Twenty or so big men suddenly came to the house, and they stood in every corner without speaking, just standing quietly, their eyes looking around from time to time. Listening to the sound of horses snorting from time to time at the door, such a scene made Carpenter Xu's family a little nervous, and they were a little overwhelmed to stand there. Not including, of course, Carpenter Xu himself.

When Carpenter Xu and the two Jinyiwei plainclothes finished changing their clothes, the Jinyiwei plainclothes who were sent out to buy food had already returned, ordering dishes from nearby restaurants, and even hot ginger tea.

Carpenter Xu's wife and children all went to the back room to eat, and only Carpenter Xu stayed outside. Looking at the stool sitting on a stool that was okay in his house, Carpenter Xu bowed deeply, and said with a grateful face: "I don't know what furniture the little boy needs to build, as long as it is made of wood, with my Xu Zhengming's hands, it will be no worse than others!" ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen and Concubine Tian couldn't help but smile at each other, and then turned around, and Emperor Chongzhen said to Carpenter Xu: "The family has become like this, why are you still so obsessed with flying cars?" ”

To tell the truth, after Tian Guifei saw the situation in his family, she watched his wife and children eat and wear, and she felt a little contempt for this man in her heart. It's just that in front of the emperor, it didn't show itself. At this time, when she heard the emperor ask this, she couldn't help but pay attention, so she stared at Carpenter Xu to see how he answered?

Carpenter Xu was slightly stunned when he heard this, obviously he didn't expect this noble man to say this. Or when they heard this question, the sound of eating inside suddenly disappeared.

After a while, Carpenter Xu came back to his senses and replied with a serious face: "I just want to do something meaningful!" ”

Do something meaningful? When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he immediately remembered the protagonist in a classic TV series in later generations, who spent a few years paving a road outside the barracks, and others couldn't figure it out, so they also asked him, and the answer he got was just to do something meaningful.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but be even more interested, so he asked again: "How do you talk about it?" ”

When Carpenter Xu heard this, he seemed to fall into memory, and said slowly: "It's not that I, Xu Zhengming, boast about it, if you want to talk about the carpenter's work, I must be among the best here in Suzhou." In the beginning, with my skills, I didn't have to worry about food and clothing. ”

Speaking of this, he paused and then said: "But every time I am asked to do things by those powerful families and powerful squires, it is all to satisfy their desire to compare with each other. For example, wood can be purchased from places such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Xichuan and other places for tens or hundreds of taels, or even more, and then I asked them to make exquisite things for them, and asked the lacquer maker to use the best materials and mix the best colors. If you press others down, you will be complacent, and if you are not as good as others, you will be so angry that you will smash it as firewood. ”

Everyone listened to him, their eyes focused on him, and many people vaguely heard something, and their eyes softened a little.

"I've seen a lot of things like this, and I'm bored." Carpenter Xu saw that Emperor Chongzhen listened carefully, so he sighed with emotion, "In fact, it's not just furniture, anyway, clothing, food, housing, transportation, etc., there are such similarities, clothes are worn once, you must do more to eat, and you would rather waste than appear to have money at home." Anyway, it's all for that face, and it's estimated that I'm about to catch up with the emperor with all the pomp and circumstance......"

Hearing this, almost everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Emperor Chongzhen.

Carpenter Xu saw it, a little inexplicable, but he didn't think much about it, just continued to say what he had been holding in his heart all along: "For such a thing, I don't think it's interesting at all, it's really boring." So, I thought about doing something meaningful, and I thought about it a lot at first, and finally I thought about whether I could make a flying car, which would also make it more convenient for everyone to travel......"

At this point, he remembered something, and got up and went to a cupboard in a corner to get something. When Fang Zhenghua and the others saw it, they immediately looked at it with vigilance. However, when he saw that what Carpenter Xu finally took out was just some paper, he relaxed without a trace.

"Look, that's what I've been tinkering with, thinking of making something really useful or two." Carpenter Xu said, putting all the papers in his hands on the table.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was a little curious, and reached out to take them and opened them one by one. I have to say that this Xu carpenter is really thoughtful, these are all design drawings, there are a lot of them, and it can be seen that a lot of thought has been spent.

After the emperor read it, Tian Guifei also reached out and took a look, and then when she turned her head to look at Carpenter Xu, the contempt in her heart couldn't help but decrease a lot.

And Emperor Chongzhen himself, after reading those drawings, couldn't help but be silent. Thinking back to what he saw and heard on the road, and listening to what Carpenter Xu just said, he had a deeper understanding of the atmosphere in Jiangnan.

When he came back to his senses, Emperor Chongzhen asked a little seriously, "Then you still want to continue to improve that flying car?" ”

"Hmm!" Carpenter Xu listened, nodded and said, "I, Xu Zhengming, never give up halfway. Today's one is broken, I'll go back and improve the way to see. ”

After he said this, a slight sigh suddenly came from the inner room, but it happened that no one outside was talking, so he could hear it.

Emperor Chongzhen turned his head to look at the inner room, and then suddenly said to Carpenter Xu: "Your flying car will definitely not succeed, and you don't need to improve it." ”

"Impossible!" When Carpenter Xu heard this, he immediately said excitedly, "I have been improving for more than ten years, and you should have seen that I can fly a distance today." ”

Indeed, at least that's what you can see. Liu Xingzuo and the others all agreed with Carpenter Xu's words a little bit in their hearts, maybe he would succeed next time?

They all looked at Emperor Chongzhen, and when they saw Emperor Chongzhen, they shook their heads with a smile and said, "I can tell you that people can definitely fly in the sky with the help of tools, but it is definitely not your way of thinking." First, the power generated by manpower is too small to support the flight of heavy objects, let alone become popular; Second, the material of your flying car is not good, it must be lighter, stronger, etc., but even so, as long as the power problem is not solved, it is impossible......"

As soon as Carpenter Xu heard Emperor Chongzhen speak, he hit the two biggest flaws of the flying car, which made him a little surprised, and for the first time seriously began to consider other people's opinions on the matter of the flying car.

"However, your idea of flying car can still be realized in the future, that is, after the two problems I just mentioned are solved." Emperor Chongzhen said with a smile, "For now, if you want people to fly into the sky, I have a few plans for you to experiment, and I can also provide funds so that you don't have to worry about doing this, what do you think?" ”