"Your Majesty, when engineering is developed to the extreme, it is indeed possible to achieve interstellar flight. However, there is still a long way to go. It could take decades, or even centuries!"
Li Zexuan was speechless for a while. He looked into Li Er's burning eyes and replied.
In his previous life, the United States of America, which had been established for more than a hundred years, relied on its advanced and complete industrial system to launch the Apollo Program, which started in May 1961 and ended in December 1972. They achieved the first moon landing in history.
The entire Apollo Program lasted for about eleven years and cost more than twenty-five billion dollars. It accounted for about 0.57% of the United States' GDP and about 20% of the United States' total scientific and technological research and development funds. At the peak of the project, there were more than twenty thousand companies, more than two hundred universities, and more than eighty research institutions that participated in the project. The total number of people involved was more than three hundred thousand. It could be said that the United States of America had mobilized the entire country to complete the first moon landing project!
Even a powerful country like the United States of America had done so. For a feudal dynasty like the Tang Dynasty, which did not even have a complete industrial system, to complete space travel was tantamount to a fantasy! Not to mention a few decades, even a hundred or two hundred years would be difficult!
"A few decades? A few hundred years? "
Li Er's eyes suddenly dimmed. He muttered, "How I wish to live for a few hundred more years!"
Li Zexuan thought to himself. If Li Er had heard Han Lei's "Borrow Another Five Hundred Years from the Heavens", would he also sing a song to his heart's content?
Feng Zhidai, who was standing behind Li Er, could not help but feel shocked when he heard the conversation between Li Er and Li Zexuan.
According to his official position, Feng Zhidai was actually not qualified to stand here tonight. However, as the vice-minister of the Guard, he had the responsibility of accompanying the Emperor. Moreover, for some reason, Li Er seemed to be afraid that he would forget and specially sent someone to inform him to accompany the Emperor at Yanhuang College tonight. Hence, he came.
Although he had not used the binoculars before, from Li Er's expression and words, he could roughly imagine what Li Er was describing. After hearing Li Zexuan's reply, he could not help but feel a huge wave of emotions surging in his heart!
This was because Li Zexuan did not give Li Er a direct negative answer. Instead, he said that it would take decades or centuries!
This was a mission that seemed impossible to ordinary people, but Li Zexuan had turned it into a goal that could be achieved. This had completely overturned Feng Zhidai's understanding of the world!
During his stay in Chang 'an, he had collected a lot of information about Li Zexuan. The more he read, the more surprised he became. He was even more confused about Li Zexuan.
Tonight was the first time he came to Yanhuang College. The majestic college was like an immortal palace standing on the top of a mountain. However, Li Zexuan, a mortal younger than him, seemed to have the ability to surpass immortals. He could talk about interstellar flight, which completely broke his understanding.
Feng Zhidai felt that Li Zexuan's ability was even more terrifying than the so-called martial arts of the Grandmaster Realm! He could win in terms of individual bravery, but what could he use to fight against this kind of power that he couldn't understand? If he made an enemy of such a person, he wouldn't even know how he died.
At this moment, Feng Zhidai was deeply grateful for his original decision. Li Zexuan was very difficult to defeat, and with the help of someone like Li Zexuan, Feng Zhidai felt that if the Feng family had the slightest disloyalty, they would definitely die a horrible death. At the same time, he also rejoiced for his father's wise decision. Earlier on, some of the tribes under the Feng family had tried to persuade Feng Ang to establish himself as the king, but Feng Ang had refused. Now it seemed that the older the ginger, the spicier it was!
At this time, Cheng Yaojin had already come down from the platform where the telescope was placed. The other ministers went up to look at the moon according to their ranks and qualifications. Old Cheng kept muttering things like "there are no fairies" and "no energy". He looked very disappointed.
At this moment, Li Er had already recovered a little. He whispered to Li Zexuan earnestly, "Develop Yanhuang College well. Although I won't have the chance to go up and see it in my lifetime, I hope that one day, my descendants can jump out of this land and go to other places to see it!"
Li Zexuan inexplicably felt a toothache. Old Li said it so lightly, but he didn't want to dampen Li Er's enthusiasm, so he replied, "Yes, Your Majesty! We will definitely not disappoint Your Majesty! "
"Mm!"
Li Er nodded and looked up at the sky. He couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the vast starry sky he had seen earlier. That scene would probably stay in his mind for a long time, and he wouldn't be able to forget it!
"Before Pangu died, he turned into the sun and moon. His left eye was the sun, and his right eye was the moon. The Mountain and Sea Scripture: Western Scripture of the Great Wilderness also states that Emperor Jun's wife, Chang Xi, gave birth to two moons. At this time, there were rabbits and toads in the moon. But from what I see, this moon seems to be barren! Sure enough, everything in this world is seen with your own eyes! "
(In ancient legends, the sun and moon were transformed from the eyes of Pangu. The Mountain and Sea Scripture also states that Emperor Jun's wife, Chang Xi, gave birth to twelve moons. Emperor Jun was a mythical figure in the Shang Dynasty.)
After looking at the moon with a telescope, Old Fang couldn't help but sigh.
"Hey! I say, Old Fang, if there are no fairies on the moon, then there are no fairies. You are complaining so much here. Aren't you afraid that sister-in-law will … Hehe! "
Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but make fun of Fang Xuanling after listening to him for a long time.
Everyone roared with laughter. Few people didn't know that Fang Xuanling was afraid of his wife.
"You! Cheng Zhijie, if you continue to talk nonsense, do you believe that I won't go to your house and tell sister-in-law what you muttered before? "
Fang Xuanling's face turned red, and he pointed at Cheng Yaojin angrily.
As the saying goes, don't expose a person's shortcomings. Cheng Yaojin was too immoral.
While these people were making fun of each other, there was never a shortage of people around the telescope. The courtiers who had never used it came up one by one to "try it". After about two hours, almost all the courtiers had tried the telescope. At this time, a middle-aged man in a Daoist robe walked out of the crowd. He had a jade-like complexion and a graceful demeanor. It was Li Chunfeng!
He was only a minor official in the Imperial Historian Bureau. Logically speaking, he wasn't qualified to be here tonight.
He heard from the Imperial Historian Bureau that Li Er was going to bring courtiers above the third rank to the Cloud Mountain to use Li Zexuan's newly made telescope to observe the moon. He was curious, so he asked Li Er personally for a spot.
When Li Chunfeng met Li Er for the first time this year, he left a deep impression on Li Er with his knowledge of the calendar. When Li Er heard that Li Chunfeng wanted to go to the Academy to observe the moon, he thought about it and agreed.
At this moment, seeing that this man in a Daoist robe also wanted to use the telescope, Li Zexuan was curious. He couldn't help but ask, "May I know who you are …"
Li Chunfeng smiled and bowed. "I am Huang Guanzi. Greetings, Marquis Yong 'an ~!"
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