Chapter XXVII. Pricing

After thinking about it, Su You looked at Cheng Wenying and asked carefully, "Uncle in-law...... Do you give me an estimate for this wine? ”

Cheng Wenying hesitated for a moment and said, "Such a good wine, if it is exquisite, it deserves to be in one bottle." ”

Su You is stupid, this is the price of the top wine on the market in Meishan, but people have added high freight taxes and fees! muttered, "It's a little expensive, isn't it?" ”

Cheng Wenying looked at the wine and shook his head: "Smell the aroma of this full house, and you will know that this price is really not expensive." Virtuous nephew, you see, a set of Han books in the shop, the price is five times, is a bottle of such Yongchun dew not worth a Han book? ”

As soon as you say this, you will understand that it is worth it, four through, it is a must!

In the future, a bottle of 1573, how many books do you have to buy?!

Cheng Wenying continued: "The wine thing, in Sichuan Gorge before, was the same as salt tea, and it was all at the mercy of the people. A few years ago, when the imperial court saw the benefits, it began to specialize. In order to make a profit from wine, you need to buy a lot of money from the government before you can sell it. ”

After speaking, he pointed his finger at the wine jar: "But in the past few years, the market is getting worse and worse, compared to the annual fee, there is a lot of waste and no effect, and it is difficult to cope with the business of the wine shop." ”

"The county magistrate talked to me a few times, and the words meant that he wanted to restore the old system in disguise. Since the virtuous nephew is proficient in this way, how about the old man give you a winery? ”

Su You hurriedly waved his hand: "Don't dare to work as an uncle." It's also too much trouble. ”

Cheng Wenying said with a smile: "Actually, it's not troublesome, and I also have benefits, I helped the state and county in these places, and the state and county will make up for me in the rest of the places." ”

"No one buys the official wine shop because the wine is too ordinary, and the cost of 500 yuan a year is sandwiched between the two major wine producing areas in Jiayi, which is not easy to earn."

"But as soon as the virtuous nephew's Yongchun dew comes out, then there will be no such problem, and when the time comes, wine merchants from all over the world will flock to it, and Meishan City will have a big bustle."

"Don't refuse, nephew, you have to study and travel in the future, without industrial support, it will definitely not work."

After speaking, it was like a fox eating a chicken: "But this method can't be known to the official wine shop first, and there must be a cover-up." ”

Su You looked serious: "I have been in Meishan for a few days, and Su You is thinking about how to help the villagers in Kelongli, these wine lees are ready to be sent to Kelongli by water, so that the villagers can raise chickens and ducks, pigs and fish." ”

Cheng Wenying clasped his palms: "Okay, that's reasonable!" There is no reason to only take care of the people in the city and not the party in the township. This is what the self-cultivation family should do. ”

"The good shed at the wharf has been built, so it is just a matter of cooperation between the two things, and I will help a batch of poultry seedlings and suckling pigs to benefit the township and accumulate merits."

After speaking, he said: "But you are still young, and this wine shop cannot be installed in your name for the time being." ”

"When we take down the winery this year, let your sister-in-law take care of it for you, and save the money you earned, and when you have a daughter-in-law in the future, it will be best to add to your daughter-in-law's box."

After saying that, I thought it was funny, and I couldn't help laughing.

Su You was no longer polite, and bowed respectfully and said, "That nephew thanked the in-law for the villagers." This wine also needs to be aged before it can be softened. We can buy the lees of the official sake brewery on a regular basis, steam the sake and then store it. ”

"After we win the right to buy, we will start selling again, and the waste sake lees will be sent to Kelong as food in the future."

"Ducks grow fast, and every family should be able to eat fish and ducks during the Spring Festival this year. By next year, there will be chickens and porpoises on every family's dinner table, which is all the favor of the in-laws. ”

Cheng Wenying said with a smile: "Your family doesn't need to be polite, you have helped the old man so much, the old man can be regarded as able to repay one or two, otherwise, the old face will have nowhere to go." ”

At this time, the fried edamame tofu was served, and Su You said with a smile: "Uncle in-law hurry up and taste this Yongchun dew, this is a good dish to accompany the wine, and the taste is a must." ”

Cheng Wenying picked up the edamame tofu and looked at it, frowned and took a bite, took another sip of wine, and suddenly his eyebrows danced: "Sure enough, it's good wine and good food!" ”

One old man and one had a happy snack, and Banniang and the old aunt wrinkled their noses on the side, resolutely not touching it.

After eating, I called Lao Yu and his two sons, and the group took the plaster mold and engraving plate and went to the ceramic workshop.

Passing by a gold and iron shop, Su You went in and handed over a bunch of drawings to the shopkeeper for him to build things.

The shopkeeper looked at him with interest and agreed with a smile.

When he came to the ceramic workshop, Shi Dongxiu didn't seem to have slept all night, and when he saw Su You, he beckoned: "Come and see the virtuous nephew, how is this utensil?" ”

This is a pink and green glazed sunflower petal mouth plate, the glaze is still a little thick, and the bottom ring can be seen with a slight flow pattern.

The porcelain craftsmen of the Shi family seem to know that their glazing level is poor, so they deliberately made this style.

Since they can't hide from the glaze, they simply let them outline a darker color on the edge of the six-petal sunflower petals on the plate, so that the color changes are formed, which is a unique ingenuity.

This piece of porcelain is obviously as reminded by Su You, the porcelain is fired at a low temperature first, and then glazed and fired at a high temperature.

However, Su You soon discovered the problem of this porcelain, and the kiln temperature was not enough.

There is no problem when making the test piece, the sagger required for the test piece is very small, and Shi Dongxiu can use the porcelain piece to crush the Yue kiln cup without damage, which can very well show that the test piece completely meets the hard porcelain standard.

But this single-fired plate, judging from the bottom circle, is still a little far from the test piece.

Shi Dongxiu originally came with the intention of showing off, but Su You turned over the plate to see the circle foot for the first time, and the second time was to look for the test piece and prepare to scratch it with the tip, which went straight to the defect. hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop it: "Virtuous nephew, virtuous nephew give the old man a face......"

Cheng Wenying took the porcelain plate and watched it over and over: "What? What's wrong with this plate? ”

Shi Dongxiu glared at him and argued: "What's wrong?" No problem! Have you ever seen such a white hoop foot? Such a beautiful glaze? ”

Su You complained faintly on the side: "Shi Shibo, bone china is not only required to be white, but also to be able to eat up like jade, and it must be hard, and it will play a melodious clear sound......"

Cheng Wenying stretched out his finger and flicked it on the porcelain plate, and the porcelain plate made a dinging sound: "Yes, it's much clearer than my Yue kiln plate." ”

Shi Dongxiu said angrily: "Cheng Lao, you don't understand, the virtuous nephew is not comparing with the Yue kiln at all, but with the porcelain tiles fired yesterday. ”

Cheng Wenying immediately said with a smile: "Oh, that means that you don't burn as well as your nephew." ”

Su You hurriedly stopped his brother-in-law from joking, and said: "It's not for this reason, it's caused by the porcelain piece being very small and the plate is big enough. ”

After speaking, he said: "But it's not that there is no solution, in this way, today is just going to fire the porcelain plate, this does not need to be too high, let alone glazed, you can just use fire to prepare a thing, and then use that thing to burn the kiln, so that this small steamed bread kiln can get a higher furnace temperature." ”

Shi Dongxiu was overjoyed: "I knew that the virtuous nephew must have a way!" ”

……

It didn't take long for the two old men to hold the coke inside and look at each other.

Compared with the previous coal, it can be found that the physical properties of the two have become different.

Coal oil is oily, while coke now looks more like fine silver frost charcoal.

When the charcoal is burned here, the porcelain plate over there is also fired.

White, but not crystalline.

The elder Yu Da and Yu Da are busy measuring the error after firing with a new ruler.

With the same material, the same work, the same furnace, and a small reform measure of Suyou, the shrinkage ratio of the fired pottery plate is very consistent.

This small reform measure is to add a circle of spoilers to the inner wall of the pottery kiln.

This is the wisdom of the intangible inheritors of the future generations, the heat flow trend of the steamed bread kiln is to burn, rise, and then flow down along the hemispherical kiln.

This small measure is that when the heat flow goes down, it will be layered into the center of the kiln body, from a large circulation to countless small circulation, so that the kiln temperature is more uniform.

Only this small improvement, the quality of the entire porcelain kiln has been upgraded to a higher level.

Shi Da was busy with Lao Yu, and at the same time praised Liansheng, such a simple way, why couldn't he think of it before?

The porcelain plate was of high quality, Cheng Wenying was extremely happy, laughed and patted Shi Dongxiu three times to hand over the banknotes, and left in a hurry with Lao Yu, leaving only Banniang, Shi Da and Shi Er to supervise the manufacturing of the clay seal.