On a gloomy morning, in the hall, an eunuch carefully opened the wooden box, took out a volume of calligraphy works, and then carefully unfolded it and fixed it on a special device.

The device looks like two rectangular drawing boards connected in parallel with strange mechanisms on them. After the calligraphy work was fixed, a technician brought a piece of thin paper with a grid and covered it.

There were many candles in the hall, so the lighting was good. The technician put on his glasses and almost lay on the drawing board, operating the mechanism carefully.

Yuwen Wen stood by with his hands behind his back, watching the artist work like a supervisor. Yang Ji also stood beside him, staring at the artist, and from time to time he looked at the drawing board with white paper above, and saw that the handwriting was gradually "drawn" by the linkage device.

The "copying machine" can "copy" a calligraphy work with precision and complex structure and very troublesome operation, but it can "draw" the target work on a blank paper with a 100% "copying degree".

In this way, some works that have been handed down from generation to generation can be printed in batches to copy them in fake and real way, so that all the literati and elegant guests in the world can see the style of famous works.

If you don’t understand it, you can also buy detailed appreciation and explanations compiled by famous artists, which is enough to let the local buns know why famous works are famous works.

Of course, the works that technicians are now "copied" are well-known to literati all over the world. Once the plate is successfully made, the school club can make a lot of money by publishing "copy".

It is precisely because this is a masterpiece that Yu Wen Wen, as the leader of the school club, must supervise the work of technicians on the spot and will never allow any unexpected possibility of the calligraphy work.

This is Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection"! I will get angry if I break it a little!

Yuwen Wen thought so, staring at Lantingxu on the drawing board, and he couldn't bear to blink more. He used unconventional means and even used opium to get this treasure.

He didn't know calligraphy, but knew that "Preface to the Lanting Collection" was a priceless treasure, so no one could take it away from him after getting it.

Yang Ji, who was by his side, looked at this masterpiece that had been through the ages and was reluctant to blink.

On the third day of the third month of the ninth year of Yonghe, Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, who was the inner historian of Kuaiji at the time, and his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo, etc., drank and wrote poems at the Lanting Gathering in Shanyin, Kuaiji.

Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into a collection and wrote a preface, recording the incident of the flowing wine and water, and expressing the inner feelings caused by this.

This preface is "Preface to the Lanting Collection", which is also one of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works. It was praised as "the best running script in the world" in later generations. Anyone who learns running script in later generations will fall in love with Lanting and cannot extricate himself.

Yang Ji is one of them.

But there are no original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" in the world, all of which are copy.

There are many different opinions on the whereabouts of the original work. The mainstream view is that the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" was brought into the coffin after the death of Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, who could not put down his love for him, and was forever absent from the world as a burial object.

When Yang Ji was practicing calligraphy "then", of course he also copied the "Preface to the Lanting Collection". It can be said that he is very familiar with every word. Now he sees the original work in front of him, so how can he not take a look at it?

It is said that Wang Xizhi also took a lot of attention to the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" he wrote, and was passed on to his descendants as a family treasure. Therefore, since the Jin Dynasty, until the north and the south have returned to unite, people have only seen copies and never seen original works.

Now, there are rumors from the outside world that the emperor used the means to obtain this masterpiece from the hands of Wang Xi.

The news quickly spread like wildfire, and many literary scholars flocked to him, regardless of the monarch and ministers' pride and asked the emperor to "appropriately display" the treasure, which also made everyone fulfill their wish.

Yuwen Wen, who has always been generous, is guarding the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" like a wealthy slave. He will definitely not borrow it, and he will not be willing to show it.

However, there were too many people petitioning, and even Yang Ji asked Yuwen Wen to "feast your eyes" with shame. Seeing that the "roaring feelings" of Yuwen Wen, he let Yu Shinan, a well-recognized calligrapher, enter the palace and copy the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" respectively.

When the two famous calligraphers saw the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection", they were said to be so excited that they burst into tears and their hands couldn't help but tremble. They finally completed the copying separately, so there were Yu Shinan's copy and Ouyang Xun's copy.

Yuwen Wen treated the copy as a treasure and took it out from time to time to display it.

As for the original work, of course, Yuwen Wen locked it in the safety cabinet, and no one can touch it except him.

Seeing Yu Wen Wen so "stingy", Yang Ji, who had long admired the original works of "Lanting Collection", racked his brains to figure out a "copying machine", and took advantage of Yu Wen Wen's inspection of the newly completed military academy classroom and presented the "copying machine".

Then he encouraged him to not be bad, and the emperor agreed to take out the original work, and asked the technician to use a "copying machine" to perfectly "draw" it, and then "made a plate" and printed and published by the Xuexiu Society on a large scale.

Now, the king and his minister are standing next to the "copying machine" and watching the painter work.

Yang Ji suddenly whispered: "Your Majesty."

"What's the matter?" Yuwen Wen asked vigilantly.

"I don't know if I can..."

"Don't even think about it!"

"Uh... Weichen just checked in the palace... I won't lend it out..."

"Okay, twenty minutes."

"Twenty minutes are not enough, Your Majesty!"

"Twenty minutes are enough, more than a thousand words, and I'll finish reading it in one go!"

"This is not, Your Majesty..." Yang Ji continued to 'grind' with shame, "Your Majesty, Wang Youjun's calligraphy is famous all over the world, and every word is a treasure. It requires careful consideration. Where can I finish it in twenty minutes?"

When Yuwen Wen heard this, he raised his eyebrows: "What, how long do you plan to think about the work with more than a thousand words?"

Yang Ji continued to 'mix': "It will take more than a month..."

"After a month? As a foreign minister, you are in the palace for more than a month? Are you not afraid that the censor will tear you away?"

"No, no!" Yang Ji saw that Yuwen Wen's tone seemed a little loose, so he quickly struck while the iron was hot: "If Wei Chen, as a general of the Guard, was on duty in the palace for more than a month, in accordance with the etiquette, the censor would not say anything."

Seeing that Yang Ji was so shameless that he sought this point in order to see the original work of "The Preface to the Lanting Collection", Yuwen Wen couldn't hold on too much.

After all, with the "copying machine", not only can the "Preface to Lanting Collection" be copied as it is" and other famous calligraphy works can also be "made in the same way". In this way, the copy of "change as a fake" can be imagined that the sales will be very wide, so the "money prospect" is bright.

After getting such a great benefit, Yuwen Wen felt that it was nothing to relax properly, but...

"There are all the military officials in the palace who are rotating in. It's really tricky to suddenly get someone in..."

Yuwen Wen was in a tangled state. Yang Ji saw this and knew that this person was "commanding". Fortunately, he was prepared and quickly "bugged: "Your Majesty, this copying machine can not only copy calligraphy, but also copy paintings..."

"Is that true? Just copy calligraphy and draw the outline, you can copy the paintings. How do you copy the colors?"

"Don't worry, your Majesty, color adjustment is not a difficult task now..."

Seeing Yang Ji performing so desperately, Yuwen Wen thought for a moment and suddenly asked vigilantly: "Do you want to think about some famous paintings?"

"No, no, your Majesty, I just want to think about the "Preface to the Lanting Collection"..."

"really?"
Chapter completed!