"Old man, it's time to eat."

"Come back soon."

"The food is going to be cold."

"Okay."

"Teacher Zhao, let's go home for dinner first, you sit first."

"We'll come back and talk to you after dinner."

Just after Zhao Jun finished talking about the scientific system required for industrialization, Zhao Zhen calculated the time and decided to take a break.

He beckoned to Wang Shouzhong in the distance, and Wang Shouzhong understood and arranged for the old mothers to shout in the distance.

At that moment, Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others made an excuse to go home for dinner.

It's also a way for them to go back to the meeting after the lecture to digest the content.

Zhao Jun didn't know it, and greeted them with a smile.

"Okay, you go slowly."

"It's okay, I'll bask in the sun first, and I'll go back to sleep later."

"Okay, we'll talk later."

After sending off the old men, Zhao Jun lay on the chair and continued to bask in the sun, asking Fan Zhongyan for a glass of water to drink.

At this moment he was sitting in the courtyard outside the temple, with farmland and a fence beside it.

Today's Bianliang is blowing a fresh breeze, and the afternoon sun is warmly sprinkled, and the air is mixed with the fragrance of earth and grass, which soaks into the heart and spleen.

The air in the mountains is good!

Zhao Zhen and the others returned to the Guanjia Palace, and after the people arrived, Wang Sui hurriedly said: "Official, this fertilizer can double the yield per mu!" ”

"Yes, if my grain in the Great Song Dynasty can be doubled, why can't I worry about the peace of the world and the rise of the four seas?"

"Look at what Zhao Jun means, he seems to know how to make fertilizer?"

"I'll ask him then."

Zhao Zhen said: "What do you think of this mathematics? Listening to Zhao Jun's meaning, mathematics is the foundation of science, and science can cause the industrial revolution and greatly enhance the national strength. ”

"Officials and ministers think that mathematics is not only the foundation of science, but also the foundation of the people."

Sheng Du, who is quite economically minded, said: "The arithmetic of the Great Song Dynasty is not popular, and many people can only add and subtract within ten, let alone multiply and divide. In addition to those who read poetry and books, they may also learn from merchants. This has led to a lack of arithmetic among the people, and many people have been injured. ”

"I remember that when I was sentenced to Jeju, I encountered a case in which Zhou Xian, a grain merchant in Luqiao, united with several scholars in the town to make false account books when collecting grain, and stole a lot of people's rice and wheat through extremely complicated bookkeeping methods."

Wang Zeng remembered an incident from the past and said: "When the people encounter a good year, they want to sell some grain for money and buy other things. They don't know how to do arithmetic, so they often go to the scholars for advice, and the scholars and businessmen deliberately reduce the calculation and omit the calculation, turning the grain that could have been sold for 1 guan into 900 or even 800 or even 800 or 700 yuan, which seriously hurts the people's livelihood. ”

This is a typical case of intellectuals and capitalists joining forces to harm ordinary people, who may know some addition and subtraction methods such as breaking their fingers, but even if the more complicated multiplication and division methods are not enough, they will often consult readers who know arithmetic, and when they encounter bad readers, they will fool the people together with capitalists.

And such cases abound in ancient times, because mathematics was not carried out as universal education in ancient times.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the rise of poor intellectuals was only a rise, and compared with the vast number of living beings, the proportion of scholars was still a small number.

It was not until the literacy campaign in New China that the literacy rate increased.

And this is still literacy.

Mathematics was originally only a niche project in ancient times, and the Tang Dynasty had a Ming arithmetic department, which would admit some talents who studied mathematics as officials. However, in the Song Dynasty, the content of mathematics exams was abolished, and there were many fewer people specializing in mathematics.

It's just that because the Song Dynasty attached more importance to industry and commerce, there were many people who independently studied basic mathematics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

But generally speaking, it is some scholars and businessmen, ordinary people cultivate their own acres and threes of land, and it is good to be able to eat enough, not to mention that there is still the leisure time to study and count.

Therefore, the foundation of mathematics is not only the lack of intermediate systems, but also the lack of official promotion among the people.

However, there is still a mathematical soil in the Song Dynasty, during the two Song Dynasty, the economy was prosperous, and there was already a germ of capitalism, capitalism is inseparable from mathematical calculations.

"Then Zhongqing thinks that this promotion of mathematics should be beneficial and harmless?"

Zhao Zhen asked.

Lu Yijian pondered: "Fan Zhongyan's reform is very resistant, and if he is not careful, it may cause opposition from officials all over the world. But this mathematics does not seem to have any drawbacks, not to mention that the Tang Dynasty promoted arithmetic and set up a clear arithmetic department to admit officials, and my Song Dynasty prospered in commerce and trade, and it also needed arithmetic to penetrate into the people, which was not harmful. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "Then according to Zhao Jun, we should indeed widely promote the way of mathematics, so how should we promote it?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and said in unison: "Add to the imperial examination." ”

This is the simplest and crudest way to do it.

Zhao Zhen groaned: "The inclusion of mathematics in the imperial examination can indeed be widely promoted, but Zhao Jun said that the mathematics of the Great Song Dynasty lacks a system and there is no intermediate derivation process. ”

Lu Yijian smiled, pointed to Zhao Jun, who was still basking in the sun and chatting with Fan Zhongyan not far away, and said, "Official, isn't there someone there who can help us improve the system?" ”

Everyone will smile, with Zhao Jun here, are you still afraid that you can't improve the scientific system?

After a while, when it was time to finish eating, they came out one after another, sitting in the courtyard one by one, and continued to chat with Zhao Jun.

First chatted for a while, and after the pretended people arrived, Fan Zhongyan, who had been making notes on the side before, and accompanied Zhao Jun at the same time, guided Zhao Jun to continue the previous topic again.

Now Yan Shu is not there because his wife is seriously ill, and now Fan Zhongyan is doing the work of Yan Shu before. Although Fan Zhongyan's temporary reaction ability is not as powerful as Yan Shu's, his advantage is that he is mostly taciturn.

Talking less means making fewer mistakes, even if Zhao Jun takes the initiative to chat with him, he will at most be hmmmmmmmm

"Mr. Zhao just said that we couldn't establish the industrial revolution in ancient China because of the lack of a scientific system, as well as the system and the natural environment.

Fan Zhongyan asked as he looked at his notes.

"Yes, Mr. Zhao, we're curious, just tell us about it."

"Teacher Zhao is really knowledgeable, we don't know these things."

"That's for sure, Mr. Zhao is a top student of the "National People's Congress". ”

When Zhao Zhen was touting, he deliberately made the word "National People's Congress" a little heavier, which seemed to be quite sarcastic.

In fact, he was not mocking, but gritting his teeth, secretly hating that broken student who was taught by someone, why did he scold his ancestors every day?

Zhao Jun was so happy when he heard everyone's praise that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

Yan Shu has also figured out his temper these days, he is a kind-hearted and delicate young man, the only bad thing is that the city is too shallow and easy to get carried away.

It's probably a common problem among young people, and when others tout a little bit about it, they are so happy that they can't find the north, and everything is taken away.

Perhaps this is the so-called clarity revealing stupidity.

Zhao Jun saw that everyone still wanted to continue listening, so he reluctantly asked: "Okay, I'll continue to talk about it, in addition to the fact that our ancient scientific system has not formed a complete standard, which has caused the industrial revolution to be incomplete although it is more than 1,000 years ahead of Western civilization, there is also the problem of geographical environment." ”

"Geographically, we have a big flaw."

"Peng Mulan, a professor at the University of California and a historian, believes that the reason why China cannot achieve the industrial revolution is that the distribution of China's natural resources is not suitable for efficient extraction, and at the same time, it lacks some key resources."

"None of China's major coal mines are located near river routes, and the geography itself is hindering China's rapid industrialization."

At the same time, Chinese agriculture was so prosperous in the first millennium because of Champa rice that there was an agricultural revolution that there was no need for further innovation. On the contrary, Europe has a lower starting level, so there is a stronger need for rapid technological development. ”

"In addition, the four basic raw materials of the industry: rubber, steel, coal, and oil, are very scarce. Mainly rubber and oil, we don't have rubber at all, oil until the fifties to discover the first large oil field Karamay oilfield, until the sixties to discover the Daqing oilfield. ”

"The West, on the other hand, entered the colonial era earlier, by plundering rubber from South America, seizing oil from Central Asia, and using the raw capital accumulated in the early days, to rapidly industrialize."

"Therefore, under the influence of the natural environment, unless the government is artificially promoted, such as building canals in coal and iron ore mining areas, going overseas to find rubber, and getting shallow oil from the Middle East that can be dug out with a shovel, and purposefully promoting industrialization, it is impossible to complete the industrial base with the private free market alone."

Speaking of this, Zhao Jun himself is more helpless.

In fact, the technology of ancient China is not bad, and there are even many black technologies, which are a thousand years ahead of the West.

For example, the kind of incense ball that was popular in the Song Dynasty was actually designed as a gyroscope. The water transport instrument elephant platform made by Su Song is the world's first mechanical clock and the first astronomical observatory. Needless to say, firearms, the originator of guns, assault muskets.

But rubber and oil are missing.

As a sealing, shock absorption, cushioning and other parts, rubber can be used as a sealing ring in tires, machines, pipe belts, etc., especially in the high-temperature water vapor environment, which is particularly important.

Steam engines and internal combustion engines are in great need of rubber.

Oil is the most important resource in the 21st century, and mold grows everywhere in the Middle East for oil, which can be said to be a major factor in the chaos in the Middle East.

However, in ancient times, rubber was only found in South America, and China had oil, but it was all underground oil, and the Daqing oil field was 1,300 meters deep from the surface.

This position is not to mention ancient times, and it was not that level until the end of the Qing Dynasty. With the most advanced exploration equipment, Xiao Ri also explored a thousand meters, and there was still a distance of 300 meters from the oil field.

Therefore, although there was a certain germination of capitalism in the Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty in ancient China, the capital market could be born, thus deriving the industrial revolution.

However, due to natural resources, this is still unlikely.