Chapter 23 The practical significance of strength

Chapter 23: The Practical Significance of Strength

A person who knows that he is doing bad things and is ashamed of it is often a person who can be saved.

Because, as long as we look at the history of the seventeenth century, people will find that this is the fastest developing and most prosperous period in human history. Similarly, this period of history is also the beginning of human development. The eve of truly understanding yourself and knowing yourself.

Before this, humans generally belonged to gods or kings.

I still don’t have an accurate understanding of myself.

When Yushan scholars saw that astronomical observations were becoming increasingly sophisticated, it became urgent to calculate detailed tables of trigonometric functions, so they began to make tables of sine, tangent and secant every 10 inches, all calculated by hand. , after five years, the calculation was finally completed.

Yushan scholars not only achieved certain results in astronomy, but also made a series of achievements in algebraic equation theory. < /p>

Song Yingxing and others successively discovered and improved universal solutions to cubic and quartic equations, and used imaginary numbers for the first time.

This is the biggest breakthrough in algebra since the Greek Diophantus. .

The Frenchman Veda, who fled from France and came to the Ming Dynasty, combined the achievements of his predecessors, created a large number of algebraic symbols, used letters to represent unknown numbers, and improved calculation methods, which greatly changed algebra.

Re-used scientific language to explain the generation and spread of sound. In line with the scientific explanation, he believed that sound is caused by the vibration or rapid movement of objects impacting the air. Sound is transmitted through the air, similar to water waves.

After inspecting the Yushan Iron and Steel Plant, Song Yingxing. Re-summarized the shortcomings in "Tiangong Kaiwu", re-edited the continuous production process of smelting pig iron and wrought iron (low carbon steel), annealing, normalizing, quenching, chemical heat treatment and other steel heat treatment processes and solid carburizing process etc.

Through a lot of practice, Song Yingxing finally regarded many chemical elements such as lead, copper, mercury, and sulfur as basic substances when describing smelting technology, and the reactions related to them. Substances were regarded as derived substances, thus giving birth to the bud of the concept of chemical elements.

What surprised Yun Zhao most was the dozens of optical instruments such as magnifying glasses and microscopes made by Sun Yunqiu, a Yushan optical instrument manufacturer. He is said to be unparalleled in the world and has written "Mirror History", which has been published in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Fuzhi, a great scholar who was invited by Yun Zhao with a lot of money, did not live up to Yun Zhao's silver coins. "Outer Chapter" put forward the concept of metabolism of living organisms. He said: "The quality and shape become the same with each passing day... Muscles are born and the old ones disappear, which is unknown to people." People see that the form remains unchanged but do not realize that the essence has changed..."

Now, I am working on removing the mysterious and mysterious words in the article, and I am waiting for the book to be reprinted.Once published, it will become a true scientific work.

Yu Ren and Yu Jie co-authored the book "Yuanheng's Horse Therapy Collection", which re-explained the treatment experience of horses, cows and camels, and won Yushan's highest honor - the Royal Science Award.

In the fourth year of Zhonghua, the "Zhaoyu Zhi" and "The Book of Benefiting Diseases of the Counties and Countries in the World" compiled by Gu Yanwu were also officially written. In the book "The Book of Benefiting Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World", Gu Yanwu affirmed the prefectures and counties The replacement of feudalism by feudalism is historical progress.

Although the county system also has its drawbacks, it is absolutely impossible to go backwards and implement the enfeoffment system. Gu Yanwu also pointed out that the shortcoming of the county system was excessive imperial power.

Although there were not many words criticizing the imperial power, it also caused huge waves in Yushan Academy. Many people thought that such description was disrespectful to Yun Zhao.

However, Gu Yanwu didn't care and vowed not to change a single word. After being criticized by many people, Gu Yanwu, who was furious, even added many mistakes that Yun Zhao had made since he ascended the throne.

The criticism is extremely pungent, and all the mistakes made by officials in the world are blamed on Yun Zhao. If you only read this book, Yun Zhao is a great fool who far surpasses Jie and Zhou.

After reading it, Yun Zhao was furious and clamored to cut Gu Yanwu into pieces... However, this book "The Book of Benefits and Diseases of All Countries and Prefectures under Heaven", which Yun Zhao added a lot of Zang Fei, was published as scheduled.

Due to Yun Zhao's rage, the book was still in short supply after initially printing 20,000 copies. Therefore, an additional 80,000 copies were finally printed, making it the most widely printed book in the four years of the Ming Dynasty in China. .

At this time, Xu Xiake returned from visiting the mountains and concentrated on compiling his own travel notes. During his four years in China, he republished his travel notes - "Xu Xiake's Travel Notes".

Fang Yizhi, a young professor at Yushan Academy, finally published his own work on Physics - "Little Knowledge of Physics" after studying the Physics for many years.

Among them, in Volume 7, he re-introduced and summarized Yushan's coke-making method: "Coal is produced everywhere. If it smells bad, melt it and close it. When it becomes stone, it is chiseled into the furnace. "

After Yun Zhao saw it, he scolded Fang Yizhi, thinking that the language he wrote was obscure and difficult to understand, and neither craftsmen nor scholars could understand it. I know to whom it is written.

So, before Fang Yizhi’s book started to be sold, Fang Yizhi took it back and burned it, preparing to re-edit it and then publish it for the first time.

The sign of a prosperous era is that all kinds of talents emerge one after another, all kinds of discoveries emerge one after another, and all kinds of industries are extremely prosperous.

So, when Yun Zhao came back from the Yushan Academy’s research results exhibition, he was in a good mood. Even though he had a very unpleasant argument with Gu Yanwu at the venue, overall, his mood was still the same. Very good.

Philosophy, arithmetic, physics, chemistry, medicine, agriculture, astronomy, and geography have all made great progress, which makes Yun Zhao even more hopeful for the future.

The Ming Dynasty Population Census has ended. Today’sThe Ming Dynasty has a total population of 164.52 million, and nearly 8,000 newborns are born every day. Throughout the year, there will be an additional population of about 3 million.

For every newborn, Yun Zhao and Qian Duoduo, Feng Ying sent them the most sincere blessings. As long as a newborn is born, the family will receive three silver coins. Breast milk money.

Medicine bureaus all over the Ming Dynasty must register every newborn. All the medicines and diagnosis and treatment expenses needed for newborn diseases are free of charge and are provided by the royal family until It won't stop until the newborn turns three years old.

Coupled with the policy that both men and women in Lantian have the right to allocate land, the proportion of female babies among newborn babies in the Ming Dynasty has increased significantly.

Today’s Ming Dynasty does not lack land at all. On the contrary, there is still a large amount of unowned land that needs people to cultivate. Therefore, the matter of population control only has an impression in Yun Zhao’s head. As for others—— Many children bring good fortune, and a large population is a sign of strong national strength.

As far as a country is concerned, supporting the army will consume a lot of national funds, but this is not the case for the Lantian Dynasty.

From the day the Lantian Army was created, the army has always been a profit-making unit.

And it is the unit that pays the third most money and food in the Ming Dynasty.

Although everyone knows that the army is not engaged in production, even a fool knows how their money and food come from.

For those who hold guns, drag cannons, and drive warships, their means of production can hardly be anything other than what they have in their hands.

For now, as long as the Ming Dynasty does not belong to a place, it is a place where the army makes money.

It’s the Southwest and the Navy again. Their contribution to the military’s wealth exceeds more than 70% of the military’s overall wealth.

At this time, Yun Zhao's self-confidence had reached its peak.

His huge fleet is sailing on the sea.

His huge army is expanding in all directions.

His people are working day and night to produce more wealth for the empire.

His ministers are working tirelessly to plan the future of the empire.

At this time, as an emperor, he can naturally take a rest.

"Still angry with Gu Yanwu?"

When Han Lingshan came, he saw Yun Zhao lying half asleep on a brocade couch, so he asked with a smile.

"No, I just want to take a rest without thinking about anything."

Yun Zhao replied lazily.

"It's time to take a rest. Look, Li Dingguo has already captured Jinzhou."

Yun Zhao took a look at the military report Han Lingshan brought and said: " Wu Sangui didn't put up any fierce resistance?"

Han Lingshan put his butt on the table and lit a pipe: "Guan Ning's cavalry ran the fastest, and Chu Dayong who was guarding the city was blown to pieces. However, the resistance of the people in Jinzhou City was the most intense."

"Because.Our land policy? ”

“It’s like this. Wu Sangui did a good job and told the people in Jinzhou City that after we come, we will take away their cultivated land, their cattle, sheep and deer, and Walk through their houses and redistribute them.

Therefore, even if Guan Ning's cavalry retreated, they would still fight tooth and nail to resist. "

"How did Li Dingguo do it? "

"There was no time to reason at this time, so Li Dingguo chose to attack by force. In front of the artillery, those people who wanted to rely on their swords and spears to defend their wealth had no chance. ”

“Are there many casualties? "

"It's very serious, especially after Zu Dashou forcibly ordered everyone in Jinzhou City to shave their heads. Many people felt that there was no way to survive. "

"Huh? Did Zu Dashou catch it? "

"No, I ran away with Wu Sangui. "

Yun Zhao put down the battle report in his hand and sighed: "Where can he run to? "

Han Lingshan said: "They are determined not to return to the Ming Dynasty. ”

“I don’t want them even if they come, I just want their heads back.” "

"Is Tokugawa Iemitsu's envoy here? ”

“Here we are, waiting for His Majesty’s summons in the People’s Palace Square outside the Congress.

Yun Zhao lazily turned over and looked at Yushan outside the window: "How would he explain the invasion of North Korea?" "

Han Lingshan said: "Any explanation is useless unless they start attacking Dorgon now. "

Han Lingshan smiled and said: "Tokugawa Iemitsu's envoy said that every time His Majesty delays summoning them, they will chop off a person's head. ”

“Oh? "Yun Zhao sat up in surprise. He really couldn't imagine the consequences of these people's murder in Yushan.

"Oh, I didn't make it clear. Hatoyama, the leader of the envoy, said that every other moment Bell, he will cut off the head of a messenger as apology. ”

“Oh, that’s okay. ”

After Yun Zhao finished speaking, he changed into a comfortable position and lay down.