Li Kuan looked at the primitive battery pack in front of him in surprise.

It's only been a few days, and the Electric Energy Research Institute has put this thing in order.

Is Datang going to enter the power society in advance?

This is not the same as the situation I envisioned.

"Lord Wang, the spark generated by this is electricity, right?"

Li Yan looked at Li Kuan expectantly, hoping to hear an affirmative answer.

"How did you come up with this battery?"

"Batteries? Lord Wang, you use this word too well. This thing is really like a pool full of electricity, and it is too apt to say that it is a battery. ”

Li Yan's eyes lit up, and he felt that this battery was definitely expected to become a new thing that the people of Chang'an City discussed after dinner.

Although I don't know what this battery is for, seeing Li Kuan's surprised expression, Li Yan feels that this invention is stable!

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, this battery was designed and produced by the master in combination with the theory you mentioned in your speech, and then under the touch of Tong Jiaoyu and Chao Qiong's accidental discovery."

Zhao Xiaoer on the side added an explanation.

"Tong Zhou? What does this battery have to do with him? ”

Who is Tong Zhou, Li Kuan is naturally familiar and can no longer be familiar, this is the future of Datang Biomedical.

However, he had never heard of Tong Zhou having anything to do with the Electric Energy Research Institute.

"That's right, when I took the students of the medical school to do a frog dissection experiment, Chao Qiong accidentally found a frog placed on a copper wire, and when the tweezers approached the frog, it would shake unexpectedly. It stands to reason that the frogs are dead, and it is impossible for them to move anymore, but this kind of thing happened.

Chao Qiong went through many tests to confirm that it was not her own dazzle, and realized that there must be something in it that everyone did not understand. It just so happened that a lot of articles about electricity were published in the journal "Science" during this time, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu personally held a lecture in the academy, Chao Qiong boldly guessed whether it was because of copper wires, frogs, and tweezers made of stainless steel, and there was also an electric current.

If this guess is correct, then a lot of things can be explained. But we don't know why such a combination produces electricity, so we came to the Electric Energy Research Institute to study with Li Yan. ”

Tong Zhou explained the ins and outs of the matter in detail on the side.

"It turns out that there is such a story in the middle. Tong Zhou, I think this little story alone is enough for you to live with Chao Qiong for a hundred years. Maybe in a thousand years, the students will still learn about your little story in class. ”

Li Kuan couldn't help but laugh.

I didn't want to pull out the seedlings to help them grow, but I didn't expect such a coincidence.

With the advent of batteries, Datang's research and understanding of electricity will definitely be greatly accelerated.

Although it is still far from the power society, it can even be said that Li Kuan may not be able to see the coming scene of the power society in this life.

However, there is no doubt that this will further deepen Datang's understanding of nature.

Whether it's physics or chemistry, or biology and medicine, they all complement each other.

The development of any science is not independent.

It's like the discovery of bacteria, if you don't have the progress of physicals, where do you get the various principles of lenses?

And without the development of the chemical industry, where do excellent glass lenses come from?

"Lord Wang, it is true that as Tong Jiao said, the production of this battery is really due to Chao Qiong's accidental discovery."

Li Yan didn't think about taking credit alone.

In fact, it's also impossible.

"Batteries of different sizes and batteries made of different materials contain different electrical energy. Your electric energy research institute can do a good job of studying what the influencing factors of electric energy are, and how to express the size or strength of electric energy. In time, the Electric Energy Research Institute of Guanshishan Academy will definitely become a world-renowned existence. ”

Although the study of electricity is very important, in a short period of time, Li Kuan feels that the steam engine is the most important.

So after a brief encouragement to everyone, he didn't divulge too much about some of the electrical knowledge of later generations.

However, this discovery made him realize that it was time to hold an award in order to better stimulate the enthusiasm of Guanshishan Academy and even the people of Datang to study new technologies and theories.

"Lord Wang, are you saying that our Guanshishan Academy will come forward to set up a Datang Royal Science and Technology Award to reward outstanding inventions and contributions in physics, medicine, arithmetic, and agriculture every year?"

Xu Jingzong was a little surprised when he heard Li Kuan's idea.

If Li Kuan just wanted to commend and reward the students and teachings of Guanshishan Academy, then no matter how much he tossed, Xu Jingzong would not feel strange.

But now this award is obviously for the entire Datang.

That is to say, whether it is a student of Guanshishan Academy or a student of Qujiang Academy, or some craftsmen and men of other provinces, they may win this award.

The most important thing is that Li Kuan actually said that the announcement of this award every year will invite the current Son of Heaven to attend as much as possible.

That's extraordinary.

"That's right, for the time being, these four subjects will be added later. As for this award, in addition to the awarding of the trophy, there will also be a prize of 10,000 yuan. ”

A prize of 10,000 yuan?

Xu Jingzong looked at Li Kuan in disbelief.

That's too big, isn't it?

10,000!

That's not a thousand!

To put it mildly, no matter who wins the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award, he basically becomes a monopoly immediately.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu also attaches too much importance to this Tang Royal Science and Technology Award, right?

"This money will be paid by the Chu Palace, and the Tang Dynasty Royal Money Village and the East China Sea Fishery will serve as a guarantee. As for how to select this award, this requires you to think carefully. At that time, an award committee will be formed for each subject, and the award committee will recommend candidates to Benwang, and finally Benwang will determine the winners. ”

Before Datang's own high-end scientific and technological talents have not fully grown up, the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award, a significant award, can only be grasped by Li Kuan himself.

Which inventions are meaningful, which inventions are revolutionary, and who understands them better than Li Kuan?

At least Li Kuan himself will check it, and there will be no jokes about oolong.

If the award committee decides for itself, it would be hilarious if one day a project like "water to oil" or "perpetual motion machine" was made as an award.

"My subordinates understand, so this Datang Royal Science and Technology Award has been going on since this year?"

"Since you're going to do it, let's get it out as quickly as possible. This first edition of the awards for each subject was directly designated by the king. Anyway, the prize money is also from this king, so presumably no one will have any opinions. ”

At this time, even if Guanshishan Academy came forward to establish the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award, the influence of the award was not high.

Not to mention how the Tang Dynasty will react, even the students of Guanshishan Academy may not care much.

Of course, as soon as the prize of 10,000 yuan is announced, it will definitely cause a lot of discussion.

"That'...... That's fine. In that case, why don't we just set it for June 16? There are still more than ten days to go, and the subordinates can arrange and publicize it. ”

Li Kuan's eyebrows jumped, and he did not object.

This Xu Jingzong is really a sycophant who will be a sycophant.

June 16, that was Li Kuan's birthday.

Set this day as the day of the award ceremony of the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award, once the influence of this award expands, then Li Kuan's prestige will definitely go to a higher level.

This is definitely no worse than the Nobel Prize in later generations.

"You can do it!"

Xu Jingzong's specific ability to do things, Li Kuan still believes.

Anyway, the most critical award is set by yourself, and everything else is not very important.

……

In Guozi Prison, Kong Yingda looked at the latest publication of "Datang Daily" and frowned.

"Vulgar! It's cheesy! Tacky! ”

Guanshishan Academy wants to set up the Tang Royal Science and Technology Award for everyone in the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Jingzong naturally wants to publicize it in a big book.

In particular, the Chu Wangfu takes out a huge amount of money of 40,000 yuan every year as a bonus for the science and technology award, which is really a big deal.

It will definitely arouse heated discussions among the people, and even further enhance the popularity of the technology that the awardees said was researching.

For example, if it weren't for the fact that its inventor won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, it is estimated that most of the teachers and students in universities would not know about it, except for people in the field of chemistry, right?

Not to mention ordinary people.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the larger bonus setting is actually very beneficial to the initial publicity of the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award.

This is an advertisement in disguise.

It's like the prize money of lucky paper, if the amount of the grand prize is not set to be larger, then even if the Chu Wangfu rewards 100% of the money from selling tickets, it will not cause much of a sensation.

On the other hand, if you set the grand prize higher, even if you only take out 50% of the proceeds as a bonus, the impact will be extraordinary.

"Confucius Sacrifice Wine, although the practice of Guanshishan Academy is very tacky, but it has to make people admire the atmosphere of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and make people admire His Royal Highness the King of Chu's support for Gewu, medicine, arithmetic, and agriculture."

Sima Caizhang stood beside Kong Yingda and said with emotion.

As the person in charge of "Yafeng", Sima Caizhang's understanding of various propaganda methods is no longer what it used to be, and he can naturally realize the popularity of the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award, which will definitely come up soon.

"Good benevolence is not easy to learn, and its concealment is also stupid. It's hard to learn, and it's also unruly. Good faith is not easy to learn, and its concealment is also a thief. It's hard to learn, and it's also twisted. It's brave and hard to learn, and it's chaotic. It's hard to learn. It's crazy. The way to learn is to persevere, this Li Kuan uses money to measure knowledge, doesn't he put us and other scholars and businessmen together? ”

Kong Yingda found that there was agronomy in the Tang Royal Science and Technology Award, and he could understand that after all, there was no agriculture and no stability; There is arithmetic, and he can barely understand it, after all, the Ming arithmetic subject is a project of the Tang Dynasty scientific examination; As for medicine, this is not difficult to understand; As for Gewuxue, although he was very disgusted, he also knew that Li Kuan attached great importance to it, and it was not surprising that it was included in the Science and Technology Award.

However, there is no scripture in it.

What does that mean?

So does Li Kuan want to say that scripture is not important?

Is this a blatant attempt to take out the banner of science and exclude scripture from the category of science?

In the long run, how many people will pay attention to the scriptures in the future?

Kong Yingda couldn't accept such a situation.

Of course, this was what he said in his heart, and he didn't tell Sima Caizhang.

"Confucius Sacrifice Wine, having said that, but the establishment of such an award by Guanshishan Academy is a good thing for students and teachers in these fields. And, according to the "Datang Daily", this award does not limit the identity of the winner, even if you are a farmer facing the loess with your back to the sky and has outstanding success, you can also win the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award for Agronomy; Even an originally unknown craftsman has the opportunity to win the Datang Royal Science and Technology Award. ”

Sima Caizhang is on the matter, and he does not wear colored glasses like Kong Yingda.

"Caizhang, do you think that our Guozijian can also hold a literary award or some other award?"

Kong Yingda felt that he could not sit still.

Since Li Kuan thinks that setting up awards is a good way, then he doesn't have to be polite, just follow the settings.

"Naturally, it will work, but it is impossible for the household department to give us additional funds for Guozijian, and it is impossible for us to give the winners a bonus of 10,000 yuan."

After all, Guozijian is an official institution of the imperial court, and all expenditures are fixed.

Like this kind of sky-high bonus, not to mention that the household department does not agree, the other yamen will not agree.

Otherwise, everyone will simply follow the same example and make a bunch of awards to get the money from the household department.

What yamen doesn't want to get a little more money?

"Hmph, money is something outside the body, and our award does not need this mundane thing to pollute the purity of the award. Then it's decided, and our Guozijian will also set up a new award just like Guanshishan Academy. When will their Datang Royal Science and Technology Award be awarded, we will choose the same day as him! ”

Kong Yingda doesn't find it difficult to set up an award.

In fact, if you don't pay attention to any seriousness and logic, it is indeed not difficult to award this thing at all.

In the future, various industry associations will not be allowed to issue countless awards every year?

Any large company, if it can't get back dozens of awards a year, it's sorry for its social status.

"This ...... Kong Festival wine, is it better for us to stagger the award day? Otherwise, this kind of pertinence is too strong. ”

Sima Caizhang didn't want to go toe-for-tat with the Chu Palace, and he had no enmity with Li Kuan.

"Nope! Only by being more targeted can our awards attract more people's attention and expand their popularity to the ears of the general public through Li Kuan's light. ”

Kong Yingda finally showed a smile on his face.

He was rejoicing in his clever plan.

It's really nice to be able to rub hot spots openly and take advantage!