Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 586 Chapter 602: Li Shimin drives

"Poetry maniac, take me to have a look!" Li Shimin finally woke up from the shock and spoke excitedly.

"Yes, Your Majesty, please come with the ministers." Li Hao bowed his hands and led Li Shimin and the ministers to the school classroom.

Because the land here in Lantian is very large, there is no need to consider the size issue. When building the school, Li Hao did not build a teaching building, but built a relatively simple tile-roofed house, which is similar in style to his primary school when he was a child.Li Hao took Li Shimin to the corridor, and with the help of the light, he could see the number plate hanging on the door, and saw that the number plate read: Class Two, Grade Three.

Li Shimin pointed to the house number and asked, "Class Two, Grade Three? What does this mean?"

Li Hao cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, this is the school founded by the minister. There are six grades in total, and the students are promoted to one grade every year. However, there are too many students in each grade, so each grade is divided into multiple classes. This is the third grade. The classroom of the second grade class."

"Oh, that's how it is." Li Shimin asked as he walked in, "What do you teach the students?"

Li Haodao: "Your Majesty, the students here don't study the Four Books and Five Classics, or the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, but only study physics, mathematics, chemistry, and biology. These studies are collectively called science."

"Science..." Li Shimin was thoughtful when he heard the words, and he couldn't help but think of the Scientific Research Temple.

However, a gray-bearded civil official couldn't help but sneered at Li Hao's words: "Huh, what a mess, they are all heretics. If you don't learn the way of a saint, how dare you call it learning?"

Li Hao said with a sneer when he heard the words: "This old man is joking. Although a saint is powerful, he may not know everything in the world, and he has a specialization in art."

"You bastard!" The grey-haired veteran glared and shouted, "You actually look down on a saint!"

"My lord is just joking." Li Hao sneered, "Li Hao didn't mean it. Li Hao said that a sage is very powerful, but a sage is proficient in firstly philosophy of life and secondly literature, so Confucius is a Great thinkers, educators, but when it comes to science, saints are not proficient.”

"That's unreasonable! How do you know that saints are not proficient in science, besides, what is science!"

They just walked under the electric light at this time, Li Hao pointed to the glowing electric light bulb, and said with a smile: "This is science, sir, you can be regarded as a deep study of the way of saints, please tell me with the knowledge in the saint's book. The lamp...why is it so bright, why does it light up without any fuel."

The old official was speechless for a moment, and could only keep staring and humming coldly. Li Hao smiled lightly and continued: "There was a passage in "Lie Zi Tang Wen", the original text reads like this: Confucius traveled east and saw two children arguing, Asked why. One son said: "I go to people near when the sun first rises, but the middle of the day is far away." The cover of the car and the middle of the day are like pan bowls. Isn't it small for the far ones and big for the near ones?" Yi'er said: "It's cool and cool at the beginning of the day, and it's like exploring soup in the middle of the day. It's not hot for the near ones." Is it cool at a distance?" Confucius couldn't decide. The two children laughed and said, "Who knows more about you?" I dare to ask you, for the questions of these two children, you can know the answer. Is the sun near at sunrise or at midday? When is the sun near?"

When Li Hao raised this question, it was like throwing a heavy bomb, which made all the officials burnt. How could they know about a difficult problem that Confucius and Sage could not solve? As expected, Yu Zhining suddenly said loudly: "Qiong King Nan was joking, the sage can't solve this problem, how can we know, does King Qiongnan know the answer?"

Li Hao really knows the answer, but he can't say it because it involves astronomy and geography. The first thing to tell them is the earth. Since the earth is mentioned, it will involve the universe and various galaxies. He can’t even say it, because he still has no way to prove that they live on the earth. This is a kind of provocation to Chinese theism. The emperors use the imperial power to confuse the people. If they provoke the divine power, they are provoking the imperial power. He will be targeted. In the West, some people mentioned by the center of the sun will be burned alive as heretics.

Li Hao could only smile lightly and said: "Actually, I don't know either. I raise this question just to tell you that saints also have things they don't know, and there are problems they can't solve. Science is broad and profound, and it has no end. People can master it, the four words of endless learning, I don’t think I need to tell you.”

All the ministers were silent when they heard the words. Li Hao's words seemed to be the truth, so they couldn't refute them at all, so they could only remain silent.

Li Shimin saw that the officials were being suppressed by Li Hao, and he wanted to defuse the embarrassment, so he pointed to the light bulb and asked, "Shi Kuang, tell me...why is the light so bright, and it doesn't need oil and fire to light it?"

"Yes." Li Hao said, "Your Majesty, since this lamp is called an electric lamp, the power that makes the lamp light up is electricity. Your Majesty is no stranger to electricity. When there is thunder, there will be lightning."

"Of course I have seen lightning." Li Shimin said, "It's just that the power of lightning is extraordinary. How did you attract the lightning and use it to light the lamp?"

Li Hao said: "Your Majesty, this electricity is not lightning, but electricity generated by a generator. Electricity is magical, invisible and phaseless. There are many ways to generate it. It can be guided and transmitted through conductors. The speed is extremely fast, and the current can travel thousands of miles. It’s not even a blink of an eye.”

"So fast?" Li Shimin was quite shocked when he heard this.

"Your Majesty." Li Hao continued, "Science is both great and complex. Students in the school need six years of basic study and three years of advanced study before they can enter the minister's research room for scientific research. Such a complicated problem, I won't be able to explain it clearly to His Majesty for a while, otherwise science will not be worth a penny."

"Well, it makes sense." Li Shimin nodded and said, "How can I understand in an instant what others have learned in ten years? I am greedy."

"Your Majesty is wise." Li Hao said, "Your Majesty, electric lights are just the most basic use of electricity. In fact, electricity has a greater role. Electricity can be used as the source of almost all power. Ships, cars, and other things can use electricity. to drive, and the speed is extremely fast, far beyond the comparison of sails and oxen and horses."

"Really!" Li Shimin looked at Li Hao in surprise when he heard this.

Li Hao continued: "Not only that, Your Majesty, electricity can also boil water, cook rice, and keep warm. There is nothing impossible, only unexpected."

Li Shimin was shocked and asked: "Then where do these electricity come from?"

Li Haodao: "Returning to Your Majesty, I just said that generators can generate electricity. With my current ability, I can build a large power station. The power provided by several giant generators can maintain the entire Chang'an and even the surrounding area for two hundred miles. If this is the case, the night in Chang'an will be like daytime from now on. There are street lights on the street and electric lights in every house, and the Tai Chi Palace can also be truly brightly lit. Your Majesty can imagine what it would be like day?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin immediately fell into longing. To be honest, he really longed for this kind of life. He would no longer have to touch the dark at night, and the city would no longer be dark after dark.

The ministers watched anxiously. They could see that Li Shimin was moved by Li Hao's words, but they didn't understand electricity, so it was not easy to interrupt, so Chu Suiliang had an idea, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty , King Qiongnan also mentioned in his memorials that there are steam engines and steam locomotives, which do not need cattle, horses, people and animals, and the carts can move by themselves. The ministers want to see and see, and also want to see if King Qiongnan is deceiving the king."

As soon as the magical car was mentioned, Li Shimin woke up immediately, and asked even more curiously: "Shikuang, where is your magical car, take me to see it quickly."

After seeing the electric light, Li Shimin began to believe in Li Hao. In fact, he believed in Li Hao very much, but what Li Hao said this time was too unimaginable, like a powerful and unconstrained style, and ordinary people could not believe it. Being willing to come to Lantian has already proved that he still has a lot of trust in Li Hao, otherwise he would definitely sneer at him and think that he is a fool.

"Your Majesty, please follow me." Li Hao said and led Li Shimin to a large alley next to the scientific research room. There was an iron gate in the alley, through which he entered the backyard.

There were special forces guarding the iron gate. Seeing Li Hao coming, two special forces opened the iron gate without Li Hao's order, and then saluted Li Shimin and Li Hao.

Li Hao led Li Shimin into the backyard, and immediately saw steam engines and steam locomotives lined up in front of him.

"Is this the steam locomotive you mentioned?" Li Shimin seemed very interested in the steam locomotive, and stepped forward to circle the steam locomotive.

Li Hao said: "Go back to Your Majesty, yes, I will show it to Your Majesty immediately."

After he finished speaking, he waved to Cheng Qingyun and others to let him come over to warm up. Li Hao explained to Li Shimin that the steam engine is powered by steam, so it needs a certain warm-up time. The bigger the steam engine, the longer the warm-up time. Li Shimin said that it can Understood, and then looked at the steam engine expectantly.

Soon, white gas was rising from the exhaust pipe of the steam engine, and Cheng Qingyun came over to salute and said, "Master, Your Majesty, the steam locomotive can be started, do you need a villain to show it?"

"No need, I will show it to the emperor personally as a teacher." Li Hao sent Cheng Qingyun aside, and then said to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, please get in the car, and I will give you a ride."

"Okay." Li Shimin was very happy and nodded repeatedly. Xu Lian hurried forward to help him, and Li Hao also supported him from the left. The two helped Li Shimin into the co-pilot's seat, and Li Hao walked around to the other side. out of the driver's seat.

"Your Majesty, the subject is about to start, please hold on to the handrail."

"Okay." Li Shimin clasped the armrest in front of him tightly with both hands, looking a little nervous and looking forward to it.

"Three! Two! One! Start!" Li Hao shouted, and moved the gear lever, and the car immediately reversed, which shocked Li Shimin.

The ministers also exclaimed.

Li Shimin hurriedly asked: "Why is this car moving backwards?"

Li Hao smiled embarrassingly: "The emperor forgives me, I put the wrong gear." Then he stepped on the brakes to stop, and put another forward gear, and the car drove forward slowly, and the speed gradually increased, and finally remained at 15. The speed of the yard, this speed is much faster than that of the carriage.

Sitting in the car, Li Shimin gasped in amazement, and the officials were also dumbfounded. It turned out that what Li Hao said was true, there really are such miraculous things in the world.

Li Hao drove the car around in the open space, and finally stopped slowly. Before Li Hao could speak, Li Shimin asked excitedly, "This car... can I drive it?"

"This..." Li Hao was a little embarrassed, he really wanted to ask Li Shimin, "Do you have a driver's license?"

However, it was impossible for him to say such obscene words, so he could only nod his head and said, "Okay, Your Majesty will drive, and I will guide you at the side."

"Okay, okay." Li Shimin nodded happily.

The two changed positions, Li Shimin sat in the driver's seat, Li Hao sat in the co-pilot's seat and pointed: "This is the steering wheel, turn left, the car will go left, turn right, the car will go right, This is the gear lever, push it forward, the car will drive forward, pull it back, the car will reverse, if it is in the middle, it is neutral, the car will have no power, this is the brake, once you step on it hard, the car will stop Your Majesty, remember, after stopping the car, you must put the gear lever to neutral."

"Okay, I got it." Li Shimin thought over what Li Hao said in his mind, and then pushed the gear lever, and the car started slowly and drove forward.

Li Shimin turned the steering wheel excitedly, and said repeatedly: "I'm driving, I can drive this steam locomotive."

Li Hao sat on the side holding the handrail with both hands tightly, his face pale with fright, Nima, Li Shimin's driving is terrible, he turns left and right for a while, it's terribly irritating, but luckily he still drives so happily.

(End of this chapter)