For the "purple jade light", there is also a legendary story.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Haitu, the prefect of Huizhou, was corrupt and perverted the law, and the people were prey, and in just a few years after taking office, he made a beautiful and rich ancient Huizhou full of complaints, and the people were not able to make a living.

And he not only looted the people's fat and ointment, but also sent his subordinates to collect rare treasures as tribute to the imperial court, hoping to win the favor of Emperor Kangxi and one day become a first-class official.

In the winter of this year, news came from the palace eyeliner that Wuhaitu had bought with a lot of money, saying that Emperor Kangxi had recently become obsessed with "Mobao".

Wu Haitu was overjoyed, and immediately ordered someone to pass on the ink master Cao Sugong at that time. I don't know if it was forced by Wu Haitu's obscenity, as soon as Wu Haitu arrived at Cao Sugong's ink shop to explain his intentions, Cao Xiucai, who had always been upright, agreed to Wu Haitu's request very happily, and promised to hand over the special ink treasure to the other party within half a month.

Cao Sugong didn't know any of this. I personally took people to Huangshan, and it took four or five days to cut down a few sunny hundred-year-old pines from Tiandu Peak. After being transported to their ink mill, they were sawn open from it, and only the dense sunny side of the annual rings was taken, and it was split into small pieces of foot length and dried by a simmer. It is then burned under a special copper pot, and precious spices are added to the spring water in the copper pot.

When the pot of water boiled dry, the men were asked to move the copper pot and let it cool, and finally they turned the bottom of the pot over, and then scraped off the pine smoke on it with sandalwood sticks. It took two days to complete the process of collecting pine smoke.

Next, Cao Xiucai personally prepared gelatin, lotus root powder and other materials, added mountain spring water and boiled slowly, and when the fire arrived, he immediately added pine smoke and stirred evenly, and finally added musk. After cooling, it is poured into a special red sandalwood ink mold, and then slowly weighted and pressed into a mold.

The last process is carving, Cao Sugong locked himself in the carving room, and after two days and two nights, he finally completed the ink treasure that Wu Haitu wanted. When the Wuhai map saw this oval shape, it was carved with the pattern of the ancient city of Huizhou and the peak of the Yellow Mountain. Mobao, who exuded a faint musky scent, couldn't help laughing heartily: "Mr. Cao really lives up to his reputation, no wonder you dare to engrave the words 'the first ink in the world' on it!" If the emperor agrees with it, this official will definitely reward you when he arrives! ”

Half a month later. This ink treasure was presented on the copywriting of Emperor Kangxi's imperial study. When Emperor Kangxi saw the five strong and powerful characters of "the first ink in the world" and Cao Sugong's inscription, he couldn't help but be moved: "This ink maker surnamed Cao is so angry!" I want to see what's so strange about this inkstone? ”

After speaking, he asked the little eunuch next to him to pour some water into the inkstone, and then personally held this oval ink treasure with both hands and grinded it. After about a cup of tea, the ink in the inkstone was thick. Emperor Kangxi handed over the ink treasure to the little eunuch to put it away. Then he lifted the wolf and dipped it in ink, and wrote down the five big characters "the first ink in the world" on a piece of rice paper. After the handwriting was dry, he asked the little eunuch to hang it on the wall and began to look at it carefully.

It seems not surprising that the writing on rice paper is black and shiny. Emperor Kangxi was not a little disappointed, but when he walked a few steps and looked back, he saw that the five big characters actually emitted a light purple light. This time, Emperor Kangxi was happy, stroked his palms and laughed: "It really deserves to be the first ink treasure in the world!" ”

After speaking, he asked the little eunuch to take out the ink treasure and look at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly "pouted": "The place where the word 'ink' is combined up and down is too open." There is no rule at all, and the sun on the top of the Yellow Mountain is not coated with gold dust, so I have the opportunity to meet this ink-making master surnamed Cao and ask him in person."

The next day, when the morning court was held, Emperor Kangxi also asked the little eunuch to show the ministers this piece of "the first ink in the world", and showed the ministers the words he wrote yesterday.

Wuhaitu was so happy, and ink merchants from all over the country also felt Huizhou and ordered ink treasures from Cao Sugong.

One day, a merchant with a Beijing accent suddenly came to Caojia Mofang, who was in his forties. He is tall and mighty, and his eyes are bright on the full square face of the heavenly court. Compared to him, the attendant is too unsightly, not only is he thin. And he didn't have a beard on his face, and he spoke like a duck.

This self-proclaimed "Huang San" ink merchant in the capital, as soon as he saw Cao Sugong, he took out a silver ticket of 20,000 taels, and also took out a rubbing map of "the first ink in the world", saying that he spent a lot of money to ask the eunuchs in the palace to get it, and wanted to ask Cao Sugong to make a piece of ink treasure for him that was exactly the same as paying tribute to the emperor.

Cao Sugong immediately rejected him. He also sighed and said: "I thought that the emperor was a person who knew ink, so I took great pains to make him a piece of 'the first ink in the world', but now it seems that the emperor is also a mortal with the naked eye, and he can't see the mystery in the ink!" ”

Huang San couldn't help asking, "What's the explanation?" ”

Cao Gongsu didn't speak, but took Huang San to look at the suffering of the city, and the fact that Wu Haitu was corrupt and bent the law, covering the sky with one hand.

Seeing this, Huang San was silent, and he finally understood the meaning of the pattern on the ink ingot.

The word 'ink' on the ink ingot is written separately from top to bottom, which clearly means that the city of Huizhou in this picture is the first 'black soil' in the world, and the sun on the peak of the Yellow Mountain is also black, indicating that there is no day here.

On the morning of the next day, a large group of officers and soldiers suddenly appeared in the city of Huizhou, and as soon as they came, they surrounded the prefect's yamen. It didn't take long for an exciting news to spread throughout Huizhou City: it turned out that Lord Yu Wenlong, the governor of Liangjiang, suddenly received a secret decree from the emperor and brought troops from Hangzhou to investigate and deal with Wuhaitu.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Haitu was about to be escorted to the entrance of the vegetable market to be beheaded!

After getting the news, everyone was so happy that they ran out of the house, just like the New Year.

And Huang Sanye's identity was also revealed, it was Emperor Kangxi, and Cao Sugong seemed to have known it for a long time, so he was not surprised at all.

It turned out that there was a painter surnamed Zhou in the court, who was Cao Sugong's classmate when he was young, and the year before last, when Zhou painter returned to his hometown and province, he had shown each other a portrait of the emperor, so as soon as Emperor Kangxi entered the ink workshop, Cao Sugong recognized it, so there was the next story.

After that, Cao Sugong turned around and rushed into the ink workshop, and when he came out, he held an oval ink treasure in his hand, the pattern on it was not much different from the last "first ink in the world", but there was no inscription and inscription on it, and the sun on the top of the Yellow Mountain was also painted with gold powder, which was flashing with golden light.

Emperor Kangxi was overjoyed, but instead of receiving it, he left behind the ink treasure - purple jade light.

And this is the origin of the purple jade light.

After sending off Emperor Kangxi, Cao Sugong carved the three characters of "purple jade light" and the inscription of "Kangxi Imperial Pen" on the oval ink treasure, which was regarded as the treasure of their Caojia ink workshop.

For a time, the name of "purple jade light" Mobao was famous all over the world.

It's a pity that in the war of aggression against China, this rare treasure was left somewhere.

By mistake, it was obtained by Liu Aimin's ancestors and treasured, and by mistake, it fell into the hands of Chu Yunqiu.

It has to be said to be a miracle.

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