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Chapter 621 Science
In the spring of the fifth year of Wanli, the Ministry of Industry did something amazing. It published a list to inform the world that it selected those who had made outstanding contributions in the field of science and technology in the past two years, and issued huge rewards to the top ten, and listed the main contributors of donations. , the Ministry of Rites distributed the steles, and later pushed them to be custom-made. Every two years, ten awards will be awarded for engineering contributions to promote technological development.

As soon as the awards were announced, an internal list was sent by the cabinet to Chen Mu of Beiyang Military Mansion.

"Who made this list crazy?"

Chen Mu looked at the list of awards, and he, the behind-the-scenes reward donor, was at the top of the list. The reason for the award was the compilation of "Chen's Tao Te Ching", "Banner Army Drill Manual", "A List of Shooting Guns" and other scientific and military technical contributions .

Qi Jiguang ranked second with his military technical contributions such as "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Records of Military Training"; the third was Pan Jixun, the imperial envoy of the Prime Minister's Hedaodu, who won the award with the method of "blasting water to wash sand".

The person who ran this errand in the Ministry of Industry happened to be Xu Zhenming, who held two official positions in the Ministry of Industry and Beiyang. Chen Mu pointed to the list and asked, "Can you send me? Fang Xuejian is the only one who is not in office. His achievements include translating the "Ten Books on Architecture" in ancient Rome in Europa and the twelve volumes of "Complete Book on Mining and Metallurgy" printed in the 40th year of Jiajing in Europa. This award is awarded in Is the choice not fair enough?"

"Actually, Chen Shuai is very fair. If he hadn't thought more about it, even Fang Xuejian would not have been selected. In terms of translation achievements, Mr. Xu, your aide, translated "Seafarer's Treasure Book", and Chang Ji translated "Ingenious Mechanical Devices" , Those great Confucian families in the southeast have translated hundreds of books on Western learning, and Zhang Gelao's "Taochengfa" is at the top of the list, and Gelao also eliminated himself to avoid suspicion."

Xu Zhenming was dying of sorrow, the top of the list has a reward of 1 taels of silver, let alone the top of the list, even the subsequent winners of 5000 taels, 3000 taels, or even 1000 taels wanted to refuse: "Prime Minister Pan Gong of Hedao is not willing either. Accepting the reward, Prince Zheng's son Zhu Zaiyu was unwilling to accept it, hoping to put the reward silver into the national treasury... If you continue to be so modest, this reward list will not be able to be made!"

"What Mr. Zhang Ge means is that by taking advantage of this award, mobilize those wealthy businessmen who want to earn fame and wealth, and let them contribute money to donate their names, so that the Ministry of Industry can take steps to promote the progress of the world's technology at its own expense, so that Alleviating Nanyang's financial pressure can also allow the ministries to understand their powers and concentrate on their own affairs, but now, let alone encouraging merchants to invite names, even these award-winning people are not happy."

"Xu Gong, don't worry, let's sit down and talk slowly, what is the "New Law Secret Rate" by Prince Zheng's son, and it can also be listed?"

Chen Mu also felt a headache after hearing Xu Zhenming's words. Pan Jixun used his new technology to control rivers very effectively, and it was easy to be on the list; Not to mention the military reform, Fang Xuejian also put in a lot of hard work in the translation, and the more important thing is to promote this studious spirit to the world.

But it seems to sound right now that the problem is that there are too few technological reforms, on the contrary to the difficulty he imagined at first, and that there are too many people who can make scientific and technological contributions.

"The secret law of Zheng Wangshizi's new law is based on the traditional legal science, and the three-point profit and loss is not accurate. The Zheng Wangshizi improved this way, and I only understand the details, but the teaching and imitation department has seen its secret law. If you get it later..."

"Wait, this jurisprudence is not the law, how can it be the teacher's turn to speak?" Chen Mu's face was bewildered, the idea that the royal family of the vassal king was the most useless collection of human beings in the Ming Dynasty had been deeply ingrained in his mind, and he frowned He paused every word, and said, "There is a dark story."

"Oh!"

The ignorant Mr. Chen made Xu Zhenming very worried. He beat his chest and said, "Jing Haibo, this law study is the study of rhythm. If it is not allowed to be judged by the teacher, why should it be judged by the head of the criminal department?"

"The son of King Zheng is a master of music. He studied music, astronomy, and arithmetic with his uncle, He Cuifu, the head of Jingxian Academy since he was a child. He was imprisoned for dissatisfaction with his father. He lived in a hut outside the palace for 19 years. Xi Gao was alone His writings did not enter the palace until King Zheng returned to the country, he surpassed the ancestral rules, broke the old habits, and his arithmetic attainments are superb, he even calculated the latitude and longitude of Beijing by himself, he is the most talented and virtuous among the vassal kings!"

"The son of King Zheng is currently compiling the "Complete Book of Rhythms". When his book is compiled, he will probably win the top spot that year. Now that he is ranked fourth, there is no shady plot."

Chen Mu was not interested in rhythm, but after hearing Xu Zhenming's words, he crossed his arms and said suspiciously: "Can he calculate the latitude and longitude of Beijing? He is familiar with arithmetic and calendars, so can he compile a new calendar for the court?"

If Zhu Zaiyu is really so talented, it would be a waste of money to put it in Prince Zheng's mansion. He should make more contributions to the country and the nation!

"I just came over from Ge Lao's mansion, and Jing Haibo also knew that Ge Lao thought so. He even asked me to tell Jing Haibo that there is already a way to seal the vassal kings. You can't blindly seal them all. The emperor In the near future, an edict will be issued that the quasi-clan will do most of the scientific and technological research and study, and then first seal off a group of clan enclaves that are ignorant and cause harm to the party. In order to avoid those who are wronged, if they make achievements Maybe it can be judged for an award, or it can be re-sealed and returned to China."

Ok!

Shen Zhongnian is planning to train all the clan members surnamed Zhu into great scientists.

Chen Mu laughed when he heard it, but he immediately felt that this idea was wonderful!
What do scientists need most?A never-ending spirit of seeking knowledge, a source of income that does not affect life, and access to knowledge.

For the latter two, as long as the clans registered to enjoy Lumi have this condition.

As for the first type, if you don't do academic research well, you will be thrown overseas. There is no doubt that the most mischievous lord will also love academic research.

"This is much higher than the discussion in recent years that the imperial clan should also be able to pass the imperial examination. The common people just have this chance to stand up. It is not bad for these clans to pass the imperial examination, but it is different for them to be scholars. Their status is extremely high. It’s not bad to be a scientist, and there is a precedent for it, the younger brother of Emperor Chengzu is a scholar.”

Zhu Di's mother and younger brother, King Zhu of Zhou, were forced to become a pharmacologist because they could not do anything and did not dare to do anything.

Chen Mu was so happy that he slapped the table with Silly Le and asked the clan to do research. This was so interesting. Whoever made chemistry famous in the future, just slapped the names of his brothers and ancestors on it, and it was a ready-made periodic table of elements.

And the most important thing is that Zhang Juzheng finally came up with a solution to the clan's external seal, and it was the best solution - what's the point of rewarding money for promoting scientific progress?The most outstanding scientific contributor can be crowned king!
"Jing Hai Bo, don't talk about this, it's the elder's business, and I'm also Jing Hai Bo's colleague and subordinate, what should I do if this job can't be done? You have to talk!"

Xu Zhenming pointed to the list and motioned for Chen Mu to give him an idea.

"I have no other choice, but there are too many people worthy of awards. I think it is because the awards are not clear enough. It is possible to set up a few more awards and divide these science and technology into categories. Take His Majesty's year title as an example, such as the method of examination, it can be summed up in the "Wanli Management Award", and the twelve equal temperaments of King Zheng's son are called the "Wanli Rhythm Award", as well as military science, water conservancy, geography, etc. science, astronomy, medicine, metallurgy, and this one."

As Chen Mu said, he pointed his finger at Fujian Yanguan Tu Bengan, who was ranked seventh, and said, "This guy who looks like he likes to eat, look, the title of his book is "Seafood Index", which belongs to Wanli Biology, so For one thing, officials can specialize in their own management, economics, and military studies, and other awards can be done by Tianxia Zhaoli, isn’t that easy?”

"There is no need to worry about money. The idea of ​​Ge Laola's sponsorship is excellent, but the coverage can be wider. With such a big name as Xuge Lao Songjiang School of Literature, it is not difficult to sponsor several thousand taels, right? Beibiankou City He Xingsheng in the south, why not sponsor tens of thousands of taels from wealthy businessmen who have traveled far and wide? You can even establish a national research institute in the future—but these things are not in the hands of Mr. Chen, so you should ask Mr. Zhang Ge for advice. Hey!"

Chen Mu waved his hand, got up and took the list of winners back to Xu Zhenming's arms, pushed Zhao Shizhen's father-in-law out of the hall from behind, stood at the threshold and waved his hands, and waited to see his back walking out of the yamen, then he casually pulled a chair and sat on it. Think more happily and laugh out loud.

"Zhu Moumou, a great scientist during the Wanli period, haha!"

　Zhu Zaiyu, the ninth grandson of Ming Taizu and the sixth generation son of Zheng Fan, has made extraordinary contributions in the fields of literature, art and science.

　　Music: He uses a huge abacus spanning 81 gears to calculate the square root and cube root, and designs and manufactures strings and rhythm pipes.

　　Nine out of ten musical instruments known in the world are tuned on the basis of twelve equal temperaments.

　　Mathematics: pioneered the use of abacus calculations for the square root, and studied the sequence of equations. It was the first in the world to solve the first term, the last term and the number of terms of the known geometric series, and to solve the conversion of decimals in different base systems. Some calculation methods have been used to this day. .

　　Metrology: Zhu Zaiyu has conducted extremely detailed investigations and physical experiments on the relationship between the fixed ruler of the millet and the relationship between ancient currency and weights and measures. The research on the changes of the weights and measures system in the past dynasties has been influential until now; he proposed a series of calculations for nozzle correction The method and calculation formula also accurately determine the density of mercury.

　　Astronomical calendar: Zhu Zaiyu believed that the calendar calculation at that time was not very accurate in calculating the length of each year. After careful observation and calculation, he worked out the formula for calculating the length of the regression year.He is also the first person in Chinese history to accurately calculate the geographic location of Beijing (39°56′ north latitude, 116°20′ east longitude).

　　In 1986, modern measurement methods were used to verify Zhu Zaiyu's calculation results for the two years of 1554 and 1581. The verification found that the length value calculated by Zhu Zaiyu in 1554 was only 17 seconds away from that calculated today. 1581 is 21 seconds off.

　　
　
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