Back at Sihai Palace, Taiyue was already waiting outside the palace door.
I waved for him to come in.
After sitting down, Taiyue took out two things and presented them to me: "Your Majesty, the telescope and sextant have been made."
"Oh? It's pretty fast. Show it to me." I excitedly took the two things, saying they were two things. In fact, the sextant was used in conjunction with the telescope, so it was considered one thing.
But when I took the sextant and studied it carefully, my face darkened instantly: "You call this bullshit a sextant?"
Just now, it looked like a sextant from a distance, but when I looked closer, Grandma, not only was the elastic clamp made of bamboo, but it couldn't even achieve the most basic side differences, index differences, and vertical differences! It's a bit unfair to him to say that it can't be realized, but this thing is like putting a car in gear. It can only be adjusted to a few fixed angles, so it doesn't matter!
Taiyue was stunned and said carefully: "Your Majesty, these are all made according to the drawings you gave..."
My head is spinning. After all, I paid by mistake...
"Look, the elastic clamp is made of bamboo! What's the situation like at sea? The sea breeze is humid and salty. Your bamboo will be rotten in a few days. Even if it is not rotten, the accuracy will be greatly reduced, and the moving mirror cannot be fixed. Really? And there’s this adjusting shaft. If I pull it with my hand, it will fly! And this drum, damn..."
I originally wanted to turn the drum and tell him that this thing should be fixed at a certain scale, but I didn't expect that the drum flew off when I exerted force. I was like, holy shit!
Taiyue looked at the drum that was clanking and rolling to her feet, and she was also confused. Is it appropriate to use such a precise instrument so violently?
I almost laughed angrily, looking at his expression, I laughed and cursed: "The sea is very rough and the ship will sway from side to side. Can this thing of yours withstand the swaying? If I go to sea with your rags, I guess no one will come back alive..."
Taiyue no longer knew how to answer. He originally tried it himself after finishing it. He felt that he was really a genius and could create such a precise instrument. But now it seems...
Taiyue blushed and said with shame, "Your Majesty, I am guilty!"
I put down the sextant and picked up the telescope to look at it. This one looked pretty decent. Although the magnification was not high, there was no problem in using it. It was just that the sealing was not very good.
"Forget it, it's hard for you. This telescope is pretty good. I didn't expect you guys to be good at polishing the glass. I just need to find a way to strengthen the seal when I go back, otherwise it will be easy for fog to enter. The sextant is indeed difficult, compared to the flintlock. The gun is even more complicated, I can’t blame you.”
Taiyue wiped her sweat, cupped her hands and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty! I will improve it carefully when I get back!"
I waved my hand: "Put away the sextant first. Go back and tell Gongshujin to find a way to improve the sealing of the telescope, and then mass-produce telescopes. I have given him the drawings, not only single-cylinder but also binoculars." It must also be made. As for the sextant..."
I have a headache. In the final analysis, everything they make now is just a castle in the air. They just copied the drawings I directly gave them and they don't know the principles at all. Take this sextant for example. If they understand the principle of how the sextant can determine latitude, they can easily find problems with several adjustment axes.
"Let's do this. You go back and tell Gongshu Jin that starting from tomorrow, after Shen Shimo has eaten, he will summon the core craftsmen to the Shantang in the palace, as well as your people, and I will give you lessons in person!" It seems that the only option is to I took action myself!
Taiyue's eyes widened and she was flattered. The emperor taught her in person. Who has such treatment?
He quickly stood up and saluted: "Thank you, Your Majesty, may your Majesty live forever!"
After Taiyue left, I wrote an edict.
"Qi Wan, hurry up and deliver this edict to Meng Tian!"
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One day later, Meng Tian received my order.
After reading it, he handed the edict in his hand to Xiqigu and said: "Xiqigu, please order people to immediately notify the people along the Great Wall to retreat from today!"
Xiqi Gu took a cursory glance at the edict and said, "Your Majesty actually agreed to the Huns' request for peace? In this case, we will face the Huns again."
Meng Tian stroked the long sword in his hand and said slowly: "The Huns' request for peace is a tactic to slow down the war. They and we all know it well. It is impossible for your Majesty not to see it. Since you agree to them, you must have a plan. If you confront them head-on, fight them head-on. After so many years, how could I, the general, be afraid of them!"
Xiqi Gu handed the edict back to Meng Tian and said in a cold voice: "The general has long been wondering why the Huns could find the weak points of the Great Wall so easily, and also knew the location of General Wu Jian's garrison, allowing Da Yuezhi to contain the cavalry. Unexpectedly, As expected, there are people in the North who are secretly colluding with the Huns, they are wolf-hearted people!"
Then he clasped his fists and said: "General, why don't I lead people directly along the Great Wall to check all the surrendered barbarians and Huns, as well as the merchants and passers-by, and we will always find some traitors! If we don't kill them, it will be a shame for our dead brothers. Revenge cannot satisfy the hatred in my heart!"
Meng Tian shook his head and stopped him: "No! His Majesty ordered us to retreat, and emphasized not to make it public. We must have discovered some clues. If we act rashly, we may alert the snake. Please act in accordance with His Majesty's order, and don't act on your own. Claim.”
Hearing this, Xiqi Gu said no more: "Then let's do it!"
News soon spread around the Great Wall bordering the Xiongnu: The Xiongnu’s old territory had been recovered by the Xiongnu from the Beihu. Although Da Qin negotiated peace with the Xiongnu, the two countries did not trade with each other, so they were closed for the day!
Just as Xiqi Gu wondered, when I heard that Mao Dun’s plan was so targeted, I immediately realized that there might be spies within Da Qin!
But I didn't ask them to check it out in a big way. It was almost certainly a businessman who passed the news on to them.
There are always only a few businessmen who are sensible and righteous, and there are more greedy people who dare to sell everything to gain profits. For example, among the eight major locust merchants in the Qing Dynasty, Fan Yongdou's family not only had no family and country in the world, but 400,000 people were killed in the Fenzhou massacre. Didn't his relatives from the same hometown among them not exist? But he still kept on amassing money, and was eventually executed by the Qing court. He actually hanged himself for profit!
It doesn't matter who the traitor is. Before the great meeting, the Xiongnu will disappear forever, and it will be easy to find those people by then.
The recent series of events have made me impatient to completely eliminate the Huns and conquer the Western Regions as soon as possible.
However, before the Huns put pressure on the Western Regions on my behalf, the Western Regions could no longer withstand it!
The next day, news came from Zhangye: The envoys from the Western Regions gave up their accompanying supplies and hurried back to the Western Regions. Only one person from each country was left waiting in Zhangye, begging to return to Xianyang for help!
