After the bloody Jiangnan Gongyuan broke out, it immediately aroused the anger of the Donglin Party, who published an article in the Jiangnan New Daily to criticize Zhu Cihong's actions.

However, there are very few people who echo it, not to mention that Zhu Cihong became famous in the literary world through a few poems, and reconvened the meeting to win over many readers, and the absolute force displayed on the third day of the meeting made many scholars die down, and they did not dare to challenge his majesty openly.

The most important thing is that after the end of the archery exam, the last finale question personally written by Zhu Cihong was released in the barracks, which attracted the attention of many scholars and successfully shifted the focus of the bloody tribute academy to the past.

The final finale was: As we all know, the earth is round and rotates around the sun day and night, why do people stand on it and don't fall? Why do apples fall vertically from trees, and why do stones always fall when they are thrown up? Why is it that all objects are attracted almost always towards the center of the earth?

This question seems simple, but when you think about it carefully, you can't open your mouth to answer, and no one can answer it for a while, and it is difficult to even put forward ideas.

This question is an open-ended question, and the scholars who refer to it have a month to think and study, and they can also discuss with each other.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also used the "Huangming Times" to solicit answers from the whole country, as long as someone can answer and discuss properly, and can stand up to scrutiny and verification, he will personally receive him in the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City of Nanjing, and reward him with 10,000 taels of silver and a palace in Nanjing.

The mansion adds 10,000 taels of silver, and those with official ranks will be promoted, who is not impressed? After the news came out, the entire Nanzhili fell into a boil, and then the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River almost entered the wave of problem solving.

This question is known as the "Prince Question", which is easy to understand, does not need to have a deep cultural foundation, and even a sensible child can participate in thinking, and only needs to be reasonably explained to be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and everyone is crazy.

In the cognition of the Chinese people in the past, they believed in the yin and yang theory of the round heaven and the earth, that is, the movement of the round sky changes, and the place converges and stagnates, but with the exchange between the Ming Dynasty and the West, many scholars have already accepted the "heliocentric theory" of the West in the past few decades.

It's just that so far, although the Westerners who are leading in the movement of celestial bodies have been able to distinguish many forces, such as friction, gravity, air resistance, etc., they still can't understand the questions raised by Zhu Cihong, and can't give a perfect answer.

Because Galileo at this time only had research on mechanics such as free fall, it was not until more than forty years later that Newton discovered gravity while standing on the shoulders of giants.

The discovery of gravity, one of the greatest achievements of the natural sciences of the 17th century, is the fundamental characteristic of all matter, the theoretical cornerstone of most physical sciences, and one of the most practical concepts of all sciences, such as the great advances in navigation, mechanics and military (gunnery).

Zhu Cihong wanted to open the discussion and research of science and technology in the Ming Dynasty through this question, take the road of scientific and technological development, and surpass the West in the overspeed.

The Ming Dynasty produced many people, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, when a large number of scientists emerged, such as Bo Jue, Wang Hui, Sun Yunqiu and others.

According to statistics, the number of scientific and technological innovations in China in the seventeenth century was 43, which was at the highest peak in China in the past thousand years, and 21 times that of the late Qing Dynasty in the nineteenth century.

Qian Qianyi and other Donglin Party members openly accused Zhu Cihong of having nothing to do with foolishness and childlike nature in the newspaper, and such unreasonable questions.

However, on the second day of publication, they received some letters one after another, basically scolding them for being ignorant and uneducated, and some even sent blades.

Qian Qianyi and other Donglin people were depressed, and everyone in the literary world of their own generation was actually scolded as uneducated!

The matter was not over yet, and after the third day, people began to go to the office of the "Jiangnan Xinbao" newspaper one after another, throwing bricks and throwing dogs' blood repeatedly.

The founder of the Restoration Society, "Lou Dong Erzhang", was even more miserable, the "Jinling Times" newspaper office sponsored by the Restoration Society was rushed in and smashed to pieces, and even the door panel of the newspaper was carried away.

Someone directly pointed at Zhang Pu and Zhang Cai's noses and scolded: "You know a fart!" Illiterate! ”

Just kidding, 10,000 taels of silver and a mansion, you don't fucking want it and don't allow others to fight for it? Lao Tzu smashed you broken newspaper agency!

Realizing that they had aroused public anger, the Donglin Party and the Fushe not only did not dare to spray it in the newspapers, but also joined the wave of solving the problem without restraint......

The scientific bigwigs of the Ming Dynasty who were hidden in the folk were also shocked, and they keenly felt through this question that this problem was very research-oriented and may have a huge impetus for future social change.

Many people expressed their opinions through the Huangming Times, raising some practical questions, while others questioned the heliocentric theory, such as asking questions: If the earth is rotating, the air will fall behind, and a lasting east wind will be formed.

In the comment column of the next issue of the Huangming Times, someone immediately refuted and replied: The air contains soil particles, which are of the same nature as the land, so the air is forced to rotate with the earth, and there is no resistance when the air rotates because the air is connected to the constantly rotating earth......

Through academic discussions again and again, non-governmental academic groups have emerged to study the power of heaven and earth in the situation of teams, and the concepts of gravity and inertia in the Ming version were born, and even teams are studying the orbit of the moon and tidal phenomena. (At this time, Galileo's study of mechanics offended the pope and was not brought to the Ming Dynasty by the Catholics.) ）

Zhu Cihong was very pleased to see that the scientific research atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was becoming more and more prosperous, and immediately prepared to establish the Huangming Academy of Sciences, collected scientific literature from all over the world, and spent a lot of money to build a number of scientific instruments, and absorbed folk scientific experts with extremely generous treatment and research environment.

The storm caused by the prince's question swept away like a hurricane to all parts of the Ming Dynasty, and everywhere the Huangming Times went, a research trend was set off in every place, and there were many people who wanted to make money.

Even the illiterate Xiaomin would talk about it when he was chatting: "Do you know why people fall to their deaths when they fall from a height?" ”

There are also some people with bad tastes who ask their companions: "Why did Pan Jinlian drop the fork rod and hit Ximenqing's head when she forked the curtain?" ”

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After the news of Nanjing's second examination reached the Beijing Division, it immediately attracted the attention of the hundreds of officials in the Beijing Division.

Regarding what happened in the Jiangnan Gongyuan, the officials of the Beijing Division selectively ignored it, and they focused all their attention on the new policy of apportioning the land into the mu and the gentry paying the grain in one piece, as well as the last problem that people couldn't think of even if they couldn't think of it.

In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen looked at the Huangming Times and fell into deep thought.

He was very concerned about Zhu Cihong's second examination held in Nanjing, and thought that the boy's boycott would give the rebel a headache, but he didn't expect to be pressed in just half an hour.

Zhu Cihong's method of winning over the readers with one hand and suppressing the readers with the other made Chongzhen feel very depressed, and in just a few years, this rebellious political method has become more and more mature and powerful.

Although he was dissatisfied with Zhu Cihong's meeting, fortunately, the rebel did not make any champions, lists, and flowers to steal his limelight.

The palace examination can only be presided over by the emperor, and the rebel son did not overstep the rules to hold the palace examination, and he can be regarded as the emperor in his eyes.

Chongzhen is most concerned about now whether the rebel can implement the policy of apportioning the land into the mu and paying the grain to the official gentry, and he can see through the quality of the policy at a glance, but if he is allowed to do it, he is afraid that he will have to give up after half a year.

Although these two policies could greatly increase the revenue of the state treasury and free the landless peasants from the burden of servitude, they touched the interests of the entire gentry, nobles, and landlord strata, and he felt that he could not carry them out.