Another article, "Refining a Hundred Stones, Trying Ten Thousand Methods", pointed out that for a long time, Chinese people have been keen on life and personnel and have lost the original spirit of exploring the world. It is necessary to regard the original spirit of exploration and even discovery of the world as a value pursuit, not just a utilitarian pursuit. Take pride in taking the biggest risks, climbing the highest mountains, and going to the coldest places. We take pride in discovering substances that have not been discovered or even defined before, and discovering substances that are more extensive. It is also necessary to understand the basic properties of different substances, and to deduce and apply them in countless experiments and practices to form new substances and even compound materials that people need. In addition, we need to have a wide range of interests in the world's plants and even animals, discovering and identifying their species. Our ancestors were even more backward than the most backward barbarian tribes in the world today, and it is precisely because of maintaining an interest in those seemingly "useless" things, and maintaining a simple childlike heart to explore the mysteries of the world and exploring the true truth, that there are a series of world-changing inventions and discoveries from fishing nets to silk linen, from perforated stone tools to boats, chariots and houses. But I don't know when we started to pursue the truth of the world on the wrong path, superstitious belief in some so-called sage dogmas and waste a lot of talents, resources, time and even experience on things that are useless for exploring the original world and improving the economy and people's livelihood, and also develop a lot of quality that makes us lose our original frank and persistent characteristics...

Of course, Xiao Xuan also understands that many inherent cultural characteristics for a long time cannot be achieved with a few calls. There are some things that cannot be completely counted on by the people who have not yet changed their way of thinking. Since the beginning of the 21st year of Chongzhen, more than 5,000 geological exploration teams and expedition teams totaling more than 70,000 people have been established from Yingtian Xuecheng to the military at home and abroad, and even in many state-owned units. The emergence of such organizations is also widely and openly allowed in the civil society.

It has to be said that the changes and even changes in customs carried out by forceful means over the past 10 years have had some effect, and almost at the same time, more than 10,000 newly wealthy non-governmental economic entities have also set up more than 10,000 exploration teams and expedition teams with a total of more than 100,000 people. In addition, "risk labs" have also begun to be widely established from the official to the private sector.

Under careful consideration, in order to invest enough manpower and financial resources and even reward the problems encountered in key bottlenecks, Xiao Xuan still suspended the plan for infrastructure construction in the main rail line and even in many areas in the north. After all, given that the population in China has been controlled at 120 million or 30 million for a long time, and the population size will not exceed about 200 million people at most in a generation, and the pattern of a large amount of overseas grain imports every year is fully capable of forming a pattern with the southeast as the core, or with the coastal areas along the rivers and rivers as the core. Under such circumstances, there is no doubt that it is conducive to increasing the influence and control of the central government over the local government.

In addition, after learning that at this time, the military baggage that was still in the core ordnance industry and even the personal guard system had accumulated 3,000 medium-sized land and sea field guns and mortar guns, 240 rounds of various new artillery shells, and a large number of cutting-edge individual armor, vehicles, weapons, and equipment with a total value of more than 40 million taels, and began to let the core military industry, which had grown to about 50,000 people, invest in the production of scientific research equipment, difficult machinery, and other fields. All of a sudden, the accumulated financial resources invested in scientific research and experimental activities and even exploration activities exceeded the military expenditures at home and abroad. Not only that, but when the Central School City prepares for the next round of major enrollment expansion, the scope of new student selection will also be expanded to include overseas immigrants and their families, as well as Chinese-speaking "naturalized people".

In this way, in the entire 21st year of the new dynasty, nearly 10,000 people were killed or disappeared in various exploration and test activities at home and abroad, and 400,000 participants of all kinds were involved. Officially endorsed insurance campaigns are also beginning to be promoted.

The drastic changes that had been carried out in law and cultural thought in the past ten years began to show their effects at this time. Such a craze has not subsided after a year without many major breakthroughs, and there are no calls for "working hard and hurting money", which also makes Xiao Xuan feel a lot of relief to a large extent. More than two previous civil wars and even a number of drastic changes seem to have been in vain. However, in some cases, technological advances are really a joke on people, and it is not a huge investment that will immediately pay off handsomely. It is very likely to invest hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and there will be no effect in a few years.

In this regard, Xiao Xuan actually had some preparations in his heart for a long time to judge whether the money was wasted, and Xiao Xuan certainly had another reference, that is, whether there was innovation in such aspects as smelting, clocks, thermometers or barometers, and even more excellence in manufacturing capacity.

In fact, Xiao Xuan has roughly calculated: even if there has been no revolutionary breakthrough in many technologies for a long time, and it has always been stuck at the level of the middle and early eighteenth century, but in terms of the scale of skilled workers and even the ability and management of machinery manufacturing, it has surpassed the times to reach a scale that has not been reached in the West in the entire nineteenth century, so what will happen? Is it possible to skip the first industrial revolution and go straight to the second industrial revolution, or to go faster and more rapidly in the future? If manufacturing capacity is also being upgraded in many fields, then there is no time to worry about "everything is ready and only the east wind is owed".

Xiao Xuan was a little regretful that in the entire twenty-one or twenty-two years of Chongzhen, there was no substantial breakthrough in oil refining, steam engines, or chemical industry based on three acids and two alkalis. Not only that, but even the power is stuck in the capacitors and batteries and is subject to great limits. Of course, generators and electric motors, and even early telegraphs, began to mature in the laboratory. The field of metallurgy and steelmaking and ironmaking is also becoming more and more mature, and under the continuous experiment and accumulation of many skilled workers, it has cost hundreds of lives to smelt steel that is not only high in military performance and strength, but also has a variety of different capabilities. In fields such as microscopes, telescopes, and even watch machinery, more and more skilled craftsmen have appeared, and the output of the same quality has become completely different. The use of hydraulic stone crushers and even various tools began to increase the number of two- and three-story buildings.

Faced with this situation, Xiao Xuan gradually became relieved. After all, the serious cultural transformation and large-scale investment in science and education in the East as a whole are only about a generation, and it is extremely difficult to accumulate in such a short period of time the progress that the West has had in the history of 200 years, even with all kinds of favorable conditions.