The harem also has to talk about the Basic Law.

Normally, the emperor is rich in the world, and what happens in the harem should be completely up to the emperor, such as rewarding which concubine he likes.

However, in fact, in the harem, the promotion or demotion of the status of the concubine is completely decided by the queen, and the emperor basically has no chance to intervene.

Just like now, Emperor Chongzhen has long wanted to canonize Concubine Yi as a concubine or even an imperial concubine, but his sons are three years old, and Emperor Chongzhen has not been able to open his mouth.

The reason is that the queen took the initiative to mention it, and it is not a good thing for Emperor Chongzhen to speak, at least it is not a good thing for Concubine Yi - you can hint at the queen, and then wait for the queen's decision, don't think about interfering in the live broadcast.

This is the basic law of the harem, there is no emperor who really likes someone who is always there, and who agrees to be directly canonized as a concubine or even a concubine.

Do you want to talk about the most basic rules?

The exception of mite Qing, people have never talked about the basic law, especially those brain-dead women who have traveled through the ages to send them off, let alone the basic law of the harem.

After having a meal with several wives and looking at the studies of his sons and daughters, Emperor Chongzhen chose to stay in the queen's palace.

It's not that I don't want to run to Yunxiu Palace, which I like more, but I don't have the courage - the queen just canonized Concubine Yi as a concubine, and she ran to Yunxiu Palace in a blink of an eye.

Once the queen is unhappy, Concubine Yi is probably not happy, and in the end it is herself who is troubled.

As soon as the sky dawned the next day, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been absurd all night, felt refreshed, and simply sent someone to inform the previous dynasty that the dynasty would be suspended for a day, and if there was anything to do, let the cabinet and the celebrant handle it first, and he took Hong Chengchou and other votes to the Royal Academy.

What really matters now is the railway.

As long as the bridge across the river is really built, you can try to think about the Yangtze River Bridge in the future - although Emperor Chongzhen himself knows that it is unlikely, but the dream is still there.

What if it happens?

Even if this dream is really not true, just to be able to get the Yellow River Bridge, the meaning of it is already very unnatural.

At the very least, there will be no need for ferries or pontoon bridges from north to south of the Yellow River, and the speed of transporting supplies and soldiers will be greatly improved.

You can't see anything in peacetime, but once you encounter a time of war, the difference between one day earlier and one day later is enough to change the course of a war.

The only pity is that the difficulty of building a railway is relatively large, in the absence of construction machinery purely by manpower to pile, these areas of the Central Plains are good to say, Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan, Duogansi, Wusizang, and Leng Ling, undoubtedly a few huge flesh and blood mills, a large number of "laborers" slowly devoured, grinded.

After Emperor Chongzhen took a group of horses to the Royal Academy, there was no superfluous nonsense, and he directly asked Hong Chengchou to talk about the construction of the bridge across the river.

After hearing that Hong Chengchou's Ministry of Railways had already done experiments, Mo Hua became interested, took the pile of experimental records held by Hong Chengchou and flipped through them for a long time, Mo Hua's face changed again and again, and finally he couldn't hold back, and sneered: "This is the experimental record done by the Ministry of Railways?" ”

As soon as Hong Chengchou heard Mo Hua's tone, he felt that something was wrong, what did this mean with a somewhat sarcastic tone? Could it be that there is a problem with the experiment done by the Ministry of Railways?

After pondering for a while, Hong Chengchou said tentatively: "From the perspective of the Ink Academy, is there anything wrong with these records?" ”

Mo Hua, who had a bit of the spirit of a scientific research madman in later generations, didn't care at all that Emperor Chongzhen was still sitting next to him, but he sneered and said, "What's wrong?" Hey, what's in this record?

Hong Butang don't blame the old man for speaking ugly, if there is a bastard in the Royal Academy who dares to do such an experiment and dare to write such an experimental record, the old man will definitely kill him! Kill with your own hands! ”

Flipped the page casually, and then stretched out a finger and gestured: "Look here, on the fifth day of December in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, ten catties of cement were mixed with five bamboo strips, and after solidifying, they were hammered and broken.

What is the weather on the fifth day of December? What's the temperature? Ten pounds of cement, what kind of cement is ten pounds? How long and wide are the five bamboo strips? How big is the hammer? Who struck it? How is it different from several other experiments?

If only one experiment record is like this, then it's fine, but every time it's like this, dare to ask Hong Butang, what is the significance of this record? ”

Listening to Mo Hua's series of questions, Hong Chengchou was completely confused.

What is the weather on the fifth day of December? Is there any snow? Is it sunny or cloudy? Temperature? How do you calculate this thing? Isn't the temperature quite low on this cold day, and the water is already frozen?

Besides, the rest of the mess is not handled by the main department, you ask me, who do I ask?

Looking at Hong Chengchou with a bewildered face, Mo Hua simply sneered: "Ten catties of cement, hit it with a heavy hammer, it is naturally a broken column, what if it is a hundred catties of cement?" What if you change the hammer? What if such an experiment is not to say that it has been done dozens of times, but thousands of times? ”

Hong Chengchou was still confused: "In this way, aren't these records useless?" ”

Mo Hua sneered: "It's useless, you have to start all over again!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen was keenly aware of a key word in the conversation just now, temperature.

Hearing Emperor Chongzhen ask about the temperature, Mo Hua bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, weren't there some barbarians who were sent by the Jinyi Guard before, and one of them brought a good thing, it is said that a gentleman named Santorini improved the thermometer made by a gentleman surnamed Jia.

This thermometer is filled with colored liquid, and the height of the liquid changes with the temperature, and he is trying to make a scale on it to calculate. ”

Emperor Chongzhen didn't have the slightest understanding of the thermometer, let alone who invented it.

But Mo Hua's words revealed another news.

Nowadays, thermometers do not have a temperature scale, that is, 0 degrees and 37 degrees in the human body, and no one has put forward such a concept at all.

After pondering for a while, Emperor Chongzhen decided not to let go of this good opportunity to write his name in history by the way: "Water is cold and ice, and water is boiling and steam, so it can be seen that it is easier to distinguish by water temperature."

In this case, why not divide the temperature of water into 100 parts by taking the temperature of water cooling and freezing as 0 degrees and the temperature of water boiling as 100 degrees, and then observe the other temperatures?

By the way, I look at the weather, it is also frozen outside, but sometimes it will be colder, and sometimes it will be a little warmer, so it can be seen that the temperature below zero is also high and low, and you can also observe it again? ”

Mo Hua's eyes lit up, and he bowed down and said, "Yes." ”

The matter of testing the temperature, the Royal Academy is already preparing, but it has not yet figured out what temperature should be used as the standard, since Emperor Chongzhen has stipulated zero degrees and one hundred degrees, then the rest will be easy to do, but it is just to divide the water from the temperature to the temperature of boiling into 100 points.

What intrigued Mohua was the concept of sub-zero temperature—we all know that it's getting colder every day, but how cold is it? How does the temperature vary from day to day?

Emperor Chongzhen's point was similar to what he was thinking, so it made Mo Hua even more interested.

Emperor Chongzhen, who once again successfully pretended to be forced, and would definitely leave his name in history, said with a smile: "I heard that the ancient immortals once had a measuring ruler in their hands, which could measure everything in the world, and now I also have a thermometer in the Ming Dynasty, and I can measure the temperature of all the world. ”

Mo Hua was not interested in this credit: "Your Majesty, this is all the credit of Jinyiwei, and the minister does not dare to be greedy for credit." ”

Regarding Mo Hua's humility, Emperor Chongzhen didn't pay too much attention to him, but said with a smile: "What Mr. Santorini, and that Mr. Jia, have you invited me to come to Daming?" ”

When Mo Hua heard this, he immediately said with great regret: "Your Majesty, Mr. Santorini has passed away in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and Mr. Jia is also seventy-seven years old, and it is said that his health is not very good. ”

Emperor Chongzhen also immediately felt very regretful.

One hangs, and the remaining one is also seventy-seven years old and in poor physical condition, and if he sails at sea at this age, it is estimated that he will be cold before he reaches Daming.

After reluctantly giving up the idea of letting Jinyiwei "invite someone" in the past, Emperor Chongzhen sighed: "Such a virtuous person can't invite Daming, and it's a great regret in this life!" ”

Mo Hua nodded in agreement, but comforted: "Your Majesty doesn't need to be so sad, those Western scholars have a lot of writings, Jin Yiwei has collected a lot before, and there are many translations now."

I think that the things studied by Western scholars are more detailed than those of my Ming Dynasty, and there are many things for reference.

For example, they once mentioned the word chemistry, and many of the ideas related to alchemy coincide with the theories in the works of the sages such as "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Qi" and "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing".

Therefore, the minister had already planned to ask His Majesty to set up another school of chemistry to specialize in chemistry and alchemy. ”

Emperor Chongzhen heaved and said: "Mo Aiqing is the head of the Royal Academy, and there is naturally no problem in opening a chemistry college. Also, about the cement being used for bridge piers? ”

Mo Hua pondered and said: "Without experiments, the minister does not dare to promise His Majesty that it will be successful, and after doing a few sets of experiments, he will know the results." ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said, "I have this patience, Mo Aiqing will experiment slowly." ”

After sending away Emperor Chongzhen, who knew how to find things, and Hong Chengchou, who was like waste, Mo Hua simply gathered a group of horses and began to ponder the thermometer.

Making a thermometer is simple, the transparent and slender glass tube is not a difficult task, and it is not a big problem to seal it after filling the liquid, which is very simple for the Royal Academy.

Mohua is interested in the different results of different liquids filled inside.

Mercury, salt mixed with water, alcohol, dozens of thermometers were quickly made, and then a basin of warm water that had just cooled was taken, and the water froze to settle at zero degrees.

After several repeated tests with several different thermometers, Mohua chose to throw away the thermometer that was liquid with salt mixed with water.

Not to mention that the was inaccurate, there were several of them that were simply frozen and cracked, and they couldn't be counted on at all, but they used a thermometer of mercury and alcohol, and the performance made Mo Hua's eyes light up.

After two or three days of trying, the thermometer that was finally set was still mercury, which was a few points better than alcohol, and there was no reason to use worse alcohol.

After completing the division from zero to 100 degrees, Mo Hua and his horses began to reverse the scale, that is, to engrave the temperature representation line at equal distances below zero.

After testing it for a few days, Mo Hua couldn't help it, and finally ran to the palace to ask to see Emperor Chongzhen - the thing should have been done, but this day is getting colder and colder, and the temperature is getting lower and lower day by day, which is a bit scary!

Emperor Chongzhen took the experimental data provided by Mohua and read it several times before saying that it was normal.

During the Xiaoice River period, let alone drop two degrees a day, what if his mother's drop is ten degrees and eight degrees? What's all the fuss about?

The appearance of the thermometer made Qin Tianjian happy.

Originally, playing with ice bottles, once the temperature reached below zero, this thing was not very accurate, with the thermometer provided by the Royal Academy, you can intuitively record the different changes in temperature.

As for whether it is accurate or not, it has nothing to do with Qin Tianjian, this thing is provided by the Royal Academy, if you have different opinions, please contact the Royal Academy, they are responsible for the final interpretation.

In fact, the advent of thermometers has brought about changes that are definitely not accurate temperature records.

The medical school also got a thermometer, which was about the same length as the thermometer in later generations, and successfully obtained the normal temperature of the human body and the temperature comparison during fever.

Chen Zuqi, who was pondering hybrid seeds and greenhouse planting, was also ecstatic after getting this thing - with a thermometer, he could record the best germination time of seeds through repeated experiments in the future!

As for other places, the application of thermometers is not too extensive, but in simple research and testing - after testing, the thermometer can only function normally when it is below 500 degrees, and once it exceeds 500 degrees, it is not stable enough, and even melts and deforms until it is scrapped.

This discovery made the entire Royal Academy a little unbelievable - the temperature was actually measured in hundreds?

I didn't say it, continue to experiment, continue to toss, anyway, the emperor's inner money is silver, and he has never been stingy with the Royal Academy, the silver that should be spent should not be spent, although the flower is, there is no need to save silver for the emperor!

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