Chapter 100: Small Business, Big Scene

The official appointment of Ye Tao as an official of the Dongping Imperial Court may be an incomparable honor for others, but for Ye Tao, whether or not to get a salary is secondary, after all, Ye Tao, who is also a rich man now, will not take this salary to heart, but the complicated work makes him overwhelmed. Both the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War have had a lot of things to deal with in recent times, especially after the war, the restoration of several cities affected by the war, the deployment and defense of troops, the reorganization and training, and so on. Zhuo Mang, who has still not been able to return to Danyang, has implemented a series of deployments on the front line, while in Danyang, in the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of Households, it is necessary to sort out the various relationships involved in the series of deployments made by Zhuo Mang, allocate the funds that should be allocated in place, implement the relevant documents and appointments for troop transfers, promotion or demotion of generals, summarize the opinions of the armies participating in the war, and allocate the professionals needed to repair the city in various places...... and so on, although there are special personnel to deal with them, many documents are still in Ye Tao's hands. As a general, as a man who was very familiar with the situation, as a person who was extremely familiar with engineering affairs, there were many things that needed to be consulted from him. And the installation of crane booms at the heads of all cities to carry out the work of delivering goods also requires Ye Tao to spend a lot of time training the relevant officials of the Ministry of Industry. In addition, the construction of the main building of the Iron City, the "Iron Furnace Fort", and the bell tower in the Danyang New District have entered a critical moment, and he is eager to break himself into several to use. Fortunately, everyone was still worried about the palm wound he received and left a small tail in the reply, mainly let him take on some paperwork and didn't let him command on the spot, and he still stood up.

Guan Yinhang was in the barracks, and the mosaic business was taken over by the princess's mansion. I don't know what the considerations are, this time, Tan Weixin actually asked Tan Weiying to be in charge of this business, and even Tan Weiran was sent to follow and learn business. This arrangement is really incomprehensible. Many people have begun to speculate whether Tan Weixin is preparing to hand over the stall of the housekeeper of the inner mansion to her younger brothers and sisters.

Tan Weiying, who was holding a matter in his hand for the first time, was very excited, because this was a real business that had never appeared before, and there was no ready-made business to refer to. Since there are only porcelain products now, it is true that they can be divided into one-inch square mosaic porcelain tiles that can be used for parquet and ceramic tiles that can only be used purely for the surface treatment of buildings, but whether it is attributed to porcelain or building materials, Tan Weiying and some commercial experts in the inner government discussed for a long time, but to no avail. But. I don't plan to use the butler's original sales channels, that's for sure. The master sent by the housekeeper began to dig a kiln in the town west of Danyang City, which was used to divert water, and fired refractory bricks, preparing to establish a production base in Danyang. Although the cloud kiln can only be fired in Baishicheng, stable temperature control is conducive to the improvement of the quality of ceramic products after all, and the blast and temperature control system designed by Ye Tao in Baishicheng has become a standard equipment in this new kiln.

Although I haven't figured out the business yet. But after all, Tan Weiying grasped one point, that is, it was right to find Ye Tao if there was any problem. But she didn't expect to get into the state first and find a key problem. It was actually Dai Qiuyan.

"Brother Ye, look at these porcelain tiles, the colors are different, is it okay?" Although Dai Qiuyan doesn't know much about technical things. She didn't know anything about the construction industry, where her father was busy all day and didn't want to go home, but she found something she loved – painting.

Originally, Dai Qiuyan wanted to quietly follow Sophie to learn to draw drawings, although she was very tolerant and could help Sophie start to comprehensively sort out the various drawings left by Ye Tao, but it was too hard and boring for a child like her.

But. When Dai Qiuyan saw the charcoal sketches of the landscape imaginaries that Ye Tao sandwiched in the architectural drawings, some schematic drawings with more elaborate sketching techniques in tone, and pastel sketches made with a few Chinese painting paints now, she seemed to be enlightened. After pestering Ye Tao to teach her a whole set of sketching techniques, when she painted exquisite pictures with a calm temperament, the details presented were more exquisite than Ye Tao's sketches, after all, Ye Tao was really not in the mood to lie in front of the easel for many hours, but for Dai Qiuyan, it was not a problem at all.

Except for the occasional conversation or Huang Wan calling to participate in the party of the noble ladies in Danyang. She barely walked out of the door. The time in front of the easel was so charming for her. After two years of practice. Now, the sophistication of Dai Qiuyan's sketches often gives Ye Tao the illusion of black-and-white photographs. And this is in the case of only charcoal strips, not a series of pencils of different properties from 8b to 8h. is not only sketching, but in terms of color, Dai Qiuyan is also quite true now.

Dai Qiuyan was able to learn sketching and modern color theory from Ye Tao, from Huang Wan, who had a family history, and from Kassandra, who was able to learn decorative arts and animation theory. Dai Qiuyan painted a bust of color ink for Huang Wan, which is now hanging in Situ Huang Xuping's study.

As soon as the mosaic came into view, Dai Qiuyan found a batch of porcelain pieces and put together a few simple pictures. But in the process of collage, Dai Qiuyan obviously found that the color of the mosaic is too unstable now, and she often can't find the color she wants. When a large piece of porcelain of the same color is required, the uniformity of the color of the porcelain tiles often does not meet the requirements.

After Dai Qiuyan put forward this opinion, Ye Tao thought so. However, in this era, there is not even a standard color card, how to fix the color? In addition, the color of the glaze used in the mosaic is not the same as the color that appears after firing, and it is necessary to go through a lot of experiments before you can configure the color you want.

Also, there are several colors that are more difficult to obtain, such as blue and purple. In the dyeing and finishing workshop of Yip's Workshop, the main source of blue is cyan, while purple, in addition to mixing, mainly comes from a type of sea shell, and the process of using lavender as a dye is also being explored. However, these cannot be used in glazes for fired porcelain, which can only use mineral pigments. After a period of searching and exploration, Ye Tao finally found a stable source of basic copper carbonate, and then, fortunately, found a source of zirconium blue. With these two mineral pigments, the pure and stable blue color is finally solved. After several trials, although the work of fixing the color was not yet completed, with the fixation of the glaze formula, at least the problem of color uniformity was solved. Since purple is relatively rarely used in mosaic murals, Yip's workshop is trying to collect various ores while testing various schemes. The problem of mineral pigments is very complicated, zirconium blue or basic copper carbonate and the commonly used red pigment hematite are mixed and fired, the color is complex and difficult to say, but everyone does not think that it is purple.

In order to make the color spectrum of the mosaic quickly complete, Tan Weiying was angry and actually took out a reward to collect various ores that could be used as glazes. At the same time, she also used a lot of brains to persuade the Danyang City Guard Mansion to take down a shadow wall in a small square in Danyang New District. The shadow wall was originally intended to be made of a brick sculpture, but now it has been turned into a mosaic collage. The designer of the collage is Dai Qiuyan, and the content of the collage is that the material is more convenient to get hands on, and there is already a successful precedent of the "Songtao Cloud Sea", this high-standard mosaic collage, will also fully use cloud kiln broken porcelain as the material.

This was no one's idea, but Tan Weiying came up with it himself. Tan Weiying has a rather advanced advertising awareness, which really surprised Tan Weixin and Ye Tao.

But in this way, the originally small mosaic business has become a big one. Seeing that his sister was so attentive to doing something, Tan Weiming said that he moved Wang Lan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and mobilized the Dongping National Ore Specimen Library, which had taken a lot of effort to get out of the Ministry of Industry. I have to say that the impression of the embroidered princess Tan Weiying in everyone's minds is really good, this kind of obviously fake public and private behavior, the officials actually shut up, and there is no bullet stamp. It's not interesting to talk about Xiaopei, who is ready to defend his daughter's entrepreneurship. But even so, it is still a big project to establish the chromatogram.

What can mosaics and tiles do besides decorating? This is also key. Those who can afford to play mosaics are big families, and the mansions of big families have certain rules, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to make them colorful casually. When Tan Wei angrily discovered this lack of practicality and complained to Ye Tao, Ye Tao smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry, I'm making something fun." When you're done, you'll know what mosaics can do. ”

Tan Weiying has to run Ye Tao's studio almost once a day. She looked at the studio, which was so neat and tidy that there was nothing new for many days, and said disdainfully, "It doesn't look like it." Can you help or not, it's rare for my sister to send me something, it's not good to mess up. ”

Ye Tao smiled bitterly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, you have to talk about your conscience." There are six technicians and twelve apprentices in Ye's workshop, and I don't know how many apprentices are helping you make chromatography and help you try to make glazes. Qiu Yan is helping you get the mural. I don't know how many things I have in my hands. If you don't believe me, follow me to the Blood Qi Army's barracks and find out. ”

"Barracks?" Tan Weiying was dissatisfied: "What should be done so far away?" ”

Ye Tao was a little crying and laughing, and said, "Where is it far?" We'll be right now, and we'll be back soon. ”