Chapter Seventy-Six: Autumn and Winter in Mincheng, Miscellaneous Notes on the Capital (End)
The idle things in the autumn and winter of Mincheng are related to Chen Jian, and these are the things. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There is no snow in the winter in Mincheng, and there is snow in the winter in the capital, but whether there is snow or not does not affect the passage of time. Since they speak the same language and use the same calendar, all kinds of things that happened in Mincheng are also staged in different forms in the capital, and the autumn and winter of Mincheng are also the autumn and winter of the capital.
A lot of things happened in the autumn and winter of the capital, and there were the same tricks and tricks. The slums to the west have just hanged a few people, and it doesn't affect the young people in the rich districts to the east to discuss the new events of the year.
Next year is the year of the athletic conference, which is a very important festival in China.
Once a few years of the event, even the lonely Qi country will send people to participate, and the two sides have not fought for the time being, and some of the motions are always going to go.
All kinds of bets have been opened early, and it is a day worth looking forward to, no matter how poor or poor.
All kinds of printed tabloids are circulating in the market, and most of them are lace, advertisements and the like, which are the most sold, and the most of them are some things about the athletic conference.
And tabloids such as some arguments, ideas, etc., circulate only in a small circle of circles. Although the sales are not high, some young people who have no worries about food and clothing like to read very much, and from time to time a few new words burst out when they talk, such as molecular atomic contracts and other things.
These tabloids, which were mainly artisans and above, published a special advertisement in the autumn soliciting the best craftsmen from all over the capital in the name of many gentlemen of the Academy.
A thousand silver coins were rewarded with a fine scale. If you can do more than what is required to a certain extent, you can be rewarded with 10,000.
On the one hand, the name behind this advertisement is so loud that people absolutely believe that these people will not lie; On the other hand, the requirement to reward a balance of 1,000 silver coins doesn't sound so rebellious, so many craftsmen have some thoughts.
A thousand silver coins is a lot of money for many craftsmen, huge enough to change the course of their lives. Many craftsmen are busy pondering this demanding but not unattainable balance at night after they have finished their daytime.
As for the requirement to reward 10,000 silver coins, it does sound difficult. Some craftsmen have a simple mind, if they make the former first and then the latter, they will get 10,000 more.
As for what exactly this balance does, the craftsmen don't know, anyway, they just need to make money.
And people who know what this balance does, their daily life does not revolve around this balance that they don't know when it will be made.
After Li Yun returned to the capital, Mr. Mu and his disciples cheered for a while around the pile of strange and practical glassware, carefully studied the various norms about the experiment, and sighed with emotion.
If he had had these norms and these practical vessels in his youth, and the lessons of blood obtained in the "workshop", he would not have been poisoned with acidosis and chronic arsenic poisoning now.
But after thinking about it, Mr. Mu felt that there were some things, if people didn't taste them themselves, they really didn't know what they tasted and whether they were poisonous.
Probably this is how human beings have progressed little by little, and I don't know how many lives there are behind each label of poison.
After feeling these things, Mr. Mu and his disciples went to the agricultural class and worked with them to do another experiment that took a long time.
Autumn is the season for wheat planting, and two carefully selected test plots are planted with wheat. One piece was sprinkled with three types of fertilizer, and the other was not sprinkled with fertilizer.
And in the house outside the land, several pots of plants are planted in special pots. The sand used in the pots is carefully washed dozens of times with water to ensure that there is not a single trace of soil.
The plants in these pots are watered with different amounts according to their numbers, some are directly from springs, some are added with one kind of fertilizer, some are two, and some are three.
Fertilization can affect plant growth, which is something that agricultural colleges know. But what exactly is in the fertilizer that supports the growth of these plants is not just a matter of agriculture.
Especially with the opening of the particle theory, some people in agriculture have also begun to believe that everything in the world is composed of small particles, so what are these particles? What is in manure that promotes the growth of plants?
When Mr. Mu proposed to do this experiment, the Mr. of the Department of Agriculture was very happy, because they knew that in fact, the experimental chemistry department could do it by themselves, but they still found their own side to do it together, that is, the results were both sides, and the Department of Agriculture also needed the endorsement of Mr. Mu's disciples.
The two sides hit it off, and the autumn sowing began to grow, and the wheat will not mature until next year's Waiko Festival.
But before the winter frost came, the conclusion was already obvious. Wheat that has been sprayed with chemical fertilizers is growing well, while wheat that is in sandy soil is growing badly.
As for the plants planted in the pots, they show the effect of various fertilizers. Some leaves are half emerald green, some are dry yellow, some flowers are defeated when they bloom, and some flowers last for a long time after blooming......
This comparison experiment is very telling, and there may be shortcomings such as the lack of distilled water, but it is all telling.
Now the two sides are very close, and they have even begun to write about the speculation and principles after the experiment, but the news has not been released to the public for the time being.
People on both sides believe that once this news is made public, it will cause a shock that is no less than last year's chemical particle theory, and this can really be remembered through the ages: if the yield per mu can reach hundreds of catties, if these fertilizers can be synthesized by chemical methods, then there will be people in the world who can't eat?
Those involved believe that they are going to change the world, and this is the ultimate dream of leaving a name on the Panthage, higher and purer than knowing and explaining the world.
They felt that since all the minerals in the world are made up of particles, there must be an ore that contains phosphorus like ashes. As long as this ore is found, as long as Chen Jian is asked to disclose the method of making concentrated acid and the method of making this fertilizer, then it can replace the increasingly scarce struvite.
As for the other way to make plants flourish, just try to figure out what's inside with those glass bottles. It's like finally finding the direction, and you have determined the direction, and although you don't know how far the destination is, you can keep moving along the road.
Up to now, the people who are looking forward to Chen Jian's visit to the capital are not only the brothers, sisters and gentlemen of the chemistry department, but also the people of the other disciplines, as if their separate disciplines in the past are about to be broken.
In addition to these people, there are many people who are looking forward to Chen Jian going to the capital. There are those who are in favor and those who are opposed, and the arguments between the two sides are going on every day, and the so-called truth is becoming clearer and clearer the more it is debated, not to mention that Li Yun has brought back a lot of new utensils and new ideas and methods, and those opponents are retreating one after another.
There are also some people who don't know much about it, and they will also come to the school palace to ask this and that, and Mr. Mu is tired of it, and sometimes he will scold.
It is said that people are dying and their words are good, and the old gentleman also knows that his time is short, he is getting thinner, his liver is swollen and painful, he has lost his appetite, etc., he himself knows that this is a problem when he was young, and he also knows that this disease cannot be cured, but now he insists on it every day. He always felt that within a few years, maybe some of the truths between heaven and earth that he wanted to pursue in his life would be revealed, so he was a little afraid of death for the first time. After dying, who will tell you the things you have thought about all your life?
These days, I am busy with new experiments, and I don't see any guests behind closed doors, and I have a lot of fun watching those glass bottles every day, repeating something that my disciple is said to have accidentally discovered in the workshop.
Although it is closed, it is not aimed at everyone, and some people still have to see it. For example, a peer of arithmetic in the school palace came in a hurry, and Mr. Mu had to put down what he was doing.
Straight to the point, there are not many politeness on the other side.
"Lao Mu, is that Jian Chen your disciple?"
Old Mr. Mu frowned and said, "Yes, aren't many people saying that I accepted a disciple by mistake now?" Why, you who learn arithmetic also want to trouble my disciples? ”
The person who came shook his head and said, "I'm not looking for trouble with him, I'm looking for him." A few days ago, there was a big exam, and there was a child who was good at arithmetic. This year's topic is difficult, this question is good, it is rare, and it is even more rare that this is a girl. ”
"My disciple is a man."
"Oops, I know."
The old gentleman in arithmetic was a little anxious, and said: "The key is that the few geometry problems that this girl does are quite interesting." None of us had ever seen the process, and then the results were all right, and more importantly, she was stunned to make a few geometry problems into arithmetic ......"
He thought for a moment and explained, "It's like...... Yes, it's like one of you disciplines who says it can turn water into gold. The problem is that she did it, and after we did it, we looked at it for a long time and found that it worked. Because it was a vague name, we waited for a long time to find this girl and knew that this girl was from Mincheng. ”
Mr. Mu smiled and said, "It's called Lin Xi, right?" ”
"You know?"
"A few days ago, I was given some money to recruit craftsmen to make balances, and there were some small gifts, saying that my disciple in Mincheng asked her to send them."
"That's her, that's right. When we found her, she drew us something called coordinates, circles, ellipses, all in arithmetic formulas, you know how hard it is to combine geometry and arithmetic? ”
"At the time, I thought it was really interesting, so mysterious. If we can make a system, some difficult problems may be able to be calculated, and many things will be much simpler. After listening to the girl's talk for a few days, she was generous and not cowardly, and her mind was clear, so she thought about directly recommending her to enter the palace school, which is a math subject. But they told me directly that she was going to the agricultural department, and when I looked at the books piled up in her house, I knew that it was useless to persuade her. ”
"Fortunately, she said that these things were taught to her by others, and I thought about it well, but as soon as she said the name, I felt familiar, and my ears were calloused this year, and it was from Minjun, isn't that your disciple?"
The gentleman in arithmetic sighed: "That's good, one goes to study agriculture, and the other allows you to harvest disciples." Lao Mu, when will your disciple come to the capital? ”
Mr. Mu looked at the snow that was about to melt outside, and said with a smile: "It's coming, it's coming." Isn't spring coming? When spring came, he came. ”
"Do you think it's possible that he actually likes to count?"
"There is no end to learning, and the more you learn, the less you will find that you understand. He knows his own pounds, so he looks for me first instead of sending the coordinates to your desk first. Again, my disciple is good at what he says, so I will ask, is it possible to make money by learning arithmetic? ”
The old man knew that this was a joke, and the two knew each other well, so he also mocked: "At least live a long time." ”
The two old men looked at each other and looked up and laughed.