Chapter 71: Cardinal Wang

In some of the next murals. It's all the same guy who gave the glasses before, and he has created one strange thing after another. There are huge grandfather clocks, huge fountains, and so on.

One of the murals depicts this man standing on the side of a mountain, measuring a bucket-shaped object with a spring flowing down from the mountain. And on top of this bucket, there is a thin beam, which looks like a weighing rod.

Seeing this, Chen Ziyang has been 100% sure of this person's identity. This person should be Cardinal Wang, who was called the first skilled craftsman of the Qing Dynasty by Emperor Kangxi.

Just when Chen Ziyang wanted to continue looking at the murals, Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai had already finished bandaging and sat on the ground next to them to rest. I saw Chen Ziyang staring intently at the mural. Yang Lei asked: "Er Yang, don't just stare at the mural, think about what we should do now, you have seen through the stone wall, can we go out?" ”

Chen Ziyang also sat down, wanting to smoke a cigarette but didn't dare to take off the oxygen mask. Anyway, the three of them also needed to rest at this time, so they simply said to the two of them: "I seem to know who the owner of this tomb is?" ”

"Let's talk about it, we won't be able to get out for a while anyway, it's good to know whose grave we dug up, at least we can be a ghost, and if we meet this kid when we go down, we can also hide."

"Have you heard this story, Emperor Qianlong liked to drink tea, and he was very particular about the water used to make tea. So he ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make a measuring bucket, weighed all the springs in the world, and found that the spring water on Yuquan Mountain in the suburbs of Beijing was the lightest of all springs. In other words, the spring water of this Yuquan Mountain contains the least impurities and is the clearest. Therefore, Qianlong designated the spring water of Yuquan Mountain as 'the first spring in the world', and the spring water there became Qianlong's tribute water. ”

"When I heard this story before, I thought it was, how many impurities can there be in the water, how can a scale be accurate to this extent? So I searched the Internet for a long time and found out that this story turned out to be true! It's just that this bucket was not made by the people of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Qianlong period, but was made a long time ago, and the person who made the bucket was called Cardinal Wang. ”

"King what? Secretary Wang? In the Qing Dynasty, there was a secretary called? Yang Lei asked.

"It's Cardinal Wang, and this man is amazing. He began to develop in the middle of the Kangxi period, and was called the first skilled craftsman in the Qing Dynasty by Kangxi, and the measuring bucket that Qianlong used to weigh the spring water was left by him. It is said that this bucket is a combination of Chinese scales and Western scales, so accurate that the weight of a feather can be accurately weighed. ”

It is said that Kangxi is very fond of Western items, and he usually has hundreds of pairs of sunglasses, pocket watches and Western table clocks. There was once a time when Kangxi's favorite pair of sunglasses was accidentally broken by himself and broke a lens. Kangxi ordered someone to take the sunglasses to the office and asked the craftsmen in the office if they could repair the sunglasses. ”

"At that time, few craftsmen in the manufacturing office were proficient in these Western gadgets, not to mention how could the broken mirror be reunited, except for replacing the lens with a new one, there was no other way, and the manufacturing office had no way to make the lens of sunglasses. At this time, Cardinal Wang, who was just an ordinary craftsman in the manufacturing office at the time, actually took over the job, saying that he had a way to repair his sunglasses. ”

He used the deboning method to split the good lens in half from the middle, polished it, and re-mounted it on the frame, Kangxi praised it after getting the repaired glasses, and the repaired glasses were thinner because the lenses were thinner, and it made people feel more comfortable to see things after wearing them. After that, Cardinal Wang's skills began to emerge, and within a few years, he was promoted by Kangxi to be the head of the office and the chief craftsman. ”

"What's that? Deboning? Are you talking about making boneless chicken feet? Isn't that a chef's craft? Yang Lei was a little hungry at this time, but the compressed biscuits he brought were gone, and he naturally remembered to eat them when he heard the bones.

"You know that eating, deboning is a long-lost craft, it is said that this deboning method can cut an object into two, and no matter how thin it is, it can be cut. The most commonly used method of deboning is to divide those unique famous paintings from the middle into two identical two. It is said that Cardinal Wang was well versed in the ancient production of all Chinese handicrafts, and even studied Western objects. ”

"Back then, the British Empire once dedicated Kangxi a very complex and huge table clock. The clock was the most complex in the world at the time, with dozens of small figures with different instruments in their hands coming out of the tower of the clock on the hour to play music, and the fountain in the clock would spew water at regular intervals. After this table clock, which was made of tens of thousands of gears that fit together, it was broken, and even the craftsmen left behind by the British Empire could not repair it in a short time, and it was later repaired by Cardinal Wang. ”

Cardinal Wang was not only a craftsman, but also a master of architecture and Feng Shui. However, in the later period of Kangxi, this person disappeared out of thin air. There are rumors and legends that it was because he did something wrong that annoyed Kangxi and was secretly executed by Kangxi. Some people also say that he was assigned by Kangxi to a place to carry out a huge secret project. But no matter what the way you put it, in short, this cardinal Wang disappeared out of thin air and never appeared in people's sight again. ”

"I also found out about this person because I was curious about the measurement of the bucket back then, and I found out about it when I looked through the information. This mural should be painted on his life, and now that we think back to the delicate carpentry and ironware we saw before, the owner of this tomb is him. ”

When Chen Ziyang said this, Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai also got up and looked at the first half of the mural, and sure enough, as Chen Ziyang said, starting from that sunglasses, this Wang Shu made one strange item after another. Umbrella Shishuai looked at it for a while, and said to them: "I'm not interested in this thing, you two should study it, I'll go to the front and take a look, it's impossible for us to open a way out." ”

Yang Lei is also specialized in geological exploration, and he knows a lot of geology and architectural knowledge, and he also got up to give Umbrella Shishuai a hand. Chen Ziyang continued to look at the last few murals.

In the last few paintings, Chen Ziyang sees this cardinal Wang standing in front of a majestic mountain. Around him, there were rows of people pulling rocks and carrying logs, walking towards the mountain, as if a big construction project was going on.

On the last mural, Chen Ziyang saw that Cardinal Wang was visibly old, because the mural painted his beard very long. I saw Cardinal Wang sitting in front of a continuous mountain with a square stone gate in the middle of it.

Chen Ziyang looked at the shape of this mountain, how did he look like the dragon's lair of this shallow water fish dragon where they were now!