Siheyuan: Starting from a fitter

Chapter 257 Discovering the Shocking Secret

Due to the exhaustion from the journey, Li Guocheng returned to the room after eating. After briefly washing up, he lay down to sleep.

The next day we had a simple Western breakfast in the restaurant.The best thing to eat is the bread. The beef soup is okay, but it's not very authentic, it's actually sweet and sour.

Walk out of the hotel, take a taxi booked by the waiter, and go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art reviews the development of human civilization and is one of the five major museums in the world, together with the Forbidden City in Kyoto, the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The main body of the Metropolitan Museum is a Gothic building. It occupies 3 floors and has 234 exhibition rooms, collecting various cultural relics of human civilization over the past 5000 years.

Li Guocheng was not in the mood to view other exhibition rooms and went directly to the Asian Pavilion on the second floor.

The collection ranges from early celadon and white porcelain, Changsha kiln and three-color kiln in the Tang Dynasty, five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, to blue-and-white, underglaze red in the Yuan Dynasty, JDZ blue-and-white, red glaze, yellow glaze, bucket color, five-color, Ink color and so on have everything.

Here you can almost see the complete and detailed history of Chinese porcelain.The collection of porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum not only has a wide range of types and quantities, but most of them are fine products, and some are even rare treasures.

Each of these exhibits was of high quality, and each of them was a piece of history. Li Guocheng was breathing heavily and wished he could take them all away.

Li Guocheng walked all the way to the wooden door that could only be entered by a staff member, and lowered his head to admire a Yuan blue and white piece.Out of curiosity, I released my telekinesis and looked inside.

Behind the door is a large display room filled with dusty Chinese porcelain, bronzes and other cultural relics.There is a safe that is as tall as one person by the door.

Penetrating through the mind, I found that there were some paper documents inside, recording the history of the cultural relics here, and the exhibition instructions.

Li was about to withdraw his mind power, when he suddenly found a book in traditional Chinese at the bottom, titled "Hundreds of Creations in the Former Dynasties", the author was Hu Sijing.As an engineering student, Li Guocheng had no idea.

Curiosity aroused, I went directly to the secret place, and then put a dozen pieces of porcelain and bronze that I thought were exquisite into the secret place.

Enduring the heat in my heart, I finished reading all the exhibits in the museum.

I took a taxi back to the hotel, sat on the sofa, and took out "More than One Hundred Creations of Previous Dynasties".

The first page records an introduction to Zheng He's treasure ships, "There are 62 treasure ships, the largest of which is 44 feet long and 18 feet wide. It is an eight-story ship with a steel keel, driven by three or five air dragons, and equipped with sails."

It is 44 feet long and 18 feet wide, that is, 148 meters long and 60 meters wide. It is a standard [-]-ton giant ship.

What shocked Li Guocheng was the last sentence, "Three and five dragons are driven by the dragon, supporting the wind and sails."What is this, "Air Dragon Drive"? Is it a steam engine?Think again about the giant ship of [-] tons, which cannot be driven by human power and wind power.

Oh my god, what a shocking secret.

The article lists the ancient "橐龠" in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which was used to smelt wind.The automatic blower equipment "Shui Pai" in the Western Han Dynasty used water to drive the wheels and drive the piston through the transmission shaft.

Convert circular motion into linear motion to realize automatic high-power continuous blowing.Isn't this the prototype of an engine?

The above is recorded in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty".

Since then, fan carts, crankshafts, and wooden oxen and horses have also been listed, all of which are the ultimate applications of mechanical transmission.

The key pictures and texts explain that the bellows that performs work in both directions is the core component of the steam engine: the two-way piston.

The following lists the large-scale deep well drilling technology of the Song Dynasty: Dundrilling.Load-bearing requirements for weighted rods, bearings, pulleys, gears, drill bits, fan mud tubes, copper pipes, ropes, etc.There are detailed graphic descriptions.

The book highly praises "Tiangong Kaiwu" and calls the part-level structure diagrams in it a masterpiece.

There are many thermodynamic machines listed at the back of the book. For example, "Tongguan Chronicle" records that 2 civilians who built a palace were transported by land boat. "There are many wells along the way to water the dry boats frequently to provide thirsty drinkers."

Later, hundreds of mechanical equipment were recorded with pictures and texts.

After reading it in one breath, Li Guocheng was so shocked that he could not speak.

Think about the history books he studied in his two lifetimes, all of which were called magic tricks and obscenity to ancient technology, and were swept into the ranks of dross.The reference to the four great inventions is more of a joke, in order to set off the greatness of Western technology.

If all this is true, then why is it almost not mentioned in the Chinese historical and cultural circles? It’s scary to think about it carefully.

This is an act of elimination from the bottom of Chinese culture.Regarding the Anglo-Saxon plan in later generations, Li Guocheng has always been dubious.After reading this book today, he became a little convinced.

Making the people of a large, ancient country believe in the greatness of the West cannot be accomplished by one or two people.That needs to influence several generations of Chinese elites.

Thinking again about the Opium War reparations, most of them established missionary schools in China and assisted in the construction of universities across the country, and those professors were almost all elites who studied in the West.

Later, I had dinner with a friend in the education field. After drinking too much, he cursed his school and the double first-class selection team, because the most important indicators are the number of international students and the rate of going abroad.

Li Guocheng didn't dare to think about it anymore, and the author didn't dare to write anymore.If I write again, I am afraid of being banned.

The angry Li Guocheng kept pacing in the hotel, thinking about something.Originally planning to stay with Sam for only a few days, he now changed his mind and wanted to stay longer.

Lunch was finished at around 3 o'clock.The flight to Southern California is tomorrow morning. I was really bored, so I took a taxi to the famous Central Park.

Since 1970, Central Park has been the venue for events of all sizes, including political rallies, demonstrations, celebrations, and large-scale concerts.

Central Park is located in the center of Manhattan, covering an area of ​​340 hectares, covering 150 blocks, with a total length of 93 kilometers of walking paths, 9000 benches and 6000 trees.

Entering the park, there is a light green grassland and a small forest with lush trees.Rows of courtyards are arranged in an orderly manner.Li Guocheng passed by the skating rink, the carousel, and the amphitheatre.

After staying in front of a small zoo for more than half an hour, I sighed with emotion, "It's so small."Go boating on the small lake, which is surrounded by tennis courts, sports fields, art galleries, and more.

Arriving in front of a semicircular building that resembled the Colosseum in ancient Rome, some young people were singing and dancing to the accompaniment of simple musical instruments.

Li Guocheng sat on the steps and admired it for a while, but felt out of place, so he got up and left.

I came to a small parking lot on a mound and sat down to rest. Under the mound was the building just now, and I could hear faint singing and laughter.

Half an hour later, I stood up, dusted my butt and prepared to take a taxi back to the hotel through the parking lot.

When I walked to the middle of the parking lot, I saw more than [-] black guys gathered together as if they were having a meeting. Li Guocheng's arrival seemed to disturb them.

They all stood up and looked at him with fierce eyes. Li Guocheng smiled softly and passed by with disdain.Perhaps his casualness frightened the other party, but all the twenty or so people watched him leave.

Li Guocheng felt regretful. He thought there would be a hearty battle to relieve his depression.As a result, I met more than twenty eggless people.

Perhaps this is the truth: there are many crazy people, but they are not often encountered.

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