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Chapter 652: Naming of rare characters, the Zhu family made great contributions, Zhu Yuanzhang: I am also a chemist!
Not only Zou Yan, many Taoists are experts with double degrees in physics and chemistry, and at this moment they are almost raising their necks to fifty degrees.

Their eyes lit up as they looked at the various mineral samples and their corresponding classifications laid out by Mendeleev.

"Quick, quick, quick! Write it down! These are the keys to becoming an immortal!"

In the Southern Dynasty, Ge Hong, Baopuzi, was already terminally ill and had been in poor health for a long time.

For ordinary people, being over 80 years old is already a rare age.

However, how could he, who aspires to become an immortal, accept that he would die before the age of 100?

He studied many elixirs, but failed to find a way to achieve immortality.

Now, Mendeleev's periodic table gave him hope.

What? You said those green glows are radioactive elements? Pah! The old Taoist thought that they were the magic elixir that could keep the body from decaying!
You said those black minerals will corrode the body? I only saw that these magical objects can dissipate the skin and allow people to look inside themselves.

The Taoist who had already fallen into madness refused to listen to persuasion and began to collect ores frantically.

In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Dongbin was not to be outdone. He looked at the "uranium" in the periodic table and fell into deep thought.

If his depleted uranium sword is pulled out, the person will either die or be injured, and it will glow. Although it will make the sword practitioner physically uncomfortable, it is nothing compared to how handsome it looks.

Isn't that a perfect swordsman?
The more Lu Dongbin thought about it, the more he felt that there was a way to do it. Damn it!

So, with the chanting of "Dongting Lake awakens the sleeping old dragon", he plunged into the deep mountains and forests to look for uranium.

Mendeleev had no idea about the collective climax of the audience in the heavens, he was just very troubled by one problem.

These ores are classified and very easy to verify.

But there is one big problem, and that is the name.

As we all know, the 26 letters of the Western alphabet originated from Latin. They are eternal and remain unchanged and are part of our ancestral tradition.

However, it is very inconvenient when applied to daily life. In order to express one's meaning, this phonetic writing has to be lengthened and lengthened again.

Nowadays, the full names of these elements of his are frighteningly long.

“Is there an easy way?”

[Oh, by the way, I can mark the correct name and simplified letters, and the problem will be solved! ]

[Mendeleev was delighted with his own intelligence, but his momentary cleverness left later Chinese translators scratching their heads.]

[His full names are too long, but the simplified letters are too short to express the accurate meaning. What should I do? ]

[There aren’t that many words in Chinese that can express these elements. For a while, the translation process seemed to be at a standstill.]

[However, at this time, someone found a clue from the history book, that is, the name of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty! ]

"Ah? Why is there still something about the Ming Dynasty?"

During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was eating pig's trotters with Xu Da, suddenly raised his head and then looked at the sky.

He didn't understand anything about elements. It would be better to kill him than to let him study these things. But now, he actually heard the name of Daming.

So, he immediately sat up straight and looked up at the sky.

At the same time, many Ming Dynasty audiences looked up at the sky.

The last Ming Dynasty scientist Xu Guangqi suddenly thought of something and couldn't help laughing:
"No way, no way, it can't be really as I think?"

Soon, Tianmu announced the answer. [During the Hongwu period, the Ming Dynasty established the genealogy of the royal family of each generation, and stipulated that each generation of the royal family must choose a new ending character according to the radicals of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.]

【For example, Emperor Renzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaochi, because the genealogy reaches Gao, the second character is Gao, and the character Chi, because it contains fire, is of the fire element. 】

[His son Zhu Zhanji was born in the year of earth, so the last character of his character contains earth.]

[The Ming Dynasty has been passed down for more than two hundred years. The royal family racked their brains and had come up with all the names that could be thought of, including the characters for gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.]

[But I couldn't let my son have no name, so I had to ask someone to create characters, and many names with elements of Chinese characters were created.]

[These rare characters are just right to be placed on the periodic table. ]

"Hahaha! The five elements rotate, and in the end I still have to rely on my gold, wood, water, fire, and earth to name these elements."

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zou Yan felt that he had turned the tables and couldn't help but laugh.

However, he also understood that elements should not be limited to the five elements, so he decided to immediately perfect his Great Kyushu Theory and strive to leave a complete periodic table of elements for future generations.

Ahem, how can academic matters be considered plagiarism? This is reference!

But at the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely happy.

Pointing to the sky, he said to his Huaixi brothers, "Look, what did we say at the beginning? We are also cultured people. If we hadn't had foresight, this periodic table of elements would not have existed in the future!
You say, can we also be called chemists or something?"

Tang He said immediately:

"Your Majesty, you should be the leader of the chemical world. These elements are all your descendants.

Aren’t all those who study chemistry your disciples? With this, our Ming Dynasty will last for thousands of years!"

"Hahaha! You, Old Tang, are still the best at talking!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly. For a moment, all the guests and hosts in the hall were having a great time and some even started drinking.

The many emperors on the other side couldn't help laughing.

"What a talent! There's nothing wrong with establishing a genealogy, but he even dictated the radicals of the names of his descendants. How meddlesome!"

The Han Dynasty, Liu Che expressed his incomprehension of Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior. He supported restricting the royal family, but he did not think it should be controlled to this extent.

Even their names are not controlled by their parents. One can imagine how horribly the Ming Dynasty was wary of the royal family's children.

However, no one can change the naming of the periodic table in China, which has become a change in the Zhu family tree. When you look at it, you can only smile knowingly.

[Nowadays, although the periodic table has not been updated, new elements appear almost every once in a while. ]

[These small elements are considered branches of these basic elements, and some of them are free and cannot be effectively extracted. ]

【As a result, many wealthy people have developed a habit of collecting. 】

[Some of these elements are very cheap and can be obtained without much effort. ]

[But some of them are also priceless and daunting, so for many wealthy people, collecting an element wall is the only way to show off their wealth and status! ]

"Tsk tsk tsk, I knew that rare things would eventually become the property of those unscrupulous businessmen."

The Tang Dynasty, Prime Minister Zhang Jiuling, who was hostile to business, spoke, looking at Li Longji standing aside.

(End of this chapter)