Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 145 Institutionalization of Scientific Research

Blackboard and chalk have been invented by Zhu Youxiao, but they have not been promoted in this era when everyone is still accustomed to writing brushes, but they have become commonplace in the Department of Ordnance, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Sciences.

In the meeting hall of the Royal Academy of Sciences, on the central wall is a blackboard painted by a mason according to Zhu Youxiao's suggestion.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao took the chalk made of calcium carbonate and calcined gypsum and wrote down the words "rifling" and "machine tool" on the blackboard. Scientists explain it to them in a way they can understand.

And on the long table in front of him is a comparison of real objects for his explanation, the Minie rifle purchased through the system and a boring machine capable of precision machining.

Zhu Youxiao didn't tell them the origins of these anti-age products, and the ministers, who were used to His Majesty always presenting some surprising things, didn't ask much, they just patiently listened to His Majesty's explanation.

From what is a matchlock gun to what is a flintlock gun, to the rifled gun named by His Majesty Minie, through Zhu Youxiao's lectures and various materials, these scientists in Ming Dynasty have also gradually mastered the new Even Bi Maokang and others have learned to read simplified characters for self-study, instead of waiting for the materials translated by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Because His Majesty personally explained it, it became the highest-level classroom of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Those who could sit in the lobby were almost the current leaders in the natural science field of Ming Dynasty and some mature old craftsmen who already had basic cultural knowledge.

According to the current official statement, academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Academy of Engineering, or the chief technical officer of the Ordnance Department, who have been awarded the official title of the Imperial Academy by His Majesty can hear His Majesty's class and become the disciples of the Son of Heaven.

The Royal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Ordnance Division now have a complete set of technical talent training systems.

First of all, the Ministry of Industry and the Inner Palace Supervision have special agencies to go to various places to recruit craftsmen to Beijing, or directly recruit apprentices from the people, and after they are recruited, they will carry out literacy.

The teachers of literacy are naturally children or old students invited from all over the country.

Although these people may not be very knowledgeable, it is impossible to teach these people to read a few words, and in order to speed up the literacy process of these technical reserve talents, Zhu Youxiao ordered the officials in charge of this matter to teach them within one month. How many people are literate is used as the assessment standard to determine the salary level of these old students or old students.

In addition, Zhu Youxiao also asked officials of the Imperial Academy to compile a dictionary of commonly used characters, "Dictionary of Apocalypse".

This dictionary has only about a thousand characters, and the criterion for success in literacy is whether you can recognize all the characters in the "Dictionary of Apocalypse".

The craftsmen who can read the characters will be assigned to various bureaus of the Ordnance Department or various laboratories of the Royal Academy of Engineering to perform assistant work according to their respective skills, and the old craftsmen will take the lead.

Apprentices sometimes need to send special old craftsmen to teach skills.

Since His Majesty has abolished the craftsman’s registration system and clearly stipulated that he must obey the imperial court’s regulations and pass on family skills to apprentices designated by the imperial court, and he was not allowed to hide his private possessions, so some old craftsmen had to spend their money to teach each other. Of course, the imperial court would also provide subsidies.

Once an apprentice or craftsman can complete a certain skill independently, he can enter the Royal Academy of Sciences for further study, and choose to listen to the lectures of Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing and other bigwigs, or His Majesty Zhu Youxiao.

Those who graduate and master core skills will become academicians.

After becoming an academician, you can directly submit a booklet to His Majesty Zhu Youxiao to apply for funding for the research and development of certain new things.

Of course, Xu Guangqi had to be copied when the excerpt was played.

Once His Majesty Zhu approves it and Xu Guangqi signs it, any academician can get a project payment ranging from 1 to 10 taels or even as high as [-] taels from the Ministry of Industry.

Once an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Academy of Engineering applies for a generous project funding, he will take the lead in organizing various craftsmen to complete the research and development of this project.

And generally speaking, the money for the grant is much more than the actual research and development money. Therefore, many academicians want to apply for project grants. After all, this can not only get rich rewards, even increase their ranks, but also make a fortune. get rich.

But not everyone can come up with a good idea casually.

What's more, there are still some ancient people who didn't take these so-called technological innovations seriously before, and used their accumulated experience to improve their craftsmanship.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao's classroom content has become the greatest source of inspiration for technological innovation.

This is also the reason why many people want to listen to His Majesty's lectures, because every time His Majesty throws out a new thing, it means a new opportunity to make a fortune.

If you understand or memorize it, and after you go back and do the experiment or feel that you can realize the vision that His Majesty said, you can write an application.

After the officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Academy of Engineering have calculated how much money you need for this project, they will send you a notice and release half of your funds in advance.

Chen Manitou, an old craftsman who used to be a glazer, has now undertaken such a task, which is to make the kind of large mirror that His Majesty placed in the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Because it was a subject that His Majesty the Emperor and Master Song of the Royal Academy of Engineering attached great importance to, the application process for the old craftsman was also very easy. It was approved in less than four or five days, and he was also allocated a lot of silver taels.

Of course, Chen Laitou also made a lot of preparations before applying. As an old glazer who has worked in the court for decades, he now knows that the glazed glass and the glass displayed by His Majesty are composed of silicon dioxide as the main component. , It's just that the colored glaze is mixed with iron and other impurities, which makes it not as transparent as glass.

And the film coated on the back of the mirror is also silver, but the silver on the back of the mirror cannot be removed, and the color is also different.

Chen Laitou once thought of making silver foil very thin and sticking it behind the glass, so he bought a piece of glass from Westerners at a high price for this purpose, but was very disappointed.

Lord Chen Laitou was not discouraged, he first found what His Majesty called quartz sand and pure caustic soda according to the information given by His Majesty to make green glass.

Then, he and several craftsmen in his research group went to a manganese mine near Gyeonggi to find manganese dioxide, and then conducted a month-long experiment, finally getting out the transparent glass.

But this was only half done. In order to coat the glass with a silver film, Chen Laitou had to live in the library of the Royal Academy of Engineering for nearly half a month.

In the past, he had always respected words and stayed away, but now he has become an old pedant, talking about silver or iron or something, and those who don't know think that he has traveled through time.

After Zhu Youxiao found out, he even summoned Chen Manitou and his team in person, and Zhu Youxiao also personally instructed them how to use silver nitrate and ammonia water to make silver ammonia solution, and use glucose water to reduce ammonia water to make a silver mirror.

In the end, not long after, Chen Laitou presented Zhu Youxiao with a silver mirror with independent intellectual property rights of Ming Dynasty, and this silver mirror was three feet long and one foot wide. In this era when it is difficult to manufacture large pieces of glass , Chen Laitou's team has overcome this problem.

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