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After Xu Jinzhao left Zhao Yunqing's office, he immediately went to the Cultural Research Institute to find some books about porcelain, after all, he didn't know anything about making porcelain.

He remembered that Zhao Yunqing said that the alliance had discovered a book about porcelain, and the azure glaze was recorded in it.Generally, the unearthed books will be kept in the cultural research institute.

After Xu Jinzhao arrived at the research institute, he went directly to the technical department, only to find out that the research institute had been studying porcelain for a long time and had achieved some results. This was undoubtedly good news for Xu Jinzhao.

Although he didn't know the purpose of Zhao Yunqing asking him to make azure glaze, but Zhao Yunqing deliberately gave such a difficult task to make him unable to complete it. He must do the opposite. Urgent Zhao Yunqing, let him show his true colors.

There is also a kiln dedicated to firing porcelain in the research institute, but Xu Jinzhao did not look at the kiln at the first time, but found records about azure glaze.

There are many books that record the production of porcelain, but there are very few books about azure glaze. Xu Jinzhao searched for a long time in the library before finding a few books that describe azure glaze.

"Azure glaze is colored with cobalt, glaze fruit and feldspar are used as glaze, and calcium and magnesium raw materials are used as solvent. The glaze should be ball-milled to fineness. Green body glazing is generally done by spraying glaze or dipping glaze and The glazing methods of spraying and combining are fired at a kiln temperature of 1280-1300c, and the atmosphere is mainly reduced flame."

Xu Jinzhao was reading the instructions in the book, feeling a little confused, he didn't understand very well!

Fortunately, there are still quite a lot of capable people in the cultural research institute. Xu Jinzhao quickly found a researcher who is proficient in porcelain to help him. This person was introduced to him by Zhang Xiuwen. His name is Jia Hao, and he is said to be very capable.

When Xu Jinzhao made it clear that he wanted to make azure glaze, Jia Hao frowned and said in embarrassment: "Our technical department has been studying porcelain for many years, but there has been no progress in azure glaze. I'm afraid... "

Xu Jinzhao is also mentally prepared for this situation. If he can succeed easily, Zhao Yunqing will not entrust this task to him, "We have to try."

Although Jia Hao was not optimistic about Xu Jinzhao, he didn't say anything else.

Jia Hao brought Xu Jinzhao to the porcelain production room and showed him their current research results.

When Xu Jinzhao saw some people making blank tires by hand on the wheel, he immediately felt a sense of familiarity. No matter how advanced the technology is, some things remain the same.

"Xiao Wang." Jia Hao called a person who was working to come over.

Xiao Wang hurried over, "Deputy Jia, what can I do for you?" As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Xu Jinzhao.

Jia Hao nodded, "You take out the materials for making azure glaze from the warehouse."

"Ah! You're going to do that tricky thing again?"

Jia Hao glanced at him, Xiao Wang immediately fell silent, and trotted into the warehouse.

Xu Jinzhao visited the production room with great interest, and found that there were already many finished products, including cracked ice, blue and white porcelain and other precious porcelain.

After Xiao Wang brought the materials, Jia Hao immediately started production. He explained to Xu Jinzhao: "I will do it according to the procedure we have researched first, and you can see where there are deficiencies or where it can inspire you."

Xu Jinzhao nodded, and then concentrated on watching Jia Hao make Tianqing.

Jia Hao first selected some ores that seemed to be of relatively good quality. "These ores are all suitable raw materials for porcelain making after years of continuous experiments."

After crushing, elutriation, billet making and other procedures, the embryo of Tianqing has been formed.

"Start glazing now. It is still difficult to determine the formula of this glaze, so let's use this one for now." Jia Hao said, took something like a lampshade from Xiao Wang, and covered it on the azure embryo After a while, the glaze color has been evenly attached to the porcelain.This can be regarded as the benefit brought by technological progress to craft production. Glazing is not only convenient but also very effective.

"Okay, it's ready to burn." Xiao Wang hastily put Tianqing carefully into the kiln.

"It doesn't look difficult." Xu Jinzhao was a little puzzled.

Jia Hao sighed, with a hint of sadness in his eyes, "You will understand soon."

A few hours later, through the catalysis of the machine, the porcelain in the kiln has been successfully fired.

Xu Jinzhao hurriedly stepped forward to observe, but the result surprised him.

Before entering, it was still in the shape of a bottle, but when it came out, it turned into a pile of strangely colored powder.

Jia Hao had already expected this result, but he was inevitably a little disappointed, "You see, this is the result after burning. We tried many times, and the best one was only a piece of porcelain the size of a fingernail."

"How could this happen?" Xu Jinzhao couldn't understand. Although he didn't know much about porcelain, he still knew a little about the general procedure. Jia Hao made no mistakes in the production process, so it shouldn't be a pile of powder.

Jia Hao shook his head, "There is a long way to go."

Xu Jinzhao picked up a pinch of dust and sighed helplessly.

Azure glaze is really not that easy to make.

Back in the library, Xu Jinzhao took out a pen and paper, ready to sort out the problems.

First of all, there is no major problem in the production process of porcelain, after all, other porcelain can be fired.The main problem, then, is the details.

Xu Jinzhao listed the first item on the paper, ore raw materials.Perhaps the ore was not suitable for firing azure glaze, so it was burned in the kiln.

After thinking about it, Xu Jinzhao wrote down the second item, glaze.It can also be seen from the pile of strangely colored powders that the glaze is absolutely inexhaustible and pure azure after rain.

For the rest, I will add them when I think about it. At present, these two major problems are solved.

Xu Jinzhao decided to go through all the books in the library first, maybe there might be some clues in them.It's not that he doesn't believe in the ability of the people in the research institute to organize and summarize, but he feels that as an "ancient person", he may be able to see doubts that they can't.

Looking at the hundreds of books on several rows of bookshelves, Xu Jinzhao rubbed his forehead. Sure enough, there is a long way to go.

After a few days, Xu Jinzhao has only read dozens of books, but he has already taken a lot of notes. He has extracted all the materials related to azure glaze or related porcelain, and made notes before the information he thinks is more important. mark.

One of the records says that the authentic azure glaze has been lost since Ru kiln and Chai kiln in the Song Dynasty, and Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory imitated it in Ming and Qing dynasties, but it is still a little different from the real azure glaze.

Jingdezhen is an authority in kiln making, and even it has not been able to make it. One can imagine the difficulty of making azure glaze.But Xu Jinzhao thought of many other things from this message.

For example, Ru Kiln is located in the north, and Jingdezhen is located in the south. Could it be that the ore material is different due to regional differences, which makes the production of Jingdezhen fail?

This possibility is still very high, Xu Jinzhao speculates, you can try to change the ore and china clay.

"Hey, what are you thinking?" Ye Changqing stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Xu Jinzhao's eyes.

Xu Jinzhao came back to his senses and smiled at Ye Changqing.

Ye Changqing pouted, "Why are you so absent-minded these days, do you miss my elder brother?"

Xu Jinzhao shook his head, and suddenly asked: "Do you know where the climate is better, um, sometimes it is dry and cold, sometimes it is hot, and the annual temperature difference is relatively large..."

Xu Jinzhao wanted to find a place with a climate similar to that of the north. Maybe the ore there was more suitable for firing azure glaze. He tried his best to describe the characteristics of the north to Ye Changqing in detail.

After hearing this, Ye Changqing thought for a while and said, "It seems that there is such a place..."

"Really?" Xu Jinzhao was pleasantly surprised, he just said casually, and planned to ask a professional later, but Ye Changqing didn't expect to know.

Ye Changqing nodded, "Of course it's true. I remember that when I was young, I went out to such a place with my eldest brother and second brother. It was so cold there."

"Where exactly?"

"You want to go?" Ye Changqing raised his eyebrows, "I'll take you there!"

Xu Jinzhao was sitting on the large spaceship, and supported his forehead feebly. He didn't know that the place Ye Changqing mentioned was on another planet.Seeing Ye Changqing's excited look, if General Ye hadn't objected, he would have wondered if this was Ye Changqing's intentional excuse to come out and play.

Arriving at the place Ye Changqing said, as soon as Xu Jinzhao got off the spaceship, a wave of heat came over him. He looked up at the sky, but there was no sun, and he didn't know where the heat came from.

"Did you see it?" Ye Changqing jumped down, pointed here and said, "Is it similar to what you described?"

Xu Jinzhao nodded. This is indeed the closest place he has ever seen to the northern features.

Ye Changqing said triumphantly: "Before the planet we live in was discovered, human beings have always lived here. If the climate is not so good, human beings would not migrate."

Xu Jinzhao took a look at the surrounding environment, and asked the [-] staff who came with him to start investigating the geology, preparing to dig, and dig as long as they find ore!Even a group of bodyguards sent by General Ye were ordered by Xu Jinzhao to do hard work.

Xu Jinzhao took a large spacecraft this time, which carried a lot of supplies, enough for them to live here for ten days.

On the first day, the staff mined hundreds of kinds of ores. Xu Jinzhao started experimenting with all kinds of ores overnight. He tried them one by one according to the method of making azure glaze. Fortunately, he just wanted to confirm which kind of ore is easy to fire into porcelain, and there is no need to make shapes. And glazing, as long as the ore is ground, washed, and squeezed casually, it can be put into the kiln.

In the next few days, Xu Jinzhao tested thousands of ores every day, and then recorded the results.Although he was very tired, Xu Jinzhao never thought of giving up, as time was running out.

Fortunately, the emperor paid off. After seven or eight days, Xu Jinzhao finally discovered several kinds of ores that could easily be made into porcelain. recipe.

Ye Changqing no longer had the sense of freshness he had when he first came, but fortunately, she knew that Xu Jinzhao was doing business and didn't bother him.

Xu Jinzhao started experimenting again, increasing or decreasing the weight of one of the ores little by little, looking at the results after firing, carefully recording every subtle difference, and then going on with experiments one by one. I have to say that such Tests are disgusting.Xu Jinzhao felt that countless stones were flying in front of his eyes when he was sleeping.

Before the last bit of materials were consumed, Xu Jinzhao finally found a relatively good formula. Looking at the finished porcelain, Xu Jinzhao couldn't help wiping away his bitter tears. Inventors are really not human!

Ye Changqing also breathed a sigh of relief, and could finally go home.