Although there were five major kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty, Ding kiln and Cizhou kiln also lived in Hebei, but the Jin people went south and were ruined. It's just that folk craftsmen still exist, and it is not difficult to recover.

Since the construction of the iron factory in Guzhen, Wang Song has gathered a group of Hebei folk craftsmen to resume the production of Cizhou kiln and Ding kiln.

Cizhou kiln is the treasure of the porcelain craft of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also a famous folk porcelain kiln in the north. There are many kilns in Cizhou that produce Cizhou kilns, and it is not difficult to restore them.

As for the Ding kiln, it is roughly the same as the Cizhou kiln. There are many craftsmen who can fire pottery, and it is extremely easy to recover.

There are many varieties of Cizhou kiln, the most famous is the black flower on the white ground, the carved flower, and the kiln becomes black glaze, and the Ding kiln was originally a folk kiln, and the court porcelain was changed to burn in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, which is famous for producing white porcelain, and burns black glaze, sauce glaze and green glazed porcelain.

Dingyao and Cizhou kiln porcelain are both famous porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, which has not only been popular in the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, but also widely popular overseas. Wang Song restored them, naturally, to continue the Chinese civilization and make huge profits from it.

After all, many of the salaries and rewards in the army had to be paid by Wang Song out of his own pocket. Take bereavement and reward as an example, after a battle, it is astronomical.

Glass is Sanskrit, not the so-called glass in later generations. Also known as Po Li, translated as crystal in Chinese, there are four colors: purple, white, red and blue. Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty "Compendium of Materia Medica" cloud: glass, this work is quite Li, and the name of the country is also Po Li. Its crystal is like water, its hard is like jade, so it is called water jade, and the water spirit has the same name.

Just like the clairvoyant mirror made by Wang Song, it uses natural white crystal, which is actually transparent glass.

In later generations, glass was a cheap thing, an ordinary crystal glass, only three or four yuan, and families were glass windows and glass doors. Even the average family can afford to buy an ordinary telescope.

In fact, glass was historically one of the most expensive items. It wasn't until the invention of the blowing method that glass gradually became an everyday object, and for the first two to three thousand years, glass had been a luxury on a par with gold and precious stones, and was only available to a few high-class dignitaries.

The market potential of glass in the past dynasties of China is not large. Wine glasses or vases made of glass have no advantages over porcelain, either in terms of cost or aesthetics. Porcelain cups are more suitable for Chinese tea culture and liquor culture than glass cups. Of course, the reverse is also true: glasses are more suited to Western wine culture and beer culture than porcelain.

Grape wine glow-in-the-dark glass, glow-in-the-dark glass is a cup made of white jade. However, in Wang Song's view, if you want to drink wine, the glass is better and can better explain Western etiquette.

The use of glass as windows has a certain conflict with traditional Chinese culture. Chinese culture pays attention to heritage and connotation, subtle and hazy, and does not like to be transparent and straightforward, and can be seen at a glance. Many things are tacit, although the partition window paper, although it will be broken as soon as it is stabbed, but it will ruin the scenery.

However, as a fine work of art, Wang Song believes that as long as glass comes out, it will make a lot of money, and people will flock to it to form a new favorite in the market.

Tens of thousands of soldiers under his subordinates, rewards and pensions for soldiers, plus the research and development of firearms, cost nearly 100,000 yuan per month. This is also a headache for Wang Song.

Since ancient times, the foundation of government has been money.

If you are shy in your pocket, you have to open up sources and reduce expenditure, and the most important thing is to open source.

After racking his brains, several products related to his work experience immediately came to mind, one of which was this glass.

After graduating from university, he worked as an export salesman in the international department of one of the largest glass companies in the north. However, with a withdrawn personality, he finally left the place where he worked for four years, ran into walls everywhere, and finally went farther and farther on the dark road, unable to extricate himself.

On the one hand, he is familiar with the production of glass products, from raw materials to finished products, from production time to production temperature, from production process to blow and drawing molding.

The Spring and Autumn Canton Fair every year also makes him familiar with all kinds of glass products. If you put the glass life and furnishings of later generations into the country 900 years ago, you will definitely be shocked and make a lot of money.

"General, what do you think? If you feel that it is not good, the villain can immediately improve it. ”

Zhang Min, a kiln worker from Dingzhou, stood aside and said respectfully.

From spring to autumn, more than half a year has passed, and after countless failures and experiments, transparent and shiny glass products have finally been produced.

Although Lin Tianyou is full of self-confidence, he still needs to get Wang Song's final confirmation before it can be officially put into production.

The production process of glass and ceramics is almost the same, but from the difference in raw materials, the structure of the kiln, and the control of the production process, the difference is a thousand millimeters.

The table is filled with all kinds of glassware, pots and pans, glasses, vases, glass beads, crystal clear, dazzling, exquisite.

And these vases, cups, round bowls, discs, round glasses, etc., at this moment, in Wang Song's eyes, are all big gold nuggets, shining and shining.

A few flat pieces of flat glass are placed on the side of the table. Although it is not as peaceful and transparent as later generations, it is unique in this era.

Lin Tianyou retracted his thoughts and said in a deep voice: "Zhang Min, you did a good job. The first batch of products to be produced is determined, and I will come to the minister, and I believe that in a few days, the production can be arranged. ”

Although Zhang Min was in charge, he was only responsible for the production of the glass factory, and the actual managers of the factory were Deng Shixiong and Lin Tianyou, who were responsible for the operation and management of the glass factory.

Like the iron works, the glass factory is also militarized and belongs to the direct units of the military.

The majestic Taihang Mountain is full of rich limestone resources, dolomite, quartz sand is everywhere, and the coal as fuel is made of local materials, containing all the raw and auxiliary materials required by the glass industry.

The tin needed to make flat glass was bought from various roads in Sichuan and Henan, and although the situation was unstable, Cao Yun was still relatively smooth, and it could also ensure the future of these materials from other places.

The entire production line of the glass factory was designed by Wang Song himself, but the construction of all the kilns was completed by Zhang Min and others. Wang Song only put forward amendments to key points.

With the current production capacity of the glass workshop production line, it can produce about 200,000 catties of glass products per day, which is equivalent to 15 cm high glass cups can make tens of thousands, which is already unique in China.

Zhang Min turned out to be a potter in the Great Song Dynasty. The Jin people went south, and Zhongshan Mansion bore the brunt. When Zhang Min went south with the refugees and lived in Taihang Mountain, because of his skills, he was appointed as the director and deputy director of the glass factory together with Cao Yun, another craftsman of the Dingyao.

When I worked as a potter in Dingyao, the monthly salary was just the same. When I arrived at the glass factory, the monthly salary was 10 yuan, the work was moderate, the food and drink were all-inclusive, and the family life was more than enough.

Before entering the glass factory, Zhang Min shrunk and cowardly at home, and was accused by the Hun family every day, and had no husband to speak of. But after he became the director of the glass factory, the other refugees outside could not eat enough, but Zhang Min had a good salary every month, and there were guards stationed in the place where he lived, and the temper of the Hun family was inexplicably better.

She was afraid that one day her husband would be unhappy, so she really divorced herself.

On this day, Zhang Min got up very late, his limbs were sore and swaying. Last night, his wife let him do whatever he wanted, tossing vigorously, and he had a straight face and a posture before, which was really a world of difference.

After eating the breakfast made by his wife and putting on the clean clothes prepared by his wife, Zhang Min slowly and proudly came to the glass factory.

"Glass bowls and glasses should be mass-produced, and 10,000 sets of each will be brought first. These productions are easy to control, and there are many people who want them. There must also be a complete set of glass bowls, all sizes are available, and the reliefs on them must be made deeper, so as to attract customers!"

Wang Song talked eloquently, and Cao Yun took a pencil and paper, nodded again and again, and kept remembering.

"Ten thousand sets!"

Deng Shixiong's eyes widened suddenly, and he shook his head desperately.

"Xianggong, what if you can't sell so many things at once? It's better to be steady, just make two or three hundred. ”

Deng Shixiong's worry was in his eyes, and Wang Song laughed.

"Can't sell! Deng Heiface, you just wait to count the money and count the cramps in your hands!"

Wang Song inadvertently came up with another sentence of later generations.

Even if it is 5 yuan for a water cup and a glass bowl, 50,000 taels is more than enough. In addition to the cost of more than 1,000 yuan, what kind of huge profit is this!

This is equivalent to the later generations, a 5 yuan glass cup, you can sell it for 500 yuan, the cost is basically negligible.

Although compared with the factories of thousands of tons in later generations, this glass factory can only be a handicraft workshop, but this cannot suppress Wang Song's excitement.

The success of production is only the first step, and now we will see the reaction after the operation and the market.

Monopoly management, coupled with excellent quality and exquisite design, it is strange that it does not explode!

"Xianggong, this cup costs 5 yuan a piece, where can I sell it so that I can sell it?"

Deng Shixiong picked up the cup on the table and looked at it, shaking his head while praising it in his mouth.

"It's good-looking, it's just too expensive, and people can't afford it!"

"Deng Heiface, you can remind me!"

Wang Song suddenly became happy, he thought for a while, and then drew on the paper on the table, and several pairs of vases, cups, kettles, etc., appeared one by one.

"Make some gift packs, engraved with the words rich and auspicious, good luck for a hundred years, white head to old age, etc., make some gift boxes, make them beautiful, wrap them up, and give them as ......gifts for marriage and giving."

Deng Shixiong suddenly interrupted Wang Song's words and shouted loudly.

"Xianggong, this is a good idea. If you don't usually use it, it should always be obligatory to give gifts or treasures!"

The two looked at each other, and they both laughed.

"Xianggong is still the same sentence, where are we going to sell, we can't be in a poor place like Wu'an, right?"

Deng Shixiong began to worry again.

"Just thinking about these small places, if you want to sell well, you have to be Tokyo City."

The city of Tokyo is prosperous and wealthy, with hundreds of civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor and the country, and many wealthy families, and it is naturally the best place for overseas merchants in the Great Song Dynasty to gather there.

"Xianggong, you are really willing to spend money!"

Deng Shixiong was born in poverty, and began to sigh again.

"I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf!"

Wang Song's fingers opened, and he began to close again, clenched into a fist, with a hideous expression.

"It's just to take their money out of their pockets, in boxes, and in cellars, and put it in our pockets!"

Everyone laughed, and Deng Shixiong also felt a lot more relaxed.

"Xianggong, who to send to Tokyo City, it won't be a villain, right?"

Seeing Wang Song's eyes wandering around him, Deng Shixiong's heart became nervous again.

"If you don't go, who will go, is it me who goes!"

Wang Song's eyes widened, making Deng Shixiong tremble.

"You put down the matter at hand, select some elite soldiers, and go to Bianliang City immediately. It's about the food and drink of tens of thousands of brothers, but you can't pull off the belt!"

Wang Song turned his head and saw Zhang Ming, who was stunned at the door of the workshop, and beckoned with a smile.

"Director Zhang, hurry up and come here, let's discuss how to arrange production."

Zhang Min woke up like a dream and hurriedly agreed.

It is rumored outside that Wang Xianggong is dead, and they are all farting. If Wang Xianggong dies, what will happen to the good life of these people?

and Cao Yun's small eyes, if he is not diligent, I am afraid that this kid will plot to usurp the throne.