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Volume 4 of the Ecstasy Chapter 20, Great Academy of Sciences

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    In his previous life, Shi Xun was just an ordinary liberal arts student. His math, physics and chemistry skills were at a passing level. He could barely remember the patterns in "Civilization" on how to climb the technology tree But  After all, I once lived in an era of advanced technology. Not to mention having received nine years of compulsory education, even "One Hundred Thousand Nothings" that I read when I was a child could kill all the naturalists of that era.  The most important thing is that he knows the basic trajectory of historical development in the following two thousand years, especially the development of social forms. He understands what the limitations of himself and the times are, and where he can try to break a gap, thereby laying the foundation for China to value science.  The seeds of technology.  I have also read many time-travel novels in my previous life. The protagonist relies on his science and engineering skills to travel to ancient times to make iron, steel, and guns. In fact, that is all nonsense.  Think about "Lingao Qiming". Five hundred people planned for years, accumulated a large amount of materials, and then traveled together to the seventeenth century when the industrial age had already emerged. At least 40% of these five hundred people were purely technical personnel.  It took six or seven years of hard work to climb the technology tree to the beginning of the 20th century Besides, the development process of this book was not completely without gold fingers.  Now, if we want to rely on him to lead China into a new era, isn't that just wishful thinking?  Shixun knew that if he wanted to sow the seeds of science and attract more people who were interested in development, two prerequisites were indispensable: First, agricultural production had made great progress and there was a certain amount of wealth in food.  If we don¡¯t have enough to eat, who will have the energy to develop industry?  Industrial technology may not necessarily be able to quickly feed back agriculture.  Second, early-stage scientific research must be intuitively utilitarian. Scientific research is a gold-swallowing beast. Not to mention the lack of profits, it will not be able to attract investment partners. If the research cannot be converted into money as soon as possible, even he himself may not be able to sustain it.  Therefore, it starts from agriculture.  This era was originally an agrarian society. Promoting agricultural development was politically correct and would not attract any opposition. After Shixun took charge of Zhongshu, it was also convenient to mobilize the power of the whole country to improve production levels.  In the Han Dynasty, Da Si Nong was set up as the highest administrative officer responsible for agricultural production. He was responsible for the duties of the captain of the grain search, waiting for agricultural orders, observing agricultural orders, encouraging farmers, etc.  There are a lot of officials who work around agriculture.  But the problem is that the main business of these officials is often just tax collection, and assisting farmers and persuading farmers are secondary functions attached to taxation. For example, when Zheng Xuan became the chief minister of agriculture, his position was closer to that of the Minister of Finance in later generations.  Minister of Non-Agriculture.  When Shixun formulated the official system of the Wei State, he deliberately established a new Department of Hou Agricultural Affairs in the Ministry of Household Affairs.  The main task of various localities' separate agricultural assistance orders is to increase the yield per mu of agricultural mulberry industry in the areas under their jurisdiction.  There are many ways to improve agricultural production. Traditionally, the main methods are to reclaim wasteland and build water conservancy projects. Only a few local officials will find other ways to invent and promote agricultural machinery or even new agricultural technologies. For example, Zhao Guo, a famous agronomist in the Western Han Dynasty.  Shixun first sent people to search and sort out descriptions of Zhao Guo's achievements in documents such as "Hanshu Shihuo Zhi", "Salt and Iron Theory", Cui Shi's "Political Theory" and other documents.  It was compiled into a book and served as a guiding document for the Department of Agriculture. Then, local agricultural assistance orders were required to summarize the advanced local experience and submit it to the central government every year. On the one hand, it served as the basis for examinations, and on the other hand, it also made overall arrangements and tried to promote it.  Of course, this alone is not enough. Even if the level of agricultural technology is directly linked to the performance appraisal of the agricultural assistance order or even the Minister of Agriculture, after all, this is an official matter, and officials may not be too concerned about it.  Shixun himself is also conducting various agricultural experiments in several of his family's farms. Anyway, his main source of wealth is not land. Even if he fails every year, he will not go bankrupt. His father-in-law, Guan Hai, has given him a lot in this regard.  s help.  The most important experiment is to introduce special species.  Try planting in the Central Plains.  This caravan often traveled to the Western Regions. In addition to livestock and rare goods, President Shixun asked them to collect species from various places. Even when Qin Lang traveled to the Japanese lands, Shixun also ordered him to bring back some of the Japanese crops.  Qin Lang asked at that time, what good things could be found in that poor and remote place?  Shi Xun smiled and said: "It is said that Huainan is orange and Huaibei is zhi. How do you know that barnyard grass on the other side cannot enter the Central Plains to make sorghum? If you don't try it, how can you know?" In fact, he still had some words in his heart that he did not tell Qin Lang.  disclose.  Because he was afraid that the boy wouldn't understand, he would say in vain, "Son, do you know what hybridization is?" Shi Xun understood that Tanaka would gain little after all.  If you want to make a fortune, you can't just rely on farming, so on the way to making a fortune, he did not spend a lot of effort to purchase or even annex land. The so-called Jiazhuangyuan is just a farm in the suburbs of Luoyang, Xuchang, Qiao, Tan and other cities.  There are only six or seven places in total, and I want to try new species.  The area covered is a bit too narrow.  Fortunately, he had good relations with many local families. While dragging them onto industrial and commercial ships, he also induced them to try planting new plants.  What families are there?  The Central Plains area includes not only the old clans such as the Sima clan in Hanoi, the Wang clan in Langye, the Pei clan and the Dong clan in Hedong, but also the new nobles such as the Xiahou clan in Cao Cao, the Du clan in Guanzhong, the Tao clan in Donghai, and the Ju clan in Zhao Guo; in addition, Yangzhou has people like  The ""The four surnames of Wu" include the Anlu Huang family represented by Huang Zu and Huang She's father and son in Jingzhou, and the Zhang family represented by Zhang Zhongjing in Xiangzhou. There are nearly a hundred families, large and small. Previously, he succeeded in conquering Shu. He made Sima Yi take charge of the internal affairs of Shu.  He also sent his son-in-law Xia Houwei and his disciple Tian Pengzu to help, and gave them the task of finding suitable agricultural, industrial and commercial partners for me in Yizhou and Yizhou.  , Bu Zhi, ask them to help contact Shi Xie Of course, the reason on the surface is very high-sounding: "The Shi family has been a pastoralist for a long time, and has a desire for separatism. If it can communicate with Chinese scholar-bureaucrats, use industry, commerce, and agricultural skills  If you seduce it, it will naturally return to your heart.  ¡± So what are the benefits of trying to plant new species? The example is also obvious. It was Ling Gong who sent people to Sichuan to get tea, and then it became popular all over the world. People from Yang and Fujian tried to plant it, such as the tea of ??Taitai and Wuyi.  Traveling all over the Central Plains, isn't that money pouring in? Besides, even if the new species cannot be widely promoted, as long as you grow it in your own farm, you can not only try it, but also give it to your relatives and friends to show off what it means to the scholar-bureaucrats.  For those who are not landowners, it is quite attractive. It is a pity that there is no place to dig out corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes these days No matter how powerful the Donghai Navy is and continues to develop, there will be no one or two hundred.  It is estimated that it will not be possible to sail to the Americas The innovation and development of agriculture is a long-term project, and establishing a new species in the Central Plains is not something that can be done in three or five years. Shixun also collects various talents and works at home.  An experimental area was set up in the farmyard to conduct research on machinery, metallurgy, fuels, materials, etc. The money thrown away in this area was lost, and the results may not be seen quickly, so it was my son who was the most successful.  What I don¡¯t understand is that the old man is just satisfying his personal interests. In fact, there is no essential difference from others who like to keep beautiful women, hide treasures, or hunt day and night Besides, Dad, if you only like to play.  That's all. If you lose your ambition by playing with things, it would be too bad! Do you think you can enjoy your old age? You have to think about my son, don't leave a mess for me.  Gunpowder was once "invented" and played a considerable role in assisting Cao Cao's unification war. However, now that Western Shu has been destroyed and the Kanto Rebellion is coming to an end, all the ministers thought that we should let horses go to Nanshan and forge swords into plowshares as new weapons.  Just stop doing it. The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Revenue have offered an olive branch to Ma Jun many times, and have also told Zhuge Liang that they want to transfer Ma Deheng to their department to concentrate on researching production equipment.  Ma Jun, a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Agriculture, had previously designed waterwheels for the villages under the Ministry of War and restored Zhao Guo's plow. If he used it to help farmers, even Zhuge Liang himself planned to put the research and development of gunpowder on hold.  After coming down, fortunately, the original owner of this mess was my teacher. He came to ask Shixun for instructions before the Eastern Expedition. Shixun said: "You think gunpowder can only be used in battle formations?"  This means that if a leaf blocks your eyesight, you cannot see Mount Tai.  In the past I used gunpowder wrapped in paper and it exploded. If I studied it carefully, how could I know that one day I would not be able to crack rocks?  Then use it to open mountains, level roads, and make canals.  You can get twice the result with half the effort.  Zhuge Liang immediately asked: "Gunpowder can support combustion, push objects, and explode, but objects have their uses."  There is also an extreme. Do you really think that if you grind it carefully, you can crack the stone?  Shi Xun nodded: "Yes."  "He said in his heart that the explosive power of black gunpowder is just that, and it is completely incomparable with yellow gunpowder. But in this era, it is already quite scary. Now the research on gunpowder has just started. How can we stop here? " Kong Ming  He is a person who respects teachers and Taoism, and Shi Xun is somewhat "wisdom and almost evil" in these years, so since it is Xun who has spoken, Zhuge Liang dare not not listen, and he has no intention of not listening, so  Only then did the gunpowder research and development department remain. However, gunpowder is an important weapon of the military. Because of the leakage incident, Cao Cao directly arrested and executed Xie Zheng. This technology can only be mastered by the imperial court, and even temporarily can only be mastered by the Ministry of War.  I can't get involved anymore, but even if he wanted to, it's probably that his little knowledge wouldn't be able to advance things any further. Shi Xun had to do something else, the most important thing was fuel.  He really regretted it, hoping to obtain higher temperatures so that he could advance iron-making technology. In theory, China was once full of small blast furnaces, and even if most of the steel produced was scrap steel, today it would be a waste.  Months are enough to become a magic weapon Why don¡¯t he have any knowledge in this field? He hopes to produce several new technologies on his own, and successfully apply them to production, so that the scholar-bureaucrats will be familiar with them?  The economic benefits generated will be eye-watering. Only then can we try to push private scientific research institutions to various places, or even to the imperial court, to establish a "big science academy" or something These things must involve Shi Xun's considerable influence.  energy, so I was dissatisfied. I mentioned it to my father several times, and he said that? He was on the sidelines and refused to clearly explain why he was engaging in these "useless" tricks.  It was said that this day was the time for Fu and Huan Fan to have a meal. Finally, when Shixun returned home, he went to pay an audience. Shifu told his father everything about Lu Hong's request and the countermeasures he had planned.  Shi Xun pondered for a moment, and couldn't help but sigh sadly: "I have only known Ci Fan for a long time, but you are urging me to kill him I really can't bear it." Shi Xun said again, that guy knows about us.  There are too many, and he is a notorious spy chief. It is impossible for us to keep him at home as a guest. We cannot use him or keep him. Is there any other way besides getting rid of him?  "Master, don't be kind to women." Shixun shook his sleeves: "What are you saying? I don't want to hear such evil words!" (To be continued.) Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotia.  net
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