Chapter 561

Besides that, there was a square wooden box, which was hollowed out, and there were also many small puppets.

When Wu Yi saw these, his eyes were clearly stunned for a moment.

"Preserved very well."

He said this blankly.

And these words he said made Lin Xia, who was not far away, completely confused.

"Preserved very well, what does that mean? Could it be that this is some kind of cultural relic?"

"This is a 'Jili Guche' (odometer carriage) from the Han Dynasty."

When Lin Xia asked this, Wu Yi didn't answer, but Fang Yang opened his mouth and said it.

Han Dynasty?

But it looked like junk, with nothing special about it.

Lin Xia's voice was small, and the words she said were only heard by herself.

"These wheels and the seating position are constructed of wood, and the connections inside are made of bronze—"

Even if he hadn't heard what Lin Xia was saying, Fang Yang still explained very naturally.

When he said these words, his tone was always very calm.

It made people very easily believe every word he said.

"I remember it was invented by Zhang Heng, right?"

Wu Yi suddenly spoke up at this time.

Fang Yang nodded: "That's right, it was invented by Zhang Heng, and it was a very unique measuring tool in ancient times, called the Jili Guche."

"Since it's a measuring tool, how was it used?"

Lin Xia, after all, specialized in porcelain, and she had a little bit of knowledge about other history, and she knew about the Jili Guche, but she wasn't very clear about the details.

"In modern society, cars are equipped with automatic odometers, so you can see how far the vehicle has traveled at a glance, but this device for automatically calculating mileage was already invented and applied in the Han Dynasty 2,000 years ago."

"As for the Jili Guche, it is divided into two layers."

"Each layer actually has a wooden figure. If the carriage travels one 'li', the wooden figure on the lower layer will beat a drum once."

"If the carriage travels 10 'li', the wooden figure on the upper layer will strike a bell once."

"The driver only needs to record the number of drum beats and bell strikes to calculate the distance the carriage has traveled."

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——【Ancestors: You generation is just stupid, and you dare to question me?】

467. Thieves standing on the shoulders of giants! The bootlickers who forget their roots! (Seeking full subscription)

——【Before, there were still people making a fuss, insisting on distinguishing between modern and ancient times, thinking that modern people are more capable than ancient people. Take a look now; can you still say that the idea of building cars belongs to modern people? That it has nothing to do with ancient times?】

——【In ancient times, information just didn't circulate well, but they had what they should have; it's just that some methods might have been relatively backward.】

——【Yes, it's just that information circulated slowly.】

——【Ancient people had high-dimensional perception; they didn't need signals to observe the world.】

——【Is this what is called 'divine sense'?】

——【When the 'Malan' flowers bloomed, there were no TVs or mobile phones, but the whole country knew about it, so there was no such thing as information not circulating.】

——【Yes, if information didn't circulate in ancient times, how did Qin Shi Huang unify the script and weights and measures? It's not necessarily faster now than it was then.】

——【Even if I don't particularly understand some things, I wouldn't say things like 'information didn't circulate'.】

——【So, the development of China is evidence-based, achieved through bit-by-bit improvement, while Western development is sudden, leap-frog creation.】

——【Song and Ming maritime technology, the Yongle Encyclopedia was translated in large quantities, and then the Renaissance happened.】

——【Civilization cannot appear for no reason; they all have traces to follow.】

——【Some content of the Yongle Encyclopedia can now be found on websites by everyone. For example, it contains countless special skills: physics, chemistry, astronomy, navigation, medicine, etc. And those equations and astronomical calendars are I don't know how many years ahead of the West. When the Dutch East India Company was running rampant globally, their professional warships and armed merchant ships were only a few hundred tons, at most 1,000 tons. When Zheng He went to the Western Oceans, our ships were aircraft carrier-sized.】

——【Ah, where is that guy who kept saying that modern capabilities are stronger? If he had seen the Yongle Encyclopedia that Fang Yang dug up and had a little understanding of the content inside, I guess he wouldn't be able to say some things at all.】

——【That guy's mouth was too foul, so he was blacklisted by the Cameraman brother.】

——【So he was already blacklisted. Then I think that's great. No wonder I feel the air has suddenly become much fresher.】

——【Actually, a lot of foreign technology comes from our ancient China. They stand on the shoulders of giants, so of course, they can easily develop some high-tech.】

——【I see that horoscopes are very popular now, and they say they come from abroad, but in fact, what they copied is clearly our Zodiac.】

——【A certain royal family member in the Ming Dynasty who didn't love proper business but loved idle matters completed his miscellaneous studies book, which was then taken to Europe by a caravan from the Western Regions. Only then did European mathematics begin to advance by leaps and bounds. Oh, the miscellaneous studies also included the principles of musical instruments; the principle of the piano comes from this book. What's ridiculous is that some bootlickers now actually forget their roots!】

——【I have always felt that the Great Treasure Ships of the maritime voyages back then were very great.】

——【The Treasure Ship was about 150 meters long and about 40 meters wide. This ship would be quite huge even if placed in modern times.】

——【And they talk about the Renaissance; without 'rise', where does the 're-' come from? Some people talk about Aristotle and sheepskin books. How many sheep would it take to write millions of words? The whole of Europe didn't use sheepskin for anyone else, just supplying it to him alone, right?】

——【This isn't even theft; it's just giving it away for free.】

468. The ancestors were too lazy to apply for patents! Better to just do archaeology! (Seeking full subscription)

——【What's ridiculous is that they also boast that it's theirs, and they make a fuss about patents at every turn. Our ancestors invented so much, yet not one of them ever applied for a patent.】

——【Tsk tsk, the Great Qing ruining the country is no joke.】

——【Is the one who invented this Jili Guche the same Zhang Heng who invented the seismoscope? I heard the seismoscope was even removed from textbooks.】

——【It is indeed Zhang Heng who invented the seismoscope, and the seismoscope is indeed recorded. The reason it was removed from textbooks is because of the image. The seismoscope image we see in books is the internal structure imitated according to records in the last century. Now there are new research results that are closer to the records than the original one, so the original image was removed. Removing it is not denying it; it's just that modern people don't have the ability to build it completely.】

——【Even if there's no way to build it, it shouldn't be removed.】

——【Because that wasn't the seismoscope Zhang Heng built, so there's no problem even if it's removed.】

The live broadcast room was very harmonious this time, and Fang Yang was satisfied with this: "Ancient people were not feudal; they were even very good at thinking. If you call that feudal, then it can only be the Qing Dynasty, not ancient times."

"Yes, after 1840 it was modern times, and feudal refers to the system, not the era." Wu Yi, at least, was a researcher of cultural relics and had his own set of views.

"At that time, there were very few forms of entertainment, and desires were also very low. More time was spent on thinking, unlike now where food, clothing, housing, and transportation weigh you down, and you must try every means to earn money for a living just to survive. This way, there isn't as much energy to busy oneself with other meaningful things." Lin Xia also couldn't help but sigh and say: "Doing something for a dream is really very expensive. Fortunately, my family is not short of money, so I could calm down and do research on ice-crackle patterns for so many years."

Speaking of this, Lin Xia couldn't help but recall many things related to herself.

When she insisted on restoring the ice-crackle technology, many people actually didn't understand her behavior.

Fortunately, her family had always been very supportive of her doing this.

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——【Things without physical evidence are called legends. Someone says Lu Ban built a wooden bird that could fly in the sky for three days, while the most advanced modern drones have only recently been able to use solar energy as power.】

——【The seismoscope can't even be reassembled now after being taken apart. You think the ancients weren't apes; the difference between them and you is just the accumulation of knowledge.】

——【The seismoscope has now been proven to be useless.】

——【To the person above, you are so funny. The seismoscope has been proven useless now? What are you using to prove it? A real seismoscope has never been found, okay?】

——【It's useless now, but that doesn't prove it was useless for the ancestors back then. If it were useless, why would the ancestors build it?】

——【The seismoscope is for measuring the direction of an earthquake, not for predicting when an earthquake will occur.】

——【It only proves that the modern restoration is useless, and the ancient one wasn't passed down, so nobody knows what the structure was.】

——【Actually, many things now have prototypes in ancient times; they are just more advanced in kinetic energy and materials. For example, film machines, fans, air conditioners, refrigerators, telephones, etc. The most awesome thing is the Xuanyuan Guide Carriage which comes with a navigation function; some people even wanted to build rockets to fly to the moon, but they fell halfway and died. People now think they are very capable, but they are just taking advantage of the passage of time and the accumulation of experience. If you really think you are smart, then restore the things the ancients built thousands of years ago one by one first.】

469. Renaissance? Without 'rise', where does the 're-' come from? (Seeking full subscription)

——【99.9% of ancient things can be replicated now. You often see exhibits in museums with a bracket containing three words: 'replica'. You underestimate the capabilities of modern people too much, but 99% of things in modern society cannot be replicated by ancient people, including a plastic basin or a high-precision screw.】

——【You have to understand one thing: modern capability doesn't mean modern people are more capable than before, but that modern people also stand on the shoulders of their predecessors. Without the accumulation and error-correction of predecessors in all aspects of life, the development of later generations would be much slower.】

——【Without the inventions and discoveries of predecessors, where would today's life come from? Do you think modern things appear out of thin air? Can you just sit there doing nothing and imagine them into existence?】

——【I've already said that the vast majority of ancient items can be replicated now. Of course, if you want to argue for the sake of arguing, then you win.】

——【I've also told you that many things cannot be replicated, and some are just replicas of the appearance. If you are interested, look more and do some archaeology. I don't mean to argue with you; I just don't want what you say to mislead others.】

——【Stop arguing. Actually, everyone has their own logic and their own understanding. Accomplishing what predecessors couldn't is inherently a manifestation of intelligence. Going from a model to flying into the sky is a qualitative leap.】

——【Ah, you are all making a fuss, but I am here studying the Jili Guche alone. The core principle of the ancient odometer carriage is the reduction gear train. The small gear meshes with the large gear on the axle. When the carriage travels one 'li', the large gear turns once, driving the small figure to beat the drum.】

——【Small figure? Is the person you mentioned above a real person? Does one carriage have to pay the wages of 7 people?】

——【I really hate those blind people. Wooden figure, wooden figure—can't you understand these two words? This is a mechanical device.】

——【I find that some of these comments are overly inferior, and some are overly arrogant. This cultural relic actually has no other meaning; it just tells us that the ancients were not as stupid as we think. Many things, the ancients could think of and invent, just not as advanced as us. Actually, our IQ is the same as that of primitive people; it's just that our knowledge is broader than theirs. Things we can think of in a flash of inspiration, they could actually think of too.】

——【You are simply joking. The human brain is always evolving. As knowledge continues to increase, the speed of evolution also gets faster. My god, to actually say the IQ is the same as primitive people—how ignorant must one be?】

——【Evolution my ass. It's always evolution theory. If the brain and wisdom could evolve every day, would the earth still be jumping around on the earth for thousands of years? Civilization heritage and the accumulation of knowledge are just accumulation. The knowledge you learn now is just passed down from generation to generation through discovery, creation, and verification. Standing on the shoulders of countless predecessors and criticizing them every day—do you think that's appropriate? If no one taught you how much 1+1 equals, I guess you wouldn't know for your whole life. Don't talk about evolution every day. If the ancients were really that stupid, you would still be living in primitive society today, gnawing on raw meat and not knowing if you'd have a meal tomorrow.】

——【Some people really can go and learn. Evolution is a very long process. The IQ of humans 5,000 years ago is the same as that of humans today. If you put ancient people and modern people in the same position to learn, maybe you really wouldn't be as good as the ancients.】

469. Is this going to hit the Emperor? The nine clans are ecstatic! (Seeking full subscription)

While the people in the live broadcast room were having a series of discussions, Fang Yang and Wu Yi were still continuously clearing out the warehouse.