Chapter 157: Pastel

Cuihua has to continue to participate in the Spring Festival banquet before finding a daughter-in-law for Zhao Leiting, and her eggs can't be put in a basket at Mrs. Xiang's house, isn't it?

The weather is so good, go out and move more, look at the little girl with flowers and bones, eat the food of each family, you won't be sleepy, you can count it in one fell swoop!

does not have the same blessed life as her daughter-in-law, Heiwa has already gone to work at the Royal R&D Center in Dali Village with her two younger brothers and third uncle.

Since he transferred these people back to the capital, he had to find something for them to do.

Burning a kiln of blue and white porcelain is already familiar to the three of them, and what Heiwa wants to study this time is another variety of Jingdezhen porcelain: pastel porcelain.

This is the Qing Dynasty, especially the late Qing Dynasty, which occupied half of the porcelain industry!

The process of pastel is to first start the draft with ink line on the white porcelain fired at high temperature, and then fill the pattern with a layer of glass white that can be used as a flux and can be used as white color, and the color material is applied to the glass white and fired at a low temperature.

The figures, flowers, birds, landscapes, etc., painted in this way, are divided into light and shade, shade and yin and yang, which increases the sense of hierarchy and three-dimensionality, and the colors can also be enriched according to the pattern.

The main raw materials of glass white used in firing color porcelain are: blue lead, stone powder, glass powder, tooth nitrate, white letter stone, etc.

They are weighed, mixed, ground finely according to the recipe, placed in a refractory high-temperature furnace, heated and melted, then poured into cold water to break them, and then ground into a white powder for later use.

And these formulas to later generations, it is no longer a secret, "Jingdezhen Ceramics Ancient and Modern Talks", "Jingdezhen Color Glaze", "Raw Fuel Supply Everywhere" and so on, these books about porcelain, he has collected countless books.

From the ceramic blank to the final pastel, there are three fires, and the furnace temperature is different.

Heiwa explained the ratio of raw materials needed and the temperature requirements one by one, and then taught a few people to operate them by hand.

The three people who have followed Heiwa to do countless experiments, although they blindly trust their eldest brother (brother-in-law), they are all amazed when they see the final pastel porcelain.

What these big brothers (brothers-in-law) are talking about, chemicals, it's amazing.

Of course, the pattern of the test item is simple and easy to make, but in order to become a commodity, the painting requirements on the porcelain are different.

Because it is used for marriage, Heiwa put the meaning of good, what, like plum tops, willow leaves and yellow dogs, rich peony, hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, apricot forest spring swallow and other pattern requirements, so that people specially found five painters to help draw.

The painters who were hired also painted on porcelain for the first time, and they also made a draft on paper for half a day, and finally each of them lost seven or eight before they succeeded.

The black baby swept the wool to the end, so that the painters took a breath and painted ten sets of different patterns before stopping.

Inside, each set contains:

Eating utensils: bowls, plates, saucers, tea sets;

Daily utensils: powder boxes, smokers, spit pots, porcelain pillows;

There are also drinking utensils: ear cups, injectors, and pots;

Furnishing utensils: bottles, zun, flower goblets, flower pots;

Study: pen holder, inkstone, water bowl.

A few days later, the pastel porcelain that was fired was not enough to describe the feelings of everyone.

This is happy with the red plum on the top of the plum, and the big red of this rich peony is almost blinding everyone's eyes.

Not only festive, extravagant, extravagant! Because of the colors, these pictures seem to be alive and lifelike!

Is it more appropriate to give it to the newlyweds?

Drawing they can only paint simple, but the process of filling pigment and firing at high and low temperatures three times, several of them are online throughout the whole process.

In the fifth year of Tianshun, a few of them are going to shine!

These porcelains, except for two sets sent to the palace, were divided by Heiwa.

Xia Hongdi looked at the pastels that were better than blue and white porcelain, and played with a hat bowl with great interest for a long time before asking, "This is the dowry you tossed out to give your second uncle?"

Heiwa nodded: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that although this blue and white porcelain is more elegant, it is

How can there be no red embellishments? If you have an idea, you can only do all kinds of experiments, and if you try a few more times, you will always succeed!"

"Those rich merchants estimate that they have just sold out the blue and white porcelain they grabbed!" Blue and white porcelain is produced according to order, and it is still a luxury item on the market.

Xia Hongdi felt that the rich man's wool was a little frequent, and it was not good.

"Then this pastel porcelain can be specially used as dowry porcelain or dowry porcelain!" Zhong Qinbo said that the product line is different, and it can take the luxury route in luxury.

"This, don't rush it first, wait and then talk about it, if you want to use it at home, you will use it later!"

Xia Hongdi thought about it, he planned to put this in the imperial kiln, which was exclusively used by the royal family and those ministers with outstanding business skills, and the court painters could be used for many purposes!

And the scarcity is expensive, this kind of pastel porcelain, the number should be more scarce to appear extravagant! Who said that the imperial kiln is useless? With pastel porcelain, the imperial kiln is a powerful kiln!

"Don't worry, my second brother-in-law won't marry his daughter-in-law until the end of the year."

As long as you can take it for free, you can use it later, it's a big deal to put it in the Hu family, and then use it when the new daughter-in-law marries back.

"In fact, this colored porcelain is still the most important drawing, the filling and firing process of the pigment is a little more complicated, if Your Majesty wants to make colored porcelain, you must find a good painter first!"

"Keep it a secret first, don't spread this out, I'll be of great use!"

"Yes, I obey."

"When will your low-rent house start?"

"Why do you have to wait for the end of spring ploughing, first, many masons in the engineering team still have land to plant at home, and second, the foundation is easier to dig at that time, Your Majesty, the depression that the minister has drawn out twenty miles from the south gate is no problem, right?"

"What's the problem, that depression is barren land (saline-alkali land), you can use the waste, who can say what?"

"Then the minister will be relieved, that piece of land will be all built into houses, Your Majesty, it will be no problem to live tens of thousands of people!"

"I'm waiting, see you build this low-rent house, have someone build you a bronze statue in this area, and tell those people that this is your righteous deed!"

"The minister can't agree, it's Your Majesty who pays the money, and the minister is a porter!"

"Get out, get out, remember that this pastel porcelain won't be leaked!"

Heiwa hurriedly went back to the R&D center and gave a few people confidentiality training, so that they could practice the craft of drawing these days, and the remaining nine sets of porcelain were put away for him.

"When Your Majesty says that you can use it, I'll give it to you!"

Heiwa didn't expect that the gang of people in the Metropolitan Procuratorate would be so powerful, and they would return to Beijing in a month.

Xia Hongdi looked at the results of those investigations, and was furious, eager to raid those guys immediately! These Tao Governors, as well as those second stewards, are really capable.

not only bribed and won over the craftsmen, but also concealed the output, made an excess, colluded with those merchants, and sold it at a high price!

The group of fools who went out of the Ministry of Works, good craftsmen don't do it, and learn that set of crooked tendencies!

What a blind thing to learn about the craft!

Because the original workers in the cement mill were all retired soldiers, most of the people who worked in the cement mill were from the army.

The corruption situation is much better, although there are some bad debts, but compared to the porcelain workshop, it can be regarded as innocent.

The Son of Heaven was furious, what else could he do, from the magistrate to the pottery supervisor, and finally the craftsman who cooperated in the crime, not only did he vomit out what he ate, but his good official position was gone.

Qing County's Hao County Order, narrowly avoided this catastrophe, although he wanted to shoot the horse, love to invite the tile shop people to eat and drink, but also the tile shop tax and the county's employment.

People are plotting for career rather than money, but they also shocked him into a cold sweat, he is really a pig's brain, the two masters of the Zhongqin uncle's family, he didn't come back this time, he should be alert, he was really careless.

Except for Shudi, which has the shortest time to establish a workshop, none of the rest has been spared, and the Tao Governor has almost been wiped out, and there are many officials who have been affected in the capital who have been demoted and laid off.

The top Ministry of Industry Shangshu has been demoted, and the Ministry of Industry has directly come to a big purge, and now the officials who remain in the Ministry of Industry are trembling, they have only been shaking for a few years, and now they are directly dumb.

The people of the capital are still very sensitive to this kind of officialdom turmoil, especially in Renyazi, where not only slaves are buying and selling, but also Zhuangzi, shops, and houses are sold.

Yuan Lao Er and Yuan Lao San were all very happy, thanks to their brother who transferred them back, they shouldn't take it, but they really can't take it!

"Let's stay in the R&D center, it's too dangerous outside!"

"Yes, yes, yes, the moon we get here is so high, what is there to be dissatisfied?"

"In the future, we must supervise each other and remind each other, don't be calculated by others!"

Weak and helpless, they said that they were suitable for enjoying the shade under the big brother's tree.

In the palace, the companion reading group of six people was discussing: "We have divided more than 5,000 taels one after another, and we can start buying shops and houses.

"Then why don't you buy a shop first, let's buy one place, collect rent or something, and we can also manage it together!"

Even the crown prince agreed to do this, his more than 10,000 taels of silver, his father and queen mother let him do it at will, then he was really casual.

Cai Hanwen cried: "I only have more than 5,000 taels, is it enough to buy a shop?" He also fought during the Chinese New Year, and he just gave the silver he earned in front to his mother, and he had to take it himself.

In the end, he alarmed his grandfather, and he finally got the control in the future.

"I can lend it to you, and I'll pay it back when you get dividends!" Yuan Wenjie said that he could donate money for his brother.

"Thank you, Fifth Brother!" Well, it's really a good ranking.

On the day of Humu, a few people, escorted by the guards, walked around the capital, how could a life event like buying a shop be handed over to the next person!

"Don't say it, since we have public toilets and garbage cans, and there are special people to sweep the streets, the streets of our capital are too clean!"

"You used to be able to go shopping a lot, huh?"

"Anyway, there is always a chance to come out once a month, and if you see those old men wearing the same clothes, they are street sweepers!"

"Hehe, why don't I know, this is still my dad!"

"Zhongqin Bo is really powerful, now that the Yangliu River has become a scene, the river water is clear, and you can still cruise in the river in summer!"

"Hahaha, my dad is just amazing!"

"The hottest shops in Dongcheng right now, but we can't afford them, and they're more expensive now!"

"The shop at the south gate is actually not bad, but it's the gateway to the capital!"

"Selling a shop is buying a lot, followed by the shop itself, even if we buy it and renovate it!"

"Take a look at it, what's the hurry?"

"You don't understand, the money still has to be spent, it's your own!"

A few people went shopping again, and went to the tooth store again, and finally figured out the distribution of some shops in the capital. And several people are still on the street in the south of the city with a good location, and one of them bought a street shop.

The rent alone can earn six hundred taels of silver a year.