civil and military officials, they have already acquiesced. The small hermit hides in the wild, the middle hermit hides in the city, the great hermit hides in the court, and the master... becomes invisible.

……

After everyone finished eating, they were tired and rested one after another. Li Chang was also sleepy, but he endured the fatigue and found Hanhan.

Zhu Wentian was writing the formula with a pen. There are many formulas for glaze, but not all of them have been worked out yet. The latter ones were made in the Qing Dynasty, including pure copper made with improved smelting technology, which is now made in the village.

There are many classifications of cloisonné, so I will write down a few first, and then add more when I have time. The current one is for Zhu Di to pass on.

After writing for about twenty minutes, Zhu Wentian gave up his position: "About one-fiftieth, I will write later. Everyone is tired today."

"Okay, I'll copy it." The chief first washed his face with cold water to wake himself up, and then copied it patiently. The original manuscript should be kept in the sacrificial hall.

After copying, he returned to his tent and fell asleep, deciding to sleep until he got up for dinner at noon tomorrow.

As a result, everyone woke up one after another from ten o'clock in the morning. Unable to sleep, they simply took a shower, did some personal hygiene, and waited for lunch. By the way, they called the officials of Taiyuan Prefecture, but they were not to receive them now. They would slowly wait for dinner. Chat, chat until night.

I reprocessed the leftovers from yesterday's mutton soup. There were a lot of vegetables in the mutton soup where the bones were cooked and used as soup. The haggis was fried, the mutton was stewed with carrots, the lamb chops... there was nothing left, but the bones were left, obviously they couldn't be thrown into the soup pot again.

Boil it in a large iron pot separately. When it is cooked, it can be made into bone meal, which can be fed to large livestock or eaten by people's poultry. The soup is boiled with bran or something in it and fed to pigs. Love this, omnivore.

I also made a bunch of duck dishes. Ducks and geese must be raised next to Fenshui River, so I made a Northeastern dish, stewed goose in an iron pot.

In fact, there are also chickens. This is an order issued by Zhu Fan. They must be raised. As long as the place is suitable for raising, all that can be raised will be raised, and those that are not suitable will not be raised. Otherwise, people will have to feed their own meals to poultry.

If we don’t eat chicken today, we’ll talk about it tomorrow.

"Good morning, Chief!" Zhu Di got up first and finished cleaning up. After the Chief came out, he came up to say hello. Even though he was the emperor's son, the fourth Prince Yan always respected Xiaqiu Village, especially the Chief.

"Good morning, Your Highness, King Yan. We thought about it yesterday and came up with an idea to continue to promote the craftsmanship of large food kilns in Beipingxing Province. Your Highness, please take a look."

The director knew why the other party was waiting deliberately, just for this.

"It's not a rush, the hard work pays off." Zhu Di took the pile of paper as he said it. He couldn't wait to take a few glances and confirmed that it was a large food kiln, but what was written on the paper was: Copper body cloisonné enamel.

He understands, enamel!

The village made it by putting a layer of something for burning glass on the outside of the iron. After burning, it can be used as a normal utensil, but it is not sold for takeout! Only used in villages and palaces.

This should be sold to the barbarians first, and after making a lot of money, it can be sold to the common people through department stores. The price should be controlled at twice the normal pottery price.

The common people can afford it. The key is that if it is dropped, it will lose a little glaze at most and it will not break. It is iron inside.

In addition, it is very easy to clean, especially spittoons and chamber pots. It will be very troublesome to wash other things. If they cannot be cleaned...

You can draw and write on the enamel, it's very beautiful, but the barbarian ones are even more beautiful, packed in boxes made of silk and good wood.

Children love to be active. If you drop a pottery bowl while eating, you are guaranteed to get beaten. If you replace it with an enamel bowl, you can still use it. If the glaze falls off, there are ways to repair it.

If used under normal circumstances, there is no need to worry about it for ten or eight years. If you drop it, some glaze will just fall off.

After ten or eight years, no, five years later, it is estimated that Xiaqiu Village will be able to lead the Ming Dynasty people to buy enamel casually. The technology in Xiaqiu Village has improved too fast. It seems that after they have some foundations, they will be free to study .

Others came out, borrowed the paper in Zhu Di's hand to look at it, congratulated him, and prepared to eat.

When all the officials arrived, the prefect Guo Jinglan, the co-prefect Chai Shu, the judge Tian Jiang, the official Ma Haoyu, the governor Cao Longzhao, and Zhaomo Lu Yu came to accompany them. When they got close, everyone shared the meal.

The other officials saw the ceremony and arranged to move to a farther position. Xiaqiu Village had to occupy the surrounding area. They were responsible for taking care of the four princes, including security.

The rest of the team sat at the big table and couldn't share the meal. It was troublesome. There were lunch plates on the lunchbox. Using it to put them on was also considered sharing the meal. At least it wasn't using chopsticks to pick between the plates.

The six of them mainly looked at their 'master' Jin Wang Zhu Fan, a prince who was seventeen years old this year and less than sixteen years old.

I had received an order from Prince Jin's Mansion before, telling me and others to do whatever they wanted, and to do it quickly without delay.

The ideas given are all directly implemented, including which kind of poultry is suitable for raising in which place, and what are the conditions in people's homes.

How to deal with the silt during winter dredging is better. Plant lotus flowers in low-lying areas on rainy days to form ponds so that the water does not dry out easily. In summer, there are lotus leaves to block the sun.

He gave himself and others three books and asked them to learn from them. He also said that the things in this book would be useful for now, and he would find someone to help with the detailed arrangements later.

Did those ideas and words come from this young man with a childish look on his face?

(End of this chapter)