"Go, find a piece of fur!" Li Chengqian said to the attendant next to him.

"This ......" The chamberlain hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Royal Highness Qiqi, this fur has to be found in several places, Xiahou wants it to be dry, and it is still with hair, but it is not easy to find." This hair is always going to fade. Please wait a moment, Your Highness, and take the slaves and maids to lead people around to look for them. ”

Li Chengqian nodded: "Go ahead!" ”

The chamberlain confessed, and hurriedly called a few people to look for it. Li Chengqian and the others found a shady place to stay, and sent someone to get grapes and ice cubes, and waited while drinking.

"Cheng Qian, do you want to be a good person?" Xia Hongsheng took the grape wine handed over by the waiter, took a sip, and a cool breath suddenly penetrated his heart and spleen, making people feel refreshed and refreshed all of a sudden.

Li Chengqian pursed his lips: "What is called a good person, it seems that I have never been a good person!" ”

"Okay, then you can send someone to give a bowl of ice water to those who install lightning rods, so that they can also relieve the heat." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Chengqian: "There is no need to make grapes, in case they don't have any amount of wine, drink a lamp and cover their heads, it will not be good to install a business trip pool." Well, if you personally go over and give them a bowl of ice water, they must be grateful and full of energy. ”

"I know you want them to cool off too!" As a friend who has been friends for a long time, Li Chengqian naturally knew Xia Hongsheng's true intentions, and rolled his eyes: "You just treat these craftsmen well, as well as the subordinates in your family and Zhuangzi, I have never seen a marquis treat people so well, and you are not afraid of losing your prestige." ”

Xia Hongsheng smiled. Didn't speak. Now to tell them what democracy is, what equality, what science and technology are the primary productive forces, and the craftsmen who master technology are the carriers of productive forces, this kind of talk is too nonsense.

Li Chengqian beckoned to the side. Immediately, an attendant came: "Go, make some ice water, and give it to the craftsmen, for it is so hot that they are all working under the sun, so that they can also cool off." ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is merciful! Slave and maid, go and prepare! The chamberlain bowed, and immediately hurried away to give the order and get ready.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is merciful!" Xia Hongsheng raised his glass and gestured to Li Chengqian, and said with a smile.

Li Chengqian looked at him angrily. Li Lizhi covered her mouth and snickered on the side, Xia Hongsheng glanced at it inadvertently, and there was a warmth in the smile immediately, and he quickly turned his eyes, and was about to speak, but saw two figures walking towards him.

Wearing a loose Taoist robe, the people in the Tang Palace who can walk back and forth in Taoist robes like this are now dead, and one of them has not been able to eat and live in the Taiyi Bureau. The two men who came over. It can only be Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng.

The two of them walked over, and Xia Hongsheng and the others also stood up.

"Poor Dao greets His Royal Highness the Prince. Meet Your Highnesses and Princesses! I've seen Xiahou! Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng bowed and saluted, and Xia Hongsheng and the others returned the salute.

"Daochang Yuan, Daochang Li, why are the two of you here?" Li Chengqian asked.

Yuan Tiangang said with a smile: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the two of them came to see Your Majesty, and when they retired, they heard that Xiahou was placing magic weapons here that can avoid the heavenly thunder, so they came uninvited." ”

Xia Hongsheng was a little embarrassed, that day Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng were still kneeling in front of him and kowtowing to call him a disciple, so he scratched his head and said, "Where is the magic weapon, it's just some little tricks." ”

"Don't dare!" Yuan Tiangang shook his head again and again: "That day, Xiahou grabbed the heavenly thunder from the sky and put it in his hand. ”

Xia Hongsheng was about to excuse himself, but a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

Li Tang supported Taoism, and Taoism can be described as the state religion of Li Tang. And Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng can be said to be the core figures of Li Tang Taoism, and they have an incomparable reputation among others in Taoism. If Yuan Tiangang's obsession with immortal magic and Taoism can be used to guide his obsession to the study of Gewu, in this way, he will definitely be able to promote the reform of Taoism, transform Taoism into a scientific sect that pursues natural science, and use the power of Taoism to promote Gewu and study scientific phenomena. In fact, many natural phenomena seem to be very magical, if Taoism can be transformed, so that Taoism's worship of these phenomena themselves can be transformed into the exploration of the nature and causes of these phenomena, then the power of promoting the scientific level of Datang will be immeasurable!

Thinking of this, Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "Where and where, the two Taoist masters are too famous." In fact, these are just some means of lattice. Speaking of which, this Gewu and the Taoist teaching, but also the same path, with the same ultimate goal, are all to seek the nature of the Heavenly Dao, in the future, I would like to be able to sit with the two Taoist masters and discuss the Tao, teach each other, and jointly attain the Great Dao! ”

As soon as Xia Hongsheng's words fell, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng's eyes suddenly widened, and their faces immediately turned red with excitement, and they hurriedly bowed down to Xia Hongsheng: "Thanks to Brother Dao, I am willing to carry Xiaodao ......."

The two of them were speechless with excitement, since they saw that Xia Hongsheng really put the heavenly thunder into the glass bottle that day, and also stunned Lord Wang, and released electric light from the palm of his hand, the two decided that even if Xia Hongsheng was not an immortal, he must have obtained the true inheritance of an immortal. Thinking about what I did that day in the past few days, I regret it very much, not because I feel that I have lost someone, but because I regret that I called myself a disciple when I went up, I am afraid that it is too abrupt, and I am afraid that Xia Hongsheng will not like it. When I saw Xia Hongsheng today, I paid special attention to it, and changed my name to Xiahou as before, but my attitude was much lowered. But I never thought that the words of apology were still in my heart before I had time to say it, but Xia Hongsheng actually invited them to discuss it together! This...... This is the grace of the ancestors, a godsend! How can you keep them from getting excited?

Xia Hongsheng hurriedly helped the two of them up, shook his head and said: "Actually, I don't know anything about it, let's still learn from each other and make progress together, the two Taoist masters must not be like this, haha, if people hear the two Taoist elders call me Brother Dao, don't you think I'm going to be a Taoist priest?" ”

As he spoke, he saw that the waiter who had just gone to look for something hurriedly ran over, holding a few pieces of sheepskin in his hand, ran to him and presented them, and said, "Back to Your Highness, this sheepskin is waiting to be shed, and the slave maid brought a few pieces to His Highness, but the others are still except for the hair, only these few pieces." ”

"That's enough." Xia Hongsheng nodded, took the sheepskins with wool, and then rubbed them back and forth with his hands.

The static electricity on the wool is obvious if it is in the winter when the air is dry, but now because it is summer, the air is humid, so Xia Hongsheng spent a long time, trying to use his hands and rubbing the wool against each other in several ways, before he finally had some feelings. After rubbing it for a while, I began to hear a sudden crackling sound on the sheepskin.

"Li Tai, reach over." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Tai while rubbing his wool.

Li Tai stretched out his hand and approached the wool, just when Li Tai was about to touch the wool in Xia Hongsheng's hand, there was a crisp sound of "pop", Li Tai only felt that the tips of his fingers were as if he had been lightly pricked with a small needle, and he quickly retracted his hand.

"You prick me with a needle!" Li Tai retracted his hand and glared at Xia Hongsheng angrily.

Xia Hongsheng laughed and asked, "You all saw it at the beginning, after Lord Wang was shocked and fainted that day, did the few people who went to help him retract their hands all of a sudden, saying that they seemed to have been pricked by needles?" ”

Everyone was stunned, of course they all saw the situation that day, especially the three brothers of the Li family, they were behind Li Shimin, and they could be said to see it most clearly.

"That'...... Then this is ......" Li Tai didn't know why, not only Li Tai, but everyone else was the same, looking at Xia Hongsheng puzzled.

Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "Because this is also electricity." It's the same as what flashed in the sky, it's the same as what remains on Lord Wang's body, it's the same thing that made the chopsticks suck up the pieces of paper just now, these are all electricity, and the difference is only their strength and weakness. You see, the lightning in the sky, after I introduced it into the glass bottle, let Lord Wang come into contact with it, and the electricity remained on Lord Wang's body, and those adults came into contact with the electricity on Lord Wang's body, and their feeling was exactly the same as the feeling that Li Taifang had just touched the wool, so they were all the same thing. It's just that the strength of the lightning is many times stronger than the strength of the electricity that Li Tai came into contact with. ”

Of course, Xia Hongsheng knew that what he said was actually very inaccurate, but if he didn't say so, these people would be even more incomprehensible.

"It turns out that the thunder was not sent by Lei Gong...... It turns out that thunder is just a type of electricity...... It turns out that we can send a telegram ourselves......" Li Ke shook his head in surprise and sighed: "If it weren't for Brother Sheng'er today, who would have known that the terrifying heavenly thunder would have the same thing on our own bodies?" It's ridiculous that those Confucians in the court, who can only say one sentence after another in the face of the heavenly thunder, but no one has ever thought about seeing what the heavenly thunder is. On the contrary, Brother Sheng, close to a paper kite and a glass bottle, can catch the thunder, and with such a pile of copper and iron, the house can be protected from lightning strikes from now on. It seems that this way of learning things is much more useful than Confucianism. ”

"It can't be said that the learning of Gewu lies in external things, and the learning of Confucianism lies in internal cultivation, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. No matter what kind of knowledge in the world, it has its merits, and naturally it also has its dross. We just need to take the best of it and get rid of the dross. Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said. (To be continued......)