Riding a parting horse from Lieutenant Colonel Horns and carrying the latest pistol from Boss Bass at his waist, Sean Connery walked on his way home.

After the war, the northern province of Xinjiang has just recovered a little vitality, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the civilians you can see here, in addition to the merchants, are the families of the soldiers.

Northern Xinjiang was one of the poorest provinces of the empire, with snow-capped mountains, the Gobi and deserts as the main features of its landscape, while some oases and valleys were fragrant with melons and fruits, and the grapes produced here were especially famous, so the wines produced here have long been famous.

Sean was sometimes galloping, sometimes stopping, and he was taking a serious look at the world.

In Wengerburg, the capital of Northern Xinjiang Province, Sean unexpectedly saw a criticism of himself in the newspaper, which forced him to stop for a while.

The critic was not a literary scholar or a political commentator, but a geologist and naturalist named Babia Dolby.

Sean originally had nothing to do with him, and he didn't know anyone face-to-face.

However, the unexpected impact of "Soldier Bill's Promotion" has far exceeded his imagination, only because he mentions a trivial detail in this novella:

On the march, the soldiers of the company passed by a vineyard, and the master hospifully invited them to wine, and when Bill asked the master why he sighed, the master replied that two-thirds of the wine he made was sour, and that he had to pay a large sum of money.

The new midshipman liked to flaunt his knowledge, saying that it was "natural" and that there was no other way but to be more devout and pray to God.

Bill, however, said that this is nonsense, believing that any life is developed from tiny living organisms, and that the spoilage of food, including alcohol, is caused by bacteria coming in from the outside or having bacteria inside. All those who take the initiative to speak naturally are unlearned and unskilled.

However, this passage was seen by the novel-loving scholar Babia Dolby, a professor of naturalism at Quds University.

In this era, bacteria and microorganisms were already well understood, and there were still famous scholars who advocated the "theory of spontaneous generation".

This doctrine holds that all life occurs naturally, such as carrion can produce maggots, unclean clothing is raw fleas and lice, etc., and it is concluded that lower organisms are naturally produced by non-living substances, which is the theory of spontaneous generation, also known as the theory of autopoiesis.

Hundreds of years ago, some people even "experimented" by stuffing sugar and old rags into a bottle, and then putting them under a dark bed, and the bottle would give birth to small mice, and they were surprised that the little mice obtained in the experiment were exactly the same as they were seen every day.

So, Professor Dolby criticized him:

"I heard that the author of this novel, Sean Connery is now a second lieutenant, and thankfully he has finally been promoted, believing that he will be a good officer, a good soldier, but I dare to assert that he will not be a general in his lifetime. A philosopher once said that you should not judge yourself in areas that you are not familiar with, or you will laugh and be generous......"

"I advise this Second Lieutenant Connally to serve the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor well. In addition to his busy military affairs, he can also read more books, gain a long insight, and arm his head, so as not to think that it is full of paste......"

Sean was in his hotel at Wengerburg and laughed at Professor Dolby's article. He picked up the pen and began to write:

"I have always had the most humble feelings, respecting knowledge and respecting those who have it. But Professor Babia-Dubie is clearly not among them. ”

"As a former ensign, I was on my way back to my hometown in the South, but I had to stop at a hotel in Wengerburg, and with great difficulty, I finally found Professor Dolby's magnum opus, Species, in the corner of a school, which had been covered with a thick layer of dust. Of course, Professor Dolby has a lot of naturalist knowledge, but the work you do is only the work of classifying species, which is not the basis of biology. ”

"Admittedly, species classification is also important. Just like in a fine dining restaurant, what is on the menu is important, but more important is the chef, whose subtle handling of ingredients can seriously affect the palate. ”

"As we all know, the Northern Xinjiang Province is the most important wine producing area in the empire, and I have tasted a lot of it in the past few days. I just want to ask the esteemed Professor Dolby why wine is sour and, more importantly, how it is possible to solve this problem that is losing the winemakers of Northern Xinjiang Province and generate income for the farmers who grow the grapes, and thus increase some tax revenue for the empire......"

"The most basic principle of science is to make bold assumptions and carefully verify them, and as Professor Dolby said, don't make wild comments about areas that you are not good at. A thousand words, it is better to prove it with facts. ”

"Let's do a little experiment, I knew about it when I was five years old......"