At that time, most of the lighting still needed to be achieved through open flames. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoIn other words, in a world where there are no electric lights, only fire is the easiest way to control at night.

Of course, in some special places, such as the capital of the Diren country, it is actually inconvenient to use open flames. However, the clever people of the Chinese people, through their own ingenuity, invented the "Heng Cao Palace" this kind of building.

In the Heng Cao Hall of the Di people's country, no matter what time of day, you can enjoy sufficient lighting. Especially at night, with or without the moon, even if it is only a faint starlight. After the reflection and refraction of various mechanisms preset at the top of the Heng Cao Palace, the Heng Yao Hall will also become as bright as day.

Of course, this lighting method of the Heng Cao Hall of the Di people is completely due to the fact that the entire territory of the Di people country is an island, and the construction of a Heng Yao Hall can collect all the stars of Zhou Tian without obstruction.

However, the solution to the lighting solution of a tribe like the Di people who could not use open flames still gave Gongsun great inspiration.

Because, in the design of Gongsun, the building is actually a pure wooden structure. After all, when the people of Qiqi built their own houses, in addition to relying on the mountains, they also used wooden materials the most.

What's more, the mechanism technique that the master of the Diren Kingdom is best at, its carrier is also wood. Through the understanding of the mechanism technique of the Diren Kingdom and the construction technique of the Qiqi Kingdom, the use of wooden materials is the best way for Gongsun to think of at present, and the best way to give full play to the strengths of these two tribes at the same time.

It's just that in this way, Gongsun's idea of using an open flame in the machine building is a little difficult to realize. After all, whether it is the construction of the machine building or the large wooden wall that preserves knowledge, the wood materials used are afraid of fire. Even if those hard-to-fire rosewood walls can resist open flames to a certain extent, it is impossible to really never burn. In the face of such difficulties, the experience of the people is particularly important.

Gongsun decided to build a hall that could be lit around the clock on the top floor of the building, modeled after the style of the Heng Cao Hall of the Diren Kingdom. And from the second floor to the sixty-fifth floor, the floor where the rosewood walls need to be stored, Gongsun has also prepared some unique things after consulting with the masters of Qingqiu Kingdom.

There is no doubt that these unique things are an epoch-making invention. It's just that it's hard to be sure whether this invention was conceived by Gongsun alone, or whether Gongsun was inspired by some people to let the master of Qingqiu Kingdom cast it.

However, we can be sure that this invention must have been approved by Gongsun in order to really appear at this time. Because, this invention used the most important military material of the Jiuli Department - bronze.

Yes, it is a kind of bronze that finally solves the lighting problem from the second floor to the sixty-fifth floor of the tie building.

Strictly speaking, the source of illumination that this bronze can provide should also be regarded as the most open flame. However, the difference may be that this light and dancing fire like a fairy is more similar to the light of what we now call oil lamps.

Oil lamps are not a rare object, but they are worth mentioning the lampstand, which is a sculpture-like work of art that makes it impossible to see the material at a glance. If we hadn't known in advance that these lampstands were made of bronze, no matter how we thought about it, we wouldn't have guessed that the bronze that has been used to make weapons for a long time could make such beautiful crafts.

The theme of the bronze handicrafts like sculptures is somewhat close to our current aesthetics, all of them are beautiful men with clear faces. It's just that art still comes from life after all, and it is higher than life, and the beautiful men carved in the lampstand here are all mermaids, yes, the upper body is a human, and the lower body is a mermaid. The mermaid lampstand, the tail of the fish coiled on the ground, the upper body is straight, like a mermaid kneeling and sitting. In other words, we can also think that this mermaid-like sculpture was built with the blueprint of the Di people who have never left the Di people's country. Because, the people of the Diren country are a kind of magical race in which the tail of the fish turns into legs when it goes ashore, and the legs become the tail of the fish when it goes to the sea.

Perhaps the only thing that spoils the beauty of these bronze candelabras is the dim glow of the lamp. The light of the oil lamp happened to appear in the mermaid's mouth, and the merfolk did her best to tilt her face up, trying to make her face perpendicular to her neck. A dim light peeked out of the mermaid's wide open mouth, and the oil that barely supported the burning of the lamp came from the mermaid's mouth. It was as if the mermaid sitting on the ground was all filled with this black, viscous fuel that could be burned.

It's just that, I don't know if it's out of the malice of the sculptor designer, the teeth in the mermaid's mouth have been finely carved, and the teeth are so realistic that people will feel cold at a glance and unconsciously let their teeth buckle lightly, not to mention that the thing that acts as a wick in the mermaid's mouth at this time is the mermaid's tongue, which is a creepy thing.

Regarding the use of the bronze mermaid sculpture as a lampstand, Gongsun's explanation is very official. First of all, one reason is that this similar oil lamp is actually an idea from the country of Diren. The design of the lamp stand as it is today is just to pay tribute to the people of Diren, who are all great craftsmen in the country.

On the other hand, the reason is that all the burning grease used in these mermaid lampstands comes from the Diren country. And this bean-like light also relies on the limited lighting power that can be generated by the burning stone found by the mirage in the country of Diren.

It is worth mentioning that according to Gongsun, the grease that can produce bean-like lamps from the mermaid lampstand actually comes from the caves where the burning stone can be mined. Perhaps, judging by our current knowledge. The grease stored in the mermaid lampstand is supposed to be a fossil fuel similar to petroleum.

It's just that we also use our knowledge today as a reference. At that time, Gongsun, this approach was actually somewhat inappropriate. After all, although the combat effectiveness of the Diren people is a little worse, they are also official members of the Jiuli Alliance. Even if they couldn't go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, they also provided countless very domineering mechanical creations for the Jiuli Division.

Gongsun really shouldn't have risked hurting the people of the Di people to make this kind of lamp stand in the shape of the Di people. Once the people of the Diren country commit the glass heart, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be separated from the grandson because of the shape of the lampstand.

In this way, the contradictions between the Jiuli Alliance are not trivial. If the overall combat effectiveness of the Jiuli Department is reduced, it will seem that the gains outweigh the losses.