please make me king

Chapter 1050 Those things about clocks
"It's a long one, look at this pocket watch, can it fit together?" Zhang Shun said with an apologetic smile.

"The egg from Nuremberg?" Wang Zheng couldn't help being surprised, "King Qin, where did you get this strange object?"

"Sure enough, sir, can you help me reassemble it?" What did Zhang Shun say, did he still say that he borrowed it from a girl, and ended up being spoiled by himself?

"I'll try it!" Wang Zheng nodded and said, "I've seen this object at Jin Sibiao before, but I'm not very familiar with it."

"Four gold watches?" Zhang Shun was taken aback, and couldn't help thinking: A pocket watch is worth nearly a hundred taels, so how much are four gold watches worth?
"Oh, this Jin Sibiao was originally named Jinni Pavilion, and its character is Sibiao. It is a missionary from the Far West." Wang Zheng couldn't help showing admiration when he heard the words, "He is very knowledgeable and has brought more than [-] classics from the Far West. Astronomical legislation, mechanical objects, philosophy, literature and art, and divine scriptures are all-encompassing and omnipresent.”

"Ah?" Zhang Shun couldn't help showing joy when he heard the words, and hurriedly asked, "Where is he? Can you invite me to see him?"

Seven thousand European classics?What a treasure!Suddenly Zhang Shun salivated.

Wang Zheng couldn't help but look sad when he heard the words, he was silent for a while and then sighed: "It's a pity that he died of illness in Hangzhou in the first year of Chongzhen!"

"Oh, that's really a great loss in the world!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but said sadly.

"However, although he passed away, his spirit never dies. I don't know if someone will inherit his last wish and complete his unfinished business?"

"Career?" Wang Zheng shook his head involuntarily, and said with a frustrated expression, "Before he contacted me, Ai Siji, Mr. Xu Ge, Yang Qiyuan, Li Liang'an, Li Changde and other capable people to translate all of them into Chinese."

"However, there is no holiday, and he died without any illness. Now Mr. Xu Ge, Yang Qiyuan, and Li Liang'an have visited my lord successively, and I am getting old. Who can follow his ambition!"

Ai Siji is the missionary Ai Julius; Xu Ge Lao is Xu Guangqi, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion in the Chongzhen Dynasty and the second assistant of the cabinet; Yang Qiyuan is Yang Tingyun, named Qiyuan; Li Liangan is Li Zhizao, named Liangan Jushi, and Li Changde is Li Tianjing who presided over the compilation of "Chongzhen Calendar".

In particular, Xu Guangqi, Yang Tingyun, and Li Zhizao, who passed away successively, were the "three pillars" of Chinese Catholicism at that time. The result of their successive deaths was not only a major setback for the Catholic missionary work at that time, but also a major blow to China's "Eastward Spread of Western Learning".

Now Wang Zheng himself is sixty-five, his muscles and bones are gradually weakening, he can only do nothing!
Zhang Shun couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and had to sigh "It's God's will". If all these nearly [-] books are translated into Chinese and let the world study hard, how many brilliant achievements will be created?
"I don't know where are these classics?" He originally thought that after he was unified in the future, he would have to send people to "get the scriptures from the west", but he never thought that these "scriptures" had already been brought here and were waiting for someone who was destined to take them.

"Most half are in the Catholic Church in Beijing, and the rest are scattered in Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai and other churches!" Wang Zheng couldn't help but respond.

"It's just that the content is all written in Thai and Western languages. It's hard for me Chinese to distinguish, so I can only look at the ocean and sigh!"

In fact, Zhang Shun didn’t know that the more than [-] classics of Jinni Pavilion were hardcover books carefully selected by him during his travels in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and other countries. The contents almost involved European science and technology, culture, and philosophy. The latest achievements in all aspects of methods, art and so on.

It even includes Copernicus's "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres", a banned Christian book, and the latest research results of the astronomer Kepler.

You must enter the capital ahead of time, there are seven thousand far west classics waiting for you besides the emperor's wife, Zhang Shun secretly made up his mind.

"Okay, Your Highness Qin Wang, your 'Nuremberg Egg' has been repacked!" Then Wang Zheng assembled it after chatting, and it didn't take long to fully assemble the pocket watch.

He wound up the mainspring, and the hands of that delicate gizmo began to move almost invisible to the naked eye.

"That... um, it's just a pointer?" Zhang Shun took it over and looked at it, wondering.

"That's right!" Wang Zheng couldn't help being stunned, isn't one enough, how many pointers do you want?
"If His Highness King Qin wants to be more precise, I can actually add an engraved needle for you, or call it a minute needle!"

"Of course, it won't work on this Nuremberg egg. It must be redesigned."

"Huh? Can a Taoist master design this?" Zhang Shun was really surprised. There are many talented people in the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that Zhang Shun was deeply interested in the clock, Wang Zheng suddenly had a different thought.

He couldn't help laughing: "A few years ago, I made a kind of 'wheel pot clock' based on the principle of clocks and watches. Not only can it be used to ring bells and drums, but there are also puppet in it, which is quite delicate."

"If King Qin likes it, I will order someone to make another one and give it to King Qin."

"Ah? How embarrassing is that!" Zhang Shun couldn't help waving his hands quickly when he heard the words, "I heard that this thing is worth thousands of gold, how can I accept it for nothing?"

"How about this, how much silver taels are needed in total, I will send someone to pay you later."

Just kidding, how dare Wang Zheng ask for his money?

He hastily refused: "King Qin is too polite, in fact, this thing is just a novelty, a trick and a trick, it's useless."

"It's sold in the market, but it's just a delicate thing. In fact, it doesn't take much effort. Where do you need any money?"

It turned out that Wang Zheng was proficient in mechanics and mechanics. He not only made the "wheel pot clock" by himself, but also made "bicycles" and "self-grinding" utensils based on the corresponding principles.

Of course, due to limited power, most of these gadgets are not practical, but since they can introduce new ones, it can also prove from the side that he has thoroughly grasped the principle of "clocks and watches".

"Then I'll have the audacity to accept it!" Looking at his expression, Zhang Shun guessed that this guy was still thinking about missionaries, so he didn't shirk anymore.

Of course, this was not because Zhang Shun had any interest in Catholicism as he thought, but because of the [-] Far West classics, he took the opportunity to win over these people.

"There is just one thing that I want to discuss with my husband." Zhang Shun hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but open his mouth to ask, "I wonder if it is possible to set another needle on this clock, and to divide the time again. I wonder if it is possible?"

"It's meaningless!" Wang Zheng frowned and said, "He originally thought that Zhang Shun wanted to add another needle, and he only needed to use the gear differential to solve the problem.

As a result, this guy wanted to be more precise, and it was impossible to achieve the desired precision by relying on the simple gear differential method.

Wang Zheng couldn't help explaining: "Although the self-ringing clock is good, the actual daily deviation is more than [-] minutes, so most of them don't have a minute hand."

"Even if the minute hand is set, it is barely usable. Only the second hand as His Royal Highness Qin said, I am afraid that the error cannot be measured!"

"If King Shun wants to be more precise, he might as well make an hourglass timekeeping, which saves a lot of effort!"

(End of this chapter)