After half a month of construction, Shanghe Village was already beginning to show results.
The village's Windmill Mill had finally been completed. With this mill, the locals' eating habits could be changed. The Oil Workshop beside Small River, equipped with a waterwheel, had also been established, though hardly anyone had come to press oil there yet. The new immigrants had not harvested their peanuts and soybeans, while the local villagers who had soybeans stored at home had yet to grow accustomed to eating soybean oil.
Shan Peng had found a stable source of clay beside a naturally formed pond outside the village. With this steady supply of clay, he built a Ceramic Kiln in his own spacious courtyard. The best material for firing porcelain was pure white kaolin, which made it more convenient to glaze and paint the surface, but since he was only making Earthenware Ceramics—firing a few jars, basins, and bowls—there was no need to be overly particular.
Business at Shan Peng's home had been doing well lately, so he asked the village carpenter, Lu Jian'an, to make him a Foot-Pedal Pottery Wheel. As long as someone moved the pedals back and forth with their feet, the round worktable on the Pottery Wheel would spin, making it convenient for a potter to shape clay on top of it.
At present, the two best-selling types of pottery at Shan Peng's home were various-sized jars for pickling vegetables, and basins for kneading dough.
The locals had never needed such things before, but now that there was a mill, they had learned from the Han Tribe's immigrants to boil dishes in a large pot and stick cakes to the sides of the pot while cooking. Thus, dough basins had begun to catch on as well, becoming indispensable household necessities.
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