The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 459

The launch of Kongming Lantern.

Two people survived.

"I...I swear I will never ride on the Kongming Lantern again in my life." The worker was so frightened that he could not speak coherently and his legs were trembling.

There are too many unknowns. People on the ground have no way of knowing what the scholars and workers encountered in the sky.

But from the looks on the two people's faces, one can see their panic.

Even though the scholar tried his best to keep calm, people could still find the scholar trembling slightly, his hands clenched tightly.

"It's good to be safe, it's good to be safe."

Businessman with folded hands.

As long as the requirements of the Military Industry Joint Office are fulfilled, the other party will not care how they spend the 1000 yuan food stamp.

Now there are a few hundred yuan left, which is equivalent to making money, and with the support of the future military-industrial joint office, the businessman has already begun to fantasize about the future.

"Did you see a fairy?"

"Have you seen Guanyin Bodhisattva?"

"Is there a heavenly palace in the sky?"

……

The people asked excitedly. Slowly, the worker became proud and told the people what he saw.

"I touched the cloud."

"What?" People were shocked.

"You don't know that feeling." The worker himself didn't know how he felt, but he firmly believed in his heart that it was different.

Scholars worked hard to take notes, and carefully recorded the things and things they encountered in the air one by one.

soon.

The major newspapers in Peking published their great feats, and through the propaganda of the newspapers, the names of businessmen and scholars resounded throughout Peking.

overnight.

People are talking about it.

Countless scholars visited Wang Chun to discuss academic research with Wang Chun, and many people obtained the materials they wanted.

For the sky, people have more knowledge.

"Excuse me, Mr. Wang, if you look at the earth from the sky, is the earth round?"

Ma Pengying looked at Wang Chun eagerly.

Ma Pengying passed the evaluation of the Technology Department, and the Technology Department believed that Ma Pengying was the scholar who knew the most about astronomy in Ming Dynasty at present, and gave him a very high rating.

The ancients did not despise talented people in other industries, at least the mainstream views in Tang, Song and Ming societies were not like this.

Otherwise, there would be no Song Dynasty granting titles to inventors of the Han Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty also paid attention to it.

When it comes to ancient inventions, people often talk about the scholars of the Qing Dynasty, and the strange skills written in the books, instead of the impression of the long history of ancient China.

The third of the four great inventions is the crystallization of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Although the idea of ​​the Four Great Inventions was put forward later, it must be understood that this is a summary of later people, and it does not mean that these inventions did not exist at that time.

The prosperity of the economy during the Sui and Tang Dynasties provided material guarantees, and the promotion of the status of commercial handicrafts laid the foundation for the rapid advancement of science and technology.

On this basis, the Song Dynasty formulated a reward system for outstanding scientific and technological inventions.

In the era when there was no patent law, craftsmen had another channel to promote the development of technology and tools.

Those with outstanding talents in the field of science and technology are usually included in the list of geniuses and strangers, and can be directly selected into government agencies.

Feng Jisheng improved the gunpowder law, and the court gave him a bundle of clothes.

The same is true for the Ming Dynasty.

In history, Ma Pengying was not only valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, but also reused in the Yongle Dynasty, and because of Ma Pengying's outstanding contributions, Ma Pengying's son was named a lifelong mentor.

Including the Wanli period in the future, when they first came into contact with Western culture, a large number of officials took the initiative to learn and were full of enthusiasm for the development of new things.

No official called it a strange skill or obscenity.

But people in later generations are most impressed by the Qing Dynasty, because the Qing Dynasty is the closest, but it has only been dead for a hundred years.
Those who do not understand history, it is a wrong perception to cover the impression of the Qing Dynasty with the entire Chinese civilization.

Only the Qing Dynasty banned technology.

The literary prison imprisoned people's thoughts, and the ruler prohibited domestic and external communication, and at the same time banned firearms.

People are proud of their slaves, and their backs have been broken long ago. The society is full of villains, and buying and selling officials is even more normal.

It is forbidden for the people to study astronomy, those who study the calendar will be sent to the garrison, and those who make the calendar will die. "Hundreds of craftsmanship skills are also ingenious and ingenious in daily affairs. If you don't pay attention to profits, you will hurt your wealth and lose money. They will not grow, and you should be severely punished by the law."

This is what Kangxi announced to the world. It comes from "Records of Emperor Shizong of the Qing Dynasty", including "This is also the first king's system of all kinds of crafts, and the strange skills and prostitution must be strictly prohibited."

The origin of the real strange skills and obscene thought in the Qing Dynasty.

These policies are numerous.

Books like Tiangong Kaiwu will have a chance to be rediscovered from Japan, so that future generations will know the existence of this book, but I don’t know how many books have disappeared completely. I’m afraid there are not many books whose names have disappeared. .

So those who say that ancient China despised craftsmen, and people regarded inventions as strange skills and obscenity, can only represent the Qing Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty.

Someone who studies astronomy like Ma Pengying, not to mention a woman, will definitely end up ransacking his family and exterminating his family.

But the Ming Dynasty is different.

The same is true of Peking today.

Ma Pengying obtained excellent status and treatment in Peiping.

In order to keep Ma Pengying.

After the application of the management personnel of the technical department, a special person was sent to the capital to persuade Mr. Ma Pengying's family to move to Peiping.

Historically, the Ming court gave Ma Pengying's son a lifelong official job, but Peiping would not be so exaggerated, and only provided good jobs.

Ma Pengying's theory of the sun believes that the earth is a sphere and revolves around the sun. Only when she proves the theory of Huntian can her theory of the sun get greater support.

But Ma Pengying was disappointed.

Wang Chun shook his head.

"When I look from the sky, I can't see that the earth is round."

Ma Pengying was rejected, and more and more people have doubts about Ma Pengying's theory, thinking that Ma Pengying's theory of the sun is wrong.

But Ma Pengying did not give up.

She applied for research and development funds from the Technology Department, hoping to go to the beach to ride a huge Kongming lantern.

This is a very dangerous thing.

After Wang Chun learned about it, he took the initiative to visit and told Ma Pengying how dangerous it was.

But Ma Pengying insisted on taking off by the sea.

Finally, with the help of Xiaojiu from the Technology Department, Ma Pengying's application was approved. However, in order to ensure the safety of the research, the workers who had ridden the Kongming Lantern with Wang Chun were invited.

"I dont go."

"I once swore that if I ride a Kongming lantern in the future, I will die a bad death."

The worker shook his head again and again.

The fear in the sky that day made the workers afraid that they would forget, so they swore to warn themselves.

Ma Pengying could only regretfully go to Tianjin by himself.

Workers broke into academia.

Knowing that Ma Pengying was determined to go his own way, he finally followed him.

The businessman opened a Kongming lantern factory in Beiping.

Specially made sky lanterns.

A venue was set up for the common people to see and collect tickets, and many scholars came to study it.

Tianjin.

Ma Pengying and the workers are in the sky.

Just as the pier was open, hundreds of ships of all sizes left the pier, some headed for Jinzhou, and some rushed to Shanghai.

The workers had the experience from last time and there was no problem with the operation this time.

But the sea is very windy.

Their Kongming lanterns were blown away a long way, but luckily landed in Shandong.

People in Wuding Prefecture, Shandong Province.

Seeing the Kongming Lantern falling from the sky, everyone was dumbfounded, thinking they saw a heavenly being.

The officers who rushed over did not dare to step forward.

The workers got down from the baskets and cried loudly.

"In the future, if I ride the Kongming Lantern again, I will... I will give birth to a son without an ass hole."

(End of this chapter)