Zhu Houzhao glared at Yan Song angrily, and only wrote down the elements that can now be known to the people of the Ming Dynasty on the element list of the first version of the Ming Dynasty, and said to Yan Song:

"Now these are the elements we know, different elements have different properties, but there are also common laws, you see these elements all belong to gold, we can collectively call metals, and coincidentally, the ancients also set gold next to it, and sulfur and the phosphorus I told you before are next to the stone, saying that it is not gold, and new elements can also be used to make words in the future."

Yan Song was shocked for a while, and hurriedly said: "What Your Majesty said is very reasonable, the ministers only say that all things have different qi and endowments, and now Your Majesty replaces them with elements, and the words of an inseparable thing are replaced by one word, and the gold brings gold, and the non-gold brings stone, so that the elements can be named separately, and it is very cheap for people in the world to learn and record them in the book." ”

"There are three states of all things, what we see, such as charcoal and sulfur are solid, and water is liquid, if water is burned, it can disappear and evaporate for gas, which becomes gaseous, so when the substance composed of some elements is in a solid-liquid state, it can be seen by us, but if it is in a gaseous state, it is invisible, so many elements, we cannot see it, and we need to discover it gradually."

Zhu Houzhao said and said: "Different elements have different properties, such as the phosphorus fertilizer I asked you to make before, the phosphorus in it can make rice and wheat grow better, and the green alum is pure and light as water, but it can be shaken but it can have heat, and can destroy people's faces, as long as we use the properties of these elements to create some new things, it can be beneficial to the community and the people." ”

"For example, after soap is made, it can make it more convenient for people to wash their clothes, and it is easier to wash the dirt of their bodies, so that there are many fewer people who get sick from the plague, and after gunpowder is used in firearms, it can give the Han people a sharp weapon to balance Hulu, and in the future, I may be able to use the properties of various elements to build a car that can run without horse-pulling, or even a thing that can carry people to fly, or a boat that can move forward without paddling."

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Yan Song couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and was stunned for a moment, before he had to sneer and say: "Your Majesty, a car that can run without a horse, an object that can carry people to fly, and a boat that can move forward without oars, this is impossible, even if the gods don't have to ride deer and cranes." ”

"Anything is possible, as long as you master the properties of all the elements, nothing is impossible, before the glass is made, can you think of a telescope in this world?"

Zhu Houzhao said this, Yan Song also understood a little, and hurriedly said: "According to Your Majesty's meaning, if you understand all the elements, you can create new things, and you can also control the laws of all things. Can the minister directly make this element to make fertilizer, without having to burn wood and collect dung? ”

"Exactly, phosphate ore can be made into phosphate fertilizer, is there that there is also an element of carbon ash to fatten rice and wheat, if you find this ore to make fertilizer, it is naturally cheaper than cutting and burning it!"

Zhu Houzhao said.

And Yan Song couldn't help but get excited: "I shouldn't have been taught by Your Majesty earlier, if I can really get this fertilizer, then I will have a bumper harvest of grains, and my family will not suffer from hunger!" ”

Immediately, Yan Song waved at Zhu Houzhao: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely be able to discover the element that can fatten rice and wheat!" ”

"I'm waiting for your good news, you can check what the ashes of charcoal are made of, you can go to Jingshi University, the Royal Industrial Experimental Base and the Daming Academy of Sciences to ask them, I will ask the Ministry of Officials to give you a doctorate in agriculture of the Daming Academy of Sciences, so that you can act, in addition, I will ask the Royal Tax Office to give you 10,000 taels of silver as the capital."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yan Song was overjoyed, and secretly said in his heart: "Since the promotion of rice and phosphate fertilizer in the city, my Ming Dynasty has increased to two and a half stone per mu, and now if there is a new fertilizer, I don't have to worry about not being able to break through the number of three stones. ”

Zhu Houzhao only knew that Yan Song was a famous traitor in later generations, but he never thought that he would be so attentive to agriculture, and he was also a little impressed by Yan Song in his heart, thinking that maybe Jiajing used Yan Song in history not only because Yan Song was good at writing green words.

In any case, Yan Song, who entered Beijing to serve as the left waiter of the Criminal Department, in addition to official duties, put his mind on burning charcoal and developing new elements whenever he had spare time.

If Zhu Houzhao was not a traverser, he only looked at Yan Song from the eyes of the world, and only felt that Yan Song was a good official with good moral integrity and few desires, which was completely inconsistent with the image of the so-called traitor in later generations.

Although His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao did not think that water and fire were elements, Yan Song did not dare to fill water and fire into the element table, he still insisted in his heart that water and fire were elements.

In Yan Song's view, he is also a prodigy, and he has been admitted to Hanlin, so he will not misunderstand the elements, so he thinks that charcoal must be composed of the element fire and charcoal ash, of course, he also thinks that charcoal is not composed of a single element, Yan Song creatively named charcoal as a compound, he wrote in his notes:

"Charcoal is burned as fire and charcoal ash, so charcoal is made of charcoal ash and cremation, and it is a compound!"

Yan Song was very happy, he felt that he was creating a new science, he believed that his future achievements should not be inferior to Wang Shouren, and he thought that he might be better than Wang Shouren, because what Wang Shouren said about the study of the mind is not necessarily right, but what he said about the knowledge must be right, and no one can argue with the idea that charcoal is a chemical compound, because the combustion test is enough to prove it.

"The eldest husband is in the world, and his ambition is nothing more than three things: meritorious service, speech, and virtue, although I Yan Song can't make meritorious service, at least I can make words!"

Yan Song looked at the row of glass instruments in front of him and thought.

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Wang Shouren was identified as the winner of the highest royal science and technology award in the category of Chinese studies for pioneering the study of mind.

Wang Wensu, Tong Laowu, and Tao Hei were identified as the winners of the highest royal science and technology awards.

Wang Wensu does not need to be detailed, his book "Arithmetic Baojian" has been the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square and other operations are completely recorded by the abacus method, and provides mathematical permutations and combinations and geometry related knowledge, but also summarized the law of the Ming tax rate conversion and price statistics, and even began to put forward calculus under the influence of Zhu Houzhao, and officially introduced Arabic numerals, establishing a new way of operation.

In this era before computers, Wang Wensu applied simple and complex mathematical operations to abacus, which was of great help to the Ming Dynasty in opening banks, financial control, and financial scheduling.

Otherwise, to be honest, without a foundation in computer technology, it would be difficult for Zhu Houzhao to open a successful bank and even successfully carry out the reform of the money law by himself alone.

Therefore, Wang Wensu deserves to win this award.

It is also just a good opportunity to let the people of the Ming era know that the Ming Dynasty not only emphasizes the art of civil and military affairs, but also emphasizes the study of mathematics and physics.

Tong Lao Wu was awarded this award for successively manufacturing a sortie pistol in the Ordnance Bureau.

The award in the chemical and smelting category was won by the eunuchs Qiu Ju and Tao Hei.

Qiu Ju is the first person in Daming to master the manufacturing technology of two acids and two alkalis, whether a country's industrial base can be complete depends on whether it can manufacture three acids and two alkalis, and Qiu Ju's role is naturally very great.

Tao Hei was awarded the award for his repeated improvement of steel smelting technology from crucible steelmaking to open-hearth steelmaking.

Besides.

Li Yanwen became the winner of the Medicine and Physiology Award because she was the first Ming women's surgical hand who could suture the wound intact after cesarean section.

Originally, Zhang Zhong among the internal officials could also compete for this award, but Zhang Zhong was good at cutting 0 bags and 0 skins, which involved small wound sutures, which was relatively less valuable than Li Yanwen's role, so Zhu Houzhao finally chose to let Li Yanwen win this award.

The winner of the money law award is Xu Jing, after all, the Ming Dynasty can have its current economic outlook, and the great housekeeper next to Emperor Zhu Houzhao can also be regarded as indispensable.

The Fengtianmen Gate where hundreds of officials gathered was as grand as the ceremony, and the civil and military officials all appeared in crowned uniforms, and Zhu Houzhao himself also wore crowned uniforms to show the importance attached to the award.

After the mountain called long live, Zhu Houzhao asked Ouyang Dan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to start presiding over the award ceremony.

Thereupon.

In Ouyang Dan, he began to roll call, and read out why Emperor Zhu Houzhao wanted to set up this award, as well as these winners, and in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, every person who read it would be praised for each person.

In the past, this kind of grand etiquette can only have such an honor if you have made great contributions, and now Zhu Houzhao uses this as a ceremony to reward Daming's innovative achievements in the academic field, which naturally makes these winners feel more honored.

Rao was a civil and military official who did not expect that the imperial court would attach so much importance to the study of the Nine Streams.

Although some Confucian ministers of science are a little sour, they can't say anything after knowing that Guo Nan was demoted, and they can only accept the existence of this phenomenon.

Wang Shouren, the secretary of the military department, did not expect that he would one day be so ceremoniously awarded by His Majesty because of his heart and words.

Many officials also showed envy, they didn't expect that Liyan could be so valued by His Majesty, and even if it was such a deviant statement.

For example, at this time, Yan Song felt that he would be able to win awards in flying fish suits in the future like Wang Shouren now, because of his words to create new knowledge.

The second grade is given a flying fish suit, which is the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and now these winners are to receive the title of Shangshu according to Zhu Houzhao's will, and it is the treatment of high-ranking officials in modern times, and in the Ming Dynasty, Shangshu is generally a second-grade official, and Zhu Houzhao also gave them a set of flying fish suits.