At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 264

The storm is approaching, and the wind is blowing.

The concentration of water vapor in the air is extremely high, which makes people feel suffocating and oppressive.

Rolling dark clouds enveloped the entire Forbidden City, and Xiao Weizhen became more determined in his belief that this was the wrath of the heavens, in order to punish the Academy of Sciences for its disrespect to the heavens and the earth.

Zhu Qizhen looked at the righteousness on the faces of these people, although it was funny, there was a burst of embarrassment in his heart.

The Academy of Sciences compiled the encyclopedia in the hope of promoting the development of natural science.

At this time, Daming was in the transition stage from traditional Confucianism to new science. He did not expect everyone to learn these popular science knowledge, but hoped that there would be some people who dared to question, and then through practice, to prove these things in the book.

As long as some people in this world are willing to accept the spirit of scientific demonstration, then the purpose of this book will be achieved.

However, encouraging you to question and experiment is not to let you risk your life!
Click!

There was a blast of thunder in the sky, it seemed to be right next to the ear, and it made people's eardrums hurt.

Zhu Qizhen sighed, and said: "Why bother Xiao Qing, in fact, you can find live animals such as cattle and sheep to do experiments instead, there is no need to risk yourself!"

What he said was out of good intentions, he didn't want to see a living person being struck to death by lightning like this, he couldn't bear it.

However, Xiao Weizhen didn't think so.

He asked to conduct a personal experiment outside the hall, in addition to breaking the deception of the Academy of Sciences, there is another reason, which is to rectify the names of scholars.

The emperor launched a new policy, and severely suppressed the former scholars. Although some people did have corruption, bribery, or abuse of power, these people deserve to die.

But, you can't beat everyone to death with a stick, right?
In the past 2000 years, the Four Books and Five Classics, Confucianism governing the country, why did they suddenly become dross in the Zhengtong Dynasty?

He couldn't accept this fact, so he needed to prove it to the emperor and everyone!
The principles of the way of heaven cannot be disobeyed by ordinary people.

Even if you are the son of heaven, you must obey the will of heaven.

If you behave like an emperor, the heavens must warn you.

However, now that you attribute all these to natural phenomena, don't you mean that what happens in the future is the result of nature, and from now on, there will be no unethical talk?
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for him to back down at this time.

Seeing the emperor's words of dissuasion, he became more determined in his heart.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. This veteran reads the books of sages and sages. He has cultivated virtue all his life. Why should he be afraid of it? If today is a day of righteousness and death, it can be considered as a contribution to the scientific development of Ming Dynasty. There will be no regrets in this life!"

Say it, and laugh out loud.

However, this smile was full of disdain.

In his mind, all these things made by the Academy of Sciences are fallacies and heresies that mislead people's children.

Several Hanlins behind him followed up and said: "Please be a witness with the emperor's own eyes. I will not destroy this demon book today. I am ashamed to be a disciple of a saint!"

At this time, two figures rushed over, they were the cabinet ministers Cao Nai and Zhang Yi.

Seeing this scene, the two couldn't help laughing bitterly.

Although Cao Nai didn't know how to draw thunder, he knew that it was very dangerous to do so.

Those people in the Hanlin Academy, when you were young, didn't your mother tell you not to stand under a big tree when it rains?
This is the most basic common sense in life, why are you still flying a kite?

The two of them shouted from a distance: "Everyone, stop making trouble, it's going to rain!"

Xiao Weizhen was even more excited when he saw the Chief Assistant of the Cabinet coming.

"Cao Gong, Zhang Gong, I invite you two to be witnesses today, and take a look at how ridiculous that nonsense book is!"

Boom!

At this moment, there was another thunderclap.

Immediately afterwards, torrential rain poured down.

Everyone outside the main hall was immediately drowned.

Xiao Weizhen suddenly burst out laughing, pointed to the sky, and shouted: "Cao Gong, Zhang Gong, have you seen that the sky thunder is high above, and a copper wire just wants to lure the sky thunder. How ridiculous!"

Belin and others from the Academy of Sciences stood aside, keeping a certain distance from these lunatics, their faces sinking like water, as if they were facing an enemy.

It is precisely because they are engaged in scientific research, of course they know that any experiment has a probability of success.

Regarding the thunder and lightning experiment, they have personally operated it, but not every time they can succeed.

If you can't attract Tianlei today, it stands to reason that there is nothing strange about it.

It's just that under the current situation, telling the people of the Imperial Academy that the experiment may fail seems completely unconvincing.

The thunder sounded again and again, the dark clouds became lower and lower, and lightning flashed from time to time.

And that huge kite has already started to float into the low clouds.

Seeing this, Cao Nai shouted anxiously: "Dangerous, quickly untie the copper wire, if you have anything to say, go into the hall and say it!"

Xiao Weizhen obviously had no intention of backing down at all, and shouted: "Don't Cao Gong see it? Recently, the heavens have issued frequent warnings. It is because there are traitors in the court, the emperor frequently kills ministers, and fights everywhere. The people are miserable. This is the emperor's mistake." As a result of believing the traitor, the contents of these books are deviant and evil, and they are clearly trying to overthrow the foundation of the country. If the traitor is not punished and the original is clear, a catastrophe is at hand. I implore the emperor to think twice..."

cool!

A sudden thunder sounded, interrupting Xiao Weizhen's long speech.

All of a sudden, the kite that had penetrated into the clouds burst into flames!
It turned out to be the lightning in the clouds, when it came into contact with the copper piece in the kite, everyone felt their eyes light up, and a flash of lightning flashed in the air like a silver snake.

In an instant, the sky was illuminated suddenly!
Everyone looked at the sky in shock, and a clearly visible electric current instantly lit up the copper wire.

The huge electric current is also as bright as day.

And at this moment, Xiao Weizhen was still shouting: "Please think twice, Your Majesty..."

The electric current drawn by the thunder quickly penetrated his body like a silver snake.

Then, the second, the third...

In an instant, all the Hanlins with copper wires on their bodies trembled and foamed at the mouth.

There was a foul smell in the heavy rain, and the hair, beard, skin, and clothes of these people were all burnt.

The whole process took less than a second, and it was over before everyone had time to react.

The rest of the Imperial Academy backed away in fright, did it really attract thunder?

Cao Nai and Zhang Yi looked at each other, they didn't know what to do, so they had to cast their eyes on Belin, as if they were asking, are they dead?
Bellin yelled, "Break the copper wire in his hand first!"

However, these people were afraid that their death would not be miserable enough, the copper wires were tightly wrapped around their bodies, and the kites were still swaying in the clouds, which could trigger a second thunderstorm at any time!

Fan Zhong witnessed the power of the thunder with his own eyes, worried that he would hurt the emperor, he drew a steel knife from a guard, and shouted: "Get out of the way!"

Belin hastily dissuaded: "Don't!"

(End of this chapter)