Shuangbi County.

Originally it was a small camp built by the Cossacks in present-day Karevka. Later, the exploration officials took a fancy to the good terrain of the ferry and decided to set up a county here.

Of course, in fact, this is still a large rural area, and 5,000 people are scattered along this side to develop colonies. The small fence of Karesubka became the boundary between the city and the countryside. Inside the fence are a few shops that are doing well, and outside are countless farmers who have cultivated land.

Qiao Bao and Zhang Chenglin got off the boat here. There is hardly any business on the small marina. Except for fishermen who fish.

Shuangbi County is currently one of the slowest counties in terms of development, and it is difficult to call it a brother to Luyuan County. After all, the agricultural base in the region is about zero, and the support is not as strong as that of Changjinwei and Jincheng counties.

"We're going to the north, and I wish Zhang Fu a success!"

Qiao Bao and a group of craftsmen didn't wait long and walked north. Their purpose is different from that of Zhang Chenglin.

Next to a small peninsula north of Shuangbi County, Qiao Bao and others set up simple house tents by themselves. Here is the kaolin soil that they determined after the soil quality was good. About thirty-six acres of land were fenced.

Early the next morning, Zhang Chenglin sent new supplies and requisitioned manpower.

"Let's all go and get dirt! The rest of the people dug the pit with me. ”

Qiao Bao is also half a catty, but everyone is starting from scratch, so there are no craftsmen who say it's bad.

The order of making ceramics is basically familiar to everyone. Take the soil first, then make the mud.

In the morning, everyone was trying to dig a pit and get the earth. After the soil is brought back, it is placed in semi-grooved pits made of bricks. This is also a last resort. Because in the past, people put it in a tank to make it, but now they don't even have a tank......

Prepare kaolin, stir kaolin and water together, stir constantly, remove impurities, and finally obtain pure white porcelain clay. It's been going to take days, and Qiao Bao has to keep groping to get the right recipe for the porcelain clay.

"Eunuch, hit a hare!"

At night, the bonfire continued to ignite, and the black smoke slowly dispersed into the dark clouds. Qiao Bao lay on the ground, counting the stars.

The first wave of porcelain clay failed unexpectedly. The reason is actually because they put the porcelain clay in the sun and it collapsed.....

It took a lot of effort to clean up the pit, and Qiao Bao continued again without being discouraged.

The success of a thing will inevitably experience failure, but Qiao Bao didn't expect that he would have to experience so many failures.

Turntable.

When the Han people made porcelain, they first made the porcelain clay into pillar-like stacks. When you make it, you take it and put it on the turntable to make it while you spin it.

This process is called embryo pulling.

But Qin Cang only knew how to pull the embryo, not how to pull the embryo.

A big disc, and then spin and spin.

But that's the modern auto-spinning turntable.

And the rotation in ancient times was artificial.

What to do?

Qiao Bao was worried about the turntable that he had made when he came.

"Master, I've shot you another bird!" The apprentice returned with a fat geese.

"Something that doesn't fight! Jungler all day long! Do you know that I'm dying of sorrow, master! Qiao Bao picked up the little apprentice and beat him hard.

However, at this time, he saw the slingshot that his apprentice used to shoot birds.

Belt.......

Although there was no belt drive, Qiao Bao suddenly had an idea.

Find a few people, buckle their belts together, and then make something like a transmission belt, one end is buckled under the turntable, the other end is propped up on an iron bar, and then the apprentices pull and rotate the turntable on both sides.

I finally have a plate that can be turned.

Compared with the straw paper sold by ****** people, Qiao Bao began to make this clay embryo with his own hands. Not long after, according to the shape of the wooden bowl, he also made one, but it was one size smaller. If you are not careful, a large piece of mud will be thrown out. So this stack of porcelain clay is almost wasted, but Qiao Bao is not reconciled. He's just going to do it all over again.

When he was in the cement factory, he failed to make cement.

Then there is the printing embryo. But Qiao Bao has never even made formal porcelain, so where did he get the model? So this link was directly abandoned. Qiao Bao added another stroke to the plan, making impressions.

Then it's time for careful shaping. The apprentices were so tired that they changed two waves like dead dogs before Qiao Bao scraped the bowl with a knife.

But after it's scraped........ This little bowl is like a baby bowl.

When drying the bowls, Qiao Bao and other masters mixed the prepared quartz, potassium feldspar and kaolin to make the colored glaze. Since the pigments produced locally are mainly iron oxides carried by hematite. So this time it's iron oxide, which is red.

The color of blue and white porcelain is mainly successful in cobalt, but Qin Cang does not know whether this thing is produced in Ukraine or not. Everything also depends on the mining of the manganese deposits in Tokmak. Cobalt earth ore is generally associated with manganese deposits, but it is not known whether there is one in the Tokmak manganese ore.

And there is a benefit to the manganese ore in Tokmak. That is, manganese oxide can be processed into green ........

After making an unidentified product of a wooden basin, Qiao Bao used a brush to apply the glaze to the porcelain embryo.

Then a kiln is also needed.

It doesn't matter, Qiao Bao is very good at opening kilns. Moreover, they were digging caves while making porcelain.

"This ...... Burn it directly inside? Qiao Bao said suspiciously.

"Probably right?"

After discussing with the masters, they decided to put it in and try it out.

After burning a furnace of refractory bricks, Qiao Bao and others put more than 20 large and small porcelain embryos into it.

After about a day and a half of burning, Qiao Bao turned on the furnace.

Well, the result is obviously not good.

A row of tiles sat there, most of them cracked.

"It's late! One day...... It should be good! Qiao Bao said remorsefully.

Picking up the porcelain embryo and inspecting it, there was still a lot of grass ash from the burning wood on it, and even if the porcelain was fired, it would still be useless.

"We should make something that can put the porcelain in it, so that the fire or the ashes don't come into direct contact with the porcelain." There is a master who proposes.

Others were quick to think of it, too.

Just like the stir-fried dishes that have emerged in Akakyo recently, they are very delicious. It's just that olive oil has become a very important food for a while, so that Xinzhou Province can't supply it.

"Well, let's send back the first report and the first kiln refractory bricks first."

Qiao Bao clapped.

In the future, Shuangbi County will take refractory bricks, porcelain, pottery and other things as its fist products, which is from this.

Zhang Chenglin asked people to send the information eastward to Shine County, and then Samaren sent someone to pass the letter to Liantonggang, and finally arrived in Chizhou, where Chen Jia went to pick them up.

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