Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1006 Academy of Engineering

The next step is still a process of constant surprises. Perhaps Shen Zhezi focused more on military affairs in his early years. Even if he occasionally patrolled the front-line technical production, he would take a quick look at it and taste it. He still underestimated the technological level of this era.

With so many real objects in this tent in front of us, both the structure of the machine and the internal power of the machine are very impressive.Perhaps limited by the differences in the basic production methods, it is impossible to make such high-precision and complex instruments as later generations, but the human operation has reached an extremely high level.

Moreover, these craftsmen have their own specialties and unique skills. The inheritance method of father-son succession and door-to-door inheritance can maximize the accumulation and retention of predecessors' experience, while ensuring rich practical operations to hone their skills.Of course, this is based on long-term labor exploitation.

In short, there is no doubt that these craftsmen can represent the most high-end production skills of this era.Even Lei Xuyang, the captain of the Qiang school who looked obsequious, was a very skilled craftsman of gold and bronze artifacts, and presented the gold iron made by himself.

The so-called golden censer is a kind of spherical incense burner, which is also called the middle incense burner in later generations. It uses gold, copper and other metals to make a circular spherical wall, with inner and outer rings, and a bowl-shaped furnace body is hung in the inner circle for Put charcoal fire and spices in full bloom.Both ends of the bowl are connected to the circular shell with smooth shafts, and the center of gravity can always remain stable without tilting. When the outer spherical shape is closed, it can roll freely without tilting the charcoal fire.

The Shen family can be regarded as a rich and wealthy family in Jiangdong, and there are many skilled craftsmen under the door, but such exquisite utensils were only seen in the dowry of Princess Xingnan, and it was an eye-opener at that time.Later, I searched a little bit, but there are almost no craftsmen with this kind of craftsmanship in Jiangdong, and even Yuanzhong only brought some when he was crossing to the south.

Therefore, this golden iron can be regarded as a complete luxury in Jiangdong. Once it appears in the market, the price is usually tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.Although if it is just for heating, any utensils can be satisfied, but such items are still widely sought after, nothing else, high-end luxury and high-grade.

Moreover, in Shen Zhezi's view, simple utensils, in addition to the pursuit of extravagance and extreme quality of life, also reflect very delicate mechanical structure ideas.

Shen Zhezi spent a whole day viewing all the people and things in the camp, including books and materials. Apart from eye-opening, he was also very moved.

It is true that these craftsmen each have extraordinary skills, but they are also limited. They are all specialized in one thing, and the rest are rarely dabbled in.Including the Leixu sheep who was in charge, apart from maintaining their own technical research, at most they only know who is good at what, and their vision in terms of technical application is extremely narrow.

This should also be a shortcoming in craftsman skills for a long time. For a long time, it has only stagnated at the level of technology and engineering, and has not been able to rise to the level of systematic science or even philosophy.

Although there is no basis for talking about physics, if there is no theoretical system support, there will be no major improvement direction at the level of technical application.Many questions that cannot be explained clearly will naturally rise to the level of metaphysics.

For example, when the Thunder Beard Sheep offered gold, the mechanism could have been clearly explained in a few sentences, but he had to break out a few words about the roundness of the sky, the movement of the five qi, and so on, probably he himself couldn't figure it out.

This kind of speculation rising to the ideological level is a long-term guiding process, especially when it comes to the fundamental understanding of society, it needs to be more cautious.

Mysteries such as metaphysics or religion are actually a kind of protection for people, and knowing the world too clearly is also a kind of cruelty.Even in the era of prosperous science in later generations, there are still many highly educated and even truly great scientists who have a soft spot for theology.Wanting to establish a complete theoretical system of materialism in the Middle Ages is just wishful thinking.

In fact, the progress of science still comes from the accumulation and summarization of experience. From different angles of observation, the conclusions drawn may be completely different.The real historical inflection point lies only in a few opportunities. When people have greater ability to use and transform nature, their vision will naturally change from the past.

After finishing the inspection of the craftsman's camp, the sky was completely dark.

When Shen Zhezi and his officials left the camp, there were still a large number of merchants gathered here outside the camp, but this time they were probably going to be disappointed. Shen Zhezi had many ideas about this group of craftsmen, but he would not let them go Employed by private households.

On the way, Shen Zhezi turned directly to return to Qianjin's residence.Today, he saw a lot of rare and exotic goods from the north. He also thought about his family's preferences, and picked out some items that the princess and others might be interested in and took them away directly for them to enjoy.

Because there is a sleepy young man in the family, the family members' work and rest have become less regular.It was not yet dark when Shen Zhezi returned to Bieye, but the whole manor was quiet, there was little commotion, and even the family members who were on standby did not dare to pant loudly.

In fact, in Shen Zhezi's view, this is unnecessary. The whole manor is huge, and Axiu's child occupies less than two feet. There is really no need for the whole family to accommodate his work and rest. At most, the inner courtyard should pay attention, and the outside will be as usual. That's it.

But because of this child, how he expresses his opinion at home has become unimportant. If there is an occasional disagreement, even a few nurses will refute him by saying that he doesn't know the baby's routine and temperament.

As time passed, Shen Zhezi didn't bother to express any opinions, and only waited for the child to grow up and be able to bear the ordeal before taking him out to beat him. Although he would not be so extreme as to pursue any kind of hardship education, he would never allow his son to be raised in a deep place. In the pavilion, it is better than a woman's hand.

Some of the objects brought back by Shen Zhezi were properly put away in the vestibule. After taking a bath and changing clothes, he asked people to choose a few mysterious artifacts such as stag tails and feather crowns, and then went out again to visit and live here. Ge Hong.

There are two prominent schools of medicine in this world, one is health preservation, and the other is maternal and child health care. The elderly are afraid of dying of decay, and the young are afraid of premature death.Ge Hong has high attainments in these two aspects, and his main business of alchemy is the way of seeking immortality in vain pursuit of longevity.As for the risk of women giving birth and the mortality rate of infants and young children, they are even more serious problems restricting population growth.

Ge Hong arrived in Huainan years ago with Princess Xingnan's Yijia. Although the princess didn't need this little fairy to intervene from confinement to childbirth, there was such a famous and mysterious expert Yu Jin who took care of her. , can always give people a lot of peace of mind.

It's not that Shen Zhezi has a big face to be able to invite Ge Hong.Although he met Ge Hong through his teacher Ji Zhan very early, but there is little friendship between them.Shen Zhezi didn't care about the so-called immortal way of the little fairy, and Ge Hong didn't like Shen Zhezi, a person who was obsessed with power.

Especially in the past few years, Shen Zhezi carried out extremely profound reforms to Jiangdong Tianshi Dao with the help of Jiangdong Master Lu and Master Yan Muyan who returned from the north.And many of the changes, in the eyes of Ge Hong, a veteran member of Tianshidao, are completely distorting the meaning of Xuan Chuan, which also makes Ge Hong dissatisfied with Shen Zhezi's rebirth.

The reason why Xiao Xianweng is willing to follow the north and stay until now is because he wants to trace the source of the whole book. Although Jiangdong Tianshi Dao is quite prosperous, it is also mixed with many Wu Yue's perverse opinions, which are hard to distinguish.Ge Hong has long wanted to go north to trace the source, in order to demonstrate the righteous teachings of Taoism, especially to combat Shen Zhezi's evil teachings that confuse the world.

On the other hand, because of lack of money, Ge Hong himself died of property, and even if any goods came in, they came and went quickly.He wants to go back to the original scriptures and write the canon of the Taoist scriptures. The energy consumption is second, and the manpower and property consumption required are the real headaches.

Therefore, even with the nobleness of the little fairy, he had no choice but to be temporarily employed by the Shen family as a caregiver.

Although Ge Hong didn't like Shen Zhezi very much, Shen Zhezi still had a lot of respect for this old gentleman.

In his opinion, this old gentleman is a figure like Newton. Although his main business is to engage in some feudal superstitions such as theology and immortality, some of the achievements he made incidentally are enough to shock the world.

Of course, Ge Xianweng can't reach the heights of Father Niu's astonishing past and present, but he has also brought great improvement to the world, especially in the field of medicine.

Before the gathering of refugees in the north, the reason for the safety of the people and the absence of any large-scale epidemics was due to Shen Zhezi’s knowledge of drinking water and hygiene from later generations, as well as some practical epidemic prevention measures put forward by Ge Hong. measures, especially in the area of ​​drug epidemic prevention.

Shen Zhezi couldn't tell the level of wheat seedlings and grass seedlings clearly, and it was even more difficult to come up with any practical medicinal material storage plan.However, Ge Hong has been deeply involved in the countryside for a long time, especially knowing many commonly seen herbs that are effective in preventing and controlling diseases, which is of great help to Huainan.

For this alone, even if Xiao Xianweng has any small willfulness, it is worthy of Shen Zhezi's courtesy and worship.

So he also hired Ge Hong as a curator of the Xinshi Museum, and used part of the governor's mansion to help Xiao Xianweng collect some ancient chapters and old books, although Ge Hong sorted out the classics to make a vow to fight against his false claims that he would put a stop to the Heavenly Master.

But Shen Zhezi still has this measure. The so-called truth becomes clearer and clearer, and metaphysics becomes more confusing.Of course, he also admitted that he was using Ge Hong's profound theoretical foundation to sort out and screen those miscellaneous Xuan Dao classics, so as to more effectively grasp the Tao of Heavenly Masters.

The so-called repairing books is destroying books, which was not the first creation of the Manchu Qing Siku Quanshu.

Of course, Shen Zhezi thought of Ge Hong at this moment, not because he was interested in the old man's research progress.He is planning to set up another engineering academy outside the Xinshiguan system, hoping to use the old man's name to develop it.

(End of this chapter)