Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

"The two bosses are also here to invest in building the factory, right?"

"Brother, you're kidding. Look at us. How do we look like bosses? We're just working and running errands..."

"Too young indeed!"

Li Ding'an smiled and handed over another cigarette: "Brother, are you a local?"

"It's right here, not far from home, more than four miles away!"

"How about the income?"

"It's okay. I have several acres of land at home, which I rent to a large family to grow selenium-rich rice...I'm here to look after the door, and my wife is in the instant noodle factory in front..."

"There are a lot of factories in this area, but when we came here, many of them were closed?"

"It's not very effective."

"What about this family?"

"This family is not bad. The business was very good at the beginning. I heard that the boss lost money while playing with antiques and owed a lot of money. When he couldn't pay back, he went to rob tombs and was finally caught..."

Lei Mingzhen was startled for a moment, and winked at Li Ding'an: You heard me, just be patient.

Li Ding'an ignored him lazily, chatting with the man here and there, just like chatting about family matters.

Knowing that they are not the boss, they talk quite casually, and the doorman feels more relaxed.Basically whatever you ask, he can answer it.

After walking only a few dozen meters, the three of them arrived at the molding workshop first. As the name suggests, it is the place where embryos are molded.

Opening the iron door, Li Ding'an instinctively narrowed his eyes.

Before coming here, he only had a general understanding. Zhao Yufang said that this was an antique porcelain factory based on "Hongzhou Celadon". It was small in scale and had been closed for almost a year.

He didn't mention anything else, and Li Ding'an forgot to ask. He felt that it only covers an area of ​​100 acres, so it must be an industrialized assembly line production model.For example, embryo making: even if the simplest set of molds is not used for dry pressing, it should also be hot-cast wax molds or colloidal injection.

To put it simply: the first method is the simplest, just use the mold to make the extension, which is the fastest, but the quality is also the worst.The latter two will add organic bonding agents. Although they also use machines, the process is slightly complicated, but they have high strength, strong coagulation, and beautiful appearance.

But when I take a look, I see several rows of pottery carts arranged neatly, with a chair placed in front of each cart.

Just like the one in the video, the pottery wheel keeps turning and the two hands keep kneading until the ball of mud is kneaded into a clay embryo.In other words: manual drawing is purely an ancient method of shaping the embryo.

A rough count: there are more than 40 pottery carts, which is equivalent to more than 40 people in the drawing workshop alone.Many pottery carts still have finished or semi-finished porcelain bodies. If you look closely, you can see that the craftsmanship is quite skillful: the shapes of the pots are quite regular, not much deformed, and the thickness is also very uniform, which shows that the quality requirements are quite high.

At the same time, it also means that the production efficiency is very low!

After being slightly surprised, Li Ding'an continued walking inside. When he reached the next workshop, when he saw the discs and bamboo knives used for printing and sharpening (trimming mud tires), he was stunned again: they were also purely handmade. There are slightly fewer workstations for the process, roughly twenty or thirty!

Looking further down, the engraving is also purely handmade, and further down, the glazing also uses the most primitive brushing glaze instead of dipping or dipping.All pottery embryos are dried naturally rather than machine dried.

Fortunately, in the end, an electric kiln was used instead of the traditional wood-fired kiln. The pottery cart and pottery wheel he saw before were also electric. Otherwise, he would have thought that he was in a purely retro-style super large replica antique factory. .

Even so, it was enough to surprise Li Ding'an: there are five workshops in front and behind, with workstations of more than [-] years old. In addition, there are no need to work in the workshop such as mud training, pulp mixing, painting and transportation. This company If the porcelain factory is open, at least [-] workers must be on the production line at the same time.

Based on the average salary in Fengcheng, which is 250 yuan per person, the labor cost alone for a month is about 3000 million, or [-] million a year?

This does not include raw materials, water, electricity, taxes, etc. How much sales can be achieved in a year to maintain a balanced balance of payments?
Anyway, it’s absolutely impossible for Li Ding’an, let alone Baoli!
On the other hand, since everything here is purely handmade, the output will never be much higher unless the price of a single product is set to an extremely outrageous amount.

The question is, who will buy it?
But the doorman said, business was good at the beginning?
"Brother, when did this factory open?"

"The spring before last!"

"When was it closed?"

"It was almost the beginning of winter last year!"

"It's still more than a year and a half since the start of work... Doesn't the boss owe the workers wages?"

"I definitely don't owe anything, otherwise everything in the factory would have been emptied out long ago... But I owe a lot in the town and county: I heard that only half of the land transfer fee was paid..."

This boss is quite kind and doesn't cheat the farmers?
Thinking secretly, Li Ding'an followed the concierge to look at other places and asked a few questions.

The guard was very talkative, maybe because of the sake of two cigarettes, he told almost everything he knew. Li Ding'an also learned more and more: the local support is quite strong, which can be seen from the fact that half of the transfer fee is paid first. come out.

The folk customs are not as bad as expected: production has been suspended for more than half a year, so close to the village, but there has been no theft in the factory.

Workers are well trained and managed very strictly: this can be seen from the quality of finished and semi-finished products.

The quality of porcelain clay and water are also very high: the clay is aged and refined using purely manual methods, and the products are in such good condition, indicating that the content of impurities is not high and the plasticity and stickiness are very strong.

The only thing is: the place is too small.

The current factory will occupy an area of ​​[-] acres. If Baoli builds the factory, it will be expanded at least three times.But it’s not a big problem: it’s almost dinner time, and there’s not even a trace of smoke from the store next to it, and it’s obvious that they’ve stopped producing it for a long time, so just buy it.

After walking roughly in a circle for more than an hour, they had learned almost everything they needed to know, and the two of them returned the same way with the guard.

"Is this where you're going?"

"It doesn't matter what I say, I can at least give you a suggestion!"

"That's nonsense. Although the research basically doesn't care about production, we must ask for your opinions on the climate, geology, hydrology, etc. involved in the early site selection and construction of the factory... Baoli already had an intention, so I asked you to come and inspect it again. After a while, if you say it's okay, then you basically won't run away..." "You know a lot?"

"Otherwise, do you really think that I can only cheat Lao Lei out of his money?"

Lei Mingzhen sighed sadly, "It will be convenient for you in the future: there will be one home in Beijing and one in Jiangxi, and there will be a girl in each home..."

Are you itching to talk a lot of weird things?

Li Ding'an frowned and kicked his foot. Lei Ming really expected to be punished, so he ducked and a stone flew between his legs.

Immediately, a "clang" sound was heard not far away.

The two people turned their heads at the same time: stones flew into the shed, as if they smashed something.

"Good guy, is it so close?"

"Are you that fragile?"

nonsense...

Lei Ming really wanted to curse, but Li Ding'an stopped and stretched his neck to look into the work shed.

It's just an ordinary colored steel shed with a cement floor and a few stacks of porcelain bodies and a pile of fired porcelain.

It was covered with dust, and you could tell it had been there for a long time.

"What are you looking at?"

"Then, that pile of porcelain... looks a bit like a split celadon? Hmm... looking at the shape of the porcelain, is it an imitation of Jin porcelain?"

"Is it different from the ones I saw in the workshop before?"

"It's true: the previous imitations were made of Tang and Five Dynasty porcelains. Although they were also celadon, they were not open, and the color tended to be blue-white or green... But look at those piles: the color was green with yellow, and it was green. Less yellow and more..."

After a pause, Li Ding'an walked to the work shed, "Brother, have you ever imitated Jin porcelain in the factory?"

How did the guard know about Tang porcelain and Jin porcelain? He narrowed his eyes and took a look: "Do you think the pile under the shed is yellow or gray? It has been burned a few times, but the sales were not good, and it has never been burned again..."

No wonder I didn’t see it in the workshop?

Thinking about it, the three of them walked to the bottom of the work shed together.

There weren't many things, maybe thirty or forty items, just piled casually in the corner.The shapes of the vessels are quite complex, but they all have typical characteristics of the Two Jin Dynasties: there are double-tied pots, chicken head jars, bird-button lid jars, and a barn jar imitating the late Three Kingdoms period.

After looking at it for a few times, Lei Ming said "Hey", "What is this thing? It looks like a urinal?"

Urinal?

Well, it does look a bit like the urinals used in hospitals for bedridden patients.However, this piece is more vivid: it is open and quite large, with four legs underneath, and the handle is shaped like a tail rolled up on the back, a bit like the shape of a tiger.

In an instant, Li Ding'an remembered: Hu Zi!

There is no clear research, but archaeologists and historians believe that this thing is probably a drowning weapon, so Lei Mingzhen did not admit his mistake.

So it’s quite strange: Who would a serious person buy a replica of such a shape?

While thinking about it, Li Ding'an picked up the tiger and looked at it a few more times.

"It's quite unique, isn't it?" Lei Mingzhen bared his teeth, "Why don't you take it back and put it in your living room?"

"You think I don't dare to show it off? I'll show you when I get back: there is one in the Nanchang Museum, exactly like this one, and it's still a treasure..."

"Haha... That's an antique. What about yours? If you want to smell it, it might have been used by someone last month..."

"Maybe this is the second one!"

"What if this is the second thing, do I bite him and eat him?"

"Can you afford it?"

The two joked casually, and Li Dingan wiped the dust off it again.

Don't tell me, the imitation is quite similar: celadon glaze, open slices, glaze smooth and clear glaze color.

The shape of the vessel is also correct: cup-shaped, with a girdle neck, a semicircular lifting beam on the back, connecting the head and tail, which is thick and strong, and a crescent-shaped tail hanging from the beam. Four legs are placed on the bottom of the vessel, in the shape of a moon, with stripes carved on the feet to indicate the toes. The overall shape resembles a strutting tiger.

Look carefully... My dear, this is too realistic: there is actually Tubi?
Hmm...Tubi?
What are you talking about?

This is antique craft porcelain, and it’s not the high imitations from Panjiayuan that are distressed and sold as genuine antiques. How could such a thing be possible?
Moreover, he searched all over the factory and could not see any tools or even traces related to the "old craftsmanship".Including the one on his hand, it was the only antique porcelain with "Tubi" that he saw here...

Besides, how can someone who only does earthwork and no patina when doing distressing, not be afraid of being mistaken for someone who just dug it out of a tomb, and just give it a 110?

After a sudden pause, Li Ding'an's heart skipped a beat: "Brother, you just said, how did the original boss get in?"

"Grave robbing?"

I'm going to go... (End of chapter)