Chapter 140: The body of the tripod and the base of the tripod (top, bottom, two-in-one chapter)

Although the inner tube of the tripod is just bronze and has no decoration, it does not mean that it is simple...

First of all, the larger its size, the harder it is to cast.

The size of this tripod is larger and even heavier than the later Simu Dafang tripod. Therefore, Wang Hua transferred many casting workers from Oceania. It should be said that their skills have been at the peak of this world after so many years of tempering.

In addition to these workers, some apprentices were brought from Oceania and some apprentices were recruited from the Northwest. This time, various crafts were concentrated, and even if you stand aside and observe, you would not be able to enjoy it for your whole life. The apprentices brought from Oceania are the successors to the development of Oceania craftsmanship in the future. Apprentices from Northwest will compensate the people of the Northwest.

In fact, when the work is officially started, many helpers are needed.

As a result, the number of participants reached an astonishing 10,000 people and more than 2,000 people.

Just hearing about the number of craftsmen is also very terrifying.

But since the start of construction, no one thinks there is too much manpower.

Just say that the inner tube of the tripod is not a light tripod. In order to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing cloisonné and increase the three-dimensional sense of the pattern on the tripod, when casting the inner tube, the pattern begins to be cast. This is divided into two parts. The first is the tripod ear and the tripod foot. The tripod ear is two giant dragons that are eager to soar. Although it is bent into an ear shape, the dragon heads of the two giant dragons can be raised high, making people feel that they will fly from the tripod at any time and leave the tripod. The four tripod feet are also wrapped around the four symbols of the blue dragon, white tiger, black trunk, and vermilion bird, and they are all the way up along the tripod foot. This gives people a sense of rushing and upward visual feeling.

This is also in line with the original intention of Wang Hua, which is to accumulate, advance, never stop, never self-satisfied and conservative. At the same time, the four symbols also represent the mascots of the four directions.

The second part is the body of the tripod. The body of the tripod is divided into three parts. The four square sides flying out from the ears of the tripod are also the thickest part of the tripod. The bottom wall and the four sides of the tripod wall are also a square frame. It is slightly protruding relative to the inner wall of the tripod body, and then the square inner wall inside is also the thinnest part of the tripod body.

The square frame inside is used to write, writing about the terrain, history, race, mineral distribution, music, dance and distribution of animals and plants in this state. It is explained in words. This is made of copper wire enamel and then traced gold, without relief. So when casting the inner tube, it has not moved.

Wang Hua has been prepared for the text. In recent years, after some explorations from his subordinates, Wang Hua has made modifications and supplements again. Of course, there are also missing places and wrong places. But it is already the earliest encyclopedia in the world.

Then there are the edges of the tripod and the outer wall of the tripod. There are various characters on the edges of the tripod. They are wearing local clothes, playing musical instruments, dancing, farming, sacrificing, or fighting. These not-so-large patterns are used to supplement them with the text. The walls of the tripod are painted with patterns such as animals and plants, population distribution density, minerals and ore appearance, some complex landforms, edible grain and fruits, transportation, etc.

In order to give people visual enjoyment and impact, relief methods are adopted to make it appear in three-dimensionally. However, if it is forcibly embossed on cloisonné, it will be very difficult. Therefore, when casting the inner tube, it will be bulging out inside and then inlaid with cloisonné pieces.

So this project alone is very big.

Of course, the bigger thing is the burning cloisonne itself.

However, compared with this tripod body, the tripod base has a larger project volume.

The base of the tripod is mainly white marble, that is, white marble, which does not necessarily have to be mined by Dali. This kind of stone is available nationwide, and Shaanxi ranks first in the country. If it is mined in Dali, the transportation cost alone will make people unable to bear it, or even cannot be transported at all. It is not how much white marble is needed, but more than twenty pieces of white marble are a total of sixteen pieces, made separately, and then connected together, with a gold edge in the middle, which is just used as a dividing line of the territory. The other pieces are reserved for backup.

But these white marbles are very huge. Because of the body of the tripod, the base of the tripod covers an area of ​​more than 900 square meters. In fact, through the size of each painting, many people have judged the size of the periphery of the tripod. But none of them feel strange, after all, this is the tripod of Jiuzhou.

Even if Wang Hua created the ten-meter-high Kyushu Cauldron, no one said it was too much. However, Wang Hua did not have the financial resources and technology.

Therefore, each piece of white marble has an area of ​​more than 70 square meters, and its thickness reaches fifty centimeters, making the blank heavier. Wang Hua had to let workers polish it to reduce the weight when mining. However, each piece of weight still reaches more than 110 tons, and some even have a slightly larger area of ​​nearly 140 tons.

In this era, transportation has become the first problem.

So Wang Hua came up with a stupid idea and built a huge carriage, which was an extremely large flatbed carriage. Two hundred wheels were installed below, each wheel was very wide, so that each wheel would be relieved. Then dozens of horses were pulled in front, but there should not be too many horses, otherwise there would be no uniformity and something would happen. So he could only use dozens of horses. People lie on both sides, pushing it forward step by step. From looking for a large area of ​​white marble to polishing and then pushing it to Lingzhou, it was not completed until last winter. There was still most of the journey from the waterway, connecting the wooden rafts together, otherwise because the riverbed was shallow, the boat would have to be stranded. Otherwise, it would not be able to reach Lingzhou this spring.

But the base of the tripod is not just white marble, there is one thing underneath, the mahogany base. This is the real old mahogany in a narrow sense, that is, rosewood, because whether it is pineapple or rosewood, it is difficult to find a thick diameter. It does not have to be a whole, but it is also inlaid and put together. However, the smaller the number of inlaid, the less the beauty it is, and the thickness cannot be inlaid. The thickness of this mahogany base also reaches forty centimeters. Wang Hua still means nine.

Although the old mahogany comes from the south, it is not as terrifying as white marble, so it arrived in Lingzhou last fall. This part can actually be made first. But Wang Hua did not let the craftsmen take action because he needed to think repeatedly and carefully brew to make all the objects perfect. There are still many loopholes that need to be added.

When building the base, cloisonne also started construction at the same time.

At this time, Wang Hua wrote a letter to Chang'an and asked Li Dan to build a building in Chang'an City.

If the cauldron is not made well, it will be placed in the Chang'an Palace and become a plaything for Li Dan and his son. Not only is the pioneering spirit of the cauldron, but also a lot of knowledge on the base and wall of the cauldron are also helpful to the people.

Of course, it doesn't make sense to Li Dan, so Wang Hua changed the statement. If this tripod is made well, it cannot be a toy, so it loses its meaning. Therefore, it cannot be placed in the palace, but must be placed outside the palace for the people to admire and worship thousands of dynasties.

This statement is also reasonable.

Li Dan was very curious about this tripod, but compared with this tripod, Wang Hua immediately handed over all the prefectures and counties in the northwest, and the army handed over it more practically.

Therefore, he immediately agreed.

In fact, Wang Hua has released a lot of goodwill.

Wang Hua asked them to enter the capital, in addition to Xiao Song and other senior generals, there were also some intermediate generals.

Li Dan immediately made arrangements, and Geshuhan was praised as the number one by Princess Taiping's subordinates, but she was a little younger. So she served as the governor of Heyuan County and helped Zhang Xuanbiao guard Dafeichuan. After hearing the news, Tubo was so angry that he died of anger.

Then the Tubo people had another nightmare, and Guo Qianguan served as the deputy guru of Anxi Protectorate. In addition, a 25-year-old Zhang Xuanbiao, the naughty Qingwang Hua was still waiting for an opportunity to move, and the Tubo people quickly sent envoys to Chang'an. After all, the Tubo people's foundation was weak, and winning consecutive battles would be helpful to the national strength, but the Tubo people could not afford the successive defeats.

Then Fengzhou was merged into a lower governor, but after asking about the permission of Wang Hua, Fengzhou, the newly established Yinshan Prefecture and Shengzhou were all under the jurisdiction of the Fengzhou Governor's Office, and Zhang Shougui was appointed as the governor of the lower governor's office. Xiao Song served as the Minister of War and suddenly squeezed into the ranks of the senior officials in the court. Wang Xian became the Grand Governor of Guizhou. Changqing was appointed as the marching Sima of the four towns of Anxi. Lu Gongren was appointed as the deputy general of Shuofang County. Li Kailuo and Yewu Kexing were also transferred to Youzhou to serve as an important military general. Other middle-level generals also made good arrangements.

Among them, Feng Changqing was the fastest promoted, who jumped from a young man who looked at the city gate to a frontier official. He was the youngest and had a bright future. However, he valued friendship and when he went to work in the four towns of Anxi, he took a detour to Lingzhou and respectfully knelt three times in front of Wang Hua.

Wang Hua didn't say anything, but just pulled him up and said, "Go, use your talents to leave a monument in history."

Let him leave.

Although Li Dan finally played Tai Chi and became popular, this was better than Li Xian. At that time, Wang Hua was trying his best to assist Li Xian, but because of his fear, he deliberately neglected the generals of the Blood Camp. Otherwise, Wang Hua would not have been able to recall these generals one by one in the end.

Especially for the appointments of the previous few people, if Wang Hua is not ingenious in his plan, these generals will easily lead to Wang Hua being connected and the danger will be greater.

Of course, the reason for doing this is to show sincerity, and the other is to recruit. There are more middle-level generals in Wang Hua's military camp. These generals have undergone many bloody battles and are experienced. Once they are activated by the court and placed in various borders, their strength will immediately grow.

Besides, there were several people that made the court very coveted, Guo Zhiyun, Wang Junchuo, Zhang Xiaosong, Kong Heita, Tuoba Tao, Liu Tong, and Gongsun Yun. Among them, Gongsun Yun and Liu Tong had the weakest ability. The reason why he served as a major general was because he was a veteran of the Blood Camp, and of course he was also a good general. Liu Tong was only good at being a steady person. But each of the first few people was not simple.

But Zhang Xiaosong, Kong Heizi, Tuoba Tao, Gongsun Yun and Liu Tong, the court should not think about it. Wang Hua was preparing to transfer them to Oceania this year.

There were only two people hesitating. The first one was Guo Zhiyun, who was determined to go to Oceania. However, this person had a very prominent position in the blood camp. Wang Hua had not yet left the Central Plains, so he did not want to force the court to get angry. So he tried to persuade him to stay, this time he was sincerely persuading him.

Moreover, this person started and ended well in the court in the future, and even his sons were reused one after another.

But it was another person, Wang Junchuo had been thinking about it. He had not decided whether to leave or stay. However, Wang Hua knew that his ending in the court was not good and had nothing to do with the court because he was killed. So he really wanted him to leave the court. After all, in Shannan, he and Mo Hegan General Blood Camp were framed.

Wang Hua is not in a hurry. Anyway, the blood camp also needs generals now. We cannot leave all of them. When manpower is needed, will he lead the army to fight again?

The court expressed its trust, and Wang Hua also gave goodwill again. Although it was the Chinese New Year, Wang Hua did not hand over the blood camp with all the prefectures and counties. However, he first returned Yinshan Prefecture, Fengzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Linzhou, Liuhu Prefecture, and Wuzhou, Dangzhou, Diezhou and Taozhou in the south to the court.

But Wang Hua once again did something that made the court unhappy.

After returning the 11 prefectures of the imperial court, the entire northwest became a kind rectangle. In addition, Zhang Shougui, Lu Gong Ren and Jie Wan were no longer in danger of the Turks. The blood camp began to relieve stress. Of course, the most happy thing was the Turks' Mochu, who breathed a sigh of relief on the banks of the Yulun River. But the Tubo in the south still lived in dire straits.

So Wang Hua made the blood camp lose weight.

Except for Yinzhou, all the eleven states were later collected. Among them, there were not many soldiers in the Blood Camp, only more than 10,000. Wang Hua and the generals belonging to the eleven states were handed back to the court in full swing.

But there were 70,000 troops left. Wang Hua cut off more than 20,000 troops in one go. The Fourth Brigade cancelled and only the seventh army was left. Each army was less than 7,000, with a total of only more than 40,000 soldiers. Anyone who was over 40 years old who was not an officer would return to his hometown. Anyone with only children or few children in his family would also return to his hometown. Some soldiers with low combat effectiveness were recently recruited and sent back.

Just last year, because there was no major war, the Northwest tax revenue had a lot of surplus. This was divided into two parts, one part was Wang Hua and some of the big tribes. In addition to the dividends from others, all his own income was used on the Kyushu Cauldron. The other part was used to provide pensions to soldiers, pay for repatriation and appease the people.

Taxation has started to be arguing this year.

When Li Dan heard this, he was dissatisfied and asked Wang Hua why he was dismissed?

On the surface, Wang Hua's army has fewer and his threat is reduced, but it is not the same thing. When these people go home, they pick up their weapons and get on the war horse when they need them, and the threat continues to exist.

But after Wang Drawing, more than 20,000 soldiers with the most powerful combat effectiveness were lost.

I don't expect you to hand over the northwest immediately and return the army to the court, but you can't get rid of "my army".

I asked Wang Hua that if the money was not enough, the court would use the money to subsidize it.

Wang Hua also replied to a memorial, saying that it had nothing to do with the court. There were so many troops in the northwest, but the number of people was very small, which brought great pressure to the northwest. In the past, it was the Tubo Turks who invaded and the court was threatening, but they had no choice but to recruit so many soldiers.

But in the long run, this will inevitably bring a heavy burden to the Northwest.

Wang Hua said that it is not unreasonable. After returning it to the eleven states, the people have been reduced by one third. Now only 900,000 people have made a fortune, and tens of thousands of soldiers have been sacrificed. In addition, these more than 70,000 troops, almost half of all young and middle-aged people have participated in the army. In the past, prisoners of war were working, and the problem of insufficient labor was solved. Now that prisoners of war are returning, if such troops are still maintained, it will undoubtedly be a great pressure for the northwest.

Even now, the proportion is very high. This is because Wang Hua sent many prisoners of war to various tribes as rewards, otherwise the labor force in his prime would still be insufficient.

Wang Hua said another reason, it is undeniable that after many bloody battles, the soldiers in the Blood Camp had a very amazing combat power. But it also depends on the situation. They fought to protect their homeland, so their morale is high. What do the court treats them now? In the future, they are transferred to various places as border soldiers? Have you given them these heavy rewards themselves? In fact, the border soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were very hard. Besides, they are transferred to other places, are there any morale? No, no

That's why the army was cut.

Besides, what was the situation in the northwest before? The Tang Dynasty sent soldiers from the Central Plains as border soldiers. Now with these soldiers in the northwest, we can protect the security of the northwest. With this, a large amount of military expenditure was saved for the country every year. Moreover, the remaining soldiers were all brave soldiers. With them in the south, they could guard against Tubo, and in the north, they could immediately support Shuofang Fengzhou to prevent the invasion of the Turks.

It is enough to provide so many troops with the people in the northwest.

Wang Hua even suspected that in the future, some corrupt officials sent by the court to ruin the northwest, and it would be very difficult to support these troops.

This is also the truth, but it is impossible for Li Dan to completely forget these soldiers.

After completing this step, Wang Hua began to withdraw his orders for the second time, preparing to hand over Hezhou, Linzhou and Yanzhou to Chaoqian again. This was also for the sake of the people and successfully completed the handover of rights. However, Yanzhou and Hezhou, especially Hezhou, are one of the bases of Xueying.

Therefore, many tribes were loyal to Wang Hua, including the soldiers in their tribe, who were unwilling to stay in the northwest, and followed Wang Hua to Oceania.

Although this is far away from a foreign land, the chiefs of these tribes are very smart. Although they live a good life now, once Wang Hua leaves, they still don’t know what it will be like in the future.

Of course, not all those who hold this kind of thought, stay away from their hometowns may never return. Although many people have come to Oceania now, describing the real life situation in Oceania, they are very yin-* people. But there are still many people who are unwilling to leave. This is like many soldiers in the Blood Camp.

Therefore, before the court took over, Wang Hua prepared to transfer these tribes that he wanted to leave to settle in other states. However, it will not be transferred for the time being. After all, it will start to transfer the religious people from spring. If the people are transferred here, it will cause unnecessary panic in the court.

In Wang Hua's original idea, he would not have many people left his hometown, crossed the ocean, and went to a foreign land.

However, he underestimated the people's ideas. It turned out that the people of the 11 states who were withdrawn did not get any sweetness. Wang Hua took over for a short time, only more than a year. Moreover, because of the failure of Zong Chuke and Chang Yuankai's attack, many of his children died in battle, so Wang Huashu's kindness was not deep.

But the original Eight Prefectures were the core area of ​​the Blood Camp. From soldiers to the people, they all shared the same hatred with Wang Hua, and even had a sense of hatred towards the court in a certain sense. Therefore, although they refused to stay away from their hometown, they heard that Wang Hua left, many people were willing to move with Wang Hua.

Zhu Tong counted and found that the number of people may be close to 300,000.

Wang Hua patted his head, which made him feel a little headache.

It is easy to teach the people, and this is what the court allows to leave. All the houses are completed in batches and they are relocated in an orderly manner. But these people are different. They are not within the agreement they have made with the court. If the number is small, maybe the court will turn a blind eye.

But with such a huge number, the court would not allow them to relocate. Then there is only the last road left, and the road is too large, and the problem is not big. At worst, the Tubo people will be afraid of being the key. Are these people or officers and soldiers? Besides, he has also used the people with the surname Shi to sneak into Liuhu Prefecture, but he failed in the end.

He said, "Please persuade me again."

It is impossible to relocate 300,000 people, although he is not afraid of the court's ideas, it is mainly difficult to leave. Could it be that he detours from Dashi?
To be continued...