Captain Morton, though disgusted with Charles II, defected from England to the Netherlands. But what he resents in his heart is only the ruler himself who turned back the clock on history, not his own motherland.

Therefore, for Newton's soft grinding and hard bubbles, he finally spent a little resources, through the Dutch colleagues he knew, and various operations to ask for relationships, and finally successfully sent Newton to Nanjing, and also opened up the door of some bureaucrats of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Daming Academy of Sciences.

Let Newton meet Song Mingde, who is now in charge of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Daming Academy of Sciences - that's right, it is the guy who only joined Zhu Shuren as a Xiucai twenty years ago, Song Yingxing's distant nephew.

The person in charge of the Daming Academy of Sciences is at the level of a waiter, and the heads of the institutes below are all at the level of a foreigner. However, the person in charge of the most valued and highest-equipped R&D resources can go to the Ministry of Industry.

This Song Mingde is currently enjoying the treatment of the Ministry of Works. In fact, he was not born in the chemical industry, but as an administrative bureaucrat, his profession is not important.

Anyway, in the regent's "Xinjun's first seven-year plan", the focus of Daming's scientific research work is in the field of chemical engineering, so there is nothing wrong with sending his henchmen to the person in charge of the most important place. He just needs to know how to manage and know the rewards and punishments.

When Song Mingde took refuge in Zhu Shuren, he was only in his twenties, and now he is nearly fifty years old. His distant uncle Song Yingxing, who had already passed away, made a lot of contributions to the scientific research work of the Ming Dynasty when he was alive, and enjoyed the posthumous gift of the Ministry of Industry.

When Newton came this time, Song Mingde didn't take it seriously.

Because a lot of things have happened in the Academy of Sciences recently, although it has nothing to do with work, it is also very cumbersome - the head of the astronomical institute next door, Tang Ruowang, just passed away last month (Tang Ruowang died in 1666, this will not make a butterfly effect, conform to history), the regent Zhu Shuren asked Song Mingde to take care of it a little, and wait for Nan Huairen, who took over Tang Ruowang's class, to take over the work.

Song Mingde doesn't know astronomy, and mathematics is relatively poor, and he can't manage the work of his own chemical industry, how can he have so much energy to share with those mundane affairs?

However, although Nan Huairen has a strong professional quality in the astronomical calendar, he is Tang Ruowang's most proud personal disciple, but after all, he is a full thirty years younger than Tang Ruowang, and his age and qualifications are there. After all, the position of directly taking over the master's director is a bit unconvincing, so he needs people with high qualifications and official positions to help him transition to a part-time town.

The time node when Newton asked to see him happened to encounter such a soft nail in time, which can only be regarded as his bad fate.

……

Song Mingde was very irritable and reluctant, and met Newton for the first time.

As soon as they met, he roughly asked the other party about his origin and identity, and heard that it was a scholar from the land of Tessie called England, and wanted to implore the regent of the Ming Dynasty to send the Ming Dynasty's own ocean-going merchant fleet.

New products such as carbolic acid, concentrated sulphuric acid and sodium arsenate were sold in England, as well as other medicines that helped with plague. If they can help England survive the London plague, England is naturally willing to be grateful to the Ming Dynasty and seek good alliances.

Newton's spoken Chinese was not very good, and Song Mingde was a little depressed when he heard it, and he had other things in mind, so he casually interrupted:

"Although this carbolic acid, sodium arsenate and other substances are newly developed by my Biochemical Institute in the past two years, I don't know whether they can be sold to the outside world. The imperial court once had a strict order that the above-mentioned things should be strategically reserved in advance to be safe. You'd better be smart. ”

It is impossible for Song Mingde to tell a foreigner about the military secrets of the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to tell the fact that the Ming Dynasty is going to hoard disinfectants in advance in order to use troops against Burma and Vietnam. It's normal to play official.

Newton was not good at officialdom and socializing, and there were huge cultural differences, so he had to ask Song Mingde to help him show him a way, and said that he could try his best to benefit each other and help Song Mingde do some small things where he could.

As if to prove his strength, he also said: "When I was in England, I heard that the regent of the Ming Dynasty was eager for talent, and eighteen years ago, in order to get Monsieur Descartes to serve him, he actually detained 7,000 Dutch captives and demanded that the Prince of Orange hand over Monsieur Descartes in exchange.

Although I am not talented, I have also been praised by many teachers and teachers of Cambridge University, and I am quite good at astronomy and arithmetic, as long as Lord Song can show me the way, I am willing to offer some academic discoveries in exchange for this. ”

Before Newton came, he had inquired about it, and he knew that the performance evaluation of the Ming Academy of Sciences was related to the number of results that could be produced. Even if it attracts foreigners to present scientific discoveries, the right of authorship is not the responsibility of the Academy of Sciences, but it can be regarded as a political achievement.

Song Mingde originally despised this young man, but when he heard that the other party was proud of astronomy, physics, and arithmetic, he looked up and down carefully in a joking manner:

"Are the Cambridge universities you are talking about in your English country? How is it in the whole of Europa? How does it compare to the Dutch? ”

Newton did not dare to boast: "Although Cambridge University does not dare to compare with Leiden University in the Netherlands, after all, Leiden University has produced great masters such as Descartes and Huygens." But Cambridge is no match for Cambridge at least in England, and no match for the Dutch except Leiden. ”

Song Mingde saw that the other party was not blindly bragging, but believed a little bit or two, he had an idea, got up and took a few scrolls, and then threw them to Newton:

"Just talk about it, don't practice fake tricks! I see that you are still honest and give you a chance. That's the case, this is the posthumous work of John Tang, the recently deceased director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Daming Academy of Sciences, and you can look at his writings to see if you can solve the above planetary movement problems.

If you can solve it, you can come up with a few more questions, which should be of appropriate difficulty and practical value, and it is worth investing resources in observation and verification. I will take it to test Mr. Tang's proud brother Nan Huairen, as well as other senior colleagues of the Institute of Astronomy, to help Brother Nan establish his authority.

If you can do this well, I naturally believe that you have real talent and learning, and can help you introduce important people who can sell sodium arsenate. ”

As soon as Newton heard that it was about the calculation of the astronomical calendar, he immediately came to his senses, and immediately took over John Tong's posthumous book, looked at it a few times, and immediately felt a great sense of relief.

This level of astronomical calendar calculation, at most, is the strength of an ordinary university professor who dabbles in arithmetic, and may even be just a powerful university teaching assistant.

Newton was not accustomed to the brush provided by Song Mingde, so he took out a quill from the pocket on the chest of his shirt, dipped it in the inkstone ink of the East, brushed the stationery with a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and quickly handed the answer sheet back to the other party.

Song Mingde was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't distinguish between right and wrong for a while, so he had to clear his throat: "Come on, send this Mr. Niu down, so that you can be entertained." Mr. Niu, you can rest in peace, this official still has some official business to deal with in a hurry today, and I will have time to talk about it again the day after tomorrow. ”

He secretly thought in his heart, it was a mule or a horse, and he would give Nan Huairen and them the school examination tomorrow, so he would naturally distinguish between the true and the false, so why should he worry about being a layman.

……

For the next two days, Newton stayed in the sanatorium affiliated to the Daming Academy of Sciences in Jiangning Town, eating and drinking.

The hospitality of the Daming Academy of Sciences is still good, good wine and meat, fragrant tea and delicacies, gauze tent brocade quilts, and mahogany furnishings. Moreover, living in the guest house of the Academy of Sciences can also be barrier-free with all the museums, zoos and botanical gardens in Jiangning Town.

Although Newton was invincible in physics and arithmetic, he was not rich after all, and he had no money to travel all over the world before. There are no museums or botanical and botanical gardens in Europe today, so you can't see the curiosities of the world in one place.

Newton saw the museums attached to the Ming Academy of Sciences, and was immediately shocked, and the few days of waiting for the summons were not enough for him to visit all the exhibition areas.

When Song Mingde came to the door again three days later, Newton was still in the zoo studying a black and white bear that he had never seen before, and the sign made by the Ming side showed that the scientific name of this thing was "Beast".

"Mr. Niu, why don't you rest in the pavilion, the official has been looking for you for a long time." Although it was the weather in early November, Song Mingde was still sweating profusely and looked anxious.

Seeing that the other party was so polite, Newton hurriedly said that he was "greedy for fun": "I haven't seen these rare birds and beasts, and I am greedy for fun for a while, which makes it easy for Lord Song to find." ”

Compared with three days ago, Song Mingde completely changed his expression: "It's okay, it's okay, Mr. Niu, you're really lucky." The answer sheet you did that day and the exam questions you came out of, I asked Nan Huairen and my colleagues at the Astronomical Institute to refer to them yesterday.

Brother Nan was only barely able to solve one or two, and as for the empty wine bags and rice bags of the Astronomical Institute, they were all defeated. Alas, or the prince often said that arithmetic is the best way to see the real ability, and it won't be that it won't, not in the old and young, and the depth of seniority......"

Newton listened expressionlessly, and until this point, he had not heard why Song Mingde would be condescending to him.

That's it? Is it worth it?

Fortunately, Newton also had a bit of a city, and since he couldn't hear it, he wouldn't say anything, so he continued to listen quietly.

Song Mingde cleared his throat and continued: "If you don't say that Mr. Niu is lucky, if it's just like that, that's it." After this official helped Brother Nan establish his prestige, he reported the matter of the Astronomy Institute to Dean Fang of the Academy of Sciences, and left the file you wrote to Dean Fang for review.

Who knew that Dean Fang went back at night, and somehow he had to mention it to the prince, early this morning, the prince personally came to the Academy of Sciences to inspect the work, and he wanted to summon you by name - don't you think it's a coincidence? Now that I am in the future, all the major policies are the words of His Royal Highness the Regent. Can you be summoned by him personally, and what can you say if you have his approval? ”

Newton was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and he slowed down for a long time, and his voice was even a little trembling: "Lord Song, I heard you right...... Are you saying that His Royal Highness the Lord Regent is going to summon me personally?

I'm just a Cambridge graduate from England! I'm only 23 years old, and I just graduated last year, so what can I do that is worthy of being summoned by His Royal Highness the Regent personally? ”

Newton felt a burst of blood rush to his brain.

Not to mention a big man of Zhu Shuren's level, he has never seen a relatively small role like Charles II or the Prince of Orange or the Lord Protector Cromwell.

It's a pity that Song Mingde couldn't answer his question, just took care of him a few words, told him not to be rude, and then hinted that he "After seeing the regent, I should say that I am very satisfied and grateful for the hospitality in the past few days."

When Song Mingde came into contact with Fang Ziling before, he had already heard the sound outside the strings, and the prince seemed to attach great importance to this genius math young man from Europa. Therefore, you must let the prince know that he was very thoughtful before, "Corporal Lixian".

Of course, Newton would not stumble in this regard, and said that these were acceptable at the moment, but before meeting the regent, he hoped that he could go back to the mansion to prepare and get something, and Song Mingde agreed.

……

After a while, Isaac. Newton was taken to the main hall of the Daming Academy in a dazed state.

There are two golden golden silk nanmu chairs in the hall, and the one in the middle is also wrapped in gold carvings in all directions, and there is a dignified man in his forties who is both elegant and majestic.

The man's demeanor was so fitting with the gold-clad golden silk nanmu chair, and in broad daylight there was a bright lamp that had never been seen before, that it gave the illusion that he himself would radiate ten thousand golden rays like the sun—at least that's how Newton felt.

On the gold-clad golden silk nanmu chair next to it, there was a slender and elegant, dignified and generous virtuous woman, who wore a thin veil, and her actual age was actually close to forty years old.

But because of the looming effect of the veil, coupled with her slender figure and creamy luster, people mistakenly think that she is a young woman in her twenties.

Fortunately, before entering the door, Song Mingde had already introduced him in advance. Newton knew that the woman was one of the concubines of His Royal Highness the Regent, Fang Shi, who helped the regent to take charge of a considerable part of the work in culture, education and science.

This Fang has written several naturalist encyclopedias and other popular science works, one or two of which Newton had read as far away as England before, but they were translated into English by the Europeans themselves.

At this moment, seeing the regent and the admirable academic seniors, Newton couldn't help but feel a pilgrimage mentality.

"Your Royal Highness the Regent, it is a great honour to be seen by the grace of God. Your majesty shines from Mexico to Ben, and the people of the earth are grateful. ”

Newton used the same etiquette as the Magalny in parallel time and space, that is, he put his hand on his chest and landed on one knee, like a knight being enthroned.

Zhu Shuren sat on the top position, in fact, he had been looking at the other party carefully, and the curiosity in his heart was definitely inevitable.

Although it has been more than 20 years since he crossed over, he has never seen any big names, even Descartes played for him eighteen years ago. See Isaac though. At Newton's time, Zhu Shuren still had a trace of unreality in his heart.

Newton's broken Chinese, which he could roughly understand, also replied jokingly in Chinese: "Isn't there only a vast ocean between Mexico and Ben." ”

Newton was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "I mean from the Atlantic, the entire American continent and the Asian, European and African continents. ”

Although the Ming Dynasty has not specially organized a round-the-world voyage, Westerners in this era no longer dare to doubt the pattern of the Ming Dynasty's opening of their eyes to the world.

This trend has been evident since at least two decades ago, and now in the West's top metropolises like London and Amsterdam, more and more people who understand the potential of the Ming Dynasty can understand.

Zhu Shuren didn't talk to him about anything else, and asked directly: "I heard that you graduated from Cambridge University?" But is it the inheritance of the academic ideas of Descartes and Huygens? What is the matter with coming to Daming this time? ”

Newton hurriedly told him that he had already told people several times that he wanted to come to Daming to buy new rodenticides and disinfectants to save the Great Plague of London. Then he mentioned that he himself was also to escape the plague, so he went out to travel and study.

As if to emphasize his use value, after he concisely finished the demand, he immediately took out a few scrolls from his arms and presented them respectfully with both hands. Zhu Shuren gave a look and motioned to the palace maid next to him to take it.

"What is this?"

(End of chapter)