South Salzburg, Mbeya.

"The kiln is open!" With a shout.

The workers who had been waiting next to the kiln for a long time used iron fibers to open the kiln mouth, and then a stream of hot gas gushed out from the kiln mouth.

"How about a quick look?"

At the urging of the factory director, the heavily armed workers entered the kiln and began to carry the freshly fired porcelain, and now the weather in Mbeya is about 17 degrees, so even if you put on cotton clothes and stay outside, it is not too hot, but you can feel the surging heat when you enter the kiln.

After a moment of grinding, the sagger was carefully taken out by the workers, and under everyone's expectations, the master began to knock on the sagger.

"Alas! It's a pity, this bottom and sagger are connected, the next one! ”

The start is unfavorable, so the next sagger is opened.

"This glaze is not qualified, next!"

In the end, all the saggers were opened, and the results were unsatisfactory, the finished product rate was only 15 percent, the quality of the finished product was also poor, the production was rough, the inner bottom was unglazed, and the aesthetics were poor, but this result was already in line with everyone's expectations.

"For the first time! It is very good to have this result, we don't have to be discouraged, continue to improve the process, I believe that our Mbeya Ceramics Factory will lead the kingdom's ceramic manufacturing industry in the future. The mayor of Mbeya comforted.

The porcelain produced by the Mbeya Ceramics Factory is coarse porcelain, that is, porcelain used by the common people, like the porcelain in the palace of Konstantin was imported from the Far East.

The city of Mbeya is rich in kaolin resources, and the initial survey of the East African government is about 3 million tons, which is a bonus to the search for coal mines, which is why the first porcelain factory in East Africa was located in the city of Mbeya.

At present, civilian utensils in East Africa are mainly wood products or pottery products, such as porcelain, which is absolutely rare.

East African porcelain, excluding court porcelain, is mainly found in the coastal regions of East Africa, from Mogadishu to Mtwara, and even in the hinterland of Zimbabwe.

However, almost all of these porcelains were products of the Far East, and they only flowed to East Africa along trade routes, so the porcelain fired by the Mbeya Ceramics Factory was regarded as the first batch of African porcelain.

East African porcelain technology mainly comes from Yanzhou Yixian in the Far East, and each group of immigrants to East Africa has a basic file, so special attention will be paid to professional talents.

In fact, porcelain firing is not a secret in Europe, and many porcelain factories exist, but the original East African immigrants were mainly rural people in Germany and the Far East.

European porcelain, on the other hand, is not for ordinary people, and its popularity is far less than that of the Far East, so the skilled workers of the Mbeya Ceramics Factory are mainly from the Far East.

Among them, it is mainly based on Qi Village, Qi Village, which has a long history of pottery making, the pottery industry in the Tang Dynasty flourished, and the Yuan Dynasty developed to its peak, showing the prosperity of every kiln fire and every household making pottery, which has continued to the present.

That is to say, there are more local people who make a living from this, and take the hitchhike of East African immigrants, there are also many people in Qi Village to East Africa, and the people in Qi Village in the Mbeya Ceramic Factory are about thirty percent.

Although Qicun has a long history of firing ceramics, it is not very famous, after all, it is mainly a folk product.

If technical requirements are needed, East Africa can send people to Jingdezhen to learn from experience, and it can also obtain technology from Europe, but it is not necessary.

The establishment of the Mbeya Ceramics Factory is already a concession for Ensst, after all, the needs of East African residents can be met with wooden and pottery utensils, and it is enough to fire a little coarse porcelain to enrich the products in the East African franchised stores, and as for the direct import of medium and high-end porcelain products, there is no need to make porcelain in East Africa at the moment.

Of course, the main reason is, who buys the porcelain produced? Not to mention competing with the Far East, it is impossible to compete with European countries, and if you can't make money from production, you naturally have no motivation to promote.

At present, East Africa is mainly promoting the glass manufacturing industry, because a large number of Venetians have entered East Africa, which has provided convenience for the development of glass manufacturing industry in East Africa.

The level of Venetian glassmaking is world-renowned, and if there are many immigrants from Jingdezhen in East Africa, then East Africa will definitely promote the development of the porcelain industry.

Of course, Jingdezhen is only a representative porcelain production area for Far Eastern porcelain, and there is no need for Ernst to only stare at Jingdezhen. There is also a huge demand for glass to win, and that is that there is indeed a huge demand in East Africa.

First of all, glass can also be used to make utensils and porcelain overlapping functions, but the windows used in East African architecture must be made of glass, and a large number of glass was imported from Europe to decorate the construction of the palace.

Even the glass of the royal palace is imported, which is a bit unreasonable, not to mention, the demand for many government buildings in East Africa is not small, as well as civilian houses.

Although the East African houses have been unified into the German architectural style, the lighting is basically non-existent, and the windows are basically a whole wooden plank, which is opened during the day to let the sunlight shine in, and then closed at night to prevent mosquitoes from entering.

In addition to the need for glass windows, East Africa also takes into account the needs of scientific research in East Africa in the future, although there is no scientific research capacity in East Africa at present, but sooner or later it will step on this step, and experimental equipment, such as test tubes, lenses, etc., need glass.

In addition to the professional workers in Venice, the Hexingen Commodity Company, a subsidiary of the Hexingen Foundation, was instructed by Ernst to set up a technical group to study the large-scale production of glass.

One of the most important is to overcome the production process of flat glass, for which Heixingen Commodity has signed cooperation agreements with several German universities.

This is also the layout of the future automobile industry, and the earliest cars did not have windshields. To protect against inclement weather, insects, and flying leaves and dust on the road, drivers and passengers often use goggles.

Although the development of flat glass may not necessarily be applied to automobiles first, after all, glass is a dangerous and fragile product, and it is dangerous to use it rashly in automobiles, but it will always be used.

As for when to install glass for cars, it depends on the needs of the market, when people are no longer satisfied with the car without covering, the Heixinggen consortium can take the lead in launching automotive glass, technology, is to squeeze toothpaste, a little bit to squeeze out other people's wallets.

Of course, it's fantasy time, and the Heiheungen Foundation has neither flat glass nor cars, and it needs to continue to work hard to achieve these two things.

In other words, Benz is still improving the engine, trying to make the engine smaller and increase its power.

Under Ernst's instructions, the frame has a rough goal, but how to operate, as well as the mechanical structure design, etc., are still far away, and it is optimistic that it will take several years for the Hexingen consortium to launch the first practical car.

As for why it took so long, it was to make the car quite perfect when it was launched, and the more complex process and lower production cost allowed the plagiarists to explode on the spot, so as to avoid the car structure being too simple, and ordinary people could imitate it by hand.

In addition, there is another reason, that is, waiting for East Africa for a few years, the automobile industry must start from East Africa, if this fist product is first produced in East Africa, it will be of great use to enhance the international influence of East Africa in the future, and at the same time, it can also lay the first-mover advantage of the East African Kingdom in the automobile industry.

(End of chapter)