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The ministers were discussing the matter, completely confused as to why the king answered in this way.
"I understand! I understand what the king means!"
The Prime Minister suddenly shouted in surprise.
Then, he smiled mysteriously and started to leave with full confidence, as if the Macedonian army had turned into a pile of corpses.
Everyone was puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask.
Obviously, this must be a major military matter that needs to be kept secret, so the king kept it a secret from the prime minister.
Only the high priest seemed to understand something and hurriedly followed him out, soon catching up with the prime minister.
"Is the capable man the king is talking about Archimedes?" Seeing that there was no one around, the high priest whispered in his ear.
"Who else?"
Since there was no third person present, the Prime Minister had no intention of hiding it from his old friend and whispered something.
It turned out that after Archimedes returned from the palace that day, he suddenly seemed to be possessed by a demon. He started inventing things regardless of day or night, eating, drinking, defecating, or urinating!
He said he wanted to repay the king for his kindness and prove that he was valuable!
When Archimedes became so thin that his bones were visible, the prime minister thought he was about to die.
The new invention was finally made.
That was a kind of ship called an ironclad!
The entire hull is covered with thick iron sheets, and even the several layers of shooting holes are equipped with thick steel plates as baffles.
The Prime Minister can understand that a wooden boat can float on water.
Because wood is lighter than water.
However, the Prime Minister really couldn't understand how such a huge piece of iron could float steadily on the water and could carry a large number of archers and even Greek fire!
I heard that this utilizes the law of buoyancy!
Archimedes also gave the naming rights of this law to Wang, and called it King Stobi's Law of Buoyancy!
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