Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1045 Balance
After these years of tossing, the emperor gradually understood some things according to his logic.

Many previous wars were, generally speaking, aimed at saving money.

But now the wars that the overseas expansionists are going to wage, generally speaking, are for making money.

The logic of war seems to have changed.

Even if it can be understood in this way, the emperor is not in a hurry to go to war.

Dashun now has a Privy Council and an overall national strategy.

It is no longer a headless chicken, it is obvious to fight but wait for the time.

Wait for another time like when we went to Nanyang, and the opportunity for Europe to do it.

For this reason, the emperor specially wrote a reply to the people in Nanyang. The overall meaning is just one sentence: don't go alone.

You must endure nonsense, strictly control smuggling, and only ask direct responsibility. Even if you know that the British East India Company is instigating, don't go to the British East India Company to trouble you.

At the same time, tell them that the tariff issue of Muha and Jeddah should be solved by themselves, and they will find the relationship left by the Dutch to bribe them. The imperial court will not send a huge mission to Turkey at this time.

Of course, the purpose cannot be clearly stated, and it is even more impossible to directly tell those who are not in the decision-making circle. It is to prevent Raksha from being surprised by the visit to Roma and thus voting for Britain.

After finally approving the memorials on Nanyang, trade, Sino-Turkish relations, Sino-British relations, colonial management, smuggling and other issues, the emperor picked up another very special memorial.

It's okay to say it's a memorial.

Call it an academic discussion paper.

To put it simply, it is Liu Yu’s obsessed calculation of lunar distance and longitude. After George Anson ran to Lingdingyang with his centurion and navigation clock for several years, he finally made a breakthrough.

Euler, a foreign academician of Dashun Academy of Sciences, gave an approximate formula for the orbit of the moon.

But it was also very painful to say that the three-body problem was completely incomprehensible. After giving this approximate formula, he decided not to touch this problem again in his life. It was a waste of time... save this energy and study something else.

It is the approximate formula for calculating the orbit of the moon.

After the death of "University Man" Newton, Flamsteed's northern hemisphere star catalog was finally retrieved and published.

The close cooperation between Dashun and France, as well as the comprehensive cooperation between Dashun and the Dutch comprador group and its operation in the Cape of Good Hope, the southern hemisphere star list has also been drawn.

Three major front-end technologies: the approximate formula for the special solution of the three-body problem on the moon, the northern hemisphere star catalog, and the southern hemisphere star catalog, all of which are available.

Theoretically, any ship of Dashun can confidently say "I know where I am" anywhere on the earth, as long as there are stars and the moon in the sky!

In other words, in the vast ocean of the earth, there will no longer be islands or continents beyond the map.

The size of the earth, or the size of the world, how many lands, and how many islands are already determined.

The rest is just a matter of time.

Constantly sailing, surveying and mapping latitude and longitude, and drawing maps will suffice.

However, this method has good news.

There is also bad news.

The good news is:

Dashun can't make a nautical clock, so it's okay.

Each ship does not need to be equipped with a nautical clock, and the latitude and longitude can also be obtained.

Starting today, the central axis of the Forbidden City has the opportunity to become the prime meridian of the world and the world.Although there is only a chance, at least there is a chance.

The bad news is:

There is no need for a nautical clock, but each ship must be equipped with a first officer who understands calculus, can quickly calculate equations, has undergone rigorous mathematical training, and must be able to perform fast equation calculations.

According to the level of the chief mate's mathematics level, the time to calculate the longitude ranges from two hours to twelve hours.

Without the mathematical ability of elementary advanced mathematics, there is no way to be a qualified captain.

Is there a way around this?

Have.

Recruit a group of "mental workers" with a high level of mathematics.

It's really mental work.

They need to be responsible for compiling the table of star and moon distances for the second year of Weixin through huge mathematical operations in the first year of Weixin.

Then, the people on board don't need to calculate in real time, they just need to look up the meter just like the group of artillerymen.

Everyone who can use trigonometric function tables may not be able to use mathematics to calculate the chord cut of every angle.

In the same way, everyone who knows how to use star catalogs does not need to be able to use mathematics to calculate those complicated data.

And this "mental labor" solution also has good news and bad news.

The good news is that Dashun's current mathematics level and the ability of local students are completely competent.

The bad news is that these students who are competent for such calculations must be at the level of admission to the Academy of Sciences.

Therefore, Dashun's new learning education, especially the Department of Mathematics, needs to expand its enrollment.

Not only does it need to expand enrollment, but it also needs to expand the establishment of Qin Tianjian - if this matter is handed over to Qin Tianjian, of course this matter should also be handed over to Qin Tianjian.

Qin Tianjian should expand its establishment by about 400 people, and these people need to be recalculated every year, so they cannot be abolished.

This is also the reason why this memorial was forwarded to the emperor and required the emperor's sanction.

For material rewards, the Academy of Sciences has its own fund, and the income obtained from investing in companies in Songjiang Prefecture is used to pay for the material rewards of the Academy of Sciences.

However, to directly increase a large number of financial staff and expand the enrollment of the Academy of Sciences, it is necessary to go through the imperial court process and get the imperial court's approval.

This matter is really no small matter.

To involve the central axis of the Forbidden City, the movement of the stars, and the circulation of the sun and the moon is not something that can be done with money. It is a political issue that is as serious as a wealthy businessman wearing a dragon robe.

To put it simply, if this is a group of foolish people who think that the economic center and the shipping center are in Songjiang Prefecture, it seems more convenient to set the prime meridian directly at the zero degree, then they will kill the nine tribes.

However, when it comes to political symbols, as long as the political meaning is considered, then the political meaning itself is the most meaningless.

For example, on the memorial, if you write the sentence "Long Live the Emperor", it is almost equivalent to nonsense.It has nothing to do with what the memorial is about, and it seems to be pure nonsense.

But if someone writes a sentence on the memorial, the emperor is not long live, although the emperor's long live is nonsense, but the sentence of not long live is a big deal.

The moment the emperor got the memorial, he didn't need to consider such things as the central axis, the sun, the moon, and the stars. The meaning of these things in consideration was infinitely close to zero.

What he has to consider is the significance of expanding enrollment, expanding the number of people, and compiling the nautical almanac to his rule.

This significance is still very huge.

For example, the current crisis of Confucianism caused by the opening of Dashun, the meridian issue, is very meaningful.

In the future, Dashun can take this issue to participate in the conferences of various countries in the world, and then confirm that the meridian of the capital is the prime meridian of the world, so as to obtain a great spiritual victory of the concept of "China" as a world instead of a country.

Ensure the concept of China in the world.

Confucian literati will be very happy, at least they will not oppose the development of astronomy and mathematics.

People in later generations can’t imagine how broken and opposed the scholar-bureaucrats in this prosperous age would be if they got a world map of the Greenwich Meridian of later generations and saw that China’s longitude is not zero, and it is not the "longitude center" of the world.

It is another matter to be beaten up and have to accept it.If that's the case, it's all trivial matters and don't care about it.

However, isn't it in the era of "steam rollers" now, and I feel that I can rule the world.

Self-confidence is different from the extremely conservative false self-confidence under the passive impact of modernization.

Whether the meridian is in the capital, Greenwich, or Paris is a very serious political issue when Dashun is actively opening up and changing the concept of the world.

The emperor really felt that this approximate formula for the movement of the moon came at the right time.

Longyan happily approved this matter, thinking that this matter should be done quickly, and it was not the internal money that was paid, but the household government.

Hurry up to expand the enrollment, hurry up to increase the establishment, and make this month's star table and nautical almanac as soon as possible.

Of course, if it was only for this reason that Emperor Longyan was delighted, it might mean that Dashun's way forward would come to an end.

The subtle influence of the previous 20 years seems to be meaningless, and the emperor is still a standard Confucian monarch.

Actually, no.

There is another more important reason why the emperor is happy, and it has nothing to do with going to India in the future.

It's irrelevant, without this lunar distance table, Dashun can go to India without any problem, and from Ceylon, you can use a broken bathtub to get there.

What the emperor considered was the issue of gold and silver mines on the continent of the southern hemisphere.

For example, the sense of crisis in the memorials of the governor of Tianjin and Nanyang that was just approved, the emperor, as the head of Dashun's top-down reforms over the years, naturally understands better than these people who spontaneously feel the sense of crisis.

The emperor also discussed this matter with people in the reformist core decision-making circle, saying that if there is a war against Europe in the future, what should Dashun's overseas trade be affected?
Overseas trade has been affected, and now the emperor has understood that this is directly related to a series of issues such as Dashun's currency exchange, copper coin value, silver price, and the livelihood of workshop workers.

A huge amount of silver flows in every year, and the price of silver in Dashun has not depreciated, and even slightly appreciated compared to copper coins.

Liu Yu couldn't figure out this chaotic, multi-parameter currency system.Of course the emperor couldn't figure it out either.

But we all know that once overseas trade is cut off, it will definitely have a big impact.

The solution given by Liu Yu is to issue banknotes.

Relying on the state to issue money, engage in construction, stimulate production, and pass that period of time.

If you win, you just need to stand up for a while.

If you lose, you may have to build an internal loop east of the Cape of Good Hope, including India.

Issuing banknotes can't just issue banknotes. Dashun has always had lingering fears about the issue of banknotes by the former dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan.

So, where does this country issue banknotes, engage in construction, and stimulate production to surpass that period of time?
Naturally, we have to find it from the continent in the southern hemisphere.

Since South America has big gold mines and big silver mines; Africa has big gold mines and big silver mines...it doesn't make sense that the big island in the southern hemisphere doesn't have one.

To find a stable route to develop the big island in the southern hemisphere at this time, it is very necessary to have a lunar distance method star table that can calculate longitude.

When Liu Yu fooled the British East India Company back then, he used the same reason to exchange the nautical clock technology for Dashun's export license.

What Liu Yu considered was relying on gold mines to lure capital, and mining requires an agricultural foundation, thus promoting a wave of Dashun immigration to the southern hemisphere.

This also just speaks to the heart of the emperor. The difference is that Liu Yu is thinking about the people going there to eat enough and dying halfway, it is better than guarding two or three acres of land at home; the emperor is thinking about the people going there so as not to rebel at home , Solve the contradiction between people and land, and dig gold and silver at the same time to boost the income of the court.

His Spain can rely on gold digging to dig out a global empire, and Dashun digs gold to survive the period of overseas trade severance, maybe it will always be no problem.

Through the construction of the Huaihe River this time and the development of well salt by Shaanxi capital that made a fortune through the Northwest War, the emperor also clearly saw the role of the imperial court's financial regulation.

After all, even those like Qian Xiaosi in the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew that paying salaries to soldiers was actually promoting the development of industry and commerce. It may not be beneficial to merchants."

Dashun has been carrying out reforms for more than 20 years. If you don't even understand this principle, it is really impossible.

After understanding this point, now that there is a lunar distance chart, the last worry about Dashun being involved in the imperialist colonial war and going to war with Britain is gone.

Continue to develop industry and commerce, and prepare to go to the southern continent to dig for gold and save money. Once the war breaks out and trade will be greatly impacted, the country will invest in construction and military expansion, and it will be fine.

The emperor felt that if he did this, there would be no crisis of unemployment and chaos, and he could continue, including the reform of the entire Jiangsu and salt administration.

(End of this chapter)