Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 45

His expression flickered several times, but Li Tai finally choked out such a sentence.

"Old Zuo, are you sure that this duck-like platypus grows up by sucking milk? How can they suck milk with such a mouth?"

For such an idiotic question, Zuo Ming would definitely not answer, and he just rolled his eyes, "Don't talk about gossip, let me go to the palace!"

"Damn! You are really going to let me go alone! You are idle, why don't you go with me? Anyway, you also have a gold medal, so you don't need to report to the palace!"

Li Tai also rolled his eyes at this time, and then said.

"Who says I'm idle? I have more important things to do!"

Zuo Ming said angrily, then left the study room, and then shouted to the sky, "Shen Ding! Have you got the cotton I asked you to get?"

This guy Shen Ding is really elusive, and when Zuo Ming shouted, he immediately climbed over the wall of the next courtyard vigorously, "Young master! According to your request, I have already asked someone to collect all the Baidiezi near Chang'an City. I bought them back, but the basil seeds are all wild, and it’s past the picking season, so there aren’t many basil seeds outside, so I only received a total of more than 300 catties.”

Hearing that he only got more than 300 catties, Zuo Ming frowned. He originally planned to replace all the bedding in the entire Zuo Mansion with cotton wool, but now it seems impossible.

"Where's Uncle Qian's cotton plucking machine? Is it finished?"

After nodding his head, Zuo Ming asked again.

"I have asked craftsmen to make two according to your drawings, but I'm not sure if they can be used. After all, we don't know how to use them. In addition, we have moved all the cotton to the warehouse and put it together with the machine tools. When are you going to take a look?"

Shen Ding said.

Hearing that two have been built according to his intention, Zuo Ming nodded in satisfaction, "Very good! I don't have anything to do with you, go and rest!"

"Don't! Don't! Don't rest now! Lao Zuo, you don't have to come into the palace with me, just give him to me! I didn't bring a single guard with me when I came. It must be a shame for you to let me carry so many paintings and calligraphy back to the palace alone. impossible!"

However, just as Shen Ding was about to leave, he was stopped by Li Tai.

"Then you go to the palace with him! Remember, after entering, you don't look at what you shouldn't look at, and don't say what you shouldn't say, do you understand?"

For this request, Zuo Ming naturally agreed, and immediately said to Shen Ding.

Shen Ding was still a little disappointed that he didn't enter the palace last time, now that he had the opportunity to see the palace again, Shen Ding was naturally overjoyed, and immediately followed Li Tai and left.

After sending the two of them away, Zuo Ming came to the warehouse alone and started testing cotton.

In the previous life, Zuo Ming also saw others playing cotton, but when it was his turn, it was really not like that.

Zuo Ming knows the basic operation of picking cotton, but the quality of the cotton that Shen Ding collected is too poor. They are all wild cotton, and it is out of season. It has long been pulled into a solid ball, which is really difficult scattered.

However, despite encountering difficulties, Zuo Ming is not a person who retreats easily.If you can't break up once, it will be twice, and if you can't break up twice, it will be three times!
Anyway, it's on the bar.
While Zuo Ming was competing with a large pile of cotton, Li Tai and Shen Ding had already arrived at the Lizheng Hall.Coincidentally, Li Shimin was also in the Lizheng Hall at this time.

I heard that Zuo Ming specially asked Li Tai to send these picture albums, and both Li Shimin and Empress Changsun were in high spirits.Immediately, one of them picked up a copy and began to read it.

"This is simply nonsense!"

However, when the first page was turned, Li Shimin's reaction was exactly the same as Li Tai's, and he threw the picture book on the table with a sneer, "I thought it was a good thing! It turned out to be just that kid's imagination! Qingque, are you sure Zuo Ming didn't draw this when he was drunk?"

"This is indeed too outrageous! The round sky and the earth are the most recognized truths of all schools of thought. What is he trying to do? Challenge the sages of all schools of thought? Return the earth theory! This palace is really not good. Dare to imagine, if we really live on a huge ball, how will those people under our feet live!"

Empress Changsun also shook her head with a sneer.

How did they ancients know the existence of gravity?Just thinking with conventional thinking, I feel that if the earth theory is true, then people living in the world on the other side of the Tang Dynasty must be hanging upside down.But this is obviously impossible!

If they were really hanging upside down, wouldn't they die of brain congestion?

Seeing that his father and mother had the same thoughts as him, Li Tai smiled lightly and said, "Who said it wasn't! When I saw this painting for the first time, I said the same thing! But Zuo Ming didn't give Erchen explained that if he wants to confirm whether the Earth Theory is correct, he only needs to send a fleet to the east! If we can finally return to Datang, it means that the world we live in is really true. A huge sphere! If you can't return to Datang, it means that the theory of the earth is wrong."

"Hmph! What he said is simple! If his conjecture is wrong and he really wants to go all the way east, wouldn't those people of mine never come back?"

With a cold smile, Li Shimin said speechlessly.

He felt that Zuo Ming was too confident.He knew Zuo Ming well, and he knew that Zuo Ming would not make fun of people's lives, so he dared to say that, and he was sure that those people would be able to return to Datang in the end.However, facing such an absurd proposition, he really didn't know where Zuo Ming's confidence came from.

"I'm going to ask Zuo Ming about this! I really don't know what he's thinking right now?" Li Tai said with a helpless smile.

"Hmph! Ask him? I think he lacked confidence, that's why he didn't enter the palace with you! Asking him is useless!"

With a playful smile, Li Shimin picked up the picture album again in a bored manner, and started to read it.

However, when he turned to the second page, the indifference on his face disappeared in an instant!
Afterwards, a burst of fiery light appeared on his face, "Well! This kid's whole thing is not completely useless, except for the first page, everything else is well-founded and highly credible ! Good book! Good book! It’s a pity that there is not enough time! Time is really not enough!”

Seeing Li Shimin's sudden attitude change, Empress Changsun opened the picture album again out of curiosity.And then, she naturally fell into shock and ecstasy just like Li Shimin.

This calligraphy and painting is really important to Datang!With it, Datang's vision will no longer be limited, and even things that many people in Datang did not pay attention to before are directly exposed to the two of them!
——Just like the silver mines in Japan!

If they don't read this painting and calligraphy, they will never know that the seemingly barren Dongying is actually rich in such precious minerals!

"Looks like Zuo Ming put his heart into it! Except for the first page which is just nonsense, the rest of the content is pretty good! It's the first time I've seen this kind of guy with a pocket on his stomach, half the height of a person." Huge rat! And this rhinoceros! It's really strange that the horns grow on the nose!"

Looking at it, Empress Changsun was attracted by the illustrations in the picture book, and immediately became amazed again and again.

"Isn't it? Mother, look behind, there are even more unusual ones! Here - this is here! Zuo Ming said that this kind of duck grows up on milk, but the child doesn't believe it! Such a mouth, how can it eat milk! "

As if he had found a bosom friend, Li Tai regained his energy immediately, and immediately pointed to a platypus illustration in the booklet.

Looking at the photo of the platypus, Empress Changsun also smiled, "I don't know if it's true! If it wasn't made up by Zuo Ming, it would be really strange."

"What is Zuo Ming busy with now? Why doesn't he come by himself when such an important thing is brought into the palace?"

Li Shimin's attention is obviously different from that of Li Tai's mother and son. He has a lot of questions now, and he is eager to get answers from Zuo Ming, but Zuo Ming is lonely and did not come.

"I don't know what he's doing, I just heard that he sent two machines to be manufactured, and also bought a lot of things called 'cotton'. It's the white folds that are as real as a cocoon, and the middle is as thin as silk! There are hundreds of them piled up, like a hill!"

Li Tai also said with a puzzled expression.

In the Tang Dynasty, the white folded cloth, which is the cotton cloth of later generations, has always been considered to be made of kapok.People in Datang didn't even know that the so-called cotton cloth was actually made of white folds, which they didn't care about at all, and they listed it as a rare treasure.

According to historical records, the real mass production of cotton cloth was still in the Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty, and it was at that time that quilts and cotton-padded clothes appeared.

Hearing that Zuo Ming bought some useless white dice, Li Shimin only felt that he was a little abnormal, as if his brain had burned out.

Bai Diezi can almost be described as flooding in Gaochang, but this guy still wants to buy it?Isn't this brain burnt out?
"Let him go! But let him enter the palace tomorrow, I have many questions I want to ask him!"

After being silent for a while, Li Shimin didn't bother to take care of Zuo Ming's messy affairs, so he said flatly.

"Your servant leads the order! Father, don't worry! I will definitely bring him tomorrow! Father has no other orders, so I will leave first. According to Zuo Ming, I have to distribute these albums to my brother." brothers and sisters."

Bow and salute, Li Taidao.

"Go! Let your younger brothers and sisters read it carefully. This album will be useful no matter where you go!" Nodding his head, Li Shimin waved his hand at Li Tai.And he himself was once again silent in the album.

(End of this chapter)