Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 231
Many of the craftsmen are not afraid of big things, and they really want to know whether the big thing they built can go to heaven.

Only Xu Xuan's life and death, who cares about him, besides, he asked for it.Moreover, it was His Royal Highness Qi Wang who gave the order, so there was nothing wrong with it.

As soon as Zhao Dezhao said a word, the craftsmen immediately let go of the rope in their hands.

It turned out that a thick rope with a length of hundreds of feet was tied to each end of the rattan basket. At this time, the sphere of the big sheepskin balloon had already been filled with hot air.

Wow!
Oh!
"It really flew up!" Li Yu was surprised.

"This thing can really go to heaven!" The disciples of Gong Xue exclaimed.

"Your Highness! We succeeded!" The craftsmen were also ecstatic.

However, no one noticed that some liquid of unknown origin was dripping from the rattan basket: Xu Xuan was so frightened that he peed.

The world's most heavenly man went to heaven for the first time, and he was scared to pee.

In fact, once the rattan basket was lifted into the air, Xu Xuan kept shouting, but there were more people shouting on the ground, so his voice could not be heard.

He never expected that Zhao Dezhao would actually dare to let someone put a rope up to raise a balloon.

At this time, I regretted too much, I pretended to be big, but now it is too late to regret.

The people on the ground, after the initial surprise, watched the balloon rising higher and higher, but they all became worried.

This thing flew up, can it still come down?
With so much heat, will it fly higher or farther?

The flame is so big, will it burn through the sheepskin, and will Xu Xuan fall off?
More people began to worry about Zhao Dezhao.

Will Zhao Dezhao, who can build that kind of magical carriage and this kind of big balloon, be punished by the emperor because Xu Xuan was thrown to death?

Amid all the excitement, worries, and doubts, Zhao Dezhao remained as calm as before, looking up at the sky, asking the craftsmen to report numbers from time to time.

"Three feet! Now four feet...four feet and five!"

It turned out that the scales were engraved on the two thick ropes, accurate to inches.

The number reported is how high it rises.

"Twelve feet... fifteen feet!"

"Your Highness! 22 feet! Now it is... 25 feet!"

The originally huge balloon gradually disappeared into the air and became smaller and smaller.

"It can rise so high!"

"Your Highness! It's almost enough! Let Xu Xuan down, he will be scared to death."

Zhao Dezhao was unmoved, and continued to ask the craftsmen to report the numbers.

"28 feet!"

"Thirty feet!"

"33 feet five!"

"35 feet!"

This height has reached the height of [-] meters in the previous life.This was the psychological height of his first experiment.

Zhao Dezhao nodded, "Okay! Take it back!"

Thus, at the highest altitude of 36 feet, the hot air balloon was slowly retracted.

More than a dozen craftsmen pulled the rope vigorously, pulling back the already small sheepskin balloon in mid-air.

"Oh! It can really be taken back! After that, everyone can go to heaven to see!"

"It's good if you can come back! Mr. Xu is probably scared to death."

"Your Highness! You are really amazing! You can fly and receive. Next time, I want to go to the sky to see."

Amidst the heated discussion among the crowd, the hot air balloon finally returned to the ground, and the craftsmen swiftly extinguished the flames of the fuel tank.

The heat disappeared, and the huge balloon began to shrink gradually.

Everyone rushed to the rattan basket and helped out the pale Xu Xuan.

Xu Xuan's eyes were closed tightly, his face was as white as a piece of paper, his whole body was shaking, and a large piece of his clothes was wet.

"Mr. Xu! How does it feel to go to heaven! Now you still think that strange skills and ingenuity can never compare with Confucianism?"

Xu Xuan listened to all his words, but his palpitations still persisted, and he dared not answer, nor could he answer.

The facts are all there, and any further debate is nonsense.

And he was also afraid that King Qi would send him to heaven again in a fit of anger, and would not take him back.

So he simply closed his eyes and said nothing, probably fainting from shock.

However, others had already noticed that his eyelids were fluttering, which was obviously a fake.

At this time, no one exposed it, so Zhao Dezhao ordered someone to carry him off the rattan basket.

"Brother Wang! This hot air balloon is really a good thing. It can be used to carry people up to the top of a mountain, fly over enemy countries, set fire and shoot arrows down below, and..."

"Stop talking! You only thought about it when you saw Feitian, but Brother Wang thought about it before you made it!"

Everyone surrounded Zhao Dezhao and talked non-stop. It turns out that everyone has an idea of ​​traveling overseas and enjoying the sky.

Zhao Dezhao said with a smile, "It's a pity that we are on land. If there are many whales on the sea, if you use the skin of the whale as a balloon, it will be lighter and tougher. It can hold more fuel and carry more people to the sky. It has to be higher and farther."

"And whale oil can also be used as fuel, which is more resistant to burning than this..."

Those words filled everyone with their own imaginations about the sea and whales.

"Of course! If you want to accomplish this, you can't rely on thinking alone. You also need to strengthen your body and improve your knowledge. My knowledge is also what I heard from the strange people in the South China Sea when I recovered the Southern Han Dynasty."

"After listening to Brother Wang's words, it is better than reading ten years of books! So Brother Wang, is it really useless to read sage books?"

Someone couldn't help but ask this sentence.As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.

Originally, such words were regarded as outrageous. In the Song Dynasty, which was ruled by Confucianism, the Tao of Confucius and Mencius was even more respected than in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Speaking from the disciples of Gong Xue himself, the problem is even more serious.

However, no one spoke up to refute.

In the face of the pale dogma, the fact that the sheepskin balloon went up to the sky ruthlessly slapped the sages.

Even Xu Xuan opened his ears wide at this time, wanting to hear Zhao Dezhao's answer.

"In fact, Confucianism is also very reasonable. Confucianism and invention are not contradictory to each other. Blindly rejecting strange skills and obscenity is not in line with the original ideology of Confucianism."

"In the "Book of Rites-University", there is a saying that knowledge is in the investigation of things, and then knowledge is obtained after the investigation of objects. If you want to know the highest knowledge, you must first understand the original truth of things. Understand the principle of this matter, you will know the whole Things are right and wrong.”

"Just now, I sent Mr. Xu to the sky, just to let him experience whether the ingenious thing is a useless children's toy. He really went to the sky with this invented thing, and came down safely. , that explains everything!"

"I am not opposed to Confucianism, but Confucianism does not represent all the knowledge in the world. My inventions and creations, which are what they call miraculous skills, can change the world and bring great benefits to the people!"

It's okay to hear these words in the ears of ordinary students, but in the ears of Li Yu, Li Mu, Xu Xuan and other Confucian scholars, it's really shocking, like a thunderbolt.

Xu Xuan only felt that his horizons seemed to be opened, and he finally understood Zhao Dezhao.

(End of this chapter)