In this era of scarcity of entertainment, gambling is everyone's favorite way of entertainment.

From kings, princes, princes, ministers, and peddlers, everyone likes to bet on a few dice when they are idle. The operation is simple and the environment is not distinguished. Just squat on the side of the road.

Therefore, the Qin and Han dynasties were the most popular gambling trend in the entire Chinese civilization. However, due to the emergence of Chen Xu, the entertainment methods of the aristocratic and wealthy classes in the Qin Dynasty have begun to change greatly. Playing mahjong and playing chess have begun to become popular on a large scale. The hobby of the aristocratic families is still drinking in the miscellaneous houses of Quyuan to chat and brag about girls, but there are many people who have pursuits to read newspapers, plays and write books.

"What I said about is both a bet and a very strange scientific and physical phenomenon. Two different iron balls of different sizes fell from a high place. Who do you think will land first..."

"Of course it's the heavy one!" Before Chen Xu's words could be finished, most of the people in the conference room stood up and shouted. The one who didn't stand up was just not hearing it clearly.

"Are you sure?"

"It's certain that no matter whether it's a stone or an iron ball, the heavier it will fall, the faster it will fall. This is a natural principle." Zhang Cang couldn't help but speak.

"Hehe, okay, I will make a bet with you. I will bet two iron balls will land at the same time..."

"Impossible!" Almost everyone jumped up this time.

"It's impossible to tell at a try. You all confirm that the heavy ones will land first, and this lord believes that it will land at the same time, so we will use this as a bet..."

"Mr. Marquis, what if you lose?" a craftsman said loudly.

"If I lost the bet of losing by this marquis and everyone here, I will lose a hundred yuan, but if I win, you will take off all your clothes today and only wear underwear and stand together on the street where you will sing and dance and dance for a thousand years. How about it?"

"This is not fair!" someone shouted.

"Hehe, fairness, if you win, you will be 100 yuan, if you lose, you will just take off your clothes and dance!" Someone retorted.

"It's not bad, not to mention how could you lose? The Marquis is giving me money!"

"Let's go out and verify it now, go find iron ball..."

Nearly two hundred people rushed to the yard outside the Academy of Sciences. While chatting and laughing, many people couldn't wait to pick up the stones on the ground and began to verify Chen Xu's statement.

But when some people first tried, they immediately felt a little nervous, because whether they were raised flat on their chest or high above their heads, as long as they let go, the two stones fell to the ground at the same time, and the difference in time was almost impossible to distinguish. Even if someone stood on the steps or even increased the height on the chair, the results of this experiment were the same.

So soon, the sound of surprise came out in the crowd, and then the people in the yard began to throw stones with their hands. Other helpers and civil servants who did not attend the class gathered around to watch the group of intellectually retarded elites of the Academy of Sciences in the yard, throwing stones over and over again.

"The ball is here!"

More than ten minutes later, a craftsman ran out sweating with two blue gold metal balls, one the size of a shot put and the other the size of an egg.

"Mr. Marquis, there are no iron balls. Can you have two copper balls?"

"The bronze ball is fine!" Chen Xu took the two balls and weighed them with his hands. The big ones were at least ten pounds, and the small ones were probably more than one pound.

"Marty, we have tried it just now, but we can't feel the difference in time. If we want to verify it clearly, we have to find a very high place!" At this time, even Zhang Cang was a little uncertain about the theory he started, with a strange and nervous expression.

"The higher the higher the better. Come on, I will climb up to the eaves of the Academy of Sciences!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

So someone brought a wooden ladder, and a craftsman couldn't wait to climb up with a copper ball, and then stood carefully on the eaves.

At this time, three or four hundred people had gathered in the yard, and even the newspaper hall next door had many curious people coming to watch. The yard was covered in darkness, all spread out in front of the eaves and looked up.

The verified craftsman stood on the roof, and was about three feet above the ground. This height was already the highest place that can be found now.

"Please take care of me, I've let it go!" The craftsman stretched out the two copper balls into the air with a serious expression, and then relaxed his hand.

"Puff~" Two copper balls hit the ground hard in almost no particular order, and two pits were smashed out of the hard soil every day.

"Wow~" Although the two copper balls landed quickly, almost everyone saw the result, that is, as Chen Xu said, the two balls with huge differences in weight actually landed at the same time.

"How could it happen? Impossible, it's unscientific?" Many people's confidence began to shake at this time, and then they muttered to themselves as they looked at the two copper balls that had smashed the ground out of the pit.

"It must be caused by the different time of letting go, I'll try it yourself!"

A craftsman picked up two copper balls and climbed onto the roof in person. But after a moment, everyone still saw two copper balls that fell to the ground at the same time, so more people's confidence began to collapse.

"I'll test it!" Zhang Cang couldn't help it, and climbed onto the roof with two copper balls, just like two experimenters just now, and let go of the two copper balls at the same time, but the ending still did not change at all.

"Mr. Marquis, the eaves of this house are too short and the copper ball is too heavy, which makes it impossible to distinguish carefully!" Some people still don't believe this result.

"Xianyang City is ten feet high, and the city tower is fifteen feet high. If you don't believe it, then go to the city tower with me to test it?" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Okay~, the city tower is high enough, you can definitely see which one lands first!"

So the Academy of Sciences was full of noise. Dozens of carriages were not enough. They borrowed seven or eight carriages used by the newspaper distribution department to transport newspapers, and then rode horses and carriages. Nearly four hundred people left the Academy of Sciences and headed straight to the east gate of the city.

"Big News and Big News..." A young man with a breastplate on the distribution department of the Daqin Metropolis Daily rushed into the new office of the Daqin Metropolis Daily panting, broke into the editorial department and shouted.

"Hey, Manager Ma, you are not staying in the distribution department and selling newspapers. Why are you going to our editorial department to do? Where is the big news?" An editor stood up and said hello.

"Hurry, go to the east gate of the city, and the Marquis and hundreds of people from the Academy of Sciences make a bet to run naked..."

"What?"

"Damn!"

"Go away, go away quickly. You will know the details after you go there. If you go there late, you won't be able to see it!" Manager Ma shouted in sweat.

"Go and go together!"

Dozens of editors and editors from the editorial department left their work together and ran out. The huge movement attracted the attention of other departments, and people also ran out to inquire. Then, a large group of hundreds of people eagerly urged to ride a horse to run outside the newspaper hall. When Chen Ping heard the news, almost half of the people in the newspaper hall ran.

It was very lively outside the east gate of the city. Many people like to go to the construction site of the Weihe Bridge to watch the bridge repair process, but suddenly hundreds of people came by riding horses and carriages, most of which were hung with badges from the Academy of Sciences and factories, and there were also people galloping on horseback, including reporters and editors who had tags on newspapers and halls. After inquiring about each other, the news spread faster. In less than half an hour, tens of thousands of people surrounded the east gate of the city.

The hundreds of generals and soldiers stationed at the city gate were frightened at first, and they drew their swords and held the swords and were ready to fight. However, after seeing the Qinghe Marquis, they all breathed a sigh of relief and lined up to greet them. After hearing the Qinghe Marquis' request, the hundreds of generals naturally agreed, but they just climbed up the city tower and threw two balls down. It was not a problem. Even if Qinghe Marquis wanted to lose two people, it would be fine.

So under the arrangement of the hundred generals, soldiers led a few craftsmen to the city tower with copper balls. Because the city wall was slightly tilted, the hundred generals also specially arranged people to bring a ladder to the top of the city tower, and asked several soldiers to tie the craftsmen to the ladder firmly on the ladder to reach nearly a distance outside the city tower.

The city tower is fifteen meters above the ground, which is nearly thirty-five meters. This height is already high enough and is also the tallest building that can be found in Xianyang at present.

Outside the East City Gate, the people below and the densely surrounded water were blocked. Everyone looked up at the craftsmen hanging high in the air. In the distance, there were still people running over.

The craftsman tied to a height of fifteen feet could no longer hold his urine at this time, it was too high, but under the stimulation of this unprecedented scientific experiment, the craftsman slowly stretched out the two copper balls to both sides and shouted: "Please watch, I let go!"

The shouts dissipated with the wind, and two copper balls fell from the ladder almost at the same time. Under the gaze of tens of thousands of viewers, two copper balls, one large and one small, whistling under the clear sky.

"Puff~~"

In front of everyone, the two copper balls were still hit hard on the ground as if they had made an appointment, and they were almost invisible to the soft soil.

Half an hour later, there were warm cheers outside the east gate of the city.

Because more than 200 officials and craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences began to take off their clothes, they saw a group of men, young and old, taking off only a pair of underwear, some of them were not wearing underwear at all, and they covered their crotch with their hands and began to sing and dance together for a thousand years.

I am willing to accept the loss of betting, but I can't jump, and there are so many people in this place.

After repeated trials, two copper balls fell almost at the same time. Under such irrefutable experimental results, everyone had to admit that two copper balls of different sizes and weights fell from a high place and landed at the same time.

Although everyone was so curious that the explosion was asked Chen Xu to explain the principles to them, Chen Xu asked everyone to fulfill their promises first.

So there was a scene where this group of bearded men sang and danced naked outside the east gate.

And a lingering and gentle year waited for a long time, and it was ruined in such a way. Before the dance was finished, many onlookers were broken, especially those sentimental women and scholars who were breathless, and even the white Confucian disciples shook their heads and sighed that the world was getting worse and worse, and morality was actually deteriorating.

And the initiator of all this turned out to be the famous Qinghe Hou.

But Chen Xu didn't care at all. He had been too busy recently and was too stressful. He ruined this song and dance he created, which brought another kind of comfortable and pleasant feeling, so that he would not listen to this song every day in the streets and alleys.

The lively situation outside the east gate quickly dissipated due to the test of two copper balls landing at the same time.

But the excitement brought about by this is still fermenting. This experiment that completely subverts daily thinking habits has made many people who are not interested in messy things start to pay attention to the trends of the Academy of Sciences.

Especially two days later, a new issue of the newspaper came out, and it used a large amount of space to report the scientific experiment of the two copper balls landing at the same time. This classic physics experiment will soon spread throughout Daqin, and those who do not believe it will naturally pass the experimental verification by themselves. Then someone will conduct in-depth research on this physical phenomenon that subverts cognition, which will lead more people among the people to be interested in physics.

However, another bet of Qinghehou and the craftsmanship of the Academy of Sciences began to spread rapidly in Xianyang.

Countless people gathered together excitedly to discuss the most exciting topic of this winter. Many young women and mature young women even had red cheeks and their bodies and their bodies were hot.

I don’t know what kind of anticipated scene is Qinghe Hou running naked.

Almost all those who heard this news first reaction was not whether Qinghehou would win, but how he would run naked.

Because anyone who hears the content of the bet thinks that Qinghe Hou will definitely lose.

If a car with two wheels in a straight line is not stable, how can it drive?

Therefore, everyone was full of expectations and hope that the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences would quickly make the bike called a bicycle, and then see Hehou running naked.

But the guy who bet with Chen Xu began to be anxious because of the experiment of two copper balls. Zhang Cang and others also began to hope that the two-wheeled bicycles could be quickly made. So many people devoted great enthusiasm to research gear and chain transmission, and also began to study different transmission methods such as belts, gears, connecting rods, and crankshafts.

Damn it just rides a bicycle, what's there to make a fuss about?

Chen Xu's bet was just due to his interest, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

And he took time to give lectures at the School of Agricultural College and the Academy of Sciences these days because he has been idle recently, so he no longer needs to worry about road construction. All the staff for building bridges and road construction have been implemented. Yang Kun is fully responsible. At most, he will wait until the planning of the places that need to be changed and straightened, and arrange people to fire a few shots. As for gunpowder, the Nanshan Villa outside the city is being produced in large quantities, and hundreds of kilograms of kilograms are stored in the basement of the factory. Even if the black gunpowder is not very powerful, it should not be a big problem if it goes down for hundreds of kilograms or hundreds of kilograms, and there should be no big problem with blowing a few gaps on several hills, let alone a whole year, so Chen Xu is not worried at all.
Chapter completed!