Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 432
Boyle said: "Dear Your Majesty, I not only know nitric acid, I also know sulfuric acid, and I also know the method of preparing nitric acid and sulfuric acid. If Your Majesty needs it, I can prepare it immediately."

Chongzhen smiled and said, "No, no, what I need is not nitric acid, but nitrocellulose."

"Nitrocellulose?" Another unheard of term directly stumped the Latin translation.

"Plant fiber is a kind of fiber." Chongzhen pointed to the casual clothes on his body, "Plant tissue."

The Latin interpreter is a merchant from Guangdong. Because he has been in contact with metallurgy, he can translate nitric acid, sulfuric acid, or fulminic acid, but he really doesn't know what fibrous tissue is.

Chongzhen talked about the translation for a long time and still didn't understand, so now he can't straighten Chongzhen up.

There is still a huge gap between professional foreign language and everyday foreign language, which is a bit troublesome.

"Come on." Now Chongzhen said with a dark face, "You tell him to learn Ming Dynasty Mandarin within a year, and then compile a set of chemistry textbooks for the Imperial College based on the chemistry textbooks of European universities, and then compile a set of elementary textbooks. "

The college textbooks are of course for the scholars of the Imperial College for further study, and the elementary textbooks are provided for the talented students of prefecture schools and county schools in various places to learn. The content of the textbooks will be tested in the future National Exam.

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Boyle first nodded repeatedly and then asked a few words in a low voice.

The interpreter then asked Chongzhen, "Your Majesty, Mr. Boyle said that there is no problem in learning Ming Mandarin and compiling textbooks, but can we reserve the position of professor for him?"

"Professor?" Chongzhen slapped his forehead and said speechlessly, "He is the dean of chemistry, of course he is a professor. Can a lecturer be the dean of the college?"

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Boyle was immediately overjoyed.

"God, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Kind and Generous, Let me say something..."

"Hurry up and learn Chinese and Ming Dynasty Mandarin." Chongzhen interrupted Boyle. It seems that every civilization and race has sycophants. Of course, another way of saying it can be called high EQ.

The remaining 34 scholars, who studied medicine, were assigned to medical schools.

Others are assigned to the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as professors.

Including the few Western scholars who are good at theology, they were also assigned to the School of Mathematics, School of Physics, and School of Chemistry to serve as assistants to Pascal and Boyle.

It is impossible to start a seminary without starting a seminary.

Boym tried his best to persuade him to set up a seminary in Guozijian, specializing in theology and God.

Chongzhen was unmoved at all, the oriental gods were all born out of mortals, so what is God?Still need to set up a seminary to do research on him?
It is quite necessary to have a National Academy and a History Academy.

Go back and pick out the candidates again, and choose a suitable dean of the National Academy and a dean of the School of History.

Adding a college of Latin, a college of geography, and a college of astronomy, the disciplines will be complete, and the Imperial College will truly become a comprehensive university.

With this comprehensive university, the foundation of natural sciences is also laid.

In the past ten or twenty years, the achievements of Ming Dynasty in various fields of natural science will certainly not be able to compare with those of Europe, but it will be hard to say after 20 or 30 years.

After all, Daming's support for academic research is stronger.

After all, it has not been long since the rapid development of natural science in Europe, and the achievements have been limited.

Moreover, the academic environment in Ming Dynasty is also better than that in Europe, because there are still stubborn forces including the church in Europe, but Ming Dynasty does not have such constraints.

Because Da Ming's Neo-Confucianism will soon be replaced by Xinxue.

Some Daoist masters are still fantasizing about counterattacking and reckoning, but Chongzhen knows that they have lost from the very beginning, because Xinxue has been deeply bound to industry and commerce through the concepts of personality equality and equality of men and women. The workshops have started to hire a large number of female workers?

Just relying on this point, Mr. Daoxue who still advocates that women do not go out of the door and do not step forward will be overthrown by capital. Can Mr. Daoxue's words be better than capital?

In fact, there are already signs of this.

Because not long after the year, there were three more newspaper offices in Nanjing.

Daming Merchant News, Daming Opera News, and Daming Fiction News.

From the names of these three newspapers, it can be seen that the newspapers are extremely targeted.

But as soon as these three newspapers came out, they immediately joined the battle group of Neo-Confucianism and Psychology, and launched a frenzied attack on Neo-Confucianism supported by Hanlin Times.

The debate between the Royal Times and the Hanlin Daily is an upright academic debate.

However, the Merchant Daily, Opera News, and Fiction News took the next three routes, launching personal attacks on the Taoists who wrote articles in the Hanlin Daily that refuted Yangming's philosophy of mind, and the methods of attack were varied.

For a while, it will be said that this Taoist gentleman picked up ashes, committed adultery with his daughter-in-law and had children.

For a while, he said that Mr. Daoxue was a beast, with a decent appearance on the surface, but secretly he was a male thief and a prostitute, sleeping with the wives and concubines of the younger generations of the same clan one by one.

He even said that Mr. Xue would not let him go.

Isn't Neo Confucianism advocating the preservation of the principles of nature and the elimination of human desires?These tabloids have specifically seized on this point, attacking the Daoists who advocate Neo-Confucianism are all hypocrites, doing one thing to the face and another behind the back.

All of a sudden, Mr. Daoxue, who supports Neo-Confucianism, is really in danger.

This is actually the same as the slander of the water army in another time and space. Although it is very dirty, it is really effective, because the bottom of many Taoist masters is also unclean.

So now Neo Confucianism is almost overwhelmed.

While thinking about it, the craftsman had already disassembled the steam engine.

After seeing the internal structure of the steam engine, to be more precise, the internal structure of the cylinder, Western scholars such as Pascal and Boyle showed a sudden look.

Obviously, Pascal and the others have already understood the principle of the steam engine.

To put it bluntly, the principle of the steam engine is actually very simple, and it is easier to understand for scientists with considerable scientific literacy like Pascal and Boyle.

Seeing this, Chongzhen asked Fang Yizhi and the others to take out the blueprints.

Seeing the drawings, Pascal and others seemed to have discovered a new toy.

"Your Majesty, the one just now was just a verification machine, is this the real steam engine?"

Pascal really understood it at a glance, and asked enthusiastically: "Your Majesty, can we participate?"

"Of course." Chongzhen agreed, anyway, as long as these scholars come to Daming, they will not be able to return to Europe, so there is no need to worry about leaking secrets, and Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing also have a certain scientific literacy, so they can communicate with Pascal and Boyle. It is also easier to read, and it is also conducive to Pascal and the others to master Chinese as soon as possible.

Of course, Chongzhen himself would try his best to participate in the manufacture of steam engines.

If there is no accident, there will be no big war in the next year or even two years.

Chongzhen decided to use these two years to open up Daming's technology tree as much as possible. First, the steam engine must be put into use, and second, various machine tools must be manufactured.

Then the smokeless gunpowder had to be brought out.

Then rifled guns must be equipped in small batches.

Ammonium nitrate should also be produced as much as possible.

With ammonium nitrate, Daming no longer has to worry about food shortages.

If possible, mercury fulminate should also be researched, so that the military technology of Ming Dynasty can be completely improved, and it can form a crushing blow to the surrounding barbarians.

With a flintlock gun alone, it is hard to say that it is a dimensionality reduction strike.

That's all Chongzhen can think of for the time being.

……

But how do you say it?

If nothing else, accidents will happen soon.

The accident came as soon as it was said, and two of them came at once.

Wang Chengen and Xu Yingwei came here almost at the same time.

Finding a corner, Chongzhen asked, "What happened?"

Xu Yingwei then said to Wang Cheng'en: "Your Majesty, please tell your majesty first."

Wang Chengen took out a wax pill from his sleeve and handed it to Chongzhen, and said in a low voice, "Long Live Lord, this was just sent to Nanjing by Li Ruolian through a secret channel, and it was an expedited channel."

"Expedited channel?" Chongzhen's face darkened, which meant that something serious had happened.

At that moment, Chongzhen gently crushed the wax pill and took out the secret letter from it. It was indeed a big deal at first glance.

"Youzhen, what do you think?" Chongzhen handed the secret letter to Xu Yingwei, "What does Dorgon want to do?"

After reading the secret letter, Xu Yingwei said in astonishment: "Your Majesty, this matter is really strange. In the past, whenever there was a war, Jiannu would drive out the Eight Banners Han army, the Eight Banners Mongolia, and the Outer Fan Mongolia to fight. Why is it uncharacteristic this time and only use the Eight Banners to fight?" Manchuria, didn't even use the Green Battalion?"

"But more than 9 Eight Banners Manchuria came to [-]!"

Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "It's almost all out."

"But this is definitely not here to fight us." Xu Yingwei paused, and then continued, "Combined with the urgent delivery sent by Chen Zilong before, it seems that it is only a small group of Jiannu who attacked the soldiers and forts in various towns in Xuzhou. It can be seen that Dorgon probably just wanted to use Xuzhou and Guide as a hunting ground for the Manchuria of the Eight Banners."

Xu Yingwei's analytical ability is still very strong, and he guessed the truth with only limited clues.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei said again: "Obviously, Dorgon has also realized the strength of the Huanghuai defense line built by the Holy Majesty, knowing that if Xuzhou Township and Guide Township continue to exist, Jiannu will lose the opportunity to go south forever. That's why he didn't hesitate to use the [-] Manchurian Banners to come to Guide and Xuzhou to start a raid."

"I'm afraid it's more than that." Chongzhen said in a deep voice.

"When the old slave was here, there were no Eight Banners Han Army and Eight Banners Mongolia."

"And there are only Niulu of the Han Army and Niulu of Mongolia that belong to the Eight Banners."

"But since Huang Taiji continued, the Han army and Mongolian cavalry were taken out of the Eight Banners separately, and formed into the Eight Banners Han army and the Eight Banners Mongolia that only obeyed the emperor's order."

"It amounts to a partial completion of centralization."

After a pause, he continued: "But before the hard bone of the Eight Banners Manchuria had time to chew, Huang Taiji died."

Hearing this, Xu Yingwei immediately reacted: "The meaning of the Holy Majesty is that Dorgon is going to gnaw at the hard bone of the Eight Banners Manchuria, and he wants to achieve a real centralization of power?"

"It must be like this." Chongzhen said solemnly, "Dorgon is really not simple. He actually wants to reform the Eight Banners and monopolize power. This is a goal that Huang Taiji has not been able to achieve."

"The most vicious thing is to treat Xuzhou and Guide as hunting grounds."

Xu Yingwei said with a dark face: "Jiannu's cavalry and shooting are still very powerful. I'm afraid it will be difficult for Xuzhou and Guide's town soldiers to withstand the harassment of a small group of Jiannu."

"If you go out to fight in the city, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties."

"If you stick to the stronghold, you will be too passive and will delay the spring plowing."

After a while, he said, "Your Majesty, we must not sit idly by on this matter."

"Certainly we can't just sit back and watch." Chongzhen said solemnly, "Dorgon wants to use Xuzhou and Guide as a hunting ground to achieve the centralization of power. We must not let him get his wish."

"What does your Majesty mean to cancel the plan to use troops against Dagukou and Gaizhouwei?"

"No, the military plan for Dagukou and Gaizhouwei cannot be cancelled. Instead of being cancelled, it must be advanced, because after Dagukou and Gaizhouwei are attacked, Dorgon will definitely send troops to take them back. As soon as it comes, some real slaves must be withdrawn from the Huanghuai front line."

"That's true. Jiannu has always distrusted the Eight Banners Han army and the Eight Banners Mongolia. Every battle must be fought by real slaves."

"So in order to reduce the pressure on the Huanghuai defense line, you must launch an attack on Dagukou and Gaizhouwei in advance, and you don't have to wait for the North Sea to thaw in late April. Start now!"

"Your Majesty, did you mean to step on the ice and launch an attack?"

"Yes, after arriving at the ground, attack directly on the ice while it is dark."

"Well, the problem of stepping on the ice is not a big problem. Anyway, Jiannu would never have imagined that we would use troops against Dagukou and Gaizhouwei. If we are not prepared, we will definitely win."

"It's useless to be prepared. Dagukou and Gaizhou Guards won't have too many left behind troops."

Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "But there is one thing, because the Beihai and the canal have not yet thawed, the Eight Banners Han army can quickly transfer the Hongyi cannon through the Weihe River and the ice of the Beihai, so the time left for you to build the gun platform will be changed. less, but in order to smash Dorgon's attempt to achieve centralization, we can't take care of these."

Xu Yingwei said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will be able to guard Gaizhou Guard."

After a short pause, he said again: "I believe that Ju Heng will also be able to guard Dagukou."

"It's mainly Dagukou, only a hundred miles away from Tianjin, and only three hundred miles away from Beijing."

Chongzhen pondered for a moment, then asked again: "How is the adaptive training at sea going?"

"I have done a few times of adaptive training, and it is much better than at the beginning, so there shouldn't be any problems."

"That's good." Chongzhen nodded lightly when he heard the words, and then asked again, "By the way, what military report do you have?"

"A major event has happened in Sichuan." Xu Yingwei sighed, "Sichuan aid and suppression general Yang Zhenxin sent flying cavalry to Wuchang, saying that Sichuan general Yang Zhan was murdered by his subordinates Wu Dading and Yuan Tao."

"There is such a thing?" Chongzhen's face suddenly collapsed.

Did Yang Zhan die in the hands of Wu Dading and Yuan Tao after all?
And the time is two years ahead of the other time and space.

(End of this chapter)