Chapter 15: The Magic Stone Society and Alchemy

Thank you, drunk eyes on the top of a thousand peaks, Wang Xiucai, EQY brothers' rewards......

I couldn't imagine that the two of them were helpless gangsters in Hangzhou City, and they didn't know what high incense they burned in their previous lives, but they were actually summoned by Shang's father, and they said so many things.

In the future, even if they are Wen Fei, the men under Shang's father, who will dare to provoke them in Hangzhou City in the future?

At this time, a green-robed Taoist priest walked over with a wooden plate and said with a smile: "You two are Chen San and Song Wu, right?"

The two nodded hurriedly, but they didn't have time to speak. Then I heard the Taoist priest say, "This is the reward given to you by the Heavenly Master!"

As he spoke, he uncovered the red cloth on the wooden plate, and saw two neat stacks of holy coins on it, and two piles of white flowers, I am afraid that there are not as many as 100 pieces. Gave their eyes to Yaohua.

Song Wu reached out to get the money. was kicked by Chen San below. With a look, Song Wu understood, hurriedly withdrew his hand and followed Chen San to kneel down and kowtow gratefully in the direction of the Great Heavenly Master: "It is difficult for the little ones to repay the great kindness of the Heavenly Master when they are cattle and horses!"

The Taoist priest smiled slightly, and took the expressions of these two gangsters to heart. He said: "The steamer is a sacred object brought back by Father Shang from the fairy world, and it is not for ordinary people to go up. Only the devout followers of my religion can board the steamer......"

The two of them were surprised and delighted when they heard it, and they didn't know what kind of incense they had burned in their previous lives. How could we actually do things on the steamer that came off that day? Doesn't that mean that we can also be immortal?

Seeing that Chen San and Song Wu left with interest, Wen Fei said secretly in his heart. Today, Hangzhou is a port city. It shouldn't be difficult to recruit sailors, but it's not so easy to recruit sailors to drive steamships.

The most optimistic estimates. I'm afraid it will take a few months, right? As for the question of loyalty, Wen Fei is not worried. Now he is in this Northern Song Dynasty time and space. Regardless of the brainwashing power of religion, none of this is a problem.

The problem is that Wen Fei wants more now. He didn't have much interest in introducing technology and knowledge into this Northern Song Dynasty time and space before. After all, he is a god stick, and he doesn't need such a thing as science and technology to dismantle his own platform.

But now, with the general trend of the Great Celestial Master of Wen, especially when his own cultivation has reached the point of interfering with the matter of reality, he has even less concerns about introducing technology.

In fact. Wen Fei had long felt that the matter about the catastrophe caused by gunpowder was not incomprehensible. It's just that Master Wen Da is not too concerned about the introduction of various science and technology, so he put it on hold.

And now, with Wen Fei's way, it has been established. Wen Fei was much less afraid of the introduction of science and technology in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The key question now is how to organically combine science and technology with Taoist teachings. Since the avenue is the truth and the law, then science and technology should naturally be included!

Wen Fei just thought about these questions a little, and there were really too many things he had to do in this Northern Song Dynasty time and space. These things. You have to do it step by step.

Now Wenfei is even more important. However, it is to reform Taoism and establish a more complete and rigorous organization. This will provide more important help for one's own path.

Thinking of Yang Guishan and Lixue, Wen Fei sneered. Whether it is the two little people who are in the city and Li Zhongjun, or Chen San and Song Wu. They are all useful people, but whether it is Yang Guishan or science, in the eyes of Wenda Heavenly Master, they are all useless.

It's just obvious. There is a kind of person called "Insufficient Achievement, More Failure. For example, villains, of course, actually a lot of the time. The so-called gentleman and the villain are almost the same in this respect.

This self-proclaimed saint disciple and gentlemanly Yang Guishan is a useless guy in the eyes of the Wenda Heavenly Master. But this Yang Guishan himself will not think so.

When he returned home that night, after the old master Yang pressed the shock of the tide god offering treasures during the day, he didn't care about his old eyes and fainted. He began to write letters under the dim oil lamp, one after another, and sent them to the north and south of the world.

Soon the Jedi counterattack with the collusion of the physicists, or the dog jumping over the wall in a hurry, will begin. And this qiē was soon known by Master Wen.

But this qiē was not put much in the eyes of the great master of Wen. After all, even in Confucianism, science is now a marginal science. Far from being as glamorous as later generations.

Now the Great Master of Wen is focusing on something else, and he has returned to the modern time and space.

Strange-looking steamships now stand on a secret dock.

For the modern shipbuilding industry, building a few thousand-ton ships is like playing. In China, the underwater cycle of 300,000-ton ultra-large oil tankers has been shortened from the initial 303 days to 38 days.

Instead, in the name of a company affiliated with a multinational company, an order is placed. In this small shipyard, it only took two or three months to ask for these ten thousand-ton ships to be built. One of the most time-consuming is the steam turbine.

Originally, this small shipyard, inexplicably because of human relations, took orders to build a few 500-ton steam river ships, which was inexplicable enough.

No one thought that those foreigners' companies would also go crazy. It was actually ten sea ships. Well, a thousand-ton ship, at best, is a small ship. But this steam turbine is weird enough.

But this idea, no matter how weird it is, is there also someone who crosses the Atlantic Ocean out of wood, who knows if it's some with a funny head and no money to spend, and now he is starting to play with the steam engine? Isn't there a saying about steampunk now?

Anyway, the people in the shipyard are not too curious about building these ships.

And because of the price, these steam engines have been processed again, although they can still be burned rough, and even firewood, but the power has increased a lot, and they can run more than a dozen knots of "high speed" at sea, and will save fuel more.

Speaking of which, it is much better than the first batch of river wheels built by Master Wen. After all, the shipyard helped build those river ships just as a favor for Zhang Cheng's family, but now it is a real business.

"My lord, are you still satisfied with these ships?" Sitting in the car with film, Jack said to Wen Fei with a smile: "In fact, if you need a steam ship, we can ask the best designer to design the best steam engine that is definitely not weaker than the internal combustion engine!"

Jack is an old man in his sixties, his hair is a little gray, and he wears a well-tailored suit, which shows extreme luxury in the restraint.

Perhaps he was the youngest of Wen Fei's apostles. After Tom punished himself, he took over Tom's job. Become an apostle who serves before the true God.

"Yes, it is not difficult to build a better steam engine now, given the money and connections of the church. But it's hard to burn coarse coal and wood!" Wen Fei said.

Although I don't know why Wen Fei used this ship to burn coarse coal and even wood. But since Wen Fei didn't plan to say it, he naturally didn't dare to ask. He remembered what happened to Tom, and the glory of the true God is absolutely unprofane.

Wen Fei was also very satisfied, if it was on his own, it would be difficult to transport these ships away without realizing it. But with a strong backing behind it, this qiē is much simpler.

As long as Master Wen Da explained in one sentence, he naturally had many capable subordinates to get these ships to this dock by means that would not attract attention.

"Tonight, let everybody go. Wen Fei commanded: "I will get rid of these ships!"

"Yes, my lord!" Jack wisely didn't ask Wen Fei how to get it away.

This made Wen Fei nod very satisfied, and listened to Jack say: "My lord, there is something that needs your consent. Recently we have been in contact with the people of the Magic Stone Society and want to absorb them into our church!"

"Magic Stone Society?" Wen Fei frowned.

"Yes, the Magic Stone Society!" Jack explained, "the Philosopher's Stone, the Wisdom Stone, the Fifth Elemental. ”

"Alchemy?" Wen Fei asked.

"Yes, the Magic Stone Society is a mysterious organization of alchemists. Jack said in a very mysterious tone: "It is said that in ancient Egypt BC, furnaces were erected on the banks of the Nile, and hundreds of alchemists were buried in alchemy there.

They burn over and over again, trying to turn ordinary metals into gold, such as copper into gold. Since the work of the alchemists was kept secret, alchemy was also called a secret craft. ”

Wen Fei was about to scoff when he heard this, but he heard Jack laugh and said, "But according to our research, Western alchemy was basically transmitted from China to the Arab world, and the time was about the eighth century. Then it was introduced to the West. ”

"Oh?" Wen Fei was about to say something about the alchemy of ancient Egypt, where is it better than Chinese alchemy? I can't help but be interested.

"In the 8th century, alchemy appeared in the Arab capital of Honda, which the Arabs called al-kimiya. Among them, al is the article, and kimiya may be changed from the ancient pronunciation of the Chinese word "gold liquid" kim-ya, which not only includes alchemy and medicine, but also pursues a panacea called al-yixir, hoping to use it to make people live longer and use it to point gold. Jack continued in a deep, hoarse voice.

"The Muslim world originally did not have the idea of immortality, and there was no recipe for making elixirs, and their alchemy was obviously related to China from the perspective of ideological basis and specific content.

However, Arab alchemy absorbed relevant knowledge from China and Europe, and developed both theoretically and practically. Around the 12th century, Arab alchemy spread to Europe with the influence of Islam. Al-Kimiya evolved into alchimia or alchemia. That is, the magic stone. ”