Chapter 349: Harvest of Science and Technology Month

After dinner, I asked Xiao Qi to call Lu Xiufu, president of the Military Affairs Yuan, and Wen Tianxiang, president of the Government Affairs Yuan.

"See Your Majesty." The two of them knew that I was coming back, and they were quite excited,

"Two Aiqing, please be seated."

"Your Majesty, is everything going well?"

I nodded and said, "Well, everything has been done, two, I have just met with the Queen Mother, and I have a general understanding of the affairs of the DPRK and China, but I still need to listen to your report on the specific situation, Lu Aiqing, you can talk about the recent military affairs first." ”

"Yes." Lu Xiufu said, "Your Majesty, all the affairs in the army are normal, and the military regions have learned from each other's training methods, and in the past two months, the personal abilities and techniques and tactics of the officers and men have been greatly improved, and the minister believes that in less than a year, our army will be able to fight a war with the Mongolian army; in addition, according to the latest news received by the Military Affairs Yuan from the various military regions, at present, the progress of the establishment of base areas behind enemy lines is still slow, and basically only one or two small detachments of the four major military regions at the front have gained a firm foothold, and most of them are in areas adjacent to our DPRK. ”

"Technique and tactics are the foundation of the army, and if we continue to practice, we will gain benefits sooner or later.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother must have told Your Majesty about the recruitment of troops in the Guangnan Military Region, and please ask Your Majesty to decide on this matter."

"Well, I already know about this, since the original forbidden army no longer exists, there is no need to recall the demobilized forbidden army soldiers again, Junshi, how many sergeants are still missing from Fan Wenhu."

"Back to Your Majesty, there is still a shortage of four or five thousand people."

"Four or five thousand people, that is to say, there are only one and a half soldiers in the two-compartment establishment of the Guangnan Military Region."

"Exactly."

"Junshi, send an order to Fan Wenhu and let him expand the scope of recruitment, Song Rui, let Guangnan East Road and Jinghu South Road, which are adjacent to Guangnan West Road, assist, I don't think it should be difficult for the gap of thousands of people."

"Yes, Your Majesty, your ministers obey."

"Well, let's talk about Li Beiyang's situation."

"Your Majesty, in mid-March, Li Beiyang's army has successfully arrived at the Ryukyu Islands a hundred miles away, that Zhang Xuan did not confront our army head-on, but as before, escaped into the inland sea of Okinawa Island of the Ryukyu Islands, according to the advance plan, Lord Li ordered to continue the attack, it only took half a day to sink most of Zhang Xuan's ships, Zhang Xuan and others saw that the situation was not good, immediately hid on Okinawa Island, Lord Li immediately sent an interpreter, landed on Okinawa Island, and asked the other party to hand over all the pirates Zhang Xuan and others that we were arresting to our sailors, In early April, 5,000 officers and men of the Lin'an Military Region also arrived in Okinawa, and by the end of April, the islands of Okinawa, Amami, Sakijima, Miyako, and Yaeyama in the Ryukyu Islands had been occupied by our troops. Depart for the return to the Wenzhou Prefecture Navy Base. ”

"Okay, by the way, Junshi, let the sailor send a clipper to inform Li Beiyang, and let him establish the first province of our dynasty overseas, which is called Ryukyu Province, and at the same time ask him to find a force on the Ryukyu Islands that can be used by our dynasty, and support this force to become the nominal administrator of Ryukyu Province, if there is no ready-made one, find a way to cultivate a force, and once confirmed, let this force come to Lin'an to meet me."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"After Li Zengbo returns, let him explore the sea route to Goryeo."

"Your Majesty, this has been arranged, and after Lord Li Zengbo returns to the base, he will personally lead two thousand sailors to Goryeo."

"Well, Song Rui, you can talk about the situation of the Government Council, and the candidates for the envoys of the various provinces will be put aside first, and then we will discuss them after I have read their detailed information."

"Yes, Your Majesty, generally speaking, the government affairs of these two months are carried out according to the plan, and the science and technology month in March has been very fruitful, according to Lord He Ji, they have got a lot of talents because of this activity, including Chen Ziming and Yan Yonghe, who have lived in seclusion for many years, Zhu Shijie, who was praised by Yang Hui as a mathematical prodigy, and Wan Yan Tianlei, the former firearms expert of the Jin Kingdom who made Yun Bofei a confidant, that is, the inventor of the artillery Zhentian Thunder used by the Jin State back then, and other ministers can't remember, In addition, the Ministry of Education also benefited from the Science and Technology Month activities, and the Hengzhou Shigu Academy, one of the four major academies, took the initiative to send someone to find Ouyang Shoudao, a waiter of the Ministry of Education, and said that he was willing to accept the new education method of our dynasty, and changed half of the academy to a new school. ”

The four major academies of the Song Dynasty refer to the Bailudong Academy in Lushan, Jiangxi, the Yuelu Academy in Tanzhou, Hunan, the Shigu Academy in Hengzhou, Hunan and the Yingtian Academy in Yingtianfu, the Yingtianfu mentioned here is not the Nanjing known by later generations, but Shangqiu, Henan, to the Ming Dynasty, Yingtianfu refers to Nanjing, the academies of the Song Dynasty in the Northern Song Dynasty are mostly official surnames, and the applicants must be from the government-run academies, after the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, private and public graduates have the same status, so that the academies of the Southern Song Dynasty prospered, In the heyday, there were more than 80 famous academies, such as He Ji, Jiang Wanli and other great Confucians had the experience of running schools, and the academies also cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, such as Bailuzhou Academy cultivated Wen Tianxiang, Liu Chenweng, Deng Guangjian and other patriots in the late Southern Song Dynasty.

According to historical records, Jiang Wanli, who founded Bailuzhou Academy, jumped to his death after the Mongols conquered Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi, where Jiang Wanli lived for a long time after being dismissed), which may be the spirit of Bailuzhou Academy and the epitome of the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation.

The willingness of these mainstream academies to try to carry out new education can undoubtedly promote the process of new education, which is of great benefit to the cultivation of scientific and technological talents.

Wen Tianxiang said that I am even more interested, Chen Ziming and Yan Yong and I are not very familiar, although in history these two late Song Dynasty medicine everyone has a famous work, but for the ancient doctors, I only know Hua Tuo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, Li Shizhen and a few others,

But Zhu Shijie I know,

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, China's mathematics developed rapidly, and a large number of mathematical geniuses emerged, among which the most outstanding mathematicians were known as the four masters, namely Qin (Jiu Shao), Li (Ye), Yang (Hui), Zhu (Shijie), Yang Hui's prodigy Zhu Shijie is one of them, Zhu Shijie was born in 1249, since he was a child, he traveled the world well, studied the "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" diligently throughout his life, bypassed various other algorithms, and at the end of the 13th century, he wrote the "Arithmetic Enlightenment" for the purpose of summarizing and popularizing various mathematical knowledge at that time, this "Arithmetic Enlightenment" From shallow to deep, starting from one-digit multiplication, until the latest mathematical achievements at that time - Tianyuanshu, forming the most complete mathematical system at that time, later generations of Zhu Shijie's evaluation is very high, if many mathematicians are compared to mountains, then Zhu Shijie is the tallest, most majestic mountain, standing at the height of Zhu Shijie's mathematical thoughts, looking down on traditional mathematics, there will be a sense of "seeing the mountains at a glance",

I suddenly thought that Zhu Shijie was a person from the north, how could he come to Lin'an: "Song Rui, this Zhu Shijie is a person from the north, how could he appear in my dynasty." ”

"Your Majesty, for this group of scientific talents, we have also made detailed inquiries, Zhu Shijie is a person from Yanshan, according to him, he likes to travel around the world since he was a child, anyone who likes mathematics, he will go to visit, in the past one or two years, the war between Song and Mongolia has slowed down a little, and the businessmen of the two places have increased slightly, in late February this year, Zhu Shijie went to Yangzhou with his uncle, and happened to see the propaganda materials about the science and technology month of my dynasty, and got a mathematics textbook of Lin'an University, that is, the textbook of His Majesty's first draft, Immediately sighed at the development of mathematics, so I bid farewell to his uncle and came to Lin'an alone, and after talking with Mr. Yang Hui, he was called a prodigy in the mathematical world. ”

From Zhu Shijie, I thought of Guo Shoujing, another famous scientist in the north, but this Guo Shoujing is Liu Bingzhong's protégé, who has temporarily emerged in the north at this time, and has been valued by the Mongols, and was appointed as a major supervisor of Dushui (equivalent to an official of today's Ministry of Water Resources), unlike Zhu Shijie, a child who is still unknown now, can be smuggled to the south through some "illegal" channels.

"Okay, Zhu Shijie is a talent, even if this technology month costs a lot, I can only get this one person."

Wen Tianxiang hesitated, but still asked: "This Zhu Shijie is just a teenager, Your Majesty doesn't know about this person." ”

"Ah, haha, if you can enter Yang Hui's eyes, you must be a talent."

Yang Hui is a master of mathematics, he can be valued by Yang Hui, and he is a talent, but His Majesty will not be like this, Wen Tianxiang said secretly,

However, among the few people introduced by Wen Tianxiang, what interests me the most is the firearms expert Wanyan Tianlei of the Jin Kingdom, after all, the talents who are proficient in the production of firearms are what I urgently need, and I have also heard of the earth-shaking thunder, which has been used for city defense in the last years of the Jin Kingdom, but unfortunately the earth-shaking thunder has not yet matured, and the Jin country was destroyed by Song Meng's joint efforts.

"Are these scientific talents currently at Lin'an University?"

"Your Majesty, Zhu Shijie and Yan Yonghe entered Lin'an University, among which Zhu Shijie served as Yang Hui's assistant while studying, Yan Yonghe was hired by the university as a professor of the School of Medicine and concurrently served as the vice president, Chen Ziming entered the Academy of Sciences and concentrated on sorting out his works, and Wanyan Tianlei entered the Gunpowder Department."

"Well, Song Rui, tomorrow afternoon, you arrange for Yang Hui, Zhu Shijie, Yun Bofei, and Wanyan Tianlei to go to Shifeng Commercial Bank, and I want to talk to them."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wen Tianxiang continued, "After entering April, the Ministry of Commerce formulated preferential policies to increase exports, and Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou (now Ningbo) three places as special zones, in addition to the exclusive purchase of products, relaxed the restrictions on foreign businessmen to sell goods to private individuals, and at the same time for some export goods to implement the tax rebate policy, in order to facilitate importers and exporters, the Ministry of Commerce, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education, imitated the practice of the original Guangzhou, opened two schools for the children of foreign businessmen in Mingzhou and Quanzhou, in mid-April, the Ministry of Commerce sent a number of officials from the Ministry of Commerce to take the lead, The teams joined by the shipping divisions went to sea with the caravan of the voyage, and they took the national letters of our dynasty and the unique high-quality items of our dynasty, such as porcelain, monosodium glutamate, tea, silk, etc., to go to sea to publicize the superior surname of our DPRK items and the strong support of our dynasty for foreign businessmen, according to the plan of the Ministry of Commerce, this long-distance promotion activity is expected to be about half a year. ”

"Hehe, what a propaganda to go to sea."