Capital Datang

Chapter 270 The Smelly School of Chemistry

"See Your Highness!" The person in front of the School of Chemistry saw Li Yin, and immediately greeted him with a smile on his face. ..

"Why is Brother Chunfeng here?" Li Yin asked in surprise.This person is Taishi Ling Li Chunfeng, but he is engaged in mathematics and astronomy, why did he come to this chemistry school?

Unexpectedly, when Li Chunfeng heard Li Yin's question, he looked at Yuan Tiangang next to him and said with a smile: "Your Highness, why did you forget that Chunfeng is also a member of the Daoist sect, and this Daoist academy was founded by Master Yuan. As a disciple, I naturally have to contribute my own strength!"

"Uh~" Li Yin was taken aback when he heard this. Although Li Chunfeng was an official worshiper of Taishiling, he was indeed a Taoist priest, but he spent more time in official uniform than in Taoist uniform, so Li Yin had long forgotten Li Chunfeng's identity as a Taoist priest .Capital Datang 278

In fact, I don’t blame Li Min. Taoist priests in the era of the Tang Dynasty are completely different from those of later generations. It can even be said that there are no real professional Taoist priests in the era of the Tang Dynasty. All Taoist priests work part-time and don’t usually wear Taoist robes. At that time, he was an ordinary person, and he could marry a wife and have children. As for meat, he was not taboo.The Taoist priests in those Taoist temples are more like office workers in later generations. Taoist robes are their work clothes, and they can go home to share family happiness with their families on holidays.

Of course, not everyone can do a Taoist priest. Those who want to be a Taoist priest must learn various Taoist scriptures, and only after passing many examinations will they be able to obtain the status of a Taoist priest.It is precisely because of this that there are also a lot of talents among Taoist priests, such as Sun Simiao, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng and others, all of whom are famous Taoist priests through the ages.

However, although being a Taoist priest is free, it also has its own shortcomings. For example, compared with Buddhism, the biggest rival of Taoism, Taoist priests have countless sects in Taoism because of loose management, and there are constant disputes among them, which greatly reduces the influence of Taoism. It can be said that the reason why Taoism is suppressed by Buddhism is that loose management is one of the extremely important reasons. It was not until hundreds of years later that Taoism realized this and began to learn from Buddhism. Professional Taoist priests, unfortunately Taoism had already declined by then, and it was too late.

"Brother Chunfeng, are you also interested in this chemistry?" Li Yin asked curiously. It is not surprising that a person with a super IQ like Li Chunfeng is interested in various subjects.

"Haha~, Your Highness guessed wrong this time!" As soon as Li Yin's voice fell, Yuan Tiangang next to him suddenly laughed, "Actually, please come down this time, mainly because Chunfeng has developed a new thing, and it happened to be The School of Chemistry has also researched several results, so Pindao specially invited His Highness to the School of Taoism to watch it together!"

Now Li Yin finally knew the reason why Yuan Tiangang invited him, but when he heard that Li Chunfeng and the School of Chemistry had research results, he was very interested, so he asked immediately, but Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang didn't seem to agree. I was in a hurry, but first invited Li Yinjin to visit the School of Chemistry.

Speaking of the School of Chemistry, the architectural style is very similar to the teaching buildings of the military school. They are all very simple three-story buildings, but compared to the simplicity of the military school, the School of Chemistry has more Taoist-style decorations.These three-story teaching buildings are all made of cement, but the area is not large. After all, the price of steel is not cheap now. If you want to build these buildings, you must use steel bars. The Taoist Academy is in its initial stage, and you need money everywhere. , so the purchase of steel bars is limited, so naturally the building cannot be built too large or too high, otherwise there may be a danger of collapse.

There are many teaching buildings in the School of Chemistry. Li Yin entered a few buildings randomly and found that there were three classrooms in each building. In each classroom, there were students wearing blue long clothes. These students were of different ages. Big and small, the biggest one has snow-white hair and beard, and is older than the teachers on stage, and the youngest is only seven or eight years old at most.

Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng also explained this situation, because in their Taoist view, age is not the criterion for judging a person, as long as there is a heart for Taoism, people no matter how old they are can come in and learn.

As for the teachers who were lecturing on the stage, Li Yin also made a special observation and found that most of these teachers were wearing formal Taoist robes and writing with chalk on a wooden board dyed black.Since it is necessary to teach, chalk and blackboard are naturally indispensable. These two things have no technical content, let alone the blackboard. Chalk is just glued together with lime and other things, and it is very convenient to make.

However, this is the School of Chemistry, and of course the teaching tools cannot only be chalk and blackboard. On the desks of some classrooms, there are some forbidden shelves side by side, and some glass test tubes, flasks and other tools are placed on the shelves. All the things that I can think of for the time being are made by the glass factory and provided to the School of Chemistry at a low price.

In addition to these glass products, Li Yin also discovered some other interesting things. These things are made of different materials, including glass and metal. made.

The only thing in it that Li Yin knew was a huge alchemy furnace, which looked very much like the Eight Diagrams furnace that Li Yin had seen on TV, the Taishang Laojun refining Sun Monkey.It's just that this gossip stove is a teaching tool for a bald Taoist priest. It seems to be teaching students to purify a kind of metal, but seeing the black smoke billowing from the pill stove when it burns, Li Yin is so frightened that he dare not approach it at all, for fear that it will be dangerous. It exploded and hurt myself.

This is not because Li Yin is just worrying about it. Even Yuan Tiangang admits that it is very common for furnaces to explode in the alchemy process, and even death and injury are common, but they are all practitioners and they are ready at any time Preparations for martyrdom, besides, although the fryer is dangerous, the number of people killed by the blast is still very small, and at most they will be injured, so there is no need to worry at all.

However, Li Yin did not have the great sentiments of Yuan Tiangang and the others who died in martyrdom, so when he saw the burning pill furnace, he immediately avoided it. However, compared to Li Yin's timidity, the bald old man and the others The students were all very serious, sitting in a group around the alchemy furnace, the bald old man was explaining and operating, while those students were concentrating on taking notes, not at all worried that the two-person tall indeterminate time bomb in front of them would explode.

After visiting these ordinary teaching areas, Li Yin followed Yuan Tiangang and walked forward, and soon arrived at an independent teaching area, which was a closed courtyard, with a relatively large teaching building in the middle, and several other buildings beside it. Smaller buildings, temporarily do not see any role.

And when Li Yin just entered here, he immediately smelled an indescribable stench, and this stench made him feel a little familiar, as if he had smelled it somewhere?

"Your Highness, this is one of the places where teachers and students who are very interested in chemistry gather. They mainly conduct research on textile materials. Some results have been achieved. Today, Your Highness is specially invited to come and have a look!" Yuan Tiangang He said with a smile that he has not relaxed the research work of the School of Chemistry. After all, this is the biggest source of income for the School of Taoism, and the next year's expenses will all be based on the results of the School of Chemistry.

"Oh, textile materials?" Li Min's eyes lit up after hearing this, "You really know how to choose, the textile industry is now one of the most profitable industries, and the output of cotton still cannot meet the demand in a short period of time, if you really If you can find an alternative material, it will really be a bonanza." Capital Datang 278

When Li Yin said this, he suddenly raised his head and twitched his nose, with a suddenly enlightened expression on his face, he smiled and said to Yuan Tiangang: "No wonder I feel familiar with this smell, so you actually planned to Use wool instead of cotton!"

Yuan Tiangang saw that Li Yin knew a little bit, and immediately laughed and said: "Your Highness is really smart, and this yard is indeed researching wool as a textile material."

When Li Yin and Yuan Tiangang were talking, they saw a person coming out of the teaching building opposite them. This person was wearing a Taoist robe, and he could be recognized as a teacher of the college at a glance.It's just that this teacher is really sloppy, the Taoist robe on his body is dirty and torn, and even the color is a little unclear. It seems that he is not very old, and his greasy hair and beard have not been taken care of for a long time However, it looked like a mess, and even covered most of his face, making it difficult for people to see his appearance clearly.

As soon as this person came out, Yuan Tiangang immediately shouted loudly: "Master Shi Yidao, hurry up and pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi!"

The Taoist named Shi Yi came out with his head down, and he seemed to be thinking about a problem. He was taken aback when he heard Yuan Tiangang's words, and then he saw the people in the yard, and when he saw Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng surrounded by Li Yinshi's eyes lit up immediately, and he walked a few steps to salute: "Poverty Shi Yi, pay homage to His Royal Highness King Qi!"

Although this Mr. Shi Yiyi is sloppy, his manner of speaking is quite gentle, but his bow almost made Li Yin faint. The main reason is that the smell of this man is too strong. The yard already stinks enough. Yes, but compared with the smell on Shi Yi's body, it can be ignored.

In fact, not only Li Yin couldn't bear it, Yuan Tiangang beside him also frowned, and Li Chunfeng had a good friendship with this Shi Yi, and because of his clean nature, he covered his nose without any scruples and said, "Brother Shi Yi, these few days Don't you sleep in the sheepfold, this is too smelly!"

"Uh? Does it stink?" This person from Shiyi Road didn't seem to be aware of it, so he raised his arm and smelled it on his body. It is estimated that his nose has long adapted to the stench on his body, so he can't smell it at all.

"Shi Yi, hurry up and wash and change your clothes before you come back. His Royal Highness Qi wants to take a look at your research results during this period!" Yuan Tiangang also said with a frown.It was Li Yin's first visit to their Taoist Academy, and he wanted to make a good impression on him, but he didn't expect to meet such a superb person as Shi Yi. (To be continued.