Not to mention how Wang Erbiao did things in Shandong, let's just say that in Beijing, nearly a month later, it was late October of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.

At this time, the weather in the north is already very cold. The groundbreaking work is becoming more and more strenuous.

But fortunately, there are sufficient manpower and material resources, and by the Tongzhou River, the Daming Jingshi Academy, which occupies a large area, at least has a façade.

This academy was designed by Zhang Mingwei himself, and it was in the style of later universities. There are school buildings, dormitories, canteens, and even sports venues.

However, after all, it was only a little more than a month, so only some buildings near the gate were built first, which can be regarded as the first phase of the project, which can accommodate about 100 students. In the future, it is estimated that it will look like a township elementary school.

But even so, this academy is actually quite big, if you want to count the later projects, then all the academies of the Ming Dynasty together are not as big as this academy.

Because Zhang Mingwei plans to divide this academy into three parts in the future: primary school, middle school, and university, as well as a library, laboratories, and so on.

Looking at the progress of the academy, Zhang Mingwei also heard that many people from all over the country have rushed to Beijing to study in the academy.

Of course, it's hard to say how much of this study is really a requirement for learning, and how much of it is actually for the power of Xingguo Gong.

Zhang Mingwei didn't care about this.

It made him a little regretful that none of the two questions he had asked before had been answered so far.

In fact, it is impossible to sit on a chair according to the picture he drew to stand up. The reason is simple, the center of gravity of a person is not on the feet. Therefore, it is necessary to either shrink your feet or lean forward so that you can stand up.

Generally speaking, when a person wants to stand up, he will naturally make these movements. However, Zhang Mingwei stipulated that this could not be done, and it would be strange if someone could stand up.

Of course, if there is a fart, a fart goes down, and the reaction force can push people up, Zhang Mingwei also admits it!

For this question, he hoped that someone would give him a clear answer, saying that it was impossible, and as for the reason, as long as he could give a general concept, it would be qualified.

It's just a pity that perhaps everyone thinks that the authority of Xingguo Gong cannot be challenged, so no one has thought that the answer to this question is actually unsolvable.

As for the other question, Fang Yizhi gave an answer, saying that if you are in the water, you should not be able to feel the weight on the flat shoulder.

However, this answer is still given to Zhang Mingwei no, because he said that you can't use external forces, which means that the buoyancy of water can't either!

Moreover, even in the water, as long as the weight on the shoulder is greater than the buoyancy of the water, the shoulder can still feel the pressure.

On this day, Zhang Mingwei saw that it was almost over, and the news came out that the Daming Jingshi Academy would be unveiled on October 30, and then there would be a formal ceremony to accept the apprentices, and then the answers to these two questions would be announced. Then, two more questions will be asked and they will be solved in five days.

After that, it is the official enrollment of students in Daming Jingshi Academy, which will end at the end of November and officially open in March of the following year.

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When this day came, the young people of Jingshi, including those who came from all over the country, flocked to the academy. Of course, they want to hear the answers to the two questions, and they want to see who the first batch of students of Xingguo Gong will be?

But what they didn't expect was that on this day, Emperor Chongzhen actually came to join in the fun and messed up Zhang Mingwei's apprenticeship ceremony!

According to Emperor Chongzhen, he said that he shouted "sir, sir" all day long, then he was also a student of Zhang Mingwei, and he was the first, because he was the first to call it that.

In this way, Zhang Mingwei is the emperor. Others, that dare to be compared with Emperor Chongzhen!

In this regard, Zhang Mingwei is very helpless, this is too popular, right?

It was Zhu Yujiao who quietly told him in private, because he hadn't told her father the answers to those two questions before, so her father came here.

Of course, in addition to these reasons on the surface, whether Emperor Chongzhen said it himself, or what Zhu Yujiao said, he had other reasons for him to do it.

The video on Zhang Mingwei's mobile phone vividly showed Emperor Chongzhen how great the changes would be in a few hundred years! This is definitely very shocking for Emperor Chongzhen.

And such a huge change is due to the development of science and technology!

Therefore, since Emperor Chongzhen has already seen it, it is easy to understand that he is naturally determined to support Zhang Mingwei's science and technology to change the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, even if Zhang Mingwei depicted how great the changes in science and technology would be brought about by Emperor Chongzhen, without the shock of seeing is believing, he would not have behaved so positively!

Emperor Chongzhen or unique things have done too much, and he doesn't care about this one. Therefore, he formally apprenticed in public, and after making his words "sir" a fact, let others not mind, and still be what it should be.

The final result was that Zhang Mingwei first accepted Emperor Chongzhen, the eldest disciple, and then accepted Huang Zongxi, Fang Yizhi, Fang Kongzhi, Song Yingxing, and Tu Shaoxuan as the second batch of disciples.

Of course, Huang Zongxi and the others didn't dare to call Emperor Chongzhen a senior brother, because that was the monarch's father! People like to be the big disciples of Xingguo Gong, so they can't be more serious, they can only talk about their own things.

This incident made all the young people who rushed to hear the news, including those from other parts of the Ming Dynasty, who were shocked and stunned, and once again had a new understanding of the status of Xingguo Gong in the mind of Emperor Chongzhen.

It can be said that being so engaged by Emperor Chongzhen, this Daming Jingshi Academy is destined to be very popular in the future.

In private, Emperor Chongzhen said to Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, you still don't mean enough to hide the answer from me, but I mean enough to you, sir, right?" ”

Zhang Mingwei immediately snorted, and said to Emperor Chongzhen with a smile: "Everything is for the Ming Dynasty, everything is for the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Of course, that's for later.

At this time, after the apprenticeship ceremony was over, Zhang Mingwei began to announce the answer.

Everyone was very curious and listened attentively to Zhang Mingwei's answer.

"The first answer, if you look at things carefully, maybe you will find something." Zhang Mingwei looked at the group of people below and said loudly, "Have you ever experienced such a scene, when there are heavy objects on your body, for example, a heavy bag of silver......

Hearing this, the people sitting in front of him were all either rich or noble, so they couldn't help touching their wallets, and then continued to listen to Xingguo Gong.

"When you encounter a slope jump, in the process of jumping, do you feel that the bag of silver seems to be gone? Until you jump on the ground, you will feel that the silver is heavier again? ”

When Zhang Mingwei finished saying this, he saw Huang Zongxi's thoughtful appearance, and he knew that he finally remembered that he had told them something similar before.

But at this time, he didn't care about Huang Zongxi, and continued: "In the first question, if you are carrying a burden of 100 catties without the help of external force, if you jump from a high place to a low place, you will not feel the weight on your shoulders when the person and the burden are off the ground. ”

Zhang Mingwei is actually not the first person to say this. On the European side, Galileo, who was dead at this time, said something similar.

He described the phenomenon and gave the analogy of someone stabbing a person with a spear, but the speed of that person was always the same as the speed of the spear. It's a truth.

After Zhang Mingwei finished speaking, the people below, those who were close were thinking about it, and those who were far away began to whisper.

Seeing this, Zhang Mingwei asked them: "If anyone thinks I am wrong, they can bring it up!" ”

In the face of his inquiry, the bottom immediately fell silent, and no one questioned it.

Zhang Mingwei found it a little difficult to understand this.

For people in later generations, free-falling objects have no weight, which is a common sense, as long as you have read a book, you basically know it.

However, for people in this era, as soon as he said this, these people understood, and no one questioned it, Zhang Mingwei actually didn't believe it.

Then there is only one reason, they are either based on Zhang Mingwei's identity as Xingguo Gong, or they dare not question it based on Xingguogong's power; Either they think that Xingguo Gong is so knowledgeable, and what they say must be right.

For such a phenomenon, Zhang Mingwei can actually understand.

In this era, including those who read in previous eras, there will be such a quote as "the sage said" to prove that their views are correct. In other words, their understanding of things is based on what the saints have said, what they have said.

For this kind of logical thinking, if it is used in science and technology, and in the discovery of natural laws, it is not a good logical thinking. The road of science is the road of continuous exploration and questioning.

It was also Zhang Mingwei who guessed in advance that such a situation would happen, so he came up with the second question.

Therefore, he was not in a hurry to explain the first question again, so he told them the second question first, in fact, it was impossible for anyone to stand up at all!

As soon as this answer was announced, the audience was in an uproar. No one expected that this second question would be unsolvable!

At this moment, they were dumbfounded.

There is an unsolvable question for people to answer, what is this?

But even so, people who are close to them do not dare to question Xingguo Gong.

In this regard, Zhang Mingwei said to them solemnly: "The reason why I came up with this topic is to let you know that the scientific and technological knowledge I teach you is to dare to question it!" Excellent disciples want to stand on my shoulders, and the blue is better than the blue! If you think you're right about anything, then that's the end of the study! Now, you know what I mean? ”