The whole Nanjing is full of joy, the state affairs are happy, and the prosperity of the country makes the most populous country in the world boiling.

Without contrast, you don't know preciousness.

A Louisiana, there may be many people who have a lot of weight, but if this land is equated with 15 Central Plains provinces, this land can be converted into 15 Central Plains provinces, then all the people of the country will know that it is powerful.

In such a lively voice, no one knew that Xiao Jian, the new left attendant of the Ministry of State Security, had already bid farewell to Chen Ming, and he was not ostentatious at all, but he quickly led a large group of horses under his command to leave Jingnan.

Chen Ming's appointment was not discussed with the cabinet ministers, let alone the ministry, but this is normal. Because of the officials of the national security and military intelligence departments, it has been controlled by Emperor Chen himself over the years. Even some of the changes in positions in the two ministries are not even accessible to the Cabinet.

It's just that Xiao Jian was promoted from the position of director of the Economic Crime Investigation Department to the left waiter of national security, but this change is a little unusual, which has caused speculation and discussion among the government and the opposition.

The level of the Economic Crime Investigation Department is not high, it is only a yamen of the fourth grade, and Xiao Jian has only risen to the third rank because of his meritorious service. However, this does not mean that the power of the Economic Crime Investigation Division will not be attacked, and the power will not be heavy.

As can be seen from the name, the Economic Crime Investigation Department focuses on economic crimes, which were limited to officialdom at the beginning, and later to securities transactions and financial exchanges.

And now such a boss of the yamen has become the second-in-command of national security and the heir of the first leader of national security. Is it not enough to put pressure on the bourgeoisie?

Or is he saying that he is satisfied with the Economic Crime Investigation Division and values it, or something else?

Even a few princes were quiet for a while, and when Xiao Jian went south, they were even more shocked. Because they need a lot of financial support to compete for the throne, invite them to buy fame, manage their personal image, influence, etc., and those corporate consortia that contribute funds to them behind them can't bump into Xiao Jian's hands.

Xiao Jian was promoted, and immediately went south, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a big move. So much so that many people use flying pigeons to pass the book, asking relevant enterprises and companies to immediately carry out self-inspection, and if there is tax evasion or other illegal situations, they will immediately make up for it.

Before determining Xiao Jian's true purpose, no one dared to ignore it. A few days ago, the high-level officials of Chen Han in Nanjing couldn't help but rejoice at the good news that they had arrived one after another, and in the blink of an eye, the emperor poured a basin of ice water down. What is the intent?

Very quickly, the political atmosphere of Nanjing's top leadership changed direction. It's better to go down early, and an inexplicable aura shrouded the sky over Nanjing. Countless pairs of eyes looked at Xiao Jian and his entourage, all the way through Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and went straight to Guangzhou. Many noble ministers who were implicated in Liangguang were frightened and were about to fly, but those noble ministers who were involved in Jiangsu, Zhejiang or Fujian immediately relaxed their minds.

But for Chen Ming in the palace, this matter is just a small episode. Xiao Jian is a card he plays, and whether this card can get the effect he expects depends on Xiao Jian's own ability.

National security and military intelligence have also come to the time to 'change the dynasty', Xiao Jian is a person Chen Ming is very optimistic about, and now he is the second child of Guoan, but if he wants to climb to the highest seat smoothly, he must give Chen Ming a satisfactory answer in this exam.

"Your Majesty. Mr. Watt asks to see! ”

In the palace, Chen Ming heard such a report.

In 1800, Watt's patent expired with Bolton, and he retired the same year. But their partnership continued into the next generation, with Matthew Bolton continuing to work with James Watt Jr., while taking William Murdoch as a partner to ensure the company's continued success. After his retirement, Watt travelled with his second wife to France and Germany, and purchased a home in Wales.

But soon, Watt received an invitation from the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences in China and came to China with his wife.

Watt's feelings about China are mixed.

It was the Chinese who made his invention great and made everyone praise him as a 'man who changed the world'. But it was the Chinese who stole the fruits of his labor, and he received only a gift from the Sun Yat-sen Academy of Sciences in China's huge market.

Watt was a man of money, and in England his actions confirmed it.

In order to protect his own interests, Watt did not hesitate to use power and patent law to suppress the backwards, such as Jonathan Hornbrower who invented another steam engine in 1780, but failed because he was sued for infringing Watt's patent.

Watt's patent for the "Sun and Planet" crank-gear linkage device in the same year, and a patent for a steam engine in 1782, both have strong evidence that William Murdoch, his engineer, invented it.

But William Murdoch himself never disputed ownership of the patent, and he worked for Bolton & Watt all his life and was absorbed as a partner after Watt's retirement. Even after the crank patent that had hindered Watt's invention expired in 1794, Watt's steam engine continued to use this "sun and planet" transmission technology.

Watt even blocked the invention and promotion of other non-proprietary steam engines, believing that it was impossible to use them to propel vehicles. As a result, the efficiency improvement of the Watt steam engine in the more than 20 years of its birth is not as good as the short period of three or four years after 1800. It can be said that in this respect, Watt is definitely holding the British back.

But Watt is still recognized as the world's inventor of the steam engine, even in China, and the new steam engine structure invented by Watt on the basis of the original steam engine has hardly changed in the next 50 years. It's just the 'parts' that have changed!

But this era is not a world in which Europe dominates the world. In the East, China arose, a powerful empire that terrified all of Europe.

The British moved more slowly, and the British lagged further behind China.

In the past twenty or thirty years, the Chinese have invented one machine after another using steam engines, and a large number of steam-powered machines have been applied to textile, metallurgy, coal mining, transportation and other departments.

In turn, in turn, Europe has to learn from China in practical construction machinery, and even many European countries are waving money to recruit engineers in China, but the results have been achieved.

Decades of development have made China extremely powerful, but its scientific attainments are still inferior to Europa, especially in basic theoretical research, China and Europe still have a certain gap.

China is now stronger than Europe is practical technology, because they have Chen Ming, although Chen Ming does not understand technology, but Chen Ming's "vision" is broad, thinking freely, many things that the natives of this time and space have not thought of, Chen Ming can point out, but also can say specific requirements.

It's like drawing a big frame and letting those who know technology fill it in little by little. This is much more convenient than the 'inventions' of the Europeans. As a result, China is still aggressively recruiting European researchers in basic theories such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc., while the formation of Chinese engineers is urgently needed by Europeans.

It's just that the latter has little to gain!

The Chinese made Watt famous in Europe, and the Chinese also made Watt lose face. Now that Watt has retired, Watt cannot refuse an invitation from the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, the highest authority in China's scientific community.

And in fact, Watt really got it right this time.

The wealthy Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences built a small gold steam engine, weighing 22.5 kilograms, of pure gold quality, which was awarded to Watt as a lifetime prize of the Luban Prize.

The Luban Prize is one of the highest awards in China's scientific community, in addition to the Luban Prize, there are also the Shennong Award for agriculture, the Bian Que Award for medicine, and the Shengong Award for architecture. Then there is the 100 Awards in the Literature category. Then there is a comprehensive award, the Huabiao Award, which also has categories such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, literature, philosophy, medicine, and economics.

At the same time, Emperor Chen also personally approved Watt's qualification to be an academician of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences, which is like the title of academician of the Royal Society. And Watt is one of the only three remaining foreign academicians of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences!

Yes, Watt, who is only seventy years old, has really felt a little proud lately.

He doesn't worry about money, and as an inventor, seeking fame is a big pursuit for him. And in the whole of Europe, who else has won such a high honor in China, except for Ta Watt?

The academician of the Zhongshan Academy of Natural Sciences and the lifetime award of the Luban Prize, Watt is going to be praised by Chen Ming.

However, looking at Watt's invention and the research process of the British steam engine that he had vigorously suppressed for more than twenty years, even a low-level title would be enough to give him a low-level title.

It's a pity that Chen Han's lowest title is an earl, even if it is a liujue, it is impossible to reward Watt.

But Chen Ming is going all out to praise Watt, and he wants to let Europeans see how China treats a great inventor.

If Watt had interacted more with China in the early years, Chen Ming would have given him the crown of 'Father of Industry', but unfortunately he didn't. He even said a lot of demeaning things about the progress of China's steam engine, of course, in order to relieve pressure on himself. But Chen Ming has a bottom line if he wants to hold Watt again, and it is impossible to kneel and lick indefinitely, right?

Watt is going to have a stinting dinner in China's royal palace today. This is one of the honors that Chen Ming gave him.

Of course, although Watt's eyes have long been attracted to his brain by Chen Ming's series of praises, as a combination of businessman and inventor, as a person who is quite involved in politics, Watt still subconsciously noticed China's industrial process.

China's steel industry, which has been the first to benefit from the massive use of the steam engine, has become the world's largest steel producer in just three decades. The British's annual output of 250,000 tons of pig iron is already proud of the European continent, but it is a small one compared to China.

And with steel mills in Myanmar, Annam, Java and Sumatra put into operation, it is just around the corner that China's steel production alone will exceed that of Europe. And driven by the steel industry and the machinery industry, China's coal production is also rising, and is expected to exceed 50 million tons this year, which can also overshadow the coal production of the whole of Europe.

And in the nineteenth century, in this age of coal and iron, the powerful steel industry and coal mining industry were the most solid foundations of an empire!

- The Great Empire of China!

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