How old is the little princess now? Less than five months old, right? It will take at least fifteen or sixteen years for the little princess to get married. What else could this person be but a lunatic?
Even if you are preparing for a rainy day, there must be a limit. The little cousin in front of me has obviously crossed this line and seems very abnormal.
Looking at his elder cousin who almost had a "are you sick?" expression on his face, Ye Shuo also choked.
So all the passionate words he just said turned out to be of no use at all, and people even suspected he was mentally ill, right?
But when I think about it, what I said does seem to be a bit exaggerated, and it is normal for others to feel that it sounds like a fairy tale.
Wei Wen's behavior made this plan seem even more feasible.
He thought it was impossible, and others would feel the same way.
This mythical story happened in reality, and no one could believe it.
Wei Wen's gaze towards the patient did not last long. After all, he had accumulated a wealth of experience in such matters, and he quickly adjusted his mentality.
Wei Wen was even in the mood to make fun of himself. He had seen so many fools that it was quite novel to see a madman occasionally.
Wei Wen, who had experienced many ups and downs, had now learned to find joy in adversity. He knew very well that the more times came, the more he should not provoke the other party, so he began to focus on comforting while speaking.
The best thing to do now is to help my little cousin calm down, otherwise it would be bad if he gets even crazier.
Just like that, Wei Wen not only did not say a word of rebuttal, but he actively agreed: "My little cousin, what you said makes sense. I really admire you."
Ye Shuo: “…”
Although Ye Shuo had never visited mental patients in a mental hospital in person in modern times, he still clearly remembered that this was how doctors in major film and television works coaxed mental patients to take medicine.
Although my cousin has not experienced that era, he has already learned how to treat mentally ill patients without any guidance, which is really cause for celebration.
After Wei Wen saw that his cousin's emotions had gradually stabilized, he began to think about getting away: "Oh, Your Highness, I suddenly remembered that the jade pendant on my waist seemed to have been left in the bushes. I may need to go look for it. So I'll leave you now."
Ye Shuo looked at him with a gloomy gaze: "When you came here today, you only had a mosquito repellent sachet hanging around your waist. When did you ever wear a jade pendant?"
How did he know...
Wei Wen couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
The next moment, Ye Shuo took a deep breath and said helplessly, "Don't worry, cousin. I will prove to you that I am not aimless."
Wei Wen still didn't believe it.
After all, what he said about water conservancy and flood control, water diversion and irrigation, textile machinery, refined salt purification, iron smelting technology... didn't sound very reliable. It would be extremely difficult to pick out any one of them to achieve. Just taking flood control as an example, if it could be achieved so easily, the people and emperors would not have suffered so much for this for thousands of years.
How did my little cousin know about this problem that even the current emperor cannot solve?
If there really is any good idea, His Majesty should know it before his little cousin who is a few years older.
So based on Wei Wen's entire understanding, everything he said was impossible to achieve.
Indeed, Ye Shuo does not have the ability to completely prevent floods. After all, floods still occur from time to time every summer in modern times. However, he can combine the thousands of years of water control history of the country he lived in in his previous life with modern experience in flood prevention and control to minimize the damage, which will always be much better than now.
Although Ye Shuo has not done everything himself, he believes that the ancients were only limited by backward technology, but they were not fools. As long as he tells the other party the principles and methods, he believes that with the wisdom of the ancients, they will be able to do it themselves soon.
More than ten years is enough time for a person, or a group of people, to grow.
"Just wait and see, cousin."
No matter how much you explain, it's useless. In the end, you have to use facts to speak for yourself. Ye Shuo didn't make any more excuses, but just asked Wei Wen for a crossbow, intending to try it out and gain his trust.
Understanding the principles of various machines is one of Ye Shuo's specialties.
Even if we can get the materials, all kinds of robots will be no problem.
After all, the little cousin was a prince, so Wei Wen would naturally give him whatever he asked for. What's more, the old Duke Zhenguo himself was a military general, so he naturally had a collection of all the popular bows and crossbows.
Soon Wei Wen handed the thing to Ye Shuo.
After Ye Shuo observed carefully for a while, he had an idea in his mind.
"Cousin, give me one night, and I'll give you the results tomorrow."
After saying that, Ye Shuo called a servant over, handed the crossbow to him, and asked him to put it in his room in the afternoon.
The servant was a little confused at first, but when he saw the eldest master nod, he subconsciously suppressed his curiosity.
Ye Shuo discovered that his eldest cousin seemed to be very good at controlling his subordinates, and even the maids and servants listened to him very much.
"This is the first time we two cousins meet, so I'll take the initiative to give the crossbow to Your Highness. I hope Your Highness won't despise it." There's no need to feel pressured. It's up to him whether to play with it or take it apart.
Wei Wen had a tolerant look on his face.
Ye Shuo: “…”
Ye Shuo no longer wanted to talk at all.
Soon Ye Shuo returned to the banquet, but Wei Wen waited for a while before coming back.
Perhaps because he was a little excited to see his nephew for the first time, the banquet gradually came to an end until noon.
After drinking a few jars of wine, everyone felt a little dizzy, and their mouths and tongues gradually lost control. Ye Shuo's uncle lost control and slapped his nephew hard on the back.
If Ye Shuo wasn't in good health, he would have been beaten to death by him, but even if Ye Shuo was in good health, he was almost killed by his slap.
Meanwhile, the uncle, totally unaware of his nephew's suddenly distorted expression, stuck out his tongue and suddenly looked sad: "Look at how thin the child is."
"That's right, it can almost be blown away by the wind." Upon hearing this, the other five uncles couldn't help but echoed one after another.
They wanted to talk about this when they first met. In the eyes of the six people, a real man should be strong and sturdy.
Looking at my nephew again, he is as thin as a chick, while his cousins' arms are almost as thick as his thighs.
But in fact, Ye Shuo's stature is more slender, and he is completely different from his cousins.
It doesn't mean that people with thick muscles are necessarily strong. Some people with thin bodies have higher explosive power. But Ye Shuo's well-proportioned body shape makes him look weak in the eyes of a group of strong men, right?
The eldest uncle couldn't help but pat his chest and promised: "Tomorrow, I will personally teach you martial arts." This would prevent his nephew from being bullied in the palace again.
Caught off guard, the old Duke Zhenguo above couldn't help but choke and cough.
You're the boss, but you're still teaching this kid martial arts?
To be honest, if the boss went back ten years, he might not be a match for this kid. Now he only has the advantage of age, and there is not much he can teach.
However, what the old Duke of Zhenguo didn't know was that Ye Shuo had only practiced internal strength and some techniques for firing hidden weapons, and he really didn't know anything about the specific moves.
Over the years, the greatest purpose of Ye Shuo's internal strength training was just to keep warm, escape, climb trees, hold his breath underwater, and treat colds.
If the old Duke Zhenguo knew that he actually used his internal energy to do these things, he would probably be furious.
What’s the difference between this and using gold to buy sesame cakes!
However, due to his adoptive father's side, it was difficult for him to change his attitude too quickly, so Ye Shuo immediately refused in a stern manner.
Anyway, no matter what, his stepfather would force him to learn it even if he had to force him, and it didn't matter even if his uncle took it seriously.
Sure enough, under heavy pressure, Ye Shuo was soon "forced" to accept it.
If the old Duke Zhenguo had not felt the rich energy in his dantian, I would have thought that he was particularly averse to practicing martial arts.
After agreeing to gather at the martial arts arena at 11:00 a.m. tomorrow, several uncles and cousins returned to their respective courtyards with the help of their servants.
Ye Shuo also returned to the courtyard that his aunts had carefully prepared for him.
All the items were brand new, and the quilts and other items had been specially dried in the sun, and were full of dead mites... ah, the smell of sunshine.
Ye Shuo's heart also felt a little warmer.
Ye Shuo didn't pay much attention to the crossbow that was already placed on his desk. He even took a nap and started to modify it after getting up.
Since he didn't have any suitable tools at hand and Ye Shuo couldn't use the ancient tools for a while, he simply took out a stack of rice paper and planned to draw directly.
First he disassembled the crossbow, then assembled it, then disassembled and assembled it again. After repeating this twice, Ye Shuo began to carefully measure the size of each component with a ruler.
Subconsciously, he was about to take a pen to take notes, but... looking at the ink pool on the rice paper, Ye Shuo was silent for a moment, and suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask his cousin to prepare charcoal pencils in advance.
After getting the charcoal pencil, Ye Shuo calmed down and started writing and drawing, and began to improve the crossbow based on the original one.
Before evening, Ye Shuo had almost finished. In the end, he couldn't even help but draw out the design of another brand new bow and crossbow in his mind.
Cold weapons such as bows and crossbows are relatively backward. In war, hot weapons such as gunpowder are more powerful.
But there is a problem. The production of simple gunpowder is not complicated, and it is even very easy to copy. Once it is taken out on the battlefield, the other two countries will soon be able to come up with something similar, and the casualties will only be greater.
Ye Shuo didn't believe that only his adoptive father had secret guards, while the emperors of the other two countries didn't.
Moreover, the power to use gunpowder was not in Ye Shuo's hands, and Ye Shuo had no way to avoid the abuse of gunpowder.
By then, all lives will be lost and the only ones who will suffer will be the common people.
Even if we use explosives to destroy those two countries, then what? If productivity cannot keep up, and there are suddenly so many extra mouths, people will starve to death if they don’t have enough food.
So take it a little bit at a time and take it slow.
After Ye Shuo finished drawing, he handed the two pictures to the servant beside his eldest cousin.
Soon, Wei Wen had two more things in his hands.
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