My Daming New Empire

Originally Zhu Di wanted to promote him to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but because Wu Zhong was driven back to the Ministry of Industry, he was still in the position of Minister of Industry.

Li Qing saluted and said: "Your Highness, even if officials at all levels are allowed to express their opinions, the rules cannot be neglected. All officials can make a statement. If Your Highness likes it, they can call them back, but they cannot make their own decisions. The imperial court has just implemented a new policy. The rules of procedure, even the adults have to follow the rules, how can you allow..."

Zhu Zhanji hastily interrupted him and said, "What Li Aiqing said is really..."

Li Qing felt Zhu Zhanji's intention to defend, and stopped talking nonsense, and bowed again. "Your Highness, please continue..."

Seeing him sitting upright like a bell, looking down sharply, no one dared to make a sound.

Zhu Zhanji then continued: "If you install the steam engine on the ship, as long as there is peat, even if there is no wind or headwind, the ship can sail unimpeded. In addition, Gu also intends to install the steam engine on the rail car. In the future To transport coal from Huaibei, there is no need for ordinary people to pull it in trucks."

There was an uproar below, Wu Zhong asked: "Your Highness, this steam engine is so huge, how can the wheels bear it?"

Zhu Zhanji asked with a smile: "What if it uses steel wheels?"

"The road..."

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Gu has already considered this issue. If the road below is made of wooden rails, the wooden rails are inlaid with iron sheets, and the iron wheels run along the fixed rails, is it possible?"

All the officials pondered, considering the possibility.

Nowadays, steel production is insufficient, and it is not practical to use complete rails.The earliest rails were actually made of wood, with a thin layer of iron inlaid on them, which did not affect the use, but the damaged rails needed to be replaced frequently.

Zhu Zhanji also said: "I want to build a track around the city in Yingtianfu. It is powered by steam cars and can be used by the people in the city. Dear friends, please refer to it carefully. How wide is the track and how big is the car?" The only request is that the carriages connected one after another can accommodate more than 200 people."

What Zhu Zhanji said was not a discussion, but an order.

At this time, no one doubted Zhu Zhanji's determination anymore, and their perspective on the problem changed.

From such a track, whether such a car can be built has become a must.

After assigning new tasks, Zhu Zhanji asked Li Liang to accept the application suggestions written by each of them, and he was about to leave.

The Mechanical Research Institute was just one of the research institutes he inspected, and there were other research institutes that had to be visited one by one.

Of course, Li Qing and the others are all accompanying each other, but the managers below the middle level are not qualified to accompany Zhu Zhanji to look around, because they are not qualified to understand the different researches of various research institutes, they can only know some things about their own research.

Everyone has different ideas, and the written memorials are all biased towards their own research and invention, which is also the common task of each of them.

Zhu Zhanji tried his best to ensure that everyone's suggestions were read in person. He needed to use this method to understand everyone's research progress, whether the research was meaningful, and whether it was effective.

In this way, he can grasp the development direction of the entire research institute.

Moreover, the wonderful ideas of many people in this era can also trigger him to recall some forgotten memories.

In the Institute of Chemistry, thanks to the invention of the microscope, the research on many chemical dyes, including sulfuric acid and saltpeter, can break through the threshold of knowing what is not knowing why.

However, without theoretical support, many knowledge cannot form systematic learning.

For example, in the research of dyes, most people only rely on experience to invent, and they don't know why different substances can turn into different colors when they are mixed together.

Now they have a better understanding of the properties of dyes through microscope observation, but they still don't know how to look at the essence of things from the perspective of molecules and atoms.

Neither can Zhu Zhanji, so he can't come up with a good idea.

Of course he knows the importance of three acids and two bases, but he has no idea how to make three acids and two bases, so how can he guide others?

He had heard that Nobel had synthesized safe explosives with nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth, but he didn't even know how nitroglycerin was made, he didn't know what diatomaceous earth was, and how could he know how modern explosives were produced?

Therefore, when he came here, he could only look at it and encourage everyone.

Because of the air experiment three years ago, the Institute of Chemistry has now become a strange experimental base. Everyone is obsessed with the separation of air, and has also researched many by-products.

For example, aluminum alloy was developed by them, but the products produced in this laboratory have not formed an effective processing technology at all, and there is still a long way to go to achieve mass production of aluminum.

At the end of the day, he came to the Gewu Research Institute.

Because machinery, steel, textiles, and shipbuilding are all classified into categories, the main function of the Gewu Research Institute is not to invent and create, but to organize theoretical knowledge of physics.

Before Zhu Zhanji went to sea, Ma Di compiled a set of basic physics textbooks, but at that time Zhu Zhanji was going to sea, and these knowledge had not been popularized.

During his trip to sea, Zhu Zhanji also read a set of basic knowledge textbooks written by Ma Di.Although these knowledge systems have not been fully established, there is already a framework.

In this book, Madi raises many unknown questions and writes them all into the book.

(I’m dizzy, I’ll write some basic physics later, but I’m not satisfied, so I’ll delete them all, and I’ll write them tomorrow. There won’t be a lot of content like this, and the next chapter will turn to investigating the case soon.)

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Chapter 28 Geology

In the 13th year of Yongle, when Zhu Zhanji first met Ma Di, he was still a half-child less than 15 years old.

Five years have passed, and he has changed from a lover of natural science and the son of a craftsman to an expert in physics in Ming Dynasty.

Although in terms of qualifications, he is inferior to many craftsmen who have devoted their lives to this field, but in terms of summarizing and researching physics, he is at the forefront.

This is mainly because he was greatly influenced by Zhu Zhanji before he established a complete world view.

He liked working and researching since he was a child, which laid a certain foundation for him, and then at the age of 14, he met Zhu Zhanji, who opened a door to the world for him.

Zhu Zhanji's hang gliding is just the beginning, and his handicraft workshop made Ma Di see many weird things.

The key is Zhu Zhanji's guidance, which made him walk on the right path.

There was absolutely no lack of research and application of physics in ancient China, and a series of historically renowned works were born as a result.

There is no chance to see these works among the people, and many of them have been annihilated in the long river of history.

However, since Zhu Di registered and compiled the Yongle Canon, almost all the books in the entire Ming Dynasty are collected in the imperial palace.

From "Mojing", "Kaogongji", "Lunheng", "Kaoling", to "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the Song Dynasty, there are collections in the palace.

Even Zhu Zhanji had never heard of the "Liu Binke Jiahualu" in the Tang Dynasty, such a partial book, there are all in the palace.

Zhu Zhanji asked the eunuchs to help him collect and read all the books related to physics and Gewu since he was a child.

Through reading these books, Zhu Zhanji is very clear about the achievements and applications of ancient Chinese research in various aspects.I also admire the fact that the ancients were able to draw some conclusions based on their own experience when they did not understand the essence of things.

Of course, there are some ridiculous conclusions in his opinion, but that is only because of the limitation of vision.

Generally speaking, the ancients' understanding of physics was by no means as superficial as later generations believed.

Of course, due to the disdain of Gewu in the whole society, all the outstanding talents go to study Confucianism, and only a few people study Gewu.

This kind of indifference to the study of things has led to the discontinuity of talents, and also led to the lack of summarization and induction of physical phenomena in history, which seems very fragmented.

For example, Cao Chong's equivalent substitution of images is an important pioneering thinking for scientific research.But this happened 2000 years ago. It was not until the foreigners invaded China and used their methods that the Chinese discovered that our ancients had already adopted this method.