From another point of view, the establishment of the Institute of Science and Technology is to bury the seeds of knowledge in the soil of the Chinese nation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For a nation, it is not enough to have a Li Zhi. Even if Li Zhi led the team to engage in research and development for 365 days, he could only advance the technical level to the level of the 19th century in a few industries.

Industrial production in the nineteenth century was still very simple, and as an industrial designer, Li Zhi had seen a lot of industrial design drawings of this era before traveling through the time, and he knew all kinds of machines in his mind. But in the future, the division of labor in industry is becoming more and more detailed, and the products are becoming more and more complex. Not only did Li Zhi never learn about those complex machines, but even if Li Zhi did, he would not be able to produce those complex machines out of nothing.

Because industry became a system by the end of the nineteenth century, and by the twentieth century. The production of any one component of a large machine involves a large number of other industries. For the industrial products at the end of the nineteenth century, the success of any industrial product required the cooperation of the entire industrial system.

For example, even if the Indians of this era were given a complete set of drawings for the internal combustion engine, the Indians, who had no industrial base, would not be able to produce such a product. It's just a screw on the internal combustion engine, a lighter, the Indians can't make it.

The more the industry develops, the more it becomes a system, which requires a social division of labor and cooperation, and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of engineers.

For engineers, theoretical knowledge is the basis for the development of all skills. Only by cultivating a group of talented people with basic scientific knowledge can we train and train qualified engineers from these talents.

Li Zhi walked into the Polytechnic with a group of factory executives, walked into the classroom, and saw two textbooks on the desk.

One is "Physics" and the other is "Chemistry".

Li Zhi has been compiling and compiling these two books in the past six months. These two books have high school-level science knowledge. Li Zhi plans to recruit polytechnic students from among primary school graduates in Tianjin. Of course, active duty workers who have attended elementary school are the priority for recruitment. It is not difficult for students who have gone through elementary school to study these two books in three years.

Li Zhi is responsible for the tuition fees of the 1,000 students of the Polytechnic, and even the expenses for food, clothing and accommodation are financed. Students can study in school with peace of mind, even from poor families.

Li Zhi's second uncle, Li Dao, opened the physics textbook on the desk and looked at it casually.

But Li Dao quickly frowned, unfortunately, Li Dao didn't understand a single page.

For the people of this era, the knowledge of physics and chemistry is undoubtedly a high-level science.

In the past, it was impossible for Li Zhi to popularize this scientific knowledge. In the past, what was more important for Li Zhi was technical secrecy. Only by hiding the technical secrets can Li Zhi gain a technological advantage in the face of other forces. At that time, Li Zhi even had to send people to monitor the workers who had mastered the technology, and even more so to keep the technology in the hands of a small number of people as much as possible to facilitate the work of secrecy.

But as Li Zhi's power grew, the difficulty of technical secrecy became less difficult. In the past, when Li Zhi was weak, technicians only needed to take refuge with other high-ranking officials in Tianjin to sell Li Zhi's skills. But now that the technician wants to betray Li Zhi and sell the technology to other provinces, Li Zhi will obviously chase all the way to the past.

Ruan Dacheng's counterfeit banknotes in Anqing Mansion were all wiped out by Li Zhi, which shows that Li Zhi's revenge methods are sharp now.

So now, unless it is some sophisticated military technology, Li Zhi does not need to be on guard as before. For some civilian science and technology, especially theoretical knowledge, Li Zhi can completely teach a large number of people to specific groups. The loss caused by these talents selling their knowledge to the outside world is far lower than the contribution that these talents brought to Li Zhi after they became engineers.

Of course, at this stage, Li Zhi is still doing some basic secrecy work. to prevent this scientific knowledge from flowing into the West and being exploited by brutal Western colonizers.

Li Zhi was looking at the classroom there, but saw that there were already a hundred new students of the academy standing outside the classroom.

Li Zhi walked over and walked up to a small young man.

"What did you do before you entered school?"

"Xiaomin is a worker in a bearing factory."

"Have you read the textbook? How many pages did you understand? ”

"The physics textbook understands the first ten pages, and then I can't understand the back."

Li Zhi smiled and asked, "What are you going to do after graduation?" ”

The young man stood up and said: "I am ready to return to the bearing factory as an engineer to improve the quality of Fanjiazhuang's precision bearings." ”

"Good!"

Li Zhi patted the young man on the shoulder and nodded.

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In a musket workshop in Batavia, Basten, a riflesmith, sits in a chair and carefully examines a Mini rifle bullet in his hand.

It was the Mini bullet used by the Tiger Ben Army under Li Zhi's command. The bullet was fired into the body of a Dutch soldier in Hsinchu and was later removed with a scalpel by Dutch doctors. There were more than a dozen of these bullets from the military doctor Stam, and he kept them in the equipment room. It was only recently, when the new governor of Batavia, Kuhn, took office, that Batavia's officials took these new rifle cartridges seriously.

The unit of length used by the Dutch in this era was called "ell", which was about sixty-nine centimeters long. Knowing that Li Zhi's rifle could accurately shoot at targets on 300 "ells" and could shoot three times a minute, the new governor immediately ordered the rifle cartridges in the instrument room to be handed over to the rifle craftsmen for study.

One of the bullets, in perfect shape, was assigned to Basten.

Basten was a skilled rifle maker.

In fact, rifles were born very early, in the sixteenth century, when arquebuses were widely used on the European continent. At the beginning of the 15th century, the Germans had already discovered that rifling in the barrel of the arquebus would make the bullet more stable, and the rifle had already been created in the era of knights and servants.

But the loading of bullets for rifles has always been a problem, and in order for the bullets to bite together with the rifling in the barrel, it is necessary to use a bullet slightly larger than the caliber of the barrel. To reload, the rifle had to hammer the steel through-strip with a hammer to knock the bullet through the barrel. It usually takes more than three minutes for the Repeater to complete a kill.

Not to mention the damage to rifling caused by such a reload.

Basten saw the Mini bullet for the first time, and he saw that the lead bullet had a larger tail end than the front end, and the tail end had a bump formed by the rifling engagement. The experienced Basten knew that there was no doubt that this Ming bullet was a rifle bullet.

Basten asked the corporal standing next to him, "Can the Ming people's rifles shoot three times a minute?" ”

The corporal replied, "Yes, Mr. Basten." ”

Basten played with the bullet in his hand and turned it to the back. He saw a hole in the butt of the bullet.

Basten was stunned for a moment, then picked up a rifle beside him. He loaded the bullet into the chamber of the rifle and poured it out again.

He suddenly rejoiced: "Clever Ming people. ”

He turned to the corporal beside him and said, "You go and report to the governor, I know the secret of the Ming people's rifle!" ”