The Royal Academy of Sciences, as a place for the basic research of the Ming Dynasty, is an important output place of theoretical science, and therefore, Zhu Youxiao's interference in the Royal Academy of Sciences is much smaller than that of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Youxiao did not expect the Royal Academy of Sciences to bring him any economic profits in a short period of time, he only hoped that the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty would catch up with and surpass the West in the construction of scientific theories, or even surpass the West.

Only when scientific theories and concepts are ahead of the world can scientific research and development in the downstream make progress and make the national power far surpass that of other empires.

The Ming Dynasty has not completely departed from the track of the world's forefront, everything is still in time, and the Royal Academy of Sciences is to use it as an engine to catch up and surpass, although it also cost Zhu Youxiao a lot of silver, but the prospects brought by it are reverie.

For example, once Mao Yuanyi's steam engine is built, it will definitely change the industrial model of the whole country, and the production mode based on people will be changed to mainly machinery.

And more human energy will be devoted to the innovation of knowledge and the progress of technology, and, of course, the extension of war.

However, there are not many people in the Royal Academy of Sciences now, and there are less than thirty members by now, and most of them are old Confucians or retired officials who are good at miscellaneous studies.

But this is also no way, in a Confucian dynasty, it is really difficult to find a few people who are engaged in science, and these thirty or so were also summoned by Xu Guangqi himself to the people, many of whom are deviants who are not valued or even ridiculed.

Fortunately, the current Emperor His Majesty Zhu Youxiao is like them, "not doing his job", which gives them the opportunity to lead Yu Lu to study their interests.

The activity of new ideas and the questioning of Cheng Zhu Lixue are also rare bright spots in the late Ming society, and what Zhu Youxiao has to do is to magnify this bright spot and make the Ming Dynasty have a great change in the field of thought that has not been seen in three thousand years.

Instead of letting this new trend of thought come to an abrupt end after the Qing Dynasty, and even left a bunch of minions and insensitive people in the end.

Xu Guangqi is now obsessed with Mendel's laws of genetics to the point of not thinking about it, and even after learning about Mendel's pea self-inbred experiment from the information provided by Zhu Youxiao, he also did his own self-inbred experiment of jasmine, but he was surprised to find that when the spotted jasmine was self-inbred, there were three colors of jasmine: white, green, and spotted.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao came to the Royal Academy of Sciences, he found Zhu Youxiao and mentioned it with some doubts: "Your Majesty, what this person called Mendel said is not right, if there is really any genetic factor and genetic law that he said, the offspring of this variegated jasmine should also appear as green and white, and it is a ratio of three to one, why did three colors appear." ”

Zhu Youxiao wanted to tell Xu Guangqi that the petal color of this jasmine flower is not determined by genes in the nucleus, but by the genetic material outside the nucleus, and Mendel's laws of genetics are for alleles in the nucleus.

Frankly speaking, biological research has not yet been applied on a large scale in modern times, and it can be regarded as a sunrise science, and many theoretical systems have not yet been fully established, not to mention that even physical and chemical sciences are still only in the enlightenment stage of the Ming Dynasty, and even Mendel in the West proposed this law of separation and the law of free exchange after the middle of the nineteenth century.

But since it is the Royal Academy of Sciences, what is pursued is not profit, but scientific progress, so Zhu Youxiao does not intend to stop Xu Guangqi from going deeper and deeper in biology.

However, Zhu Youxiao can guide that the discovery of biological phenomena may not directly promote the progress of productive forces, but it can indirectly change people's inherent thinking, just as Darwin's origin of species was proposed, which caused a shock in almost the entire Western intellectual circle.

"Mendel is a pea, you are a jasmine, if everything in this world follows a set of genetic laws, then I am afraid that there are also differences", Zhu Youxiao said vaguely and broke a jasmine flower, and also broke a wildflower, and said to Xu Guangqi: "You look at these two different flowers, but the center of the flower is a stamen wrapped around the flower column, and for example, why do you say that the monkey has five fingers like us, and even the face is a little similar, that is, there is more hair, Don't you think there's anything to do with it? ”

"What Your Majesty said is that Wechen has also seen it from the Heavenly Evolution Theory you gave, to say that these are really some appalling remarks, like heresy but there is some truth, in fact, Wechen flipped through the classics of the previous dynasty, and there were also ministers in the Song Dynasty who had seriously discussed whether the Hu people were human beings, and according to this evolutionary theory, I am afraid that these Tartars are not yet human, after all, many of them don't even understand their etiquette, and they are also under-evolved, so understand it accordingly."

Xu Guangqi's remarks surprised Zhu Youxiao, he did not expect that he would sell Darwin's theory of evolution in this era, but Xu Guangqi and others would understand it and derive racist views.

Zhu Youxiao's original intention was just to make the entire Ming Dynasty completely change the mode of thinking of worshiping the past and worshiping the present through the emergence of the theory of biological evolution, not to take Yao Shunyu Tang as an idol at every turn, and even to restore the system and social style of the ancient times, but to believe that the development of civilization is progressive on the whole, and the Ming Dynasty should not follow any ancestral system, and should seek change.

He really wanted to tell Xu Guangqi that everyone in this world had the same level of evolution and was Homo sapiens, but he didn't know what to say for a while to make Xu Guangqi understand.

However, what also makes Zhu Youxiao sigh is that the current Han people in the Ming Dynasty do have a sense of superiority, even after reading Darwin's theory of evolution, they feel that they are better than the Hu people.

Just when Zhu Youxiao didn't know how to talk to Xu Guangqi, he heard cheers from next door, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking, "Why are you so happy?" ”

Xu Guangqi couldn't help laughing and said: "It's Mao Yuanyi's voice, I'm afraid that his loom that relies on water vapor and does not rely on manpower to propel it has been successfully manufactured." ”

As soon as Zhu Youxiao heard this, he hurried over, and couldn't help but be surprised in his heart, secretly saying that if this steam engine can be successfully improved, it will be even more surprising than making a flintlock pistol.

As soon as Mao Yuanyi saw Zhu Youxiao coming, he was too busy to salute, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, look, this is the re-improved steam loom of Wechen, according to the information you provided, Wechen will first introduce the hot gas after pushing the piston into another cylinder to cool, so that the hot gas loss is smaller, and the piston you said can also turn faster, in addition, there is a valve here, through which the degree of hot gas cooling can be adjusted, so that the speed can be adjusted, and once the valve is opened to the maximum, you can drive the turntable, So that the whole loom also moved. ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at this semi-autonomous (some important parts were purchased from the system) Daming version of the steam engine and the textile machine connected to it, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Then transfer it to me." ”

(To be continued.) )