Chapter Ninety-Five: Mosaic

After receiving the order to disband the Blood Qi Army on the spot and report to the Danyang camp to assemble in a month, the Blood Qi Army, which had already assembled in Baishi City, cheered and packed up, even Dai Yun was surprised that this order could make the Blood Qi Army's efficiency go further, but even she herself just smiled embarrassedly and went to prepare to return to Danyang. All the ordnance and supplies of the Blood Qi Army were piled up in White Rock City. Later, Ye Tao signed a contract with FedEx with the small, theoretically powerless position in the palace that he had probably forgotten by the imperial court, and instructed FedEx to send everything back to Danyang.

This must be deliberate, everyone wants Ye Tao to know, they will try their best to get him acquitted, and everyone will go back and use all aspects of their relationships to facilitate this, and Ye Tao, no matter what, is still their boss. And the boss is used to wipe everyone's buttocks.

Two days later, when he saw the next sentry commander of the Fire Qi Army named Guan Yinhang in Baishi City, Ye Tao couldn't help but be a little surprised. "Why are you still here? Don't you go home? ”

Ye Tao and Tan Weixin have a particularly deep impression of this whistle chief, because the homonym of his name is "managing the bank...... Tan Weixin wanted to recruit this guy into Deloitte Accounting to see if he had the talent to do auditing. But after all, it is necessary to respect my wishes.

Guan Yinhang said in surprise: "General, my status in your heart is so low, don't you even look at my resume?" I'm a native of White Rock. ”

Guan Yinhang is indeed a native of White Rock City, and in the Huoqi Army, he has always been able to hide, so as not to be recognized by his family and dragged home and leave the battlefield. And now, he enjoys the vacation without any scruples. The officials of all sizes in Baishi City, from Pan Xiangmin to the unqualified officials who beat the watch. He knew almost everything. And Ye Tao knew that the housekeepers still had some industrial land in the local area, and Ye Tao was still very familiar with the industry they owned: Ningcheng Cloud Kiln.

Ningcheng refers to Ningshi City. The name of Ningcheng Cloud Kiln was given a long time ago, when Baishi City was just a small town affiliated to Ningshi City. The products of the cloud kiln first appeared in Ningshi City, and then went to various places through Ningshi City, and the name of Ningcheng Cloud Kiln has been conventional. So, later, Baishi Town was upgraded to Baishi City, and the housekeeper did not want to change the name, but followed the name of the already famous Ningcheng Yunyao.

"Guan Yinhang, then you don't want to go home and stay? Do you dare to disobey the lockdown order? Ye Tao said strangely.

"Hehe, when I started to tear down the brick wall and use it as a stone bullet, my father asked people to demolish our house. Otherwise, why do you think that the houses of so many large families have been demolished without encountering resistance? We're local. Anyway, there is a bit of face. Now I'm homeless, Daddy, they are now temporarily living in Ningshi City, anyway, I'm grounded, leaving me here to let Yunyao resume work. "Guan is complacent, this time. Although the housekeeper demolished the garden, he also became an example for many large families in White Rock City. There aren't many opportunities to earn face.

Ningcheng Cloud Kiln is recognized as the best porcelain of "jade and golden sound", and the cloud kiln technology has always been something that many large merchants want to master. Ye Tao was very interested in how the cloud kiln could produce such a very special quality porcelain under the current technical conditions. Naturally, Ye Tao's interest did not include the element of wanting to steal the technology of the cloud kiln for his own use. Ye Tao has always been very interested in porcelain, and in Yip's workshop, part of his workshop has a small kiln to build a small kiln for the trial production of single pieces of porcelain and pottery.

When Ye Tao cautiously proposed to visit the cloud kiln, Guan Yinhang agreed without hesitation.

"Aren't you worried about me stealing from a teacher?" Ye Tao asked strangely.

Guan Yinhang waved his hand and said, "My housekeeper's cloud kiln has forty percent of the shares of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and there is no Royal Highness the Princess to help." With the frighteningly low yield of the cloud kiln, it has long gone bankrupt. At present, there is only one kiln dedicated to the production of cloud kilns, while the rest of the kilns are used to produce ordinary porcelain and high-grade pottery. Doesn't Yip's workshop also have porcelain things? Everything is the same, that's it. ”

Ye Tao could only sigh that talking about Weixin's business tentacles really had a far-reaching taste. But he can also speculate that Tan Weixin helped the housekeeper keep Yunyao, maybe just because she likes Yunyao's products.

But to the kiln area that the steward had built in the city. Ye Tao was still taken aback. Although many ordinary workers and some masters are just preparing materials. There is still a long time before the kiln can be restarted. But that scale has allowed Ye Tao to roughly imagine the grand occasion when so many kilns of different forms are started at the same time.

There are a total of six kilns in the kiln area of the housekeeper, and the only cloud kiln is a little different in structure. While the other kilns used the method of direct contact between adobe and fire, the cloud kiln used the structure of a heat conduction chamber.

The heat generated by the coal-fired central hot cell is evenly fed into the three hot cells by convection combined with air blast. Each hot cell has limited space and can only hold a small number of adobes. The kiln chamber with a thermal conductive structure is much better than an ordinary kiln in terms of the balance of heating, and the use of coal to generate heat can ensure that there is enough temperature after the loss of heat conduction.

Another important factor that makes the unique quality of Yunyao porcelain possible is the material. The clay used in the cloud kiln can only be obtained in the vicinity of Baishi City, and it has to go through a rather complex screening and washing process. The glaze used in the cloud kiln is the only place of origin. The housekeeper tried to use glazes of different colors and properties before and after, but although the things produced have their own characteristics, they are not pure cloud kilns with a material texture close to jade, and at best they are just some special products. Ye Tao still has a certain understanding of materials, however, in the absence of careful scientific instruments, Ye Tao can only roughly judge that the materials used in the cloud kiln make the porcelain produced by the cloud kiln actually not traditional clay ceramics, but similar to some rare earth ceramics.

After chatting with Guan Yinhang, Ye Tao also understood why the yield of the cloud kiln was terrifyingly low, and now, even all the masters and senior kiln workers are all on the battlefield. The yield of the cloud kiln is only less than 10 percent, and this probability may be even more terrifying when occasionally accepting customization and making relatively large items. Moreover, no matter before and after the princess's capital injection, the cloud kiln has extremely strict requirements for quality, and those products with slight defects will be destroyed. In fact, there are some products that can be taken out and sold. Also able to have a good price. But perhaps it is this uncompromising attitude towards quality that makes people who now look forward to the porcelain produced by Yunyao praise these things while slandering the price of the porcelain produced by Yunyao and the yield rate of Yunyao, which is equally terrible.

The design of the kiln chamber of the cloud kiln is not very scientific, and what is worse is that the blast design of the cloud kiln for heat conduction is actually the design of the side open air duct, although there is a wind shield, but the air duct will still be affected by the outside temperature and air pressure, resulting in different levels of air supply. The incoming air has a great influence on the temperature of the hot chamber. And the unevenness of temperature is quite critical and fatal for the cloud kiln.

Looking at Ye Tao's thoughtful expression, Guan Yinhang said half-jokingly: "The omnipotent general." Do you have a way to improve the cloud kiln? If there can be improvement, how about I give you a 10% stake in Yunyao? ”

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "I'll make a garden for your housekeeper, or help you improve the cloud kiln." Do you pick one? ”

Guan Yinhang was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Our family is used to living in a kennel, are we kiln burners, no matter how rich we are, we still burn kilns, and we don't know how to appreciate the land when we have a garden." Of course, it is to improve the cloud kiln. Does General Ye really have a way? ”

Ye Tao led Guan Yinhang to his current residence, took out the toolbox, took out the drawing board, and quickly made a few sketches. Guan Yinhang looked at it carefully. Then he shook his head frankly and said, "I don't understand." ”

Ye Tao has two improvements to the cloud kiln, one is to make a simple thermometer with a bimetal sheet, use a conduit to lead out the furnace, and use a pointer to show the temperature inside the furnace outside the kiln. Another improvement was the air duct, Ye Tao completely abandoned the side-opening air duct and used the air blast system in the channel instead. Ye Tao prepared to use a ceramic floor frame and blower blades, which were placed in the original heat conduction channel. Power is transmitted through a gear set with ceramic insulation on the outside. Original. The blower power of the cloud kiln is a mixture of wind energy and manpower. And now, in addition to improving the windmill. In addition to making the energy conduction of the windmill more scientific and efficient, Ye Tao also completely improved the system of direct connection between the power and the blower mechanism, and instead adopted the equalizing cone wheel mechanism that is divided into five gears and can be switched during operation. As long as the input ground power is sufficient, no matter how large the input ground energy is, it can be converted into a smooth blade rotation. Although the structure is a little more complex, the reliability has increased exponentially. The five-speed adjustable equalizing wheel combined with the bimetal thermometer allows the operator to control the cloud kiln by more than one notch.

When Ye Tao explained the functions of these designs in detail, Guan Yinhang, who immediately understood how much change he could bring to the cloud kiln, was excited. Such an improvement will inevitably improve the quality of the cloud kiln and the yield of the cloud kiln by a grade.

Immediately, Ye Tao began to enter the detailed design stage and began to preside over the transformation of the cloud kiln. Ye Tao didn't want to get anything, he was just bored. The Ye family's business can operate well now without him worrying, and he can only stay in Baishi City until the imperial court decides what to do with him. He was eager to participate in the restoration and renovation of the castle tower, but that kind of work was really not technical except for the heavy workload. In contrast, there is no doubt that it is much more fun to transform the cloud kiln.

And when renovating the cloud kiln, when he walked into the housekeeper's kiln area again and again, he accidentally found that in the corner of the kiln area, there was a very special warehouse. When Ye Tao walked into the warehouse with the permission of the head of the kiln district, he found that the warehouse was full of the broken remains of the failed cloud kiln works, and there were quite a lot of semi-finished products and fragments of cloud kiln porcelain using other kinds of glazes. The manager of the kiln area said with embarrassment that each furnace of the cloud kiln took a lot of work, and they were really reluctant to throw things, and they had already stored these useless fragments in three warehouses.

The warehouse where the ceramic fragments are stored is not completely sealed, and the two-zhang high wall is a wooden grille structure above one and a half zhang. Sunlight passed through the grilles and was combed into bundles of flowing glow, shining on the piles of conical fragments, reflecting a variety of bright lights. This colorful and gorgeous scene made Ye Tao's heart move. An idea came to mind, an idea to reuse these useless and discarded ceramic shards.

It didn't take much effort, Ye Tao obtained the consent of the head of the kiln area, and took two large baskets of cloud kiln fragments of various colors and left. Ye Tao took out the diamond carving knife and steel ruler from his toolbox, which he rarely used, and cut the fragments into squares one inch square, and then he asked people to take various materials and configure them into a simple formula of quick-drying cement, and use these small squares to collage various patterns on the courtyard wall of the garden where he now lives.

Mosaic...... What a great invention this is. This extremely simple architectural process, with the development of architecture and design, to the modern age, to the digital age, with the rise of the pixel-level painting style, cartoon style modeling and mosaic technology combined, has become one of the simple and powerful and low-cost means for many architects and designers to play with skills.

After using up two large baskets of porcelain pieces, Ye Tao decorated a wall, which was only a small part of the huge mural he wanted to collage with mosaics. So, Ye Tao sent a few more people to ask for porcelain tiles, and after that, there were several more times. The head manager of the kiln area, who was very puzzled, informed Guan Yinhang, and when Guan Yinhang came to Ye Tao's small courtyard, Ye Tao, who had been busy all day, had already pasted half of the wall of the patio separating the garden from the bluestone slab with mosaics.

Ye Tao posted a picture of the sea of pine clouds. Ye Tao originally didn't want to get this kind of "main theme" content, but most of the fragments of Yunyao porcelain were moon white or lighter white, and the porcelain pieces with white tones accounted for the vast majority. For the rest, most of them are cyan and green porcelain tiles, and there are a few orange and red porcelain tiles, and when only these colors can be used, this kind of content can probably be played.

And when Guan Yinhang saw this mural, which was nearly half completed, his eyes were about to pop out. In his eyes, the mural reflecting the sparkling light was so brilliant and so moving.