Chapter Seventy-Three: Yucheng (2)

Yucheng's Bafang Commercial Street is full of people, and Liu Feng named the business district Bafang Street, intending to welcome guests from all over the world.

And the most lively is the number of Tonghui shops, this is a Yucheng production-based, a collection of goods from all over the world into a shop, not so much a shop to more like a combination of shopping malls and freight yards, two-story hollow-shaped shops, combined with all the craftsmen in Yucheng can export products, porcelain salt cotton linen garment fur boutique knives, you can order goods in bulk, can also be purchased in bulk, although the craftsman camp of Yucheng has not been much improved in technology at present, but concentrate a large number of manpower, to the assembly line of production, It still reduces the cost of the product and improves the efficiency.

And in the shops, there are also merchants from the north and south who set up stalls, after paying the rent, sell their respective products, although the Tonghui shop has not been established for a long time, but the products of Yucheng craftsmen are enough to attract many merchants.

The streets of Yucheng seem to have completely changed, and the ragged villagers can no longer be seen, and the villagers who are numb to life have disappeared, and some are just the hopeful and refreshed townspeople and busy businessmen.

At this moment, Liu Feng had no time to take care of all the matters in the city, with the existence of Guo Chongtao, Pan Qingyun and others, he was very relaxed, so he plunged into the burning camp, and prepared for the auction wholeheartedly. Those big businessmen will gradually come to Yucheng to do business.

Liu Feng wanted to make some low-pressing objects for the auction, although the current types and styles of porcelain vases were enough to open everyone's eyes. But for the sake of insurance, he still stayed in the burning camp with Zhao Xuewei for almost twelve hours a day.

The firing camp has been changed several times, and it is not what it used to be, it should be called the largest porcelain kiln in the north, and the four kilns in parallel are all kilns designed by Liu Feng, and the craftsmen have gradually made the division of labor clear, carving and molding, pulping, pulping, molding, washing, embryonic burning, glaze, glaze, firing, quality inspection, etc., have completely formed a production chain, and Liu Feng Zhao Xuewei and others firmly control, the formula of the proportion of mold gypsum and the glaze color, to keep the secret of the Liujia porcelain kiln to the greatest extent.

Every night Liu Feng habitually went to Wulan to rest, he found that he had completely relied on Wulan, whenever he was tired and didn't want to move, he lay down on Ulan's bed, and Ulan scrubbed him in his sleep, and then he could hug a fragrant one and fall asleep again. However, the good times did not last long, and after his mother Bai Naren found out, he gave a fierce lecture to the ear, and he relented.

Under the intensive preparation of Liu Feng and Zhao's father and daughter, most of the porcelain of the auction was formed, and Zhao's father and daughter did spend their minds here, nearly half a year of non-stop work made them lose weight, but the results are still very gratifying, with Liu Feng on the side to do guidance, several major difficulties in the mass production of porcelain bottles have finally been solved, the casting of porcelain clay preparation molds, batch glazing, etc., have also been successful in simple daily utensils.

In this era, the tableware and other utensils used by ordinary people are still pottery, and porcelain tableware can only be used in medium homes, Liu Feng in these daily porcelain production, as much as possible to reduce the cost, in order to expand the use of the population, after the trimming of the porcelain kiln production tool process, the cost is indeed greatly reduced, although it still can not be compared with the crude pottery, but the low price makes other porcelain kilns in Cizhou stutter.

In terms of exquisite porcelain, Liu Feng is even more painstaking, the complete set of tea cups is more exquisite, some people say that the porcelain cup tea cup is the beginning of the culture of gentlemen and ladies, there is such a legend, when the porcelain spread to the West, the Western aristocracy is proud of using porcelain, and the thin porcelain is not beaten, and slowly the kind of careful etiquette in front of the table has come down, of course, this is just an unverified statement. But Liu Feng tried his best to let him realize it, and the tea set cups made were both beautiful and practical.

In terms of fine porcelain vases, Liu Feng took the four seasons as the keynote, and fired sets of porcelain, which were named "Spring River Flower Moon Night", "Green Trees and Thick Summer Days", "Autumn Sadness and Loneliness since Ancient Times", and "Winter Solstice in Handan Station". Specially made more than 10 pieces of porcelain vases based on trees and flowers, such as the osmanthus porcelain vase with "dull and light yellow body softness", the crape myrtle porcelain vase with "a new branch of autumn dew", etc., for the graceful southern merchants, and in order to cater to the aesthetics of the northern peoples, Liu Feng quoted the famous porcelain vase with black flowers on a white background in the Cizhou kiln of the previous life, which is simple to outline, but does not lose the atmosphere, and this charm is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

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Liu Feng, who was asleep, was woken up by Ulan, but the best porcelain they secretly prepared today was about to leave the kiln, and Zhao Xuewei asked someone to inform Liu Feng.

After washing up in a hurry, I came to the firing camp, at this moment the kiln has already gathered craftsmen, and the porcelain vase that they have worked hard for several months is finally coming out, Zhao Xuewei named this work "Crane Dance", and Liu Feng also liked it very much.

There are poems: "White Jade Sendai Gu, Danqiu don't look away." On the day of the chaotic luck of the mountains and rivers, the pavilion entered the haze. The crane dances the thousand-year-old tree, and the rainbow flies to the hundred-foot bridge. is also suspicious of red pine nuts, and the road to heaven sits and meets. Zhao Xuewei and Liu Feng took the idea of "Crane Dancing Millennium Tree" as the idea of making double cranes flying and dancing among the clouds. The three-dimensional colored porcelain is to be carved out of the complete image, and the carving alone makes Zhaozhi spend two months.

In fact, Liu Feng has taken advantage of other porcelain vases before, the best porcelain vases of this era lie in the copywriting of the bottle body, the color after glaze firing, etc., while Liu Feng only makes large duplicate porcelain vases, in which the hollow three-dimensional is completely by demoulding, and does not need the porcelain master to make clay embryos one by one, he is only in the delicacy of the porcelain clay, the control is more strict, and the formula of the glaze is stronger than other porcelain kilns, so that the porcelain vase of Liujiayao is so brilliant.

However, "Crane Dance" is a combination of the two, and is a three-dimensional demoulding out of the copy of porcelain, and when painting, it is Zhao Xuewei personally depicted, in order to ensure that the down pattern on the crane is clear, the quality is exquisite, the plum trees and plum blossoms are not dyed with each other, Zhao Xuewei is also several tests, this firing is also the third time, it may be the last time, many times the demoulding has made the mold have been worn, part of the texture is also a little blurred, and the bidding conference has come to the day.

The failure of several experimental firings made Liu Feng and Zhao Xuewei a little tired, and Liu Feng, who was originally responsible for the final kiln firing, couldn't stand it anymore, so he went back to the house to rest for a while, but he slept for a day, and finally it was the time for the "Crane Dance" to come out of the kiln.

Standing in front of the slowly warming kiln, Liu Fengmo's Zhao Xuewei smiled: "Don't be afraid, it's a big deal to come again!" Although she comforted Zhao Xuewei like this, she secretly scolded her mother in her heart, and Liu Feng was also a little annoyed by the failure of three or five times.

Feng comforted himself, Zhao Xuewei glanced at him, and said in her heart: "People who are nervous and annoyed after every failure still come to comfort themselves!" But it didn't irritate him at this time.

When the "Crane Dance" porcelain vase was taken out by the kiln workers, Liu Feng took a look from afar, and he had a rough idea in his heart, the reason for their several failures was that although the porcelain vase was formed after plain firing, the crane wings always cracked during the glaze firing. And after Zhaozhi and the others carefully checked it, they shouted happily: "It's done!" It's done! It's finally done! ”

Liu Feng's heart trembled, and he stumbled to the front, the "crane dance" out of the kiln, the double crane dance, the plum lei competing for the branches, the texture of the crane body feathers is clear, the black and white colors are alternate, and the light plum buds are bright red and the crane body is contrasting, giving people a feeling that they want to fly into the sky with the crane bird.

Zhaozhi and several other potters were also very excited, how could they not be ecstatic that such exquisite porcelain was successfully fired in their hands!