Speaking of this, "squeak" took a sip of bamboo leaf green wine, smacked his lips, and tasted it for a while, Liu Wencai continued: "Bamboo leaf green wine takes Fenjiu as the "bottom wine", retains the characteristics of bamboo leaves, and then adds more than ten kinds of precious Chinese medicinal materials such as sand kernels, red sandalwood, angelica, tangerine peel, male cloves, zero incense, patchouli incense, as well as rock sugar, snowflake sugar, egg white, etc., and is refined and aged, so that the wine has a variety of effects such as calming and warming the stomach, soothing the liver and benefiting the spleen, invigorating blood and replenishing blood, smoothing qi and removing annoyance, and eliminating food and vitality. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"No wonder Mr. Liu is as rich as jade and full of energy, it turns out that he drank bamboo leaf green wine." Zhao Guohua said jokingly, and laughed after speaking.

"Brother Guohua made fun of it." Liu Wencai said with a smile.

Xiong Wencan said with a smile: "I didn't expect this bamboo leaf green to have so many benefits, come!" Come! Come! Pour a cup for the old man and let him taste it too. Guohua also poured a cup and tasted it""

"Squeak" took a sip, reminiscing about the taste of bamboo leaf green wine in his mouth, Xiong Wencan stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Yes, this wine is indeed good, no wonder Mr. loves to drink this wine." ”

Zhao Guohua took a sip and also praised: "This wine is sweet in the mouth, the medicinal taste is rich and fragrant, and I feel warm in my stomach after drinking. ”

The three of them talked about the allusions of wine while drinking, those who said it were happy, and those who listened liked to listen, and the atmosphere at the banquet was very warm.

After drinking for a while, Xiong Wencan pointed to the white porcelain tableware on the table, and said to Zhao Guohua proudly: "Guohua, you are from overseas and well-informed, what do you think of the old man's wine set?" ”

Listening to Xiong Wencan's words, Zhao Guohua carefully looked at the white porcelain tableware on the table, and then carefully looked at the white porcelain in the wine glass in his hand, white as snow, moist as jade, smooth as a mirror, excellent quality, obviously not ordinary. So he said with admiration: "This set of wine utensils is extremely rare, and it is really a rare boutique." ”

With a smile, Xiong Wencan said: "Guohua knows how much this set of wine utensils is worth?" ”

I don't know the price of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Guohua can't talk nonsense, so he said: "Please give me advice." ”

"This set of wine sets has ten wine glasses, and the price is not less than one thousand taels of silver, and there is still no market." Xiong Wencan said with a smug smile.

Hearing this price, Zhao Guohua was taken aback, and said in his heart: "Although this set of tableware is exquisite, the price is too outrageous. ”

Thinking of this, he asked curiously, "I don't know where you bought this set of drinking utensils?" Why is there no market? ”

After glancing at the two of them, Xiong Wencan said, "Both of them are my confidants, so it's okay to tell you." This set of drinking utensils was made by the maritime merchant Chen Sihai's family in Jingde, Jiangxi, and it is not seen on the market at all. His family is in the porcelain business, and every year he has to order a batch of porcelain and send it to the dignitaries and wealthy families in Beijing, and the old man has a good relationship with him, so the old man also got a set. ”

"It turned out to be customized by the Chen family. No wonder there is no price. Zhao Guohua said with a smile.

Looking at this exquisite porcelain, Zhao Guohua suddenly remembered a special kind of porcelain in later generations - bone china

Bone china, also known as bone ash porcelain, was produced in the United Kingdom, and the basic process was to use animal bone char, clay, feldspar and quartz as the basic raw materials, and it was fired twice by high-temperature plain firing and low-temperature glaze firing. The two basic characteristics of bone china are the essential basis for distinguishing bone china from other porcelain. Feature 1: Bone char content is more than 36% (national standard); Feature 2: After secondary firing (plain firing, glaze firing). According to the British standard for bone china, it contains 30% tricalcium phosphate from animal bones, and the finished product is light-transmitting, so it is called bone china.

Bone china needs to be mixed with bone meal of cattle, sheep and other herbivores in ceramic raw materials, and cattle bone meal is preferred), the formation of bone china mainly relies on silicon oxide, alumina and calcium oxide, in which the higher the content of calcium oxide, the better the color. In nature, there are not many sources of calcium oxide, so animal bone meal is chosen as the source of calcium oxide. Bone china was first produced in England and was invented around 1800. The invention of bone china is quite comic, and in 1756, an Englishman accidentally added bone meal made from animal bones to the kaolin clay used to make porcelain, and unexpectedly fired porcelain that resembles fat and jade. Because bone meal can increase the hardness and light transmittance of porcelain, and the strength is higher than that of ordinary porcelain, it can be thinner, more translucent and whiter than ordinary porcelain. Thus was born a new type of porcelain, bone china.

Because of its unique shape, concise and bright, white and delicate texture, bone china has long been the porcelain used by nobles from all over the world, and is the only high-grade porcelain recognized in the world.

Because of its delicate and transparent porcelain, beautiful and elegant shape, moist and bright color surface, colorful characteristics, it has achieved its white texture and luxurious shape, and has the dual value of use and art, it is a special piece of the palace and a treasure collected by the nobles in history, it is a symbol of power and status, and is favored by many buyers, known as the "king of porcelain". After generations of famous craftsmen, bone china has gradually become a ceramic treasure in the world.

Zhao Guohua's father loves collecting, he has a set of bone china tea sets, and Zhao Guohua has seen him take it out a few times to appreciate. Zhao Guohua also learned some methods of identification and maintenance of bone china from his father.

"Since high-end porcelain is so valuable, why don't you go to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province to buy a set of kilns to burn bone china, as for beef bone meal, it is not a problem, Gezuo Wuying mainly eats beef and mutton, there is a large amount of beef bone powder available. There were many rich people in the Ming Dynasty, as long as the bone porcelain was burned, it was a lot of silver. Thinking of this, Zhao Guohua smiled secretly in his heart.

After eating and drinking, he said goodbye to Xiong Wencan and Liu Wencai, and went out of the trip, Zhao Guohua took Niu Huan and several retinues of the Protector Army in disguise and rode to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

On this day, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, was processing official documents in the governor's palace, and when he saw his staff Yang Tinglin coming in, he put down the official documents in his hand and asked: "Boxiang, you went to inspect Juntun, what do you estimate about my Xuanda's grain harvest this year?" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, it seems that my Xuanda will have a bumper harvest of grain this year, and it is a foregone conclusion, and this is all the merit of your Excellency in rectifying the Xuanda Army." Yang Tinglin said happily.

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, when he first arrived at Xuanda, he saw the situation that he couldn't imagine, the city was ruined, the market was depressed, beggars were everywhere, the soldiers were hungry and cold, their families were poorly clothed, they were hungry, many people were forced to pawn their wives and children, and the restaurants and brothels were prosperous and prosperous, and the defense line of Xuanfu and Datong was useless.

In order to change the face of Xuanda, he withstood the pressure and adopted a series of measures: rectifying the army, cleaning up the military cantonments, repairing the city, giving relief to the poor, and cracking down on lawlessness; under his iron-fisted rectification, under the deterrence of the Tianxiong Army, a group of officers who drank the blood of soldiers and ate empty salaries were dealt with, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army were dismissed, and a large number of military fields that were swallowed up by powerful and wealthy families and middle and senior officers were recovered.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng said with emotion: "Only with strong soldiers can we resist the invasion of the Tartars, as long as I am given another three years, I will be able to train tens of thousands of elite soldiers, so that the Xuanda border city will become an iron wall that the Tartars cannot attack." ”

"Yes, I recall that when we first arrived last year, the border city of Xuanda was in vain, and under the painstaking management of the adults, Xuanda had the current scene. I have been patrolling all the way and have seen that new life has appeared in many places, abandoned fields have been cultivated, and disappeared markets have opened shops, and I believe that as long as I work hard for a few more years, Xuanda will become even better. Yang Tinglin said wistfully.

Lu Xiangsheng stood up from behind the copy, walked to the window, looked at the direction of Liaodong fixedly, and said solemnly with a resolute face: "As long as I, Lu Xiangsheng, am in Xuanda on the first day, I will never let the Tartars step over the side wall of Xuanda." ”

After a few days of walking, Zhao Guohua and Niu Huan arrived in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi.

Jingdezhen is located in the transition zone of Huangshan, Huaiyu Mountain and Poyang Lake Plain, in the northeast of Jiangxi Province, adjacent to Anqing City and Chizhou City in Anhui Province, and at the junction of Anhui (Anhui), Zhejiang (Zhejiang) and Jiangxi (Jiangxi) provinces.

Jingdezhen belonged to the eastern border of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin was under the jurisdiction of Fan County, Jiujiang County, and Poyang County, Yuzhang County in Han. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it was called Xinping Town. In the fourth year of Tang Wude (621), Xinping County was placed. The town belongs to the county, because it is in the south of the Changjiang River, so it is also called Changnan Town. Eight years to withdraw the county, Kaiyuan four years (716) reset, the county governance is located in the Xinchang River estuary, so it is called Xinchang County. In the first year of Tianbao (742), it was renamed Fuliang. In the first year of Jingde (1004) of Song Zhenzong, because of the excellent quality of the green and white porcelain produced in the town, Jingdezhen was placed in the name of the emperor's year, and it has been used to this day.

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, the ancients built kilns in Changnan (Jingdezhen) to fire ceramics. In the Tang Dynasty, due to the good soil quality of Changnan, the ancestors absorbed the advantages of southern celadon and northern white porcelain to create a kind of blue and white porcelain. Qingbai porcelain is crystal moist, has the reputation of fake jade, and is exported to Europe in large quantities.

Before the eighteenth century, Europeans did not make porcelain, so fine porcelain from China, especially from the town of Changnan, was very popular. In Europe, Changnan porcelain is a very cherished and valuable item. Europeans used "Changnan" as a synonym for porcelain (China) and "China" (China) that produced porcelain, and over time, Europeans forgot the original meaning of Changnan and only remembered that it was "porcelain", that is, "China".

"Governor, what are we doing here?" Niu Huan asked puzzled.