A phoenix-shaped vessel sits in the center of all the porcelain. Blue and white porcelain, spherical, hollow, the lower part is short-footed, and the whole vessel is formed into a ball by five phoenixes with wings, forming a delicate dragon. The phoenix mouth holds the phoenix tail and phoenix body of other phoenixes, and some phoenixes have their heads raised, round eyes, their mouths are slightly open, and their bodies are covered with red, yellow, blue, and dotted glass glaze of various colors.

The phoenix is the totem of the Chu people, and there is nothing wrong with placing such a decorative porcelain in the center, not to mention that this porcelain is already wonderful and weird. Mystery and strangeness are the usual characteristics of Chu artifacts, and now such a style is reflected in the white, cyan and jade-like porcelain, which makes Xiong Jing, whose mind is full of blue and white porcelain, admire.

Pick it up and put it down, put it down and pick it up again, and look at it several times. Gong Yindao, Tao Shu and others narrowed their eyes with laughter - there was finally one thing that made the king have nothing to say and no complaints to hold.

"It's just a little more stylish." Xiong Jing knew the thoughts of Gong Yin Dao and others, and deliberately ignored the progress of porcelain. "Other ......"

Seeing that the king shook his head in the end, Tao Shuyi said, "Please teach the king." ”

"Why do you burn so thick?" Xiong Jing picked up a white porcelain bowl. "Can't you burn it thinner?"

"Minister......" Tao Shu looked at the white porcelain bowl and defended: "King, this bowl is not thick. ”

"Not thick?" Xiong Jing looks at it again, it is indeed not thick, but why does he feel thick again? "Yes, it's the glaze that's too thick."

"Glaze...... It is indeed thick, however, "at this time, the glaze of the porcelain is still depicted rather than soaked, which is a process problem." "Let the craftsman try to improve his skills and make the glaze thinner."

"Where is it produced?" The porcelain was beyond imagination, and Xiong Jing was very satisfied.

"Yu Dawang, this Feng Linglong Mountain is produced in Hucheng, these bottles are produced by Huiji, this porcelain decoration is produced in Ganyang, and these several pieces are produced by Yangxian...... "The south is the center of celadon origin, and the ceramic house is different from the concrete house, the Jutie house, and the Lu Li Mansion from scratch, and the ceramic house has no porcelain-making technique - the ritual vessels are all bronze, and there is no porcelain, and now Xiong Jing has added a higher temperature of fire to it, so the firing is not a mansion, but a porcelain kiln under the rule of the Chu State, and the ceramic mansion can only be regarded as a management agency.

"Yes. Is there any fired porcelain for export? Xiong Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, there is." Tao said. "After the mass production of coke, the porcelain fired in each kiln has been exported."

"Then you let them come to Yingdu to discuss, don't drop the price indiscriminately." Xiong Jing explained. "Defective products would rather be smashed, but never out of the kiln, it is best to burn ten pieces and smash eight pieces, only two pieces of fine products; And then there is ......" Changjiang brought up the tea brewed in a porcelain cup, and Xiong Jing took a sip of tea before saying: "In the end, I will unite with Dazai to go to various countries to publicize and push up the price of porcelain." ”

"Remember." These are the basic routines of later generations of industry merchants, but Tao Shu sounds extremely fresh.

"How expensive is the price of porcelain, how low is the price of iron." Xiong Jing said this to Gong Yin Dao, and after saying this, he suddenly thought that a special sales company should be established, and this matter should be handed over to ....... "Porcelain can't be eaten, and it doesn't hinder its use, just like Lu Li, it's mainly exchanged for gold; Iron is different, it is related to military affairs, the greater the output, the better, and the lower the price, the better. ”

"Respectfully obeyed." Gong Yin Dao nodded again and again. At present, the government is building according to this line of thinking, and this year's pig iron production plans to build 10 iron smelting plants, with an annual output of 4,000 tons of coke pig iron and 1,000 tons of charcoal pig iron. Most of the manpower required will be mobilized from the copper mountain, and the production of copper will gradually decline, so that no additional labor will be required.

"What else?" Xiong Jing asked again, his schedule today is to visit the Concrete Mansion and the Ceramic Mansion.

"Tell the king: the temperature measuring device has been completed." Yu Yin mentioned the task that Xiong Jing gave in Xi County last year, when the great engineer Ou Chou was taken captive, and there was no experienced Ou Chou to guide the quenching, and it was difficult for others to solve the secret.

"A thermometer?" Xiong Jing remembered this thing. As he nodded, a cowering engineer came up with something, the lacquered wire on the coil was frighteningly thick, and in the middle of the coil was a slender needle, which was attached to an upright wooden disc with some unknown scales. "Can you take a temperature?" Xiong Jing asked.

"Yu, Yu Wang," the engineer is a duck male voice, and as soon as he speaks, he is piercing. "Needles, needles move."

The duck male voice is the jade worker who carved the words in the jade at the beginning, Xiong Jing said that if he can't do it, he will cut off his head. He made it now, but his hands trembled so badly that he was afraid that the king would cut off his head.

"Is the needle moving, or is your hand moving?" Xiong Jing asked with a smile. Although this person helped Xiong Han compete for the crown prince, the matter has passed.

"Villain, villain," the duck was even more frightened, and he couldn't hold it anymore when he saw it.

"Please atone for the sins of your courtiers." Yu Yin said, "Last year, Zhu Guan, a guest of Huang Xiemen, asked us to wait to make jade, and we waited for ......."

"You're not guilty." Xiong Jing began to look at this primitive thermocouple thermometer. The coil wound with gold wire has a thick lacquer on the outside, or it may not be lacquer, because there is a smell of tung oil. The paint is not counted, and the outside is tied with twine, which makes it look thick. Compared to the thread, the hands are extremely elongated, and they are fixed on an equally thin and sensitive hinge.

Physics has long been returned to the middle school teacher, so this primitive ammeter does not have a hairspring, cannot display the scale, it only keeps rotating in the magnetic field. But it doesn't matter, one day when he sees the hands constantly rotating and unable to display the scale, Xiong Jing will naturally think of the gadget like a gossamer. Now his attention is all on the metal at both ends, and now the metal group is made of iron, which cannot measure the high temperature of quenching. "The temperature measuring device must have platinum, iron is useless."

"Dare to ask the king what platinum is?" Gong Yin Dao asked, Xiong Jing said that there are many metals, and he pays attention to them.

"Platinum," Xiong Jing thought for a moment. "Its color is white, heavier than gold, and it is very hard......"

'Heavier than gold' is the biggest characteristic of platinum, Gong Yin Dao knew the concept of specific gravity, he thought about it and said: "The minister remembers something. ”

"Yes. You said. Xiong Jing didn't think his memories were useful.

"The minister hears it: the gold miners will see a kind of gold thorn, its color is white, extremely hard, similar to silver but not in fire......" Gong Yin knife immediately attracted Xiong Jing. Therefore, it is also called poison silver, and I don't know ...... this thing."

"Poison silver?!" Platinum exists in its natural form, mostly associated with gold mines, and the Spaniards originally called it silver. "Where?"

"Your Majesty, this thing cannot be smelted, and it is not real silver, so those who mine gold abandon it." Nao's cunning words disappointed Xiong Jing, but fortunately, he said again: "The house of three coins should be poisoned silver, and this is the thing that was picked up when smelting gold and silver." ”

"Go to the Qian Mansion immediately!" Xiong Jing dropped the porcelain and stood up. At this time, although there is no way to smelt platinum, platinum is originally natural, and it doesn't matter if it has impurities, as long as the temperature can be measured. If you really want to be able to measure the temperature, the heat treatment of the giant iron can be accurately controlled, and the rolling, forging, and pipe making can also get twice the result with half the effort in the future. "Reward him with two golds." Xiong Jing did not forget to explain when he left.

"Haha! I am not guilty, and I am rewarded with two golds; I am not guilty, and the reward is two gold......" After everyone left, the duck male sang who had survived the catastrophe jumped up, and the gods chattered repeatedly, laughing from ear to ear, and finally he rubbed a few times on the wall, otherwise it was difficult to suppress the excitement.

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"Is the son-in-law better? The boat has reached the girder. Qinghanzhou, who had been walking for several days, finally slowly approached the shore, and Mi Xuan, who had vomited all the way, still felt that the world was spinning after stopping the boat, and when the slave helped her up to the trestle, she tried it on her toes like a blind person before stepping on it.

"How far is it from the State of Chu?" Mi Xuan retched a few times and took a sip of water to feel better. "Why stop at the girder?"

"Lady of the Princess," Zhouren followed behind Mi Xuan, "From Xianyang to here, we have run out of dry food, and our hands are weak." was supposed to rest in Rongyang, thinking of the prosperity of Daliang, the son-in-law was happy, so he ......"

"Then I will find an inn to rest for a day and leave tomorrow." You don't sail at night, and you go down the river at a very fast speed, but you will rest at the post every day when the car is suspended. I arrived at Daliang at noon, and I couldn't leave until tomorrow morning at the earliest.

Mi Xuan sent the boat man away, and the maid put the fox fur on her. When he was about to find a car to enter the city, he didn't know where to rush out of a group of people, holding swords and pestles, and went straight to Qinghan Zhou. Qi Xuan's face immediately changed greatly, and several guards who had rested hurriedly came up to protect her and let her get on the boat, their hands were already clenched with their swords, ready to fight each other to protect the lord at any time.

"Hit! Call me! A person jumped out of the crowd, pointed his sword at the front and shouted in Wei, and as soon as the crowd was agitated by him, he shouted: "Fight!" Beat! Then a swarm rushed over.

"Over there!" The guards saw that something was wrong, and these thugs were not coming at them. The man they were about to fight was another group of people, and that group of people also carried swords and pestles, and rushed towards them viciously.

"With Qin law, private fighting should be beheaded." I don't know who said a word in the guard. This is obviously a private fight, and the Qin State has long been without a private fight.

"This is the State of Wei." Someone should arrive, and they are quite contemptuous of private fighting.

In private fights, pestles are mostly used, and swords are only a few leading people. The two sides banged together, first slapping with sticks, and then wrestling together. After falling to the ground, the people above scolded and punched indiscriminately, and the pressed people stopped each other with one hand and touched each other, and smashed what they caught, and the offense and defense suddenly changed positions.

The two sides were fighting, and they didn't want anyone to shout 'the boat is coming, the boat is coming', everyone jumped up and stopped fighting, and began to rush to the dock to grab the position, and the people on the boat were not surprised by this, only threw the rope and anchored.

"These five boats belong to us." The sword-wielding man shouted, directing his men to take the docks.

"Fart! These more than ten boats are all ours. "The other person is still bleeding from his head, fighting desperately, isn't it just to grab goods and make money.

"Presumptuous! These more than ten boats are all returned to Lord Xiangbang. Suddenly, a group of armor soldiers rushed to the dock, led by a swaggering old servant, who commanded the armor soldiers to drive out the two gangs.

"I can't wait!" Those who were expelled from the dock shouted and shouted, seeing that a box of gold was about to be carried onto the ship, and a dozen ships of goods were about to be returned to Lord Xiangbang, and someone in the crowd shouted: "What is the suspicion of the public? Not now, but when. With a shout, the man pushed down the armor and rushed to the boat, and the others hurriedly followed.