"Teacher? You're kidding, aren't you? Can you draw without seeing anyone? There are few pictures of the Yamen's paintings......"

In the study of Christie's main store, Wu Haogu is using a pencil to draw the outline of a human face on a living xuan. Hearing the question of the student Mi Youren, he smiled faintly and said: "The shape of the human face is regular, and the contour of the face can be roughly divided into eight types, such as the national character face, the eye character face, the Tian character face, the word face, the Shen character face, the A character face, the word face and the wind word face.

According to the distribution of the facial features, it can be divided into inner face shape, outer face shape, upper face shape, lower face shape, hanging face shape and hanging face shape. According to the difference between fat and thin, it can also be divided into two types: fat face type and slim face type.

In addition, the jaws, cheekbones, and frontal bones on the human face can also be divided into several types. Ears, nose, eyes, eyebrows, and mouths can also be classified one by one.

Finally, expressions and verve can also be divided into eight categories, and human temperament can be divided into four categories.

Now as a teacher, I have to draw these classifications one by one on rice paper, and then bring them to Wei Ming's burial and Meile Duqi to carefully select. As long as he doesn't lie to me, I can draw a six- or seven-point similar Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Western Xia. ”

Wei Ming A Bury is a famous general of the Western Xia royal family, and he is quite relied on by the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, so she is naturally very familiar with the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang - the Western Xia is not as particular as the Great Song Dynasty, and the curtain is just talking, and there is no curtain to cover it at all. Moreover, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang has also led the army many times, and she is even less particular about going to the front line.

Although the status of Mei Le Du is not as good as that of Wei Ming, she is also the supervisor of the Tiandu Supervision and Military Division, and is a famous general in Western Xia, and has seen the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang many times.

So as long as Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le are willing to cooperate well, Wu Haogu will be able to draw a rough idea - of course he is not an "analog portrait" but an expert, if he is replaced by a "simulated portrait" expert in the public security system in later generations to paint, it will not be six or seven points similar, but eight points and nine points similar.

However, having six or seven points of similarity is enough to fool people, and most of the Song Dynasty painters in this era are not at this level when they paint portraits, let alone the level of Western Xia painters. If a "Photo Picture of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang" with a similar score of six or seven points is sent to the old and faint Yelu Hongji, the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang may be in big trouble.

Wu Haogu drew them one by one, and it took almost a morning to draw dozens of sample drawings, all of which were pencil drawings.

"Okay," after the painting was finished, Wu Haogu smiled at Mi Youren again, "Yuan Hui, go to the Privy Council with Weishi to find Ji Yizhi...... He would take us to Zhefu to meet the name of Ah Bury and Mei Le Du. ”

Zhefu is the mansion of Fuzhou Zhejia in Kaifeng Mansion. The Zhe family will also be considered famous in later generations, and many people know that their family has been guarding Fuzhou for generations, and it is a relatively special existence in the Great Song Dynasty. There are separatist warlords with territory and private soldiers - probably the Taizu and Taizong of the Zhao family forgot about their family when they "released military power with a glass of wine", right?

However, the Zhe family, who owned a state, was loyal to the Zhao family in the Northern Song Dynasty and had always been an important pillar of the Song Dynasty on the northwest frontier. Although the ancestors of the Zhe family are of Dangxiang blood, they have never been soft in the battle against the Western Xia ruled by the Dangxiang clan.

In the just-concluded Battle of Hengshan, Zhi Keshi of the Zhe family made a great achievement, leading 3,000 cavalry to raid the important town of Tiandu Mountain west of Hengshan in the Western Xia, and captured the Western Xia generals Wei Ming A Bury and Sister Le Du, and also built Tiandu Qi in Shanyin of Tiandu Mountain, as a stronghold for the Song army to control the important town of Tiandu Mountain. The two chieftains who were captured, Ah Bury and Mei Le Du, were personally escorted to Kaifeng Mansion by Zhi Keda, the "son of the Zhi family" of Jiangmen, and placed under house arrest in the mansion of the Zhi family in Tianbo Gate.

Because of Zhang Qi's request (he wanted to get information about Western Xia from these two people), the official Zhao Xu had pardoned the "sins" of Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le Duqi - Western Xia was a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty, and of course these two goods were anti-thieves, and since they were anti-thieves, they could recruit An.

Therefore, the two of them are now living in the Zhefu with peace of mind, waiting to be the officials of the Great Song Dynasty. And with the status of the two of them, especially Wei Ming's burial in Western Xia, the official position given by the official family of the Great Song Dynasty must not be small, and they will not worry about eating, drinking and having fun in the second half of their lives.

Of course, if they want to live a good life in Kaifeng Mansion, it still depends on their performance......

……

"In the Imperial City, under is Ji Yi, the editor of the Privy Council's Editorial Department, who came to visit."

Soon after lunch, Wu Haogu and Mi Youren followed Ji Yi to the mansion in Tianbo Gate. Ji Yi showed the card used to prove his identity to the porter of the house, and then saw a tall and stout middle-aged man come out to greet him.

The jurisdiction of the soldiers and horses is similar to that of the garrison commanders of later generations, and the jurisdiction of one state, one or more routes of soldiers and horses - not the kind of power in charge, but in the case of mutual constraints with all sides. After the implementation of the "Art of War", this position has been somewhat vacated.

However, the soldiers and horses of Fuzhou are really powerful, because the soldiers and horses of Fuzhou are all private soldiers of the Zhe family.

The Imperial City Envoy is the military attache rank (the military attache rank after the political and restructuring was used before, and now it has been modified), and it is one of the envoys, belonging to the ambassador level. The royal instrument is a "job name", that is, an honorary title. The real "master" with imperial equipment is the personal attendant in front of the emperor and the "master" who guards the official's family with weapons.

When it comes to official positions, it is much more than Ji Yi, and he shouldn't have greeted him in person. However, he is a military attaché, and he is the most unsettling military attache who supports the army and respects himself, while Ji Yi is an official of the Privy Council...... Even if it is from the ninth grade, I don't dare to take it lightly. Moreover, Ji Yi also brought the old letter signed by the privy envoy Zeng Bu - that is, the document of the boss reaching the subordinate, with the words "hereby under the order" at the end. In fact, it was an order given by the Privy Council to Zhe Keda.

After welcoming Ji Yi and the others into the guest hall, Zhi Keda instructed his family to serve tea and entertain guests, and took the old book from Ji Yi's hand, and took a closer look at it after unfolding it.

Therefore, the content on the book is very simple, that is, the Privy Council Editorial Department needs to edit a book related to Western Xia, so it is arranged for Ji Editing and Editing to take Ling Shi and the painter of the Hanlin Picture Bureau to inquire about the two "descendants" of Wei Ming's Ah Bury and Mei Le Du, and order Zhi Keda to cooperate fully, and at the same time keep secrets.

It doesn't seem like a big deal, but after all, it's an order of the Privy Council, and you have to deal with it carefully.

In fact, even Ji Yi and Wu Haogu didn't know Zhang Dian and Cai Jing's plan, it was a plan set by the Chongzheng Palace, and it must be kept secret.

"So you want to see two descendants?" Zhe Keda thought about it for a while, and then asked, "Do you see each other, or do you see each other?" ”

"Is there anything else to say about that?" Ji Yi didn't quite understand, but Wu Haogu knew the meaning of folding.

"Discipline officials, you have to see them one by one, so as not to collude and deceive each other."

The order above was to draw a portrait of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang of Western Xia, and it should be as realistic as possible. Then you can't let Wei Ming's burial and sister Le be deceived.

Therefore, the two people have to meet separately, and they can't have the opportunity to collude.

"I see, then we'll see you separately." Ji Yi asked Zheke Avenue again, "Imperial City, I don't know if the two Western Xia descendants can speak Chinese?" ”

Ji Yi speaks Chinese, Khitan, Goryeo, and Persian, but does not speak the party language.

Zhe Ke laughed and replied: "These two people know a little Chinese, but I'm afraid you can't understand their Chinese, so it's better for the Sprinkle family to do a general job." ”

"That's fine."

Zhe Keda is a Sinicized party member.,And has been fighting with the Western Xia ruled by the party item.,The party language must be good.。 Moreover, Zhang Qi will send him to Kaifeng Mansion, then he will definitely be able to suppress the two party items.

"I don't know which one Ji Editor wants to see first?" Foldable can be asked.

Ji Yi thought for a while, and looked back at Wu Haogu, "Chongdao, how about the seer Wei Ming's burial?" He is relatively close to the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang, and should be able to remember her appearance. ”

"It's fine." Wu Hao Gu said, "When the painting is finished, then ask my sister to check it, if you can recognize it at a glance, it will be almost the same." ”

What Wu Haogu wants to draw today is only a pencil sketch, and he doesn't have to draw the whole body, just draw a portrait - figure or something, just ask about the tall, short, fat and thin, and then ask about the clothes of the Empress Dowager of Western Xia. When I go back, I will be able to cope with the errand by drawing a portrait of fine brushwork and coloring.

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Privy Council, Editorial Division.

On December 28, when the New Year was approaching, Ji Yi finally sent a "Photo Picture of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang" that Wu Haogu had just drawn to Cai Jing.

"She is the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang?" Cai Jing looked at the woman in the picture, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, with a goose egg face, big eyes, curved eyebrows, a high nose bridge, a cherry-like small mouth, fair skin, and a rare beauty. Among the eyebrows, what can't be hidden is a thick melancholy and murderous aura, as well as a noble temperament that has lived in people for a long time.

"Bachelor, she is the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang...... It has been called Wei Ming, Ah Bury and Mei Le Du have been examined separately, and there are seven or eight points of similarity. ”

"Seven or eight points?" Cai Jing asked, "Can you see it at a glance?" ”

"According to Wei Ming, Ah Bury and Mei Le both said that they can see it."

"Is the costume right?" Cai Jing asked very carefully.

"Yes." Ji Yi said, "Wei Ming Ah Bury and Mei Le Du have seen it, and Zhehuangcheng also said that the painting is right." ”

"Didn't you call any idle people to know, did you?" Cai Jing asked again.

"No one else knows." Ji Yi replied. "Only Xia Guan, Wu Dalang, Mi Yuanhui, Emperor Zhecheng and the two Western Xia descendants know."

Cai Jing smiled: "Yizhi, do you know why this official asked this question?" ”

Ji Yi is not stupid, Cai Jing asked so repeatedly, of course he knew that the usefulness of this "Photo of the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang" was not simple.

"Xia Guan guesses that the bachelor is going to use a trick, right?"

Cai Jing nodded, "Do you know who you're trying to do?" ”

"Right...... Khitans? ”

Cai Jing laughed: "Okay! Sure enough! Since you can see through it, then listen to the old man's arrangement and give the two Liao envoys a set. ”