Yipin Tang

Chapter 52 The Flying Experiment
After a while, the assembly of the Kongming Lanterns was finally completed, but Li Zhi was sweating profusely, but he was extremely excited. Although Li Zhen and Li Shen were just helpers, they were also full of pride at this time.

A few days ago, when Wang Xiang told them that he was going to complete a feat of flying into the sky, they thought it was just a joke, but they didn't expect that the joke would become reality in their own hands in just a few days. It feels like a new world is opening towards them.

Li Shen walked around the Kongming Lantern twice, rubbing his hands excitedly and asked, "Ninth Brother, can this thing really fly?"

Li Zhi nodded seriously and said: "According to Wang Jiancheng's theory that air expands and becomes lighter when heated, as long as the firepower of the brazier inside the bamboo basket is strong enough, the Kongming lantern can fly." Writing and drawing with a pen in a small notebook looks like a scholar.

Li Chunfeng looked at it for a moment: "Is the goose feather in King Jin's hand?"

He always thought that the Qin Tianjian was already the most mysterious place in the Tang Dynasty, but he didn't expect that today when he arrived at a newly established Gewuyuan, there were novel things everywhere.

Wang Xiang smiled when he heard the words: "During the experiment, it is often necessary to record some data and experience. It is not convenient to use a brush, so I made a quill. Although the written characters are not as elegant as the brush, it is more convenient and quick."

Let Tie Dan and Cheng Chuliang carry the assembled Kongming Lantern to the center of the yard, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

As the judge of Gewuyuan, Wang Xiang naturally wanted to come forward and say a few words. The reason why he decided to come up with something full of visual shock like the Super Kongming Lantern was not only because he wanted to find something for Li Shen and the others to do, but also An important reason is to start the signboard of Gewuyuan.

The people Li Er sent from Qin Tianjian, although they didn't say anything on the surface, Wang Xiang could still guess what they were thinking.Qin Tianjian does not hold real power, but it is the most prestigious among the nine temples and five prisons, and the Gewuyuan is just a newly established department, and the judgment is only a fifth-rank official position. One can imagine how powerful the people under their hands are. development prospects.

Wang Xiang wants to tell them through the giant Kongming lantern that Gewuyuan can do things that others cannot. Are you afraid that Gewuyuan will not be taken seriously in the future? Only by giving them confidence in Gewuyuan can they have a sense of belonging to Gewuyuan.

Speaking of it, if Li Er sent some learned scholars to Gewu Academy, Wang Xiang really didn't care much, but Wang Xiang, these young people sent from Qin Tianjian, cared very much. They had a good foundation in mathematics, and the most important thing was their thinking Being flexible and good at accepting new things is exactly what Wang Xiang needs.

"Everyone has just come to Gewuyuan, and you don't know much about Gewuyuan. Maybe you don't even know what Gewuyuan does. Let me tell you now, Gewuyuan is a place where miracles are created."

create a miracle?
The people below began to whisper, and someone asked: "Let us dig stones to create a miracle?"

As soon as this remark came out, there was a burst of laughter, and Wang Xiang coughed twice in embarrassment and said: "I don't want you to dig rocks, but just to let you know what kind of rocks are valuable. In the future, Gewuyuan will recruit stone diggers." Civilian."

Someone else asked, "Stones are also valuable? What is the use of the dug stones?"

Wang Xiang glanced at Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng who were standing in the crowd. It was inappropriate to disclose the glass firing, so he said vaguely: "I will tell you about this in the future, and let everyone witness the first miracle created by Gewuyuan today. "

"He seems to have some things that he doesn't want us to know." Li Chunfeng said in a low voice.

Yuan Tiangang smiled: "It's okay, our Qin Tianjian also has many secrets that should not be known to others. Now I am very curious whether his flying experiment will be successful."

"What if it succeeds?"

"If it succeeds, it means that the Gewu theory he said before is correct, and this person may be able to create a new school of thought."

What Yuan Tiangang said was plain, but Li Chunfeng's heart was full of turmoil. Creating a new school is not as simple as a word. Those who can create a school throughout the ages, even if they are not the most holy teachers like Confucius and Mencius, are all sages and great Confucians who are rare in a hundred years. It has never been heard that a school can be created by relying on strange skills and ingenuity, and Wang Xiang looks so young.

"Could the master overestimate him too much?"

Yuan Tiangang smiled and shook his head without speaking.

"Flying?"

When Wang Xiang uttered these two words, everyone thought they heard it wrong.

Wang Xiang signaled Li Zhi and the others to step forward, and the three little ghosts immediately stood beside Wang Xiang proudly.

"Under the disdainful efforts of His Royal Highnesses King Yue, King Jin and King Ji, the first flying experiment of our Gewu Academy will be carried out soon. Our goal this time is to put a hen..."

"Wang Jiancheng, the cock has changed." Li Zhi turned his head and corrected in a low voice.

"Oh, yes, our goal this time is to send a rooster into the sky."

Originally, hens were used for the experiment. Later, Li Zhi and his colleagues decided that the crowing of roosters was more effective than that of hens, so they made a temporary change.

But the rooster and the hen are not the point, the people below care about the word Feitian.

People are like this, the more unbelievable things they feel, the more they want to find out. In my heart, I clearly feel that Feitian is nonsense, but I still can't help feeling curious.

"Your Excellency can really make a rooster fly into the sky?"

Faced with everyone's doubts and expectations, Wang Xiang smiled and said, "It's a good time for everyone to witness whether it will be successful or not, Tie Dan!"

Hearing Wang Xiang's order, Tie Dan immediately stepped forward with a torch, while Cheng Chuliang stepped forward with a rooster that was crowing in fright.

Since the three little ghosts all competed to be the fire igniter, the three of them had to light the Kongming Lantern together in the end.

Under everyone's unbelievable eyes, the air bag of the Kongming Lantern gradually inflated, and the panicked rooster slowly left the ground.

"Flying, really flying!"

As one person exclaimed, everyone held their breath and looked up at the Kongming Lantern flying higher and higher, and could faintly hear the terrified crowing of the rooster, and Li Zhi clenched his fists even more excitedly.

"Wang Jiancheng, since Kongming Lanterns can carry roosters to the sky, next time I just need to make bigger Kongming Lanterns and prepare more fuel to carry people to the sky. If I fly into the palace on Kongming Lanterns, my father will be surprised when he sees it." .”

When Wang Xiang saw Li Zhihong's flushed face, he knew that he was in a state of extreme excitement.

During half a stick of incense, although everyone chased out of the Gewuyuan, the Kongming Lantern gradually flew out of everyone's field of vision, and they didn't know where they flew.

When they returned to Gewuyuan again, everyone looked at Wang Xiang differently. Although it was only a rooster flying this time, all the people present were smart people. Naturally, they also thought of what Li Zhi was thinking. If the Kongming Lantern is bigger and the fuel is more sufficient, people can fly into the sky!
"Master, he succeeded." The astonishment in Li Chunfeng's eyes has not yet receded.

Yuan Tiangang sighed and said, "Do you still think that Gewuxue is a strange skill? From tomorrow onwards, you should also stay in Gewuyuan to help."

Li Chunfeng opened his mouth and finally nodded solemnly.

The incident of Feitian not only shocked the people of Gewuyuan, but also half of the people in Chang'an City. On this day, many people saw a strange thing flying in the sky of Chang'an City. The sound of singing, so for a while there were different opinions in Chang'an City.

Some people said it was the sound of a phoenix crowing, a sign of auspiciousness, others said it was a fairy descending from the earth, and some said it was someone's rooster ascending to heaven. In short, no one thought that this was just a small experiment of Gewuyuan.

Li Er was discussing matters with the ministers in the Taiji Hall, when he suddenly heard a burst of exclamation from outside the hall, he felt displeased. He was discussing important military and state affairs in the hall, but there was a commotion outside the hall. He called the eunuch on duty outside the hall with a sullen face Come in.

"Your Majesty, there is a vision in the sky!"

As soon as the eunuch entered the palace, he fell to the ground in panic and exclaimed. Li Er's brows became even tighter. Kings are most afraid of visions. If it is a good vision, it is easy to talk about it. If it is a bad vision, there may be people with ulterior motives who take the opportunity to spread it. Rumors shake the country and the country.

This kind of thing has to be guarded against. After all, the Li family's country also started with the sentence "Sweeping all the flowers and falling, the emperor Ji has no head, the sunset shines on the dragon boat, and the Huanghuai flows against the current."

"Come out with me and have a look."

A group of ministers followed Li Er out of the Tai Chi Hall, and many guards outside the hall looked at the distant sky and pointed. They heard a cold snort and turned around to see Li Er's livid face, and immediately fell to their knees in fright.

Li Er ignored the guards but turned to Changsun Wuji and asked, "Auxiliary machine, what do you think it is?"

Changsun Wuji squinted for a while and said uncertainly: "It looks like a Kongming lantern, but it doesn't quite look like it."

Li Xiaogong's eyes are better, and he said, "There seems to be something moving up there." What he saw was that poor rooster, but it was too far away so he couldn't see it clearly, only a blurry shadow flopping about non-stop.

As the first rooster to fly into the sky in history, what I feel is not an honor, but a panic.

"What kind of bird is it? Your Majesty will be able to see it clearly when I shoot it down with an arrow."

Old Cheng's words were the most unreasonable, and he was about to ask the guards to get the bow and arrow, Qin Qiong grabbed him and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what kind of shots are you shooting here? Besides, can you shoot so far away?"

Hearing the words, Lao Cheng looked up again, guessing that even if he was Li Guang, he might not be able to shoot that far, so he muttered and gave up the plan of archery, and all the ministers shook their heads and smiled wryly at the annoyed look.

Li Er was not as irritable as before when Lao Cheng made such a fuss, and this vision didn't seem like a bad thing.

Changsun Wuji suddenly thought of something, and asked, "The Gewuyuan newly established by His Majesty is in the south of the city?"

……

In the evening, a woman shouted in surprise from a dilapidated vegetable garden outside Chang'an City: "Master, a big bamboo basket fell from the sky, and there was a big rooster in it!"

(End of this chapter)