Dragon's Origin

Chapter 395: The Spoils Conference (Part 2)

The normal process would definitely involve structural design first, ensuring structural stability and safety, before proceeding with functional design. However, in the Yuan Soul World, with its formidable and outrageously strong demon beast materials, as well as various versatile formations, structure isn't much of a problem. Functional design can absolutely come first.

Wang Sheng doesn't need to worry too much about the construction. With blueprints, models, and pre-arranged beam and column designs according to the model, Master Liu and the grandmasters can take care of everything. The only thing Wang Sheng needs to do is provide enough gold coins, and naturally, others will handle the rest.

On the other hand, Master Yu had quite a few more requests. The royal musicians brought in many familiar musicians, Master Yu also pulled in a group through his own connections, and there were even two young people with some knowledge of various instruments who were to be trained as conductors. An orchestra immediately grew to more than sixty people.

All of them were relatively high-level musicians. The worst were only slightly worse than the original royal musicians. After rounds of guidance from Master Yu and Wang Sheng, the skill level of each musician improved rapidly in just over half a month.

According to Wang Sheng's requirements, there were several people for each instrument. For some stringed instruments like the erhu, there were even seven or eight. Under Master Yu's direction, when they played together, Master Yu immediately felt the difference from when there was only one musician for each instrument. The timbre was indeed no longer so thin, but had much more reverberation and thickness.

Now, seeing that the construction of the grand theater had begun, Master Yu couldn't help but start asking Wang Sheng for compositions. Especially when he learned that the first performance after the grand theater was built would be for the Emperor and Empress, and that the success of the performance would determine whether the Emperor would treat musicians and performers as artists, he became even more cautious.

Master Yu had also adapted some ancient famous pieces of music from this world, but he still needed Wang Sheng to come up with some completely new pieces first. Master Yu was still a bit rusty in terms of adaptation, not as good as playing, so he could only ask Wang Sheng to take action.

Wang Sheng also understood Master Yu's feelings, carefully pondered for a while, and took out three pieces: "Horse Racing", "Spring River Flower Moon Night", and "Butterfly Lovers". One erhu piece, one guzheng and pipa ensemble, and one piano piece, but all were pieces that could be coordinated with the orchestra.

Adding the previous "Butterfly Lovers", "Qing Xin Pu Shan Zhou", "Pipa Language", and "Ambush from Ten Sides", that made seven pieces. Master Yu had also adapted five pieces, for a total of twelve pieces, which could completely support a performance.

It wasn't that Wang Sheng didn't want to take out more piano pieces or something, but the pieces that Wang Sheng was familiar with were all foreign, with very little Chinese style. Wang Sheng was worried about whether Master Yu and others could accept them. Even if Master Yu, who liked music, could accept them, could the audience accept them? This required a gradual process, waiting for everyone to become familiar with the timbre of the piano before talking about it.

In addition, it was still a bit awkward to replace violins with erhus and huqins, so Wang Sheng simply drew out violins, violas, cellos, and so on for Master Yu, and described how to play them. But the specific strings should be tuned and played by Master Yu himself! The same goes for trumpets and trombones, draw out the appearance and figure it out yourself!

Another instrument-making expert who didn't live in the capital was invited by Master Yu. After receiving Master Yu's message, he rushed over and was amazed when he saw the piano and heard its timbre and range. Now that Wang Sheng had taken out three kinds of stringed instruments and various sizes of horns, the two old men were directly obsessed with them.

It was conceivable that Master Yu and that group of grandmasters would have things to do for a long time. Wang Sheng only needed to go over from time to time to enjoy the music.

Even with Master Liu in charge of building this grand theater, it was necessary to mobilize a group of ordinary craftsmen and some master carpenters and masons to help. To this, the Emperor waved his hand, use whatever is needed, all approved.

Compared to the major event of dividing up the Triumphant Kingdom, Wang Sheng's construction of a grand theater was nothing. It couldn't be smaller.

The speed of the war to destroy the country was very fast. In about half a month, it was about the same as the speed of a normal person walking from the border of the Triumphant Kingdom to the capital. During this period, there were several major battles. The most tragic was the battle of the Triumphant Kingdom's capital, where the Triumphant Palace Master ended in hatred.

The war ended quickly, but this was not the end. The next division of spoils was the main event, and also the place where the three families argued the most fiercely.

Taking advantage of the geographical advantage of being adjacent to the Triumphant Kingdom, the Tang family rightfully wanted to include a large area of land near the Tang Kingdom into their bag. The Xia and Feng kingdoms were not willing to lag behind, and engaged in arduous negotiations with the Tang Kingdom. According to the degree of land barrenness, population distribution, and output, they had to fight for more benefits for themselves.

Although there were already some principles of distribution before the war, it was impossible to distribute such a large territory so evenly. It was normal for you to get more and me to get less.

In addition, there were the expenses of the other five countries' mercenaries, the mercenary fees and pensions, all of which needed to be paid by the three countries. Fortunately, the three countries were united against the other five countries. First, they settled the expenses of the five countries from the treasury of the Triumphant Kingdom, and then drove all the experts from the five countries out of the Triumphant Kingdom. No, it was no longer called the Triumphant Kingdom, but the territory of the Tang, Xia, and Feng kingdoms.

In addition to the land, population, and various items that could be plundered, the real wealth of the Triumphant Kingdom also included a very important item, which was the inheritance of the Triumphant Palace. Cultivation methods, pill formulas, secret techniques, formations, these sect inheritance classics that the Triumphant Palace regarded as treasures, were all moved to the palace of the Triumphant Kingdom's capital because of the founding of the country.

Who would be willing to destroy the hard work of ancestors for hundreds or even thousands of years? Therefore, this batch of inheritance classics was originally intended to be taken away by several experts, who would hide their names and pass them on, but the details were discovered by the three countries. None of these experts were able to escape, and all the classics were taken by the three countries in one fell swoop.

Everyone argued fiercely about this aspect, and everyone wanted it. In the end, the three countries reached an agreement. All the classics of the Triumphant Palace were copied into three copies, one for each family, no more and no less.

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Next, the land, population, and so on also began to be divided in the quarrel. It was impossible to divide such a large territory equally. Later, a result was argued out. Whoever took more had to pay more to the Emperor and Changsheng Marquis. Finally, after nearly a month of quarreling, the three families came to a result. The time of the quarrel was longer than the time of the war.

The Tang Kingdom easily expanded its territory, and the Xia and Feng kingdoms each obtained a piece of exclave, but the two countries had different ways of dealing with it.