ps: Today's third chapter, it's very hard to write. Please give me a message to comfort me next month.

"So what you call burning porcelain by yourself is to take the semi-finished products that others have made and then send them to the kiln to burn..."

Zhu Shen was also very troubled and confused: "I really don't understand why you have to do this extra mile. Wouldn't it be enough to just buy the burned porcelain?"

"It's different, different." Qi Xiang shook her head and said, "And, I'm in a hurry to act like this. I really don't have time to do it myself, so I can only save steps like this."

Qi Xiang's words are half true and half false. Really, he really lacks time and cannot delay. What's false is that even if he is not in a hurry, he doesn't know how to make porcelain. So he plays to his strengths and avoids his weaknesses and directly orders a batch of semi-finished porcelain from Jingdezhen.

Although the kiln factory was very strange, I didn't understand why Qi Xiang was full and didn't want to put the already-fired porcelain, but she insisted on ordering these unfinished items. But in this world, the rich man is the old man. No matter what strange requests, as long as he pays enough real money, everything will go well.

As for the poor Qi Xiang, where did he get the money?

Hey, don’t you know that banks have a financial business called high interest... Cough, is it loan?

Qi Xiang used the manor as collateral and could lend a huge amount of funds at any time.

Speaking of which, he is also doing a gambling game. If he wins the bet, everyone will naturally be happy. If he loses the bet, he will probably give up the manor that has not been bought for a long time.

Qi Xiang sighed in her heart, but a smile appeared on her face: "Let's go, where have you placed your things? Take me to see."

"The warehouse..." Zhu Shen replied: "The things are very fragile. When I was transporting them just now, one of my employees accidentally broke a few pieces. Isn't it important?"

"It's okay!" Qi Xiang shook her head and walked out, saying, "Just let him compensate for the losses."

"...stingy!" Zhu Shen was stunned and expressed his contempt.

"I'm poor now, there's no way..." Qi Xiang replied. He is in debt now, so he naturally has to be careful and live a stingy life.

Zhu Shen naturally didn't believe it, thinking that Qi Xiang was joking, but he didn't know that this was the fact.

When the two arrived at the warehouse, they saw pieces of plain porcelain stacked layer by layer, like a hill. A rough estimate was that there were at least a few thousand pieces of these plain porcelain.

Each piece of plain porcelain is an unglazed and firing astringent body product, or a plate, a cup, a plate, or a cup. Anyway, it is all small and exquisite. The body is very thin and transparent.

"...You really want to burn these things?"

Zhu Shen couldn't help but speak, "These are thin porcelains. If you don't have any experience, you can't burn them randomly. If the heat is not controlled properly, the porcelain of a kiln will probably be destroyed."

Whether ceramics are good or not often depends on a fire. So in the minds of the world, ceramics are actually the art of fire. A piece of crude mud is reborn in the kiln and won a new life.

But how to control the fire becomes the key. If the fire is strong and the temperature is high, the ceramic may be burned out. The fire is weak and the temperature is low, and the desired effect cannot be achieved.

Zhu Shen often burns pottery. After watching the wind and fire for a long time, he will naturally understand the tricks.

"It's okay, at worst, I can ask an experienced master to help you." Qi Xiang said. If he wanted to burn a kiln, he would naturally investigate the process first. If he doesn't understand, he can spend money to hire someone.

"Tsk..."

Zhu Shen didn't understand even more and was confused: "It's all others, so why are you messing around?"

"I must have my own purpose, so you don't have to worry too much." Qi Xiang waved her hand and said, "Let the things be put here first, help me see them more strictly and don't break them."

"By the way..." Qi Xiang paused, turned around and asked, "Do your employees know how to apply glaze?"

"I understand, is this a basic skill? Even I understand it." Zhu Shen hesitated: "Do you want them to apply glaze for you?"

"Yes..." Qi Xiang nodded and said, "After applying glaze, you can open a kiln and fire it directly."

"Uh?" Zhu Shen's heart moved and asked, "Where is your glaze slurry now or to match it yourself?"

I have to say that Zhu Shen is also more sensitive and grasped the key to the matter at once.

If porcelain firing is the art of fire, then the deterioration of ceramics is the combination of water and fire. Needless to say, fire is high temperature, and the role of water is reflected in the glaze.

Glaze is a colorless or colored glassy thin layer covering the surface of ceramic products. This is a great invention of the ancients. From the most primitive pottery makeup soil to the clean and crystal glaze, it is a process of technological accumulation and gradual change.

There is an extra layer of glaze on the ceramic, which is not only beautiful, but also plays a protective role, which is easy to rinse, not easily eroded by dust and filth, and has a strong practical function.

Therefore, from the moment of the birth of glaze, it is destined to be popular. After thousands of years of careful research by ancient craftsmen, the use of glaze has become more and more colorful, reaching its peak.

Overglaze colors, underglaze colors, underglaze red, open pieces, doucai, etc. are all kinds of things, and there are countless.

"Haha, that's it..."

At the same time, Qi Xiang was also surprised by Zhu Shen's keen thinking, so he naturally had to hide it: "It's just glaze, aren't it all the same?"

"How is the same?" Zhu Shen frowned and said, "Qi Xiang, you are so amateur. Either you really don't understand, or you're just fooling me."

"It is common sense to use what kind of ceramics and what kind of glaze to match. It's like a person's clothes that must fit. When sewing clothes, you must have a comprehensive consideration of what kind of cloth to choose and what style to use."

Zhu Shen said in a casual manner: "If you also need to glaze ceramic products, you must also conduct a careful study to make the glaze adapt to the requirements of the ceramic blank. Among them, the appropriate coordination of the expansion coefficient between the glaze and the blank is a necessary condition for firing ceramics."

"If the expansion coefficient of the glaze is less than the expansion coefficient of the blank, the glaze layer will peel off during cooling. If the expansion coefficient of the glaze is greater than the expansion coefficient of the blank, the glaze layer will crack during cooling, and even damage the finished ceramic product."

Zhu Shen had the style of an expert and sneered: "You are born porcelain, so you are destined to be able to apply a thin layer of glaze. If you attach a thick layer of glaze, you will definitely be broken in the kiln when firing."

"...It's amazing." Qi Xiang exclaimed: "I can't tell, you really learned it with your heart."

"Don't change the topic." Zhu Shen said smartly: "Are you studying the new glaze recipe?"

"Suspect!" Qi Xiang said sincerely: "You guessed it all."

"You don't need to guess this at all, okay?" Zhu Shen said proudly: "A little analysis can lead to a conclusion. However, I can't understand. The Ceramics Research Institute and major kiln factories are studying new glaze recipes and improving core competitiveness. That's the duty. You are an outsider, why are you playing this?"

"I suddenly became interested and planned to make a try." Qi Xiang said vaguely: "Just treat me as a whim, learn from you rich second generation to spend a lot of money and spend money on your money."

"What kind of prodigality?"

At this moment, a voice came from behind. Qi Xiang and others looked back and saw Feng Gong walking into the warehouse from outside. He was also very surprised to see the thick pieces of porcelain in the warehouse.

"Where do these things come from?" Feng Gong said in confusion: "What did you do?"

The young people next to them suddenly shook their heads. They also knew that with their ability, it was okay to make ordinary pottery, but they would definitely not be able to make fine porcelain such as raw porcelain.

"Mr. Feng, this is bought by my friend."

At this time, Zhu Shen explained: "He wants to verify the formula of some new glaze and plans to burn porcelain test himself."

"Um?"

When Feng Gong heard this, his eyes flashed over Qi Xiang, his brows frowned slightly, and he muttered: "Nonsense! Do something random!"

After leaving a word, he left with no face.

Perhaps in his eyes, Zhu Shen's friends were like playboys. He could not accept the serious matter of burning porcelain as a game to play.

He was not willing to stay without seeing it.

"cough……"

Zhu Shen seemed to have become accustomed to it and twisted his head and explained: "Mr. Feng is a little arrogant, mainly because he is not familiar with you, so don't mind."

"I'm not that stingy." Qi Xiang waved her hand and said, "That's it today. I'll go back to mix the glaze and come here tomorrow."

"Whatever you..." Zhu Shen didn't care: "When you come, just call."

"good!"

Qi Xiang left, and was coming and going in a hurry. The next morning, he drove a car and carried a large tank over.

Zhu Shen also came with him. When he asked someone to help carry the large tank, he was also quite curious: "What kind of glaze are you?"

"It's just the glaze for porcelain firing. At most, some special ingredients are added. In essence, there should be nothing special." Qi Xiang said with a smile: "The main raw materials are feldspar, quartz, talc, and kaolin..."

"You are nonsense." Zhu Shen said angrily: "If you don't say it, I don't want to know it."

That being said, when several employees lifted the large cylinder down and opened the cylinder head, Zhu Shen couldn't help but come over to watch. At first glance, he was stunned and stunned.

"How come your glaze... is red?"

Zhu Shen was very puzzled. He opened his eyes wide and looked closely. He saw that the jar was covered with turbid milk slurry, with a turbid white background, which was no different from normal glaze. However, between the turbid white, there was a trace of bright red and blood-like pigment mixed with.

The mixture of red and white is clearly divided, and it is very unique.

"Do you know, there is glaze of this color?" Zhu Shen was not sure and turned around to ask a group of employees.

“Hmm?”

Several employees looked at it and shook their heads. They are also experienced experts in the ceramic industry and senior workers. Even if they are not very skilled in craftsmanship, they have no bad knowledge. However, they cannot recognize the red and white glaze in front of them.

Although the formula of glaze has been developed over the years and has been complicated and complicated. However, the fundamental components of glaze are still a few.
Chapter completed!