Fan Zhongyan doesn't look like a stunned head at times, but in fact, his writing is excellent, and he and Fu Bi and Ouyang Xiu often write edicts in history.

Therefore, three times five divided by two, he wrote a sternly worded document, which was signed by many prime ministers present, and when the regular meeting was held in the afternoon, it was approved by Zhao Zhen, and it could be officially issued.

But it was also in the afternoon, and after Zhao Jun signed at noon, he did not continue to stay in the office of the Constitutional Academy, but left the palace and went all the way to the Academy of Sciences outside the north gate of the palace.

The Academy of Sciences occupies a large area, which was changed from Beiqingcheng. Many people don't know about Beiqingcheng, which is a civil and military school built by Zhao Kuangyin for the children of the Zhao family in the early Song Dynasty.

Later, Song Huizong Zhao Ji studied here, and as a result, he was named Duanwang at the age of fourteen, and Tian shamelessly ran here to be the principal, and built Duanwang's Mansion in Beiqingcheng, so this place is also the location of Duanwang's Mansion of Song Huizong Zhao Ji.

Since it is a civil and military school, there must be a school field and a horse farm, and later Song Huizong was able to build a huge Duanwang Mansion, you can know how large the area is here, which can fully accommodate the scientific community to conduct scientific experiments.

At this time, the Beiqingcheng was naturally not built as luxurious as the later Duanwang Mansion, coming out of the Xuanwu Gate, the streets on both sides were the residences of the children of the clan, and the ten princes' mansions on the east side were also the residences of the great sect Zheng Zhao Yunrang.

It's just that at this moment, things have long been wrong, Zhao Yun let the husband and wife commit suicide, the tree fell and scattered, the direct heirs were imprisoned, the side branches had long disappeared, and the mansion was also taken back by the royal family.

Zhao Jun's carriage drove through the streets where the clans lived, and went straight to the Academy of Sciences, where most of the territory was occupied by various scientific research departments, and now the children of the clan did not go to school here, but went to the newly opened school in the city.

However, the Academy of Sciences has also opened a school of its own, which is next to the Academy of Sciences, but even if it is a child of the clan who can enter it, it must be the smartest, and it is useless to have a noble status.

After all, Zhao Zhen and Zhao Jun attach great importance to scientific development, but they don't want any children of the clan to go in, and if they don't learn and have no skills, they will make it a miasma inside, so they strictly control it.

When Zhao Jun arrived outside the gate of the Academy of Sciences, Guo Zheng, the dean of the School of Physics, was already waiting outside the gate with several professors.

When it comes to physicists or great inventors in the Northern Song Dynasty, they must be inseparable from Bi Sheng, Su Song, Shen Kuo and others, but they are only more famous, and in historical records, there are still a lot of talents who are not very famous.

For example, this Guo Advisor, who was born in Jinshi, has studied mathematics and physics, and has designed military equipment, used the principle of levers to build river embankments, built water conservancy facilities, etc., and was recommended by Lu Yijian to enter the School of Physics, focusing on mechanics, which is helpful for the design of cannons.

Although he repeatedly felt that in front of the official Zhao Zhen, he was like a small person in physics, looking up at the mountains, but it did not prevent him from being obsessed with physics, and he was recently conducting in-depth research on the law of gravitation proposed by Zhao Zhen.

"Xiaguan has seen the prefect!"

Zhao Jun's carriage slowly stopped at the gate of the Academy of Sciences, and Guo Jian and everyone hurriedly came up to greet him.

Many of the bigwigs of the Academy of Sciences are from Jinshi, and they all have official positions, the president of the Academy of Sciences alone is on the same level as the ordinary minister, and he is the third grade, and the president of the branch is on the same level as the ordinary waiter, and he is from the third grade, and his status is definitely not low.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said, "You guys are working hard, the official family just talked to me and said that you have researched electricity, so I came over to take a look non-stop." ”

Guo Jian said ashamedly: "It's also ashamed to say that the world has long known that magnetic energy can attract iron, but they don't know that it can generate electricity. is still an official god, and he can actually use a magnet to attract electricity, and he still needs the official family to teach us the principle, and I am ashamed to repay the court. ”

"There is a specialization in the art industry, and officials like to tinker with these things, sometimes these things are not difficult, but the difficult thing is how to think of the key nodes at the door and figure out the truth."

Zhao Jun smiled, he wouldn't say that Zhao Zhen copied it from it, and his Zhao coil that imitated the Tesla coil was actually not a Tesla coil.

Because there is no transformer.

Purely by first figuring out a few Faraday electromagnetic induction copper plates, some coil copper wires were wound on them, and after the current was generated, scraping with an iron sheet could produce an electric spark, which was no different from the sparks generated by metal collisions, and he threatened to invent electricity.

So sometimes science is really the first to invent and the first to possess. Even if it was just a simple principle invention, and no rigorous experiments were carried out at all, Zhao Zhen dared to call himself the father of electricity.

"I really don't know what this electricity can do, if we can make it more powerful, can we use such a thing to summon thunder and lightning and kill the enemy?"

Guo Zheng is worthy of being originally made of ordnance, and the first thing he thought about was the military.

However, the invention of many things was originally for the military to serve the war, for example, GPS was originally for the military, and later civilian navigation became a navigation.

Zhao Jun said: "That's not what it does, let's talk about it later." ”

"Governor, please."

Guo Jian hurriedly invited Zhao Jun in.

Surrounded by everyone, Zhao Jun arrived all the way to the School of Physics.

The School of Physics has to carry out large-scale experiments, such as pulling things with a steam engine, and it covers a very large area, so there is a school yard directly.

There are a lot of things in the school yard, including bicycles, water wheels, farm tools, and machinery.

One of the most striking is the more than a dozen huge steam engines.

These steam engines have their own functions, some are used for power pumping, some are used to be installed on wheels as engines, and some can be used for repeated work, used for grinding, spinning, weaving, forging and so on.

Basically, the transportation, energy production, and metallurgical smelting covered by the steam engine have been realized, but the only problem is that rubber is needed to replace the copper ring and lead ring, and promote the sealing integrity like Watt's improved steam engine, so that its power can be maximized.

Then, under the leadership of everyone, Zhao Jun walked through all kinds of courtyards, some of which were engaged in practical physics and invented and created various things. Some are engaged in theoretical physics, conducting in-depth research on mechanics, optics, mechanics, etc.

With the current physics of the Great Song Dynasty, it is actually still the knowledge level from junior high school to high school. Moreover, many physical formulas have not been developed, and it is all up to Zhao Zhen to copy the book, and after copying the book, he made his own formulas for the research institute to experiment.

After all, copying is much faster than self-research and development, even if Zhao Jun will guide the research direction and help them establish a system, it is not something that can be formed in two or three months.

So to sum up, the progress of physics in the Great Song Dynasty depends on Zhao Zhen as a copyist.

Soon Zhao Jun was led to an inner courtyard house, where all kinds of copper wires, copper plates, magnets and other miscellaneous items were placed, and on the experimental table in the center, a young man was standing debugging.

The young man turned around and saw Zhao Jun and the others coming, so he arched his hand and said, "Xiaguan Su Song, I have seen the prefect." ”

Zhao Jun had seen him when he came to the Academy of Sciences to inspect before, and recently learned that Su Song was simply a genius, and the perfection of the steam engine came from him, and he was also promoted to a doctor of the Academy of Sciences because of his merits, which is a positive five products.

He smiled and said, "Dr. Su is polite, you invented this thing?" ”

"Don't dare to take credit."

Su Song hurriedly said: "It is made according to the instructions of the official family, compared to the official family, the lower officials can never be as good as one." ”

"I didn't expect the official family to be so admired by you, but the official family advocates scientific governance, science can improve the development of the Great Song Dynasty, science is the first weapon for the country's strength, and the Constitutional Yuan also resolutely maintains the official family's reverence for science."

Zhao Jun looked around with a smile and said: "You are all Confucianists, and you were born as scholars in the imperial examination, but in fact, whether it is Confucianism or science, it is essentially the exploration and understanding of all things in heaven and earth. Confucianism and science are not contradictory, they are both the same kind of learning. ”

"Yes."

Guo Zheng nodded again and again, promoting the integration of Confucianism and science was originally what the imperial court was currently doing.

Zhao Jun actually does not reject Confucian culture, but rejects the dross inside.

Later generations of political books paid attention to the dregs of Confucian culture and extracted its essence, at least before the Ming and Qing dynasties, Confucian culture still had a lot of merits.

People like Su Song, Zhang Zai, Shen Kuo and others are not only Jinshi and representatives of Confucian culture, but also scientists. Among them, Zhang Zai, as the founder of Confucianism, has had a profound influence on the research and development of astronomy.

"Show me this."

Zhao Jun looked at the copper plate.

The copper disk device is very primitive, which is composed of a compass plus some copper wires and magnets.

Su Song connected one of the wires to the compass, and the compass suddenly swayed back and forth, as if it had been disturbed by some magnetic field.

This was the original Faraday experiment on electromagnetic induction.

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun nodded and said: "Very good, the official told me that an electric current will be generated between the magnet and the copper wire, and the current can be drawn out by connecting the positive and negative poles of the magnet through the wire." ”

"I just don't know what this thing is for."

Guo Zhen scratched his head.

"It can emit light, the official family has experimented in the palace this morning, and successfully made the carbon filament glow, but it will last for a short time, if you can find the right material to make it light all the time, then in the future, you may no longer need candles and torches for lighting at night."

Zhao Jun made an important instruction: "You can follow this direction and find a suitable material, and tungsten may be able to try." The other is to continue to research electricity, so that electricity is controllable, developable and sustainable. ”

"Yes."

When everyone heard this, they immediately felt that they had found their way and responded one after another.

Nowadays, what the Academy of Sciences lacks is not manpower, but the kind of genius who has a flash of inspiration, as long as someone points out the direction, with their wisdom it is not impossible to produce scientific research results.

After seeing the second generator in history, Zhao Jun inspected the College of Chemistry, the College of Biology, and the College of Agriculture.

At present, the level of science and technology is not high, basically similar to the West in the same period of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it is enough. After all, as long as science lays a good foundation, then in the next one or two hundred years, there will inevitably be a period of technological explosion.

Now that the foundation is almost laid, basic chemistry, basic physics, and basic biology are slowly being rolled out, and in the next ten years, science education will be carried out in the whole Song Dynasty, and after the popularization of education, all kinds of scientific research talents will break out, and it may not be a dream to reach the level of the second industrial revolution within 50 years.

In the afternoon, the meeting of the Chongzheng Palace was opened as usual, and it was cooler at this time, the white-haired old Dengs were already in place one by one, and Zhao Zhen was fiddling with a large copper plate on his desk, surrounded by four or five magnet coils, and a light bulb was connected to a wire.

Although glass cannot be manufactured on a large scale due to the lack of soda manufacturing methods, there is trona in nature, but some methods are needed to remove impurities, and it is still easy for Zhao Zhen, as the emperor, to find a way to get some trona to make transparent glass.

So he asked the craftsman to burn the transparent glass into the shape of a light bulb, and installed a copper base under the bulb, and a carbon wire on it, which was connected to the copper base with an electric wire, and conducted to the carbon wire, which soon emitted a little light.

The old Dengs gathered around the desk and watched curiously, and when the light bulb actually really lit up, they were amazed and praised.

"I didn't expect that the old man would be able to see the appearance of electric lights in his lifetime."

"This is still thanks to the official family, if there is no official family to devote themselves to research, I am afraid we will never see it in our lives."

"The official family is really the son of the saint, and now the sea is prosperous, and the country and the people are safe, which is the credit of the official family. The officials have worked tirelessly to develop research and development day by day, so that the people of the world have benefited from it. ”

Everyone said.

Zhao Jun came over, and when he saw him coming, Zhao Zhen said triumphantly: "Eldest grandson, how is it?" It's fun, isn't it? ”

"My brother said in front of me that the light bulb was fun, isn't that the class getting an axe?"

Zhao Jun was speechless.

Not to mention the most primitive carbon filament light, even if it is an LED light, he has seen it, what's so interesting about this?

"Harm, I forgot about it when I was excited."

Zhao Zhen patted his head and said, "But you haven't seen this thing for so many years, don't you want to?" ”

"Actually, I'm used to it."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "At first, I definitely didn't adapt to it, there was no modern technology in later generations, but after accepting my fate, I didn't have so many thoughts." ”

"Now Da Song is unswervingly moving towards the path of scientific development, and the future will be even better."

Zhao Zhen put down the copper wire in his hand.

Although insisting on scientific development is the slogan put forward by Zhao Jun, he strongly supports it, and even writes articles in Di Bao and Kaifeng Weekly, ostensibly adhering to the position of scientific development.

For a time, there was a wave of learning mathematics, physics and chemistry all over the country, coupled with the fact that the imperial court had re-included mathematics in the imperial examination a few years ago, and in recent years, it has released rumors that physics and chemistry will also be included in the imperial examination.

"Official, let the scientific thing develop slowly, or should we do a good job in the present first."

Fan Zhongyan saw that Zhao Zhen had finished showing off his research results, so he immediately took out the official document he wrote and said: "Jiaozhi sent a letter of apology, and the ministers felt that they had no repentance at all, so they wrote a letter of refutation and asked the officials to look at it. ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Zhen took it and saw that the old men were still around his table, so he said with a smile: "Then let's sit down and talk." ”

"Xie Guan's family."

The crowd returned to their seats.

Zhao Zhen took out the official document and glanced at it, nodded and said, "Well, Fan Qing wrote very well, and he was about to show the majesty of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

"If the official family thinks that there is no problem, please cover the jade seal, send it back to the Li Dynasty, and officially declare war!"

Fan Zhongyan said.

"Well, good!"

Zhao Zhen took out the jade seal and covered it.

Since the Han Dynasty, the two countries have had a certain process of sending envoys to each other.

By the Tang Dynasty, the process had evolved into a set of rituals.

According to historical records, during the Tang Dynasty, the two countries sent envoys to each other, and there were three steps.

They are the credential system, the dispatch of envoys, and the handling of envoys after they return to China.

The first step is to send you a letter first, informing the other party that I am going to send an envoy to your country, and you must do a good job of reception.

After the other party replied, the envoy was officially dispatched.

In the end, the envoys returned to their respective countries and expressed the goodwill of the other country to the Tang Emperor.

The same is true when other countries want to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty.

Except for Japan, the rest of the land countries need to inform Datang in advance so that Datang can make preparations for receiving envoys before they can officially send envoys.

The Song Dynasty attacked the Tang system, so the envoy system of the Song Dynasty was basically this process.

It's just that the Song Dynasty was militarily weak and its diplomatic achievements were lackluster.

Therefore, Li Chao still naively thought that as long as he continued to send envoys to the Great Song Dynasty and offered precious white elephants, he might be able to calm the anger of the Great Song Dynasty.

But they obviously underestimated the determination of the Great Song Dynasty to completely eliminate the Yue Dynasty this time.

Seeing the letter of state handed over by Li Chao, Zhao Zhen directly refused the other party to continue to send envoys, which means that there is nothing to talk about, just start a war.

Zhao Zhen covered the jade seal, basically declaring war on the Li Dynasty, which can be said to have decided the life and death of a neighboring country.

"Li Chao is bound to win, and this matter has also been discussed, it is not a big deal."

After he finished stamping the jade seal, he put aside the official document, and in the afternoon he would let the concert institute release it, and then looked at everyone: "Is there anything going on today?" ”

"Official, and this year's reform regulations have all been completed, and they only need to be stamped with a seal before they can be officially issued."

Fan Zhongyan sent a thick stack of official documents again.

In fact, everyone has discussed these things every day during this time, and it is basically a stamping process.

Zhao Zhen took a cursory glance, raised his head and looked around, and saw that everyone had no objections, so he nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then I will officially seal and officially start this year's new policy." ”

As he spoke, he covered the jade seal of the country, and now he is about to become a ruthless sealing machine.

The jade seal is covered.

The Great Song Dynasty would usher in the last reform of the agricultural era.

Everyone's eyes were on the jade seal.

In fact, they also have a lot of opinions on this reform, such as raising taxes on the rich, which also touches their own interests.

But this matter is the easiest to pass, after all, it is a matter of course that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty wants to collect taxes from wealthy households.

It's just that they have finally reduced their tax expenses, and now they are back to the past, which is really unaccustomed.

"Smack!"

Under the seal, the last reform was a foregone conclusion.

"Bang bang bang!"

Zhao Jun was the first to stand up and applaud, and then looked around at the crowd: "Everyone, after this reform, it marks that the Great Song Dynasty is officially about to enter the beginning of the first industrial revolution, and the national steel construction has officially begun, and we can be regarded as entering the initial stage of the industrial period!" ”

"Bang bang bang!"

Everyone also stood up and applauded, which can be regarded as a way of celebration learned from film and television dramas.

"Whew!"

Zhao Zhen took a long breath, and then said with a smile: "It seems that this cover of mine is really full of historic moments!" ”

In this comprehensive reform, steel mills will bloom everywhere, and a new Song Dynasty is about to usher in!

(End of chapter)