Huang Qiong listened to He Yuanfeng's persuasion, and Gao Huaiyuan was successfully promoted to the seventh rank by accumulating merit. Otherwise, based on Huang Qiong's original intention to hone and hone his skills, he would still be at the seventh rank. The reason why Huang Qiong asked him this question today was actually because he had something to entrust to him. This question is just to touch Gao Huaiyuan’s foundation head-on.
Although Gao Huaiyuan is very young, his emotional intelligence is very high. Therefore, the first time Huang Qiong asked him, he vaguely guessed the true intention of his uncle's sudden change in attitude towards him. But after seeing some of his colleagues around him looking at him with strange looks after learning his true identity, he was vaguely unwilling to answer these questions.
Because Gao Huaiyuan felt that it was a bit of a show off in front of his colleagues. Although these colleagues of his are all minor officials in the Royal Forest Army, their family backgrounds are all ordinary. Those with real backgrounds have already been transferred or promoted. This time, 60% of the military attachés selected from the Eighth Imperial Army were from ordinary family backgrounds or were children of relatively low-level military attachés. They were on a completely different level from Gao Huaiyuan.
In addition, Gao Huaiyuan originally kept a low profile in the capital, so most of his colleagues did not know his identity. Of course, the higher-ranking military attachés in the Royal Forest Army still knew that he was the only son of Princess Jincheng and the legitimate son of the Yingchuan House. But those insiders issued a hush-hush order as soon as Huang Qiong saw Gao Huaiyuan's name on the list drawn by the Royal Forest Army.
He also repeatedly requested that all insiders should not take any care of Gao Huaiyuan, let alone transfer him. Military attachés of the same rank would do whatever Gao Huaiyuan does on weekdays. Gao Huaiyuan ate whatever other people ate on weekdays. Other low-level military attachés do not have independent tents and can only huddle with ordinary soldiers during rest. He is also not allowed to do anything special.
When performing military duties, no one is allowed to remove him from danger because of his special status. In short, he said that no matter what other military attachés at the same level asked him, he should treat them the same, without any special treatment. If he hadn't considered his eldest sister, he would have been left alone. And if you die in battle, it's easier to say that. Once captured, it will be a big trouble.
Before setting off from Huanzhou, Huang Qiong even intended to transfer him to Zhou Zhiyuan's frontier army. Huang Qiong did this not deliberately targeting his eldest sister. But he really wanted to give this nephew a good beating. After all, he is the only son of a princely family and a princess. Gao Huaiyuan could have rested peacefully in his mother's position and enjoyed a wealthy and stable life.
But this nephew was actually able to voluntarily give up the luxurious life in Beijing. Not only did he take the initiative to join the army, he also signed up to come to Longyou to quell the rebellion. This made him look at his nephew in a different light. He also gave birth to a nephew who gave birth to a good beating to see if he was really a material that could be made. If he really is a talent that can be developed, he will focus on training this nephew.
No one in the army dared to disobey Huang Qiong's request. In addition, after Gao Huaiyuan was transferred back to the Royal Guards, he also deliberately kept a low profile. Therefore, most people in the army did not know Gao Huaiyuan's true identity, and thought that he was just a low-level hereditary military attaché who came to serve in the Imperial Forest Army. It wasn't until Huang Qiong called out his name that his colleagues knew that he was the direct nephew of the King of England.
And the King of England's direct nephew, isn't that right? Although these military attaches have low positions, they have lived in the capital for a long time. And since he was in the imperial guard position, he still had some understanding of the dignitaries in the capital. Among the sisters of the King of England, only Princess Jincheng can have such an old son. This humble guy, like himself, was promoted to the seventh rank by accumulating military merit.
He is actually the legitimate son of Princess Jincheng and Uncle Yingchuan, and the direct grandson of the current emperor. According to rumors, Princess Jincheng is the one who has the most trust and favor among the emperor's daughters. I originally thought that this unassuming guy had the same family background as my own, but I didn't expect such a nobleman. After knowing his identity, several colleagues looked at him strangely, making Gao Huaiyuan feel uncomfortable.
Although he didn't want to show off in front of his colleagues, when Huang Qiong asked him to comment on these paintings again, Gao Huaiyuan knew that he had to speak. Walking forward and looking at these paintings carefully, Gao Huaiyuan pondered for a moment and said, "Returning to the prince, these paintings are indeed authentic Xue Shaoqing's style in terms of brushwork and painting style. .”
"Although this person strives to imitate Xue Shaoqing's painting style, it seems that he has some skills in painting. But upon closer inspection, it is only similar in appearance, but actually lacks the charm of Xue Shaoqing's paintings. In other words, the cranes in these paintings are Dead objects are far from the cranes that Xue Shaoqing painted with both form and spirit. The cranes painted by Xue Shaoqing were evaluated by poetry immortals as being able to sense spirit and transform spiritually, making shadows and floating smoke."
"To be praised so much by a poet who has always been proud of his talents is enough to show the agility of his paintings. The cranes in these paintings lack agility and are all dull. And judging from the mounting papers of several paintings, this The framing period of several paintings cannot be older than the late Tang Dynasty at the earliest. They may even be from the early years of the Chinese Dynasty. And judging from the quality of the ink ink, it cannot be the ink ink from Xue Shaoqing's time."
"So I think that these paintings are imitations by later generations. However, the imitations are quite precise. The brush strokes are also imitated blindly. But they are too focused on form and ignore the charm. So the crane he painted is Dead objects lack the agility and style of Xue Shaoqing's works. Also, although the imitation is very similar, the overall style of painting still seems a bit immature and is far from being realistic."
In response to Gao Huaiyuan's answer, Huang Qiong smiled and said: "You, the problem is still a bit superficial. You have only seen these few paintings, which lack the agility of the cranes painted by Xue Ji. The style of these paintings, It also looks a bit immature, so I conclude it’s a fake. But there’s one thing you ignored or didn’t see. Look at the year and month of the signature, do you feel something is wrong?”
After Huang Qiong finished speaking, Gao Huaiyuan hurriedly looked at the signatures on several paintings. Looking at the dates on the signatures, Xue Ji should have been in his twenties when these paintings were completed. Seeing this, Gao Huaiyuan raised his head and looked at Huang Qiong with some confusion. I think this kind of signature will be done when future generations imitate the works of their predecessors and feel that they do not meet the standards of their predecessors.
The date of signing was written down to an age when the predecessors' works were not yet mature, in order to get by. This approach is a common practice when making fake paintings and calligraphy. Therefore, although Gao Huaiyuan lamented that this imitator wrote a good calligraphy, even the imitation of the handwriting was the same as the real one. But I still don’t see what’s wrong with my decision to consider these works to be imitations.
Seeing Gao Huaiyuan looking confused, even a little overwhelmed. Huang Qiong sighed slightly. His nephew was very brave and smart, but after all, he was still too young and his eyesight was still a bit narrow. I just felt that my nephew Huang Qiong, who was only two years younger than me, was too young, but he forgot that he was only nineteen years old this year, and he was not much older than Gao Huaiyuan.
Sighing, Huang Qiong clicked on the edges of several paintings, and the seals on them said: "Look at the difference between this painting paper and the paper used for mounting. There are also edges of the painting paper, although they are not It is obvious, but there are also some slight cracks. You will find that these paintings were framed a long time after they were painted. In other words, there was a long time between these paintings and their mounting."
"Although it may not be more than a hundred years old, there are still some decades. There are also words on the painting, which are obviously put up after being framed. Judging from the quality of the ink pad and the difference between the painting paper, this seal is also a later one. It's printed. Although the painting is very immature, the brush strokes are very sharp. Moreover, the brush strokes are very fast and there are not many pauses in the middle. This also shows that these words were all painted in one go."
"These paintings are all Xue Ji's authentic works. However, judging from the dullness of the cranes painted, they lack the agility of his handed down paintings. These paintings should be Xue Ji's early work. Therefore, the brushstrokes are the same. But the cranes painted lacked sparkle. These paintings were most likely picked up by some deity after Xue Shaoqing threw them into the waste paper pile, and then framed."
"Heng'an, everyone moves from immaturity to maturity. Including the works of the masters of calligraphy and painting, it is the same. They all move from immaturity to maturity after painstaking practice. A person's fame depends on his innate talent Just one, hard work and hard work are the final path to success. This is also what the ancients said, only with deep effort can an iron pestle be ground into a needle."
"Talent is all there is, but if you don't know how to study and practice hard, no matter how good the talent is, it can only be wasted. If you can't be cold to the bone, how about the fragrance of plum blossoms? Even famous calligraphers and painters like Xue Ji rely on a After studying hard and practicing bit by bit, I finally became a master of calligraphy and painting. You are smart, but you are not experienced enough and your observation is not careful enough. Take a closer look, whose font is this?"
"You only saw that the words on the painting were imitations, but you didn't realize that the person who mentioned the words on the painting should also be a great master. If I guessed correctly, this person should be a great calligrapher and painter in the early years of the Kingdom of China. Yang Ningshi deliberately imitated the writing style of Xue Ji. Yang Ningshi was born in a family of officials in the former Tang Dynasty. His father and ancestors were high-ranking officials during the Yizong and Xizong periods of the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that he came from an extremely prominent background."
"The dynasty was rising, but Yang Ningshi was still thinking about the old dynasty. Therefore, Emperor Taizu refused to serve in the official position several times, and stayed at home all day long to ponder calligraphy and painting. How could he, a child of a scholarly family like him, do a few paintings? Fake inscriptions and postscripts? From his perspective, how can he not tell whether these paintings are authentic works by Xue Ji? As for why I said that the person who inscribed the inscriptions and postscripts would be Yang Ningshi, this naturally makes sense to me."
"Look carefully. Is the writing style of the inscription on the last painting among these paintings slightly different from that of the other paintings? Moreover, although the writing style of the inscriptions and postscripts on these paintings is a perfect imitation, the strokes are different. There is another charm. This shows that although Yang Ningshi deliberately imitated Xue Ji's calligraphy when he wrote the postscript and signed the inscription, he also fell into the approximate date of these paintings."
"But in the end he couldn't change the habit he had developed over a long period of writing. A person can cover up certain things, but a habit developed over a long period of time cannot be changed in a short time. Although the inscription on the last painting was also deliberately imitated , but the style of the font reveals the true identity of the person who wrote the postscript. It is the style and sharpness of the typical Yang Ning style calligraphy, with both restraint and unrestrained coexistence."
"As for the seal, although it is the same as the seal on Xue Ji's paintings and calligraphy handed down from ancient times, the ink pad used is from fifty years ago. It means that it was stamped by later generations. Therefore, these paintings were lost in Xue Ji's early period. It was a practice that went into the waste paper pile, but didn't know who picked it up and kept it as a family heirloom. And the person who imitated Xue Ji's writing style for the inscription and postscript was Yang Ningshi, a calligraphy master in the early years of the Kingdom of China."
