The tea department is responsible for the tea-related work, including tea planting, tea harvesting and tea manufacturing, and the tea workshop in the country where tea is produced and sold is also managed by the tea department.

Lacquerware Division is also simply responsible for all kinds and grades of porcelain and lacquerware in China, including raw material management, workshop management and final sales.
The General Administration of Weaving originally did not need to set up another department to be responsible for the export of high-grade silk.
Tea, silk, porcelain and lacquerware, the export products of ancient China’s foreign trade, are well-tested and well-qualified players, who are welcomed by overseas markets.
The reason why China didn’t set up a tea department and a lacquer and porcelain department was very simple. It was not that there was no relative industry, but that the imperial court had no spare capacity to support the competition in the porcelain industry, but the Southern Song Dynasty could not export it.
Porcelain kilns are divided into official kilns and folk kilns. Generally speaking, the production of official kilns is directly enjoyed by the royal family and other expensive people. Ordinary people do not enjoy commercial exports, and the technology is particularly high.
Among the five famous kilns in Song Dynasty, Ru Kiln, Guan Kiln and Jun Kiln are official kilns. Ru Kiln and Guan Kiln are pure official kilns, with little output and advanced skills. People’s kilns can’t be compared, while Jun Kiln is divided into official kiln and people’s jun kiln, which is dedicated to the official.
In addition to these three aspects, most kilns are civilian kiln-oriented and commercial-oriented, mainly to earn profits, expand the scale and develop here, except for their unique superb skills, which are not lost to the exquisite official kilns to some extent.
It’s just that there is some difference between the official kiln and the folk song.
Damin kilns in Song Dynasty were Cizhou Kiln, Yaozhou Kiln, Jun Kiln, Ding Kiln, Jingdezhen Kiln, Longquan Kiln, Jianyao Kiln and Jizhou Kiln respectively.
There are four kilns in the north, namely Ding Kiln, Jun Kiln, Cizhou Kiln and Yaozhou Kiln.
Located in the south are Jingdezhen kiln, Longquan kiln, Jianyao kiln and Jizhou kiln.
Although there are four big kilns located in the north, with a series of events such as the Jin-Song War and the Song Dynasty’s southward migration, a large number of northern ceramic craftsmen did not stay in the northern Jin Dynasty rulers, such as Dingyao, but a large number of craftsmen moved southward with the Song Dynasty.
Their destination is Jingdezhen, and they brought the kiln firing technology. The combination of Jingdezhen firing technology created a lot of treasures, which made Jingdezhen porcelain enter its heyday into a rare art.
It’s good that the craftsmen who didn’t leave their hometown and stay in the land were also passive due to war or various reasons. It’s impossible to help the rulers of the State of Jin restore the porcelain firing situation to the grand occasion of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Moreover, from the founding of the People’s Republic of China to the death of Yan Hong Liang, Su Yonglin was in political turmoil and the war continued, which did not develop the technical soil for firing porcelain.
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For the nobles of the Jin Dynasty, if they need porcelain to decorate their appearance, they should import it directly from the Southern Song Dynasty. There is no need to invest a lot of money to restore the porcelain industry.
It is the so-called [it is better to buy than to buy, and it is better to rent than to buy]. Anyway, the Southern Song Dynasty still gives them so many old coins every year. Is it for the upper class to enjoy them?
Su Yonglin’s takeover of the northern porcelain industry is a rotten stall.
Apart from the large-scale Cizhou folk kiln, which is still burning the coarse porcelain bowls that people need, there is no artistic achievement.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Su Yonglin and the government focused on completing the social revolution, restoring agricultural production, and promoting scientific and technological innovation. They were not very concerned about the art of firing porcelain and felt that it was not necessary.
It is enough to give people enough days. High-quality porcelain is meaningless to the people, but the firing has never resumed.
However, in the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of craftsmen fled south and inherited the firing techniques of porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty. They had a vast ocean market and a large amount of external demand, and they had a very strong motivation to study the art of firing porcelain.
As a result, the ceramic industry in Zhejiang province has also developed rapidly, and the firing of pink and plum in Longquan kiln has reached the highest level in history
Jingdezhen Kiln has innovated its technology because there are a large number of craftsmen in Ding Kiln, and has produced a large number of treasures.
The production of Xiusi Imperial Kiln also reached the level of Northern Song Dynasty because of political and economic needs.
In this way, it is understandable that the orientation of China’s porcelain industry was won in the normal commercial competition of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Although some court officials in the former country discussed whether to set up a big official kiln to burn porcelain, Su Yonglin rejected it and thought it was unnecessary at present.
There is no demand from the people, and the official does not take the initiative to support the competitiveness of Chinese porcelain, which is really not enough to see.
Not only does porcelain export to earn foreign exchange in the Southern Song Dynasty, but it also has no future.
On the one hand, the tea garden is based in the south, and on the other hand, there are few people who have leisure to go to tea-the leisure to the base has been hanged in the southeast branch again and again in revolutionary actions.
Isn’t the revolution fragrant?
Isn’t a public trial sweet?
Isn’t liquidation sweet?
Isn’t it sweet to hang people on the southeast branch as pendants?
What do you want tea?
Members of the Great Renaissance and enthusiastic onlookers were full of question marks.
The high-end silk industry can’t develop greatly for the same reason.
For this reason, tea, porcelain, silk, etc., which were exported to the South Song Dynasty, produced the same amount of foreign exchange, but they could not beat the three major aspects and could not grab the market after losing.
There is no need to set up departments without market conditions.
Su Yonglin’s only effort to protect the "national rare art" is to scatter the people in the original official kiln porcelain craftsmen and his skilled craftsmen to the Ministry of Industry for the record, and then give them some resources to burn some porcelain to maintain their technical support.
It is also a little bit of work to restore the porcelain firing after the grand occasion.
Obviously, what impact does this micro-achievement method have on the overall business situation? If you want to turn over, you still have to rely on the army
The great victory in the Song War, commercial competition has been left behind, and national strength competition is the mainstream.
As a result, the Tea Division and Lacquer Porcelain Division came into being, swallowing up the developed porcelain industry and tea industry in the Southern Song Dynasty and turning them into large state-owned industries.
And the most important action is to swallow important overseas sales channels.
With Lin Jingchun’s reorganization in the south, the relevant personnel of these departments, such as the shipping department and the port, have to face the south to receive and control the industries owned by the former Southern Song Dynasty in their fields of responsibility.
Yu Xingyan, Lin Jingchun’s right-hand man and right assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, is responsible for leading the team to preside over the liquidation and receiving of the real estate industry of the defeated people in the Southern Song Dynasty, and strive to eat the war dividend in one breath, big sleep.
About ten days after Yu Xingyan Lin Jingchun went south, he led various departments to form a delegation to the south.
They entered the south of the Yangtze River from Xiangfan, Xiangyang took a short rest and held a meeting to arrange it.
First of all, the first step is to take over the ceded land and determine the industries controlled by the Tea Division, Lacquer Porcelain Division and the General Administration of Weaving.
Yin Zhen, the "expert" of the Ministry of Finance and the tea secretary, went to the production sites of Shuangjing tea, Xieyuan tea and Linjiang Yujin tea, which were originally located in Jiangnan West Road and now Jiangxi Province, with ecstasy.
Although destroyed by the war, among the three famous tea gardens, the tea trees are still largely intact. Tea workers were killed by soldiers, and many production stopped for a time, even some tea trees were destroyed.
However, after the peasant army controlled the situation, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi realized the significance of these tea gardens to economic development, so they specially ordered to protect these tea gardens and control them.
Then the peasant army took over the management of tea workers and slowly resumed tea production.
After entering Jiangnan West Road, SiNa saw a well-managed tea garden.
They immediately put the register of the tea garden department that produced these famous teas into the control of the tea company, and every tea tree and tea worker was registered as a treasure of the tea company.
In addition to these tea gardens that can be obtained immediately, there are many tea gardens in the Jiangnan-controlled areas that belong to Zhao Songzong’s brothers, waiting for him to hand over.
A set of handover procedures can make a lot of money for the tea company.
Wu Hao, a doctor in the Department of Lacquer and Porcelain of the Ministry of Finance, is in a similar mood.
Although Jingdezhen, his biggest goal, is still under the control of Jiangnan, there are not a few huge folk kilns in the Southern Song Dynasty that belong to Zhao Songzong’s brothers.
Although the Lacquer Porcelain Division can directly grasp that the famous kilns are located in Jizhou Kiln in the state-controlled area, this does not mean the end.
What he needs to do is to integrate the kilns in Jizhou, which is the only place in control, and to integrate the kilns scattered in Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and to integrate a technician to restore Jizhou kiln, which has fallen into production stagnation due to war.
Jizhou kiln used to be a very good export to earn foreign exchange. However, due to the outbreak of the revolutionary war on Jiangnan West Road, Jizhou kiln was plundered and destroyed by the earliest rebels and loyalists, and suffered heavy losses.
After the peasant army grasped the situation, Zhao Yucheng and Wen Anzhi protected the residual Jizhou kiln together as they protected the tea garden. Fortunately, the porcelain-burning craftsmen in Nanjizhou kiln protected the vitality of Jizhou kiln to a certain extent.
Now is the time for Jizhou kiln to recover.
The recovery of Jizhou Kiln will be accompanied by the control of Jingdezhen Kiln, Longquan Kiln and other famous export-oriented kilns. Many kilns previously controlled by Zhao Songzong’s brother-in-law will now be owned by China Lacquer Porcelain Company, and they will also earn a lot of money.
Coincidentally, like Wu Hao, Duan Jianzhong, director of the General Administration of Weaving, is also very happy.