industrial lord

Chapter 231
When winter comes, the rivers and lakes in Wessen state freeze over.

This year's ice is a bit lively. Some crew members brought by Baron Adiken came from the dark place in the north. When they were resting, they tied two wooden sticks to the soles of their feet to slide on the ice. Fortress became popular.

"Let's go skating together..."

Maria rarely played with Frederick in the study.

Frederick hugged her and rubbed her face, then shook his head slightly and said, "Go and play, I still have something to do."

Maria pouted and left. After a while, a person walked into the study. If you didn't pay attention, you would think it was a little white bear.

Susan, who was evolving toward hibernation, walked in, looked at Frederick with big golden watery eyes, and said timidly, "Would you like to go skating with us?"

Frederick smiled and stretched out his hand to pinch her little nose, and said, "Go and play, I want to write something. Be careful not to freeze, I don't know the weather here and the south."

Susan returned without success, and Lilu was the next one to come. Without a word, she took Frederick's arm and was about to leave.

Naturally, she couldn't be pulled, but Frederick pulled her over and rubbed her face. She was so ashamed that she punched Frederick twice and then ran away.

The study finally quieted down, and Frederick continued to write vigorously.

After a while Psyche came in, Frederick was startled and asked, "Are you playing with them too?"

Psyche said solemnly: "I was bought by them with sesame candies, what are you doing, it's rare that it doesn't snow and the weather is good today."

Frederick replied: "I found a serious problem, and now I want to solve it."

"Tell me." Psyche seemed to have forgotten what he was doing, poured two cups of hot milk tea and sat down at the table.

Frederick stopped writing and asked, "Have you heard that they want to build a spherical autoclave with a diameter of 3 meters?"

Psyche nodded, waiting for the next sentence.

Frederick took a sip of his cup of milk tea, and said in a deep voice, "This incident reminded me that the rapid development of the past two years has made people too optimistic. I used to just walk, but recently I started running. It’s much faster than walking, so some people think that they can run faster than the sound on two legs just by putting more effort into it.”

"I asked the bank to count the industrial loans that do not require my signature this year. There are many similar problems."

"This kind of phenomenon, in the final analysis, is that we have too few talents and cannot keep up with the development."

"Although Ogilvy and the others have made achievements in one aspect, they are not omniscient, and they are not capable enough to deal with projects that require multidisciplinary support."

"Just like this time, he and others did not calculate the design of the high-pressure vessel, but just piled up materials blindly, and the result was not enough."

After listening to him quietly, Psyche asked, "So, you want to recruit more talents?"

Instead of answering the question, Frederick asked her, "What do you think is science?"

After hearing this, Psyche rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily, "I have also received nine years of compulsory education, not Jiu Le Yu."

Frederick smiled and asked her, "Did you get a three-good student?"

Psyche replied triumphantly: "I got a wall."

"I kind of understand what you mean." She returned to the original topic, "In many worlds like your hometown, there are indeed many people who put the cart before the horse and think that nuclear weapons and electronic computers are equal to science, but those are just signs of scientific development achievements products of sex, not science itself."

"Science is an orderly knowledge system based on testable explanations and predictions on the form and organization of objective things, and it is a knowledge system with truth."

"There are people who sometimes can't turn their minds when they travel to the magical world. They don't realize that since magic can be taught and developed, it means that it is a kind of knowledge that has been systematized and formulated. This is also one of the characteristics of science itself. .”

"Now here we think that experiment is a process of careful observation, description and classification. Most of the experiments are constantly adding more water or more water to get new results. There is a lack of summarization, let alone the use of mathematical tools."

"What, you want to be bacon?"

Frederick nodded after taking a sip of hot milk tea. It is really convenient to have someone who understands his own thoughts to talk to.

Francis Bacon believed that experience should be regarded as the only real source of knowledge, and then the experience should be organized by thinking.

Now someone has done the first step, and Frederick wants to finish the second part.

"What do you want to do?" Psyche asked him with great interest. "Another book?"

Frederick shook his head and said seriously: "I want to build an academy of sciences, one that has nothing to do with politics or belief, and only focuses on scientific research."

Psyche said with a smile: "What a big ambition, among other things, the first leader of this Academy of Sciences must be highly respected, have results that convince everyone, be fair and just, and be able to coordinate those proud scholars. You... uh... dandy! Are you trying to trick me?!"

The more she talked, the more she felt that among the people Frederick knew, she was the only one who met the above conditions.

A pure smile appeared on Frederick's face, obviously he had Psyche's idea.

Psyche was silent for a while, finally sighed, and said: "Oh, forget it, I have to leave early, let's leave some shadows before I leave."

Frederick was taken aback for a moment, then calmed down, and asked, "When will you leave?"

Psyche replied: "After more than 200 years, there has been a little turmoil between the nearby worlds recently, and the window period for leaving here has been brought forward."

"Oh." Frederick nodded, "Then I can't see you off, just give me a stick of incense before leaving."

Then he returned to the topic of the Academy of Sciences: "The role of the Academy of Sciences is to bring together talents, whether they are professional scholars or people who like to do research. The Academy of Sciences organizes various activities on a regular or irregular basis."

"The Academy of Sciences establishes a council for management, and its personnel are elected. At the same time, it establishes an achievement reward system and a peer expert review system."

"There are still some details that I haven't thought about for a while, and I will add them later."

Psyche said angrily: "Let me add it, right?"

"But that's good, at least your attempts to set up various awards have failed, people ignore you, and borrow the platform of this Academy of Sciences to carry out this work."

"I'll just pay the bonus. In a few days, I'll gather all the things I put away and deposit them in the bank. The interest for one year is enough to use as a bonus."

Frederick smiled and said, "Then name it after you, 'Psyche Award'?"

Psyche thought for a while and said with a smirk: "Call it the 'Golden Durian Award'. Besides the prize money, the winner also has a silver-plated durian."

Frederick's expression twisted, but she paid the bonus, so let her do it.

But if you think about it carefully, a durian made of silver as a prize, or a magical fruit from the far east, is quite gimmick in terms of substance and name.

"Let's do this first." Psyche stood up, "This matter can't be done in a day, you go skating with your girls first."

Frederick was taken aback, scratched his head and said, "Why are you bringing this up again?"

"That's for sure." Psyche rolled up his sleeves and said, "I received their reward, and I will arrest you even if I do."

Frederick was speechless.

(End of this chapter)