"From tomorrow, the expansion officially begins."

Liu Feng paused slightly and continued: "Let's arrange the affairs of the fort for the time being, and then, I will talk about other matters in the fort, as of today, our Liujiabao has a population of more than 10,000, and there must be some rules for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and everyone must be properly arranged." ”

"So, I will rearrange all the places, the carpenter and blacksmith workshop will be combined into a craftsman camp, and the third grandfather Liu Yunfu will be in charge, and the kiln mouth of the original clay mine and coal mine will be combined into a firing camp by Master Zhaozhi. Liu Feng then arranged, "The money and grain of the people in the fort everywhere will be paid more than 30% this year, and those who have just entered the fort will also be distributed according to the one year of entering the fort, so that everyone can have a good year this year!" ”

"Do you have any questions?" Liu Feng asked Seeing that no one was silent, Liu Feng said with a smile: "Then it will be arranged, from tomorrow, everyone will be busy, if you have any questions, come to me at any time and negotiate a solution." ”

And they all said yes.

He didn't make a big move to change the pattern of the fort, now the farmland in the fort is all cultivated by his own family, and most of the people in the fort are distributed in the Liu family's clay mines, kilns, craftsmen and other workshops such as nitrate leather goods. Therefore, Liu Feng seems to be managing a company with tens of thousands of people and its own armament, and his new chairman and general manager also has to explore in order to come up with a better model that adapts to the company's development.

As expected, on the second day, as soon as the news of the annual salary bonus of 30% was released, all the people in the fort were overjoyed and supported their little castle lord even more.

At this moment, Liu Feng encountered a problem, the two caravans that went to the grassland and Longcheng returned to the fort, Liu Yanxi and Liu Yanbei heard that something happened to the eldest brother Liu Yan, so they hurriedly disposed of their own goods and hurried back, but the two still did not catch up with the big battle in the fort, but it greatly reduced the income of the fort this year.

Originally, it didn't matter if he had a small income, but Liu Feng, who was a loser, built a fort on a large scale, bought iron and cloth, etc., plus various rewards, and Liu Jiabao, who had saved one million taels of silver, is now a little unable to make ends meet.

At this time, Liu Feng remembered his old job again, burning porcelain! Although he knew many ways to make money, he needed time to experiment, and only his own experience in porcelain burning could be used, so Liu Feng wanted to fire a few large copies of porcelain to ease the economic pressure in the fort.

In terms of the craftsmanship of ceramic glaze, even in Liu Feng's previous life, there is also the craftsmanship of ancient porcelain that cannot be deciphered. But Liu Feng will not compete with the current well-known kilns in this regard, he wants to make a fuss about materials, what he wants to do is to make a large copy of colored porcelain that other kilns could not make at that time.

He once saw a kind of three-dimensional colored porcelain at the ceramic exposition, although there were several pieces of three-dimensional colored porcelain in this era, but that was the official kiln court porcelain master of the Southern Tang Dynasty or the Later Han Dynasty, painstakingly worked. If he can burn a few pieces of such three-dimensional colored porcelain every month, then the porcelain kiln in Liujiabao is a hen he raises that can lay golden eggs, and the wealth is rolling.

In Liujiabao's firing camp, Liu Feng's eyebrows fluttered and Zhao Xuewei explained their thoughts, "The difficulty of firing large-scale copy porcelain is that the embryo is formed and the glaze bursts, etc., our embryos must be taken out with molds, and the formula of porcelain clay must be replaced. Liu Feng explained to Zhao Xuewei what he had learned in his previous life in a magazine, the formula of high-temperature porcelain clay for chamfering and demoulding.

Liu Feng explained to Zhao Xuewei that he wanted to make the vase, with blue and white painted colors, the three-dimensional lotus flower is leisurely and elegant, with a quiet blue color, so that the circular structure above the vase echoes the perfect bottle body, the vase is set up above a round shape, adding many small tubes to the modeling, and installing many flowers and grasses in the small tubes, setting off the elegance of the incorruptible and virtuous lotus porcelain vase. He named this vase "Honest and Virtuous", and I believe that many civil officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty who sold their reputation will like it very much.

According to Liu Feng's description, Zhao Xuewei drew the picture and began to make the prototype original tire. Then it is to make the gypsum mold that Liu Feng said, make gypsum slurry with gypsum powder and water, stir it, inject it into the mother mold, harden the gypsum, demold, and then properly trimmed, assembled, and air-dried at room temperature.

Liu Feng looked at the mold he and Zhao Xuewei made together, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, such a mold, about ten embryos can no longer be used, and the hardness and other indicators of the mold are too far from what he expected. But now I can finally make porcelain.

Zhao Xuewei obeyed Liu Feng's arrangement, changed the formula of the porcelain clay, made the finely ground porcelain clay into a pulp, injected it into the finished gypsum mold, and after the slurry was consolidated, it was necessary to start demoulding.

Demolding, as the name suggests, is the process of removing the rough blank from the model. Liu Feng personally came up to operate, and the mastery of the demoulding point is a key. The demoulding is too early, the strength of the green body is not enough, the demoulding is difficult, and the green body is easy to collapse after demoulding; If the demoulding is too late, the green body will crack. Fortunately, Liu Feng has the experience of his previous life, and he has a complete demoulding without danger.

The next step is to repair the porcelain embryo, which is a careful and boring work, Liu Feng is patient, and carefully trims and glues the demolded mud embryo. Then there is the vegetarian firing, Liu Feng pre-dried the repaired embryo and put it into the kiln for low-temperature solid calcination.

The rest of the work is not what he is good at, after more than 700 degrees of calcination, Liu Feng is slightly relieved, he wants to fire high-temperature underglaze porcelain. He handed over the "incorruptible and virtuous" to Zhao Xuewei, and she colored, glazed, and glazed, and after the glaze was burned, it was completed.

Liu Feng looked at the girl in front of him who was focusing on painting the embryo, probably because she often went to the kiln, her skin was healthy wheat, not fair, but her figure was rounder than the plump Ulan, and she had been together for more than half a month, how could he not feel that this girl seemed to have a faint affection for herself.

And she is the girl she has been with the longest time in this world. Kind but a little stubborn, these days together, the two of them are always talking about each other, thinking about it, unconsciously, they are a little proud, and laugh out loud.

"What are you looking at? Why are you smiling so happily? Zhao Xuewei knew that Liu Feng had been staring at her, and she was a little unaccustomed to it at first, but she couldn't bear Liu Feng's thick skin, so she didn't pay attention to him anymore, and did things on her own, hearing Liu Feng's slight laughter, thinking that she had something wrong, and looked up, Liu Feng looked like a pig brother, looked at her shameful place, and said with some shame.

Liu Feng looked annoyed by the beauty, and laughed a little embarrassedly: "I'm thinking, who would be so blessed to marry you!" ”

"Full of nonsense!" Zhao Xuewei said in a low voice, "Ah Feng! Are you done? At this moment, Ulan's voice came from outside the door.

"Ignore you, go find your Ulan girl!" Zhao Xuewei put down the paintbrush and left in a depressed mood, this is also Zhao Xuewei's heart disease, Ulan has to come to the kiln every day, and the words stimulate her, making her feel uncomfortable.

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