Chapter 73: Bricks with a Story

With the centralized forwarding of the employees of the cultural channel this time, Qin Yu's Weibo fans showed a large-scale growth for the first time. When he was having dinner with Liu Yuan in the dormitory in the evening, Liu Yuan excitedly shouted every few minutes: "It's gone up another hundred!" Qin Yu, you're too good, you've risen by 3,000 fans in most of the day, right?"

"It's only three thousand, what are you excited about. Qin Yu pursed his lips, changed to the past, and rose by three thousand fans, he woke up laughing in his dreams, but now he is not in that mood. With Qin Yu's current fame, 3,000 fans a day is never the norm, even if this growth rate is maintained, it will only be 540,000 fans in six months, just half of the passing line, what kind of line is this?!

Hey, there's a long way to go.

"Hey, there's a V Aite for you, it seems that you want to help with the identification, you hurry up and take a look. Liu Yuan put down his chopsticks for the third time and refreshed Qin Yu's homepage as usual.

"Is it?" Qin Yu opened Weibo, and sure enough, someone Aite was really a celebrity, Ye Liang, a professor of history at Donghai Tongzhou University, with more than 60,000 Weibo fans.

"Today, I happened to see a friend from the Culture Channel post a Weibo, saying that we have a folk appraisal god in the East China Sea, and out of curiosity, I also followed @Appraisal Master Qin Yu, which is really interesting. Free identification of all kinds of antiques, but I haven't seen a Weibo about antique identification, all of them are brand-name bags, haha. I threw bricks and bricks and became the pioneer. Please help the master to take a look, how is my thing?" Ye Liang also attached nine pictures at the end of the article.

said that it was a brick throw, and he really sent a photo of a brick. This is a white city brick, which is the unique Ming city wall brick of Jinling, the whole body is milky white, and it is called the jade brick. But it is not only fired in Jinling, the drama has been researched, there are records of firing brick kilns all over the country to pay tribute, and the largest number is in Jiangxi Province. The size of the bricks of the Ming city wall is relatively fixed, generally about 40 centimeters long, about 20 centimeters wide, and 112 centimeters thick. This city brick is in excellent condition, the corners are very little worn, and at first glance in the photo, there are many words engraved on the brick.

Qin Yu was slightly shocked in his heart, although city bricks are not a rare thing, but they are more sensitive, Jinling City is very strict about the private circulation of city bricks, and ordinary people can post photos on the Internet, but this university professor also sends it, which is a bit inappropriate. But this is someone else's thing, Qin Yu didn't think much about it, enlarged the photo, and found that there were a lot of words densely engraved on it, counting it carefully, there were more than a hundred words, which was relatively rare.

Ming city wall bricks, each piece is engraved, at least one word or a few symbols, more than seven or eight crosses, but a brick on more than 100 words, relatively rare. In the Ming Dynasty, the Ming city wall bricks adopted the real-name system, and each brick should record the real-name identity of the craftsman.

Like this brick, a total of four layers of names are recorded, distinguished from bottom to top, and the first row is the lowest-ranking brick-maker: the chief Jiaqiu Hongyi, the first head Peng Tianhe, and the wife Peng Wu Gongxiu. Potter Yang He, brick maker Liu Xianzu. The second layer is the supervising officer: Gao Heng, the chief secretary of the promotion officer of Yichun County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, and Chen Tingyu, the secretary. Yang He, a brick-burning person, and Liu Shifa, a household. August 10 of the 10th year of Hongwu. The third layer is for the supervisor of the boss: the Yuan Prefecture promoted the official to pass the sentence of Sui Zong, and the secretary Ren Jun. The fourth layer is strange, and there is only one row of words recorded: Supreme Governor Created Man, Zong Ruiba.

Zong Ruiba, what a strange name. Qin Yu can't help but think of a selfie expert in the treasure island area, although the works he shoots are poorly equipped and the techniques are average, but they are rich in materials, giving people a large space for association, the most important thing is that most of the Chinese people can understand it, and they can actively interact with the film without subtitles, and there is no language barrier.

Out of habit, Qin Yu still used to open the system interface, selected this Mingcheng brick, and went to the world at that time for a walk. I didn't expect this to see that there is really a story. Since there was no task, no one could see him in the entire time and space, so Qin Yu walked around the brick kiln factory with swaying steps, and had a good taste of the scenery of the Ming Dynasty. The process of burning bricks is unremarkable, nothing more than mud, drying, injection molding, and then engraving into the kiln to burn. On this day, the superintendent actually came, and the judge and the priest also rushed to the scene, with a humble face, surrounded by a little old man in rich clothes, one of whom was still blue and swollen, and he didn't know what the situation was.

The little old man was about sixty years old, not tall, with dark skin and a peasant-like face. Who is this old man? Qin Yu pinched his chin curiously, guessing his origin in his heart.

"Lord Huang, I didn't know that you were here, Xiaguan... The sentence said respectfully, but halfway through the words, seeing the old man's eyes condensed, the corners of his forehead suddenly sweated, and he hurriedly changed his words: "This official is late, please forgive me!"

Lord Huang, Xiaguan, Qin Yu's curiosity became even stronger, but he couldn't show up without a systematic task, so he could only stand aside and stare dryly.

Many potters saw that several senior officials in the county were respectful to the people who came, and for a while everyone was in danger, and they worked harder. I saw this Lord Huang walking in front of a young potter with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face, and asked with concern: "What is your name and where do you live?"

The potter was startled, hurriedly stood respectfully, and said with sincere fear: "Big, big, small, named Zhang Quan, lives in the county's Shifu Lane. ”

"Then how many people in your family have jobs?" the old man asked with a kind smile.

"Back to the adults, only the youngest one in the family works, the old mother is sick and bedridden, and there is no daughter-in-law. Potter Zhang Quan replied honestly.

The old man didn't speak again, turned to the official behind him and said, "A young man like this is the cornerstone of Daming's future. You see that he is diligent in learning and willing to work, and he can fulfill his filial piety, which is really rare. After that, you should take care of it a little more, and you should raise some silver taels at the end of the month.

"Next... Yes, yes, it should. "Lord Tong kept wiping his sweat, as if the weather was extremely hot.

The little old man smiled and walked over to another potter.

Qin Yu looked at it interestingly, how could this scene be so much like a leader's inspection! I didn't have time to think about it, and seeing that the old man had already left the courtyard and went to a house dedicated to engraving, Qin Yu hurriedly followed.

"Well, yes, the Ming Dynasty relies on these bricks and stones to guard, and the names of all of you will remain in the history of the Ming Dynasty and will never be erased!" The old man was very satisfied, patted the brick-maker on the shoulder, and continued: "Since everyone is here today, let's just leave a name, and in the future, your descendants can also stand under the wall, proudly saying, this is made by my ancestors, which is of great significance." ”

"Yes, yes, what Lord Huang said is! We will all engrave our names for future generations to admire, hahaha!" Lord Tong Judge was the first to respond, and said respectfully: "My lord, do you pick a piece?"

The little old man clicked on a piece casually, and everyone wrote their names on it, and finally, Tong Ju held the brush in front of him with both hands: "Lord Huang, please!"

The old man took the pen, groaned slightly, and wrote, "The Supreme Governor created a man, Zong Ruiba." "Eight small words, on the pen.

"Good word!" the judge grabbed the first exit and praised, extremely fast. The main book was not far behind, and a series of sycophants were thrown out without money, and then everyone also slapped the horses wildly, and Qin Yu was dumbfounded. These people were too good at slapping sycophants, and they were so clever that the old man who coaxed him laughed heartily and turned away from the house. As for the brick with the words written, the following is naturally a matter of carving.

After everyone left, Lord Tongju hesitated for a moment, but turned around, gritted his teeth, and said, "After this brick is burned and sent to my house, don't hand it in, understand?"

The brickmaker didn't know why, but he dared to disobey his boss's explanation, and nodded again and again. Then Lord Tongju trotted out and caught up with everyone's footsteps: "Lord Huang, if there is nothing to do, why don't you go to the house for a meal?" The fish meat in this season is fat and tender, and with some accessories, it is the most nourishing, can you taste it?"

"Is there any wine?" The little old man stroked his beard and smiled.

"Yes! There is naturally wine!" The people who followed were overjoyed, hurriedly left the kiln factory, and hurriedly greeted the sedan chair man to prepare the sedan chair.

Seeing this, Qin Yu already knew in his heart, how could there be a reason not to understand?