The decline of social customs and the collapse of rituals and music actually have nothing to do with the extravagance or barking of these carnivores. It is just that the people are miserable. How can they pursue virtue in the midst of hunger and cold?

Zhu Qiyu educates his two children not to be fooled by the shameless speeches of these writers and to understand the nature of how the world works. As for how much the two children can understand, that is not what Zhu Qiyu can decide.

After Zhu Jianji and Zhu Jianshen listened, they fell into a moment of silence. They were not stupid people. They could understand what the Majesty who led the Ming Dynasty to Nirvana was saying.

Zhu Qiyu and his two children stayed in Fuze Street all morning, and then returned to Nantang Villa. In the evening, Zhu Qiyu had to accept the New Year's greetings from the courtiers, and he had to be busy until late at night.

When the fireworks were rising all over the sky, Zhu Qiyu turned on the lime blowtorch on the table and looked at the memorial in front of him. This memorial was written by a student named Wanjieli who was a student of Bai Lin in the Ten Great Calendar Bureau.

Other people's memorials to the emperor during the New Year were all congratulations.

However, Wanjieli's memorial was not like this. He came to ask for funds.

Wanjieli was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, and was a descendant of the Wan family in Cixi. Wanjieli's father was the commander of Ningbo Guanhaiwei and was a hereditary military attaché of the fourth rank.

Wanjieli had been a bit deviant since he was a child. He didn't like to practice martial arts, and he didn't want to pass the civil service examination. He was the second child in the family and didn't need to shoulder the family's mission, so he was admitted to the top ten calendar bureaus and became an astronomy student.

Wanjieli's grandmother was the daughter of Cai's family in Xianyou, Fujian, named Cai Miaoqing. Cai Miaoqing's biological sister Cai Miaozhen was married to Xu Youzhen, a great scholar of the current dynasty, minister of the Ministry of Industry, and censor of the Ming Dynasty's River Patrol.

In other words, Wanjieli wants to call Xu Youzhen his uncle.

Xu Youzhen was an able minister in flood control. Because of the Battle of the Capital and the emperor, Yu Qian's opinions were left to the outside for more than ten years. Xu Youzhen could not help Wanjieli in his career, but Xu Youzhen gave Wanjieli engineering and arithmetic.

help.

Wanjieli's memorial wanted to understand a problem, which is why it is impossible to pump water to more than three feet with Yuheng Cart and Hengsheng Cart.

Yuheng vehicles, Hengsheng vehicles and dragon-tail vehicles are different. The principle of dragon-tail vehicles is the principle of spiral motion, while Yuheng vehicles and Hengsheng vehicles are single-cylinder piston water presses.

The principle of the Yuheng Cart and the Hengsheng Cart are the same, that is, the balance is pulled out from the pillars, and the balance is like a scale rising and falling, and the water in the well rises like a bulge. It is mainly composed of a tube, a column, a scale, and a frame.

In the mine pit of Shijing Factory, neither the Yuheng Car nor the Hengsheng Car could pump out the water in the pit with a depth of more than three feet. The craftsmen tried their best to improve the pillars of the Yuheng Car and Hengsheng Car, that is,

The piston and cylinder wall are closer, but still unable to lift water.

This made Wanjieli wonder, why is it three feet?

In order to figure out this problem, Wanjieli needed a sum of money, about a hundred silver coins. This was originally a sum that could be approved by the Qintian Supervisor. The reason why he reported it to His Majesty was not that it was a large amount.

It was the Ministry of Household Affairs, Hanlin Academy, Imperial College, and Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Ming Dynasty who raised questions after the audit of the Qin Tian Jian. The ten major calendar bureaus spent tens of thousands of silver coins and achieved very few results. There were many criticisms in the DPRK and the Central Government for spending so much money.

, not even a splash can be seen.

Among the scientific research of the ten major historical bureaus, 80% of the scientific research has no results, and many of them end in failure.

This memorial seems to be an application for funds, but in fact it is still a continuation of the dispute between the Imperial College and the Qintian Prison. It is an issue about Zhu Qiyu erecting statues of Mo Zhai in the ten major calendar bureaus. This is asking Your Majesty to be the referee.

Qintianjian cannot defeat Guozijian.

The Imperial College has a large number of people, with more than 9,000 talented scholars or candidates; the Qintian Prison has only ten calendar bureaus, with about 500 astronomy students each year.

Above the Imperial Academy, there were Jinshi, Shujishi, and Wenlin Lang of the Hanlin Academy waving flags and shouting for them. And above the imperial court, there were too many Imperial Academy and Ming Gongs from the Hanlin Academy.

There is nothing in the Qintian Prison, there is only His Majesty the Emperor in the Qintian Prison.

Is it true that the Qin Tian Jian has achieved nothing at all?

During these ten years, Qintian supervised the revision of the "Jingtai Almanac", corrected the errors and omissions in the Ming Dynasty, and provided great help to local officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty, Antu herdsmen, and farmers harvesting grain. If the farming season is wrong for one day, it is a big deal.

Son, the increase in grain production in the Ming Dynasty was not just due to farm methods.

Qin Tianjian imitated the dragon-tailed, Yuheng, and Hengsheng waterwheels. Just the use of the dragon-tailed waterwheel is worth more than tens of thousands of silver coins. There are dozens of dragon-tailed waterwheels in Qingjiangpu, Suzhou. Each car and one person can irrigate three acres of land in one day.

Ten acres of land are surrounded by soldiers, traders, and men of letters, all of whom speak of its goodness.

It is one-sided to say that Qin Tian Jian has no results.

As for the reason for the three-foot problem, Zhu Qiyu knew very clearly that it was actually the atmospheric pressure that was causing the problem.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of ritual vessel called a copper wine-draining vessel with a bamboo handle. It had a long tubular handle, a flat bottom, a hollow spherical vessel shaped like a lotus bud.

The handle is in the shape of four bamboo sections, with hoop-like patterns on the upper and lower sides. The end of the handle is closed and decorated with a dragon head ring.

The surface of the spherical vessel is decorated with budding lotus patterns, with protruding lotus petals. There is a rectangular hole at the second bamboo joint under the dragon head, and there is a round hole in the center of the bottom of the spherical vessel. The two holes penetrate each other.

Insert the wine drinker into the wine, just press it with your thumb and release the air hole to easily draw the wine.

Wanjieli wondered why it was three feet long?

Because the atmospheric pressure is strong, it can only press the water to three feet.

Zhu Qiyu approved this memorial, and later in the year he asked Wanjieli to start researching why there was a problem of three feet.

He wrote in his memorial: [The Yu Heng, the constant rise of water draws three feet, oil is lighter than water, higher than three feet; mercury is heavier than water, lower than three feet, it should be like this.]

As for the wasteful expenditure of Qin Tian Jian and the Ten Calendar Bureaus, Zhu Qiyu did not give specific instructions. He just released an attitude. He supported Qin Tian Jian as always and did not stop the research of the Ten Calendar Bureaus.

The provincial audit of Qin Tian Jian and the ten major calendar bureaus.

The Ming Dynasty had a lot of internal and state funds, but not a cent was redundant. Zhu Qiyu treated corruption equally.

There is a famous saying by Aristotle in the Roman corpus translated by Nicolaus, which is that nature abhors a vacuum.

The meaning of this sentence is: Nature will not allow a vacuum to exist. Once a vacuum occurs, water will fill it, so the water will be pumped up.

Wherever the vacuum appears, water follows.

But it is obvious that with the development of the times, the depth of water drawn by Yuheng and Hengsheng has increased, and Aristotle's explanation no longer makes sense.

Zhu Qiyu provided an idea to Wanjieli. As for where he can go, it depends on his own destiny.

Zhu Qiyu sorted out his work plan a little. In the next days in Nanya, Zhu Qiyu will miniaturize and standardize a room-sized double-action steam engine.

Too bulky and heavy is not conducive to transportation. The more complex the structure, the easier it is to break. The maintenance cost is too high, which leads to increased costs. The inability to standardize accessories is not conducive to production. This type of product is not conducive to promotion and is doomed to fail.

Whether it was the original hydraulic screw stamping machine or the eighty-spindle spinning wheel, courtiers liked to use models to explain the principles, which meant they could be truly implemented.

Miniaturization and standardization are the next steps for steam engines. The day steam engines can enter the Ming Emperor's hand cabinet is the day steam engines can be truly used on a large scale.

This is the logic that Yu Qian always uses to simplify complex problems. Translated, it means four words: the greatest truth to simplicity.

The Spring Festival is a custom in the Confucian cultural circle. Annan also celebrates the Spring Festival, but this year’s Spring Festival in Thang Long City is more solemn and festive than in the past.

Thang Long City has long been dilapidated, but there are still more than 200,000 people gathered there, and with the occupation of Thang Long City by the Ming Dynasty army, the capital is regaining its former vitality.

On New Year's Eve, the streets in Thanglong City were deserted, and all the people gathered in front of the Jiangwu Hall.

Today is the day to behead King Le Yi Min of Annam.

In the huge square in front of the Jiangwu Hall, there were crowds of people. Everyone was quietly waiting for the arrival of three quarters of noon, waiting for the death of the abusive master.

The Ming army wanted to behead Li Yimin in Thang Long City, which was unexpected by the people of Annam. When the yellow list was posted for the people to watch the ceremony, the people of Annam gathered in front of the Lecture Hall and waited quietly.

In the Wu Hall, Duke Chen Mao of Jun, Marquis Yu Qian of Wen'an, Duke Zhang Mao of England, Duke Zhu Yi of Cheng, Duke Xu Chengzong of Wei, Marquis of Dingxi Jiang Wan, Dingyuan Bo Shi Biao, Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Chen Ruyan and others also remained silent.

People gathered in the temple, which was extremely quiet.

Xu Chengzong didn't know how to fight. He came with His Majesty's decree to behead Li Yimin. This time in County Annan, Xu Chengzong didn't put in much effort. He just used military merit and got a Qi Li card to prove that he was also involved in County Annan. He

There is nothing to seek, it is just to prove that he supports and supports His Majesty's resolution.

Chen Mao can completely understand His Majesty's decision to behead Li Yimin in front of the Martial Arts Hall in Thang Long City.

Because Song Zhang, the chief envoy of Fujian, was beheaded in full view of the public, the rebels in Fujian who had stubbornly resisted immediately dispersed like birds and beasts, running away and surrendering, and settled in the southeast.

Killing Li Yimin in Thang Long City had a decisive effect on the long-term peace and stability of Cochin.

Yu Qian can also understand, because His Majesty carried King Jili into the Ancestral Temple in full view of the public, and stabbed him to death in the Ancestral Temple with his own hands. He did not pretend to be someone else's hand, nor did he use the sword or the shadow of an ax to kill him.

Historical unsolved cases such as the Nanya Palace Fire.

His Majesty's journey is upright and upright, as it has always been.

"Yu Shaobao, do you think that guy Li Sicheng will come?" Chen Mao spoke first, breaking the silence.

The reason why it was set on New Year's Eve was to have the fourth son, Li Sicheng, come to Thang Long City to be imprisoned in front of the martial arts hall. The conditions proposed by Li Sicheng were that the abuser Li Yimin died, and the Thanh Hua army could surrender.

In the agreed letter of alliance, Li Sicheng was still the King of Annam, and Li Sicheng's prison sentence was also justified.

However, an unexecuted alliance letter is as worthless as a piece of paper. Whether Li Sicheng is willing to surrender and naturalize is still unknown.

This involves Ming's next strategic deployment.

If Li Sicheng said one thing and did another, Annan, Daming County, would have to rely on twists and turns, but they would be nothing more than twists and turns.

The Ming Dynasty was so powerful that it was far beyond Li Sicheng's strength.

However, the people of Annan can no longer bear the disasters of war. If Li Sicheng refuses to come, the people of Annan will still bear the price.

Yu Qian thought for a moment and said: "If he is willing to come, he will never be able to return to Jiaozhi in his life. If he returns to Jiaozhi, there will be chaos. If he refuses to come, it is just recklessness, so there is no need to worry."

"If he is willing to come, he can go to Tianjin Wei and become an overseas king who does not take matters seriously. If he is unwilling to come, he can only become a bandit."

Chen Mao agreed with Qian's statement. He said somewhat helplessly: "Whether he comes or not is not decided by him alone. If Li Sicheng does not arrive at three quarters, then we will have to suppress the rebellion."

Soldiers are very fast. Chen Mao, Yu Qian and other generals, from the perspective of the country's system and military administration, still hope to complete the battle of Annan in the county within three months to prevent the Yunnan-Guizhou and Guangxi guards from becoming too big to defeat and to support the invaders.

Military leader.

Convert external conflicts into internal conflicts to resolve, and completely conquer the fifteenth Annan mansion.

Seeing the sun getting higher and higher, the faces of Yu Qian and others became more and more serious. Just when Xu Chengzong felt that the atmosphere was a bit solemn, a commander ran into the hall.

"Report! Three thousand Qing Hua troops have arrived at Shenglong Pass! Li Sicheng, Ding Lie and others brought 200 of their own troops to the Jiangwu Hall. They are sixty miles away from the Jiangwu Hall and will take half an hour." The commander-in-chief.
To be continued...