golden scales

In the East Nuan Pavilion, the main hall of the Wenhua Palace with bright and clean windows, Zhu Cihong stood alone in front of the window, looking at the several wintersweets stuck in the plum vase on the window sill.

This is a work sent by Zhang Dai. It is said that in the eyes of literati and celebrities, it is not inferior to Dong Qichang's calligraphy and painting, but it is a real gem when it is sent here.

Zhu Cihong couldn't understand the aesthetic principles in it at all, and couldn't get spiritual pleasure from it.

"Your Highness, Huiyuan Bo Liaozhen has been waiting for a long time." Lu Suyao came in to report once, but the crown prince didn't say anything, didn't continue to work, just stood admiring the plum blossoms, so she had to come in to report again.Now she is more and more like a qualified secretary. Not only is she encouraged by her boss Zhu Cihong to work hard, but she also supervises her boss not to be lazy.

This alone made Zhu Cihong feel that his years of training were not wasted.

"Let him in." Zhu Cihong took a deep breath, turned around and went back behind the table.

He has been thinking about how to deal with Liao Zhen's private building of steam engines.In fact, the steam engine project is only kept secret from foreigners, and strict confidentiality regulations have not been issued internally.In Zhu Cihong's view, although this thing is a product of a cross-age era, it does not need to enjoy the treatment of the atomic bomb.

Beyond the issue of confidentiality, what is more important is the policy formulation from research to output.

In Zhu Cihong's previous life, it was a common practice in Europe and the United States that whoever invests will profit.This trend has also been formed in Europe at present.The royal family, nobles, and wealthy businessmen funded explorers, scientists, and then received dividends.

Huaxia's investment is mainly concentrated in the political field, and there is very little investment in technology, and once technological innovation occurs, it will be occupied by the powerful - obviously not suitable for technological development.

If you look for experience from previous lives, you will face huge state investment.The fruits of this are, of course, attributable to the State.The country has its own enterprises, which can convert these technological achievements into profit points, and finally feed back to the country.I actually took this path, because it is the most suitable for tackling key projects.

Now Liao Zhen's behavior is tantamount to "stealing" national resources, but look at it from another angle.This again represents a kind of sharing of technical achievements by non-governmental forces.If you keep holding technological achievements in your hands and don't let it spread out, then the chances of this kind of technology being improved will be greatly reduced.

Although the steam engine cannot be used for transportation, it has already demonstrated its superiority, such as mines, metallurgy, smelting and other fields.It depends on the country to popularize and improve one by one, and the resources consumed may even be greater than the benefits.And there are bound to be omissions.If the power of the people can be fully mobilized, more problems can be identified, more comprehensive improvements can be made, and the development of the entire society can be driven.

When Liao Xing's footsteps stopped outside the door, Zhu Cihong had already made a decision.

"Your Majesty Liao Zhen, I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." This is not the first time that Liao Zhen has met the Crown Prince.But the mood is always very excited.

"Sit." Zhu Cihong didn't get up, pointed to the seat from afar, and said, "I heard that you have started a company specializing in road repairs?"

Liao Zhen was a little embarrassed and said, "Return to Your Highness, that's right."

"How much is the share capital?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"Uh... this, Wei Chen doesn't remember."

"What contracts have you signed now?" Zhu Cihong asked again.

"This... I didn't ask much about it." Liao Zhen didn't expect that the crown prince came to discuss the company's issues.I thought I was going to talk about calculus and analytic geometry.He gently pinched the questions and solutions in the sleeve, which were some examples and formulas about Descartes' establishment of the spatial coordinate axis.

Zhu Cihong had already guessed that Liao Zhen would ask three questions, and said, "Leave the company affairs to the clansmen, and don't even take on the title. Otherwise, once this case is opened, professors and doctors will not be noble."

Scientific research is actually very boring. An experiment needs to be repeated thousands of times to explore various influencing factors.Without inner firmness and purity, there is no way to resist the temptation of the material world.Many talented scientists have gone into business because of this, regardless of whether they are successful or not.Essentially a waste of human civilization.

Zhu Cihong doesn't want someone to bring science into the world as soon as he makes a start.If the current level of technology has formed a significant gap with Europe, then he can still tolerate such waste, but in fact, Daming and Europe are now showing a "canine-toothed" situation, and Daming is still faintly at a disadvantage.There can be no slack in such a pass.

Liao Zhen didn't like to meddle in those mundane matters originally, but with the order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, as if he had received an amnesty, he also explained to the family.

"I will make it clear to my grandfather when I turn back." Liao Zhen said lightly.

Zhu Cihong showed a smile and said, "That's good. You should know that what you are doing now has merits in the present age and benefits in the future. In Dali, the rise and fall of my China is in the hands of you and the professor. What is money?" ? I'll give you as much as you want."

Liao Zhen smiled and said: "I am afraid that the bonus given by His Highness will not be used up in my lifetime."

This is true.

5000 taels of silver is considered a small rich man in Ming Dynasty, and the professor’s food, clothing, housing and transportation are all provided by the university, and the doctor’s annuity is used to improve living and research conditions, which is paid by the Ministry of Rites.For a scholar like Liao Zhen who is unwilling to have too much contact with the outside world, there is really no place to spend money.

"I can raise more students if I can't run out?" Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Your achievements must be passed on to others. I have already discussed it with Kui Xingong. Mathematics is the foundation of all subjects. In the future, a good foundation will be the foundation of all subjects." I have to supply your Mathematics Academy first. But you also have to bring out some dry goods, and now our artillery skills still have a lot of room for improvement."

Zhu Cihong didn't know what the artillery skills of later generations were like, but he had heard of "shooting Zhuyuan". As the name implies, it should be calculated by multiple shooting elements to obtain the shooting angle.Moreover, he has never heard that the PLA's cannons have to be tested one by one before leaving the factory, and then the cannon tables can be made.

"I have some experience recently." Liao Zhen was finally completely relieved, and took out the materials he had prepared from his sleeve.

As soon as he entered the world of mathematics, he became king.

"Descartes, a Western Confucian, has achieved a lot in this regard." Liao Zhen unfolded the manuscript paper and explained the three-dimensional coordinate system, parabolic motion and the function equation he summed up.

Zhu Cihong listened hard for a long time, and finally matched Daming's mathematical symbol system with his remaining memories of his previous life, and added a few formulas and theorems with the topic of "hypothetical"—because he was not sure whether his memory was correct and comprehensive, and only by relying on Liao Really went to prove it.

Liao Zhen was quite surprised by these fresh formulas, deduced in his mind, and knew that most of them were right.He exclaimed: "I have studied Descartes for three days, and I have some superficial insights. Your Highness has such a wonderful idea at a glance. You are really a god!"

Three days... Zhu Cihong was a little twitching, his math scores had always been only swaying above the average line.

"You are the real god-man." Zhu Cihong felt a little ashamed from the bottom of her heart.

Liao Zhen was even more ashamed and dared not accept it.

"Is the next research direction determined?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"I want to study the curvature." Liao Zhen explained to himself: "According to Li Zhizao's words: everything in the world is inseparable from numbers. In the past, the numbers of Qin, Liu, Zu, and Cheng were all still objects. Now that I can calculate motion, I am willing to be satisfied. And what the sages calculated were straight and flat lines and surfaces, so I should delve into uneven things. Concave and convex are curves, degrees are rates, and curvatures.”

Zhu Cihong nodded, thinking that it is indeed necessary to study this, and it will have a great impact on the industry.

Liao Zhen didn't think about the industry at all, but took the opportunity to express some of his assumptions about curvature and ideas for proof, hoping that the "man of God" could give some pointers.It's a pity that Zhu Cihong has no memory of "curvature" at all, and it is definitely not a part that liberal arts students need to learn, so he can only encourage: "You try your best!"

The meeting is over.

After listening to it, Zhu Cihong will have the illusion that he is illiterate.

In fact, Zhu Cihong has had this illusion more than once now.Sometimes when I look through the dictionary, I find that I am very unfamiliar with the Pinyin of Ming Dynasty; when I read physics and chemistry papers, I find that various new units and new symbols are completely incomprehensible, and I have to look at pictures to speak—especially chemistry, because a large number of alchemy and Taoist classics have been integrated. Some Taoist talisman graphics directly became chemical symbols.

Now that mathematics has surpassed his level, I am afraid that it will be a problem to help his son with homework in the future.

Well, yes, you can hire a tutor instead of checking the homework yourself.

Zhu Cihong rang the bell, called Lu Suyao in, and said, "Tell Wang Kuixin that the matter of the steam engine can be announced to the public. Anyone can make their own steam engine and use it."

Lu Suyao nodded and said yes, and then said further: "Your Highness, can the key data be released as well?"

Zhu Cihong hesitated, and finally said: "Yes, we will announce it together."

It is not enough to have data without technology, and it is very unwise to slow down one's own progress in order to worry about the European civilization that is still very slow.

Even if the domestic Jesuit missionaries sent these materials back to Europe as quickly as possible, it would take a long time for Western scientists to digest them and find investors.And Daming, who has advantages in human and financial resources, will definitely be able to go faster.Moreover, with the continuous promotion of compulsory education, the illiteracy rate in Ming Dynasty will be lower and lower, and more and more scientific researchers will be produced from it.

There is strength in numbers, and the same is true in the field of science.

Like Edison, who went through a thousand failures in searching for filament materials, if he had a luxurious team of tens of thousands of people, it would be nothing at all.

The genius who is responsible for thinking and imagining and the person who is responsible for working, just like the famous formula, need a 99:[-] adjustment.

"Your Highness, don't you charge patent fees?" Lu Suyao originally thought that this would be a new fiscal collection point, because Daming's "Patent Law" is already undergoing its final draft review.

"No, it's free." Zhu Cihong said calmly: "This is considered a national welfare, and every descendant of Ming Dynasty can enjoy it."

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