Chapter 224: The Beginning of the Electric Light
Xiaoyu's marriage began to be prepared a year ago, Yu Zhaoyun said that this wedding should be done in a grand manner, and many guests will be invited at that time, a living room is definitely not enough, and the courtyard and backyard must be vacated to set up wine tables. Wang Haoran shook his head and said, he is such a sister, and his sister's marriage must not only be magnificent, but also super magnificent! So the wedding banquet was set up in the Hibiscus Garden, which is a big place and a beautiful scenery.
As a result, because Wang Haoran's words were a little peculiar, such a style quickly became popular among the common people, buying things is too expensive, not that it is too expensive, but that it is super expensive; Eating something that feels delicious is not that it is delicious, but that it is super delicious...... It seems that the interest of the ancients was no worse than that of later generations.
As this argument intensified, Li Shimin also coaxed, saying that since Haoran was going to hold a super grand wedding banquet, I would send some imperial chefs to help the scene when the time came.
Now it's okay, as soon as Li Shimin speaks, there are more people who follow the trend:
Since Haoran is going to hold a super grand wedding banquet, then I will call a few more friends to help the scene;
Since the lord is going to hold a super grand wedding banquet, then I will prepare more gifts and help scenes;
Since the little master is going to hold a super grand wedding banquet, then I will add more dishes at home to celebrate and help Princess Huiling help the scene;
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Many wealthy children, literati, and ordinary people tried their best to think of some words like Li Shimin's style to join in the fun, but on the day of Xiaoyu's wedding, they really did it! Every household slaughters chickens and ducks, and firecrackers...... It's like going through the New Year and going through the New Year. Li Shimin saw that the people were making such a lot of fun, and simply lifted the curfew that day.
Xiaoyu's wedding banquet is indeed super magnificent, not to mention the famous five ladies and ten tiger generals, there are also many wealthy businessmen in Chang'an, children of the royal family and nobles, Yu Shinan, Yan Lide brothers, Cheng Yanjin and other high-ranking officials who have some friendship with Wang Haoran also came to cheer. Li Shimin and Empress Changsun also came, but they were not the most important, because the Emperor Li Yuan, who had not appeared for a long time, also had a hard time coming out of the palace to join in the fun, how to say that he was also Xiaoyu's father-in-law.
On this day, it seems that the whole of Chang'an is celebrating Xiaoyu's marriage, such a big scene, even Wang Haoran's own marriage is not so magnificent.
If you want to say that the most spectacular thing is the fireworks that night, those are all new fireworks developed by the people of Chen Jun's research institute, and the number is so large that it has been set off for more than an hour. Moreover, Xu Mian also found some combustible metals, which made the sparks of the fireworks colorful and beautiful, and Li Shimin was so greedy that he asked Wang Haoran for the formula.
The more the research came to the last moment, whether it was Wang Haoran, Yu Zhaoyun and others, they were in a hurry to finish it, so they rushed back to Hangzhou within half a month after Xiaoyu got married.
Wang Haoran sent people to bring tobacco and other new species to Sun Simiao for study, and also brought a letter, both inside and out, saying that smoking was the main reason for the short life expectancy of the tribesmen in the New World.
I don't know if Sun Simiao really studied it, maybe he just guessed Wang Haoran's thoughts, out of trust, so the rhetoric in the reply letter is no different from Wang Haoran. Wang Haoran doesn't care if Sun Simiao studies it or not, anyway, the result is good, even Dr. Sun said that smoking is harmful to health, who would not believe it? So Wang Haoran immediately reported the conclusions reached by Sun Simiao to the imperial court, so that tobacco should not spread.
After a few months, the battery was finally developed, and then it was combined with the ignition device developed by Xiaoyu, and it was completed with a slight improvement.
Xiaoyu's power station is not so easy, problems are frequent, and when it was first built, it couldn't even generate electricity. As a result, the project, which was expected to be completed in a few months, took another year, during which time Xiaoyu and her team developed the light bulb and waited for the power station to generate electricity.
Finally one day, a girl from Xiaoyu's team hurriedly came to find Wang Haoran, saying that Xiaoyu had something to find him and asked him to hurry over. Wang Haoran saw that this girl was so excited, and guessed in his heart that the electric light should be successfully debugged.
Wang Haoran arrived at the power station and was taken to a room. At this time, in addition to the members of Xiaoyu's team in the room, Chen Jun and others also came.
Xiao Yu seemed very excited, and when she saw that everyone had arrived, she asked her to close the door and cover the window.
"Pick it up!"
Xiaoyu gave an order, and there was a soft sound of "pop", and the room immediately lit up, and the whole room was like dusk, and all kinds of things were clearly visible.
Everyone was attracted by the electric light on the table, which was several times brighter than a candle, and it used to be necessary to light several candles in a room, but this one bulb was much brighter than those.
Xiaoyu enjoyed everyone's surprise at her research results, but his brother was still calm and just smiled.
"Brother, isn't this light so bright?" Xiaoyu thought that Wang Haoran was still not satisfied.
"It's not bad, let's see how long this electric light can last, if it can last for more than half a month, then it's done." Wang Haoran was accustomed to using fluorescent lamps in later generations, so he really couldn't arouse too much interest in the face of incandescent lamps.
"If so, can it be generalized?" Xiaoyu excitedly imagined the situation when thousands of homes were brightly lit.
"It's still early, if you want to promote it, this power station is still too small, and the problem of transporting electricity is also a big problem." Wang Haoran said, "You should use this power station first, and install electric lights in the research institute." Gain experience from this, and when the time comes, build a large power station, and if it succeeds, then you can promote electric light. ”
Xiao Yu was a little disappointed, but she quickly cheered up again, to do something earth-shattering, how could it be possible to solve just a little difficulty?
The research progress of fuel power head is slow, even if Wang Haoran comes from later generations, it is impossible to understand everything, and there are some problems, he has to slowly explore. Fortunately, he has more access to science and technology, and when he encounters problems, he can always think of some good research directions, so that he will not be like a headless fly.
Wang Haoran has another idea that he has been thinking about for a long time, that is, to build an academy. He originally wanted to implement this plan in a few years, although he is now very famous, but he is only in his twenties after all, fame does not mean prestige, he wants to make that academy the highest level from the beginning, not to slowly accumulate fame, then he must have enough prestige. What made him think so early was his children, the eldest Wang Ruiyi is now nine years old, although Wang Haoran invited Mr. Private School to teach, but he was still a little worried, he often found time to develop children's thinking, which those old antiques could not do.
If the college is opened early, Wang Haoran can only rely on the prestige of the royal family, which is quite easy to do, but the embarrassment is that Wang Haoran wants to open the college in Chang'an or Zhongcheng, and Li Tai was abducted to Hangzhou by him, so he ran back, and he couldn't get by, after all, Li Tai came to Hangzhou because of him.
During this time, Wang Haoran has been looking for a feasible way, he doesn't want to delay it for too long, it is easier to cultivate a teenager, if it drags on for a long time, once the idea of old antiques is deeply rooted in the child's heart, it is not easy to turn it around.