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The first is a cylindrical lantern made of bamboo strips and pasted with paper, and the inside is not very clear. But if there are visitors from the future generations in the Zhengxin Hall at this moment, I am afraid that it can be seen at a glance, isn't this the Kong Ming lantern?

The second is a small stove with an iron pot covered with a round lid and a three-legged bronze tripod on the lid. Instead of wood, the furnace was a reddish clod of earth, and next to it was a pile of black things, coal.

The third piece was obviously a bag of corn flour, and I don't know what it was used for.

Naturally, the tens of thousands of people in the hall can see clearly the three things placed on the terrace. After all, in this era, myopia cannot be said to be absent, but it is obviously very rare. Although everyone was very curious about what Hu Hai put these three things for, no one made a noise, just held the doubt in his heart.

"Let's get started." Hu Hai sat down on the chair behind the bronze case and said lightly.

A craftsman quickly put the lantern away, and then took the tinder and stretched it into the lantern, and soon a small pinch of orange-yellow flames were lit in the lantern, and the original white lantern turned orange.

The craftsman lit the lantern and carefully placed it on the ground, then bowed to Hu Hai and slowly retreated.

Seeing this scene, the ministers of the court and the students of the Royal Academy in the Zhengxin Hall were even more puzzled. At the Lantern Festival, the sea of lanterns I saw was gone, which one is not better than the one in front of me?

Obviously, the emperor could not be bored enough to light a lantern in front of tens of thousands of people to play.

Hu Hai's fingers tapped lightly on the copper case.

After a while, I saw that the lantern that had been placed on the ground suddenly moved. Before everyone could react, the lantern had slowly left the ground and began to slowly soar upwards.

It's slow though. Although it "faltered", it rose tenaciously and steadily, and continued to rise until it reached the top of the main hall of the main hall before it was stopped by the obstruction of the dome.

"Wow!"

The tens of thousands of people in the Zhengxin Hall could no longer remain calm, and there was an uproar.

Is it a miracle that a lantern can fly on its own?

Hu Hai had long expected such a scene, got up and pressed down with his hands, and the hall gradually quieted down, and the flames in the lantern had gradually dimmed at this moment. The lantern began to descend slowly, and when the fire was completely extinguished, the lantern slowly fell from the sky in front of the terrace of the temple.

"Don't be in a hurry, look at the second thing!" Hu Hai pointed to the iron pot with a red hearth, "Bounce the wind." Add fire! ”

The raw coal of the big shovel was thrown into the furnace, and Long Yu personally operated the small wooden blower and pulled it carefully, and after a while, the raw coal that had just been thrown in turned black into red, and then gradually turned into a bright and transparent flame.

The inside of the sealed iron pot on the stove is filled with water. The boiling water inside the iron pot was getting louder and louder. As Long Yu pulled the blower faster and faster, the boiling sound in the iron pot became louder and louder.

Traces of white mist were visible to the naked eye, beginning to emerge from the cracks in the sealed wooden cover.

After another moment, the wooden lid shook suddenly. Then the tremor became more and more violent, and from time to time a small gap was made in the wooden lid that had been tightly fitted with the iron pot, and the white mist of the large canopy gushed out, and then fell silent. After a while. Push the lid back on again, and so on. It was as if a small beast was being held in the iron cauldron at the moment, and it was constantly fluttering.

If it weren't for the three-legged copper tripod on the lid of the pot, wouldn't the lid have been overturned long ago? I'm afraid that the three-legged copper tripod weighs dozens of catties! Isn't there only water in the pot? If there was only water, how could there be such a big movement? But what can survive in this boiling water? Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor has found a strange beast?

"Alright. Long Yu, take down the copper tripod. ”

"Whoa!"

Long Yu quickly took off the copper tripod and flashed it to the side. As the three-legged copper tripod was removed, the lid was instantly washed away by the white fog of the canopy, and it could no longer be closed. When the white mist gradually dissipated, the lid of the pot returned to its original state, fitting perfectly with the iron pot.

"Take the lid off the pot."

"Wow!"

Tens of thousands of people in the Zhengxin Hall were in an uproar again, and even the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee forgot to follow the rules at this moment, such as Wei Yu and the others all got up together to look at what was inside the iron pot.

Unfortunately, there was nothing in the iron pot except for half a pot of boiling water.

What is the reason for this?

"Don't rush, don't rush. Let's look at the third piece! Hu Hai smiled to reassure everyone and nodded to Long Yu.

Long Yu got the order and turned around and beckoned outside the gate.

"Bang bang bang!"

Heavy footsteps rumbled from outside the gate with the sound of armor clashing.

This is a group of soldiers holding a huge shield with both hands, and the huge shield is nearly a foot high, so that people can't see the soldiers behind the big shield clearly. This is a twenty-person Xuanwu Army heavy armor infantry squad.

Twenty heavily armored foot soldiers of the Xuanwu Army armed with huge shields first knelt down on one knee and bowed to Hu Hai, and then got up and stood on either side of the bag of corn flour.

On the other side, several craftsmen in Shangfang have begun to get busy nervously, a dark round object with a long tail only the size of a baby's fist was stuffed into the corn flour bag, and then the craftsman used split bamboo to carefully wrap the back half of the tail that seemed to be twine, everything was completed, and several craftsmen bowed and stood aside.

"Okay? Let's get started. ”

"Whoa!"

Twenty Tiger Ben soldiers and several Shangfang craftsmen responded in unison.

In the midst of the loud sound, twenty tiger soldiers holding giant shields formed a circular formation around the bag of corn flour, and the giant shield was in front, as if facing a great enemy. The thread-like tail that extended from the round thing stuffed into the corn bag was pulled out of the gap in the giant shield.

A craftsman slowly stretched the flame to the top of the twine, as if to ignite it.

"Whew!"

At the moment when the fire came into contact with the twine, the tiny twine suddenly made such a slight sound, a cloud of white smoke rose, and the small twine suddenly sparks splashed, spreading rapidly along the twine towards the center of the giant shield, and the white and black smoke rose in the burning process.

A pungent and choking smell began to spread slowly in the main hall of the main hall as the smoke rose into the air.

Smelling the familiar smell with a choking smell, Hu Hai couldn't help but take a deep breath.

That's what firecrackers smell like!

In just a few breaths, the tail exposed outside the giant shield had burned out, leaving only a few pale yellow traces of burning and a thin strip of black powder on the smooth ground.

"Boom!"