The businessmen who were able to attend this meeting were all figures with heads and faces in this one-third of an acre, and there were even many agents of large national merchants. Their understanding of business is naturally not what is criticized by Confucianism, nor can it be summarized by a sentence that businessmen value profit over parting, so they don't need Jiang Tian to explain in depth, just listen to him and Zhang Huan's question-and-answer chat, you can see the mystery.

If it is said that in the past, when you opened a new business in a city, it took a year and a half to deal with local officials, encompass the local gentry class, and at the same time have to deal with peers and chambers of commerce.

Now doing business in Tianjin, you don't need to think about it at all, you just need to register with the local industrial and commercial bureau, find a shop to recruit all the guys, and it will be officially opened. However, the quality of income depends more on professional management and marketing, although these people may not know these new words, but the basic truth is clearer than anyone else.

So even an apprentice standing in front of the counter was not something that could be filled by a random child from a good family in the past. As for those who start workshops, they understand the importance of a skilled worker, especially after many workshop owners purchase new machinery and equipment, even the old workers who have been supported from the old number are confused, and only those who are literate and clever can get started with production the fastest.

Therefore, if the local government and these businessmen said in the past that they would come up with some money and let's set up local education together, there is a high probability that it would not cost much money. But Jiang Tian told them today that as long as it was a generous business, it could give priority to recruiting people in the school when the time came, and these people immediately looked like cats that smelled fishy, and their eyes were almost blue light.

When these people subscribed to what they thought was very generous shares, Jiang Tian shook his head in his heart, it seems that the so-called historical limitations have a huge influence on even the relatively enlightened class in this era. This money is still a lot short of building a full local education system on your own.

Seeing that no one was reporting the new amount, Jiang Tian took a sip of tea and cleared his throat, and then took the statistics from the scribe behind him: "Hmm...... Everyone still gives me Jiang a certain face, and more than a dozen firms have subscribed for no less than 80,000 yuan of shares......"

In fact, this amount of money is already a lot, if it is placed in the Ming Dynasty, it is enough to form a large-scale old-style academy, and it can also invite famous Confucians to come to give lectures. But compared to what Jiang Tian has to do, this amount of money is not enough.

Others didn't know whether he was happy or unhappy, in short, he didn't see anything in Lord Jiang's expression, and at this time, he wanted to make a little more out of his mind, so as to make a good impression in front of the prince, but he was afraid that it would be self-defeating if he did it too explicitly.

When I was struggling here, I only heard Jiang Tian say to himself: "It originally took 200,000 ...... Forget it, I'm out of the remaining 120,000! ”

When these words were said in the hearts of everyone present, they were not only surprised that Jiang Tian's plan was so costly, but also sighed that Master Jiang not only paid out of his own pocket, but also paid more than everyone else. Before everyone could react, Jiang Tian continued: "In business, it is a good thing for you to set up education, but you can't rely too much on your blood transfusion, in the future, we will divide the recruitment ratio according to today's capital contribution ratio, and the shares can be transferred, in addition to primary and secondary schools, vocational education can be charged as appropriate, and it can be regarded as an explanation to you shareholders." ”

After the implementation of the issue of compulsory education, Jiang Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief, although it is impossible to build a complete basic education in a short period of time, and in the next ten years, the so-called vocational training is more like a literacy class and a crash course in skills. But this first step is at least taken, fortunately, Zhang Tao is not too old, and it is not a problem to live another one or two decades, when the new students have grown up, and it is impossible for anyone to counterattack.

The question now is how to get the children of the poor to go to school willingly, instead of being sent by their parents to become apprentices in shops and workshops. At least let them go to primary school for a few years before they can adapt to the faster and faster pace of development in the future. After thinking about it for a long time, Jiang Tian could only offer the means of administrative intervention.

"From now on, all children who have reached the age of six, both boys and girls, will be enrolled in junior primary school, and after three years of schooling, they will be assessed and issued a graduation certificate, and the school will be responsible for lunch and necessary stationery during the school year." After saying this, Jiang Tian picked up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth: "If necessary, you can eat and live, which can reduce the parenting pressure of poor families, and also give them the opportunity to get close to the children of rich families and reduce their sense of alienation." ”

Zhang Huan stared at the fish for a long time, and also followed Jiang Tian's example with a pair of chopsticks, put them in his mouth and chewed them, his eyes unconsciously let out light: "This fish ......"

"I haven't eaten it!" Jiang Tian said ostentatiously: "This is a fish in the sea, different from the river fish you usually eat, the taste is different and delicious, not to mention, there are few fish bones." ”

"I've eaten fish, but I've never seen anything so delicious. And this ......," Zhang Huan pointed to the fried squid rings with leeks on another plate.

Without waiting for him to ask Jiang Tian, he continued: "That is a close relative of squid and squid, although there is a fish character in the common name, but because it has no backbone, it belongs to mollusks." These fish are from the southern part of Shandong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are frozen and stored immediately after they come out of the water, so they can still be kept fresh when they arrive here. ”

"From so far away?" Liu Baokai looked at the fish on the plate in shock, although this is his family and the cook is also his family's own, but because the doctrine stipulates that you can't eat fish without scales, he hasn't touched the plate of squid. But as someone who has been to Taiwan at sea, I know very well what it means to keep the fish fresh from such a long distance.

"That's right! So after this first ship arrives, let the prince and your old lady try it. ”

The so-called cryopreservation, in fact, is too far from the level of later generations, but with the existing technology to make a thermal insulation warehouse, ice cubes are placed in advance and some people use saltpeter ice to replenish along the way, there are still many fish that have not survived this long transportation line. So the conclusion of the test is that at present, such boats can only be suitable for inshore fishing, and the cost of going to sea once is not low, because ice production requires precious fresh water.

"But if someone invests in a big fishing boat, they can get this fresh fish and sell it inland for a lot of money." Jiang Tian changed his words: "It's a pity that Tianjin's shipbuilding capacity will not be greatly improved in a short period of time, and I plan to change a few old ships and only fish in the nearby waters and then process them into canned food." ”

"Canned?" Zhang Huan asked incomprehensibly: "Isn't that the cost higher?" ”

"The cost is high, but think about it, what would it be like if you could eat seafood in the prairie or the Western Desert? Not only can it supplement nutrition for the soldiers of our army, but it is also a good export product! ”

In fact, it is not fishing technology and storage technology that restricts the capture of seafood, but the existing fishing tools are not competent, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets is not an adjective, but the real scene of fishing in this era, the fishing nets of natural cotton and linen fibers are damaged too quickly, and the silk is too expensive to be used to make fishing nets, this problem needs to be solved by the chemical fiber industry in later generations.

After the Age of Discovery, not only did maritime trade increase dramatically, but also the distant-water fishing industry accounted for a large proportion of the ships going to sea, especially the whaling industry, which is the most well-known, in fact, the largest contribution to the European food supply, there is also a huge fleet that the Chinese are not very familiar with - ocean-going cod ships.

Europeans love to eat fish, probably because of their religious beliefs, unlike later generations who joked that Americans do not eat carp, Eastern Europe, far from the sea, until the 21st century still retains the habit of eating carp at Christmas, and eating sea fish is a tradition in those maritime countries of Western Europe, such as the very famous herring.

Herring is an offshore fish, fishing is difficult, especially in the northwest of Europe many large cities are near the harbor, herring has become an important source of protein, and China's stinky mandarin fish, salted herring is also because of the saltiness is not enough to stink.

In the period of discovery, the fish in the coastal waters obviously could not meet the needs of storage at sea, so European fishermen found another fish that could be obtained in large quantities in addition to the traditional whales and tuna, which is cod, and they did not have cryopreservation technology, so they used the most primitive method - drying!

Interestingly, none of these deep-sea fish commonly eaten in Europe are caught with nets, tuna and cod are caught by hooks, but the hooks for whale fishing are special, so Jiang Tian asked the Naval Research Institute to investigate and found that if you want to develop deep-sea fishing, you can only learn from the experience of the West.

After refitting an old cargo ship and attaching a finger-thick fishing line, such a strange ship was led to the fishing by the European sailors who had been captured last time. At first, they did not go well, firstly, the fishing flood was unknown, and secondly, the personnel were not familiar with this kind of work, but fortunately, at this time, the ocean was very rich in fish, and the researchers accompanying the ship also looked for information from ancient books, such as hairtail fish and yellow croaker.

In short, Jiang Tian is determined to expand the diet of the Chinese people, so that inland areas can also eat marine fish, play a role in adjusting the nutritional structure, expanding the scale of navigation, and further reducing food prices. A few people who were eating fish stopped their chopsticks, and no one expected that Jiang Tian would make such a big move by recuperating his concubine's body.

Zhang Huan looked at the unnamed fish on his plate, turned his head and asked, "Why does Mr. think that eating fish can nourish the body?" ”

Jiang Tian knew that he would have such a question, so he said the words he had prepared a long time ago: "Of course, it is through investigation and research!" ”

The so-called investigation and research is to compare people with different dietary structures, observe their common diseases and frequent diseases, and then remove the factors of work and living environment, we can find out what kind of impact the food we eat on the human body.

In particular, Tianjin is a mixed population, with Mongolian prisoners of war, Japanese laborers, European sailors, Han people in the north, and Han people in the south, providing a lot of reference materials. It is still easy to draw a few simple conclusions, and as for whether the conclusion is correct, it is naturally Jiang Tian to check it.

"So after investigation, it was found that the physical condition of women of other ethnic groups is generally better than that of Han women, in addition to the diet structure, too much food and too little meat, we found that women who bind their feet are more likely to suffer from various gynecological diseases and postpartum disorders than women who do not bind their feet!"

As soon as this conclusion was said, everyone present glanced at each other, and Liu Baokai nodded in affirmation: "I also heard my grandmother say that all the ladies of the Han people have to bind their feet, so there are many more postpartum disorders than us, and they pay more attention to confinement." ”

In fact, Zhang Tao said this a long time ago, but at that time, everyone thought that the new emperor didn't like this bad habit, so it was not really related to health problems, but Jiang Tian claimed that the conclusions drawn by scientific statistical methods made everyone present unable to ignore it.

Song Yi, who had been eating fish with his head bored, finally couldn't help but ask: "Can that gentleman make this discovery known to the world?" ”

Jiang Tian shook his head: "Not yet, but I recently plan to ask the Naval Research Institute to set up an academic journal and publish it as the inaugural issue of the article." ”

Once encountering an academic problem, Zhang Huan will burst into a strong curiosity: "What is the academic journal that Mr. is talking about?" ”

Jiang Tian had no choice but to explain the relevant knowledge, especially pointing out that academic research can also gain fame and fortune: "Articles published in journals must go through strict screening, and once published, not only must they be paid, but at the same time, if others cite the content of the article, they must also pay corresponding fees, and if they are adopted by institutions such as the Academy of Sciences, the future is even more promising." ”

Song Yi's eyes naturally lit up, but then they dimmed again: "A stupid person like me, if he can't think of what Mr. wants, he won't be extravagant." ”

Jiang Tian put down his chopsticks, and then wiped his mouth with a wet napkin: "Zi said: There must be my teacher in the threesome, Dexin, how can you be arrogant?" Besides, do you think that what I just said was investigated by me? I'm just making a start, and these are all deduced by the researchers themselves, and I will sign their names even if I publish them in the future. ”

Liu Baokai also said from the side: "That's it, this common saying is that the master of the Taoist Tao leads the door to practice in an individual, and the master's talent is a little bit more on-demand, which is enough for us to meditate and think hard, besides, you are much smarter than me, what are you afraid of." ”

Zhang Huan didn't care if he could publish an article, but he was very interested in Jiang Tian's current teaching methods: "Mr. used to be eager to teach what he had learned all his life, why do you want those researchers to explore it by themselves?" ”

Wu Yuanxin said that this can be the same? No matter how Jiang Tian despises the imperial power, he knows that he must be treated differently, how can you, the crown prince, be on a par with us noble students? If there is really no class to teach, it is only by selecting those who excel academically from these poor sects to join the ranks of the disciples of the personal lineage.

"You're different from them!" Sure enough, Jiang Tian immediately answered this question: "You are a group of noble children who are curious about new learning, but they do not necessarily rely on new learning to become promoted, for you, learning different knowledge is just enriching your own experience, if you can continue to study it is naturally good, but if you don't care about new learning, it is harmless, so I want you to know how important science is for the development of the country in the future, naturally it is necessary to break it up and crumple it for you to understand, so as not to have an impact on the country's major policies in the future." ”

Saying that, Jiang Tian took a sip of tea, not caring about Wu Yuan's surprised expression at all: "And these researchers are different, they are not only obsessed with scientific exploration, but under the existing imperial examination system, it is difficult for them to have a chance to get ahead, even if they make a difference in their own research field, it is just spread in a small circle, and things like the glorious lintel becoming famous all over the world are unfatal." So I want to give them this opportunity, so that students all over the world can see that the study of science can also have a golden house, Yan Ruyu, and let them learn to use their own brains, so that whether it is a blockbuster or a mistake, it is the result of their own research, and it is also a valuable wealth in the development of science, and when these people can independently study without relying on my guidance, the development of science and technology in the world will advance by leaps and bounds. I'm afraid even I won't be able to get a full picture of it. ”

After saying this, he didn't forget to look at Wu Yuan again, which meant to tell him not to use the hearts of those villains to speculate. For Jiang Tian, the fact that these aristocrats can learn science is naturally the icing on the cake and reduce the resistance to promotion, but he really didn't expect them to become scientists.

Song Yi nodded after listening, he deeply realized the preciousness of these researchers, although he was far superior to the other party in theory, but because he dabbled in everything, he was sparse in everything, far less than the breakthrough that the other party could bring by specialization, no wonder he was always cranky but failed to make achievements.

Jiang Tian looked at Song Yi and added, "But in the process of teaching you, I know Dexin and ...... Xinyue and the others really love science, but you must understand that although science is hung with a learning word, it is not a science, but a method, and it is a very stupid method. ”

"Oh! Why is that? Zhang Huan hurriedly asked.

"Very simply, the so-called science is nothing more than summarizing the objective laws of the development of things, and through repeatable experiments to verify whether the truth of their inductive summary is correct, and finally finding the answer closest to the truth in thousands of trial and error.

Therefore, the ancestors looked up at the starry sky and summarized that the stars were moving, which is science. Shennong tasted herbs and distinguished food and medicinal herbs, which is also science. The hundred schools of thought put forward their own opinions by observing the society and meditating, which is still science. Even if Huang Daopo improved the loom through her own weaving experience, it is even more scientific.

It's just that these sages have only achieved something in their own field of expertise, and no one has carried forward their valuable experience. I'm just summarizing the experience of my predecessors and telling you in my own words. ”

"In this way...... Zhang Huan's eyes lit up: "The so-called science does not refer to the creation of ingenious things, but to gather the wisdom scattered among the people and summarize it into a systematic and clear law." In this way, wouldn't reading the Four Books and the Five Classics also be science! ”

"Yes!" Jiang Tian gave an affirmative answer: "As long as you can find out the inevitable connection between the Confucian viewpoint and the real society, and put forward new ideas that have not been thought of by the predecessors, then you are engaged in science, which can also be said to be social science." ”