Chapter 545: Trial Plane (7)

Bettge recruited more than 20 assistants, and fifty or sixty peasants were doing heavy lifting, such as mixing water with mud.

They built three furnaces, all at a temperature of around 1,000 degrees, using mostly charcoal.

Huang Xuan pretended to watch it twice, and naturally he got nothing.

Chu Yining also didn't know about the production of porcelain, so he just looked at Huang Xuan from the side, but he didn't say a word.

Augustus II sat down away from the stove and spoke to Betger in a whisper, somewhat checking the authenticity of Huang Xuan. Today he called all the field cavalry over, thinking that he could bury Huang Xuan with a javelin, thinking that his safety was guaranteed, and now it was to see if he had any use value.

Huang Xuan naturally understood, as early as when he came, he asked Li Shenggang to bring experts here, but before that, he still had to wait for people to reply in two circles, if he wanted to say that when he traveled in time and space before, dimensional communication was like a telephone, but now it has been changed to a text message.

Li Shenggang also knew that Jingdezhen produced porcelain, and he asked someone to invite a legendary master, so it was naturally Jingdezhen, Huang Xuan said a few words and hurriedly asked: "That Master Zhao, I am next to the stove, what do you say?" ”

This Master Zhao is worthy of a master, well-informed, maybe he has seen Huang Xuan, a person who stands on the edge of the stove and then asks for advice, and slowly explains to him: "You have to choose the material first, if it is a large piece of hard material, it must be coarsely crushed, and the rest is finely crushed into dry powder with a Raymond machine, and then ground into a slurry with a ball mill......"

Huang Xuan's face was black, the master was different, modern technology was ahead of the times, he tilted his head to see the farmer who helped him soak in the soil there, thinking that it was similar to those machines, so he said: "I seem to have selected materials here, and then do you precipitate the mud and dry it to make embryonic mud?" ”

He said it as he looked at the introduction on the energy screen.

Taking advantage of the pause in the master's answer, Huang Xuan turned around and asked Betge, "Are you using the soil of the ceramic soil layer?" ”

Betger came to Saxony because His Excellency Augustus had dug up a layer of precious ceramic soil, and at this moment he held his head high and said, "That's right. ”

Huang Xuan said "oh", he doesn't know how to choose materials or anything, if there is a "problem" because of the problem of the soil layer, it is useless to change 100 masters.

Over there, Master Zhao said: "It's to make embryo mud, this is a recipe, it's best to use a mud press to control the water, 25% of the appearance is better, and then use a mud machine to rough, and finally enter the mud warehouse to stalemate, and the previous work is completed." ”

Huang Xuan's eyes were straight, and he said simply: "Master Zhao, I'm in Germany, and they have a small town called Maison, do you know?" In that place in Saxony, I used its soil, and I didn't have any machinery when I played with it. ”

The terracotta layer is not actually in Meissen, but Huang Xuan finds it easier to express this because there are no other terracotta layers in Saxony.

"That's right." The master's voice came over for a while, and he said without any change: "Burning porcelain is two points, the first is the raw material, the second is the temperature, if you play by yourself, you can be finer when practicing mud, first of all, you must remove all the dregs, there should be no impurities in the soil, 'knead' with your hands, with your feet, in short, you have to squeeze out all the air inside, the moisture is even, and it is done, but the porcelain they produce is white porcelain, which is not good to burn." ”

Huang Xuan said "En", looked at the mud all over the ground, rubbed his hands and said, "Come over a few, clean this pot of mud for me." ”

Chu Yining saw Huang Xuan standing in front of the stove stunned, he had some intention of watching the excitement, but at this moment, he saw that he seemed to have come back to his senses, the east commander, the west command, also came to the spirit and asked: "You also learned ancient industry?" ”

"Blind learners." Huang Xuan lied and said: "At that time, I saw a little girl who was beautiful, so I took classes with her, and I used it now." ”

"What about the little girl?"

"People don't like hares." Huang Xuan came out of nowhere, and suddenly put a foot on a German who was rubbing mud below and said, "Make it finer." ”

Chu Yining translated with a smile, but she didn't object much to Huang Xuan's actions, maybe in her opinion, this is right.

According to Master Zhao's statement, Huang Xuan relayed it, and Betge saw that he was doing it well, so he didn't say cool words, and looked at it carefully.

The soft porcelain produced by Europeans now, in the eyes of people in the 21st century, is not a bad porcelain, the Chinese are ghosts have been using hard porcelain, do not know soft porcelain at all, as a result in the mid-19th century, China invented a soft porcelain - bone china, that is, soft porcelain made of ground beef leg bones, and for a time became a best-selling commodity. The attitude towards porcelain is completely different from that of Europeans.

There are many reasons for this, but the main difference is the firing temperature and raw materials. The kaolin used by the Chinese, such as Jingdezhen, is more iron-content, that is, before the Yuan Dynasty, the iron content of the porcelain stone used in Jingdezhen was also about 0.5%, and the kaolin with an iron content of 0.7% to 1% appeared, Jingdezhen was completely famous, the so-called "water and soil pottery", can be described as unique.

When firing porcelain, this kind of soil naturally requires a low temperature, about 1000 degrees can be fired hard porcelain, and Europeans also use a furnace temperature of 1000 degrees, but the pottery is fired, and they even use 1200 degrees to burn out soft porcelain, not that Europeans are too stupid, God did not give them a good environment, until finally, they want to raise the temperature to 1300 degrees, and find the current clay layer, there is hope for firing. In the Yuan Dynasty, that is, the beginning of the Germans who began to desperately want to make their own porcelain, Jingdezhen only raised the furnace temperature to 1200 degrees, and as a result, kaolin was used to burn Yuan blue and white porcelain, which was the result of a calcination of high-temperature reducing flames.

Back then, Chinese couldn't imagine the pitiful appearance of Europeans, but now Master Zhao understands and keeps telling Huang Xuan: "The first thing to control is the temperature, you can only use 800 degrees to call ceramics, and the temperature must meet the standard......"

He babbled and said, Huang Xuan heard it in his ears, and said to Chu Yining: "You whisper to this person named Betge, and I will teach him a way to increase the temperature of the furnace." ”

Chu Yining said after a complete retelling: "You want to use Betge to control this king? ”

"Not really." Huang Xuan said with a smile: "He will never take the initiative to teach the details to the king, this is a lot of money." And we can easily control his "sex". ”

According to history, Bett got a monopoly for 10 years, and the hands of the money were soft.

Chu Yining seems to like this way of processing, or rather, this kind of treatment is what she is used to.

After translating, Betge withdrew his eyes that were swirling on Chu Yining, and looked at Huang Xuan with some disbelief: "What can you do?" ”

"Pine." Huang Xuan still said through Chu Yining: "The temperature of the sun-dried pine wood is higher than your current method, and the location of the furnace door and the position of the air supply must be changed. ”

There is no need for Master Zhao to explain this, Lorraine can find ready-made pictures for Huang Xuan to see, and he scratches them on the low level according to the cat and the tiger. Anyway, the furnace temperature is the only requirement, and the rest is not a problem, even if it is burned out of a lump, as long as it is hard porcelain, it can bluff the Germans.

The more Huang Xuan spoke, the more Betge believed it, and later, he simply blasted Augustus II out.

The mighty king left with a smile on his face, he is a loyal porcelain fan, but he also spends a lot of money, if porcelain can make him a lot of money, then the money for the mistress will be more generous. Moreover, he really doesn't like the smoky scene, which can prove that the Chinese in front of him are not fooling around.

Huang Xuan sat on the chair with a prickly sting, and the eye-catching little translator sat on the stool with his mouth open and closed.

So Xiao Huang thought of the hare again, the so-called "green 'color' xiao said the net", the hare has a lifetime, and life is happy. "It doesn't seem unacceptable to really stay here for a few months.

After two hours passed, Betge was as well-behaved as a rabbit, Huang Xuan asked him to wash the mud, he pounced on it to play with the mud, Huang Xuan asked him to roast pine wood, he rushed up to make a fire, except for the two closest apprentices, he drove out the domestic workers, it seems that the secret recipe is not passed on.

Huang Xuan also thought so, Chu Yining could use hundreds of kilowatt-hours of electricity at any time, and a thunderbolt would kill Betge, in this case, it would be equivalent to controlling the technology of porcelain in disguise, if there was no professional like Betge, he would really have to study with Master Zhao for two months.

The first piece of porcelain was fired quickly, the furnace temperature seemed to be a little low, and the temporarily modified furnace was not very up to standard, but the beige "color" was already very light, and even white "color" appeared in some places, according to European standards, this is actually the middle area of hard porcelain and soft porcelain.

Bett Ge is an expert in the 18th century, where would he doubt Huang Xuan's skills at this moment, and he couldn't stop praising him, probably knowing that praise doesn't cost money.

Chu Yining translated two sentences but got bored, and suddenly rubbed his fingers and made a ball lightning bolt above Betger's head.

Betge was sincerely afraid of "communicating" with Chu Yining.

Huang Xuan felt that Miss Chu might be really good at coercion and temptation, and in a few minutes, he saw Betge stammering, "Mr. Huang, let me be your apprentice, right?" ”

The guild system of this era had not completely collapsed, and the factories were full of masters and apprentices - the master was the worker with the greatest power, like the executive of the 21st century, and the apprentice was the apprentice who did not have complete freedom in life, and generally had to work for the master for 5 to 10 years, and in some departments, the apprentice took 20 years to become a master, and before that, his income was lower than that of the peasant, and he was the least status worker. Bettge left two apprentices instead of workers because he had rights over them, and if the latter went out to reveal his skills, he would be severely punished by the guild.

And as Huang Xuan's apprentice, he will regain the responsibility of keeping secrets.

Huang Xuan didn't know much about Germany, but he knew the guild system in Europe, after all, he was a person who had experienced it many times, so he asked, "How many years do you want to do it?" ”

Bettege cautiously stretched out five fingers and said, "Five years." ”

He had a good calculation, and in five years of apprenticeship, he could get the technology that the Germans dreamed of for 200 years. But Huang Xuan doesn't care, just let him be a hare, and it will be boring to do it for 5 years, not to mention that without himself, Betger should have produced experimental "sex" white porcelain in three or two years, and without Bettger, he would be in trouble if he wanted to produce white porcelain, thinking so, he had no choice but to say: "Then let Mr. Augustus be a witness." ”

Bettge watched pitifully as the witch rubbed clusters of electric sparks on her hands.