Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 742 and Tiandou 2
Yang Menglong, who decided to fight with the sky, enthusiastically picked up the hard-tube quill pen and wrote the classic suicide article and published it in the newspaper. He explained the principle of hail formation and also won the victory. With tons of hatred, he hung himself up and withstood attacks from eighteen kinds of weapons from all directions... As soon as this article came out, the entire Heluo area exploded. Letters from scholars and gentry flew like snowflakes, and many You have to be able to bury him alive.Fang Kongxuan was even more furious, and brought a group of young officials to the door to ask him for an explanation!Even these enlightened scholar-bureaucrats were extremely angry when their theories that they regarded as classics were criticized as worthless. Yang Menglong would never do it without giving them an explanation!
However, after a debate, all these experienced officials were defeated, and it was a pot that defeated them.Yang Menglong used that pot to demonstrate his theory of water cycle——there is no majestic "sky" at all, and extreme meteorological disasters such as hail, snow, drought, and heavy rain are just caused by water cycle. Come up, be vaporized and return to the sky, and then fall down as rain, snow, and hailstones, and the cycle is endless, that's all!Although the reasoning is simple and obvious, the blow to these officials was not so great. It is said that when Fang Kongzhang walked out of the Hou's mansion, his face was pale and his mind was in a trance. He seemed to faint at any time.On the contrary, his heartless son was extremely excited, and went straight to his laboratory as soon as he went out. He didn't have any pain or confusion when his world view was shattered. Fang Kongzhang probably wanted to beat him up.

The King of Hades is easy to deal with, but the little devil is much more difficult to deal with. He can still reason with technocrats like Kong Zang, but he can't reason with those poor scholars who are already red-eyed. Dao, the aggressive ones even clamored to break into the Hou's mansion and fight Yang Menglong with his life. This kind of young general is the most troublesome for Yang Menglong... How should I put it?Now the entire Ming Dynasty is somewhat similar to Europe, where Copernicus proved that the earth is not the center of the universe, all celestial bodies are in motion, and all abnormal celestial phenomena are caused by the motion of celestial bodies. The ancient concept that has been passed down for thousands of years has been denied. The impact was pretty amazing.Liu Ziyan couldn't help complaining about Yang Menglong: "You speak without thinking! Can you say such a thing? Fortunately, the people in the Heluo area are relatively enlightened. If you say these words in the south of the Yangtze River, those scholars will not turn into beasts and tear you to pieces. That's a weird thing!"

Yang Menglong looked innocent: "But these extreme climates are indeed formed by the earth's water cycle, and some of them can be prevented!"

Liu Ziyan was annoyed: "Prevention? What can be prevented? This is God's will, and God's will cannot be violated, do you understand?"

Yang Menglong said: "It is really preventable! For example, artificial rainfall, using rockets to spread dry ice, silver iodide and other chemical substances on cold clouds to heat up the clouds and melt the hail, so that a hailstorm will become heavy rain. Destroying crops and bringing precious rain to parched fields!"

The beauties were dumbfounded.Finally, Catherine said: "Yang, what you said...is really incredible! It's impossible, only God can do it!"

Yang Menglong snorted: "I'm not God, but I can do the same! Just wait and see, I'll prove it to you!"

Liu Ziyan hid her hands in her sleeves: "Hmph, let me see how you can prove it!"

Xiao Yufang was silent for a long time before asking softly, "Are you sure?"

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "I'm not sure, but I still have to try my best!"

Xiao Yufang said: "Then hurry up and deploy, time waits for no one."

Liu Ziyan stomped her feet anxiously: "Sister, why are you crazy with him! Is this possible? Artificial rainfall? Who has such supernatural powers to call wind and rain? Even gods may not be able to do it!"

Xiao Yufang smiled softly and said, "He must have a way, sister, you have to trust him."

Liu Ziyan was so angry that she couldn't speak.She was a little speechless towards Xiao Yufang. No matter what incredible things Yang Menglong wanted to do, she would support him unreservedly, including Yang Menglong's fight against the sky!Empress Nuwa, this is going against the sky, this kind of thing is scary to think about!She must be crazy to marry such a bastard as Yang Menglong!
Catherine stared at Yang Menglong for a long time before shaking her head and said, "Although you are very capable, I still don't think you have any chance of success... This is going against the will of God, and it is impossible for mortals to fight against God." of!"

Xiao Yufang said: "Let him try it. If it succeeds, it will be a great boon to the common people. It is really too dry today, and the common people are suffering. If artificial rainfall is really possible, everyone will not have to suffer so much." Bitter."

She is always so kind and always thinks of the best in everything.

Liu Ziyan sighed helplessly, and said to Yang Menglong in a slow tone: "You have to think clearly, you are fighting against the ethics and morals that have been passed down for thousands of years. After taking this step, there is no turning back. If You failed, not only you, we will all be ruined, and even... die without a place to die, this is by no means alarmist, if you look back now, there is still time."

Yang Menglong smiled bitterly: "Turn back? If I turn back, I will be treated as a sycophant and be killed to sacrifice to heaven. Then the emperor will issue an edict to blame myself. Then, millions of people will continue to struggle in droughts and hailstorms, displaced, and hungry and full of flies... I don't Room to turn back!”

After a few words, everyone was silent.He has never turned back, he was doomed from the very beginning, even if he wanted to compromise, the scholar-bureaucrats who had realized the fatal threat would not let him go!Those guys seem to be sanctimonious and gentle, but once their personal interests are threatened, they will immediately become more ferocious than jackals!
This is an endless war, if Yang Menglong wants to survive and go further, he must fight against the sky.His wealth, his vast army, his unrivaled influence among merchants could not help him, the only thing that could help him at all was his wit.

Finally, Cheng Qi said: "How much money do you need? Let me tell you the number. If it is not enough, I will borrow it from Huizhou merchants. If it is too much, I dare not say. I can still borrow a few million taels."

I don't know if Chongzhen will spit out blood when he hears these words... "A few million taels can still be borrowed!" As an emperor, he was so sad to ask the ministers to donate tens of thousands of taels of silver. He said with a relaxed face that he could borrow several million taels?There is no harm without comparison. Cheng Qi successfully caused tons of harm to him, the king of a country!

Yang Menglong said: "I don't need any money for the time being, but it's hard to say in the future. Anyway, you should prepare first..." Stretched, the bones all over his body were crackling, like a lion waking up. Make a move, let those guys know the power of science, so that they don't die like me! Zaji, you go to the school to say hello, let the school arrange an open class for me, and announce the news at the same time, All citizens are welcome to attend!"

Zaji responded to Weng, and went straight to the school with Shi Tianbao.

Liu Ziyan asked: "What do you want to do?"

Yang Menglong chuckled: "Give them some common sense of science!"

At this time, they were still in the mood to go to class, Liu Ziyan and Cheng Qi were speechless.

The school's curriculum arrangement is quite tight and cannot be disrupted at will, and Yang Menglong's status is very special, the school must arrange it carefully, so this public class has to be arranged one row behind.Yang Menglong took advantage of this time to go to the military factory, spent the night there, and then took a batch of rockets to the artillery testing ground, calling: "Hurry up and try these rockets!"

The tester opened the box and saw, good guy, the caliber of these rockets is the same as that of ordinary rockets, but the casing is made of paper, what kind of lethality can this crap have!Zhu Jinda, the engineer in charge of testing the weapon, picked up a paper-shelled rocket, looked to the left and looked at it, but didn't find it to have any lethality, and asked in surprise: "Master Hou, why are you interested in this thing? Paper shell, no Lethality, it's almost like a firework!"

Yang Menglong said: "I just want to use it as a firework! Stop talking nonsense and quickly drag a rocket launcher over to test fire and see how high it can hit!"

He is the boss, his words are the imperial decree, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.Had to drag a rocket launcher.Yang Menglong ordered the launcher of the rocket launcher to be removed, set it up vertically, and then put a rocket into it and ignited it.Only a scream was heard, and a large cloud of white smoke spewed out from the tail of the rocket, soaring into the sky, straight into Yunxiao.Yang Menglong stared at the rocket's flight path through the binoculars. Seeing that the rocket was doing Brownian motion in the sky, he shook his head in disappointment: "No, it's still not stable enough... Change it!"

It was only then that Zhu Jinda discovered that the body modifications of these rockets were not the same. Yang Menglong probably wanted to find out which shape would produce better aerodynamic effects and allow the rockets to fly higher.He was puzzled, the current rocket launcher pursues range and distribution density, why is Yang Menglong so focused on making the rocket fly higher?But he was puzzled, he still commanded his subordinates very dutifully, and tried firing rockets with different modifications one by one. The screams continued on the test field, and the rockets shot into the sky driven by the huge thrust generated by the burning cotton. Then, it exploded in the sky.Calculating observers also stared at the sky with binoculars, recording the altitude of each rocket explosion.It has to be said that since the paper shell is used, it is much lighter than the metal shell, so in the case of the same amount of propellant, the range of the rocket has increased a lot, and the height is generally above 2000 meters. He simply plunged into the thick dark clouds, and couldn't even find a ghost.Yang Menglong exclaimed excitedly: "Okay, this is it, this is it!"

Zhu Jinda made some calculations and said: "The height of this rocket may reach 3000 meters... If it is launched at a 45-degree angle, the range may reach 5000 meters, which is amazing. But it is useless, it is made of paper. No shrapnel will be produced, no lethality, unless the charge is increased! But the lethality is still insufficient, and a lot of precious explosives are wasted..." Shaking his head in distress, he said to Yang Menglong: "Master Hou, correct your stupidity. , I really don’t understand the use of making this kind of paper rocket!”

Yang Menglong pointed to the sky with a weird smile: "It's going to rain."

Everyone raised their heads and saw that the originally dark dark clouds above their heads were rolling rapidly, getting lower and lower, and lightning flashed between the gaps in the clouds. It is likely to rain.

Zhu Jinda pointed the lens of the telescope to the sky, then retracted it after a while, looked at the water droplets condensed on the mirror, and said firmly: "The humidity is not enough, this rain will not be possible, and the clouds will disperse after a while."

Yang Menglong smiled wickedly: "Then let's set off some more fireworks to cheer it up... Load up all the remaining rockets and launch them!"

The testers, Monk Zhanger, were confused and looked confused as they loaded the remaining hundreds of rockets into the rocket launcher and ignited them.I only heard a gust of wind and thunder, and white smoke spread like a mountain. Hundreds of rockets shot up from five vertical rocket launchers, like a fire Buddha, pouring straight into the sky. The scene was really... So spectacular.All the rockets shot into the low-hanging dark clouds, and the explosions came one after another, accompanied by the dull spring thunder, which was thrilling.Everyone looked up to the sky for a long time, immersed in the spectacular scene of the battle between heaven and man.

Boom! ! !

A violent thunder exploded above the head, the sky seemed to be angry, and there was a deafening roar, a purple-red lightning as thick as a bucket tore through the clouds, twisted its body and smashed straight to the ground!Zhu Jinda yelled in horror: "Heaven's anger! Heaven's anger!" Kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to the sky, all the experimenters were so frightened that their faces turned ashen. .The only exception is Yang Menglong, a bastard. During the flying of lightning, he laughed wildly, raised a middle finger to the sky, and said: "God thief, if you have the ability, you can hack me to death, if you don't, just be good to me!" Let it rain, otherwise I will never be done with you!"

Everyone was even more astonished: Is this bastard crazy!

Strangely, amidst his wild laughter, raindrops the size of a coin's eye fell from the sky, hitting the dry ground with puffs of puffs of white smoke. There is a vastness between heaven and earth.Now Zhu Jinda and the others couldn't care less about praying to the sky, and dragged Yang Menglong to avoid the rain by rolling and crawling.Amidst the rumbling thunder, they could vaguely hear the ecstatic cheers of the people near the test site: "It's raining! It's raining! It's raining, not damn hail!"

There were also hailstones, which fell in the rain and hit the head very painfully.But this thing is only the size of a mung bean, and the quantity is very small. At most, it's just a cute thing, and it won't cause any loss.

In the heavy rain, Yang Menglong shook off the group of technicians who pulled him to take shelter from the rain, dragged Shi Tianbao over, handed him a model of the highest-shooting rocket, and shouted: "Go to the military factory immediately and ask them to concentrate." Use all your strength to produce this type of rocket, and you must get at least [-] of them for me! If you make a good one, your salary will be doubled. If you can’t, I will throw them into the Han River to feed the big fish!"

(End of this chapter)