golden scales

Now that Europe has just ended the dark age of the Middle Ages, even if it is ahead of China in technology, it has not formed a generational crush.It seems that Ming is currently at a disadvantage in this war, but it has not yet reached the point of raising his hands and surrendering!

Zhu Cilang pushed away the food table and said, "When Mr. Kui Xin and Tan Shi finish their meal, please invite them in."

"Your Highness, are you uncomfortable? Or is the food not to your taste?" Lu Suyao whispered.

Zhu Cihong just shook his head.He has already decided to fight the war of the talkers of the future scientific world, and he has naturally entered a state of war.

If Ming loses, it can only give up its position as the world's hegemon completely and become a regional power.However, if Ming Dynasty wins, the whole world will have to accept Ming Dynasty's scientific and cultural system in the future.And this advantage will grow stronger with the development of the times, just like the United States in later generations, the intellectual elites from all over the world will lean towards them and flow in.

After Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu were summoned, Zhu Cihong brought them to the ear room, and the three of them sat down on each other's knees and had an in-depth discussion on the topic of "Wen Tong".For the old-fashioned scholar-bureaucrats with high cultural sensitivity, the two didn't feel that the crown prince was making a big deal out of a molehill, but only admired the prince's foresight and foresight.

"The gap between my Daming and Taixi now lies only in the use of scientific methods, and there is no intergenerational gap. If there is a generational gap in technology, once Taixi blocks my Ming and prevents the technology from flowing out, Huaxia is likely to be humiliated " Zhu Cilang paused, and said: "That's why I kept Tang Ruowang out in the technology of iron casting cannons."

Wang Zheng's face was condensed.Said: "Your Highness, I am afraid that this worry has already happened."

"How to say?" Zhu Cihong was a little surprised. Did the West realize the blockade of the East so early?

Wang Zheng shook his head slightly.He stroked his beard and said: "The old minister remembered Xu Shanghai's letter saying that at the beginning of his translation of "Taixi Water Law", Xiong Sanba repeatedly evaded and refused to help. Ren Ruo He's stern words denounced his character as unworthy. However, after reading his preface, he also has the intention of changing this. The old minister thinks that if it is not for Xiong's intentional concealment, it must be that Long Huamin has issued a secret order to him. .”

Zhu Cihong said: "I am not surprised by this. Westerners are not as impartial and selfless as they say. Moreover, those who deal with our country are still missionaries, and they are the most outstanding scholars in Western and Western countries. Western nobles, warriors, and businessmen are all They are barbaric, vulgar, profit-seeking people, if they form a suppression in the future, I am afraid that our country is to Taixi what North Korea is to Daming."

In Zhu Cihong's opinion, this analogy is not too heavy-handed, and it even seems to be beautifying Taixi.Because the Ming Dynasty had never colonized and plundered its own vassal states...but it sounded terrible to the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty.

"From this point of view, I'm afraid it's inconvenient for Mr. Tang to know about one thing." Wang Zheng said seriously.

"What is it?" Zhu Cihong's heart moved.

"Your Highness, please move." Wang Zheng said: "Chen and Professor Song discovered this from the Taixi ancient book translated by Professor Fang. It is reasonable to say that Mr. Tang knows about it, but for some reason, it seems that it has not been taken seriously in Taixi."

From this, Zhu Cihong became even more curious, if it was an ancient Western book.That should be the books before the Renaissance, ancient Rome and even ancient Greece.Fang Yizhi's recent research direction is really a bit biased, but it does fit his character of tracing the source.

Xiong Mingyu wanted to evade, but was kept by Wang Zheng.

Even though Wang Zheng believes in Catholicism, he still has the consciousness of defending against the barbarians.History proves it.When there is a conflict between Catholic doctrine and the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor, Wang Zheng is bound to choose the latter.He could torture himself for life with taking concubines.Because it violates the only doctrine of Catholic couples being faithful to each other.When the Ming Dynasty fell, even though the Catholic Church strictly ordered suicide, Wang Zheng still went on a hunger strike and died.

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Zhu Cihong changed into casual clothes and followed Wang Zheng all the way to his own laboratory.

The windows of the laboratory have been replaced with large pieces of plate glass, and the lighting in the room is excellent.Judging from the experimental tools on display, Wang Zheng's main research field is still in mechanical manufacturing.

Wang Zheng's adopted son, Wang Yongshun, was already waiting in the laboratory. He saluted the three of them, and immediately, under Wang Zheng's instructions, he took out a wooden box measuring one foot square.

Wang Zheng took out the key from his pouch, opened the wooden box, and said, "The power of this thing is probably beyond everyone's imagination..." Then, he took out a strange model made of brass and iron from the box.

"Steam ball?" Zhu Cihong lost his voice.

"His Royal Highness knows this thing?" Wang Zheng was quite surprised, and accepted this fact for granted in an instant.

The crown prince is a man of great knowledge and knowledge, and there are many rare artifacts from the Far West presented by Matteo Ricci in the palace, so it is not surprising if he has seen them.

The spinning ball is the work of Hero, an ancient Greek mathematician, inventor and philosopher, and was born in the first century AD.

Hero connected a hollow metal ball and a closed pot filled with water with two hollow tubes, and then heated the bottom of the pot to make the water inside boil.Water vapor enters the metal ball through the hollow tube, and finally the water vapor is sprayed out from the nozzles on both sides, making the ball rotate.

Compared with the steam organ, vending machine, syringe invented by Hero... the steam ball is just a purely ornamental toy, without any practicality.

However, this thing is the ancestor of the steam engine of later generations, and it was only after Zhu Cihong's hard thinking and meditation that he unearthed it. After preparing for the country's peace, he made great efforts to tackle key cross-age projects.

Wang Zheng repeated the experiment and successfully made the steam ball spin, and said to Zhu Cihong, "Your Highness, this is the power of steam."

Zhu Cihong nodded.

"However, the real power contained in it is..." Wang Zheng moved the small stove below, and after the water vapor from the touch gradually weakened, he plugged two wooden plugs in the nozzle of the steam ball.

Soon, only a "bang" sound was heard from the airtight iron pan below, which was dented inward.The two corks on the spout were also visibly sucked in.

"After the water vapor cools down, a vacuum is formed." Zhu Cihong said casually.

"Exactly," Wang Zheng said, "the suction generated in this way is very huge." He put on leather gloves, tried to pull out the cork, and said: "If it is enlarged, I am afraid that it will be impossible for a hundred people to match it."

——This is indeed the principle of the condensing steam engine, but it is like a mutated Magdeburg hemisphere experiment.

Zhu Cihong rubbed his chin, and said deeply: "Actually, it's a problem of air pressure. It expands with heat and contracts with cold, and the air pressure in the sphere is lower than the atmospheric pressure outside, so it looks like it's being sucked in, but it's actually being pressed in."

The atmospheric pressure experiment is the classic barrel destruction experiment, which Zhu Cihong also talked about in "Physics".

"Why did you think of doing this?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Wang Zheng didn't get entangled in the choice of words, because of his age prejudice, he always habitually forgot Zhu Cilang's level of knowledge.He replied: "Professor Song thought of this when he was verifying the physical nature of Qi. If Qi is indeed a thing and has the effect of thermal expansion and cold contraction, it must be able to produce force. The steam-rotating ball is only for verification, but It was discovered by accident that a new machine can be manufactured based on this object.”

"But the difficulty lies in how to make it go round and round and continue to generate force." Zhu Cihong said.

Wang Zheng's beard trembled slightly, and he uttered two words that made Zhu Cihong dizzy:

"It's not difficult."

Wang Zheng asked Zhu Cihong to come to his workbench, and took out a circle of rice paper. After unfolding, it turned out to be a three-dimensional perspective view, even with light and shadow rendering.It can be seen at a glance that he has learned Thai and Western oil painting skills.

"This was written by my nephew Yongshun." Wang Zheng explained, pointing to the mechanical diagram: "Now that we know the principle and make a model, all that remains is to change the shape, measure the force arm, and make it last. It's just powerful."

Zhu Cihong's eyes followed Wang Zheng's fingers across the various exploded diagrams, and completely entered into a calm and water-like working state.This was the first time he saw an exploded view of a steam engine in his previous life.

As a liberal arts student, and never thought that he would be reborn in the Ming Dynasty after his death, Zhu Cihong certainly could not prepare all kinds of industrial knowledge like a prophet.With his common sense of science and engineering, he can still see the complexity of Wang Zheng's steam engine at a glance.However, under Wang Zheng's introduction, each component is the key, and it has been so simple that it cannot be simplified any more.

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