Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 113 Chongzhen 17th December Winter

Twelfth lunar month twenty.

There are only ten days before the Spring Festival of the 18th year of Chongzhen.

The cold wind swept across the whole country.

The beauty in her arms is like jade, warm as March, making people wish they could melt into her softness.

However, Zhu Youjian still chose to sit up.

The cold air was billowing with the red tent.

The eunuch Shi Kefa, the supervisor of ceremonies, would always wait outside the door with a memorial in hand.

Chen Yuanyuan is now insensitive to Zhu Youjian's body, and puts the yellow silk clothes on Zhu Youjian calmly.

Standing outside the door, staring at the snow scene of Zhongshan, staring blankly for a while, is what Zhu Youjian does every day.

The climate of Nanjing City is obviously wetter than that of Beijing.

Although there has been no snow today, the cold rain in the deep winter has dyed the red Forbidden City a layer of dark green.

The descendant of Zhang Tianshi in Wudang Mountain was invited into the palace by Zhu Youjian. Whenever the rooster sings and the world is white, Zhu Youjian will follow him to punch for a while.

Although Taijiquan is soft, it is equally exhausting. Coupled with the abundant yang energy, Zhu Youjian, who is in his prime, was already sweating slightly in a short time.

"What's the matter today?"

After taking the handkerchief soaked in hot water from Chen Yuanyuan, Zhu Youjian touched Chen Yuanyuan's hand inadvertently, with a serious smile.

Shi Kefa, the eunuch with Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, has a good memory: "The king of Shu was killed by Zhang Xianzhong, the Tartars encroached on the capital, millions of people in the capital were homeless, people around Baoding were often killed, Jiannu promulgated the escape law , the people who fled to the south practiced the crime of sitting together."

boom!
Zhu Youjian suddenly dropped the handkerchief on the ground, the corners of his mouth tightened, and he stared at Shi Kefa and Chen Yuanyuan sharply.

Chen Yuanyuan's face turned pale with fright.

Shi Kefa was also silent.

A sudden cold wind blew away Zhu Youjian's anger. As for the death of the people in the north, even if he was the emperor, he was helpless at this time.

At this time, Wang Chengen walked over quickly, took the memorial from Shi Kefa, and replaced Shi Kefa's class.

"How is Bi Maokang's illness?"

As soon as Zhu Youjian saw Wang Chengen, he thought of Bi Maokang, and at the same time consciously walked out of the palace.

Wang Chengen is naturally a clever thief, knowing that Zhu Youjian was going out of the palace again, he winked at his subordinates, and some people rushed to rule Li Ruolian, the commander of Jinyiwei.

Now that he is in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Youjian will not imprison himself in the high wall every day.

Gardens in the south of the Yangtze River are famous far and wide, and Zhu Youjian made many government-run institutions of the Ming Dynasty use gardens with mountains and water as their office locations, so they can naturally relax their minds after inspections.

If the officials are not allowed to experience the preciousness of this gentle and rich town, how can they follow him wholeheartedly to protect this southern country.

With the help of traditional Chinese medicine made from the bark of the cinchona tree, Bi Maokang's condition improved, but he still could not go out to enjoy the wind. He just stayed in the Daming Institute of Engineering, Yuyuan, to see the flowers and plants and listen to the birdsong.

Several families in Wei Guogong's mansion gave birth to the court's hired workers, responsible for the logistics services of the entire Daming Engineering Institute, including Bi Maokang's life.

Bi Maokang was no longer bored, and Song Yingxing, Tang Ruowang, and Sun Heding also moved here, and they each asked for a villa to live in. Every day, they occasionally came to talk to Bi Maokang about gun manufacturing.

Of course, Zhu Youjian came here not only to see Bi Maokang, but also to see how Xu Wenjue's experiments in this engineering institute were going.

The study-like laboratory is surrounded by boxes, and in the middle are three large wooden tables filled with glass containers and stinky cinchona trees that have been burned or soaked in some liquid.

"The laboratory can't play like this, the windows should be changed to be bigger, and a fume hood should be added to prevent the experimenters from being poisoned. There is a fire, the glass containers are not very good and the variety is single, can you burn glass in your house?"

Zhu Youjian looked at the very transparent glass beaker and asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are masters who can make colored glaze, but Westerners can't make glass," Wei Guogong Xu Wenjue replied.

"After this Kinney cream is developed, it's time to start trying the method of making this glass. You can see that this thing is not just for flower arrangement. It is anti-acid and anti-alkali. Pharmaceuticals cannot do without it. Yes, the key is to be transparent, think of ways.”

Zhu Youjian said that he suggested that Xu Wenjue make a chromatographic separator according to his own requirements, that is, the separation of alkaloids can be achieved by adding alkaline colloids by using the different polarities of substances.

If it is impossible for Zhu Youjian to explain this to Xu Wenjue, he can only advise him how to do it. Alkaline colloid materials cannot be found. Many metal oxides are alkaline colloids.

When Zhu Youjian left the Academy of Engineering and came to the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Engineering of Nuoda University was already full, and Fang Yizhi summoned Zhang Dai, Fu Shan, Lu Liuliang, Zhu Zhiyu and others.

For the selection of academicians of the Academy of Sciences, Zhu Youjian is relatively strict. At least one must have a certain reputation in today's world.

But these few, because they are really famous, Zhu Youjian naturally broke the rules and made them academicians of the Academy of Sciences, which can be regarded as building a team for the Academy of Sciences.

What Zhu Youjian didn't expect was that all the scholars in front of him who were well-known in later generations were still young masters Pian Pianjia. Like Fang Yizhi, they didn't see the slightest hint of humbleness when they saw the emperor Zhu Youjian coming. There was a frivolity in the salute, and even Zhang Dai asked Zhu Youjian directly without hesitation: "Your Majesty, since I was asked to come to this Academy of Sciences, I don't know what the word "science" means. Why is it not Jixian Hall?" Or Lixianju?"

"Fortunately, Zongzi Zhang is also from a famous family. The snow scene of the West Lake written in "Looking at the Snow in the Heart of the Lake" can be said to be unprecedented, but now he is asking such naive questions. The word science is nothing more than a division of subjects. Science, birds and beasts are a subject, sun and moon rotation is a subject, and reproduction is a subject. The establishment of the Academy of Sciences is just to allow you to understand the principles of all things and seek the science of all subjects. For the time being, you are not considered to be sages, but you are just talents!"

When Zhu Youjian said this, Zhang Dai, Fang Yizhi and others were speechless for a while, but they were a little annoyed that His Majesty Zhu Youjian didn't think highly of people like himself.

Seeing them all blushing, Zhu Youjian also knew that what he said just now had hurt the self-esteem of these heavenly darlings, so he couldn't help laughing. He knew that all of these people had high vision, and they could despise even fame. , People who compare themselves to sages, but what Zhu Youjian wants to combat is their madness, so that they can calm down and apply their high IQ to the study of natural science.

At the age of six, Zhang Dai could wittily match the pair of "the eyebrow crosses the deer, and the autumn wind hits Qiantang County". Fang Yizhi was born as a scholar. But he was a well-known university scholar in the Ming and Qing dynasties. If these people were not allowed to serve him well, Zhu Youjian felt that he was wasting talents.

(End of this chapter)