Emperor Renzong of the Great Song Dynasty

The guards of the palace hurriedly guarded Baxian King, Di Wangfei and Zhao Yunxi behind him, Baxian Wang hurriedly said: "Go and see what's going on!"

Zhao Yunxi stared and said: "That is the yard of two distinguished guests."

"The courtyard of the honored guest?"

The Eighth Sage King gritted his teeth: "This king will go and see for himself."

Those two were the emperor's guests, and there was an accident on the first day of their stay in Nanqing Palace. If there were any accidents, even if he was the emperor's biological father, he would have to bear the blame.

Due to emotion and reason, he had to go for a trip himself.

Zhao Yunxi said: "I will go too."

The Baxian King frowned and waved his hands: "What are you going to do, I can go alone, you can take your mother back quickly."

Princess Di said: "Go and see with your father, I will go back by myself."

The Baxian King opened his mouth, and just about to say something, Princess Di had already patted Zhao Yunxi's arm, turned and left.

The Eighth Sage King looked at the flames that had already risen two feet in front of him, so he could only say to Zhao Yunxi: "Go."

When the two of them came to the gate of the burning courtyard, someone had already set up a ladder and carried a water basin to put out the fire.Seeing that the Eighth Sage King had arrived, they all put down what they were doing and saluted him: "I have seen you, my lord."

Eight Wise Kings hurriedly waved at them: "It's important to put out the fire quickly, don't be too polite!"

He asked again, "Where are the two distinguished guests who live here?"

Someone said: "I haven't seen it, it seems to be still in the house."

The Eighth Sage King looked at the burning house in the courtyard: "Still in the house? What should I do!"

Now that the fire is so serious, if people are still in the house, isn't that the same as bad luck?

These two are the emperor's guests, if they really died here...

He is the emperor's biological father, and the emperor will not do anything to him, but he is really sorry in his heart.

The Eighth Wise King sighed: "Things are impermanent, I never thought that the two masters would not have a chance with this king."

He originally planned to visit these two hermits whom the emperor admired, but who knew that the two of them had already died in flames.

Feeling heavy in his chest, he turned around and said to Zhao Yunxi, "Go back."

Everyone is dead, and there is no need to stay here.

It's just that the emperor let the guests live in Nanqing Palace, which is a sign of trust in him.He failed the emperor so much, alas...

Suddenly Zhao Yunxi pointed behind him and shouted loudly: "Come out!"

what came out

The Eighth Wise King turned his head and saw two ashen-faced men rushing out of the fire, holding a lot of unknown things in their arms.

He hurriedly asked Zhao Yunxi: "Who are they?"

Zhao Yunxi said: "These are the two distinguished guests."

The Eight Sage King said happily, "That's great!"

People are not dead!

He went forward: "Two..."

I saw the older one of the two "hissing" panting, shouting "too hot, too hot", and threw the things in his arms to the ground with a clatter.

The younger one saw it, and followed suit, throwing the things in his arms down.

The Eighth Wise King looked down and saw a bunch of delicate metal gadgets, oddly shaped, and I don't know what they were for. One of the double-layer cylinders was still spinning automatically on the ground.

The old man shouted: "Fortunately, these treasures have been rescued, otherwise they would be better off dead!" As he lay down on the ground, he took all those things back into his sleeves one by one, because they were rescued from the scene of the fire, they would all be dead. It was a little hot, he hissed and picked it up as he picked it up, as if he didn't see the Eight Wise Kings standing in front of him at all.

The younger man saw the Baxian King and Zhao Yunxi behind him, and hurriedly said: "I have seen the prince."

He looked at the Eight Wise Kings again: "This lord is so imposing, he must be the Eighth Prince."

Zhao Yunxi stepped forward: "This is my father."

Bai Yutang also bowed to the Eight Sage Kings.At this time, Xia Yuqi also packed up his pile of odds and ends, stood up, and saw Eight Wise Kings and Zhao Yunxi.

He didn't know the sun and the moon when he studied the mechanism, since yesterday after dinner, he was nestled in the room tinkering with the parts he brought from Yingtian.

When he was in Yingtian, he had already roughly thought about how to obtain that kind of continuous force - fire will bring heat, and roasting the closed space with fire will make the space expand, and then it will explode, generating power.

But the force obtained in this way is too dangerous. He has experimented many times and found that it is impossible to achieve a perfect balance between "not blowing at all" and blowing too violently.

After meeting the emperor, he got a new inspiration - water.

Boiling water also expands the space, and the water acts as an excellent buffer, allowing the expansion to be strong enough to push the lid off the pot, but not so severe that it causes an accident.

He was so overjoyed with this idea that he didn't know what to do, and spent the night experimenting with how to boil the water more perfectly.

How much water should be put in the pot?Should it be more, or less?

He tried all night, vaguely found a perfect answer, and when he was dozing at the table, he forgot to put out the fire on the stove.

In order to better test the power of boiling water, he specially asked for a huge stove from the attendants of the palace, and heated the fire extremely vigorously.

The attendants of the palace only thought that he was old and afraid of the cold, and didn't think much about it.

The fire dried up the water in the pot, and after a while, the pot exploded, igniting Xia Yuqi's manuscripts recording data, and burning the velvet blanket on the floor along the legs of the table, sweeping the entire room.

If it wasn't for Bai Yutang's youth and vigilance, he woke up in time, the two of them would really be buried in flames.

The data recorded overnight was irretrievable, so the two had no choice but to pack the mechanism parts that Xia Yuqi had already made, and then rushed out of the sea of ​​flames, facing the Eight Sage King and his son who came to check the situation.

The Eighth Sage King wondered, "What is this?"

He pointed to a part that Xia Yuqi still held in his hand.

It was a disc shaped like a wheel, except that the outer edge of the wheel was smooth, while the outer edge of this disc was uneven.

Xia Yuqi said: "This is a gear."

He handed the gears in front of the Eight Wise Kings: "Do you see the staggered shape, does it look like a dog's teeth?"

The Eighth Sage King stared at the gears for a while, then reluctantly nodded: "Like."

Then asked: "But what can it do?"

Xia Yuqi said: "It can do many things."

He took out another smaller gear: "Look, the two of them can engage with each other, so that when you turn the smaller one, the larger one will also turn."

He meshed the two gears together—it was a bit laborious, and he couldn't help wondering, it was obvious that the meshing was smooth before.

The small gear has cooled down in the chilly spring, but the big gear is still hot from the fire.Xia Yuqi waited for a while, and the big gear gradually became less hot. He tried again, and this time the bite was very smooth.

He kept this doubt in his heart, but he still demonstrated the gear transmission to the Eight Sage Kings.

"Look," he flipped the small gear lightly, and the big gear turned slowly, "it's like this."

"Isn't it interesting?"

Xia Yuqi raised his head and looked at the Eight Sage Kings with bright eyes.

The doubts in the eyes of the Eight Sage Kings deepened: "Why?"

Xia Yuqi said: "Because they are biting together, if one moves, the other will also move."

He was about to explain the ingenuity of the gears again, but the Eighth Wise King shook his head: "This king doesn't mean that."

The Eight Sages said: "Sir, a well-learned man, why are you indulging in this strange trick?"

Pointing to the gear in Xia Yuqi's hand, he said, "Mr. is an honored guest of the official family, and life is precious. Why don't you save your useful body to serve the country, and instead go deep into the fire and risk your life for these heretical things?"

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and even wanted to knock out the gear in Xia Yuqi's hand, but Xia Yuqi dodged it all at once.

Xia Yuqi said inexplicably: "It is true that the government invited me to live here, but what does this have to do with my making gears?"

He thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized that Nanqing Palace was the home of the Eight Sage Kings after all, and it seemed inappropriate for him to blow up his house just one night after he lived in it, so he hurriedly said: "I am extremely ashamed to be negligent and destroy the palace next time. All the repair expenses will be paid by..."

He paused, and secretly glanced at the richness of the left and right palaces, and felt that he could not afford to pay for this repair cost anyway.

Although Xia Yuqi was well-known in the world, but after all, his reputation was not something to eat.Of course, he also has his own way of making a living, but at the same time, he is also obsessed with institutional research and spends a lot of money on it.

He came and went again and again, and he didn't save much savings himself.

Later, he took Bai Yutang as his apprentice and lived with the two brothers of the Bai family. He didn't have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, so he let himself go even more, investing all his money in purchasing materials and building institutions.

Because of this, at this time he was so poor that he couldn't even get half of his money out of his pocket.

Xia Yuqi thought about it, although the Bai family was a wealthy businessman and a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, with its limited family background, it seemed that it was still not enough to pay for the repair expenses of the royal palace.

So he said righteously: "Once the repair costs are paid, the government will bear it."

Xia Yuqi is a man of the Jiang Hu in the traditional sense, the man of the Jiang Hu is the ancient knight-errant, the so-called "chicken and dog thief".

The diners eat at the master's house, and entrust all their abilities, all their loyalty, including their own lives, to Bole, who appreciates him.

It is precisely because of such loyalty that Xia Yuqi does not treat himself as an outsider.

The emperor is his Bole, who appreciates his abilities, gives him recognition and honor, and regards him as a guest of honor. In addition to devoting his whole body of talents to the emperor, Xia Yuqi also mastered the skill of rice insects without a teacher.

Eat yours, drink yours, and please take care of yourself if you get into trouble. After all, you are my master, and I'm working hard for you.

For Zhao Yiyi himself, this kind of mentality is what he wished for.

I'm not afraid that you spend too much, but I'm afraid that you won't spend my money.

If you don't want to spend money, you just look outside.Seeing outsiders, I just don't want to work for me with peace of mind.

For this kind of national treasure-level talent, Zhao Yiyi will support him even if he sells the iron.

If you win him over, he can build you a steam engine. Is it worth the money?

It's worth it!

However, the Eight Sage Kings obviously didn't know what a bargain this was.

He was just shocked by Xia Yuqi's brazen words: "How decent!"