The lift-off of the Kong Ming lantern.

Two people survived.

"I ...... I swear I will never sit on the Kong Ming lantern again in my life. The worker was so frightened that he was incoherent and his legs trembled.

There are too many unknowns, and what the scholars and workers encountered in the sky is unknown to the people on the ground.

But from the looks of the two people, you can see the panic of the two.

Even as the scholar tries to keep his composure, one can still see the scholar trembling slightly, his hands clenched into fists.

"It's good to be safe, it's good to be safe."

The merchant folded his hands.

As long as the requirements of the Joint Office of the Military Industry are completed, the other party will not care how they spend the 1,000 yuan food stamp.

Now there are still a few hundred yuan left, which is equivalent to earning, and with the support of the future military-industrial joint office, businessmen have begun to fantasize about the future.

"Do you see the gods?"

"Have you seen Guanyin Bodhisattva?"

"Is there a heavenly palace in the sky?"

……

The people asked excitedly, and slowly, the worker became triumphant, and told the people what he saw.

"I touched the clouds."

"What?" People were shocked.

"You don't know what it's like." The worker himself did not know what it felt, but he firmly believed that it was different.

The scholar diligently took notes, carefully recording the events and objects he encountered in the air.

Soon.

Their great feats were published in the major newspapers of Beiping, and through the publicity of the newspapers, the names of businessmen and scholars resounded throughout Beiping.

Overnight.

People are talking about it.

Countless scholars visited Wang Chun to discuss academic research with him, and many of them obtained the information they wanted.

People have more awareness of the sky.

"May I ask Mr. Wang, when you look at the earth from the sky, is the earth round?"

Ma Pengying looked at Wang Chun eagerly.

Ma Pengying passed the evaluation of the Technical Division, and the Technical Department believed that Ma Pengying was the scholar with the most knowledge of astronomy in the Ming Dynasty at present, and gave a very high rating.

The ancients did not despise talented people in other industries, at least not the mainstream view of Tang, Song and Ming society.

Otherwise, there would not have been a Song Dynasty that gave the inventors of the Han Dynasty posthumous titles.

The Ming Dynasty paid equal attention.

When it comes to ancient inventions, people often talk about Qing Dynasty scholars, and the strange skills written in the books replace the impression of the long history of ancient China.

The third of the four great inventions is the crystallization of this stage of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Although the idea of the four great inventions was put forward later, it should be understood that this is a summary of later generations, and it is not that these inventions did not exist at that time.

The economic prosperity of the Sui and Tang dynasties provided material security, and the rise of the status of commercial handicrafts laid the foundation for the rapid development of science and technology.

On this basis, the Song Dynasty developed a reward system for outstanding scientific and technological inventions.

In the days before patent law, craftsmen had another channel to promote the development of technology and tools.

Those with outstanding talents in the field of science and technology are usually included in the wizard directory and can be selected directly into government agencies.

Feng Jisheng improved the gunpowder method, and the imperial court gave clothes and silks.

The same was true of the Ming Dynasty.

In history, Ma Pengying was not only valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, but also reused in the Yongle Dynasty, and because of Ma Pengying's outstanding contributions, Ma Pengying's son was named a lifelong mentor.

Including the Wanli period in the future, when they first came into contact with Western learning, a large number of officials took the initiative to learn and were full of enthusiasm for the development of new things.

No official called it a trick.

But the most impressive thing for later generations is the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty is the closest, but it has only been dead for a hundred years

Those who do not understand history have a wrong understanding of the impression of the Qing Dynasty that covers the entire Chinese civilization.

Only the Qing Dynasty banned technology.

The literal prison imprisoned people's minds, and the rulers forbade communication between the country and the outside world, as well as firearms.

People are proud of being slaves, and they have long broken their waists, and society is full of villains, and buying and selling officials is the norm.

It is forbidden for the folk to practice astronomy, those who study the calendar are sent to war, and those who make the calendar are dead.

It is forbidden for the folk to practice astronomy, those who study the calendar are sent to war, and those who make the calendar are dead.

"Hundreds of craftsmanship skills are also obscene and ingenious every day, with reckless profits, all of which hurt and turn into wealth, and gradually cannot grow, and it is appropriate to punish the law severely."

This is what Kangxi announced to the world, from the "Records of Qing Shizong", including "This is also the system of the first king, and the strange skills and tricks must be strictly prohibited." ”

The origin of the Qing Dynasty's real tricks and tricks.

The list of these policies is endless.

Books like Tiangong Kaiwu can still have a chance to see the light of day from Japan, and future generations will know the existence of this book, but I don't know how many books have completely disappeared, and I don't know how many books have disappeared even by name.

Therefore, those who say that ancient China despised craftsmen, and people regarded inventions as miraculous and ingenious, which could only represent the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty.

A person like Ma Pengying, who studies astronomy, let alone is still a woman, and the end is definitely to exterminate the family.

But the Ming Dynasty was different.

The same is true of Peking today.

Ma Pengying has gained excellent status and treatment in Beiping.

In order to keep Ma Pengying.

After the application of the management of the technical department, a special person was sent to the capital to persuade Ma Pengying's husband and his family to move to Beiping.

Historically, the Ming court gave Ma Pengying's son a lifelong official job, but Beiping would not be so exaggerated, only providing a good job.

Ma Pengying's sun theory believes that the earth is a sphere and revolves around the sun, and only by proving the theory of the heavens can her sun theory be more supported.

But Ma Pengying was disappointed.

Wang Chun shook his head.

"I can't see from the heavens that the earth is round."

Ma Pengying, who was rejected, became more and more suspicious of Ma Pengying's doctrine, believing that Ma Pengying's sun theory was wrong.

But Ma Pengying did not give up.

She applied for R&D funding from the Technology Division and hoped to go to the beach to ride the giant Kong Ming lantern.

This is a very dangerous thing.

After Wang Chun learned about it, he took the initiative to visit and told Ma Pengying how dangerous it was.

But Ma Pengying insisted on taking off by the sea.

In the end, under the appearance of Xiao Jiu of the Technology Department, Ma Pengying's application was approved, but in order to ensure the safety of the research, the workers who took the Kong Ming lantern with Wang Chun were invited.

"I'm not going."

"I once swore that I would not die well if I rode the Kong Ming Lantern in the future."

The workers shook their heads repeatedly.

The fear in heaven that day made the workers afraid that they had forgotten, so they swore an oath to warn themselves.

Ma Pengying could only regret going to Tianjin by himself.

Workers broke into academic circles.

learned that Ma Pengying was bent on going his own way, and finally followed.

Merchants opened a Kong Ming lantern factory in Beiping.

Specializing in the production of Kong Ming lanterns for liftoff.

A venue was set up for the people to see the curiosities and collect tickets, and many scholars came to study them.

Tianjin.

Ma Pengying and the workers are in heaven.

Just as the wharf was open, hundreds of large and small ships left the wharf, some heading for Golden State, some heading for Shanghai.

The worker has the experience of the last time, and this time there is no problem with the operation.

But the sea is windy.

Their Kong Ming lantern was blown away for a long time, and fortunately fell into Shandong.

The people of Wuding Prefecture, Shandong.

Seeing the Kong Ming lantern falling from the sky, everyone was stunned, thinking that they had seen a celestial man.

The officers who arrived did not dare to come forward.

The workers came down from the baskets and wept.

"In the future, I will take the Kong Ming lantern again, and I will ...... I gave birth to a son without an asshole. ”

(End of chapter)