Chapter 40: The Dream of Landing on the Moon
Yu Ren patted the dust on his body and stood up from the ground. He said, "It's still a level 2, a pity, a pity."
Looking at Huang Han again, he was still standing there, staring blankly at the chair left in place and the stones tied to it.
Yu Ren walked up and carefully checked the chair surface. The junction between the four legs of the chair and the chair surface was all broken, and it was even more straightforward. This shows that the thrust of these four rockets is still quite large. If the chair surface is constantly on, Yu Ren believes that this stone will definitely be pushed up by these four rockets. It’s just that I don’t know how high it can be pushed.
"Don't be discouraged. This time it's not a failure. The main reason is that the chair is not firm enough. Next time, it's going to be a firmer chair. Maybe, we can try using iron to fix the chair surface firmly." Yu Ren untied the stone from the chair surface, and then took the chair surface to Huang Han.
While he said, he handed the fallen chair to Huang Han.
Huang Han took the chair to his hand and looked carefully at the sections of the four corners.
At this time, Huang Wu also came over. "Blame me. I took this chair from home. My fourth brother told me to find the most solid chair. I thought that since it was very stable on the ground, there must be no problem. But I didn't expect it to be broken so easily."
Yu Ren gently patted Huang Wu's shoulder. "Little brother, don't you think about it. These four rockets with such high thrust suddenly exerted their force upward at the same time. How big is the upward momentum? How can the chair be held in a bad shape?
However, I don’t understand one thing. What do you want to do this? Are you really planning to sit on this thing and fly to the sky one day?"
Huang Wu glanced at Huang Han who was still in a daze, and then said to Yu Ren in a low voice, "My fourth brother told us that it is actually possible to go up from heaven. As long as we keep working hard, maybe one day we can rely on this thing to send us to the moon.
There will definitely be no war on the moon, there will be no tax supervisors beating people or bullying the government. At that time, we can still bring my father, my mother and others to the moon to live together. How great it would be! We can plant rice on it, vegetables, and pigs on it. No one will compete with us in the land, and we don’t have to pay tax grains, so how good it would be."
Yu Ren sighed long. He did not laugh at the ridiculous ideas of the half-aged children in front of him. Everyone has a dream in his heart. No matter how ridiculous this dream is, it should be respected. Yu Ren admired their spirit of courage to explore the unknown, which made him realize for the first time: China, from ancient times to the present, has never lacked people who are brave enough to explore science. The ancient Chinese people have not all been born, but they are stubborn. They have their own ways to understand nature and explore nature. This exploration comes from their pursuit of dreams.
"Then, will you try again in the future?" Yu Ren asked softly.
"Yes, of course. When we had no money before, the fourth brother took us all to try our best. Now with this fifty tael of silver, of course we have to do even more." Huang Wu said firmly. "I plan to go to the moon to open a fifty acres of paddy field!"
Yu Ren did not laugh at Huang Wu's unexpected thoughts. He looked at Huang Han. Huang Han didn't say anything, but nodded firmly.
"Can I do it with you?" Yu Ren asked. He became more and more curious, really wanting to see what these children can do.
"You?..." Huang Wu glanced at Huang Han and said nothing.
"Of course. Have Mr. Yu made such things before?" Huang Han was very happy to hear that Yu Ren was going to participate. Although he had known Yu Ren for less than half an hour, he concluded from the moment when Yu Ren discussed with him how to land safely after sending people to heaven, he decided that the person in front of him would play a decisive role in the success of their future plans.
At this time, the onlookers saw that there was no fun to watch, and they all dispersed one by one.
"Let's go now." Huang Han felt keenly that Yu Ren would bring major reforms to his plan, which might help him break through the bottleneck that he has been unable to break through these days. Therefore, he couldn't wait to invite Yu Ren to go with them to conduct a new experiment immediately.
Xu Shichang, who lost fifty taels of silver, actually did not go far. He clearly watched the scene of Huang Han's ignition test shooting not far away. Although he lost fifty taels in vain, he did not regret it. Because he was also very interested in what Huang Wu and Yu Ren said about flying to the moon.
He was more interested in what Huang Wu said about building land and land on the moon. The Xu family was considered a big family in Jiangnan, but they had no power in Hangzhou. Because their family moved from Songjiang Prefecture to Hangzhou from his father's generation, and they were considered foreigners.
Therefore, although their family is very rich, they have very little land. There are only dozens of acres of thin land left by the ancestors of Songjiang Prefecture, but in Hangzhou, their family does not even have a single acre of land. This is not because his father doesn't want to buy land. It is because they have nothing to do with the officialdom in Hangzhou and cannot buy land at all.
In Xu Shichang's heart, he always had such a dream. He hoped that his family could own thousands of acres of paddy fields like other wealthy families. Because when he believed that no matter how much money it was, there would always be a time to spend it, not to mention that this thing would be stolen and robbed; but the land was different. Once it was yours, it would always be yours. Others could not steal it, and they could not rob it.
Of course, his idea was also greatly influenced by his father.
In order to realize the ideal of opening the ground on the moon, Fatty Xu decided to follow these people.
Huang Han and Huang Wu did not take Yu Ren to their house, but took Yu Ren and Cao An out of the city. After passing by West Lake, they climbed a relatively high mountain. Although this place is not far from Hangzhou City, it is a mountainous area and is not suitable for growing tea, so there are very few residents on the mountain.
It took more than half an hour for the few people to climb to the hillside. Yu Ren was about to ask how far they were when he saw a small stone house appearing in front of him.
Huang Han pointed to the stone house and said, "It's here."
Several people approached the stone house. Yu Ren saw that there was an open space outside the stone house, and there were many signs of explosions and fire on the ground. It seemed that this should be their test site. Yu Ren thought.
Yu Ren was imagining the open space outside the house, how did such a young man conduct such a dangerous experiment here, Huang Han had already opened the door of the stone house. Several people walked into the house.
The room is very small, only two, and one with a window.
"This house was built by our brothers and borrowed a collapsed stone house here and then rebuilt it." Huang Wudao.
Yu Ren looked around. There was a room where all kinds of strange wooden products were placed, some made like a dragon, and some made like a running tiger and leopard. Because it was clothed outside, it looked even more like a carpenter's tools were piled next to it. These things that looked very similar to carousels sitting in the amusement park of later generations made Yu Ren unable to understand their purpose.
In another room, there were various made or unmade fireworks and some scattered outer tubes. Yu Ren noticed that although the formats of these fireworks were slightly different, they were generally in a straight cylinder shape, which was basically the same as the four pieces made by Huang Han at the foot of Wushan. These should be the rockets made by Huang Han, Yu Ren thought.
He was not surprised that Huang Han could make these things, because he knew that our ancients had long used gunpowder for war. What surprised him was that he had heard two explosions at the foot of Wushan just now. In other words, these rockets were no longer ignited at one time, but were propelled by the second section. They were already a bit of the prototype of modern rockets.
"What are those things used for?" Yu Ren asked, pointing to the wooden products that looked like beasts in the corner of the wall.
"Those! These are the dragon bodies that one of my brothers made for me. Our original plan was to imitate the fire dragon made by the senior Wanhu in my Hongwu period. That's why I asked one of my best brothers to help me make these things. Their family is a carpenter.
However, later I found that people were not very stable to sit on this type of thing, and it was difficult to launch. So I later switched to a chair, so these were thrown here."
Yu Ren carefully observed these wood products. He found that these things were all made very refined and very solid. Just from the workmanship of these things, you can know that the carpenter's craftsmanship must be not simple. Of course, these are not the focus of his concern for the moment.
"Then have you tried successfully?" Yu Ren asked.
Chapter completed!