Betegue recruited more than 0 assistants, and there were fifty or sixty farmers doing rough work, such as mixing water and mud.
They built three stoves, all with temperatures around 1,000 degrees, using mainly charcoal.
Huang Xuan pretended to read it twice, but naturally found nothing.
Chu Yining also didn't understand the making of porcelain, so she just looked at Huang Xuan from the side without saying a word.
Augustus II sat down far away from the stove and talked to Betege in a low voice, somewhat intending to check the authenticity of Huang Xuan. Today he called all the field cavalry over, thinking that he could bury Huang Xuan with a javelin. He thought that his safety was guaranteed, but now he wanted to see if he was valuable.
Huang Xuan naturally understood. He asked Li Shenggang to bring experts as early as when he arrived. But before that, he had to wait for people's reply in two circles. In the past, when traveling in time and space, dimensional communication seemed to be Phone calls have now been changed to text messages.
Li Shenggang also knew that Jingdezhen produced porcelain, and asked someone to hire a legendary master, who was naturally from Jingdezhen. Huang Xuan exchanged a few words and then asked quickly: "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 and is well-informed. He may have seen people like Huang Xuan who stood by the stove before asking for advice. He slowly explained to him: "You have to choose the ingredients first. If it is big The hard materials should be coarsely crushed, and the rest should be finely crushed into dry powder with a Raymond mill, and then ground into a slurry with a ball mill... "
Huang Xuan had a dark look on his face. The master is different. Modern technology is ahead of the times. He tilted his head and looked at the farmer helping him soaking the soil. He thought it was similar to those machines, so he said: "I seem to have one here. After selecting the materials, is the mud then dried and made into embryo mud? "
He said this while looking at the introduction on the energy screen.
Taking advantage of the pause in the master's answer, Huang Xuan turned around and asked Betege: "Are you using soil from the ceramic soil layer?"
Berteg came to Saxony just because His Excellency Augustus dug up the precious ceramic soil layer. At this moment, he held his head high and said disdainfully: "That's right."
Huang Xuan said "Oh", he didn't know how to choose materials. If something went wrong because of the soil layer, it would be useless to replace 100 masters.
Master Zhao over there said again: "We are making embryo mud. There is a formula for this. It is best to use a mud press to control the water. Twenty-five percent is better, and then use a mud grinder to make it rough, and finally Once it is put into the mud warehouse, the previous work is completed.”
Huang Xuan's eyes widened and he said simply: "Master Zhao, I live in Germany. They have a small town called Meissen. Do you know? In that place in Saxony, I use its soil. There are no machines when playing.”
The clay layer is not actually in Meissen, but Huang Xuan felt that it would be easier to express it clearly because there are no other clay layers in Saxony.
"That's it." The old master's voice came over for a while, and he said without any change: "There are two points in making porcelain. The first is the raw materials, and the second is the temperature. If you play by yourself, you can make the clay more finely. , first of all, all the dregs must be removed, and there must be no impurities in the soil. Knead it with your hands and step on it with your feet. In short, you must squeeze out all the air inside and make the moisture even. However, the porcelain they produce is white porcelain. It’s not easy to burn.”
Huang Xuan said "yes", looked at the mud on the ground, rubbed his hands and said, "Come here and clean this pot of mud for me."
Chu Yining saw Huang Xuan standing in front of the stove in a daze. He was just looking at the excitement, but at this moment, he seemed to have come back to his senses. He was directing in the east and directing in the west. He also became more energetic and asked: "Are you still there?" Learned ancient industry?”
"I learned it blindly." Huang Xuan lied and said: "At that time, I saw a pretty girl, so I took classes with her, and now I can put it to use."
"What about the little girl?"
"People don't like wild rabbits." Huang Xuan said in a confused manner, suddenly put his foot on a German who was rubbing the mud below and said, "Make it thinner."
Chu Yining smiled and translated, but she didn't object to Huang Xuan's actions. Maybe in her opinion, this was the right thing to do.
According to Master Zhao's statement, Huang Xuan recounted it again. Seeing that he did it in a decent manner, Betege stopped making sarcastic remarks and read it carefully.
The soft porcelain produced by Europeans was not bad porcelain in the eyes of people in the 1st century. The Chinese had been using hard porcelain by some strange mistake and did not know about soft porcelain at all. As a result, in the mid-19th century, China invented He invented a kind of soft porcelain - bone china, which is soft porcelain made from ground cow leg bones. It became a best-selling product for a while. The attitude towards porcelain is completely different from that of Europeans.
There are many reasons for this, the main difference is the firing temperature and raw materials. The kaolin clay used by the Chinese, such as that from Jingdezhen, has a high iron content. Even before the Yuan Dynasty, the iron content of the porcelain stone used in Jingdezhen was about 0.5%. By the time kaolin clay with an iron content of 0.7% to 1% appeared, Jingdezhen is completely famous. The so-called "water and soil are suitable for pottery", it can be said that it is uniquely endowed by nature.
Such soil naturally requires low temperatures when firing porcelain. Hard porcelain can be fired at about 1,000 degrees. However, Europeans also use a furnace temperature of 1,000 degrees, but what they produce is pottery. They even use 100 degrees to bake porcelain. What came out was also soft porcelain. It was not that the Europeans were too stupid, but God did not provide them with a good environment. In the end, they had to increase the temperature to 100 degrees and found the current clay layer, so they had hope of firing it. In Jingdezhen during the Yuan Dynasty, when the Germans began desperately trying to make their own porcelain, they only raised the furnace temperature to 100 degrees. As a result, Yuan blue and white porcelain was produced using kaolin clay. The blue and white porcelain was the result of a single calcination with a high-temperature reduction flame.
The Chinese at that time could not imagine the pitiful appearance of Europeans, but now Master Zhao understands and kept telling Huang Xuan: "The first thing to control is the temperature. What you use at 800 degrees can only be called ceramics. The temperature must be up to standard…”
Huang Xuan listened and said to Chu Yining: "Whisper to this guy named Betege and I will teach him a way to increase the furnace temperature."
Chu Yining relayed the complete story and said: "Do you want to use Betege to control this king?"
"No." Huang Xuan said with a smile: "He will never take the initiative to teach the king the details. This is a lot of money. And we can easily control his life."
According to history, Betege got the exclusive rights for 10 years, and his money was soft.
Chu Yining seemed to like this way of handling things, or in other words, this way of handling things was what she was used to.
After the translation, Betege retracted his eyes that were wandering around Chu Yining, looked at Huang Xuanda 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 air supply position must be changed. To be precise, the entire furnace is It’s been changed, and I heard there are some tips.”
Master Zhao didn't need to explain these things. Lorraine could find ready-made pictures for Huang Xuan to see, and he started drawing them like a cat and a tiger. Anyway, the furnace temperature is the only requirement, and everything else is not a problem. Even if what is burned is just a lump, as long as it is hard porcelain, it can scare the Germans to death.
The more Huang Xuan said, the more Betege believed it. Later, he simply kicked Augustus II out.
King Qiang left with a smile on his face. He was a loyal porcelain fan, but he also spent a lot of money. If porcelain could make him a lot of money, he would have more money to give to his mistress. Furthermore, he really didn't like the smoky scene. It would be nice if he could prove that the Chinese in front of him were not fooling around.
Huang Xuan sat on the chair and gave instructions, while the eye-catching little translator sat on the stool and opened and closed his mouth.
Then classmate Xiao Huang thought of wild rabbits again. As the saying goes, "Red sleeves add fragrance, and wild rabbits bring joy to life." It seems that it is not unacceptable to stay here for a few months.
After two hours passed, Betege was as obedient as a domestic rabbit. When Huang Xuan asked him to wash the mud, he jumped on it and played with it. When Huang Xuan asked him to roast pine wood, he rushed forward to create a fire. Except for his two closest disciples, , he kicked out all the domestic workers, and it seemed that he would not let the secret recipe spread.
Huang Xuan also thought so. Chu Yining could use hundreds of kilowatt-hours of electricity at any time to kill Betege with a thunderclap. In this case, it was equivalent to controlling the porcelain technology in disguise. Without professionals like Betege, he I really need to study hard with Master Zhao for two months.
The first piece of porcelain was fired quickly. The furnace temperature seemed to be a bit low. The temporarily modified furnace did not meet the standards, but the beige color was already very light, and white even appeared in some places. According to European standards, this is actually hard porcelain. and the middle area of soft porcelain.
Betegue was an expert in the 18th century. How could he still doubt Huang Xuan's skills at this moment? He kept praising him, probably knowing that praise was free.
Chu Yining translated a few sentences but became bored. She suddenly rubbed her fingers and made a ball of lightning above Betege's head.
Betege was "communicating" with Chu Yining in fear.
Huang Xuan felt that Miss Chu might be really good at coercion and inducement. Within a few minutes, he saw Betege stammering and said: "Mr. Huang, will you let me be your apprentice?"
The guild system of this era has not completely collapsed, and factories are full of masters and apprentices - the master is the worker with the greatest rights, just like the executives in the 1st century, and the apprentice is the apprentice who does not have complete freedom in life, and usually has to work for free for the master 5 to 10 years. In some departments, it takes 0 years for an apprentice to become a master. Before that, his income is lower than that of a farmer and he is the worker with the lowest status. Beteger kept two apprentices instead of workers because he had rights over them. If the latter leaked their skills, they would be severely punished by the guild.
As Huang Xuan's apprentice, he will once again bear the responsibility of keeping secrets.
Huang Xuan didn't know much about Germany, but he knew the European guild system. After all, he had experienced it many times, so he asked: "How many years do you want to do it?"
Betege carefully stretched out five fingers and said: "Five years."
His abacus was very good. After 5 years of apprenticeship, he could acquire the technology that the Germans had dreamed of for 2000 years. But Huang Xuan didn't care. Even if he was allowed to be a hare, it would be boring to do it for five years. Besides, without himself, Betege should have produced experimental white porcelain in three or two years, but without Betege, It would be troublesome for him to produce white porcelain. Thinking of this, he naturally said: "Then let Mr. Augustus bear witness."
Betege watched pitifully as the witch rubbed clusters of electric flowers on her hands. (To be continued)