Urban Sims

Chapter 150 Science Prevails
Of the [-] pills of immortality, some of them were rewarded to his subordinates, and Zhou Ming himself took more than half.

Returning to the central island with these immortal pills, Zhou Ming took one pill every two weeks. After only three or four months, the effect was extremely obvious. He was middle-aged and his energy was declining, and he soon felt full of blood. Lost vitality, as if returning to the youthful twenties.

I gave this pill to my mother, Cui Shi, who already had half a head of white hair. After one month, all the white hair on my mother's head turned black, and the wrinkles on her face disappeared a lot.

There are also a few wives and concubines who are over forty years old, with dark yellow skin and crow's feet around their eyes. After taking a few pills of immortality, they often smile silly in front of the mirror and ask themselves: the beautiful snow that seems to have returned in the mirror Is the woman with thin skin really me?

Looking at Zhou Ming, who includes himself and his relatives who are constantly rejuvenating, he has never had such a novel game experience, and he feels for the first time: Although most of the time, the system in his brain is very fucked, but occasionally it will The surprise he had prepared still surprised him.

For example, this Brutal Pill may be a shocking Easter egg hidden by the system for him in this dungeon.

And this easter egg is really unbelievable and unbelievable.

However, Zhou Ming gradually got used to it. Things like "Hehuan San" and "Ghost Valley Gate" have already taught him how powerful this dungeon is, and it would be nothing unusual to have another "Beautiful Pill"... …At least, this is a good thing that can greatly prolong his lifespan. He is 60 years old. He doesn’t dare to hope that he can live for such a long time. He has passed this game, even if he only lives a hundred years old, Zhou Ming is sure that he can use the extra 90 years to earn tens of millions more achievement points.

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In the following ten years, Zhou Ming started his new strategic layout:

On the one hand, he continued to intensify the development of Penglai Immortal Territory, frantically recruiting immigrants and buying slaves from the mainland to fill the barren island.

Most of these immigrants are from the low-income and extremely poor people in Datang. Most of these immigrants left their homes and went to Wenguo overseas by boat with the purpose of having enough to eat, earning a lot of money, and going to the island to pan for gold. Since then, more than 98% of them choose Instead of returning to the mainland, I choose to live in a stable and wealthy overseas country and take root.

As for those slaves, it was also Zhou Ming who cooperated with the slave traders in Datang in private, exchanging the rich gold and silver resources of overseas Wenguo for alien slaves, a strong slave, bought at a high price of 500-800 silver coins or 50-90 gold coins , and slave traders, the cost of capturing these slaves is less than one-tenth of the purchase price.

Therefore, seeing the profits, the number of slave traders in the Tang Kingdom increased sharply. They frantically arrested foreigners from home and abroad. In more than ten years, a total of 600 million slaves were shipped to Wenguo overseas.

This kind of evil slave trade happened under the eyes of the Tang Dynasty, and the upper ruling class of the Tang Dynasty could not turn a blind eye, especially the Queen Wu Zhao, who heard the official report: Many people in the country were also cut off by those slave traders. Tongue, pretending to be a slave of a foreign race, and when it was sold to that overseas country, he became furious, mobilized a large army to search and arrest, severely beat up a group of slave traders, with more than a thousand heads, and announced the closure of the port and the country... It was only a period of time. To some extent, within a few days, the old man recovered, and the phenomenon of private slave trading became rampant again.

Later, it was Zhou Ming who took the initiative to send a diplomatic envoy to conduct an interview with Empress Wu Zhao, and put out a list of goods demand, saying that the overseas Wenguo wanted to establish free exchanges, equal and mutually beneficial diplomatic relations with Datang, and said that now The overseas Chinese countries lack the most things such as immigrants, slaves, and silk, while in Wen’s country, precious metals such as gold, silver and copper are available as much as they want. If the two countries can sign a trade agreement and conduct trade exchanges, each will get what it needs The exchange of what is needed is of great benefit to the economic development of the two countries.

Regarding this proposal, Wu Mei didn't even think about it at first, so she flatly rejected it. Overseas Wenguo, a remote and wild country, doesn't matter if you don't come to pay tribute and call yourself a barbarian. Don't establish "equality and mutual benefit" diplomatic relations?I really don't know how to live or die, I really want to send troops to destroy it!
It's just... When I think of the invincible army and the magical weapons in Wenguo's hands, why is it so sharp?In order to solve this mystery, several far-sighted officials stood up in the hall of the Tang Dynasty and persuaded Wu Zhao that it is better to falsely agree to establish diplomatic relations. Bing's core secret!
Prime Minister Di Renjie also said: The treasury of the Tang Dynasty is empty, and there is an urgent shortage of gold, silver and copper. If it can be obtained from the overseas Wenguo, it will also be beneficial to the national economy of the Tang Dynasty.

After thinking for a while, Wu Zhao agreed that the two countries would send diplomatic envoys to each other and establish formal diplomatic relations.

Therefore, since the fifth year of Wenguo, after the two countries officially established diplomatic relations, the economic and trade exchanges between Datang and overseas Wenguo have exploded in just a few years. According to statistics, within five years, it has increased by more than 500 times, reaching a scale of more than [-] million silver coins.

In the next few years, Wu Zhao's later life became more and more extravagant and corrupt. In order to satisfy her personal life enjoyment, she acquiesced to her family, colluded with the frontier generals, provoked several large-scale foreign wars, and arrested several Millions of captives of foreign races were all sold overseas to Wenguo, making a fortune. Although Wu Zhao knew very well that this was an act of helping the enemy and harming himself, the ultimate enjoyment of life was already in his eighties. At such an advanced age, Wu Zhao, who knew that he did not have two years to live, didn't want to think about it anymore: After she died, no matter how big the flood would be in the world.

On the other hand, Wu Zhao also chose to turn a blind eye to Tian Zihua's various actions in the Tang Dynasty using Zihua Bookstore to watch the changes, and even wanted to observe with great interest. Look, what kind of thing is the truth and holy way that Tian Zihua explained to her in that letter, "Supreme science and education, far surpassing Qumeng"?
And it is said that this thing called "the Holy Way of Science" is the person who has reached middle age and found that he has come to the end of the road of literature and Taoism, can't go any further, and can't reach the height of the two sages Qumeng Tian Zihua, intending to find another way, accidentally created a holy way after making many major discoveries in the field of investigating things and gaining knowledge.

After embarking on this path of holiness, Tian Zihua soon produced a lot of results, which were published through the newly added "Science" journal platform through Zihua Bookstore.

For example, in the first issue of "Science", Tian Zihua published "The Three Laws of Force", using the three classic laws of mechanics, the law of inertia, the law of acceleration, and the law of action and reaction, to point out all the phenomena of motion in this world. , can use these three laws for anatomical analysis.

The second issue of the "Science" journal published "Principles of Chemistry", which contained more dry goods, introduced countless chemical reaction phenomena, and proposed the atomic theory. Wu Zhao even saw it in it, and she sent The proportion of black powder that cannot be figured out is very clear right here. Where is the reaction equation, Wu Zhao immediately ordered someone to find charcoal, saltpeter and sulfur, and do it according to "Principles of Chemistry" After several experiments, the master craftsmen in charge of solving the mystery of black powder burst into tears. The mystery of black powder that could not be solved for several years was solved so effortlessly.

The third issue of the "Science" journal published "The Effects of Light". In addition to comprehensively introducing the phenomena of direct rays, refraction, scattering and diffraction of light, it also opened up people's new understanding of the microscopic world, because using these effects of light, Using glass lenses, telescopes and microscopes can see many things that the naked eye cannot see, such as cells in animals and plants, and billions of microorganisms in a glass of water, all of which are clearly visible and vivid.

There are also astronomical telescopes with extremely high magnifications for stargazing. Many mysterious celestial bodies that cannot be seen or resolved by the naked eye can be seen clearly in front of your eyes.

Wu Zhao received these two sets, and Tian Zihua personally presented her with a high-power microscope and a large astronomical telescope. She is old and dizzy with the microscope, so she can't see what the cells look like, but through the astronomical telescope, she can see that it is full of potholes. When the surface of Yeyue, as well as other planets, were extremely desolate, Wu Zhao was terrified, and the world view in his mind was almost completely subverted.

Every issue of "Science" since then, not only Wu Zhao's regular schedule, but also frowning and thinking, even when civil and military officials go to court, they can often hear the voice of discussion, and some officials even give her a play, Said that "Science" was too novel, subverted common sense, shaken the way of the two sages of Qu and Meng, and disturbed people's hearts. When it was fully seized, Wu Zhao just stayed in it and did not order to take action.

Of course Wu Zhao knew in his heart that something like "Science" was harmful to the dynasty's rule, not to mention that it directly corrected and subverted some of Qu Meng Ersheng's ideas and views, and some of the scientifically proven physical and chemical phenomena in nature , and also destroyed many theistic viewpoints. The more truths it reveals, the closer it is to the essence of the world. There are so many things, if you stick to it, you will kill yourself and take jujube pills.

For example, the idea of ​​"divine right of kings" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but after the publication of "Science", people will ask: Where is God?On the cratered moon?Or is it in the red-flame sun?Where is the Heavenly Palace?Where does God live?Why can't the telescope see it?
Wu Zhao understands this truth, and she also knows that it would be better to close the Zihua Bookstore as soon as possible, but she didn't do it because she is a disciple of Guigumen. For thousands of years, this hermit sect has been studying how to Fighting dragons, how to slay dragons, thought that the world was under their control, but when "Science" came out, Wu Zhao discovered that there are still some great ways in this world, which even the Ghost Valley Gate does not control.

Therefore, both Wu Zhao and Guigumen behind her want to study and study, to what extent the so-called "science" can dig out the essence of this world.

However, with the continuous release of the "Science" journal, especially the ninth issue of "Heliocentric Theory and the Earth's Circle", and the No. In the midst of the explosion, there were huge waves!

Many people can't accept that the boundless land under their feet is not infinitely vast, but a sphere with countless areas; there are also countless people who can't accept that human beings are evolved from close relatives of monkeys, apes, rather than gods. are the people of God.

Even though many people cannot accept these theories, they cannot categorically deny them: these inferences with a lot of scientific basis are not completely unreasonable. Although they cannot accept them for a while, but after careful consideration and some observations around them, These reasoning hypotheses of Tian Zihua are not all nonsense.

Especially when the No.15 issue of "Science" announced that the explorer Yang Junsong led the steam fleet to complete the voyage around the world, discovered the new continent, arrived in the countries in the far west, and proved the "theory of the circle of the earth". It seems that a magnitude [-] earthquake occurred in the intellectual circles of the Tang Dynasty. Countless literati and celebrities rushed to Wenguo overseas. After witnessing this steam fleet, they interviewed countless questions from the crew members around the world and learned what they wanted to know. everything of.

In the end, most of these literati and celebrities chose to stay in Wenguo, because this country has built a huge science city. In the science city, there is a "star observation tower" with a height of [-] floors, and a "book" with millions of books. There are also "museums", "animal and botanical gardens", "physical, chemical and biological laboratories", "science halls" that can accommodate [-] people, and "lecture halls" that can accommodate more than [-] people...Any intellectual who meets the academic qualifications wants to If you want to understand science in depth, you can become a member of this science city as long as you go through the admission procedures without paying any fees.

"Tian Zihua, do you really want to be sanctified by 'science'?"

Putting down the "Science" journal in his hand, Wu Zhao, who was ill in his later years and was bedridden for a long time, murmured that he was very surprised by Tian Zihua's ambition.

For thousands of years, two saints have been born on this land, and no one can surpass them. Wu Zhao never thought that in her lifetime, she would see the shadow of a third saint.

However, there is no holiday, and she will not live to that day to witness that Tian Zihua has truly become a saint.

Especially after Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi took his son Li Xian and some remnants of Li Zhou's royal family to take advantage of her serious illness to launch a dragon coup and imprison her in the palace, she could only lie on the bed waiting to die, playing a movie in her head What he generally thinks is that in his own life, in order to achieve the goal of ascending to the throne, all kinds of things he has done by any means, and all these things in exchange, are they worth it?
Wu Zhao remembered again, that Tian Zihua wrote to her husband Li Zhi, the four-character evaluation of "inner sage and outer king" in "Minghuang Benji", and then compared with herself, if she also asked Na Tian Zihua to come, what would she give to her? I wrote "The Empress's Book" by myself. I wonder if there will be a word of praise?
"Your Majesty, your merits and demerits will be judged by future generations. You can ascend to the highest throne and do things that no woman has been able to do for thousands of years, which is enough to prove your greatness and brilliance. As for this The darkness behind the light, the viciousness behind the greatness... People will no longer care about these processes and details, because only if you do it, you will be enough to leave your name in history."

Listening to these words coming from his ears, Tian Zihua, who came to her bedside without knowing when or through what channel, when she said these words, Empress Wu Zhao's body shook, she turned her head away, her eyes widened. With crystal tears in his eyes, he was speechless.

After a long time, she finally opened her mouth to explain: "After I die, there is no need to engrave words on the stele, merits and demerits are right and wrong, and future generations will judge..."

After finishing speaking, she turned to Zhou Ming again, with tears shining, "I have no complaints or regrets in my life..."

Zhou Ming nodded, seeing her two tears finally slipped down, her body relaxed, and when she left this world safely, she couldn't help sighing softly: This woman is not easy.

　Second update today, sorry for being late!
　　
　
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