After Luo Zhixue inspected the steam engine project team, he went to the steel project team and the machine tool project team.

This steel project is not about studying the mass production of steel, but it is mainly about studying some aspects of steel theory, trying to understand the composition and specific proportions of steel, and finding out what kind of steel is better.
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Speaking of which, I actually prefer chemistry.

The steel research at the Royal Institute of Technology tends to be at the theoretical level, while the applied level is mainly conducted by the Steel Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and various steel plants.

The machine tool project team, what they study is more intuitive. They mainly study various types of machine tools used in industrial production, but they are not specifically responsible for a certain type of machine tools. They are more concerned with studying some basic level things.

For example, transmission, cutting tools, etc.

These things belong to the most basic level of research. If breakthroughs can be achieved, the corresponding technologies can be used in most types of machine tools.

In particular, the cutting tools used in various machine tools are the focus of research at the Royal Institute of Technology.

The performance of the cutting tool directly affects the processing level, especially the processing of steel materials. It is impossible to do without good cutting tools.

In the past, the various types of knives used in the many machine tools of the Dachu Empire were basically made of fine steel one by one by experienced old blacksmiths using mechanical and manual methods.

Whether the knives produced are good or not depends entirely on the craftsmen’s personal experience and even intuition!

Now, the mechanical R&D personnel of the Royal Institute of Technology are trying to create better tools by using more scientific proportions and formulas, thereby obtaining better performance. The most important thing is to increase production.

Many of the above-mentioned studies, no matter whether they are steam engines, steel, or machine tools, in the final analysis are still biased towards research on basic materials and processing.

And it is more inclined to theoretical research.

This is also the field that the Royal Institute of Technology is responsible for and is good at, and it is also the direct purpose of Luo Zhixue's establishment of the Royal Institute of Technology.

The development of science and technology needs to be supported by basic industry, and basic industry needs theory as a support.

When you don’t even understand what basic elements like iron, carbon, sulfur, and oxygen are, you can’t even figure out what the specific ingredients and proportions are in the low carbon steel currently produced by steel plants.

If you don’t even know, then what else are you studying?

Therefore, after Luo Zhixue inspected the three major project teams, he summoned the director of the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Institute of Technology and listened to the research work on various elements led by the Department of Chemistry of the Royal Institute of Technology.

He also praised several researchers who discovered oxygen and carbon through experiments and clarified the combustion phenomenon based on this, and gave them generous rewards on the spot.

The combustion phenomenon is a very basic common sense in the eyes of later generations, but trying to figure out why combustion occurs and what exactly plays a role in it has actually troubled ancient scientists.

Some of the messy myths or philosophical concepts of the ancients, or the messy theories of alchemists, Taoists, etc., cannot explain the nature of combustion.

As for this, researchers from the Department of Chemistry of Da Chu Imperial Institute of Technology knew right from the beginning that combustion is due to the exothermic reaction of the interaction between combustibles and oxidants.

Then Luo Zhixue directly told them that there is oxygen in the air, and oxygen is needed for combustion. The reason why wood, coal and other things can burn is because they contain hydrocarbons.

In the past few years, Luo Zhixue has basically sorted out all the scientific knowledge he still remembers, including chemical knowledge, and then handed it over to the departments of the Royal Institute of Technology for research.

Although Luo Zhixue's knowledge is at a very basic level for future generations, more often than not he only knows a noun or a concept, but he actually doesn't know many things behind this noun.

After sorting out these things and letting the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology look at them, they actually couldn’t understand them...

Luo Zhixue said that there is oxygen in the air, and only with oxygen can it burn... But what is oxygen, and what is hydrogen? What is carbon?

Even... they don't even recognize the word!

The word "oxygen" is a Chinese word for many elements or a Chinese word to describe scientific phenomena. In fact, it is a newly created word in modern times. There was no such word as "oxygen" in ancient times.

The word oxygen probably appeared in 1899!

So when Luo Zhixue said "oxygen", a group of teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology were all confused when they first heard it. They didn't even recognize the word, let alone the meaning behind it.

For the early students at the Royal Institute of Technology, what they called learning was actually just rote memorization. They memorized whatever Luo Zhixue wrote...

Then we conduct various experiments based on the textbooks written by Luo Zhixue, trying to restore some of the phenomena in the textbooks that Luo Zhixue takes for granted.

For example, combustion phenomenon.

Everyone can make a fire, but burning it directly is useless. They have to come up with actual evidence, so they need to design more detailed experiments and carry out the most precise weighing before and after burning.

To a certain extent, the biggest task of the Royal Institute of Technology recently is not to study anything, but to continuously conduct experiments and mathematical calculations to verify many phenomena and even theorems in textbooks.

It is necessary to theoretically and completely explain things like combustion phenomena.

To be honest, this job is very difficult, and even ordinary people cannot do it. Even those with a slightly weaker brain cannot understand many things Luo Zhixue said, because for people of this era, many things Luo Zhixue said are in the

Too abstract.

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This is also the reason why the Royal Institute of Technology only recruits talented people.

If my brain is not good enough, I can’t learn...

As for some application-level research, ordinary people can be used, and this does not require the Royal Institute of Technology. Naturally, there are many research institutions and many factories under the Ministry of Industry.

Luo Zhixue stayed at the Royal Institute of Technology for most of the day, and during the process he invited dozens of outstanding teachers and students from the Royal Institute of Technology to have lunch together. Well, it can also be said to be a banquet.

But except for Luo Zhixue himself, almost no one cared about eating this kind of banquet, or could eat it freely.

Although everyone pays attention to eating and sleeping these days, Luo Zhixue has always been busy, and his schedule is tight on weekdays. He often summons ministers to talk about things in the name of giving banquets...

Although we always talk before and after meals, we occasionally talk while eating.

This made the ministers feel more uncomfortable. This banquet was already more uncomfortable. Luo Zhixue sat on top, and no one dared to eat, so as not to be disrespectful in front of the king. They basically ate whatever they wanted.<

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Then you have to guard against Luo Zhixue saying something while eating, which is even more terrible.

Luo Zhixue seems to be asking a casual question, but if you dare to answer casually, your career will basically be over, so you have to ponder the meaning behind these words in detail, and then organize the most rigorous language to answer.

Under such circumstances, dining with the emperor is definitely not a good job.

Today's banquet at the Royal Institute of Technology was quite large in scale, with more than fifty researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology participating, and more than a dozen senior ministry officials accompanying the inspection.

It’s just that no one ate happily!

However, although eating is not enjoyable, it is very happy for many people, especially those who are scientific researchers.

Regardless of whether it tastes good or not, and how much you can eat, this is a feast given by His Majesty.

Although Luo Zhixue often had meals with his ministers, they were mostly important officials of the empire. Ordinary people did not even have the chance to meet Luo Zhixue, let alone let Luo Zhixue give him a banquet and talk while eating.

The same is true for these worthy people. Luo Zhixue certainly values ​​them. Now, as long as the students of the Royal Institute of Technology successfully enroll, they will be in the ninth grade, and if they graduate successfully, they will be in the seventh grade.

If you are excellent academically, you can still stay in school to teach. Even the most ordinary assistant lecturer is a full fifth-grade officer. The officers and soldiers are from the fourth grade, and then to the associate professor of the fourth grade, from the third grade to the full professor, and then to the deputy director of the department.

The director is of the third grade, the director is of the second grade, and the vice president and dean are both of the second grade.

Although the grades in the education system of the Dachu Empire are the same as the grades in the medical system, they are salary grades and do not enjoy corresponding political treatment.

But this is only limited to ordinary positions, and if you are in an administrative position, you can also be directly transferred to become an official in other official agencies, such as the principal of a government-run junior high school, the director of the ethics and education department of a certain government, etc.

The grades of teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology also fall into this category. They are naturally useless as ordinary students or even ordinary teachers, but after taking up administrative positions, they can also be transferred to officials of other institutions.

A third-grade deputy director of a department can be transferred to each department as director without any hindrance; a second-grade director can be directly transferred to the position of minister or governor of each department.

The dean is on the same level as the ministers!

Of course, for the time being, this kind of thing has not happened at the Royal Institute of Technology, because in Luo Zhixue's view, ordinary officials grab a lot, but there are fewer researchers... He usually adopts more

Extreme methods allow them to conduct scientific research with peace of mind.

For example, salary increases, rewards in the name of the royal family every three days, everything from residence to clothing to security personnel, etc., are all arranged properly, and there will be no shortage of honors. As long as you make research results, you will be awarded the title.

He was given the authority to be a prince, given the authority to visit secretly, the authority to visit him from time to time, and then his mother, wife, etc. were also given the title of Haoming and so on.

It was a festival, and Queen Wang came forward to invite their family to the palace to watch games and play games.

In short, Luo Zhixue is basically willing to give whatever he can.

In the feudal dynasty, the importance of a minister's status had nothing to do with whether he or she held a certain position, but rather, it depended on their status in the emperor's heart.

Several major researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology, their status in Luo Zhixue's heart is much more important than any minister.

Under such circumstances, the actual political status of these teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology is very high.

Because Luo Zhixue pays enough attention to it!

Also because Luo Zhixue attaches great importance to science, except for the Royal Institute of Technology, in fact, other ordinary researchers have relatively high social and even political status.

All officials in the Ministry of Industry, who are third-grade or above, are all from technical backgrounds. Even if they don't know much, they understand technology to some extent.

Officials who don’t know anything about technology will not be able to get up in the Ministry of Industry.

They have also become relatively special technocrats in the Chu Empire. They are not the earliest technocrats in Chinese history, but they are definitely the technocrats with the largest number and greatest influence.

And their influence continues to grow!

Just after Luo Zhixue concluded his inspection at the Royal Institute of Technology, at the Royal Council meeting the next day, Luo Zhixue formally approved the plan to establish the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

According to the plan, many departments in the Ministry of Industry, mainly those related to the management of industries, will be transferred to the newly established Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The Ministry of Industry will subsequently evolve into a purely government-run enterprise management agency.

The management functions of industry and commerce are transferred to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, thus avoiding the embarrassing situation in the past when the Ministry of Industry managed itself.

For example, the Department of Steel is responsible for managing the national steel industry, including private steel companies, and is also directly responsible for managing the direct operations of many government-run steel companies... They are both managers and market participants.

In the early years, because the Chu Empire was not large in scale, for the sake of convenience, all industrial and commercial affairs were directly centralized in the Ministry of Industry, which directly invested and operated various industries, and also introduced various management methods to guide and support the development of various industries.

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To be continued...