The flintlock pistol is called a self-generated firearm in China, and it has appeared as early as the "Illustrated Description of Weapons" published in the eighth year of Chongzhen. When Zhu Cihong was in power, Foshan in Guangdong and Anping in Fujian were already able to produce a small number of self-made firecrackers and wheel-beating firecrackers.

However, the self-generated firecrackers and revelators produced by the Ming Dynasty were not a mature equipment - the flintlock pistol was invented by the French craftsman Mahan at the end of the 16th century, and by the end of the 30-year war, the era of the flintlock pistol had just arrived.

In other words, it took almost half a century from invention to perfection and then to popularization!

And Zhu Cihong didn't have half a century of patience and didn't know how to design and manufacture a really good flintlock pistol, so he decided to go the route of buying and copying.

Because of the samples and craftsmen that Li Shaoyou brought from Europe, the imitation flintlock pistol went very smoothly. At present, the Nanjing Gun Factory of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, Shen Gang of Shanghai, Zheng Tie of Anping, Fujian Province, and Foshan Iron Mill have all come up with samples of reliable quality.

However, Emperor Zhu did not immediately hand over a large order to them, but issued a "design order" - what he wanted was a standard flintlock pistol with excellent quality, powerful power, and easy to produce and use!

On the one hand, he did this to give these factories a little time to train more skilled workers and purchase more equipment.

On the one hand, it is also to cultivate the design ability of these factories - only if you can really design a standard flintlock pistol, can you really "copy" it.

There is no shame in copying technology in this year, in fact, Zhu Cihong's "golden finger" Europeans are also copying!

For example, the Prince of Condé copied the idea of sleeve bayonets and paper-shelled ammunition, and there was no intention of paying royalties!

This kind of technology is "just look at it", and Emperor Zhu can't keep it a secret!

In addition, the "Essay on Gewu" "Unearthed in Qufu" has already allowed John Tang to take it to Europe! It is estimated that there are already many European philosophers studying it - if the scholars of the Ming Dynasty want to take this examiner, they all have a copy, and it is impossible to prevent proliferation!

And Zhu Cihong's "Advanced Arithmetic", which he has just finished, will soon flow to the West.

There are good things in this "Sub-Treatise on Gewu" and "Advanced Arithmetic"! Zhu Cihong's knowledge of philosophy and mathematics surpassed that of 17th-century Europeans in many respects - Zhu Cihong did not know how far European natural philosophy had developed in this era. Therefore, many of the things he took out could be used for study by Western academics.

Science and technology are things that know no borders, and it is scientists who have borders! Even if science has national boundaries, it is not the party that copies others, but the party that is copied by others!

The biggest adverse effect of the Ming Dynasty's seclusion was that it affected the technical exchange between the East and the West.

Since Zhu Cihong came to power, he has been working hard to promote this kind of exchange - of course, it is mainly to learn other people's technology, and on the issue of technical exchanges, it is necessary to be a good teacher.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong will not promote the outflow of science and technology, so he has no choice but to speed up the process of learning and introduction.

Under his promotion, Daming's science and technology have begun to advance by leaps and bounds, and it is time to begin to produce results.

Just when the Northern Qing Dynasty was busy with the civil war, Daming's first "Taixue College Entrance Examination" had been completed - this was actually an exam to pick out smart people. You have to be self-taught without a teacher and without any reference books, and you have to develop and analyze in depth some of the simplified and condensed philosophies in the "Zi Treatise on Gewu".

In order to make this examination look more like the imperial examination, Emperor Zhu also adopted a two-step examination method of "meeting examination" and "palace examination".

It will test the "scriptures", "calculations" and "theories". "Sutra" silently wrote the "Sub-Treatise on Gewu". "Calculation" is to do math problems - Zhu Cihong personally made the assessment, he was a math bully back then, and now he still remembers a lot of difficult problems! The "Treatise" is the most difficult, and you have to write your own analysis and understanding of a "Treatise on Things".

This kind of college entrance examination can be said to be the fairest, but it can also be said to be the most unfair. The fairest aspect is to fight for IQ!

Who can't memorize "The Treatise on Things"? I can't remember what else is too much to learn? As for arithmetic exams and essays, it's a hard IQ.

But if your IQ is not hard enough, no matter how hard you try, you won't even be able to enter the examination room!

Because there is a preliminary examination before the entrance examination, which is run by each state government. There is no essay in the first exam, but you have to rely on math! It is also a question from Emperor Zhu...... After the exam, there was a cry outside the examination room!

Those who are stupid, or those who are old and have inflexible brains, or those who are too liberal arts, are all crying!

It is difficult to achieve such a result in the imperial examination, it seems that the big guy is hopeless to learn too much for life......

If you don't cry, you will go to Nanjing to take the exam, and of course the exam will be difficult - so much so that later, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty called Nanjing "difficult Beijing", which is too difficult!

The number of candidates is 400, and they are divided into first, second, third, and fourth according to their grades.

Among them, the top 50 can participate in the palace examination, that is, Zhu Cihong will preside over the thesis defense. A first-class bachelor's degree and a second-class doctorate are selected from among them...... Needless to say, these are geniuses with IQs above 150!

And among these geniuses, Emperor Zhu finally selected seven geniuses at the university scholar level!

The champion is Fang Yizhi from Anqing Mansion, the smartest of the four sons of the Fushe, who has achieved a perfect score in his thesis at the age of 41 - his thesis is "On the Sub on Gewu", and the "Sub on Gewu" has been sorted out by category, and it is summarized into several categories such as "argumentation", "dialectic", "asking questions", and "nature".

Zhu Yongchun from Jiangnan conducted an in-depth analysis of the content of "Heaven" in the "Zi On Gewu", and proposed two research methods: "Observing the Heavens" and "Discussing the Heavens".

Tanhua's name is Mei Wending, very young, only 19 years old, from Ningguofu in Jiangnan Province, with average papers, but his attainments in arithmetic are extremely high, and he is the only genius with full marks in arithmetic.

In addition, there are four other people in Yijia, namely He Tianran from Zhejiang, Liu Hao from Jiangbei, Wu Xiang from Huguang, and Sun Yucheng from Guangdong.

Now these seven genius scholars are sitting in the garden of the Western Building in the Forbidden City, accompanying Emperor Zhu to eat moon cakes and watch the moon.

The moon cakes are puff pastry moon cakes, with pork filling, mutton filling, beef filling, ham filling and five-kernel filling, all of which are freshly baked "hot moon cakes" and taste very good.

But the big guy's attention is not on the mooncake, but on the moon!

Today's moon looks different from the moon in the past, especially large and very clear - because Emperor Zhu placed several Kepler telescopes in the back garden of the Western Building.

Seeing that the "Seven Bachelors" were a little fascinated, Emperor Zhu, who had eaten moon cakes alone for a while, finally coughed and interrupted the astronomical observation of the seven people.

The seven scholars knew that Emperor Zhu had something to say, and they all looked back at him.

Zhu Cihong beckoned to everyone, "Sit, sit down!" ”

Seeing that several people were sitting on their respective chairs, Emperor Zhu then said: "You are all my first-class talents in the Ming Dynasty, and you should all be academic!" Now that the "Essay on Things" has been born, and there is a shift in Western learning to the East, it is the time when scholars have a great future. However, since the dynasties, it has become a common practice to learn and excel, and it is not much easier for me, so I will make the seven of you university scholars...... However, this scholar is not a minister, but a real scholar, but the official character and the official are the same as the minister!

Taixue will also be honored by the seven...... Zhuang Yuangong's method of sorting out the "Zi Treatise on Gewu" is very good, you go back and discuss it again, see if you can divide it into seven subjects, you each master one subject, and then select seven doctors from the second class jinshi as your assistants in learning. ”

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