Dragon's Origin

Chapter 277 Creation (Part 1)

It was already very late, and it was definitely impossible to continue talking today. Some things cannot be done with just eagerness and passion. Everyone is mature and steady. After the excitement of passion, they also need a short rest to think calmly.

The next day, Wang Sheng and Mei'er first returned to the Marquis's mansion to wait for news. Grandmaster Lu and the others were going to gather a group of people to do this. After all, it was not a trivial matter, even if it was coordination, they had to let people finish their work at hand.

However, Daoist Qing Ling and Grandmaster Li Ziyun talked very happily, and the two even agreed to refine a furnace of pills together. It just so happened that Wang Sheng had things to do during this period, so Wang Sheng simply let Daoist Qing Ling complete his long-cherished wish first, and study the matter of distinguishing medicines after he finished this period.

On the third day, Grandmaster Lu and Old Tie brought a group of old men and women and a few middle-aged people to Wang Sheng's Marquis's mansion. Some things need to be made secretly at the beginning, so it's better not to do it in a place like theTiangongfang that doesn't seem strict enough.

Wang Sheng had already prepared a lot of materials, just waiting for the grandmasters to come and start work. After a warm reception, everyone was not pretentious, and immediately started working in a cross-yard specially prepared by Steward Wang, which was located in the back.

For the time being, the production of each item requires the joint efforts of several different grandmasters. Everyone has been cooperating for many years, so let's not consider other things for the time being, and make the best things first.

When he was on Earth, Wang Sheng had carried out several tasks to crack down on cultural relic smuggling gangs, and disguised himself to approach that group of armed cultural relic traffickers. For the task, Wang Sheng had specially learned some superficial knowledge of cultural relics, so he could talk about it in a well-versed manner.

"Should the penholder be made of jade? Wouldn't it seem too luxurious?" The speaker was a grandmaster of pen making, surnamed Lu, who had been making pens for the imperial city for many years and was very experienced: "Although those scholars can't wait to fill the entire mansion with gold coins, they still have to loudly shout about the gentleman's behavior, cultivating one's moral character with tranquility, and fostering virtue with thrift. They must never use these extravagant things. If it is made of jade, would anyone dare to use it?"

"Of course someone will use it." Wang Sheng said decisively: "We are going to make a world-class masterpiece, so naturally we have to use jade, a material that is not easily eroded by time. As for the problem you mentioned, Grandmaster Lu, it doesn't matter. A modest gentleman is as gentle as jade! Not only must we use it, but we must also use the best and most gentle white jade."

"We need to put effort into the carving, and that depends on you, Grandmaster Lu." Wang Sheng raised the requirements to Grandmaster Lu: "It must be carved into a appearance that is low-key and restrained at first glance, but also makes people fondle it admiringly. A pure jade penholder is heavier than a bamboo penholder, so it must be hollowed out and carved, preferably with patterns and allusions of a gentleman's behavior on it, so that scholars can't take their eyes off it when it's placed there."

"Will hollowing out the carving make the penholder less resistant to falling?" Grandmaster Lu asked with some concern: "If the movement is a little big when putting down the pen, there may be a risk of damage."

"That's exactly what we want, something so exquisite." Wang Sheng immediately explained: "A world-class masterpiece must be handled with care at all times. What's the difference between something that can be passed down through generations just by throwing it there and those stone piers? It's to make them want to enshrine it after they get it, and Grandmaster Wu's sword is the same. First let the imperial palace use it, and won't people outside flock to it?"

Well, the imperial palace and the emperor are obviously what Wang Sheng intends to use for advertising. After a little thought, everyone didn't say anything.

"Wooden and bamboo ones are also needed, but this requires selection." Wang Sheng began to add the requirements for bamboo and wood penholders: "The most basic requirement is that the bamboo nodes must be naturally straight, and the same goes for the wood. The trunk must be straight and free of knots. Choose the best and most precious bamboo and wood, and it must be the kind that can have formations arranged on it. The same goes for jade."

"What's the use of arranging formations on the pen?" Master Lu asked again, puzzled: "Could it be that, like Marquis, you are using a thousand-pound pen to cultivate?"

"Just put a formation on it, a formation that can calm the mind." Wang Sheng replied quickly: "Let people pick up the pen, and as soon as they have some spiritual energy, they will immediately enter a state of calm and concentration, so that they feel that picking up this pen will naturally make them feel peaceful and ambitious, and extremely elegant. Such a pen is the best to sell."

Wang Sheng regarded serenity and ambition as a means of making money. If these words were known to those "gentlemen," I don't know if they would be so angry that they would be furious.

"The pen tip can't use short-haired rabbit hair anymore, it has to be changed." After Wang Sheng finished talking about the penholder, he began to talk about the pen tip: "I have already sent people to search everywhere, using goat hair, purple hair, wolf hair, mouse whiskers, horse tail, etc., can be one kind, or can be concentrated and mixed, moderate length, must be every one out, can perfectly achieve the standard of sharp, round, neat and strong."

Immediately someone asked what is sharp, round, neat and strong. Wang Sheng also quickly answered.

The four virtues of a writing brush are sharpness, roundness, neatness, and strength. When Wang Sheng explained these four words one by one, the others were fine, but when Master Lu, who was focused on making pens, looked at Wang Sheng again, it was as if he was looking at an idol he had admired for many years.

In the past, Master Lu only needed to make pens that looked decent and regular. Anyway, writing seal script didn't require sharp edges or corners, as long as it could dip in ink and write without shedding hair. He never thought that just a pen tip alone would have so many requirements, and each one was so plausible and sounded very reasonable?

With the advent of the four virtues of a writing brush, no matter what requirements Wang Sheng made next, even a grandmaster like Grandmaster Lu no longer had any questions, and they all directly made them according to Wang Sheng's requirements.

How the pen top should be, what the requirements for the hanging rope are, how the pen button, pen crown, and pen tube should cooperate, how the pen holder and pen tube should naturally blend, how to choose the glue inside the pen root, pay attention to waterproofing and not being soaked, how to prevent corrosion of each part, how to prevent it from being too dry, how to choose the pen tip, what are the differences between different proportions, and so on, and so on. Just a simple-looking pen has almost dozens of items in total.

When Wang Sheng finished speaking, everyone recovered from that incredible state. It turned out that making pens to the extreme can also show true skill in the details. Making such a pen is indeed a treasure-level masterpiece that can be passed down through generations!

Several involved grandmasters discussed with each other, assigned their tasks, and began to ponder the materials and processes, preparing to start designing. Since so many grandmasters and great grandmasters are taking action, it is impossible to create an ordinary experimental product. If they don't take action, they will take action with the most top-notch requirements. Therefore, as soon as Wang Sheng requested to design first, everyone immediately applauded and agreed.

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As for Wang Sheng, he began to work with another grandmaster in charge of papermaking to research and create new paper with better quality that is more suitable for writing and other purposes.