Chapter 43: Enlightenment
Zhu Youxiao, who was dressed in a yellow robe, was also the first time to see these scientific elites who were more famous in later generations than any scholar and scholar of the same period. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although he is the Ninety-Five, he does not dare to hold it up.
Seeing that these officials were going to make a big salute, Zhu Youxiao was busy exempting them from the salute on the grounds that he didn't need to be restrained in the early dynasty, and when he saw Tang Ruowang, he also asked with a smile: "You are Tang Ruowang?" ”
"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty", Tang Ruowang bowed and saluted Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao just nodded, and asked Xu Guangqi on the side: "Who is Song Yingxing." ”
Song Yingxing saw Zhu Youxiao asking himself personally, so he took the initiative to stand up: "Wechen has seen Your Majesty." ”
"Very good, my Ming Dynasty is full of elites, and you Song Yingxing is undoubtedly the most dazzling pearl."
Zhu Youxiao inadvertently praised Song Yingxing, which surprised all the officials and Song Yingxing himself.
You know, except for the Westerner Tang Ruowang here, he Song Yingxing is from a lifting background, and the others are all from Jinshi, Song Yingxing felt that he was a little shorter than others from the beginning, but he didn't expect that His Majesty was the first to ask by name, and he also said that he was the most dazzling pearl.
This kind of praise came from the mouth of an emperor, which was even more enviable than that of his wife and son, and from then on, he Song Yingxing was enough to leave a good story in Zhu Youxiao's record.
After a few words of gossip and a few simple questions to everyone, Zhu Youxiao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, walked into the newly built conference hall of the Ministry of Industry under the leadership of Xu Guangqi, the left attendant of the Ministry of Industry and the head of the Hanlin Academy, and Bi Maokang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry.
The conference hall is a building built by Xu Guangqi temporarily according to Zhu Youxiao's design for meetings.
Instead of the traditional format of an incense table in the middle and a Taishi chair on each side, rectangular square tables are arranged on both sides, covered with brown silk cloth, on which small potted plants and tea are placed.
Of course, Zhu Youxiao's dragon chair is still in the middle, with a bright yellow silk wrapped around a square table, and behind the square table is a temporarily moved dragon chair.
Behind the dragon chair is not a phoenix tail and a five-clawed dragon, but a "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" by Zhao Huang of the Song Dynasty.
On the bright yellow platform facing Zhu Youxiao, a globe cast of mixed iron is placed.
There are also some miniature versions of guns and cannons in front of the others, all of which are models given to them by Zhu Youxiao, but most of them are breech-loading guns and smoothbore guns, although Xu Guangqi and the others look novel, they don't understand the principle of this.
Today, Zhu Youxiao is not only starting the development of Daming science and technology, but also giving them a good science popularization, these future "science fiction products" relative to this era.
"You Aiqing also know that the Tartar cavalry is brave and good at fighting, and it cannot be controlled unless it is a firearm chariot, and now I am in a hurry to this point, not to talk about the Four Books and Five Classics, nor to tell the friendship of monarchs and ministers, everyone sits and talks, only about science!"
When Zhu Youxiao said the word "science," the officials present were all surprised, and their faces were full of suspicion.
Although they had been vaccinated with the books and materials sent by Zhu Youxiao before this, they still felt shocked after hearing the word "science", and then looked at the various models in front of them that could not be found in ancient books and the globe in front of His Majesty that said the Age of Discovery, they couldn't help but secretly ask when His Majesty became a miscellaneous student, not only studying carpentry.
"Xiao Ruyi, bring the largest of my drawings and let them hang them behind me", Zhu Youxiao said, Liu Ruyi hurriedly pulled out a drawing two meters long and one meter wide and gave it to the small yellow door on the side.
After the little yellow door was hung up, Xu Guangqi and others saw that His Majesty had written "The History of the Development of Human Civilization", and then there were words such as "iron", "productivity", "machinery", and "steam engine" underneath.
Without waiting for these officials to ask, Zhu Youxiao first opened his mouth and spoke on his own.
He studied medicine in his last life, and he didn't know much about the history of this kind of anthropology and the development of science and technology, but in order to be able to teach these traditional scholars a good lesson, he spent a full month preparing, so now it is logical and endless.
Most of these officials were born in Jinshi, and their heads are not stupid, not to mention that they are all relatively open-minded scholars, and they do not regard what Zhu Youxiao said as heresy.
What's more, Zhu Youxiao is still the emperor, so they all listened carefully, and they can roughly understand the general meaning of what Zhu Youxiao said.
It is precisely because of this that the officials present can stuff eggs with their mouths wide open, and what Zhu Youxiao is talking about is undoubtedly impacting the ideas they have formed over the past decades.
An official stood up excitedly, slapped the table, and pointed at Zhu Youxiao and wanted to scold him for talking nonsense.
But suddenly realized that it was His Majesty who was talking above, and he was looking at the Jinyi guards on both sides, and he was so frightened that he suddenly sat back again, and saw that Zhu Youxiao didn't let people pull him down and cut him, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Of course, there are also officials who don't care about the order of respect and inferiority, and when they saw Zhu Youxiao doing experiments in front of them, they simply leaned over and stood behind Zhu Youxiao to see how Zhu Youxiao replaced iron with copper.
If it weren't for Zhu Youxiao waving his hand to stop Jinyiwei's movements, I am afraid that the few officials who leaned over would have already been regarded as assassins at this time, and then their heads would fall to the ground directly.
It is easier for those who are in the top position to promote the development of the times, and it is easier for the new ideas sent out to impress the people below, and Zhu Youxiao is doing this at this time.
He wanted to breathe a fresh source of ideas into this ancient empire where the Confucian system was dominant, perhaps so that he could rejuvenate himself, instead of waiting for the slaughter of the northern Tartars and the bullying of the Western powers hundreds of years later.
It's time to bring a new spring breeze to the Ming Dynasty, and let these natural philosophies that have sprouted or not yet sprout be completely enlightened.
The entire Daming Science and Technology Imperial Conference held in the Ministry of Industry has almost become a hall of Zhu Youxiao's words, but whether it is Zhu Youxiao or these scholar-type officials here, this is much more exciting than the early dynasty meeting.
Even the missionary John Tong was secretly impressed, he never expected that the emperor of this ancient Eastern Empire would be so knowledgeable.
The officials never imagined that a small skill could have such a big impact on humanity, and from this moment on, they gradually realized that what they were doing might not be as simple as a trick.
"Your Majesty, this is the latest flintlock pistol cast by Bi Shilang according to His Majesty's drawings, and it has been standardized, from this small flint to the front of this steel rod has caliber and size requirements, and each craftsman is only responsible for the manufacture of one part, and then assembly and welding is also assembled by another type of craftsman, even if the Tartar catches a craftsman, I don't know how to make my Daming's new firearms."
When it was Xu Guang's turn to speak, he directly took out a shiny firearm wrapped in red cloth.
"Oh", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be surprised, hurriedly took it, and weighed it: "Is this easy to operate, has it been tried by the soldiers, how much is the range, and how is the rate of fire?" “
Xu Guangqi hurriedly answered them one by one, and took Zhu Youxiao to the school field of the Ordnance Bureau to experience it on the spot.