Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

The next day, Paul once again invited Queller Foster to the hall, and he was accompanied by the members of the Lichman Adventure Group.

Queller guessed happily: "My friend, I guess you are going to show me your 'gadgets' today, right?"

"That's right!" Paul snapped his fingers, turned around and said loudly: "Come here!"

Two servants came over with two trays and placed them on the table. The trays were covered with cloth, so you couldn't see what was inside.

Queller smiled and said: "Hmm? It's very mysterious, isn't it?" The members of the Adventure Group also showed their guessing expressions.

"Look!" Paul lifted the cloth on the first tray, "The first one, 'paper'."

"Paper? "Everyone was puzzled. You made it so mysterious just to let us see paper?

The leader of the adventure group, Meru, was angry: "Are you teasing us, Lord?"

Paul shook his finger and said: "Don't worry, everyone, my paper is extraordinary. It is not made of sheepskin, but made of very cheap raw materials, and the production process is simple, saving a lot of manpower and material costs, and the price is much lower than parchment."

Quiller heard Paul talk about the new type of paper in Fulan Port, so he was not surprised. He picked up a piece of paper and kept stroking it, exclaiming: "This 'paper' is really good and can replace parchment. If it can be mass-produced as you said that day, the prospects should be very impressive. By the way, what is it made of?"

Paul refused: "Sorry, it's a commercial secret. Even if you are my friend, you can't disclose it."

"Humph! So stingy. What is the second tray?"

Paul lifted the cloth on the second tray, "Everyone, open your eyes and look carefully! I call this thing 'porcelain'."

"Oh!" Everyone exclaimed after seeing the things on the tray.

This is a porcelain plate, spotless white and crystal clear, which is the first impression people get when they see it.

Similar to medieval Europe, most people in this world use pottery, while those with some means use metal utensils, such as copper, and the upper class nobles use silver utensils.

However, no matter how they are maintained, metal products can never avoid the problem of rust, and they will no longer be as smooth as before after a period of time. Porcelain looks much better, and its appearance is much higher than that of yellowish pottery and copper.

Paul proudly introduced: "How is it? It looks good, right? And it won't rust!"

At the beginning, Europeans took great pains to obtain the secret recipe for making porcelain. In the end, it was the French missionary Perri Entrecolet who went undercover as JDZ and lurked for more than ten years before he got the raw materials and secret recipe. After sending it back to Europe, Westerners were finally able to produce local porcelain comparable to Chinese porcelain.

In fact, the core of the secret of porcelain is two: kaolin (or magnet) and high temperature.

Fortunately, kaolin was found not far from Huxin Town. Paul recruited a group of potters, built a kiln factory, and began to experimentally fire porcelain.

At the beginning, it was not ideal because the temperature was difficult to control. The firing of porcelain required a high temperature of more than 1200 degrees.

In order to solve this problem, Paul asked a glass craftsman to make the world's first mercury thermometer. Although there was an error, it was barely enough. However, of course, it was not directly extended into the kiln to measure the temperature, otherwise it would explode, and the mercury thermometer could not reach a measurement range of more than 400 degrees.

Using a thermometer to measure the temperature around the porcelain kiln, combined with the spitting temperature measurement method that Paul recalled - that is, spitting into the kiln mouth, the saliva will become jumping small water droplets before evaporation, and then the temperature is judged according to the height of the water droplets jumping - finally a continuous and stable high temperature of more than 1200 degrees was created.

Another important step before entering the kiln for firing is glazing. If glazing is not applied, although porcelain can be fired, it will be rough.

The glaze is made by mixing clay water with plant ash, stirring evenly, and filtering before use.

This step affects the appearance of the finished product, but it was not taken care of during the trial production. The perfect glazing technique requires the craftsmen to slowly explore.

When Paul recaptured Fulan Port, the craftsmen in Huxin Town finally trial-produced the first batch of decent porcelain after a lot of experiments.

The porcelain plate in front of you is one of the trial products. There are no beautiful pictures on it like the common porcelain on Earth, because the pigment formula for coloring porcelain is a secret. Paul is afraid that the random mixing will affect the firing, so the trial product is not painted. Let's solve the problem first. Let the craftsmen slowly study the painting technology.

The trial product is actually not perfect. There are many flaws. It is far from being pure white, but it is enough to shock the natives of the alien world such as Queller.

Queller asked excitedly: "You...you want to sell this kind of thing?"

Paul nodded proudly and replied: "Of course, this is just an early experimental product, there are still many flaws, it is far from perfect. What I will sell in the future will be more beautiful than this, and it will be painted with various beautiful patterns."

The young master of the Foster family sighed; "This will set off a storm!" Even if Queller hated the family's livelihood, he still inherited some business genes.

Looking at the people in the Lichman Adventure Group who were also staring at the porcelain plate in a daze, Paul said loudly: "I declare that everyone present will receive a trial porcelain. I will issue a certificate in the name of the Graman family to prove that they are the first batch of porcelain in the world. Although this batch of trial products is far from perfect, if the porcelain can be sold well, their collection value will be far beyond estimation."

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one 6, one book, one bar!

Dean in the Adventure Group said hurriedly: "How can this be? This kind of thing is too expensive. We can't accept it. Oops-" Dean's foot was stepped on hard by the leader Meru.

Meru said to Paul in a worshipful manner: "Lord Graman, I'm sorry, I regret my previous misunderstanding of you. In fact, you are neither lustful nor cowardly. It turns out that you are a generous, kind, and caring person."

Paul folded his hands in front of his chest, raised his head, and said, "Hehe! Have you finally seen my true side?"

Alas? No, is that the image I had before in your eyes? Forget it, I am happy today, I will forgive my mistakes.

He frowned: "This is not for free, you must promote me more when you return to the south."

Quiler and Meru agreed.

One guaranteed: "Our merchants will definitely compete to ask you for the agency rights."

One's eyes lit up: "We are rich, we are rich!"

Well, the son of a powerful figure in the Council and a famous adventure group should have a considerable advertising effect.