Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 936 Autumn Rain
The autumn rain in the south of the Yangtze River is not inferior to the plum rain season. It has been raining intermittently for half a month. The humidity is heavy and cold, and it has no intention of stopping.

But even in such a rainy day, the pier in Huating Town was not deserted at all, and it was full of heat.Cargo ships keep entering and leaving the port, and the special products of the inland states arrive one by one, and then they are unloaded to the shore by the device equipped with iron booms at the wharf, and the porters drive the carriages to transport the goods Store in the warehouse designated by the merchant.

As soon as there is an entry, there is an exit. This side is busy unloading, but other ships are busy loading.Or the timber, rice, spices and other goods from Nanyang were loaded onto ships and transported along waterways and canals to Guanzhong, etc., or Hu merchants’ cargo ships were loaded with silk or porcelain and sailed down the river. The Yangtze River is transported across the ocean to foreign lands.

Busy and thriving.

Fang Jun, Kong Yingda, and the old man Yuming each held an oil-paper umbrella and walked on the cement road at the pier.

Kong Yingda pointed to the iron gantry cranes by the river, and praised: "This thing is extremely powerful and reasonable. It can easily load, unload and move hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cargo on the ship with only one person's power. It is really amazing." clever."

Fang Jun chuckled: "Why, don't you always say that this is a tricky trick, something that can't be put on the stage?"

Since ancient times, craftsmen have been everywhere for fun. In the eyes of reading, all people only need to know the way of sages and sages by reading the Four Books and Five Classics.

The best life is to enjoy farming and reading, grow food in the fields to fill your belly, and then read the books of saints. This is the most perfect world.

A craftsman is the most useless person, as long as a person can eat rice and understand the way of a sage, what is the use of making so many things for pleasure?

Kong Yingda snorted, and glared at Fang Jun: "Is this old man as ignorant as those rotten scholars?"

The old man Yuming was lost in thought, looking at the gantry crane and asked: "Boy, why can such a huge difference be made by just the position of the fulcrum of this mere iron beam? The fulcrum leaps forward, and what is needed to lift the goods The greater the strength, on the contrary, the closer the fulcrum is to the cargo, the less strength is needed... The old man has been thinking hard day and night recently, but he can't figure it out, why did you teach me?"

The old man is a mad scientist, just like his grandson Yuming Lei, when encountering such incomprehensible problems, he has to figure out the truth, otherwise he will not think about food or sleep.

Ever since the gantry crane was erected on the pier, the old man has been very interested in it.

He understood the phenomenon of leverage, but he had never paid attention to it before.Ever since he saw this gantry crane, he began to ponder the reason behind it.In his opinion, this must be the most incredible truth between heaven and earth. As long as one understands the principle, it will definitely be of great benefit to gain a glimpse of the supreme way of heaven...

Fang Jun smiled wryly.

How to explain this?

The law of leverage is there, and he has told this mad scientist countless times.But the old man insisted on getting to the bottom of the matter to find out why such a phenomenon occurred, which would involve profound mechanical problems, and even involve the movement of atoms...

Well, anyway, the scientific principles of this era mastered by the old man Yu Ming cannot be explained no matter what.

The old man was just asking why, while Yu Minglei was even crazier.

Fang Jun told Yu Minglei that an old man in the West said a few hundred years ago - give me a fulcrum in the universe, and I can pry up the earth...

However, Yu Minglei went crazy.

First of all, Fang Jun has said many times that the ground under his feet is likely to be a sphere. Yu Minglei can't understand this point, let alone accept it, but it can be witnessed anyway.He can go on a long voyage by boat and keep going in one direction according to what Fang Jun said. If he can return to the original point, then the ground under his feet will be a sphere, and vice versa.

But even if the earth under our feet is round, how big must it be?

How is it possible for one person to tilt the earth up with a stick?
So Fang Jun asked him to do an experiment.

The Manufacturing Bureau recently trial-produced a super cannon weighing [-] jin. Fang Jun prepared a hard wooden stick and placed a rootstock on the bottom of the cannon, and then asked a craftsman's child to pry the cannon vigorously with both hands. Moved……

Since a child can pry a cannon that weighs [-] jin, then a stick ten times as long can naturally pry something that weighs [-] jin, so can a lever that is countless times as long be able to pry things that weigh countless times? , including the earth beneath your feet?

Yu Minglei's world view instantly collapsed...

This is a mysterious and mysterious experience, just like "there is something outside the universe", it is a phenomenon that cannot be explained or understood by common sense.

Fang Jun expressed regret for Yu Minglei's madness. This child can only slowly free himself from the nest and accept the reality that there are too many things in this world that our cognition cannot explain. No one can help him. .

Kong Yingda was just curious about these things, and what he really cared about was no longer about them.

On the Wusong River, misty and rainy, the hills on the opposite bank are indistinct, like a tiger crouching over a dragon.

The old master sighed and said: "There is news from the capital that His Majesty intends to relocate the Naval Academy to Chang'an, and it is not allowed to set it up in Huating Town."

Fang Jun's heart was shocked, and he lost his voice: "Really?"

Kong Yingda glanced at him, but said nothing.

In terms of the degree of mastery of the news from the DPRK and China, it is naturally impossible for Fang Jun to compare with Kong Yingda who has gone through three dynasties.Although the old lady is old and her influence has greatly declined, her disciples and grandchildren are all over the court, so it is very easy to find out some news.

Fang Jun was silent.

In fact, this has always been something he has been worried about, but he thinks that such a situation will happen after the establishment of the Naval Academy and its influence will increase.

Your Majesty Li Er is worried...

According to Fang Jun's vision, the Naval Academy is almost equivalent to the Naval Military Academy of the Tang Dynasty, and all naval officers will come from here in the future.The person in charge of this school will inevitably have unparalleled influence among these naval officers, which is a great threat to every emperor.

It's not that His Majesty Li Er can't trust Fang Jun, but that he can't trust anyone...

Fang Jun said disappointedly: "Are you going to cancel it?"

Under the auspices of Yu Ming's family, the overall structure of the Naval Academy has basically been completed, and some supporting buildings will be built to add some software, and classes will start in the spring of next year...

Kong Yingda stood still, first looked up at the gloomy sky, then looked back at Fang Jun who looked disappointed, and asked, "Why are you so disappointed? Do you want to use this school to do something?"

Fang Jun said casually: "Of course I have to do something, well, it's not what you think..."

It was only after he said the words that he realized the meaning of Kong Yingda's words.

Fang Jun couldn't help but smiled wryly and said: "We have been in touch for such a long time. Although our family has different generations and ages, we can be regarded as friends who forget the years. Don't you understand the temperament of the younger generation? In fact, the most lazy in your bones, but anyone who can be lazy and push it to others I never fight over other people's affairs, so why would I have such treasonous thoughts? This junior has never had the slightest ambition for that position, so it's clear that he is looking for guilt..."

Kong Yingda nodded, agreeing with Fang Jun's statement.

Such a school for training naval officers will provide unparalleled prestige to the masters of the school, and those who have different ambitions will definitely benefit from it.Fang Jun's loss was not concealed, and Kong Yingda thought that this kid had something on his mind...

If this is the case, it is hard to say that you need to be persuasive.

However, he completely accepted Fang Jun's explanation. This kid is just a lazy guy. Letting him become the emperor is definitely the most uncomfortable torture...

But in this way, Kong Yingda became more and more curious.

"Then why are you so persistent in building such a school?"

The manpower and material resources required for such a grand school are simply astronomical, and it also has to face countless years of investment in the future, which are all real money, and no profit can be seen!
What are you trying to do with such an unrewarding thing?
(End of this chapter)