This time, Shen Mo was going to the same place as Apu, so he met with this disciple at sea.

At the same time, Shen Mo also had to tell his disciple Apu about the previous struggles between Sihai Trading Company and the monopoly groups that usually used methods to tell him that he could make his actions smoother.

At this time, Shen Mo signaled to An Jun next to him.

Then An Jun put down the cup in his hand and told Apu about the past few days of how Shen Mo and Sihai Trading Company dealing with the Teatou people who monopolized the tea shop.

Of course Apu knew that the teacher told him the intention of these things was to avoid detours and to know the counterattacks that the other party would take in advance during the fight, so he listened very seriously.

This time, Apu brought a group of Dasong employees of the Hushang Group with the ship, and Shen Mo enriched him with the business school students.

This time, with the teacher's oral teachings from him, Apu's confidence in winning the battle naturally improved a lot.

After An Jun finished speaking, Apu smiled and said to Shen Mo: "Don't worry, teacher, I have taken a lot of advantages this time!"

"Because the tea shop caused fluctuations in the court, it would probably make the high-ranking officials and nobles calm for a long time.

But I can take this opportunity to open up the monopoly of the porcelain market."

"I believe that the kiln owners who monopolize the production of porcelain nowadays, as well as the big merchants who sell porcelain.

Their backers in the court were beaten by the teacher so hard that they did not dare to show their heads."

"So Apu's move now is much more beneficial than the situation in the tea shop before!"

When he heard Apu's words, Shen Mo smiled and said, "Don't underestimate the enemy too much. You must know that there are still big differences between each industry.

Therefore, when we start in each industry, we will continue to face new situations and new difficulties."

"In terms of your porcelain, it is very different from tea!"

"Because the matter of growing tea and stir-frying tea can be done by tea farmers one by one.

However, it takes a huge workshop and a large number of hired workers to make porcelain.

So porcelain is not produced in a family unit!”

"And what we have to do is to let the entire porcelain industry, from hiring workers to the people who finally drink soup with porcelain bowls, enjoy the benefits brought to them by free business... You have to use your brain more, it is not so easy to do this!"

"I understand, teacher!"

After hearing Shen Mo's words, Apu quickly nodded respectfully and agreed.

After that, the matter was finished, Apu also ordered the maid to pour the wine, and the people on the boat naturally began to have a banquet and drink.

...Apu's action this time was heading straight for Pingjiang Prefecture.

If we talk about the place name "Pingjiang", it may be unfamiliar to everyone.

But in fact, this place is unknown to everyone in the world, because Pingjiang Prefecture is Suzhou in later generations.

As for why Apu went to that place, that was very interesting.

The porcelain industry in the Song Dynasty shines brightly, among which the genres and style characteristics of Song porcelain were circulated in later generations, and they are usually classified as "Five Famous Kilns".

In fact, it is the fine porcelain produced from five production places.

These five famous kilns are "Ding, Ru, Guan, Ge, and Jun."

Needless to say, Ru kiln next to this place.

In the later generations where Shen Mo was located, the authentic Ru kilns were confirmed in the antique industry, and there were no doubt that there were less than 40 pieces... Note! This is in the whole world! So the Ru kiln that was once chanted by Shen Mo: "Flowers are Yangzhou seeds, and bottles are Ruzhou kilns."

It can be said that it is the top collection in the minds of high-ranking officials and antique collectors since the Song Dynasty.

As for another type of "official kiln", it is a porcelain created by the government and specially fired for the inner court by the government.

If we look at the quality of the porcelain of the official kiln, then it is naturally the Maogong Cave that can be regarded as the best (that is, the Yangzhou area of ​​Jiangsu Province in the future).

However, the kilns and porcelain mentioned before are actually extremely rare objects.

They are used as exporters, and there are almost no such thing as any.

Because in the Song Dynasty, such products were very valuable at that time as soon as they were burned from the furnace.

Therefore, except for the palace and the homes of nobles, such high-end utensils are rarely seen among the people, let alone sold overseas.

It can also be seen that the reason why the so-called antiques have great value is actually not directly related to their existence.

Among them, as for coins, there are the most Song coins so far, so this kind of copper coins are not valuable.

But as for porcelain, Ru Kiln, which is a product of top-notch handicrafts as soon as it was released, is naturally priceless after it was passed down to later generations.

Here we will talk about another utensil, which is the "Mingchenghua Doucai Chicken Cup" that everyone in the antique world knows about."

In later generations, you can't buy this kind of chicken jar cup even if you have hundreds of millions of dollars.

It is because when it was burned, it was worth 100,000 taels per piece! So because this chicken jar cup has extremely rare quantity and special artistic effects.

This will make it a target that collectors compete for in later generations, and even become a synonym for wealth.

When it comes to this chicken jar cup, there is another interesting thing, which is still related to Apu now... So what is the relationship between the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty and Apu in the Song Dynasty?

Because the method of firing this chicken jar cup is to create blue and white porcelain patterns below the glaze surface of the porcelain.

Then paint the glaze surface with color, outline the pattern with color, and then put it in the furnace to fire again.

So what it calls "Doucai" is actually "underglaze blue and white, overglaze color."

As for the "underglaze blue and white" materials... they are actually cobalt materials that are in control of Apu!... So these high-end porcelains are actually rare among the people and are not commonly circulated commodities.

As for Apu's purpose of going to Suzhou this time, it was because Pingjiang Prefecture is now the largest production place for Ding Kiln porcelain in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This kind of Ding Kiln porcelain is not like Ru Kiln and Guan Kiln, and only wealthy families can afford it.

It is actually a kind of popular porcelain for civilians.

Even the Liao Dynasty was produced and was later called "Liao Ding".

This porcelain is white and delicate, with fine dents left on the body by printing or scratching.

When these scratches and concave places are fired into the furnace, the melted glaze will accumulate and flow inside, thus forming a beautiful pattern effect of thickness and light.
Chapter completed!