Chapter 96 New Career

"What is this?" Guan Yinhang could naturally recognize that the walls were neatly arranged into murals, but he didn't know how to call this method of stacking small squares into patterns.

"What do you mean by love?" Ye Tao shrugged indifferently. He looked a little embarrassed now, and his work clothes were covered with wall dust, cement and fine porcelain chips. Ye Tao, who had been tossing with mosaics for a day, was very tired. Just in the moment of carelessness, a hole was already cut on his arm by the sharp porcelain edge.

Although it is indeed the form and technique of mosaic, Ye Tao knew that this name might not be easy to use. It is very difficult to transplant this noun from transliteration to this era. He could not explain why the porcelain piece was suddenly associated with three completely unrelated characters after being cut into regular small squares.

Guan Yinhang looked carefully at the murals that had been posted on the wall, and after a while, he asked inconscientiously: "Is Yunyao making too few colors? I will ask the master to open the kiln and cook a batch for you."

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "There is no need to open a kiln specifically. Using Yun Kiln products to apply for walls is too luxurious. I just saw that there were a large number of fragments, so I just made some fun. The material of Yun Kiln is indeed very comfortable, with a gentle color, and a faint sense of transparency. I only played this thing so much. In the future, I have to make porcelain pieces and burn some ordinary kilns. This kind of thing is not too difficult."

Guan Yinhang's mind was spinning rapidly, weighing whether this could become a business, but then he felt a little disappointed. Indeed, he could make porcelain pieces of various colors for Ye Tao to play with, and let Ye Tao play with various gorgeous murals, but what if he changed? As the housekeeper, Guan Yinhang's Shaodong, after dealing with pottery and porcelain for many years, he understood very well what decorative art is. Decorating porcelain and pottery with glaze or bas relief is a popular decorative form for the public, but designing various decorations to make various auspicious patterns present.

Masters who have a more one-sided understanding of art. These people can draw beautiful decorative design patterns, and use their dexterous hands to turn the things they painted on paper into beautiful decorations attached to pieces of porcelain and pottery, becoming an integral part of those porcelain and pottery with different shapes. Even the butler's masters can copy the ink paintings and fine brushwork of famous painters on porcelain bottles with glaze. Even the smudge effect of ink paintings seems to be simulated. But if they want to draw something like that, they will be unable to do so. This may be the difference between craftsmen and literati.

"Just posting this thing on the wall is just a fur path. In Baishi City, I can't make more tricks. There is no studio here." Ye Tao said with some regret.

"Is this thing of the past use besides decorating the wall?" Guan Yinhang said in confusion.

"Of course, this thing is posted on the wall, especially the interior walls of the building. It is much waterproof than lime or something." Ye Tao sighed a little. In his original era, there were too many types of waterproof paints available on the wall, and latex paint brands were as many as TV stations' channels. Various products with different functions made the mosaic process one of countless choices that people could make.

Guan Yinhang frowned and said, "What should be done for waterproofing the inner wall?"

"This...If I have the chance to return to Danyang, let you see how I use it." Ye Tao smiled mysteriously.

Guan Yinhang couldn't take care of that much. Anyway, the difference between knowing earlier and knowing later is not that big. He thought about it for a long time and came up with a simple and intuitive name for the mosaic of this era: "Pinciding Porcelain". When asking Ye Tao about how to turn porcelain into a business, he once again learned about Ye Tao's outstanding mind in doing business, especially this very alternative business.

Ye Tao’s suggestion to Guan Yinhang is to take a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, some ready-made decorative pattern products with ten squares, fifteen squares, twenty squares, and twenty squares can be launched. These things can be used separately. They are used on courtyard walls without windows and used as some kind of individual decorations. These patterns can also be arranged and piled up the entire wall. Simple decorative patterns are arranged, and the effect is quite good. In order to match the use of these decorative pattern products, a whole piece of monochrome products should naturally be launched to facilitate users to design and plan the pattern. This kind of product production is very simple, and you can use mud to put porcelain pieces on thick paper or coarse cloth. In terms of current market prices and product properties, it seems that using the cheapest fine linen is more cost-effective.

On the other hand, it is simply to be a supplier of porcelain products. Don’t worry about what other people use porcelain to make. The key to this business is not production, but sales. Guan Yinhang can find some bustling streets in cities, find some blank walls, and carefully design a batch of porcelain murals to attract the attention of passers-by. As long as the reputation spreads, people will naturally want to play like this in their homes, outside their own shops, or in some places. Although this kind of porcelain production is in control, it is important to master it.

Any merchant with porcelain burning technology can be said to be no difficulty, but as long as Guan Yinhang can ensure that its products have the most uniform quality and richest colors, it will still achieve good sales results. There is no technical difficulty in the industry like porcelain. Then the key question is whether it can seize the opportunity when this industry is rising, and whether it can ensure its leading position in the industry when the market is stable. Rich product lines and good after-sales service will become the key.

In addition to these, Ye Tao also suggested that Guan Yinhang try to make glass mosaics. Only a few merchants have mastered the firing technology of glass. The main problem is that the impurities in the materials cannot be removed, but for firing mosaics, impurities are not a problem at all.

Guan Yinhang was very happy to imagine how to do this business in detail. While having a lot of conversations with Ye Tao, Guan Yinhang's name of Ye Tao became an extremely close "Brother Ye".

A few days later, Guan Yinhang had to look for Ye Tao to discuss in detail whether the production of ceramic parts could establish another new industry. The composition of clay that can be collected near Baishicheng is very special, with extremely high hardness and excellent wear resistance. The lifespan of ceramic parts in the same shape is more than twice as high as that of wooden parts. And the use of molds to mass produce parts of uniform size is much simpler than that of wooden parts. Although ceramic parts may be slightly inferior to metal parts, and there will be problems with accuracy, as long as they are not used in clocks, some equipment that can be used in daily use, or in some large-scale military equipment, it is still very useful.

Guan Yinhang's inspiration comes from the blower mechanism of the Yunkiln made according to Ye Tao's drawings. The coaxial fan composed of ceramic components is run smoothly. Ye Tao recommends that the molds made must be kept well so that the parts will be replaced by damaged parts in the future. However, it has proved that these ceramic parts have excellent properties. In places like coaxial air ducts, where there is no impact force, the lifespan of these parts may be as long as one year... To be honest, these days, they are mainly made of more than two parts. No merchant dares to say that there is no problem in a year. Even the IKEA Home Furnishings and Tissot Watch Stores, which Ye belongs to, only provide service commitments for one year free maintenance and three years of paid maintenance.

Ye Tao didn't say anything else, but just drew several parts, especially several gears, and then asked Guan Yinhang to test the production batch. He also said that as long as the quality was in place, he would directly order a batch on behalf of Ye's workshop. While excitedly starting the trial production, Guan Yinhang did not forget to write these things in the letter and report these things to Princess Zhaohua. He had already vaguely realized that if the two businesses of porcelain and ceramic parts could be combined with the original position, technical accumulation, etc. in the ceramic industry, and with Ye Tao's strong technical support, it is very likely to develop into an industry with extremely broad development prospects. In the letter, he said that he wanted to divide a considerable portion of the shares held by the housekeeper so that Ye Tao could combine with the housekeeper's ceramic industry.

Unexpectedly, when the princess' reply came, it was attached with a document. Tan Weixin divided one-third of the shares held by her own Qingning behavior, which was used by the housekeeper to sell her own products, and handed over to Ye Tao. The letter attached was a receipt for the housekeeper to leave a certificate. In the letter, Tan Weixin gave a clear instructions to Guan Yinhang for the development of the manufacturing of ceramic parts and other products, and asked Guan Yinhang to open the branch of Qingning to Danyang before the blood Qi army gathered, so that after Guan Yinhang returned to the blood Qi army, he remotely controlled the kiln area of ​​Baishicheng, and continuously obtained new technical support and more orders. Tan Weixin said in the letter that her things were no different from Ye Tao's things, which made people feel the important position of Ye Tao in Tan Weixin's mind.
Chapter completed!