Cub Nursery

The baby got on the train with the wolfhound.

On the shelf above the seat, there are many wooden boxes, which contain things prepared by Yan Xun and Jing Fengye, as well as things prepared by the cubs, and even the babies who were stopped at the camp in the border town and came alone The things given by the Taoist soldiers who made the apology, and the things prepared by Brother Huan and the others.

It can be said that although the baby is the smallest, he brought back the most things this time.

Yan Xun was gearing up to prepare, and brought the cubs to the outer city wall again.

The Taoist soldiers around the wooden shed were no longer the original wave, they were still armed with live ammunition, and their eyes were piercing. Even when they noticed Yan Xun and others coming, they didn't move at all.

They had to keep an eye on the monster inside, even if the monster didn't seem to run away, they still had to keep an eye on it. After all, no one could be sure if the monster was pretending now.

Flame Cub opened the iron box and showed Yan Xun the form that the baby helped to record yesterday.

Yan Xun looked at the form and asked, "Is there any movement at the Observation Tower?"

"My lord, yes." A Taoist soldier hurriedly said.

"Let me have a look." Yan Xun stretched out his hand.

Dao Bing immediately handed over a stack of blank paper.

Yan Xun stared at it for a while, then relaxed and said, "From the Observation Tower, one of the monsters has been found missing, but... only looking around the hillside, not far away, we are still safe now."

"From this, we can speculate that there are two possibilities. Either the overall intelligence of this group of monsters is very high, and they choose not to continue looking for their lost companions without a specific goal; or the group's IQ is very low, and they don't know that they should go further away. Looking for a companion." The flower tree cub said.

"Well, there are two directions for future observation and research. I will write a charter and send it to the Observation Tower." The black and white cub hurriedly said.

Seeing that the cubs were already busy, Yan Xun walked over and squatted in front of the cage, observing the monster he was trying to catch.

The black body seems to be a bit light-absorbing, reflecting very little light, and the eyes are large and pitch-black, almost integrated with the head, and it is impossible to distinguish them at all.

The two tentacles shake slightly from time to time, Yan Xun found that the frequency of the shaking of the tentacles is different.

The monster finally noticed that Yan Xun was coming, and it couldn't move freely, so it turned to look at Yan Xun, and opened its mouth.

Yan Xun understood, opened the can of braised pork, took out a little bit and put it into the monster's mouth.

The monster ate slowly, and the surrounding atmosphere was very calm.

"My lord, there is a big gland in the monster's abdomen, which stores a lot of strong acid, and it is connected to the spikes on the tail." The flower tree cub drew a blueprint he guessed and showed Yan Xun, "I guess this should be a monster. The attacking organs, the teeth are more suitable for biting things, and the claws are extremely powerful, but not sharp."

Yan Xun looked at the drawing for a while and asked, "What about the IQ test?"

"The IQ is very low, and they hardly have the ability to think for themselves, and the reaction is not fast." Huashu Cub said.

It is precisely because of this that the cubs consider the wisdom of the crowd.

Some organisms do not appear to be intelligent individually, but group intelligence is not simple, and no one has even been able to decipher the nests created by certain groups so far.

"IQ is very low, but I really like to eat braised pork." Yan Xun touched his chin and asked, "Have you tested everything that needs to be tested?"

"En." The flower tree cub nodded.

On the premise of not harming the monster, everything that can be tested has been tested.

"How about we let it out and try?" Yan Xun suggested.

"That needs to be discussed in the long run." The flower tree cub said, "My lord, let's first go to the outer city wall to enclose a piece of land, transport the cage there, then open it, and then observe..."

"If there is no aggressiveness, it can be domesticated." Yan Xun added.

Regarding the method of domestication, although no one has domesticated monsters until now, there are bloodthirsty fish monsters by the sea, which is similar to domestication.Thousands of years ago, when human beings were just enlightened, wolf dogs were still human's enemies and cannibals. Later, they were not domesticated bit by bit, until now they have become human's friends.

Not only cubs know this, even ordinary people can tell one, two, five.

Immediately doing what he said, Yan Xun led the flame cubs and the black and white cubs back, and specially burned pieces of flat and huge glass.

Now the abilities of the black and white cubs and flame cubs have improved again. Before, it would be a little difficult to get a whole piece of glass, but now they can make several pieces of that big glass in one go.

The thick glass can even prevent bullets, and in order for the monster to dig a hole and escape, Yan Xun is going to lay steel plates below.

Hei Xiong and others came in handy again, all wearing battle robes, cotton boots on their feet, and hats on their heads, and the Taoist soldiers came running one by one.

"Come out with me to dig a hole." Yan Xun said, pointing to the iron shovel piled up at the base of the wall.

"Yes!" The black bear and the Taoist soldiers agreed abruptly.

There was no agricultural tool like a shovel before, and hoes and dustpans were basically used for digging.Rich people are willing to make iron hoes, and poor people basically use stone or wood chip hoes.

The fields before the border town were completely deserted, and there were no farm tools, but the Taoist soldiers knew what farm tools were like in other places.

At that time, when Yan Xun took out the shovel and improved the plow, many people were dumbfounded.

The shovel uses a wooden handle, and the front piece is thin iron. The front part is a bit oval, like a blade. It is easy to dig down as long as you dig down a little, and there is a special place to step on it with your feet.

These agricultural tools are all Yan Xun's, and they are all piled up in the warehouse. Hei Xiong used them when he dug the canal, and he couldn't put it down.

Now the black bear happily carried the shovel and went out through the small gate.

Yan Xun made a circle with the lime, and Hei Xiong immediately asked the Taoist soldiers under him to dig.

Now that they are all wearing battle robes, they don't have to worry about the poison in the demon country, they are all full of energy.And there is a sour feeling that I can finally dig in the territory of the demon country without being affected.

Although it is not far from the outer city wall, the men still have a different kind of surge in their hearts.

"Do you think we can enclose this land in the future and turn it into our Daqin's land?" a Taoist soldier whispered.

"That's not necessarily true." Hei Xiong said, "The outer city wall is not that simple. It is a treasure left over from hundreds of years ago. Monsters can't dig it from the ground, they can only cross it from above."

The outer city walls are all made of boulders, and no one knows whether it is hollow or filled with something.No one even knows who built the outer city wall and how it was built.

Yan Xun has researched it, but he only knows that the cuts of the huge stones used for the outer city wall are very flat and tightly fitted, and between the two huge stones, not even a strand of hair can get in, and even dust cannot get in.

The city wall is too thick, as to whether it is hollow or filled with something, Yan Xun has not studied it thoroughly.

"My lord, what do you think?" Hei Xiong turned his head and asked Yan Xun.

Yan Xun smiled and said, "No one can say for sure."

The border between the Yao Kingdom and Daqin has never changed. Almost every year, monsters from the Yaoguo invade. It is because Daqin can only protect itself, but the situation will always change.

Hei Xiong and the others didn't think about what Yan Xun said, they took the shovel and dug a shovel full of soil, it was too easy, so they had time to talk.

After digging the shallow pit, Yan Xun led the black bear to fight out the flat steel plates one by one.

The large pieces of glass on the top need to be spliced ​​together, and the triangle steel bars are used to glue them together. The entire cage also has thick steel bars as the frame and keel.

Because of the large number of people, and for Taoist soldiers, these tasks are not tiring at all, but because the cubs did not come out when assembling the keel, only Yan Xun and Jing Fengye were busy, so it was a bit slow.

Finally the huge cage was built, Yan Xun looked at it with satisfaction, and asked Hei Xiong and others to bring the monster out.

Putting the iron cage into the glass cage, Yan Xun opened the mechanism at the door, calculated that the effect of the medicine had passed, and hurriedly looked over.

The monster in the cage gradually gained strength. It stood up and shook its body violently, its tentacles swayed slightly, and slowly came out of the iron cage, and circled in the big cage outside.

Yan Xun and Jing Feng went up to the city wall at night and watched with binoculars.

"Master Yan wants to tame that monster?" Yang Qiong came over carelessly, poked her head under her eyes, and without a telescope, looked at Yan Xun sideways.

On the surface, Yang Qiong was still confronting Yan Xun, so she came here on purpose to ask questions.

"En." Yan Xun casually responded, holding the binoculars and continuing to look.

"I think the iron cage is very strong, and it can be used for other purposes, why is it wasted there?" Yang Qiong sneered, "Could it be that Mr. Yan is rich and powerful, so he doesn't like the iron cage?"

Before Yan Xun built the steel-making furnace, iron was very precious in the Great Qin Dynasty. Most people used wood for whatever they did, and only a few royal family and nobles had enough iron. Even so, the smelting technology was still not good.

The iron cage placed outside the outer city wall does not rust, is extremely heavy, and has strong toughness and hardness. It is the steel with the best formula researched by the cubs.

Even if the steelmaking furnace has never stopped, there are pieces of steel ingots being pushed out by wooden carts every day, but the steelmaking furnace has only been around for a long time, and most of the steel ingots have been used by Yan Xun, and very little steel flows elsewhere.

In Yan Xun's eyes, such an iron cage may not be a big deal, but to Yang Qiong and others, the iron cage is not only used for other purposes, but it is also very good for making kitchen knives, spears, arrows, etc. up.

At this moment, in Yang Qiong's eyes, there was a bit of Yan Xun's reckless condemnation.

"Of course the cage wasn't released for nothing." Yan Xun laughed, "May I ask General Yang, do you sleep in the same place every night on weekdays?"

Yang Qiong didn't react for a while, and nodded subconsciously.

He is a young general defending the city, so he naturally has his own resting place, and it is a separate room with complete beds and so on. If he doesn't go there to sleep, can he go to sleep elsewhere?

"This bed is like the cage I gave the monster. As long as he is willing to go back to sleep in the cage, the first step of domestication will be completed." Yan Xun talked eloquently, "But even if the monster doesn't take the initiative to go back, I will Feed it in a cage and get that monster into that habit."

"Can this work?" Yang Qiong always felt that it was too whimsical.

Yan Xun didn't continue to argue, but started talking about something else, "Little General Yang has seen Tulong?"

"Of course." Yang Qiong nodded.

Earth dragons are earthworms in the soil. Ordinary people have seen them. People like Yang Qiong have been playing with earth since he was very young, and even played with earth dragons.

"Does General Yang think that Tulong has brains?" Yan Xun asked again.

Yang Qiong shook her head, "That thing can be cut into two pieces to become two earth dragons, how could it have a brain."

"Yeah, earth dragons have no brains, can't think, can't think about things." Yan Xun touched his chin and said, "But I let the cubs do an experiment, and the cubs dug an earth dragon and put it in a box , there is a fork in the road ahead, there is food at the end of one road, and there is... danger at the end of the other road."

This experiment was taught by Yan Xun when he was teaching the cubs, and all the cubs completed it together.

The earth dragon has to crawl forward if it wants to eat. As long as it climbs to a dangerous direction, the thunder cub will stretch out its fingers to discharge electricity, lightly shock the earth dragon, and the earth dragon will tremble immediately, and then go to another direction. Got something to eat.

Once or twice, ten or twenty times, or hundreds of times, the probability of the earth dragon going to a dangerous place or a place with food is still the same.

This seems to prove that the earth dragon does not have a brain and cannot think.

At that time, Thunder Cub thought the same way, and told Yan Xun about his conjecture.

At that time, Yan Xun didn't say anything, and let the thunder and lightning cubs continue.

After [-] times, the frequency of the earth dragon going to dangerous directions becomes less. After [-] times, the earth dragon hardly goes to dangerous places. After [-] times, the earth dragon no longer goes to dangerous places. Direction, go directly to the direction of food.

Yan Xun smiled and said, "The earth dragon can be 'domesticated', let alone that monster with a little brain."

"This..." Yang Qiong couldn't imagine how the earth dragon would become 'smart'.

He looked at Yan Xun's confident face, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, or that people are different, some people are born dull, even if they work hard, they may not be enlightened, while some people are born He is blessed by nature, and someone like Yan Xun is nothing more than a genius.

"Little General Yang, how about we make a bet? Bet on whether I can tame that monster." Yan Xun said with a smile.

Yang Qiong hurriedly took a step back, and said angrily, "The result is obvious, I don't dare to bet."

After finishing speaking, Yang Qiong simply went back to rest, seeing the room where she usually rested, always felt awkward, and easily thought of the iron cage outside.Yang Qiong said those words that Yan Xun said, he always felt that he was trying to run on him on purpose, but it happened that he picked up the words and asked Yan Xun to continue.

"Hey." Yang Qiong sighed, and simply went to rest in the room where other Taoist soldiers rested.

He became a little general at a young age, his cultivation is the best among his peers, and his ability to lead troops is not to mention. He thinks that his intelligence is not bad, and he is also a student of the Imperial College. He is the proud son of heaven. However, meeting someone like Yan Xun, it seems that he has no wisdom at all.

"My lord." Jing Fengye moved a charcoal stove to the city wall, and took an iron pot to boil water.

When Yan Xun spoke, the water boiled, Jing Fengye took out a few more teacups, made scented tea with hot water, and took out a pack of snacks.

Just when Yan Xun finished speaking, Jing Fengye brought tea and snacks over.

"Good tea." Yan Xun said deliberately after taking a sip of tea.

Occupying the room where his subordinates rested, Yang Qiong, who was regretting that she was being led by the nose by Yan Xun, just heard this sentence, and her face instantly became extremely ugly.

Yang Qiong turned over bitterly, thinking that next time she would not let Yan Xun run on her a few times.

Obviously their relationship on the surface is incompatible, tit for tat, how can I be suppressed and beaten by Yan Xun?

Yan Xun rested temporarily, Jing Fengye picked up the binoculars and looked down.

After a while Jing Fengye said: "My lord, it has returned to its cage to rest."

"Okay!" Yan Xun said, "Let the black bear deliver some braised pork, let him know that only in the cage can he eat braised pork, then give him some other food to try, and study what he eats."

Domestication is a skill passed down by our ancestors for thousands of years, and the smarter one is, the easier it is to domesticate, but the more accidents are likely to happen, the more cautious you need to be.

Step by step, as long as the road is not wrong, you will succeed in the end.

These days Yan Xun often came to stay on the city wall, and the Taoist soldiers guarding the city changed a group.

When Yan Xun talked to Yang Qiong a few times, Yang Qiong was very vigilant, and he didn't even have to talk to him, just said a few words and left every time.Yan Xun smiled and said nothing, Yang Qiong was restrained.

When the train arrived in the capital, many people saw it, and thought that Yan Xun had returned this time, but no one saw Master Yan appearing.

Some people asked if something happened to Yan Xun, and people like Wang Zhen'er rode an iron donkey directly to the nursery hall to find the cubs.

The osmanthus tree outside the concrete building of the Conservation Hall is tall and resting. The scent of osmanthus is endless, fragrant but not greasy, and the luxuriant branches and leaves reveal vitality.The baby came back riding the small railway, parked the little iron donkey, and ran into the house to find a pen and paper, ready to write.

Wang Zhen'er led a group of young brothers who also came riding on iron donkeys and knocked on the door.

The baby heard it and hurried to open the door.

"Master Xiaodan?" Wang Zhen'er looked surprised, and hurriedly cupped his hands at the baby.

The baby seldom meets them. He is always on the lookout on weekdays. It is said that he is often busy investigating cases. He is a good helper of Dali Temple and is busy with serious business.

"Everyone, please come in." The baby hurriedly cupped his hands.

After entering the room, Wang Zhen'er asked, "I wonder if Lord Yan is back this time?"

"Father didn't come back." Baby said, "Only I came back. My dad and brothers are busy. What's the matter, Brother Zhen? You can tell me if you have something to do. Dad said I can also make the decision. "

Wang Zhen'er and these little brothers are all from their own family, and they sneer at the internal conflicts in the nursery hall speculated by the outside world. They often see the cubs, so they naturally know whether they have conflicts.

And the baby's identity is special, for those outside who speculate maliciously, the identity is very useful, Wang Zhen'er naturally knows it.

"Master Xiaodan, we really have something to do." Pei Yu'er smiled, "We want to talk to the gentlemen of the Imperial College, and we want to visit the border town. Although the capital is prosperous, and the farmers in the surrounding villages rarely suffer, we students can't. I don’t know anything, I don’t ask anything, I don’t hear anything, so I want to go to the border town to have a look.”

If Yan Xun was present in this matter, he would definitely be in charge.

The baby dragged his chin with one hand and thought about it: "It's okay."

"Really?" Wang Zhen'er's eyes lit up.

Bao Bao nodded, "You are all my father's good friends, and you can help him with many things, so I can make the decision on this matter. Please go to the Guozijian gentlemen first, if it doesn't work, I will ask Mr. Zhou for help .”

"Success." Wang Zhen'er and Pei Yu'er looked at each other, knowing that this matter must be completed.

Even if the gentlemen of the Guozijian refused to nod, as long as Zhou Guang showed up, they would not dare not to nod.

After sending Wang Zhen'er and others away, the baby also went out.

He stood at the door and whistled, and the wolfhound came running quickly, its oily fur could reflect the light under the sun.

Let’s say that Yan Xun directly sentenced Huang Ting with the imperial decree of beheading first and playing later. The news was sent back to the capital immediately. The name was crossed out, and Ruan Er of the Ministry of War wanted to stop it, but Bei Qi went to the Yamen with witnesses and material evidence, and once again convicted Huang Ting.

This matter was like a wind blowing in the capital, everyone knew that Huang Ting had committed a serious crime, but they didn't know what the crime was, but the people in the capital still discussed it every day with great interest.

The matter didn't mention Qiu Bao at all, the emperor thought in his heart, no matter whether Qiu Bao was at fault or not, after all he was the one who grew up together, if Qiu Bao was made ashamed by Yan Xun, the emperor would lose face.

Because of Yan Xun's sense of humor, the emperor rewarded the Conservation Hall with a lot of things.

The babies and cubs received the reward from the emperor, and also sent a lot of cotton cloth produced in the border town to the eunuch.

Except that Huang Ting is destined to become a 'dead man' in this matter, everyone is happy.

On the third day after the baby came back, the second school of the Conservation School got a big hit.

Things start a month ago.

Zhou Guang came to the river to help Yan Xun manage all the workshops, got along with the cubs every day, and had a long-standing relationship. He happened to get a piece of gold, and asked the craftsmen to make small cubs according to the appearance of the cubs. The gold of the pudgy image of the cub.

The craftsman is an experienced craftsman, and the images of the cubs produced are not bad, and all the yellow and orange ones are very beautiful.

Zhou Ruizhi saw it and liked it very much. He suddenly thought of the new knowledge he learned in the school, so he said casually, "Father, why don't I show if the craftsmen are greedy for gold?"

When gold and copper are fused together, they are almost indistinguishable.

At that time, Zhou Guang didn't think too much, so he nodded.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Ruizhi borrowed the tools from the school laboratory to measure, and found that the craftsmen were not only greedy for gold, but also greedy a lot. He immediately told Zhou Guang, and with Zhou Guang's support, he went to the Yamen to recruit the craftsmen.

The craftsman complained, saying that Zhou Ruizhi, as Zhou Guang's son, bullied others and bullied poor people.

The craftsman's family members went outside and said that Zhou Ruizhi bullied others, and within a few days, everyone in the capital knew about it.When the baby came back by train, it was the time when the city was full of troubles.

"The reason why I said that is naturally there is a way." Zhou Ruizhi stood in the lobby of the yamen, said neither humble nor overbearing, "There are two ways to confirm, if you want to see, I will demonstrate it for you."

Naturally, everyone wanted to know the method, even the craftsmen shouted for Zhou Ruizhi to prove it.

So Zhou Ruizhi asked the students in the school to help, and moved the laboratory tools to the Yamen. He explained while experimenting on the spot: "The first kind is gold and copper of the same weight, but the volume is different. We can use the overflowing water to measure it. ...The second type is a little more troublesome, let me explain in detail..."

After some operations, people who understand are dumbfounded, and those who don't understand don't understand.