Xinshun 1730

Chapter 801 The Romance of the Times
Slowly falling from the sky, Tian Zhenyi wiped the corner of her mouth subconsciously when she heard the voice of the people below became clearer.

I adjusted my mood, as if nothing happened just now.

When it really landed, it was the same as it was before going to heaven, with a smile on its face, holding on to Liu Yu's hand, and not asking anyone to follow, the two walked slowly to the gate of the Academy of Sciences.

If others come to see it, someone will lead the tour and introduce it.However, since Liu Yu came, and the people inside heard Liu Yu said that they were busy with their own business, they all dispersed to get busy.

"If you only look at landscape architecture, although it has a different taste, it's the same. Today I will show you the real scenery. The key to the word scenery is how to understand it. If you put it another way, it will be different passion."

Holding Tian Zhenyi's hand, Liu Yu walked towards a test field in the distance while saying such and such things.

The wheat in the distance has already matured, and the yellow tassels are occasionally blown by the wind. Although they are not as wide as the wheat waves, they seem to bend down and bow, which is really interesting.

Tian Zhenyi is not the kind of person who doesn't distinguish between grains, even if she really doesn't, she will at most mistake leeks and wheat seedlings, but she will definitely not recognize these long ears of wheat.

She has read a lot, and knows that the wheat field is only one stone per mu at this time.If you get two or three stones, you will have a good harvest.

Just look at the wheat fields in the Academy of Sciences, the tassels are full, and the yield per mu is definitely not low.

She was right, the yield per mu is indeed not low, and the saltpeter is nitrogen and potassium, and Nanyang bezoar is phosphorus, and it is supplied by "natural chemical fertilizers", how can it be low?

Ordinary people may also use dung, but if one mu of field really needs enough dung to grow crops, how can a family pull it out?If there are cattle and horses, how can there be only three or five acres of land?

In such a comparison, Gao is the true meaning.

She thought that Liu Yu was going to introduce this wheat field, but she didn't want Liu Yu to just mention it casually: "Everyone knows that saltpeter can be used as gunpowder, but they don't know that it can also be used as fertilizer. The Academy of Sciences has already learned one of the samadhis about increasing production. Now there is no way to produce saltpeter fertilizer. It is not feasible to know the reason, and there is nothing to see for the time being."

While speaking, he bypassed the wheat field and walked to a pea field behind the wheat field.

Tian Zhenyi has eaten pea soup, pea cake, fresh pea horns, or crisp and tender pea horn fried meat, or pea sprouts.

But facing these clumps with purple or white flowers; or plants that climbed or did not climb, she really didn't know what it was.

When Liu Yu told her that this was Pea, Tian Zhenyi let out a cry of surprise.

Then bent down and looked down at the pea flower.

This is what Liu Yu said, the different scenery that the two of them can see.

The same pea, in the eyes of different people, has different feelings.

Just like those students in Jinghai Palace, who were mixed with other people, approaching Jieshi to look at the sea, and suddenly someone shouted, "Look, it's true that the mast is first exposed, and then the hull is exposed", even if they don't know each other, they can't see each other. He will definitely go up to him and ask if he is a senior or a junior.And if it's not someone from the "inside circle", they might look confused, wondering what are they excited about?

This kind of common experience, common memory, and common experience can not only be used to shape community memory, such as the sentence of court jade liquid wine, or chatting about ten yuan.

Likewise, it can shape shared experiences of friendship, love, memory, or excitement that others cannot comprehend.Just like the scenery when two people revisited the old place many years later when they fell in love, there are always some common memories that others cannot insert.

This pea is a kind of romance between Liu Yu and Tian Zhenyi.

Now in the Academy of Sciences, some people have believed in Liu Yumo's reformed "pea" story: Fuxi and Nuwa's double helix, yin and yang conjoining yang for manifestation.These are all ready-made stories, just put them in and make them up.

Of course, Tian Zhenyi also heard Liu Yu's story about peas, and she was fascinated by it, thinking that this is the real way to reveal the nature of the world. Who would have thought that there is such a truth in the world?

Dominant, recessive, free combination, separation and reorganization.She had heard a lot about these things, but it was the first time she had really seen blooming, specially cared for, and experimental peas.

So when Liu Yu said, this is the pea from Pea, Tian Zhenyi cried out in surprise.

If other people were present, I'm afraid it would be difficult to understand. Most of them think that the people in the Duke's mansion are really surprised to see the vegetable garden.Just like the Westerners saw cormorants fishing; the Beijingers saw Westerners combing their hair with sesame oil.

Tian Zhenyi leaned over and greeted Liu Yu with her hands back: "Look, look, this is purple, this is white..."

Pea flowers are not pretty.

Not to mention the comparison with roses and peonies, it is seven or eight points worse than ordinary wild flowers.

But these clumps of pea flowers made Tian Zhenyi feel unspeakably romantic.

This is pea flower.

But it is also comparable to stories like Pangu opened the sky and Nuwa created man.Is there anything more romantic in the world than Nuwa creating human beings?
The pea flower in Tian Zhenyi's eyes is not a poor, ugly pea flower that is inferior to wild flowers.

It is a romance in which manpower has already dabbled in the power of gods: gods can make people, and they can make people beautiful and ugly.Although it is only a pea now, one day, human power will be able to rival the gods, controlling the power of beauty and ugliness in life and death.

The pea flower that has never been seen before, accompanied by the common memory of the two, made Tian Zhenyi linger for a long time, feeling happy in her heart, just like the feeling when she begged her family to learn riding and shooting and hit the bull's-eye for the first time when she was a child.

After being excited for a while, Tian Zhenyi thought of some scenes when Liu Yu told her the pea story. This kind of story related to the mating of offspring does not necessarily have to be told in a serious way. The joke about double eyelids and single eyelids made her face blush slightly for a moment.

Recalling the memories of the past, feeling the romance of manpower and gods, Tian Zhenyi suddenly said: "Third brother, why don't you ask the Portuguese to send a few more lions to accompany the tigers. If it can be done, it will shock the capital, and it will be easy to borrow at that time." By chance, let more people know about this pea story?"

"Ordinary people don't care about peas, and they may not be willing to read many words. But if it is taught in drama, performances, juggling, strange things, and strange beasts, wouldn't it be easier to spread?"

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Good way. It's also simple. After a while, I can do it in Songjiang Mansion. Just ask the Westerners to get some lions, and then buy some tigers from Nanyang Shendu. It doesn't cost much. At most, a group of people impeach me for being extravagant and wasteful, feeding tigers and leopards with meat without being full. I don’t worry about having too many debts, and I don’t feel itchy when I have too many lice. I’m not guilty or not, it’s not the matter itself.”

Tian Zhenyi understood what Liu Yu meant. The same thing, if ignored, would be empty; if discussed, it would be nothing more than weight.

Whether it is discussed or not depends on the matter itself.

If it was the past, Tian Zhenyi would inevitably be in a bad mood and a little worried.But now that he understands Liu Yu's thoughts, he sees it lightly. He stretched out his hand to hold Liu Yu, and said with a smile: "Anyway, crime or innocence, both come from people. I then thought of what the third brother said about the Yongle Year of the previous dynasty, Dedicating a giraffe as a unicorn. That being the case, why not collect some rare birds and animals and present them. Firstly, to let Chaozhong know that the outside world is strange, and secondly, it is the same anyway, so there is another potential crime, which is not to be afraid of. gone."

While speaking, he slowly moved away from Pea, where people began to spy on the power of the gods. When there were other people around, he stopped saying the words that were enough to kill his head.

Liu Yu took Tian Zhenyi's hand and slowly led her to the Steam Engine Research Institute.

Smelling the smell of soot in the yard and the noise of machines, Tian Zhenyi wrinkled her nose involuntarily, but she didn't cover it with a handkerchief.

Liu Yu did not take her to see the actual steam engine.

The actual steam engine, nothing to see.Because it is not intuitive enough.

Instead, he took her to a special exhibition hall, where all the models and theoretical display machines that were either exquisite or divination were exquisite.

Or made of glass, in fact, it is hard to even have the power to tear apart a cockroach.

It's just transparent glass, which allows people to intuitively see the boiling of water and the movement of pistons.

Turn those complicated principles into intuitive displays.

Some people say that transparent glass has made great contributions to the development of science, and there is indeed some truth.

In addition to the theoretical display machine of the steam engine made of glass, there are also many models of small things made by craftsmen.

Small trains, small steam pumps...

And some weird ideas, such as "tractors" that rely on steam engines to turn and pull ropes and pulleys to plow the land-the steam engines are placed in the middle of the field and do not move.The plowshares are tied by ropes and turned and pulled instead of cattle.

Similar ideas abound.

But at this time, this is not a brain hole, but an innovation.

Just like three-eyed guns, multi-barreled guns, bowl guns, big guns, leather guns...these firearms that appeared but were eventually eliminated.

Unless there is a prophet, who knows that they must have gone astray?

From Liu Yu's point of view, this "tractor" must be an evil way.

But in fact, this is the closest one to practical use among all the brain holes at this time.But the real "right way" tractor is now the most unlikely fantasy.

Tian Zhenyi looked at the sliding pistons in the glass tubes and the rising steam, and was amazed.

She also supported Liu Yu and told many stories about these things, and saw great potential in them, and believed that one day, this thing would become popular in the world.

She also knew some other things that Liu Yu had said. Seeing these strange machines and brain holes at this time, Tian Zhenyi finally understood what Liu Yu was worried about sometimes.

At this time there were only the two of them in the room, and Tian Zhenyi didn't hide anything anymore, and said bluntly: "I seem to understand the worries of the third brother."

"This thing will be popular in the world. If it is popular in the world, the world will be afraid of chaos."

"Forging iron with this thing is several times better than people. What will the blacksmith use?"

"Weaving cloth with this thing is several times better than people. What will the weaver do?"

"However, since this thing is available, if it is not used, then it is even more wrong. It is a wasteful act. Although blacksmiths are unemployed and weavers are hungry, more people can use iron and wear cloth."

"It's both good and bad. The third brother thinks it's good, but he doesn't want it to be bad. He's naturally sad."

Liu Yu shook his head.

"What I worry about is never this matter. The Qin law was strict, so there were Chen She, Wu Guang, and the early Han Dynasty. It was natural to recuperate and live. The Mongolian people were cruel, so the Red Scarf Army rebelled, drove out the Tartars, and abandoned the bad government. . The bad ones can always be fixed.”

"What I am worried about is precisely that someone thinks that this thing is both good and bad, and out of good intentions, carry out the prohibition order."

"So some things are delayed, not because I am worried about the disadvantages of this thing. On the contrary, I think this thing is too good, so I delay doing it, waiting for the opportunity, and it will become popular in the world."

"Zhenyi, just close your eyes."

"listen……"

Tian Zhenyi slowly closed her eyes, no longer thinking about it, and listened for a while, only to hear the mechanical sound of rattling, occasionally mixed with the sound of steaming and the dancing of flames.

After a while, I heard Liu Yu say something.

"Listen to the voice of this era."

"The sound of steaming water is like humming."

"This whining sound is the vehicles driven by the running steam engine on the railway track after another in the future."

"There is no need for fodder, horses, manpower, or trackers. You only need to accumulate some coal and water at a distance."

"The track is vertical and horizontal, extending from the capital to the north to the white mountains and black waters; winding to the west to the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties; facing south, Baiyue Jiaozhi, half a month away, just like the capital to Shandong."

"Wheat from Liaodong, rice from Jiangnan, cotton from the Western Regions, and fish from the East China Sea. At that time, you can say with a smile that Tai Shigong must have never seen this thing, and he dared not think of it, because there is no such thing as a hundred miles away." The truth about selling woodcutters and not selling woodcutters for thousands of miles?"

"At that time, the landless people will take this car and go to the frontier to cultivate; the merchants who buy and sell will take this car and sell it thousands of miles away."

"There is a whining sound, and the black smoke is thick. Wherever it goes, it is no different from the capital. How magnificent?"

Tian Zhenyi leaned on those models and imagined such magnificence in her mind.But then, Liu Yu changed his painting style to gloomy again.

"This whining sound is the cry of countless people in the future, and the wailing of countless babies and children!"

"Soot, steam, and the roar of machinery. The speed of spinning, weaving, blacksmithing, and shoemaking is several times or ten times faster than that of manpower..."

"Peasant families count on the few catties of cotton at home to be spun into yarn and then spun into cloth. After they are sold, the few catties of cotton are exchanged for more than ten catties of cotton, and the work of weaving is repeated."

"Relying on a year's work, I can add a piece of clothes for my children in the New Year, sell a foot of hair rope, exchange three catties of pork, weigh five catties of tofu, and happily make dumplings to celebrate the year."

"However, soon, they will find that the yarn and the cloth are cheaper, but they can't afford to wear clothes. The three catties of cotton in their hands will no longer become five catties or ten catties, but only three catties. Three catties, sold to cotton collectors."

"Excessive taxation, apportionment of silver, and salt tax increase. I really have no money in hand. What can I do? I just sell my children to support myself."

"When the children enter the factory, they are willing to do a lot of things just for a bowl of food. Before dawn, they light up the bright oil lamps that they were reluctant to light when they were at the farm; A roar that cannot be heard."

"Do more, ask for less. So the yarn is getting cheaper and the cloth is getting cheaper. But more and more people can't afford clothes, and more and more children are sold, which makes it even more cheap. "

"Those who run factories earn more and more, so they lend money, buy land, and merge. In a disaster year, farmers who have already sold their children can only sell their land again and flock to cities and towns. Find something to earn a living. Do anything as long as you feed yourself."

"So, it's another cycle of getting lower and lower."

"In the beginning, one family was humming. In the end, thousands of families, hundreds of thousands of families, and millions of families were all humming. Refugees are everywhere, the wind is surging, the world is in chaos, and corpses are everywhere."

Hearing this, Tian Zhenyi's face turned pale with her eyes closed, and she couldn't help shivering.

But he didn't want to, but Liu Yu laughed loudly and said, "But, what's the point?"

"2000 years ago, the princes rose together, and the nations competed for supremacy."

"Iron tools and ox farming make the well fields disappear; private learning in the market makes knowledge spread; ox plowing and horse farming make food affordable for idlers; money appears, and merchants hoard their goods..."

"It can be the same, but there are pros and cons. The wells are broken, the rich are in the sky, and the poor have no place to stand; the rituals are broken, the princes are fighting endlessly, and the bones are in the wild; the people are poor, and they only want the world to be unified."

"In such a chaotic world, what should I do? How should I end it? How should I solve it?"

"So a hundred schools of thought contend, and each finds a way out."

"Although it's chaotic, it's full of vigor and hope. Everyone thinks that they can find a way to solve this troubled world. At least, no one feels that there is no hope."

"In the end, it shaped the guts of Zhu Xia for 2000 years. Most of the problems when the princes were fighting each other were resolved, and a path that worked, at least better than the endless wars at that time, was found."

"It's the same now."

"In such times, what should we do?"

"It is necessary to attract a hundred schools of thought to contend, and each seeks a way. Eventually, there will be one family that can adopt the strengths and theories of a hundred schools of thought, and come up with a set that can end this era of vitality and despair."

"Find out a path that is really feasible and promising."

"Once this road is found, what will happen to the efficiency of this machine several dozen times or dozens of times?"

"The cloth produced in one year may be the sum of the previous thousand years; the ironware produced in one year may be the sum of the previous ten thousand years."

"At that time, why worry that the people in the world will not have enough clothes to cover their bodies? Why worry that the people in the world will not have enough food to eat? Why worry that the people in the world will not have enough iron to plow?"

"The hunger, cold, lack of clothes, and lack of equipment that have plagued us since the Shang and Zhou dynasties will all be wiped away!"

"How lucky are we to be born at this time? We will witness the coming of this troubled world, and then see the dawn of the end of this troubled world with our own eyes."

"At that time, what kind of ambition will it be to have the good of the steam age and avoid the evil of the steam age?"

"There were saints in the past, so what? There is so much cloth and so little rice, and saints don't know how to eat five loaves and two fish. They have such thoughts, but they can't do it."

"All that's left is despair."

"But it's different now. Chaos is not scary, but despair. Now there is only chaos, not despair."

"I used to think about the world of Great Harmony, but food and cloth are simply impossible. It is like finding a way to the sun. How can I find it? Or resort to morality, or resort to ghosts and gods, or resort to five loaves and two fish fantasies, or appeals to heavens flowing with milk and honey. All fantasies."

"Now, this machine, let the sun fall on the ground. Maybe I don't know where, but there must be a way to go."

"When the day you find the way, and look back at the past, what is it?"

"Look at the change of witches and Gu in Weiyang Palace, watch Sima's forbearance to usurp the country, watch the disputes between princes in the Sui Dynasty, watch the chaos in the Li and Tang courts, watch Zhao Song drink wine and release military power, watch Mingzu's various cases of slaughtering heroes; or Western The Crusades of the various countries, the conspiracy of the Byzantine Kingdom shocked the world, the coups of the Raksha Kingdom continued, and the kingdoms of Shenluo were torn apart... I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. It’s all the private interests of each family. Find a way to benefit all people in the world?"

"It's all good! Counting the romantic and strong, let's look at the present!"

(End of this chapter)