"Why is Zhou Aiqing so out of shape?" Tang Jie couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw that great Confucian minister, who had always been calm, so angry.

"Since last night, the whole Zheng Luo doesn't know when there has been a rumor, a rumor that is not reasonable! Could it be that you don't know?" Zhou Ting's article is well written, but he likes to speak straightforwardly, even in the face of the first emperor, which may be his self-defilement.

Tang Jie and the ministers looked at each other, and then looked at Zhou Ting blankly, indicating that they didn't understand the situation at all.

In the Great Zhou Kingdom, spreading rumors was a big crime, and many rebels liked to use rumors to build momentum. I remember that when the first dynasty of the Great Zhou Dynasty, those rebels learned to call the fox wolf at night, and then created some tricks to confuse and spread a rumor: "Huang Tianxing, King Chen Mang!"

It was a large-scale peasant rebellion, which directly overthrew the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it can be said that rumors played an important role in the large-scale rebellions in the history of the Great Zhou.

Therefore, every emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom attached great importance to rumors.

"Zhou Aiqing, tell me quickly, what kind of rumor is it?" Tang Jie's face was expressionless, but his words were full of murderous energy.

"Yes. Zhou Ting nodded, and then said: "Five common sense things you don't know, first, it is impossible for ordinary people to lick the back of their elbows......"

"Wait. At this time, the extremely majestic military attache on the side interrupted Zhou Ting's words, this person's surname is Gan, his name is Xiong, during Lin Wenhu's lifetime, he was called the Great Zhou Tiger Bear with him, and he was a very brave general.

As one of the representatives of the military attaché, Gan Xiong is also not quite on the right path with Zhou Ting, so he often fights-for-tat. Regardless of whether it is justified or not.

I don't know if it's because of Ganxiong's temper, although his ability is not as good as Lin Wenhu, and even his appearance in many important things is much worse than Lin Wenhu, but he is not as suspicious as Lin Wenhu by Tang Jie.

"What kind of bird rumor is this, are you stupid? This kind of rumor is simply a cat and a dog saying that I locked my wife up and killed me half a pigeon last night. But everyone knows that he is actually as boring as a silver wax gun. Gan Xiong took the opportunity to make fun of his political opponent, who was known for his erudition.

Ganxiong's remarks made the civilian officials frown disdainfully, but the military attachés chuckled.

"So General Gan can lick his elbow?" Zhou Ting responded coldly.

"What's so hard about that!?"

"I will give a thousand taels of gold, and if any of you can lick your elbow, I am willing to offer it with both hands!"

"Okay, you said!" Gan Xiong came to his senses, and he rolled up his sleeves with a big grin. He stuck out his tongue to lick the back of his elbow.

But the next moment Gan Xiong was dumbfounded, because he found that his tongue really couldn't reach his elbow, but the general was not reconciled, he changed his posture a few times, and stretched out his tongue desperately. But there was still no gain.

In the end, because his tongue was so sore that he had to give up this act, but he was still unwilling, and he turned to the military attachés for help: "Hey, if any of you have a long enough tongue, try it too, it's good." But a thousand taels of gold!"

The military attachés were already very excited about this reward, and when they heard someone talking, they also tried it one after another. Not only military attachés, but even some civil officials and Xiao Huangmen quietly stuck out their tongues and elbows.

Of course, Tang Jie was almost tempted when he saw it, but he was the Ninth Five-Year Honor, and he always had to pay attention to his image, so he could only forcibly suppress this next idea.

The results are in. The military attachés of the Manchu Dynasty plus other miscellaneous personnel, none of them could lick their elbows. This result surprised the ministers and the emperor.

Gan Xiong had confirmed this fact in his heart, but he was not convinced: "It's just that our big man's tongue is not long enough." If it's Xiao Pink, she must be able to do it, obediently, then the tongue skill ......"

"Enough!" Tang Jie shouted to interrupt the military attaché, who was completely unaware of the occasion.

Gan Xiong also knew that he was too rude, so he could only shut up and sit quietly with his face down.

"Zhou Aiqing, since this matter is true, it is not a rumor. Tang Jie is also very open-minded, he already knows the conclusion through observation and practice, so he said to Zhou Ting.

"There's a second one. Zhou Ting said this, a little excited, "Second, two objects of different size, even if the big object is a hundred times heavier than the small object, they will fall from the same height and land at the same time!"

"Nonsense!" Not only Tang Jie, but even many civil officials denied this matter.

Confucianism in the Great Zhou Dynasty likes analogies, and often articles are based on physics into heaven and human reason, and in this Confucianism in another world, Zu Sheng once said a classic analogy, to the effect that: "Two stones, one ten catties, one catty, ten catties of stones fall ten times faster than one catty of nature, so the same is true of the country, and the development of the country with thick benevolence is also faster than that of the country with thin benevolence." ”

This sentence is regarded as a classic by Confucianism, but this rumor is simply **naked slapping the face of Confucianism all over the ground, how can it not make Zhou Ting, who is a great Confucian, angry and excited!?

"I say, instead of writing those sour anti-scolding essays, wouldn't it be better to give it a try?" Gan Xiong saw the reaction of the civil officials and the emperor, and whispered in dissatisfaction.

"Okay, I'll try it and see if this is the truth or a rumor!" Tang Jie couldn't sit still, he accepted Gan Xiong's suggestion, and immediately ordered the attendants to prepare this truth.

The emperor personally gave the order, and the efficiency of his subordinates was naturally much faster, and after a while, ten pounds of stones and one pounds of stones were ready, and the actual location was a four-story attic on the side of the palace square.

The attendants raised their flags and then pushed down two stones at the same height at the same time.

As a result, the civil officials were dumbfounded, and these two stones, which were ten times different in weight, fell to the ground at the same time!

"Change, these ten catties of stones are definitely not heavy enough, for twenty catties!" Zhou Ting yelled at those attendants angrily, completely forgetting the emperor on the side.

And Tang Jie learned most of the Confucianism in his life, respecting Confucianism is the spirit in his bones, and he naturally supports Zhou Ting's mention, so the two real yàn stones are constantly changing - twenty catties to one catty, thirty catties to one catty, fifty catties to one catty, and even to one hundred catties to one catty.

However, the result was very frustrating to the civil officials and the emperor, and the small stone did not know what magic power it was given, and it could always land at the same time as a stone dozens or even hundreds of times larger than it.

If it continues, it will be too scoundrel, and the emperor and the ministers have no shame to continue to be real.

At this time, Tang Jie and the civil officials accepted this reality almost helplessly.

"Say, what other rumors?" Tang Jie looked at the two stones of disparity in size, did not move, and asked Zhou Ting with a grim face - he didn't want to admit this fact, hoping to break the other rumors to destroy the series of rumors in one fell swoop.

It's not a matter of rumors, it's a matter of faith.

Tang Jie finally understood Zhou Ting's angry and helpless mood. (To be continued)