The day after Xia Hongsheng returned to Chang'an, the three brothers of the Li family took the quasi-original Hangzhou foil to Xia Hongsheng's house. With the three brothers of the Li family, as well as Xia Hongsheng's group of friends, they had already heard that Xia Hongsheng was going to catch Tianlei, so they all came together.

Everyone was clamoring and shouting, and they all said that they wanted to help Xia Hongsheng catch the thunder together, but Xia Hongsheng seemed to be purely here to gloat and watch the excitement.

Now that he has got tin foil, Xia Hongsheng began to make Leyden bottles. It didn t take too much effort to sit up with a simple leiden bottle, and the glass bottle xia hongsheng had already done it, and he took out the glass bottle.

Everyone looked at it, and they saw that it was a very strange glass bottle. Even the lid is a glass lid, and there is a hole the thickness of chopsticks in the middle of the lid. Xia Hongsheng opened the cap of the bottle, then cut the tin foil, stuffed it into the bottle with chopsticks, and pasted a circle of tin foil on the inside of the bottle, and the bottom of the bottle was also pasted with tin foil, and then a circle of tin foil was also pasted in the same position on the outside of the bottle. Then he took off a strip of tin foil and stuck it on top of the tin foil on the outside of the bottle. There was a bottleneck in the middle, and it was empty. After closing the cap again, he stuffed a chopstick-thick iron rod into the hole in the middle of the cap, the iron rod was also strange, and there was a small thin iron chain attached to it, the thickness was just the sheath, but a section grew out, and the thin iron chain below was placed on the tin foil at the bottom of the bottle, and a section about a finger long came out of the bottle cap.

It was not difficult to do, and it didn't take long for Xia Hongsheng to do it. A homemade simple Leyden bottle that acts as a capacitor to store a small amount of lightning that is channeled through the wires of a kite.

"It's done. At that time, you will have to add concentrated salt water to it. Xia Hongsheng put the bottle aside. said: "That's it. When the time comes, you can catch the thunder in here. ”

"This thing is used to lock up the thunder at that time?" After listening to Xia Hongsheng's words, everyone looked at the bottle inside Xia Hongsheng in surprise.

"No, Brother Sheng, it's just such a glass bottle, let alone Chu Mo and Baolin, even if it's me, I can break it with one fist, that day thunder is so terrifying. Can you get trapped with a glass bottle? Changsun Chong, the son of Changsun Wuji, was very curious and took the Leiden bottle made by Xia Hongsheng - no, haha, it will be called Hongsheng bottle in the future - and said.

"What do you know, this is called overcoming rigidity with softness!" Xia Hongsheng didn't bother to explain to them, and the explanation was not clear, so he didn't say anything, just entertained everyone.

The front foot sent away the gentlemen, and the back foot came together with the group of bigwigs in the Liangyi Hall that day.

is different from the group of gentlemen who entertained just now, this group of bigwigs arrived together, which made everyone in Xia Hongsheng's family busy. Xia Hongsheng also hurried over to salute one by one. It's at home here, so Xia Hongsheng treats them with the courtesy of his nephews. But what made Xia Hongsheng even more surprised was that. Even Yan Shigu and Li Gang came.

These two people are both a generation of Confucianism, and they should both be supporters of the induction of heaven and man. Xia Hongsheng said that he was able to catch the heavenly thunder, which was already a blatant provocation to the Confucian doctrine of heaven and man induction since the Han Dynasty. But these two people came to Xia Hongsheng's house at this time, which made Xia Hongsheng feel a little incomprehensible.

"Jingshi, Your Majesty has informed the hundred officials of this matter, and invited the hundred officials to watch it together. Are you sure? Li Gang asked Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said, "If you say that you must be sure, it is impossible. Students are only 70% sure at most, and the remaining 30% can only look at luck. ”

"I see." Yan Shigu nodded beside him and said, "Your Majesty has made a risky move!" Jingshi, you have to do this well. If it succeeds, no one will attack Your Majesty in this way, and you will rise with it, and you will be more trusted in Your Majesty's heart. If it doesn't work, then neither you nor Your Majesty will have to lose face, and it will be difficult to raise your head in front of hundreds of officials. In this matter of capturing the heavenly thunder, you have become one with Your Majesty, with both glory and loss. Jingshi, Your Majesty, this is entrusting all your wealth and honor to you! This letter is serious, and it must be reported! ”

"Master Yan rest assured, students will save it." Xia Hongsheng said.

What Yan Shigu said can also be imagined. If this can catch the thunder, since the thunder can be caught, it will naturally not be a warning from God, and no one can make a fuss about the thunder split in the future and attack Li Shimin. But if it doesn't work, it will not only be Xia Hongsheng's name swept away, but Li Shimin will also have to be coerced by the scholars, not only to punish himself, but also to punish Xia Hongsheng, and his prestige will be discredited.

As soon as Yan Shigu finished asking, Duan Zhixuan asked again, "Jingshi, how are you preparing?" Was it ever right? ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded and replied: "It's basically complete, just send Yuan Daochang to help make a thing, this thing is a thing, once it can be used, then just wait for the rain and thunder to roar, you can catch the thunder." ”

Everyone asked a lot of questions, Xia Hongsheng answered them one by one, and everyone expressed their support for Xia Hongsheng, and then left.

After sending these two groups of people away, Xia Hongsheng went into the study by himself, locked the door from the inside, and thought deeply.

In fact, strictly speaking, Franklin's kite experiment was extremely dangerous. If the kite did draw the thunderbolt, then Franklin who came into contact with the kite wire would almost certainly die. Franklin didn't die because the kite's original drawing was only static electricity in the clouds, or he was really blessed, or he didn't do the experiment at all. Xia Hongsheng was actually more inclined that he did not directly touch the kite wire, and later said that he pulled the kite wire, which was added by the writer in order to render the scene.

Therefore, Xia Hongsheng planned to tie the metal guide directly to the metal rod of the Leyden bottle, and then use dry wood to provoke and control the wire, so as not to let himself come into direct contact with the kite wire. When the time comes, put on ceramic shoes, ceramics are non-conductive, which can be regarded as insulated shoes, right? I don't know if it's useful or not, but if it's useful, doesn't it mean that if you wear insulated shoes, you can't form a circuit if your feet don't touch the ground, and you can't kill people? Xia Hongsheng didn't know if he could do this, but he just wanted to add all the protective measures he could think of. After all, life is a one-off! The good days of crossing over to the Tang Dynasty have just begun, how can they be dried up here?

Xia Hongsheng locked himself in the study, thinking about various possibilities by himself, Xia Hongsheng finally thought that he could simply find a few death row prisoners who were going to cut off their heads to fly the kite that could conduct electricity, so that he would not be in any danger, this was the safest way. That's how it seems inhumane...... Ahh What kind of humanity are you talking about at this time, they are all going to be killed and hacked to death anyway, so it is better to make some contributions before dying! No, no, if you let the death row prisoners come, you won't be able to show your ability, and you won't be convinced.

I was thinking about my irritability, and suddenly, I heard the study room being knocked.

"Who?" Xia Hongsheng shouted outside a little irritably: "Didn't you say that no one should be disturbed?" ”

"Brother Xia, it's me!" Xu Hui's voice came from outside: "And Sister Changle, it's us." ”

Xia Hongsheng hurriedly got up and went over to open the door, and apologized to them: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I'm thinking about things, and I'm thinking a little irritated, I don't know if you're here, please come in! ”

Shaking his head, Li Li said: "No, we were abrupt, I thought that when Mr. Xia was busy at this time, we took the liberty to come over and disturb." ”

"Where, in fact, the preparation is almost complete, no matter how prepared it is, that's it." Xia Hongsheng shook his head: "Don't worry, I can still handle this little thing." ”

"I heard my father and brother go back and say that you want to catch Tianlei?" Xu Hui looked at Xia Hongsheng very worriedly: "Can you catch the thunder this day?" It must be very dangerous, Brother Xia, can you not arrest it? ”

Xu Qixian came with that group of gentlemen, and Xu Xiaode came with that group of uncles. After going back, the two talked about it, and Xu Hui heard it.

Looking at Xu Hui's heartfelt worried look, Xia Hongsheng suddenly felt that the irritability in his heart suddenly dissipated. What did I come to Datang for? Isn't it just to transform Datang? If it's just to make a living, why do you let me dream back to Datang!

Xia Hongsheng suddenly felt a kind of arrogance in his heart, and smiled at Xu Hui: "Don't worry, as long as my son wants to, there is nothing in this world that my son can't do!" What this son said, how could there be one thing that has not been done? Just a thunderstorm, on that day, you just have to watch my son catch the heroic posture of the thunder! ”

In normal times, if Xia Hongsheng spoke so arrogantly, Xu Hui would definitely sneer at Xia Hongsheng and laugh at Xia Hongsheng for talking shamelessly. But today, he seemed to be infected by Xia Hongsheng's heroic spirit, and nodded in a coquettish voice: "Okay!" Brother Xia, Hui'er will also help you! What can Hui'er do?! ”

"Yes, Mr. Xia, if there is something that Lizhi and Sister Hui'er can do, and even though we are a woman, we can always help a little." Li Lizhi also said to Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng smiled, looked at the two of them, his heart was full of confidence for no reason, smiled, and said: "When you are there, just watch me catch the thunder, and then exclaim for me!" (To be continued......)