Chapter 956: The Age of Steam
"Mr. Descartes, is this your latest improved steam engine?" In fact, when I saw this guy for the first time, Li You endured it for a long time before he started beating people, and when he saw him, Li You remembered that when he was in middle school, he was forced by the teacher to learn the formulas and theorems created by him, but he suffered a lot of torture. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, according to your guidance, we have changed a number of details, and now the power, service life and cost of this steam engine have reached the most basic requirements." After being in the Ming Dynasty for such a long time, whether it was Descartes or Galileo, these geniuses who came to Europe were already able to speak fluently in the Ming Dynasty, and they were also wearing silk Ming official uniforms.
"Not only that, but we also transported this steam engine to the mine and connected it to the pumping machine for testing, and the data that came back from the foul also met expectations." In fact, genius is everywhere, it depends on whether there is a suitable space for growth, Song Yingxing's eldest son Song Shihui was just a farmer in the original history, but since he followed Song Yingxing to the capital, he also liked the study of Gezhi, and gradually reflected his talent in the study of Sun Yuanhua, Tang Ruowang and others.
There is not only one of the newly emerging young scientists like Song Shihui, such as his younger brother Song Shiyi also shows that he is not weaker than his talent, and Sun Yuanhua's subordinate Dai Cang, who is good at gun design, if Li You returns to modern times to look through the history books, he will be surprised to find that this Mr. Dai Cang's son is a generation of weapon manufacturing geniuses, and Dai Zi, who once invented the Lianzhu gun and the sub-mother cannon, but in this world, the honor of inventing the repeating firearm has been taken by Dai Cang first.
In addition, there is Chen Tianqu, a native of Hangzhou who is proficient in optics, and Bo Jue, who is good at making astronomical instruments; Fang Yizhi, a native of Tongcheng who has made outstanding achievements in astronomy, geography, optics and machinery, after absorbing the knowledge of Western scientists such as Descartes, and through Li You's on-demand, he made the first microscope of the Ming Dynasty; The invention of the microscope has made the famous doctor Fu Qingzhu who followed Li You early have a place to use, he used the microscope to greatly promote the progress of Chinese medicine, and now his reputation has overshadowed Li Shizhen, and can even be compared with Sun Simiao, Zhang Zhongjing and others in history, of course, this is not to say that Li Shizhen's contribution to medicine is worse than these two, but his "Compendium of Materia Medica" has not been paid attention to before, and now this classic has been recompiled under the auspices of Fu Qingzhu, and published all over the world, It is expected that in the near future, Li Shizhen's name will become an existence that every doctor in the Ming Dynasty and even the world will admire.
The continuous emergence of young scientists like this has gradually caught up with and surpassed the West in the development of Daming, after all, the scientific gap between Daming and the West is not big in this era; Originally, in another world, Huang Zongxi would leave a name for himself as a scholar, historian and thinker, and wrote "The Case of Ming Confucianism", "The Case of Song and Yuan Studies", "Ming Yi to be Interviewed", "Mencius Shi Said", "Burial System or Question", "Breaking the Evil Theory", "Thinking of the Old Record", "Yi Xuexiang Number Theory", "Ming Wenhai", "Xing Chaolu", "Jinshui Jing", "Datong Calendar Deduction", "Siming Mountain Chronicles" and other works, as well as "The rule of chaos in the world, It is not the rise and fall of one surname, but the sorrow and happiness of the people", and is known as the "father of Chinese ideological enlightenment", and Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi are known as the three major thinkers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
In this world, Huang Zongxi gave up the study of Confucian classics, and devoted himself to the study of science and technology, and achieved good results in mathematics, astronomy, physics, etc., and was unanimously praised by Song Yingxing, Sun Yuanhua, Tang Ruowang, Descartes and others, believing that he would become the best among the younger generation of scientists.
In this regard, Li You was very happy after being surprised, because Huang Zongxi's father was born in Jinshi, and young people like this scholarly family would be interested in science, which meant that the thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty was quietly changing, and this change was obviously beneficial; Of course, if you want to promote the development of the Ming Dynasty, it is not enough to make a breakthrough in the field of natural science, and there should also be a reform like the Enlightenment and the Renaissance in the field of social science, but fortunately, although Fang Yizhi and Huang Zongxi abandoned philosophy and changed their studies, there were still Zhang Dai, Wang Fuzhi, Gu Yanwu, Zhu Shunshui and others in the Ming Dynasty who began to critically analyze Confucianism and try to summarize a social theory that is more in line with the law of development of things. Subtly instilled some ideas in later generations, hoping to help the future development of the Ming Dynasty.
In terms of social theory, he helped Zhang Dai and others make progress, and put forward some theories that are conducive to the development of productive forces; In the natural sciences, Li You also came up with a lot of things, and the steam engine that Descartes and Song Shihui took out today is one of them, although they have predicted the glorious future of some such machines, but they are by no means as thorough as Li You knows.
"This is a great invention that can change the pattern of the world, and when the great effect of this thing is revealed, all those who participated in the design of the steam engine will receive a special reward from me." Li You pressed his excitement and said, when the steam engine is all over the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely become the most powerful country in the world, from this point of view, the merits of Descartes, Song Shihui and others are even greater than Lu Xiangsheng, Man Gui and other military generals with great achievements, so it is natural to give them a title.
"Well, I already know the current capabilities of this machine, you must not be complacent, you still need to continue to delve into the different uses of the steam engine in the workshop, in the mine, and on the warship......" After encouraging them, Li You left here and returned to the palace.
Because he had just received news that a warship returning from Nanyang had brought good news, they had finally found what Li You wanted, and they were heading towards Jinmen Port with these things, and it would not take long to arrive at Jinmen and bring such things to the hundreds of people of Daming.