Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

After several people got on the high platform, they used pulleys to hoist up several iron balls for testing.

Why use an iron ball?

Minimize wind resistance.

Only in this way can it meet the purpose of the test.

The larger the area, the greater the wind resistance

"According to the theory put forward by someone at the Institute of Gewu, the heaven and the earth are not round and square?"

"If the sky is not round and the earth is round, then it cannot be that the sky is round and the earth is round, right?"

"It is said that the earth is a sphere, and the place we live in is a huge planet, just like the sun. It's just that our geothermal heat is limited and has cooled down, but the sun is still burning. Because the sun burns, heat energy reaches it, allowing all things to grow."

"Hiss...it's a novel theory!"

"Isn't it? And because the earth is rotating and revolving around the sun, as the angle changes, there is sunset and sunrise in one day and four seasons in a year, winter, summer, spring and autumn. The angle of the earth is different. Some places are hot all year round, while others are cold all year round."

"Is there such a place?"

"Yes, there is an equator and an Antarctic"

"Who came up with this?"

"anonymous. It is included in the book"Introduction to Science" compiled by the great master. The great master said that he heard it from an overseas philosopher but did not know his name."

"This is impossible to follow, but it is indeed interesting."

While hoisting the iron ball, many scholar-bureaucrats began to chat and solve the problem, forcibly suppressing their excitement.

In addition to the round earth theory, there are also heliocentric theory and so on, which are all included in the introduction to science.

Of course, Wang Lun did not use a firm tone, but just said: I wrote a few articles in the form of casual chat.

It can be regarded as an introduction to literacy and enlightenment.

It must be said here that China really has no taboos and no worries about any doctrine, as long as it does not shake the foundation of its rule and challenge Confucianism..

Including religion, Buddhism officially came in during the Eastern Han Dynasty, then Tianfang Sect, Nestorianism is a branch of Catholicism, there is a grand Catholic church in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, and Zoroastrianism, etc., can also be preached openly. Unless you oppose Chinese traditions may have political agendas.

For example, the White Lotus Sect was strictly banned due to repeated rebellions.

There was also the Ming Sect, which was originally harmless to humans and animals and only caused demons to eat vegetables, so the court did not bother to care about it.

After several large-scale rebellions, it was banned. Especially in the Ming Dynasty, the name of the country came from the Mingjiao, which at least had a certain relationship. As a result, after Lao Zhu took over the world, he strictly banned the Mingjiao. After that, the Mingjiao did not make any splash.

As for the scientific theory, no one thought of using it at all. Violent means of suppression.

Of course, there is a risk in talking about Confucian classics, and you might lose your head.

While Wang Lun watched the iron ball being slowly hoisted into the air, he also sighed in his heart.

China is obviously much more relaxed. There is an academic atmosphere, a lot of smart people, and smart people with money and leisure...

Like in Europe at this time, if you dare to publish scientific theories casually, you may be burned at the stake.

Well-known scientists have been burned at the stake.

More Don’t talk about ordinary people.

But why hasn’t China developed science? Don’t mention the four great inventions.

The main thing is the system.

The scientific system includes doctrines, schools, inheritance, and the universities that were founded because of it.

In the Song Dynasty, it was already There are quite a few ancient universities such as Oxford University.

The other is the industrial system that cooperates with science.

They complement each other.

It can only be said that Confucianism is still the blame. It is becoming more and more dominant, closed, ignorant, conservative and stagnant.

It can tolerate a small scale The dissemination and research of doctrines.

But it cannot tolerate schools and corresponding organizations that challenge its status.

Even Confucian academies will be suppressed if they are not controlled by the court.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, China was confident, tolerant, open, and knowledgeable. Drawing on the strengths of all families.

From Hu Fu's riding and shooting to Li Shimin becoming the Khan of Heaven, this is a correct path of progress.

Even in the late Ming Dynasty, missionaries were not suppressed. At the same time, the Ming court never rejected foreign technology and was blindly self-confident. Big.

Looking at the memorial records at that time, Jiang officials praised the salvaged Folan cannon as being more advanced, so the Ming court immediately ordered to imitate it.

Later, the Hongyi cannon was fished out, and they began to imitate the Hongyi cannon.

Later, they even cooperated with the Portuguese Cooperating with each other, the Ming army hired a large number of Portuguese firearms instructors and hundreds of Portuguese mercenaries. There were also cannon casting technicians, engineers, etc.

It also purchased a large number of chambering machines, lathes and other equipment from the Jesuits.

That's it. Because of this attitude of not being complacent and having the courage to learn from others, the Ming Dynasty caught up with the gap in cannon casting with the West in just a few decades at the end of the Ming Dynasty. By the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty could cast heavy cannons weighing several thousand kilograms. The artillery technology is extremely advanced and is by no means inferior to that of Europe at the same time.

Because the cannon casting factory in Macau was also of a very high level, not only the Dutch in Batavia placed orders for it, but also the Portuguese, Spanish, and British, all placed orders for cannon castings from the Macau factory.

The Ming Dynasty's cannon casting level was completely obtained from the Macao factory, and later even surpassed the Macao factory.

The Qing Dynasty banned almost all colleges, making them even more ignorant, conservative, closed, and backward.

Originally both sides were similar, each had its own strengths and weaknesses.

But when others remove their shackles and move forward quickly, you add several more layers of shackles to yourself. The shackles on your body become heavier and heavier, and of course you will be thrown further and further away by others.

The level of muskets and artillery in the mid-Qing Dynasty plummeted.

By Xian, at the same time, the quality and power of newly cast artillery were extremely poor.

We had to use the artillery from the late Ming Dynasty, as well as the artillery from Shunzhi and Kangxi years.

Why?

The artillery of the Shunzhi and Kangxi years was also the technology and craftsmanship of the late Ming Dynasty.

By the time Xianfeng arrived, the Tongzhi period had already been discontinued.

Artillery technology is retreating instead of advancing.

And after nearly two hundred years of development, others have left you far behind.

Even at that time, the Qing court was still clinging to its old guard. The two Opium Wars had no impact on it. They were defeated again and again, and they dared to lose again...

The atmosphere in the Song Dynasty was much more relaxed than that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and this was Liangshan. Under the rule, Wang Lun was said to be a thief and a thief, but everyone present understood that Wang Lun's attitude towards academics was extremely relaxed, and he was willing to spread even fallacies.

If the world is deceived by fallacies and heresies, it means that the right path is not advocated and Wang Lun needs to reflect on himself.

In fact it doesn't.

Wang Lun has this confidence

……

Several iron balls were finally hoisted onto the fifty-meter high platform.

It is really not easy to do such a thing in this weather.

Fortunately, those who started to perform the task were not ordinary teachers and students, but the elite soldiers and horses of Liangshan.

This thing can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

"start!"

Following Yang Hui's order, one of the two professors who had been prepared blew the bamboo whistle and the other waved the red flag.

A large iron ball weighing a hundred kilograms and an iron ball weighing ten kilograms were pushed together along the wooden platform. The track began to slide rapidly.

Everyone held their breath and raised their necks, watching the iron ball roll down.

"Bang, bang!"

Almost instantly, people blinked their eyelids, and all the iron balls fell to the ground. They hit the frozen solid ground and made two bangs.

One was big and the other was small. It sounded like a boom.

Boom.!

Everyone was shocked.

Because it was visible to the naked eye that the two iron balls landed together!

Professors, students, external participants, and more than a thousand people were shocked.

Everyone rushed to the place where the iron balls landed to watch.

There is nothing wrong.

That’s right. One is big and the other is small. The big one is over a hundred kilograms, which is about ten times the size of the small one, which is ten kilograms. The volume is much larger.

But the time of landing is no more than a snap of the finger.

This is equivalent to landing at the same time.

"It’s really at the same time!"

"This, why is this?"

"It involves weight, mass, resistance... I heard that the master has a formula, but now I am really confused and have no idea at all!"

"You don’t understand, but I understand? Speaking of which, I have also studied the way of investigating things, that is, physics. Clear air is the sky, and turbid air is the earth.……"

"Stop it, stop it, everyone can write a few articles about such mysterious things. The theory must have a mathematical model and can be tested. This is called science. Otherwise, it is not considered physics, fcb) it can only be thought."

"Uh, is that what the sages said? That's all, what the boss said makes some sense."

"Yes, what can be falsified is science, what cannot be falsified is metaphysics."

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The most excited ones are the students.

These teenagers swarmed up and circled around the iron ball. Their young faces were full of excitement

They had no doubts before. Wang Lun

, the leader, was a god-like figure in their eyes, and he could never make mistakes.

This was the moment when everyone’s thoughts were verified, and Wang Lun, the leader, was indeed infallible.

"Back off!"

Yang Hui's face was also flushed. Although he lost the bet, he was extremely excited.

As a mathematician, he has dabbled in physical phenomena, astronomy, and chemistry.

And his attainments are not shallow.

After all, he is a scholar. A mathematician.

This kind of person has a high IQ, far beyond ordinary people. His understanding of things is not comparable to ordinary people.

At this time, Yang Hui vaguely felt the correctness of Wang Lun's theory, and began to The derivation process.

But where the responsibility lay, Yang Hui still waved away many students and loudly shouted with a loudspeaker:"Stand back, there is another test!"[] boom!

Everyone took another hundred steps back.

Then the bamboo whistle sounded again and the red flag was displayed again.

The two iron balls are placed on the slide rail again and slide down.

This time it was a hundred catty iron ball and a one catty iron ball.

Even more extreme.

But... there was a loud"bang".

Another small iron ball painted red is also visible to the naked eye and falls to the ground together with the big iron ball.

The difference is just a blink of an eye.

It’s almost the same as one weighing ten kilograms

"It’s confirmed, they are really different weights and the same form landed together!"

"Hiss, how did Master Wang come up with this?"

"There seems to be a formula. Can we try to derive the formula?"

"Okay, I'm pretty good at math anyway."

The people who came here this time are at least a group of gentry related to"miscellaneous studies". They usually dabble in the study of things and arithmetic at home.

If they are the kind of gentry who are completely obsessed with poetry, bronze inscriptions, calligraphy and painting, etc., their There is not much interest.

Just because they are interested in miscellaneous subjects, they can be considered to have a good foundation. Many people are actually no worse than the professors of the college, and much better than the students who have just entered the college.

Just pick one out , the foundation of arithmetic may be extremely profound, and the systematic theory is definitely not as good as Wang Lun, who has been trained in mathematics from elementary school to high school, but in terms of partial subject performance, he might be much better than Wang Lun.

Yang Hui also looked filled with emotion.

He is a serious mathematician.

More than ten years later, he has become well-known throughout the country, and has many mathematical works handed down to the world.

In terms of intelligence, there is probably no one among the more than a thousand people in front of him who is better than him.

Of course, except for the big boss.

This person... can no longer be measured by ordinary people.

……

Everyone’s thoughts are still unfinished!

But outdoor testing has been completed.

Many people are thoughtful and already pondering the manuscript.

Many of these literati and gentry had old acquaintances and close friends from the same age.

In this era, instant phone calls are also impossible.

Communication can only be done through letters.

That's fine, you can write it in more detail.

Today's incident is destined to cause a sensation in the Song Dynasty.

As someone who has experienced it myself, I feel proud of myself.

Not only does this need to be written, but it also needs to be written in person and sent to friends and relatives.

There were over a hundred gentlemen present, and everyone had this idea.

Including Li Qingzhao, she was trying to figure out poetry.

How do you turn this bizarre scene and successful experiment into a wonderful song?

She doesn't understand science, and she doesn't know if she can catch him even if she works hard.

But in terms of poetry and poetry, there were only a handful of people in the Song Dynasty who could surpass her.

It can even be said that during this period, Li Qingzhao was the number one in the world, Su Dongpo was close, Qin Guan was old, Xin Qiji, Fan Chengda, Lu You and others were either still young or not yet born.

Being able to write this poem well, Li Qingzhao felt that he was going to take advantage of this to further perfect his poetry skills and even become famous all over the world.

……

"Next comes the optical experiment."

Everyone returned to the auditorium, and Yang Hui stood on the podium again.

Wang Lun took his seat in the middle and had no intention of overshadowing the guests.

He is the mountain chief, but he is not responsible for daily school affairs.

To put it simply, he comes here every once in a while. One assessment, one reward for outstanding students, and one encouragement for students to learn more.

This is enough.

The nominal mountain leader, coupled with the payment, can make Wang Lun's status unbreakable among the students. In daily school affairs, Wang Lun does not There would be too much interference.

Chai Jin, Ou Peng and others were sitting on the left and right sides of Wang Lun with Jiang Jing, Xiao Rang, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng and others.

Although they were just country bumpkins and didn't know much about learning, they were reckless. People in China also revere learning.

This is not the same as places outside China.

At this time in Europe, learning only existed among royal nobles and priest groups.

Ordinary people had no motivation and no need to learn.

Even learning was monopolized, and theology Covers everything.

The so-called Renaissance is just about breaking the monopoly of theology on learning.

China has always valued learning, but it has gone the wrong way of only focusing on Confucianism.

Wang Lun has set things right this time.

At least after this experiment, even these rough guys know The way of investigating things is vast and profound, and it is not just the unfashionable little way that some people say. This is the truth.

You say that Confucianism is broad and profound, explain it?

What, you say this doesn't matter?

Then what things are important?

The experiments outside are quite exciting..

When Yang Hui was preparing, the auditorium was also silent. Everyone was staring at the test equipment above the podium, for fear of missing the excitement of that moment..