So it was finally agreed that the Dyeing and Weaving Bureau would pay the rent to the Chief Secretary of Jiangxi with one-third of the treasure banknotes, one-third of the copper coins, and one-third of the food stamps.
At the same time, it was agreed that the Textile and Dyeing Bureau would be responsible for buying back all food stamps that were not spent within a year with half of the copper coins and half of the treasure notes...
Zhu Zhen is really experienced. Who said that negotiations in this era are simple and the terms are crude?
That's not the case at all, okay? People in the Ming Dynasty were more serious. When negotiating contracts with future generations, they picked out the words one by one without making any difference.
This reminded him of some bad memories from his past life, and he felt very bad.
So after helping both parties resolve the dispute, they quickly took the inspection team to Jingdezhen... Zeng Tai and Gu Yuanchen were left alone to continue their fun in Nanchang City.
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Jingdezhen and Nanchang are connected by water. From Ganjiang River to Poyang, you can enter Changjiang River. Then you can reach Jingdezhen by traveling upstream along the Changjiang River for more than a hundred miles.
After avoiding the annoying negotiations in Nanchang City, Lao Liu quickly regained his good mood under the strong praise of Shen Rong and others, and started chatting and laughing with them.
The next day, Zhu Zhen was on the poop, setting up a dragon gate formation with Shen Rong and others, bragging about his heroic deeds of commanding decisively and capturing the bandit leader in the Battle of Flower and Bird Island. He saw white smoke rising in the distance, covering the sky.
He couldn't help being stunned and asked: "Is it on fire?"
"It's not Your Highness, it's Jingdezhen that has arrived." Sun Jia, the prefect of Raozhou who served as the guide, hurriedly explained:
“Because there are hundreds of kilns in Jingdezhen, the kilns are fired day and night, creating this wonderful scene of ‘white smoke covering the sky during the day, and red flames burning the sky at night’.”
"Does the Environmental Protection Bureau care about it?" Lao Liu muttered, then realized that there was no Environmental Protection Bureau yet. He silently took out his big mask...
Think about it, I took it off again, the image is still important...
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During the Song Dynasty, my country's porcelain industry reached its peak, with kilns spread all over the country.
However, after the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, when entering the present dynasty, except for the Longquan kiln in Zhejiang, which was still famous for celadon, other kilns were mostly depressed due to stagnation of skills, or disappeared due to wars and disasters. Only Jingdezhen was the "gathering of kilns in the world". He suppressed others' shortcomings and promoted his own strengths, becoming the firing center of the country.
Jingdezhen thus became the "Wifang Zachu" and the ceramic metropolis known as the "Twelve Provincial Wharfs". When Zhu Zhen arrived, he saw a forest of rafts and oars and a weaving of boats on the wharf. It looked even bigger than the provincial capital Nanchang. Be prosperous.
At this time, the pier was under martial law, and it was still the same welcoming scene with flags fluttering, gongs and drums noisy, loess paved roads, and clean water sprinkled on the streets.
Zhou Ji, the supervising eunuch of the Zhushan Royal Kiln Factory in Jingdezhen, Ji Ming, the county magistrate of Fuliang, and many prominent figures from the porcelain industry guild had been waiting for him for a long time.
"Your Highness is welcome to come to this place!"
After everyone bowed politely, Zhu Zhen ordered them to stand up with a smile on his face and said: "Everyone, please get up. Don't be nervous. I just admire the famous name of Jingdezhen for a long time and come here to visit."
"Welcome, welcome, warm welcome." Everyone in Jingdezhen hurriedly smiled and said, "Your Highness, please give me your instructions."
"Hey, I'm a layman and I don't dare to give random orders." Zhu Zhen smiled and waved his hand.
As he spoke, he pointed enthusiastically at the white smoke rising from the town and asked, "Are those the entrances of the kilns where porcelain is fired?"
"Yes, Your Highness." He hurriedly explained before the meeting started: "In the early years, there were small kiln workshops here scattered in the countryside. With the vigorous development of Jingdezhen's porcelain industry, the kilns are now concentrated in urban areas. Now
There are thirty official kilns and 512 private kilns in the town."
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but proudly said: "It is definitely the best in the country."
"Tsk, tsk, that's awesome." His Highness the King of Chu exclaimed in admiration, and became more and more interested. He declined the Fuliang County Magistrate's arrangement to ask him to rest first, and went directly to visit the town.
The eunuch, the county magistrate and the head of the association hurriedly gathered together, and the magistrate of Fuliang respectfully asked for instructions: "Your Highness, the Royal Kiln Factory is in Zhushan, a little far away. Why don't you visit Cheng Hui's first Jingzhai Porcelain Shop today?"
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"I have said that I am here for a visit, not for inspection, so guests can do as they please, and you can just follow the arrangements." Zhu Zhen said with a nonchalant smile.
"Okay, Your Highness, please." The three people hurriedly bowed and asked His Highness to get in the car.
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His Royal Highness the King of Chu's ceremonial guard marched through the streets and the market. All the kiln workers and households in the town, men, women, old and young, all ran to the street to watch the excitement.
Although Jingdezhen's porcelain is popular all over the country and is used by princes and nobles, few noble people have ever been here. After all, what everyone is interested in is exquisite porcelain, not this kind of smokey, white and dirty production everywhere.
environment.
Zhu Zhen was an anomaly. He asked people to lift the car curtains and looked at the porcelain shops, porcelain shops, porcelain shops, and shop entrances with a dazzling array of porcelains on the street. It was like visiting a future generation.
Porcelain Street...
It is indeed a completely different experience from other places. To be precise, this is a world different from other places.
While most places in the world are still in the agricultural civilization, this place has quietly entered the commercial civilization.
He said to Shen Rong and others who were following his car: "This place looks quite similar to Suzhou."
"That's what His Highness said." Shen Rong nodded and said, "Suzhou relies on the silk weaving industry, while Jingdezhen relies on the porcelain industry."
After a pause, he whispered: "Your Highness should be firmly in control of these two places."
"In that case, my hand is stretched too far?" Zhu Zhen said with a smile.
"No, only His Highness can protect them and lead them to continue to grow and develop." Shen Rong said sincerely.
"Hahaha," Zhu Zhen couldn't help but chuckled: "You old Shen, you are getting better and better at flattering me."
"Your Highness, this is not flattery, but the sincerity of the humble minister." Shen Rong said with an upright face: "There are only a few such handicraft centers in the country. It is not easy to establish, but it is easy to destroy."
After a pause, he lowered his voice and said: "Just like Suzhou, if His Highness hadn't turned the tide last year, it might have been completely ruined..."
"Not that much." Zhu Zhen shook his head.
"In any case, in the Ming Dynasty, there are too few people who understand the science of commodity cultivation, and there are even fewer people as miraculous as His Highness." Shen Rong cupped his fists and said, "Your Highness has no shirking responsibility!"
"Haha, let's take a look first and then talk." At this time, the Cheng family's Jingzhai porcelain store arrived. The team stopped and Zhu Zhen stopped talking.
I jumped out of the car and looked up, I saw that the porcelain store was a three-story pavilion.
In order to welcome His Highness to visit, the staff of the porcelain shop cleaned the exterior of the pavilion two days in advance. Therefore, there is no gray feeling like the surroundings. The carved beams and painted beams are brightly colored, making it look very majestic.
In the spacious entrance hall, there are a pair of couplets hanging on the left and right sides, which read:
"The sand is turned into a vessel, and its quality is better than that of gold, creating all kinds of phenomena; the clay is turned into porcelain, and the paintings are the same as the painted ones, showing thousands of shapes."
The horizontal plaque reads "Jingzhai Porcelain Company", which is both appropriate and extremely heroic.
"It's such a grand shop, no wonder you came to be the head of the party." Zhu Zhen smiled approvingly to Cheng Qian, who was waiting at the side.
"Your Highness, you are so complimentary. This is a small business, not worth mentioning." Cheng Qian couldn't help but smile to himself, and respectfully invited His Highness to come in for a visit.
"Let's go in and take a look." Zhu Zhen said happily.
