Chapter 13: A Surprising Discovery
In Wang An's study in the regent palace, Wang An was looking through the files of the Huben camp, and he specially arranged for this bureau to rectify Liu Xian, the king of Anbang, and he did not go.
Wang An was very cautious in doing things, keeping himself away from this matter as much as possible, and trying not to let others suspect him, so he handed over the matter to Xue Tingshuang and Feng Ke, and Xue Tingshuang sent people to cooperate.
Feng Ke stood beside Wang An, dancing and telling what happened, and then said with a smile: "Your Highness is really clever, this bureau you set up, King Anbang was tired in the end, and he really breathed a sigh of relief." ”
Wang An smiled faintly and said: "This is just a small punishment for him, if you dare to go against me, he Liu Xian will not have a good time in the future." When this old thing saw that what he bought for 100,000 taels of silver was just a hand-copied account book, his heart would not only hurt, but he would never be sure, this is called a knife standing on his neck, hanging without decision, let him live in fear......"
After Liu Xian returned to the mansion, he saw that it was a hand-copied account book, because he was angry and tired, and after being frightened, he fainted at that time, and then fell seriously ill and almost went to play mahjong with the king of Hades.
After Wang An got 100,000 baht, he finally had enough confidence and gave Xue Tingshuang 40,000 taels as activity funds.
"Your Highness, there are ten binoculars sent by the Military Aircraft Mansion, please take a look." Li Yuan led several eunuchs to report to Wang An with a wooden plate and a telescope.
The Military Aircraft Mansion is the mansion where Wang Mang summoned the living heirs of the sixty-three families of the art of war and hundreds of strange people.
Wang An frowned, and said unhappily: "I let me make a batch, and they will make ten for me?" ”
The people of the Military Aircraft Mansion thought that Wang An was just a temporary interest, and they didn't know what to do, so they built it and found that the telescope was so magical that they could see things a few miles away, but they didn't know how to make glass, so they could only use crystals that were ground into flat pieces instead.
Although Li Yuan didn't know what Wang An was going to do, and he didn't know what Wang An asked the Military Aircraft Mansion to make this thing for, he still said: "The slave will go and tell the Military Aircraft Mansion and let them make more." ”
Wang An held a telescope in his hand, and suddenly said, "Wait a minute, who made this telescope?" ”
Li Yuan thought for a while before he said: "Back to Your Highness, it seems to be a strange man from the Military Aircraft Mansion."
"Let him come to me." Wang Anxin was very excited, the telescope was originally brought into our country by Tang Ruowang in the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't expect it to be studied at this time.
"Wait, I'll visit him."
Wang An planned to visit Lance's home in person, and for the scientific researcher, and he was also an inventor, he felt the need to be courteous to Corporal Xian.
Wang An sent Jin Yiwei to find Lance, he was drinking tea in a teahouse in Chang'an at this time, he often came to this teahouse to drink tea, it can be said that he was a loyal fan of this teahouse, and Jin Yiwei didn't put much effort into it.
Wang An took Feng Ke, Li Yuan and a group of guards to this teahouse directly in civilian clothes.
Looking at this antique teahouse, Wang An can't help but recall the Yellow Crane Tower, this teahouse is comparable to the Yellow Crane Tower, but he does not have the momentum of the Yellow Crane Tower's "first floor in the world", but in this era, it is also very impressive.
Then, he actually saw the Persian in the teahouse, this Persian said something in the hall, as if he was a storyteller, he thought that Lance was a Chinese, which is good, he is a foreigner, but it doesn't matter, as long as it can be used.
"What is he doing" Wang An was puzzled and asked Li Yuan.
"Your Highness, he comes back every day to bring some strange things, and then everyone doesn't understand them, so they listen to them for fun, and then they all get used to it." Hearing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's inquiry, Li Yuan quickly replied.
Wang An, slowly approaching, only listening to Lance talk about how to make "transparent crystal", after listening for a long time, I understood that what Lance said was glass.
Wang An found out that he was here this time, and he was worried about how to make glass, so this person came out, sending charcoal in the snow, talent, be sure to keep him.
While speaking, Lance, a Persian wearing a blue Hanfu, came over, he knew Xue Tingshuang, Xue Tingshuang was the person next to His Royal Highness, and this group of people was headed by Wang An, so he came over.
"I've seen His Royal Highness" John Tang saluted in fluent Chinese, and naturally Chinese would not be so lame, and he was very fluent.
As the guest secretary of the Military Aircraft Government, Lance is naturally clear about the officialdom system and etiquette.
Wang An looked at the bearded Lance in front of him with a blue ribbon wrapped around his head, and said, "Lan Keqing, excuse me."
"I don't know what Your Highness is here, what is the so-called matter?" Lance didn't understand Wang An's intention to come to him, and asked directly.
Wang An smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. is very knowledgeable and has strange thoughts, so I came here to ask for advice." ”
Lance, Your Highness, let's talk in another place here, at the invitation of Lance, Wang An came to Lance's residence behind the teahouse.
Wang An just walked into Lance's residence, only to feel that his eyes suddenly lit up, this is simply a laboratory, there are instruments everywhere, although not as accurate as in later generations, but there is a general appearance, it can be seen that Lance is a treasure.
I saw that on Lance's desk, there were "The Theory and Application of Compressed Air", "War Machine" and "Mechanics", etc., indicating that Lance was researching, but this was a product of the ancient Roman Empire in Europe.
The famous geometrician, practical scientist, engineer, and inventor of the Roman era was Heron of Alexandria, aka Hiro. He is a famous mechanic, wrote a lot of books, that is, Lance saw these, and the ancient Roman Empire handicraft industry was prosperous, there were wool, jewelry, masonry, spices, glass, ironware, grinding, food processing, etc., so during the Han Dynasty, Western countries were also very developed, but the development direction of our country was different, and the ancient Roman Empire was really not very good at this time.
Wang An flipped through the pages, mechanics depicted all kinds of simple machinery (levers, pulleys, wheels, inclined planes, spirals, splits, etc.), and he successively designed and manufactured pulley systems, double-cylinder single-pass blowers, odometers, siphons, alignments and other practical machinery and appliances.
One of the books also records that Heron made a toy in which two sections of bends were attached to a hollow sphere, through which steam escaped when the water boiled, and the sphere spun rapidly due to what we now call the law of action and reaction.
When Wang An saw it, he was shocked, and he almost shouted "the groove", this is not just a steam drive device, but the prototype of a modern steam engine.
Wang An felt that he had come to the right place this time, if he didn't come, how could he find out these things.