27 Congratulations Mr. Liu
◎Huo Yan: You little brat, I can’t take you down.◎
Ever since "The Monkey King" went on sale, everyone in Chang'an was obsessed with the Monkey King. The Wukong IP became a major hit thanks to this scene, and every guest at the toy shop couldn't help but ask when Wukong would fight against the gods. At the jewelry store, the clothing and jewelry designed by Monkey King Zhuo Wenjun were practically sold out. Huo Yan not only made up for his losses at the hands of Emperor Wu of Han but also made a fortune.
Sima Xiangru and Dongfang Shuo, though scoundrels, possessed a certain literati connection. Who wouldn't want their protagonist to be well-known? They hurriedly wrote the next act, urging Huo Qubing to borrow the monkey and music from Liu Che, and then waited for Huo Yan to continue.
Unfortunately, Huo Yan didn't plan to continue filming at the moment. He made a set of painted wooden sculptures of all the images of Sun Wukong in the Monkey King designed by Dongfang Shuo and Zhuo Wenjun, and placed them at the main entrance of the toy house, amazed by everyone who passed by.
But when someone came to ask, he told the manager to reply that the item was not for sale and invited people to see the new Monkey King clothing and accessories and a series of board games.
No one knew what he was going to do until someone was willing to pay a thousand taels of gold, but Huo Yan still refused to sell it. Sima Xiangru and Dongfang Shuo, the two anxious kings, became completely anxious. They both thought Huo Yan was going to sell the wood carving to replenish their funds. His monkey was so good, they had written dozens of volumes, and if they sold them one by one, all the Han people would fall in love with his child.
Unexpectedly, Huo Yan refused to sell it. The two of them screamed in panic and rolled around in front of the manager, Uncle Dan.
Uncle Dan was tortured to the point of becoming haggard by these two great writers. Every day when he opened his eyes and saw the lifelike wood carvings above, he felt annoyed.
"Master Qubing, it's 1,200 taels, and this wood carving only cost 10 taels. Please let my master sell it! You don't know, those two masters are almost driving me crazy. I beg you."
He looked at Huo Qubing eating malt candy with a wronged look.
Huo Qubing bit the candy in his mouth into pieces, held the candy residue in his mouth, and handed him a piece of candy.
"Do you think Ah Yan can't afford the 10% discount they paid for the two of them?"
The steward took it with both hands, "No, no, no, how can the young master not afford it."
The young master in brocade clothes had picturesque features, and wore a dark blue brocade robe made by his mother, Wei Shaoer. The fox fur around his neck was from the silver fox that Wei Qing had hunted last time, and it was obviously made of top-quality leather. His expression remained unchanged. He was usually silent when he was alone, and his aura was so majestic that people dared not look at him closely.
"Then just be patient and calm down. Ah Yan won't let you go without food."
The steward unexpectedly calmed down when he saw these clear eyes. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied yes.
No one knew what Huo Yan was going to do except Huo Qubing. However, Huo Yan was not clear about the beginning and the end, and he was unwilling to say anything, so others could not see the twins' intentions at all.
When Huo Yan later learned about this incident, he smiled at the manager, then turned around and sent Dongfang Shuo and Sima Xiangru to the paper mill he had newly acquired to hammer tree bark with sledgehammers.
Chang'an was cold in August, but the young master in the main seat seemed particularly afraid of the cold. He wore a fox fur cloak and held a small gilded hand warmer in his hands. He sat quietly in a chair, thinking about something.
After a long moment, he sneered.
"They're just making a fuss. You can report it to me or punish them yourself. If I tell you to do whatever you want, you'll be lying."
The steward knelt down.
Huo Yan glanced at the kneeling manager, no longer smiling, his eyes were deep, and it was obvious that he was really angry.
"If it weren't for the servant beside my brother letting it slip, I wouldn't have known about this. How dare you complain to my brother and threaten him with your feelings? You're so brave!"
The steward kept shouting that he was guilty. Huo Yan's face was as pale as snow. He put down the small incense burner in his hand and chuckled. But his tone was very cold, without a trace of warmth.
"Remember who your master is. If you do that again, I won't be able to keep you."
The manager even said he didn't dare.
Huo Yan just told him to go out and closed his eyes to rest.
His aura was terrifying, and I didn't know if he was angry, so I didn't dare to say anything in the comments.
It was at this time that Huo Qubing came in, wearing a tight-sleeved riding suit and small rabbit fur gloves. His ears were red from the cold, but his eyes were still bright, indicating that he was going hunting with Liu Che again.
As soon as he came in, he took a cat out of his arms and handed it to Huo Yan.
"Ayan, here, kitten."
Before Huo Yan could react, a kitten filled his arms.
A cat cub that was probably less than half a month old, its dark golden eyes looked at him with a confused look.
But why are a cat's ears round, and why is there a character "王" on the top of a cat's head?
Is this a cat? Its father is a tiger.
"Brother, does a cat look like this?"
Huo Qubing grabbed the tiger cub's paw. Upon hearing this, his smug smile stopped. He looked it up and down, and finally said indifferently, "Oh, I didn't expect to pull out a tiger just by casually pulling it out. It's better to follow you. If anyone hurts you, just release it."
Ayan is too weak. The injury on his left hand has not healed yet. He is afraid of the cold and is picky about food. If he is not around, he will be bullied.
He stretched out his hand and naturally placed it on Huo Yan's cheek, "Ayan, you seem angry?"
Huo Yan didn't hold back, listing them off one by one like a Khan recruiting his troops. "Uncle Dan, Dongfang Shuo, Sima Xiangru, a bunch of guys with no strategic focus. They use too much strength every day, and they dare to yell at me. I really want them to swing hammers for the rest of their lives."
Huo Qubing also knew that there were many psychopaths in this room, so he showed sympathy to Huo Yan and gently stroked his hair like he was petting a cat, just for comfort.
Huo Yan lowered his head to let him touch it, and stretched out his index finger to lightly scratch the tiger cub's jaw. The curled up little ball in his hand cooperated by making a low purring sound.
"Xiaobao, what's your name?"
It's very stuffy.
Huo Qubing felt like laughing, so he also raised his voice and replied, "Call me Little Tiger."
Huo Yan raised his head and looked at him silently, with a smile in his eyes.
"This name will be laughed at by the tiger world."
Huo Qubing raised his eyebrows and said simply, "That's called golden eyes."
Huo Yan looked at him speechlessly again. He simply couldn't imagine that someone could be named like that. "Did you do that on purpose?"
Huo Qubing lifted the cub up. Its fangs, which were still young, were too weak to kill. He was not careful with his strength, but his power was much greater than Huo Yan's.
Maybe his hand was too heavy, the cub began to struggle in his hand, and even opened its mouth to bite his fingers.
"That's Xiao Xiao,"
Huo Yan lowered his eyes and looked at the cub that tried to attack him. He increased the strength of his hand that was pinching the cub's neck. The tiger cub was forced to stop struggling and attacking and became docile.
"It hurts you, let it go."
Huo Qubing laughed and started to tease the tiger cub. "It's normal for him to be wild and untamed. I kept him here so that he can protect you, not so that you can treat him like a guard. Ah Yan, you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Huo Yan reached out and scooped up the fur ball, which then grasped it tightly with its forelimbs. The little tiger's dark golden eyes shone brightly, and he smiled, "Your eyes are so pretty. Let's call you Little Pretty."
Like my brother's eyes, so beautiful.
Huo Qubing did not comment. Xiao Piaoliang sounded nice. Never mind. Just treat her as a child and coax her. As long as Ah Yan was happy, that was enough.
The barrage of comments condemned these two for their poor naming.
[Whose little tiger is called Xiao Piaoliang.]
[Not Ah Yan, won’t your name be ridiculed by the tiger world?]
[You guys are so random in naming.]
[God moves.]
[Quad is also good!]
[Ayan, you can call me cub, but I think you should keep my little pretty girl.]
[Your Majesty Huo Yan, please relinquish your magical powers. I'm afraid that when my little beauty grows up, she'll slap you to death.]
Are you polite?
…
Huo Yan later found out that this little tiger was found by Huo Qubing specially for him. As he grew older, he had to go to Jianzhang and Shanglin for training often with his uncle who had become the Taizhong Doctor. Huo Yan was too weak, and Huo Qubing was afraid that something would happen to Huo Yan when he was away. So he kept this tiger in the woods nearby. He waited for a long time until the mother tiger died, and then he used all his strength to pull it out from under the corpse.
He kept it in his arms, not letting anyone else touch it. Even his uncle only let him hold it for a moment until he passed it to his younger brother.
He was not a talkative person, and with just a few words he attributed the tiger cub's fate to luck.
He has always been very meticulous and never speaks out. He would always keep things secret from you, so Huo Yan didn't know about it and really thought he was lucky. He was very happy and asked the steward to take the tiger cub away and feed it, and then find someone who was good at training it to buy it. Only then did he chat with him casually.
"The Dou Tian affair has been resolved. The current Prime Minister is Tian Fen. You might as well send the puppet over." Huo Qubing petted him like a tiger, smiling broadly. "Ever since the fires at the Gaoyuan Hall of Changling and the Gao Temple of Liaodong, where my uncle worshipped his ancestors, Old Dong has been so proud of himself. I suspect he's trying to promote the idea of divine connection again."
Huo Yan originally pouted, but after hearing about Dong Zhongshu's current situation, he frowned.
Dong Zhongshu was a talented man, and he quite liked to listen to him using history to satirize the present and talk about the Spring and Autumn Annals. However, at this critical juncture when the temple was on fire, talking about the interaction between heaven and man would only add insult to injury to Liu Che's blindness.
"The sky is nothing more than water, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, rare gases, and impurities. It has nothing to do with what humans do. If there were a spirit in heaven, those who enclose land and harm the people would have long been condemned to death, struck to death by blue thunder and purple lightning, and reduced to ashes."
Huo Qubing laughed heartily and hugged his younger brother.
"Ayan, are you worried that your uncle will be killed? Your uncle should be very happy."
Huo Yan rolled his eyes and complained bluntly, "Your uncle's uncle is an old thief. He can't be killed by a lightning strike. Listen to me, ask your uncle to give him a hat with big iron needles on it. Let him go out when it thunders, and he will die."
Huo Qubing was amused by him. Huo Yan suddenly had an idea that day and studied it with the troublemakers for four days.
After trying it hundreds of times, half a month later, this small generator was finally in front of everyone.
Thin copper wires were wound around a small wooden block to form a tight coil. A piece of black zither was fixed to one side of the coil. On the other side of the coil, Huo Yan also installed two copper brushes. The entire body was connected with metal sheets. At the lower end of the machine was a long iron wire. Knowing that Huo Yan had come up with a new gadget and wanting to watch the fun, Shi Ye volunteered to tie up a chicken that was going to be eaten today.
"Come on, young master, come on."
Huo Yan glanced at him silently, and the steward immediately took out the small handkerchief he carried with him, rolled it into a ball, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Huo Yan was finally satisfied. He shook the handle, blew a whistle at Huo Qubing and the others who had gathered to watch the fun, and then said something naughty.
"Alright, everyone, be patient. From now on, please call me Little Thunder King."
As he shook it, a series of electric current sounds were generated. The current was conducted through the moist soil on the ground. In an instant, a strong electric current flowed through the chicken's body, causing its muscles to tense, its feathers to stand up, and it to make a shrill cry.
Everyone looked towards the chicken that had been electrocuted, and then involuntarily looked at Huo Yan, who had just been electrocuted and looked even more harmless in front of the big machine.
Perhaps it was because the death of a chicken made the tiger mourn, and the little beauty beside Huo Qubing also cried out.
After a long while, Huo Qubing, who had always been a big-hearted child, poked the little chicken with a branch and said to Li Yannian, who was staring at him with wide eyes, "Why are you standing there? Play a happy song and celebrate my brother's success."
Li Yannian played the song "The Phoenix Seeks the Phoenix" in a daze, and was suddenly left speechless by Zhuo Wenjun.
The manager was already numb and cheered in a low voice.
Shi Ye held the big lump in his mouth and looked at Huo Yan excitedly, squeaking.
My god has descended to earth, this is the God of Dianze③.
For a moment, there was singing and dancing.
Huo Qubing poked the chicken again, paused, and then said, "Ayan, what do you call this thing?"
Huo Yan used a wooden pole to fiddle with the chicken, which was only numb from the electric shock. He sighed and said to Huo Qubing with a look of embarrassment and huge dark circles under his eyes, "This is a great discovery, even more advanced than the induction between heaven and man, electromagnetic induction!"
After saying that, he waved his little hand, and laughed out loud, looking as cheerful as a chicken before being electrocuted.
"Come on, everyone, let's enter the world of science together. This is electromagnetic induction."
Huo Qubing was very calm. In a flash, he raised his hand, swung his knife, and used great force to knock Huo Yan, who had not slept for two days, unconscious.
"Go and ask Aunt Tiying, my brother has gone crazy!"
[Why is it just the electric numbness?]
[It was a bit of a failure, the chicken was not electrocuted.]
[Son, I told you to wind it twice more. The more turns the coil has, the higher the voltage it generates.]
[Wow, the Lightning King's strength is different!]
[Son, tell them, that's bullshit about induction, electromagnetic induction is the coolest thing!]
[Then the music began and the dancing began.]
[Technology is the primary productive force!]
Ah, science!
[Qubing: My brother has gone crazy.]
[Bingbing, we need to find an exorcist. This is my great god Faraday possessed.]
…
At the end of the sixth year of Jianyuan, Huo Yan's crazy experiments and various chemical reactions finally came to an end. The emergence of magnetic declination, compass, generator, electric motor, telescope and other things was enough to turn the people in this room from being half-dead after being shocked by science into the current level where they can condense at the sight of snow.
Believe in my science, it’s that simple.
Xiao Piaoliang has grown into a tiger cub half the height of Huo Yan, following him and Huo Qubing every day.
In just three months, a month before the Chinese New Year, this set of puppets had been sold for five thousand taels of gold. It was said that the price was set by the youngest son of Prime Minister Tian.
After playing with Huo Yan for a long time, he finally started to move. At the end of October, the steward gave this set of puppets as a gift to Liu Che, the highest spender in the building this year. The man was a good citizen, Mr. Liu Che, who borrowed the puppets for free from the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an.
Because this award was specially tailored for Mr. Liu Che, who likes uniqueness, so that he would be willing to do it.
Sure enough, after Liu Che received the gift, he made some inquiries and found out that this set of puppets was very popular among the nobles in the capital and was sold at a high price of more than five thousand taels. Now, it was presented to him by the owner of the toy house, and he was coaxed like a child.
Not only did he give away money and property, but he also sent back the musician Li Yannian who had been dragged back by the generator last time.
Huo Yan was upstairs listening to the pale, beardless, and thin Li Yannian playing the zither, and his mouth was split with laughter.
His, his, all his, so cool!
Hmm, as expected, without those two things, my mammary ducts are unobstructed.
The second act of The Monkey King is getting started, getting started.
At this time, Sima Hou⑥, one of the two anxious kings who had been swinging a hammer for three months to test the paper formula for him on the outskirts of the city, received an imperial edict to go on a diplomatic mission to the Southwest Yi. He breathed a sigh of relief and did not mind the hard work. He took his people out of the city that day. He left with a relaxed mood, which made Dongfang Shuo so angry that he gritted his teeth and hammered the bark twice in hatred.
Damn Sima Xiangru, you said we were good brothers and we were smashing tree bark together, what do you mean by running away now?
【Author’s words】
① In his early years, Li Yannian was castrated for breaking the law and served in a dog ward. Later, due to his outstanding musical talent, he was promoted by Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, to the rank of Commandant of Music and given the seal of 2,000 stone.
By the Han Dynasty, the Chinese had already recognized the existence of a natural stone capable of attracting iron objects, what we today call lodestone or natural magnetite. In ancient Chinese literature, lodestone was often referred to as "ci stone" (ci stone). This name stems from the ancient belief that lodestone could attract iron filings or other iron-containing materials with the same "kindness" that a hen tends to her chicks. The "Lüshi Chunqiu" records: "Ci stone can attract iron." The "ci stone" here refers to the magnetic mineral.
③ The Classic of Mountains and Seas describes the god of Lei Ze, who wields a drum and a hammer, striking it to produce thunder. The Book of Changes considers thunder a symbol of rising yang energy. Ancient people sometimes interpreted lightning strikes as divine punishment for human sin.
Electromagnetic induction is a key phenomenon in physics, first discovered by British physicist Michael Faraday in 1831. This phenomenon, which reveals the interconnection between electric and magnetic fields, has become one of the foundations of electromagnetism and a key principle in the operation of numerous electronic and electrical devices, including motors, transformers, and generators. Definition: Electromagnetic induction is the process by which an electromotive force (potential difference) is generated in a conductive loop due to a changing magnetic field. More specifically, when the magnetic flux passing through a closed loop changes, an induced electromotive force is generated in that loop.
⑤ Magnetic declination experiment. Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty first recorded Earth's magnetic declination in his Lun Heng. Using a homemade compass or Si Nan (compass), one can demonstrate the north-south orientation of a magnet. By comparing the orientation of a magnetic needle at different locations, one can further study the distribution of Earth's magnetic field.
⑥ In the sixth year of Jianyuan (135 BC), Xiangru had been serving as a palace attendant for several years. It happened that Tang Meng was ordered to plunder and open up Yelang and Bizhong to its west, and Xiangru was sent as an envoy.
The description of this generator uses the production process of a small generator. The current is very small and can only be used for power generation.
Mr. Liu: He gave me a treasure that no one else could ever get. He has me in his heart. Reward!
Huo Yan: Well, ten taels in exchange for a professional team, it’s worth it!
Li Yannian: I'm really screwed, Liu Che!
Huo Qubing: Oh no, my uncle has been fooled.
Sima Xiangru: Goodbye, Shuoer, I will be sailing far away tonight.
Dongfang Shuo: The little Sima is bullying me because I am old and weak.
The offense and defense have changed, Lao Liu.
In the next chapter, you can meet Dong Zhongshu at his peak.
Dong Zhongshu: I am now terribly strong.
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