Ming Zuo

Since the Academy of Social Sciences moved to Yanjing, the Academy of Engineering Sciences has ushered in an era of great development.

Not only did it annex the old site of the Academy of Social Sciences, but it also more than doubled its area, so that it even extended to the depths of Mount Tai.

In this way, the entire east of Jinan City, including the Academy of Engineering, Central University, Imperial Medical University, Imperial Industrial University, Imperial Normal University and other colleges and universities are all concentrated in this area, which also makes it a veritable imperial academic center.

If the military ensures the security of a country, and politics guarantees the stability of a country, then science and industry guarantee the upper limit of a country.

Especially in this era of great development, countries and nations must not rest on their laurels.Otherwise, you will definitely be surpassed by others, and you will be reduced to a desolate situation where you will be beaten if you fall behind.

Therefore, Zuo Menggeng attaches great importance to science and industry, no matter how busy his daily work is, he always cares about the progress of various disciplines.

"At present, we have cultivated penicillin and demonstrated the effect. The next difficulty lies in the purification and mass production of penicillin. We have been conducting experiments in the several directions mentioned by His Majesty. I believe that in time, it will definitely benefit the entire nation. .”

At the Medical Research Institute, the person in charge of the penicillin project is Lu An's disciple Yu Qingyan.

Although this young girl is taciturn, she has a stubborn tenacity in scientific research.

After learning about the effects of penicillin, she vowed to develop this life-saving drug in her lifetime.

The help Zuo Menggeng can provide is only one-sided information learned by later generations.But for researchers in this era, there is no doubt that it is a guiding light.

Although there are still many difficulties in the purification and mass production of penicillin, in terms of progress, it is of course an achievement across the ages.

Looking at Yu Qingyan, who was extremely thin because of being busy with scientific research, Zuo Menggeng encouraged him generously.

"It seems that we will have another precious national soldier."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone undoubtedly envied Qingyan.

In the empire, what a national scholar means is very clear to everyone.

Although Yu Qingyan was silent on the surface, she was more convinced in her heart that she wanted to speed up the research on penicillin.

"Cinchona cream is really effective in treating malaria as His Majesty said. However, we also found through research that malaria parasites will develop drug resistance. Therefore, it can only be used as an initial treatment drug. For a complete cure, Artemisia annua is the first choice. "

The Medical Research Institute has achieved fruitful results, and another student of Lu An, Fang Heng, also completed the comparison between Cinchona Cream and Artemisia annua.

In this way, malaria, a disease that has plagued human beings for thousands of years, can be regarded as conquered by the medical workers of the empire.

Also bringing advances in medical technology is the Institute of Precision Instruments.

According to the classification, this institute belongs to the mechanical department, but it also intersects with the medical profession.Therefore, the medical device department was placed next to the medical research institute, so that medical researchers can communicate at any time.

The biggest achievement of the Institute of Precision Instruments so far is to increase the magnification of the microscope by about [-] times, allowing medical researchers to find more subtle lesions.

The rest of the supporting tools such as scalpels, stethoscopes, and suture needles and threads are even more innovative, and Zuo Menggeng is also somewhat shocked by the high precision.

Zuo Menggeng thought of something and went to other R&D departments.

Sure enough, since the precision of medical devices can be improved, other tools and devices will naturally improve accordingly.

This is the beauty of modern science.

Many disciplines are interrelated, and often a breakthrough can drive the improvement of related disciplines.

"Please look, Your Majesty, this is our latest production line of bullets, which can make the bullets of firing pin guns accurate to the millimeter level. We have conducted shooting tests with newly manufactured bullets, and only one bad product will appear in every thousand rounds of bullets." .At present, we are studying the combination of steam engine and production line. If successful, we can reach the scale of producing [-] rounds of bullets per day."

Hearing this data, Zuo Menggeng couldn't help being speechless.

"Good guy, the production of rifles will not be able to keep up with this."

Zuo Dai accompanied him, and smiled wryly.

"The precise manufacture of gun barrels is more difficult than bullets. We have invested the strongest strength and a lot of money to achieve a breakthrough within three years so that the entire army can use better rifles."

The firing pin gun was better than the Minie rifle, everyone saw it.

It's a pity that only the second division has completed the refitting of the three regiments, and most of the troops in the army still use Minie rifles.

How could the chiefs of those troops be reconciled, they almost stepped through the threshold of Zuo Dai's office.

To please, to threaten, to insult, to give gifts, all kinds of tricks, just want to make this equipment master give priority to his own troops.

Zuo Dai was also very annoyed, so he simply hid at the research institute.

Anyway, the guards here are heavily guarded, and no one who has nothing to do with it can't come in at all, so he was a little quieter.

Compared with him, Bi Maokang is much more relaxed.

The biggest contributor to the launch of the spring is now in a semi-retired state.In view of his advanced age, Zuo Menggeng personally persuaded him to be the director of the Institute of Special Materials.

The daily focus is on administrative work, and by the way, bring along newcomers, and no longer take root in the front line.

Bi Maokang is very fond of his current job. After his old wife passed away, he didn't even go home and lived in the research institute.

"At present, our work mainly has two aspects. One is to continue to develop springs with higher strength, and the other is to study spring steel plates. If this is successful, the carrying capacity of the vehicle will be increased by more than three times, and the shock absorption effect will be better. good."

The biggest function of the shock-absorbing steel plate is to mount it on the bearing, so that the vehicle can carry more things, and at the same time improve the shock-absorbing effect on rough roads.

This is a request made by the military under enormous logistical pressure.

The most important thing is that this research project has not been instructed by Zuo Menggeng, it can only be said that it is inevitable for development.

Zuo Menggeng picked up the experimental sample and found that it was almost indistinguishable from the shock-absorbing steel plate familiar to later generations.Since it can't be put into use, it can only show that there are many deficiencies in steel materials.

In order to improve the quality of steel, there is no doubt that it involves material science.

But no matter in any era, the mention of materials science is enough to cause headaches.

Because there are no tricks in this subject, the best ratio can only be explored through experiments again and again.

Or when luck strikes, a blind cat meets a dead mouse and discovers the best ratio, which is enough to celebrate.

When Zuo Menggeng walked into the Materials Research Institute, he found that all he could see were 35-year-old social talents. He couldn't help but smile in his heart, and at the same time secretly decided that he must improve the salary of the Materials Research Institute.