There was tension between Liaojin and Jin, and the battle between the two sides was about to break out, but in fact, it was already the end of the year at this time, and the weather was cold, and it was impossible for the two sides to really fight a battle of hundreds of thousands of people in the ice and snow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

War will definitely happen, but it should be in the coming year.

Therefore, Zhou Quan was not in a hurry to worry about the Liao State - deep in his heart, he still wished that the Liao State would be in danger, so that the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi would send Yu Liyan over and reunite the two of them.

Although in the past few years, the two Hongyan biography has never been severed, but the relationship cannot be maintained only by Hongyan biography, at least Zhou Quan found that there are fewer and fewer things that can be said between the two, and the greetings in the letters, in addition to being close, also gradually bring a sense of strangeness.

This is not a good sign, Zhou Quan is not the kind of person who pushes the girl he has in his hands, and his patience has been exhausted.

If you don't give it, you have to grab it!

In fact, if it weren't for Yelu Dashi's sensibility and a few words that were just right, Zhou Quan would have started to grab it a long time ago.

The main purpose of Zhao Gou's visit to Diqiu this time is to take the train from Xuzhou to Haizhou completely and experience the real role of a train.

Therefore, he didn't ask about the affairs between Liao and Jin, but sighed secretly, the court still needs to contact the Jin people through secret envoys, Zhou Quan's side, what happened between Liao and Jin, it won't take long to know clearly.

If the imperial court and Zhou Quan are not guilty, with the help of Zhou Quan's hand, how convenient it is to contact the Jin Congress!

However, the worries of the imperial court are also reasonable, and now it seems that Zhou Quan is really domineering......

Zhao Gou was thinking about Zhou Quan all the way, so he didn't express his opinion on Zhou Quan's arrangement, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was already on the train, and the train had traveled a long distance.

The improvement of the train never stops, and in order to achieve greater comfort and capacity, there are special craftsmen who revolve around the train all day long. This time, Zhao Gou took the train again, compared with a year ago, it was more comfortable and stable, he could hardly feel the shaking of the vehicle, Zhou Quan even put a glass in front of him, he could see that the cup contained most of the cup of water swaying from side to side, but it would not shake out of the cup.

"It's still a little worse...... This is not something that can be done now, and it may be a few decades before we reach the point where the water in the cup does not shake and the silver dollar can stand on the table. Zhao Gou was already extremely satisfied, but Zhou Quan still felt that it was insufficient, and sighed slightly.

"Donghai Hou, this is a bit of a blame...... By the way, Fang was on the ship, and the Marquis of Donghai said that he didn't have to worry about the Beijing-Xu Railway, so what else did the Marquis have arranged? ”

"Didn't I say that, when the people know the benefits of the railway, they will naturally support the railway crossing." Zhou Quan was a little impatient, and he didn't want Zhao Gou to keep entangled in this matter.

The matter of the peasant movement is a big taboo, even if Zhou Quan is lawless now, he is not willing to leak it easily, after all, a little carelessness may bring ruin to the seedling of the peasant association.

Zhao Gou couldn't figure it out, but he could only suppress the depression in his heart.

This trip, but the sky is not very beautiful, not long after the car dealership, there is a sound of wind and rain outside. Zhou Quan frowned, and sent someone to ask: "It's cold, ask the driver in front, if it's cold, find a place to avoid the wind and rain before leaving." ”

After a while, the young man who was sent back came back and said, "Da Lang, the driver said that they have already prepared, Da Lang just rest assured." ”

"What preparation?" Zhou Quan asked.

"The horses are covered with robes, and when they arrive at the station, they change horses, and the riders change shifts every 20 minutes, and those who change can retire into the carriage to warm themselves."

When Zhou Quan heard this, he nodded, and then said to Zhao Gou with a smile: "Let King Kang see and smile, I am busy outside on weekdays, and I am not very familiar with these things, if it weren't for King Kang to come, I wouldn't know about these situations." ”

Zhao Gou smiled bitterly at this time: "I finally know why the people of the East China Sea are loved by the people. ”

As the name suggests, the driver is the one who manages the train, and the driver is the driver. In Zhao Gou's view, the driver is a small official, and the driver is even more inferior. But the sky has changed, Zhou Quan would rather delay his trip, and even let him, the prince who came to inspect, see jokes, but also take into account the bodies of these people, this alone is much stronger than many famous ministers before the Great Song Dynasty.

Those famous ministers, who drank and had fun with prostitutes, threw the old soldiers who served them in the ice and snow, and the old soldiers could not endure the cold, so they demolished the railing at the mouth of the well and raised the fire to keep warm.

is also much stronger than Da Song Dang's son today and his father Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji cultivated Genyue in Beijing, and he always paid attention to progress and quality, and Zhao Gou never heard him ask if those craftsmen and people would be hot and freezing. Under the scorching sun this summer, Zhao Ji drank ice drinks while asking when Genyue was completely built, and he could hide in it to cool off, and he didn't care at all, at that time, there were thousands of people on the construction site, whether anyone would suffer from heat stroke.

This is a trivial matter, but it makes Zhao Gou secretly vigilant, in the past, the Tian clan was in power, didn't it start from such a trivial matter and take away the hearts of the people step by step.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhou Quan, and then ordered: "Bring the wine I brought, heat a pot, and go with the driver and the driver." ”

"Just bring the wine, don't give it now, don't drink while driving, lest you make a mistake, stay in the place, and give it to them." Zhou Quan smiled slightly.

He didn't understand what Zhao Gou meant, but how could he succeed in winning the hearts of the people for a while, and if the driver and driver were bought by Zhao Gou's pot of wine, it would not be worth his attention.

Zhao Gou came back to his senses at this time, and nodded with a wry smile.

He was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a thunderclap, Zhao Gou couldn't help but be stunned, and his face was a little wrong.

At this time, it has entered the winter, although it has not yet reached the harsh winter, but it is also quite cold, after a while, the Yellow River may be frozen, why is there thunder at this season?

Zhou Quan was also a little surprised, and glanced out of the car window.

"At this time, there will be thunder and lightning!" Zhao Gou smiled reluctantly.

"What, King Kang is afraid?"

"Electricity is the wrath of the sky, and thunder is the voice of the sky, how can you not be afraid of it? Not only is he afraid of it, but every time he encounters thunder and lightning, he will introspect himself. When Zhao Gou said this, he glanced at Zhou Quan again: "Could it be that Zhou Hou is not afraid of thunder and lightning?" ”

"I respect it, but I am not afraid of it." Zhou Quan slowly stood up from his seat, the space in the carriage was already narrow, and as soon as he stood up, he looked extraordinarily tall: "Thunder and lightning, one of the natural phases, the meeting of yin and yang, is born thunder and lightning...... Speaking of which, in the Diqiu Research Institute, there is an old gentleman who originally served as a bureau student in the Taishi Bureau, I don't know if King Kang knows about this person. ”

"Xiao Wang has heard of this person, Mr. Yu is good at mechanical skills, table clocks and other things, oh, and steam engines, all seem to be related to this old man. It's just that in the past two years, I haven't heard of this old gentleman. ”

Today, Yu Tomson has also become a legendary figure in the mouth of officials and scholars in Beijing, and many people attribute some of Zhou Quan's important properties, such as chain bicycles, table clocks, pocket watches, railroad trains, and so on. He has been in obscurity for many years in the Taishi Bureau, but at this time, like Shen Kuo, he has become a naturalist.

In fact, although Yu Tomson has done some things on the invention of these things, his main energy is still on the things that are currently unknown. After completing the initial research on the steam engine, Yu Tomson handed over all the follow-up of the steam engine to the disciples he had cultivated, and he completely left it alone, because he found something that made him feel more meaningful.

Electricity!

Zhou Quan has a booklet in the book series called "Ten Thousand Phases of Nature", which discusses the origin of wind and clouds, thunder, lightning, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. In the content of "electricity", he used the theory of "yin and yang", believing that yin and yang meet and thunder and lightning are born, and boldly proposed that if this change of yin and yang can be controlled, then it is possible for people to master the method of using thunder and lightning.

In other words, ordinary readers will only regard Zhou Quan's statement as nonsense, but Yu Tomson has followed him for many years and knows that Zhou Quan's ideas are often grounded.

He was originally from the Taishi Bureau, and he was extremely concerned about the celestial phase, and he was able to study thunder and lightning, and even turn thunder and lightning for his own use, what kind of power would it be.

When he told Zhou Quan about this idea, Zhou Quan not only did not persuade him, but promised to give him enough support. This support includes both material and human resources, as well as some theoretical aspects.

For example, the atomic theory, the conjecture of electrons - with the advent of the microscope, the door of the microscopic world has opened a little crack, so Yu Tomson did not have much resistance to what Zhou Quan said, the world is one billionth smaller than a hair.

He was just very curious about how Zhou Quan came up with such a conjecture, but every time he asked this, Zhou Quan smiled and did not answer, and he could only give up and concentrate all his energy on the research of electricity.

Zhou Quan and Zhao Gou talked about Yu Tomson's study of electricity, and then said with a smile: "It is precisely because of respect for its prestige that he understands its ability, Mr. Yu is now studying thunder and lightning, and he must be very happy in such a thunderstorm." ”

He didn't know that at this moment in Diqiu, a huge kite was floating in the sky, and under the kite, there was a wire hanging from it.

Mr. Yu Tomson didn't care about the cold rain, and was dancing with his hands: "Hurry, hurry, be careful, don't touch the wire, it's rare, it's rare, there is thunder and lightning at such a season, this is what God wants me to do!" ”

He laughed maniacally, and the people below him were rushing, and the test they were going to do today was very important, which was to verify that the thunder and lightning in the sky were the same as the electric current they had made with sulfuric acid foam copper rods in the laboratory.

Just as the old gentleman was laughing, another flash of lightning flashed in the air, which happened to hit the flying kite. Along the iron wire, a dazzling arc of light descended from the sky! (To be continued.) )