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Chapter 9 One Horse

"Please give me advice," Although I don't know what the prince's identity is, Wang Hua saw that the prince's identity is noble, and it also looks very wise.

As a prince, he would not collude with a businessman and seek to seize his own lacquered box is not worth it.

Wang Hua heard him say, "It's not difficult. Just write a few words with a pen and compare them with the handwriting on the box box to identify them."

"Okay," Wang Hua replied.

Seeing Wang Hua's calm expression, the shopkeeper felt a little regretful. It seemed that he really underestimated him? But under the pressure of this prince, he had to take out the paper and pen.

Wang Hua thought about it and wrote a poem in the style of the famous master of running and cursive script:

The moon marks pass by the Forbidden Gate Palace, and only the eyes are looking at the nest of the Heron.

Pull the jade hairpin by the shadow of the lamp, and pick the red flames to save the moth.

The same palace poems, the same themes of palace maids, and the same handwriting. At this moment, the shopkeeper of the house was "righteous" and sent him to the government. He didn't dare to say that it was Wang Hua who made this box.

After reading it, the prince shouted again: "Good words!".

I didn’t say good poems, and the poems on the box are all about palace maids. This poem describes profound meanings, but compared with the poem "Autumn Eve" on the box, it is still a bit far behind.

The little girl next to the prince pulled him again, maybe she liked it very much.

In fact, although the prince was a man, he also liked the calligraphy and paintings very much when he saw this craft. He asked Wang Hua: "Your Excellency, can you sell this box to someone?"

Wang Hua nodded. Anyway, they are all sold, no matter who it sells to.

Wang Hua saw him take out two gold leaves from his arms and hand them to Wang Hua's hand. Wang Hua did not weigh it, but he could estimate that these two gold leaves were also ten taels away. Now the Tang Dynasty is not as developed as the Song Dynasty, and the exchange ratio of gold and silver to copper coins is very stable. One tael of gold is exchanged for eight taels of silver, and the value of each tael of silver is about a common currency. Of course, as a precious metal, gold and silver cannot be regarded as direct circulating currency. However, in every city, there are cabinets and gold shops that specialize in exchange for gold and silver.

Although his work was very successful, it was worth the money compared to these two golden leaves. He thanked him and left the store.

Seeing him leave, the prince and his sister also leave. After all, his identity is unique. The two poems written by Wang Hua are just palace lyrics and have no positive meaning. They are not enough to let him let go of his identity and make friends. Therefore, after giving the money, he did not chat with Wang Hua.

This was the first time these two people met, but both of them ignored each other and actually met them by mistake.

It was just that the shopkeeper wanted to slap himself. If he took action in advance, he would have lost tens of thousands of dollars. After a long time, he remembered something. The young man said that it was a box made by him himself, and then his works would be spread in the future.

So he screamed shrillly: "Hurry, hurry up, quietly catch up with that little guy, see what he does? See where he lives?"

It was not until the afternoon that the man came back to report. He saw that Wang Hua first went to the market to find several carpenters and customized three wooden boxes. Wang Hua also painted the styles, but told these three wooden boxes to be logged, and not to use any paint or make any modifications. Then he went to the market to buy a lot of things, including gold powder and glue, some beautiful shells, many paints, and some other tools.

After hearing this, the shopkeeper ordered again: "Stay quietly and see what he will continue to do in the future?"

Wang Hua did not expect that the shop would send someone to follow him. He was preparing to make a second lacquerware, which was much larger than the first lacquer box and the craftsmanship was much more complex. Its name was - a black lacquer inlayed mother-of-pearl and gold-sheet galloping horse picture box.

Mother-of-pearl is an ancient practice, which began to appear in the Zhou Dynasty. The specific method is to use shells as materials, cut into thin slices, and inlaid on the surface of the utensils. However, the method of adding gold and silver sheets only appeared in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. This large inlaid of gold and silver made the utensils more noble than gold. Later, treasure inlays appeared again. It was this inlaid method that made the master Jiang Qianli famous in the history of lacquerware throughout the ages. However, treasure inlays have more stringent requirements for craftsmanship, and Wang Hua has not yet planned to make it.

In addition, Wang Hua also planned to use a large amount of colored paint to make the pattern more ornamental and realistic. Some pigments lacked, so he used other pigments to mix them to achieve the effect. This also set a precedent in the history of lacquerware in the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Hua started to create after the carpenter brought the wooden box. The overall background color of this work was different from the first work. The whole pattern was red in gold, and black paint was the general color. Of course, it was not really black, and it would not be liked if that was the case. This was a dark blue color that was nearly black, which made the work more grand, deep and profound. Then he painted it on the four walls of the wooden box and the top of the box. This time, it was not a whole couplet, but divided into small pictures. Each picture was painted with various war horses. After drawing a hundred war horses, Wang Hua wrote an inscription on the outer wall of the drawer in the middle of the front:

The BMW in the world, King Mu, flew into the feathers, and ran to the eight horses at night. It is the most famous. It is also called Hualiu, Luer, Thieves, Jiji, and Sliver, and Leiliang and Cuilong. Its history is full of darkness, so it is unreliable.

However, during the Wu period of Han Dynasty, the emperor wanted to seize the bloody horse breed of sweat and blood, so he ordered Li Wenli to send troops twice, saving tens of thousands of people. After three years, only a thousand bloody horse breeds were left at Yumen Pass and returned to the Han family. Alas? Isn’t this true act a warning?

Today's war horses are strong and cold, and are suitable for high and cold lands. The Yunnan horses are short, but they run on hills, like walking on flat grounds, and are more resistant to damp heat. The Turkic horses are weaker than those of Tianshan horses, and they live in bitter and cold, and they live in longer! In terms of the power of galloping, the horses are at the top, but they are suitable for places with hot sand and seas.

The Turkic horse ran on the Dian sword, and the man was like a tiger pounced on the thin rat, but his strength was enough but his power was insufficient. Is the man was like a scholar in the north of the desert? Is the man was like a scholar in the Western Regions? Is the man was like a snake in the Western Regions and swallowing the elephant?

I am sad that people in the world say that there is no BMW. They do not know that it is not a BMW, but they do not know where the BMW is. The king sighs that there is no talent, but they do not know where the talent is.

Wang Hua wrote this article here in imitating the "Ma Talks" written by Han Yu, and there are two more articles in the following. Among them, Wang Hua intends to write this article by Han. These three articles are combined to tell the relationship between talent and the search for talents. It is not that there is no talent, but that the superiors will not find talents and will not appoint talents. For example, Sang Hongyang is good at making money, but if he puts it in Zhang Shizhi's position, he may make a big mistake.
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