The city of Mason, in the south of the Biberach Kingdom, was the largest production base of ceramics in the north of the continent, where everything from the cheapest pottery to the most expensive bone china was produced.

In particular, the bone china products that are special products here are famous in the mainland for their delicate and transparent porcelain.

What's even more valuable is that the bone china here is made with magical elements, so that the porcelain here has a function that the porcelain on the earth (Ru) does not have.

For example, dishes that can be automatically warmed, can be automatically cleaned, and are difficult to break, ask if you want them.

However, the qualification rate of such magical bone china products is extremely low, resulting in a very low overall output, making things scarce and expensive, and becoming a luxury item used by nobles on the continent to show their status.

As a caravan specializing in the sale of luxury goods, Charles and his family naturally came here to buy goods.

The caravan settled in a hotel in the business district, where the windows of this inn near the port area saw a large river flowing from north to south and the merchant ships on it. These merchant ships brought in firewood, animal bones, and other raw materials for fuel, and then shipped all kinds of pottery and porcelain products to all corners of the continent.

Charles, who was watching the scenery by the window, suddenly felt that the collar behind his neck was lifted, and then found that Elizabeth had lifted him.

"Let's go out into the street and see what the market is doing. Elizabeth pulled Charles and said, "Look at the latest fashion trends, so as not to buy obsolete goods." ”

Charles said, "Then if you leave the obsolete goods for a longer time, won't they become antiques, anyway, elves have such a long lifespan." ”

"The elves who think that way with you have been bankrupted by the warehouse rent. Elizabeth said, "The preservation of antiques is conditional, not just a place to throw away." ”

In the commercial area of Mason City, shops selling pottery and porcelain make up the vast majority. The owners of these shops either own their own kilns or have partnerships with some of them.

Elizabeth handed a hard-boiled egg to Charles, "Seems like we're a little early." ”

Charles, who took the boiled eggs, replied, "They opened the door too late." ”

From arriving outside the city early in the morning, then entering the city, to going out for a walk after settling into the hotel, Charles and his wife spent a lot of time.

Now the breakfast stalls on the street are ready to close, and Elizabeth has bought the last few hard-boiled eggs, and many shops are not ready to open.

Elizabeth patted Charles on the shoulder, "You go and find out the news." ”

Charles found a shop selling porcelain dolls and animal ornaments, bought a few knick-knacks and got a message from the proprietress at the same time.

"I heard that there is a bustle in the porcelain workshop area to the north, and many shopkeepers have passed. "Charles came back to report to Elizabeth.

So Elizabeth led Charles to the north without saying a word, and they were not far from the city, and Elizabeth quickly found a bustling porcelain workshop with her keen hearing.

Rows of shelves were placed in the open space where the workshop had just entered, and on the shelves were porcelain pieces of porcelain, and in front of the porcelain stood a merchant......

"It's kind of interesting. Elizabeth, who walked in with Charles, glanced at the porcelain on the shelves and the wholesale prices posted under the porcelain, and said, "It seems to be another technological innovation." ”

Charles pretended not to understand what Elizabeth meant, but carefully examined the several ceramic dolls and animal ornaments on the shelves in front of him.

It was a group of seven girls in different postures, and the girls in various long dresses looked like they were outing in the warm breeze and sunshine of spring.

Seeing that the seven heroines in "Hamlet and the Philosopher's Stone" that he tossed out were made into figures and he didn't have any copyright fees, Charles was a little confused.

In addition to these dolls, there are also a variety of porcelain cups and tableware on display. Unlike the traditional round utensils, which are made by drawing blanks on a turntable, most of the bowls and cups on display here are polygonal. In the past, polygonal porcelain was generally made of several pieces of porcelain clay, and the labor cost was higher than that of porcelain produced with turntables.

However, Charles and Elizabeth's focus was not here, because the row of shelves was full of mass-produced products of the same appearance. These porcelain dolls are exactly the same as the tableware and cups, except for a slight difference in color that does not affect the overall situation.

What's more important is their price, these products are much cheaper than other products of the same type.

Although the goods here are all ordinary porcelain, these are the most sold varieties in the porcelain market, and the rich freemen and the low-class nobles can afford to buy them, and the number of these people is very large.

Charles, who has seen many cases of "cabbage of high-end goods", has seen the mystery of this, which is that someone has adopted new technology to reduce the production cost of these kinds of porcelain, and then is ready to go the way of others, and finally people have no way out.

And this technique Charles also guessed a little, and there is a high probability that the grouting process is used.

However, he didn't plan to poke this thing out, and he didn't have the hobby of cutting off people's financial resources for no reason. He sells sugar and medicine, and there is no business conflict with other people who sell ceramics.

Besides, he bankrupted people, who will he ask for copyright fees when the time comes?

Unlike the merchants who estimated how to buy the goods, Charles simply came to see the excitement. Soon, he found a set of porcelain that made him laugh and cry.

It was a set of six-cup tea sets, the teacups were octagonal, and each cup was decorated with the words of the four demons.

In the past, the family that started in the war with the demons liked to use those utensils decorated in the demon script to show the martial virtues of their family. Nowadays, this preference has also become popular in a certain range.

However, human beings do not have a deep study of the demon language, and the ancestors of the Charles family have been rampant in this field for three hundred years by relying on a dictionary handed down by their ancestors.

Therefore, when Charles saw the words "sunny to cloudy", "local showers", and "go out with an umbrella" written on those cups, he laughed out loud on the spot.

"What are you laughing at?" asked Elizabeth, who was standing behind him.

Charles pointed out the cups to Elizabeth, but she didn't care, "Just get used to it, when someone invited me to dinner more than thirty years ago, he took out the cutlery with the words 'Father and Son Pay'." ”

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