The empress is wild and cool, and I'll help her secure her throne

The next morning.

Ye Qianxuan quickly completed the task that Tao Yuanzheng had assigned him, and delivered a batch of gunpowder and kraft paper.

Ye Qianxuan asked Chu Yao to go to the market to buy some wood, and then he closed the door to build the car.

It was not until the afternoon when Mimiyan and Duan Zhenggang came to visit that Ye Qianxuan finished everything.

Duan Zhenggang and Mimi looked at the two batches of things that Ye Qianxuan had completed, and they were shocked.

The odd-looking wooden thing with a water pipe was okay;

That rectangular thing with a fuse looks exactly like a bomb!

Ye Qianxuan made ten such bombs!

Ye Qianxuan really wanted them to transport this thing into the palace and even let them order it?!

"I kind of regret agreeing to him..." he said with squinting eyes and a little shock.

Duan Zhenggang nodded in agreement.

Yes!

This is fucking horrible!

If it really explodes, all nine clans will be in trouble!

"It's okay, this thing is very safe."

Ye Qianxuan patted the fireworks, looked at Duan Zhenggang and said, "Excuse me, Old Duan, please help me transport them into the palace and find a wide area to set them off."

Duan Zhenggang had a bitter face, but he could only make arrangements immediately.

Squinting, he pointed at the wooden structure with the water pipes and asked, "What is this thing?"

"A vacuum water pump, a device that can make water flow backwards."

Ye Qianxuan walked to the water tank and demonstrated to Mimiyan how to use the vacuum water pump.

The principle of a vacuum water pump is to rely on the circular motion of the motor and the reciprocating motion of the diaphragm inside the pump through a mechanical device, thereby compressing and stretching the air in the fixed volume of the pump chamber to form a vacuum negative pressure, and generating a pressure difference between the pump suction port and the external atmospheric pressure. Under the action of the pressure difference, the gas is compressed and sucked into the pump chamber, and then discharged from the exhaust port.

In this era, there was no electricity or motors, so Ye Qianxuan added a crank and later replaced it with manpower.

As a cultivator at the peak of the Transformation Realm, Ye Qianxuan can create negative pressure in the vacuum water pump by relying on brute force.

Ye Qianxuan shook the handle, and the water in the water tank was indeed pumped out, flowing onto the ground.

"This is just still water. Is flowing water also okay?"

Squinting eyes, he said in surprise.

"Of course, as long as the water is smaller than this diameter."

Ye Qianxuan brought over a bamboo pole and gestured to Mimi to pour water from that end.

Afterwards, Ye Qianxuan aimed the bamboo pole at the air nozzle of the vacuum water pump and used a hand crank to spray the downward-flowing water upward from the other outlet.

The harder Ye Qianxuan shook, the higher the water flowed backwards, completely realizing the scene of water flowing backwards!

"Qian Xuan! You are so amazing! How did you come up with this?!"

He squinted his eyes and exclaimed, "You are simply the best alchemist in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty!"

"No! The number one alchemist in Shenzhou!"

"Those alchemists who can only make pills and medicinal silver are far inferior to you!"

"You should have stopped sewing corpses and become a Taoist priest a long time ago!"

Chu Yao was also shocked standing by. She never expected that the master could create such a magical artifact after tinkering with it for a day!

"It's just... How can you make the iron tree bloom?!"

He asked with narrowed eyes.

"It depends on you and Old Duan to light the fuse at night." Ye Qianxuan smiled.

"Ah? What's the connection between lighting the fuse and the iron tree blooming?" Squinting eyes were now completely confused.

"You'll know then."

Ye Qianxuan shrugged.

The use of gunpowder in this era was limited to explosives and flares.

The fireworks you make yourself will surely shock everyone!

Since Ye Qianxuan said so, Mimiyan didn't ask any more questions and said he would help Old Duan move the gunpowder to prevent Duan Zhenggang from getting into trouble.

As soon as he left, Kong Zhongzhi and Cheng Zhushou arrived.

"My friend, the Empress summoned all the officials tonight to witness your miracle of making the iron tree bloom and the water flow backwards. Is this true or false?!"

Cheng Zhushou came in and asked.

Kong Zhongzhi also added: "Yes! I heard that this is a marriage arranged by Elder Tianji for the Empress! Only the one who can make the iron tree bloom and the water flow backwards is the one destined by Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty believes you are the chosen one, and he's asking you to prove it, even going so far as to break Eastern Zhou rules and summon all officials at night. You must not lose face!"

"The Left Prime Minister and the Grand Chamberlain are waiting to see you make a fool of yourself!"

Ye Qianxuan smiled and said, "It's like a flower blooming on an iron tree. I'm sorry, I can't show it to you two right now."

"But I've already demonstrated the water flowing backwards with Mi Tongzhi once before, and I can show you two again."

As Ye Qianxuan spoke, he once again demonstrated the use of the vacuum water pump to the two great scholars.

This scene really dumbfounded the two great scholars!

"Friend Ye is amazing, Cheng admires him!"

The second sage Cheng Zhushou bowed respectfully, he was completely convinced!

Not only is his poetry brilliant!

How come his hands-on skills are so strong!

This is simply a monster!

"Friend Ye, you are amazing! To be honest, you should be the Minister of the six ministries!"

Kong Zhongzhi also sighed from the bottom of his heart!

Being able to become the top scholar and to win the Imperial Music Bureau proves that Ye Qianxuan can be the Minister of Rites!

Being able to make money and fill the national treasury proves that Ye Qianxuan can be the Minister of Revenue!

The ability to invent all kinds of new gadgets proves that Ye Qianxuan can be the Minister of Works!

The fact that he could write a military book like "Wujing Zongyao" proves that Ye Qianxuan can be the Minister of War!

As for the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice, anyone with a brain can do these jobs, no ability is required at all!

Therefore, Kong Zhongzhi believes that Ye Qianxuan is a rare all-rounder!

"Senior Sub-Sage, Dean Kong, thank you for your kind words!"

Ye Qianxuan bowed, then suddenly remembered something and asked:

"By the way, the two of you came to me today..."

The two great scholars came to visit together, it couldn't be just to inform me about the court meeting in the evening!

Cheng Zhushou and Kong Zhongzhi looked at each other, neither of them willing to speak first.

In the end, Kong Zhongzhi finally couldn't bear the pressure from Cheng Zhushou, so he could only say awkwardly:

"The thin clouds make tricks, the flying stars spread hatred, and the silver man is far away in darkness. When gold, wind, jade and dew meet, they will defeat countless people in the world.

Tenderness is like water, and the good time is like a dream. I can't help but look back at the Magpie Bridge on the way home. If the love between two people is long-lasting, why should we be together day and night?

"Is this poem your recent masterpiece?!"

Ye Qianxuan nodded affirmatively: "Yes."

After hearing this, both of them showed a look of deep sorrow:

"Such a masterpiece was actually given to a demon envoy wearing embroidered clothes!"

“What a waste of natural resources!”

Ye Qianxuan was speechless. If he hadn't had this poem at that time, he would have been stuck there.

However, as the Minister of Rites, Kong Zhongzhi could not have been unaware of the situation at that time, so Ye Qianxuan continued to listen to what they were about to say.

"Ahem... I heard that this poem, Young Master Ye, hasn't been given a name yet?!"

Cheng Zhushou finally revealed his true colors and asked with a smile:

"How about calling it 'Zhu Shouzhongzhi and Qian Xuan's Thoughts on the Jiaofangsi'?"

Ye Qianxuan was completely dumbfounded.

Good guy!

You two old Bidens!

In order to give a good poem a title, he even gave up his reputation as a great scholar who never entered the Jiaofang Bureau?!

Ye Qianxuan really underestimated the appeal of a good poem to great scholars!

"Very good... very good... but at the court meeting tonight, I still hope that the two great scholars can say a few good words for me!"

Anyway, I copied this poem myself, and Xiangning is dead, so I might as well agree to it and do you a favor.

Cheng Zhushou and Kong Zhongzhi both smiled like chrysanthemums and praised him repeatedly:

"Easy to say!"

"Easy to say!"