Chapter 30: The Book of Wonders

Mingyue's words, this smile, have deeply touched Zhao Shu's heart. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 infoLike a glacier bathed in sunlight that gradually melts, it is warm, warm and gentle.

I don't know how long time has passed, and Zhao Shu's whole body is already tired. I wanted to find something to relieve my fatigue, but after seeing Mingyue's bulging abdomen, I immediately dispelled this thought, this is my own son, it's better not to mess around, adults and children will have accidents. Zhao Shuqiang held back the **** in his heart.

But Mingyue seemed to see what he was thinking, and suddenly there was a shyness on his face, and Zhao Shu's face turned even redder, scratched his head, and said, "That...... Mingyue, when I entered the room just now, I saw you reading a book on the table and looking so fascinated, what kind of book is it? ”

At this time, in the obvious change of topic, Zhao Shu quickly twisted his head away, not daring to face Mingyue. Of course, these are all in Mingyue's eyes. Mingyue covered her small mouth, sneered, and teased: "I didn't expect the dignified King of Song Jian'an to be so shy!" ”

This time, Zhao Shu was obviously stunned. Mingyue dared to tease herself, and she would no longer put her identity so lowly.

This is Zhao Shu's favorite, the most wanted, if Mingyue is always as humble as before, what is the difference between it and finding a nanny by himself, and said with a wicked smile: "Mingyue, you dare to ridicule this king like this...."

"Damn it! Please forgive your sins with His Royal Highness! From Zhao Shu's words, Mingyue realized that what she had just said was wrong, and knelt down with a poof, kneeling too hastily, as if it had alarmed the fetus in her womb, Mingyue grinned in pain.

It's really damn, Zhao Shu really wanted to slap himself hard, but before he could think about it, his left foot immediately stepped out, helped Mingyue up with both hands, and said, "Fool!" I was just kidding you, how can you take it seriously? You have remembered for me that in my Zhao family, except for my father and mother, who are the emperor and queen, no one else, including me, is allowed to kneel! Even if it is the emperor in the future, he only needs to salute when he sees it, and he is not allowed to kneel! ”

Mingyue's eyes were surging, staring at Zhao Shu affectionately, and said: "The concubine understands His Highness's thoughts, but there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and this kneeling itself is also a kind of etiquette!" ”

At this time, Zhao Shu's temper came up again, and said, "That's not good!" Kneeling to heaven and earth, kneeling to parents, the queen and the emperor are heaven, and kneeling to them is a matter of course. But the others are nothing, you don't have to kneel like them! ”

"......" Mingyue knew that she couldn't beat Zhao Shu, and after biting her lip, she nodded in agreement. In fact, Mingyue is not Zhao Shu's princess now, or she doesn't have that title, her current status is just a maid in the county palace, and the request that Zhao Shu gave her is indeed a bit excessive.

Mingyue didn't want to argue with him about this issue now, so she simply walked straight to the table, her jade palm half-exposed her sleeves, gently picked up a book on the table, handed it to Zhao Shu, smiled slightly, and then said: "Your Highness, it is this book that the concubine is reading." ”

Because the book was handed to Zhao Shu upside down, Zhao Shu couldn't understand the content of the book, but in terms of the material of the book, it was not like rice paper, but A4 paper in later generations, Zhao Shu took the book in surprise and said, "What kind of book is this?" ...... Mingyue, you can read this book so fascinated, can you see the content of this book!? ”

Zhao Shu closed the book, and several block letters and a later ironclad warship were impressively printed on the cover of the book, and the block letters were written on the title of the book - "The Age of Steam"

Mingyue pursed her lips and said, "It's not that difficult, in fact, the words in this book look like simplified Chinese characters, and besides, the words in this book are simple and clear, and easy to understand, so it doesn't seem to be so difficult." It's just that there are a lot of strange symbols in the book, and I really can't understand it, and I really can't think of what kind of Chinese characters are similar to these symbols. ”

Zhao Shu roughly flipped through the book, and sure enough, there were many formulas in the book, Arabic letters and Latin letters. Zhao Shu smiled and shook his head, it would be strange if Mingyue could understand these things, many Latin alphabets would not be able to recognize them even if he was considered to be the best in the college entrance examination army in later generations, let alone Mingyue, who did not have any foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Zhao Shu sighed, the age of steam, the industrial revolution of mankind. In the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing the steam engine, and then the internal combustion engine, sweeping the earth, Asia, Europe, Africa, the United States, and no one on the other side of the ocean dared to match it, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, even the Qing Empire, which was once extremely strong, and even the Russian Empire did not dare to provoke easily, was beaten all over the ground by its strong ships and cannons.

The Industrial Revolution is a good thing, which has brought great opportunities for human development and increased the level of productivity, but it has also increased the struggle between human beings and made human nature even uglier.

When he saw this book, Zhao Shu was only happy for a while, and then closed the book and threw it on the table. There is no other reason, Zhao Shu understands that this book mainly introduces the principle of the steam engine, although a steam engine can be built according to the principle in this book, but the steam engine is mainly used to drive trains and ironclad warships, in terms of the current metallurgical level of the Song Dynasty, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to build a train or ironclad warship.

Mingyue saw that Zhao Shu didn't read it, so she threw the book on the table, was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?" The book ......"

Zhao Shu shook his head with a smile and said: "It's worthless, this is a strange book, although it is good, but the things recorded on it are not something that my Great Song can cast!" ”

After listening to Zhao Shu's words, Mingyue was even more stunned, saying that although the Great Song Dynasty was dominated by the Liao State in the north, it was a vast land, and the science and technology of the Song Dynasty were ahead of the world's advanced level, and said: "Why is this?" Is there anything else in this world that I can't cast? ”

Alas, it was this kind of psychology that made China closed off from the country for more than 100 years, so that the country's scientific and technological level seriously lagged behind that of Western countries, and only then did China be ravaged, encroached upon and carved up by Western powers in later generations.

"There are people outside the so-called people, and there are heavens outside the sky. Although the Great Song Dynasty is big, it is not all in the world, and there are many countries that the Great Song Emperor does not know. Isn't the Liao Kingdom in the north much stronger than the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Mingyue shook her head vigorously and said: "Your Highness's words are wrong, although the Northern Liao Kingdom is sinicized and its martial arts are much stronger than those of the Great Song Dynasty, but after all, it was created by the northern barbarians, and it is very different from my Lang Huaxia. Typical Han mentality, this sentence made Zhao Shu very speechless, Mingyue continued: "Moreover, now Daliao is also at the end of the strong crossbow, and it is no longer as strong as it used to be. ”

The end of the crossbow? A bad premonition rose into Zhao Shu's head, so he prayed tremblingly, and asked at the same time, "How do you say this?" Why did the Liao State end up with a strong crossbow? ”

Mingyue looked at Zhao Shu with an extremely shocked look and said, "Haven't Your Highness heard of it?" The leader of the northern Jurchen tribe proclaimed himself emperor in Huining Mansion of Daliao with less than 10,000 troops, and has successively captured Liaoyang, Tokyo, of Daliao, and now Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing of Daliao has also become precarious! Now the emperor is planning to send people to investigate the situation in Daliao. ”

Another thunderbolt smashed on Zhao Shu's head, it turned out that he was concerned about the Central Plains Dynasty established by the Han people, and Zhao Shu knew very little about the empire established by ethnic minorities, and he thought that the years before the Jingkang Rebellion was the time when Dajin rose, but he didn't expect Dajin to rise so early.

The rise of Dajin will inevitably involve the foreign policy of the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty, for this land, it is about to change greatly, things cannot be delayed, and they must hurry! But Mingyue's words seemed to make Zhao Shu aware of something, so Zhao Shu asked: "Father Emperor wants to send someone to investigate the situation in Liao?" So what does the father plan to do? ”

Mingyue's eyes rolled around and said, "It should be how to investigate the Liaojin war, right?" Then the emperor decided whether to send troops to aid Da Liao, after all, Da Liao and Da Song are brothers' alliance, how can Da Liao be in such danger that Da Song can be a wall-by-side? ”

"......" Zhao Shu felt that he was also drunk, it seems that Mingyue is really naΓ―ve, can you believe Mingyue's words? Anyway, Zhao Shu didn't believe it, but Zhao Shu continued to ask, "Then who does my father plan to send?" Is it Tong Guan, Tong Xuanfu? ”

At this time, Mingyue shrugged her shoulders and said: "This concubine has no way of knowing, you don't know anything about the king of Jian'an County of the Great Song Dynasty, how can a concubine and a female stream know?" But the concubine thinks that His Majesty should not let Master Tong go......"

"Why is that?" Now Zhao Shu's eyes suddenly brightened a lot, as long as Tong Guan was not allowed to go, this Great Song Dynasty might still have some hope, and it would not sign a maritime alliance with the Jin State as later generations were well known, and attack the Liao State in the north and south, so that the Song and Jin borders and leads to the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"Your Highness, you forgot, didn't you say some time ago that the Great Song Dynasty was in a stalemate with Western Xia in the west? Although Lord Tong is not a good minister, only Lord Tong can stabilize the situation in the west at present! ”

It seems to make a lot of sense, but isn't it that Song Jiang and Fang La haven't been exterminated yet? It's still early, maybe Western Xia suddenly withdrew during this time? It seems unlikely, Zhao Shu bit his thumb and fell into deep thought, unable to think of a reason for a long time.

"By the way, Your Highness, where did you get this strange book?" Mingyue interrupted Zhao Shu's musings and asked.

"Nan Ke Yimeng has heard of it, right?" Zhao Shu pursed his lips and said perfunctorily, of course, he couldn't say that he brought it from the afterlife, otherwise everything would be over.

"Nan Ke is a dream?" Mingyue was a little stupid, and suddenly felt a tightness in her waist, so she was hugged by Zhao Shu involuntarily, and then gently threw her on the bed.

"Bedtime"

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