Chongzhen's thirteen-year-old Enke carried out the final palace examination.

Before the palace examination, the tributes from all over the country must first take the re-examination in the Imperial Palace, which is also the last examination.

After the re-examination, the palace examination was really held, and Emperor Chongzhen personally asked questions in the Imperial Palace, the content was mainly a policy question, these poor candidates did not dare to raise their heads, they could only answer the questions with trepidation, and then withdraw and wait for their fate.

According to the performance of the candidates, Chongzhen is divided into three grades, that is, the top three, the first class jinshi and the third person, which are the champion, the list eye, and the tanhua; A number of people in the second class are given a jinshi background, and a number of people in the third class are given the same jinshi background.

Chongzhen didn't know which tendon was wrong, but it turned out to be the palace who asked Wei Zaode, the champion of the new department: "Why do ripe apples fall straight to the ground?" ”

Wei Zaode was still immersed in the joy of being the champion, and was suddenly confused by this sudden question.

Chongzhen looked at him and asked, "You don't understand this champion?" ”

Wei Zaode lowered his head and said: "This is a small way, four books and five classics, and the sage's subtle words and righteousness are the right way." ”

Chongzhen didn't like it, but it was not easy to refute this sentence, after all, the emperor was also a saint, and this surnamed Wei was a sycophant in disguise.

He asked other new science and technology scholars, and everyone lowered their heads and shook their heads for a while, only Fang Yizhi, the head of the four princes of Jinling, replied tentatively: "It should be that there is a force inside the earth that attracts all things in the world......

Fang Yizhi was born in a family of scholars, his father was Fang Kongzhao, the governor of Huguang, and his great-grandfather Fang Xuexuan, proficient in medicine and science, and could learn from hundreds of schools, which were well understood and self-contained.

Fang Yizhi has been adhering to family education since childhood, and met Tang Ruowang and others in his early years, advocating the gradual development of Western learning, the combination of Chinese and Western, and has a deep study of literature, science, history and philosophy, and often pays attention to the science and technology column of Huangming Times, and has a little experience.

Chongzhen thought for a moment, nodded, and said that he was confidential in his words, and he would be selected by Fang Yizhi as the Shujishi and the Hanlin Academy to review, and serve as the lecturer of the third prince Zhu Cijiong and the fourth prince Zhu Cijiong.

After Fang Yizhi left the main hall, he broke out in a cold sweat, he was not afraid of the emperor, but frightened of the crown prince's prophecy.

Fang Yizhi's father is Fang Kongzhao, the governor of Huguang, who is a member of the prince's family, and he has long classified himself as a princeling, and he defended Zhu Cihong several times when he was reinstated.

When leaving Nanjing to go north to participate in the palace examination, Zhu Cihong once summoned Fang Yizhi alone, and in the chat, Zhu Cihong inadvertently said: If the palace is not mistaken, the champion of the palace examination should be a guy named Wei Zaode, this person has a sharp mouth and no talent.

At that time, Fang Yizhi thought that the crown prince was referring to Sang scolding Huai and saying that the fourth prince of the Restoration Society was really a person named Wei Zaode after today's palace examination.

If this is just a coincidence, forget it, the crown prince actually even guessed his future, he said at the time: After you go to Beijing, take care of my third brother, my third brother has no great ambitions, you can tell him more about the rare things in the Taixi countries.

At that time, Fang Yizhi was still wondering, the third prince is in the palace, even if I am in high school, I am a foreign minister, how to take care of the prince?

It wasn't until today's palace test that he fully understood the prince's words, but he never understood the prince's words: This palace is not mistaken......

Memory is not mistaken? What do you mean?

The more Fang Yizhi thought about it, the more frightened he was in his heart, the crown prince was really the reincarnation of the Ziwei Emperor Star, and he had the power of magic and clever calculations?

......

Inside the Dong'an Gate of the Jingshi, Guozijian.

Although the Jingshi Guozijian is not as vast as the Nanjing Guozijian, there are also many prisoners, and it is the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty.

When they learned that no one in the world could solve this problem, they were ready to show their skills and make a reputation.

Fame is important, but the most important thing is the official position, the professor of Guozijian is only from the ninth grade, the doctor of the Five Classics from the eighth grade, if you want to climb up by seniority, you may not be able to mix with the sixth-grade business in this life, let alone the fourth-grade Guozijian sacrificial wine.

If you can solve this prince question, you can easily mix a positive five-grade official body, who can not be tempted by this opportunity to leap into the dragon gate!

More than 10,000 students in the second prison in the north and south, including all the professors and doctors of the Five Classics, have gone crazy, and one by one clubs have sprung up to discuss such anti-heaven problems.

A group of people in Qin Tianjian are not idle, and the research direction of this topic is their specialty, so naturally they must also grasp it well.

Tang Ruowang was wearing a Ming official uniform, and he spoke incoherently excitedly, and hurriedly took a few Westerners to his laboratory, which was the opportunity he had been waiting for for a long time.

A few years ago, since John Tang met Zhu Cihong once, he began to secretly pay attention to Zhu Cihong, and to his disappointment, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seemed to be less interested in him.

When he learned that Zhu Cihong went to Nanjing to supervise the country, Tang Ruowang hinted that he would go to Nanjing together, but Zhu Cihong did not use his meaning.

Zhu Cihong's meaning is very clear, in addition to providing drawings for Yongwei to build dozens of artillery, you Tang Ruowang has not contributed anything else, stealing and playing tricks, and the relationship between the two sides has ended after Chongzhen gave the plaque for ten years.

Tang Ruowang knew that this little prince was not easy to fool, but it was too late, and at this time, he happened to encounter this opportunity, if he could solve the prince's problem, regain the prince's favor and recognition, and let them preach in Jiangnan It is not impossible.

With the help of several Western priests who are also proficient in mathematics and physics, as well as a special laboratory, John Tang believes that it should not be difficult to solve this prince's problem.

However, when they officially began to solve the problem, they were also solemn, and the problem did not seem to be so simple......

A few old Westerners drew pictures for a while, turned their heads for a while, and threw apples for a while, until they threw more than 30 apples, and they couldn't figure out why the apples fell.

Through a large number of experiments, Tang Ruowang and others continued to verify Galileo's free fall motion and projectile motion, which made several old bangzi feel very uncomfortable.

A few years ago, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Inquisition for "opposing the pope and propagating heresy".

As the most orthodox believers of Catholicism, how can John Tong and others recognize the scholarship of apostates like Galileo?

Tang Ruowang's face was pale, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he said, "Priests, don't study it anymore......"

In the palace, Princess Zhu Yujiao of Kunxing sat under an apple tree in the palace garden, and several eunuchs and palace maids with him were far away from him, lest they disturb her.

Princess Kunxing is twelve years old this year, and her figure has become more and more slender, wearing a light green palace suit, revealing her jade-like neck.

Under the apple tree, she held the prince question in her left hand and a ripe apple in her right hand......