Painting is not afraid of plagiarism, all relying on their own skills and skills that have been practiced for many years.

Li Nan looked over and saw Zhang Zeduan's pen like the wind, on this square piece of rice paper, depicting the scenery and characters around Tokyo's Jinming Pond for nine miles and thirty steps.

Although this painting has not yet been completed, the basic composition has already appeared, Li Nan roughly counted, there are about 1,000 people in this small picture, not including the scenery and architecture, it can be said that he practiced the subtleties in the painting to the transformation of the environment.

Li Nan won the eighth-level Gongbi Spring Palace Painting by lottery, the most important thing in the so-called Spring Palace Painting is to depict the appearance and action posture of the characters, followed by clothing and environment, so his painting skills are also okay, and it is not unbearable as Zhao Tingzhi and others imagined, but it is really difficult to compete with Zhang Zeduan in the subtleties.

Li Nan, who was a little worried, frowned and thought bitterly, if you want to win in this game, you must not go on the right path and don't take the right place.

Suddenly, Li Nan swept to the little eunuch who was waiting behind the ministers, and suddenly his eyes lit up, his heart was clear, and he picked up the pen in his right hand and quickly sketched it on the table paper.

Painting is different from poetry, even the simplest painting method also takes a lot of time, not to mention a lot of tedious painting methods that take months, so the time set for this competition is three incense sticks.

As time goes by, the last incense burner in the incense burner will burn out, the old eunuch Yang Jian rings the golden bell in his hand, and everyone in the hall stops writing when they hear the sound.

Zhao Ji and the ministers of the court did not need to get up to watch in person, and their own little eunuchs held the paintings and displayed them.

In this competition, these top painters of the Hanlin Painting Academy used the same approach as Zhang Zeduan, painting most of the crowded downtown streets, and doing their best to depict more people and scenes in detail.

Although the idea is very plump, but the reality is very skinny, they want to surpass Zhang Zeduan, who has reached the top attainments in this regard, it is really a class axe, whether it is the number of people on the picture scroll, or the posture and expression, it is more than a step worse, and the advantages and disadvantages are immediately apparent.

Zhao Ji looked at everyone's paintings, shook his head slightly, and didn't look too satisfied, until the little eunuch appeared with Zhang Zeduan's "Jinmingchi Bidding Map", he showed a look of surprise on his face.

This painting, which is 28.5 centimeters long and 28.6 centimeters wide, depicts the scene of the competition for bidding in the water of Jinmeiike in the city of Tokyo.

The picture garden wall surrounds, the cross platform is built in the pool, the round temple of the army is built on the platform, and there is an arch bridge to reach the left bank. The left bank is built with the color building, the water hall, and the lower end of the archway is written on the three words "Qionglin Yuan".

The pond bank is surrounded by peach red and willow green, and there are pavilions, docks, and palaces between them. The dragon ship in the water is a high pavilion, and the characters are active inside and outside the building; There are five small dragon boats on each side of the dragon boat, each with about ten people rowing side by side, and one person holding a flag at the bow; There are also several dimensional swimmers in between. Written on the left and bottom sides of the garden wall, the crowd is bustling.

There are about 1,000 people in the whole picture, although the figures are as small as ants, but if you look closely, the proportions are appropriate, the postures are different, the expressions are vivid, and it is quite artistic. On the powder wall in the lower left corner of the picture, there is a five-character paragraph in regular script "Zhang Zeduan Chengjin".

After Zhao Ji appreciated it carefully, he said with satisfaction: "Zhang Zhengdao's work is really good." Masao, since it's your topic, let's comment on it. ”

Zhao Tingzhi replied respectfully, got up and came to the front of the scroll, and praised loudly: "This new work, the picture is compact, the structure is rigorous, the theme is prominent, it is really the essence of deep painting, I think it should be the leader of this scene!" ”

Hearing Zhao Tingzhi's words, Cai Jing, who was quite deep in the city, sat upright and sneered slightly.

Although Cai Jing didn't speak, his confidant, Wang Hanzhi, who is currently the squire of the military department, immediately spoke out against it: "Today is a competition between Li Nan and the Hanlin Painting Academy, and now he hasn't even seen his paintings, so the outcome is decided, is Zhao Xianggong so hasty in state affairs?" ”

Zhao Tingzhi was accused by Wang Hanzhi in front of the officials and many courtiers, and suddenly felt that he had hurt his face, and said angrily: "Zhang Zhengdao's paintings are at the peak, this game must be the first, why do you bother to say more!" ”

Seeing that the two of them were getting angry, Zhao Ji said unhappily: "Don't quarrel, let's see Li Nan's paintings first." ”

The two young eunuchs with clear eyebrows came to Li Nan's table, and when they saw this painting, they were suddenly stunned, and then they came to their senses and quickly picked them up and presented them to Zhao Ji.

"Huh!"

After seeing Li Nan's painting, Zhao Ji exclaimed in surprise, and then got up and came to the painting to take a closer look.

Li Nan is now very close to Cai You, so he is also classified as Cai Dang.

At present, the two factions who are most concerned about the outcome of this game are the Cai Party and the Zhao Party, so after seeing Zhao Ji's actions, Cai Jing and Zhao Tingzhi both noticed something different and hurriedly stepped forward.

Li Nan's painting is completely different from other people's ideas, neither to paint the crowds in the city, nor to paint the bustling streets, but to paint the Qingyun Hall where the people are depicted.

The ancients often made the painting Danqing, and there was a saying that it was a smooth progress, so Zhao Jicai named the palace of the Hanlin Painting Institute Qingyun Palace.

The picture scroll depicts the scene of the examination in the hall just now, the official Zhao Ji sits in the middle of the hall, the rest of the courtiers sit on both sides, more than 20 painters in the hall sit at the table and concentrate on creation, and dozens of small eunuchs are waiting on the side.

Li Nan's painting skills come from the system reward, integrating the essence of Eastern and Western painting techniques, this painting is weird, extremely realistic, although the characters in the painting are not more than 100 people, but the eyebrows and clothes are like a mirror.

After reading it, Zhao Tingzhi still shook his head, even if Li Nan's painting was meticulous, but compared to the scale of the thousand people in Zhang Zeduan's painting, it was too far behind, and he really didn't know why the official family was so surprised.

Cai Jing was also confused at first, but after he saw the performance of the official family, he knew that there must be something strange in it.

Zhao Ji is indeed a layman in political affairs, but when it comes to the appreciation of calligraphy and painting, if he says that he is the second, it is estimated that no one dares to call him the first, so he took a closer look and finally found the clues.

Cai Jing, who was familiar with Zhao Ji's personality and hobbies, expected Li Nan to win, so he stood aside with a smile and waited to see Zhao Tingzhi and others make a fool of themselves.

Compared with Cai Jing, who has been scheming and has experienced ups and downs, Zhao Tingzhi's mind is too far from the city government.

Zhao Tingzhi bowed his hand and said: "Li Nan's painting is extremely inferior, and he dares to claim that his painting skills are unparalleled, but he is actually guilty of defrauding the king, please punish him by the official!" ”

When Zhao Ji heard this, he looked at Zhao Tingzhi for a few seconds, and then said lightly: "There are too many distracting thoughts in Zhengfu's heart, so he can't see the excitement of this painting, which is indeed a bit arbitrary." ”

Ignoring Zhao Tingzhi, whose face changed drastically, Zhao Ji said loudly to everyone: "Li Nan is the first in this competition, Zhang Zeduan is second, Yang Shouping is third, do you have any objections?" ”

Among the people present, there were no more than five people who saw the mystery of Li Nan's painting, so the ministers and the Hanlin painters were puzzled, and asked in a low voice the reason for Li Nan's victory.

Seeing everyone's doubts, Zhao Ji smiled and said to Zhang Zeduan: "Righteous path, what do you think of my decision?" ”

Zhang Zeduan should be regarded as a pure painter, otherwise he would not be able to practice his painting skills to the peak, he has nothing too deep to do with the people of the party in the DPRK and China, this time even if Zhao Ting's people and others do not tell him in advance, he will do his best.

After hearing Zhao Ji's words, Zhang Zeduan gave a salute and said frankly: "Li Nan's skills are novel, and the concept is even more ingenious, and Weichen is willing to bow down!" ”

When Zhao Tingzhi heard this, he was immediately shocked, and asked Zhang Zeduan angrily: "Zhang Zhengdao, you have excellent painting skills, why did you deliberately admit defeat?" ”

"Zhao Xianggong, I'm just telling the truth."

As he spoke, Zhang Zeduan came to Li Nan's painting, pointed to a little eunuch in the painting and said, "You may not see the subtleties, please look at it again." ”