Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 204 The essence of science is to boil water?
Based on the news of several gold and silver mines overseas, you want to take away [-] million taels of silver?

Even if there is news of overseas gold mines and silver mines, don't we have to send troops to fight them down for our Daming?If you want to send troops to fight it down, don't you have to let the Five Armies Governor's Mansion expand its army first?

Is it stupid to be Motobudo?

Also, my little Nier has been raised by him for 17 years, but he has already been targeted by Zhu Erdan?
Well, Yu Gong, I, Liu Huaiwen, lost my hair for your old Zhu family in the court, and Yu privately, your brother of Emperor Zhu is going to abduct my little Nier to elope?
It's so bullying!

The more Liu Huaiwen thought about it, the more angry he became: "If Zhu Erdan dares to elope with my little Nier, I will break his leg!"

Zhu Jinsong's face immediately darkened: "Uncle Huaiwen, I said Erdan kidnapped my little sister, but I didn't say that he dared to abduct my little sister and elope, right? If he has the guts, I'll break his leg first." , it’s never your turn.”

Liu Huaiwen snorted dissatisfiedly: "Why can't it be my turn? If he gets married with Xiao Nier, I will be his father-in-law. Isn't it natural for a father-in-law to beat a son-in-law?"

Zhu Jinsong also snorted: "All right, all right, I won't argue with you about this, anyway, I will give you a maximum of [-] million taels from the treasury, and the rest must go to the internal funds, and I will invest more in the Royal Academy and universities , without this money, what do you want me to do with it?"

Liu Huaiwen was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Forty million taels, all of which went to the Royal Academy and the University?"

Zhu Jinsong nodded and said, "I want to turn the 400 million taels into [-] million taels, half of which will be put into the Royal Academy, and the other half will be used for the construction of government schools and universities."

"It's not too late to smash it now. If it takes another few hundred years and other savages develop, even if we want to spend money on it, I'm afraid there will be no results."

Now is indeed a good time to spend money, because the technological level of the world is what it is. Daming has achieved a lead in many aspects, and the next thing to do is to continue to spend money to maintain the advantage.

If it was later in the evening, when other countries developed and built their own patent barriers, even if Ming wanted to spend money, it would be difficult to get any results.

It's just that Liu Huaiwen still feels distressed-that's [-] million taels of silver!

As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black. After being with Zhu Jinsong for a long time, Liu Huaiwen also likes to study other people's things. , change those who are not good.”

Liu Huaiwen has communicated with Pierre, Macartney, Thomson and others, and has studied how the financial systems of Britain, France and the Silly Eagle family work.

The problem is that Liu Huaiwen feels suspicious of life just because he has studied it.

Although these countries also attach great importance to education and scientific research, they have never heard of anyone spending money on infrastructure and basic education like Daming.

For example, these countries' investment in education accounts for about [-]% of their fiscal revenue, which still includes basic education and higher education, while Daming only spends on basic education such as social studies and county studies. The investment accounted for about [-]% of the fiscal revenue.

Now Emperor Zhu feels that spending money on infrastructure and basic education is not enough, and he wants to spend money on scientific research and university education?

After thinking about it, Liu Huaiwen couldn't help but persuade: "Your Majesty, after all, this money didn't come from a strong wind. There is only one He Zhongtang in the world. After all this money is spent, what should we do in the future?"

But Zhu Jinsong said: "So I want to use these [-] million taels of silver to make money—as long as the Royal Academy can maintain its leading position in the world, the treasuries of other countries will be our Daming's leeks."

"For example, it is precisely because the steam engine produced by the Royal Academy is more advanced than that of the barbarians in Europa, so they have to buy it from us, and it is precisely because the percussion gun produced by the Royal Academy is more advanced than the flintlock gun, so we can use the percussion gun sold all over the world."

Liu Huaiwen also accepted Zhu Jinsong's statement.

After a while, Liu Huaiwen raised his head, looked at Zhu Jinsong and said, "Let's talk about the gold and silver mines."

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Being emperor is a tiring job.

Although the wives are stunning beauties who are selected by one in a million or even one in a million, although they are rich all over the world, their words are easy to follow, and a word can rejuvenate a country, and a word can destroy a country, but being an emperor is really tiring.

Just like now, Zhu Jinsong had just been knocked away by Liu Huaiwen for [-] million taels of silver on his front foot, and his back foot was entangled by Liang Xiude, the leader of the Royal Academy.

The purpose of Liang Xiude's coming to find Zhu Jinsong is very simple: the current oil reserves of Daming can't be said to be not enough, but rather insufficient, even the Royal Academy's consumption can't meet it.

Don't doubt why the word oil appeared in Daming, because Shen Kuo, who wrote "Mengxi Bi Tan" was the first to name oil, and the time dates back to the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

"Mengxi Bi Tan Petroleum": There is oil in the territory of Yan and Yan, and it is said that "Gaonu County produces fat water", that is... I know that the smoke is available, try to sweep the smoke into ink, the black light is like paint, and the pine ink is not as good Also, this thing will be popular in the world.

And that's just the name of the oil.

For the application of oil, historical records can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. According to the "Hanshu" records, in the northern Shaanxi area of ​​the Western Han Dynasty, local people began to collect and use oil to make fire.

In the Han Dynasty, Zhongyuan Tangkou began to use it to illuminate and lubricate the axles. Even since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, oil had once become a good medicine for Chinese medicine to treat hair loss and other diseases. In the Song Dynasty, graphite and paraffin made of oil were even richer. Indispensable luxury for class.

Of course, based on the principle that all good things should be used first in the military, the most important use of oil is still fighting.

Compared with the scene where the ancient Greeks used oil to ignite on the battlefield, Zhongyuan Tangkou developed a "fierce fire oil tank" that specially sprayed oil flames. bomb.

The Song Dynasty document "Yesterday Dream Record" records that during the Song-Xia War, when the Song Dynasty army built fortresses, the first thing they had to do was dig trenches, usually several meters deep, to store the oil needed for combat.

During the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhongyuan Tangkou developed the percussive drilling technology. This technology of deep drilling with simple tools is the predecessor of the modern oil industry drilling technology. In the 16th year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, Jiazhou, Sichuan was built. The first official oil well in Ming Dynasty.

Until then, Zhongyuan Tangkou is still at the forefront of the world in terms of oil application and mining technologies!

Such advanced oil extraction technology was written into the science book "Tiangong Kaiwu" by Song Yingxing at the end of Ming Dynasty, which became another witness of the glory of ancient Chinese science and technology.

It's a pity that the Ming emperors and lords of the Qing Dynasty are not interested in science and technology, but prefer to play with words. Including "Tiangong Kaiwu", all books related to science and technology are hard to escape. Forbidden fate.

What's even more regrettable is that the Qing Dynasty could resist the dissemination of these books in China, but it couldn't stop them from being popular overseas. A large number of advanced craftsmanship were lost, and they were finally learned and improved. A lot of bronzes were successfully upgraded to kings. However, the original king was turned into scrap iron by the Qing Dynasty.

After the "Treaty of Shimonoseki", when the Qing Dynasty wanted to dig its own oil wells, it was astonishing to find that all oil-related technologies, from oil location exploration, to mining technology, to equipment, etc., were gone. .

Of course, Zhu Jinsong is not particularly concerned about the king’s bronze and scrap iron now. After all, Zhu Jinsong has already retrieved the password of the original King’s account, and Daming is back online. broken thing.

What Zhu Jinsong is concerned about is why Daming's oil is not enough.

Although benefiting from the divine operation of the emperors and lords of the Qing Dynasty, the oil extraction technology of Zhongyuan Tangkou has not made any progress in the more than 150 years after the entry of the Qing Dynasty, and most of the original oil wells have been mined out. There are only a few artesian wells, so that even the consumption of the Royal Academy cannot be satisfied.

But then again, in a piece of land as big as Ming Lai, there are not a few artesian wells. No matter how low the daily output is, it must be at least a few hundred catties, right?

Can your Royal Academy consume several hundred catties a day?

Faced with Zhu Jinsong's question, Liang Xiude was anxious at the time: "A few hundred catties? A few thousand catties is barely enough!"

"Wei Chen discovered that the scientific research His Majesty mentioned is essentially just boiling water in a different way."

"The steam engine boils water, so the steam locomotive naturally boils water, and all the machinery based on the steam engine boils water."

"Since water is also boiled, why not use oil to boil water?"

"Chen and his colleagues in the academy are finally trying to distill and separate the oil, intending to find out what is in the oil and why the oil is particularly resistant to burning. This will inevitably consume more."

"This test really made me wait for something to come out - several different types of oil can be extracted from petroleum, and the residue left over from refining can be used to pave roads, which can be regarded as the best use of everything."

Zhu Jinsong looked at Liang Xiude in bewilderment.

Zhu Jinsong has no doubts that these big cows in the Royal Academy can distill several different oils, and the kettle distillation method can do it.

The question is what did Liang Xiude say just now?
The essence of scientific research is to boil water?
Although there is nothing wrong with this conclusion, why is it so awkward?

When Zhu Jinsong was thinking about how to explain the problem of boiling water, Liang Xiude continued: "There are also steam locomotives and lathes, and some breakthroughs have been made recently."

"Under the condition that the goods being pulled remain unchanged, the speed of the steam locomotive can already reach [-] miles per hour, which is nearly double the speed of the earliest steam locomotive."

"There are also textile machines, and the efficiency is much higher than before."

"In short, the money His Majesty spent in the Academy of Sciences in the past few years has more or less paid off recently."

"Only in terms of electricity, there has been no progress recently."

Speaking of this, Liang Xiude said confidently: "However, Academician Fan of the Royal Academy has proposed a new theory. As long as the verification is passed, the research of electricity will be regarded as a major breakthrough."

"Of course, if Academician Fan's theory is true, boiling water is still inseparable in the end—this is why Weichen said that the essence of scientific research is boiling water."

"It's also for this reason that there is a greater demand for oil."

Zhu Jinsong continued to be confused.

After finally dismissing Liang Xiude, Zhu Jinsong simply summoned Zeng Cheng and other big shots.

There is no way, these things proposed by Liang Xiude touched almost every aspect of Daming, and directly disrupted all the plans for the next three years that Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs had just made.

The first to bear the brunt is the Railway Department and the Transportation Department under the Ministry of Industry.

The third is the Department of Commerce under the Ministry of Household Affairs.

By the way, the troubles of the Commander's Mansion of the Five Armies are also indispensable-not to mention that Daming's oil fields are not many in the first place, even if oil can be dug everywhere, Zhu Jinsong didn't think about digging.

(End of this chapter)