"Bring the shovel!" Chen Xu instructed, and soon a helper handed over a sharp bronze shovel from the crowd, and Chen Xu carefully shoveled the clay from the bottom of the clay bowl, and a neatly shaped clay bowl was completely removed.

Chen Xu definitely couldn't be satisfied with making a pottery bowl, what he needed to make was a wine bottle, so he dug up a piece of clay and put it on the disc, pressed it a few times and told the helper to turn the shaker again.

This time the helper already had experience, so he didn't wait for Chen Xu's command to shake it with all his strength, listening to the whining sound of the disc, Chen Xu judged that the speed may reach seven or eight revolutions per second, that is to say, the hand speed of this helper has reached at least two revolutions per second, which is already very scary, but it is enough for drawing clay, no matter how fast it is estimated that the clay will be thrown out, and the speed is too fast for the person who pulls the blank, the higher the skill is required, and such a soft mud will be deformed in an instant when touched lightly, Therefore, it is not easy to mold into the desired shape.

Chen Xu's face was calm, a pair of hands kept squeezing the mud, with the shape of a pottery cup appeared, and then continued to grow taller, soon changed to a foot tall, look at the height is about the same, Chen Xu's hands slowly closed to the middle, and soon shrank out a slender bottleneck, and finally stretched a finger to the neck and pressed it inward, and the bottle mouth instantly became flat and round.

Chen Xu took a look at it, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied, so he instructed the helper to slow down, and then trimmed it slightly with his hands, making the bottle, which looked like a wine bottle, look more regular up and down.

"Stop~" Chen Xu raised his hand, and as the turntable slowly stopped, what was displayed in front of everyone was a one-foot-high, thin as a pillar below, and a thin neck on the top, with a smooth mud blank of less than an inch at the mouth of the bottle.

After completing two works in a row, all the onlookers were completely unable to breathe, and their long mouths felt like their eyes were jumping all over the ground.

This way of making clay blanks is something they have never heard of or seen.

The old potter was trembling all over, and his mind was completely blank.

Chen Xu made two pieces of pottery in one breath, and the time before and after was less than three minutes, but if it was placed in the past, three minutes did not even rub out a clay strip, and to successfully make a pottery bowl, even a skilled old craftsman like him, an hour can only make less than ten, converted into the time of the later generations, it is an hour of five, that is, an average of twelve minutes to make a pottery bowl, and the apprentice takes even longer, an hour can make two even if you can be out of the teacher, from the Li Dian to report to the county government, You can open a pottery workshop alone and sell it, pay off the field tax and forced labor, and become a regular craftsman.

And Chen Xu's production time completely broke this pattern, the pottery bowl only takes about half a minute to complete, a ball of mud is gently pressed by the hand a few times, and a round bowl will turn out, and the bottle takes a little time, but it does not exceed two minutes.

If this efficiency is spread out, it can simply scare the pottery craftsmen of the whole Great Qin.

"Gao He, you can try!" Chen Xu shoveled down the pottery bottle from the turntable with a shovel and put it aside, then stood up from a clay stool and said to the old potter.

"Master, Lidian called you!" An apprentice tugged at the old potter's clothes a few times.

"Me? Hey, okay, I'll give it a try! The old potter came back to his senses and sat down inexplicably in excitement, his mud-stained hands excited, not knowing what to do.

"Use the right clay according to the size of the pottery you want to make, it doesn't matter if it's a little more, just do it the same way I just did, it's very simple!" Chen Xu stood on the side and pointed, the old potter's excitement slowly calmed down, and then followed Chen Xu's example, dug a lump of mud and pressed it on the turntable, and then put his hands on water, and the helper began to shake the handlebar quickly with a very eye-catching eye, and soon the disc began to rotate rapidly again.

The old potter's hand trembled and just approached the clay, the mud instantly began to twist and deform, the old potter quickly withdrew his hand, took a few deep breaths and reached out again to press the mud, as a pair of calloused hands mud rolled, a round pottery bowl soon appeared in rudiment.

The crowd once again let out cheers of various surprises.

"Let's go to the pottery workshop, I heard that the lady has made something there that can grow pottery!" As a few little babies excitedly ran to the town and shouted a few loudly, some villagers who had nothing to do immediately ran to the pottery workshop.

Zhao Qing, who was about to leave, couldn't help but follow a group of people to the pottery workshop, and then looked at the airtight adults and children who surrounded a pergola three times inside and three circles outside, and there were constant exclamations and strange screams from inside.

"Wow, this bottle looks good!"

"Wow, this bottle has a big and round belly!"

"Wow, it's deflated, alas~~"

The sound inside made the people outside jump in a hurry, so they squeezed inside, Zhao Qing also tried his best to finally squeeze in, and then saw the old potter who was making pottery, and a ball of mud followed his fingers, and instantly turned into a regular shape of pottery.

The old potter is naturally an old potter, although it is also the first time to contact the blank machine, but because of the pottery for many years, naturally confident, after being familiar with it several times, has been able to skillfully make almost the same size of pottery bowls and vases, the ground is now full of high and low pottery of various shapes.

And the more he does, the more handy he becomes, and it is more refined and neat than what Chen Xu made.

Just like the one who makes the car is not necessarily the racing driver, Chen Xu can only stand next to him and applaud now, this old man is indeed very talented in pottery, in less than twenty minutes, he has already played the blank machine very slippery, and the helper next to the shaker can no longer hold on to the substitution.

"What is this?" Zhao Qing stood on tiptoe and looked at it for a long time in amazement, and a spirit came to his senses and grabbed a villager's shoulder and asked anxiously.

"This is called a blank drawing machine, and it is used to make pottery clay blanks!" The villagers didn't look back and said a word.

"We did this under the command of Ridian!" An apprentice from a nearby carpentry workshop said proudly.

Zhao Qing's eyes naturally fell on the young man standing in the middle of a group of people applauding, and the feeling in his heart became more and more weird, as if Chen Xu was covered with a layer of white light, which seemed to be real and illusory, and he couldn't see it clearly.

"Gao He, speed up the past few days to make more wine bottles, remember not to enter the kiln to fire after the mud is dried, I still have to write some words on it!" After Chen Xu finished speaking, he squeezed out of the crowd, washed his hands by a water tank, and then walked to the town.

"Chen Lidian!" Zhao Qing caught up from behind.

"Didn't Mr. Zhao say he wanted to go back?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.

"Hehe, I have this plan, but because I am worried about the grape wine in Lidian, I have been reluctant to leave!" Zhao Qing said with a dry laugh.

"I see, but soon, we will see in two or three days at most!" Chen Xu also smiled and said as he walked, "By the way, Mr. Zhao, since you are a businessman's family, can Xu ask you for a favor?" ”

"Lidian, please say, as long as Zhao can do it, he will not refuse!"

"Well, it's just to help me inquire and buy some things, because I can't go out, I can only entrust business travelers from the south to the north, I'll give you the list in a while, if you get it, help me bring it to Qinghe Town, and the reward will not be less!"

"This matter is easy to hear, thank you for your hospitality in the past few days, how can you talk about remuneration for trivial matters!" Zhao Qing waved his hand again and again, and then changed his words and said, "But Zhao is very interested in the blank drawing machine of this pottery workshop, I wonder if I can get the production method of Lidian?" ”

Chen Xu turned his head and glanced at Zhao Qing with a smile: "Mr. Zhao, this price is very big!" ”

"It doesn't matter, this blank machine can increase the speed of pottery making dozens of times, and the utensils made are also neatly organized, and a certain line has never been seen in Daqin, if this thing can be spread, it will greatly reduce the price of pottery, and ordinary people will also be able to buy a large number of ...... for domestic use" Zhao Qing followed behind and gushed out a lot of benefits of the blank machine.

Chen Xu listened to it but was noncommittal, and said with a smile: "In fact, this blank drawing machine is still very primitive, and when I have free time, I will change it to a foot pedal type, so that the craftsman can operate it alone, and he can also control the speed of rotation by himself, and wait for Mr. Zhao to make drawings for you next time he comes!" ”

Of course, Chen Xu refused to agree, although the structure of the blank drawing machine is simple, but in today's Daqin, it is the most cutting-edge industrial machine in the future, if Zhao Qing is really a businessman, once it is popularized on a large scale, the profits are simply incalculable, and almost every county in Daqin has a separate pottery workshop, and Pheasant County even has several towns.

Pottery is not like porcelain, you have to use kaolin, the composition of pottery is clay, and fine clay containing quartz sand can be fired, so there is generally a pottery workshop where there is clay, and the materials are made nearby, even if a county only sells three or five units, one only costs three hundred yuan, then the whole country is definitely an astronomical amount.

Although he can't earn all this money, he must get a piece of the pie in order to have enough money to develop Qinghe Town, and enough money to promote his own business and research and develop more things.

Knowing that everything he did in town was the last thing he had to pay for, and now as more and more projects were underway, he found that his money was starting to run a little stretched.

Chen Xu's words, Zhao Qing naturally understood.

That is, this little Lidian does not see rabbits and eagles, and he will never pass on the manufacturing technology of the blank drawing machine to him before he sees the benefits.

And the idea of stealing technology from the woodsmith and pottery workshop was pressed down by him as soon as it floated up.

First of all, he must not have been inquired, neither the craftsman nor the apprentice of the woodsmith and the pottery workshop would tell him, he had already tried this secretly.