Chapter 16 Breaking the Bones and Scattering the Ashes

Life is a coffee table, full of cups and tableware, and on the case in front of Wang Yuwenwen of Xiyang, there is also a set of cups and tableware, but it is neither a tragedy nor a tragedy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Cups and tableware are porcelain products, which is the celadon that has been popularized in this era, of course, ordinary people may not be able to afford a full set, but "green in the south and white in the north" has begun to appear.

The so-called "Nanqing" is the celadon of the south, especially the celadon fired in the land of Sanwu in the south of the Yangtze River is the most famous; The so-called "Beibai" is the white porcelain of the north, and the white porcelain fired in the Xiangguo area of Hebei Province is the most famous in this era.

Of course, it does not mean that only the south can make celadon, nor that only the north can make white porcelain, but the north and south have their own strengths, and they are labeled as regions by the world.

Taking celadon as an example, the set of Nanqing cups in front of Yuwenwen has a hard and delicate tire and light gray, and the glaze is crystal pure, which can be described as ice-like jade.

Another set of Beiqing tableware, the carcass is heavy, the glaze texture is strong, the glaze has a fine opening, and the glaze is yellow in the green.

There are also two white porcelain kettles, one is the northern white porcelain kettle, which is silver-like, and the other is the southern white porcelain kettle, which is jade-like, and these porcelains are beautifully made and expensive.

For Yu Wenwen, this is not the key, what he thinks about is how much these "green in the south and white in the north" porcelain can be sold for in a year.

High-end porcelain is not affordable for ordinary people, but it is a daily commodity for the family and the wealthy, and it is also a place where they are willing to spend money, so it is the profit growth point that Yuwenwen pays attention to.

There are many pigs in Huangzhou, and meat products such as ham and meat floss are best-selling but not profiteering, to be exact, it is not the profiteering that Yuwenwen needs.

His ambition needs huge financial support, and if he wants to make a lot of money, he can only make money from rich people, so the market positioning must be done well, because in this era, the commodity economy is actually not too developed.

The big families, the gate lords, the magnates, as well as the large and small scholars and Shu clans, are the group of people with the strongest purchasing power, they rely on the output of their own estates to be self-sufficient, and basically do not need to buy too many daily necessities.

If Yu Wenwen wants to make a lot of money, he has to scratch the itch of these rich people, so he has to launch all kinds of goods that the other party can't support himself but urgently needs.

This kind of commodity must withstand long-distance transportation, that is, it can withstand storage, and it must have high added value, otherwise where will it be profitable?

Of course, the most important point is that it can arouse the desire of the rich to buy, and Yuwenwen can be produced at the current level of technology, so the range of options is actually very small.

First of all, luxury, not to mention glass mirror, is unique in the world, it is a super luxury treatment.

or jewelry and other things to show, then glass products and soap can be regarded as a piece of the pie.

Then there are the enjoyment supplies, such as fine wine, Yuwen Wen has thought about using distillation to make high-grade wine, but the grain output is not high, after all, it is necessary to give priority to raising soldiers, so he can only give up.

Another kind of enjoyment is medicine, which is not a medicine used to cure diseases, but a fairy medicine used to "hi", and the Wushi powder often taken by celebrities in the Wei and Jin dynasties is one of them.

I don't know how many times more powerful than Wushisan is an immortal medicine, Yuwen Wen can make it, that is, opium, and drug trafficking is one of the fastest profiteering industries.

But he's not a scumbag, and he can't pass the psychological level, so don't talk about it.

What's next? For example, sugar cane, sugar, cotton, or something must be planted in the crossing?

Just kidding, it's not enough for the land to grow food, to grow sugar cane and cotton?

You can't let the soldiers eat sugar cane to satisfy their hunger when they go out on the expedition!

Subject to the current conditions, there are not many products that can be applied, but Yu Wenwen still found it, that is, books.

The family is known as the heirloom of scripture and learning, and the family is full of books that have been passed down for hundreds of years, and most of the children in the family are readers, so their desire to buy books is naturally not low.

Then there are the inferior scholars and the vast number of Shu people, and then there are the poor students who are eager to read, and their thirst for books is enormous.

Not only that, there is also a huge demand for cheap paper, and the high-quality and inexpensive Huangzhou books and Huangzhou paper are sold well because of this.

Also selling well is Huangzhou cloth, hydro-textile plus a unique dyeing process, to meet the market demand, bring huge profits, but these are not enough.

Glass mirrors are his exclusive property and he doesn't plan to share them with others, but it's unclear how long this alone diet will last.

Glass products are ready to be released to cooperative merchants in a small area like soap, but the money earned is not enough.

Books and paper will face the practical problem of declining profit margins, and as for water-powered textiles, sooner or later technology will spread, and they will also face the problem of insufficient raw materials and rising prices.

If Yu Wenwen is just a businessman, then this is not a problem, it is nothing more than making less money, but his ambitions are not limited to being a rich man.

He wants to have his own power, which needs to be linked by interests, after all, it is more difficult to touch people's interests than to touch the soul, and if you want to have followers, if you want to maintain the loyalty of your followers, you need strong interests.

So also open source. And the porcelain in front of him is the method he came up with.

Huangzhou, in ancient and modern times is not famous for porcelain, there is no special clay can make Huangzhou porcelain kiln burn the world-famous porcelain, if you want to let the local tyrants pay for it, you have to find another way.

Yu Wenwen is not an expert in ceramics, and he can't think of any exquisite porcelain firing technology to support the Huangzhou ceramic industry, but he knows a kind of porcelain products, a type of ceramics that cannot appear in the Central Plains in this era.

There is no need for cross-era technology, and the clay requirements for firing porcelain are not harsh, and more importantly, there are many raw materials used in Huangzhou, and the price can be said to be none.

On the other desk next to Yu Wenwen, there was a set of tableware, which was white porcelain, but it was obviously different from the two white porcelain kettles.

Picking up one of the plates in the set of cutlery, Yuwenwen compared it with a northern white kettle, the porcelain of this dish is delicate: the whiteness is as soft as milk, showing a different texture and brightness from ordinary porcelain.

With the porcelain firing technology of this era, if you don't know the recipe, if you want to achieve such an effect, the cost will not be low.

And this kind of porcelain, in fact, the production cost is very low, its formula ingredients are not difficult to find and cheap, later generations of this porcelain has a special name, called bone china.

Bone china is named after the clay of cows, sheep, pigs and other animals to be fired, and it is said that cow ashes are the best.

Killing cattle and burning porcelain, Yuwenwen does not have such a strong capital, and Huangzhou does not have so many sheep, but there are many pigs in Huangzhou, and there are as many pig bones as there are.

So the fat pig who was humming and chirping was crushed by him.

A pig, the bristle can be used to make brushes, pig skin can be eaten and tanned, fat meat can be eaten and used to refine oil, lard has many uses, and making soap is one of the largest consumptions.

Not to mention pork, other things such as offal, pig blood, etc. can be eaten, after all, the big foodie empire is not?

Even the stinky pig manure can also be taken to the biogas digester to make fertilizer by the way to promote biogas, and then deal with it and take it to the fertilizer field, which can be said to be a treasure all over the body, and only the pig bones are left.

Pork bones can be used to make soup, and then they can only be fed to dogs or thrown away, but now Yu Wenwen has invented a new use, making bone meal and mixing it into clay to fire bone china in a certain proportion.

The key is in the proportion, if the proportion of bone meal is low, then the color of the bone china fired is not good, if it is too high, then the porcelain is easy to crack.

It took more than a year of experimentation in his workshop to come up with some suitable recipes, and now the finished product is in front of him.

Cream-white enamel with gold patterns on the plate as an embellishment, a set of porcelain in front of you looks much more conspicuous than celadon and white porcelain tableware.

According to the common phrase of later generations, it is called "high-end atmosphere and grade", the price is naturally not low, but the cost is outrageously low.

This is the commodity that Yuwenwen wants to bring to the market, of course, this is in the name of Huangzhou porcelain, and many merchants together to launch a revenue generating weapon.

In addition to pork bone powder, there is a mysterious ingredient in its bone meal formula, which will be exclusively mastered by Xiyang Wangfu.

Jingdezhen, the "porcelain capital", in the original history of the Tang Dynasty, is not powerful until the Tang Dynasty, and today's porcelain market, Huangzhou porcelain has to share a big cup of soup! (To be continued.) )