Chapter 2567 Almost blinded His Majesty the Tang Emperor
When roasting this thing, you must pay attention to controlling the heat. When you eat it, the feeling is, haha... People who have eaten it say it is good.
Just like now, Li Ke, His Highness the King of Wu, was standing by, urging the baker to give him more ingredients.
Cheng Chubi shook his head in disgust, turned his face, and looked at the team passing a little way ahead, as well as the direction of Dingding Gate, which was four or five miles away in a straight line to the northeast.
"Don't stay away, if His Majesty sees us young people appreciating such a happy event as the sacrifice of prisoners in the ancestral temple in an improper way.
Instead, we take the opportunity to have a picnic, do you think it’s appropriate?”
Chai Lingwu on the side was chewing the sizzling and oily pork belly viciously, and nodded in deep agreement.
"It's true. Today, the ancestral temple is offering prisoners, and Your Majesty has specially given a holiday to all the government offices.
We, a group of brothers, just took this opportunity to secretly have a picnic, so it’s better to stay far away.”
Li Siwen wiped his mouth with grease, put down the bamboo stick in his hand, and sighed with some regret.
"But in this case, we can only look at these prisoners, and we can't see the big scene clearly."
Cheng Chubi saw a few brothers complaining and laughed. "What are you so anxious about? I'll let you take a look here. I'll definitely give you a real look."
"Cheng Fa, Cheng Da, you go over there and get those two boxes."
After a short while, a wooden box was placed in front of him. Cheng Sanlang opened the wooden box, took out a long leather case from inside and raised it.
"Come on, come on, brothers, please wipe your hands quickly, each with a telescope.
Wouldn’t it be nice for us brothers to enjoy such a grand scene while drinking wine and eating meat?”
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The second brother, Cheng Chuliang, saw the thing and quickly put the rice intestines in his mouth into his mouth. He sighed and raised his hand to take one.
After opening the leather case, a telescope was revealed inside, which was an upgraded eight-fold telescope.
He happily picked it up and started looking in the direction of the Dingding Gate.
"Oh, you are worthy of being the third child. You have thought carefully. Brothers, you can still see clearly with this thing..."
As the purity of glass is getting higher and higher nowadays, the clarity of these telescopes is also becoming clearer.
And as a handheld telescope, the 8x telescope is absolutely outstanding.
After Li Zhen also picked up a telescope, he saw that Cheng Sanlang didn't take it himself, but ran to another box and opened it.
An iron tripod was pulled out from inside and placed on the ground.
"Hey, brother Chubi, what are you doing?"
"Haha, this is my new twenty-fold telescope."
Cheng Chubi proudly dug out of the box and took out an object lens with two exaggeratedly large objective lenses on the front.
At the back is a telescope leather case that is about the same size as the eyepiece of a monocular telescope.
After unhooking the leather case, the shiny and yellow thing inside was revealed, which instantly attracted everyone's attention.
"Brother Chu Bi, what the hell are you doing?"
“This thing is called a binocular, and it was still a test product before.
It took a lot of effort to get a high-magnification one, and I brought it here today to open the eyes of all the brothers."
"Like the eight-fold mirror in your hands, this one is a twenty-fold mirror."
"Twenty times magnification, binoculars...Brother Chu Bi, come on, let me have a taste of it first..." Li Ke squeezed up immediately.
"You're in a hurry, wait a minute. I haven't finished installing it yet. This thing weighs almost ten kilograms. Don't your hands feel sore holding it?"
Cheng Chubi couldn't help but rolled his eyes and patted the treasure in his hand, which was made of solid copper.
I am both happy and sad at the same time. What is happy is that a new telescope with a lens exceeding eight times has finally been developed. What is sad is that there are no engineering plastics these days.
There was no other light yet strong material, so without any other choice, Cheng Chubi finally decided to continue using copper as the mirror body of the telescope.
So we created such a good treasure that can watch enemies from a distance and kill them up close.
A group of friends gathered around and saw Cheng Sanlang carefully placing the object on the tripod.
Cheng Chubi squinted his eyes forward, and then began to adjust the angle until he adjusted his observation position to behind the tower of Dingding Gate.
Cheng Chubi finally grinned. However, before he could shout proudly, he felt his shoulders tighten.
"Third brother, get out of the way. Second brother, I have only seen one-eyed babies, but I have never seen a baby with two eyes like this. Let me see first..."
"..." Cheng Chubi looked at his arrogant and unreasonable second brother, with a black look on his face, and asked, what can we do?
"Oh, my dear, third child, third child, I can actually see my father's facial features clearly. This, hey, hey, hey..."
"Second brother, can you please stop doing it? This thing can only be placed here for viewing, and cannot be used. Once you use it, it will shake easily and you can't see clearly at all..."
"That's it, second brother, please go ahead. Brother, I didn't even look at it. I just let you look at it first. You actually took advantage of it..."
"..." Cheng Chubi stood in front of the binoculars with brackets, maintaining order, feeling a bit like a child.
At the zoo, the conductor who showed slides of various animals through a telescope received a group of fat and strong children who were squeezing around.
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The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, surrounded by the ceremonial guards and the important civil and military officials of the Tang Dynasty, stood on the tower of Dingding Gate looking extremely majestic and looking forward to his majesty.
At this moment, as the prisoner-offering team got closer and closer, Li Shimin tilted his eyes to the side as if he was aware of it.
I always feel that there is something wrong on the hillside not far away, there seems to be a light, or something is moving towards this way.
After all, even if there are a large number of people watching the ancestral temple's prisoner presentation ceremony, most of them are crowded on both sides of the road.
But on the hillside over there, there were at least dozens of people gathered, just to watch the prisoner presentation ceremony.
But there seemed to be a few bonfires there, causing streaks of green smoke to rise into the sky.
Li Shimin raised his hand to summon Zhao Kun. After muttering a few words in a low voice, Zhao Kun handed over a telescope in a short time.
Li Shimin raised his head in front of his eyelids and aimed his big head at the high slope accurately, and then he saw a scene that he would never forget.
On the slope, there were about a dozen familiar figures standing, one after another with telescopes, all aiming towards this direction.
And as those telescopes swayed, reflecting the sunlight from the sky, the dazzling flash almost blinded His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in an instant.