In order to achieve anything in the world, it is necessary to concentrate on research, and what I am most afraid of is to take it for granted.

Just like Gao Pragmatism, before today, he didn't know anything about porcelain, only knew that Chinese porcelain was invincible in the world, but he didn't know what porcelain was all about, such as the current porcelain exhibition, fashion trends, and even the raw materials and technical requirements required.

And the three "masters" introduced to him by Zhang's today gave him a lot of science popularization, but they are actually still scratching the surface, because he can't understand it if he talks about it a little more.

The details do not need to be repeated, in short, Gao pragmatic figured out a few key points of the Ming porcelain industry, the peak period was the Chenghua Dynasty, since then, although the pattern has changed gradually, new technology has also appeared, but compared with the Chenghua period, the whole is in a more and more shoddy trend.

"Shoddy" is the statement of the three masters, in fact, even if the three masters have taken out some of the porcelain of the past dynasties that have been carefully prepared to Gao Pragmatic to point out, Gao Pragmatic also feels that the difference is not much true, such as according to the masters said, Hongzhi used to pay attention to repairing the tire, the scarch is not obvious after Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing and the recent Wanli Dynasty porcelain, the scarch is obvious, the carcass is thicker and rougher, the official kiln is slightly better, the kiln is produced, the more serious this situation, there is more "flint red" phenomenon, the master craftsmen call it "Huang Yi". ”。

It's just that Gao Pragmatic feels that the requirements of the masters seem to be too high, and even a little nitpicking. However, he is a professional person, so he still has a positive attitude towards this statement.

Three masters, one surnamed Yu and two surnamed Chen. The two masters surnamed Chen are from Yuzhou, they are a pair of brothers, and they are the inheritors of the kiln technology of the Song Dynasty. However, according to the two of them, due to the decline of the Jun kiln for a long time, they can only master the general technology, and some unique skills may have been lost, and they have only heard the manufacturing method in the mouth of the old people in the clan, and whether they can imitate it successfully is still between the two.

However, Zhang's craftsmanship of the two of them is very respectful, for fear that Gao pragmatic will be disappointed after listening to the words of these two honest masters, and hurriedly told his son that she had let these two trial production two batches, although it is true that it can not reach the peak level of Jun kiln, but it can basically reach the general level of Jun kiln that year, Jun kiln is originally few, and it specializes in high-quality products, so this "universal level" is actually a very high level.

Gao pragmatically agreed, but did not comment too much.

The master craftsman surnamed Xu is from Jingdezhen. Different from the full flowering of the porcelain industry in the Song Dynasty, the porcelain capital of the Ming Dynasty has been steadily settled in Jingdezhen, although the rest of the local famous porcelain also have their own strengths, but whether it is on the scale, on the comprehensive or on the mastery of unique skills, Jingdezhen is the overlord.

And this master Xu master, even in Jingdezhen, is also an extremely outstanding skill. It's just that this master has two tragedies, one is that he is only good at technology, but not good at management, resulting in his family's ancestral private kiln obviously of excellent quality, but it was squeezed by competitors to the point that the profits are thinning, and even the ancestral property can not be kept, and the other is that he has only one son, but this only son eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, and has all five drugs, that is, he is not doing his job, and he is set up outside, and he owes a lot of money to Yinzi, and he bankrupts Xu Dajiang.

Yinzi money is usury, theoretically speaking, the law of the Ming Dynasty is strictly prohibited, but in fact, this is all the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has already entered the middle and late stages, and there are several laws that can be taken seriously, and what is the identity of the people who can put usury, where is what their Xu family can deal with

Fortunately, Gao pragmatic's mother Zhang just sent someone to look for a skilled master in Jingdezhen, and when she learned of this situation, she immediately took this matter down in the name of the Xinzheng Gao family.

Because the Chen family brothers have been in decline for a long time, they can only burn some ordinary porcelain in the township to eat, and they are so poor that they can't talk about the dignity of a master craftsman, not to mention that Xu Dajiang can't talk about the dignity of a master, in theory, he owes the Gao family money now, and he can't pay it back in three lifetimes.

Zhang's family was born in a family of giant businessmen, and he didn't talk about any favors in business, so he accepted all three of them as family members without saying a word.

The family is actually a slave, or even more bluntly, a slave of the master's family.

It needs to be explained here a little, the Ming Dynasty slave was also called slave maid, Zang Shu, house slave, domestic servant, servant, family, righteous man, righteous woman, righteous woman and so on.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the real slaves mainly came from prisoners of war and the families of criminals, and their identities were recognized by law, but the number of such slaves was of course very limited. During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly issued decrees prohibiting the enslavement of the people's own beloved, opposing the sale of persons, or the discounting of private debts and the number of slaves for meritorious heroes and officials.

But the regulations are just regulations, and the lords, nobles, relatives and officials can find loopholes to avoid such as not writing the slave deed as a slave, only writing that they were accepted as a righteous son and a righteous daughter, and the court can only stare at Gao Mo and Gao Jue Why are they all surnamed Gao At the beginning, the slave contract was in the hands of Gao Jie's pragmatic uncle Gao Jie, and nominally they were all Gao Jie's righteous sons, since they were righteous sons, of course they had to have the surname of "righteous father".

The master's family has the right to dispose of these kinds of slaves or servants at will, because they are actually the property of the master's family.

The other is a slightly different one, which is a slave in the nature of a hired worker, but the employment period of this hired worker is a bit long, and the employment period is a lifetime, and there is no right to change jobs. Previously, Zhang Siwei was transferred to the three managers of the highly pragmatic Sanshenyuan, such as Shen Li'an, Wei Ximin, etc., who were all slaves of this kind.

The former type of slave of the righteous son and righteous woman, the master's family can take it by life and death, and the latter category cannot reach the level of life and death, but the court has not accurately stated the identification of this type of slave, generally speaking, as long as the master's family does not kill people directly, the court basically does not ask about other circumstances.

In fact, even if the master is really killed, the punishment that the court or the government will give is very light, and for the powerful kind of master, this punishment is ignored.

However, the crimes committed by domestic slaves to their masters in the Ming Dynasty were very clear and strict in the Ming Law. For example, "Whoever beats a parent or a slave is beheaded, and whoever kills is put to death, and whoever commits a manslaughter hangs, and the wounded man has a hundred rods, and the flow is three thousand miles." And "Whoever scolds the parents hangs." If a worker is hired to scold his parents, he shall be punished with eighty rods for two years. ”

Even if the house slave of the righteous son and the righteous woman scolds the master, he will be hanged if he dares to beat the master, and if he kills the master, then there is no negotiation, and he will be directly executed.

The hired domestic slaves are not much stronger, and if they scold their masters, they will be punished with eighty rods and two years in prison

Of course, there is more than one reason why the war in the late Ming Dynasty relied on the family, but this one must not ignore the fact that the master killed the family and took it

Now these three masters are the Gao family members of the hired nature, so Gao's pragmatic decision is equivalent to their holy decree.

After listening to the three of them, Gao Pragmatic glanced at his mother, and said with a slight frown, "Mother, you tell your son the truth, do you let your son build Yu kiln, is it just to make money, or do you have greater expectations?"

Zhang's eyes flashed, and he became firm again, looked at Gao Pragmatic, and said, "Pragmatic, whether it is the Gao family or the Zhang family, they are all northerners, we can't just look at Nanci Yaowu You want money and power now, why can't our Gao family do something for the revitalization of Beici?"