Chapter 1289: Return a gift

In the next few days, several people in Tang Fang were very uncomfortable.
It’s really boring here. Luxurious villas like Sergey built in the wilderness actually have a lot of entertainment, golf, basketball, swimming pool, fishing ground, shooting range, and even a kart. The racing track is just covered by heavy snow.
So many entertainment projects are not for Sergei to enjoy himself, he usually plays with his bodyguards.
Living in such a luxury apartment in such a remote area, if you don't pay attention to security, you may become a missing person in minutes. Like Sergey, there are bodyguards with guns everywhere.
These bodyguards can't live without entertainment, right?
At the beginning, several people in Tang Fang had fun playing golf. They hadn't experienced it before playing golf in the thick snow. Sometimes they could also play flying saucer shooting.
Although they all pretend to be masters of shooting, this is a flying saucer shooting to shoot high-speed moving targets, not their marksmanship can be played well. However, Ablashenka has a way to provide them with a SAIGA-12K semi-automatic shotgun (the prototype of the S-12K shotgun in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the semi-automatic shotgun designed and produced by Xiong Guo in 1990), This gave them a chance to hit a flying saucer.
Originally, these people had a good time, but after seeing Pan Peiyu played it once, they never wanted to play this game anymore-why don't you go to the Olympics and come here to have fun!
They are bored here, just because ------ Xiao Peng no longer sees people. If it weren't for Pan Peiyu here, they all suspected Xiao Peng had left first.
Xiao Peng didn't stray first, but instead. . . . . . He is preparing to return a gift.
Although the gift that Patriarch Kiri brought this time was not a precious thing, after all, it was personally selected by the emperor, and he personally called Xiao Peng to express regret for not being able to come.
Everyone gave him this, and Xiao Peng had to say something, but after all, he came empty-handed this time, so he could only find a way from here.
Don’t there be mammoth tusks? Just practice dental carving skills.
In China, the art of tooth carving has a long history and is one of the oldest handicrafts: in the new era, there were a large number of elephants living in the Yellow River basin. In the Warring States tomb unearthed on Huangtupo, I found an ivory comb. The Hemudu cultural site also unearthed ivory carved small cups, ivory bird-shaped daggers and other handicrafts; what ivory carved buckets were unearthed at the Dawenkou cultural site in the new era, etc.!
Starting from the Neolithic Age, people began to know how to process ivory using various techniques such as intaglio carving, engraving and even round carving. Tooth carving has at least thousands of years of development history in China.
Up to now, dental sculptures are also divided into three major schools: Guangzhou dental sculptures, Suzhou dental sculptures and Imperial capital dental sculptures. Guangzhou tooth sculptures are fine and neat, exquisite and transparent, and rich in decoration; Suzhou tooth sculptures absorb the characteristics of bamboo carvings and paintings, and pay attention to artistic conception; and the Imperial city tooth sculptures are good at carving figures, flowers, and insects.
Xiao Peng does not belong to any genre. There are not only the imperial capital school’s emphasis on character proportion, but also the surprise of the Guangzhou school and the beautiful lines of the Suzhou school.
It took Xiao Peng three days to make the carving knife. This is still in the case of a lathe in the town-the knife used for tooth carving is more delicate than the carving knife used for jade carving and wood carving.
After Xiao Peng made the carving knife, he took enough thoughts about what to do to carve. In the end he carved two works.
One is a scene from the famous 1941 Red Square military parade carved with a whole ivory high relief.
The Red Square military parade on November 7, 1941 was definitely the most unsightly military parade in the history of the former Soviet Union, but it was also the most remarkable military parade in the world.
At that time, the German army of one million was besieging Moscow. The nearest mechanized unit was only 25 kilometers away from Moscow. In fact, both Uncle Si and Zhukov were preparing to escape to Samara. But just a few hours before getting on the train, Uncle Si suddenly Decided not to run, do nothing and do nothing else. It happens that this day is the anniversary of the October Revolution, so I simply held a military parade.
It was snowing that day. Uncle Si was standing on the rostrum for a military parade. All the soldiers under review passed the rostrum and pulled directly to the front line to fight. Germany sent bombers to block the military parade. Five hundred and fifty Soviet aircraft took off and intercepted them. The interception is not an air battle with Germany, but a direct collision. It has a fight with the Kamikaze team of the country, and has stopped the German air force invasion!
Uncle Si’s words back then: ‘Although our bear country is big, we have no way to retreat, because behind us is Moscow’ which greatly boosted the morale of the Soviet army and vigorously won the defense of Moscow!
This is absolutely a miracle! At that time, the Soviet Union and Germany were really not a horizontal opponent! Regardless of the number of Soviet tanks is three times that of Germany, and the number of aircraft is six times, it is really vulnerable to Germany. Before the defense of Moscow, the Soviet Union really had not won!
Even the Prokhovk tank battle, which was advertised as a "Glorious Victory", actually only lost five tanks in Germany, and only 54 tanks and assault guns were damaged. The Soviet Union lost 334 tanks and More than four hundred self-propelled guns were damaged, which is disproportionate at all!
And after this parade on Red Square, the Soviet Union actually won the defense of Moscow! So this military parade can definitely be said to be the greatest military parade in the world!
And Xiao Peng used deep relief to perfectly reproduce the scene of the year: in the background of the Kremlin and St. Basil’s Cathedral, several people stood on the podium on the upper stage of Lenin’s tomb and gave a speech. Knowing that these people are the high-ranking Soviet leaders such as Uncle Si, Zhukov, Artemiyev, and Budjoni, and in front of them, there are the soldiers phalanx, tank phalanx, etc., each with a good expression. The details of clothing and weapons are all in place, and everyone is vivid.
Take this gift to the emperor. . . . . . Can he die?
He dared to give such a gift, and how the emperor would receive it was a knowledge.
Every country has regulations for leaders to accept gifts. For example, in the Stars and Stripes, the price of gifts received by the president cannot exceed US$305. Gifts that exceed this price must be turned over to the White House Archives for preservation; Li Jiapo’s civil servants accept the amount of gifts. It cannot exceed 50 Singapore dollars, which is almost 250 yuan; Germany cannot exceed 50 euros; Britain cannot exceed 140 pounds; France cannot exceed 35 euros; and China is 200 yuan. If the gift you accept exceeds this price, you will either hand it over or you will pay for it yourself.
Ahem, of course, the regulations are dead and people are alive. If everyone can abide by the regulations, what corruption is there?
But the more the country’s leaders are, the more they must abide by this rule—all every move is being watched. In the final analysis, it is a sentence: You can give it, but I dare not take it.
The Haval high-end commercial vehicles that China gave to Cuban cards back then could only be handed over to the Ministry of the Interior for management and use. Almost every country has an exhibition hall dedicated to presenting gifts received by previous leaders.
The Xiong State stipulates that if the total value of gifts exceeds 100,000 rubles, they must be reported and are responsible for legal responsibilities. The gifts received at one time cannot exceed 4,000 rubles. The ivory sculpture of the'Red Square Parade' carved by Xiao Peng , If it is not black or blowing, the cost of that mammoth ivory alone will exceed 2 million rubles! Coupled with Xiao Peng's ‘no exit’ carving technique, this can be directly entered into the museum!
He also wanted to see what the Great Emperor would do with this dental carving? However, no matter what he chooses, this advertisement has gone out ------ With so many energy tycoons in Xiong Country, this advertisement will not be done in vain!
And the gift he gave to Kiri is more interesting, he made a ‘ghost ball’. He has experience with this ghost ball. The "Dragon Ball" in the dragon's mouth of the chair made for Guo Sihua at that time was a ghost ball. The most formal raw material of Gui Gong Ball is carved with ivory!
This kind of ghost ball first appeared in the Song Dynasty, and its development was in the Qing Dynasty. It was first only one layer, that is, the ball in the ball. It developed to fourteen layers during the Qianlong period, and reached 28 layers by the end of the Qing Dynasty. At present, it can be carved at most. To the sixtieth floor! It is a special technique of Chinese ivory carving.
At the Panama World Expo that year, Guangzhou tooth carving master Weng Zhao took a 24-layer ghost ball made by himself to participate. At that time, the exhibited work of Waguo was also a ghost ball, and it reached an astonishing 30 floors!
At that time, the two ghost were similar in size, and the carvings were very exquisite, but the Japanese one had six more layers than the Huaxia one, so everyone thought that the Japanese one was sure to win!
As a result, the representative of Huaxia asked to put the two ghost in boiling water for a while. The ghost of the country fell apart, but Huaxia’s was unscathed.
It was only then that people realized that the ghost of the country were fakes glued together.
With the advent of new types of carving tools, there are now jade carving ghost balls, woodworking ghost balls, stone carving ghost balls, but the most authentic ones are still ivory ghost balls.
The ghost ball made for Patriarch Kiri has not so many layers, only six layers. However, the traditional ghost are all carved patterns, while Xiao Peng carved six religious stories about the birth of Jesus, the escape to Egypt, the test of Jesus, the split of Jesus, the last supper and the kiss of Judas. There is a story in the rotation of each layer of the ghost ball-----even though this does not look beautiful, it is definitely the most suitable gift for Patriarch Kiri.
In fact, he originally wanted to carve another one. On the carvings, there are six other stories about being slapped, being humiliated, being off the shelf, being buried, being resurrected, and the angel's Annunciation. So the two are exactly a pair.
But what happened next made him have to stop his work ------ Pan Peiyu, who reassured him the most, caused a big-trouble!