Chapter 362 Starfall
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it will be 5 years of Xihua.
All forces finally resolved the natural disaster and quelled civil strife.
Spring, busy farming.
Mi Yan and Xiaodie gave birth to two boys one after another.
Mi Yan's second son ranked sixth, named Ning Rui; Xiaodie's son ranked seventh, named Ning Cheng.
The eldest daughter Liu Xiu is the crown prince of China; the second daughter Ning Man is the first daughter; the third daughter Ning Zheng; the fourth daughter Ning Qian; the fifth daughter Ning Xiu; the sixth son Ning Rui; the seventh son Ning Cheng.
The palace is really lively.
Ning Ze finally understood the history I saw in my previous life, and there was an emperor who couldn't even recognize his own children. At that time, he felt nonsense, but now he understood that he had no emperor's beauties, and he already had so many children.
How many children should those emperors have? There is no computer placing a list, so it is really hard to remember them all.
According to the front line, after a difficult year, Tang Niu, Lu Cong and Ma Jian had another abnormal movement.
Ningze ordered soldiers across China to strengthen training, build weapons, and prepare food and wages.
One night, a strange thing suddenly happened.
At about 22 o'clock in the evening, except for the patrol soldiers in Huajun City, they were all dreaming. Suddenly, lit up amazing fires in the sky, dispelling the darkness and illuminating the entire city.
A huge fireball fell from the sky, crossed the sky at an astonishing speed, flew over Huajun, and fell towards the wasteland in the north of the city.
It was as if it was daylight at that time, and almost everyone in Huajun City was awakened.
The patrol soldiers quickly reported to their superiors. Before they arrived at the palace, Ning Ze had already met with his wives and looked at the huge falling fireball in shock.
Many palace maids and soldiers in the palace were shouting, saying that this was a punishment of heaven.
Liu Yuanxiang was a little worried when she heard this and said to Ning Ze: "Why did the heavenly punishment come to the world? Could it be that I did something wrong? Or did I ascend the throne as a woman and annoy God?"
It is normal to think so. People in this era are too superstitious and like to believe in such things.
Ning Ze said to her: "It's just a meteorite, and it has nothing to do with the punishment of heaven! But this matter must be controlled immediately, otherwise it will become more and more chaotic. If it is used by the enemy forces, the consequences will be unimaginable!"
"But no matter who sees this situation, he will think of the heavenly punishment!" Liu Yuanxiang said anxiously, "Once he regards it as heavenly punishment, he will definitely contact me, what should I do?"
"Don't panic!" The beauty Chu next to him spoke, "Just order someone to inform the whole city, and say that this is your husband's new magic."
"Smart!" Ning Ze's eyes lit up, "The world knows all the magic of the Lord and can easily win the trust of everyone. When the enemy forces learn about this, they will definitely be afraid and will be beneficial to our country!"
"Yes, yes! That's it!" Liu Yuanxiang was overjoyed and quickly sent an order to inform the whole city. However, he still couldn't let it go and asked Ning Ze again, "Is this really not a heavenly punishment?"
"Don't worry, it's just a meteorite!" Ning Ze said affirmatively, "But it's the first time I saw a meteorite at such a close distance. Fortunately, it didn't fall into the city. If it caused casualties, it would be really troublesome! The meteorite fell in the wasteland in the north of the city, and the fires soared into the sky, which was a bit troublesome! The lonely immediately led his troops to put out the fire and set up sentry guards around to prevent the people or other countries from going to investigate. You stay in the city, and then all the officials will come to stabilize the people. That's to say that I am using magic!"
"good!"
Ning Ze quickly left the palace and called Wang Wei, the general of Ghost Face, to lead his troops to the wasteland in the north of the city.
Hurry up to the wasteland, mobilize soldiers to carry water from nearby rivers, dig sand, and extinguish fires caused by the fall of meteorites in different ways.
I didn't close my eyes all night, and at around 9 a.m. the next day, the wildfire was finally completely extinguished, but most of the wasteland was burned to charred.
In the middle of the wasteland, the exaggerated trajectory caused by the meteorite falling and sliding forward, as well as the amazing craters, not to mention the soldiers of this era, even Ning Ze himself was amazed.
The team moved towards the meteorite. When they reached a distance, the soldiers in the front row suddenly screamed.
"What's going on?" Ning Ze stepped forward and asked.
"Prince, it seems that someone is using magic tricks to take away weapons!" The soldiers in front of them clutched their weapons tightly, with panic on their faces, "Is there a monster falling from the sky in that pit?"
Ning Ze's weapons are all in the famous carriage bar, so I can't feel them.
Turning his head, he found that all the soldiers, including Wang Wei, were holding on to the weapons tightly, and were very nervous.
"Stop!" He quickly ordered, his eyes falling on the crater, "There are no so-called monsters here. If you guess correctly, this meteorite contains a large amount of magnets! The closer you get, the stronger the magnetism! You should retreat for the time being, throw down all the metal objects on your body, and follow us."
"Here!"
Headed by Wang Wei, all the soldiers retreated to the safe area, put down their weapons, and took off the iron armor to ensure that there was no metal on their bodies, and then they kept up with Ning Ze.
Ning Ze took the lead in walking to the crater and saw a meteorite the size of a millstone lying inside.
Although the momentum is astonishing as it falls from the air, it is like a huge fireball, and it is almost exhausted after it lands.
At this moment, the crater was still very hot, or it was hot, so Ning Ze didn't dare to go in directly.
I really want to jump down and my feet can be scalded with my shoes.
Wang Wei, who had lowered the metal armor from behind, brought the soldiers over. Some of them wanted to make contributions and jumped directly into the trajectory leading to the crater. They were so hot that they screamed, and they couldn't even stop them.
When the companions pulled the person up, the bottom of their shoes had been burnt, the soles of their feet were red, and the blisters were full of hot blisters.
"The temperature inside is extremely high, don't enter easily!" Ning Ze frowned and shouted, "Give orders to keep guarding the entire wasteland, and no one is allowed to enter!"
"Prince," Wang Wei glanced at the meteorite that was still hiding in Mars. "Do you ask someone to carry water?"
Ning Ze nodded when he heard this: "Yes, ask someone to carry water and cool it down quickly! But be careful, the composition of the meteorite is not clear yet. Never pour water on it directly, just water the sparks around it!"
"Here!" With the order, the soldiers began to fetch water here again, poured buckets of land around the crater, starting from outside, cooling the hot ground.
But the smoke that came out during the period made people feel very uncomfortable.
The people were numerous and the power was great. After thousands of soldiers poured water continuously, they finally extinguished all the near the crater.
Ning Ze asked someone to prepare tools and carriages, carefully lifted them onto the carriage, and sent them directly to the Secret Research Institute.
I went to the Secret Research Institute to conduct experiments personally and determined that more than half of the meteorite is made of magnets, and there are different types of metal minerals left, and the amount is not large.
Metals are not important, mainly without rare and rare metal substances, but this magnet makes Ning Ze particularly excited.
I sent someone to search for magnets before, but the harvest was not high.
It is reported that the most famous magnet mine in the sixteen states is in Baotai County ruled by Ma Jian.
Through the caravan, a small amount of magnet was finally obtained, and the pendulum clock was consumed. He had to continue to purchase it in Baotai County through the Chamber of Commerce.
Knowing that Huajun is buying magnets, Ma Jian deliberately made things difficult for him. The price of magnets is ridiculously high, and the number of allowed transactions is very small. It is actually very depressing to be monopolized.
Unexpectedly, a meteorite the size of a millstone fell from the sky, mostly made of magnets, which was so helpful to me!
Magnets are good things, and many important technologies are realized through it.
The first things that came to mind were generators and telegraphs.
Although it is still difficult to perfectly manufacture industrial technology, there is always a way to overcome this problem. Once a generator is built, various simple electrical appliances can be gradually opened for research and return to the power era. Even if high technology cannot be created, it is an epoch-making product.
As for the telegraph machine, it is even more powerful than the Feige sending letters! It can send signals to extremely faraway places and communicate with a long distance through passwords. And it is very safe. No matter how smart Sima Fa is, he cannot imitate the telegraph machine.
Fei Ge's letters were intercepted and the possibility of stealing letters was also possible, and the telegraph machine was much safer.
It is not that simple to realize these two things. Even if all the skilled craftsmen in the Secret Research Institute study day and night and have their own theoretical knowledge as a prelude, they will not succeed in a short time.
No matter what, this magnet meteorite is Ning Ze’s hope, and it depends on it all!
The impact of the meteorites at night has caused a sensation in the whole city of Huajun.
As soon as dawn comes, from high officials and nobles to dawn, all the people talk about the "fireball coming to the world" last night.
Since the court promptly informed the whole city that the fireball that fell from the sky yesterday was obtained by King Danyang's practice of immortal arts, the claim of heavenly punishment was quickly suppressed and a wave of crisis was successfully resisted.
Ning Ze's image of proficiency in magic has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. If it were others, the people might have doubts. When Ning Ze said this, it seemed natural.
So the whole conversation was full of the whole process, and whether the Danyang King had become an immortal, what magic did Danyang King practice? Is that huge fireball falling from the sky the method used by Danyang King to attack the enemy?
There were discussions everywhere, and many people even temporarily put down their work that day, either chatting and discussing in the city, or going out of the city to check the location of the fireball landing at the north gate.
However, soldiers were guarding outside the city, and anyone who approached the wasteland was driven away.
Even if Ning Ze brought the magnet to the Secret Research Institute, the crater did not open. On the one hand, it was necessary to avoid panic in the whole city. The situation caused by the wasteland was too amazing! On the other hand, I don’t know what strange things there are in meteorites besides magnetites. Although the possibility is extremely small, what if creatures from outer space are found in the crater, what if these creatures will cause huge damage to ordinary people?
Even if the probability is close to zero, you still cannot relax.
After determining the composition of the meteorite, Ning Ze immediately drew a schematic diagram of the simple generator and telegraph machine, so that the members of the institute would slowly study this technology based on their own drawings.
No matter which one succeeds, it will be of great significance to him.
Members of the Secret Research Institute saw the drawings of the generator and telegraph machine, and then looked at a whole piece of meteorite, and had a split headache.
This difficulty is beyond their imagination!
Chapter completed!