Beneath the vine trellis, Galileo, with his white beard, is looking at the sky, staring at the sky that has not yet dimmed, as if to peek into the endless secrets between the celestial bodies.

Even if Ao Lei Yilan is a son and daughter of the northern country, she is not formal, but she is embarrassed to be heard when she discusses with her man how to marry a good couple Dunlun. At that moment, her face turned red, and she whispered in Shouhan's ear, "Come to my room at night!" I'm waiting for you with a fragrant wash! He turned around and fled with two female soldiers.

"You old thing! Don't pretend you don't have trouble! Get the hell out of here! ”

Shouhan has a feeling of being looked at, and this feeling is really bad. He whispered to Galileo in exasperation.

Galileo's ruddy old face showed an embarrassed smile, an expression that I didn't mean to hear, and slowly walked over to Li Shouhan.

Galileo has lived a very comfortable life in Nanzhong over the years.

There is no need to worry about being burned at the stake for his research results and explorations, on the contrary, no matter what deviant ideas can be supported by the generous financial and material conditions of this bold monarch, Nanzhong is his paradise for a scientist like him.

But Shouhan knew very well that what he gained from Galileo, Descartes and others was dozens of times and hundreds of times the expenditure, and this benefit would be continuously reflected in future generations.

So, with Galileo, Descartes, and all the engineering and technical personnel under him, he did what no leader or monarch could necessarily do. A real corporal of courtesy. And this kind of treatment, for those mainland scholars, is enviable, jealous and hateful.

"Reader? What are they able to do? In addition to writing a few articles with empty content and gorgeous rhetoric, and making a few poems and songs that can only be used to deceive the young people who are not sick, what value can they create for me? If they could, they could be treated like that! ”

Regarding the complaints and insinuating accusations of the group of scholars in the newspaper, Shouhan was very dismissive to express his opinion to Huang Xin in the official room.

Although Galileo was very angry, the old man could tell that the young ruler had no ill will, but that he had been burned with anger by his anger because he had accidentally stumbled into the privacy of him and his newfound favored woman.

"Are you going to tell me again? What are your new research directions? Or is it the result of research? What do you need me to do, ask for money, things, people, just write an application to me. ”

Invest in technology. At this time, among the rulers of Asia, I am afraid that only Huang Taiji can barely catch up. But Huang Taiji is only willing to spend money in the military field. And not like Shouhan. Spend a lot of money, food, manpower and material resources in many seemingly useless areas.

"It's not that I have results. It was Mr. Descartes who made a new discovery. Galileo made no secret of the merits of his companions. Pulled Descartes out of the shadow of the vine trellis behind him.

The development of the nautical industry raised the question of how to accurately mark the latitude and longitude, while the shipbuilding industry proposed to trace the curves of various parts of the hull and calculate the area and volume of the hull of different shapes. And the development of firearms. The nature of the projectile's motion is becoming more and more important. It requires the ability to correctly describe the trajectory of the projectile, which calculates the range of shells and projectiles.

For Descartes, Shouhan attaches no less importance to Galileo than Galileo, and how can he not be treated as a disciple of a figure who can be on a par with Galileo in the history of science in the world?

"Lord Earl, I am going to apply my little discoveries to shipbuilding, so I need a ship that has not yet been built to verify it."

Descartes' words were simple and straightforward. After saying his request, the two eyes were fixed on the pair of eyes of Shouhan. In front of this bull man, who is also a mathematician and philosopher, Shouhan naturally did not dare to make a mistake.

"A boat, it's simple. You can just say hello to the people made by Ha Jing! Why bother? ”

"Lord Earl, the business of Ha Jing is too good now, and the orders and contracts everywhere keep them busy, so they naturally don't want to lose a boat for us to do experiments in vain."

"We produce war knives for Tianzhu and axes for the Javanese forest, and sell them to the Liaodong Sauron tribe for their use in portable iron pots and copper bowls, tiger spears, and battle axes.

In the primeval forests of the Manraka Islands, Ha Jing made a huge axe that cut down ancient trees; In the bays of the Ten States, people stabbed the huge bay crocodile to death with a long steel fork, cutting off its skin and parts of its body with sharp knives. In the huge pastures, the necks of the heads of sheep and bulls echoed with the sound of metal bells; On the Chao Phraya River and the Mekong Plains, people wield scythes in their hands to harvest the last crop of rice of the year and tended sugar cane fields with hoes. ”

These are the proud summaries of Ha Jing people, in fact, there is much more to it. Their products were sold even further away by Basten and others. Far away on the European continent, the French used gunpowder from Ha Jing to fire projectiles into the Danes' bodies through a firebolt also made by Ha Jing. The Germans pierced their spears into the heads of Belgians. The Dutch, on the other hand, transported all kinds of supplies needed by both sides to various places by plywood ships, and even crossed the line of fire, as long as you could pay for the hard currency.

With the huge market demand, it is natural that this kind of thing that requires a lot of investment for the time being and does not see results in a short period of time is not particularly motivated, and it is inevitable that Galileo and Descartes and others will be perfunctory. But today, this trick doesn't work.

"Go and invite Mr. Feng out." Shouhan turned around and ordered one of his own soldiers, who hurried to the crowded council room.

"Your Royal Highness, I need to solemnly mention to you that Mr. Feng Mofeng has no knowledge of this matter!" Although Descartes was not married and had no family, he was not an idiot who did not understand the world, and he was unwilling to let Shouhan vent his anger on Feng Mofeng, who had a good relationship.

"Words there! I will explain to Mr. Feng that he will be responsible for your needs in the future. Don't make a mistake! What's the good news lately? ”

Shouhan motioned for the two professors to sit down and talk.

"Not long ago I received a letter from a friend who proposed the theory of cylindrical, elliptical paraboloid, double-leaf hyperboloid and ellipsoid, and pointed out that an equation with three unknown quantities represents a surface, and he will further study this theory and hypothesis."

"What's this person's name!?"

Although Shouhan didn't know what such a profound theory represented, he instinctively felt that this thing was useful!

"He's French, and his name is Pierre? Morality? Fermat. ”

The name Shouhan searched in his head for a long time and did not find a single impression, but how could a person who could have an academic discussion with Descartes be a mediocre person?

"What does he do? Mr. Descartes, you may wish to write to him. Invite him to come to Nanzhong to have an academic discussion with you. Expeditions to the field of science can be carried out here. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, I have written to him, just as the last ship was on its way to Holland to transport weapons and gunpowder. I told him. Come here! The monarch here will give you everything you need. And it will inadvertently provide you with a new way of thinking. ”

"What other friends don't have. Mr. Descartes. I heard Mr. Basten say that there is a war going on in your hometown, and it is not Zhang San who pulls Wang Wu to fight Li Si. It was Guo Er Mazi who looked at Wang Wu unpleasantly, and teamed up with Sun Jiu and Ren Wu and Ren Liu to fight Wang Wu. Where there are wars everywhere, what is there to be nostalgic for? Write to them, and come to me! ”

"And Mason, Mydoge, and Cavalelli, to whom I have also written separately, all of them at the invitation of me and Mr. Galileo, and at the same time Mr. Basten has sent a special messenger from the family, and with his influence in Europe, I am sure that these friends will be glad to come!"

Hearing this, Shouhan was determined in his heart, with Basten's mercenary character, as long as he knew that these people were valuable in the south, he would do everything he could to make these people come happily, even if they were not happy!

"And Wallis, Deshag, Debonnet, Torricali, Debesi, Robo, Lubele, and especially Torricelli, who was my former assistant, and I specially entrusted him to liaise with my friends in Europe, and there are few countries in Europe that do not go to war, and it is better to go to Hue and do research with me than to live in fear of war."

Galileo also twisted his beard with some pride.

"But, Your Highness the Count, I need to ask you for the fact that the passage fee for these people to Hue is an overdraft application that we made to Mr. Basten in my personal name, but I boasted to them in my letter that as long as they have made achievements in the field of science, they will live well in the South Central region, and I think they will contact each other, and maybe more and more people will come like a snowball, so we don't know how much it will cost, so ......"

"It's okay! As long as people can come, Benjue can still afford to spend this money! ”

"Your Highness, I have calculated that the theory of cylindrical planes, elliptical paraboloids, double-leaf hyperboloids and ellipsoids proposed by Pierre, if applied to shipbuilding, can increase the speed of ships, and at the same time open up a new field of mathematics for us, we will name it the limits and concepts such as differentiation and integration!"

(Pierre?) Morality? Fermat is also a good man, this guy was originally a lawyer, and then he was a hobby of mathematics, and once proposed Fermat's theorem, which was written in the spare part of the book at that time, because there was not much free space, so Fermat did not finish writing the proof of the theorem, and it was not proved until 1995. ）

"On a ship? Is this the theory you just said is intended to be used in shipbuilding tests? Shouhan's jaw was a little closed, and he instinctively realized that another good thing was coming to the door.

"Yes, Your Highness, we are going to experiment with several problems at the same time, such as the curve of the ship's plank, the shape of the ship's hull and how to reduce the resistance of the seawater, which is the theory of Pierre just mentioned. We're going to put it to the test. ”

"How fast can such a ship be?"

I don't know when, Feng Mofeng also stood next to the three of them, and the old man's face was also flushed with excitement, as if he was drunk.

"This, according to our calculations, if Pie's theory is correct, can be used to increase the speed of the ship, at least by one percent!"

What else did this say, Feng Mofeng immediately ran inside and called out a nephew of his own family. This was one of his proud disciples, who was in charge of shipbuilding, and almost wanted to knock his head on the skull with a cigarette pouch and pot to explain to him the messengers of these gentlemen, "Let the most skilled and diligent men keep an eye on this ship!" ”

The steward surnamed Feng was a little at a loss for a while, "Then, let's take the ship that is going to be used as a flagship for the marshal to test it on a few gentlemen!" The other ships will have to wait. ”

When everyone heard this, they all turned their eyes to Shouhan himself.

The ship was given to Shouhan to be used as a new flagship. With the launch of many new ships, the original class naturally rises and rises, and the Changsheng of Shouhan can't be less tonnage and artillery than Zhang Xiaohu's three-headed tiger, right? Thereupon. Plans for the construction of the new ship have already begun. Unexpectedly, it happened to be a test object for several gentlemen.

Over there. Galileo was still chattering about the strengths of this group of people, as well as their respective academic attainments.

“…… Torricelli's contributions to mathematics were mainly geometry and equiangular centrism, but this was not the most important. His most important achievement was in physics, where he proposed a theory of atmospheric pressure. For this purpose, he also invented the barometer. The relationship between air pressure and altitude is proposed. And according to this theory, the principle of wind formation is explained,......"

"Your Highness, if so many people move their friends in their respective academic fields to Hue or Nam Central. How are you going to house them? ”

How much younger was Descartes, he had to think about the lives of these friends.

"Quite simply, Nanzhong has been promoting education for many years, and I intend to take education one step further. Build a university! There are many majors in physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, navigation, shipbuilding, metallurgy, machinery manufacturing, architecture and so on. You and Mr. Galileo, as well as these friends of yours, can be professors, lecturers, and experimenters at this university! ”

To put it mildly, Shouhan's meeting was a complete success.

Looking at the minutes of the meeting written with a dipping pen, Shouhan was very happy, this was basically a complete set of technical plans for upgrading the existing artillery, whether it was used by the army or the naval division.

The flintlock on the firearm used by the infantry is enlarged, and it is impossible to install the trigger on the cannon, so people replace the trigger on the firearm with a rope, and at the same time magnify the spring by the same multiple, and install it in the same position, after installing the spring, the gunners will pull the rope a lot less, and it will have almost no impact on the stability of the gun body and the angle of the muzzle, and it will not affect the aiming and shooting accuracy of the artillery.

In order to provide a better chance for the artillery to fire, those ingenious designers and guys like Tyrannosaurus rex who are familiar with the artillery and their own wives have added holsters to the medicine pool to prevent the erosion of wind and rain and blow away the gunpowder in the medicine pool.

Then this opportunity, Shouhan can also find out how many kinds of artillery of all kinds are in the entire Nanyue Army, from small tiger squat cannons to huge cannons that can fire dozens of pounds, "Order all departments to report their strength, not a single village can be missed, not even a three-eyed gun can be missed!" In the future, all localities and ministries will issue gunpowder, and the strength of this report will be the most basic data, and there must be no mistakes! ”

For the rule of his own territory, Shouhan always likes to use numbers to speak and reflect. "You can't do three things that don't know the way." This is a sentence that was on the lips of the village chief when the political hall first trained him, "You are the village head, the town head, and even the person who manages a county, a state, or even a prefecture, and you can't tell how many acres of land, how many famines, how many woodlands, how many villages, how many rivers, how many mountains, how many people, how much grain and how much oil can be produced every year, and you have to rely on the master and staff to do everything, what do I want you to do with such a wicked official and mediocre official?" Shall I directly arrange for your staff to be this official myself? Lao Tzu can also save a fortune!? ”

Nowadays, the territory is much larger, from Guangdong to Guangxi, from the border with Hunan to Taiwan, Tamna, Luzon, Manraka Island, and more distant ten states. If we can't use detailed data to complete government affairs, then the Nanyue Army, which is now full of barbaric vitality, believes that in one or two generations, it will become the same as the current imperial court.

At night, under the silhouettes of rockeries, flowers and trees in the houses and courtyards of Xingyuan, several women brought by Li Peiting from the Sauron Department acted as the guards of the Seventh Lady Aura Lei Yilan, they stood quietly under the moonlight, their sharp eyes like beasts kept scanning the surroundings, and their ears listened to the voices of men and women from inside the house from time to time. Before dinner, Ao Lei Yilan, who washed himself with almost half a piece of fragrant pancreas, was engaged in a fierce fight with Shouhan at the moment.

The silence of the middle night, the sound of the galloping horses of the guard, the gentle moaning of Ao Lei Yilan continued to reach the ears of these women, listening to this soul-stirring passionate voice, several women couldn't help but tremble, most of these people were not finished, thinking of the beauty of intercourse with men, they couldn't help but sweat all over their bodies, and their faces were blushing.

"The master likes Aura Yilan so much, probably this time next year, Yilan will have his child, right? In that case, the alliance between our Sauron tribe and the Han Chinese will be completely solid. ”

An older woman secretly rejoiced.

Soon, a prototype of the flintlock machine was prototyped and installed on the cannon.

The site of the test was set on Huangpu Island on the Pearl River.

The newly cast cannon was lined up by the river.

Several gunners lined up a twelve-pounder gun that used a flintlock as a triggering device and a twelve-pounder cannon that still used a goose feather tube as a feather feather tube for ignition, so that people could directly see the advantages and disadvantages between the two. (To be continued......)