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Chapter 550: One room, a very strange but realistic unit of measurement
A lazy donkey always poops and urinates a lot when grinding on a grinder. It is said that a lazy donkey always comes up with all kinds of stories to show off his laziness. Of course, a donkey in a grinder will not use his rations to buy coffee to refresh himself.

Coffee comes from the Ethiopian Plateau in East Africa. The shepherds here discovered very early that sheep would become very excited after eating these black fruits, so they collected these black fruits and used them to provide for the war effort. The warriors used it, and later coffee was introduced to the food countries, and the Arab world had coffee.

Arab traders brought coffee to the world, but they did not take the seeds out. They ground the roasted coffee into powder and told everyone how to use it, which was to boil it with water and drink it. However, the seeds are still cultivated in a small area in the Arab world. This 'plant drink' is very popular in the West.

According to the teachings, drinking alcohol is prohibited by the teachings, so coffee, a plant drink, is extremely popular in the Arab world. It is also called Arabic wine, or Islamic wine.

The red-haired fans are curious about everything in the world, especially the code of wealth. The Arabs sell black powder everywhere and make a lot of money. The red-haired fans also want to make this money, and they start to frequent They probed into the secrets, but in the end they did not get the coffee seeds. They only knew that they were a kind of black round beans, and they were necessary for religious ceremonies.

Zhu Yijun got coffee seeds. King Akbar of the Mughal Kingdom sent a special envoy, Shah Maimaiti, as a national gift to the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Akbar hoped to maintain the friendship with the Ming Dynasty and obtain ships and goods from the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he sent cotton to the Ming Dynasty. It was sold to the Ming Dynasty, so Emperor Akbar sent some coffee seeds to the emperor.

In the original words of Shah Maimaiti: [The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a very hard-working and interesting emperor. His hobbies were a bit strange. They were neither gold, silver, nor beauties, but all kinds of strange seeds. Yes. , he likes farming, a very strange hobby. ]
Collecting all kinds of strange plants was a public hobby of the Ming Emperor, so Shah Maimaiti liked it.

Why tobacco, coffee, tea, tobacco and other substances can refresh the mind has become a research topic of the Ming Dynasty Jieji Institute. Fan Yingqi's topic is this aspect. He wants to study why people become addicted to these things and then cure them. Own.

Wang Jiaping and Fan Yingqi talked about outside things. Fan Yingqi was not very interested. The topics that he could talk about in the past were now too far away from him. But Fan Yingqi talked to Wang Jiaping about his research topic, and Wang Jiaping Also confused.

Just like that, the two former friends no longer had anything in common.

The main reason is that the roads are not hardened and not smooth enough. Now, with the burning of cement and the smoky atmosphere in the capital, the roads are beginning to be smooth.

"Yes, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has to go to Shuiwozi to fetch water every day. There is no need to write a complaint, just tell the censor about it. We don't know who these officials are, but the censor station It's very clear." The coachman said with a smile: "Sit tight!"

Will dignitaries give you money when they ride in the car? Absolutely not. If these people with official status take out their badges, the coachman will have to take a ride for free. Not only will he have to take a ride for free, he may also have to work, and he will not make any money if he wastes time.

This kind of rickshaw is also equipped with this kind of spring shock-absorbing mechanism. Sitting on it is like riding on a boat, rocking and shaking.

Watching the sixteen-horse steam engine roaring on the track, Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong roared excitedly.

What the coachman said about the censors carrying water is also an interesting story. Wang Jiaping went to see it and the censors were really carrying water.

The reason why Wang Jiaping had to turn three times to the left and three times to the right, and even let two disciples sit on it, Wang Jiaping personally pulled it, and then he couldn't help nodding.

After realizing that he would definitely be impeached, Wang Jiaping didn't bother to care. Anyway, the lice didn't itch. The things he did in Guangdong were indeed worth talking about. Wang Jiaping started his journey to the capital, walking around and talking. Waiting for the emperor's summons.

"You guys have been watching this for a long time. Do you want to sit down? If you don't ride in a rickshaw, I still have to do some work!" The driver finally couldn't stand it anymore. I don't know which country bumpkin could stare at a rickshaw for a long time and still look serious about it. After much comment, isn’t it just a rickshaw? ! He looked like he had never seen the world before!
"Sit down, sit down, and join me in the hotel." Wang Jiaping said with a smile: "If I have an official body and teeth, how will you treat me?"

It was really Zhu Yijun’s will.

There is also a phenomenon of power sharing under the seat-teacher system. At that time, it was called tolerance of patronage and nepotism. We really need to start a discussion. Wang Jiaping can write tens of thousands of words and occupy several pages of the People's Daily. This is not the case since the implementation of the Kao Kao Law. The phenomenon of power sharing has become more common under the high pressure of the Kao Cheng Law.

Wang Jiaping saw a steam engine and experienced a rickshaw at Deshengmen. As long as a strong laborer can pull a cart, he can go wherever he wants to go.

Moreover, Fan Yingqi seemed to be very reluctant to see his old friends, because what he did was not honorable.

"You look like a noble person with your outfit, but noble people also have to pay to ride in a car. This is what His Majesty announced! Look at the notice on the city gate. His Majesty's clear edict: If someone rides in a car without paying, just go The Metropolitan Procuratorate will sue him, and the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will impeach him." The coachman put the sweat towel on his shoulders and pointed to the yellow list posted on the big notice board on the city gate.

Even if it rains, it can still be used, because there are four-spoke wooden brackets above the seats with a cotton and linen canopy. If you are afraid of leaks while sitting in the car, you can hold an umbrella.

Compared with the dull atmosphere when the emperor was young, now as the emperor has grown up, the capital has gradually become more active.

It’s still as dizzy as before, but it’s not unacceptable anymore.

Fan Yingqi noticed that adding some coffee to the livestock's forage can effectively increase the workload of the livestock, but the only problem is that the livestock will become thin. The appropriate dosage requires multiple experiments.

"Can you see the censor?" Wang Jiaping asked curiously as he got into the car.

When Wang Jiaping saw the roaring steam engine, he was startled. Although he had known that the Royal Institute of Furniture was tinkering with this thing for a long time, he was still a little frightened when he saw the real thing for the first time. The movement of this thing was really too big. , the roaring sound, the billowing smoke, and the scorching temperature are all exciting.

Wang Jiaping and his two disciples circled the rickshaw three times to the left and three to the right, looking at it very carefully. It wasn't until the driver became anxious that Wang Jiaping gave the driver thirty copper coins and asked them to look at it for a while longer.

In fact, he saw the epitome of the Wanli Restoration in this seemingly inconspicuous rickshaw, and he even saw the transformation of production relations, because ten years ago, even if there were rickshaws, the driver would not drive between Chaoyangmen and Dezhou. The most popular people in Chaoyangmen and Deshengmen are dignitaries.

In addition to road smoothing and hardening, there are also shock-absorbing mechanisms. The large-scale mass production of spring steel has made "宀" shock-absorbing mechanisms used everywhere. This kind of shock-absorbing mechanism is also used by emperors to travel in cars. , in order not to knock the emperor to death, and for the sake of the fetters of the nine clans, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty completed the design of the shock-absorbing mechanism.

In the past, it was not just officials who had Yizhanma cards, but also various mountain people who relied on nepotism to obtain Yizhanma cards.

"Teacher, what have you been staring at?" Wan Wenqing asked a little strangely.

Because the power of steam engines is still increasing, miniaturization, that is, weight reduction, is being vigorously promoted. One day, this thing roars past, carrying goods from all directions.

"Slow down, slow down!" Wang Jiaping grasped the armrests on both sides of the seat. This coachman had a lot of strength and could walk as fast as flying.

The wheels of the rickshaw are made of steel and the rest are made of wood. The seat is not very big, but it is quite comfortable to sit on.

In the past, the scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty liked to ride in sedans, two-person sedans and four-person sedans. There were many in the Ming Dynasty. Later, the emperor liked to travel by car. He was very fond of getting up and down, so everyone also changed to taking a car, but in fact, taking a car It was very, very uncomfortable, because the bumps were so severe that the fatigue of traveling and driving was no joke. If you were driving by car, you would be shaken to pieces after more than ten miles.

The principle of a steam engine is quite simple. It is a two-sided bellows. It sounds simple, but Wang Jiaping asked him to make it and he couldn't tinker with it. As for the steam turbine that Zhu Zaiyu, the director of the Gewu Academy, was tinkering with, Wang Jiaping couldn't even look at it. don't know.

The Ming Dynasty's small-scale peasant economy transformed into a commodity economy, and steam engines were indispensable. If silver is the metaphysical channel of department stores, then steam engines and Chidao are the metaphysical channels of department stores.

Wang Jiaping knew that this meeting would bring him some trouble. Seeing him or not seeing him would be trouble. The lesser of two evils would at least prove that he had no evil intentions. But he never expected that it would bring so much trouble. Obviously the officials of the Department of Science and Technology were well prepared, and even wrote two memorials in advance! No matter what Wang Jiaping does, he will have to go through this impeachment.

Wang Jiaping left Jiecuyuan and stood blankly in front of the door of Jiecuyuan for a long time. He knew that this was probably the last time the two of them met. He usually would not come to Jiecuyuan, and Fan Yingqi also He will not come out. He is already socially dead. As the instigator behind the case of Baoding's occupation of official land and nests, Wang Jiaping just needs to prove once that he has no evil intentions. Maintaining a good relationship is not conducive to progress.

But the censors are still carrying water.

“I saw the light and strong enough body, the bearings that were not very strenuous, the shock absorption of the zigzag structure, the smooth road surface, the coal production of Daming, the steel production, and the cotton and linen production. "When you see the department store thoroughfare, you can see this kind of rickshaw in the streets and alleys of the capital. It means that the coal is enough for heating and cooking, and there is leftover for burning cement and steel, at least in the capital." Wang Jiaping said. Said with emotion.

Wang Jiaping listened to these anecdotes about the capital and got off the bus at Huitongguanyi. He counted the money clearly and gave it to the driver.

The dead weight of the sixteen-horsepower steam engine was still too large, and the cost of use was a bit too expensive. It took two thousand kilograms of coal to pull one thousand kilograms of cargo, but Wang Jiaping could see that this was the future.

The court made timely adjustments.

Wang Jiaping was still frightened at first, but he soon discovered that the car was very stable, neither bumpy nor rolling. When he encountered a corner, he had to shake the bell and shout to prevent a collision. It was a completely new experience. Wang Jiaping was riding a rickshaw through the streets.

The imperial censors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate urgently needed His Majesty's royal family to take back their duties of carrying water, so they were still very concerned about the complaints from the people who were watching. They actually impeached a few officials for taking advantage of their official status to eat the king's favor. There are illegal things such as grabbing a handful of food from stalls when passing by with unclean hands and feet, not paying for rides in a car, etc.

This can be regarded as a kind of separation between yin and yang.

"Thank you for the reward. Your journey has soared to the sky!" The coachman shook his sweat towel and left happily. In fact, Wang Jiaping had already paid. He gave thirty yuan to look at the car before. Now this is regarded as a reward. If you have a lot of money, of course you are willing to say a few words that the official would like to hear.

"Did you see it?" Wang Jiaping said, standing in front of the Huitong Hall Posthouse.

Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong looked at each other, each looking confused. They looked at Wang Jiaping and asked, "What did you see?"

"If the people are full of energy and enthusiasm, why should the world be unhappy?" Wang Jiaping said excitedly, holding his right hand.

Compared with pulling a cart, farm work is still very easy. Although Wang Jiaping doesn't know how to farm, he still knows the hard work of the people. He is just sitting in the cart alone. No matter how fat he is, how much can he weigh? The harvest from the fields would be piled on carts and taken to the house, and that was the coolie. In fact, there were not many livestock among the people. If there was a donkey in the house, it would belong to a wealthy farmer.

The roads in the city, after being hardened, are easier to walk than the muddy roads in the countryside.

"It turns out that the teacher likes to be flattered, and flattering makes you energetic. Let's flatter him more in the future." Wan Wenqing said with sudden realization.

Wu Weizhong nodded repeatedly and said: "That's right, that's right. I wish you a bright future!"

"Huh?!" Wang Jiaping's face was covered with black lines, his face was cold and stern, and he was almost dripping with water. What's going on!
"What I'm talking about is that you see him striding forward, making money with his own hands, moving forward bravely for a better life in the future, having hope in the future, having a direction for the future, looking forward to life, and having a head to head towards in life, isn't he full of energy! You, you! "Wang Jiaping flicked his sleeves and was too lazy to pay attention to these two living treasures.

These two live treasures did it on purpose, they had resentment in their hearts.

When Wang Jiaping entered the capital, although he didn't see Wang Chonggu, he happened to meet Wang Qian. Wang Jiaping said hello to Wang Qian and told him not to let the two disciples fool around in the capital. Wang Qian agreed as soon as he heard this. Wang Qian soon greeted the restaurants in the capital. The two monks, Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong, only eat vegetarian food.

Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong took advantage of Wangjiaping to get to know the courtyard, so they sneaked out of Taibai Building, and then took a few mouthfuls of vegetarian food. They might as well not eat it. If they don't eat it, they haven't thought about it. This eating is completely bad. Well, on the contrary, it was because he was thinking about it, so he acted like this.

Wang Jiaping is still able to accept new things. He is not a rigid and conservative old-fashioned, nor is he a humble Confucian who is three generations above the Dharma and believes in the eternal Dharma.

They were all very fresh experiences, allowing him to truly feel the changes in Ming Dynasty.

"Teacher, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has also complained a lot of grievances to the people, so when will this water-carrying matter come to an end?" Wan Wenqing is still more concerned about the outcome of this matter. of.

"Don't ask me, I'm not your teacher. Go, go, listen to music in Goulan." Wang Jiaping waved his hand impatiently and said, "Ask the girls, they know."

"Don't bother me!" Wu Weizhong said cheerfully: "If the teacher is not strict in teaching, it will be embarrassing for the two of us to go out, and it will also lose the teacher's face!"

"I accepted you as my disciples out of admiration for your talents!" Wang Jiaping held his forehead with his hand. He already regretted it. He thought these two were very capable, but after accepting them as his disciples, he discovered that they had no ambition and liked to go to brothels. Going to brothels meant that one led an immoral life and would be scolded by the Qingliu.

Wang Jiaping thought for a while and said: "The imperial censor of the Imperial Procuratorate wanted to stop carrying water. The chickens ate up the mountains of rice, the dogs licked up the mountains of noodles, and the fire broke the copper locks."

"What do you mean, teacher, it's never possible?" Wan Wenqing had read Journey to the West, and of course he knew what this meant. The prefect of Fengxian County offended the Jade Emperor, who refused to rain and also set up three laws to prevent rain. It is possible to complete the conditions before it can rain.

Wu Weizhong gloated and said: "It's really miserable. It's fun to carry water. I went to see it. I couldn't carry it. I had to carry it. Two people had to run several times a day to carry it. Tsk tsk. The people along the road were not surprised. But those who come to Beijing from out of town should go and see the excitement."

"I guess I have to keep picking. Your Majesty is not allowed to become an official because of this." Wang Jiaping also said with a smile on his face.

Wan Wenqing frowned and said: "Then the censor is still willing to redress the grievances of the people? Anyway, whether the grievances are redressed or not, you have to carry water."

"You finally got it and saw the crux of the matter." Wang Jiaping looked pleased, as if he was a teachable boy. He explained, "The more the censors of the Censorate redressed the grievances for the people, the more water they had to carry. Even if Your Majesty was not doing this to vent his anger, Your Majesty was willing to let them run around for the sake of redressing the grievances."

"That's not right. The purpose of redressing grievances is for the Holy Family. To obtain the Holy Family, the more Holy Family members there are, the fewer Holy Family members there are?" Wu Weizhong immediately understood the paradox. The more Holy Family members there are, the more Holy Family members there are for the censors. The fewer the family members, the less likely they are to be forgiven.

Wan Wenqing immediately shook his head and said: "But the censor can be promoted as an individual. Therefore, the more grievances are redressed, the faster you will escape from the sea of ​​suffering. It is not that there are more saints and fewer saints, but that the saints are concentrated." On an individual basis.”

"Of course." Wang Jiaping nodded and said. The holy family did not disappear, but concentrated on the censor who was willing to redress the grievances of the people. This is the reason why this excitement can continue to be watched.

Wang Jiaping was announced, and he returned to Beijing to report on his duties. The Emperor of Ming Dynasty naturally wanted to meet him in person, but the meeting place was not at Tonghe Palace, but at the Royal Gewuyuan. Although they were both forbidden gardens, they were not the same place.

Wang Jiaping brought Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong to the Royal Gewuyuan. This was also the first time for the three of them to come to the Royal Gewuyuan. The entry point was just a simple and faithful screen wall.

Zhu Zaiyu, the word "faithfulness", has already explained it in detail in Gewu Bao. Make bold assumptions and demonstrate carefully, which is consistent with practice. If it is not consistent with practice, overthrow the assumption.

Wang Jiaping came to the Zangjing Pavilion, which is the tallest building on the central axis of the Imperial Palace, with a height of six floors. The interior is separated by a steel-concrete structure. In other words, even if there is a fire, the fire will not spread to The entire Sutra Pavilion.

The books are all kept in drawers, and these drawers are also made of iron.

"Isn't there a fire here unless you deliberately set it on fire? Looking at this posture, His Majesty is very defensive." Wan Wenqing said in amazement.

Wang Jiaping sighed. On the way to the meeting, there was Da Xun leading the way. He dared to talk such nonsense. It seemed that he really didn't want to make progress. He shook his head and said, "You can give it a try."

"Forget it, the head is more important." Wan Wenqing's feet were trembling when she heard Wang Jiaping talking about Zhang Siwei in that room. That was a whole room! This is a strange but realistic unit of measurement.

The Sutra Collection Pavilion of the Royal Gemological Garden is not a wooden structure, and the books are kept in categories. It goes without saying who is this being guarded against, it is naturally tens of thousands of Zhang Siwei.

The shooting holes on the wall of the Sutra Pavilion are His Majesty's precautions.

Zhu Yijun has arrived at the Imperial Palace of Furniture, and this time Zhu Zaiyu wants to offer auspiciousness again.

The emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu always brought countless surprises to the Ming Emperor, and this time was no exception. Before unveiling the red silk cloth, Zhu Yijun was not very clear about what weird things the Royal Palace of Furniture had cooked up.

The emperor had many things to do, and his schedule was very tight. Moreover, because Wang Jiaping came to Beijing from Guangzhou to resume his duties, the centripetal force of this far south place also needed to be maintained, so Zhu Yijun chose the Royal Gwuyuan.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, Long live Your Majesty." Wang Jiaping led two disciples and bowed five times and kowtowed three times in a grand salute.

"No gifts, no gifts." Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Jiaping and said with a smile, "Did Wang Aiqing go to learn about the Guiyuan the day before yesterday?"

"Yes." Wang Jiaping quickly bowed his head and said.

"I still remember the way you and Fan Yingqi taught me together. Things have changed. Now you are the governor of Guangdong, and he has sealed himself in the Jiecuyuan. Wang Aiqing must always be careful in the place where sea goods are attacked. "Remember Fan Yingqi's lesson," Zhu Yijun said with regret.

Fan Yingqi was very talented. He was Ge Shouli's disciple along with Wang Jiaping. He had a bright future, but his life was ruined by this opium. Even if he quits now, it's too late. He has become like that, a fate that manipulates people. .

"I will obey the instructions." Wang Jiaping could only be angry at Fan Yingqi for not arguing, a good person was ruined by something like this.

"Just go, don't worry about the barking of the cheap scholar, let's go and see what kind of treasure the uncle has made." Zhu Yijun motioned to Wang Jiaping and his disciples to sit down.

Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong did not have the courage to talk nonsense in front of His Majesty.

Zhu Zaiyu, Jiao Hong, Zhang Siwen, Li Kaifang, Huang Zifu and others solemnly received the gift. They are all talents from the Royal Institute of Geosciences and top talents in Ming Dynasty Geosciences.

Zhu Zaiyu stood up and said to everyone: "Last time, we said that everything in the world is composed of smaller bugs, or molecules. The greater the heat, the more active the molecules are. Many objects are constantly After being heated, it will melt into a liquid state, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, and glass, and the liquid state will become a gaseous state when further heated."

"After the boiler is sealed, it can get higher temperature and faster steam. Coupled with the safety pressure relief valve, the boiler will not explode due to excessive steam. This triggered our thinking."

"Can these tiny molecules that we cannot see with our eyes be compressed? Forcibly compress them from gas to liquid, and from liquid to solid?"

"We started the experiment and started to pressurize the air, trying to force these gaseous molecules to hug together again, but we failed. Pressurization will further heat the gas. In our calculations, it must be reduced to at least nearly 100 degrees below zero. level to complete liquefaction.”

"We can't pressurize the gaseous state because we can neither get a lower temperature nor a higher pressure, but our experiment is not without any results. We found that compared with gases, liquids seem to be more Hard to compress."

"We found that when any point in the liquid receives an external force, it will be transmitted to every corner of the liquid evenly, instantly, and without any loss."

After Zhu Zaiyu finished speaking, he pulled open the first red silk cloth. Under the red silk cloth was a thick glass bottle similar to a connector. The bottle contained amber fish oil. The thick double-headed dragon glass bottle did not contain water. But oil.

"This is a weight weighing one pound. We put the weight on the left side. Please see, the liquid level on the left side drops and the liquid level on the right side rises. At this time, we put a weight of the same weight on the right side. Code, the liquid level on the left returned to its original position, and the two sides reached balance. "

Zhu Zaiyu did a very brief experiment that can be understood at a glance. The up and down movement of two weights proved that force is transmitted between liquids.

This can be used for transmission.

Zhu Yijun, who was familiar with Zhu Zaiyu, was already prepared. If it was just such a simple demonstration, Zhu Zaiyu could at most write a special topic for the Gewu Bao instead of calling the emperor to come to him in a big fight.

"It's easy to understand, right?" Zhu Zaiyu clapped his hands. This time he was very happy because everyone present understood what he wanted to express.

Zhu Zaiyu said with a smile on his face: "We have known for a long time that the effect of pressure is related to the area. For example, the end of a nail is extremely sharp, and all weapons need to be sharpened. There are pawns and dealers walking around the streets sharpening them. Scissors, because the knife is not sharp enough to cut things well, when we used to mark the cement, we used one kick as the unit. "

"Stop! Stop! One kick is just one kick. There is no need to emphasize my kick!" Zhu Yijun strongly expressed his opposition at the beginning, so the label was changed from the emperor's kick to one kick.

"Uncle Emperor, please continue."

"The foot is the unit, and the area we use is the area of ​​His Majesty's shoes." Zhu Zaiyu continued: "What will happen if we expand the area on the right side?"

Zhu Zaiyu pulled open the second red silk cloth and said with a smile: "This is a sealed container. We have sealed it. The area on the right side is twice that of the left."

"We also used a one-pound weight to do the experiment."

Zhu Zaiyu placed two one-pound weights on the left and right sides. Something magical happened. The left side did not return to its original height.

"It's amazing, isn't it?" Zhu Zaiyu picked up another weight and placed it on the right. He smiled and said: "The area on the right is twice that of the left. Two weights are needed to maintain balance. If the area on the right is What about the ten times on the left? Does it require ten weights?”

(End of this chapter)