Chapter 301: Mo, Mo's Mo
County Lord?
Wang Ju was stunned, wondering how dare the county princess gamble openly?
The Zhu family was so fertile that it became a huge burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances. When officials in the court mentioned the royal family, they always looked helpless, wishing that the population of the royal family could be reduced by 90% overnight.
Therefore, whenever it was heard that a member of the royal family had done something wrong, impeachment would almost certainly follow.
If we can't kill you, we'll just annoy you to death!
There are many members of the royal family who love gambling, but except for a few old men, few dare to gamble openly.
But why is Wang Ning so serious?
Wang Ju suddenly felt that the title of Hua Ting sounded familiar, and then he heard a woman outside say, "What did this person say?"
"Ma'am, he told us to get out."
"Mo Zhan!"
"lady."
"Where is the reputation of the Bo family?"
A figure suddenly appeared at the door, and his eyes turned and locked onto Wang Ju.
"It's... it's her!" Wang Ju finally figured out the identity of the woman and raised his hand. "You are such a mean person, such a mean person..."
"Please show mercy, my lady." Wang Ning looked up, "My master is..."
Li Tian said without hesitation: "Mo Zhan!"
call!
With a whistling sound, the scabbard suddenly hit Wang Ju's chest and abdomen. He staggered backward until he hit the wall, then he opened his mouth and spat out blood.
Then he slowly slumped down on the ground, leaning against the wall.
In the carriage, Li Tian said calmly: "Since the market is open, you should be prepared to lose money. Give him the proof."
Wang Ning took the evidence and just glanced at it: "Don't worry, County Lady, but the Bo's Mansion took action today. I wonder if the County Lady has any explanation?"
There was a threat in these words.
Li Tian in the car said: "Whoever dares to open the market at this moment must be my enemy. Since he is my enemy, if I am polite, it will damage my reputation."
"The reputation of Chang Wei Bo..." Wang Ning was about to sneer when he heard Li Tian in the car say, "My husband defeated General Altan twice and went to the grassland to win reputation for the Ming Dynasty... Foreigners are frightened by his name. Is this reputation enough?"
Wang Ning moved his lips, then fell silent. To continue would be to bring shame upon oneself.
He whispered to the people around him, "Tell the Marquis that the 50,000 strings of cash are Jiang Qing's bet."
Someone around him said, "Two hundred and fifty thousand strings of cash. I'm afraid our mansion will be emptied. The Marquis will go crazy."
"Since Jiang Qingzhi refuses to let go, given the Marquis' temper, he will definitely take action." Wang Ning said, "Two hundred and fifty thousand strings of cash! I'm afraid the Marquis will kill someone!"
In the car, Huang Yaner whispered, "I'm afraid this family will be angry out of shame."
"Do you think it's so easy to take these 250,000 strings of cash?" Li Tian said, "If you take this money, you will become that person's mortal enemy from now on."
In the capital, one guan of money can hire a gangster to kill someone, ten guan of money can hire a swordsman with great sword skills, one hundred guan of money, there are many people who will obey your orders... Ten thousand guan of money, who do you want to kill? Except for Your Majesty, there is no one we dare not kill.
Twenty-five thousand strings of cash can make a powerful person go crazy!
Someone came from the Marquis's Mansion and said to Wang Ning, "The Marquis said that the 250,000 strings of cash cannot be taken out at the moment."
Wang Ning took a deep breath, walked to the side of the cart and lowered his head.
"I can only take 150,000 strings of cash in advance. Can I collect the rest within three days?"
Li Tian nodded, "Okay."
A row of large carts returned home carrying gold, silver and copper coins.
The Bo Mansion occupies a large area, but no one expected that one day the warehouse would not be enough.
Li Tian watched the money go into the treasury and ordered, "Everyone has contributed a lot to this matter. Each person who followed my husband will receive 500 coins, and the rest will receive 300 coins per person."
It was the first time in Huang Yan'er's life that she saw so much money. Her eyeballs almost turned into the shape of copper coins. "Madam, we are rich."
Li Tian nodded calmly, returned to his room, sat down, and pounded the table violently.
"Get rich!"
While the madam's wise cheers resounded throughout the Earl's Mansion, Jiang Qingzhi also gave a class in the palace.
"…mix these things together, ferment them in a sealed underground environment, and under the influence of many things invisible to the naked eye, they are decomposed into many things we cannot see, such as methane."
The students in Jiang Qingzhi's class were the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his daughter, and several eunuchs.
"Why can biogas explode?" Taoist asked the question from the perspective of alchemy.
"This involves the principle of combustion." Jiang Qingzhi smiled and said, "We can see many combustion phenomena in our daily lives. For example, firewood, coal... cloth and so on. Why can they burn? The reason is here."
Jiang Qingzhi pointed into the void.
"What's in the void?" The Taoist stretched out his hand, but felt nothing.
"Why do people breathe every moment?" Jiang Qingzhi asked, "What is accomplished between one breath and another? What do you breathe in and what do you exhale?"
Emperor Jiajing was startled. Jiang Qingzhi said, "Why is it uncomfortable to hold your breath? Why do people die of suffocation when their breathing passages are strangled?"
Dao Ye was confused. He had never thought about these questions before. "Breathing is natural. Is there any mystery behind it?"
He wanted to ask Jiang Qingzhi, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
"Dad." The little cotton-padded jacket pulled his sleeves. The Taoist lowered his head and said, "The cooking smells good, and the fruits smell good..."
At that time, Xiao Mian'ao once attended Jiang Qingzhi's courses, one of which involved some common knowledge about air.
Dao Ye suddenly realized, "Yes, everything in the world has breath, which keeps overflowing and becomes invisible void."
Dao Ye's understanding is impeccable, but Jiang Qingzhi has prepared a powerful punch for him.
"In the void that we cannot see, there are many kinds of gases. When people inhale the gases, their bodies absorb the beneficial parts and expel the waste gases produced by the body... This is the purpose of breathing."
“Out with the old and in with the new!”
"Your Majesty is wise."
"So, could the gases that humans can inhale be related to the combustion of all things?"
"Have!"
"I think it's unlikely." The Taoist said, "Since the gas can help combustion, wouldn't it be harmful if inhaled?"
"I have a small experiment, please allow me to do so, Your Majesty."
"Yes!" The Taoist priest was waiting with great interest. Seeing his little girl sitting obediently beside him, he couldn't help but feel pity for her. He asked someone to bring some snacks, fruits, and some ice cream from the palace. He watched his daughter eat with a smile.
"Dad, you eat too." Zhu Shou'an held up a piece of dessert. The Taoist didn't want to eat it at first, but when he looked at those dark eyes, his heart softened and he ate it.
Damn!
Are you bullying me for not having children?
Jiang Qingzhi coughed dryly, and the little girl took a fruit and said, "Uncle."
"good!"
Jiang Qingzhi took a bite of the fruit and said, "It's so crisp!"
This guy feels just like he is at home in the palace... Huang Jin couldn't help but feel greedy when he saw how deliciously he was eating.
The experimental materials were brought: a crystal cup, a small porcelain basin, a pot of water, a candle and a candlestick.
"Uncle, do you want to boil some water?" Zhu Shoumei was very curious.
"No." Jiang Qingzhi had someone light a candle, burned the candle butt, and while the candle was softened, he quickly stuck it to the candlestick.
"This is an interesting experiment. Shoumei, take a closer look." Jiang Qingzhi seemed to have returned to the afterlife. He poured water into a porcelain basin and placed a burning candle in the water.
Finally, it was the crystal glass. Jiang Qingzhi picked it up and took a look at it.
In Huang Jin's eyes, he didn't care about such a treasure as the crystal cup at all, as if he had seen better cups.
But this crystal cup is made of a whole piece of the finest crystal and carefully carved by the best craftsmen. Huang Jin dares to bet that there are no more than three crystal cups in the world that can match this one.
Jiang Qingzhi casually placed the crystal glass on the candle, with one fifth of the glass submerged in the water.
He looked up at the emperor and his daughter, smiled and said, "There will be some minor changes, don't be surprised."
The crystal glass was still not transparent enough, but it was enough to see the candlelight begin to flicker and then go out.
"This..." The Taoist stroked his beard and Zhu Shou'an widened his eyes.
"Watch this." Jiang Qingzhi said with a smile. He took a piece of dessert, took a bite and found it too light.
I saw the water in the porcelain basin slowly flowing into the cup, which looked higher inside and lower outside.
This incredible scene overturned Dao Ye's understanding of the world.
"This!" Daoye's eyes flashed, "Why is this?"
Jiang Qingzhi smiled, picked up the bowl of ice cream and pretended to throw it.
"This is the relationship between air and combustion that I just mentioned." Jiang Qingzhi didn't intend to keep it a secret. "Air cannot be seen or touched, but it really exists. The burning of candles depends on a component in the air. Your Majesty..."
"Alchemy requires many things. Aren't ingredients raw materials?" Taoist said impatiently.
Hey!
This understanding... Jiang Qingzhi was speechless, "The candle continues to burn, and when that component in the air is burned out, there will be one less..."
Jiang Qingzhi took a big bite of the fruit, and pointed the broken edge toward Daoye. "There is no crack on the top of the crystal cup, but there is one on the bottom where it contacts the water. When this part of the gas in the cup is burned off, the normal air outside will be stronger than the air inside... so it will exert pressure on the inside. But what is outside?"
"There's water outside, so I squeezed the water into the cup!"
"Your Majesty is wise."
Jiang Qingzhi felt that the Taoist priest could at least become a model student in the afterlife.
"Through this experiment, we can know that the burning of candles requires the participation of a certain component in the air. I call this component oxygen. And oxygen is also an essential nutrient for the human body..."
The Taoist suddenly calmed down.
Zhu Shou'an pulled his sleeve, and the Taoist lowered his head. Zhu Shou'an whispered, "Dad, my cousin knows a lot more..."
But I know nothing about all this!
Do not!
It was the fools who followed their two sons to the Earl's Mansion who treated this as a joke!
Dao Ye took a deep breath and asked, "Where did you learn all this?"
Jiang Qingzhi hesitated for a moment; he was not ready to reveal his "trump card".
"Air, oxygen, combustion, explosions, and the cliffs that collapsed in the Altan tribe... all of this is not something a young boy can understand out of thin air."
It turns out that Daoye had not forgotten about the explosion, but was waiting here.
"What are you afraid of?" asked the Taoist.
"Your Majesty, I am not afraid. I am just worried that once those things are exposed, it will cause accidents."
The Taoist priest waved his hand, Huang Jin and his men left, and Zhu Shou'an followed them out obediently.
"Now there are only you and me in the palace. Today there is no monarch or subject, only cousins!" The Taoist said in a deep voice: "Speak! I am listening."
Jiang Qingzhi sat down and ate a piece of dessert.
"Ever since I can remember, people have always said that I was unlucky for my mother. Even the teachers at school were quite cold to me. Later, my grandfather invited a teacher to teach me..."
The gentleman's resume was shockingly simple: he studied, took the imperial examination, failed, took the imperial examination, failed... Then he became Jiang Qingzhi's husband, and then he fell ill and died.
"At first, the teacher taught me Confucianism, but later he mixed in some other knowledge. This knowledge is all-encompassing, including astronomy, geography, and the composition of all things..."
"What a big tone." The Taoist was devoted to practicing Taoism. Taoists had their own understanding of the composition of all things. The Taoist did not think that the gentleman could subvert all of this.
"Why are there clouds in the sky, why is there thunder and lightning, why is there rain, why does the sun rise and set, why can we sometimes see some ring-shaped objects on the moon, why can iron become steel... Everything in the world is within this knowledge."
Jiang Qingzhi smiled and said, "In your eyes, the world is very simple. Everything is made up of the most basic things. For example, in a drop of water, there are countless such things..."
"A grain of sand is a world!" said the Taoist priest.
"Yes." Jiang Qingzhi nodded. "In places invisible to our naked eyes, countless tiny things make up everything in this world. Including our bodies."
The Taoist priest lowered his head and glanced at his palm.
“Why does the bleeding stop slowly after a cut on the hand?”
“Why do firecrackers explode?”
Jiang Qingzhi was thirsty, so he picked up the small bowl and took a sip of the slightly warm cheese.
The Taoist asked slowly: "So, does this knowledge have a name?"
Jiang Qingzhi nodded.
"My name is Mo!"
He said seriously: "Mo from the Mo family!"
(End of this chapter)
