When Lu Shengdi got off the boat in Huangpu Port, he saw a tall tower with a gray roof tiles spread out on the riverside, "the familiar scene made him almost kneel", and thought that this was his hometown Paris.

It was the "Portuguese, French, Spanish and British" in the western part of Whampoa, and the tower was the Whampoa Cathedral built by the Jesuits. Although the Anglo-Chinese did not prohibit the Roman Catholic Church from freely proselytizing in the territory, "in Macao, Ammonia, Whampoa, Quang Nam, and Luzon, the Europa people were still allowed to build churches and "self-proselytize."

Lined with this building with a strong sense of nostalgia, "Lu Shengdi's uncertain mood has also settled down a lot", and he feels that he is no longer a wanderer who has left his hometown...... Do not "abandon the son."

His teeth said: "Mr. Lu" will go to the Jesuits first? ”

Lu Shengdi hurriedly said in the Chinese language of the turtle's feet: "Go to Luofu!" Go straight to Louvre! ”

The tooth man smiled: "Luofu's alchemy master" plus a French alchemist like Mr. Lu, "I'm afraid I really have to make some stones into gold." ”

Lu Shengdi (the latest and fastest text version of Wanshushe) corrected with some annoyance: "I'm a doctor!" It's a chemical ... "The kind of chemist you Seris say!" ”

He was indeed a chemist and a doctor. At this time, Europa doctors could be considered chemists "as long as they studied "drugs". He used to be a professor of chemistry at the University of Paris, but due to some "personal reasons", "he was not only disqualified from teaching", but also lost his doctor's qualification.

Lu Shengdi, who had lost his original status in his hometown, was originally disillusioned, but unexpectedly received an invitation from the Portuguese to meet Minister Seris An Lu in Lisbon. Receiving a letter of recommendation and a grant from Anluna, he sails without hesitation to "find his new future" in the East, thousands of miles away.

After spending half a year in Guangnan, the local Jesuit French priest helped him take the name "Lu Shengfei", and then learned basic Chinese, and then officially took up his new position as "Distinguished Researcher of the Anglo-Chinese Institute of Chemistry", and the Anglo-Chinese Institute of Chemistry was located in Luofu, a Taoist place west of Guangzhou.

The tooth man didn't quite understand the new word "scholar", and pointed to another wave of people who had just come ashore and disembarked, and said, "That's the big man like their explorer." ”

Lu Shengdi is about to scoff at the explorer? Is it the poor man who stinks so much that even Parisians have to cover their noses, "drifting on the sea for ten months a year", and many times is actually a pirate, "a poor man who completely trades his life for his life?"

"Mr. Lan, don't think about swallowing it all" Now we'll send it! ”

"How can you sell it for 350,000 taels!? Each of us is divided into two or three thousand to "buy land and build a house", and An Ansheng has a life! ”

"Thirty or fifty thousand? The Lin family's copper furnace island was sold for 80,000 taels! The territory we explore and the iron and copper mines must exceed the Lin family's number! ”

"What kind of field do you make, what kind of house do you make? Exchange half of the cash and take half of it to the colonial company as a part, "Let's make a profit!" ”

"Now this in the village doesn't have the face to say cool words, right? We poor hillbillies "can also earn our own wealth!" The poor men were talking in high spirits, "Lu Shengdi's heart suddenly collapsed, "You still look down on others?" Others probably still look down on you, "Don't you hear" people have already set up a career.

Seeing these poor men laughing and getting on the boat, "the other pedestrians on the road walked in a hurry, and their expressions were high-spirited", which was similar to the aura of those "explorers", and the gantry crane on the pier let out a rhythmic roar, "spewing black smoke and white gas into the air." This breath and "this rhythm" contain the powerful impact of steel, which "makes Huangpu Port look vibrant", and raised Lu Shengdi's constantly low heart. Hope: "There is a lot of hope here", didn't he come to Seris to chase hope?

When Lu Shengdi came to Luofu, the whole person was already completely new, "He is not here to gamble, he is a professional chemist", he is going to lead the Seris people to climb to the peak of this "science of God".

The Seris people have a strong culture and are "very advanced in shipbuilding, guns, and even mechanical technology", but they also have many flaws, and are especially not good at "rational thinking". When he was in Quang Nam, he had heard that in recent years, Seris had translated a large number of Europa books, and "there has been a boom in "Western learning" in China.

"Let the wisest alchemists of this ancient empire see how far apart they are from Europa" and let them understand that "it is impossible for those who believe in our lord to grasp the truth without the favor of our lords." ”…,

When Lu Shengdi boosted his faith, he "dragged out his former membership of the Society of Jesus."

Luofu Mountain, "the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, was originally a prosperous place of Taoism", set up a lot of Taoist temples, "incense is very prosperous", "green smoke mixed with clouds", so that this mountain that is neither steep nor majestic has become a fairy mountain.

And now, in the era of the Yinghua Holy Dao, "the scene of Luofu Mountain has changed. The smoke floated day by day, "but it was no longer green smoke", but red, yellow, white, and black, "there was any smoke", and the original bell bell had also changed into a muffled or explosive sound. In the past, the well-dressed Taoist priests were "occasionally seen by outsiders", but they were actually dressed in rags and "their eyes were straight", as if they were enchanted.

When Lu Shengdi entered the courtyard at the foot of the mountain, "The person who greeted him was like this", to be honest, "he couldn't tell if Shi Fang was a Taoist priest."

"Our chemical research institute now has two things: "what is urgent is to find a rapid detonation agent that can be safely and widely produced", and what is slow is to explore all kinds of physical and chemical phases. ”

The other party is not polite at all," and explained to Lu Shengdi directly, "I may not even see that this guy is a blonde and blue-eyed Europa."

This is not the attitude of searching for the truth "Friend ......"

Lu Shengdi's spirit is here, "Seriously, I finish the road."

"We alchemy... No, what the "chemists" are doing is the great work of unraveling the essence of this world, "how can we look at our cause with such a casual attitude"? ”

We will first discuss what kind of truth "the making of this world" obeys. You Cyris are the four elements of Zans Aristotle, the three elements of alchemy" or the current theory of the three earths? ”

Then we need to determine whether the methods we use to conduct our experiments are in accordance with the truth."

Now are you using the dry or wet method"Do you have a definite quantitative formula? ”

"Finally...... Let's try again to create new substances" with God's gift to us human powers. Damn it! How is it possible for us to casually create the new boats we need? We can only watch in awe as God presents material changes one by one, and then comes back to find out what we need. What you say is urgent, it is simply impossible" and what you said about postponement is the real urgency! ”

This old man was red-eared and muttered, "You have to rely on the tooth man to translate it to understand what he means," and the researcher named Hanako had straighter eyes

"Ahh Since you are so confident, "Then you will be the leader of our group." ”

The researcher let out a sigh of relief, "These words also made Lu Shengdi's heart even more proud, "Look", the Seris people are still walking towards our Europa's wisdom and bowing their heads.

The researcher added: "You say it very well" that "our work is very big" but not just us, "Our ancestors have been doing this work for a long time." ”

As for what you said about the few elements and the theory of the earth, "we believe that the Divine Way is vast and endless," so we don't care about how many elements there are in the world, but only how many elements we can see. Our job is to discover new worlds, not to let the world go according to our interpretations. "The reason why we hired you at the Institute of Chemistry" is actually the third point you said: "Use your quantitative calculation and analysis methods" to analyze the physicochemical phases that we have already discovered "and will discover in the future." ”

"Last ......"

The researcher accentuated his tone: "Finally, the wisdom of your Europa people may be given by your God", but the wisdom of our Chinese people is a gift from God. The truth of the four elements, the three elements, the "three earths", your God is so great, "our heaven is endless", and it seems that only our wisdom can get closer to the true appearance of this world. By extension, "your God" is not as great as our heavens. To know the fear of the "French." ”

Lu Shengdi coughed, "The people of Cyris, they are really faint," this pride is really unparalleled in the world.

Forget it, "the Seris have a good face", don't care about them, "Anyway, they have to rely on the wisdom of the Europa people to touch the truth of this world."

Lu Shengdi barely suppressed his anger, "no longer engaged in useless arguments on the topic of who is greater in God or God", and was ready to tell the people of Seris with facts "how superficial their understanding is in the field of chemistry and how backward their knowledge is."

Just thinking that "the researcher took him to a library building", "our ancestors have already discovered so much", and now we have not finished sorting out the materialization of these ancient books. Your job is to first prove the materialization described in these ancient books, and then see what new substances we can discover from them, and the new materialization theory. ”…,

Seeing the volumes of ancient books piled up like a mountain, "Lu Shengdi's eyes were completely dizzy...... So much!?

Of course, there are more, "In recent years, the Ministry of British and Chinese Culture, as well as the folk book collection set up by Zhu Yuyou and others, have been sparing no effort to collect folk books" to sort out and renovate. All the books related to physical and chemical phenomena have been gathered in the Institute of Chemistry, and there are tens of thousands of volumes of miscellaneous books, notes, medicine books, and Taoist collections. Among them, the wealth contained in the Taoist treasure is even more abundant, "for this reason, the Institute of Chemistry also gathered many alchemists, Taoist priests and herb doctors", "and they each regarded the physical and chemical secrets of the sect as a master, and they all contributed to it", and studied the alchemy materials contained in the Taoist Tibetan medicine books.

"Bile copper method", the earliest "Shennong's Materia Medica" said, "white and green iron turned into copper", the Song and Ming dynasties all used this method to obtain copper coinage. ”

"Pinglong Zhi" and "Tang Shu" say that there are yin and yang in the air, "Yin and yang can be produced after heating with fire nitrate, bluestone and other substances." Shuifeng also has yin energy, which is "closely mixed with yang energy" and is difficult to decompose. ””

"The Tang Dynasty's "Yellow Emperor Jiuding Shendan Sutra Recipe Hong Kong Kowloon" quotes the alchemy of Danjia Hu Gangzi's "Catalogue of Gold Mines", describing the method of refining stone gall to extract the essence of "alum oil" and "melting gold and iron". ”２，

Looking at the introduction of this article in the compendium booklet, "Lu Shengdi's original tall and majestic castle of self-confidence", Karala cracked countless cracks.

No wonder the Seris people are so proud, "thousands of materialized appearances" are hidden in the history of the Seris, and what is even more terrifying is that "they can still span thousands of years of history" and find out "thousands of years" from various books...... My ancestors "lived in the caves of the Great Forest of Central Europe thousands of years ago."

If it's only older than the age, "the heaven of the Serisians" is really better than Europa's god dog...

Lu Shengdi shuddered", and then a thought flashed in his mind, "No matter how strong you are, how big you are, how old you are", you have gone over, "I always hold these antiques and am proud", is it interesting?

Then he took a cool breath, "The Cyris people at the moment" are proud of these antiques!? No, "they are stepping on these antiques" are climbing to higher heights of wisdom.

Lu Shengdi only saw books, "He hasn't seen people yet." In the past, Taoist priests who used the heavenly fire in their sleeves to deter ignorant mortals, "doctors who used family secret medicine to diagnose and treat strange diseases", and even thieves who used family heirloom medicine to rob people and goods" all gathered in the Institute of Chemistry.

The general supervisor issued a silver bounty of 100,000 taels to Huang Zhuo's team "rewarding them for inventing the steam engine" and "enjoying the royalties of each unit", which greatly stimulated heroes from all walks of life. Cats have cat roads" and dogs have dog roads. The group that rushed to the sea explored the company's fortune and established a business, and "those who did all kinds of miscellaneous industries also exchanged the family heirloom skills that used to only eat for dinner" in exchange for more abundant wealth.

The Chinese people have never lacked the observation and summary of the phenomenon, "China's engineering technology has been leading since ancient times", but because of the suppression of Confucianism, "what the world needs is a stagnant society", these intellectual achievements, and these technical experiences" are all pressed on the people, "some dissipate", and some are used in a variety of peculiar needs, just like the magic medicine obtained from refining mandala flowers......

Now the rise of Yinghua "is crossing the threshold of industrial revolution", the steam engine has taken a step, "chemistry has become the next step to lag behind", at least Li Xi has been waiting for several years of ignition medicine thundermercury "because chemical technology and industry are not mature in several links" can not enter the stage of practical mass production.

When Lu Shengdi arrived, "Yinghua Chemical's greatest contribution was not in the specific technology", but in the experimental methods and quantitative analysis methods that he was good at.

"Western learning can be realized, "the way of heaven is endless", which has established the root of my Chinese learning, "the West is only to know", not to learn. In terms of knowledge, "Westerners may not be better than us. ”

Whampoa College" listened to the faint roar of the steam engine, Tang Beizhen threw aside a volume of the translated British "Theory of Machinery", picked up the "New Iron and Steel Essentials" just released by the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, and the "Power Theory" of the Dongguan Machinery Bureau", and this emotion flashed in his heart.

(To be continued)