When he came out of the palace, Xia Hongsheng grabbed Li Tai's ears and beat him on the buttocks, Li Tai yelled, and Li Chengqian was a good man next to him. The guards at the gate of the palace were stunned when they saw this scene, and they couldn't help but be in awe of Xiahou Ye in their hearts, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty dared to beat the prince like this, and this was the only one. It stands to reason that they should go over to take charge, and the subordinates beat the prince, if this is a serious offense, it is a big crime that can lose their heads. But how? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is on the side, and he hasn't taken care of it yet, where can he get their turn to go over? Therefore, this group of guards at the prison gate had to pretend not to see it.

"Dare to beat the prince! You wait, tomorrow will make you look different! Li Tai sniffled, and his voice buzzed and glared at Xia Hongsheng angrily.

Xia Hongsheng immediately slapped again, and the frightened Li Tai quickly hid behind Li Chengqian.

"Li Qingque, I usually treat you well, but today you actually said that in front of Your Majesty, what do you think?! Tell me about it, I can't tell if I still beat you! Xia Hongsheng smiled at Li Tai, and as soon as he rolled up his sleeves, he made a gesture to go over and pull him, but the frightened Li Tai hurriedly hid back.

While hiding, he was still stiff-mouthed: "You dare, if you beat the prince, this king must go to his father to sue you!" Let your father beat you on the board! ”

"Say, why do you say that in front of Your Majesty?" Xia Hongsheng asked: "If you don't say it, if you want to go to my house for dinner in the future, you won't even have a way to plead with your brother!" ”

"I want to see how you catch the thunder!" Li Tai honestly admitted: "I think what you said must be true, if you can make something that makes a person lift a large boulder, you will definitely be able to catch the heavenly thunder." I want to see it! ”

Li Tai's eyes were bright, and he almost wrote the word "curiosity" directly on his face.

Xia Hongsheng shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Then you should also ask me first, do you know?" If I can't catch the thunder, this little life will be lost here! And even if you want to catch the thunder, it is an extremely dangerous time, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a lifetime of nine deaths. Li Tai, you're killing me! ”

"Huh?" Li Tai was taken aback and came out from behind Li Chengqian. looked at Xia Hongsheng: "Really? ”

"Am I still lying to you?" Xia Hongsheng shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Li Tai was stunned: "That...... Or, or I'm going to ask my father to stop you from catching the thunderbolts? ”

"With so many ministers present, how do you say anything about it now? I'm afraid that Brother Sheng'er will really catch the thunder this time. Li Chengqian also shook his head and said, "Come to think of it, my father also wants to promote Brother Sheng'er to catch the heavenly thunder, so as to block the mouths of hundreds of officials." ”

"What then?" Li Tai was dumbfounded and looked at Xia Hongsheng worriedly.

Xia Hongsheng shook his head helplessly: "There is no way, I can only catch it." Both of you. Can you get me some tin foil, it's the kind of paper that burns paper in the temple, what's it called, Hangzhou foil? ”

"Brother Sheng, can you really catch the heavenly thunder?" Li Chengqian looked at Xia Hongsheng in disbelief and asked in surprise.

Xia Hongsheng shrugged his shoulders: "If you have to learn Gewu well, you can too." Forget it, don't worry. Except for some dangers, it's not difficult. And also. Get me some iron bars, and connect the iron bars with iron chains, the first one must be very sharp, very sharp, and the back iron bars will be straight. If it is done well, the house in the palace will never be afraid of lightning in the future. There is also. Can you find a good blacksmith? After the iron is melted, it is perforated and drawn to see if it can be made, the finer the better. If you can't do it, then please borrow me some yellow finance to draw silk, this can always be done. It has to be at least fifty or sixty zhang long. ”

"Good!" Li Chengqian nodded: "There is still something that I need to do with Qingque." Say the same. ”

"There's nothing left, so be it. I'm going back to Zhuangzi to get ready. Xia Hongsheng waved his hand, said goodbye to Li Chengqian and them, and went home by himself.

Catch the lightning, this is something that a foreigner once did, he through a kite with a metal rod and a rope wrapped around copper wire, successfully channeled the lightning in the sky into the Leyden bottle, caught the "lightning", proved to the world that thunderstorms are not "God's wrath", but a kind of natural discharge phenomenon, and became the founder of electricity. This experiment that caught the lightning bolt was called the kite experiment, and this man was called Benjamin. Franklin.

What Xia Hongsheng said about catching lightning is to follow Franklin's example and reproduce the kite experiment.

The experiment itself is not a very difficult experiment to replicate and operate. The danger is how to use the metal rod on the kite to conduct the current down and then not get the electricity. There are also several issues that need to be solved, the first of which is the Leyden bottle. To reproduce this experiment in its entirety, it is necessary to have a Leyden bottle, which acts as a capacitor to hold the current. Otherwise, how can others see that "Lightning" has been caught? So you have to make a good Leyden bottle first.

Thanks to the obscene colleague Wang Moumou in the later life, thanks to his physics class full of practical fun, thanks to him for leading the students to make simple Leyden bottles, and even more thanks to his own curious heart, he was able to observe the whole process, and thanks to his stupid moment, he chose to go to middle school for two years to become a dog! If you had gone to the village elementary school in the first place, how would you know what the hell the Leyden bottle is?!

It's really exciting to think about it, do you want to bury some clay pots, copper coins, Tang Sancai, etc., under the address where the school was built in the future, put a piece of paper in it, and write a sentence to Wang Moumou after 1387 years?

Xia Hongsheng didn't stop much after returning home, got into the carriage and went straight to Jingyang. It rained for days, the road was muddy, it was very difficult to walk, and it was not until dark that he returned to Zhuangzi, Xia Hongsheng said that the first thing after the completion of the military academy was to build a cement road from Chang'an to Jingyang!

Overnight, he called the old kiln head over, asked him to go to make a glass bottle immediately, drew the shape for him, and wrote the size and shade. In addition, he also asked the old kiln head to burn a pair of shoes out of ceramics for him, as long as his feet can get in, the soles must be thick, saying that there is an emergency, the sooner the better.

The old kiln head patted his chest and promised, and went to the kiln in the rain overnight.

More than half of the next day, when it was about to get dark, Xia Hongsheng had just returned from the greenhouse on Zhuangzi, and the old kiln head went to Xia Hongsheng with a gray face, holding a glass bottle and a pair of ceramic shoes.

"This ...... Is the bottom of this ceramic shoe thick? Xia Hongsheng touched the ceramic shoes and asked: "But you must not be thin, otherwise he will crack as soon as I get in, then you will hurt me!" ”

"Don't worry, Childe!" The old kiln nodded: "Yesterday, the son explained, how dare the old man not do it?" It's a palm-thick, and you can't break it even if you fall! But, Childe, forgive the old man, what are you doing with such a thing? You can't wear this outfit, and it can put people to death! ”

Because the time was already evening, Xia Hongsheng was not in a hurry to return to Chang'an, and spent the night on Zhuangzi, got up early the next morning, and rushed back to Chang'an while it was not raining.

As soon as I returned home, when I entered the door, I saw Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, two old gods, who were watching Yi Qiulou practice horizontal swords, and when they saw Xia Hongsheng coming back, the three of them came over.

"Oh, Xiahou, I heard that Xiahou actually wants to catch the heavenly thunder! But is that really the case? Yuan Tiangang asked excitedly.

"Can that still be fake?" Xia Hongsheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who did Daoist Yuan listen to?" ”

"Naturally, I listened to what His Majesty said." Yuan Tiangang said to Xia Hongsheng: "Xiahou hasn't been in Chang'an for the past few days, Xu doesn't know yet. His Majesty has already informed the civil and military officials that Xiahou was going to catch the heavenly thunder, and also invited the civil and military officials to watch the day when Xiahou caught the heavenly thunder. ”

Ahh You're clearly pitting me!

It is conceivable that if the real kite experiment is successful, then the hundred officials will witness with their own eyes that the heavenly thunder can be caught, and no one will say what kind of heavenly thunder is a sign of heavenly thunder. If his kite experiment fails, the focus of the attack will be on his head again, and Li Shimin will definitely have to make himself a scapegoat in order to give an explanation to God. Li Lao Er, okay, you are black! You're black enough!

Xia Hongsheng wanted to cry without tears, but he heard Yuan Tiangang say again: "Xiahou, I have been practicing all my life, and I have never seen anyone who can escape this thunderstorm!" Now Xiahou can actually catch the heavenly thunder! Xiahou, if Xiahou needs help from Poor Dao, even if he is instructed, Poor Dao will definitely try his best to help! ”

Yuan Tiangang's appearance looked very excited, too, in the eyes of the ancients, lightning was the thunder, and the thunder was the punishment sent by the supreme heaven.

"Oh?" As soon as Xia Hongsheng heard that Yuan Tiangang wanted to help, he was naturally anxious, this pit was abducted and deceived by the first god stick of the Tang Dynasty, and he must have made a lot of money in the past few years, so he said: "That's great, with Yuan Daochang's help, then the certainty of the next is even greater." In this way, I also asked Yuan Daochang to help make a paper kite, but it was not made of paper, but it should be made of good silk, not too heavy silk. And it has to be bigger, because it has to fly fifty or sixty feet high! ”

"Paper kites?" Yuan Tiangang was stunned, and he didn't know what the catch of the heavenly thunder had to do with the paper kite.

"However, this paper kite can't be made, and this thunder can't be caught." Xia Hongsheng nodded and said to Yuan Tiangang: "This is the most important part, and if I think about it, I can only rest assured if I hand it over to Daoist Yuan." ”

"This ......" Yuan Tiangang thought for a while: "Okay, the poor road must do it!" (To be continued......)