The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 516: Big Breakthrough in Physics
"We scholars no longer have any privileges."

A restaurant in the capital.

A man wearing a long gown suddenly said this at the wine table, frightening the faces of his companions around him.

"Be careful."

Someone reminded in a low voice.

Jin Yiwei is still arresting people on the street. No one knows how big the matter will get, but no one wants to be implicated.

"Since ancient times, the prosperity of our Chinese civilization has been due to the emphasis on scholars. Now the court does not value scholars, which is the foundation of our Chinese civilization."

No killing has been committed so far.

Since His Highness the Emperor Taisun entered the capital, although the rules have been strict, severe punishments have never been used, giving people a sense of mercy.

Some people even say that His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun is of the third generation and was born in a high-level courtyard. Unlike his ancestors who came from the common people, he is quite humane.

Such remarks can be made, and the intention is to be punished.

It is also the consequence of not killing people.

As long as all those who are dissatisfied are killed, there will be no dissatisfaction of all kinds.

The emperor's grandson once said that he wanted to be a saint inside and a king outside. This sentence spread from Peiping to the north, and then spread to the south as he went south.

While people feel relieved, they are not grateful for this, but instead it makes them more courageous.

"fallacy."

The person at the next table heard their conversation and couldn't help but retort.

"Oh? I wonder what your brother has to say?"

"The Emperor's grandson not only did not neglect scholars, but paid more attention to them than at any other time."

The man held up his wine glass and was very polite.

The objection was an objection, but in terms of etiquette, he seemed to be very gentlemanly. Everyone saw this, felt his demeanor, and returned the favor one after another.

"Although the privileges of not having to go on official business and not having to pay for grain for scholars were cancelled, new schools were built to provide meals and free clothing."

"what."

The first scholars laughed and said: "The local government provides subsidies and daily necessities to the students. This is not a treatment only available in new schools."

The man smiled and said: "The imperial court has reformed the civil service system, giving students more opportunities. They can take the public examination and become civil servants. Civil servants can also be promoted to officials, and they can continue to take the imperial examination."

"In addition, the imperial court is also gradually canceling or gradually reducing the tolerance of showdowns and replacing them with methods such as recruitment."

Both sides debated whether treatment for scholars has increased or decreased.

"More scholars."

"As long as you pass the assessment of the Ministry of Science and Technology and meet the initial threshold, you can become a first-level scholar and receive talent allowances, political immunity, etc."

"Each level has assessments, and the corresponding talent allowances and voice rights are also different."

That man got to the point.

In the past, officials' reserve talents were valued most, but now technical talents are valued most. This is exactly what later generations of writers Ming Yue said that the essence of any struggle is nothing more than a struggle for power.

Scholar-type readers are given the most preferential treatment, followed by scholars.

At the beginning, the scholars were not very good at the imperial examinations. They failed several times in the imperial examinations. Now that their rights have been weakened, how can they be satisfied.

While they were arguing, there were indeed more and more scholars in the Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Zhu Gaochi's supervision of the country, in the spring of the 33rd year of Hongwu, the Department of Science and Technology was upgraded to the Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition to being responsible for the official affairs of the department, its internal affairs department also had its own job of protecting the political privileges of scholars.

This is also the right of the Secretary of State, a department created specifically for this purpose. If it wants to gain rights, its merit is to protect the privileges of scholars.

More and more scholars are applying to the Ministry of Science and Technology for scholar assessment, and they are no less enthusiastic than the imperial examination. As the ancients said, everything in the world is prosperous, and everything in the world is prosperous.

When something has great benefits, people will inevitably flock to it.

"Being an official is worse than being a scholar."

Officials from the Ministry of Industry lamented that after His Highness the Prince came back, he demanded that his family be confiscated and that no one be spared.

The officials of the imperial court were so frightened that they trembled.

Officials have personal relationships, and no one can guarantee that they have not interacted with the person who committed the crime. If they have contacts, they may be implicated.

The Jin Yiwei has been investigating for half a year, not letting go of any clues, and trying to catch all the criminals who plotted to murder the saint.

There are no less than a thousand people in the prison, and they are probably all going to be beheaded.

The official from the Ministry of Industry tentatively went to the Ministry of Science and Technology for an assessment and raised several questions.

Asking questions is no small thing.

He was the first person to formally propose the concept of numerical values ​​in logistics, and he actually passed the exam and became a first-level scholar.

"Based on the research on Zheng Guo Canal, there are two main questions: the correlation between water diversion and canal relationship."

"Principle formulas of technical aspects such as sand sinking ground and mud filter ridge in Zheng Guo Canal."

"Water inlet and outlet formulas for water diversion and gate outlets."

……

Technical Journal - New problems in mathematics journals have aroused the interest of mathematicians and provided them with new ideas.

But no one thought that the mathematical problems raised by Zhang Bing, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, stumped the mathematicians.

"This is no longer ordinary mathematics. It should be the physical aspect of mathematics. Combined with the numerical concept of logistics, it can be called physics."

In the communication pages of mathematics journals, mathematicians expressed their opinions one by one.

Everyone brainstormed.

"According to the concept of degrees, the Tashan Weir, which is as famous as the Zheng Guo Canal, has a weir bottom that is inclined five degrees upstream. This feature can increase the stability of the weir body. I think it is similar to the technical principles of the Zheng Guo Canal, the sand settling ground and the mud filter ridge. Formulas are similar or related, and should belong to a type of difficult research."

……

"Pfft."

Zhu Gaochi took a sip of tea and looked at the technical report in his hand strangely.

Don't underestimate anyone, and don't belittle yourself.

Chinese civilization has many excellent features, but of course it is impossible to be better than others in any aspect. This would not be a human being, but a god.

In terms of achievements in mathematics, including the practical application of science and technology, the Chinese civilization is nothing short of powerful.

But in terms of physics, the ancient Greek civilization did have a better theory - if their historical data are true.

Only China has books that record things from generation to generation. The large number of books produced every year in ancient times allows them to be passed down to future generations.It is this one or two that has been handed down, which can also provide future generations with historical materials for every year in ancient times.

There is none around China, let alone the West.

Over the long millennia in the West, the books of ancient Greek civilization have long since disappeared, and were compiled by descendants of the West.

As for how they actually sorted it out, only God, or God, knows.

Physics, geometry, etc. of the ancient Greek civilization were recorded in the same way as ancient Chinese mathematicians.

Various Arabic numerals and symbols express formulas, which were formed by later generations.

For example, when writing about water in ancient times, the concept of water was put forward. Later generations had the combination of water elements. In order to be more clear, the concept proposed by the ancients was directly written as H2O.

You need to understand the difference. If you don't understand it, you will worship it as a miracle.

Zhu Gaochi understood that the ancients understood physics, but they did not form the scientific concepts of later generations. He needs to know that without physics, great projects cannot be built.

For example, the ancients used the physical knowledge of thermal expansion and contraction by burning stones to open mountains and extract minerals.

Technologies in water control, irrigation, navigation, etc. are inseparable from the principles of fluid mechanics.

But the ancients did not form complete and rigorous concepts and formulas.

Zhu Gaochi was delighted that with the development of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty and the emphasis on scholars, concepts and formulas began to emerge.

Zhang Bing, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, was known to Zhu Gaochi.

This person's full-time job mainly focuses on river affairs. He is a practical type of official. It is not surprising that he can ask questions about physics.

Moreover, because this person historically opposed Zhu Di and helped reduce the vassal state, Zhu Di's advice to surrender was rejected by him, and he was eventually killed.

If Zhu Gaochi was thick-skinned, he could say that Li Bing, the organizer of Dujiangyan, founded hydrostatics as early as [-] BC.

This is not impossible.

As long as Chinese civilization continues to develop and has the right to speak in the world, it will certainly be able to make the world accept this concept.

Then it is developed to the level of later generations and installed with modern formulas. In the eyes of people in other countries, it is a miracle for them to worship.

Just like modern Western scholars, they proposed that the origin of Eastern civilization is the West, including human race, which was introduced from the West.

Such a shameless view, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, actually made many Chinese scholars dare not refute it because of the backwardness gap.

This is the power of the right to speak.

It is also this period.

Many wrong views poured into China, causing China to fall into more confusion and inferiority. This was the reason for the creation of the Qing Dynasty.

In the process of great development in the world, the Qing Dynasty's isolation and restriction of science and technology and ideology caused a great setback in the quality of people throughout the Chinese civilization.

Even in New China, with the development of national power, there are more scholars with the ability to think independently, and a large number of physical objects have been unearthed, which proves the erroneous concept of Western scholars that the Chinese race is a migration from the West, and extends to more rebuttal.

As China's economy became more prosperous, Chinese scholars gained financial and material resources and the ability to study Western history. Subsequently, a large number of books and letters by modern Western scholars were unearthed.

For example, the letters of French scholar Bai Jin from the [-]th to [-]th centuries were discovered by later generations of Chinese scholars.

In the letter, he discussed the "Book of Changes" with his friends, saying: "I bring special knowledge, such as Hebrew Moses-Jewish secret philosophy and Plato-Pythagoras philosophy, which is the wisdom of Chinese hieroglyphs." True element.”

"The character Fuxi was changed into the name of several wise men, such as the Egyptian and Greek Hermes Trismechistus, the Hebrew Enoch, and the Persian Zoroaster."

The Journal of the Italian Institute of Far Eastern Studies stated: “If we conduct a graphic analysis of language techniques, the poetry of Hermes clearly has Chinese origins.”

The German Orientalist Hagel in the [-]th century verified that the goddess Isis and the god Osiris in "ancient Egypt" were created with reference to the Chinese "feminine" and "masculine".

Another example is that Egyptian hieroglyphics are similar to ancient Chinese characters, so later Western scholars concluded that Chinese characters "came from the West", which became their evidence for the Western origin of Eastern civilization.

Hagel, on the other hand, believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics were derived from Chinese characters based on the fact that Chinese characters are characters with profound cultural connotations.

He said: "In my opinion, the first batch of "Egyptian hieroglyphics" were "deduced" by European scholars in the [-]th century using Chinese characters."

Because Chinese characters are different from Latin letters, the origin and formation of each Chinese character have corresponding profound meanings and connotations.

The discovery of oracle bone inscriptions in later generations completely proved Hagel's statement.

It is not that Chinese characters come from ancient Egypt, but that Western scholars used ancient Egyptian characters deduced from Chinese characters to fabricate the origins of various modern academic studies into ancient Greek civilization, which is one of the origins of the Western hypothesis.

Some speculate that the church is the biggest driving force behind this.

Because scholars are controlled by the church, scholars study science in order to prove the religious nature of the church.

Missionaries belong to the church, and a large amount of knowledge about Chinese civilization has been absorbed by the Western church.

Some people say that Joseph Needham in the twentieth century was a traitor to the West because he believed that Western civilization originated in the East.

But what people don't know is that there are a large number of Western books and letters from the [-]th, [-]th and [-]th centuries that discuss Eastern civilization. Various concepts believe that the development of Western civilization is inseparable from, or absorbs the knowledge of Eastern civilization.

Joseph Needham is just a person who faced history squarely in later generations.

Because of the backwardness of the Qing Dynasty, Westerners conquered the world and their cultural confidence reached its peak.

After editing history and determining their inner positions, only after the late Qing Dynasty did a large number of views emerge that Eastern civilization originated from the West.

Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the modern Western perspective admired and respected the great achievements of Chinese civilization.

For example, Santinello wrote: "Greek wisdom came entirely from the East. But its Eastern origins in philosophy, mathematics, and geometry are all said to have been created by the ancient Greeks. Burnet said, 'Every Greek theory can all be traced back to their Eastern origins.'"

Jenny Ross, a historian of religion at Columbia University, writes: "Beurrier said that ancient Near Eastern philosophy was consistent with Chinese religious thought. In fact, until the 18th century, Zoroaster, Hull Mess and Enoch were identified as Fuxi, the ancient Chinese mysterious figure and the original author of the "Book of Changes". Plethon pointed out that Plato's philosophy did not originate from himself, but through Pida Coranism is derived from Zoroaster.'"

The Pythagorean philosophy comes from China.

Some people have deduced the true context based on a large amount of Western speeches from the [-]th, [-]th, [-]th and [-]th centuries.

"Greek wisdom" came from the East.

"Greek Wisdom" (philosophy and others) ← Near East (Hermes, Logos, Zoroaster) ← China (I Ching, "Tao" and technological knowledge).

In the early Qing Dynasty, ideas and technology were not completely restricted, and there were still Western missionaries coming to China.

During the Qianlong period, the thinker Dai Zhen obtained very clear evidence during his exchanges with the Jesuits, that is, the relevant Western methods all originated from the "Zhou Bi Suan Jing".

Dai Zhen discovered that the Jesuits were manipulating "Chinese Heavenly Studies" and they lied that the West "has existed since ancient times."

Even when New China became prosperous and powerful in later generations, some scholars proposed that the Jesuits in China in ancient times were the "sucking tubes" of the Western history-making movement.

But the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds.

Because of the long-term backwardness, there are many people with low self-esteem, even among later generations of domestic scholars.

There is a scholar in China who visits foreign countries all year round.
He criticized Joseph Needham's works, belittled the other party's achievements, and peddled his "speaking of the West" in the country.

It is claimed that "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" is, to a large extent, learned from foreign astronomical studies and is believed to come from ancient Greece.

(End of this chapter)