Chapter 137: Funny the world

The news that Wang Hua sent off Princess Jincheng also spread to the court.

Li Longji angrily wrote a letter asking Wang Hua, what exactly are you going to do?

If she had the same wish to send her back to Chang'an, she would have sent her to Oceania, what was the destination of Princess Jincheng in the end? Will she marry Song Wen and Elva Hsiao to be a mother?

Then Wang Hua and Li Guer plus his sister, plus Jin Cheng...

Li Longji was furious.

In fact, he really misunderstood Wang Hua. Wang Hua has definitely treated Princess Jincheng as her sister until now. As for how it will develop in the future, Wang Hua never thought about it.

After receiving a letter from Li Longji, Wang Hua replied, saying, "I originally wanted to send Princess Jincheng back to Chang'an, but your sister said she wanted to send Li Nunu to Oceania. Do you think I'm listening to you or your wife."

After receiving the letter, Li Longji's face was blue for most of the day, and Li Nunu came.

Wang Hua was sloppy and asked Li Chiying that it had nothing to do with whether Xiang would explain to the court. It was mainly to comfort the harem, for fear that all wives and concubines would be jealous. So he said that Princess Jincheng would be able to send her back soon, but once I handed over the military power, the court would not take me seriously, and then send her back to Tubo.

Li Chiying said pitifully without thinking about it at first, then she sent it to Oceania.

OK, I'll send it away.

But Li Longji was unable to have an attack because the situation became increasingly tense. Wang Hua will once again play a fatal role.

Wang Huayun was calm and gentle, and he never thought about his affairs with Princess Taiping.

He is now preparing to make the Kyushu Cauldron.

This is a holy object. He has to purify his mind, just like playing a piano. If he is not purified and does not devote himself to it, he will have no soul when he makes the crafts.

Start with the cauldron.

The difficulty is very high, not because the cloisonné technology is very complicated. It is said that the Japanese took Chinese cloisonné technology and used a tie to dip glaze. It has a nose and eyes. It is fake. The Japanese have seven treasures, which is not much less than the cloisonné technology.

However, large works like Ding involve a problem. The casting process must be used, that is, thick copper tires, which will become honeycomb when burned. The key is to add tin, lead and zinc. Otherwise, the copper will be very sticky after melting, which will require no problem. This technology was lost for a long time and was only developed later. However, Wang Hua knew many ingredients because he had burned enamel porcelain, but he did not know much about the casting process.

Wang Hua has been researching and developing it in the past. Several years have passed, and he has a look and then put it on porcelain. Overall, no matter whether the glaze or technology has not reached its peak, it cannot even be considered a finished technology. After Wang Hua escaped from Luoyang, this technology was still being studied, and it was studied on porcelain. Later, Wang Hua appeared and looked at it as a sample of porcelain, and then pointed it out a few more times.

So this time the craftsmen have a certain foundation, but the main thing is this casting tire. During this period, they have been burning various cloisonnés, not seeking finished products, only seeking various data. So why do you need 10 million yuan in money? The research cost is too high.

Then there is the tripod itself. It is not that the entire tripod is cloisonné, and Wang Hua does not have that ability, even before he wears it, probably no one has the ability.

The first is to make a tire, cut the copper sheet into different shapes according to the drawing, use a hammer to make various copper tires, and then apply welding medicine and high-temperature welding. There is no welding technology now, so you have to use high-temperature calcination, which takes more time and the process becomes more complicated and the success rate is still very low. But there is one advantage, because copper has ductility, it can be hardly connected with a hammer.

Even if it is burned, it can be done again. Unlike porcelain, it can only be treated as waste after being burned. Therefore, a piece of cloisonné is inlaid with several pieces of copper leather. This is not like Qibao burning at all. Japanese people use molds to directly make a whole copper piece and then make Qibao burning.

If it is not cloisonné, it cannot burn a large tripod. Zhang Tonglu, a master of the cloisonné world, burned a piece of "The Chinese of the Tripod", which is beautiful. But as the Kalachat of Jiuzhou, it is small in size and cannot be made of a copper skin. Therefore, Wang Hua's idea was to cast a large tripod first with copper. Because it represents the artifact of Jiuzhou, the shape of this tripod must be thick, steady and majestic, and it cannot be burned into a small incense burner, which would be bad.

Wang Hua designed many shapes of tripods, and used a triangular tripod on the sketch, but later it felt uncomfortable and changed it to a square tripod, which was all over the world. This was full of rich feeling. The style was also very similar to the Shang Dynasty Simuwu square tripod that was unearthed later, but the ears of the double tiger devouring human head pattern were changed to a double dragon ear, and two golden dragons were directly hovering above the tripod to make ears. The tripod bag was a little thinner, but it was definitely not possible to use copper skin.

But the cauldron body is higher, reaching nearly four meters high. It is precisely because of such a high height that it looks more majestic and magnificent. There is another function. With such a large cauldron, the area of ​​the cauldron wall is larger, which can have enough area to write about the terrain, history, racial situation, tribal distribution, music, animals and plants, dance, minerals, etc. of the state, and be accompanied by related pictures.

Therefore, only after burning red, inlay pieces, then polishing gold to cover the traces. However, in order to ensure that the heat and heat expansion of the material is consistent, although the inner copper body is a hairy tire, the same copper must be used as the inner tire. This process is more complicated.

Moreover, the required copper material will be an amazing number, and it has not been released now, but Wang Hua estimated that the copper required for each tripod will not be less than 3,000 kilograms.

The second step is to pinch the wire, stick the surface of the copper tire with flat copper wire, and stick it into handwriting and pictures. It is easy to put it in later generations, but it is just a waste of time. It is welded on it. Now it is calcined and must be repeated sintered, which is still very difficult.

The third step is to dot blue. The sintered carcass is pickled, movable, and then the wire is tidied. That is, various enamel materials are filled into the gaps of the silk patterns and melted at high temperature to make the glaze turn into a flat and bright glaze surface. This requires three to four glaze and melting to make the glaze surface level with copper wire. But this process is not a problem now. Sour water in Oceania is not so pure, but most of them are sulfuric acid water, which can be used and can at least wash away oxides. After years of research, the glaze has been found similarly. The basic materials are borax, saltpeter and alkali, but the metals contain different, such as iron-containing brown, uranium-containing yellow, chromium-containing green, zinc-containing white, copper-containing blue, gold-containing selenium-containing red, etc. Most of these are produced in southwest Zibozhou.

Next, use coarse sand, yellow stone, and charcoal to smooth the uneven blue glaze in three times. All uneven areas need to be melted after glaze and melted repeatedly. Finally, use charcoal and scraper to smooth the copper wire, bottom line and mouth line without blue glaze. The last process is gold plating, that is, gold inlay. There is no good method of gold plating, so you have to use gold plating, which is to prevent the copper wire from rusting.

Therefore, Wang Hua requires many workers, especially the work of pinching filigree, which requires countless hours.

And the foundation uses more work.

Now the drawings have not been settled, and the paintings and poems have been sent. After reading them, Wang Hua was very dissatisfied and reassigned them. He even saw that some people really did not have the talent to paint landscapes, so they cut them down again and called out some experts in painting landscapes again.

But in order to make the workers familiar with them, Wang Hua first asked them to make several cloisonnés, such as the Qing Dynasty enamel lotus pattern crisp oil tea lid jar, or the Qing Dynasty imperial copper-tied enamel yellow ground peony pheasant picture lid box, or the Ming Dynasty Jingtai elephant foot lion ear incense burner, so that they can familiarize themselves with the craftsmanship (see related to the work).

But at this moment, Princess Taiping wrote a letter.

Princess Taiping was in power and used to like Li Longji very much. The more capable Li Longji is, the more chance he has to overthrow Wei. But now the situation has changed. At first, she thought Li Longji was young and did not take him to heart. But as she developed greater ambitions, she felt that Li Longji was hindering her.

But at this time, Li Dan had already made Li Longji the crown prince. She felt threatened, so she wanted to establish a foolish and cowardly person as the crown prince. Whether she was the queen or not, she might not have this idea, and she could mainly maintain her current rights and status for a long time.

So he sent someone to spread rumors that the prince was not the eldest son of the emperor, so he should not be made the prince.

After hearing this, Li Dan was very disgusted, but he did not remember that it was made by Princess Taiping. He believed that it was a rumor among the people, so he issued an order to warn the people of the world that this matter should not be told.

Princess Taiping failed and had another plan. Using Li Dan's favor for her, she put a lot of eyes and ears around Li Longji, and then magnified what Li Longji did with a magnifying glass, and instigated it intentionally or unintentionally. This made Li Longji very uneasy.

So after receiving Wang Hua's reply, he didn't even say a word.

Of course, everything was still in the dark at this time, and Li Dan did not notice it. He rebelled for the Five Kings, cut off the tombs of Wu Sansi and his son, and threw the corpses out of the wild. There was another thing that Wei could not bury Dingling with him, so he asked Li Xian's previous princess Zhao to posthumously named the queen, but no one knew where she was buried. So he used her clothes to summon souls and buried with Li Xian with clothes. He rehabilitated Pei Yan and others. However, it did not completely deny Wu Zetian. He also asked his two daughters, Princess Xicheng and Princess Longchang, to be female Taoist priests, and prepared to build a Taoist temple in the west of Chang'an City to help Wu Zetian's blessings.

Overall, the politics has been clear and clear in the past few months, and this is a blessing for the Song Dynasty and Yao Chong.

In the old Tang Dynasty, officials above the third rank were awarded in person by the emperor, and the fourth and fifth ranks were issued by the emperor, which was appointed by the emperor, and officials below the sixth rank were issued by the emperor, which was appointed by the imperial edict. However, the appointments were all entrusted to the Secretariat, civil officials were formulated by the Ministry of Personnel, and military officers were formulated by the Ministry of War. This system was completely corrupted by Li Xian. After serving as the Minister of Personnel, Li Yi and Lu Congyuan were appointed by the Ministry of Personnel, but the three of them were not afraid of **, and the request was blocked. Among the more than 10,000 candidate officials, no more than 2,000 were selected after the Sanquan period, which further slimmed the redundant officials of the Tang Dynasty. Yao Chong was the Minister of War, Lu Xiang and Lu Huaishen were the Minister of War, and they also embarked on the right path for the selection and appointment of military officers. Even because they were waiting for the generals of the Blood Camp, they were interested in leaving the vacant vacancy.

Under the influence of this direct wind, many officials are not afraid of the powerful.

The eunuch Lu Xinggui asked Li Chaoyin to do his job for him. Not only did Li Chaoyin not buy it, but instead arrested him. Li Dan also praised Li Chaoyin for some.

When the Censor Li Fu impeached, he was not afraid of the powerful and noble, and everyone destroyed it. Li Xian said: "The eagle is cunning and the rabbit must be rescued first, otherwise it will be bitten by the rabbit. When the Censor impeached the evil spirit, if there is no monarch protecting him, he will be injured by the evil spirit."

Everyone was shocked. The eagle was bitten by a rabbit?

But the breeze blew just at the right time.

So the Censor Ni Ruoshui impeached Zhu Qinming and Guo Shanyun again and drove them out of the court.

But this good times didn't last long.

Within a few months, Princess Taiping's gangsters began to form and wanted to harm Li Longji, so they sent her son-in-law Tang Shi to invite Wei Anshi to her house. Wei Anshi refused to leave.

The next day, Li Dan summoned Wei Anshi and said to him: "I heard that all civil and military officials in the court were all interested in the crown prince, so you should pay more attention."

Good people are afraid of three challenges, bad people are afraid of three persuasion. Li Dan felt suspicious when he heard Princess Taiping's intentional or unintentional words in his heart.

Wei Anshi did not think of anything else and said directly: "Where did Your Majesty hear such words of destruction from the country? This must be the idea of ​​Princess Taiping. The prince made great contributions to the ancestral temple, and has always been kind and wise, filial to his parents, and friendly to his brothers. I hope Your Majesty will not be confused by slander."

He hadn't spoken yet, and when the curtain was raised behind him, Princess Taiping ran out and scolded, "Can Gu even make slander than you, Grandmaster Wei?"

Wei Anshi's face changed drastically.

In fact, Princess Taiping was discussing affairs with Li Dan just now, and the reason for summoning Wei Anshi was the arrangement of Princess Taiping. She hid behind the curtain and eavesdropped on her own.

Princess Taiping finished speaking and immediately ordered him to arrest Wei Anshi for interrogation.

Fortunately, Guo Yuanzhen arrived and pleaded hard, which made Wei Anshi lucky to save him. But after this scare, Li Dan asked him what he asked him, but he was just arrogant.

Princess Taiping was still not satisfied. She saw Wei Anshi being frightened by her, so she stopped the prime minister in Guangfan Gate and asked them to change the crown prince. The prime ministers present were so scared that they did not dare to say anything, but the Song Dynasty asked bluntly: "The prince has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty and is the owner of the ancestral temple. Princess, why did you make this suggestion? What right do you have to make this suggestion?"

Princess Taiping was so angry that she had to leave.

When Li Chiying heard about this, she asked Wang Hua worriedly and puzzledly: "Why did the father listen to his aunt's words and not the third brother?"

"Silly girl, since ancient times, for the sake of the throne, the son harms his father, and has the father killed his son? Your aunt has helped your father before, so your father believes in her. He intends to make your aunt form a balance with your third brother, just like Tai Chi, with the balance of yin and yang, and mutual restraint, so that his throne can be preserved."

It’s not Li Dansha. He is still practicing Tai Chi in this matter. When Princess Taiping becomes strong, she will help Li Longji say something good. When Li Longji becomes strong, she will help Princess Taiping say something good.

Wu Zetian has also done so.

However, Li Dan had Wu Zetian's method of fighting Tai Chi, but he did not have Wu Zetian's decisiveness, so something would happen sooner or later.

Li Chiying was shocked when she heard this, and her face turned dark in a blink of an eye. At least when she was at home, the whole family was still dependent on each other. But unexpectedly, when she became the emperor in front, the father and son in the future became suspicious.

But Princess Taiping did this a bit arrogant.

The Song Dynasty and Yao Chong continued to advise: "The King of Song is His Majesty's eldest son, and King of Bin is the eldest grandson of Emperor Gaozong. Princess Taiping frames each other and creates trouble, which will make the Eastern Palace unstable. Please release Prince Song and King of Bin as governors; remove the positions of left and right Yulin generals held by King Qi Li Longfan and King Xue Li Longye, and appoint them as the left and right princess, and lead them to serve the prince. Princess Taiping and Wu Youji are placed in Luoyang, the eastern capital."

Li Dan hesitated for a while and replied, "I have no brothers anymore, only Princess Taiping, one sister. How can I send her to Dongdu? As for the kings, you can handle it."

But a few days later, Li Dan said to the servants beside him: "The divinationist said that within five days, there will be troops attacking the palace. You must take strict precautions for me."

Zhang Shuo immediately said: "This must be another evil villain who used slander to distract His Majesty from the relationship between His Majesty and the prince. He hoped to use the prince to handle government affairs, so all kinds of rumors would naturally disappear."

Yao Chong immediately added: "The method proposed by Zhang Shuo is the best way to make the country last forever."

The two of them sang together and finally made Li Dan happy. They immediately issued an edict, saying that King Li Chengqi of Song was the governor of Tongzhou, King Li Shouli of Binzhou was appointed as the governor of Binzhou, and General Qi, King Li Longfan of Zuo Yulin, was appointed as the leader of the left guard, and General Xue, King Li Longye of Youlin, was appointed as the leader of the right guard. Princess Taiping was also placed in Puzhou. Li Longji was also allowed to handle government affairs on his behalf, and stipulated that all appointments of officials below the sixth rank and the review of criminals below the imprisonment were handled by the prince in full.

But Wang Hua speculated that Princess Taiping was too much to stop the prime minister, and Li Dan began to suppress Princess Taiping and brought Li Longji, so he issued this edict.

Princess Taiping was anxious when she saw this. Why did she spread rumors that Li Longji would launch a coup, but she didn't agree, but she said it was bad?

She was very worried, so she wrote a letter asking Wang Hua for help.

Wang Hua also replied, "I can help you, but you can find a way to let me bring the army of 90,000 blood camps into Chang'an."

When Princess Taiping saw the letter, she was so angry that she tore the letter. Ninety thousand troops entered Chang'an. Will it be your world or mine?

However, at this time, Li Dan became worried again, afraid that Li Longji would have too much power.

So Princess Taiping took the opportunity to let Cui Xi and Xue Shaosu make a statement: "The officials in the slanted state were all eliminated by the late emperor, and their grace was issued. Now, because Yao Yuanzhi and others suggested that they all be seized at once, this demonstrated the fault of the late emperor and summoned many complaints to Your Majesty. Now the whole country is full of people and is spread throughout the country, and there may be extraordinary changes."

Princess Taiping also persuaded Li Dan again, and then issued an edict to use the following materials and materials for those who were granted the position of the slanted officials first.

This is what Princess Taiping used the emperor's grace to create private grace.

Then he started to find Li Long to play the pipa. He asked why Li Longji colluded with Song and Yao and provoked his relationship with the emperor?

Li Longji felt very scared, not because he was afraid of Princess Taiping, but because he was afraid of her means. If she uploaded the stolen goods in this matter and said that she colluded with the prime minister, his father would definitely be suspicious and even extremely disgusted, so he had to use a move to throw the car to protect the coach. He took the initiative to advise, saying that Yao and Song and the other two provoked their relationship with their aunt Princess Taiping and their brothers, Princess Song and Li Chengqi, and King Bin and Li Shouli, and requested that they be severely punished.
To be continued...