In the sound of "creaking", a half-height wooden monk, painted with red paint, stepped on a wooden car, and slowly walked towards Li Xuan and the others from the depths of the courtyard.

He dragged a wooden bowl in his left hand, pointed forward with the fingers of his right hand, opened and closed his mouth, and said mechanically, "Please give alms."

"Is this a puppet?" Li Xuan looked at the wooden monk in front of him in disbelief, his gaze quickly passed over him, and fell on a middle-aged official in the center of the courtyard who was wearing a cyan short robe, with a serious complexion, short beard and stubble, but bright eyes: "Shang Yao Feng Yu Li Xuan, I have seen Yang Weng."

Yang Wulian, the master craftsman, waved his hand directly, stared at Li Xuan and asked, "You're welcome, do you know that this is a puppet?"

"Of course, of course, Zhuge Wuhou made wooden oxen and flowing wood, and it was all over the place, and there were many historical records, so the lower officials naturally knew about it." Li Xuan paused slightly, and then followed up and asked, "Please also ask Yang Weng, how does this thing make sound?"

The rest is fine, the key is to make a sound.

Li Xuan never imagined that in Luoyang in the second year of the last century, he could see such a puppet that could make a sound.

"You're so nice!" Yang Wulian looked Li Xuan up and down, as if he was looking at something strange, he slapped his hands violently, and said very firmly, "I'll go to Brother Judge, leave you in the general as a prisoner, and be my deputy." Z.br>

"Yang Weng, how can the king of Nanchang stay in the general as a prisoner?" Why did he bow to Yang Wulian seriously, his face was full of begging.

"Why not?" Yang Wulian retorted directly, and then said very directly: "He is now a medicine under the fifth grade, and he came to me to be a young craftsman from the fourth grade, and he also raised one more level!"

"Yang Weng, the functions of the king of Nanchang County are all appointed by His Majesty, even if it is from Duke Liu, I am afraid that it is not easy to speak." He Qiu shook his head.

Liu Gong is the son of Liu Shenli, the former secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the son of Liu Dewei, the former secretary of the Criminal Department.

"Fart, Your Majesty is better to say." Yang Wulian glared at He Yiqiu fiercely, and turned his head to look at Li Xuan: "I will play at the same time as Brother Jurier, and I will ask Your Majesty and the Queen of Heaven to ......."

At the mention of the queen of heaven, Yang Wulian suddenly paused, and finally shook his head, and said in a hearty voice: "Forget it, let's talk about this later."

"Yang Weng, Xiao Wang doesn't know where to get Yang Weng's wrong love, please ask Yang Weng to make it clear?" Li Xuan bowed sincerely to Yang Wulian.

Li Xuan really didn't know why Yang Wulian suddenly wanted to keep him in the prison, which was too ridiculous.

Yang Wulian looked coldly at He Yiqiu on the side: "You ask him, does he know what a mechanism puppet is??

Li Xuan turned his head sideways, and saw He Yiqiu say with a wry smile: "Although the lower official has seen the puppet play, but the puppet, today is the first time I have heard of it, and the first time I have seen it in person, the lower official does not dare to say anything, and when I first saw it, I was really startled, and I thought it was a puppet."

The corners of Li Xuan's mouth couldn't help twitching, but he still looked at Yang Wulian seriously: "Yang Weng, in the world, almost everyone who is proficient in the art of the mechanism knows what the mechanism puppet says, which is not unusual."

"You say you're proficient!" Yang Wulian glanced at the puppet on the ground, pointed to the wooden bowl on it and said, "Put three copper coins in it."

He Qiu looked at Li Xuan with some puzzlement, Li Xuan nodded, and said, "It should be a matter of weight, put three more copper coins, it should be full of weight settings, as for what will happen later, it depends on Yang Weng's arrangement."

Yang Wulian laughed and sighed with emotion: "If you are not the king of the dynasty, I really want to leave you here with me."

Li Xuanjun's identity is destined to make him unable to stay in the center for a long time, especially in a key department like a prison.

"Yang Weng is preferred." Li Xuan bowed heavily to express his gratitude, and Yang Wulian's special attitude towards him made Li Xuan very grateful.

Yang Wulian raised his hand and waved, then looked at He Yiqiu.

At this time, He Yiqiu took out three copper coins from his arms, and then carefully walked in front of the wooden monk, and slowly put the three copper coins in the wooden bowl.

The next moment, I heard a "click".

sounded, and the wooden bowl sank directly for three points.

Immediately, the wooden monk bowed his head and opened and closed his mouth: "Thank you for your generosity."

After finishing speaking, the wooden monk slowly turned around, and then walked towards the back hall one by one, and finally disappeared from Li Xuan's sight.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan groaned slightly, looked at the straight car marks left on the ground, stepped forward to brush away the floating soil on the ground slightly, and a wooden track specially carved on the ground appeared in front of Li Xuan's eyes.

He raised his head and looked at Yang Wulian: "Yang Weng, how often does this thing need to be overhauled?"

"Haha, I really didn't misread you!" Yang Wulian laughed, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go into the house and talk."

Li Xuan nodded, followed behind Yang Wulian, and walked into the inner hall together.

There was a table in the middle of the inner hall, and Yang Wulian pointed to the chair on the right side and said, "Sit there."

"Obey!" Li Xuan sat on the top of the right side, and as soon as he sat down, he felt the chair under his buttocks sink slightly, and then a very slight "click" sounded, and he saw a half-height puppet walking out of the door of the inner hall.

This is a dark yellow puppet, his hands forward, holding a wooden tray, on which is a palm-sized tea bowl, and then came to Li Xuan's side, a very slight "click" sound sounded again, and the puppet stopped in front of Li Xuan's eyes.

Li Xuan turned his head to look at Yang Wulian, Yang Wulian nodded proudly, Li Xuan gave up his hand slightly, and then took the tea bowl with both hands.

With a "click", the wooden tray in the puppet's hand popped up at once, and the next moment, he had already turned around and disappeared in front of him in a moment.

"Only when the distinguished guest comes, I will do it once, so that it will be overhauled once every five to seven days, and if it is used continuously, it will not be able to move again for half an hour." Yang Wulian shook his head and said with emotion: "I really don't know how Zhuge Wuhou's Muliu cattle and horses were made back then, and it is really amazing to climb over the steep and rugged road to reach the Shu Road as if walking on the ground!"

"Yes, the technique of the Wooden Stream Cow and Horse has been lost, and the most common thing in the world today is the puppet technique." Li Xuan couldn't help but shake his head.

Puppets, the most common people in the world are puppets, and the ones that are motionless are the most basic puppets.

Puppets, more string puppets, marionettes, people hide behind puppets and use silk threads to manipulate puppets to make movements.

The puppet is more about doing hands and feet in the body of the humanoid puppet, operating the mechanism, delicately arranging the layout, and finally letting the puppet move.

The puppets made by Yang Wulian seem to be exquisite, but in fact they have many limitations.

Between movements, gravity and orbital action are required.

It is easy to be limited by others, and it is easy to be learned.

"But Yang Weng can make the puppet speak, the younger generation really admires!" Li Xuan stood up seriously and gave up his hand.

Yang Wulian mentioned Shu Dao before, but Li Xuan could guess that what he was talking about was not Shu Dao, but the Tubo Plateau.

In the battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo Dafeichuan, although the defeat was due to the discord between the generals and the commanders, it was also inevitable to suffer from altitude sickness.

The treatment of altitude sickness is a big problem even in later generations, not to mention that today's Datang lacks a clear understanding of altitude sickness.

Therefore, the use of puppets to replace people for baggage transportation has become the direction of research in the prison.

It's just that Yang Wulian asked the puppet to speak, which made Li Xuan feel that his purpose was far from that simple, but he didn't know what the truth was, and it was not easy to ask.

"It's just a little ingenuity." Yang Wulian shook his head, lightly brought the topic over, and looked at Li Xuan: "The Emperor's Spiritual Pivot is contained, there are meridians in the organ, and those who control the meridians can control the organ. It's a pity that good meridians are hard to find, otherwise the techniques of the world's organs would not be what they look like in front of them."

The meridians are the muscles and bones of the organs.

This is the case with gear springs.