Dragon's Origin

“Then I’ll wait and see!” Old Tie knew that Wang Sheng was always capable of miracles. Not to mention the earliest lathes and such, the clock design he came up with recently was enough to amaze all the artisans of the Linglong Pavilion.

If anyone had wanted to make something similar before, to say nothing else, just the power for that clock to turn, everyone would definitely think of using array stones, of course, requiring daily input of spiritual Qi. This limited its use by ordinary people.

But Wang Sheng ingeniously solved the power problem with a tightly wound elastic steel spring, even for ordinary people, easily winding it could keep the clock running for more than a day.

Once this design came out, it was conceivable that clocks would become popular throughout the kingdom. You know, everyone now calculates the time by looking at the sun or dripping water clocks, which are very inaccurate. It's normal to not know the time on a cloudy or rainy day. More particular people use incense sticks to time after checking the time, and then have people announce the time. There has never been a tool that can represent time so accurately.

With the advent of clocks, all those methods can be discarded, just look at the clock. Of course, even more particular people, like the Duke, wear a delicate watch on their wrist, and can check the time anytime, anywhere.

Just this clock alone, if it could be reduced in size to Wang Sheng's watch size, then the masters involved in making it would definitely be able to advance to several grandmaster levels. Old Tie could be sure of this.

Just a few days ago, six tailoring masters collectively applied for grandmaster assessment. Their three-dimensional cutting techniques, exquisite embroidery, and workmanship impressed all the grandmasters involved in the assessment. The addition of six grandmasters at once was unprecedented within the Linglong Pavilion!

But this was all related to Changsheng Duke. It was the Duke who guided everyone to propose the concept of three-dimensional cutting, which led to this result.

It is said that two of the jewelry makers who were studying gold wire winding techniques have already made progress, and there is no problem in advancing two more grandmasters.

Just relying on Changsheng Duke's ideas, so many grandmasters have been produced. If there were a grandmaster in this ingenious idea, Changsheng Duke would definitely be a well-deserved grandmaster.

Now, more and more grandmasters are bringing their favorite disciples to participate in the production of products designed by Changsheng Duke, hoping that their disciples can also break through to the grandmaster level. Old Tie, Master Lu, Master Wu, and others have even proposed to the Linglong Pavilion Master to add a special ingenious design grandmaster title, ready to award it to Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng was going to impact the grandmaster level in carving handicrafts, using the tools made by Old Tie. This was a greater honor for Old Tie than any praise. If Wang Sheng really succeeded in impacting the grandmaster level, then Old Tie, the blacksmith grandmaster, would also share the glory.

After getting the tools, Wang Sheng only practiced on a few ordinary stones for less than ten days before starting to work on a piece of jade that he had already selected from a batch of jade stones that Meiniang had purchased some time ago.

That piece of jade had a very warm texture. It was absolutely top-quality mutton fat white jade, oily and delicate, a top-notch material. Just kidding, which guy wouldn't want his head if he dared to give a substandard product to Changsheng Duke's mansion when buying a top-quality jade stone? It was definitely the best of the best.

Even the palace heard that Wang Sheng wanted top-quality jade, and Chief Li specially sent two pieces over. Wang Sheng and Meiniang were not polite and accepted them with a smile. It's just that those two pieces were too big, and Wang Sheng didn't plan to directly start carving on such large pieces of jade.

Wang Sheng first steadily shaped the jade into a rough sphere, and then began to finely polish it. It took a full half month to complete a crystal-clear and round white jade ball with a diameter of fifteen centimeters. So far, the preparation work was completed.

While Wang Sheng was staying in the workshop specially built for him in the Grand View Garden, meticulously琢磨the white jade ball bit by bit, the outside world had already become a battlefield.

This doesn't mean that everyone is on good terms and becomes a battlefield, but it really became a battlefield. The eight great vassal states, Tang, Song, Qiu, Shi, Dai, Xia, Feng, and Gan, all launched a siege against the Shan Yue Kingdom. At the same time, the Dai Kingdom was suppressed by various countries, and the Xia Kingdom was also suppressed by various countries. The Qiu Kingdom was already harassed by the Shan Yue Kingdom and suffered heavy losses.

But other countries were not much better. Because the Shi and Gan Kingdoms found peerless treasures in the core circle of the Thousand Absolute Land last time and transported them back, ever since Qiansheng Yuan began selling those antique weapons, all parties had been curious about them.

The Gan Kingdom courted death by trying to attack Wang Sheng and Lingxu Old Daoist, resulting in heavy losses and compensation. Originally, it was thought that this would be the end of it, but in fact, Wang Sheng and the Old Jun Temple had no intention of moving against them. But the problem is that other people were not happy.

The Song and Feng Kingdoms took action, targeting the Gan Kingdom. Of course, not the kind of direct declaration of war, but like other families dealing with the Xia family, they hired assassins at high prices to attack the high-level officials of the Gan Kingdom. At the same time, they each sent experts to sneak into the Gan Kingdom to take action.

A message spread in secret that the Shi and Gan Kingdoms found far more than just some antique weapons in the core circle of the Thousand Absolute Land, but also other more precious treasures.

The news was secretly released by the Xia family. After their experts obtained the complete map of the core circle of the Thousand Absolute Land drawn by Wang Sheng, they discovered the marked excavation sites. Now that the opportunity was right, they immediately secretly released the news.

The Gan and Shi Kingdoms immediately became the target of public criticism. The Gan Kingdom was ambushed and besieged, and the Shi Kingdom did not escape either. Originally, the Dai Kingdom had been dissatisfied with the Shi Kingdom for moving their people, exposing the arrangement of the Shan Yue Kingdom, and implicating the previous head of the Dai family and the Great Elder. Now, they finally had another reason to deal with the Shi Kingdom with all their might.

For a time, the five countries of Gan, Shi, Xia, Qiu, and Dai were all in a state of panic. The only ones who seemed to be slightly quieter were the Song, Tang, and Feng Kingdoms.

But the situation did not stabilize. Perhaps the five countries in chaos were unwilling to see the three countries stable, or perhaps the Son of Heaven was more willing to see everyone in chaos. Anyway, during the chaotic war, a high-level official of the Tang Kingdom died in an assassination, two elders of the Feng Kingdom were attacked and seriously injured, and the Song Kingdom was even more miserable. The capital city's palace was attacked, resulting in the Song Kingdom's Duke Song being seriously injured. He was desperately rescued, but he was still dying. If it weren't for the Song Kingdom's direct daughter, Song Yan, decisively standing up to stabilize the situation, the Song Kingdom might have triggered even greater turmoil.

“Master, how about the idea that this concubine gave to Sister Song Yan?” When Meiniang told Wang Sheng, who was busy in the workshop, about the news, she looked proud: “Sister Song Yan can now rightfully take charge of the Song Kingdom.”

PS: Yesterday's.

I have applied for a WeChat public account, renyuangongzhonghao, which is the pinyin of 任怨公众号, and will share some of my feelings during the writing process. Please pay more attention to it. Thank you everyone!