The first item is a cylindrical lantern made of bamboo strips and then covered with paper. The condition inside is not clear. But if there are visitors from later generations in the Zhengxin Hall at this moment, I am afraid that it can be seen at a glance.
Isn’t it the Kongming Lantern?
The second item is a small stove with an iron pot on top. The iron pot is covered with a round lid, and a three-legged copper tripod is placed on the lid. Instead of wood, there is burning wood in the furnace.
There was a bright red object that looked like a clod of soil, and there was also a pile of black objects next to it, which was coal.
The third item was obviously a bag of corn flour, I don’t know what it was used for.
Naturally, the tens of thousands of people in the Zhengxin Hall can clearly see the three things placed on the terrace. After all, in this era, myopia cannot be said to be absent, but it is obviously very rare. Although everyone is curious about what Hu Hai put out
What are these three things for, but no one made any noise, they just kept the questions in their hearts and pondered.
"Let's get started." Hu Hai sat down on the seat behind the copper case and said calmly.
A Shangfang craftsman quickly put the lantern in place, and then put the fire into the lantern. Soon a small orange flame lit up inside the lantern, and the original white lantern turned orange.
The craftsman lit the lantern and carefully placed it on the ground. Then he bowed to Hu Hai and slowly retreated.
Seeing this scene, all the court ministers and students from the Royal Academy in the Zhengxin Hall were even more puzzled. During the Lantern Festival, all the lanterns they saw were gone. Which one is not more beautiful than the one in front of you?
Obviously, the emperor couldn't be bored enough to light a lantern in front of tens of thousands of people.
Hu Hai tapped his fingers lightly on the copper table.
After a while, the lantern originally placed on the ground suddenly moved. Before anyone could react, the lantern had slowly left the ground and began to slowly rise upward into the sky.
Although the speed was slow and "faltering", it rose tenaciously and steadily, and kept rising until it reached the top of the Zhengxintang hall before stopping due to the obstruction of the dome.
"Wow!"
The tens of thousands of people in the Zhengxin Hall could no longer remain calm, and there was an uproar.
The lantern can actually fly on its own. Is this a miracle?
Hu Hai had long expected such a scene. He stood up and pressed his hands down. The hall gradually became quiet. At this moment, the flames in the lantern had gradually dimmed. The lantern also began to slowly descend. When the fire was completely extinguished, the lantern slowly rose from the sky.
He fell in front of the terrace in the palace.
"Don't be impatient, let's look at the second thing!" Hu Hai pointed to the red-hot iron pot, "Blow up the air. Increase the heat!"
Large shovels of raw coal were thrown into the stove. Long Yu personally operated the small wooden bag blower and carefully pulled it. After a while, the raw coal that had just been thrown in turned from black to red, and then gradually turned red.
Bright transparent flame.
The sealed iron pot on the stove was filled with water. The gurgling sound of boiling water inside the iron pot became louder and louder. As Long Yu pulled the blower faster and faster, the boiling sound inside the iron pot also became louder and louder.
ring.
Visible to the naked eye, wisps of white mist began to emerge from the gaps in the sealed wooden cover.
After a while, the wooden pot lid suddenly trembled. Then the trembling became more and more violent. From time to time, a small gap appeared in the wooden lid that was originally tightly fitted with the iron pot, and a large white mist spurted out.
came out, and then silence. After a while, he opened the pot lid again, and so on. It seemed that there was a small beast imprisoned in the iron pot, and it was constantly flapping.
If there were not the three-legged copper tripod on the pot lid, wouldn’t the pot lid be overturned long ago? The three-legged copper tripod must weigh dozens of kilograms! Isn’t there just water in the pot? If there is only water
If so, how could there be such a big movement? But what can survive in this boiling water? Did His Majesty the Emperor find a strange beast?
"Okay. Long Yu, take off the bronze tripod."
"Here!"
Long Yu quickly took off the copper tripod and stepped aside. As the three-legged copper tripod was taken off, the lid was instantly blown away by a large white thick fog and could no longer be closed. Wait until the white fog gradually dissipated.
, the pot lid returned to its original shape, fitting perfectly with the iron pot.
"Take the lid off the pot."
"Wow!"
The tens of thousands of people in the Zhengxin Hall were in an uproar again. Even the ministers of the court forgot to abide by the rules at this moment. People such as Wei Liao and others all stood up and poked their heads to see what was in the iron pot.
Unfortunately, there was only half a pot of boiling water left in the iron pot.
What is the reason for this?
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. Let's look at the third item!" Hu Hai smiled to appease everyone and nodded to Long Yu.
After receiving the order, Long Yu turned around and waved to the door.
"Bang bang bang!"
Heavy footsteps and the sound of armor clashing rumbled from outside the gate.
This is a group of soldiers holding up giant shields with both hands. The giant shield is nearly ten feet high, making it impossible to see the soldiers behind the shield. This is a squad of 20 heavily armored infantrymen of the Xuanwu Army.
Twenty heavily armored infantrymen of the Xuanwu Army holding giant shields first knelt on one knee and bowed to Hu Hai, then stood up and stood on both sides of the bag of corn flour.
On the other side, several craftsmen in Shangfang have begun to work nervously. A dark round object with a long tail only the size of a baby's fist was stuffed into the corn flour bag, and then the craftsmen used split bamboo to cut the seemingly
The second half of the tail of the twine was carefully wrapped. When everything was completed, several craftsmen stood aside and bowed.
"Okay? Let's get started."
"Here!"
Twenty Tiger Soldiers and several Shangfang craftsmen responded in unison.
Amidst the loud sound, twenty Tiger Soldiers holding giant shields formed a circular formation around the bag of corn flour, with the giant shield in front, as if they were facing a formidable enemy. From the round object stuffed into the bag of corn,
The extended linear tail was pulled out from the gap in the giant shield.
A craftsman slowly stretched the fire to the top of the twine, as if to light it.
"laugh!"
At the moment when the fire came into contact with the twine, the tiny twine suddenly made a slight sound, and a cloud of white smoke rose up. Sparks suddenly flew out of the tiny twine, rapidly spreading along the twine toward the center of the giant shield, burning.
During the process, only a few clouds of white and black smoke rose.
A pungent and choking smell began to slowly spread in the main hall of Zhengxintang as the smoke rose into the sky.
Smelling this familiar scent with a pungent smell, Hu Hai couldn't help but take a deep breath.
This is the smell of firecrackers!
In just a few breaths, the tail exposed outside the giant shield had burned away, leaving only some light yellow traces of burning and a thin line of black powder on the smooth ground.