Chapter 1013 The extra dangerous tower is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands

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Liu Bei and his party finally climbed to the middle of the Juzhang Lighthouse. He was already out of breath and was still exhausted when he was supported by someone from both sides. Looking out of the window, he couldn't help but curse and complain.

Li Su, who was behind, was actually not much better. It was entirely due to him being twelve years younger than Liu Bei, and he was still healthy. He often had aerobic exercise and stopped walking and stopping.

After hearing the emperor's swearing, Li Su was also shocked: Your Majesty was the years he was in Yizhou when he was young, and he learned a few local tones from Shu people. In desperation, he popped up again?

It turns out that Li Bai's "Ahhhhh, it's so dangerous" means this.

However, after all, the wonder was planned by Li Su. He invited the emperor to visit and always had to do his best to the landlords. Now, the whole place suggested:

"Your Majesty, why don't you rest on this floor? First look at the sea view, take a stick of incense before climbing. Anyway, you've climbed more than halfway. Or, let the guards prepare their shoulder carriage."

Liu Bei sat down and took a few breaths, drank a little warm tea that was not cold yet, and waved his hand: "No need to worry, from the beginning, I was in high spirits and insisted on walking up, so let's continue to go--

However, how high is this tower? When you really walk inside, you feel even more tiring than what you see outside."

Li Sugong bowed: "This tower was designed at 70 zhang. However, later, for this bell tower, we had to leave more margin, and actually built it was 72 zhang.

This height is of particular importance, so that after the sea boat sails out of the Yangtze River estuary in Huating Town, Wuxian County or Haiyan County, once the estuary coast disappears from the western view of the lookout hand. The lookout hand immediately turns to the southeast and you can see the lighthouse’s light shining at night, thus determining the direction.”

Seventy-two meters, which is about 170 meters high, five meters more than the initial design expectations.

After hearing this, Liu Bei was excited and eager to try: "So from here, climb to the top to see the land at the estuary of the Yangtze River? Also, my brother said that this floor is the bell floor? Where is the big bell? Why do you have to increase the tower body by two feet for this clock? But the bell is too big to put it down?"

Li Su smiled: "It is still a bit difficult to see the land of the Yangtze River Estuary, because the sea boat's observation field is relay, and it also needs to be counted as twice the height of the mast.

The big clock is above our heads, and you can see it after passing this ceiling. However, the location of our station is also considered the bell floor. There are holes in the ceiling here. You can use a treadmill to cooperate with a connecting rod below to remotely stir the iron in the bell and ring the bell.

The extra two zhang is for the various levels we are standing on. After ringing, even if we do not gather the sound in a direction, the Śrāvaka can be ten miles away. If the fog bell that gathers together and collects the sound lines, the Śrāvaka can be thirty or forty miles towards the northwest direction."

After hearing this, Liu Bei was no longer sleepy and his legs were no longer sore. He quickly said that he could climb up a little longer and not rest on this floor: "My brother said it earlier! I am still resting on this floor, and I have no luck to be full. Hurry up, climb another floor!"

As he said that, Liu Bei did not even let the guards support him, so he climbed up to another floor.

Their current location is about fifty feet above the ground. Things like the big clock are too heavy, and the sound is not transmitted in a straight line like light, so there is no need to be installed at the highest point.

After Zhuge Liang's precise calculations, he found that when this "damper" was placed two-thirds of the total height, it had the best effect on wind and shock absorption, so he placed it so high above the ground.

At the beginning of the year, the big bell was lifted up, and the process was very difficult, and it was divided into three rounds of lifting.

The first round is to pull onto a solid abutment with marble/granite edges fifteen feet high. The second round is to translate to the outer and inner cylinders of the tower.

Every time, a giant wheel treadmill in eight corners was used to lift it at the same time. Considering that the clock weight was more than 200 tons, the tension force each treadmill was nearly thirty tons. No matter how many treadmills were, it was impossible to calculate the force analysis, and it was impossible to ensure that it could balance during operation.

It is useless to withstand thirty tons of tension on the treadmill with nostrils on the treadmill. In the end, they can only be twisted together with forged steel cables, but some other materials with good ductility are mixed in. The winch and pulleys of the treadmill have abandoned the wooden structure and used all steel.

These technologies are not very advanced, they are time-consuming, labor-intensive, materials, expensive and inefficient. Europeans used these to build large castles and churches until the Renaissance.

During the reign of Peter the Great, the Russians also made similar clocks and considered mature lifting plans at that time.

All efforts have led to the huge bell and "lighthouse anti-shake damper" that Liu Bei was dumbfounded at this moment.

Even though he had been the emperor for many years, when Liu Bei reached out to touch the giant clock, his arms were still a little tangled. The tentacles were cold and there were inscriptions cast on them, which was really not simple.

The content of the inscription is nothing more than picking up some from the "Dian Xing You Fu Theory", reorganizing it and polishing the parallelism. The general idea is to argue why the Han Dynasty has the world, and it is always favored by the destiny of heaven and has the virtue of ending war. The words are very large, so you can write less space.

"How heavy is this clock? Can you try it?" After touching it, Liu Bei asked thoughtfully.

"Use one million kilograms of copper. After casting, the finished product weighs more and cannot be weighed again. Just consider it one million." Li Su explained, then changed the subject and persuaded tactfully.

"Your Majesty wants to watch the bell, just watch it here. If you want to listen to the bell ringing, then please go to the top, or go back to the previous floor - this floor is the bell, and the floor below is operated by the bell ringing soldiers."

Liu Bei was stunned: "This bell is so big that it has to be divided into two layers of play and ringing? Why is this?"

Li Su pointed to the iron inside the bell and hit the iron: "This bell is so huge, and the sound of the iron is more than a thousand pounds, and the buzzing echo is extremely huge. When the bell is ringing, all the long windows to the floor on all sides must be removed to clear the ventilation and spread the echo.

The wind is too strong at high places, so it will be dangerous for people to stay here. On the other hand, the bell is too loud and loud. During the interview on the ground, it hurt several bells and their hands were bleeding, and their internal organs and seven orifices were bleeding.

That's why I specially designed to raise the tower two feet high and add a layer to hide for the bell ringers. The floor downstairs has better sound insulation. I can hide there and use the transmission mechanism to beat the bell to avoid being hurt by the bell."

After hearing this, Liu Bei immediately advised him: "Then forget it, I'd better climb to the top of the tower first, there are still twenty feet, right? Twenty feet apart, close the doors and windows, it should be safe."

Since you want to hide, just dodge a little further. When Liu Bei reaches the top, he will instruct the people below to knock.

The group climbed for more than ten minutes and finally arrived at the top floor.

The penultimate floor above is the lamp room, with a huge bonfire or wolf smoke pile, and a huge metal mirror next to it, forming a concave array to focus and reflect the flames.

There is also a lookout floor when the lamp room is up, which is the top, which is obviously for the high-ranking officials and nobles to see the scenery. It can be seen that when the lighthouse was designed, it was also considered for the tourist needs.

However, most people cannot get up. This is not a matter of money, but only related to social status. In the future, at least one person who has a county magistrate or a marquis can take a look and be honored.

The strong wind at the high place made Liu Bei feel a little embarrassed, and his beard was open, but he still couldn't help but force his eyes to open his eyes and look at the scenery.

"Okay, okay, okay, the Prime Minister's lighthouse is well built. It is beneficial to the country and the people. Hundreds of boats in the East China Sea compete and thousands of sails compete to cross, and you can see it. Looking at these sea boats, they all gather and spread out to this, and it can be said to be the hub of the world's sea route."

Liu Bei had no culture and could not say any big words. He just emphasized it simply and rudely and repeatedly, and the civil and military officials who were accompanying him also agreed.

Liu Bei was still unsatisfied and pulled Li Su to express his opinion: "It's the first time the Prime Minister has climbed the tower? Can you rest on the tower tonight? I finally came up once and always wrote poems to souvenirs, so this trip is not in vain."

Liu Bei doesn’t like poetry, his mentality is like "posting a circle of friends to prove that he has been here."

There are no photos to take in this era, and it is impossible to prove your superiority without writing poetry.

Li Su was very clear about Liu Bei's mentality and thought about it, "Your Majesty, why don't you find someone to paint a portrait of Your Majesty with the grand occasion?"

In recent years, I have also captured many of the Romans' painting skills. I also thought of A Liang about looking at people with flat glass, and first laying semi-transparent gauze on the glass outlined the figures, which is much more accurate than the original picture. I also used sticky pigments that would not leak."

What Li Su mentioned was obviously an oil painting that appeared in the Middle Ages, or egg tempera painting (before the appearance of oil painting, some of them were similar to oil painting techniques, but the material of the pigment was egg white, which was called egg tempera painting). In short, it took advantage of the characteristics that the pigment was not water-based and would not leak and spread, and it was easy to paint slowly.

Pigments and tools are easy to handle, but another difficulty in promoting realistic painting styles in ancient times was mainly because the ancients did not understand the principle of perspective. Traditional paintings, whether in the East or the West, were scattered and perspective at the beginning, without a focus of the near, large and small.

This is not only the Han people. The paintings of the Byzantines in the Western world and later were all without focus and had a flat proportion, so it would be difficult to draw them in a particularly similar way.

However, this thing is actually easy to solve after the small area of ​​flat glass appears. Because the painter does not need to really understand any profound physical principles, just take a picture through a piece of glass, and then completely see the scene as he sees along the line of sight, aim on the gauze behind the glass, and finally polish it into a manuscript and copy it to a regular canvas.

This thing has just appeared not long ago, and Zhuge Liang also contributed a lot, mainly providing glass.

Li Su was keen on this technology, not for the sake of people's livelihood or economy. It was purely because he felt that he was about to be old and wanted to leave a little image for future generations to admire.

He didn't want his appearance to be beautify or vilified by later generations, nor did he want his future generations to casually make some clay sculptures and wood sculptures to worship there, and then he said that this person was Li Su.

Looking at the historical experiences of Confucius, Guan Gong, Zhuge Liang and others, it is not difficult to imagine that Li Su has reached his current status and will be processed by others in the future for many times. It is better to leave his true face.

Therefore, the emergence of realistic styles and related technologies is not for money. This thing does not make money, it will only lose money. Maybe it will cost hundreds of taels of gold to leave a very similar true look, but it is worth it for those who can afford this price.

It was the first time that Liu Bei heard about this technique that was still in the "experimental stage". He quickly asked if it was really good to draw, and asked when and where to recruit painters as soon as possible.

Li Su also said that if you want to say the fastest, there will be painters in the Beppet of Juzhang County and Kuaiji County Duke. If you are anxious, send a fast boat to pick up the people and you will be there tomorrow.

Liu Bei couldn't help but feel angry and amused: "What a great thing I did at home! I will cultivate craftsmen who can draw like this, and I won't tell you!"

Li Su said embarrassedly: "I'm not exploring this. Those painters have not yet perfected their painting skills, so they dare not show their ugly face."

Liu Bei waved his hand: "Issuing an order, I will recruit painters immediately, and then, let's arrange this place well. I am tired and don't want to climb again tomorrow, so I will be on this tower tonight."

Li Su hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, the wind is strong at high places. Even if the viewing platform can be closed, people still have to fill the seams and prevent wind. Also, it is not easy to move the dragon couch up, so they can only pile up more bedding and lay the floor."

Liu Bei said indifferently: "It's hundreds of feet tall, not down-to-earth at all, so what bed should I need? The bedding is thick enough! Just do that! Also, the portrait is a portrait, but writing poetry is still inevitable! I almost let you avoid it!"

Liu Bei thought: If the painter’s paintings are not beautiful enough, not wise enough, and handsome enough, then he still has to rely on Li Su to write poems to make future generations remember that Liu Bei was the first emperor to climb the tower and see all the wonders of the world.

Then, Liu Bei also instructed the princes who accompanied him to go down the tower and find a palace to stay in Juzhang Port, and climb up the tower again tomorrow to pay homage. Only a few of the most trusted ministers could live on a few floors below to avoid the hard work of climbing the tower again.

Anyway, the oldest prince who accompanied him was born in 196, and he was only 22 years old. He should exercise well and examine their physical fitness by the way.

Liu Bei made a clear arrangement, but Li Su couldn't escape it, so he had to search for some five-character poems that mainly praise Gao Jun and the majesty to be a copywriter.

It took most of the day to visit the tower. It was almost dusk. Li Su looked for two songs in succession and changed the place name several times, corresponding to the day and night scene.

"How is Ju Zhangfu? Wu Yueqing has not yet been completed. The craftsmanship has captured the beauty of spirit, and the yin and yang are cut off from the dawn. The clouds are ripped into the back birds. They will reach the top of the mountain and overlook the small mountains."

"The dangerous tower is a hundred feet high, and you can pick the stars with your hands. You dare not speak loudly, for fear of shocking the people in the sky."

Li Su originally wanted to find something more philosophical, but he really couldn't find it. He seemed to have used the "going to the next level" before, and it was not suitable for the situation. He could only make up the numbers like this.

Unfortunately, Liu Bei's aesthetic is also a strange Xue Pan style. He doesn't pursue any philosophical meanings. He just listens to the sound and is magnificent.

Li Su just piled up big words and looked amazing.

"I will climb the top of the mountain and see all the mountains at a glance. Well, there are really no mountains along the coast of Wu and Yue. At first glance, the islands are like mustard seeds."

Liu Bei looked down at the railing and applauded repeatedly.

After seeing the scenery in the distance, he overcame the fear of heights out of curiosity, grabbed the window frame with his arms tightly, poked his upper body out slightly, looking down at the base of the tower, wanting to feel the specific and real height.

This kind of uncontrollable impulse will occur in many people in later generations who will climb skyscrapers, which is very exciting.

Liu Bei felt a little dizzy and immediately turned around and asked, "Why are there so many people lined up there, as if they were worshiping dances? It's not like the guards accompanying him?"

Because they are almost two hundred meters apart, they really can't see clearly.

Li Su also came to the edge and took a careful look when she heard this. After recalling for a while, she also asked the local officials who accompanied the inspection and then replied:

"Your Majesty, these people are nobles whom the ministers suggested to move from Fusang to come here to admire the cultural relics of the Celestial Kingdom of the Central Plains. When the natives of Fusang established their country in the East China Sea, they had the custom of worshiping ghosts and gods. Perhaps because they saw the grand atmosphere of the Central Plains and such a spectacle, they were convinced and worshipped."

It turned out that what they worshipped below at this moment was just a group of noble witches. In order to ensure the Chinese rule, Li Su gradually mixed sand to let these guys come to the Han Dynasty to "study abroad".

Among them, eleven years ago, when Gongsun Kang was just destroyed, the murdered daughter of Himeku and the daughter of the matriarch of the matriarch who ruled the Nara region, and later the Empress of the Divine Kung in history.

Eleven years ago, these witches were still young girls, and now they have been completely brainwashed and Chineseized, allowing them to be influenced and accepted the patriarchal social rule customs of the Han Dynasty.

When they were in Fusang, they liked to worship the sun. Li Su rose from the ground to build a 70-meter-high lighthouse, with a blazing flame on the top and a large metal mirror reflecting. These uncultivated witches worshipped this as the totem of the sun.

The kind of ritual that dances wildly against the sun is said to be the dance of "Tian Dian Girl" that seduces Amaterasu again when a solar eclipse occurs.
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