The nearly transparent beef and mutton changed color as soon as it was scalded in the pot. Li Kui couldn't wait to put his chopsticks down, pick up half of the plate, dip it in some sesame sauce, and swallow it in his big mouth.
"tasty."
Li Kui chewed it randomly twice, swallowed it, shouted "good", and stretched his chopsticks into the pot again.
After hearing this, everyone immediately started to take action.
Chao Yong was reserved for a moment and then saw Lin Chong staring at the empty pot in a daze.
The hot pot was delicious, but it was a bit slow for a group of big men who could eat several kilograms of meat in one meal. It was completely drained as soon as it was put into the pot. All the vegetables that were put in were half-cooked by everyone.
Even so, everyone was full of praise and asked how to make sesame sauce.
Now they are all wealthy, with dozens of servants at home. If they want to eat hot pot, they can make it at home, as long as they have the recipe.
Chao Yong was not stingy either, asking the imperial chef to copy down the recipe for the pot base and giving each person a copy.
After twenty or so people ate several cows and sheep, they put down their chopsticks.
The spirits that Chao Yong steamed were also liked by most people. A fierce man like Wu Song could not drink bowl after bowl of water. However, Wu Song and others' alcohol capacity was still greater than Chao Yong's surprise. Chao Yong originally thought that he was the first
For a person who drinks strong alcohol for the first time, it would be a big deal if he only eats a pound of it.
Unexpectedly, Wu Song, Li Kui, Liu Tang, and Ruan Xiaoqi all ate more than two kilograms before falling drunk, and Ruan Xiaoqi and others also ate more than one kilogram.
When the banquet broke up, most of the people at the two tables were empty, so Chao Yong asked his soldiers to send all the drunk people back.
After the banquet, Chao Yong only stayed with Lin Chong, Xu Guanzhong and Zhu Wu.
While Chao Yong was eating hangover soup, he told him one by one about his plans to destroy Wanjiao and go to Jiangnan.
When Lin Chong heard that he was asked to lead his troops to destroy Wang Qing alone, he immediately said: "As long as 50,000 troops are needed to help, it will be enough to wipe out Wang Qing."
Xu Guanzhong said: "The crown prince's annihilation of Xixia has shocked the world. As soon as General Lin's troops arrive, many people will want to surrender and use both suppression and appeasement to wipe out Wang Qing with fewer casualties."
Lin Chong nodded and said: "Wang Qing's men are all Han people, and I will not drive them all to death for the sake of military exploits."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Heroes see the same thing. Ningxia Road requires a large number of Han people to assimilate the party members. Those held hostage by Wang Qing can be moved to Ningxia Road to cultivate fields."
Zhu Wudao: "The southern army has always been weak, and the Southern Song Dynasty did not have a long time to organize the army. It should be easy to wipe out the Southern Song Dynasty. Only Master Lu has hundreds of thousands of people in his bag. There are also Manichaean elites among them, so I am afraid it will take a little more effort."
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Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said: "The people are willing to follow Manichaeism just because the taxes of Manichaeism are lighter than those of the Song Dynasty. But I, Daliang, are exempted from all agricultural taxes and corvees, which is more attractive than Manichaeism. I am willing to follow Lu
The number of people that Shi Nang and I, Daliang, are fighting against should not be too big. For the remaining Manichaeans, we can also use Fang Jie and Shi Bao to divide the Manichaeans, and it won’t be too difficult to unify the world."
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "I want to wipe out all religions. If I use Fang Jie and Shi Bao to divide the Manichaean followers, it will be difficult to deal with this group of people."
When Xu Guanzhong heard what Chao Yong said, he couldn't say anything more.
Most of the heroes in the past and present were evil-minded people who would cross rivers and demolish bridges without blinking an eye. If Chao Yong was not willing to betray his faith, the matter would be unworkable. Although he did not believe in any religion, he knew that Mani
The power of the religion to confuse its followers is definitely more than that of Buddhism and Taoism. If they openly tell the Manichaeists that they will ban the inheritance of Manichaeism in the future, even if they all know that Lu Shinang harmed the holy aunt, they will not surrender to Daliang.
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It was not easy for him to persuade Chao Yong to be a man with evil intentions, not to mention that the general trend of the world was settled and the prince no longer had to do anything detrimental to his reputation.
Chao Yong smiled and said: "The main force of Manichaeism has been annihilated by the Western Army, and Lu Shinang's command is just a partial force. It won't take much effort to wipe them out. The armies will rest for half a month, and the two groups of troops will go out together at the beginning of next month. Maybe this year
We can rule the world."
The three of them didn't have much objection. Thinking of the speed with which Daliang wiped out the world, they felt very proud.
After the soldiers exchanged views, Chao Yong asked everyone about their views on the extermination of religion.
Lin Chong said: "Both Buddhism and Taoism have produced a lot of scum in recent years. In addition, various illusions have been continuously performed in Tokyo. Many of the tricks used by Buddhism and Taoism to pretend to be gods and ghosts have also been exposed. It will not be possible to destroy all religions."
What kind of chaos is going on?"
Xu Guanzhong nodded and said: "There have been many annihilations of Buddhism in the past dynasties. As long as the foundation of the court is stable, religion will not cause any trouble. Although our country has just been founded, the preferential treatment given to the people is unprecedented in the past dynasties. Even those religious people want to
If they want to cause trouble, there must not be many people who are willing to follow them. When people have no difficulty in making a living, who would be willing to follow those religions to rebel."
Zhu Wu smiled and said: "The prince is now the only true god in the world. When choosing between the true god and the false god, few people will make the wrong choice."
Xu Guanzhong smiled and said: "If the prince can perform some miracles, no one will question the prince's decision."
"What miracle?"
Xu Guanzhong thought for a while and said: "Now everyone believes that the prince is a god descended to earth, mainly because the prince is invincible in battles and invented the amazingly powerful gunpowder. But these are still less shocking to the people. In their hearts, the prince
More like a god of war than an omnipotent god."
Chao Yong also knew that Xu Guanzhong didn't believe it, so he asked He Yong to bring him the dictionary and mathematics he had finished, and some physics books he had written.
Several hundred copies of the completed dictionary and mathematics had been printed, so Chao Yong asked He Yong to distribute a dictionary and mathematics to each of the three of them.
Chao Yong said with a smile: "There is nothing new in the dictionary, except that there is an additional phonetic notation method, which I think is more accurate and simpler than the current Fanqie. In mathematics, new numbers and symbols are used, and there are also some new arithmetic methods, which can make people
Easier calculations.”
Xu Guanzhong opened the dictionary and looked at mathematics, and he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart. He used to not believe that the prince was a god descending to earth. But after reading these two books, he couldn't help but be shaken. Since the prince dared to write a book, the pinyin and
Mathematics is a mature knowledge. At least there will be no errors in it. Otherwise, once it is discovered and it is difficult to justify, it will be difficult to promote these things. And a mature knowledge often requires many generations to perfect. In the past,
He had never heard of these things, and it was impossible for the prince to create them out of his whim.
Could it be that these things really come from heaven?
Chao Yong looked at Xu Guanzhong's surprised look with satisfaction, then handed some physics books written in his hand to Xu Guanzhong and said: "This is another subject I compiled, called physics, which reveals the laws of all things in the world."
The physics written by Chao Yong included some knowledge of physics and chemistry from later generations. Although Chao Yong was a college student, he could not systematically recall the textbooks from previous lives. He could only pick up a physics book here and there with a hammer and a stick, and wait.
In the future, books plundered from the West will be added. The mathematics and physics he wrote are preceded by "elementary", which also tells people that there will be intermediate and advanced later. Of course, if Chao Yong cannot obtain the subsequent knowledge, intermediate and advanced can only be
It will be completed by future generations.
What Chao Yong has to do is to bring science to China. Let it take root and sprout, and it will naturally grow slowly in the future. It is not to completely teach a profound science to the world. At this time, there is no condition to verify profound science. Many things
There is no way to explain it. It can only be that various disciplines develop slowly and promote each other.
Xu Guanzhong took the physics book written by Chao Yong and read it briefly. There were descriptions of principles and experiments designed to verify it. It seemed that this knowledge could be verified through experiments. However, those conclusions seemed a little unreliable.
Spectrum, this experiment is actually to verify that two things with different weights fall at the same speed.
He subconsciously felt that heavier things should fall faster, but he also felt that since the prince dared to write something so easy to verify, he should be fully confident.
Xu Guanzhong secretly decided to do an experiment after returning home, and what he wrote later turned out to be buoyancy. Water has buoyancy, and air also has buoyancy.
But the buoyancy chapter has just begun. There are no experiments designed.
Xu Guanzhong couldn't help but wonder: "Water has buoyancy, so we can swim. But if air also has buoyancy, why can't we float?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "If the air has no buoyancy, how can the Kongming Lantern fly?"
When Xu Guanzhong heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Everyone knows that Kongming lanterns can fly, but the reason behind them is not clear.
Xu Guanzhong couldn't explain the reason. Hearing Chao Yong use the sky lantern to explain the buoyancy of the air, he felt that it made sense. But after thinking about it, he added: "Then why can it only rise after lighting a fire?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Stones can't float in the water, but they can float if you put them on a boat. This is because the buoyancy is greater than gravity, so they can float. If you keep putting rocks on the boat, it will also weigh the boat down."
sink. Before igniting, the gravity of the Kongming Lantern is greater than the buoyancy, so it will naturally not float. After lighting the fire, the nearby air will expand when heated, reduce the density, and then rise to squeeze out the cold air in the Kongming Lantern. Wait until the gravity in the Kongming Lantern is less than
When the air gives it buoyancy, the Kongming Lantern will rise."
Although Xu Guanzhong is smart, he is still confused by a series of words such as thermal expansion and density.
Chao Yong saw Xu Guanzhong's confused face and knew that he didn't understand. He smiled and said, "You can read it slowly when I compile it into a book. It's actually not difficult to understand."
Zhu Wu suddenly said: "The boat can carry people, but can the Kongming Lantern carry people?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Of course you can, as long as you make a larger hot air balloon, it can carry people."
Zhu Wu heard this and immediately said: "If the hot air balloon flies higher than the chariot, then in the future we can use the hot air balloon to replace the chariot to keep an eye on the enemy."
Chao Yong thought for a while and said: "A hot air balloon can fly up to several thousand feet, but we may not be able to make such a hot air balloon. We have to make a hot air balloon to know exactly how high it can fly."
Zhu Wu was thinking more about the battle formation, and said with a fanciful expression: "If we can control the direction, takeoff and landing of the hot air balloon, and load some fire mines on it, then we can bomb the enemy from above."
Lin Chong and Xu Guanzhong couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this.
The army had just assembled when fire and thunder suddenly fell from above their heads. In the huge explosion, the people around were torn apart, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the flying iron pieces killed and injured people in the distance. The soldiers and horses that had just been assembled were thrown under the fire and thunder.
Under the bombing, it fell into chaos and even collapsed.
This is the real divine thunder.
Just thinking about it, the two of them felt that this combination was enough to influence the battlefield situation.
Chao Yong had ridden in a hot air balloon when traveling in later generations, so he knew some knowledge about hot air balloons. The wind directions at different heights in the air are different, and hot air balloons change directions by adjusting the height of the hot air balloon with the help of winds in different directions. But knowing does not mean that
It can definitely be achieved. Everything needs experimentation to know how far it can be achieved now.
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Theoretically it can be done, but it all requires a lot of experiments. But it is easy to make a hot air balloon fly with people."
Xu Guanzhong said: "If people can fly, it will be much easier for the prince to destroy the religion. As long as the prince announces the principle of the hot air balloon later, the people will definitely think that it belongs to the prince when they see people flying in the air."
The methods of gods and men. No religion can make people fly, only the prince can make people fly. The prince said that they are all fake, and the people will naturally think that they are fake. When all religions are destroyed, the prince will
Explain this principle, and no one except a few people will remember those religions."
Zhu Wu said with a smile: "The prince didn't need to say anything. He just pretended to be a hot air balloon experiment by the Ministry of War and accidentally ran out of the camp for the people to see. As long as the prince doesn't explain, they will naturally regard it as a miracle."
Chao Yong has decided to popularize science, so naturally he no longer wants to pretend to be a god. Hearing that Zhu Wu could free him, he nodded secretly.
Xu Guanzhong added: "We can use a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, we can create a god and let the image of the prince and god descend to the earth be deeply rooted in people's hearts. On the other hand, we can expose some common religious deceptive spells and make people doubt religion. Gongsun Sheng knows a lot about those Taoist spells, so he can
Talk about some common deceptive magic tricks used by Buddhism and Taoism, and publish them in newspapers to make people in the world doubt Buddhism and Taoism."
Shi Qian jumped down from the beam and said with a smile: "I'm afraid exposing them directly will scare off the enemy. It's better to arrest a few deceitful monks and Taoist priests, and then publish their shenanigans in the newspaper. This will not attract too much attention.
Attention."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "It seems that you have found many deceptive monks and Taoist priests."
"There are a few of them in Tokyo. After hearing their Taoist teachings, I became very curious and secretly followed them several times. I also figured out their tricks. In fact, they are just like Taoist priests who perform illusions. They do not prepare props in advance.
They can’t fool anyone either.”
Chao Yong didn't expect that someone would bring him a pillow just after he fell asleep. He said happily: "Okay. Let's take down these people and publish an issue of the Di newspaper specifically to expose their deceptions and add some common charlatanisms."
Xu Guanzhong said: "Since the prince's mathematics has been written, why not take advantage of this time to go to Taixue to give lectures. As long as this mathematics is really practical, it will definitely cause a sensation. If we do some physical experiments, everyone in the world will doubt whether this knowledge comes from
Heaven.”
Chao Yong really has no other suitable answer to this question except that he comes from the future. If he comes from later generations, it is obviously more difficult to believe than from the sky. People in this era believe in ghosts and gods, but there is no concept of traveling through time and space.
It is human knowledge. Chao Yong had no shame in saying that he had researched it, and no one would believe it. He wanted to find a school of thought, but he was afraid of being exposed. The safest theory is that it comes from heaven.
Chao Yong was also helpless about this matter. On the one hand, he wanted to open people's eyes to the world and eliminate ghosts and gods, but on the other hand, he wanted to spread science under the guise of gods.
The two were originally opposed to each other, but Chao Yong had to admit that spreading science under the guise of a god would get twice the result with half the effort. Even if he didn't make any efforts to promote it, there would still be people who would try their best to obtain the knowledge of the gods.
"Okay, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I will give lectures at Taixue. I have printed five hundred books, and I have to send them out, so as not to get moldy in my place."
Xu Guanzhong smiled and said: "I will definitely attend the lecture then, and I will not return this book."
Zhu Wu and Lin Chong also said: "We will go too."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "That's it for you. This mathematics is of great use. All the accounts of the Royal Bank are made of numerical symbols in mathematics."
Xu Guanzhong said: "I'm afraid it won't be long before all industries will use mathematics knowledge."
Everyone chatted for a while. When they saw that the prince had no other instructions, they stood up and left.
Lin Chong and Chao Yong were not polite and said with a smile: "The steamed wine I had today is strong enough. When will the prince steam it again and give it to me?"
Chao Yong smiled and said: "It's easy to steam wine. I'll have someone make a distiller and send it to your house. You can steam it yourself and drink it."
Daliang and Song dynasties generally prohibited people from privately brewing wine for sale, but this law was not unreasonable, and people could still brew something to drink. Brewing is not difficult, and many people can do it, but home-brewed wine is naturally not as good as professional brewing.
It is brewed by people, so most people do not make their own wine for food. Of course, many powerful people still make wine for themselves, and the winemakers who make wine for them are also professional winemakers. In the Song Dynasty, many powerful people brewed wine not only for their own consumption, but also for sale.
Lin Chong was about to accept it, but Xu Guanzhong suddenly said: "No."
Chao Yong inherited Chao Gai's generous temperament, so everyone in Liangshan dared to speak. Otherwise, no matter how good the friendship is, if you meet a stingy person, speaking out will only destroy the relationship.
One asked for it, and the other was willing to give it. No one expected that Xu Guanzhong would jump out to stop him, and they couldn't help but look at Xu Guanzhong in surprise.
Xu Guanzhong said hurriedly: "Spirits can bring huge income, and people in the North love liquor. In the past, they didn't buy a lot of our liquor because they also knew how to make wine, but the liquor they made was not the same as the liquor on the market now.
Same, not strong enough. If they are allowed to taste this kind of spirit, they will definitely buy it in large quantities. As long as they can't make the spirit, they can sell it for as much money as they want. In the future, it may be more than the income from selling tea.
All high."
Chao Yong frowned and said: "But steaming wine is not difficult. As long as some rumors are leaked, you can figure it out."
"It's actually not that far from the Kongming Lantern to the hot air balloon, but no one would have thought of it until the prince said it. It's the same with the steamed wine. As long as you monitor all the people who know about it, I'm afraid no one else will think of it in a short time."