"The pottery is here. The pottery is here. Everyone, come and get it."
When the sky was dark at night, cars entered the city one by one. Someone shouted as they passed through the streets.
After the people of Chang 'an mixed the mud, they fired the kilns one by one. When they were done, they sent a batch over.
Li Family Zhuangzi was the closest, so it was the most convenient.
The other counties were further away, so they had to be careful of the bumpy roads.
The people came out unhappily to get their things. Many people were grumbling.
"If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have swapped with the kilns in Wugong County. They always come at night. It's not easy to pick the deformed pottery."
"It's a waste. Throw it away and let us use it."
"The other counties followed suit. Only the official kilns and Li Family Zhuangzi's pottery are good. There are also waste ones. Li Family Zhuangzi gave us the waste ones."
"Evil. We won't buy anything from them in the future."
The people who delivered the goods didn't say anything. It had nothing to do with them. They were only responsible for delivering the goods.
Some of the embryos would crack and change shape during firing. They couldn't accept the cracked ones, and the deformed ones were brought over.
Li Yi also gave Zhuangzi's deformed pottery to them. It was an extra gift. Zhuangzi didn't need it. It was a pity to throw it away.
The bowl wasn't so round, but it could still hold water and rice.
After the pots were burned, they piled up and turned into a box. The people were still very willing to accept it. They could hold water and feed chickens and ducks.
The official kilns were so shameless that they smashed it.
The other counties pretended not to know. They were earning money from the official kilns.
The people were dissatisfied, but they knew they couldn't do anything about it.
There was a large group of people who were rich enough to open ceramic kilns.
When the news reached Li Yi's ears, it was during breakfast the next morning. A merchant who came to buy things said that the Wugong County's kilns gave out too many defective goods.
Originally, one out of ten people was bad. Now, one out of four was bad.
"Dongzhu, the people in the city say that we are benevolent." Song De was in a good mood. Others didn't give good things, but Zhuangzi gave good things.
After gaining a good reputation, people would praise him whenever he went out to greet him.
"What they're doing is breaking the rules. We can't let them do as they please. Otherwise, if the kilns in the other counties see this and imitate them, the commoners will be unhappy with the imperial court."
Li Yi seemed to be talking to himself, but also seemed to be talking to Song De.
"Dongzhu is right. Should we ask Chang 'an to take action?" Song De thought of solving the problem through official means.
"We didn't sign any contract back then. We just mentioned it. How can the yamen interfere?" Li Yi shook his head.
He felt a little disappointed. How could human greed be like this? Since they had agreed on an exchange, they would not suffer any losses in the kiln and would even make a profit.
In the end, they were insatiable, and the pottery they sent became worse and worse.
Pottery required a low firing temperature and did not require glazing. Why would they do something that would damage the reputation of the imperial court?
"Dongzhu, you have to sign it next time." Song De was also angry.
"We'll talk about the future in the future. Tell the kiln to prepare a kiln of porcelain. I'll give you the new glaze formula.
Li Yi said to Song De.
Song De was not surprised: "Dongzhu wants to sell porcelain?"
"How can I have time to sell porcelain? The kiln still has bricks and cement to burn. I'll make a prototype for others to see.
If they think it's good, they can buy new uranium from me and use it themselves. I'll only sell the mixed glaze, not the formula.
If they have the ability to use the glaze to calculate the formula, I'll announce it. No one can monopolize it. "
Li Yi did not believe that those people could easily analyze the ingredients of the mixed glaze, unless they had advanced equipment.
Song De did not understand. Dongzhu wanted to burn porcelain and sell the glaze. What did that have to do with other people giving the commoners broken pottery?
Li Yi looked at the manager in a daze and said with a smile: "If you want to buy, turn the broken ones into good ones. For every broken one, make up for ten.
I, Li Yi, came up with this idea. Whoever wants to destroy it, I'll deal with them.
Wugong County, right? They're excluded. Their broken pottery will be replaced by other people who want to buy it. "
Li Yi stated his purpose. Today, he came up with an idea and someone destroyed it. Tomorrow, he came up with an idea and someone would cause trouble.
Wasn't this the same as the reform? The reform was good, but the people implementing it were not good.
He wanted to teach the others a lesson. Whoever didn't do as he said, he would make sure that whoever didn't do as he said would be ruined.
Problems could not be spoiled. If they collapsed, they needed support. Just buy the kiln.
Otherwise, don't think about using that kiln to burn porcelain to make money. Otherwise, there would be new materials, little by little.
Song De vigorously nodded twice. He did not even eat rice. He took two buns and chewed as he walked.
He went to tell the other side to prepare an empty kiln. When Dongzhu came up with the new glaze, they would burn it for a few days.
Li Yi ate slowly. He had a lot of glaze formulas that he did not have now.
Glaze was actually color. Different glazes would show different colors after firing. There were also mixed glazes.
It was getting more and more difficult. Li Yi's craftsmanship was very high. Except for special colors, which could not be fired, everything else could be done.
Now, the price of pottery was not low, not to mention porcelain.
One copper coin to buy a beautiful porcelain plate with a beautiful pattern? Dream on!
At Li Yi's time, a wholesale price of five cents. He could get as much as he wanted.
Countless factories rushed to sell and even took the initiative to lower their prices to get orders.
Two yuan was not enough to buy porcelain plates and bowls that were cheated, so one could imagine how much the cost would be.
According to the analysis of the data that had been unearthed, taking out the glazes of Middle Tang, Late Tang, and Song Shi was enough to attract a lot of people.
Now, there was a Tang Sancai. However, that was used for burial. The monochrome glaze could be used to burn porcelain.
It was not burned to look like a burial object. It was just drawn on the porcelain plate. That was for the living.
After sleeping for a night, the people who saw the ill-shaped pottery in the morning got angrier and angrier.
They felt that they would not be happy for the rest of the day. A set of eight bowls. Why did one of them look like that? How did they complete a set? If two of them were smashed, six of them would be a set.
They might as well give them to others. They would see who had the same pottery as them and send it to them.
They shouted that if they did not buy the ceramics of Wugong County, they would go on a march.
When they met someone, as long as that person was willing to talk, they would say bad things about Wugong County.
At first, they only talked about the pottery. Later, it seemed that there were no good people in the county.
The people of Wugong County argued in Chang 'an and almost fought. Why did they attack their territory?
Wugong County continued to send bad pottery to Chang 'an. It was getting worse and worse. They probably brought all the pottery that they did not have time to smash.
As for whether the people who got these pottery would buy their things in the future, they did not care. You all used mud to exchange. Did you have the money to buy them?
A few days later, the Li Family Zhuangzi appeared in Chang 'an with a lot of porcelain.
They went directly to the East Market. Many people began to watch.
What good things did the Li Family Zhuangzi take out? The team came out again.
"Today, I'll show you the new porcelain from the Zhuangzi kiln." Song De was in charge of leading the team.
He shouted with a loudspeaker in his hand.
At the same time, he opened a car and showed the porcelain inside.
There were light blue, dark blue, gray, green, grayish green, light green, and other colors. Some of them even had transitional colors.
The onlookers were surprised. They had never seen porcelain of such colors.
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