Soon Xu Ping found that Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing were very different from his perception of the battle situation, just like abolishing the two-yuan system, Xu Ping had carefully read the discussion articles on this bill in Nanming's newspapers, and in order to win the support of voters and to better implement this system, Nanming's cabinet and parliament tried their best to express it in the most concise words. In Xu Ping's view, this will be a further boost to the southern economy, and the Nanming cabinet is not shy about saying that the government can get considerable benefits from this currency reform, because even if free convertibility is allowed, there will be a group of people who keep paper money to save trouble, and while some people exchange paper money for silver, others may be exchanging silver for paper money. The government only needs to set a safe margin ratio, and the inventory of one or two silver can issue banknotes much higher than one or two silver, which is called the reason by Niu Jinxing to rob the people's wealth Xu Ping saw that it was said openly by the Nanming cabinet. In fact, this is similar to the interest rate of coinage in the past, Nanming newspaper explained the price of coins as the silver content plus government credit, with the continuous improvement of government credit, the government can obtain more and more money interest.

In Xu Ping's view, the people of Nanming have become more and more confident in the constitutional government, and the issuance of currency also has to go through the quarrel in the parliament, so he estimates that the collapse of Nanming's credit that Niu Jinxing is counting on is very low, and they will be stopped by the opposition before the Nanming cabinet behaves so mischievously that the people are not happy.

However, Xu Ping's worries were not responded to by King Shun and the prime minister, and he also lost the trust of the Dashun court more and more, not only these people who stayed in the rear all the year round, but even Li Laiheng and Liu Zongmin, who had worked with Xu Ping on the front line, were gradually influenced by the surrounding public opinion after returning to Beijing, and began to doubt the correctness of Xu Ping's strategy. At this point, the southern newspapers became credible, and the tax situation in Zhejiang and Jiangsu became a weapon for political opponents to attack Xu Ping, who pointed out that the abandonment of Jiangnan had made the Southern Ming stronger, and Li Laiheng and Liu Zongmin began to doubt their own judgment and whether the military situation was so difficult that it was necessary to abandon Jiangnan.

After several days of quarrels in Beijing, Xu Ping found nothing, and Li Zicheng, completely tired of his defeatist rhetoric, issued an order telling Xu Ping that he did not have to go to court or return to the front, and that Shun would send generals who were confident of victory to take his place. For the sake of stabilizing the morale of the army, the Dashun court did not publicly reproach Xu Ping, nor did it condemn him in any way, but only announced that Xu Ping needed to recuperate in Beijing for a period of time due to health reasons.

Li Dingguo's remarks were similar to Xu Ping's, and Shun Ting also believed that since he also held this pessimistic mentality, he was no longer a general suitable for commanding at the front, and Shun Ting wanted Li Dingguo to return to Shanxi to recuperate in the army. The candidates to succeed Xu Ping and Li Dingguo will be Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu, both of whom are old sons of King Shun, full of confidence in victory, and have never made any statements that shake the morale of the army and have always scoffed at this tone.

As early as when the Prime Minister's Mansion made this kind of hint, Tian Jianxiu was very excited, he and Liu Fangliang were both Shangluo Eighteen Horsemen from the dragon early, but the limelight has been suppressed by Xu Ping, Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, these side generals. When they were in Henan, they didn't care, but after the founding of Dashun, they didn't get the same reward as their qualifications, and both the official position and the title were under the Xu Ping and Xiying systems.

In the past few years, in Beijing in front of the idlers who have no oil and water, after learning of the intention of the imperial court, Tian Jianxiu immediately went to borrow a large amount of money, not only door-to-door to visit the old friends of the past, but also the former Ming officials he once looked down on also deigned to get acquainted, in addition to these meeting gifts, Tian Jianxiu also patted his chest and promised that if there is a day when he will soar, he will not forget his friend's help today.

When the imperial court officially began to discuss the replacement candidate, the central officials also praised Tian Jianxiu, and soon the Prime Minister's Office formally proposed that he take over Li Dingguo's position, take full charge of Henan's military affairs, and further recover Huguang. Li Zicheng encouraged Tian Jianxiu to work hard, not to be as dull as Li Dingguo in Xiying, and to fight a few more beautiful battles to win face for the imperial court, and the excited Tian Jianxiu also swore that he would not condone the officers and soldiers to violate military discipline like Xu Ping and Li Dingguo, and would set an example by sharing weal and woe with the officers and soldiers, so that the banner of Dashun would be planted all over the country again. The next step was the formal appointment, and after accepting the holy decree and the military talisman, Tian Jianxiu resigned from Beijing in high spirits and went to Henan to take office.

"The military salary and military expenditure are 1.2 million taels per year, King Li Jin is inevitably too greedy, he has to eat alone when there are so many." Tian Jianxiu felt that Xu Ping and Li Dingguo were good lessons from the past, and he let one of his henchmen stay in Beijing, and once the household department approved the military expenses, only seventy percent of them could be transported to the front line, and the rest was used to deal with the prime minister's office and the officials of the six ministries. Moreover, Tian Jianxiu also plans to establish several empty camps, and the salaries of these field camps that only exist on paper will also be as much as 100,000 taels, and this money will be used to deal with the survey officials of the military department - they also know the usefulness of these empty camps, so naturally they will not have nothing to do to find trouble for their department and Tian Jianxiu.

As for the system of grading military salaries according to military ranks that Xu Ping and Li Dingguo have always adhered to, Tian Jianxiu feels that they give too much money to recruits, and these recruits who have no combat effectiveness can eat first--at present, when the state is using money, the money of veterans will not be given enough because of the urgency of the situation, let alone recruits.

In just a few months, Niu Jinxing was pleased to learn that Tian Jianxiu had greatly expanded the strength of Henan, and the total strength of the Shun army had increased several times compared with the period of Li Dingguo (although it was not so exaggerated in terms of numbers, it was indeed a great increase. Moreover, the officials who went to inspect praised each other after they returned, saying that all kinds of unhealthy tendencies in the army had been swept away in the past, and General Tian was vigorous and resolute, personally experienced, and was deeply loved by the soldiers and soldiers, and the recovery of Huguang was just around the corner.

At first, Li Zicheng was still a little worried, but all kinds of gratifying reports came one after another, which made King Shun also feel happy: "In the end, the old brother is still reliable." ”

As for the direction of Shandong and Jianghuai, Liu Fangliang also swept away the previous decadent atmosphere after taking office, and the Shun army launched many sweeps against the Ming army fortresses in the coastal area, and dispatched large armies several times to deal heavy blows to the rampant Ming Kou. At the same time as the external achievements were impressive, the internal also rectified military discipline, those pessimistic generals were severely reprimanded, the new Zhejiang Zhilu military governor and the prime minister's office cooperated, impeached and dismissed a large number of officers who only knew pleasure and did not want to make progress, although Zhou Dongtian, who was famous for his greed and cowardice, was not severely punished because he saw Xu Ping's face, but he was also relieved of military power and sent back to Jinan to be grounded and ordered to reflect, and those military prostitutes who made Li Zicheng hate the disease were also dismissed and sent home.

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Nanjing, Ministry of National Defense,

Tomorrow will be the last cabinet meeting before the new year, at which the head of the cabinet will brief the cabinet members on the military situation, and today he will first hear the reports of the three military departments.

"Since Li Dingguo returned to Shanxi and Yu Shenhe defected to us, Henan's Shun army has been getting worse and worse." The army officer had a lot of evidence to prove his point, but he chose the most powerful one: "Empty pay." ”

Tian Jianxiu didn't want the deduction of military salaries to cause a big decline in morale, and he didn't want the behavior of eating empty salaries to spread to the whole army, but this was not something he could control.

When Li Dingguo confronted the central government, even if there was a shortage of military salaries, at least the soldiers could understand a thing or two, and now the commander and the bureaucracy are obviously one family, and the officers at all levels also learn from the commander's example to consider their own pockets, so the resentment of the soldiers began to point to the commander. Discontent continued to accumulate in the Shun army, and officers and soldiers were drifting away from morality, and since the officers could not reward and punish fairly and ensure that the soldiers received their fair wages, they could only be suppressed by force. This further led to discontent among the soldiers, and the officers also needed to buy some particularly reliable subordinates to maintain their authority, and although there were not yet family members, the division of the soldiers had already begun to appear.

And it was not a secret that it was not long ago that this army was still fighting for King Li Jin or obeying the command of Yu Shenhe, in order to master this army to win the love and loyalty of the officers, and in order to avoid their own food and drink without giving their men some leftovers and causing them to resent, Tian Jianxiu had to fulfill some of their wishes. Anyway, eating empty pay is a generous gesture to the country, and it can also win the support and support of officers and close their mouths, so Tian Jianxiu turns a blind eye to similar behavior, and even gives it as a reward to those officers who actively consider themselves. And the high-ranking officers who tasted the sweetness also had the same concerns, they needed to let their subordinates benefit evenly, so empty pay soon became a common practice in the Henan Shun army - Xu Ping, Li Dingguo, Yu Shenhe and others began from Henan for ten years of perseverance, exhausted all their efforts, and did not hesitate to let their vital interests damage to maintain the military appearance, in just a few months became unrecognizable, as if the former Huangshi New Army returned to Henan overnight.

"The upright people have nowhere to be in the army, just like the new army of the Duke of Qi back then, bluntly speaking, different streams and dirt means losing their officials, and they are looking for excuses to leave the army and go to Shanxi to find King Li Jin." The officer of the army reported: "Those who are left behind have been dragged into the water, this is no longer an immortal army, but a new army." ”

"Didn't you go to Huaiyang Shandong?" The Minister of Defense asked.

"Very little, almost none, because General Xu was also suspended, and the officers and soldiers of the Immortal Army would rather go to Shanxi to find King Li Jin." The good news that the army branch learned was not only this, in order to get more soldiers with less military salaries, the Shun army greatly reduced the recruitment standards for recruits, and in order to save expenses, the Shun army cut the first knife to recruit training funds.

According to the Ming army's predictions, these changes will also bring other follow-up effects, such as the new army before it was mixed with more and more soldiers and ruffians, because of the lack of military salaries, military discipline also weakened, Xu Ping's policy of reassuring the people began to be unsustainable, and officers increasingly relied on the core army and used the army as a tool for profit...... In this regard, Nan Ming believed that they had better foresight than Bei Soon, and they had first-hand information on the evolution of the new army in the past.

"What about Huaiyang's Shun army?" The Shun army in Henan sounded no longer fearful, and the cabinet's attention immediately turned to Anhui, where the most elite, best-trained, most numerous, and best-equipped troops of the Northern Shun were stationed, and which, like a sharp knife, threatened the shipping of Nanking and the Yangtze River, and stood in the way of the smoothest and most convenient route to Beijing. For a day when the Shun army was not driven out of Anhui, the Nanming cabinet felt that it was difficult to sleep, and had to keep the strongest army in this direction to defend the capital: "What is the situation here? ”

"It's a good situation, and it's getting better every day." Speaking of the Huaiyang and Shandong battlefields, the naval officers found an opportunity to interject: "The Shun army is storming our coastal fortress area, and each fortress will consume a large number of their troops and reserves, unless it is an absolutely important fortress, we will retreat by boat after killing and wounding a large number of their troops, and then go back when they are gone." This is a strategy, since the Shun army needs to take these forts back as merit, then we give them these merits to encourage them to continue attacking more forts. ”

According to the prior plan of the Ministry of Defense, the navy will re-land after the departure of the Shun army and try to build a fortress again, and sometimes this behavior will greatly anger the generals of the Shun army and induce them to launch a new round of fierce attacks. However, even without this teasing, the commander of the Shun army in Shandong became more and more enthusiastic about attacking the Ming fortress, because those soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to such actions brought honor to the new military governor of Zhezhilu and were richly rewarded. A large number of young officers, who were struggling to find a place to advance, were eager to prove their abilities before the new governor, and launched round after round of attacks on the strong lines of the Ming army, and the Ming army on the opposite side would always choose to retreat after a few days of onslaught.

"General Xu has been very effective in administering the army in the past year, and the strength of the Shun army in Jianghuai and Shandong has surprised us very much, greatly beyond our previous expectations," the War Department official frankly admitted, although they did not intend to underestimate Xu Ping's ability, but the strength of the Shun army in the recent period: both the quantity and the quality of the army were much stronger than they expected: "General Xu was frugal and had accumulated a lot of gunpowder and shells, but now the Shun army has attacked from all sides, although it has recaptured a lot of coastal areas. To be precise, the material reserves of the Shun Army in Shandong have dropped to 40 percent before General Xu left office, because of the needs of the Shandong battlefield, they continue to transfer troops and materials from the Huaiyang area, and now the inventory of the Shun Army in the Huaiyang area is only about 40 percent of what General Xu left before he left. ”

"How can you be so sure?" Miao Shoufu asked, he remembered that the strength of the Ming army against Huaiyang and Shandong's Shun army was very vague.

"Report to Lord Shousuke, this is because of the great success of our Army Intelligence Agency, and in the past three months we have received ten times as much information as in the past year combined, and it continues to increase." The officer of the War Department said and handed a document to Miao Shoufu for review, and his pride was overflowing: "Lord Shoufu, please see, this report is what we obtained from the subordinates of the envoy of Beishun Shandong. ”

"General Chen Zhechen's subordinates?"

"Yes, this is the highest level of intelligence we've ever had since Army Intelligence was founded."

Although after the loss of Jiangnan, some merchants have begged Xu Ping to allow smuggling, and promised to transport prohibited goods for Xu Ping, but Xu Ping has always held a negative attitude towards this, fearing that this will become the main channel for infiltration in the south: with the change in the attitude of the southern merchants, Xu Ping felt that there were great disadvantages in continuing the extensive smuggling activities of the past, so he insisted that the merchants do business directly with him and smuggle the items they needed to his camp - Xu Ping's main needs were not only munitions, but also steam engines and other tools.

After learning of the smuggling situation in Tianjin, Xu Ping made up his mind to strictly prohibit all smuggling activities that were not beneficial to the military, believing that importing a batch of luxury goods would not help the Shun army to achieve victory, and would create more opportunities for the southern fine work to break in. During this period, it was suggested that Xu Ping should tax the smuggling caravans, believing that it would increase revenue, but Xu Ping believed that the other side would get more if the business was mainly maintained by the southern caravans. A deeper concern Xu Ping did not explicitly say to his subordinates, that is, he was worried that the army's involvement in this kind of thing would affect its combat effectiveness, Xu Ping felt that the more things he had, the worse his control would be, and if he simplified, he would have a greater certainty of preventing corruption from infiltrating his army, or better delaying the process.

Liu Fangliang had not been in charge of military and political power in a certain place before, and his highest position was to serve as the commander of the Southern Route Army when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing. And the latter also felt that this was indeed an open source road, even if some money was earned by the southern profiteers, the Shun army could also benefit from it.

Soon Yangzhou regained its former prosperity, and a large number of smuggling caravans sneaked across the border every day, bringing large quantities of silk, tea, and jewelry into the city to be sold openly. When these caravans returned, a large amount of information poured out of this gap with the silver, and returned to the Nanming Army Intelligence Bureau.

And, just as Xu Ping feared, this kind of transaction also gave the officers of the Shun army the opportunity to make profits, and most of the officers in charge of the Shun army checkpoints along the way were not rich people, and the wealth that passed in front of their eyes every day was something they had never dared to imagine in their previous lives. The intelligence officers of the Ming army generally started with a humble little gift, a tael of silver, a gadget, a bag of tea, nothing to ask for and not too valuable, and from these small things that almost all caravan owners would give to them began to get acquainted with their enemies.

After getting acquainted, they were slightly more, like real smugglers, asking for a little tax reduction with a red envelope, and a piece of embroidery in exchange for the checkpoint officer turning a blind eye to the cargo of a car.

These intelligence feedbacks have enabled the Army Intelligence Department to roughly judge the character and determination of a Shunjun officer, and then to pay further bribes, make further demands, and ask them to introduce more friends to each other. Those unwavering officers of the Shun army will be blacklisted by the Ming Army Intelligence Bureau, they will be said to be the black sheep who block the financial path of their colleagues, and the Shun army will naturally solve these troubles for the Ming army - in fact, this is not entirely a rumor, they are indeed this kind of people; As the smuggling activity grew larger and more extensive, intelligence finally began to pour into the South like a tidal wave.

The report submitted by the War Department to Miao Shoufu just now was from Chen Zhe's confidant, and at first a smuggler who returned to the south reported to the Ministry of Intelligence that the Shandong Jiedu envoy of Dashun seemed to be intent on making things difficult for him, and the purpose was probably to monopolize his goods. The next time this merchant entered the good realm again, there was a Nanming intelligence agent who disguised himself as his shopkeeper, and sold a large number of goods to him at a low price as Chen Zhe wished, allowing the Jiedu envoy to earn the difference.

In return, Chen Zhe allowed the caravan to go deep into Huaiyang to acquire goods, and also provided a detailed road traffic map coveted by the intelligence department.

"The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill," said an officer of the Nanming Army Branch, commenting on the intelligence embankment that Xu Ping had painstakingly built: "We have infiltrated the Huaiyang Shun army to the ground, and we have a fairly clear grasp of their inventory and strength in various places. ”

Xu Ping also placed some fake military camps and fake warehouses before, and now the real and fake Nanming army has basically figured out, and Xu Ping also used this time to secretly modify the direction of some official roads, and laid some new roads that had not been done before - these changes have also been marked on the latest military map of Nanming, and the location and size of the roadside fortress that intelligence personnel have explored back are also indicated.

"We have seen half of the fortresses heavily garrisoned by the Shun army, and the remaining half will take advantage of the Chinese New Year to step up exploration, and the army division has begun to build a simulated fortress for the main attack force for the training of various troops."

After patiently listening to the military's comprehensive report, Miao Shoufu asked: "Attacking Huaiyang after the beginning of spring next year, do you have the confidence to win?" ”

The last time he asked this question, the army did not dare to pat its chest and guarantee that the assault would be successful, but he felt that it was quite promising for the Ming army to attack the Shun army in Huaiyang with 150,000 well-recuperated and well-nourished for a long time, and the Ministry of Defense felt that it would be acceptable to control the casualties to about 40,000 -- this army division did not dare to give absolute guarantees.

"We have!" The army officer replied confidently, and after a pause, he suddenly said: "Actually, the last time Lord Shoufu and Lord Minister asked this question, the last general replied 'Yes' seems to be a little too optimistic, General Xu's army is much stronger than we guessed, and the inventory is also very sufficient, there are real and false fortresses and secretly modified roads. If we storm, we may fail, or even pay more than 40,000 losses. ”

But now everything is different, and the army division hopes that there will be a little more time for them to find out more about the enemy's information, and if they are more prepared, they think it is possible to limit the losses to less than 10,000.

"And give the Shun army more time to attack our coastal fortress," seeing that the strategy was finally successful, the naval division also grew a breath of air, before these fortresses have been accused of wasting national funds, blame the navy not only for the Huaiyang friendly forces to contain the enemy's strength but also damage the strength of the friendly forces, today the naval officer can finally relax and say: "When General Xu resolutely did not come to attack us, the last general was still very worried, worried that the strategy had failed." ”

Not long ago, the Shun army also attacked Dengzhou, here is the fortress that the Ming army is determined not to give up, the Shun army stormed the fortress for more than ten days, consumed a lot of ammunition, and the general of the Shun army who was eager to seek merit also ordered the army to use a group charge, the Ming army in Dengzhou reported that the fortress was once full of corpses, and thousands of troops trained by Xu Ping were wasted meaninglessly.

"Our strategy cannot fail," the Minister of Defense shook his head, the invasion of the Shandong Binhai had begun long before the establishment of the Cabinet, he had been a supporter ever since, and even more actively promoted after becoming Minister of Defense, who had always believed that sooner or later the Shun Army would expend a large number of troops and resources on counterattacks against these coastal areas: "General Xu saw through our plan, but what is the use of this?" He is not Li Shun's emperor, and the end of his strategy is to be deposed; And if he is Li Shun's emperor, then how can he see through our strategy? ”

"That's a good point." Miao Shoufu applauded loudly, because he was worried that Huaiyang would be a tough battle, so he was inclined to adopt a strategy of continuing to put pressure on the Central Plains and Shandong, rather than crashing headlong into Xu Ping's strong defense line when the situation was unclear. Although Xu Ping and Li Dingguo had supported each other on the eastern and western fronts, the Nanming cabinet had long realized that they were under a lot of pressure, and the cabinet's think tank had repeatedly pointed out that sooner or later Xu Ping would become like the people around him because of the pressure: in this way, Li Shun would hold out for less than two years; And if Xu Ping is unwilling to change himself, then sooner or later he will not be able to stay in this position any longer, and the person who replaces him will definitely compromise in an all-round way, and Li Shun still insists on it for less than two years.

The diplomatic offensive against the various vassal states of Shun was going on, and Li Fengjiao, who had been transferred from Guangdong to serve as foreign minister, was secretly sending an envoy to Liaodong, and Li Chengdong of Sichuan was also beginning to waver. Once the Ming army broke through the Huaiyang defensive line, which Xu Ping had painstakingly managed for a year, and advanced the front to Shandong, which was already incomplete, the feudal state of Dashun was bound to become even more shaken; Moreover, the Ming army will also launch an auxiliary offensive in Henan, a large number of vehicles have been replaced with pneumatic tires, and the new equipment has greatly saved animal power, and the Ming army's land transportation capacity has been greatly increased.

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While the cabinet was intensively studying a new round of the Northern Expedition, Huang Shi, the Duke of Qi, was secretly and anonymously writing a new book, which was not about social science or natural science, but a book about alchemy, and writing this book was not the most troublesome thing, but how to disguise some chemical experiments as ancient alchemical secrets, and reprint it into English and send it to Europe. What is especially troublesome is that Huang Shi has almost forgotten chemistry, and he can't even make three acids and two alkalis, so now he can only first entrust some chemical experiment utensils - such as beakers, flasks, alcohol lamps and the like to magical alchemy tools.

There are many people who can make themselves famous, such as the founding ancestors of the previous dynasties, all kinds of dictators and corrupt officials, charming and touching courtesans, underworld bosses who cut out a piece of the country with a kitchen knife, etc., and so on, they can make people fear, envy, worship, and obsessed for a period of time.

There are some outstanding people who bring glory to their families and hometowns, such as teachers, artists, and philosophers, and Yellowstone always has a deep respect for their contributions to human civilization and their significance in the continuation of human civilization.

A very small number of people can become the pride of his nation and motherland, just like Yue Fei in the mouth of the Chinese, Washington in the American population, Martin Luther King Jr. in the black heart. Every time I read Yue Fei's life, read his poems, and experience his ambition and courage, I will make Huangshi feel excited: it turns out that we are such a nation full of courage and virtue, so we can produce such heroes.

In the history of mankind, there are some geniuses who can be called great men, even if they are defenseless and facing powerful kings, Yellowstone still does not consider himself mentally inferior, but for two or three of these great men, Yellowstone has a kind of five-body surrender and prostrate worship: for 15 billion years, the vast universe of tens of billions of light-years, among which there is an inconspicuous star system, and at the edge of this star system there is a small insignificant star, which is only one tens of thousands of times a mass on an asteroid, There is a species that is as small as a speck of dust in terms of mass, but this species can use a few kilograms of brain and decades of life to explore the origin of the entire universe, to predict the death of the universe, to understand the rules of the universe, to observe tens of billions of years. The stars that emit endless light and heat are humble compared to their intelligence, they glorify our species, glorify the earth that gave birth to this species, and glorify the sun that feeds such a remarkable species, and they make Yellowstone realize that we humans can be so great.

Huang Shi had already learned about the sale of the steam engine to the British and Dutch, and he did not stop it, anyway, he did not believe that technology could avoid proliferation, and he was relatively more concerned about the construction of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At the same time as the construction of the Academy of Sciences, Huang Shi, who had been idle from government affairs, suddenly thought of Britain in the far west, and now that the overall situation in China had been decided, perhaps he could do more.

In Yellowstone's mind, Newton was a man who believed in alchemy, and the study of alchemy required a lot of money, just as he invented calculus for physics, machine tools for coinage, and went into business for funding and other purposes. Newton proved to be a shrewd and successful businessman, who came from a poor background but was invincible in the business and soon became a millionaire; In addition to his scientific, industrial, and commercial talents, Newton seemed to have good political talents, winning titles of nobility that were hard to come by many people as a commoner, and being elected a member of the British House of Lords, which ordinary nobles could not grab.

Ordinary people believe in feudal superstition because of insufficient ability rather than too sufficient, such as insufficient business ability, so they pray to God and worship Buddha; The career is bumpy, so please feng shui; Superstition because of ignorance. But Newton is just the opposite, studying the laws of science, developing industrial technology, doing business, and engaging in politics, no matter which one is a lifelong career for others, but Newton has done it very successfully, when he solved all the scientific problems of that era, invented the industrial technology that is still used by mankind hundreds of years later, and became a millionaire and a member of the House of Lords, Sir Newton, who drew his sword and looked around, was left to climb Mount Everest, a feudal superstition. After all other ventures became unchallenging, he spent the rest of his life in alchemy and theology.

Therefore, Huang Shi pondered to find something to do for Newton, and seriously considered trying to donate a large sum of money to the future Sir Newton, so that if the other party needed money, he would not need to go into business, even if he wanted to become a nobleman and enter politics, he would not have to worry about economic problems. In Huang Shi's view, the other party's mind is a wealth that belongs to mankind, and it is best to spend it on scientific exploration, rather than for business and politics, especially not on damn alchemy.

Yellowstone remembers an anecdote he had read: Halley, a professor of geometry at Oxford University and a famous astronomer of Newton's contemporary, visited Newton with some observations after discovering a comet (Halley's Comet). After listening to Halley's data, Newton said without thinking: "The trajectory of this star will be an ellipse, okay, you go quickly and don't disturb me." With that, he continued to concentrate on his attempt to turn lead into gold.

Therefore, it was not possible to find a general thing for Newton, and it was impossible to pull him out of the quagmire of alchemy with a problem that could not be solved without much effort, and Yellowstone needed to find him another peak that was challenging enough to climb. Since the mountain can't come to people, that person has to go to the mountain, Huang Shi plans to make up some messy chemical things he still remembers into alchemy, and he has no confidence in others, but if Newton can spend the rest of his life studying this thing, then it is likely that chemistry will be developed in advance.

In addition, there are some other tool problems, Huang Shi once read the famous Newton's ring experiment, he knew that this is the interference and diffraction phenomenon of light discovered by Newton, and it is also considered to be the ironclad proof that light is a wave, but Newton, as the discoverer of this phenomenon, still insists that light is not a wave but a high-speed moving particle. In the summary of Newton's ring experiments, Newton believed that light particles would undergo a wonderful vibration, which was periodic, sometimes transmissive, sometimes reflective, and different monochromatic lights had different but stable periodic laws (Huang Shi felt that this was to put the ready-made synonym "wavelength" and not use, but to create a vocabulary). ）。 Newton also made precise quantitative measurements of this period, which he believed could be an effective method for inspecting optical components, which were still used today as an effective and common means of testing optical components three hundred years later.

However, Newton admitted that he could not continue to explore and study why optical particles have such properties, and later the wave theory directly changed Newton's periodicity to wavelength, and the quantitative determination of each wavelength of light Newton was very accurate, and it could be used directly. On this subject, Newton undoubtedly did not conform to the spirit of science, and he violated Omba's razor principle without scientific basis to create a theory to maintain his intuition about the nature of light particles, an act that Yellowstone felt would be, or very close to, pseudoscience, if the same standard were to be applied to Sir Newton and the pseudo-scientific masters.

As a man hundreds of years later, Yellowstone considered Newton's unscientific intuition: "Light is a high-speed particle with a specific property (which he himself admits cannot be further studied and explored), and therefore exhibits a wave-like diffraction effect in certain cases." "The door to the duality of light waves and particles has been touched, but the experimental tools of the time were far from sufficient to support Newton in confirming or correcting his intuition. Yellowstone suddenly discovered that Newton had also achieved a career, in addition to science, industry, business, and career, he had also bluffed the scientists who had been behind him for more than a hundred years with a clearly unscientific theory, and turned an unscientific intuition into a theory that was convincing enough to confuse countless scientific giants, so that countless people who dared to oppose the supreme divine right did not dare to offend his authority—which should really bring tears to the eyes of those profound theologians and pseudo-scientific masters.

First of all, Yellowstone is not in England, and secondly, he can't discuss any scientific issues with Newton, as long as a few words down, Yellowstone estimates that he knows what it is, and why it is true, will be revealed in its original form (for example, the wave-particle duality of light, Yellowstone only knows the result but does not know the proof process, does not know the relevant formula, and does not know how to refute when questioned, that is, Newton's mechanics, Yellowstone feels that he cannot discuss with the other party). But he thought maybe he could work on improving the experimental tools. Huang Shi felt that if he seriously recalled, he should be able to remember a lot of future tools in the physics laboratory, these tools are not of much use to Huang Shi, but they may be completely different to real physics masters.

On the one hand, he wrote a chemical experiment manual dressed in alchemy - Huang Shi himself was a little embarrassed to say this, he didn't remember the experimental conditions, materials, and tools of most of the experiments in it, so he could only forcibly pile up the messy memory fragments together; On the one hand, Huangshi desperately recalled various physical experiment tools, and let people try to make them - anyway, now Huangshi has both money and leisure.

Writing, writing, Yellowstone also wrote about the friction of fur and rubber in the alchemy manual, perhaps this inspired Sir Newton's understanding of electricity.

These manuals and tools, Huang Shi intends to find a reliable way to send them to Oxford, England in the future, as a Chinese, to the end of the Ming Dynasty if not to resist after Jin Huang Shi considered a crime; Also as a human being, Yellowstone felt that this was a crime against humanity if he watched Newton waste his time on real alchemy instead of pretending to be its chemistry and physics. The progress of science can benefit the whole of humanity, and to help science is to contribute to the whole species, to increase the wealth of all mankind, and there will never be such a small investment that can be exchanged for such a large return.

Yellowstone did not intend to make any attempt to get Sir Newton out of England, in case he had a headache or a storm on his journey, then Yellowstone would not absolutely forgive himself for his crimes against humanity, especially because of his arrival, and it was unknown whether the great man who gave Yellowstone a similar sense of worship would appear on this earth - if Yellowstone knew that the headmaster of Oxford had caught the apple, out of "it is better to believe it than not to believe it" He would definitely hire people to travel thousands of miles to England to attack Newton with apples to make sure nothing went wrong. (Author's note: According to Mr. Cao Tianyuan's research, Newton's inspiration for Apple may be just a beautiful talk, and there is not enough factual basis.) ）

Yellowstone was determined to fulfill his mission as a time-traveler, to provide better conditions for Sir Newton, and to divert his attention in a more meaningful direction before he went to climb the heights of alchemy.

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Fifty years later, a ball of fire rose over the North Sea, shining brighter than the sun, so much so that half of Britain thought it was a few hours earlier.

(Author's note: The last sentence is purely a joke added on the impromptu rise, and the text ends before the ellipsis.) I wish all readers a happy Dragon Boat Festival and a smile. ）

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