29 Let me tell you what the sound of rain is
◎Huo Yan: You said you are strong, I will open the big one first.◎
Dongfang Shuo was brought back by Huo Yan.
After not seeing him for three months, he has become even more resilient.
Of course I did. I swung the sledgehammer every day and built up my biceps.
He sharpened his knife, intending to scare the steward who had put him in the sheep cart and smoked him.
Who would have thought that after being tortured by Huo Yan for the past three months, the steward had transformed into a mighty and unyielding man. He wouldn't be afraid of anyone, not even the emperor himself, let alone Dongfang Shuo.
So when faced with Dongfang Shuo who still wanted to put on an official front, the manager gave a call and more than a dozen shop assistants rushed over, some tied up his legs, some tied up his hands, and wrapped Dongfang Shuo up like a silkworm on the spot and sent him to the small dark room in the backyard.
Huo Yan originally wanted to publish a publication, but later, in order to capitalize on the popularity of Journey to the West, he decided to release a series of science peripherals, ranging from small bookmarks to large posters.
He also plans to release a new comic book character, in which Tang Sanzang comes to the Han Dynasty five hundred years later to learn advanced technology. During this period, he meets his former disciples and undergoes eighty-one trials. Each trial involves some natural wonders and high-tech products, as well as the process of their exploration.
He had just outlined some scientific knowledge with Danmu when Dongfang Shuo came back, and these things were naturally handed over to skilled workers.
Dongfang Shuo originally wanted to take advantage of Qiao, but Huo Yan directly asked Shi Ye to show him the lifelong indenture signed by his former master.
"Mr. Dongfang, the master said you have been sold to him."
Shi Ye showed his eight teeth and spoke honestly.
"If you still don't obey, I'll chop you into pieces, dry them in the sun, and sell them to the Xiongnu as beef."
Dongfang Shuo looked at the knife in his hand and swallowed his saliva. He felt timid in his heart, but he still said, "Since my lord has asked me to do so, I will do it with all my heart to share his worries."
Shi Ye happily plopped down beside him, gnashing his teeth as he sharpened his knife. "My Lord said he was worried you'd be lonely, so he wanted me to accompany you. Hurry up."
Dongfang Shuo wanted to lose his temper, but when he saw the smooth blade, he shamefully backed off.
Huo Yan was not an unkind master. He knew that this was a big project, so he showed his friendship and spent twenty taels to recruit a group of literate people and handed them over to Dongfang Shuo.
He didn't want Dongfang Shuo to be a free teacher and squeeze every last drop of value out of him. He just felt sorry for Brother Dongfang.
Who knew that Dongfang Shuo was so curious? After he finished the drawing and handed it in, he immediately started playing according to the outline he was given. He finished the eighty-one difficulties that others took fourteen years to complete in just one month.
The originally thick eyebrows were burned off, and the hair became visibly shiny.
But he himself claimed that he had entered that mysterious realm and explored the truth of the world.
He even started to lecture people on various subjects like a teacher, and everyone who had been tortured by Huo Yan for three months started to attack others. Even Zhuo Wenjun, the only normal person in the room, wanted to kick him.
I can’t beat Huo Yan, and I can’t beat you either.
Every time this happened, Dongfang Shuo would cover his butt and think of his emperor who was willing to listen to his nonsense.
Your Majesty will surely understand me, but unfortunately, I am now entrusted with the great mission of promoting science and can no longer meet with Your Majesty.
He rubbed his butt, sighed softly, and felt a surge of emotion.
Huo Yan, who was busy having someone carve the molds for movable type printing, cursed him as an idiot, but his hands honestly took out his treasured unpurified gunpowder powder. He was even afraid of blowing up the house, so he directly invited him to the open area on the outskirts of the city that he had just found to adjust the bomb formula with him.
Although there was no explosion, there were occasional sparks, and the feeling of excitement completely trapped Dongfang Shuo in the pit of science.
"Explode! Explode! Explode!"
Dongfang Shuo lit the oil-soaked cotton thread and ran towards Huo Yan.
"Yan'er, Bing'er, did it explode?"
Huo Yan and Huo Qubing stared at the flickering flame with their four bright black eyes. Then Huo Yan's face fell and he shook his head at Dongfang Shuo.
Both pairs of incandescent eyes went out.
Unfortunately, it was another dud.
"Hahaha."
Dongfang Shuo ran in front of them and laughed with his head tilted back. He brushed his hair, which had been blown away by his hasty running, from his face to his head. Although his hair was half gray and half white, his face was full of innocent joy like a child.
Huo Qubing also smiled.
"Come again!"
"I'll go change the recipe." Huo Yan looked at the smoking dud and raised his Sima face.
The wind was a bit strong, and Dongfang Shuo's beard was flying around. But he leaned over and patted the frustrated Huo Yan on the shoulder. "Ayan, don't focus too much on the results and ignore the joy of trying. Relax. The wind is so nice today!"
"What's so good about this broken wind? It's just too big and it put out my firecrackers."
Huo Yan replied.
Dongfang Shuo smiled and threw him directly onto the soft ground.
"Relax, it's very comfortable lying on the grass."
He spoke gently, but Huo Yan's first reaction to being attacked was a kick. He then rolled to the left, scrambled to his feet, hugged his chest, and shouted, "How dare you take advantage of me?"
Dongfang Shuo was laughing heartily among the dry grass, rolling and laughing like a grown-up girl.
Huo Yan chased Dongfang Shuo and insisted on kicking him again.
Huo Qubing also laughed and fell backwards, landing in the grass. He rolled around and landed right next to Huo Yan. In the withered grass, the child's almond-shaped eyes curved slightly and he reached out to the furious Huo Yan.
"Come, give me a hug, little brother."
Huo Yan paused, then decisively walked around him, "Wait a moment."
Before he finished speaking, he rushed forward and gave Dongfang Shuo, who was watching the excitement nearby, a bull charge, knocking Dongfang Shuo back twice.
Only then did he leave with satisfaction and sit next to Huo Qubing. Huo Qubing withdrew his hand because he was tired, but Huo Yan reached out and pulled him hard.
"I just rejected you, hug twice, come on."
Huo Qubing rolled over with laughter. He used a little strength to grab Huo Yan's shoulders. Huo Yan did not resist and lay down side by side with him.
"Ayan, there will be stars soon."
Huo Yan took a deep breath and looked at the sky. It was still the same patch of broken clouds, nothing had changed.
But he seemed to smell the scent of withered grass.
But the first bright star he saw in the night sky was Chang Geng Star.
[According to reasoning, it's not likely to explode.]
[Second purification required.]
[Purification using glassware requires a high-rise furnace.]
[The steel pouring method is also necessary.]
[It's not a one-time use; the blast furnace needs to be set up.]
[Everyone, what I'm saying is, Ayan fell asleep.]
[Can it be made with crystal?]
[Are you a tiger? Crystal is silicon dioxide, and glass is silicate. Which is more chemically stable at room temperature and pressure?]
[So, A Yanbao is buying a factory and building a blast furnace! The pouring steel method is starting!]
[Ayan can no longer expand his business territory. If the Ma Yi conspiracy comes, he will definitely give money, and by then he will probably be out of money.]
[Without money, it's like a broken vein; a healthy cycle can't be established.]
…
It is said that since Dong Zhongshu last met Your Majesty, he received guidance from some expert and stopped talking about his high-profile propaganda about the connection between heaven and man. At the critical moment when the fire broke out in the Gaoyuan Hall of Changling and the Gao Temple of Liaodong, where the emperor worshipped his ancestors, he kept a low profile, voluntarily resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Liu Fei①, and stopped talking about disasters. Instead, he returned to his old profession and continued teaching. He opened a class in Chang'an, specializing in "Gongyang Chunqiu".
He was a great scholar. At that time, Gongyang Chunqiu was a famous school of thought. Many people came to him to listen to his lectures. Sometimes, the number of people listening to his lectures accumulated to thousands. Thanks to him, Huo Yan's science series peripherals had become a hot commodity among this group of intellectuals.
It's said that many people are now collecting these peripherals just to replicate the experiments explained above. Like Dongfang Shuo, these curious and idle tinkerers have been hammered to death by science. Many of them are born with science and engineering talents, and even understand the principles and start modifying them themselves.
For a time, the academic circles of the Han Dynasty ushered in a wave of scientific revolution. The scientific school, with its boldness, once challenged the orthodox status of Confucianism that had just been confirmed by Emperor Wu of Han.
As the leader of the scientific school, Huo Yan decisively put up a sign outside the theater when this school was flourishing. It said that good schools all have top publications, and our scientific school should also publish a scientific publication. We are now recruiting articles on popular science. Please submit them directly here, and the best ones will be published.
This statement caused a huge uproar, and many scholars were attracted by it and began to contribute to scientific journals.
Huo Yan hurriedly began editing the new book, wrote a founding statement, talked about the importance of science to the Han Dynasty today, and set the inaugural words: "Establish a destiny for the people, establish a heart for heaven and earth, pass on unique knowledge to future generations, and bring peace to the Han Dynasty." ①
Dongfang Shuo carefully selected five or six chapters and added a chapter on the journey to the east to the Journey to the West, and compiled them into a publication.
"What's the name of this book?"
Dongfang Shuo asked.
Huo Yan spread out the paper and wrote a few large characters in a flamboyant style: "Han Youth".
"I hope this book can guide the young people of Dahan to become scientific, pragmatic, enterprising and progressive young people, and truly live up to the founding words."
He said to Shi Ye, and Shi Ye said to Dongfang Shuo.
The second year of Yuanguang, at the beginning of the year.
This "Han Youth", edited by Huo Yan and adapted by Dongfang Shuo himself, officially fired the first shot in the birth of the Han newspaper and the debate among various major schools.
Therefore, Huo Yan, who almost destroyed the Confucian doctrine, felt that attending Dong Zhongshu's class was no different from getting close to him and using a big gun.
But there was no way. The old teacher who taught Huo Yan and Huo Qubing was a fan of Dong Zhongshu. Compared with Huo Qubing, who already had goals and ambitions, he always liked to take Huo Yan to listen to Dong Zhongshu's lectures.
He felt that Huo Yan was restless and his ambitions were unclear. Perhaps listening to Teacher Dong's lectures would be much better.
Faced with the kind-hearted gentleman, Huo Yan had no choice but to follow him with the book in his hand. His eyes were bright, and he did not act stubbornly or absent-mindedly in front of the emperor, which was three parts intentional and seven parts deliberate.
It was probably because he only talked about books and no longer mixed in matters of gods and ghosts to intimidate the emperor.
Huo Yan sat shoulder to shoulder with the others, kneeling outside the curtain and listening to his ideas on "balancing".
Listen to him talk about the great unification of the Spring and Autumn Period, which he was proud of, and listen to him talk about educating the people with ethics.
Huo Yan didn't know what the others heard, but he was so focused on hearing the most basic words of all: cherishing life and loving the people.
The gentleman talked a lot about governing by virtue, and every word he wrote was innovative, but how could an emperor with great power be restrained by the empty sky? So in the end, he was just putting a Confucian facade on the laws that fooled the people.
As a defender of feudal monarchy, how much of your words today are for the millions of people under you, and how much are they for the political revenge you have put in over the years?
Huo Yan thought about it carefully and realized that they all existed.
The curtain was blown up by the wind. He raised his head, put down the bamboo slips, took a breath of air, and suddenly looked into Dong Zhongshu's eyes, which were full of fine lines.
Dong Zhongshu looked at the little boy who was sitting at the end of the table and blending in with the crowd through a thin veil.
It looks like it's going to rain.
Dong Zhongshu also saw this and dispersed the crowd.
Huo Yan also stood up, but was stopped by a voice.
"That kid from the Wei family, please stop walking."
Huo Yan stopped walking.
Maybe it was because he was thanking Huo Yan for interrupting him last time or for something else, but Dong Zhongshu always liked to keep the kid a little longer.
Or they would offer him a cup of juice, ask him some strange questions, or invite him to take a walk in the mountains and forests to see the plum blossoms together.
Today, he kept Huo Yan as usual and invited him to listen to the rain.
There has been little rain in Chang'an since the beginning of autumn, and today there were only a few scattered drops of rain.
Huo Yan sat with him on the corridor, wrapping himself tightly in his fur coat.
"Little boy from the Wei family, can you hear the sound of rain?"
Dong Zhongshu spoke softly and asked after drinking the healing decoction.
Huo Yan curled his lips. "What a lunatic! It's freezing cold, and the old man and the child together aren't as strong as Liu Che alone. What's the point of getting soaked in the rain? Are you dissatisfied with his recovery too quickly, or is he dissatisfied with his current normality?"
"I only heard the muddy sound of Mr. Dong's lungs. If the wind blows today, maybe I won't be able to see Mr. Dong when it rains next year."
Dong Zhongshu's smile deepened. He held out the ceramic cup filled with wine and let the water from the eaves fall down drop by drop. He seemed to be tilted, and those water drops either brushed against the eaves of the cup and splashed up, or missed him.
"Do you remember that your nickname is Ah Yan?"
Huo Yan nodded and moved the ceramic cup so that the water dripped into the bowl. The dripping sound was like breaking jade.
"You can still call me the Wei family's son."
I'm not that familiar with him, his name is Ayan.
Dong Zhongshu shook his head. "If you put my lamp back in its place, you won't be able to hear the clear sound of rain."
Huo Qubing said he was going to the newly purchased horse ranch to teach Huo Yan riding and archery today. Huo Yan was already anxious to get back, and hearing these pretentious words made him even more annoyed. He poured the water in the cup into the bowl and impatiently explained, "Rain is just water. Sound is produced by vibration. The sound of rain is mainly related to the vibration of bubbles caused by raindrops hitting the ground, water or other objects, and the falling rain. You can simulate the sound of rain, just like water falling into a pot. Understand?"
Dong Zhongshu did not expect that the promising young man he had his eyes on was also bewitched by this suddenly emerging scientific school, and was speechless for a moment.
Huo Yan suddenly had a good idea. He sat down obediently and refused to leave.
"Mr. Dong, Confucianism is a prominent school of thought, and you are its epitome. How can you let science steal the show? Why don't you start a journal, write a few articles, and challenge the scientific school to a challenge, so as to reduce their prestige and promote the development of Confucianism?"
The scientific school has truly made progress when it can compete with Confucianism and Dong Zhongshu.
Even if you can't win, you can still become famous and let more people know about it.
Dong Zhongshu narrowed his eyes, looked at him for a moment, and suddenly smiled.
"Little Ayan, being smart is a good thing, but don't be too conceited and treat others like fools."
He stroked his beard and put the bowl back in its place.
"Let me make a deal with you."
The real purpose is revealed.
What he wanted was Huo Yan, or rather the most promising child among the emperor's relatives personally trained, to cheer for Confucianism after his death.
Huo Yan also laughed.
"Mr. Dong says I'm conceited about my intelligence, but since I'm so intelligent, why can't I treat you like fools?"
He poured out the water in the cup. His eight-year-old son had a calm demeanor and clear eyes.
"Mr. Dong, I don't think you are qualified to discuss business with me."
Because the Confucianism that you have worked so hard to promote is more afraid of this bowl of nameless water than anyone else.
So don’t tell lies to bluff people.
【Author’s words】
A Yan: There is no school of thought that can be established without conflict.
The Four Sentences of Hengqu refers to the famous saying of Zhang Zai, a great scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, namely: "Establish a mind for heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the lost knowledge of the ancient sages, and bring peace to the world for all generations."
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