Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

It is a foregone conclusion that the crime of stealing the imperial tomb should be confirmed, but when and how to prove it is still a problem.

Since this big show is ultimately aimed at Kou Zhun, at least it can't start until Kou Zhun returns to the capital.

In February, the spring breeze is like scissors, and in March, it is already full of spring.

Zhao Yiyi met two people who were brought back from Yingtian by Bao Zheng at Qingbei University next to Bianshui.

At this time, Yan Shu has returned from collecting music, and is concentrating on compiling the melody.Gongsun Ce and Yan Shu explained the situation and planned to leave the university and concentrate on staying with Bao Zheng as an aide.

Yan Shu is a Confucian who traditionally went to school and became an official. Seeing that Gongsun Ce had found a family background for him, he was happy and let him go.

Anyway, it seems that several articles have been edited, so there is no need for him to restrain Gongsun Ce from letting him go to the vast world outside the school to show his fists.

As for why Zhao Yiyi had to meet these two people at Qingbei University, one reason was that they had no official status, so it was not easy to meet them in the palace or the government.The second is that one of them will be admitted to Tsingbei University in the new semester, and he is a new batch of university students.

It is said that someone's elder brother thought that it would be better to send the children to school in Bianliang than to ask their children to cause trouble in the south of the Yangtze River.

Anyway, Jiang Ping lives in the factory next to Qingbei University, so he can help restrain him.

Zhao Yiyi showed a kind smile: "This senior must be the famous Western swordsman Xia Yuqi."

Xia Yuqi is a knight-errant, although he is highly respected, he has never seen the emperor before, so he has to stand up: "Go back to the official's house, grassroots..."

Liu En said: "The government grants you a seat, so just sit properly."

Xia Yuqi sat upright on the chair, smiled wryly, "This..."

On the other hand, Bai Yutang was sitting on the side, calm and steady: "Master, it is better to obey orders than to be respectful. Since the officials kindly gave me a seat, why bother to refuse."

Zhao Yiyi smiled and said, "That's right."

At this time they were sitting in an empty classroom at Qingbei University—there were still a few days before the new semester started, and the classrooms were all empty—a desk was placed in the middle of the room, Zhao Yiyi was sitting facing south, Xia Yuqi and Bai Yutang were sitting On the opposite side, Liu Enshi stood behind Zhao Yiyi, and beside him sat Gongsun Ce, Bao Zheng and Yan Shu.

This situation is like a joint trial by the three divisions.

Zhao Yiyi picked up the stack of blueprints on the case: "I heard from Mr. Gongsun that this is the blueprint of the Sky Tower you restored?"

Xia Yuqi said: "That's right. After the boy came back from the Sky Tower, Cao Min and him drew the blueprints of the organs in the Sky Tower."

The blueprint outlines the details of the institutions in the Chongxiao Tower, with explanations in small characters next to it.Zhao Yiyi squinted his eyes, but he still didn't quite understand.

He certainly wasn't cut out to be an architect.

Xia Yuqi drew him a general blueprint of the Sky Tower, as well as the details of each floor, each room, and various organs.

Such a detailed drawing could never be drawn by someone who only went in once.

Zhao Yiyi looked at Xia Yuqi meaningfully, and said in his heart that you really feel sorry for your apprentice, and you must have figured out the way before you let him enter the building to be a hero.

He pointed to a mechanism on the top floor and said, "This mechanism is called the Copper Grid Array?"

It was the only mechanism that was vaguely depicted on the blueprint, and there was no explanation beside it, only the name was inscribed.

Zhao Yiyi guessed that this might be because Xia Yuqi didn't find it at all when he was investigating the Sky Tower.

I'm afraid that this facility was really restored based on Bai Yutang's memory.

Because, if everything goes according to the established destiny, the copper grid formation is the end of Bai Yutang, and it belongs only to him.

Other people should not have anything to do with this formation.

But fate has long been messed up, Bai Yutang and his four elder brothers have opened factories in Tokyo, so nothing else is impossible.

Xia Yuqi said: "Yes. The copper grid array is a mechanism connected to the bottom of the golden box, and the copper grid array will only be triggered when the golden box is taken away."

Zhao Yiyi clicked his tongue.

This old Xia, do you know what you are talking about?

The golden box and the scriptures in it had already been sent back to the capital, and Zhao Yiyi weighed it in his hands. Even if the two-foot-long silk itself was quite heavy, the whole box would definitely not weigh more than three catties.

A three-jin box can suppress the mechanism when placed on the table, and it will trigger the mechanism when picked up. This is no big deal, and a seesaw principle can solve it.

What was really scary was what happened after that—according to the person involved, Bai Yutang, after the box was picked up, the mechanism of the copper grid array was triggered, and the entire ground of the ninth floor of the Sky Tower disappeared, revealing the copper grid underneath. array.

As soon as the copper grid array was exposed, there were thousands of arrows firing around it. If anyone was inside at that time, they would be shot into a pulp.

And after Bai Yutang escaped from the Sky Tower, the building itself caught fire.

This shows that it is a whole set of procedures that the box is picked up, the copper grid array is triggered, and the skyrocketing tower spontaneously ignites.

At the very beginning of this set of procedures, a box weighing three catties was picked up.

The ingenuity of this mechanism can already be described as uncanny workmanship.

Looking at Xia Yuqi, Zhao Yiyi only felt that he saw the word "talent" shining on him.

He also looked at Bai Yutang next to him, "Talent half-finished."

Comrades, the future of Song Dynasty needs you to build together!

He smiled more and more kindly: "Chongxiaolou is indeed a collection of the world's top institutions."

Caressing the blueprint: "I want to treasure this blueprint in the palace. I'm afraid that within a hundred years, it will be difficult to see such an ingenious mechanism design."

What he said, he didn't take Xia Yuqi seriously any more.

The No. 1 mechanism in the world is right in front of you, and you say in front of him that such a clever mechanism will not exist again in a hundred years?

It is equivalent to saying in front of Cao Xueqin, reading this fairy tale, the writing is magnificent, the plot is weird, such a good novel, there will be no more in a hundred years.

If Cao Xueqin doesn't reciprocate your piece of "Dream of Red Mansions", I'm sorry for his writing so many pens.

Xia Yuqi was also dissatisfied, if someone else said such nonsense in front of him, he would ignore him.

But it was the emperor who said this, and Xia Yuqi not only didn't feel offended, but felt that it was not the emperor's fault that the emperor looked down on him, but his fault.

I should show myself a lot in order to have a good impression in front of the emperor.

This is one of the benefits of being an emperor-everyone wants to win your favor, and everyone is scrambling to serve you.

It is true that a large part of them came for fame and fortune, but there are still many people who do not want anything, just the pride of serving the emperor.

So Xia Yuqi laughed and said: "Why do the officials say that? There are many capable people and strange people in the Jianghu. Although the design of the Sky Tower is sinister, but in terms of the exquisiteness and mystery of the mechanism, it can only be regarded as above-average."

Zhao Yiyi smiled secretly, and he took the bait with a sharp trick.

"Oh?" He seemed surprised: "Such a design can only be regarded as an upper-middle class. So what does a top-notch mechanism look like?"

This scratched Xia Yuqi's itching spot, and he immediately said: "The so-called organ technique is always the same. The low-level organ is looking for a response, and it needs people to move it so that it can have such-and-such effects." Response. The first-class mechanism seeks a natural movement. It can respond by itself without being moved by others. For example, Lu Ban made a self-propelled chair for his mother. The chairs are all gone."

Zhao Yiyi said: "Zhen, I still don't quite understand what Senior means?"

Xia Yuqi said: "The real trick is to bring dead things back to life. Letting dead things move on their own, without human manipulation and touch, is a master."

Zhao Yiyi asked: "Has the predecessor made a mechanism that can move by itself?"

How to bring dead things back to life is a huge and far-reaching subject. From ancient times to the future, from steam engines to artificial intelligence, human beings have gone a long way to solve this problem.

But every small step is taken, and the industrial revolution is just around the corner.

Xia Yuqi blushed a little: "Not yet."

After saying this, he added another sentence: "But Caomin, I have already seen the door."

Zhao Yiyi showed a little interest: "What kind of method?"

Xia Yuqi touched his sleeve, as if he wanted to show Zhao Yiyi something.

Liu En took a step forward, putting his hand on the saber at his waist: "What are you doing?"

In front of the emperor, touching something out of the sleeve is a high-risk action.

Who knows if you will take out a poison-enhanced dagger, lay the dead bodies of two people, bleed for five steps, and the world will never be seen.

That is to say, senior civil servants in the court can occasionally take out a small note from their sleeves to read and recite their lines.

Xia Yuqi also realized that the messy pile of things in his sleeves had been taken away by this Eunuch Liu during the security check, and they were piled up in a hut a few hundred meters away from here.

It was impossible for him to take the things back. The mechanism master's ability was too unbelievable. For the emperor's safety, none of his fragments were allowed to be brought within ten steps of the emperor.

Xia Yuqi could only make gestures out of thin air: "Caomin discovered that living things can move by themselves, but dead things can't. If a dead thing wants to move, it must have a living thing..."

He gestured a few times, because in front of the emperor, he was a little nervous and stumbled: "Come on..."

Zhao Yiyi continued: "Come and apply a force to it."

Xia Yuqi clapped his hands: "Yes, apply a force to it."

He continued: "If you want a living thing to exert force on it, you will fall into inferiority. The grass people wondered whether this force could be exerted by a dead thing. So the grass people made many mechanisms, and some of them could be used Those that are blown by the wind, some that can be moved by water. But they all..."

Zhao Yiyi continued: "But they are all unstable. The wind doesn't blow every day, every now and then, and the water is also full and dry. Moreover, the wind is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and the water is sometimes more and sometimes less. Your mechanism may not run every time. As you wish."

Xia Yuqi clapped her hands again: "That's right!"

He looked at Zhao Yiyi with emotion. Is this the feeling of meeting a bosom friend in the mountains and flowing water?

How does it feel like every word he said, the officials can understand!

Zhao Yiyi felt a little uncomfortable being watched by him, moved his body, and thought, he had to learn physics in high school, otherwise he would be inferior to an ancient man.

Xia Yuqi continued: "Caomin has been thinking about whether it is possible that a dead object can exert a stable and powerful force on other dead objects like a living thing."

Zhao Yiyi asked: "Then have you thought about it?"

Xia Yuqi nodded hesitantly: "Perhaps Caomin has thought of it."

Zhao Yiyi rubbed his fingers: "Tell me."

He secretly held his breath, and said in his heart, this old Xia, you must, must not let me down.

If you let me down, I'll—

He sneaked a glance at Bai Yutang who was sitting next to him.

I will send your apprentice to Jiang Ping as a coolie!

Jiang Ping is short of manpower to a certain extent now, he is a living person with sound limbs, and he can't wait to drag them into the factory to work.

Xia Yuqi said: "It's fire. Or, it's heat."

"At that time, Yutang broke through the tower, and the tower caught fire. The rooms in the tower were relatively airtight. I saw with my own eyes that when the fire spread to a certain extent, all 81 rooms burst. "

"The rooms that exploded one after another released enormous power. I stood by and felt the continuous force. If it can be used, it will definitely make the dead things move by themselves."