Body 306 Hourglass

After Li Hong was reprimanded by his dragon father Li Zhi for a few words, he suddenly strengthened his determination to torture his dragon father, reached out and took a piece of paper that Bai Chun had already held in his hand, looked at the fine rice paper, and said in neat handwriting: "Erchen and Sun Simiao discussed, Sun Simiao, also agreed, and also felt that such a plan is beneficial and harmless to your dragon body, so after seeing the work and rest plan tailored for you by Erchen himself, Sun Simiao raised his hands in favor, and also praised Erchen for his medical talent, He even wanted to stay in the East Palace for a few days to exchange dietary and health tips with his sons, but his sons thought that this was a secret of the royal family, so how could it be easily shown to outsiders? Therefore, Erchen resolutely rejected Sun Simiao's proposal, and left this unique diet to the unique you. ”

Wu Mei looked at Li Hong with a smile and spit lotus flowers, but wanted to see what moths he was going to toss, so a pair of phoenix eyes cruised back and forth on the father and son.

Li Zhi's face is getting greener and greener, he feels that this stinky boy is about to start doing it to himself, he mentioned to himself some time ago about improving his diet or something, he didn't care, he didn't insist, it turned out that there was no detailed plan.

Now that he has a detailed plan, it seems that he intends to implement it, and the court has been easily mediated by him in an orderly manner, and the functions of three provinces, six departments, nine temples and five prisons have been much more efficient than before during the more than half a month that he has been in charge of the country.

But because nothing too big happened, his set still needs to be considered. But he couldn't bear to cut himself, and he was idle and had nothing to do.

Li Zhi plans to respond to all changes with the same, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, but I want to see what moths you can toss out of a little rabbit cub.

"Father, you have seen it." Li Hong respectfully handed the rice paper in his hand to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi looked at it and looked at it, but it was also simple, when to get up, when to go to bed, when to eat, and what to use for meals. But what is this post-wake exercise? Exercising?

"From tomorrow, after the morning court, Erchen will accompany you to exercise in the back garden of the palace, all the sports subjects, tomorrow Erchen will make a decision according to your physical condition, for the time being, it is a simple running and a few sets of simple strength training as all training subjects, as Erchen further understands your dragon body, and then see if you need to practice anything." Li Hong smiled and said kindly.

Li Zhi snorted, raised the rice paper in his hand and said disdainfully: "How long has it been since you finished going to the early court?" I can't come here until noon, I think it's better to forget it, I know what to do, and I don't need you to worry about it. ”

This is prevarication, **naked prevarication, who doesn't know that his dragon father Li Zhi likes to sleep lazy, especially during the period when he is not in court, he simply eats and sleeps, sleeps and eats.

"It doesn't matter, Erchen will be over in half an hour before the court, and now the court has been simplified, the functions of the three provinces and six ministries have been explored infinitely, and Erchen has time. From tomorrow onwards, you will have to exercise for less than an hour every day, and in order to keep your body safe, Erchen has also made a more accurate timer for you, just because the sundial (gui) is not allowed. Li Hong felt a little smiling but not smiling, giving his dragon father a crisis of hiding a knife in his smile.

Wu Mei watched coldly as the father and son argued, but wanted to see who could move whom.

"You start the court meeting now, can you disperse in half an hour?" Li Zhi began to wonder how he could ignore this little rabbit cub and make him give up the so-called exercise of getting up early.

Since he was assassinated with his mother in Cuiwei Palace when he was ten years old, after the little rabbit cub returned to the palace, it didn't take long to start his so-called exercise, and even took Zu Ti's dancing as the slogan of the East Palace.

Because of this, the long horse lance was dragged by him every day to rub against the bluestone slab, making a tooth-barring sound, and the angry Wu Mei trembled, regardless of wearing pajamas, and after hitting the little rabbit cub several times, it had no effect! People still do their own thing.

In the end, there was really no way, he and the queen had to give up stopping the little rabbit cub, but moved the opening time of the harem gate back for an hour, and then every day became the sound of humming at the gate of the harem every day, until now, they don't know whether the little rabbit cub was really for exercise, or to disturb other people's dreams.

Now that the cold winter has arrived, he originally planned to take advantage of the dragon's physical illness to prepare to preside over the government after the spring of the next year.

So the emperor, who doesn't even want to preside over the government, do you still want to let him get up early to exercise? Even if you Li Hong have a heart, he Li Zhi is not willing to get up!

"It's enough, half an hour is completely enough for the sons to finish presiding over the government, now the life of the Tang Dynasty, the people live and work in peace and contentment, there is nothing important, since the father and the emperor agreed, then the next moment to start exercising, the sons will accompany you." Li Hong smiled, he didn't want to run the court for them alone.

There are two paths, either go to the court, or exercise, and you can't let you, the authentic emperor, be idle, and then push the prince to the Zichen Hall to be tired to death.

Li Zhi frowned, he knew that the little rabbit cub was determined to pull himself to exercise, although he knew in his heart that it was for his own good, but being kidnapped like this was not what he wanted, so he was naturally not very happy.

I began to calculate the time in my heart, the next moment, that is, half an hour has just passed, and then I exercise for half an hour, that is, I can eat when I am at the end of the hour? And what is written on the rice paper is that his breakfast is probably as simple as that of the people of Chang'an.

In fact, his father is not lazy, but he is a very diligent emperor, but it is also when he goes to the court, if there is no court, his father is a very sleepy person.

And this is why he often suffers from vertigo, which is too much and easy to commit, and easy to commit if he doesn't exercise regularly. And both, just right, are still occupied by him.

The timekeeping of this era is divided according to the twelve hours of the day, and an hour is divided into eight quarters, which are divided into the upper four quarters and the next four quarters, and the quarter is divided into three minutes, a total of twenty-four minutes, and compared with the twenty-four solar terms, the ninety-six quarters of a day are divided by the divisible.

For Li Hong, three quarters of time is enough for the court, and then it takes a quarter of time to rush to his father's bedroom, and then run with his father in the back garden to the time, and then take a bath, eat, and go back to the East Palace, so that after half a day, he will do all the day's work, and he can run to Chang'an City for half a day to play.

Seeing that Li Zhi was driven out of ducks and put on the shelves, Wu Mei suddenly asked, "What did you just say that the timing is more accurate than a sundial?" ”

Li Hong showed a mysterious smile, and then waved at Yang Wu, Yang Wu understood, and Lian Tie and a few people were in the same room, and launched something in the style of a small car.

"Hehe, this is what the retainer has nothing to do, and he plans to put it in the court in the future, and set the time for the officials of the court meeting, as well as the time of the entire court meeting."

"Why don't you miss the moment?" Wu Mei asked.

The sundial could not be put into the court to keep time, so every time the court meeting, there would be a timekeeper outside to watch the time, and play it when the emperor asked.

And because the missing engraving is too ugly, after Li Hong went to court in the past few days, it is always easy to get distracted when listening to the sound of the water flow, so he directly stopped the leaky engraving composed of several copper basins.

"Leakage of water, and the water is easy to change in winter, extremely unstable, so Erchen thinks it is more appropriate to use this, and after placing it in the court, everyone can see the time when they look up, isn't it more convenient?" Li Hong got up and walked to the cart pushed by Yang Wu and Lian Tie, and uncovered a piece of red cloth covering it, revealing the true face of the timer.

Wu Mei and Li Zhi frowned at the same time, and the thing in front of them looked like it was made up of several serrated wheels.

Li Hong imitated the five-wheel hourglass developed by Zhan Xiyuan during the Yuan Dynasty, and the quicksand flowed from the funnel-shaped sand pool to the sand bucket on the side of the initial wheel, driving the initial wheel, thereby driving the rotation of mechanical gears at all levels.

The last gear drives the middle wheel, which rotates on a horizontal plane, with a needle on its axis, which in turn turns on a gauge disc with a marked line, thus showing the time engraved with twelve hours, in a way that is almost identical to the surface structure of the previous clock.

In addition, what made Li Hong have to admire the skilled craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty was that they also cleverly added a mechanical toggle device to the middle wheel to remind the two little bronze men standing on the five-wheel hourglass to beat the drum to tell the time. Every hour or moment, two small bronze figures will come out on their own with a drum hammer, striking the small copper bell next to them to report the time, the sound is crisp and pleasant, which makes people extremely useful.

Due to the lack of water pressure limit, the hourglass can calculate the time more accurately than the leaky engraving, achieving a true chronograph function, and has become a mechanical chronograph clock in its own right.

Just when Wu Mei and Li Zhi were about to ask, the two saw the two little bronze figures, when the pointer on the copper plate engraved with the hour pointed to the unitary hour, the little bronze man slowly rose up with a drum hammer, and then began to hit the small copper bells on both sides with a slightly stiff movement.

Suddenly, a crisp and pleasant metal sound sounded in my ears, as if the chime was ringing, and a hint of musicality began to echo in the living room.

"How's it going? Yes, if you don't like this scale, you can take off this little brass bell and replace it with something else. Li Hong proudly looked at the stunned dragon father and dragon mother, and looked at the two of them with joy and flattery, in case there was any reward.

I haven't been rewarded by Long Dad and Long Ma for a long time, and since I have Li Lingyue, my brothers always have a feeling that they were picked up.

"Can't you put a few more small brass bells? Knock on one by one? Wouldn't that sound better than it does now? Or wouldn't it be better to let these two little bronze men each sound a different timbre? Wu Mei was very pleased with such a timer.

You don't need to look at it as if you missed it, but you can tell the time by glancing at the shining copper plate and seeing that the hands on it point to the black scale engraved with the word "hour" in red.

It's really much more convenient, and if it's made a little more exquisite, it can also be used as a decorative game, and friends can pay attention to it, "The Sword of Online Games". If you leave halfway through, press CTRL+D to save the current page to your favorites so you can watch it later!