Porcelain art is an ancient craft that still holds a high status today. Industrially produced ceramics cannot compare to handmade ceramics.
True ceramic artists need to practice for many years just to master the basic technique of throwing.
Chen Yang learns quickly thanks to his quick comprehension and incredibly steady hands. He also has the patience to learn.
Chen Yang was one of the most focused people in the camp, and he was also very talented, so he learned everything quickly.
After making a tea set for Li Su'er himself, he upgraded the cups, bowls, and plates in his home.
Together they produced a large quantity of porcelain, but they did not have suitable pigments to color and decorate it, so the porcelain was all the simplest white porcelain.
For some everyday utensils, porcelain offers a much better feel than pottery, which further enhances people's quality of life.
Now, as long as there are no major limitations on materials, they can already achieve living conditions similar to those in feudal society, and in some aspects, even better.
Chen Yang also began planning the construction of Xindu Town.
That's right, it's a town, not a camp. The town is Chen Yang's ultimate goal.
The plans he needs to make now are for the next four or five years, or even longer.
Chen Yang set the final population of the Micro Realm at under 2,000. It wasn't considered a large town.
They now have relatively complete agricultural, livestock, and aquaculture industries, and their basic needs for food, clothing, housing, and transportation are largely met; they have even acquired essential necessities like firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea. They already have the foundation to develop into a town.
In terms of industry, Chen Yang does not plan to make much progress, because no matter how much progress the micro-world makes, it can never compare to the real world. It would be better to develop it into a town that people in the real world yearn for.
The biggest difference between the virtual town and a real town is probably the absence of currency.
In a perfect society, it would be almost impossible to exist without currency. However, the Microworld is just another world that I entered at night. Here, profit is no longer the primary factor, and currency has become dispensable.
However, Chen Yang wanted to establish a relatively complete work allocation system. The existing grouping was no longer feasible, and a different approach was needed.
Public and domestic.
The new approach seems simple, just public and domestic work, but it's actually much more complicated than before.
The micro-world is now basically based on family units, so the era of communal cooking is over. Now every household can cook independently, and at dinner time, smoke rises from the campsite.
No need for family meals. As long as you can keep your own home tidy and cook, that's fine. If you don't want to cook, you can go for a meal, as long as the other person is willing.
Public work is relatively more complicated, and Chen Yang also divided it into two categories: professional and non-professional.
For professional categories, it depends on individual expertise. For example, Yu Xuan knows wood carving and woodworking, so let him do that. Others who need to add carvings to their chairs and beds can find him and the old carpenter, who also contribute their labor.
Yun was familiar with mortise and tenon joints, and he was indispensable in house construction, so he had always been in charge of this work.
By the same token, those who are good at farming should farm, and those who are good at raising cattle and sheep should raise cattle and sheep. As long as you do your job well, other resources can be shared.
Non-professionals do odd jobs like chopping wood or helping build houses.
These tasks are tedious, but necessary; they are what sustain our lives.
Take Jiang Bo, for example. He plays a very important role, but he doesn't actually have any particular expertise. He can farm, hunt, and do some repairs, but he's still considered a non-professional.
When newcomers join, unless they already specialize in certain professions in the real world and have a useful role to play in the micro-world, they are initially classified as non-professionals. If they are willing to learn a certain skill in the micro-world, they can gradually learn and change.
Zhang Jian is a good example. Although he is the best painter in the micro-world, there are not many places in the micro-world to use his skills. So he learned wood carving from Yu Xuan. The time he spent on each was not much. He could do what he already liked while learning.
The micro-world has too many unique advantages. Most importantly, all the land is unclaimed and open to them, so there are inexhaustible resources.
Their planting is already stable, and they don't need to raise livestock, so the workload is actually not much, and they have a lot of free time. If they are not even willing to do this little bit of work, then the resources in the camp will not be shared with them.
The first step in building a town was, of course, demarcating its boundaries, a point that sparked considerable controversy.
Some inhabitants insisted on expanding northward because there were many usable resources within the Night Breeze, and it was easier to obtain them.
Some residents believe that it would be better to be closer to Chenghu Lake, as this would shorten the distance to Chenghu Lake.
Because the town's area is not large, and roads are planned to be built there, it will be much more convenient to go to whichever side is more central.
The construction of the town involved a lengthy process of planning and discussion, but this was necessary to ensure that the most basic plans were in place before construction could proceed without problems.
The materials need to be prepared before the town's construction even begins.
Stones from the Loess Plateau, volcanic ash from the southern volcano named Liyuan, and a large amount of wood—all of these need to be prepared in advance. No matter how you plan, the types of materials are basically the same.
Chen Yang was quite busy at this time, as his presence made some tasks much easier, so he had to travel around a lot.
For example, with volcanic ash, the others were too slow and inefficient to move around, and transportation was also inconvenient, so they stood at the edge of the rainforest waiting for Chen Yang, while Chen Yang carried large sacks back and forth to transport it.
For example, a beautiful boulder was found on the Eastern Chieftain Grassland, which could be used as a landscape stone, but it would be very inconvenient to move the whole piece. At this time, Chen Yang was asked to go and carry it back directly. Such a large object cannot pass through the Four Directions Gate, which can only accommodate 500 kilograms at a time.
This is why many materials need to be prepared now, as the Four Gates still have limitations, and these limitations are significant for the construction of the entire camp.
Therefore, materials that can be found in the Ink Plains should be prepared there, while other materials should be transported through the Four Directions Gate.
“My brother is a landscape planner and he’s very good at this kind of planning. I’m planning to get him into the Microworld. He’s in the queue, and it’ll be his turn next month,” Li Xueying said.
Chen Yang immediately agreed that the overall planning of the micro-world should wait until Li Xueying's brother arrived. For now, they could discuss architectural plans that wouldn't affect the overall situation, such as the selection of building materials, where to source them, and what type of building was constructed first.
The plan for Xindu Town thus began.
(End of this chapter)
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