"My lord, a few days ago, the director of the Lushun City Bo Division came to report that a noble merchant from Rome had brought hundreds of ancient Roman technical books to Liaodong. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Oh? Is it? Wei Shuo showed a look of surprise on his face when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Huangfu Zhendao: "Chu Ji, where are the books now?" ”

"Back to the lord, now that the books have arrived safely in Jicheng, the university halls are organizing people to translate and sort them out."

"Well, well, tell them to do a good job! Rome inherited the ancient Greek civilization, and there are many places worthy of reference from China, and Liaodong should bend down to absorb and learn from the good side of Roman culture, and must not regard itself very high and disdain foreign culture. ”

"Hehe, the lord may not know it, at present, special institutions have been set up in various universities to study Rome, and I heard that some schools have produced a lot of research results."

"Really?" Wei Shuo's heart moved, and he suddenly became interested.

"Naturally, it's true, how dare your subordinates deceive Da Sima?! If you are interested, you may wish to take time to visit the school. ”

"Well, that's a good suggestion, Chu Ji, you go and arrange it, and I'll go to Youzhou University Hall tomorrow to inspect it."

……

"Greetings to Da Sima." At the entrance of Youzhou University Hall, the high-level leaders of the school headed by Lu Fu and Liu Kun greeted Wei Shuo's arrival.

"Everyone, please get up quickly, take the liberty to come here today, I hope you gentlemen are not strange." Wei Shuo stepped forward and picked everyone up one by one.

"What did Da Sima say, the scholars have been looking forward to you coming to the school to give a lecture, how can you blame it?"

"Haha, Chief Lu laughed, all the people present are knowledgeable and talented, how dare I get an axe in front of all gentlemen?"

Wei Shuo walked with everyone to the academy, and casually asked Lu Fu and Liu Kun: "I heard that your academy has digested and absorbed a lot of Roman technology, I don't know what results have been developed?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Fu and Liu Kun glanced at each other, and suddenly understood, no wonder Da Sima suddenly came to the door, it turned out to be to absorb Roman technology. Youzhou University Hall is confident in this, they have been collecting Roman technology over the years, and after painstaking research, they have produced several results, and some have been applied in Liaodong.

"Today's Da Sima is really here, and now there is a Roman technology being tackled, once a breakthrough is made, it will greatly improve the level of architecture in Liaodong."

"Oh? Is it? So I'm going to have a good look today. Hearing this, Wei Shuo suddenly became interested.

As Lu Fu and the others came to a secluded place, Wei Shuo looked at the heavily guarded courtyard around him, and knew that this was the core of the Youzhou Academy, where some major technologies were born, and the sound of clanging was coming from inside.

Without waiting for Wei Shuo to ask, Liu Kun took the initiative to come forward and explain: "Zhiyuan doesn't know, our people in Rome found that Roman building technology is very advanced, and in some aspects it has surpassed Liaodong. In order to catch up with each other, last year, Liaodong got a concrete formula from Rome, and after some research, there have been some breakthroughs today. ”

Wei Shuo suddenly understood that the ancient Roman building technology is indeed very famous, which is a concentrated embodiment of ancient Roman culture, especially the application of a series of technologies such as concrete and arch by the Romans, which reached a very high level.

If Liaodong can absorb and digest these technologies, it will greatly promote the construction of roads, bridges and cities that Liaodong is vigorously promoting. It is no wonder that Youzhou University Hall chose to start from this aspect, seeing that once this technology makes a breakthrough, it will definitely receive strong support from the government and will bring huge benefits to the University Hall.

"We have benefited a lot from the "Ten Books of Architecture", but we did not expect that the Romans had a systematic architectural theory hundreds of years ago, and in this regard, our China is much behind. It's not that we're lagging behind in technology, it's that Huaxia never pays attention to summarizing this kind of technology. ”

"It's not too late for you to start now, and I can even privately sponsor your Youzhou University Hall for a sum of money, as long as I can compile my own architectural monographs in Huaxia, it will be worth any amount of money."

Wei Shuo couldn't help but encourage Lu Fu, Liu Kun and other high-level officials of Youzhou University, he was really a pity that there were few works in the field of natural science in ancient China, and many good technologies were lost because there was no information to check.

Lu Fu, Liu Kun and others were dazzled, as if they had thought of something, only to see Liu Kun continue: "In fact, not only architecture, but also disciplines such as agriculture, smelting, water conservancy and other disciplines can be summarized, on the one hand, to record the achievements of our predecessors, and on the other hand, to retain our own breakthroughs, so as to facilitate future generations to consult." ”

"Hehe, Liu Gong's suggestion is good, I will greatly support you to do it!" Wei Shuo couldn't help but admire.

Saying that, everyone walked into the courtyard, Wei Shuo raised his eyes and saw several doctors and dozens of students observing something around a concrete building, and there were people around him who were constantly recording numbers.

Wei Shuo waved his hand to stop Louvre, who was about to call someone, and motioned for everyone to be quiet and not to disturb their research. I don't know how long it took for everyone in the courtyard to find out that they had been hanging Da Sima aside for a long time.

"The ministers don't know that Da Sima is coming, please forgive Da Sima." The crowd did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward to plead guilty.

"Everyone, please get up quickly, it's me who didn't let them disturb you, what kind of crime are you?" Wei Shuo picked up everyone in the last period.

"Dr. Lee, what's going on with Roman concrete? Hurry up and introduce it to Da Sima. Mountain Chief Louvre reminded.

"No, according to research, Roman concrete is very different from the popular in Liaodong, it is an unreinforced concrete, mainly composed of volcanic ash, lime and crushed stone. Volcanic ash was a unique material for the Romans, and experiments have found that adding volcanic ash can give cement an amazing effect. ”

"Right now, we're doing intense experiments trying to find the best ratio to get the most out of the cement."

"Well, yes, you guys did a great job! There is a good saying: the sea is a hundred rivers, and tolerance is great. If we want to make progress, we have to learn from each other's strengths and turn them into our own strengths. In terms of technological development, any complacency is not allowed. ”

……

After returning from the visit to the University Hall, Wei Shuo specially asked Anthony to invite Anthony, who had sent books. Anthony, who had just arrived in Jicheng, had not yet recovered from the prosperity of Jicheng when he received news that shocked him even more - the great northern governor of Seris invited him to visit the Weifu.

In this way, under the envious, jealous and hateful eyes of his companions, Anthony followed Chen An to the Great Sima Mansion with a nervous and uneasy mood.

The place where Wei Shuo met Anthony was on a small attic in the Wei Mansion, although the area was small, but the inside was extremely exquisitely repaired, and it was surrounded by heavily armed Liaodong guards.

Anthony's eyes were constantly looking at the building, which was very different from the Roman style. In his eyes, the small attic in front of him was not as grand and tall as the tall buildings in Rome, but it was small and charming.

Chen An led Anthony into the attic, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw a man about thirty years old sitting there, the other party's long hair was tied up high, and the rest was scattered behind, if you didn't look closer, it was difficult to find that the other party was a man.

If there is one thing that surprised Anthony the most when he came to China, it was the men's long hair bundle crown. It wasn't until later that I learned that the people of Seris thought that the body was skinned and that their parents could not be easily damaged, otherwise it would be unfilial.

Although Anthony doesn't quite understand the deep meaning, he has seen a lot in Liaodong now, and it is not as novel as it was at the beginning.

"My lord, Antony, a Roman merchant, has arrived."

"Antony, a Roman merchant, meet His Excellency the great Governor of Seris." Anthony hurriedly got down on one knee and saluted.

"Get up and sit down!"

Anthony got the interpreter prompt next to him, and quickly got up and knelt on the side. Don't look at Anthony's short time in Liaodong, but he has learned a lot of Chinese etiquette, among which kneeling is the most proficient one.

"Thank you for bringing so many Roman books to China, so that we can learn about the greatness of Rome through books."

"To be honest, in the past, China was very closed and had very little communication with the outside world, and the books you brought with you provided a great help for China to understand Roman civilization. It is no exaggeration to say that it is you, Anthony, who has built a bridge for cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and opened a window for China to understand the world. (To be continued.) )