"Get a shovel!" Chen Xu ordered, and soon a helper handed over a sharp bronze shovel from the crowd. Chen Xu carefully shoveled the clay from the bottom of the pottery bowl, and a regular-shaped clay bowl clay was taken out intact.

Chen Xu was definitely not satisfied with making a pottery bowl. What he needed to make was a wine bottle, so he dug another piece of clay and put it on the disc. After pressing it a few times, he ordered the helper to turn the handle again.

This time, the helper had already gained experience, so before Chen Xu could give him instructions, he used all his strength to shake it. Listening to the whimpering sound of the disc, Chen Xu judged that the speed might reach seven or eight revolutions per second, which means that the helper's hand speed also reached at least two revolutions per second. This is already very scary, but it is enough for pulling mud blanks. No matter how fast it is, the clay clay will be thrown out. Moreover, too fast requires that the higher the skill is required for the person who pulls the blanks, such a soft mud will deform instantly when touched gently, so the less it is easier to shape the required shape.

Chen Xu's face was calm, and his hands kept squeezing the mud. As the shape of a pottery cup appeared, it continued to grow taller, and soon it became one foot. Seeing that the height was almost the same, Chen Xu slowly closed his hands in the middle, and soon shrank out a slender bottleneck. Finally, he extended a finger to the neck and pressed it inward. The bottle mouth instantly became flat and round.

Chen Xu stopped and looked at it, but seemed a little unsatisfied, so he ordered the helper to slow down and then slightly trim it with his hands, making the bottle, which looked like a wine bottle, look more regular on the top and bottom.

"Stop~" Chen Xu raised his hand, and as the turntable slowly stopped, the one that appeared in front of everyone was a smooth mud blank that was one foot high, with a thin circle as thin as a column, and the top was closed into a thin neck, and the mouth of the bottle was less than an inch.

Two consecutive works were completed, and all the onlookers could no longer breathe. Their mouths grew and felt their eyes were jumping around.

They have never heard of this way of making ceramic tiles.

The old pottery craftsman was trembling all over, his mind was completely blank.

Chen Xu made two pottery pieces in one breath, which took less than three minutes. However, if he had put it in the past, he had not even rubbed a piece of clay strip out in three minutes, and he had to successfully make a pottery bowl. Even a skilled craftsman like him could only make less than ten in an hour. In the time of later generations, it was only one hour or five, which was an average of twelve minutes to make a pottery bowl. The apprentice took longer. If he could make two in an hour, he could get out of the army. He reported it to the county government and opened a pottery workshop separately to sell it, which was to offset the land tax and corvee service, and became a regular craftsman.

Chen Xu's production time completely broke this pattern. The pottery bowl can be completed in almost half a minute. A ball of mud is gently pressed with his hand a few times, and a round bowl will be turned out. The bottle takes a little time, but it does not exceed two minutes.

If this efficiency is spread, it will be able to scare the pottery craftsmen in Daqin.

"Gaohe, come and try it!" Chen Xu used a shovel to shovel the pottery bottle from the turntable and put it next to it, then stood up from a stool made of clay and said to the old potter.

"Master, Li Dian is calling you!" An apprentice pulled the old potter's clothes a few times.

"Me? Well, OK, I'll try it!" The old potter came back to his senses and sat down inexplicably. His hands covered in mud were so excited that he didn't know what to do.

"Use the right clay according to the size of the pottery you want to make. It doesn't matter if you have more clay. Just do it like I did just now. It's very simple!" Chen Xu stood beside him and pointed the excitement of the old potter slowly calmed down. Then he imitated Chen Xu's appearance, digging a piece of mud on the turntable and pressing it, and then dipping water on his hands. The helper began to shake the handle quickly with a wink, and soon the disc began to rotate quickly again.

The old potter's hand shook and as soon as he moved closer to the clay, the mud began to twist and deform. The old potter quickly took his hand back, took a few deep breaths and then reached out to the clay again. As the mud rolled on the calloused hands, a round pottery bowl soon appeared in its shape.

The crowd once again cheered all kinds of surprises.

"Go to the pottery shop quickly. I heard that Lord Lidian has made another thing that can grow pottery!" As a few little kids ran to the town excitedly and shouted a few times, some idle villagers immediately ran to the pottery shop.

Zhao Qing, who had already packed up his greetings and was about to leave, couldn't help but follow a group of people to the pottery making workshop, and then looked at the adults and children who surrounded a pergola three times inside and three times outside, and there were constant exclamations and strange screams from inside.

"Wow, this bottle looks good!"

"Wow, this bottle has a big and round belly!"

"Wow, it's so saggy, alas~~"

The sound inside made the people outside jump in a hurry and squeezed hard. Zhao Qing tried his best to finally squeeze in. Then he saw the old potter who was making pottery. A ball of mud instantly turned into a regular-shaped pottery with his fingers.

The old potter is naturally an old potter. Although it was the first time he came into contact with the rolling machine, he was naturally confident because of his many years of making pottery. After getting familiar with it several times, he was able to skillfully make pottery bowls and pottery bottles that were almost the same size and height. The ground is now filled with pottery of various shapes of height.

And the more he did, the more he became more and more skillful, and he was more refined and regular than what Chen Xu did.

Just like the carmaker is not necessarily a racer, Chen Xu can only stand beside him and applaud. This old man is indeed very talented in making pottery. In just under twenty minutes, he has played the rolling machine very well, and the helper who is shaking the handle next to him can no longer hold on to the replacement and rest.

"What is this?" Zhao Qing stood on tiptoe for a long time after staring in amazement, and then woke up and asked anxiously on the shoulders of a villager.

"This is called a rolling machine, which is used to make pottery clay!" The villagers said without looking back.

"This was done by us under the command of Lidian!" The apprentice from a wooden workshop next to him said proudly.

Zhao Qing's eyes naturally fell on the young man standing among the crowd of people applauding. The feeling in his heart became more and more strange, as if Chen Xu was covered with a layer of white light, which seemed to be real and illusory, and could not see clearly.

"Gaohe, make more wine bottles in the past few days. Remember not to put the mud into the kiln after drying it. I also have to write some words on it!" After Chen Xu finished his instructions, he squeezed out of the crowd, washed his hands by a water tank, and then walked towards the town.

"Chen Lidian!" Zhao Qing caught up from behind.

"Didn't Mr. Zhao say he wants to go back?" Chen Xu asked with a smile.

"Haha, I have this plan, but because I am thinking about the grape wine in Lidian, I still can't bear to leave!" Zhao Qing said with a dry laugh.

"So that's it, but it's almost done. You can see the Fenxiao in at most two or three days!" Chen Xu also smiled and said while walking, "By the way, Mr. Zhao, since you are a merchant family, can Xu ask you for help?"

"Li Dian, please say that as long as Zhao can do it, he will not refuse!"

"Well, I just ask and buy some things for me. Because I can't go out, I can only entrust business trips from all over the country. I will give you the list later. If I get it, I will help me to Qinghe Town, and the reward will definitely not be small!"

"This matter is easy. Thank you for the reception of Lidian in recent days. How can you pay for the small matters?" Zhao Qing waved his hand repeatedly, and then changed his subject, "But Zhao is very interested in this pottery flaking machine. I wonder if I can get the production method of Lidian?"

Chen Xu turned his head to look at Zhao Qing with a smile: "Mr. Zhao, this price is very high!"

"It's okay, it's okay. This flap machine can increase the pottery making speed by dozens of times, and the objects made are perfect and regular. I have never seen it in Daqin. If this thing can be spread, it will greatly reduce the price of pottery, and ordinary people will also be able to purchase it in large quantities for home use..." Zhao Qing followed behind and talked endlessly about the benefits of a bunch of flap machines.

After hearing this, Chen Xu refused to comment and said with a smile: "Actually, this rolling machine is still very primitive. When I have time, I will change it to a foot-pedal type. In this way, the craftsman can operate it alone and control the rotation speed by himself. When Mr. Zhao comes next time, I will make drawings for you!"

Of course, Chen Xu refused to agree. Although the structure of the flaking machine is simple, in today's Daqin, it is the most cutting-edge industrial machine in later generations. If Zhao Qing was really a businessman, once it was promoted on a large scale, the profit would be endless. Almost every county in Daqin has a separate pottery making workshop, while Chi County and even several townships have it.

Unlike porcelain, pottery requires kaolin. The ingredient is clay, and fine clay containing quartz sand can be fired. Therefore, there are generally pottery workshops where there are clay, and the materials are produced nearby. Even if only three or five units are sold in a county, each unit costs only 300 yuan, then the whole country is definitely an astronomical figure.

Although he can't make enough money, he must get a share of it in order to have enough money to develop Qinghe Town, have enough money to promote his career and develop more things.

You should know that everything he did in the town was the last one to pay for. Now that more and more projects started, he found that his money was starting to be a little stretched.

Zhao Qing naturally understood Chen Xu's words.

That is, this little Lidian will not spread the hawk without seeing the rabbit. If he didn't see the benefits, he would never pass on the manufacturing technology of the rolling machine to him before.

He pressed the idea of ​​stealing technology from the wooden warehouse and pottery shop as soon as it floated.
Chapter completed!