Things are placed right in front of you, and they only move a small distance every day, and they never stop.
Yuan Tiangang pointed to the table next to him, "To prove that it was not due to the terrain, Pindao even placed this needle."
Li Shimin turned around and looked around. There was a square stone on the table, with a needle just above it.
As soon as the terrain shifts, the needle will roll down.
The fact is that the ground in front of you has always been flat, and the needle has not moved at all.
Compared with the current situation, the iron pestle will move some distance on this flat terrain every day.
Moreover, there are many strange and strange things in the Qintian Prison now.
"How is the situation in various places in Chang'an City?"
"Back to Your Majesty, Pindao also asked people from the Taoist sect to make arrangements. The responses from various places are the same. Now there are many people in the Taoist sect who are investigating this strange thing."
If Zhang Yang was the only one who did the trick, it would make sense. The result before him is unacceptable. Are everyone really living on a rotating ball?
Yuan Tiangang closed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, there are people to the north of Turks and south of Lingnan to make arrangements."
Li Shimin asked again: "What's the point of doing this?"
"Even if the meaning is small, Pindao still wants to clear up the doubts." Yuan Tiangang picked up a ball made of rattan with lines drawn in ink on the surface.
When Yuan Tiangang made the ball spin, these lines seemed to be leaving the surface of the takraw ball. As the ball rotated faster, the surface of the takraw ball could not be seen clearly, but the lines became clearer and clearer.
Until the takraw ball stopped spinning, Li Shimin frowned and said, "What does this mean?"
Yuan Tiangang bowed and replied: "Your Majesty has also seen that when the takraw ball is spinning, the lines on it are different in length."
Li Shimin nodded, "The circle in the middle of Sepak Takraw is the longest, and the circles at both ends are the smallest."
Still nodding, Yuan Tiangang continued: "This is what Pindao wants to prove. According to Zhang Yang, we live on a spinning ball, so the results we can get at each location of this ball are also different."
"If my guess is correct, what Zhang Yang said is also correct. The results of such experiments conducted in various places are also different."
Yuan Tiangang took out another picture, "Pindao sent dozens of Taoist disciples from the center of Chang'an City to the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. Every time they traveled a thousand miles, they would make a sand table like this and combine all the results with
The sand table trajectory has been sent to Chang'an City, and Pindao can not only prove whether we are living on a ball, but also prove where we are on the ball."
As he spoke, he picked up the sepak takraw ball, "It's like knowing that Chang'an is on the line."
Li Shimin looked at the Qintian Prison in front of him again. When he told these words, the old Taoist priest's tone was very calm.
This kind of stability made Li Shimin feel creepy. Yuan Tiangang was doing something very crazy. Some people said that Yuan Tiangang was crazy before, so naturally they didn't believe it.
Yuan Tiangang raised his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, even if it only reveals a few clues to the truth of the world, it is worthy of countless people's inquiries. This will be a world-class feat. If it can be remembered in the history books, congratulations to the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Shimin shook his head and left Qintian Prison. This Taoist priest is crazy, absolutely crazy!
Walking all the way to the Li Zheng Hall, Li Shimin said to the guards around him: "Pass the message, don't disturb Taoist Yuan, just let him concentrate on his study."
"Here."
I somewhat sympathize with this Taoist priest, what Yuan Tiangang did is too crazy.
Zhang Yang's ideas are also crazy. At least this kid just put forward the idea and did not get deeply involved in the path of exploration.
Yuan Tiangang was indeed deeply involved and obsessed to the point of going crazy.
Walking to the Li Zheng Hall, Li Shimin looked at a group of well-behaved children, and his mood improved a lot. At least my children are not crazy.
Seeing Li Zhi and Gao Yang playing with a strange thing, Li Shimin wondered: "What is this?"
"I asked Lishan to send this to me. My brother-in-law used this thing to draw water from the well before, so he sent it to me." Li Zhi carefully assembled it, knocking and knocking the wooden plug in to block the air outlet above.
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Then I checked it carefully with someone from Gao Yang and confirmed that there were no omissions.
Li Shimin followed the children to the backyard of Lizheng Hall, where there was a well.
Queen Changsun also came, and Li Shimin looked solemn, "Why does this child do this?"
"Your Majesty, you don't know. These children learned a lot during the month of summer vacation in Lishan Mountain."
"Really? What did Zhang Yang teach them?"
"I'm not very clear about it either. It's all knowledge I haven't heard of before."
Gao Yang, with his hands on his hips like an adult, ordered the maid to install the water pump on the well and cover the mouth of the well.
After the palace maid finished doing these things, Li Zhi checked it carefully and started to shake the lever again and again.
Li Shimin looked at it suspiciously.
Gao Yang also waited for the water from the well to flow out.
The backyard of the Rishoden Hall was eerily quiet, and everyone was looking at this thing.
Li Zhi shook it for a long time, and there was a lot of sweat on his forehead.
Gao Yang asked curiously: "Is there something that was not done well?"
The two palace maids immediately knelt on the ground when the princess asked, "We all loaded it up according to Her Royal Highness's instructions."
Li Zhi shook for a long time and felt that it was becoming more and more difficult, "It seems to have been successful."
Seeing that it was getting harder and harder, Li Zhi's face turned red, and he heard the sound of water below, as if it was deflating. The rocker suddenly loosened, and before the water could flow out, he heard the sound of water again.
"The water has gone down again?" Li Zhi frowned on his face.
Li Lizhi ate the peach and looked aside, shaking her head, "Zhinu, the wooden plug on top has not been completely driven in. Have you forgotten what the teacher said? Once the air inside enters, the air pressure will disappear."
Li Shimin simply sat down and watched the children making trouble.
Empress Changsun was mending some clothes. The empress did not hesitate to make more clothes for herself. All the silks and satins in the palace were used to make clothes for the princes and princesses.
Now the queen is still wearing cotton from Lishan.
With Li Lizhi's help, Li Zhi changed the cork and started flooding again.
After shaking it dozens of times, under Li Shimin's suspicious eyes, water really flowed out of a bamboo pipe.
"Can water flow back from bottom to top?" Li Shimin's mouth twitched when he saw what his son had done.
"Hehehe..." The father laughed strangely and left the place.
Can water flow backwards? Do people live on a rotating earth?
Walking all the way back to Ganlu Hall, he smiled bitterly and said, "Taoist Yuan is going crazy. Could it be that I am also going crazy?"
The eunuch who was taking care of pouring tea shook his hands slightly when he heard this, and some tea spilled on the table. He bowed and said, "Your Majesty, don't scare this old slave."
Li Shimin picked up the tea bowl and said, "Have you ever seen water flowing backwards?"
The eunuch replied: "I have never seen anything like this in my life."
Seeing the emperor nodding, the eunuch continued: "It's just that I heard people in the palace often talk about it. Some time ago, General Cheng Yaojin said that there was a demon wind in Chang'an City. Before that, there was a demon in Chang'an City."
Li Shimin slowly put down his tea bowl, his expression a little more thoughtful.
"Your Majesty, my old slave, thinks that if these rumors are true, it would probably not be surprising if some incredible things happen."
The eunuch was illiterate and had never read a book. What he said was simple and unsophisticated, but not completely unreasonable.
Zhang Yang is a very smart demon. He can send people to heaven. He has seen unbelievable things. What does a trivial matter like water flowing backwards mean?
After comforting himself, Li Shimin felt a lot better. As long as this guy doesn't rebel, he can help me make money.
I'll give him some time, but I don't want to kill him now.
A box was carried into the Ganlu Hall. The guard who brought the box saluted and said, "Your Majesty, this is a memorial of public opinion from all parties compiled by Zhongshu Sheng and Yushitai."
After saying this, the guard took out another memorial from his arms and said, "This is General Yuchi Gong's report in response to the rectification of military discipline."
Li Shimin nodded and left it alone.
"Here."
Put your mind into state affairs, and you won't have to think about those unthinkable things.
In Chang'an Chengfang City, Xu Jingzong followed Zhang Yang's instructions and found a walking doctor on the street to treat all the seriously injured Turks.
Seeing the grateful faces of the Turks, Xu Jingzong smiled and said: "This is Zhang Shangshu's intention. We, the Ministry of Rites, should also try our best to give some care to you outsiders."
Ashina Yugu looked touched and spoke in unfamiliar Guanzhong dialect: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei's people beat him."
Xu Jingzong nodded and said: "Everyone in the court knows that you are a person close to the young Khan. If other Turks were beaten to death, the Ministry of Rites would not care. But you are different. Datang and Turks still have diplomatic relations.
, we cannot sit idly by and do nothing."
Seeing that Yu Gu was about to speak again, Xu Jingzong said again: "His Royal Highness the King of Wei has been punished and grounded by His Majesty."
The doctor gave the patient some unknown herbal medicine and then left. Xu Jingzong handed the doctor a bunch of copper coins.
When the matter was over and he was about to leave, Yugu spoke again, "Please also tell Zhang Shangshu that the Turks can agree to the business that His Highness the King of Wei has negotiated with the villain."
"Business? What business?"
Xu Jingzong was confused at first and then thought about how Zhang Yang's family business was inextricably related to the King of Wei. After thinking about it for a while, he understood the general idea, and then said: "The Ministry of Rites does not ask about these things."
First the King of Wei beat him, and then the Ministry of Rites gave him to the officials.
One after another, it is explained that if you offend the king of Wei, you will offend Zhang Yang, and if you offend Zhang Yang, you will offend the entire Ministry of Rites.
Any small border country that offends the Ministry of Rites will not end well.
You have to agree even if you don't agree. It's okay to offend the king of Wei, but at most he will be beaten.
If you offend the Ministry of Rites, the entire Turks will suffer.
Yuchi Gong led the leading guards to improve military discipline.
After receiving His Majesty's affirmative answer, the Left and Right Military Guards and the Jinwu Guards also began to rectify military discipline, and a cleanliness trend was set off in the entire Chang'an City Guards.
August is almost here, and the sweltering heat in Chang'an City shows no sign of subside.
He took his wife and Xiao Wu to Qujiang Pool to rest, and Li Tai's confinement was finally lifted.
The wind in Qujiang Pool was gentle and comfortable. Zhang Yang took a bite of the fried dough sticks made by Li Tai.
"Brother-in-law, how does it taste?" Li Tai looked flattering. The Turks actually agreed to contract a thousand hectares of pasture to Lishan at a price of 300 guan a year. They paid a total of 3,000 guan and contracted ten
Years.
You must also see the benefits when contracting. First contract a thousand acres to try your hand, and then think about whether to expand in the future.
Zhang Yang took two or three bites and then fed the fried dough sticks to the little bear, "It was fried for too long."
Li Tai glared at his bodyguard.
The guard lowered his head.
Xiao Wu and Li Yue were sitting in the waterside pavilion leisurely reading a book, and they were reading Spring and Autumn.
When Xiao Wu looked at the explanations and explanations, he was in the stage of literacy.
At this age, Xiao Wu probably likes to have fun the most. After he became a wife, he spent most of his time studying.
Looking at Li Tai again, Zhang Yang said tangledly: "The monk at the entrance of the village before was really beaten to death, right?"
The guard quickly replied, "Return to Lishan Order, I didn't kill him, I just broke one of my legs."
Seeing Ling Lishan's displeased expression, the guard added: "If there is another time, I will kill them. Ling Lishan, don't worry."
Li Tai also tasted the fried dough sticks made by his guards. It was indeed too hard and some places were burnt.
"I should do it myself next time." Li Tai handed the basket to the guard, "I will eat it all, don't waste the food."
"Here."
Several guards each divided the fried dough sticks and started eating.
Li Tai looked at his brother-in-law again and saw that he was looking straight ahead with his hands on his hands, as if he was thinking.
Another gust of wind blew by, causing ripples on the water surface of Qujiang Pond.
Li Tai smiled and spoke again, "Brother-in-law, how are we going to run the Turkic pasture?"
Zhang Yang still held his hands, and when the wind blew by, his clothes swayed.
Then I followed my brother-in-law's gaze and saw a pile of garbage not far away. It looked like someone else had left some rags and earthen jars behind.
Li Tai whispered instructions to his bodyguard.
Several guards immediately ran to clean up the place.
Seeing that the other side was clean again, Zhang Yang nodded with satisfaction, "It's so clean. It looks so comfortable. These powerful people who come to Qujiang Pool are of such poor quality, how can they throw garbage everywhere?"
"This kind of person should be beaten to death by this king." Li Tai echoed.
It sounded like a joke, but the guards understood very well that His Highness King Wei had made money following the Lishan Order, and the lives of the servants in the mansion had also gotten better.
Everyone admires this person.
The king of Wei even obeyed Zhang Yang's advice.
Even Li Shanling had a very weird temperament. Even some garbage placed in the distance would make Li Shanling uncomfortable and speechless for a long time.
What kind of strange character is this?
Zhang Yang sat down at the waterside pavilion, and Xiao Wu sensibly handed over the fan, and then she continued to learn to read and write.
Shaking the fan in his hand and noticing his brother-in-law's gaze, Zhang Yang said slowly: "In addition to war horses, operating the grassland also has economic benefits. The King of Wei arranged for a few people to go to the grassland and transform the grassland we contracted into a pasture."
"pasture?"
Zhang Yang nodded, "To put it simply, focus on business and raise more cattle and sheep to reduce the number of war horses in their hands."