The hall of the Command Embassy was crowded with big-nosed foreigners and a group of pleasant-looking Chinese, who were the "scientists" invited by Francisco according to Guan Shanyue's request, in fact, he preferred to call them alchemists. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After an enthusiastic self-introduction, Guan Shanyue looked at the scientists in front of him with joy, and he felt that Francisco's promise to build a laboratory for everyone on his behalf was definitely worth the money, and it was not too much to build a city for them alone. It's just that this group of guys has a common trait, which is lack of money and lack of will.

The leader of the foreigners, Thomas Seville, was an army officer from the United Kingdom, according to his self-introduction, he was interested in steam and machinery, he had always wanted to make a steam-powered machine, but he had not been able to find financial support, and he was fed up with the ridicule of the people around him, and made up his mind to come to Duoyan City.

Followed by Thomas's English countryman, named Robert Hooke, who aspired to become a naturalist and inventor, there was no invention and creation for the time being, and there were many strange ideas, which were regarded as alien by the people around him.

The third bearded man was a famous astronomer from Germany, named Kepler, who had come to the far East because of persecution by the Church.

The fourth is a lovely bearded old man, he is the Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Galileo Galilei, his name is even more familiar to Guan Shanyue, who also came to the strange East because of the destruction of the church and the pursuit of scientific truth.

The last curly-haired old man in a black top hat was Bacon, a materialist philosopher, thinker, and scientist from England, who had followed Francisco's fleet to the city of Doyan out of disgust with political activity and curiosity about the East.

The three pillars of the Holy Sect, Xu Guangqi, Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun, came to Duoyan City in a group, and these three people made Guan Shanyue look particularly amiable, especially the fat old man Xu Guangqi, who was very close.

The fourth is a sturdy and bearded man in the prime of life, when he reported his name Xu Hongzu, Guan Shanyue was still confused, but when he knew that he was writing a book called "Xu Xiake's Travels", thinking that he had memorized his article when he was in school, Guan Shanyue stepped forward to be a standard Cao's bear hug.

Which one behind Xu Xiake is also a great figure, he is Song Yingxing, the author of "Heavenly Creation", but this young man is a little bleak, and he has repeatedly failed to take the exam, thinking that he has no chance with his career, and turns to study agriculture and handicraft production, his research field involves natural sciences and humanities, and he is a well-known and powerful faction. Of course, his "Heavenly Creations" is still in the embryonic state of collecting materials, and it will take more than ten years to complete the book.

The sixth is a young man who is younger than Guan Shanyue, named Fang Yizhi, whose philosophy is closest to that of modern people, advocating the combination of Chinese and Western, and the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Don't look at his young age, his knowledge is not small at all, and he has dabbled in literature, history, philosophy, geography, medicine, and physics.

At the end of the line was a gentle and modest gentleman in his twenties, named Wu Youke, a doctor waiting to show his ambitions.

Guan Shanyue was familiar with Wu Youke's name, and after he searched for it with his brain, he suddenly remembered that he had heard this person's name in a movie. At that time, it was he who proposed that plague was an infectious disease and compiled the first monograph on acute infectious diseases in the history of China's medical development -- "Treatise on Warm Epidemics", which had a great impact on the development of the theory of warm diseases in later generations and made indelible contributions to the theory of infectious diseases.

Looking at the dazzling array of scientists in the room, Guan Shanyue was overjoyed, and while arranging a feast, she asked people to make room for these baby bumps in the most spacious and best house in the east of the city.

No matter what conditions this group of people proposes, Guan Shanyue is responsive, and he also intimately takes out a large amount of money for them to earmark, saving them to go back and forth.

At the beginning, Guan Shanyue was afraid that they were a little unaccustomed to living together, especially because he was afraid that the group of scholars and doctors in the Ming Dynasty would look down on this group of foreign monks from the West. Who would have thought that he was completely blind to worry, the Ming Dynasty and this group of foreign monks and monks simply communicated, and immediately discovered the value of Western science, put down their bodies and began to learn from each other's strengths, they did not reject Western theories and new things at all, and the speed of understanding and receiving new knowledge was quite fast.

Francisco made a lot of money from this transaction, and when he left, he took with him iron pots, all kinds of porcelain, all kinds of novel tableware, etc., but Guan Shanyue, the chicken thief, used the newly produced cloisonne in Duoyan City to offset the money of this group of scientists.

Now there are more and more product names in Duoyan City, and it is most appropriate to describe it with each passing day, of course, Guan Shanyue is indispensable behind this, and most of the ideas and design sketches of those novelties are from his hands.

The dilapidated economy is rapidly recovering, and the entire Daning Capital Division is becoming vigorous again. Because not only Duoyan City, but also all the market transactions in the entire Daning Dusi are all traded in a way that is clearly marked, according to Guan Shanyue, this can greatly reduce the unnecessary time cost of buyers and sellers, and can also reduce a lot of unnecessary waste.

Although people don't understand the various whims of this Guan Daren, they can benefit from it every time, and out of trust in him, they are abiding by the various rules he has made.

On this day, after Guan Shanyue sent Zhang Debiao to rebuild Coulomb City, he carried a red copper kettle and came to the office of the scientists who had been renamed the Daning Academy of Sciences.

He didn't disturb the scientists who were doing experiments and research, but called Xu Guangqi and Thomas, the presidents of the Academy of Sciences, to the hall. After a few words of greeting with the two, he mysteriously put the kettle on the coal stove that was boiling.

This red copper kettle is a little different from the usual kettle, and his lid has a small opening that can cover the spout. After a while, the water's edge was boiling hot, and the lid of the pot made a sharp sound, and it was pushed up and down by the steaming steam.

Although Guan Shanyue didn't know how the steam engine was invented, he was also from modern times, and he could still guide this group of knowledgeable ancient scientists in a correct direction, "My personal level is limited, and I think that the machine you want to invent is the same as the water vapor of this care that pushes the lid of the pot, which is to convert the energy of steam into mechanical energy." If you follow this line of thought, you will definitely succeed, don't be afraid of failure, failure is the mother of success. I see that you two have drawn a lot of drawings, changed and changed, don't worry about the money, I have already said hello to the foundry, you can let go of your hands and feet. If you don't turn the things on the drawings into real things in front of you, there are many problems that you can't find. We don't pursue success at the first time, because it is not only difficult for strong people but also not scientific at all, let's improve while researching, so that we can be scientific horses, haha. ”

Thomas burst into tears when he heard this, he didn't expect to find not only research funds but also people who thought he appreciated himself in the far east, and hurriedly expressed his gratitude in broken Chinese with a Francisco accent, "Thank you, thank you for your support." ”

Xu Guangqi stroked his beard, and cast an approving look at Guan Shanyue, he felt that Guan Shanyue was very pragmatic and very easy to get along with, and working in the Daning Academy of Sciences was much happier than intrigue in the imperial court and not being reused, "A good sentence failure is the mother of success, Guan Daren and young people are very promising, we old bones are a little timid, I will make a charter out in a while to call on everyone to have the courage to try." ”

Guan Shanyue was a little embarrassed by what Xu Guangqi said, he smiled, "It's all some superficial opinions of later generations, Xu Lao praised it, I still have to learn from you." Oh, by the way, in order to arouse everyone's enthusiasm and respect for the fruits of their labor, I decided that if a new invention was made, his inventor would receive a corresponding bonus according to the value of the invention, and that he could receive an invention fee of two percent according to the quantity produced, for ten years. In the case of an improvement invention, an improvement fee of 1% can be charged according to the number of productions. Mr. Xu, what do you think? ”

Xu Guangqi listened to it and praised it, which can not only greatly mobilize the enthusiasm of scientists for invention and creation, but also once it is linked to personal interests, even the common people will devote themselves to this magnificent wave of invention and creation, so that he has a sense that the future of the Ming Dynasty is in Daning, "Oh, Lord Guan, you are going to set off a monstrous wave, and the people are hidden dragons and crouching tigers." As soon as this policy comes out, work together, I think this is no less than Zhou Gong's spit feeding, and the hearts of people who love invention and creation in the world may be attributed to Daning Dusi. ”

Guan Shanyue is standing on the shoulders of giants, if it weren't for the time from the modern era, not limited by the times, he wouldn't have been able to make such a lofty suggestion, "Hehe, Xu Lao, don't make fun of me." However, I have an immature suggestion that you can assign this experimental task to everyone. I think that if the coal is dried and steamed, it will get different substances, and I have asked the steel mill to make a few large thick-walled jars of pure steel, and you can experiment with a small one. ”

Although Xu Guangqi didn't think that he could extract anything else from the dark coal, he still nodded, "Well, I'll let people do this as soon as possible." The last time you ordered Bacon to replace all the wooden lathes you brought from England with iron, the thing is almost done. However, I found a problem related to long-term development, I don't know if I should talk about it? ”