Boyle said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I not only know nitric acid, I also know sulfuric acid, but I also know the method of preparing nitric acid and sulfuric acid, if His Majesty the Emperor needs it, I can prepare it immediately." ”

Chongzhen smiled and said, "No, no, no, what I need is not nitric acid, but nitrocellulose." ”

"Nitrocellulose?" Another unheard of term directly stumped the Latin translation.

"Plant fiber is a kind of fiber." Chongzhen pointed to the civilian clothes on his body, "The organization of plants." ”

The Latin translator is a Cantonese businessman, because he has been exposed to metallurgical knowledge, so nitric acid, sulfuric acid or thunder acid and the like can be translated, but he really doesn't know what fiber tissue is.

Chongzhen said that he still didn't understand the translation for a long time, so he couldn't fix Chongzhen directly.

There is still a huge gap between professional foreign languages and everyday foreign languages, which is a bit troublesome.

"Come on." At that moment, Chongzhen said with a dark face, "You tell him that he will learn the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty within a year, and then compile a set of Guozijian's chemistry textbooks according to the chemistry textbooks of various European universities, and then compile a set of elementary textbooks." ”

Of course, the university textbooks are for the scholars of the Guozijian for further study, and the primary textbooks are for the talented children of the local government schools and county schools to study, and the content of the textbooks will be tested in the future Guozi Examination.

After listening to the translation, Boyle first nodded and asked a few words in a low voice.

The interpreter asked Chongzhen: "Holy Lord, Mr. Boyle said that it is no problem to learn the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty and write teaching materials, but can you keep the position of professor for him?" ”

"Professor?" Chongzhen slapped his forehead and said a little speechlessly, "He is the dean of chemistry, of course he is a professor, can he still let a lecturer be the dean of the college?" ”

After listening to the translation, Boylton was overjoyed.

"God, Your Majesty the Merciful and Generous Emperor, let me say something......

"You should hurry up and learn Chinese and the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty." Chongzhen interrupted Boyle, it seems that every civilization and race has sycophants, of course, in other words, it can also be said to have high emotional intelligence.

Of the remaining 34 scholars, those who studied medicine were assigned to medical schools.

The others were assigned to professorships in the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

Including those Western scholars who were good at theology, they were also assigned to the School of Mathematics, the School of Physics, and the School of Chemistry to serve as assistants to Pascal and Boyle.

It is impossible to establish a seminary.

Instead, he lobbied him to establish a seminary in Guozijian to study theology and God.

Chongzhen was not moved at all, the oriental gods were all born from mortals, so what kind of thing is God? Need to set up a seminary to do research on him?

It is quite necessary to have a national academy and a history academy.

Go back and pick up a suitable dean of the Chinese Academy and a dean of the School of History.

With a Latin Academy, a Geography Academy, and an Astronomy Academy, the disciplines are complete, and Guozijian truly becomes a comprehensive university.

With this comprehensive university, the foundation of the natural sciences is also built.

In ten or twenty years, the achievements of the Ming Dynasty in various fields of natural sciences will certainly not be comparable with Europe, but it will be difficult to say after thirty or fifty years.

After all, Daming has a stronger support for academic research.

After all, the natural sciences have not been developing rapidly in Europe for a long time, and the achievements have been limited.

Moreover, the academic environment of the Ming Dynasty is also better than that of Europe, because there are still stubborn forces in Europe, including the church, but the Ming Dynasty does not have such constraints.

Because the science of the Ming Dynasty will soon be replaced by the science of mind.

Some Taoist gentlemen are still fantasizing about counterattacking, but Chongzhen knows that they have lost from the beginning, because Xinxue has been deeply bound to industry and commerce through the concepts of personality equality and equality between men and women, and has not seen that most handicraft workshops have begun to employ a large number of female workers?

It's just that by virtue of this, Mr. Daoxue, who still advocates that women don't go out of the door and don't go out of the second door, will be defeated by capital, and Mr. Daoxue's mouth can do more than capital?

In fact, there are already signs of this.

Because soon after the year, there were three more newspapers in Nanjing.

Daming Business Jia Bao, Daming Opera Bao, and Daming Bao.

From the names of these three newspapers, it can be seen that the newspapers are extremely targeted.

However, as soon as these three newspapers appeared, they immediately joined the battle group of science and psychology, and launched a frenzied attack on science supported by the Hanlin Times.

The debate between the Royal Times and the Hanlin Daily was an upright academic debate.

However, the Shangjia Daily, the Xiqu Daily, and the Bao took three separate paths, launching personal attacks on the Taoists who wrote articles in the Hanlin Daily criticizing Yangming Xinxue, and the methods of attack were also full of tricks.

One will say that this Taoist gentleman picked up ashes, committed adultery with his daughter-in-law and had children.

For a while, he would say that Mr. Daoist was a beast, and he was dignified on the surface, but behind his back, he was a male thief and a female prostitute, and slept with the wives and concubines of the younger generations of the same clan one by one.

He even said that Mr. Xue's cow would not let go.

Doesn't science advocate the preservation of heavenly principles and the destruction of human desires? These tabloids specifically grabbed this article, attacking Mr. Daoxue, who advocates science, are all hypocrites, one thing in front of one thing and one thing behind the other.

For a while, Mr. Daoxue, who supported the science of science, was really in danger.

This is actually the same as the smear of the water army in another time and space, although it is very inferior, but it really works, because many Mr. Daoist are not clean under their butts.

So now the science of science is almost overwhelmed.

In thought, the craftsman had already disassembled the steam engine.

After seeing the internal structure of the steam engine, or more precisely the internal structure of the cylinder, Western scholars such as Pascal and Boyle showed a sudden expression.

Obviously, Pascal and the others have understood the principle of the steam engine.

To put it bluntly, the principle of the steam engine is actually very simple, and it is even easier for scientists with considerable scientific literacy such as Pascal and Boyle to understand.

Seeing this, Chongzhen asked Fang Yizhi and them to take out the drawings.

Seeing the drawings, Pascal and the others seemed to have found a fresh toy.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, what was just a verification machine just now, this is the real steam engine?"

Pascal really understood at a glance, and asked with great interest: "Your Majesty the Emperor, can we participate?" ”

"Of course." Chongzhen promised, anyway, as long as these scholars come to the Ming Dynasty, it is impossible for them to return to Europe, so there is no need to worry about leaks, and Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing also have a certain degree of scientific literacy, and it is easier to communicate with Pascal and Boyle, which is also conducive to Pascal and their mastery of Chinese as soon as possible.

Of course, Chongzhen himself will also participate in the manufacture of the steam engine as much as possible.

If nothing else, there will be no major war for the next year or even two.

Chongzhen decided to use these two years to open the Ming science and technology tree as much as possible, first of all, the steam engine must be put into use, and secondly, all kinds of machine tools must be built.

Then the smokeless powder had to be made.

Then rifled guns had to be equipped in small batches.

Ammonium nitrate should also be produced as much as possible.

With ammonium nitrate, Daming no longer has to worry about food shortages.

If possible, mercury thunder acid should also be studied, so that the military technology of the Ming Dynasty will be reborn, and the surrounding barbarians will form a crushing dimensionality reduction blow.

With flintlock pistols alone, it can hardly be said to be a dimensionality reduction strike.

That's all Chongzhen can think of for the time being.

……

But what is the saying?

If nothing else, accidents happen soon.

Accidents came and went, and two of them came at once.

Wang Chengen and Xu Yingwei came over almost at the same time.

Looking for a corner, Chongzhen asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Xu Yingwei said to Wang Chengen: "Princess, you tell the saint first." ”

Wang Chengen took out a wax pill from his sleeve and handed it to Chongzhen, and said in a low voice: "Long live Lord, this is what Li Ruolian just sent to Nanjing through secret channels, and it is an urgent channel used. ”

"Expedited channels?" Chongzhen's face sank, which means that something big has happened.

At that moment, Chongzhen gently crushed the wax pill and took out the secret letter from it, and it was really a big deal at a glance.

"Youzhen, what do you think?" Chongzhen handed the secret letter to Xu Yingwei, "What does Dolgon want to do?" ”

Xu Yingwei was a little stunned after reading the secret letter and said: "Saint, this matter is really a little strange, in the past, whenever there was a war, Jiannu would drive the Eight Banners Han Army, Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Domains Mongolia to fight, why is it unnormal this time, only using Eight Banners Manchuria, and even the Green Battalion soldiers are not used?" ”

"But more than 90,000 Eight Banners Manchuria came 80,000!"

Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "It's almost pouring out." ”

"But this is certainly not the case with us." Xu Yingwei paused, and then continued, "Combined with the urgent delivery sent by Chen Zilong before, it seems that the people who attacked the soldiers and forts in various towns in Xuzhou were only small groups of Jiannu, so it can be seen that Dolgon should just want to use Xuzhou and Guide as hunting grounds for the Eight Banners Manchuria." ”

Xu Yingwei's analytical ability is still very strong, and he guessed the truth with only limited clues.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei said again: "Obviously, Dolgon has also realized the strength of the Huanghuai defense line built by the Shengshang, and knows that if Xuzhou Zhentai and Guide Zhentai are allowed to exist, Jiannu will forever lose the opportunity to go south, so he did not hesitate to use 80,000 Eight Banners Manchuria to come to Guide and Xuzhou to attack and harass the war. ”

"I'm afraid it's not just that." Chongzhen said with a deep groan.

"When the old slave was here, there was no Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia."

"And there are only the Han Army Niulu and the Mongolian Niulu that belong to the Eight Banners."

"But since Huang Taiji continued, the Han army and the Mongolian cavalry were taken out of the Eight Banners separately and organized into the Eight Banners Han Army and the Eight Banners Mongolia that only obeyed the emperor's orders."

"This is equivalent to a partial completion of centralization."

After a pause, he said: "But before the hard bone of Eight Banners Manchuria could be gnawed, Huang Taiji died." ”

Hearing this, Xu Yingwei immediately reacted: "What the Holy Lord means is that Dolgon is ready to gnaw the hard bone of Eight Banners Manchuria, and he wants to achieve centralization in the true sense?" ”

"That's for sure." Chongzhen said solemnly, "Dolgon's house is really not simple, he actually wants to reform the Eight Banners and monopolize power, which is a goal that Huang Taiji has not been able to achieve. ”

"The most vicious thing is to use Xuzhou and Guide as hunting grounds."

Xu Yingwei said with a dark face: "Jiannu's cavalry shooting is still very powerful, and it is difficult for Xuzhou and the town soldiers of Guide to withstand the attack of a small group of Jiannu." ”

"If you go out of the city to fight, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties."

"If you stick to the walled fort, you will be too passive, and it will also delay spring ploughing."

After saying this, he said: "Holy Lord, we must not sit idly by and watch this matter. ”

"You can't sit idly by." Chongzhen said solemnly, "Dolgon wants to use Xuzhou and Guide as hunting grounds to achieve the intention of centralizing power, and we must not let him get his wish." ”

"The Holy One means to cancel the plan to use troops against Dagukou and Gaizhouwei?"

"No, the plan to use troops for Dagukou and Gaizhouwei cannot be canceled, not only can it not be canceled, but it must be advanced, because after Dagukou and Gaizhouwei are attacked, Dolgon will definitely send troops to recapture them, so that some real slaves must be withdrawn from the Huanghuai front."

"That's right, Jiannu has always distrusted the Eight Banners Han Army and the Eight Banners Mongolia, and all battles must have real slaves to suppress the formation."

"So in order to reduce the pressure on the Huanghuai defense line, you must launch an attack on Dagukou and Gaizhouwei in advance, and you don't have to wait for the Beihai to thaw in late April, just set off now!"

"Did the Holy Lord say that he would attack directly by stepping on the ice?"

"Yes, after reaching the ground, take advantage of the darkness to directly step on the ice and attack."

"Well, it's not a big problem to tread on the ice and attack, anyway, Jiannu would never have imagined that we would use troops against Dagukou and Gaizhouwei, and we would definitely be able to fight without precautions."

"It's useless to be prepared, Dagukou and Gaizhouwei won't have too many troops left."

Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "But there is one point, because the Beihai and the canal have not yet thawed, the Eight Banners Han Army can quickly transfer the Hongyi cannon through the Wei River and the ice surface of the Beihai, so there will be less time left for you to build the platform, but in order to smash Dolgon's plan to achieve centralization, you can't take care of these." ”

Xu Yingwei said: "Rest assured, the ministers will be able to defend Gaizhouwei." ”

After a pause, he said: "I believe that Wanheng will also be able to defend Dagukou." ”

"It is mainly Dagukou, only 100 miles away from Tianjin, and only 300 miles away from Beijing."

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, and then asked, "How is the adaptation training at sea going?" ”

"I've done a few adaptation trainings, and it's already much better than at the beginning, so there shouldn't be any problems."

"That's good." Chongzhen bowed his head lightly when he heard this, and then asked again, "By the way, what military report do you have?" ”

"Something big has happened in Sichuan." Xu Yingwei sighed, "Sichuan aid and suppression general Yang Zhenxin sent a flying cavalry to report to Wuchang, saying that Yang Zhan, the general soldier of Sichuan, was murdered by his subordinates Wu Dading and Yuan Tao. ”

"Is this the case?" Chongzhen's face suddenly fell.

Yang Zhan still died at the hands of Wu Dading and Yuan Tao after all?

And it's two years ahead of the other plane.

(End of chapter)