The road leading to the "Ancient Secret Room" is an unusually secluded path, which stretches quietly, surrounded by bamboo trees on both sides, and stretches into the depths. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, this is definitely a good "dojo" for academic research, away from the hustle and bustle, without noise, and with a much clearer way of thinking.

The two walked on the path arbitrarily, and a few words of conversation popped up from time to time, and the atmosphere was very lively. Sure enough, the magnetic field is right, Green Hui is good at chatting, and the essence of the gushing is revealed again.

"Do you know why I've always been obsessed with making 'salt meters'?" Ning Que's clear voice came.

"In order to make a splash at this briefing and win more money?" Green House doesn't seem to be quite sure.

Ning Que shook his head and said with a smile: "This can be said to be not even one of the reasons, besides, how can such a small thing as the 'salt meter' get into the eyes of thousands of Chongye people, let alone be a blockbuster!" ”

Lu Hui turned his head to look at Ning Que, and felt that although he smiled deeply, what he said was true, and there was no joke at all. Indeed, the Chongye Dynasty rejects "novelty" things the most, and many times it is directly regarded as "evil crookedness", so it is still a question whether to appreciate the "salt meter".

"Do you know about the river?" Ning Que asked again.

"Hmm!" Green Hui thought for a moment and replied, though he didn't know why he suddenly asked the question.

"In ancient times, taxes were paid with two separate taxes as the most in the world, and the salt farms on both sides of the river were considerable. Looking at the salt farms on both sides, the salt tax generated by the salt farms on my side of Dongli is slightly higher, accounting for almost sixty percent of the tax revenue of the entire Chongye Dynasty. ”

It turned out that what he was going to say was this, and she had heard of what Ning Que said before, but she only knew a little bit about it, so Lu Hui listened very carefully.

"It was a very proud thing, but the trees wanted to be quiet and the wind did not stop, but we worked hard and worked hard to provide the most generous salt tax for the dynasty, but they not only did not be grateful, but instead charged us with 'colluding with salt merchants, falsely reporting salt production, and evading taxes', and insisted on adding an astronomical sum of money to our tax payable, saying that it was to make up for the omission of salt tax. Under such atrocities, we have to rack our brains to improve the method of determining the thickness of salt water, and use facts to block the mouths of the people. ”

Hearing this, Green Hui suddenly felt compassion. Sure enough, it is a big tree, and it has been like this since ancient times, no wonder Ning Que often sighs that he can't be too sharp. But if you think about it, you also know that how can the dynasty rest assured that the country's economic lifeline is pinned on a certain region, which is like walking a tightrope in the sky, which is a very dangerous thing.

Although the dynasty nominally monopolized the sale of salt, the production of salt was still in the hands of Dongli, and strictly speaking, the dynasty still failed to fully control the fiscal revenue of the salt tax. So he could only stare at Dongli all the time to prevent it from making small moves. It's just that now Dongli didn't make as many small moves as it expected, but they still refused to give up, and insisted on imposing charges on Dongli, saying that they falsely reported the salt production, but the salt production at this time did not have an accurate tool to measure, it was all estimated, so there was an ambiguous statement, and everyone insisted on their own words. Dongli was finally suppressed by the official authority and could only compromise.

"Your latest invention in Monocha, judging the intensity of salt brine by the shape of lotus seeds in brine should roughly prove the amount of salt you produce, so they won't let you go?" Green Club asked.

"What do you think?" Ning Que did not answer the rhetorical question

Without waiting for Green Hui to answer, Ning Que continued: "One day there is no tool that is accurate enough to speak with numbers to help us prove that we have not falsely reported the salt production, and they will have a whisper every day!" After all, 'thick' and 'shallow' are still vague concepts in the final analysis, aren't they? ”

The expected answer, Green Hui also smiled. said: "What you said is right, but you have forgotten the fact that even if you make a 'salt meter', they will still make trouble for you from other aspects, the so-called eggs and bones, but that's it." Who told you to dangle in front of their eyes with such a big head? ”

"Haha, your analogy is interesting!!" Ning Que let out a classic laugh again, his laughter was always so sudden, but it was also fast: "So, it's really difficult to be a man........."

Indeed, it is difficult for people in this world to be able to truly control themselves.

Before they knew it, the two had walked to a delicate log cabin. The chalet is located by the stream, it is the night cherry blossom in March, the stream is murmuring, and there are willows around the embankment by the water, and the scenery is infinite. The hut is surrounded by a wooden fence, which encloses an open space as a courtyard, with trees and flowers, green or red, and a few butterflies chasing among the flowers. I didn't expect that the "Ancient Secret Room" was not mysterious and mysterious as imagined, but so freehand.

Entering the courtyard, a few subordinates were cleaning with brooms, and saw Ning Que and Lu Hui bowing down. Although these people are kind and kind-eyed, they look a little timid, perhaps because they have seen the living person of Green Hui.

"Is the county lord in there?" Seeing that the door of the wooden house was open, Ning Que asked.

"Back to the world, the county lord came in the morning, stayed until noon before leaving, and has not come back yet!" One of them, who seemed to be more senior, replied.

"I see, you all go to work!" Ning Que commanded. After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Green Hui, and the expression on Green Hui's face at this time was faint.

"Please don't take it to heart about the last time, the girl is also impulsive to treat you like that, young, who doesn't have a vigorous time!"

"I forgot about this for a long time, the son of the world is too worried!" Midori replied with a smile. It's just that I didn't expect Ning Que to mention the incident that day three or four times for Ning Yu, which was really a meaningless matter, but this also shows that the master-apprentice relationship between the two is also quite deep.

"It's good to forget, let's go in!" Ning Que didn't say anything more, and the two of them raised their feet and entered the house.

Although the room is not big, it is fully equipped with all kinds of facilities, which is divided into two areas, storage area and display area, the storage area has several rows of wooden shelves, the shelves are divided into categories and are full of various utensils, pots, bottles, tools, etc., and the display area is a variety of experimental tables for operation, like a modern laboratory.

Green Hui walked back and forth in the ancient secret room several times with excitement, and it was really hard to suppress the excitement, and there was always an inexplicable sense of intimacy when seeing these things, as if this was not an ancient place, but a modern day and a thousand times. Her hands wandered over various objects, and the cold touch from her fingertips pulled back her thoughts, yes, this is ancient times, an ancient world that is hundreds of years behind but developed ahead of time, a country that is incredible.

It was a kind of trance that jumped through the past and the future with a snap of his fingers, everything in the past was clearly in my eyes but had long since become the past, and suddenly I looked back, there was no trace of the old things, and I was left in vain.

Just as he was in a daze, Lu Hui's hand touched something rougher, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a few leaves, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, lying quietly on the table waiting for the sentence. Lu Hui gently picked up one of them, this leaf is tender like new pu green, it should not be long after picking it up, is this also the object of their research? Lu Hui, who was a little puzzled, then cast an inquiring look at Ning Que on the side.

Ning Que seemed to be looking at the leaves just now, and when he received Lu Hui's question, he smiled faintly and said, "I didn't expect Fu'er to take my words seriously, I just said it casually.............."

"What do you mean by that?" Green Hui is puzzled.

Ning Que replied: "That day, I saw the leaves of the camphor tree in the court, and suddenly sighed, obviously it is spring, how can the leaves fall endlessly, and they all say, 'A leaf knows autumn', but why do the leaves in spring fall more vigorously than in autumn?" Could it be that this leaf also hides a secret? I didn't expect Fu'er to really take the leaves back and explore! There seemed to be a shallow relief in his eyes.

"I see, it seems that the county lord is really a studious person, but I have to say that academics should have this kind of curiosity about all things, I think that in the past, Lu Ban was also because his hand was scratched by the grass when he cut the grass, and he saw that there were many tooths on the grass, so he invented the saw. This move by the county lord may be another harbinger of the birth of a great invention! ”

It is indeed so, not only in ancient times, but also in modern times, that man saw the fins of fish, and so there was pulp; Human beings admire the graceful body shape of dolphins, so there are streamlined cars and trains, and I have to sigh why the development of Mono-ha is in full swing, all of them are thirsty for knowledge, how can they not succeed?

The camphor tree is an evergreen tree that often falls in the same way as other trees, but she won't tell them that, so let them find out for themselves.

When Ning Que heard Lu Hui's words, he didn't feel in a good mood, and he laughed again, "Haha, listening to you say this, I really want to study it, I just thought about it casually before, but now I am eager to know the answer!" Anyway, thank you for your recognition! ”

"I'm just telling the truth, don't praise the prince!" Lu Hui then smiled and said, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Ning Wei, Ning Wei, in fact, you are luckier than anyone else, there is a heart and mind that is your master, Ning Que A casual word brought Ning Wei closer to him, and he gave birth to himself, because only outsiders will say "thank you", I hope you know how to be grateful.

The two chatted so casually, forgetting the original purpose of coming here, Luhui was the first to remember, so he reminded: "Shizi, we have forgotten all the business!" ”

Ning Que suddenly realized, patted his head and said, "Yes, without further ado, come with me!"

Ning Que led the Green Hui to a separate room, a small room split from the storage room to study important projects. There are a lot of small bamboo tubes in the room, as well as a handful of spare lotus seeds, and a few water tanks next to it contain salt brine.

"How's it going, inspired?" Ning Que clasped his hands in front of his chest and suddenly turned his head sideways and asked.

Green Hui didn't answer, silently walked to the table next to him, picked up the booklet placed on it, and carefully flipped through it. It turned out that this booklet clearly recorded the measurement results of each of their experiments, for example, the amount of salt extracted corresponding to the number of floating lotus seeds were recorded one by one, and the intensity of salt brine was quantitatively divided into several equal parts according to the number of floating and sinking lotus seeds, although it was not possible to accurately measure the concentration of salt and finally obtain the yield of salt, but it was already possible to roughly estimate, and they called this tool "lotus seed tube". This is already more advanced than she imagined, but those units of measurement make her dizzy, stone, liter, bucket, hu, he, she has no idea how to convert with modern units of measurement.

It seems that she really overestimated her own ability, and to measure the density of matter, it is necessary to have uniform weights and measures, measuring tools and instruments, and she cannot do this. Originally, there was a gap between the eras, and it was a matter of day and night for her to directly force modern knowledge into the ancient era, which had not yet developed to the point where such knowledge could be fully accepted.

She originally thought that she had made her own soil density meter in class anyway, using bamboo chopsticks, wire, paper, pen, transparent glue and several liquids of known density as materials, so that the wire was wound around the lower end of the bamboo chopsticks so that its center of gravity was downward and then stood in the water, and used notes to go down the water surface scale mark (the bamboo chopsticks pasted a note on the outside in advance), and then put the bamboo chopsticks into some liquid that is familiar with the density such as ****, gasoline, kerosene, write down the scale marks, and mark the scale value, In this way, a simple density meter was crudely made.

The method is universal in ancient and modern times, but now there are no certain conditions here, so it is said that those industrial oils, which only appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries, cannot be found here, and it is impossible to replace them with other liquids, because she must at least know the density constants of those liquids. If the density meter produced cannot be engraved with a scale reading, this is undoubtedly only a tool for estimating the intensity of salt brine, and there is no need to make it at all, because it can be judged by using a "lotus seed tube".

Originally, I wanted to use this thing to make a big splash here, so that these backward ancient people would bow down to themselves, but it seems that they just had a sweet dream. She finally understood that the development of the times has its own laws, and no one can try to go against the sky.

However, the worst thing is that she can't explain all this to Ning Que at all, it's really hard to ride a tiger, but that guy seems to be still looking forward to her "opinion", how can this be good? I used to pat my chest and say that I wanted to give advice, but now it's hard to get off the stage without saying why.

Ning Que seemed to see the "strangeness" of Green Hui, which was obviously completely different from the confident appearance of patting his chest before he came. But even so, Ning Que didn't show too much surprise, but seemed to be in his own expectation, but he was a little disappointed.

He is still very confident in himself, he can already be said to have entered the realm of transformation in this field, and he has never heard of any place in the world where people can catch up with them in this regard, and he has almost thought about all the ways to measure the intensity of salt brine more accurately, so he actually didn't pay too much attention to what Green Hui said before that he would help him create a "salt meter" to accurately measure the yield of salt, which is not a kind of contempt for others, but an absolute confidence in his own school.

It's just that, out of a sincere curiosity for academics, he still has some hope for Green Hui, because the various "insights" that Green Hui has shown before are different from those of their time, so that he unconsciously poured more hope into her. In addition, in addition, he wanted to know more about the person Green Hui through this incident, after all, everything she showed had involuntarily aroused his suspicions! Obviously from a killer organization that was banned by the dynasty from getting in touch with academics, how could she have more sophisticated opinions on academics than others? He could see this from her conversation, and he really couldn't figure it out. It's just a pity, it's a pity that Greenway's current performance seems to have disappointed him a little!

Green Hui sensed that Ning Que was looking at him, and knew that he was still waiting for his answer, so it seemed that he could only tell the truth. Lu Hui deliberately pointed to the line of record text on the booklet, and said with a little regret in his tone: "I never expected that your research has reached this level, you have already thought about what I think, in fact, the 'salt meter' I have been mentioning is just your 'lotus seed tube', I underestimated your research results too much, it is really an axe, hehe!" "At the end of the day, the smile was already a little awkward.

Ning Que is a smart person, and he can naturally hear that Green Hui's words are temporarily perfunctory to him, because what Green Hui has been telling him before is to help him make a tool that can accurately measure the intensity of salt brine, that is, "salt meter", this "lotus seed tube" cannot be equated with "salt meter" in any case, so Green Hui's statement is obviously just a reason to reject him. As for why she refused, did she see that she was going to test her, or did she realize that she couldn't show her too much?

However, what is certain is that she found such an unconvincing excuse, which shows that she is really in a hurry, so she will not force her anymore, and she is not forced to comply. Thinking of this, Ning Que smiled and replied very generously: "The girl is modest, it's just that Ning is really a little lost, and she is still waiting to see the girl's 'high opinion', it's a pity!" As he spoke, he sighed deeply.

Hearing this, Green Hui was not only more embarrassed, but also a little more guilty, after all, he didn't help others, and he blew so much bull before. It's really shameful, she only thinks about whether there are other aspects that can make up for it, the "density meter" is indeed a bit ahead of its time, this era does not have the conditions to make it appear, but she can try something else!

So she looked around, there are so many research projects in this "Ancient Secret Room", as a person with a knowledge base of modern physics, there is always someone who can give them advice. Well, just the "camphor leaves" project, she decided to popularize the knowledge of "photosynthesis" to Ning Que, no matter what, but also to pick up a little bit of her own face, this is Luhui's idea at this moment, so the originally discussed research "salt meter" became the study of "leaves" "Chunrong Qiu Xie". (To be continued.) )