New Shun 1730

Slowly falling from the sky, Tian Zhenyi wiped the corners of her mouth subconsciously when she heard the voices below becoming clearer and clearer.

She adjusted her mood and thought that nothing had happened just now.

When she really landed, she looked the same as before she went up to the sky, smiling, holding Liu Yu's hand, and not asking anyone to follow. The two of them slowly walked to the door of the Academy of Sciences.

If others came to see, there would be someone to lead the tour and introduction. However, since Liu Yu was here, the people inside were busy with their own things after hearing what Liu Yu said.

"If you only look at the scenery and architecture, although it is different, it is just like that. Today I will take you to see the real scenery. The key to the word scenery is how to understand it. If you change the word, it will be different. Passion."

Holding Tian Zhenyi's hand, Liu Yu walked towards a test field in the distance, saying this and that.

The wheat in the distance has matured, and the yellow ears, occasionally a breeze blows, although not as wide as the wheat waves, it seems to bend down and bow, which is very interesting.

Tian Zhenyi was not the kind of person who didn't know the difference between the five grains. Even if she didn't know the difference, she would at most mistake leeks and wheat seedlings, but she definitely didn't recognize these wheat ears.

She read a lot and knew that the wheat field at this time only produced one stone per mu. If it could produce two or three stones, it would be a good harvest.

Just look at the wheat field in the Academy of Sciences, the ears are full, and the yield per mu must be not low.

She was right. The yield per mu was indeed not low. It relied on saltpeter for nitrogen and potassium, and Nanyang feces for phosphorus. It was supplied by "natural fertilizers", so how could it be low?

Ordinary people may also use manure, but if one mu of land really needs enough manure for crops to grow, how can a family produce it? If there are cattle and horses, how can there be only three or five mu of land?

In such a comparison, it is true that it is high.

She thought Liu Yu was going to introduce this wheat field, but Liu Yu just mentioned it casually: "Everyone knows that saltpeter can be used as gunpowder. But no one knows that it can also be used as fertilizer. The Academy of Sciences has already obtained one of the three principles of increasing production, but there is no way to produce saltpeter fertilizer now. Knowing the principle but not being able to do it, there is nothing to see for the time being."

As he spoke, he bypassed the wheat field and walked to a pea field behind the wheat field.

Tian Zhenyi had eaten pea soup and pea cake. When she was tasting fresh food, she had also eaten fresh peas, or crispy peas fried with meat, or pea seedlings.

But facing these clusters of purple or white flowers, or climbing or non-climbing plants, she really didn't know what they were.

When Liu Yu told her that this was a pea, Tian Zhenyi exclaimed in surprise.

Then she bent down and looked down at the pea flowers.

This is what Liu Yu said, the different scenery that the two of them could see.

The same pea has different feelings to different people.

Just like the students in Jinghai Palace, who were mixed with others, looking at the vast sea from Jieshi, and suddenly someone shouted "Look, it's really the mast first and then the hull", even if they didn't know each other, they would definitely go up and ask if it was a senior or junior brother. And if they were not "in the circle", they might be confused and wonder what they were excited about?

This kind of common experience, common memory, and common experience can not only be used to shape community memory, such as the phrase "Palace Yuye Wine" or "Chatting for ten yuan".

It can also shape the common experience, memory, or excitement of friendship and love that others cannot understand. Just like the scenery when two people revisited the old place and fell in love many years later, there are always some common memories that others cannot insert.

This pea is a kind of romance between Liu Yu and Tian Zhenyi.

Now in the Academy of Sciences, some people have believed Liu Yu's modified "pea" story: Fuxi and Nuwa double helix, yin and yang meet, yang is obvious. These are all ready-made stories, just put them in and make up a story.

Tian Zhenyi had of course heard Liu Yu talk about the story of peas, and she was fascinated by it, thinking that this was the true way to reveal the creation of heaven and earth. Who could have thought that there was such a truth in the world?

Explicit, implicit, free combination, separation and re-combination. She had heard a lot of these things, but it was the first time she really saw a pea that was in bloom, specially taken care of, and used for experiments.

So when Liu Yu said that this was the pea of ​​peas, Tian Zhenyi cried out in surprise.

If others were present, they would probably find it difficult to understand, and most of them would think that the people in the duke's mansion were indeed curious about the vegetable garden. It was like the Westerners seeing the cormorants fishing; the people in the capital saw the Westerners combing their hair with sesame oil.

Tian Zhenyi leaned over and said to Liu Yu, "Look, look, this is purple, this is white..."

The pea flower is not beautiful.

Not to mention the rose and peony, even compared to ordinary wild flowers, they are 70% or 80% worse.

But these clusters of pea flowers made Tian Zhenyi feel indescribably romantic.

This is pea flowers.

But it is also comparable to the story of Pangu creating the world and Nuwa creating humans. Is there anything more romantic than Nuwa creating humans in the world?

The pea flowers in Tian Zhenyi's eyes are not pitiful, ugly, and inferior to wild flowers.

It is a kind of romance that human power has already involved in the power of gods: gods can create humans and make people beautiful or ugly. Although it is just a pea now, one day, human power will be able to match the gods and control the power of life and death, beauty and ugliness.

The pea flowers that have never been seen before, accompanied by the common memories of the two, made Tian Zhenyi linger for a long time, and his heart was happy, just like the feeling when he was a child begging his family to learn horse riding and archery and hit the bull's eye for the first time.

After being excited for a while, Tian Zhenyi thought of some scenes when Liu Yu told her the story of the pea. This kind of story related to intercourse with offspring does not necessarily have to be told seriously. It is a joke between the bed that the next generation will have double eyelids or single eyelids. For a moment, her face blushed slightly.

Recalling the past memories and feeling the romance of human power matching the gods, Tian Zhenyi suddenly said: "Third brother, why don't you ask the Portuguese to send a few more lions to accompany the tigers. If it really works, it will shock the capital, and then we can take the opportunity to let more people know about the pea story?"

"Ordinary people don't care about peas, and they may not be willing to read many words. But if we teach through drama, exercises, juggling, strange things, and strange beasts, wouldn't it be easier to spread?"

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Good idea. This is also simple. After a few days, do it in Songjiang Prefecture. Just ask the Westerners to get some lions, and then buy some tigers from Sindhu in Southeast Asia. It doesn't cost much money. At most, a group of people will impeach me for extravagance and waste. People are not full, but I feed tigers and leopards with meat. I don't worry about too many debts, and I don't fear too many lice. Guilt or not is not about the matter itself."

Tian Zhenyi understood what Liu Yu meant. If you don't talk about the same thing, it's like air; if you talk about it, it's a thousand pounds.

Whether to discuss or not is not the matter itself.

In the past, Tian Zhenyi would inevitably be in a bad mood and slightly worried. But now that she understood Liu Yu's thoughts, she looked at it lightly. She stretched out her hand to pull Liu Yu and smiled, "Anyway, whether it is a crime or not, it all depends on people. I thought of what my third brother said about the Yongle period of the previous dynasty, when a giraffe was presented as a unicorn. In this case, why not collect some rare birds and animals and present them. First, let the court know that the outside world is strange, and second, it is the same anyway, so there is one more potential crime, and there is nothing to be afraid of."

As he spoke, he slowly left the peas who began to spy on the power of the gods. When he was in a place with others, he no longer said the words that were enough to kill him just now.

Liu Yu took Tian Zhenyi's hand and slowly led her to the Steam Engine Research Institute.

Smelling the smell of coal smoke and the noisy sound of machines in the courtyard, Tian Zhenyi couldn't help but wrinkled her nose, but didn't cover it with a handkerchief.

Liu Yu didn't take her to see the real steam engine.

There is nothing to see in the real steam engine. Because it is not intuitive enough.

Instead, he took her to a special exhibition hall, where some models and theoretical demonstration machines were displayed, which were either exquisite or calculated.

Or made of glass, in fact, it is difficult to even have the power to cut a cockroach into pieces.

It is just transparent glass that allows people to see the boiling of water and the movement of pistons intuitively.

Turn those complicated principles into intuitive displays.

Some people say that transparent glass has made great contributions to the development of science, which is indeed true.

In addition to the theoretical demonstration machine of the steam engine made of glass, there are also models of small things made by many craftsmen.

Small trains, small steam pumps...

And some very strange brain holes, such as the "tractor" that relies on steam engines to turn ropes and pulleys to plow the land - the steam engine is placed in the middle of the field and does not move. The plowshare is tied with a rope, rotated and pulled, replacing the oxen.

Similar brain holes are everywhere.

But at this time, this is not a brain hole, but innovation.

Just like the three-barreled gun, multi-barreled gun, bowl-mouthed cannon, large-lifted gun, leather cannon... these firearms that have appeared but were eventually eliminated.

Unless there is a prophet, who knows that they must have taken the wrong path?

In Liu Yu's eyes, this "tractor" must be the wrong path.

But in fact, this is the closest to practical use among all the ideas at this time. And the real "right way" tractor is now the fantasy that seems the least likely to appear.

Tian Zhenyi looked at the pistons sliding in the glass tubes and the steam rising up, and was amazed.

She also supported Liu Yu's many stories about these things, and saw great potential from them, and believed that one day, this thing will be popular in the world.

She also knew some other things that Liu Yu said. Seeing these strange machines and ideas at this time, Tian Zhenyi finally understood what Liu Yu was worried about sometimes.

At this time, there were only two of them in the room, and Tian Zhenyi no longer avoided anything and said frankly: "I think I understand what Third Brother is worried about."

"This thing will surely be popular in the world. If it is popular in the world, the world may be in chaos."

"Using this thing to forge iron, you can make several times more than others. What use will the blacksmith have?"

"Using this thing to weave cloth, you can make several times more than others. What will the weaver do?"

"But if this thing is already there, it would be even more wrong if it is not used. It is really a waste of natural resources. Although blacksmiths are unemployed and weavers are starving, more people can use iron and wear cloth."

"It is both good and bad. Third Brother wants the good, but not the bad, so he is worried."

Liu Yu shook his head.

"What I worry about is not this. Qin's laws were harsh, so Chen She and Wu Guang were born. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, people rested and followed the way of nature. The Mongols were brutal, so the Red Turban Army rose up to expel the Tartars and abandon bad politics. The bad things can always be solved."

"What I worry about is that someone will think this thing is both good and bad, and out of good intentions, they will ban it."

"So some things are delayed, not because I am worried about the bad side of this thing. On the contrary, I think this thing is too good, so I delay it, waiting for the right time to make it popular all over the world."

"Zhenyi, close your eyes."

"Listen..."

Tian Zhenyi slowly closed her eyes and stopped thinking. After listening for a moment, she heard the clicking mechanical sound, occasionally mixed with some steaming sounds and the movement of flames.

After a while, I heard Liu Yu speak.

"Listen to the voice of this era."

"The sound of steaming water is like a whine."

"This whining sound is the vehicles driven by steam engines running along the criss-crossing railway tracks in the future."

"There is no need for fodder, cattle, horses, manpower, or trackers. All you need is to separate some distance and pile up some coal and water."

"The track is vertical and horizontal, extending from the capital to the north to the White Mountains and Black Waters; winding to the west to the old places of the Han and Tang Dynasties; and stretching south to the Baiyue Jiaozhi. It can be reached in half a month, just like going to Shandong from the capital."

"Wheat from Liaodong, rice from the south of the Yangtze River, cotton from the Western Regions, and fish from the East China Sea. At that time, you can say with a smile that Tai Shigong must have never seen this thing, and he would not dare to think of it, because there is nothing hundreds of miles away." What’s the point of selling woodcutters and not selling people who have traveled thousands of miles?”

"At that time, the people who have lost their land will ride on this car and go to the frontier to cultivate; the merchants who buy and sell will ride on this car and travel thousands of miles to sell."

"There are whining sounds and thick black smoke. Everywhere it goes, it is no different from the capital. How magnificent?"

Tian Zhenyi leaned on those models and imagined such magnificence in her mind. But then, Liu Yu turned his painting style to a gloomy one.

"This whine is the cry of countless people and the cry of countless babies in the future!"

"Soot, steam, the roar of machinery. Spinning speed, weaving speed, blacksmithing speed, shoemaking speed several times or ten times that of human power..."

"Farming families rely on the few kilograms of cotton at home to be spun into yarn and then into cloth. After selling the cotton, they can exchange the few kilograms of cotton for more than ten kilograms of cotton and repeat the work of spinning again."

"With a year's hard work, I can buy some clothes for my children in the New Year, sell a foot of rope for three kilograms of pork, weigh five kilograms of tofu, and happily make dumplings to celebrate the new year."

"Soon, however, they will find that the yarn is cheaper and the cloth is cheaper, but they can no longer afford to wear clothes. The three pounds of cotton in their hands can no longer be turned into five or ten pounds, only three pounds. Three pounds, sold to the cotton collector."

"I impose exorbitant taxes, impose silver differentials, and increase salt taxes. I really don't have any money. What can I do? I can only sell my children to support myself."

"When children enter the factory, they only want a bowl of food, and they are willing to do a lot of things. Before dawn, they light up the bright oil lamps that they were reluctant to light when they were in the farmhouse; it is late at night, and they are still listening to what is going on in the farmhouse. An inaudible roar.”

“Make more and demand less. So the yarn is getting cheaper and the cloth is getting cheaper. But more and more people can’t afford to wear clothes, and more and more children are being sold, which makes them even more humble. "

"Those who opened factories made more and more money, so they began to lend money, buy land, and annex. If there is a disaster, farmers who have sold their children will have no choice but to sell their land again and flock to cities and towns. Find a way to make ends meet and do anything.”

"So, it's a cycle of getting more and more mean."

"In the beginning, one family was moaning. In the end, tens of thousands of families, hundreds of thousands of families, millions of families, all were moaning. Refugees were everywhere, the wind was surging, the world was in chaos, and corpses were everywhere."

Hearing this, Tian Zhenyi's face turned pale with her eyes closed, and she couldn't help but shudder.

But unexpectedly, Liu Yu laughed loudly and said, "But, what's the point?"

"Two thousand years ago, the princes rose up together and the nations competed for supremacy."

"Iron tools and oxen plowed the fields; private schools in the market spread knowledge; oxen and horses plowed the land, making food affordable for idlers; the appearance of coins made merchants hoard their goods..."

"It can be the same, but there are pros and cons. The well fields are ruined, the rich are surrounded by roads, and the poor have no place to stand; rituals are broken, and music is ruined; the princes fight endlessly, and their bones are lying in the wild; the people are poor, and they just want the world to be unified."

"What should we do in such troubled times? How should we end it? How should we solve it?"

"So a hundred schools of thought contended and each found a way out."

"Although it is chaotic, it is full of vitality and hope. Everyone thinks that they can find a way to solve this troubled world. At least, no one feels that there is no hope."

"In the end, it shaped the spirit of Zhu Xia for two thousand years. Most of the problems when the princes were fighting were solved, and a path was found that was feasible, at least better than the endless wars at that time."

"Now, it's the same."

"What should we do in times like these?"

"It is necessary to cause hundreds of schools of thought to contend and seek their own path. Eventually, one family will be able to draw on the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and come up with a solution that can end this era of vitality, despair and darkness."

"Find a truly feasible and promising path."

"Once this road is found, what will happen if the efficiency of this machine is several dozen times or dozens of times higher?"

“The cloth produced in one year may be equal to the total produced in the previous thousand years; the iron produced in one year may be equaled to the total produced in the previous ten thousand years.”

"At that time, why worry about the lack of clothing in the world? Why worry about the lack of food in the world? Why worry about the lack of iron in the world to plow the plow?"

"The hunger, cold, lack of clothes, and lack of utensils that have plagued us since the Shang and Zhou dynasties will all be gone!"

"How lucky are we to be born at this time? We will witness with our own eyes the coming of this troubled world, and then we will see with our own eyes the dawn of the end of this troubled world."

"What kind of ambition will it be when we have achieved both the good things of the steam age and the evils of the steam age?"

"There were saints before, so what? There was only so much cloth and so little rice, and the saints didn't know how to make five loaves and two fish, so they had such thoughts, but couldn't do it."

"All that's left is despair."

"But now it's different. Chaos is not scary, what's scary is despair. Now there's only chaos, and no more despair."

"In the past, I thought about the world of great harmony, but food and cloth were simply impossible to obtain. It's like looking for a way to the sun. How can you find it? You can appeal to morality, or appeal to ghosts and gods, or appeal to the fantasy of five loaves and two fish, or appeal to a heaven flowing with milk and honey. They are all fantasies."

"Now, this machine has made the sun fall to the ground. Maybe you don't know where it is, but there must be a way to get there."

"When you find it, On the day of the road, looking back at the past, what does it matter? "

"Look at the witchcraft incident in Weiyang Palace, the Sima family's forbearance in usurping the country, the disputes among the princes in Sui Dynasty, the chaos in the Li Tang court, the Zhao Song Dynasty's drinking and releasing military power, and the Ming Dynasty's slaughter of meritorious officials; or the Western countries' Crusades, the Byzantine conspiracy, the Rakshasa coup, the Holy Roman Empire's fragmentation... I can't help laughing, these are all the private interests of a family, how can there be such a brilliant and magnificent aspirations in this era, to find a way to benefit all the people in the world? "

"All can be laughed at! Count the heroic aspirations, and look at today! "