"Globetrotting?" Fan Lihua asked puzzledly, "What is a round-the-world trip?" ”

"Forehead ......" Li Hao thought for a while and explained, "This word can be interpreted separately, the word travel, it should not be difficult to understand, that is, going out to play, and going out is also a kind of travel." ”

"Oh." Fan Lihua nodded and asked again, "What about the world?" How to explain it? ”

Li Hao said: "This is a bit troublesome to explain, first of all, you have to know that the world we live in is actually a big ball, and the name of this big ball is called the earth." ”

Fan Lihua glared at her when she heard this and exclaimed, "How is it possible? Is the world a big ball? ”

"Can't believe it, huh?" Li Hao looked at her with a fluttering eyebrow.

Fan Lihua shook her head, obviously not convinced.

Li Hao casually picked up an orange on the table and said: "If this is the earth we are on, we start from one of the points, all the way to the west, never look back, and finally return to the original point, this is what I call a round-the-world trip." ”

Fan Lihua said thoughtfully, "If we can return to the original point all the way to the west, it can indeed prove that this world is a ball, but this is impossible, how can this world be a ball, if the world we are in is a ball, then we don't live on the ball, when we travel to the other half of the ball, won't we fall." ”

"I knew you would have such doubts." Li Hao smiled, "We won't fall, because between all things, there will be a force of mutual attraction, which is called gravity, this force is imperceptible, and the earth is too big, so it will have a gravitational pull on everything on the surface of the earth, this gravitational force will firmly suck us on the surface of the earth, which is why we jump high and will eventually fall back to the ground, if there is no gravity, we have no weight, we can float in the sky." ”

Fan Lihua was dumbfounded when she heard this, she could roughly understand what Li Hao said, but all this had already exceeded her cognition, and it felt incredible.

At this time, Wu Lei suddenly said: "Lord Wang, there are a lot of controversies in Datang now, which are about the earth, and it has lasted for almost a year, and more and more people are involved in this controversy, which is becoming more and more intense, and even has an impact on many schools." ”

"Oh, what controversy?" Li Hao looked at Wu Lei with interest.

Wu Lei said: "Lord Wang, you have created a new type of school, a new type of school to spread science, but in the science you proposed, the word "earth" has a great disagreement with the traditional doctrine, so many Confucian scholars went to the school to question those teachers and principals, saying that they lie to confuse the public, how can people live on the earth, and also say that since ancient times, the sky is round and the earth is ......."

Li Hao listened to Wu Lei very calmly, and then smiled: "In fact, I expected that there would be such a day, the birth of science, is a challenge to some of the ancient ideas of our Chinese nation, the collision of ideas is inevitable, this is a historical necessity, only in this way, human beings can progress, it doesn't matter, Wu Lei, after we go to Liuqiu, prepare well before setting sail, you go to Datang in your name to gather three hundred Confucian scholars, and say that you will take them on a round-the-world trip at sea to prove to them that we live on the earth, Just complete this round-the-world trip and see how they still doubt science. ”

Wu Lei heard the words and gave his hand: "Yes!" The prince's plan is really clever. ”

Fan Lihua said worriedly: "If you go all the way west but can't return to the original point, won't the husband lose?" ”

Li Hao smiled confidently: "Don't worry, I'm sure that we do live on the earth." ”

Fan Lihua asked curiously, "Husband, how do you know that we live on Earth?" ”

"This ...... Forehead...... This ......" Li Hao scratched his head in embarrassment when he heard this, and finally could only laugh and say, "Don't care about these details, haha......"

On the twentieth day of the lunar month, Li Hao arrived at Liuqiu, and he went to Liuqiu Island to check it out, huh! He couldn't believe his eyes, the harbor city was built tall and majestic, and the buildings in the city were actually taller than the buildings in Chang'an City.

This really made Li Hao feel amazed, thinking that back then, this was just a small island that no one cared about, and now, after his years of development and construction, coupled with the opening of the Age of Navigation, the economy of Liuqiu has come alive, more and more people have immigrated here, and now the population of Liuqiu is more than one million, and seven cities have been opened, the harbor city is naturally the most prosperous one, and the aborigines of Liuqiu have long been assimilated by the Tang people, out of barbarism, and began to strive for a rich life, among which there is one of the most backward cities, that is, the cities of those aborigines, The city lord is naturally Huang Shang, the leader of the aborigines.

Under the leadership of Wu Lei, Li Hao came to the deep mountains and old forests again, which is far away from the downtown area and rarely visited, but there are steel mills, ordnance factories, and Li Hao's private military camp, where Li Hao's 100,000 private troops are stationed.

Now the supreme leader in the barracks is Li Guocheng, Li Guocheng is a madman, because Li Hao requires that the number of troops cannot exceed 100,000, since there is a limit on the number, he desperately trains the quality of the soldiers, and now Li Hao's 100,000 army has 20,000 Xuanjia troops, 40,000 elite heavy cavalry, and 40,000 ironclad Mo sword soldiers.

Long-term hard training has made all soldiers become murder weapons in the world, everyone's strength is huge, and the heavy armor is not a burden for them at all now, wearing dozens or even hundreds of catties of armor and iron shields, they can still run like flying, and these armors and iron shields have been carefully improved by craftsmen, and they are even more sophisticated than the equipment of Tiance Mansion.

Li Hao was very happy when he saw his powerful army of 100,000, with these 100,000 male soldiers, plus his warships and artillery, he had full confidence to defeat all the enemies in the world.

Li Hao had a villa in Liuqiu, so he stayed in the villa, and he had already explained to Wu Lei, and when his family arrived in Qiongnan, he directly sent a boat to take them to Liuqiu.

On the thirtieth day of the lunar month, that is, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, all of Li Hao's family members arrived in Liuqiu by boat, and because it was now inconvenient for Li Hao to appear in public, he did not go to the harbor to pick them up.

Although Li Hao's family is not much, there are too many relatives and friends who follow him, Zhu Ruihuan's family, Lu Yun's family, Chen Song's family, and Situ Feng's family...... Together with their servants and special forces, a huge team headed for the suburban villa.

After entering the villa, passing the front yard, and coming to the middle courtyard, everyone was stunned, and then they all shouted excitedly, because Li Hao was sitting on a wicker chair lazily basking in the sun.

Several wives went up to hug Li Hao and suffered a while, which made Li Hao scramble, and coaxed this and that.

Li Ping is the most controllable of several wives, but he also walked up to Li Hao with tears in his eyes and said excitedly: "Husband, I knew that you were not dead, I knew that you were not dead......"

"Of course, and don't look at who I am." Li Hao got up to wipe away his tears for Li Ping, and said slowly, "Let you suffer, you all suffer, it's me who is not good......"

Seeing Fan Lihua behind Li Hao, as well as the child in Fan Lihua's arms, Li Ping seemed to have guessed something and asked, "Husband, the child in General Fan's hands." ”

Li Hao smiled and said, "It's a boy, it's called Li Fan." Although he didn't say that it was his child, everyone understood when he said the name Li Fan.

Li Ping smiled and nodded to Fan Lihua, who also nodded at her.

At this time, Li Hong suddenly came out of the crowd and saluted Li Hao: "Hong'er meets Mr." ”

"Hey, Hong'er is here too?" Li Hao was suddenly surprised, but then frowned and said, "Madam, why did you bring Li Hong too, does the emperor know?" ”

"I ......" Li Ping suddenly didn't know how to answer, and stood there crampedly, Li Hong was the prince after all, she brought Li Hong here privately, if Li Zhi knew, no matter how good Li Zhi was, he probably couldn't stand it.

At this time, Li Mingda, who was dressed in a plain robe, stepped forward and said with a smile on his face: "It's okay, if the emperor blames him, I will help my wife to bear this responsibility, and the emperor will not do anything to me." ”

"Ah, Mingda is here too." Li Hao was pleasantly surprised, turned his eyes to look at everyone, and said happily, "It's good, it's been a long time since I've had such a reunion, almost everyone is here today, and it's Chinese New Year's Eve this meaningful day, I'm so happy, haha......"

Everyone greeted each other for a while, Li Hao brought everyone into the main hall to chat, and after a long time, Li Hao suddenly said: "Everyone, I want to tell you one thing here, in the past few years, I don't plan to go back to Chang'an, and you must not leak the things about my life, I want to live in seclusion for a while." ”

At this time, Lu Yun suddenly frowned and stepped forward and said, "You're not going back to Chang'an?" What should I do in the court, since I learned of the death of you and Fan Lihua, Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui on the northern grassland have returned to Yu Dujun Mountain, and the emperor sent Su Dingfang to attack, although he killed many people, but he returned in vain. ”

Li Hao frowned when he heard this, and only heard Lu Yun say again: "Hui Xue Yantuo is very cunning, he begs for peace and tribute, bows down to his subjects, and the Chinese officials of the court have committed the old problem, saying that peace is precious, and you can't use swords and soldiers, and besides, Abbasid and Tubo are also ready to move, if it weren't for the last battle that greatly damaged their vitality, I'm afraid that this time they would also send troops to attack the Great Tang." ”

"How bold they are!" Fan Lihua immediately gritted her teeth and snorted angrily when she heard this, after marrying Li Hao, she seemed to have become a little woman, but in fact, no, in essence, she is a female man, she has always been, and will be, because she is General Fan Lihua.

Everyone looked at Li Hao, waiting for his decision.

Li Hao frowned, paced slowly in the hall, and muttered for a long time, he said leisurely: "The court can't do without me, it's just that these rotten Confucians in the court don't know anything about military affairs but love to point fingers, and they hate it, which makes Datang very passive, General Su Dingfang is old, Wang Xiaojie is too young, and only Xue Rengui is alone...... It's also a lonely hand, it's hard to scream......"

"Husband, let me go back to Chang'an." Fan Lihua suddenly said in a loud voice.