"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The chief agreed, just to scare others.
"Is there any good porcelain in the kiln in our village?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered that the Ru porcelain was fired in Xiaqiu Village.
According to this, Xiaqiu Village should have good porcelain technology. Why were so many kilns not sent to the palace?
All famous official kilns in various places must be fired for the palace, and the common people cannot buy them, including new Ru porcelain.
The head of the village shook his head: "There is no porcelain specially made in the kiln. It is kept in the village. Your Majesty can take it if you like. If you don't burn the complete set for the imperial use, it will exceed the production limit."
The glazes in the village are cheap, and they are all raw materials. The main focus is low cost and sold cheaply.
However, whatever kind of famous porcelain your Majesty wants in the world, the village kiln can burn it, or the village that does not have it can also produce it. The kiln in the village..."
The village chief explained the situation. The kiln in Xiaqiu Village was specially designed to provide utensils for the people, especially pottery jars and jars, which burned the most.
People can use it to fill water and make pickles, and it is easier to clean than wooden barrels.
Then there are pottery bowls, which are used to replace bamboo and wooden bowls. Bamboo and wooden bowls are easy to breed bacteria and mold.
At the same time, the village collects emery, selects emery with high hardness, such as up to eight, and prepares to make large quantities of diamonds to use in ceramics.
If you only use pottery, you can use porcelain as a diamond drill bit. Porcelain is much harder than pottery.
Including the production of putty, the whole set of tools is for the use of small furnace makers. They don't have to bother to do it themselves, and no matter how good they are, they can't be as good as those in the village.
"Go back and take a look at the porcelain produced in the kiln. The village gave us a few small batches of porcelain from different places, plus some that are not available in Ming Dynasty now. We just want to know what they look like."
The more Zhu Yuanzhang listened, the happier he became. He liked this kind of crushing technology. He had all the villages that others had, but the villages were not burned.
"The village will go back to find the materials and burn them out for His Majesty to watch."
The length is all important, and different porcelains are determined by different materials. As long as the materials are properly prepared, there will be no problem with the craftsmanship.
"So, should our official kiln take out the defective products and sell them cheaply?" Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to learn from Xiaqiu Village.
"Your Majesty, no, the official kiln will lose its value if it is circulated too much. However, you can sell some porcelain that is defective and does not exceed the production limit to the rich by selling it."
The village chief prevented a large amount of official kiln porcelain from being given to the private sector. The official kiln monopolized the raw materials, and the good clay and glaze were all enclosed.
The common people are not stupid, they can be found anywhere, except in the enclosed places.
In addition, the craftsmanship of the official kiln is not leaked, and the private kiln cannot reach the height of the official kiln. The private kiln can be burned and sold normally.
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up: "It makes sense. Let's sell the ones that are within the limit and have some flaws, so that the barbarians can buy them."
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The next day, the cold wind blew and the snow fell.
Suddenly news came from the convenience department that a large number of defective porcelain in Xiaqiu Village was to be wholesaled at a low price.
Yesterday, the people who finally worked up the courage to organize a group to go to Shangyuan County to report the ceramic shops and kilns in Xiaqiu Village were instantly heartbroken.
It’s done! Completely finished! Before, it was just pottery, but now porcelain is also sold, God is not happy!
"Just say it! The emperor is behind them, how can we fight with them?" Someone stood in the room of the convenience area and complained.
"They won't give us a way to survive. If we pay a penny for a bowl, we won't be able to get our capital back."
"Who did the porcelain offend? The price of the defective porcelain used to be good, now it's better! Let you report it!"
"Aren't you saying that Xiaqiu Village is good to others? Why are you so angry!"
"People are kind to ordinary people. We are fellow travelers, and fellow travelers are enemies."
"What should we do? We can't seek death. My store still has profits."
"Are you stupid?" Zhu Taisan from the Prince's Mansion, who came to post the sales bill, couldn't help it.
"Who are you calling stupid? Looking for scolding?"
"You won't buy all the defective pottery from the Xiaqiu Village Ceramics Shop? You will resell four for five cents and sell them for one cent." Zhu Taisan shook his head.
"But they will continue to burn! There are still flaws."
"You guys keep buying! Don't they sell the normal pottery they make, but only the defective pottery?
You buy it, wholesale it to merchants elsewhere, and let them sell it outside.
If you ask me, you small kilns should think of something! It’s a waste of fire and labor.
It is impossible for Xiaqiu Village not to burn cheap pottery and sell it to the people for your sake. The normal pottery from Xiaqiu Village gives you profit margins. "
"We can't close the kiln, not to mention that I don't have a kiln, but I also purchase goods. Oops! Can I purchase goods from the kiln in Xiaqiu Village?"
"Ask and see how much cheaper it can be."
"My kiln will be closed? What will I do in the future? A group of brothers in the kiln have to support their families."
"Let me ask for you." When Zhu Taisan heard this, he felt that he couldn't let people have no food to eat.
"Can you help me? Are you..."
"It's from the Prince's Mansion. Why, I posted this." After Zhu Taisan finished speaking, he hurriedly left to avoid being scolded.
People in the room looked at each other and sighed one after another.
…
On the second floor of the bento restaurant, Satoshi looked at the snow outside.
"Hanhan, what do you think they should do? We did block their way."
Zhu Wentian was picking leeks there: "Nothing can be done. The cost of small kilns is high, especially in Yingtianfu. We can't slowly ship the goods for them."
"If it doesn't work, let's annex them! Let them work with us and pay them wages." The village chief came up with an idea.
"How much do their technicians get paid? We can't use their skills. They can earn three guilds a month by themselves, but they can earn one guild here?"
"If we don't recruit them, they will never make any money in the future. Oh! This is the power of capital!"
"In fact, we can let them join forces and build a big kiln, and then... to make mustard in the coming year, let them make special mustard jars and pickle jars.
If we don't cook the same thing, they will have a market. Especially the kimchi jar is different from the normal one and needs a bowl on top.
In other aspects... they have no competitive advantage at all. They can only rely on quantity. They can't use toys. Tao's drainage pipes?
It is better to bake bricks. A large number of bricks will be needed in the future. It depends on whether they are willing to make tiles. There is a demand for this. "
Zhu Wentian helped find a way. The ceramic tiles can be used for decoration. When the weather gets warmer, how about looking at wealthy people?
Or they join forces to make normal ceramic vessels and then wholesale them at low prices. The joint kiln has low costs.
"Go back and find someone to ask them what they want to do. I thought about the Japanese pirates attacking Korea yesterday and couldn't figure out how to deal with it all night."
The manager felt that the topic was boring, so he decided to change it to an outside topic that would not involve internal competition.
"We can't fight in the winter because Goryeo is cold. We can only fight next year. Next year, our other big ships will go out and go directly to fight the Japanese pirates.
We need to trade with Korea by sea, and there is always an enemy hiding in the dark next to us, which will consume a lot of energy.
Find the small island occupied by the Japanese pirates and other hiding places, and then we will station troops there. "
Zhu Wentian didn't want to use Japanese pirates to plot against Goryeo, which was troublesome.
(End of chapter)
