Time Smuggling Starting from the Year 2000

Betheger recruited more than 20 assistants, and 50 or 60 farmers did some heavy work, such as mixing water and mud together.

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

Huang Xuan pretended to read it twice, but naturally got nothing.

Chu Yining also didn't understand the making of porcelain, but just looked at Huang Xuan from the side without saying a word.

Augustus II sat down at a position away from the stove, and whispered to Betheger, somewhat intending to test Huang Xuan's authenticity. Today he called all the field cavalry over. He thought that Huang Xuan could be buried with a javelin. He thought his safety was guaranteed, and now he just wanted to see if he was worth using.

Huang Xuan naturally understood, he asked Li Shenggang to bring experts here as early as when he came, but before that, he had to wait for his reply. Communication is like a phone call, but now it has been changed to a text message.

Li Shenggang knew that Jingdezhen produced porcelain, and he asked someone to invite a legendary master, so of course it was still from Jingdezhen. Huang Xuan hurriedly asked, "Master Zhao, I'm right next to the stove, what do you think?" what to do?"

This Master Zhao is worthy of being a master. He is well-informed. He may have seen people like Huang Xuan who stand by the stove and ask for advice. He explained to him slowly: "You have to choose the ingredients first. If it is a big The lump of hard material should be roughly crushed, and the rest should be 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 is different, modern technology is ahead of the times. He tilted his head to look at the soil that the farmers on the construction site were soaking, and thought that it was similar to those machines, so he said: "I seem to have selected materials here. Next, should I deposit the mud and dry it? Embryo paste?"

He said it while looking at the introduction on the energy screen.

Taking advantage of the pause between the master's answers, Huang Xuan turned around and asked Betger, "Did you use the soil from the ceramic soil layer?"

Betger came to Saxony because His Excellency Augustus dug up the precious pottery soil layer. He held his head up in disdain and said, "That's right."

Huang Xuan said "oh", he doesn't know how to choose ingredients. If something goes wrong because of the soil layer, it is useless to change 100 masters.

Over there, Master Zhao said again: "It is to make embryo mud. There is a formula for this. It is best to use a mud squeezer to control the water. It is better to have a 25% appearance. Then use a mud refining machine to rough it, and finally Put it into the mud storehouse to stale, and the previous work will be completed."

Huang Xuan stared straight, and said simply: "Master Zhao, I'm in Germany. They have a small town called Meissen, do you know? In Saxony, I use its soil. Play There was no machinery at the time."

The clay layer is actually no longer in Meissen, but Huang Xuan thinks it's easier to express it clearly, because there are no other clay layers in Saxony.

"That's it." The master's voice came over for a while, and he said without any change: "There are two points in firing porcelain. The first is the raw material, and the second is the temperature. If you play by yourself, you can make it finer when practicing clay. First of all, all the dross should be removed. There must be no impurities in the soil. Knead with hands and pedal. In short, all the air inside should be squeezed out, and the moisture should be even. However, the porcelain they produce is white porcelain. It's not easy to burn."

Huang Xuan said "En", looked at the mud all over the floor, rubbed his hands together and said, "Come here some, and clean this basin of mud for me."

Chu Yining saw Huang Xuan standing in front of the stove in a daze, and he wanted to watch the excitement, but at this moment he seemed to have regained his senses. Commander Dong and Commander West also came to the spirit and asked: "Are you still alive?" Learned ancient industry?"

"Learning blindly." Huang Xuan lied and said: "Back then, I saw a little girl who was pretty, so I took lessons with her, and now it's useful."

"What about the little girl?"

"People don't like wild rabbits." Huang Xuan said without thinking, suddenly put his foot on a German who was rubbing mud below, and said, "Be more careful."

Chu Yining translated with a smile, but she didn't object to Huang Xuan's actions. Perhaps in her opinion, this was the right way.

According to what Master Zhao said, Huang Xuan recounted it again, and Betger saw that he was doing well, so he didn't make sarcastic remarks, and looked at it carefully.

The soft porcelain produced by Europeans is not a bad porcelain in the eyes of people in the 21st century. A kind of soft porcelain---bone china, which is soft porcelain made from crushed beef leg bone, became a best-selling product for a while. It is completely different from the attitude of Europeans towards porcelain.

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

Such soil naturally requires a low temperature when firing porcelain, and hard porcelain can be fired at about 100 degrees, while Europeans also use a furnace temperature of 1000 degrees to burn pottery, and they even use 1200 degrees to burn What comes out is also soft porcelain. It’s not that the Europeans are too stupid. God didn’t give them a good environment. In the end, they had to raise the temperature to 1300 degrees and found the current clay layer, so there was hope for firing. In Jingdezhen, in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, when the Germans desperately wanted to make their own porcelain, they only raised the furnace temperature to 1200 degrees. As a result, they used kaolin to burn out Yuan blue and white porcelain.

The Chinese back then couldn't imagine the pitiful appearance of Europeans, but now Master Zhao understands it, and keeps saying to Huang Xuan: "The first thing to control is the temperature. If you use 800 degrees, it can only be called ceramics. The temperature must be up to standard…”

He was rambling on, and Huang Xuan listened to him. To Chu Yining: "You whisper to this Betger, I will teach him a way to increase the temperature of the furnace."

After Chu Yining's complete report, she said: "You want to use Betger to control this country.

"No." 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 life."

According to history, Betheg got a one-year monopoly, and his hands were soft.

Chu Yining seemed to like this way of handling, or rather, this way of handling was what she was used to.

After translating, Betger withdrew his gaze from turning around Chu Yining. Some looked at Huang Xuan in disbelief and said, "What can you do?".

"Pine wood." Huang Xuan still said through Chu Yining: "The temperature of the sun-dried pine wood is higher than your current method, and the position of the furnace door and the position of the air supply have to be changed. To be precise, the entire furnace must be changed." It has been changed. It is said that there are still some tricks."

Master Zhao didn't need to explain these things, Lorraine could find ready-made pictures to show Huang Xuan, so he drew on the bottom like a cat or a tiger. Anyway, the furnace temperature is the only requirement, and nothing else is a problem. Even if it burns out a lump, as long as it is hard porcelain, it can scare the Germans to death.

The more Huang Xuan said, the more Betger believed it. Later, he simply kicked Augustus II out.

Strong 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 his mistress will be even more generous. Besides, he really doesn't like smoky scenes, it would be nice if he can prove that the Chinese people in front of him are not fooling around.

Huang Xuanda sat on the chair and gave orders, while the seductive little translator sat on the stool and opened and closed his mouth.

So classmate Xiao Huang thought of the wild rabbit again. The so-called "red sleeves add fragrance. Wild rabbits live a lifetime, and life is also happy." I really stayed here for a few months. It seems that it is not unacceptable.

Two hours later, Betger was as obedient as a domestic rabbit. Huang Xuan asked him to wash the mud, and he jumped on it to play with the mud. Huang Xuan asked him to roast pine wood, and he rushed to make a fire. Except for the two closest lands , He kicked out all the servants and workers, it seems that the secret recipe will not be passed on to the outside world.

Huang Xuan also thought so, Chu Yining could use hundreds of kilowatt-hours of electricity at any time, and a thunderbolt would kill Betheg. In this case, it would be equivalent to controlling the technology of porcelain in disguise. I really have to study hard with Master Zhao for two months.

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

Betger was an expert in the 18th century. How could he doubt Huang Xuan's skills at this moment, and he kept praising him, probably knowing that praise was free.

Chu Yining translated a few sentences but became bored, and suddenly rubbed her fingers together, creating a ball of lightning above Betger's head.

Betteger was "communicating" with Chu Yining in fear.

Huang Xuan felt that Miss Chu might be really good at coercion and temptation. After a few minutes, Betger stammered and said, "Mr. Huang, let me be your apprentice?"

The guild system in this era has not completely collapsed, and the factory is full of masters and apprentices—the master is the worker with the greatest power, just like an executive in the 21st century, and the apprentice is the apprentice who does not have complete freedom in life. Give the master 5 to 10 years for nothing. In some departments, it takes 20 years for an apprentice to become a master. Before that, his income is lower than that of a farmer, and he is the most statusless worker. Bethge kept two apprentices instead of workers because he had the right to them. If the latter leaked their technology, they would be severely punished by the guild.

As Huang Xuan's apprentice, he will again have the responsibility of keeping secrets.

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

Bettger carefully stretched out five fingers and said, "Five years."

He had a good idea, and with a 5-year apprenticeship, he could get the technology that the Germans dreamed of for 200 years. But Huang Xuan didn't care, just let him be a wild rabbit, and it would be boring to do it for 5 years, not to mention that without him, Betger should have produced experimental white porcelain in three or two years, but without Betger, It would be troublesome for him to produce white porcelain. Thinking of this, he said without hesitation: "Then ask Mr. Augustus to be a witness."

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