On 12 March, it was sunny and cloudy. Late.

The housekeeper "Lee Min Ho" reported to me that during this time, the house purchased more than 200 pieces of large and small furniture and supplies, more than 100 pieces of fabrics of various colors, 100 stones of grain, more than 30 pigs and sheep, more than 300 chickens, ducks and fish, and other sundries, and spent a total of more than 1,300 yuan.

I checked it and signed it to confirm, and I couldn't help but worry about the current state of funds.

Some time ago, in order to solve this year's military food problem, Li Luo also allocated 400 yuan to repair the water conservancy and irrigation in the township.

I went to the treasury to count and found that after spending these two large sums of money, there were more than 1,400 yuan of cash left!

At most, by the end of April, we will run out of money. At the end of April, there will definitely be a spring military salary, which alone is a large expenditure of up to 700 yuan.

However, Li Luo's first two batches of bone china failed to be fired. According to his words, it is "a new kiln that cannot be built", and it will be successful after several more firings.

He said that the next furnace of bone china was fired around March 17 and baked on the 19th. It happened to be the day before the one-month assessment day of the Luoning Camp's training.

March 13. Overcast to light rain.

It was raining lightly today, but the training was still going on as usual. After nearly a month of high-intensity training, the villagers have been able to enforce orders and prohibitions, and the queue is neat. Whether it is physical fitness, endurance, or combat skills, there has been a significant improvement.

There is still a week to go before the January assessment, because it is related to the promotion of officers, so everyone is training desperately, hoping to win a position on March 20.

I can feel the tension in the whole force at the moment.

In a word, the whole team already has a little bit of an elite unit, which shows that the training syllabus is effective.

The queue of more than 300 people trained me to be in charge of it alone, and I have been a little tired lately, and my period has been postponed for a few days.

Today, I finally selected a dozen "pacesetters" who performed well in the training of the queue and asked them to assist me in training, which was a lot easier.

In the evening, he and Li Luo once again talked about the second expedition of the Yuan army. He finally told me that he planned to go to Japan not only for reasons of national sentiment, but also for the sake of Japan's gold and silver minerals.

Exactly, for what "Iwami Ginzan".

Hehe, this fugitive, sure enough, is still for profit.

March 15th. Clear. Little wind.

I'm starting training for the "Police Fox" today. The three little foxes were already strong, curious about everything, and ran around the yard all day.

I plan to spend an hour a day training "Police Fox", hoping that after half a year, the training will be successful and come in handy.

The progress of the ten intelligence and reconnaissance students is very fast, and it is estimated that they will be able to barely use them as backbones in a few months.

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Li Luo looked at the forty-five bone china bottles lined up, and felt a little apprehensive.

Seventy into various colors of porcelain clay, three into bone powder, after more than ten processes, only to become a porcelain blank, the first time into the furnace, firing a day, only to become a porcelain fetus.

This batch of porcelain has been fired, and the glaze has been carefully painted. It's almost returned to the furnace and finally fired.

It is not too difficult to make a tire from a blank, and the most difficult step is to make a tire into a machine.

Failed twice. Although "the new kiln is not a new kiln", these five kilns are no longer considered new kilns and can no longer fail.

This is a luxury item worth at least 2,000 yuan.

The first two failures are actually called "trial furnaces".

It takes him at least eight days from the beginning of a batch of bone china to the firing of it. If it fails again this time, the material is a trivial matter, and the main thing is that it is a pity of time.

"Into the furnace!"

Li Luo finally gave the order.

"Yes!"

Five apprentices who have been helping for more than half a month skillfully put the porcelain tires into the five porcelain kilns in turn. Each kiln has no more, no less, just nine porcelain tires.

The best semi-carbonized firewood, and a blower, make the temperature in the kiln reach more than 1,000 degrees. The whole furnace was blazing red, and the heat wave was blowing.

The moment the kiln door closed, Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief.

This time it feels ...... Almost.

The porcelain is burned for two full days before it can be completed. In these two days, the furnace temperature had to be adjusted three times, which was very difficult to master.

Almost every once in a while, Li Luo came to the porcelain academy to supervise the apprentices to manage the fire. The five apprentices did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and continued to add firewood to the fire according to Li Luo's regulations.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Cui Xiuning, who had finished the queue training, came to the porcelain academy with no worries.

"Madame!" The five apprentices saluted together.

"How?" Cui Xiuning asked directly.

Li Luo pointed to the kiln, "It's been burned for eight...... Four hours. It will take another fourteen or fifteen hours, and this time it's about the same. ”

Cui Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief. After this success, I will not worry about funds for at least three months.

As for sales, she wasn't worried at all. As soon as bone china came out, it was enough to have an impact on the whole world.

She was concerned about how much trouble that such an interest would cause.

Li Luo renamed the bone china "jade porcelain". One is because bone china has a strong jade texture, and the other is that the name "jade porcelain" is tall enough. This third... Of course, it is for the secrecy of the raw material formula.

More than a dozen hours passed so slowly, and it was not easy to stay up until nine o'clock in the evening of March 19, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning were a little nervous waiting for the furnace to start.

Each of the five apprentices was guarding a porcelain kiln, and they were all very nervous.

"Open the furnace!" Li Luo ordered.

"Yes!"

The five apprentices opened the kiln together and carefully took out the bone china inside in turn.

As soon as the gray porcelain came out of the furnace with hot steam, it encountered the temperature difference between the inside and outside, and suddenly made a fine clicking sound, and almost instantly, countless spider web-like fine lines covered the body.

However, there are no cracks and breaks!

When Li Luo heard the voice, he knew ...... It's done!

"It's done!" Li Luo was a little excited, picked up a piece of cloth and gently wiped a gray vase.

Where the cloth was wiped, a crystal white appeared, and there were wonderful fine lines on it, like beautiful jade.

Immediately after, there is a beautiful and elegant pattern.

Finally, a beautiful bone china vase was finally unveiled.

"It's really become... It's so pretty... Jade porcelain! ”

Cui Xiuning looked at this vase a little obsessively, and her beautiful eyes were full of brilliance.

Li Luo was completely relieved, and said with a smile: "It's not even a medium grade, but it's a qualified product!" ”

The porcelain from the five kilns was taken out in turn, forty-five pieces of bone china, seventeen pieces were broken, and twenty-eight pieces were qualified.

It's already pretty good. The pass rate will be higher next time.

"It's a pity that seventeen pieces are still broken. How much can these twenty-eight vases be worth? Cui Xiuning asked.

Li Luo said: "What we do is luxury jewelry. Today, such a two-foot-tall high-grade Goryeo celadon is worth more than a dozen yuan. Our 'jade porcelain', I plan to price fifty times! ”

Fifty is the price of a cow!

But is it really worth it?

True value!

Just look at the noble appearance of this jade, which is generally crystal clear.

Goryeo celadon is already famous, but compared with this bone china, anyone can see that there is a clear gap.

Jade porcelain, but if you use jade powder, sell you fifty times, is it too much?

"If you price it like this, twenty-eight pieces is 1,400 pieces!"

"Not bad. It can also be fired once a month. In the future, more than 100 pieces will be produced every month. ”

"That is, a fixed income of more than 5,000 yuan per month?"

Cui Xiuning was a little dazed. In this way, bone china alone can earn 60,000 or 70,000 yuan a year!

Even today's Liu family, the total income in a year is not so much, right?

Soon, Cui Xiuning noticed that the bottom of each piece of bone china was printed with four words: Renzhou Li's.

Cui Xiuning understood that Li Luo was finally going to lure the Renzhou Li family to take the bait.

Use the Li Clan's signboard to get a bigger position, get more troops, and more buffer time.