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Chapter 607
The news that Wang Hua sent away Princess Jincheng also spread to the court.

Li Longji wrote a letter angrily, asking Wang Hua, what are you going to do?
If it is still possible to send it back to Chang'an, and send it to Oceania, what is the final destination of Princess Jincheng? Will she still marry Song Wen and be Xiao Yaxuan's concubine?
Then Wang Hua, Li Gu'er, his younger sister, and Jin Cheng...

Li Longji was furious.

In fact, he really misunderstood Wang Hua. Up to now, Wang Hua definitely treats Princess Jincheng as his younger sister.As for how it will develop in the future, Wang Hua never thought about it.

After receiving Li Longji's letter, Wang Hua replied, saying, I originally wanted to send Princess Jincheng back to Chang'an, but your sister said that she would send Li Nunu to Oceania.You said I listened to you, or to my wife.

After Li Longji received the letter, his face turned green for a long time, and Li Nunu came.

Wang Hua played a cunning trick. He asked Li Chiying. It had nothing to do with whether he would confess to the court.So I said, Princess Jincheng will be sent back soon, but once I hand over the military power, the court will not take me seriously, and then send her back to Tubo, what should I do?
Li Chiying didn't think about it when he heard it, and said pitifully, then send it to Oceania.

Okay, off to go.

But Li Longji couldn't attack because the situation became more and more tense.Once again, Wang Hua will play a fatal role.

Wang Huayun was calm and breezy, and he never cared about his affairs with Princess Taiping.

He is now ready to make the tripod of Kyushu.

This is a sacred object. He has to purify his mind, just like playing the piano. If he does not purify his mind and devote himself to it, the handicraft will have no soul after it is made.

First, start with the tripod body.

The difficulty is very high, not because the cloisonné technique is very complicated, but it is said that the Japanese have borrowed the Chinese cloisonné technique, and even dipped their ties in glaze. Those who have noses and eyes are fake. How many.

However, a large piece of work like a tripod involves a problem. It must use the casting process, that is, use a thick copper body, which will become a honeycomb shape when it is fired. Guan Jian added tin, lead and zinc, otherwise the copper will melt. The end is very sticky, and it needs to be debugged meticulously.This technology has been lost for a long time, and it was only developed later. However, Wang Hua knew a lot of ingredients because he had fired enamel porcelain, but he didn't know much about the tire casting process.

Wang Hua has been in research and development before, and it has been several years, and it has an outline, and then put it on porcelain.Generally speaking, neither the glaze nor the technology has reached its peak, and it cannot even be regarded as a finished technology.After Wang Hua escaped from Luoyang, this technology continued to be researched on porcelain. Later, Wang Hua appeared, and after seeing it as a sample of porcelain, he made a few more calls.

So this time the craftsmen have a certain foundation, but the main thing is the cast tire. During this period, they are firing various cloisonne, not looking for finished products, but only looking for various data.So why do you need 1000 million yuan? The cost of research is too high.

Then there is the tripod itself, not the whole body of the tripod is made of cloisonné, Wang Hua didn't have that ability, even before he wore it, probably no one else had that ability.

Cloisonne five-step process, the first is to make tires, cutting copper sheets into different shapes according to the drawings, hammering them into various copper tires, and then applying welding powder and welding at high temperature.Now there is no welding technology, so we have to use high-temperature calcination, which takes more time, the process becomes more complicated, and the success rate is still very low.But there is an advantage, because copper is ductile, so it can be hardened together with a hammer.

Even if it is burned, it can be restarted.Unlike porcelain, which is scrapped after burning, it can only be treated as waste.Therefore, a piece of cloisonné is inlaid with several pieces of copper skin.This is not at all like Qibaoyaki. The Japanese used molds to directly make a whole copper piece, and then made Qibaoyaki.

If it is not for cloisonne, the tripod cannot be fired. Zhang Tonglu, a master in the cloisonne world, has burned a piece of "Ding Shi Zhonghua", which is magnificent.But as the tripod of Kyushu, its volume is too small, and it cannot be a copper skin.Therefore, Wang Hua's idea was to first cast a large tripod out of copper.Because it represents the artifact of Kyushu, this tripod shape must be thick, stable and majestic, if it cannot be burned into a small incense burner, it would be bad.

Wang Hua designed many tripod shapes, and used a triangular tripod in that sketch, but later it looked uncomfortable, and changed it to a square tripod, which is more full of richness.The style is also very similar to that of the Simu Wufang Ding of the Shang Dynasty that was unearthed later, but the ears decorated with the pattern of double tigers biting human heads were changed to double dragon ears, directly two golden dragons hovering on the body of the tripod, making the ears.The tripod pouch is a little thinner, but copper skin must not be used.

But the body of the tripod is even taller, reaching a height of nearly four meters. It is precisely because of such a high height that it looks more magnificent.There is another function, with such a large tripod, the tripod wall area is larger, which can have enough area to write the topography, history, ethnicity, tribal distribution, music, animals and plants, dances, minerals, etc. of the state. etc., and with related pictures.

So only after burning red, they are inlaid piece by piece, and then polished and inlaid with gold to cover up the traces.But in order to keep the thermal expansion of the material consistent, even though the inner copper body is made of wool, the same red copper must be used as the inner tire.This process is more complex.

Moreover, the amount of copper required will be an astonishing number, which has not yet been revealed, but Wang Hua estimates that the copper required for each tripod will not be less than [-] kilograms.

The second step is filigree, using flat copper wire to stick to the surface of the copper tire to form writing and pictures.It is easy to put it in later generations, but it is just a waste of time. It is welded on by welding, but now it is calcined raw and has to go through repeated sintering, which is still very difficult.

The third step is to indigo. The sintered carcass is pickled, flattened, and glazed after trimming.That is to fill all kinds of enamel materials into the gaps of the silk patterns and burn them at high temperature to make the glazes turn into a smooth and bright glazed surface. It takes three to four times of glazing and melting to make the glazed surface and the copper wires resemble each other. flat.But this process is not a problem now. The acid water Oceania has researched, it is not so pure, but most of it is sulfuric acid water, it can be used, at least it can wash away the oxides, and the glaze has been researched for many years, and it is almost the same. The raw materials are borax, saltpeter and alkali, but the metals contained are different. For example, the one containing iron is brown, the one containing uranium is yellow, the one containing chromium is green, the one containing zinc is white, the one containing copper is blue, and the one containing gold and selenium for red and so on.Most of these are produced in the southwest of Zizhou.

The next step is to use coarse sandstone, yellowstone, and charcoal to smooth the uneven blue glaze three times. Any unevenness needs to be re-glazed and then repeatedly polished. Finally, use charcoal and a scraper to smooth the copper wire without blue , Bottom line and mouth line are smoothed and polished.The last process is gold plating, that is, gold inlay. There is no good method of gold plating now, so we have to use gold tracing, which prevents the copper wire from rusting.

Therefore, Wang Hua needs a lot of workers, especially the filigree work, which requires countless hours of work.

And Ding Ji used more work.

Now that the drawings have not been finalized, the paintings and poems and prose have been sent. After Wang Hua saw it, he was very dissatisfied and redistributed it again.I even saw that some people really didn't have the talent for landscape painting, so I cut it out again and called some masters of landscape painting again.

But in order to familiarize the workers, Wang Hua first asked them to make a few types of cloisonné, such as the Qing Dynasty enamel lotus-patterned crispy camellia lid jar as the original shape, or the Qing Dynasty imperial copper body painting enamel color yellow ground peony pheasant lid box as the original shape , or take the Mingjingtai elephant-foot lion-ear incense burner as the original shape, so that they are familiar with the craft (see related works).

But at this moment, Princess Taiping wrote a letter.

When Princess Taiping gained power, she originally liked Li Longji very much. The more capable Li Longji is, the more chance he has to overthrow Webster.But now the situation has changed.At first she thought Li Longji was young and didn't take him seriously.But as she developed greater ambitions, she felt that Li Longji was hindering her.

But at this time Li Dan had already established Li Longji as the crown prince. She felt threatened, so she wanted to appoint a weak and cowardly person as the crown prince.Regardless of being a queen or not, maybe I really don't have this idea, the main thing is to keep my current position of power for a long time.

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

Li Dan was very disgusted when he heard about it, but he didn't think that it was Princess Taiping who did it. He thought it was a folk rumor, so he issued an order to warn the people all over the world not to spread the word.

Princess Taiping failed at one plan, and made another plan. Taking advantage of Li Dan's love for her, she planted many eyes and ears around Li Longji, and then magnified Li Longji's actions with a magnifying glass, intentionally or unintentionally instigated.This made Li Longji very disturbed.

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

Of course, everything was still in the dark at this time, and Li Dan didn't notice it either.He rehabilitated the five kings again, cut the tomb of Wu Sansi and his son, and threw the bones into the wild.Another thing is that Webster can't be buried with Dingling, so Li Xian's former concubine, Zhao Shi, was given the posthumous posthumous title of empress. But no one knew where she was buried, so she used her clothes to summon the soul and buried Li Xian with them.He also rehabilitated Pei Yan and others.However, Wu Zetian was not completely denied.He also asked his two daughters, Princess Xicheng and Princess Longchang, to be female Taoist priests, and planned to build a Taoist temple in the west of Chang'an City to help Empress Wu Zetian.

Generally speaking, politics has been clear in the past few months, thanks to Da Song and Yao Chong.

In the old system of the Tang Dynasty, officials of the third rank and above were appointed by the emperor in person, four and five ranks were appointed by the emperor through a book, that is, the appointment was made, and officials below the sixth rank were appointed by the emperor through an imperial edict.However, the appointments were all entrusted to the Ministry of Finance to draft, civil officials were drafted by the Ministry of Officials, and military officers were drafted by the Ministry of War.This system was completely corrupted by Li Xian.After Da Song served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Li Yi and Lu Congyuan were ministers of the Ministry of Officials. The three of them were not afraid of violence, so the road to entrustment was blocked. Among the more than 1 candidates for officials, no more than 2000 were selected after Sanquan , further slimming down the redundant officials of the Tang Dynasty.Yao Chong was Minister of the Ministry of War, Lu Xiangxian and Lu Huaishen were ministers of the Ministry of War, and the selection and appointment of military officers was also on the right track.Even because he was waiting for the generals of the blood camp, he deliberately left a vacancy.

Under the influence of this straight wind, many officials are not afraid of power.

The eunuch Lu Xinggui asked Li Chaoyin to do things for him, but Li Chaoyin not only refused to accept it, but arrested him instead.Li Dan also praised Li Chaoyin for this.

When the censor Li Fu was impeached, he was not afraid of the powerful, and everyone destroyed him. Li Xian said: "The eagle is a cunning rabbit, you must rescue it first, otherwise it will be bitten by the rabbit. Protection, will also be hurt by treacherous evil."

Everyone was stunned, the eagle was bitten by a rabbit?
But the breeze came at just the right time.

So Ni Ruoshui, the censor, impeached Zhu Qinming and Guo Shanyun again, the two sycophants, and kicked them out of the court.

But this good time did not last long.

Within a few months, Princess Taiping's clique formed and wanted to harm Li Longji, so she sent her son-in-law Tang Jun to invite Wei Anshi to her home.Wei An and Shi Jian refused to resign.

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

Good people are afraid of three provocations, and bad people are afraid of three persuasions. Li Dan was suspicious when he heard Princess Taiping's intentional or unintentional words all day long.

Wei Anshi didn't think of anything else, and said directly: "Where did your majesty hear such talk of subjugation? It must be Princess Taiping's idea. The prince has made great contributions to the ancestral temple. He has always been kind and wise, filial to his parents, and friendly to his brothers. I hope your majesty will Don't be fooled by gossip."

Before he finished speaking, when the curtain behind him was lifted, Princess Taiping ran out and scolded: "Can you, Mr. Wei, still offer slander?"

Wei Anshi's expression changed drastically.

In fact, Princess Taiping was discussing with Li Dan just now, and the reason why Wei Anshi was summoned was also arranged by Princess Taiping. She hid behind the curtain and eavesdropped.

After Princess Taiping finished speaking, she immediately ordered him to arrest Wei Anshi for interrogation.

Fortunately, Guo Yuanzhen arrived and pleaded hard, so Wei Anshi was lucky enough to survive.But after being frightened by this, from then on Li Dan asked him anything, and he was only the only one.

Princess Taiping was still not satisfied. Seeing that Wei Anshi was frightened by her, she stopped the prime minister in Guangfan Gate and asked them to change to the crown prince.The several prime ministers present were too frightened to say anything, but Da Song asked bluntly: "The crown prince has made great contributions to the Tang society and is the master of the ancestral temple. Princess, why did you make this suggestion? What right do you have to make such a proposal?" suggestion!"

Princess Taiping had nothing to do with this iron head, so she walked away in anger.

When Li Chiying heard about this, she asked Wang Hua worriedly and incomprehensibly, "Why does the father obey my aunt and not the third brother?"

"Silly girl, since ancient times, for the sake of the throne, sons harmed fathers, and fathers killed sons. Your aunt helped your father before, so your father believed her. He deliberately let your aunt and your third brother form a relationship. A kind of balance, just like Tai Chi, where yin and yang balance and restrain each other, only his throne can be preserved."

It's not that Li Dan is stupid, he is still practicing Tai Chi on this matter. When Princess Taiping is strong, Huixiang helps Li Longji say some good things.
Wu Zetian did the same.

But Li Dan has Wu Zetian's Tai Chi skills, but not Wu Zetian's decisiveness, so sooner or later something will happen.

Li Chiying was stunned when he heard this, and his face darkened in a blink of an eye.At least when she was at home, the family still depended on each other.But I didn't expect that after becoming the emperor, the father and son would become suspicious later.

But Princess Taiping did this a little arrogantly.

Da Song and Yao Chong then remonstrated: "King Song is the eldest son of His Majesty, and King Bin is the eldest grandson of Emperor Gaozong. Princess Taiping is framing each other between them and the prince. Creating troubles will destabilize the position of the East Palace. Your Majesty please Release Song Wang and Bin Wang as governors; remove Qi Wang Li Longfan and Xue Wang Li Longye from the positions of Zuo and You Yulin Generals, and appoint them as the prince Zuo and Youwei to serve the prince; Together with Wu You and settled in Luoyang, the eastern capital."

Li Dan hesitated for a while and replied: "I don't have any brothers anymore, only Princess Taiping is a younger sister, how can I send her to the Eastern Capital? As for the kings, let you handle it."

But a few days later, Li Dan said to the courtiers beside him well: "The fortune teller said that within five days, there will be an army of trouble breaking into the palace. You must take strict precautions for me."

Zhang Shuo immediately said: "This must be another villain using slander to drive a wedge between His Majesty and the Crown Prince, hoping to use the Crown Prince to handle government affairs on his behalf, then all kinds of gossip will naturally disappear."

Yao Chong immediately added: "The method proposed by Zhang Shuo is the best policy to ensure the long-term stability of the country."

The two sang together, which finally made Li Dan happy, and immediately issued an edict that Song Wang Li Chengqi was the governor of Tongzhou, and King Bin Li Shouli was the governor of Binzhou. Wang Li Longye led the right guard; he also placed Princess Taiping in Puzhou.And let Li Longji handle government affairs on his behalf, stipulating that the appointment of officials below the sixth rank and the review of criminals below the prison sentence are all handled by the prince.

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

Princess Taiping was anxious when she saw it. What's the matter? She spread rumors that Li Longji would launch a coup. She didn't say it was good, but said it was bad?

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

Wang Hua also wrote back, I can help you, but you find a way to let me bring the [-] blood battalion into Chang'an.

When Princess Taiping saw the letter, she was so angry that she tore it up. The [-] troops entered Chang'an. Will it be your world or mine?
But at this time, Li Dan became worried again, fearing that Li Longji had gained too much power.

So Princess Taiping took the opportunity to ask Cui Shi and Xue Shaosu to say: "All the officials who were appointed to Xie were removed by the late emperor, and the fate has been issued. Now Yao Yuanzhi and others suggested that they should be taken away at once. Complaints. At present, the whole country is boiling with people all over the country, and there is fear of extraordinary changes."

Princess Taiping also went in to persuade Li Dan again, so she issued an edict that all the officials who were appointed to stop first should be used according to their talents.

This is Princess Taiping's personal favor with the emperor's favor.

Then I started to ask Li Long to play the pipa.Ask Li Longji why he colluded with Song Yao and Song Yao to provoke his relationship with the emperor?

Li Longji was very scared, not because she was afraid of Princess Taiping, but because she was afraid of her methods. If she spread the spoils on this matter and said that she had colluded with the prime minister, his father would definitely be suspicious and even extremely disgusted, so he had no choice but to resort to a trick. Che Baoshuai.He himself took the initiative to admonish, saying that Yao and Song had provoked the relationship between him and his aunt Princess Taiping and his elder brothers Song Wang Li Chengqi and Bin Wang Li Shouli, and requested that they be severely punished.

Li Dan was worried, so he happened to demote Yao Chong as governor of Shenzhou and Song Jing as governor of Chuzhou.The appointment of Li Chengqi and Li Shouli as governors was also left unresolved.

Princess Taiping strikes while the iron is hot again, dismissing Liu Youqiu as Minister of the Household Department, and makes Wei Anshi and Cui Rizhi, who are too scared to speak, replace Yao and Song to preside over the court affairs.

Since then, the imperial court has been in chaos again, just like Li Xianshi's old style.

Joining the army, Liu Ze couldn't stand it anymore, and wrote a letter: "Xiefeng officials were appointed through the introduction of villains around the late emperor. How did it come from the original intention of the late emperor? The world thinks it is wise for your majesty to depose them all. Now it is the other way around. They are all recruited, good and evil are uncertain, and orders are changed from day to day. Why did your majesty do this? It is said in the streets that Princess Taiping has recruited some villains to deceive your majesty. I am worried that doing so will accumulate small evils into big disasters."

Don't take responsibility and don't listen.

Li Longji was cornered by Princess Taiping, so he had to write a letter to Wang Hua.He also intuited that there were some ulterior secrets between Wang Hua and Princess Taiping.Therefore, in the letter, she earnestly begged Wang Hua to persuade Princess Taiping to regard peace as the most important thing, put the country and the people first, and stop fighting.

After Wang Hua read the letter, she thought to herself, I told Princess Taiping not to fight, so you stopped?It won't stop, your boss doesn't talk about your second.

So he sent two hundred blood battalion soldiers to Chang'an on horseback.Some checkpoints did not dare to let them go. They took out the cover of the letter between Princess Taiping and Li Longji and showed it to them. Those who dared to block it.Besides, two hundred soldiers are not a big problem.So he came to Chang'an and went straight to the mansion of Princess Taiping and Li Longji's mansion.

When I arrived at the door, I took out the suona and blew it up, make peace with each other, make peace with each other, make peace with each other, make peace with each other, and make peace with each other.

These soldiers also don't know how to play the suona, and after learning it with great difficulty, they only know how to play the suona.

At first, the common people wondered, what is this doing?Looking at their armor again, and thinking about what happened during this period, each of them couldn't help laughing.

(End of this chapter)