Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 129 0124 [Golden Elixir needs to be repaired, and physics must also be learned]

Xue Daoguang came all the way, but he didn't get any news.

Come here, stay for a few days.

Anyway, I didn't know where to go, so I just calmed down to compile the Daoist scriptures, and put all my experience and understanding over the years into words.

Seeing Zhu's father and son leaving by boat, Xue Daoguang ignored it, and strolled under the big drum to see the strangeness.

Zhu Ming went to the riverside to receive immigrants, Fatty Zheng handed over a sachet: "Take it."

"Are you sending me?" Ju Ming felt awkward.

Zheng Hong was speechless: "My sister gave it to you."

Zhu Ming hesitated, but still accepted, otherwise Fatty Zheng would be very embarrassed.

The more than 40 Yangzhou poor people were sitting or standing by the river, uneasy.

Seeing that they were all carrying some belongings, including pots and barrels, Zhu Guoxiang immediately said, "Line up to distribute food, one bucket per person!"

The Zheng family's ships brought a lot of food, which was recorded in the account to deduct the tea money.

Now there is no need to move into the mountains. Each person will start with a bucket, and the rest will be piled up in the homes of farmers by the river.

These poor people came from afar, and only a few buckets of food were distributed, so they all felt at ease, knowing that they were not being cheated, and began to obey Zhu Guoxiang's arrangement.

Zhu Guoxiang led them downstream and came to the waste tea mountain where they met the cornucopia.Walking to the depths of the tea mountain for a while, there are those abandoned houses. At the beginning, the father and son even picked up a clay pot.

Zhu Guoxiang ordered: "Clear out these ten or so small courtyards first, and you will spend the night in the courtyard. Tomorrow, we will send tools to you. All the earthen walls will be pulled down and rebuilt. The firewood was chopped and burned. Within two months, you will build the house yourself, and then go to clean up the waste tea mountain.”

A poor man said: "Officer, I am a paper paper maker in Yangzhou. I don't know how to farm or serve tea gardens."

"You can learn if you don't understand. I will send someone to teach you," Zhu Guoxiang said. "Don't worry about the food. You will definitely not be hungry. After the tea mountain is cleared, you need to learn how to prune and take care of the tea trees. Open up wasteland. The wasteland you open up belongs to you, and you will be exempted from tax for three years. If you don’t know how to farm, I will send someone to teach you.”

Although few of these dozens of people knew how to farm, they all became excited and longing to have their own land by opening up wasteland.

They take the family as a unit and each choose an abandoned house.

First use a variety of tools to clean up the weeds in the small farm yard, and even children are helping to pick up debris.Then use mud and stones to build temporary small stoves in the courtyard, and every family starts cooking.

This is their new home, and they are very active in labor. The only two axes are borrowed to chop firewood.

Zheng Hong watched from the side, and suddenly remembered something: "These people have made a register in the county government, and they are all classified as customers under the name of Mr. Zhu. The county government, I want you to go there some time and get the account number. The number of customers has changed."

Zhu Ming felt something was wrong: "Did you take them to the county government office?"

Zheng Hong said: "When boarding the ship in Yangzhou, I met the new director of Xixiang County, Zhang Su, who is not very old, maybe under 30 years old. It looks like he is in charge. You should be careful in the future. .”

"Masters under the age of 30 are mostly Jinshi-born, so they have to be handled carefully." Zhu Ming nodded.

Zheng Hong said again: "When I took these people to make the books, I listened to them for a while. The grandfather of Zhang Tangying, his uncle, Zhang Shangying, seems to have a lot of background."

"It's not just because of background, it's too big." Zhu Ming muttered.

Zhang Shangying is the leader of the Shu Party, the right prime minister, and the last obstacle to Cai Jing's monopoly.

Only by overthrowing Zhang Shangying can Cai Jing truly control the court.

Since Zhang Shangying's grandnephew was thrown to Xixiang County, it means that Cai Jing has succeeded, and the two monarchs and ministers can die as much as they want in the future.

Zhu Guoxiang called Tian San over: "You are in charge of managing these newcomers, and tomorrow you will send them tools such as hoes, shoulder poles, axes, and baskets. Don't let them build houses in a mess. We must first discuss who will build theirs first, and then build theirs again." , so that the speed can be fast. Stonemasons and carpenters, you can also bring them here when needed."

"I know." Tian San commanded.

This place is quite far from Daming Village, so it is a new base.

The following follow-up immigrants will be resettled between the abandoned tea mountain and Daming village, and slowly build houses and open up wasteland to form a continuous area.

After arranging work, Zhu Guoxiang returned the same way.

Zhu Ming talked about the new director-in-chief: "I have to find time to test it out."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Let's go together. No matter what his attitude is, we must try our best to cater to him, and we can't let him delay the development of Daming Village."

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "The new chief bookkeeper has two situations. One is to do things responsibly, and the other is to lie flat and make a mess. We are not afraid of those who lie flat, but those who want to do things have to be careful. But what? , His enemy is not us, but the group of subordinate officials in the county government. Even if the subordinate officials are dealt with, they will still be oppressing the county magistrate."

Zheng Hong also followed: "I plan to stay in Daming Village for a few days."

"You can stay as long as you want," said Zhu Ming.

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Would you like to visit the tea making workshop?"

Zheng Hong smiled awkwardly: "I kind of think about it."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "You don't need to rack your brains. When picking autumn tea, the Zheng family can send people to watch it."

"Zhu Xianggong is really benevolent!" Zheng Hong sighed.

Since the technology will be leaked sooner or later, it is better to earn a favor from the Zheng family. Anyway, the futures contract has been signed for five years.

The purchase price has been fixed, the Zhu family is not losing money anyway, and the Zheng family can figure it out.

Five years later, Daming Village is no longer short of money!

On the way back to the village, Zhu Ming ran into Xue Daoguang again, a Taoist priest wandering around the village.

Xue Daoguang didn't regard himself as an outsider, and asked when he came up: "Little friend, is there a house on the mountain? I want to borrow one to live in."

Zhu Ming casually pointed to the distance: "There are mountains everywhere. You can find a mountain top at will, and you can build a hut to practice Taoism. Food, salt, and vegetables can all be bought down the mountain, as long as the Taoist leader can afford it."

Xue Daoguang said: "Building a hut alone is too time-consuming, just borrow a thatched hut."

"Shouldn't one practice Taoism in the mountains?" Zhu Ming asked.

Xue Daoguang said: "My lineage is different. In the past few years, I practiced in downtown Tokyo. How can I cultivate the heart of the true Dao if I don't spend some time in the secular world?"

"Whatever you want." Zhu Ming said.

The fifth patriarch of Jindan Nanzong is very famous, and Ju Ming naturally knows it.

In particular, Bai Yuchan, Xue Daoguang's disciple, was a contemporary of Zhu Xi.

Bai Yuchan and Zhu Xi probably haven't met each other, but they have many mutual friends, and they both want to learn Taoism and Confucianism from each other.

When Bai Yuchan heard the news of Zhu Xi's death, he wrote some poems to express his regret and respect.

Xue Daoguang's apprentice and Bai Yuchan's master is that Chen Kuutong.

As for this Xue Daoguang, he was a monk before practicing Taoism.

Xue Daoguang climbed up the mountain with his father and son, and as soon as he stepped into the cottage, he saw a group of scholars yelling.

"Quickly measure the volume of the weight!"

"Where's the ruler? Bring me the ruler!"

"Quickly grind ink..."

Xue Daoguang pointed at those scholars: "What are you doing?"

"Seek the truth." Zhu Ming said with a smile.

Chen Yuan and others have already learned about gravity and friction.

They also make their own standards...

Xue Daoguang leaned over to watch the fun, but before he understood it, Chen Yuan jumped up suddenly: "I figured it out, I figured out the density of these two weights! They are both iron weights, but their volume and density are slightly different. Some impurities."

"Excuse me, sir, what is volume and density?" Xue Daoguang clasped his fists and said.

Chen Yuan drew a rectangle on the ground: "If a Taoist has read "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", he will know that the geometry of a rectangle is the multiplication of width and width. This geometry is the area, because it is a surface." Chen Yuan He clenched his fist again, "My fist is not a face, the space it occupies is the volume."

Xue Daoguang understood it instantly, because he had read "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic".

Geometry means "how much". In "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", calculating area and weight are all questions about geometry.

"Ji" means gathering, and "Jibu" and "Jili" are both units of area.

Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, numerator, denominator, equal numbers, product, power, unit, string...these mathematical terms are all in "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic".

Chen Yuan also said: "Density is the weight of things per unit volume. The same things have the same density. If they are different, either the measurement is inaccurate or contains impurities."

The unit is completely messed up. In the Song Dynasty, 1 inch was equal to 3.7 centimeters, and 1 point was equal to 0.37 centimeters.

Chen Yuan and others used chi, cun, and fen to measure length. It was impossible for Zhu Guoxiang to produce meters, decimeters, and centimeters.

In fact, it’s pretty much the same if you’re used to it. The international unit in history was originally created by France.

Zhu Guoxiang didn't bother to distinguish between the meanings of weight and mass. Anyway, he couldn't go to the moon to do research for the time being.

Xue Daoguang asked, "Why measure the density?"

"I haven't thought of its usefulness yet. This is the study of objects," Chen Yuan said. "It is known that density is related to buoyancy. Wood floats in water because the density of wood is less than that of water. Do you know the force?"

"I know, movement generates energy, and static energy accumulates." Xue Daoguang said.

Chen Yuan shook his head: "No. Stillness is the balance of force, and movement is the bias of force. If you stand still, it means that the gravity and the supporting force are in balance. If you walk forward, it means that you exert a forward force, which is greater than the friction of the ground. resistance."

There are still many loopholes in Chen Yuan's mechanics, but they are enough to fool Xue Daoguang.

Xue Daoguang was a little confused, and Chen Yuan began to draw a schematic diagram of mechanics.

This Taoist priest, who practiced both Confucianism and Buddhism when he was young, started to practice Taoism when he was young, but now he has been fooled into falling into the pit of physics.

And, once you get in, you can't get out.

The two monsters came and went, became familiar, and fooled each other.

In the morning, Chen Yuan practiced inner alchemy with Xue Daoguang.

In the morning, Xue Daoguang studied Confucian classics with Chen Yuan.

In the afternoon, the two study mathematics and physics together.

In the evening, the two discussed Buddhism together.

The father and son looked at the Confucianism together, meditating and practicing inner alchemy together in the morning, and doing physics experiments on the ground in the afternoon, and always felt that this world seemed a little absurd.

Zhu Ming couldn't help complaining: "What can they practice? Are they golden immortals?"

"I have only seen it in my life, it is an eye-opener." Zhu Guoxiang sighed.

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