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Chapter 524 Sky Garden
Li Qingyuan has been busy playing with life-like figures these past two days, otherwise Yan Fei wouldn't have time to go out, right?

For men, although some things are indeed very important, sometimes they can also find some substitutes.

After all, even a physique like his has the so-called sage time. You can't really exercise from morning to night, right? Even if you don't die of exhaustion, you will get calluses, right?
It just so happened that a group of Mohists came these days, so Li Qingyuan simply went to play with the Laishi model with them!

There are actually only a few pleasures for men, but it is undeniable that every Chinese citizen has a deep interest in building his own home.

You know, even in historical mode, the Qin Dynasty was able to build world wonders like the Great Wall, not to mention the burned Afang Palace!
What's more, in this world of Qin's Moon, both the productivity and the creativity of the Mohists were far ahead of their time. Not to mention the flying mechanical city finally created by the Mohists, the mirage created by Gongshu Jia for the Yin-Yang School alone was enough to amaze everyone.

After all, even the largest aircraft carrier in later generations would appear extremely small in front of a mirage. Given the size of a mirage, it should be easy for it to sail to America!

Of course, the Mirage is a treasure ship that was built after the King of Qin unified the six kingdoms. Now Li Qingyuan only has the Tang Kingdom under his command, which is definitely not enough to build the Mirage.

However, he just wanted to rebuild the Zhou Emperor's Palace, which was naturally a piece of cake compared to the scale of the project like the Mirage.

"So King Tang wants to build a hot spring here?"

The short old man stroked his beard and asked Li Qingyuan.

On the table in front of the two men were sand tables of various pavilions and towers. Whenever Li Qingyuan made a request, the old man would immediately create a small model with such efficiency that one could not even see the speed of his hands and place it on the table.

To be honest, even a 3D printer is not as fast as this old man's hands. He can completely carve out any wooden module in just a few minutes, and can even paint it with the corresponding color!
This old man is the most powerful veteran of Mohist mechanisms, Master Ban. He is the current leader of Mohist mechanisms, and the Flying Mechanism City was built by him!
The mechanical engineering of the Mohist school has always been based on non-aggression, that is, trying to produce some daily necessities, while the mechanical engineering of the Gongshu school is mainly based on hegemony, and mainly produces killing machines.

As the saying goes, heretics are more hateful than pagans. Both schools are involved in mechanical engineering. Not only do they have different philosophies, but their founders, Mozi and Lu Ban, were enemies themselves. For hundreds of years, the two schools have been incompatible.

So after hearing that this time Qin had appointed Wang Jian as the supreme general and that Gongshu Jia would also join the army in the attack, the Mohist group came with their own food without being told to do so!
In the words of Master Ban, no matter who is against Gongshujia, my Mohist School will definitely come to help.

Originally, Master Ban was planning to help Luoyang City upgrade its defense system. Although the Mohist mechanical technology was said not to be aimed at killing, it was only used to produce some civilian facilities.

But!
It's okay to add a few steel plates to our tractors and use them as tanks, right?

The gas tanks we produce are actually more powerful than mortars when fired, so there’s nothing wrong with that, right?
Anyway, if I say it is for civilian use, then it is for civilian use. As for how the customers use it after buying it, that is the customer's problem and has nothing to do with me!
What Master Ban didn't expect was that the King of Tang didn't even think about strengthening the city defenses, but instead asked him to help build a house.
Although the core of Mohism is to create tools that make people more convenient and comfortable, is it really a good idea that when facing a powerful enemy, you only think about building palaces instead of strengthening the city defenses?
How about we wait until the war is over before building it?
Master Ban actually had no objection to Li Qingyuan's approach. Although Mohism emphasized universal love, just like the Confucianism's so-called benevolence and righteousness, they only recognized a small number of social elites. Those refugees who didn't even have their own land and houses, or the savages living outside the city, were not considered human beings at all!
As a king, there is nothing wrong with building a palace, even if it means the people's houses are destroyed and their property is ransacked, or hundreds or thousands of laborers are exhausted to death, it is all justified. Even the Mohists would not think that the monarch has lost his virtue because of such a small matter.

Or, in other words, since building the palace only killed a few thousand people, he was considered a very benevolent monarch?

At first, Master Ban asked to strengthen the city defense first and then consider building the palace. However, after Li Qingyuan accompanied him around the city wall of Luoyang and provided Master Ban with a blue fire Gatling gun, the leader of the Mohist organization said nothing.

There was no way around it. Luoyang City itself had been reinforced by the Zhou Emperor for hundreds of years and was considered a famous city in the world. More than ten years ago, after the Qin State conquered Luoyang, it also asked Gongshu Jia to reinforce it.

Even though he has always been at odds with Gongshujia, Master Ban said that the city defense facilities built by Gongshujia are absolutely as solid as a rock. Even if he wants to find fault, there is nothing to strengthen in a short period of time.

Master Ban said that it was really a stroke of luck that the King of Tang was able to capture Luoyang. You should know that there were more than a dozen kinds of lethal weapons on the walls of Luoyang just to deal with the army. If the Qin army had not been chased like dead dogs all the way and had no energy and courage to resist, even if Li Qingyuan used inexplicable means to blow up the East Gate, the defenders could still use the defensive facilities in the city to massacre the Tang army.

If the Qin army could have exerted half of its combat effectiveness at that time, it would not have been so easy for the Tang army to occupy Luoyang.

“Yes, can it be made?”

Looking at the palace model in front of him, Li Qingyuan couldn't help but ask curiously.

The model this guy made looks almost like a fairy palace. Not to mention the main building that is dozens of meters high, just the hot spring hanging in the sky goes against common sense of physics no matter how you look at it!
The so-called Hanging Gardens of Babylon are just an adjective, but if this thing were really built, it would really become a Hanging Gardens.

"Of course you can, but it will take some effort!"

Master Ban said that this was not a big deal, and the King of Tang in front of him was much easier to talk to than those other messy kings.

You have to know that although Mohism is a famous school of thought in the world, those kings and nobles are not human beings. They always say things that are impossible to achieve, and then force the craftsmen to do it. If they fail to do it, they will kill people. It is simply unreasonable.

Master Ban said that someone like King Tang, who was able to discuss technology with him and also respected technology, was simply his soulmate!
(End of this chapter)