Chapter 76: Thousands of miles away

In any case, Ye Tao was granted a holiday. He stayed in Danyang for another three days, hoping to talk to Tan Weixin. But his request to meet the princess was rejected three times in a row. These three refusals came from Tan Weixin's maid Sisi, Liu Yong, the headmaster of the Princess's Mansion, and Li Mian, who represented the headmaster of the Inner Palace. Seeing the distance between these three refusals, Ye Tao knew that he might not calm down so quickly. So on the morning of the fourth day, Ye Tao finally set off for Yicheng to complete the buildings that had never appeared in this era.

"Well, let's do it. Don't forget the letters and messages you should send to Ye Tao. Remember to send them to him if you have any reply." After the guards of the Princess's Mansion reported to Tan Weixin that Ye Tao left Danyang, Tan Weixin gave a light order. This order made everyone confused.

Didn’t Tan Weixin turn against Ye Tao? But this doesn’t look like it.

The Princess's Mansion has continued to inform Ye Tao of many things. The part about the daily affairs of the court is particularly simple because Ye Tao is not a person in the officialdom. It is usually just a situation of personnel transfer, and some people impeach Ye Tao for what reasons. Others are the affairs of the two armies to check on some of the affairs of the mansion, such as the results of the new round of internal chess deductions, the list of rewards and punishments within the two armies, and some are the operation of some related industries.

Tan Weixin refused Ye Tao's interview continuously, and then Ye Tao suddenly left Danyang and went to Yicheng. This incident gave many people room for association. Some tentative bullet stamps began to appear the next day after Ye Tao set out. In the letters sent to Ye Tao every day, the title of bullet stamps that needed to be copied occupied more and more, but they were less and less innovative. At this moment, neither the princess nor Ye Tao himself were very interested in this boring noise. But if those who thought that Ye Tao and Tan Weixin had a crisis in their relationship and believed that Ye Tao was no longer favored by the princess knew about the continuous email exchanges, they didn't know what expression they would have.

For Ye Tao, the most direct result of the conflict with Tan Weixin was that his manager Lu Dan was much worse in his working condition. Lu Dan had a lot of opportunities to contact Ye Tao every day, so he quickly jumped out of the exaggerated misunderstanding of the breakup between Ye Tao and the princess, and understood that the two were just a little awkward. He was a guard from the Princess's Mansion. While he had to take care of Ye Tao's actions along the way and handle emails, he also had to think about how a little person like him would adjust the relationship between the two. It was really difficult for him.

On the contrary, Ye Tao simply thought nothing. He urged Chejia to arrive at Yicheng as fast as possible, and then devoted himself to the construction of the "Seven Seas Tower" of Yicheng bell tower, which has now been in a slightly prototype.

The Seven Sea Tower is now demolishing the scaffolding. The copper lightning rod at the top of the Seven Sea Tower finally fixed the height of the bell tower to 287 feet. As long as there is some sunshine, when you look up at the magnificent tower, most people cannot see the lightning rod clearly from the bright sky and the backlight of the earth. The construction of the bell tower is so fast that it is thanks to the cooperation of many parties, especially the almost unlimited investment of the Qihai Trading Company. The iron nails used to build scaffolding during the construction of the bell tower are thousands of pounds. The scaffolding land that has been removed has been gradually removed, including wood and bamboo.

The materials piled up in the port area. Starting from the foundation part, anyone who can use the sea of ​​people to shorten the construction period, actually Qihai Trading Company paid for it. According to statistics, almost 10,000 people were working at the peak of the entire Qihai Tower and the construction site of the supporting project, and that happened last year. About a month after the project began. As the bell tower continued to stretch up, the manpower invested was actually gradually decreasing. But even so, when installing the clock face and performing sculpture decoration, it was still a record of the age where 174 people were working at the same time.

The main project of the building site has been completed. The rest are mainly the interior decoration and the installation work of the core of the bell tower. As the scaffolding gradually fades, the handsome face of the bell tower has become clearer and clearer. The tall tower that rises from the ground starts from the ground to the clock face has only a small window on each side. Rather than being convenient for internal staff to view the scenery, it is better to say that it is used to balance the air pressure inside and outside the bell tower. In order to prevent the entire towering huge column from appearing dull and monotonous, tower-like layering is still carried out on the exterior surface, but this layering has a visual significance greater than the actual effect. The greatest significance is to provide twelve carving positions on a circle of stone on each floor, divided into these heights of the fourteen floors, giving artists sufficient space for expression.

In a certain version of the detailed design drawing, Ye Tao originally drew several gargoyles of different shapes. However, considering that such a monster and monster image made it difficult for him to explain why, and he would definitely not like everyone. In the end, he gave up this extremely spoof idea and let his senior brother Guan Haishan, who returned to Yicheng for the matter of the Bell Tower, control himself.

Although Guan Haishan is good at creating and likes architecture and gardens, he does not study such stone sculptures deeply. He threw this problem back to the headquarters of Ye’s workshop. Unexpectedly, not only the columns below, but also the periphery of the clock face and the top of the bell tower. Under the leadership of Ye Tao’s fourth senior brother Qian Shun, the apprentices in the workshop came up with an extremely gorgeous exterior decoration plan that was jaw-dropping.

The stone sculptures at the twelve positions on each floor are animals or legendary spirit beasts, divine beasts, etc. From the fourteen floors to the top, each sculpture on the same position, from the bottom to the top, must ensure that the content of the fourteen sculptures will be considered by most people as a system. For example, if the lowest floor is a bird, then as the floor rises, the circle of sculptures under the clock face will eventually be frozen on the phoenix.

Since there is no such thing as "Shan Hai Jing" in this time and space, during the four-month period of decoration design, just the various books you checked, folk legends you recorded, as well as various imagination pictures, setting pictures, and basic design pictures added up to a room.

The surroundings of the clock face and the towering spire are another theme design.

They associate the circle on the surface into the sun, and everything around them is this world. From bottom to top, there are ground to sky, and different contents are selected according to the space described. The clock faces in the four directions represent plains, mountains, rivers, oceans and cities, which are very consistent with the geographical location of Yicheng. The relief with freehand and realistic characteristics is so exquisite that it is amazing. The uppermost circle of the four sides expresses the content of the clouds and the sky to express the essence of the sky that covers everything. On it, there is the circle on the edge of the spire. In this circle, there is not much decoration except for carving the magnificent cloud patterns. Perhaps, it is because everyone does not want to imagine the heaven in this world too presumptuously. On the four corners of the pyramid-shaped roof, it is divided into four corners.

Especially the legendary statue of the four war generals of the Heavenly Court guarding the four directions of the heavenly court. At that height, the statue of the same proportion as the real person is too luxurious. The tiles covered on the spire have been specially designed. After all these glazed tiles are installed, the fit between each piece and the two pieces on the edge is quite perfect. Each round of tiles looks like a undulating curve. The back of each piece of glazed tiles is engraved with words, each of which is different. If starting from the top and in a certain order, the words on the back of the glazed tiles on the entire spire are connected. This is the sacrifice of the founding saint emperor who unified the continent and praying for the blessings of all people. By the way, although the lightning rod is made of brass, the lightning rod is installed at the top of the spire. It is a base weighing five kilograms of pure gold.

The high unity of intention, form and content is enough to make the Qihai Tower a monument in the history of time and space art. In fact, most of the beautiful sculptures are beyond the reach of people. Starting from investors and to the grassroots craftsmen, they actually devote their ideals to perfection to their work to make their own interpretations. Not only the speed of building completion, the quality of the building, and the artistic level of sculptures are incredible. On the edge of the spire, facing the warrior of the heaven in the south, they were reshaped six times before everyone was satisfied. You must know that every time you knock off the original statue and transport the stones to that height and then install them, it will take at least a whole day. The unpredictable danger of high-altitude operations cannot stop everyone from pursuing perfection.

As the creator of such a great building, chief designer and general contractor, Ye Tao couldn't help but be proud. His enthusiasm quickly turned into motivation for work. Running up and down the bell tower dozens of times every day is just the most basic condition for the work to continue.

The core part of the clock room made in accordance with the design drawing was completed in two days under the guidance of Ye Tao. The connection and preliminary debugging of the connection with the pendulum, the pointer, and the weight hammer as power were also completed within ten days. With the help of the pulley set specially designed by Ye Tao, the lifting of the clock took only two days. Although all people who make a living on the construction site are familiar with the pulley. When building a building with a height of buildings, only the pulleys can easily transport and lift materials. However, the pulley set designed by Ye Tao still surprised everyone. The pulley set consisting of more than 20 large and small pulleys can automatically adjust the center of gravity of the clock, allocate the pulling force to different ropes, so that the clock always maintains a delicate balance when it is raised. After being lifted into place, you can lift and fix it with just a little adjustment. Although it is just a small skill, Ye Tao's idea is still so surprising.

After a busy month in Yicheng, the world's first bell tower, "Seven Seas Tower", was finally completed before the typhoon season. Although there are still some supporting small projects around, such as the greening of the small square around the bell tower and the granite floor laying, as well as the small buildings for opening hotels and shops that are two to three floors high around the square, but they can no longer block the admiration, admiration, and incredible eyes of everyone looking at the bell tower.

After several days of precise debugging of the bell room and other components, the bell tower finally started to operate one morning, when the first ray of sunlight shone on the spire of the bell tower, the blue glazed tiles began to shine. In Yicheng, only a few people knew the time when the bell tower started to operate, and they were quietly carrying out the smallest celebration.

There were twelve people above the bell room, which were scheduled to be used as installation equipment for time correction. The servants sent the breakfast they bought all the way up, and could still maintain a little residual heat. This was not a comfortable rotating restaurant, but it did not prevent everyone from looking at the entire golden shimmering at the entrance of the Luo River, watching the rows of houses and streets under their feet drinking soy milk and eating "Fengyu Shengjian". What came to their ears was the sound of the clattering gears rotating regularly.

After someone started to move in the street market, someone finally looked up at the bell tower occasionally, and then exclaimed and reminded everyone that the bell was moving. It was not until noon that the clock rang for the first time.

The first sound of the bell tower that had been on display for a long time shocked the entire city. The clear and ecstatic bell was amplified by the special resonance room in the bell tower and could be transmitted to more than ten miles away. Although the bell tower located in the port area was not in the center of Yicheng, the bell could cover the entire city. The only thing that was not good about this first time was that the two apprentices who were too curious about this matter and ran to the Ye's workshop when they went to the resonance room. The sound waves shocked them to vomit and diarrhea, and they were dizzy and dizzy. It took a few days to recover.

Needless to say, among the people waiting for this absolutely major event in this era, in addition to the local residents of Yicheng, and those who have been making a living on Yichenggang's external routes and commercial routes, and in addition to those merchants and officials who are very concerned about this bell tower, a large part of them are spies from other countries. The landmark buildings in this era are closely related to national strength and the technical level of a country. The Qihai Tower in Yicheng is fully qualified to be regarded as the political achievements of a country.

He had already had another joy in the operation of the bell tower with the major merchants in Yicheng and even secretly joined the Qihai Trading Company. He was with him a Persian fleet that he tricked from Funing Port in Chunnan Kingdom. He never mentioned doing business, but just to see the bell tower. But if he could open up the direct flight from Yicheng to Persia, the benefits he extracted from it would make him no longer care about business. Although the run-in between Nanyang and Yicheng for many years in the Red Sea, the unique vision of him became a famous figure in the Persian business circle, it really made him feel tired.

The bell tower did not disappoint everyone in the fleet, and the bell was so clear and holy that it made people feel urged to worship. The most common share of the fleet was a man named Curetan. His family had a strong financial resources in the Persian area, which allowed those nobles, royal members and even the monarchs of some small countries to rely on them. The Junwei Bell Tower I saw in Yicheng today, the prosperous but quiet and appropriate atmosphere in Yicheng, made Curetan feel moved. While he had the idea of ​​maybe doing some business here, he also dreamed that he could have such a bell tower in his hometown, Dubai Port, the birthplace of their Samir family.
Chapter completed!