Day.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen stayed in Kunning Palace and did not say anything all night.

Xu Zhaohua has been waiting for news from the Northeast, and has honestly stayed in the area of the celebrant and the Qianqing Palace, except for going to find his cousin Qi Guiren, he will no longer leave the palace easily.

After the next day, Zhou Hou had been resting in the deep palace and had not summoned anyone.

Zhu Youjian left the Forbidden City early the next morning and went straight to the newly relocated military industrial base in Beijing, that is, the manufacturing base of the Daming Academy of Sciences, the Daming Academy of Engineering, and the Daming Ordnance Institute.

Now, the Daming steam industry has entered the blowout stage, and the application of steam power in the textile industry, machinery manufacturing industry and printing industry has begun to see scale.

Among them, the Daming Engineering Institute is the use of steam power to manufacture flush toilets, and even let the lithography come out in advance, which greatly improves the efficiency of the Daming printing industry, and because of the emergence of lithography, the rapid synchronous printing of graphic printing can be realized.

The newspapers and periodicals of the Ming Dynasty bid farewell to the era when pictures were scarce or even non-existent.

The amount of printing and the quality of printing per unit of time have also increased substantially, and the price of newspapers and periodicals has been lower, but the cost has also dropped lower, so that the profits of newspapers and periodicals have begun to increase significantly.

However, due to the improvement of printing technology, more magazines and weekly magazines and the publishing industry developed dramatically, and the market was able to publish in a low-cost and efficient way, which led to a sharp increase in books and other literary genres.

From then on, books were no longer a luxury that could only be owned by official eunuchs, and began to gradually fly into the homes of ordinary people, laying the foundation for elite education to civilian education.

Even, the state capitals of developed areas such as Suncheon, Yingcheon, and Songjiang began to set up public libraries, allowing people to enter the library to borrow books.

The emergence of steam-powered products such as flush toilets and power looms has also begun to gradually change people's lifestyles.

Because of the implementation of the patent protection system in the Ming Dynasty, some businessmen who invented and operated steam-powered products began to make rich fortunes, realizing the myth of getting rich overnight, so that more and more people began to participate in the activities of steam industrial applications.

However, the Daming Engineering Institute and the Daming Ordnance Institute are still the main positions of steam industry research.

At present, the Daming Engineering Institute, the Daming Ordnance Institute and the Daming Shipbuilding Bureau cooperated to build steamships, which is the main project led by the Ming Empire.

Now, Zhu Youzhen came to the military industrial base to inspect the construction process of the Daming steamship.

Song Yingxing took Zhu Youzhen into a tall shipbuilding workshop, pointed to a wooden sailing ship and said:

"Your Majesty, this is our latest ship, we have added a paddle wheel in front of him, and the main body has also added a special steam engine for the ship, the main source of power is the combustion of coal, but the steam power provided is still not enough for the ship to completely get rid of artificial oars, otherwise it is not enough to reach a faster speed than a sail warship."

"There is an analysis of the reason, according to the theory, steam power must be stronger than manpower, the lack of power indicates that the steam engine is not good enough, and the transmission equipment is not up to standard, the ship not only has a paddle wheel, whether the propeller has been applied."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Song Yingxing, Fang Yizhi and other technicians also fell into contemplation.

After a long time, Song Yingxing spoke: "Now the air tightness and transmission components of the shipborne steam engine are the best at present, probably because of the increase in gravity due to the high density, Wechen is thinking of replacing it with new alloy steel, in addition, perhaps with the excessive volume of the steam equipment leading to the increase in the cooling impact and the lack of power, Wechen is preparing the machinery to continue to improve." ”

"The propeller that Your Majesty said, our engineering institute has manufactured it, and it is ready to be loaded and tested next month.

However, Wei Chen thought that it would be very difficult to build an ironclad ship that His Majesty said would completely replace a sailing ship, and that it was a warship with a speed of more than an hour and a hundred miles, in just a few years;

Because these need to first invent the lightest but very hard but not easy to rust steel, and a better steam engine, and a better steam engine is actually the improvement of materials, these require us to find out more elements, know the properties of more elements, and make more materials based on theory;

But these take time and need more genius people to do, the elements we know and the properties of the elements are taught by His Majesty, and we don't know the organic chemistry that His Majesty said, Weichen believes that more people should learn some basics first, let more people participate, and first find out all the laws, so as to make what Your Majesty wants to see;

For example, ironclad ships and steam locomotives. We are now under the guidance of Your Majesty, and we are lucky to have made it, and we have not yet figured out how to solidify nitroglycerin into the next generation of main battle explosives. ”

At this time, Fang Yizhi expressed his opinion, he is the pioneer of Daming in theoretical physics and experimental science, from the seventeenth year of Chongzhen to the present, he has been staying in the Daming Academy of Engineering to be responsible for summarizing various laws and exploring experimental processes, but it is precisely because of this that he feels more and more that there are many imperfections in the sacred learning provided by His Majesty, and many times gives him a feeling that the foundation is not solid and depends on His Majesty the Emperor to remember what he remembers.

As a Ming man with a high intelligence, Fang Yizhi felt that his majesty must not have learned enough in this regard, but he also knew that the knowledge introduced by his majesty must have more laws to develop and even be subversive, maybe it could really realize what people were flying in the sky and swimming in the sea, so he had to express his views bluntly, hoping that the entire empire could focus on basic research and theoretical construction in the study of sacred science.

As for the invention of new things, it can no longer be the main concern of the empire, which wastes a lot of people's energy and money, and also creates a lot of waste.

Now there are no less than 1,000 abandoned steam engines piled up by the Daming Ordnance Institute and the Daming Engineering Institute, and each of these discarded steam engines cost tens of thousands of silver dollars at that time, and the Ming Dynasty's strong financial resources have not affected the national economy in these years, but Fang Yizhi believes that the empire can use these funds more efficiently.

"I admit that you are right, after the advent of such things as sail warships and bicycles, and steam looms and screw mills, it is true that a more solid technical foundation is needed to make the emergence of more powerful steamship locomotives;

On the eve of the Northern Expedition, I have realized the importance of basic research and theoretical construction, and these need to be educated to keep up, and now I have made up my mind, three days later, the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, the Daming Academy of Sciences, and the Daming Academy of Engineering mainly about participating in the court discussion on new education and new schools! The location is in the Mandarin Palace! ”

Let me unfold the plot slowly, in the later stage, I will describe this empire from more angles, please be patient, don't teach me how to write, I don't want to get messier and messier, the struggle between the princes is just a child's trick in Zhu Youzhen's eyes, everything is under his control

(End of chapter)