As soon as Li Chao arrived, the car he and Xie Li were sitting in was stopped by the villagers, dozens of villagers carried flat poles and hoes, and blocked the front of the car with their not thick bodies, their eyes were a little frightened, but their bodies did not flinch at all. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Doodle...... The driver honked his horn and said impatiently, "Get out of the way." ”

"Don't." One of the peasants at the head boldly said, "This road is impassable, please take a detour." ”

This road doesn't work? The driver glanced up at the road behind the farmer, and everywhere he looked, it was smooth, where did he come from? He then looked at the group of peasants and sneered, "Do you know what this kind of car is?" You dare to stop it? ”

"No matter what kind of car it is, we can't let this iron monster enter our village." He tightened his shoulder and licked his lips slightly, "If it enters our village, it will definitely lead to the death of the crops." ”

"Iron Youkai? Crops are dying? Xie Li pushed the car door and looked at the farmer in amazement, and it took him a while before he realized that the iron monster in the farmer's mouth was a car.

"I've heard that when the automobile railway first entered China, it was treated as a monster that could breathe smoke, but I didn't expect that I could actually experience such a thing, and this is not a historic moment."

Xie Li chuckled in a low voice and stepped out of the car, "Hello big brother, our car is called a car, not an iron monster." ”

"It can move and spew black smoke, isn't this called an iron monster?" The farmer at the head didn't believe it, and was very wary of Xie Li, "You speak for the monster, are you the minions of the monster?" Are you here to help it find human flesh to eat? ”

"It's not an Iron Youkai." Xie Li repeated this sentence again, "The reason why it sprays black rock is because the fuel inside does not have time to burn completely, so it is discharged in the form of black smoke, and when our technology improves, this kind of black smoke will not appear again." ”

"As for our ......." Xie Li turned his head to look at Li Chao who was sitting in the car, and only after seeing Li Chao nodding did he say: "I am the Minister of Industry and the Ministry of Railways, and the one inside is the ruler of our New Chinese Empire and the future emperor." ”

Emperor.......

The peasant led by the hand shook, and the flat pole fell to the ground without holding it, and his voice trembled uncontrollably, "Emperor...... Are you the emperor? ”

I didn't expect Li Chao to be sitting on the emperor, so didn't he just collide with the imperial driver?

Thinking like this, he was covered in sweat.

"I haven't been crowned yet." His identity was exposed, and Li Chao couldn't sit in the car, so he pushed the car door and walked down, "But there's nothing wrong with you calling me emperor." ”

When he saw that the peasant's face was as white as paper, he probably guessed what he was thinking, so he took two steps forward and whispered, "Don't be afraid, don't blame those who don't know, and you don't know that you stopped my car." ”

The peasants led by Li Chao were appeased for a while, and their hearts slowly relaxed, and they were not so scared, Li Chao asked at this time: "But why did you stop my car?" ”

With a pop, the peasants led by him knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Chao repeatedly, "Your Majesty the Emperor, please don't let this monster that can breathe black smoke pass through our village, it will bring disaster and make all the crops die." ”

He beckoned to the back and immediately fell to his knees.

"Emperor Laozi, you must not let the Iron Monster pass through our village, it will eat people."

"Yes, some people see that it eats ten people a day, the kind that pits out the heart."

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I beg you, don't let the Iron Monster pass us."

Crops are dying? Bringing disaster? Li Chao shook his head, it is true that the pollution caused by the car is true, and it is also true that it has an impact on the crops, but it is pure nonsense that the crops are dead and bring disasters.

The car is a tool, how can it eat people?

This is superstition, and it is this superstition that Li Chao wants to break.

"This is not a man-eating monster, but a scientifically made tool." Li Chao said: "What is science? Science is a discipline handed down from family teachers to deeply explore, understand, and use all things in the universe, and it is a discipline used by mortals to get close to the gods. ”

"Immortals can swim in the twilight of the North Sea, and mortals can also swim in the twilight of the North Sea with the help of tools made by the discipline of science; Immortals can fly to the sky, and mortals can also fly to the sky with the help of tools made by the discipline of science. Li Chao turned around and walked back, stopped in front of the car, he patted the car with his hand, and made a dangdang sound, "This car is a tool made by the discipline of science, and it drove from Guangzhou City to Foshan in less than half a day, which is something that fast horses and mortals can't do, but it does it." ”

"You say it's a tool, not a monster?" The farmer at the head stood up and looked at the car incredulously, he didn't believe it, but Li Chao's words made him believe it a little, the emperor was full of words, so he wouldn't lie, "It really doesn't eat people?" ”

"Of course they don't eat people." Li Chao said with a smile: "Instead of eating people, it will help people." ”

"Helping people? Impossible! ”

"Why can't it be?" Li Chao asked rhetorically, and then popularized science, "Its advantage is speed, it can take me from Guangzhou to Foshan, since it can bring people, why can't it bring goods?" In the past, you planted crops because they were too far away and could only be transported to nearby counties, but with cars, you can transport crops to big cities. ”

The farmer at the head thought for a moment and shook his head, "It's not the same, we sell rice in the county seat for a maximum of 1,400 wen per stone, but I heard that in Guangzhou, the lowest per stone is 1,600 wen, and the highest can be sold for 1,800 wen." ”

"That's right, with a car you can transport grain to Guangzhou, go when the sun rises and come back when the sun sets."

"And the car can hold a lot of grain, and it can hold 4 stone of rice at a time."

Li Chao pointed to the car and said, "You should know how much 4 stone rice is...... 1 stone is 59 kilograms, ordinary adults can carry up to 1 stone of rice to walk, ox carts can carry up to 2 stones, but it is still unknown whether this can go to Guangzhou, but the car is different, it can load 4 stones of rice, and it can quickly get to Guangzhou, and with the progress of science, the car will be more and more improved, and even the car will be developed specifically for transporting goods, do you think it will help you? ”

"Yes." The farmer at the head said without hesitation: "If you can really load so much rice, and you can get to Guangzhou quickly, it will definitely help." ”

One stone of rice in Guangzhou is at least 200 Wen more expensive than the county seat,