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    Chapter 148: The Ding Porcelain is Completed (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, although he has greater ambitions.  But at this time, he made another suggestion in front of Li Dan and said: "Father, I heard that after Tian Dan returned to Qi, he welcomed King Xiang of Qi and was appointed as the prime minister. Once passing through the Zi River, he saw an old man crossing the river shivering because of the cold.  Unable to move forward, King Qi Xiang was suspicious of this and said to himself, "Tian Dan has done good deeds to win over people. Didn't he want to seize my country earlier?"  After that, he looked around, but there was no one around him. He asked loudly, "Do you hear what I said?"  . You only need to give the order: I am worried that the people are hungry, so Tian Dan takes care of them and feeds them. I am worried that the people are cold, so Tian Dan takes off his fur clothes and gives them to the old man. The king praises him for his good deeds.  It turned out to be a good deed by the king. After hearing this, King Qi Xiang rewarded Tian Dan with cattle and wine to show his virtue. He thanked Tian Dan in the court and publicized it in the bustling market, and ordered to find and adopt the hungry people.  Afterwards, King Xiang sent people to inquire among the people, and they heard that Tian Dan loved the people, and it turned out that it was all the kindness of our King Xiang. " Li Longji suddenly said this, and Li Dan didn't know why.  Li Longji said again: "Father, I heard that Wang Hua returned all the eight states including Lanhe to the imperial court. Although it was within the original agreement, he could be regarded as keeping his promise and was loyal. But I heard that now  The court is indifferent, which makes the sons and ministers very worried. This person loses his teeth like a tiger and a fierce falcon loses its wings. He can also add a capable minister to the court. Why don't everyone be happy?  The first is to appease Wang Hua, and the second is to make a show to the people of the world. It is not because Wang Hua handed over the land in the northwest, but because of the favor of the court, which made him influence.  , and also allowed the soldiers of the Blood Camp to look at each other with nearly a million people in the northwest, making them satisfied and laying the foundation for the court to re-govern this area. The ancients said that if a person has no long-term worries, he will have immediate worries.  The influence of the painting still exists. Now the court can really capture this area with just a false title. Why not? " Li Longji's words make sense.  "Don't think that the imperial court has taken over most of the northwest region now, but if Wang Hua rebels and raises his banner, the people of the twenty-three states will at least be echoed by the people of the fifteen states.  Li Dan did neglect this point.  However, Li Dan looked at his son suspiciously. He wondered, could this third son have any collusion with Wang Hua?  But even if this is the case, you shouldn¡¯t ask yourself to give orders. Why not give Wang Hua favor after the matter is completed?  Moreover, even though he has made Wang Hua the King of Lingxia, but Wang Hua still doesn't grant him the title, what else can he give to 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 another king with a different surname. No, the court  After several edicts were issued, he could not gain a foothold in the imperial court after making the cauldron. Once he went overseas, the people and soldiers had no choice but to obey the imperial court's orders and stop them." So the imperial court issued another edict at the end of the first month.  , was awarded the third rank of Wang Hualing, Xia Wang Tongzhongshu.  When the edict arrived in Lingzhou, Wang Hua was confused. Of course he still refused to grant it, but he didn't understand that the court wanted to issue the edict even though he knew he would not grant it.  After a few days, Wang Hua understood the whole story.  He definitely had no collusion with Li Longji.  But Li Longji made this move very well.  Since Li Longji betrayed Yao Chong and Liu Youqiu successively in order to protect himself, the strong man cut off his wrist, but his strength became very weak.  This is also the reason why many ministers took refuge in Princess Taiping.  He has nothing to do with Li Longji, but Li Longji just needs to take advantage of this situation.  It seemed to outsiders that he must have promised something to Li Longji. As long as he joined, the situation took a turn for the worse, and more people turned to him.  Even when he was plotting a coup, as long as he raised his banner, many dead soldiers immediately thought that the chance of victory was imminent and jumped in to participate.  He smiled bitterly, these two people were fighting for power and profit, and they had reached the point where they would do whatever they could.  It immediately became lively again.  But he didn¡¯t pay attention to it because the people had moved away and the last remaining concern in his heart was resolved.  Therefore, I can now concentrate on making tripods and grinding and firing new porcelain.  At the end of the first month, another furnace of porcelain was produced. Now it is almost a joke for Wang Hua to burn this porcelain.  Wang Hua asked the furnace worker to carefully open the kiln door, while Li Chiying held the child and watched with a smile from behind.    In fact, she had seen Wang Hua's porcelain fired many times. Although it was exquisite, in her mind, there was no hope of firing it.  Wang Hua turned around and said to Li Chiying: "Why are you laughing?" "I didn't, Erlang, you will definitely succeed." Li Chiying raised his fist and said duplicitously.  Wang Hua was not sure. The tripod was about to succeed, and he didn't have much time left.  If after the success of the Kyushu Tripod, he also leaves Lingzhou, and after arriving in Oceania, there will not be so many craftsmen to assist him, there will not be so many materials for him to squander, and there will be no hope of success.  He said silently in his heart that maybe it was too difficult.  In fact, if this furnace of porcelain fails again, he has no plans to burn this porcelain and replace it with other thin-bodied porcelain.  After studying for a long time, he was quite confident as long as he didn't burn the inner tube to draw thin porcelain.  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 patterns on the top and bottom of the porcelain vase.  If that was all, the burning would have been successful.  The secret is inside the bottle. There is also a picture inside the bottle, which is based on Tao Yuanming's article. It is a valley with flowing water, green mountains, pastoral villages, and many people farming with happy smiles on their faces.  In order to see it more clearly after the burning is successful, the knife is carved a little deeper.  Originally, the porcelain body was extremely thin, but because of the knife carving, it cracked as soon as it was fired.  And the cost is even higher. It is impossible to carve it, apply glaze, and then put it into a bottle.  For its bright colors, Wang Hua used pastels, so he had to burn the wool at high temperature first, then use delicate tools to insert the glaze into the bottle bit by bit, and then repeatedly apply glaze at low temperature.  Although it is a skimming bottle, how difficult is it to apply glaze inside the formed bottle?  After all, it is separated by a layer of porcelain. Although it is very thin, it is not really as thin as paper. It is transparent and has an impact on the line of sight.  Moreover, the bottle is not big and can only be operated by one person, which is extremely time-consuming.  In order to succeed, many porcelain bodies are fired at a time and multiple people apply the glaze.  Then it was fired slowly and the glaze was slowly applied. As a result, it took countless man-hours and a lot of raw materials, and nearly two hundred porcelain vases were burned out.  This does not count 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.  I saw two porcelain vases being carefully held by the workers in their hands. The porcelain vases were about thirty 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 took them immediately, not to be in trouble if they dropped on the ground in excitement. He took out a box covered with brocade velvet, put one bottle in, placed the other bottle on the table, and poured water into it.  Then it turned gently, and a miracle happened.  With the bright light, the entire Peach Blossom Spring 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 the transparency is good, it is as if it is not a painting on a porcelain bottle, but a very pale version of real mountains and rivers flowing on the table.  A worker burst into tears and murmured: "This is truly the best 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.  Wang Hua said: "Send someone to deliver one of these to Chang'an." This is not a luxury handicraft, because when it was carved, there was a line of large characters on the neck of the bottle: When will the world be a paradise?  A question, eight words, immediately sublimates its value.  But there was one sentence that Wang Hua did not say.  Why was it sent to Chang'an? When Zhu Tong was in Lingzhou, Wang Hua said that when the pair of porcelain vases can be reunited, the world will be in great peace.  Not to mention how much symbolic meaning it has, the unexpected production of these two porcelain vases brings a good omen for the production of tripods.  At this time Mu Zili found Wang Hua.  Now Wang Hua only has three states left in his hands.  ¡°This is done to protect yourself. Don¡¯t look at how Li Dan and his son and Princess Taiping are trying to win over themselves.  If you really have no power left in your hands, try again and see if they still have such a good attitude.  However, once the cauldron is completed, the three states still have to hand it over.  Therefore, we also tried to delegate power to officials appointed by the court.  Coupled with the help of Mu Zili and the dozens of people left behind, Wang Hua believed that there would be no problem.  But Mu Zili handed over some files, and she didn¡¯t want to distract Wang Hua. However, she couldn¡¯t solve the problem. When she saw Wang Hua firing porcelainWith one less thing to worry about, I had no choice but to ask Wang Hua for help.  Wang Hua took a look and saw several unsolved cases. The first one was a husband-murder case.  Liu Jing, who is dozens of miles west of Lingzhou City, asked his good friend to go to Lingzhou City to do business on Thursday. His wife did not agree on Thursday, and the couple quarreled for many days.  On the day of the appointment, regardless of his wife's opinion, Thursday got up and left home early in the morning to wait for Liu Jing on the appointed boat.  This is Lady Thursday¡¯s original confession.  But Liu Jing's confession was not like this. He also came to the boat, but did not wait until Thursday. He was a little impatient to wait, but because of this incident, Mrs. Thursday was very disgusted with him, so she asked the boatman Zhao Yizi to do it for him.  Call Thursday to come over.  Zhao Yizi came to Thursday's home and called Mrs. Thursday several times.  Lady Zhou opened the door, and Zhao Yizi looked for Thursday.  Mrs. Thursday said very strangely that she left home early on Thursday morning and went to his boat.  When Liu Jing heard that something was wrong, he and Zhao Jizi looked for Thursday everywhere, but they couldn't find it for three days.  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. Thursday also admitted that she was responsible for the death, so the yamen asked her where she had buried Thursday's body.  But no matter how much torture was used, what Mrs. Thursday said was wrong.  Therefore, when Mu Zili saw this case, he thought that Mrs. Zhou was probably unjust.  But I woke up very early that Thursday, and no one saw it. I don¡¯t know where it happened, so I don¡¯t know where to start the case.  The second case occurred in Lingzhou City. Li Chong and Zhu Cha stayed in Mitai's store.  But the next day, Mitai was found murdered at home by a store clerk, and he immediately reported it to the police.  The government officials came and sealed the entire store, detained the customers, and started searching. As a result, they saw blood stains on the horizontal knife Zhu Cha wore.  So Zhu Cha and Li Chong were imprisoned.  Zhu Cha refused to admit it, saying he didn't know where the blood stains on the horizontal knife came from, because he searched the scabbard and didn't take it out to look at it, so he didn't know when it was stained with blood.  So he was tortured and tortured. In the end, Zhu Cha did not admit it, but Li Chong admitted that they were responsible for the murder.  However, there are many mistakes in the confessions.  Therefore, Mu Zili also suspected that this was an unjust case.  Other cases are similar to this, including murder cases, property theft cases, and so on. Mu Zili felt that the verdict was wrong, so he brought it up, but he was unable to solve it, so he approached Wang Hua.  Wang finished reading the painting and had a good idea.  I had to take a few days to sort out these matters.  First, he ordered people to bring Zhao Yi, Liu Jing and Mrs. Zhou over, and ordered Zhao Yi to kneel down to tell the truth about how to murder Zhou.  This sudden turn of events was surprising, but Zhao Yizi refused to admit it.  Wang Hua said: "Knock on the door and call Si Niangzi, foretelling that there will be no husband in her family." With just one sentence, Zhao Yizi's face turned pale, and the others suddenly realized that they confessed before being tortured.  It turned out that because Thursday was depressed and careless, Zhao revealed the money he had brought with him, which made Zhao Yizi become greedy. He put a rope around Zhou's neck from behind and strangled him to death.  Tie stones and sink into the river.  Based on the location he said, the government officials sent people to salvage the body, and soon they found Thursday¡¯s body.  Everybody is convinced.  Wang Hua didn't get any color either. These were just cases committed by small people, and they couldn't be compared with the two major cases in Huazhou and Bianzhou.  We also interrogated the murder case of Mitai, calling all the customers and people in the store and questioning them one by one.  In the end, an old maid who had gotten up early to clean was kept, but she was only allowed to sit in the back room and drink tea, while Wang Hua was handling other official duties.  Muzi Li didn't know why.  At night, Wang Hua released the old maid, but told a yamen servant to change into ordinary clothes and follow the old maid to see if anyone asked the old maid, and her expression was abnormal when asking.  The place.  The next day, he called the old maid to the back room again and asked her to drink tea. He invited her for three days in a row. As a result, the yamen saw a middle-aged man and asked the old maid for three days in a row.  Wang Hua asked the yamen to follow the middle-aged man again, and then learned that his name was Fengjin and that he was having an affair with Mitai's wife.  He immediately sent someone to bring Mitai's wife and Fengjin together and tortured her. Finally, it was discovered that Fengjin had been having an affair with Mitai's wife for several years, but Mitai was not good-looking, but he had a very high status among people with the surname Mi.  People are helpless.  That day I saw Li Chong and Zhu Cha. Zhu Cha wore a horizontal sword different from the others. He was purely for decoration. From coming in to eating and settling in, he almost never touched the horizontal sword.  So I came up with an idea to ask Mitai's wife to go back to her parents' house, wash the clothes and remove the suspicion, and hand over the room keys of Zhu and Cha to Fengjin.  After Zhu Cha and the others left the house early, Feng Jin took out Zhu Cha's horizontal knife, killed Mitai, then inserted the horizontal knife into the scabbard and returned it to Zhu Cha's room.  There are several other cases, and asked Wang Hua to quickly find out.  This convinced all the yamen and officials.  "But Wang Hua felt a little worried in his heart.  "These cases, although there are murders, are not earth-shattering cases. They occur all over the country. It depends on whether the officials in office are smart enough.  But the number of various cases that occurred in the three states during this period was too dense.  If it were not handed over to the imperial court immediately, the people would lose heart.  It has nothing to do with the public sentiment. Even in other states and counties of the imperial court, there are no such intensive cases.  The main reason for this is the handover issue.  Wang Hua had very few manpower left and was too busy. He also wanted to delegate power, so not all affairs were handled one by one. However, there were officials in the court, but they were afraid of Wang Hua and did not dare to take over.  Therefore, some unscrupulous people saw this situation and thought they had an opportunity to take advantage of it, which is why the number of cases was intensive during this period.  After he finished handling these cases, he said in his heart: It¡¯s time to let go.  When February came, Princess Taiping wrote a letter to him, saying some affectionate words, and then asked Wang Hua tactfully, what was his relationship with Li Longji?  Li Longji repeatedly said good things for Wang Hua, making her worried.  Wang Hua happened to reply to a letter, and he said directly at the beginning, he and I have nothing to do with you, and how you fight has nothing to do with me.  But I have to ask you something.  Now if you want to be rich, flattering gifts from all over the country will be sent to you. From Lingnan to Jiangsu and Zhejiang and then to Jiannan in Hebei, all the roads are filled with gifts to your house.  You said at first that Zong Chuke's mansion was luxurious and extravagant, but now your mansion is ten times more luxurious than his.  Speaking of power, except for the Supreme Emperor, even the emperor does not have as much power as you. Most of the six prime ministers and ministers come from your sect. It can be said that in this world, you cover the sky with one hand.  Speaking of reputation, in the Tang Dynasty today, from an eighty-year-old man to a three-year-old baby, who doesn¡¯t know your name, Princess Taiping?  But I don¡¯t understand, what on earth are you going to do?  Aren't you satisfied now?  Even Wei Shuren, who you hate in every possible way, is not as good as you are now, right?  Do you really want to be the emperor?  Princess Taiping does not want to be the emperor. She has not even thought about killing Li Longji until now, but she is too obsessed with power.  So it becomes more and more excessive.  Wang Hua wrote again, "If you want to be an emperor, please forgive me that I can't help you. If you don't want to be an emperor, please listen to me and restrain yourself, otherwise you won't know how you died."  After writing, seal it with wax and let Princess Taiping¡¯s people take it away.  ¡°But Wang Hua will be coming to Beijing soon.  On the sixth day of March, Wang Hua symbolically laid the last piece of gold foil with a dragon pattern on the long silk tapestry. The tripod of Kyushu was finally completed. Countless firecrackers were set off, but upon hearing the news, the people in Lingzhou City shed tears sadly.  .  Because they all know that the day when the tripod is completed is when Wang Hua leaves.  []
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