Chapter 54 Horse Training
November is coming in a blink of an eye, which is the first month of the current month.
The new furnace was finally built before Li Hong returned.
Wang Hua was preparing to open the furnace, but not to fire new porcelain, and to test the soil quality.
This is the beginning. In the past life, there were generally more than 80 procedures for firing fine porcelain. If it were the top fine porcelain, the procedures would reach more than 100 procedures. Of course, now, there are not so many procedures, and there are many procedures that cannot be achieved without scientific instruments. For example, modern porcelain burning, the temperature of the furnace fire is controlled at 800 degrees and 10000 degrees according to different needs. The temperature of the upper and lower is not 25 degrees, and the error of the exquisite porcelain is not allowed to be ten degrees.
Is it possible in the Tang Dynasty?
Not to mention various chemical instruments and equipment.
However, there are many procedures, and in order to be proficient in technology, workers are divided into raw material processing, cylinder wheel makers, bowl wheel makers, kiln loaders, kiln firing workers, kiln clearers, licensed workers, porters, and even painters, cage cutting workers, etc. The craftsmen are also divided into small pinch plates, large pinch plates, main pinch bottles, etc. Wang Hua's original profession was painters, and after firing out the original porcelain blanks, he picked out the colored work of drawing patterns. However, with Wang Hua's position, his job was already extraordinary and it was basically difficult to see on the market.
This is also the reason why Wang Hua bought people and sold the porcelain kiln. Now he is very indifferent to human resources, unless there are real talents. In fact, these grassroots workers are also very important.
However, after Wang Hua's improvement, such as loading a box, many workers have never done it, and this is also a familiar process of exploring and familiarity.
In fact, the experimental soil quality is easier to handle. The main thing is the subsequent matters, porcelain color and porcelain glaze.
This formula is the biggest key and difficulty in solving new porcelain. The formulas of different porcelain glazes are different. For example, white glaze is made of white alkali raw stone produced in Pingshan, north and south of Yuzhou. The black glaze is produced in Pengcheng, while black blue and white came from foreign countries, and Yuan blue and white also came from Bocian and Iraq in the Western Regions. Some of them now have conditions to find Wang Hua, while others are just sighing. This requires negotiation through the Dashi merchants to see if they can help. This is a vague hope. Even if they promise to help, they must wait until Wang Hua burns out the fine porcelain. After commercial exchanges, it is possible to help for the sake of trade. But even if it helps, they may not be able to find it.
There are also problems with technology. For example, making mud, some utensils must be made, using hydraulic power to speed up the beating speed and improve the fusion of mud. In this way, the original porcelain burned will be closer. In fact, half of it completely overturned the old craft.
Wang Hua called his father to discuss it. It was impossible to open a kiln once or several times to test the soil. It was too wasteful.
Therefore, by the way, his father was asked to burn porcelain, sandwich it in the middle, and conduct an experiment on different soil quality. In addition to this, there was also the need for workers to be hired again because another kiln was opened. This required his father's help.
These days, his son is building this new kiln in a strange way. Wang Yi has been watching it. Some can understand it, but some have given him some inspiration, but some don’t understand it. And seeing that this son is very cautious and has spared no expense around the cave, building a tall wall.
Since his son said that, he had to do so. Who said that now the son has given him power? Deep down in his heart, he also wanted to see what kind of porcelain this new furnace and new method would burn. So he hired workers, namely members of the Wang clan.
This is also what made Wang Yi distressed. Wang Hua's salary was too generous, which undoubtedly increased the cost of burning porcelain. If it weren't for his "advanced" technology, the price of the porcelain fired was higher than other porcelains, which increased the profits, it might have been because of Wang Hua's high salary, which eventually led to the porcelain kiln again.
This time, the Wang family invited someone.
Everyone knows that the Wang family waiter is promising, and the porcelain they burn is good, which means that the profit is high and the cave is not easy to collapse. However, what Wang Yi regrets is that many tribe members have come, but most of the skilled workers have signed contracts with their employers and dare not come.
Some tribe members have never touched porcelain work at all. What are these people going to do? Just apprenticeship, food and accommodation are their own, and they have to do a few years of work with their masters, and they have to give gifts for those who serve New Year and Festival. This is just a kind of apprenticeship. There is also a kind of apprenticeship that eats masters, and they usually take six or seven years to get beaten and scolded. They also have to help their masters do housework, fold quilts, carry urinals, cook and wash dishes, and even wash diapers and women's clothes. After three years of practice, they have learned almost all the skills and cannot get a master. They can continue to help their masters with three or four years of work to make a living independently.
Either do rough work in the kiln or transport the kiln, which is a very low salary. There is no shortage of these rough workmen in the kiln.
Seeing these tribe members begging, Wang Yi didn't know what to do. He directly rejected these tribe members. But his son's words that day were emitting light at the clan meeting, but now he refused, which was equivalent to slapping his son in the face.
At this time, Wang Hua walked out and said to Wang Yi: "My father, forget it, let them do it while letting them learn."
After this sentence was released, the tribe members were cheering.
This undoubtedly made the Wang family's reputation reach its peak among the Wang clan. Wang Yi had a bitter face and disagreed with his son's "kindness", and he didn't even want this reputation.
At this time, Li Hong came back and brought good news.
The emperor gave Wang Hua another 300 gold. This money was nothing in Luoyang, but it was placed in Qingshangu, which was a large amount. In addition, with the successful development of the new paper, Wang Hua also hired some tribe members to help, and this new paper would also bring income to the Wang family.
Forget it, don't care.
This son will lose and earn as well. It seems that the speed of earning exceeds the speed of defeat, so let him do it.
But Wang Hua couldn't be happy.
Lao Wu asked him to take the next scientific examination, which means formal statement, and let him enter the officialdom. He didn't like being an official, and he didn't like politics in his previous life. He had a stubborn temper and could not get enough in the officialdom. Moreover, the struggle for the court is complicated until more than ten years later, Li Longji's coup was successful, but there was also a fight between him, Longji and Princess Taiping, and the court was not stable until Princess Taiping was killed.
Now that I enter the officialdom, I may not even know how to die.
But what reason can I refuse?
Looking at Wang Hua's worried look, Li Hong asked in confusion: "Erlang, isn't this a good thing?"
"Okay, you're so angry," Wang Hua said angrily, stood up, and went to the porcelain kiln to check.
It is now mid-year. Every day when I get up early, the ground is covered with silver frost. Wang Hua's time is tighter. Because spring comes, he must realize what he said at the clan meeting, transforming a large number of fields to allow the tenants of the Wang surname to cultivate with some tribes.
This is not mountainous land, but farming. Now landlords have to find ways to gather land, but even if they have money, they may not be able to buy it. However, Wang Hua has other tricks, but time is urgent.
The porcelain kiln is preparing in full swing.
At this time, an uninvited guest came to his house.
After seeing this, Wang Hua quickly gave a gift, Lord Ji Xuji. Then he served tea and asked, "Good Master Ji, why did you run to our cold land?"
Ji Xu was not Li Longji, nor Li Guer, but a dignified prime minister. This puzzled Wang Hua.
Ji Xu sighed and said, "Don't you know yet?"
"What do you know?"
Ji Xu thought about it, so he stayed in this mountain village and the news was not very well-informed. So he told the whole story.
Ji Xu argued in front of Wu Zetian because of the achievements of Emperor Wu Yizong of Zhaozhou. In fact, this was also the reason why he served as prime minister. Seeing that Wu Zetian's temper was getting a little gentle and arrogant, Wu Zetian was unhappy and said to others in his heart: "Today, I look down on all the martial arts in front of me, and I am not in the world in the future!" Ji Xu didn't know about this, and a few days later, Wu Zetian suddenly said angrily: "In the past, Taizong had a master who could not train his horse. I said to Emperor Taizong that I could control it, but I need three things, whip, iron hammer, and dagger. The whip was covered, and the hammer was not accepted. The hammer was broken with a dagger. Taizong strengthened my ambitions. Today you are qualified to defile my dagger."
Hearing this, Ji Xu sweated his back.
Wang Hua was sweating and was thinking of how to reject Wu Zetian. This famous story was unexpectedly reported from the reprimanding Ji Xu. This also reminded him of Wu Zetian's character of being upright and deceased. He was actually bold and wanted to reject Wu Zetian's kindness!!!
Chapter completed!