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Chapter 618 Ding Porcelain Success (Happy May Day)

When the situation in the court was changing, Lanhe and other states were handed over smoothly.

Li Longji is still very low-key, even though he has bigger ambitions in his heart.

But at this time, he suggested in front of Li Dan again, saying: "Father, I heard that after Tian Dan was restored to Qi, he welcomed King Xiang of Qi and served as Xiangguo. Once passing by the Zishui River, he saw an old man trembling because of the cold while crossing the river. Unable to move forward, he took off his fur coat and put it on. King Qi Xiang was suspicious of this, and said to himself, "Tian Dan has done good deeds and won people's hearts. Do you want to take over my country? No early plans, Afraid of the future. After speaking, I looked around, there was no one around, but there was a Guanzhu man under the cliff. He asked loudly, did you hear what I said? The Guanzhu man replied, "My lord, why don't you use the advantage to guide the situation and become your own good?" You only need to issue an order saying, I am worried that the people will starve, so Tian Dan shelters and feeds them. I am worried that the people will suffer from cold, so Tian Dan takes off his fur coat to wear for the elderly. It became a good deed of the king. King Xiang of Qi heard it and said, so he rewarded Tian Dan with cattle and wine to show his virtue, and thanked Tian Dan in the court hall. They. Afterwards, King Xiang sent people to inquire among the people, and the people all said that Tian Dan loves the people, so it was all due to the kindness of our King Xiang."

Li Longji suddenly said this, but Li Dan didn't understand why.

Li Longji said again: "Father, my son heard that Wang Hua returned all the eight states including Lanhe to the imperial court. Although it was within the original agreement, he can still be regarded as keeping his promise, and he is loyal. But my son heard that now The imperial court is indifferent, which makes the ministers very worried. This person loses the northwest land, like a tiger pulling its teeth, and a falcon loses its wings. If he does not retreat, he can also add a capable minister to the court. Go, everyone is happy. Why don't the emperor give him respect Reward. One is to appease Wang Hua, and the other is to make an appearance for the people of the world. It is not because Wang Hua handed over the northwest land, but because of the favor of the imperial court, which made him influence. The third is that Wang Hua won the hearts of the people in the Northwest and comforted Wang Hua. , It also allowed the soldiers of the Blood Camp to meet with nearly a million people in the northwest, making them feel satisfied, and laying the foundation for the imperial court to re-govern this area. The ancients said that people have immediate worries without long-term concerns. Although the Northwest handed over, the king The influence of the painting still exists, and now the imperial court only needs a false title to take this area, so why not do it?"

What Li Longji said makes sense.

Don't think that the imperial court has taken over most of the northwest, but if Wang Hua turns against the water and raises his banner, the people of 23 states will at least have the people of [-] states echoing him.

This point, Li Dan was indeed negligent.

But Li Dan looked at his son suspiciously, wondering in his heart, could this third son have any collusion with Wang Hua?
But that's the case, you shouldn't ask yourself to make an order, why not give Wang Hua a favor after the matter is done?What's more, even if Wang Hualing was conferred the title of King Xia, Wang Hua still won't be conferred, so what else can he give Wang Hua?
So he asked very carefully: "Then what reward should I give him?"

Li Longji said: "Without him, I will still give him the original title. The blessing of the court is nothing more than having an extra king with a different surname. No, the court has issued several edicts to reject it. The court has a foothold. Once you go overseas, no matter whether the people or the soldiers, you have to obey the imperial court's order, and all harm will be eliminated."

Therefore, at the end of the first lunar month, the imperial court made another decree to confer the title of Wang Hualingxia Wang Tongzhongshu's third rank.

When the edict arrived in Lingzhou, Wang Hua couldn't figure it out, of course he still refused to grant it, but he didn't understand, knowing that he would not grant it, the imperial court wanted to issue this edict.

After several days, Wang Hua finally understood the ins and outs of the matter.

He certainly did not have any collusion with Li Longji.

But Li Longji played this move very well.

Since Li Longji betrayed Yao Chong, Da Song and Liu Youqiu successively in order to protect himself, the strong man broke his wrist, but his strength became very weak.This is also the reason why many ministers took refuge in Princess Taiping.

I don't have anything to do with Li Longji, but Li Longji only needs to take advantage of this situation.It would look to outsiders that he must have promised Li Longji something, as long as he joins, the situation will take a turn for the worse, and the number of people who will take refuge in him will immediately increase.

Even when he was plotting a change, as long as he played his own banner, many dead soldiers immediately thought that the chance of victory was imminent, and they bravely participated.

He smiled wryly. These two people are fighting for power and profit, and they have reached the point where they will do everything they can.Immediately it was lively again.

But he didn't pay attention to this, because the people moved away, and the last concern in his heart was also resolved.Therefore, now I can concentrate on the production of tripod ware and the grinding and firing of new porcelain.

At the end of the first lunar month, another pot of porcelain came out, and now Wang Hua's firing of this piece of porcelain has almost become a joke.

Wang Hua asked the furnace worker to open the kiln door carefully, and Li Chiying watched with a smile in his arms holding the child.

In fact, she has seen many times what kind of porcelain Wang Hua burns. It is exquisite, but in her mind, there is no hope of firing it.

Wang Hua turned around and said to Li Chiying, "What are you laughing at?"

"I didn't, Erlang, you will succeed." Li Chiying raised her small fist and said duplicity.

Wang Hua was also not sure, the tripod was about to succeed, and there was not much time left for him.If he also left Lingzhou after the success of Kyushu, he would not have so many craftsmen to assist him, nor would he have so many materials for him to squander, and he would have no hope of success after arriving in Oceania.

He said something silently in his heart, maybe the difficulty is too high.

In fact, if this furnace of porcelain fails again, he no longer intends to fire this piece of porcelain and replace it with other thin-bodied porcelain.After studying for a long time, as long as the inner tube is not burned to paint thin-bodied porcelain, he is still very sure.

The furnace worker carefully moved the porcelain out, and suddenly there was a cheer.

These are two porcelain vases.But unlike other thin-bodied porcelain, it has patterns both inside and outside.

There are words and patterns on the outside, Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring", there are some decorations on the upper and lower sides of the porcelain vase.If that's all, the early fever was successful.The mystery is inside the bottle, and there is also a picture inside the bottle, which is based on Tao Yuanming's article, a valley with flowing water and green hills, rural cottages, and many people farming with happy smiles on their faces.In order to be able to see more clearly after the burning is successful, the knife is carved a little deep.

Originally, the porcelain body was extremely thin, but because it was carved with a knife, it cracked as soon as it was fired.

And the cost is even higher, it is impossible to engrave, glaze, and then reunite the bottle.For its bright colors, Wang Hua used famille rose, so it was necessary to first use high-temperature burnt tires, and then use delicate tools to insert the glaze into the bottle bit by bit, and then repeatedly glaze at low temperature.

Although it is a skimming bottle, how difficult is it to glaze the molded bottle?After all, it is separated by a layer of porcelain body. Although it is very thin, it is not really as thin as paper. It is transparent and affects people's sight.And the bottle is not big, only one person can operate it, which is extremely time-consuming.

In order to succeed, many porcelain bodies are sintered each time, and multiple people are divided into glazes.Then it was fired slowly and glazed slowly. As a result, it took countless man-hours and consumed a lot of raw materials, and nearly two hundred porcelain bottles were burned out.This is not counted as the cost. If the cost is counted, the two porcelain vases may cost tens of thousands of dollars.Not to mention the cost of Wang Hua doing it himself.

Hearing the cheers, Wang Hua and Li Chiying squeezed past together.

I saw the workers carefully holding two porcelain vases in their hands. The porcelain vases were about [-] centimeters high, not very high, but crystal clear. Under the sunlight, the patterns inside and the writing on the outside almost merged together.

Wang Hua immediately took them over, don't get into trouble if they fall on the ground in agitation, he took out a box covered with velvet, put a bottle in it, put the other bottle on the table, and poured water into it.Then turn it gently, and a miracle happened with this turn.

With the bright light, the whole picture of Taohuayuan seems to be flowing, the green mountains and clear waters inside are moving, and the people are moving.Because the porcelain body is thin and has good transparency, it seems that it is not a painting on a porcelain bottle, but a very light version of real people with real mountains and rivers, flowing on the table.

A worker burst into tears and murmured, "This is the real number one porcelain in the world."

It's hard to say in the future, but now its craftsmanship, its beauty, and its cost are indeed the best porcelain in the world that has never been seen before.

Wang Hua said: "Send someone to send one of them to Chang'an."

This is not a luxury handicraft, because when it was carved, there was a line of big characters on the neck of the bottle: When will the world be a paradise?

A question, eight characters, immediately sublimates its value.

But there is one sentence that Wang Hua didn't say.Why was it sent to Chang'an? When Zhu Dian was in Lingzhou, Wang Hua said that when the pair of porcelain vases can be reunited, it will be the time when the world will be in great order.

Not to mention how much symbolic meaning it has, but the accidental production of these two porcelain vases has brought a good omen for the production of tripod ware.

At this time, Mu Zili found Wang Hua.

Now Wang Hua only has the land of three states left.

This is done for self-protection, don't look at Li Dan and his son and Princess Taiping trying to win him over.If you really don't have any power in your hands, try again to see if they still have this good attitude.

However, once the tripod is [-]%, the three states still have to be handed over.Therefore, it also tried to decentralize the officials appointed by the court.Coupled with Mu Zili and the dozens of people left behind to help, Wang Hua thought there would be no problem.

But Mu Zili handed over some files, and she didn't want to divide Wang Hua's heart, but she couldn't solve it. Seeing that Wang Hua had fired porcelain, she had one more thing on her mind. She had no choice but to ask Wang Hua for help.

Wang Hua took a look and found several unsolved cases, the first one being the murder of her husband.

Liu Jing, a few dozen miles west of Lingzhou City, invited his good friend to do business in Lingzhou City on Thursday, but his wife disagreed on Thursday, and the couple quarreled for many days.On the appointed day, on Thursday, regardless of his wife's opinion, he got up early in the morning and left the house to wait for Liu Jing on the appointed boat.This is the original confession of Mrs. Zhou.

But Liu Jing’s confession is not like this. He also came to the boat, but he didn’t wait until Thursday. He was a little anxious to wait, but because of this incident, Mrs. Zhou was very disgusted with him, so she asked the boatman Zhao Lizi to help him Shout out Thursday.Zhao Ricki came to Zhou Zhou's house and called Mrs. Zhou a few times.Mrs. Zhou opened the door on Thursday, and Zhao Lizi looked for Thursday.Mrs. Zhou said strangely that she left home early in the morning on Thursday and went to his boat.Liu Jingyi heard something wrong, so he and Zhao Biaozi searched everywhere for Thursday, but they couldn't find it after three days of searching.

Liu Jing was afraid that something would happen on Thursday, so he went to Lingzhou City to sue Mrs. Thursday, saying that she had killed her husband.Under torture, Mrs. Zhou also admitted that she was the one who killed her, so the yamen servant asked her where she buried Thursday's body.But no matter how much torture is used, what Mrs. Zhou said is wrong.

Therefore, when Mu Zili saw this case, he thought that Mrs. Zhou might have been wronged.But I got up very early that Thursday, and no one saw it. I didn't know where it happened, so I didn't know where to start the case.

The second case happened in Lingzhou city, Li Chong and Zhu Cha went to Mitai shop to stay overnight.But on the second day, Mi Tai was found murdered at home by the store clerk, and immediately reported to the police.The yamen servants came and sealed off the whole shop, locked up the customers, and started searching, only to find blood on the horizontal knife Zhu Cha was wearing.

So Zhu Cha and Li Chong were imprisoned.Zhu Cha refused to admit it, saying that he didn't know where the blood on the horizontal knife came from, because it was in the scabbard and he didn't take it out to look at it, so he didn't know when it was stained with blood.So they tortured and tortured the confession. In the end, Zhu Cha did not admit it, but Li Chong admitted that they murdered for money.However, there are many mistakes in the confession.Therefore, Mu Zili also suspected that this was an unjust case.

Other cases are similar to this. There are homicide cases, property theft cases, and so on. Mu Zili felt that the judgment was wrong, so he brought it up, but he was unable to solve it himself, so he found Wang Hua.

After reading Wang Hua's painting, he knew it well.

I had to spare a few days to sort out these affairs.First of all, he ordered people to bring Zhao Rick, Liu Jing and Mrs. Zhou over here, ordered Zhao Rick to kneel down, and told the truth about how he murdered Thursday.

This sudden turn of events made people feel surprised, but Zhao Bianzi refused to admit it.

Wang Hua said: "Knock on the door and call Si Niangzi, foretelling that his family has no husband."

In just one sentence, Zhao Ricki's face turned pale, and the others suddenly realized that they confessed before torture.It turned out that because Thursday was depressed and careless, he revealed the money he was carrying with him, which made Zhao Lizi greedy. He put a rope around Thursday's neck behind his back, strangled him to death, and then Tie it to a stone and sink it into the river.

According to the location he said, the yamen servants sent people to salvage, and after a while, Thursday's body was indeed salvaged.

Everyone is convinced.

Wang Hua didn't win either, these were just cases committed by small people, and they couldn't be compared with the two major cases in Huazhou and Bianzhou.

He also tried the case of Mi Tai's murder, calling all the customers and people in the store at that time, and interrogating them one by one.In the end, an old maid who got up early to clean up was left behind, but she was only allowed to sit in the back room and drink tea, while Wang Hua was dealing with other official duties.Muzili didn't know why.

At night, Wang Hua let the old maid out, but said to a yamen servant, let him change into ordinary clothes, and follow behind the old maid, to see who asked the old maid, and his expression was not normal when asking The place.On the second day, the old maid was called to the back room again, and she was asked to drink tea for three consecutive days, but the servant saw a middle-aged man and asked the old maid for three consecutive days.Wang Hua asked the yamen servant to follow the middle-aged man again, and then learned that his name was Feng Jin and that he had an affair with Mi Tai's wife.Immediately sent someone to bring Mi Tai's wife and Fengjin, tortured them, and finally found out that Fengjin had been having an affair with Mi Tai's wife for several years, but Mi Tai was not good-looking, but he was very important in the Mi surname. People are helpless.

When I saw Li Chong and Zhu Cha that day, Zhu Cha wore the horizontal knife differently from others, it was purely for decoration, from coming in to eating, to settling down, he almost never pulled the horizontal knife.So he came up with an idea, let Mi Tai's wife go back to her mother's house, wash the clothes to get rid of the suspicion, and hand over the room key of Zhu Cha and the two to Feng Jin.Feng Jin took out Zhu Cha's horizontal knife as soon as Zhu Cha and the others left the house, killed Mi Tai, then inserted the horizontal knife into the scabbard, and put it back in Zhu Cha's room.

There were several other cases that Wang Hua quickly investigated.This made all the yamen servants and officials sincerely convinced.

But Wang Hua felt a little worried.

These cases, although there are murders, are not earth-shattering major cases. They happen all over the country, and it depends on whether the officials in office are smart enough.

However, the number of various cases that occurred in the three states during this period was too dense.

If it was not handed over to the court immediately, the hearts of the people would be scattered.It has nothing to do with people's hearts, and even other states and counties in the imperial court did not have such intensive cases.

The main reason for this is the problem of handover.

Wang Hua's manpower is very small, and he is too busy, and he intends to delegate power, so not all affairs are handled one by one, but there are officials in the court, but they are afraid of Wang Hua, but they dare not take over.Therefore, some unscrupulous people saw this situation and thought that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so the case was intensive during this period.

After handling these cases, he said in his heart: It's time to let go.

When February came, Princess Taiping wrote him a letter, expressing some affection, and then asked Wang Hua very tactfully, what was the relationship with Li Longji?
Li Longji repeatedly said good things for Wang Hua, which made her worry.

Wang Hua just replied a letter, and said directly at the beginning, I have nothing to him or you, and how you fight has nothing to do with me.But I want to ask you something.Now if you want to be rich, flattering goods are offered everywhere, from Lingnan to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Jiannan in Hebei, every road is full of gifts to your house.You said that Zong Chuke's mansion was luxuriously built, but now your mansion is ten times more luxurious than his mansion.

Speaking of power, apart from the Supreme Emperor, not even the emperor has as much power as you. Most of the six books of the prime minister come from your sect. It can be said that in this world, you cover the sky with one hand.

Speaking of reputation, now in the Tang Dynasty, there are 80-year-old old men and three-year-old babies, who doesn't know the name of your Princess Taiping?
But I don't get it, what exactly are you going to do?Are you not satisfied now?Even Wei Shuren, whom you hate in every possible way, is not as good as you now, right?
Do you really want to be emperor?

Princess Taiping didn't want to be an emperor, and she didn't even think about killing Li Longji until now, but she was too attached to power and position.So it's getting more and more excessive.

Wang Hua wrote again, if you want to be an emperor, forgive me for not being able to help you, but if you don’t want to be an emperor, please listen to me and restrain yourself, otherwise you don’t even know how you died.

After writing, seal it with wax and let Princess Taiping's people take it away.

But Wang Hua is going to Beijing soon.

On the sixth day of March, Wang Hua symbolically put the last piece of gold leaf inlaid with a dragon pattern on the long silk tapestry, and the tripod of Kyushu was finally completed!
Countless firecrackers were set off, but upon hearing the news, the people in Lingzhou City wept sadly.

Because they all know that the day of the trip is when Wang Hua leaves.

(End of this chapter)