The legend of the king of crossing

Chapter 349 Harvest of Science and Technology Month

After dinner, I asked Xiaoqi to call Lu Xiufu, the dean of the Military Affairs Academy, and Wen Tianxiang, the dean of the Political Affairs Academy.

"See Your Majesty," the two said excitedly when they knew I was back.

"You two lovers, please sit down,"

"Your Majesty, is everything going well?"

I nodded and said: "Well, everything has been settled, you two, I have just met the Queen Mother, and I have a general understanding of the affairs of the court, but I still need to hear your report on the specific situation, Lu Aiqing, you Let’s talk about recent military affairs first.”

"Yes," Lu Xiufu said, "Your Majesty, everything in the military is normal. The military regions have learned from each other's military training methods. In the past two months, the personal abilities, skills and tactics of the soldiers have been greatly improved. In a year, our army can completely fight the Mongolian army. In addition, according to the latest news received by the Military Affairs Council from various military regions, at present, the establishment of base areas behind enemy lines is still progressing slowly. Basically, there are only one or two frontier military regions. A small team has gained a firm foothold, and most of them are in the area adjacent to me, "

"Technology and tactics are the foundation of the army. If you continue to practice, you will benefit sooner or later. As for the base area behind the enemy, let's discuss it in a few days."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager must have told His Majesty about the recruitment of soldiers in the Guangnan Military Region, and I ask His Majesty to decide on this matter."

"Well, I already know about this matter. Since the original imperial army no longer exists, there is no need to recall the disbanded soldiers of the imperial army. Junshi, how many soldiers are still missing at Fan Wenhu's place?"

"Return to Your Majesty, there are still four or 5000 people short,"

"Four, 5000 people, that is to say, there are only one and a half soldiers in the hatchback establishment of the Guangnan Military Region,"

"Exactly,"

"Junshi, order Fan Wenhu to expand the scope of recruitment, and Song Rui, to ask Guangnan East Road and Jinghu South Road adjacent to Guangnan West Road to assist. With the gap of several thousand people, I think it should be difficult."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will obey the order,"

"Well, let's talk about Li Beiyang's situation,"

"Your Majesty, in mid-March, Li Beiyang's army had successfully reached a hundred miles away from the Ryukyu Islands. Zhang Xuan did not confront our army head-on. Planning in advance, Master Li ordered to continue the attack, and it only took half a day to sink most of Zhang Xuan's ships. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Xuan and others immediately hid on Okinawa Island. , and asked the other party to hand over all the pirates Zhang Xuan and others that we were arresting to our navy, but the people in Okinawa refused, so Master Li launched a landing campaign and occupied the entire island of Okinawa in early March. Five thousand soldiers from the Lin'an Military Region also arrived in Okinawa. By the end of April, Okinawa, Amami, Sakishima, Miyako, Yaeyama and other islands in the Ryukyu Islands had been occupied by our army. At the end of April, our expeditionary navy was divided into two groups , led by Lord Li, and together with the [-] troops of the Lin’an Military Region, continued to march on other islands of the Ryukyu Islands, and the other route was led by Li Zengbo, the deputy commander of the Navy, and set off to return to the Wenzhou Prefecture Navy Base.”

"Okay, by the way, Junshi, let the navy send a fast boat to inform Li Beiyang to establish our first overseas province, let's call it the Ryukyu Province, and at the same time ask him to find a powerful force on the Ryukyu Islands." For the power used by our dynasty, and support this power to become the nominal manager of the Ryukyu Province, if there is no ready-made one, find a way to cultivate a power, once confirmed, let this power come to Lin'an to see me, "

"Yes, Your Majesty,"

"After Li Zengbo returned, let him inquire about the sea route to Goryeo,"

"Your Majesty, this has been properly arranged. After Mr. Li Zengbo returns to the base, he will personally lead two thousand sailors to Korea,"

"Well, Song Rui, let me tell you about the situation of the Government Affairs Council. The candidates for the provincial envoys will be put aside for a while, and I will discuss them after I read their detailed information."

"Yes, Your Majesty, generally speaking, the government affairs in the past two months have been carried out according to the plan, and the Science and Technology Month in March has achieved a lot. According to Lord He Ji, they have acquired a lot of talents because of this event. Among them are Chen Ziming and Yan Yonghe, medical masters who have lived in seclusion for many years, Zhu Shijie who was hailed as a mathematics prodigy by Yang Hui, and Wanyan Tianlei, a former Jin Guo firearms expert whom Yun Bofei cited as his confidant, which is the cannon used by Jin Guo back then. The inventor of Zhentianlei, the other ministers can't remember it. In addition, the Ministry of Education also benefited from the Science and Technology Month activities. I sent people to Hengzhou Shigu Academy, one of the four major academies, to find Ouyang, the minister of the Ministry of Education. Shou Dao said that he would accept the new education law of our dynasty, and change half of the academy into a new school. In addition, the two academies, Yuelu and Bailuzhou, which expressed their intentions for the new education law in February this year, have also replied that they are willing Accept, so, I have three large academies ready to carry out new education reforms, "

The four major academies in the Song Dynasty refer to the Bailudong Academy in Lushan, Jiangxi, the Yuelu Academy in Tanzhou, Hunan, the Shigu Academy in Hengzhou, Hunan, and the Yingtian Academy in Yingtianfu. The Yingtianfu mentioned here is not the Nanjing known by later generations. , but Shangqiu, Henan. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Ying Tianfu was able to guide Beijing. During the Northern Song Dynasty, most of the academies in the Song Dynasty were government-run, and applicants were required to come from government-run academies. After the mid-Southern Song Dynasty, private and public graduates had The same status made the academies flourish in the Southern Song Dynasty. In its heyday, there were more than 80 famous academies. Confucian scholars such as He Ji and Jiang Wanli had experience in running schools. The academies also cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, such as Bailuzhou Academy It trained Wen Tianxiang, Liu Chenweng, Deng Guangjian and other patriots in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

According to historical records, Jiang Wanli, who founded Bailuzhou Academy, jumped into the river and died after the Mongols conquered Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi, where Jiang Wanli lived for a long time after being dismissed from office). This may be the spirit of Bailuzhou Academy. It is also the epitome of the unyielding spirit of the Chinese nation.

These representative mainstream academies are willing to try new-style education, which will undoubtedly promote the process of new-style education, which is of great benefit to the cultivation of scientific and technological talents.

I am even more interested in the talents mentioned by Wen Tianxiang. I am not very familiar with Chen Ziming and Yan Yong. I only know Hua Tuo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen and a few others.

But I know Zhu Shijie.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, mathematics in China developed rapidly, and a large number of mathematical geniuses emerged. Among them, the most outstanding mathematicians were known as the Four Great Masters, namely Qin﹝JiuShao﹞, Li﹝Ye﹞, Yang﹝Hui﹞, Zhu﹝Shijie﹞ , the prodigy Zhu Shijie mentioned by Yang Hui is one of them. Zhu Shijie was born in 1249. He traveled all over the world since he was a child. The Enlightenment of Mathematics, which aimed at all kinds of mathematical knowledge at that time, started from the shallower to the deeper, starting from single-digit multiplication, and continued to the latest mathematical achievement at that time——Tianyuanshu, forming the most complete mathematical system at that time , Later generations have a very high evaluation of Zhu Shijie. If many mathematicians are compared to mountains, then Zhu Shijie is the tallest and most majestic mountain. feeling.

It suddenly occurred to me that Zhu Shijie is from the north, how could he come to Lin'an: "Song Rui, this Zhu Shijie is from the north, how could he appear in our dynasty?"

"Your Majesty, we have also made detailed inquiries about this group of scientific talents. Zhu Shijie is from Yanshan. According to him, he likes to travel around the world since he was a child. He will visit anyone who likes mathematics. Over the past few years, the war between Song and Mongolia has slowed down slightly, and the exchanges of businessmen between the two places have increased slightly. In late February this year, Zhu Shijie followed his uncle to Yangzhou, where I was in the dynasty. I happened to see the promotional materials about the science and technology month in the dynasty. A mathematics textbook of Lin'an University, which is the first draft of His Majesty, immediately lamented the development of mathematics in my dynasty, so he bid farewell to his uncle and came to Lin'an alone. After talking with Mr. Yang Hui, he was called Mathematics by Mr. Yang. prodigy of the world,"

From Zhu Shijie, I thought of Guo Shoujing, another famous scientist in the north, but this Guo Shoujing was a student of Liu Bingzhong. An official of the Ministry of Water Resources), unlike Zhu Shijie, who is still unknown to the public today, can smuggle to the south through some "illegal" channels.

"Okay, Zhu Shijie is a talent, even if this technology costs a lot, I only have this one person."

Wen Tianxiang hesitated for a while, but still asked: "This Zhu Shijie is just a young man, does your majesty know this person?"

"Ah, haha, to be able to fall into the eyes of Yang Hui must be a talent,"

Yang Hui is a great master in mathematics, to be valued by Yang Hui, he must be a talent, but His Majesty shouldn't be like this, Wen Tianxiang secretly said.

However, among the few people Wen Tianxiang introduced, the one who interested me the most was Wanyan Tianlei, a firearms expert in the Kingdom of Jin. After all, I urgently need talents who are proficient in making firearms. It was used for city defense, but it was a pity that before Zhentianlei had matured, the Kingdom of Jin was wiped out by Song and Meng.

"Are these scientific talents currently in Lin'an University?"

"Your Majesty, Zhu Shijie and Yan Yonghe entered Lin'an University. Among them, Zhu Shijie served as Yang Hui's assistant while studying. Yan Yonghe was hired by the university as a professor and vice president of the medical school. into the Gunpowder Division,"

"Well, Song Rui, you arrange Yang Hui, Zhu Shijie, Yun Bofei, and Wanyan Tianlei to Shifeng Commercial Firm tomorrow afternoon, I want to talk to them,"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Wen Tianxiang continued, "after entering April, the Ministry of Commerce formulated preferential policies to increase exports, and designated Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Mingzhou (now Ningbo) as special zones. At the same time, the tax rebate policy was implemented for some export commodities. In order to facilitate importers and exporters, the Ministry of Commerce, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education, imitated the practice of the original Guangzhou, and opened two stores in Mingzhou and Quanzhou respectively. Two schools for the children of foreign businessmen. In mid-April, the Ministry of Commerce sent several teams led by officials of the Ministry of Commerce and joined by various shipping departments to go to sea with the caravan on a long voyage. Goods, such as porcelain, monosodium glutamate, tea, silk, etc., go overseas to promote the superior performance of our dynasty’s products and our dynasty’s strong support for foreign businessmen. According to the plan of the Ministry of Commerce, this long-distance promotion is expected to last about half a year.”

"Hehe, what an overseas promotion,"