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Chapter 608
After Wang Hua's spoof, almost everyone knew that Li Longji and Princess Taiping approached Wang Hua successively in order to fight for power.

This became a joke among the people.Li Longji made Wang Hua so angry that he almost vomited blood. Princess Taiping was rushing to Puzhou, but the speed was slower than a snail.After hearing the news, he even dropped several exquisite porcelain teacups.

But I don’t know if it was Wang Hua’s spoof this time that made Li Dan realize that he had gone too far, so he issued an order again: “All the government affairs of the court shall be handled by the crown prince. It involves important military affairs, death penalty review and punishment of five The appointment of officials above rank must be discussed with the crown prince first, and then played."

It can be regarded as soothing Li Longji's injured heart.

But not long after, Li Longji asked to give up the crown prince to Li Chengqi, but Li Dan did not agree.So Li Longji asked Princess Taiping to return to Beijing again, and this time Li Dan agreed.

Li Chiying asked Wang Hua puzzledly: "Is my third brother stupid?"

What a great opportunity, but Li Longji took the initiative to ask Li Dan to transfer Princess Taiping back.

Zhu Dian watched Wang Hua tinkering with the copper wire from the side, and replied for Wang Hua: "The prince is mature."

"Mr. Zhu, why do you say that?"

"If your third brother doesn't do this, your father will still help Princess Taiping to maintain balance, and then your third brother will be suppressed even more severely. So be a man, sometimes take a step back and see the world."

Wang Hua put down the work at hand, turned his head and said: "The current prince still has 20 years to grow up. But if he didn't occupy the righteousness of the crown prince, he would not be the opponent of Princess Taiping."

Li Chiying was overjoyed when he heard that, Wang Hua's implication was that although his third brother sometimes seemed to be cornered by Princess Taiping several times, he was still the winner in the end.

But Zhu Ting heard another meaning. Wang Hua said that he could grow for another 20 years. During these 20 years, Li Longji was brilliant and powerful, but after 20 years, he would go downhill sharply.But Zhu Ting did not say.

After Wang Hua finished speaking, he continued to work.

He was working on one thing, a very important thing in Chinese handicrafts, but it is not needed in this world, a snuff bottle.

He only remembered it when he saw the burning enamel and the glass bottle filled with incense.

Many snuff bottles have been unearthed. Generally speaking, the price of snuff bottles is well positioned. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, snuff bottles were divided into three types. The middle one is glass, jade, ivory, porcelain, and crystal. The workmanship is exquisite, and the general auction price is between 100 and 100 million.There are also ordinary snuff bottles and snuff bottles made of coral, ranging in tens of thousands.Of course, if the craftsmanship is unique or has special significance, such as snuff bottles used by Qianlong, the price may be higher.If the workmanship is rough, the price will be lower.There is also a snuff bottle, which is enamel on the glass.Because the success rate is extremely low, very few have been unearthed, and each piece is only exquisitely crafted, dating from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and basically more than [-] million.

Wang Hua saw that the perfume bottle looked like a snuff bottle, so he planned to burn one himself.

He is good at firing enamel porcelain, but he does not have the ability to enamel on glass. He failed even after firing more than a dozen.

Seeing the workers laughing, Wang Hua angrily burned a porcelain snuff bottle, and then imitated the gourd-shaped snuff bottle unearthed in the Qing Dynasty (pictured) with enamel and colored plum blossoms (see picture).In the end, he was successfully burnt once.The pot is not big, five or six centimeters high, but it is beautiful and rich.Wang Hua asked the craftsman to make a jasper cover on it, but before he could play with it, Li Chiying snatched it.

I was not very embarrassed at first, but now that I am married, I have thick skin.Everyone's manuscripts have already been ordered by her. Of course, they can't be given to her now, and they need to be rubbed out.

But more and more good things came out, which made her even more dazzled.

Not only cloisonné, Wang Hua let the craftsmen learn from each other for a period of time, and began to guide other crafts.

First of all, jade wares. This time, pottery and stone carvings are the most used materials in Ding Ji, followed by silk tapestry, gold and silver lacquer, lacquer wares and jade wares.

Wang Hua supervised jade carving and taught Xia Kai and others some later jade techniques.These years have gradually matured, but there is still a long way to go when compared with the Qing Dynasty jade wares, which have achieved great craftsmanship in jade wares.Therefore, Wang Hua may be slightly lacking in engraving techniques, but his theoretical knowledge can keep up.Therefore, teach them how to borrow the knowledge of painting, carving and arts and crafts in jade wares, and integrate Yinxian, Yangxian, hollowing out and pretty colors into one.

I also found a few small jade materials, and drew miniature jade carvings on the blueprints, such as Yushanzi of Huichang Jiulao Picture and Yushanzi of Dayu's Water Control Picture.Of course, some changes were made because of the different color of the material.

Not only jade, five famous jades in China, Hetian Jade, Henan Nanyang Jade, Northeast Xiuyan Jade, Gansu Jiuquan Jade, Shaanxi Lantian Jade, but in a broad sense it also includes agate, ruby, turquoise, emerald, crystal, emerald and other jade.

But each can be subdivided. For example, crystals include amethyst, white crystal, black crystal, brown crystal (smoky crystal), citrine, and red crystal called hibiscus.

Wang Hua also used these jade materials in a broad sense to guide craftsmen to carve imitation versions of citrine pen holders with crane pine and spring patterns, red agate carvings and garden qin decorations and other handicrafts.But they are all small pieces, and generally only Nanyang jade can produce large jade materials for large pieces.Materials such as these crystals are too small to form large pieces.

Next came gold and silverware.

Because of its strong plasticity, gold and silver had high craftsmanship in the Tang Dynasty.However, Wang Hua still let the artisans continue to make some handicrafts, such as imitating the gold pagoda inlaid with gems in the Qing Dynasty, the golden mandala of Dawei De, the golden conch of the master Padmasambhava made in gold and inlaid with gems, and so on.

This is to further broaden their horizons.

This requires not only a lot of gold and silver, but also a lot of gems.There are no gems in the body of the tripod, if it is decorated with gems, it may not be more luxurious and light, but lose a bit of stability, but there will be a lot of gems on the base of the tripod.This time, red, blue, emerald, emerald, aquamarine, opal, alexandrite, moonstone, sunstone (labradorite, Hesbi is this kind of stone), amazonite, crystals of various colors, Chalcedony, jasper, agate, opal, peridot, malachite, opal, zircon, beryl, corundum, and even a few diamonds were found.

But these gemstones cannot be piled on top of each other. If they are inlaid, it is very important. Therefore, when carving jade and gold and silverware, the ability of this inlay is integrated.This includes the enamel lotus-patterned crispy camellia lid jar that Wang Huazheng was firing, which is also inlaid with a large number of gold, silver and precious stones.

Then there are instructions for lacquerware and silk tapestry, there are still some imperfections, and by the way, the craftsmen are more skilled.

But this is not a waste of materials, every piece comes out, as long as it is a finished product, it will immediately cause a bombardment.More than enough to recover the cost.

Then he went to his old business, porcelain.

This time, Wang Hua made almost every kind of porcelain by himself, and asked the craftsmen to stand by and watch.

Now the materials are basically available. Except for some glazes that came to Europe, which Wang Hua did not collect, the glazes from Nanyang to Dashi have all been imported one after another.Coupled with the improvement of technology, it laid the foundation for him to fire all kinds of porcelain.

Therefore, with the cooperation of craftsmen, this time he made a lot of porcelain by himself, which is one of the representative works of various porcelains in the Qing Dynasty.

Furnace Jun-glazed Ruyi-ear Flat Pot, Tea-Glazed Sheep Shouzun, Purple-Glazed Chrysanthemum Petal Basin with Eggplant Skin, Wujin-glazed Appreciation Vase with Golden Dragon Pattern, Li Yucheng’s Green-Glazed Porcelain Carved Deer and Crane Cap Tube, Apple-Green Glazed Embossed Seawater Cloud Dragon Lantern vase with turquoise green glaze, bowl with taotie pattern, pink celadon glaze square gossip vase, lotus leaf-style brush wash imitating official kiln, bean green glaze dark tea bowl, sacrificial blue glaze imitating bronze bean, sky blue glaze embossed vase, yellow glaze carved landscape Teapot with chicken oil yellow embossed seawater dragon pattern rectangular tray, sacrificial red glaze skimming bottle, rouge water chrysanthemum petal pot, white glaze autumn exercise cup, large vase with flowering figure pattern in wide color, ink color landscape pattern cover bowl, golden color **, yellow Ground green dragon bowl, blue-colored three-friend bowl over the wall, alum red-colored kui dragon pattern sky chicken button high-footed cover bowl, plain three-color hollowed-out Shou character teapot, plain three-color duck-shaped inkstone drop, bucket-colored courtyard baby play teapot, Wine blue glaze bucket color stick vase with figure pattern, yellow ground famille rose vase with flower and fruit pattern, pastel vase with figure pattern with lion ears, enamel colored bowl with hundreds of flowers and brocade pattern, multicolored consecrated flower, bird and animal pattern stick mallet vase, blue and white glaze with red sea water chasing clouds and dragons Plum vase with patterns, blue and white bamboo and stone plantain picture jade pot spring vase, blue and white figure hexagonal vase.

(There are a lot of handicrafts in this chapter, and I will explain them one by one in the relevant work, including some jade in a broad sense)

Some porcelain technology is not mature yet, but fortunately after so many years of experimentation, coupled with sufficient manpower and materials, Wang Hua is making it himself while doing experiments.

This is the greatest love of his life, and he has almost forgotten the current political situation.

Fortunately, with the help of Zhu Dian, he handled the affairs of the eight states for him, so that the business would not be delayed.

But not long after, as Wang Hua said, the imperial court made Dou Huaizhen the official censor.

This is clearly Li Dan playing balance again.

Dou Huaizhen is Princess Taiping's number one confidant. While giving Li Longji virtual power, he also gave Princess Taiping real power, forming a constraint.

Xue Qianguang, the official censor, and Murong Xun, the censor in the palace, couldn't stand it any longer. They impeached Princess Taiping and asked Princess Taiping to be presented to Li Dan. Li Dan had no choice but to release Xue Qianguang.

But there was a piece of news that attracted Wang Hua's attention. Li Dan sent envoys to ten provinces across the country to inspect. Some people thought that Shannan Road was too wide, so they divided Shannan Road into East and West Roads, and Hexi Road from Longyou Road.In fact, it was not yet time for Wang Hua to return the Northwest.

Wang Hua didn't say a word after hearing this. Anyway, it's useless to fight for the name.

What drew his attention was the latter piece of news. Li Dan divided the world into 24 governors. The governors were responsible for correcting the gains and losses of officials in prefectures and counties within the jurisdiction of the procuratorate. Only Luozhou and Gyeonggi states were not affiliated to the governor's office.The prince's right concubine Li Jingbo, the prince's sheren Lu Yu and others said: "The governor has the power of life and death alone, and the power is too heavy. If an incompetent person is appointed, the harm will be too serious. Now the grade and salary of the censor They are all humble, but they all have a high reputation, His Majesty sent them to inspect the place on time, so those who do evil will not dare to run rampant."

So all the new governors were dismissed again, and ten more inspectors were set up.

This news reminded Wang Hua of the situation when the towns were separated in the later Tang Dynasty.

But he still didn't say anything.But I really admire the vision of Li Jingbo and Lu Chu.

There are two other pieces of news that have attracted the attention of people all over the world.

The first news is that because of Li Chongfu, Li Chongmao was demoted to Jizhou as the governor. When he crossed the Qinling Mountains, he fell off a cliff and his whereabouts are unknown.Finally, the officers and soldiers sent people to search, only to find that Li Chongmao had fallen into the creek below the cliff.After a long time, Li Chongmao's body was found downstream.

Li Dan burst into tears when he heard the news, and carried out a series of follow-up activities.

But whether his cry came from guilt in his heart or from crocodile tears is unknown.

The official version of this matter is that Li Chongmao stumbled and fell off the cliff. The folk version is that Li Chongmao committed suicide because he couldn't think about it. There is also a popular version that Li Chongmao was killed by Li Dan on purpose.However, this statement dare not be publicized.

Li Dan also felt panicked, and dealt with all the hundreds of officers and soldiers in custody. In fact, he really didn't have the idea of ​​killing Li Chongmao. Where are the two masters in Oceania? What's the use of killing Li Chongmao? .At least now he didn't want to kill Li Chongmao.

Quite wronged.

There were only a dozen people who knew the inside story, and when the truth came out after a few years, Li Longji was equally helpless.

The second thing is that Tubo was forced to have no choice but to send envoys to ask for peace and profess ministers to the Tang Dynasty.

On the other side, Mochuo also sent envoys to proclaim to the Tang Dynasty.

Although this is due to the blood camp, now that Wang Hua is Li Dan's son-in-law, he immediately handed over the Northwest and the blood camp to the imperial court. Besides, he made great achievements in pacifying Zhuwei before, and now he is making the tripod of Kyushu, which can be regarded as the imperial court's contribution. glory.

Li Dan was very happy to hear that. Of course, the political situation has not yet settled down completely, and he didn't want to go to war, so he agreed to all of them.

This news is also good for Wang Hua, that is, the tripod of Kyushu will be built immediately, and he will transfer Tubo and Turks to the central state. If these two countries do not surrender, there will be disputes.

At the same time, Mo Chuan sent an envoy to ask for marriage from the Tang Dynasty. Li Dan agreed and named Li Chengqi's daughter Princess Jinshan, planning to marry Turkic.

Li Chiying was dumbfounded when he heard that, and finally rescued Princess Jincheng, why did the emperor marry his granddaughter to a barbarian?

Moreover, Li Chengqi and Li Longji are brothers and have a very friendly relationship. His daughter and Li Chiying are often in contact. Although they are older, they are not a few years older, and they are usually like sisters.

She found Wang Hua who was firing porcelain, pulled him up, and begged Wang Hua to write a letter to stop it.

Wang Hua said: "Little princess, what can I do? Your royal father doesn't even trust his own son who has made great contributions, how can you still trust me? Besides, I will hand over the land and the army immediately, which means nothing. If you offend Your royal father, maybe, your royal father can still kill me."

This is an exaggeration, even if the land was handed over, before Wang Hua left, it was also a false handover.Really stay in the Central Plains with nothing?
But Princess Jincheng has some feelings with him, and he promised that Princess Jincheng will marry, and if she is unwilling, he will find a way to rescue her.As for Li Chengqi's daughter, he didn't need to cause trouble.Besides, this is just the beginning, and there will be more princesses and princesses who will marry Li Longji later.What does he do?
Li Chiying murmured: "Why is this? Why is this?"

Wang Hua said: "Being an emperor, if you have the heart of an emperor, you will lose your heart, and your father is not the same father as before."

Li Chiying made him bitter.

But the other person was very worried, and Mu Zili asked in fear: "Erlang, you won't treat my daughter like this in the future."

Li Xuejun was very competitive, and gave birth to a boy with no blue eyes and yellow hair, but his skin was slightly paler than that of the people in the Central Plains, so he could see a bit of mixed blood.

Wang Han also gave birth to a boy, but he was a bit thin. After hearing the news, the Taiyuan Wang family sent many congratulatory gifts.

Then news of Li Hong and Li Chiying's pregnancy came out.But Mu Zili did not move.

Even if Wang Hua has no ambitions for the Central Plains, he also owns a vast territory and more and more people, which is equivalent to being an emperor. Now he is deliberately confused with the Tang Dynasty, otherwise he would have left early.

She only has this one daughter, which is reserved for "preventing the elderly", but she can't marry far away like the Tang Dynasty did.

Wang Hua laughed loudly and said, "We will marry her to Europe in the future."

Li Hong chased to beat Wang Hua, but knew that Wang Hua was joking.

But after a while, I cried.

Now Wang Hua has more and more children, and everyone is very happy. Although there are more children, there will be more people fighting for the head of the family in the future, which is better than none.

However, Mu Zili only has one daughter, and he is very empty in his heart.

Wang Hua persuaded: "It's a big deal to recruit a son-in-law to come back in the future. It's really impossible to recruit two or three."

Mu Zili said dumbfoundedly: "What are you talking about!"

After appeasing Mu Zili, Li Chiying quietly wrote a letter back to Beijing, asking Li Longji to persuade Li Dan.Li Longji is frightened now, how dare he persuade him?
However, this marriage failed in the end, and it had nothing to do with Li Dan and Li Longji, because the Turks ordered the Khitan and other tribes to invade Hebei many times, which made Li Longji unhappy.So Princess Jinshan was not released.

But in the court, Li Dan's balance fell to Princess Taiping again. Because Wei Anshi was not attached to Princess Taiping, Princess Taiping suggested that Li Dan let Wei Anshi be the left servant and guest of the prince, and the third rank of Tongzhongshu. Lost the false title and cut the real power.Dou Huaizhen was also appointed as a servant. At this time, he was cultivating Taoism for Princess Jinxian.

People say that he used to be the queen (whose father and father are under, you can't type it out), and now he is the princess Yisi.

At this time, Zhang said that he came to the northwest.

The position is the inspector of Longyou Dao, but the 23 prefectures are somewhat complicated, most of them belong to Longyou Lingwu Dao, a small part belongs to Shuofang Dao, and a small part belongs to Shannan Dao.

As for the inspection of Northwest China is purely a joke, there are other things.But the court couldn't find a second good candidate, so Zhang Shuo was sent.

The first mission here was to look at the Kyushu tripod, Wang Hua immediately replied: "I didn't do it."

Still practicing skills, Ding Body and Ding Ji have not yet been made, and they have not even started work.

Zhang said that he frowned. He heard that Wang Hua had thrown away all the 500 million yuan that the imperial court provided, and now he has used his own money.

He was not polite, and asked the question directly.

Wang Hua said, "Come with me."

Brought to a large warehouse in the city, the materials inside were piled up like a mountain, but these materials were so precious that Wang Hua even used [-] soldiers to guard them day and night.

Wang Hua said: "Most of them are used in materials, but the materials have not been fully prepared. There are also craftsmen's salary expenditures and prepared tools. When the construction starts, the cost will drop instead."

"Director Wang, when are you going to start construction?"

"About next spring."

Zhang said that he frowned.

Wang Hua could see what was going on in his mind, and said, "Cutting firewood is not afraid of knife sharpeners. Once the skills are mature, the speed of work will be very fast. Now that the skills are not mature, and forced to start work, the waste will be greater, and the utensils produced will not be perfect. Remember Stay, it is the tripod of Kyushu. Not only does it have a symbolic meaning, but also various knowledge of astronomy, geography, humanities, history, and physics and chemistry, which will guide a development path for future Chinese people. What effect it will have is not what you imagined , otherwise I would not be so cautious. Do I like extravagance? But I will show you some handicrafts."

Bring Zhang Shuo to the large workshop outside the city. This large workshop covers an amazing area. On a piece of Gobi Desert, there are seven or eight porcelain kilns just for firing porcelain, but all the raw materials for these porcelain firing come from all over the country. .

Wang Hua took out the handicrafts one by one.

Zhang said that after reading it, he just shook his head, it was extremely beautiful and extravagant.Let him linger.

After a long time, he moved away and said worriedly: "It's too extravagant."

Wang Hua spread his hands and said, "I admit it. But it is precisely because of these extravagant utensils that the craftsman's craftsmanship will be honed. This is not extravagance for the sake of luxury, but luxury for the sake of skill. The situation should be treated differently."

Zhang said nothing, no matter what, Wang Hua only needed 500 million yuan for such an important instrument, and it was still a "debt" owed by the court to the Northwest. Make a fuss about this matter.

You can’t spend [-] yuan to make a Kyushu tripod, right? That’s not a Kyushu tripod, but a Kyushu tripod (also a tripod, used for cooking, it’s very small, usually [-] to [-] centimeters high).

So he changed the subject and said, "Director Wang, have you heard about the situation in the court?"

Wang Hua is bitter, you, Li Longji's diehard loyalist, can't get angry, so I have to listen to what he has to say.

(End of this chapter)