The big man has a living father

Chapter 72: The Squid Leader Lets Himself Go
Langzhong.

A sturdy man was fiddling with a huge wooden ball engraved with a star map.

Zhang Qian walked closer and asked, "Are you Luo Xiahong?"

The initiator of the Spring Festival holiday, the longest holiday in human history, the ancestor of the calendar that accurately represents the sun, moon, yin and yang, the proposer of the twenty-four solar terms to guide agricultural production, the master of astronomy, the only researcher of the "Origin of the Universe" before the Common Era, the first person in astronomy before the Common Era - Luo Xiahong looked at Zhang Qian suspiciously: "Who are you?"

Zhang Qian: "Zhang Qian!"

Luo Xiahong thought for a moment: "Oh! Oh! Oh! You are the one! That's the one! Let me think... I don't know you."

Zhang Qian's face darkened: "Someone asked me to take you to Chang'an."

At first, Zhang Qian didn't pay any attention to Huo Hai's letter.

What is Huohai? I don't know it at all. What is Tianzhu? What a weird place. I have never heard of it.

Zhang Qian was always thinking about Sindhu, Sindhu, Sindhu.

That night, Zhang Qian was dreaming: "Sindhu, Sindhu, Sindhu..." He suddenly lost his voice and said: "Tianzhu, Tianzhu, Tianzhu..."

After reciting for a while, Zhang Qian suddenly opened his eyes.

"India? Sindhu?!" Could this be... the same place?
Otherwise, the Second Young Master Huo wouldn't have written to me and mentioned this place!

Zhang Qian immediately realized the problem.

Although Zhang Qian was in charge of Shu, his actual purpose was not to govern Shu, but to find Sindhu.

The entire Han Dynasty has been implementing a basic national policy so far, which is "If you can do it, then do it. If you can't, don't talk about it."

Whoever proposes a hypothesis or an innovation should experiment and complete it.

So, in fact, Zhang Qian was not in Chengdu, but was looking for a way from Shu to Sindhu.

Now that we know his whereabouts, we will immediately rise up against Chang'an.

He called Huo Qubing and asked him to go back to Chang'an together.

Huo Qubing's people said: "That won't do. The Second Young Master wants to catch the black and white panda. I won't go back until he finds it."

Zhang Qian asked anxiously: "A black and white panda, right? What does it look like? I'll help you catch it!"

Zhang Qian completed the task in a hurry, and then came to Langzhong with a bunch of things that Huo Haixin asked him to find.

Now there is only one step left, which is to bring Luoxiahong to Chang'an.

After listening to Zhang Qian's words, Luo Hong continued to fiddle with the big wooden ball: "I don't know you, I don't know Mr. Huo, and I don't know Chang'an either."

Zhang Qian smiled apologetically: "Then what do you know?"

Luo Xiahong took out two fist-sized balls and held up one: "Taiyin Pill."

"Sun Pill."

Zhang Qian frowned: "What do you mean? I know Taiyin and Taiyang, but what does Taiyin Pill mean?"

Luo Xiahong: "The moon is a ball, the sun is a ball, and the earth is a slightly flat ball."

"The sunlight shines over here, reflects off the Taiyin pill and onto the Di pill, and then we can see it."

Luo Xiahong moved the Taiyin Pill in his hand: "Because the Earth Pill blocked the Sun, only a part of the Taiyin Pill can be reflected. The Taiyin Pill is always moving, the Earth Pill is also moving, and the Sun Pill is also moving, so the Taiyin Pill we see will be full and lacking."

Zhang Qian understood what he meant, but didn't understand what he meant.

Isn't this crazy?

Luo Xiahong: "I only know Hun Tian."

Luoyang Hong named his own set of knowledge about celestial bodies the Hun Tian Theory.

The so-called Hun Tian Theory is a theory between the heliocentric theory and the geocentric theory.

We have come to realize that the sun, the moon, and the earth are all spheres, and that we are all moving in a regular pattern based on certain rules.

But Luoyang Hong did not think that the sun or the earth or anything else was the center of the universe.

Because Luo Xiahong's gaze was looking towards the distant galaxy.

Luoyanghong has very strong eyesight, with a vision of 5.6, so strong that he can see the craters on the moon with his naked eyes.

So, no one could understand what the hell Luo Xiahong was talking about.

No one can understand that the moon is a ball and the sun is a ball, and it is even more impossible for anyone to understand that the stars are also a ball.

However, in order to take Luo Xiahong away, Zhang Qian said: "I believe you."

Luo Xiahong glanced at Zhang Qian and said, "You don't look like you understand."

Zhang Qian jumped up and began to repeat in his own words: "I know what you are saying. You mean the moon and the sun are both round, and the earth is also round. Everyone is spinning around here. I understand what you are saying. For example, in this special case, the moon is here, but it is blocked by us. This is the eclipse of the moon by the heavenly dog."

"Now, Maru is spinning like this, spinning and spinning, and finally it's here. This is the eclipse of the sun."

"Is that what you mean? I said I understood, I didn't lie to you."

Luo Xiahong: "Although you understood, I heard it, but you don't believe it."

Of course not. No one would believe it in this era.

If nothing changes, Luoyang Hong will be summoned to Chang'an ten years later to compile a new calendar, which will become the ancestor of the Spring Festival.

But other than that, no one would believe anything he proposed.

It was not until a long time later that a man named Zhang Heng saw the Hun Tian Theory and proposed it again.

Because Zhang Heng was both a high-ranking official and a top scholar in the art of writing fu, everyone gave him face and believed him.

But history forks here.

Zhang Qian: "Why do you care whether I believe it or not? I'm giving you face!"

"Someone, take him away!"

Luo Xiahong silently took out the knife for chopping wooden balls, and the tendons on his body swelled up.

However, Zhang Qian had a lot of people.

Zhang Qian lifted the cloth on a cage and asked: "Would you like to get in the carriage and sit with me, or get in the cage and sit with it?"

Luo Xiahong replied in seconds: "Carriage!"...

Xiang Xu drove the carriage to the dock helplessly.

In theory, Huo Hai should be sitting in the carriage.

But, no.

Time goes back to one day ago, Xiang Xu had been waiting in the Prince's Palace.

At that time, Huo Hai rode the princess's carriage back to the Huo Mansion. Although he became the focus of the whole city, to be honest, his butt was terribly painful.

After I got back, I lay down on the bed.

After hearing the servant in charge of making carriages say that the princess had ordered a super luxurious carriage, I realized it.

It’s not that the princess gave herself a car as a gift, but that the princess bought a new car.

But when I think about the fact that I bought the new car myself, I don’t feel so bad about it.

The price of an ordinary horse-drawn carriage is fifty strings of cash.

The passenger version used by Huo Hai was thirty strings of cash more expensive than the cargo version because it was made of lighter but harder wood.

Those who are richer can choose to add more decorations, use the most gorgeous door curtains, the best horse harness leather, etc., and the price will be one hundred and fifty strings of cash.

This is a top-notch luxury car, it couldn’t be better.

No better than over spec.

After all, this is a royal procession, not any other matter. Even if the palace turns a blind eye, no one dares to overstep their authority in the procession.

The princess certainly does not fall into this category.

The car ordered by Princess Wei Chang cost about three hundred strings of cash, and including labor and other expenses, the selling price was set at six hundred and sixty-six strings of cash.

Before, Huo Hai was worried that his stuff wouldn’t be able to withstand the bumps, but after using it for a long time, he discovered that the higher the temperature of the Eucommia gum, the softer it becomes.

That thing actually has the dual properties of rubber and plastic!
When the temperature is low, it feels like a slightly elastic, wear-resistant hard plastic. When the temperature reaches medium, it slowly begins to become more elastic and softer.

Of course, this is the limit. After all, it is impossible for a horse to pull a carriage with wheels that reach a temperature of over 80 degrees.

Therefore, the load capacity of Eucommia gum is much higher than when it was originally designed, so there is a deluxe version.

However, Huo Hai did not add any fancy decorations or interior decorations that did not improve the comfort of his car.

Huo Hai plans to retain the load space and modify the chassis.

It’s not that Huo Hai has high requirements.

Rather, the modification of the vehicle chassis is equivalent to the research of high-strength mechanical structures.

In the future, as horse-drawn carriages are upgraded generation after generation, the chassis may be modernized before the internal combustion engine comes out, directly skipping the primitive stage and reaching the level of World War II cars.

Of course, this process may take several decades, and Huo Hai is not sure whether he can live to see that time.

After Huo Hai knew that the princess had ordered a car, he no longer cared about this matter. In the afternoon, he remembered that Xiang Xu had not returned, so he asked Huangfu Hua to go find Xiang Xu.

Huangfu Hua searched for a long time in the parking lot of Weiyang Palace, and almost searched the emperor's carriage, but still couldn't find it. So he thought Xiang Xu had returned, so he came back by himself.

How could he know that Xiang Xu had gone to the Prince's Palace to wait.

Xiang Xu had finished burning the charcoal and could not bear it any longer, so he went to borrow some charcoal and asked why the second young master of the Yulin Guard had not come out yet.

Yulin Guard: "Master Huo, you left this morning?"

Only then did Xiang Xu run back home.

Then he discovered that Huo Hai was dispatching soldiers to look for someone overnight: "It's outrageous that someone from the Huo Mansion actually disappeared in Chang'an City! I wonder who is so bold!"

When Xiang Xu showed up, everyone felt embarrassed.

Huangfu Hua was punished by having three days of vacation deducted from his salary.

In the morning, the sleep-deprived Xiang Xu came out to work again, and he was very anxious.

"Damn it! I overslept."

Princess Wei Chang was coming to the ranch, so Huo Hai couldn't sleep in and had to get up early.

In theory, Xiang Xu should drive the car, Huo Hai should sit in the car, and everyone should go camping happily and visit the ranch.

In fact, Xiang Xu got up an hour late. When he got up, he found that the young master was gone, but the car was still there.

Now Xiang Xu could only drive at full speed.

Originally, carriages could not turn around at the end of the highway. The reason why they went directly through the west side of the highway was because Huo Hai had proposed to Liu Che to expand the wharf and dig a section of the highway.

In fact, it is just to build a new road without a royal road at the end of the highway to make it convenient for people on both sides to turn around.

Liu Che was unhappy with Huo Hai and did not agree at all.

But Huo Hai said that if the wharf was not expanded, the coal mine's daily revenue would be halved.

Liu Che agreed immediately.

Although not a single shovel of soil had been moved on the highway, in theory the section at the end was no longer a highway.

A huge sign was put up with a U-turn arrow symbol on it and the words "You can turn around here" written on it.

Xiang Xu turned the car around here and drove forward at high speed.

Finally, the good news was that Xiang Xu arrived at the ranch.

The bad news is that Princess Wei Chang and Huo Hai arrived first.

Huo Hai cursed: "You are a vengeful bastard. I forgot you in the palace yesterday, so you deliberately gave up today, right?"

Xiang Xu_(:з」∠)_: "Sir, I'm wronged. I didn't do that! If I say I slept with you, do you believe me?"

Princess Wei turned away and stopped paying attention. Huo Hai whispered, "Well done. You really know how to read people's expressions. I finally got to ride in the same car with Her Royal Highness. By the way, you acted too well. Where were you hiding?"

Xiang Xu: “…”

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(When I was writing this paragraph, I checked the information on Baidu Encyclopedia to avoid making mistakes. When I checked the entry for Zhang Heng, I found that Zhang Heng's theory of the spherical heaven was "the spherical heaven is like a chicken egg. The celestial body is round like a bullet, and the earth is like the yolk of a chicken egg", which means "the shape of the sky is like an egg, and the earth is a sphere wrapped in it like an egg yolk" was translated into "the sky is like an egg, and the flat earth floats on the water". This translation method comes from the Japanese author of "China's Astronomy", Yabuuchi Kiyoshi. Of course, we don't call it this book here.)
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