After explaining to Song Yi, Jiang Tian had no choice but to enter the palace again with his waist card. This time, I not only have to report on the progress of the work in the previous period, but also explain the new situation, such as the intention of cooperation in the history of sending to China, and about the fact that I accidentally leaked the matter of the metric unit.

"So they want to send international students." Zhang Tao was silent for a while: "Do you think you are sure that you will not let them come into contact with something too advanced?" ”

"The shogunate will definitely be alarmed by the content of the study of international students, and they have only two choices, one is not to allow Japanese people to go abroad at will, and the other is to restrict their own people from studying things that may be detrimental to them. I don't think it's inculcating some Confucian ideas of loyalty to the monarch, which doesn't conflict with today's Japanese culture. In addition, even if the Tokugawa shogunate was now powerful, it could not completely control the whole of Japan, especially the religious and royal status, so it was extremely unlikely that he could stop it. Moreover, in the next 100 years or so, Japan's political system will be very stable if there is no major question, and we can just use the vernacular novels that emerged in the Ming Dynasty to achieve the purpose of soft penetration. At the same time, it will also enrich the leisure life of Japanese people and stabilize the social environment, which will help us hollow out their mines in the future. ”

"How useful can a novel be merely a novel?" Zhang Tao was a little incredulous.

Jiang Tian only then remembered that this predecessor had traveled earlier, and he had not seen what the so-called soft power was all about: "If the soft power is used well, it can even break the opponent's resistance with a lot of effort, and at the same time let us always maintain the image of justice, to be honest, take the four famous works as an example, "Three Kingdoms" is a work that the Japanese, Mongolians, Manchus and other surrounding countries almost have to read, and it is also an era that they particularly admire, if we also publicize this history at the end of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, Not only can you have the right to speak when dealing with Confucianism, but also you can carry forward the great military exploits of the Chinese Dynasty and deter some Xiaoxiao. For example, in those days, the number of strange troops that landed at Dagu Pass alone reached 30,000 horses, and more than 500 ships of various types were mobilized. ”

Zhang Tao understood what he meant as soon as he heard it, he had been fighting with Confucianism for more than ten years, from the war of words at the beginning to the later martial arts, if it was really written, it would be enough to compile a book. Even if you fully respect historical facts and don't distort these people at all, you can let the world see what these guys who claim to be honest gentlemen are. And it can also play a role in suppressing them from fanning the flames among the people.

"I understand what you said, but what's the deal with this metric unit?"

"This is my mistake, because there are many details involved in the drawing, so it is natural to write the metric unit, and use a lot of letter abbreviations, fortunately, I made up a nonsense, tell sù Song Yi This is the secret method I thought of, so that outsiders do not know what the specific size is even if they see it. Anyway, he was preparing materials in the past two days, and the development would not start until three days later, so I would have hurried to report it. ”

Zhang Tao thought for a moment and then said: "Since this is the case, it is better to simply popularize the metric system." ”

"I have also thought about this problem, but the people of the world have been accustomed to the measurement of the Ming Dynasty, and the standards of the people are sometimes not uniform, once rashly promoted, it will inevitably lead to chaos in the world, in which the chaos of weight and length will be maintained for a long time, which is not conducive to our current rejuvenation plan, it is better to take it step by step, first from the industry to unify the standard, and then promote to the financial and construction industries, when these places with a small relationship with the people's livelihood adapt to the new system and then extend."

"That is, two measures in parallel?"

"Yes, not only that, but we must gradually adopt new measures in the fiscal and tax system, for example, if we start to make a new currency next year, we can change the standard weight of one or two silver dollars to 50 grams! Stamped coins differ in weight so little that they can even be weighed as weights in less accurate quantities, and when people get used to paying their taxes, and gradually adapt to the new standards, it is natural that the old weights and measures can be declared invalid. ”

"Wouldn't that be more confusing? If I'm not mistaken, the two in the Ming Dynasty were only about 30 grams! ”

"There are sixteen taels of Ming Jin, and there are only ten taels of Jin in the city, so we still take advantage of it, the people are shrewd, and if they don't want the court to rub oil when they pay the public grain, they will calculate it clearly. It's that you have to beware of the unspoken rules of those soaps. ”

"They dare!" Zhang Tao raised his eyebrows and glared: "They think that by relying on years of being in charge of the place, they can deceive the superiors and subordinates and damage the public and private interests." I might as well tell you that I trained a large number of civilians in the army back then, and I am waiting for this day to let me cut down all the sacrificial flags! ”

Facing the awe-inspiring murderous aura, Jiang Tian swallowed his saliva, and he really didn't know how many heads would fall to the ground: "Isn't it too cheap to kill them?" It would be better to move the family to Shaanxi or Gansu, or to plant trees and strive to transform thousands of miles of fertile fields in one or two hundred years. ”

"You don't have to think about it, anyway, I agree that you should use the new weights and measures in the Academy of Sciences, and I have my own opinions on other things."

Jiang Tian didn't expect that it was just an oversight of his own, and he would be greeted countless times by the women in the family in the next few years, and many people in the vast land who had long been accustomed to the original measurement standards would think of him every time they encountered the conversion of the old and new systems. However, the good thing is that in the future, the archives of the Academy of Sciences were stolen, and some of the design drawings were unfortunately lost, but in the end, because the metric unit symbols marked on the drawings were difficult to explain, the country that stole the materials failed to quickly convert them into productivity, which can be regarded as a lie for Jiang Tianyuan to keep secrets back then.

As for why the new system was so carefully promoted, it is better to understand, although the metric unit was formulated by the French, but because of its leading position in the world at that time, in addition to the Commonwealth countries, almost all of them became the international standard, and we also began the popularization work during the Republic of China, just because the productivity of China at that time was low and the warlords were fighting, and all kinds of weights and measures were used in parallel for a long time, and it was not until after the Anti-Japanese War that there was a gradual opportunity to replace the old system, but even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Still not able to get rid of the two systems in parallel zài situation, especially the elderly at home can ask, to buy cloth a lot of use or the old ruler, the popularization of the city ruler has been used for a long time, with the gradual development of the nine-year compulsory education, more and more people have received basic cultural training, this situation can be regarded as improved. So from another point of view, education is the top priority of a country's development and reform.

Got the permission of His Majesty, Jiang Tian had to rush back to the workshop the next day, this time his main task is to rush to produce a batch of standard measuring tools, among which rulers and calipers are the highest priority items, the last time he made lens polishing equipment, he actually made calipers, but at that time the ruler was not standard in terms of accuracy or scale, it can only be regarded as better than nothing, this time he decided to use high-quality alloy steel at any cost (anyway, it is also reimbursed by the treasury), and after strict polishing, to make the highest precision measuring tool in this era, For this reason, he did not hesitate to borrow a tooth ruler from the palace in the Wanli period, this ruler is basically only thirty-two centimeters, Jiang Tian drew thirty-two equal parts on the top with a carbon strip, and then added four centimeters to the length of three feet, it became a meter of length, and according to this length let the craftsman begin to build the world's first meter ruler, his appearance marked the birth of the world's universal weights and measures, marking that China's thousands of years of different scales will be changed, At the same time, it also indicates that all researchers in the future must get used to the new length......

The work of building a new measuring device was not over, and in his spare time, in order to let the craftsmen of the mechanical group practice, he designed a new printing machine that did not need to be too precise. The structure of this machine is so simple that anyone who has painted it in later generations will understand that on a cylindrical drum, a circle of copper-antimony alloy glyph is covered. Then brush with ink, just roll on the paper, and you can print the handwriting of acceptable quality. Cylinders of different sizes can be used to accommodate different sizes of paper, and it is even easier to replace movable type with iron on the conventional printing press. Then use them to print a piece of lead, so that you can get a whole piece of lead board with a concave and protruding side, and the rest is to put the lead cover on the cylinder to print, if the font is useless, it can be easily melted and recast, waiting for the next printing.

Song Yi has been accustomed to Jiang Tian's whimsy, and is not obsessed with why he failed to think of such a simple thing, the test proves that the new printing cylinder is installed on a special machine, which can be used to print while replenishing ink, and the efficiency is doubled.

"I have already submitted the patent for this set of equipment, so I will pay for the research and development expenses this time." Jiang Tian happily explained to Song Yi, but he didn't say how he relied on these patents to recover the silver.

As a result, before waiting for the next day, news came from the palace, saying that this set of machines was funded by the internal government to buy two sets! Song Yi thought to himself that the two brothers really had a tacit understanding, even if the two sets of equipment were deducted from the handiwork money paid to the workshop, Jiang Tian could recover the cost, and if there was a third person to buy it, it would start to make a profit, wouldn't this be tantamount to fake public welfare in disguise? It is estimated that the emperor himself will not agree to buy two sets, and it may be that the prince is pestering to buy one more set for his own use, which is why there is the current situation.

Jiang Tian didn't care about him for now, and said that Fujiwara kept rushing back, for fear that the shogunate would make some small moves to intercept or kill him halfway. So in addition to the city of Beijing, he made up and rode to Dagukou, he didn't even stop at Tianjin Wei on the road, and went out to sea directly on a small cargo ship of a merchant, and when he boarded Sakai Port, he did not change back into official clothes, Xiaoxing stayed overnight and returned to Kyoto, until he was about to meet the emperor before he changed into an official's outfit. At this time, it was supposed to be the reign of Emperor Go-Mizuo, but this brother has been in poor health, and in history he went to see Aunt Amaterasu in 1654, so in fact, it was his father Emperor Mizuo who was in charge. But what can be done in the Imperial Palace in Japan? Aside from drinking tea and playing chess with some nobles, there is nothing serious to do.

In fact, the shogunate really planned to intercept Fujiwara and his party, but it was not easy to do it in China, so he planned to wait for him to go ashore and then engage in a trick such as a ronin interception, because Hoshina Masauri knew that Jiang Tian must have conspired with Fujiwara, but he just didn't know what they said, and he didn't know whether the agreement they reached was dangerous to the shogunate. I just didn't expect that the seemingly weak Fujiwara would be so fast, and by the time the shogunate received the news, the emperor had already publicized the "Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance of Friendly Nations" everywhere. In full view of everyone, if you dare to block the road and rob, it will be tantamount to declaring to the world that the shogunate has rebelled.

When Fujiwara met the emperor, he was received by this middle-aged man who was still quite energetic, and Emperor Gomizuo lived longer than his two sons, but he was forced to become the emperor because of a feud with the shogunate, so he attached great importance to Fujiwara's report. After he listened to Rory's rambling report, he took the coin as a sample and pondered for a long time, he knew that Fujiwara had won the greatest benefit for the Imperial Family, especially the exquisite Cheng dù of these coins was beyond imagination, and he could judge with certainty that as long as a large number of such coins flowed into Japan, the original currency could be destroyed in an instant. He can make huge profits by raising the value of the currency a little, and will the high value of the currency affect the economy? He couldn't care about that much, and it was normal for such a beautiful coin to be a little more expensive.

“…… You're doing a great job! ”

"It is the duty of a courtier to share worries for His Majesty!" Fujiwara prostrate and gratefully replied: "It's just that the Jiang official in China asked for a very high price, and the minister was afraid that he would cut off this road, so he promised him to provide two or two cents of the fire consumption!" ”

Yes, he earned another two points in his mouth, and as a result, he asked Jiang Tian to carry the black pot for himself. This has also become a controversial unsolved case in later generations, that is, did Jiang Tian eat this two-point kickback? It's a pity that there was no written record on the matters related to the coinage that year, and at the same time, Zhang Tao's holy purpose was in front of him, allowing him to get a little cheaper, so many people tend to Jiang Tian is indeed profitable, but I just don't know whether he monopolized the two-cent commission or has other account sharing terms with the Japanese, so that this unjust, false and wrongful case has not been rehabilitated.

"Sometimes it's okay to spend some money, but will the Tokugawa family agree to this kind of money coming into Japan?"

"Your Majesty, as long as the trade is endless, Chinese money will continue to enter Japan, and at this time, as long as we mix in this money, even that side will not be able to put an end to it!"

The Emperor nodded, lost in thought again.

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