Volume VIII 1079 First Productive Forces

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The significance of basic science to human society is important, but basic science is also the most easily ignored, because human beings have an inferior root, which is short-sightedness and short-sightedness.

Basic scientific research does not take into account practical purposes, it produces universal knowledge and understanding of nature and its laws. This universal knowledge provides answers to a large number of important practical questions, but it does not provide a completely specific answer to any one question. It is the duty of applied research research to provide such satisfactory answers.

Just like the ancient astrology, people used a telescope to observe the movement of celestial bodies, so as to infer that the earth is round, to infer heliocentrism, and to deduce the calendar. These studies are even a kind of basic science, but this kind of research cannot be said to be alive and difficult to turn into money directly.

Through the basic science of astrology, the Chinese and Arabs took the lead in mastering the applied technology of astrology, so that sea ships can cross the ocean without relying on visual coastline inspection. This kind of applied technology can be turned into money.

In fact, a big factor in why Arab merchants were so wealthy in the Middle Ages was that they were the first to master the art of astrology, and they could efficiently cross the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea for commercial trade.

At that time, European navigation technology was still stuck in small wrecked ships driving along the coastline, and sailors could be scared to death if they could not see the mainland coastline for three days.

Is Newton's "Laws of Nature" important? Everyone in the world knows that it is important, but importance does not mean that you can make money, money is actually obtained from applied scientific research, but applied scientific research must be built on the matrix of basic science.

Is Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" important? However, the theory of relativity is also a basic scientific research achievement, while the atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb are applied scientific research derived from the parent body of the theory of relativity.

It's like a towering tree, people need the fruit of the tree to satisfy their hunger, they need the branches of the tree to use as fuel, they need a thick trunk to build a house and make furniture, but very few people are willing to study the roots, and the roots are useless in the eyes of most people.

This is a root of human inferiority, short-sighted, especially in a society like China, which has suppressed artisans for thousands of years.

Xiao Letian is very clear that if the Basic Science Foundation uses state financial spending, then he may face even greater opposition than the patent office just now.

Even Xiao Letian's Four Heavenly Kings and other officials had a hard time understanding this kind of investment. In the eyes of the Chinese people, direct investment in applied scientific research is somewhat acceptable, after all, the actual benefits can be seen if it succeeds.

But the basic scientific research of this ethereal nature, especially mathematics, physics, logic...... And so on, people's first feeling is that it is useless, pure waste.

In the face of such a cultural background, Xiao Letian is too lazy to explain, he can only pay out of his own pocket to establish an independent foundation, you can't take care of my own family business, right?

Five million dragon pattern silver coins were put in, and Xiao Letian clearly heard a sigh of regret! But because of the awe of Xiao Letian, people didn't dare to say much.

But in the next ten years, the miracle created by the Shaw Basic Science Foundation is so great that no one present today could have imagined!

The more than 5 million dragon silver coins were not directly invested in scientific research, but were converted into various shares and real estate for wealth appreciation.

Xiao Lotian used his 'power' to win a lot of special treatment for the foundation, and almost all the industries that made money were obviously not short of shares, but they were forcibly mixed because of Xiao Letian's domineering.

Later famous Huamei British United Telegraph Company, Shaw Real Estate Group, Lotte Bank, Tanggu Industrial Group, Ryukyu Marine Trading Company...... and so on, the original shares of super large enterprises have been robbed of a lot by this foundation.

Not only that, Xiao Letian also licked his face to ask for sponsorship from a rich person he knew, 12,000 is not too little, 100,000 million is not too much, and the Basic Science Foundation has never been plagued by insufficient funds for hundreds of years.

Some historians looked through the historical materials, and they were surprised to find from many declassified archives that in the first three years of the establishment of the Basic Science Foundation, Xiao Letian ordered all funds to be invested in three categories: basic research in electromagnetism, basic research in the petroleum industry, and basic research in smelting.

Coincidentally, these three categories are the core changes of the second industrial revolution, especially electromagnetism and the petroleum industry, which are the mainstream development directions of mankind in the next few hundred years.

Later generations of historians pondered to the horror that they could not explain this astonishing coincidence other than to admit that Xiao Lotian was a great prophet.

The Military Council, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Scientific Society were officially released, and when people had not yet fully digested these large-capacity information, Sima Yun later threw out the concept of the Civic Council.

"In addition to soldiers, merchants, scientists, and craftsmen, there are also larger and larger groups of citizens, including farmers, fishermen, builders, seafarers, and so on......"

"These five elements and eight works, three hundred and sixty lines of the people, are all under the management of the citizens' council! Everyone is a hero in life, even if he is the most ordinary worker who sells his strength, he also has the opportunity to enter the six lords and eighteen ranks!"

"Farmers stumble upon a high-yielding crop, navigators find a whole new island for the kingdom's map, and civilian heroes emerge from unexpected disasters...... These ordinary people who occasionally shine in the ordinary, the Chinese people will not forget them!"

"The important task of the Citizens' Council is to select these people for their outstanding contributions, and to compile them and report them to the Council of Nobles for the reward they deserve!"

The crowd began to talk to each other again, and many old ministers were keenly aware that the prime minister had merged the peasants and other people into one group, could it be said that the prime minister was going to give up the thousand-year-old tradition of building a country based on agriculture?

"Prime Minister, do you want to abandon the tradition of classification that has been passed down for thousands of years? We can easily understand the military council and the merchant council, but the scientific society obviously only involves those elite craftsmen, and you have put ordinary craftsmen and peasants into one category, so there will really be no chaos?

"And most importantly, what about the scholars? Who is the ruler of the scholars who are the heads of the four peoples? Aren't these people meritorious? Their merits in governing the country are not recognized?"

The question was very sharp, Xiao Letian nodded, drank saliva, moistened his dry cough throat, and said softly, "No, I haven't forgotten them, your raising this question shows that you didn't understand the essence of the Chinese order at all......"

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