Due to the fatigue all the way, after eating, Li Guocheng returned to the room, and after a simple freshening, he lay down and went to sleep directly.

The next day I had a simple western-style breakfast at the restaurant. The best food is bread, and the beef soup is OK, but it is not authentic, it is actually sweet and sour.

Walk out of the hotel and take a taxi booked by the waiter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art reviews the development of human civilization and is one of the world's top five museums, along with the Forbidden City in Kyoto, China, the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The main body of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a Gothic building, which occupies three floors and has 234 exhibition rooms, collecting various cultural relics of human culture and civilization for nearly 5,000 years.

Li Guocheng was not in the mood to view the other exhibition rooms, and went directly to the Asian Pavilion on the second floor.

The collection ranges from early celadon and white porcelain, Changsha kiln and Sancai in the Tang Dynasty, five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, to blue and white in the Yuan Dynasty, red in the glaze, JDZ blue and white glaze, red glaze, yellow glaze, bucket color, five colors, ink color and so on during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Here you can see almost a complete and detailed history of Chinese porcelain. The Metropolitan Museum's collection of porcelain is not only complete in variety and quantity, but also mostly high-quality porcelain, and some are even rare treasures.

These exhibits are all high-quality products, all of them are history, Li Guocheng is short of breath, and he can't wait to take them all.

Li Guocheng walked all the way to a wooden door that only staff members could enter, and looked down to admire a piece of Yuan blue and white flowers. Out of curiosity, I let out my mind and look inside.

Behind the door is a large exhibition room, which is full of dusty Chinese porcelain, bronzes and other cultural relics. A one-man tall safe by the door.

Mind penetrated and found that there were some paper documents inside, recording the history of the cultural relics here and the description of the exhibition.

Li was about to retract his mental power, when he suddenly swept a Chinese traditional Chinese book at the bottom, titled "More than 100 Creations of the Former Dynasty", the author was Hu Sijing. As an engineering student, Li Guocheng didn't know anything about it.

Curiosity was aroused, and he directly entered the secret realm, and then put more than 10 pieces of porcelain and bronze that he thought were exquisite into the secret realm.

Endure the fire in your heart and go through all the museum exhibits.

took a taxi back to the hotel, sat on the sofa, and took out "More than 100 Creations of the Former Dynasty".

The first page records the introduction of Zheng He's treasure ship, "Sixty-two treasure ships, the largest one is forty-four zhang long, 18 zhang wide, eight-story ship, steel keel, driven by three air dragons, and sails."

It is 44 zhang long and 18 zhang wide, that is, 148 meters long and 60 meters wide, and is a standard 10,000-ton giant ship.

What shocked Li Guocheng was that the latter sentence "Driven by the three martial dragons, Zuo Fengfan". What is this, "driven by the air dragon", is it a steam engine. Think about the 10,000-ton giant ship, which is not driven by manpower and wind.

Oh my God, a big secret.

The article lists the ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties of "Lu Gong", which was used for smelting blasts. In the Western Han Dynasty, the automatic blower equipment "water drain" used water to drive the wheels and drive the piston through the transmission shaft.

The circular motion is converted into linear motion to realize automatic high-power continuous air blasting. Isn't this TM the prototype of the engine?

The above is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

Since then, fan cars, crankshafts, and wooden cattle and horses have also been listed, all of which are the ultimate applications of mechanical transmission.

The key picture and text explain the bellows that do two-way work, which is the core component of the steam engine: the two-way piston.

The following is a list of large-scale deep well drilling techniques in the Song Dynasty: Dun drilling. Load-bearing requirements for weighted rods, bearings, pulleys, gears, drill bits, mud tubes, copper pipes, ropes, etc. There are detailed graphic descriptions.

In the book, "Heavenly Creations" is highly respected, and the part-level structure diagram in it is called a masterpiece.

At the back of the book, there are many thermodynamic machinery, such as the "Dongguan Chronicle", which records that dry boats were used to carry 2W people who built palaces. "On the way, there are many wells, and they are often used to water dry boats, so that they can drink thirsty."

Later, hundreds of kinds of machinery and equipment were recorded with pictures and texts.

After reading it in one breath, Li Guocheng was shocked and unable to speak.

Think of the history books he studied in his two lifetimes, all of which were branded as miraculous and ingenious about ancient technology, and swept into the ranks of dross. The mention of the four major inventions is more of a joke, in order to set off the greatness of Western science and technology.

If all this is true, then why is there almost no mention in the historical and cultural circles of China?

This is an act of extermination from the bottom of Chinese culture. In later generations, Li Guocheng has always been skeptical about the Anglo-Saxon project. When he saw this book today, he was a little convinced.

Convincing the people of an ancient country of the greatness of the West is not something that one or two people can do. That would need to influence generations of Chinese elites.

If you think about the Opium War reparations, most of them established church schools in China and aided the construction of universities across the country, and almost all of those professors were elites who studied in the West.

Later, after having dinner with a friend in the education field, after he drank too much, he scolded his school and the double first-class selection team, because the most important indicators are the number of international students and the rate of going abroad.

Li Guocheng didn't dare to think about it anymore, and the author didn't dare to write it again. Write again, for fear of being banned.

The angry Li Guocheng kept pacing in the hotel, thinking about something. He wanted to stay with Sam for just a few days, but now he changed his mind and wanted to stay longer.

Lunch was served at 3 o'clock. The flight to Southern California is tomorrow morning, so if you are bored, take a taxi to the famous Central Park.

Since 1970, Central Park has been the venue for events of all sizes, including political rallies, demonstrations, celebrations and concerts.

Located in the middle of Manhattan, Central Park covers an area of 340 hectares and covers 150 blocks, with a total of 93 kilometers of walking trails, 9,000 benches, and 6,000 trees.

When you enter the park, you will find a small forest with light green acres of grass and lush trees. Rows of courtyards are scattered. Li Guocheng passed by the ice rink, the carousel, and the amphitheater.

I stayed in front of a small zoo for more than half an hour, and I sighed, "It's really small". Take a boat ride on the small lake, which is surrounded by tennis courts, sports fields, art galleries and more.

In front of a semicircle resembling the Colosseum, some young people are singing and dancing to the accompaniment of improvised musical instruments.

Li Guocheng sat on the steps and admired it for a while, but he always felt out of place and got up to leave.

Sit down and rest by a small parking lot on a mound, and you can hear singing and laughing faintly from the building just below the mound.

Half an hour later, I got up and patted the dust on my buttocks, ready to take a taxi back to the hotel through the parking lot.

Walking to the middle of the parking lot, I saw more than 20 black guys gathered together as if they were having a meeting, and Li Guocheng's arrival seemed to disturb each other.

They all stood up in unison, all looking at him with fierce eyes, and Li Guocheng smiled softly, passing by with disdain on his face. Maybe his casualness scared the other party, and more than 20 people actually watched him leave.

Li Guocheng regretted in his heart, he thought that there would be a hearty battle, so that he could relieve the depression in his heart. As a result, I met more than two dozen eggless people.

Maybe that's the truth: there are a lot of crazy people, but they don't happen very often.

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