Chapter 40 Self-assertion

Zhang Wangzi saw that Douzi's enthusiasm didn't seem to be very high, so he said to her: "Learning this craft can ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Douzi tilted his head and asked, "Don't you let me freeze hungry if I don't know anything?" ”

Zhang Forget scratched his head, thinking that it was no wonder that the ancestor advocated that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented", she is too smart and really not easy to fool.

The ones shipped from Yudingguan are all raw gypsum, which need to be processed first and made into mature gypsum powder.

This process is not complicated, that is, the raw gypsum is crushed, the finer the better, and then put it in a pot to bake, fry while burning, and burn it to about 800 degrees.

It's just that this is a manual work, and the process lasts about an hour, which is really a personal life for Zhang Wang.

When the plaster powder was ready, Zhang took a wooden bucket and mixed the gypsum powder and warm water in a ratio of 2:3, while stirring it with a wooden stick to make the warm water and gypsum powder fully mixed.

After stirring and waiting for a while, Zhang Forget took an inkstone and placed it on the plaster that had begun to solidify, making a concave shape.

After smearing soapy water on the edges of the mold as a separator, pour a mixture of gypsum and water into the mold to make a striking shape.

After the plaster has solidified for half an hour, the concave mold and the hitting die are separated, and the plaster mold of an inkstone is ready.

Douzi was dazzled on the sidelines, and his admiration for Zhang Forget was indescribable.

When she heard that the mold was used to make pottery, she hurriedly ran to the front yard to get a bucket of clay made by the domestic servants.

Zhang forgot to beat the mud into flakes and put it into the model to press it hard, and when it dried out a little, it became an inkstone blank.

Douzi was stunned as he looked at the blank tires that were exactly the same shape and size as the original inkstone, and quickly made them one by one in Zhang Wang's hands.

After making ten inkstone blanks in one go, Zhang Forget instructed Douzi: "Go get a pottery bowl, and let's make a pottery bowl mold together." ”

Douzi listened, happily ran to get a pottery bowl back, and then followed Zhang Wang's hand-in-hand demonstration to make a pottery bowl mold step by step.

Because the pottery bowl is hollow, unlike a solid object, it is made using a segmented mold method, and then glued together before firing.

When Chun Yuyi came to the door, Zhang Forget and Douzi were immersed in the pleasure of making molds.

There was a mess in the study, only ten inkstone clay blanks and a dozen pottery bowl clay blanks were neatly arranged.

Zhang forgot to see Chun Yuyi with a resentful look again, so he had to ask Douzi to take out the prepared pottery blank to dry, and then obediently follow Chun Yuyi to continue copying the book.

No one can just take and not give, if you want to collect Chun Yuyi's heart, you must give him enough respect and support to help him realize his dream of reviving the glory of his ancestors.

The days are spent day by day in the waves.

After the ice made by Zhang Wangjia changed from retail to wholesale, I don't know how many conflicts there were with restaurants and tea shops of all sizes in Luoyang City.

But one is barefoot, the other is shoeed, and after more than a dozen fights between the two sides, the restaurant and the tea shop feel that they have suffered a big loss.

Buying a car of ice every day is not more than 1,000 yuan, and if you don't buy it, you will have to pay several times the price.

Not to mention the delayed business, just the medical expenses and settling-in expenses after the fight between those guys and thugs have reached tens of thousands of dollars.

Luoyang made Zhou Yi not know why, and always turned a blind eye to this kind of small-scale brawl on the street, which made the shopkeepers very aggrieved.

Those who do business are all for the sole purpose of making money, and the most taboo is to compete with each other.

After the restaurant and the tea shop had ice, business actually improved a lot, but they couldn't accept the price of 100 yuan for a bucket of ice, so they joined forces to suppress it.

Now that he has suffered a loss, there is no way to take Zhang Wang's hooliganism, and the shopkeeper and the bosses behind the scenes have learned from the pain and decided to endure the humiliation and seek peace.

Some restaurants with deep backgrounds also played music to find the backstage to clean up at first. After inquiring, I found that Zhang Forget was not even afraid of Zhang Ji, and he had also entered and exited the mansion of Yin Hejin in Henan, and was praised by all the dignitaries and nobles, and immediately retreated.

As a result, the ice made by Zhang Wangjia is no longer unsalable, but will be in short supply after a period of time.

If there is an ice restaurant, the business is obviously good, and if there is no ice, the business will be much worse.

Since then, in front of Zhang Wang's house, there have been guys who come to the door to urge ice from time to time.

Zhang Wangcai didn't bother to deal with them, selling ice was just an expedient measure, so the beans were tired, and it was definitely worth the loss.

In view of the fact that the ice selling incident caused a lot of noise in Luoyang City, Zhang Wangyang made amends the loss and instructed the servants to send ice to the three princes and Jiuqing for free every day, and even the Sikong Zhang Jijia had to send a car.

As a result, there is less ice available to the market, and there are often scenes of two restaurants fighting in front of Zhang Wang's house for a cart of ice.

Zhang Forget doesn't raise the price, and hehehe, hehe, watch them dog-eat-dog.

Under the suggestion of Zhang Wang, the servants of pottery made an egg-shaped kiln that can increase the combustion temperature by returning to the flame, which is specially used to fire the pottery inkstones and pottery bowls made by the stamping mold method.

The servants didn't know where the beautifully shaped inkstones and bowls came from, and they didn't dare to ask, but they didn't mind, because the surprise brought to them by the egg-shaped kiln was enough to drive them crazy.

Because the technology is not up to the mark, most of the pottery fired in the egg-shaped kiln is still pottery, but on average there are one or two porcelain in every ten pieces.

This kind of ceramic porcelain is hard and dense, the fetal quality is white and delicate, and when you look at it in the sun, it also has a crystal luster, warm and moist like jade. Knock it with your fingers, and the sound is melodious and melodious, like hitting metal, with a sonorous sound.

The servants were crazy with joy, holding ceramics like treasures to report the good news to Zhang Wang, but Zhang Wang's head was poured with a basin of cold water.

"This kind of ceramic is not glazed, there is no carving, the tire is too thick, and the color is not pure enough, so it is not allowed to be sold in Luoyang."

The servants came in high spirits, but returned disappointed, and went back sullenly to continue their studies on how to glaze and carve. There are also those who are ingenious, vowing to make better ceramics by drawing blanks.

Zhang Mane asked why white porcelain was not allowed to be sold in Luoyang, and was kicked out of the door by Zhang Wang.

"When a child walks down the street with a piece of gold in his arms, do you think there is any other fate for this child than to be killed and robbed? Lao Tzu is that child. ”

Zhang Mane got up from the ground, a little aggrieved, Zhang Forget was very polite to himself before he signed the deed of sale, and immediately changed his face after signing the deed of sale, did he get on the thief ship?

"Why can we sell ice in Luoyang, but not ceramics?" Zhang Mane stood in a place where Zhang Wang's feet couldn't be kicked and continued to ask.

"Tens of thousands of dollars a month for selling ice are not enough for those jackals, tigers and leopards for a meal, so they naturally don't take it to heart. But once the trade of this ceramic becomes bigger, it is easy to earn millions of dollars a month, why do you think those people will allow a powerless boy like me to hold such a financial road? ”

After Zhang Mane left thoughtfully, he immediately strengthened the defense of the entire Zhang Mansion.

Of the 100 Yellow Turban soldiers, 50 of them did nothing every day, taking turns to guard the safety of Zhang's house day and night, strictly guarding against death, and not letting a single piece of ceramic flow out.

When Zhang Forget found out, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

He finally knew how Zhuge Liang was tired to death in history, a bunch of wastes under his hands, all on his own, it was strange that he could live a long life.

After thinking about it, Zhang Wang, in the interval of dictating the "Compendium of Materia Medica" to Chun Yuyi, sent a letter to Yingchuan Xunyu and Yanzhou Yi.

Yingchuan Xun Yu, who was one of the few capable ministers in the Three Kingdoms period, can be said to have the ability to support Cao Cao's internal affairs alone. At this time, he was still an unknown young man, studying hard behind closed doors in Yingchuan. He came out in 189 A.D. and stepped onto the stage of history.

Zhang forgot to write a letter to recruit him, but he didn't report hope at all, just to show his face, give a gift, and form a good relationship with him. In case he comes, it's fishing.

Yanzhou is from Yi and has a poor reputation in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but everyone who plays the Three Kingdoms game knows that this guy's political ability is so high that he can count it during the Three Kingdoms period.

The reason why Zhang Wang chose to write to him was because the threshold for solicitation was relatively low. At this time, because of his poor family, he was attached to Liu Biao in Shanyang.

And Liu Biao was made a lieutenant in the Northern Army by the general He Jin in April next year. As for riding into Jing alone and being a pastor in Jingzhou, it was in 190 AD.

Zhang Forget has domestic servants and thugs around him, and even Lang Zhong, who is extremely lacking in a talent who can coordinate management and understand governance.

This not only caused him to be overworked, but also caused many things to be planned in advance, and once there was an accident, it could not be carried out in an orderly manner.

Zhang forgot to ask each of his servants to carry a white porcelain inkstone as white as jade and a letter written by himself, and after visiting Xun Yu and Yi respectively, he began to prepare for a ten-day appointment with Cao Cao.