The soldiers brought a lot of wooden barrels and filled them with soil in front of Cao Shuo and others.

Every time they fill in some soil, they splash a basin of water in the bucket.

By the time the barrel was filled, the soil inside was very compact.

Cao Shuo ordered the soldiers to stand on a high place and prepare the barrels.

The mines had been laid, and with his command, the soldiers pushed the barrels down with all their might.

The barrel tumbled and fell to the site where the mines had been laid.

When the barrel ran over the mine, the expected successive explosions did not occur, except for one or two mines that exploded after the heavy barrel had been crushed.

After two explosions, Cao Shuo and the others watched as the barrel rolled out of the minefield.

All the barrels rolled over, and Mi Heng and the craftsmen were all the color of earth.

The craftsmen bowed their heads, and none of them dared to say anything.

Mi Heng timidly said to Cao Shuo: "My lord...... Mine ......"

"Not bad!" Cao Shuo's reaction was beyond the expectations of Mi Heng and the craftsmen, and the craftsmen raised their heads one after another, looking at him blankly and bewildered.

"At least two of them exploded, which means that your idea is valid." Cao Shuo said: "The mine did not explode because the sparks that appeared during the impact were not strong enough. I can come up with an idea that if you try to build it, you might be able to build a mine that can explode every time. ”

"Please make it clear!" Mi Heng bowed and said.

"The mine is detonated by a spark generated by a spring impact, why can't the place of impact be filled with gunpowder?" Cao Shuo said: "The gunpowder is plugged tightly, and as long as the force of the impact is enough, it will explode in a small space. If the gunpowder explodes on the inside, it will inevitably ignite the outside. If that could be done, would the mines still not explode? ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

Cao Shuo said this method, they really didn't expect it.

"In many cases, as long as you use your brain, seemingly difficult problems can be solved." Cao Shuo smiled indifferently and greeted everyone: "Give the thunder first, I will live in Penglai for a few days, and wait until the mine is intact, and then report to me." ”

The craftsmen in charge of laying the mines ran to the minefields.

They lifted the mines and found that the springs of almost every mine were touched, but they did not explode.

From the touched spring, the craftsmen could see that Cao Shuo's prediction was correct.

The explosion of gunpowder requires a sufficient ignition medium, and the spark generated by the spring striking inside the mine is very small, and it is difficult to achieve the purpose of igniting the gunpowder.

All the mines were lifted off the ground, and the craftsmen loaded them onto carts and transported them back to the workshops.

Cao Shuo did not follow them to the craftsman's workshop.

He was accompanied by Mi Heng to his residence in Penglai.

Penglai Island, of course, is much smaller than Dongying Island.

The residence that Mi Heng had prepared for Cao Shuo was located on a cliff.

Not far from his residence, Cao Shuo explained to Mi Heng: "These days, you keep an eye on some craftsmen's workshops and use the methods I said to make mines, although they will definitely explode, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no casualties when they are made." Be sure to tell the craftsmen that they should handle it with care no matter what, and that they should put on the spring firing pin at the end, but never detonate the mine while making it. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I understand." Mi Heng replied: "I've been staring at the craftsman's workshop these days. ”

"At the beginning, I moved the papermaking and other processes to Penglai, and I saw the paper sent to the Central Plains, which was much better than before." Cao Shuo said: "It's just that books still need to be transcribed by hand, and it is still difficult to popularize books among the people." Is there a way you can solve this problem? ”

"Books don't need to be transcribed by hand, what else can I do?" Although Mi Heng was smart, he could not have known that there was a technology in the world called printing.

The advent of printing determined the widespread popularity of books.

The popularization of books promoted the development of literature, art, and technology.

If you want to rule the economy and culture to be more developed, the emergence of printing press cannot be delayed.

Cao Shuo asked deliberately, and he also knew that Mi Heng could not have thought of printing, otherwise he would not have to wait until the Northern Song Dynasty to be invented by Bi Sheng.

Mi Heng's answer really did not surprise Cao Shuo.

Cao Shuo smiled and asked, "If I use a board and engrave the protruding characters on it, and then print the characters on paper, how many books do you think can be printed?" ”

never thought that there would be such a method, Mi Heng looked at Cao Shuo in amazement: "How did the lord come up with it?" ”

"I can think of more than you think." Cao Shuo smiled slightly: "I told you a long time ago, if you talk about talent, the talents of the whole world will be divided into ten buckets, and I will have eight buckets for one person, and you will share one bucket." ”

Mi Heng has always been arrogant, and if someone else said that, he would definitely be sarcastic.

But Cao Shuo said this, but he had to be convinced.

Proposing a new method of creating mines, not to mention whether it is really useful or not, can guess that method is absolutely feasible just by thinking about it.

There is also the process of making paper, and the idea of purifying pulp was first proposed by Cao Shuo.

Thanks to his proposals, paper can now be a real alternative to sheepskin and silk.

With the withdrawal of bamboo slips from being used to record writing, today's books are not only cheap, but also light and easy to carry.

Cao Shuo also proposed that he could use a template to print, and Mi Heng admired him even more.

What especially made Mi Heng admire was that Cao Shuo could actually think of dividing the world into ten buckets, of which he alone had eight buckets, and the other two buckets were distributed to everyone in the world.

How did he know that Cao Shuo would say this, or he was inspired by Xie Lingyun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Xie Lingyun once said that the world is divided into ten buckets, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, the sky has one bucket, and the people in the world have one bucket.

Of course, when Cao Shuo mentioned this allusion before, he would always give Xie Lingyun a shameless label.

In Xie Lingyun's time, Cao Zhi had been an ancient man for many years.

The eight buckets in the world's talents were taken away by a dead man, and he had one fight for the remaining two, Xie Lingyun just wanted to tell the people of the world - Lao Tzu was the first in the world.

But he was cowardly and afraid, and he was afraid that he would be criticized if he said it directly, so he thought of such a statement.

However, people in later generations only noticed that he was eight buckets, and they actually omitted his implied meaning.

Cao Shuo and Xie Lingyun are different.

Xie Lingyun didn't dare to say it, but Cao Shuo dared to say it!

Even if Lao Tzu is the first in the world, how many people in the world dare to disagree?

Those who dare to disagree, Cao Shuo has a way to rectify them.

For those people, don't talk nonsense, as long as you send troops to fight, it won't be long before you will be better than your grandson!

He has always been arrogant, and the world has long been accustomed to it, not to mention that his talent has indeed been recognized by the world for a long time.

After listening to Cao Shuo's words, Mi Heng, who had an arrogant temperament, also had to say convincingly: "The lord alone actually won nine buckets, and it is enough for me to share one bucket with the people of the world!" ”

Cao Shuo laughed and patted his arm gently: "We'll talk about printing later, you first stare at the craftsman's workshop and build the mines." ”

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