Opening the book, Wu'anguo saw Feng Ziming's explanation of the world, and the opening passage surprised him. "Chu Ci said, 'There are nine levels of the world, who can control it?' Huntian family said: 'The sky covers the earth like yolk', then the earth is round, and the ancients have already said it. Now, I see the sun, moon and stars on the sea. The sun comes from the east and the moon falls west, and the ocean is like an arc. The sun rises and falls on the side of the earth, which is more verified by the ancients. The saying of the roundness of the earth is not contrary to the ancients, but is proven by the sky. Therefore, the boy dares to remember it and wants to use it.

The sights seen on the sea are verified one by one...." With the observation of different locations on the sea, Feng Ziming's descriptions have become more and more detailed, and the views he put forward have become more and more bold. "The ancients said that the earth is in the sky, and its body is round to meet the sky. China should live north of the equator, so the North Pole often appears and the South Pole hides for a long time. When traveling south, the North Pole is one degree lower, and when traveling north, the North Pole is one degree higher. From this, we can see the distance and distance of the sea. Westerners also said this a thousand years ago, and the Yuan people made the theory of the earth round, which they had already mentioned...."

"Stars are not constant, and they move at all times in the four seasons. If they are not earth moving, they are the sky moving. If the earth is not the heart of heaven, then this phenomenon can be solved..."

"The nine out of the direction of Yi but Geng; the two out of the rabbit but not the chicken farm; the three out of seven out of Jia comes from Xin; the four out of the sixth out of Yin does not hide the dog; the fifth out of Gen returns to Qian; the middle winter comes from Xun but not Kun; only in October and twelve months, the Chen goes out of Shen and carefully."

Seeing these conclusions and records, Wu Anguo was also shocked by Feng Ziming's knowledge. This young man is no longer the weak scholar. His vision is no longer limited by the old poetry, books, rituals and music, and transcends the entire era. The younger generation can be said to be, and the younger generation can make people feel relieved. The science of this era is like a sleeping lotus seed. All it needs is that someone gently knocks the dark shell.

After closing the book, Wu Anguo said excitedly: "Ziming, I will leave you a position in the Academy of Sciences. You can choose astronomy and geography. You don't need to respond to the Mao. Just write what you see and get on the sea and send it regularly. You can also entrust private mail to send it to merchants from various places along the coast. How about the article you sent you will be rewarded?"

"Of course, I just discussed with Ziming that if I really can't make travel expenses, I'll use the east and the emperor to express my merits." Shao Yunfei agreed without waiting for Feng Ziming to speak.

"Expressing merit"? The irrelevant words made Wu Anguo stunned.

"Hehe" Shao Yunfei's face turned red and he embarrassedly explained the way to show his merits. It turned out that he saw that there were many strange things in Nanyang. Thinking about the fact that no one in the world was rich but the emperor, he came up with such a way to quickly recover his capital and flatter Zhu Yuanzhang with rare beasts. As long as he was happy, the money would be rolling.

"This is also a solution. The more people you support, the smoother your affairs will be," Wu Anguo smiled and agreed after hearing this. He was not so loyal to the emperor. He cheated and cheated, what's the big deal.

There was no one else in the room, so no one followed suit. Only Feng Ziming looked at the two marquis like profiteers and couldn't tell whether he had been on the pirate ship for a while.

"One of you is a first-class marquis and the other is a fourth-class marquis"!

"Who said that the marquis doesn't need money? We have just made a deal with the emperor, and we are willing to trade, and we are not deceived?"

"Ziming, please collect as many books about other countries as possible. Different ethnic groups have different understandings of the world. There must be my teacher when traveling with three people, and other countries must also have something advanced than us."

"Wuhou's words are reasonable, please wait for a moment." Feng Ziming walked into the captain's room, took out two thick books, opened the velvet shell, and exposed exquisite pictures. He pointed to the picture with his finger at the picture, "Wuhou, please see, this is the sky plate, this is the compass of Hui Hui people, this is the star plate, the Hui Hui people's things are different from us, and they can be said to have different advantages. If we combine them, we can play a greater role. This meter is much better than what we often use. It is a fan-shaped shape, tied to the sea with a travel line of the same length as the entire ship, and then calculate the time with an hourglass. I changed it and used our Beiping hand clock to count the timing, which is more accurate."

"There is also this sea chart, which seems to be painted by ancient Indians. From Guli (Kzhikode on the west coast of India) to Zufaer (Zofar on the east coast of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula), drive in Guli, see the height of the North Star is six degrees and twenty-four minutes (compared to the current degree, the same below). The ship heads northwest, and the ship heads to Mangjiao Nuer (Mengol on the west coast of India) and see the height of the North Star is octave. The ship heads northwest, and the ship heads westward, sails 1,500 kilometers, and in the sea, see the height of the North Star is ten degrees. The ship heads to the westward, sails 2,100 kilometers, and to Zufaer, see the height of the North Star is twelve degrees and forty-eight minutes." Feng Ziming excitedly recited the translated text above, "If it is really correct, this is the African land on your picturesque map."

Pointing to the chart, Feng Ziming said enthusiastically regardless of Wu Anguo's surprise: "One day I can reach there, or even surpass there, look at the world on the other side of the ocean, and move all the books back to you."

"Okay, then I'm much more convenient." Wu Anguo praised happily. With books, we can at least know what the West has developed to now, and the Academy of Sciences has also had a reference object.

Just as Wu Anguo imagined, with books, things in the Academy of Sciences gradually improved a little. After translation of the same liberal arts, these books were circulated like treasures in various subjects. Several times, dragged their tired bodies out of the laboratory of the smelting department, and Wu Anguo saw scholars reading at night. It seems that these people are not blindly rejecting Western learning.

"Hey, Wu Hou is away. Take out the book you hide under your butt, don't sit stinking." Looking at Wu Anguo's back, an assistant teacher (a low-level scholar, from the ninth-grade salary) whispered,

"What's the rush? I haven't finished reading it yet. I'll be there on the market in a few days?"

"Let me see what the ending of the guy who steals his wife is. I will catch the evil and catch the two, and then be chained together to see how Zeus decides."

"The gods in this barbaric country are not serious, and they just do this kind of robbers and dogs all day long."

"Or why are you a barbarian? You can't understand education."

"Yes, King Wen's preface is easy, with Qian and Kun as the leader. The sage said, "Heaven is superior to earth, and the universe is determined. Humble and high are prestigious, and noble and humble are in positions." A barbarian country is a barbarian country. If you do not adhere to the ethics of heaven and earth, even if you have any tricks, you will not be able to enter the elegant hall. Ask me, the first priority of this Academy of Sciences is to understand the principles of the sage's learning as the body and the use of miscellaneous studies, and then you can unfold it." A doctor shook his head and said.

"Shh, whisper, don't be heard by the doctors (eighth-rank salary) from Peking. They are learning barbarian skills."

"What did you learn to do? Steal someone's wife?" A knowing laughter came from the room.

"Don't mess around, those Western books are actually a bit real, this book of "The Horse Sutra" is good." A doctor in the agricultural and animal husbandry reminded kindly.

"Is it their expertise to study breeding?"

The people in the room could no longer help laughing wildly together, and the sounds were heard far away in the darkness.

Wu Anguo could not hear the comments of these boring people, or the original intention of his introduction of these books was to tell everyone that there were things different from us in the world. The carriage had already gone far away and he fell asleep in the carriage. Lao Zhao carefully drove the carriage, trying to avoid the bumps on the road surface, and did not want to wake up this kind-hearted man. The warrior guarded carefully surrounded the front, back and left and right of the carriage, and the carriage was the god of war they admired the most.

These days, Wu Anguo was exhausted for the Ma'anshan smelting farm. He led scholars from the smelting department to solve the reason why good steel was not produced there for a long time. After arriving, he realized that not only did good steel have not produced good steel, but also good iron. The only decent few ingots of iron were refined by weapons replaced in Mu Ying's army.

Officials, minor officials, and supervisors waved their whips and vented their anger with the workers. There was no hope of success or promotion, and they were all released on the workers. The workers here were not like Peking, and they did not have the excitement of going to and from get off work every day, and there was no sign of life on their faces.

On the day of inspecting Ma'anshan, he dismissed all the ambassadors, deputy envoys, and all the big and small staff of the smelting farm, expelled them from the field, and never hired them. This was the right given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang. Then he announced a day off and allowed the workers to have a good sleep and have a good meal.

The next day, he asked the workers of each class to elect the foreman themselves and appointed managers at all levels among the students of the Imperial College. Then he announced the same management system as in Peking, set the salary of the workers, and announced that after the steel was released, everyone would have a share of the reward from the court.

When he returned to the capital, Wu'anguo asked Zhu Yuanzhang alone and told the emperor that in order to create high-quality military weapons, he could not adopt the craftsmanship system like the previous dynasty. With his experience, as long as the premise is placed on unifying the world, Zhu Yuanzhang would usually carefully consider his opinions. This time, he bet right again.

Wu Anguo proposed from the perspective of merchants that only by letting workers and smelting farms benefit together can everyone be united. Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been an apprentice, agreed with his suggestion. "When apprenticeships, whenever there is a good deal, the shopkeeper will still send red envelopes." Lao Zhu was very clear about this point. So when Wu Anguo proposed to use Ma'anshan smelting farm as the target of the state's special procurement rather than the state's special agency, Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment and agreed immediately. In the Ming Dynasty, the ironware monopoly was implemented by officials as a special purchase by the government. The people operated it with their own management. Lao Zhu didn't care about such changes. Moreover, as long as good steel can be produced, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about what method Wu Anguo used.

"As long as you can make steel for me as soon as possible, you can reward the smelting farm as your private property." Listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's anxious tone, Wu Anguo regretted that he didn't take the opportunity to ask for a price everywhere and asked for a share for each of the workers. However, in the end he still won the country as the major shareholder of the smelting farm and gave the specific business management to merchants.

However, what disappointed Zhu Yuanzhang was that he established a smelting farm after the preliminary commercial management system, and scrap iron was refined again in a small-scale experiment. After receiving the report, he did not urge Wu'anguo and rejected the suggestion of the imperial envoy's request for a replacement. If Wu'anguo was not effective, Zhu Yuanzhang would not know who else could be replaced.

Wu Anguo suddenly found himself stumped, stumped by the metallurgy major he was most familiar with.

In his own era, he participated in the demonstration and design of several private steel mills in Huairou. Although they used converter technology, Wu'anguo knew the grade of ore and the proportion of additives.

Zhang Wu was making steel in Yongping, and the ore he dug was actually the ore dedicated to Shougang. Wu'anguo had countless papers discussing how to obtain the best smelting effect.

Jiangnan was not the scope of the design institute he had involved in that year, and he didn't know the ore quality. Judging from the surrounding terrain, it can be inferred that this is a volcanic rock-type deposit, and the grade of iron ore is higher than that of Huairou. However, the pH, phosphorus and sulfur content of this ore are unknown. Moreover, it does not have the most basic reagent to calibrate and detect these parameters.

Except for the balance and measuring cup he "invented" in Peking in recent years, there are no other basic measuring instruments.

Chemical reagents, he only owns concentrated sulfuric acid produced by the Xu family, and is called green alum oil by people in this era.

Suddenly, he remembered the great steelmaking in the past. Without basic knowledge and conditions, what a fanatical dream it was.

It was better to make steel, at that time, at least the entire nation was still crazily. At this moment, almost half of the court was watching the jokes waiting for him.

It would be great if you could have a junior high school chemistry. At least you could let scholars who follow you know that the same iron ore also contains different impurities. At least you can tell everyone that some minerals are acidic and some are alkaline.

I only regretted that I had few books when I was using them, but now there is no book at all.

Wu Anguo could only smile bitterly at this time. He always joked that ancient scholars only knew how to summarize known knowledge, and would not deduce unknowns from known knowledge, and have not made much clever since they were not good at it. The only advantage is that they have absorbed enough book experience. When they encounter problems that are not involved in the book, they will be blinded by themselves.

As soon as he returned to the capital again, Wu'anguo established a laboratory in Zhiwu Department. In the shortest time, he made alcohol (distilled and purified by sojuice), acid water (diluted sulfuric acid), alkali water (sodium carbonate solution), yin gas (oxygen-free air), yang gas (oxygen), and purple flower liquid (used to detect acid and alkalinity. If an alternative product is not found in the case of African litmus, it is also possible to use crabapple flowers) and asked doctors in the chemistry department to record the manufacturing steps. When the knowledgeable Peking students saw that the red elixir turned into mercury in the glass steamer, and the collected gas made the charcoal burn violently, they all opened their mouths wide.

It was like opening a locked gate, and the research enthusiasm of the doctors of Zhiwu Science and Technology surged out. The result of the rushing out was that Wu Anguo was entangled with all kinds of strange questions until he could not explain it himself. Every day when he dragged his tired body towards the carriage, he secretly thanked that he had survived another day. God knew what the scholars who knew about it would synthesize next time.

There is always a harvest. At least through the test solution made of purple petals, Wu'anguo detected that Ma'anshan iron ore was acidic. Previous officials copied the smelting technology from Peking and were all drawn to the cat and tiger. However, the refractory furnace lining was fired from materials specially used in local magnetic kilns and was also acidic.

The refractory furnace lining was improved to alkaline and the chimney height of the iron-melting furnace was increased. The things refined finally could be called steel and iron. However, the quality was still not ideal. When the steel produced in Ma'anshan and the steel from Peking touched, the prototype immediately appeared and cracked.

In theory, this is caused by the excessive amount of phosphorus in steel, but what formula to use to remove excess phosphorus and sulfur has become a problem. The known method in Wu'anguo is to add lime and ferrous oxide to the molten steel. The problem is that more and more will affect the final quality of the steel.

Blind cats occasionally catch dead mice. Since ancient science comes from coincidences, you might as well make a coincidence. Without scientific methods, it is also good to get the results from experiments. Countless failures will inevitably lead to correct one time.

Thinking of failure, Wu Anguo came up with a wonderful idea. He first carefully compared the steelmaking taboo he knew with the equipment of the Ma'anshan smelting farm, and there was no need to repeat the known wrong paths.

Then, the workers were grouped for the experiment, and the five test smelting furnaces were added with different quality reagents, and the rewards were offered at the Academy of Sciences and smelting sites to improve the metallurgical process. As long as the suggestions were adopted, they would be rewarded with 100 taels of silver regardless of whether they were effective or not.

Fortunately, Zhu Er extorted enough money from Goryeo. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Wu Anguo, who was known as the God of Wealth, who asked for more silver liang, and secretly grinned. Why do I look like a boy with money now?

The only thing that satisfied Zhu Yuanzhang was that as time and silver passed, the steel material sent to the imperial case gradually improved.

In the spring of the 14th year of Hongwu, when calcined dolomite powder from Jiangnan specialty was added to the blast furnace and the blast furnace according to the suggestion of Ling Kun, Ph.D., in the blast furnace, Wu'anguo was finally able to decide the entire steelmaking process and formula of the Ma'anshan smelting site.

Although it did not reach the level of steel produced in Peking in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was still very happy. He specially gave all participants ten tables of imperial banquets, ten thousand taels of silver. With steel, it means that the Manufacturing Bureau of the Beijing Ministry of Industry can manufacture new firearms, which means the rapid development of military construction. Looking at the money consumed by the Ma'anshan smelting plant in pain, Zhu Yuanzhang made an amazing decision.

In February of the spring of the 14th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the various governors of the Iron and Metallurgical Office, and ordered the people to obtain their own chariots and take two of them every thirty tens of them as taxes. The customs strictly prohibited the steel from leaving the customs. Wang Yundao, an official from Guangping, said: "Cizhou produces iron, and the Yuan Dynasty was appointed to the officials, and the annual collection of more than one million kilograms is collected. Please be the same as before." Yuanzhang, as the people's livelihood was settled, the re-establishment would be redisturbed and the staff would flow overseas. The son-in-law Wu'anguo advised: "There are fewer officials who have the benefits to officials, and many who have harmed the people, so they should not be opened again.

", the emperor promised it and warned all officials, "If anyone dared to revisit the official, he would be exiled for fifty feet and three thousand miles." At the end of the month, the official engraved the "Smelting Classics" written by the Academy of Sciences, and announced the world. The people were asked to improve the smelting methods in various places and adapt to local conditions. (Note from the Drunk Master: In the 18th year of Hongwu in official history, Zhu Yuanzhang used the state's iron ore to harm the people and abolished all smelting farms that were sold by the state. Later, for various reasons, the inheritors were gradually restored.)

In March of the spring of the 14th year of Hongwu, Li Shanping, the Marquis of Zhongyong, was promoted to the Minister of Works, and was in charge of the Beijing Manufacturing Bureau. Shanping was given a leg skill and was appointed as the deputy director of the Ministry of Works. Zhou Wuyou, the deputy general of Peking, was appointed as the representative of the government.

On April 14th summer of the 14th year of Hongwu, the army of southern pacification was completed. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Mu Ying to lead his army to Sichuan, and dispatch the generals of the Zhenbei Army to enter the north, Dingxi, and Andong Xiang to handle military affairs, and assist the generals in training the new army. The Marquis of Yongming Li Ling was ordered to enter the northern army of Wei and Datong, Wu Yi Bo Zhang Zhengwu entered the western army of Dingxi Army, and Anle Wang Hao entered the Andong Army to station in Jinzhou. King Yan Zhu Di asked Zhu Yuanzhang not to damage the combat effectiveness of the Zhenbei Army on the grounds that the war in the north was not over. Zhu Yuanzhang refused to listen and issued an order to select suitable talents to fill the gap.

"If this continues, the family of Zhenbei Army will be empty," Zhou Wuyou said with concern when chatting with Wu Anguo in private.

"It's too hasty, but who can persuade me? Now the emperor has been knocked out by the victory of Liaodong, and I wish I could unify the world tomorrow. Your job is not easy to do, and each army is rushing to get equipment." Wu Anguo had long expected that Zhu Yuanzhang would do this. If he didn't disperse his power, the emperor would not stop. Zhou Wuyou was shocking the old friend of the Northern Army. Although the two spoke casually, they were not as good as saying anything.

"It's good that this is the case. If you go out with a lot of seeds, you will have more hope to be ignited." Looking at the north covered by the dusk mist, Wu Anguo thought secretly.

"I'm not worried about creating a situation. When I came, I asked a few of his confidant generals from the scholar Tie Dan, which was enough to support the overall situation for me. What I was worried about was you." Zhou Wuyou stood next to Wu Anguo and patted his shoulder with his feet up.

"I"?

"Yes, I always think that Brother Wu is a person with a genius. With your own power, these genius may not be able to work. In Peking, there are a group of brothers to help you. Here, you are almost alone to support the overall situation. Brother Wu, don't think I'm so ugly. Once you fall down, you may be afraid that these new things will slowly disappear. The scholars and officials look down on these strange techniques and tricks, and the people will not summarize them. How many amazing skills have disappeared from ancient times, just like this." Zhou Wuyou looked at Wu Anguo's haggard face and said sincerely.

Turning his head, Wu Anguo saw the concern of his friend in Zhou Wuyou's eyes, smiled and asked, "Wuyou, what are you good ways?"

"I think it is a good way for the emperor to publish your experience in improving the Ma'anshan smelting farm this time to issue the world. The ancients emphasized making words. Even if their behavior was not understood by the world for a while, as long as the words were passed down, they would eventually find the right time to spread it. When the saints traveled around various countries, no one accepted them. But later generations still used the saints' words as the foundation for establishing a country."

"You mean to let me write down everything I know"?

"Yes, when talking to you, you can always hear some new things. You don't understand them at first, but you can understand the mystery after you explain them. You can't let everyone ask you. Some new discoveries from the Academy of Sciences should also be published to let the world know. Peking Academy is much more clever in this regard. All the things they study are needed by factories and merchants around them, and they spread very quickly."

"This is a good idea," Wu Anguo thought silently. There is no basic books on physics and chemistry that he needs. Why can't he write one? It's just how to write it so that it won't exceed the understanding of this era? It's impossible to let future generations see all the academic knowledge Wu's theory. Besides, before the basic theory was accepted, how can he explain the knowledge he learned? After all, people now know less than ten kinds of pure metals, let alone the periodic table of elements. If they write it out, in this era when they only believe in the real objects, what methods can they use to prove the existence of these elements?

Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Zhou Wuyou asked again: "What are Brother Wu worried about? Are Brother Wu afraid that he will teach his disciple to starve his master to death?"

Wu Anguo smiled and said, "No, it may not be so easy for me to starve to death. I am thinking that what I have learned is too complicated, so where should I start?"

"Don't be too rigid about form, just like the Analects of Confucius, it's just a dialogue between master and apprentice, but it's all inclusive."

"Okay, Wuyou, just as you said, but I can't write official articles, I only know the oral words of the people." Wu Anguo knew his ancient literature very well and said it with concern.

"If you can read Brother Wu's miscellaneous studies, you will not be a talented man who is well-educated. Brother Wu can rest assured. What the people say is better. Whenever Bai Juyi wrote a poem, he must read it to the old woman on the street. Therefore, Bai's poems were so widely circulated. If you really want Brother Wu's knowledge to be spread, you have to use the vernacular language of the people."

"Is that?" Wu Anguo smiled happily. Zhu Yuanzhang put himself in this position and wanted to squeeze out his miscellaneous studies. Why didn't he take advantage of this opportunity to spread the seeds of science all over the world? Using unfavorable factors to play a favorable role. Suddenly, his eyes were suddenly cheerful and his whole body became relaxed. Yes, everything was developing too smoothly after he came to this era. He never encountered great resistance, so he was defeated again and again in front of Zhu Yuanzhang. If he took advantage of all favorable factors, there would be adversity. Anyway, the goal he pursued was not power, and what Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to give was exactly what he didn't want, and what Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use was exactly what he wanted to spread.

Suddenly I remembered the fact that students from Peking secretly told themselves that some scholars read ancient Greek mythology as pornographic novels. In fact, why bother to care about how they interpret it? As long as they read it, they will gradually accept the gods with seven emotions and six desires, and will subtly accept the spirit of resistance contained in those stories, accept the aristocratic democracy contained in them, and mix the influence of Western culture in the elders and the superiors they recognize. Isn’t what I hope is that Eastern culture can open its mind and integrate with the water of Western culture?

Wu Anguo's heart was getting more and more relaxed, and even the distant sky became more beautiful. The gorgeous sunset was like a ball of flames, igniting the entire sky.

In the summer of June of the 14th year of Hongwu, Feng Ziming returned from the South China Sea and offered thunder dragons (giant lizards) and two white tigers. The ministers said that they were auspicious. Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said, "This is a common thing overseas, and there is no auspiciousness." He rewarded Feng Ziming with 50,000 taels of silver. Thinking of the jokes he had with Wu'an Kingdom back then, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the establishment of the Ming Dynasty Royal Zoo on the small island in the middle of Xuanwu Lake. People could watch it at will. If there were any rare beasts in each palace, they could be placed in the garden.

At that time, King Guangren of Peking offered strange beasts, including deer antlers, horse faces, cow hooves, and donkey tails, and all the ministers did not recognize them. Yuanzhang asked Wu'anguo to ask, and Wu Hou was writing books at home. When he saw this beast, he felt something and smiled and said, "The name lies in his body. This is the four different images, which are the ancient elks."

Note from the Drunk Master: 1. Before the Yuan Dynasty, the ancient Chinese believed that the earth was a circular sphere, but this theory was not widely circulated. The Ming Dynasty's Astronomy chapter on the theory of earth's roundness was systematically discussed.

2. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an order to abolish the official iron smelting and silver pits and abolish the state-owned metal mining business. Later, the successors responded one after another through various interfaces. Some scholars from ancient and modern times were not good at managing, but they were always very good at how to plunder the wealth of the people.

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