Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 383

[Chapter 383 Theory of Industry]

“Dead, dead, I’m going to die…”

High in the air, Wang Chong held onto the edge of the bamboo basket tightly, his body stiffened from fear.

Even if he was bold, he was also frightened this time.

From such a high place, just looking down can kill a person.

“Father, the child is not filial, you and mother have another sensible and obedient child, or our Wang family will be extinct.” Wang Chong was thinking, when a gust of wind blew, the hot air balloon suddenly shook violently, and he immediately squatted down and supported the bamboo. The basket dared not move.

Through the gap in the bamboo basket, he found a troop of cavalry under the hot air balloon chasing him.

Even though it was four or five hundred meters away, he could still see the leader wearing a red official uniform.

Only the King of Yan has this kind of government in Yancheng.

“Your Highness.” Wang Chong was overjoyed, he suddenly stood up and shouted, “Your Highness, save me, I’m here…” After

shouting for a while, he saw that King Yan was still chasing after him, but no sound came back.

Knowing that King Yan couldn’t hear him at such a long distance.

So he sat down slumped, thought for a while, and suddenly stood up again, “I can’t die, there are still many things I haven’t learned from His Highness, wouldn’t it be a shame to die like this.”

Thinking of this, he gradually calmed down.

Looking at the burning brazier, he thought about how to make the hot air balloon land smoothly.

“The principle of a hot air balloon is that the air is heated and expands, and the fuel supply is gradually reduced, and it may be able to descend.” Wang Chong patted his head.

Because of fear, he could hardly think during this time.

Thinking of this, he not only kept the gunpowder from extinguishing, but also gradually reduced the time of adding straw and other fuels.

The hot air balloon floated for a while, and it really got lower, and he clearly saw the people below getting bigger.

Wang Chong was overjoyed and continued to carefully control the burning of the hot air balloon.

Otherwise, if the flame goes out directly, he will really fall into a pulp.

“Your Highness, the hot air balloon has descended.” On the ridge of the rice field, Xu Lie pointed to the hot air balloon above his head.

This hot air balloon cannot control its direction, it can only float along with the wind.

Today, it happens that the wind blows from the east again for a while, and the west wind again for a while.

Wang Chong also went east and west in the sky for a while.

They circled around and arrived at the rice fields near Fushi Village.

The people in the village were also attracted by this movement, looked up at the sky, and pointed one by one.

“God bless you, don’t fall.” Wang was sweating in emergency.

Although he had always been strict with Wang Chong, at that time he loved deeply and took responsibility seriously.

Now that Wang Chong is really in danger, he is more anxious than anyone else.

Zhao Xu took a look and found that the hot air balloon was indeed lowering its altitude.

After continuing to observe for a while, he found that the descending speed of the hot air balloon was very uniform, and he was slightly happy. It was obvious that Wang Chong had found a way to make the hot air balloon descend smoothly.

Now, as long as the hot air balloon doesn’t burst in the air, Wang Chong should be fine.

Seeing that the hot air balloon continued to float northward, he said, “Keep chasing, Wang Chong should be fine.”

When Zhao Xu said these words, Wang Ying seemed to be reassured.

The king of Yan must understand what Wang Chong came up with.

He said it was all right, it must be all right.

The group continued to chase for five or six miles, the height of the hot air balloon became lower and lower, and finally floated above a tree and fell, the balloon was caught by the dense branches.

Before the crowd reached the woods, Zhao Xu got off his horse and led the crowd into the woods.

Before he had walked a few steps, he saw Wang Chong walking over with a disfigured face.

When Wang Ying saw him, he lowered his head and searched on the ground, picked up a branch and hit Wang Chong on the head and face, “It’s all right if you blow up the yard. You are still going to heaven, I will ask you to go to heaven!

” The father waited for the bloodshot eyes to stare at him viciously, and immediately ran away.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu, Xu Lie and others showed helpless expressions.

Wang Chong was fine, so Zhao Xu felt relieved.

Instruct Xu Lie to wait for Wang Ying and his son to stop and go to the palace to look for him.

He got on his horse and went straight back. At the same time, he ordered Wang Chong’s hot air balloon to be packed and transported back to the city.

Back to the palace.

After a stick of incense, Wang Ying, Wang Chong and three students who participated in the hot air balloon experiment arrived.

At this moment, although Wang Chong was covering his buttocks, he had a satisfied smile on his face.

Wang Yingze resumed his serious expression, but from his eyes, Zhao Xu saw an undisguised pride.

“Your Highness, this official is guilty, please punish him.” Wang Chong spoke first, shaking his head.

Wang Ying said: “Your Highness, it’s the officials who are incapable of teaching their sons. If such a big mess is caused, Your Highness should punish the officials.”

“Okay, I won’t punish anyone. The king made mistakes, but his courage is commendable.” Zhao Xu looked at the other three students, “Your courage is not bad, but if this happens again in the future, you must first inform this king.”

“Yes, Your Highness.” Wang Chong and the students were overjoyed.

When they came to the palace, they were worried, for fear that King Yan would be angry and they would be punished.

Zhao Xu smiled, and then said: “Being able to independently build a hot air balloon, I really didn’t teach you in vain these days. In order to reward you for making a hot air balloon, each of you will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver.”

Not only did he not punish , On the contrary, the reward is actually to encourage the students to explore bravely and apply what he taught to practice.

After all, although he is dedicated to building the industrial foundation of the four northern counties.

But in fact, after traveling so far, the industrial base of the four northern counties has developed very slowly, only a little better than zero.

His purpose of training these students is to let them develop in various fields.

For example, in the smelting industry, in addition to steel, gold, silver, copper, manganese, tungsten, cobalt and other metals all need to establish a refining industry.

Another example is all kinds of fine mechanical parts. In the contemporary sixteenth century, things like pocket watches were born.

Only by mastering the manufacture of fine mechanical parts can the next step be to create more revolutionary machinery.

After all, the first industrial revolution was marked by the steam engine.

But the steam engine is just a sign, and other industries have actually been mechanized to a certain extent.

The steam engine was nothing but a revolution in power.

But there is no rush for this matter.

After all, it has only been a year and a few months since time travel.

And at that time, survival was the key, so the sword took a slant, one focused on the development of military-related workshops, and the other focused on the development of profiteering commercial workshops.

But now, simple things can be done in a short time.

If you want to go to the next level and build more complex things, you must improve in all aspects.

Otherwise, it will be discontinued.

This actually has something in common with building a house.

In the contemporary Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang was sent as an envoy to the United States under the order of Cixi. At that time, Li Hongzhang, who was wearing a yellow jacket, thought that when he arrived in the United States, the yellow jacket would also make the Americans envious.

But when he stepped out of the cruise ship and saw dozens of high-rise buildings in the United States, he couldn’t help feeling that in the Qing Dynasty, they couldn’t build such tall buildings, because they would definitely collapse.

Yellow mandarin jackets are no longer fragrant.

Therefore, building a two-story building can be done by a mason.

But to build a ten-story, twenty-story, or thirty-story house, there are requirements for materials, structure, and design. The same is true for industry.

“Thank you, Your Highness.”

Wang Chong and the three students winked for a while, very excited.

Wang Ying shook his head, sometimes he really couldn’t keep up with Yan Wang’s thoughts.

If it were him, Wang Chong and the others would have to be beaten until they couldn’t get out of bed for half a month.

“Also, the hot air balloon actually has a great effect. Now that it’s made, let’s perfect it.” Zhao Xu laughed while crossing his arms.

He already had an idea in his mind to use a hot air balloon.

Wang Chong had lingering fears in his heart, he said: “Your Highness, this thing is flying around in the sky, what’s the use of perfecting it?”

“That’s because you can’t manipulate it. I ask you, why do you always go around in circles when you are in the sky? ” Zhao Xu asked.

“Because it’s east wind for a while, and north wind for a while.” Wang Ying said.

“That’s right. In fact, the direction of the wind is different at different heights. This is called airflow. By controlling the height of the hot air balloon, you can use the wind direction to let the hot air balloon go where you want to go.” Zhao Xu said slowly .

He didn’t teach them this knowledge point.

“I see.” Wang Chong’s eyes lit up immediately.

Wang Ying sighed and closed his eyes.

He knew in his heart that Wang Chong was tempted again.

But he didn’t intend to stop it.

Wang Chong is not the only outstanding student in the science and technology school.

If he restrains Wang Chong, I’m afraid Wang Chong will regret it for the rest of his life.

This time the hot air balloon matter, he was just Qi Wang Chong’s sloppy, Qi Wang Chong did not make the hot air balloon.

After talking about the details of the hot air balloon, Zhao Xu asked Wang Chong and others to go back, and repeatedly told them to be careful.

Then, he called Tsui Hark to scold him.

For such a big matter, his four courts didn’t even disclose any information to him.

Tsui Hark bowed his head and was scolded, feeling very wronged in his heart.

Wang Chong just sewed some rags, he thought it was nothing important.

I didn’t expect Wang Chong to make such a big noise.

Now the whole Yancheng is spreading the news about Wang Chongfei going to heaven.

He secretly swore that he would keep a close eye on Wang Chong from now on to prevent him from making another big commotion by accident.

(end of this chapter)