art master

Chapter 338 The Sudden Wen War

Mulan's face was full of spring breeze, and he was carrying a lot of things in his hands. Obviously, the trip to the palace went well this time, and he also got a lot of gifts.

It was not until the way back that Mu Lan chattered non-stop in Mu Bai's ear, saying how kind the queen was, how humorous the king was, and how virtuous Ji Yuanjie's two sister-in-laws were.

Mu Bai didn't expect that the old king didn't have time to eat with performers and painters, so he had time to attend family dinners.

The queen's kindness is inevitable. After all, this is very likely to be the future sister-in-law of the third daughter. Naturally, the old lady will not make enemies for Ji Yuanjie.

Besides, Mu Lan always wanted more pocket money for herself, and she was not the kind of little girl who was difficult to get along with, and she didn't need the queen to set the rules.

Mu Bai sent Mulan back to the rental house and brought some gifts to Ding Chuanhai to pay New Year greetings.

Ding Chuanhai's house was extremely lively today, disciples and juniors all came to pay New Year's greetings.

In the entire hall, Mu Bai was not the most prominent, so he could only sit in the corner chatting with the two senior brothers after the New Year's greetings, and listened to the exchange between Ding Chuanhai and several senior disciples.

After paying New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year, Mu Bai took his mother and younger sister back to Pinghai Mansion early in the morning of the second day, because there were too many people going out on this day, and the speed of the highway was not very fast.

It was not until the afternoon that I went to grandma's house. After driving for such a long time, Mu Bai was very tired.

In the next few days, we paid New Year greetings to each other step by step. On the eighth day of the eighth day, Guoyun officially started work, and the year was almost over.

After a whole year of rapid development, Guoyun is now basically one of the top real enterprises in Pinghai Prefecture.

Last year, Guoyunguang sold nearly 30 engines of various types, accounting for about 20% of the national engine market.

If the production capacity is further increased, this share will continue to increase.

Among the 30 units, nearly [-] units were given to members of the "Engine Industry Association" for OEM processing. Otherwise, if only relying on the two factories of Guoyun, there would be no such production volume.

The members of the association have tasted the sweetness and are more supportive of the association.

At the same time, some new enterprises have joined this association, and some of them also hope to receive OEM business.

Some hope to cooperate with Guoyun's engine research and development center to develop an engine that is similar in quality to "Guoyun No. [-]", but with different functions and models.

This is tantamount to taking money and asking Guoyun to design an engine that is competitive with "Guoyun No. [-]".

Originally, they all thought that Guoyun would open their mouths like a lion, but the design cost of Guoyun was very reasonable, and they didn't charge too much.

This is something that Mu Bai has instructed a long time ago, what he hopes most is that Guoyun can drive the technological development of the whole world.

Those few companies that do not intend to do contract processing, and do not intend to steal their teachers, are companies with their own souls, and Mu Bai doesn't mind helping them.

However, Mu Bai has a prerequisite, which is to prohibit selling these technologies to Mingyang Group or other companies of the Ming Corporation, but this requirement was not put on the surface, so it did not attract everyone's attention.

Of course, Mu Bai's ability to do this is inseparable from the fact that "National Rhythm No. [-]" has completed the test engine. This engine is the latest engine designed by Zou Hai.

It has a slightly higher horsepower than "Guoyun No. [-]", and its durability has been enhanced a lot. It will be the main engine of Guoyun in the coming year.

This engine is suitable for use in low- and middle-range manual transmission vehicles, as well as low-grade automatic transmission vehicles.

These models are the highest-selling cars in the world, and they are also the category of cars that require the most engines.

Before the advent of "Guoyun No. [-]", cars with automatic transmission had a high failure rate due to the lack of a qualified engine, so cars with automatic transmission were not very popular with car owners.

Of course, high-end automatic cars will not have such problems because they have high-quality engines and transmissions.

The advent of "National Rhythm No. [-]" is the gospel of automatic transmission cars, and many people came to order it as soon as it came out.

Most of the purposes they ordered are used in cars with automatic transmission. Those who have a little knowledge of this industry will have a premonition that when "Guoyun No. [-]" becomes popular, cars with automatic transmission will definitely usher in a big price cut.

Because "Guoyun No. [-]" is only slightly more expensive than "Guoyun No. [-]", it is obviously an engine for the public.

There is still a lot of profit to be made before the big price cut. After the big price cut, automatic transmission cars may become quite popular.

In addition, the sales volume of "Guoyunyou No. [-]" is still not much, after all, there is not much demand for high-priced cars.

The benefit of the branch factory in Qin State is also very good. Not only is it self-sufficient, but it has basically returned its capital.

Zheng Guo's branch factory was put into production at the end of the year. It had just received an order and was in the process of opening up the market.

The branch factory in Jin State is still under construction, and there are two other small countries, and they only have plans to build branch factories just now.

Mu Bai asked Ma Jingping to open as many branches as possible in the next year, so as not to wipe out Guoyun.

At the same time, this is also Mu Bai's global plan.

In addition, the chip has also made great achievements. "Guoyun Chip" is a grade higher than domestic chips of the same price, and can even promote the development of the entire electronic product industry.

The electronic product industry is more sensitive than the engine industry, and it occupies the market faster. It only started mass production in the first half of last year, and now it has occupied more than 30% of Zhou Guo's market.

Because Guoyun can produce lithography machines by itself now, the output is not a problem at all. In the next year, Mu Bai estimates that "Guoyun chips" can occupy more markets, and can initially affect the chip industry in Shandong countries .

As for the communication equipment factory, everything has just started, and there are not many achievements yet.

For now, Guoyun already has a certain degree of influence in the country, and the moment of counterattack planned by Mu Bai is getting closer and closer, and now he is only one node away from counterattack.

Throughout the second half of last year, Ming Honglang didn't make any moves. He seemed to be watching the situation quietly, and also seemed to be secretly looking for Mu Bai's weakness.

This was the calm on the eve of the war, and Mu Bai didn't dare to be careless. On the one hand, he stabilized the development of the national rhyme, and on the other hand, he asked Yang Wenjun to collect some evidence for emergencies.

In the blink of an eye, at the end of the first lunar month, Mu Bai had been at the Guofeng Company in Weicheng Mansion, staring at the production of "Listening to the Ear", and suddenly received an urgent notice, asking Mu Bai to rush back to the Hongwen Museum within five hours.

Mu Bai heard from his brother before that such an emergency notification usually means the arrival of Wen Zhan.

However, the recent news did not report where Wen Zhan will be. With some doubts, Mu Bai hurried back to the Hongwen Museum as soon as possible.

He didn't expect that there would really be a civil war.

Due to some historical issues, the state of Zhou and the state of Yan in the north have started intermittent diplomatic negotiations since the second half of last year.

By the beginning of this year, the results of the negotiations were very unsatisfactory, and eventually developed into a war of words.

It stands to reason that Mu Bai has just entered the Hongwen Museum for half a year, and he is not yet qualified to participate in the literary war, but Ding Chuanhai assured that Mu Bai's level has surpassed many "senior students", and he should participate in the literary war as soon as possible.

Mu Bai didn't have any objection to this, if he could make some contributions in the civil war, then he would be more confident in his counterattack against Ming Honglang in the future.

In the Hongwen Hall, Mu Bai saw the gathering of Wen Zhan for the first time. It was hard to imagine that the bachelors and "senior students" who usually seemed to be sloppy gathered so quickly.

After finishing the assembly that night, we flew to Beiliang Mansion overnight. After a day of rest in Beiliang Mansion, we will drive to the border between Zhou and Yan.

This civil war was led by Dou Yuguo, and Zhou Guo dispatched a national scholar, five bachelors, more than 20 "senior students", more than 100 "excellent students" and ordinary students.

The reason why Zhou Guo didn't use all his strength was because he still had enough manpower to deter Jin who might interfere.

Last year, there was a civil strife in the state of Jin, and the possibility of intervening was not high. Because of this, the state of Zhou decided to launch a civil war against the state of Yan when the state of Jin was weak, trying to take this opportunity to attack the state of Yan and solve the hidden dangers from the north.

It was Mu Bai's first time participating in Wen Zhan, and at first he saw nothing new, but after setting up camp at the border, he was a little disappointed.

According to the rules of Wenzhan, this is similar to a larger-scale poetry and music exchange meeting.

Anyway, it's all about artistic things, but now there's a bonus. Whoever wins can get the initiative in the negotiation, and whoever loses has to make concessions.

Mu Bai was assigned to the art combat group, but he is an "all-rounder", he can stay in the art group, and he can also help out in the ancient poetry and music groups.

Mu Bai's previous performance at the music exchange meeting and his performance on the new charts the year before last made people in the music group trust Mu Bai. The bachelor in charge of the music group also expressed the hope that Mu Bai could help out.

Mu Bai fully agreed. After all, he has so many 【Music Appreciation Points】, it is no problem to be a surprise soldier.

In addition, Wang Quan is in charge of the ancient poetry phrase group in the Palindrome Battle. This is the first time she leads a group to participate in the battle.

Only then did Mu Bai recall that he still had [-] random poems in reserve, so he could help Wang Quan.

In the art group, Mu Bai was not taken seriously. After all, he had no experience of participating in literary wars with art, and the bachelor in charge of the art group was not at ease.

But before leaving, Ding Chuanhai specifically told him that at least Mu Bai should participate in three rounds of literary battles.

The bachelor in charge of the art group had no choice but to ask Mu Bai to challenge some students with poor records in Yan Kingdom.

The literary battle of the art group is a painting competition. The observation group will come up with a topic, and the painters from the two countries will start the competition after confirming their opponents.

The way to determine the opponent lies in the arrangement of the two scholars.

Generally, the instigator of the textual war chooses the first candidate first, and the other party takes the challenge.

Then the passive defense side determines the second player to fight, and the side that provokes the text war responds.

And so on.

After choosing their opponents, the painters will enter the cubicles one by one to start creating.

Then put the created works on the official website, and the people of the two countries will vote blindly. Whoever gets the most votes will win.

Mu Bai doesn't feel much about such a form, but the people of this world are very sacred to such a judgment, and it is the moment to exercise their rights and obligations.

Just like when there was a civil war between Zhou and Jin, Mu Bai was not in the habit of voting, but Liu Zhe and many others went.

Although identity verification before voting is troublesome, they still enjoy it.

In the first round of literary competition, the theme of the art group was "Mountains and Rivers". Mu Bai used freehand brushwork to draw a picture scroll of surging mountains and rivers, easily defeating his opponent.

The bachelor in charge of the art group knew about Mu Bai's level, and only then did he know that Ding Guoshi was speaking modestly when he said that Mu Bai had the level of a "senior student".

Mu Bai is completely at the level of a bachelor!

In the first round of the literary battle, Mu Bai painted heartily, and he felt that his level had improved a lot compared to when he painted "Xin Tiandi".

Thanks to Ding Guoshi's teaching and resolving doubts, Mu Bai is no longer confused on many issues.

The most intuitive progress is that the proficiency of [Immersive Ultimate Edition], which has been growing quite slowly, is finally full, which indicates that Mu Bai has completely mastered this skill.

Therefore, Mu Bai received a systematic reward, because considering that he was in a literary war, Mu Bai chose the reward of twenty random poems.

In this way, Mu Bai's poetry reserve has risen to fifty, which can completely play an important role in the literary war.

However, Mu Bai was not in a hurry to express himself, because the literary war has just begun, and everyone still has a lot of stock.

It's not too late for him to take action when the failure is revealed somewhere.

After staying at the literary battle site for a few days, Mu Bai finally understood why this kind of competition-like literary battle would cause psychological problems and would cause a serious illness after the end.

Wen Zhan is too tiring!
Take the art group as an example, a round of literary battles will be held in five days.

This is because the time given to the artist for each topic is five days. If the painting is not completed within five days, it will be published no matter where the painting goes.

Normally speaking, five days is too short, whether it is oil painting or ink painting, it is necessary to work tight enough.

Mu Bai's handwriting is relatively fast, and five days is not enough. Of course, if he has inspiration, he will draw very quickly.

But where does inspiration come from?
Mu Bai participated in two rounds of essay battles, basically making drafts over and over again, revising over and over again, and finally it was time to submit when Mu Bai was not satisfied.

Of course, Mu Bai can have free time to rest during these five days because of his fast handwriting, but most painters have to draw non-stop during these five days in order to submit satisfactory works.

If the literary war lasts for two months, then they have to draw for two consecutive months.

It's no wonder that he didn't get seriously ill after the civil war ended with such hard work.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month later, Mu Bai participated in five rounds of literary battles and won five victories.

Only in the latest round of literary battles, Mu Bai narrowly won by a few votes, and he had won a complete victory before.

As the opponents became stronger and stronger, Mu Bai knew that he should be valued more and more by Yan Guo's art team, so he would send him stronger and stronger opponents.

At the same time, everyone's reserves are almost used up, and Mu Bai is going to do a big job.

(End of this chapter)