The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 638 Telescope

Naturally, money is not so easy to earn. Although the dudes waste a little extravagance, they are not fools.

So Li Muyun's main purpose of recruiting them this time is to get them vaccinated first, and let them talk to the old people at home after they go back.

The big man, the big man in Li Muyun's mouth, Man Chang'an knows who it is. As the adoptive son of the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan, the emperor's trusted brother, as long as he doesn't rebel, he can do whatever he wants in the Tang Dynasty.

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Two months ago, in Liangzhou in the northwest, Cheng Yaojin stood on the top of the city, looking to the southwest, a large tent spread to the end of the sky, it was the army that was vomiting.

This small country living between Datang and Tubo didn't know what went crazy, but it wanted to take advantage of Datang and sent tens of thousands of troops to Liangzhou. If it wasn't for Lao Cheng and the others to arrive in time, I'm afraid this Liangzhou city is already full of mourners.

He set up a pergola and looked at it for a long time. When he couldn't see clearly, Lao Cheng seemed to have thought of something, and stretched out his hand to Su Lie beside him: "Bring it!"

"What?" Su Lie reflexively took two steps back.

"Binoculars! I won't snatch yours, so what are you afraid of?" Cheng Yao said carelessly, staring at Jin Niu's eyes.

On the way to Liangzhou, Su Lie accidentally took out a telescope to observe the terrain during a march, but it happened to be seen by Lao Cheng. As a result, the old guy missed the telescope and borrowed it to use it if he had anything to do. .

Su Lie was afraid that Lao Cheng would not return it, so he kept the binoculars close to his body all the time. If he could borrow it, he had to hold it himself. He would turn it wherever Lao Cheng wanted to look, and would never hand it over to Lao Cheng.

This time, of course, it was still the old rules. Su Lie reluctantly took out the binoculars from his arms, wiped them carefully, and raised his hands just as he was about to put them in front of Lao Cheng's eyes, but was accidentally handed over by the old man. Grab it.

"Hey!" Seeing the binoculars being snatched away, Su Lie jumped anxiously, but Lao Cheng was so thick-skinned that he ignored him at all. He pointed to the city and said, "Go, go, go down and count the food and grass, and report tonight." Count up."

Check the fart, did you just check it yesterday!Su Lie stared at the binoculars that fell into Lao Cheng's hands, wanting to cry.

Cheng Yaojin rolled his big eyeballs, weighed the thing in his hand and said: "You bastard is in a hurry, your brother-in-law made the thing, you just let him make another one, it's really stingy .”

He took other people's things and said they were stingy. Although Su Lie knew about Lao Cheng's temper, he was still trembling with anger. There is only one telescope in Tang Dynasty right now, and he borrowed it from his younger sister just to talk about it. Yes, now that the sheep is in the mouth of a tiger, how can I explain to my sister when I go back? !

But Lao Cheng ignored Su Lie at this time, and held up the tin tube to look at the camp in the distance, muttering while watching: "Well, good, good stuff, I can see it clearly, well, look It's the enemy's handsome flag, alas, the Khan who was vomiting so hard didn't come, alas, they are actually killing cattle, how cruel!"

Su Lie couldn't listen anymore, he turned around and left out of sight and out of mind, this old guy is not a good person, it's a disgrace to stand with him.

Thinking back, Lao Su felt that he was also embarrassed. You said that such an old guy was guarding by your side, so why did you take out the binoculars to show it? , I'd better write to my sister and tell her to stop thinking about that thing.

The depressed old Su wrote a sincere home letter to Su Wanqing with a feeling of depression, confessing his mistakes, and expressing his shamelessness to the old man Cheng.

One and a half months later, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lao Su received a receipt from Chang'an—a small box.

With guilt in his heart, Lao Su opened the box with trepidation. However, there was no letter in the box, only another box. Lao Su continued to open it in confusion, and it was still the box.

Back and forth, over and over again, Su Lie opened a total of six boxes, and saw a series of "hahaha" on the last box, and after he opened the "hahaha" angrily, a delicate circle The cylinder appeared in front of him, and there was a note under the small cylinder: Pull it out and have a look.

A few days later, Lao Cheng frantically gathered all the generals to observe the enemy's movement on the top of the city, holding up the scratched binoculars with a layer of coating in his hand, and when he was moaning, he was surprised to find that Su beside him Lie also took out something, only to see that the thing was only the length of a finger, made of pure copper, shining like gold in the sun.

Without squinting, Su Lie twisted his hands lightly, then pulled the pure copper object about half a foot apart, and then held it up to his eyes.

Looking at other people's high-end and high-grade things, and then looking at the tin tube in his hand, Lao Cheng felt that it was very low, really low, so he silently put away the telescope in his hand that had been worn out. .

Chang'an, Li Shimin wandered around in the study, finally couldn't help it, and told the eunuch Lao Long: "You, you go and find that bastard Li Muyun for me, immediately, go!"

With a promise, the old dragon flew away, and within half an hour, he returned with a dazed Li Muyun.

"Look at what you've done!" As soon as he entered the room, before Li Muyun could figure out the situation, Li Er had already thrown a piece of torn paper at his feet, making him tremble.

Could it be that something happened a few days ago?No, she's just a court lady, so she shouldn't be so angry, right?With cold sweat dripping down his face, Li Muyun lowered his head and picked up the torn paper on the ground. After looking at it hastily, he immediately laughed.

Thinking of the battle report sent back from Liangzhou, Li Er felt his liver ache, slapped the table and scolded: "Laugh, you still dare to laugh, just use that broken telescope, my two generals almost fought, Li Muyun, you Bastard, tell me how to solve this problem!"

Li Muyun shrank his neck, smacked his lips and said, "Brother Huang, it's just a telescope, it's not a big deal, you just get some and send them some more."

Li Shimin was so angry when he heard this, he thought that if I knew what a telescope was, why would I come to you? !

Fortunately, the eunuch Lao Long saw a little bit of tricks by observing his words and expressions, so he came out to smooth things over and said, "Xiaoyao Wang, what kind of thing is this telescope? Can you tell us about it?"

"Oh, that thing is simple, a piece of presbyopic glasses, plus a piece of nearsighted glasses, just find a tube to put them on."

Li Muyun briefly explained the principle, this kind of thing is actually just saying, anyway, he didn't expect Li Shimin and the eunuch Lao Long to fix a telescope by themselves.

But his explanation still made Li Shimin a little depressed. He glared at him and said, "You mean that several generals under my command fought over two broken crystal chips? And they got bruised and swollen?"

Li Muyun touched his nose in embarrassment, the telescope was something he tinkered with for fun, who would have thought that Cheng Yao and Su Lie would fight over it.

Besides, because of the light transmittance, the quality of the telescopes of the Tang Dynasty is not comparable to that of later generations, basically not far from the quality of children's toys. For this thing, it is not too funny to fight.

Reasoning according to this logic, if you get the infrared telescopes or thermal imagers and other equipment from later generations, then you still have to play a dog's brain?
Li Muyun secretly laughed at the local turtles who were thousands of miles away. Thinking that Li Shimin still had to deal with it by himself, he had to bite the bullet and said, "Your Majesty, I don't mean that. I actually want to say that the telescope is actually just a gadget. It's just for coaxing children to play, and I also made it for coaxing...to make Wanqing happy."

In the end, it was fine if Li Muyun didn't explain, but the more he explained, the angrier Li Shimin became. At first, there were two crystal chips, which were more or less related to culture and technology, but after explaining it again, it just turned into a child's toy. Yao Jin and Su Lie fought over a toy?
Killer Li may also feel that such an explanation is a bit wrong, scratching his head for a while and then said: "Uh... Actually, I didn't mean that, you know, I'm stupid, I can't speak... .”

Li Er really couldn't stand Li Muyun anymore, he waved his hand to interrupt him and said, "Okay, okay, shut up for me, from now on, you just need to tell me if this thing can be made out again."

"Ability is ability, but it requires a lot of colorless crystals, that thing..."

Li Shimin didn't want to listen to any nonsense now, and he didn't wait for Li Muyun to finish his sentence, so he said directly: "Crystal, right? I will gather a batch for you, and you will only have three days to make fifty."

Li Muyun blinked his eyes, mixed with joy and sorrow, and said to Li Er with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, you misunderstood, this crystal still needs to be processed, and the polishing alone will take less than half a month, so three days. It's really not enough."

Li Shimin looked Li Muyun up and down, as if he was confirming the truth of what he said, but fortunately, the matter was not that urgent, so he thought for a while and said: "Then half a month, if you can't see fifty telescopes after half a month, I broke your leg."

Li Muyun nodded quickly: "Success, no problem, but you have to match this manpower, right?"

Li Shimin groaned and said, "You can arrange whoever you need, and I will give you a handbook."

"Well, don't worry, Your Majesty, I will definitely handle it properly for you." Li Muyun nodded and bowed like a dog, but his heart was about to blossom, thinking about how to show his merits in front of that little girl in Changle.

(End of this chapter)