From Chief to Ball

"Without food and water, everyone will die, and money is of course useless. But as long as there is food and water, wine is the only reward for sailors, so wine can only be in the hands of the captain, who orders the internship and issued. Silver coins can buy everything on land, but on ships are just cold silver."

"Secondly, why clean the deck..."

Wei Yuan hastily took out a pen and paper, and recorded these things one by one. Some problems that he couldn't figure out at first finally understood, and he expressed all the dirty things that he didn't think at all.

He felt that it was worth it, even if he didn't make any money, it was worth hearing the lesson.I finally understand how much dirtyness and the exchange of interests are hidden behind those seemingly insignificant rules...

The Mr. Chen in Weiyuan's eyes only taught him for three days, and he explained a lot of why.

After three days, a few people changed to teach them something else.

This time, Weiyuan came into contact with the octant for the first time, and tried to use this delicate copper instrument to observe the sun and the North Star for the first time, watching the sky that was divided into two halves rejoin with the adjustment of the angle of the lens in his hand For one, tsk tsk surprised.

Guns, bandages, blood tests, looking through binoculars, blowing whistles... These things that were originally learned in the army have also begun to become the learning content of Wei Yuan and others.

Wei Yuan felt that there was nothing wrong with this, it was just to make money to prevent being robbed, what Mr. Chen said was very reasonable and impeccable.

Until February of this year, Wei Yuan, who had been struggling for more than a year, finally graduated, the ship of the caravan was also built, and he received a sailing diary covered with oilcloth, and officially became a caravan captain. intern.

On the Amethyst, he saw cannons, gunpowder, sailors, swords, hooks...but no cargo.

Wei Yuan felt that there was nothing wrong with this, it was just to make money to prevent being robbed, what Mr. Chen said was very reasonable and impeccable.

When he arrived on the new ship, it was still training. As an intern, Wei Yuan got a piece of news when he couldn't wait.

They will go to Qi State for their first trade at the beginning of May. The reason why it is May is because a group of gentlemen from the Capital Academy came to Mincheng, and Mr. Chen is going to receive them.

It is said that it was very grand, and the Ministry of Industry also sent officials to go there, and there were also many famous people who were said to be very famous in certain circles.

Wei Yuan thought, he had never heard of those names, but just as they had never heard of his own name, now that he was on the Amethyst, he was better than the first-class sailors who were good at octant climbing The mast is famous by hundreds of people.

Compared with a year ago, only his parents and relatives knew his name, this feeling is really good, he will not think about what those academic gentlemen are discussing, it is meaningless.

"I have my own circle, and the rules are different from those in the academy."

Chapter 1 Science is the Painter

Indeed, as Wei Yuan thought, a circle has a life in a circle.

Jumping out of this circle, sometimes it is difficult to understand people in another circle, and it is even more difficult to understand why those people spend their entire lives on meaningless things.

For example, what is the use of knowing that two parallel lines cannot intersect?Can you be an official or get rich?

For example, what is the use of spending a lifetime calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent of various angles?Is it enough to eat or to dress warmly?

For example, what is the use of writing a book for a lifetime just to prove a line or an angle or a circle?

For example, arguing about the difference between mass and weight, arguing about what light is, arguing about latitude and longitude, arguing whether a new substance extracted from a purple kelp is indivisible or divisible...

All these, to be precise, for a long time, some things were useless at all.

But over a longer period of time, these seemingly useless things gradually become useful.

It's like a weird curve. When the curve extends to a certain value, the curve is almost flat and looks powerless.

However, once that value is exceeded, this curve will burst out in an instant, which is amazing, and the wealth created in 100 years can rival the terrifying power of the past hundreds or even thousands of years.

It's just that this process is very long, and it needs to take the most dangerous road.

If this road can be crossed quickly, then scientific arithmetic will become a fashion and people will truly feel the power of it.

If it cannot be overcome, then these things will be suppressed by more realistic things, and eventually deformed to the point of ignorance, making it difficult to move an inch, because to some extent this thing is indeed useless.

Small hole imaging is meaningless in the Warring States disputes.

The sky and the earth are shaking, and it is meaningless to fight for hegemony.

Even gravity is somehow meaningless.

But when these meaningless things are accumulated and combined one day, they seem to become meaningful in an instant.

It’s just that no one can tell exactly where this threshold is. Even 150 years after the normal world line, craftsmen trained by apprentices can still beat scientists in some places.

Chen Jian didn't know where the threshold was, so he could only take a slant.

Machinery, in this era, it is impossible to distinguish between craftsmen and scientists, so Chen Jian wants to do chemistry and biology.

These two things start from scratch and lay the foundation from the descriptive discipline at the beginning, so they can go very quickly.

Just as Mr. Mu Lao said, many predecessors in the past disciplines spent their efforts on alchemy in order to prove their usefulness. Chen Jian must also spend time proving that these disciplines that are summarized as science are useful and capable. earn money.

They even go so far as to take the evil path of worshiping reason and Scientology.

In Mincheng, in the Academy, Chen Jian shouted the slogan: Reason can explain everything, and only after explaining everything can we follow the path, so rational science is both money and power.

For this sentence, and also for the various experiments Chen Jian did in the capital, Mr. Xuegong or some naturalists and celebrities in the circle who were invited by him came to Fujian to participate in this weird "first chemical alkali making fund". Science Symposium".

These words are not for the people he invited to Mincheng, if they don't believe them, then it's useless for him to shout.

These words are shouted to those who desire to make a fortune, desire to contribute to this ethnic group, desire to change, desire to rule the world, and all the people in the country.

In Mincheng, Chen Jian proved that the masters of Xuegong can make a lot of money, and mastering knowledge can exchange this knowledge for silver coins that people like.

This has been proven by those workshops, at least it has caused some disturbances in Fujian City, and has extinguished the signs that knowledge is useless in life.

But in a wider area outside Mincheng, Chen Jian can only use prisms, center wheels, telescopes and other things similar to circus performances to attract people's interest.

Just like the widely circulated rumor that China invented gunpowder only to make fireworks, Chen Jian felt that in order to let more people come into contact with these mysterious and mysterious things, sometimes he really needed to rely on some so-called " "Fantastic skills and obscene ingenuity" to attract people.

In order to make these so-called "uncanny skills and obscenities" create a huge wave in the entire ethnic group, Chen Jian also prepared a "unique skills and obscenities" that could be popular all over the country for the invited gentlemen this time, and hoped to rely on They promote it.

Science is not just used to make guns. People will hate science when they come into contact with guns, but if they want people to like them, they must be pervasive in their daily life.

In mid-April, the first scientific seminar on chemical alkali making fund was successfully concluded.

Before the end, Chen Jian proposed to leave a picture scroll that can be remembered forever.

Everyone who heard the news frowned.

They thought it was Chen Jian who wanted to ask an artist to paint their portraits, which was a tiring task.

Not only for the painters, but also for these people, those who enter the painting need to endure the torture of being motionless for a long time, which is a great test for some people's patience.

The meeting this time was perfect, many problems were solved, and everyone had a pleasant exchange, which greatly improved the knowledge of all those who participated in the meeting.

Therefore, Chen Jian, who couldn't bear to refuse, had no choice but to agree.

Chen Jian asked someone to bring chairs and asked everyone to sit down first, while he himself got into an opaque tent that had been prepared and smeared with asphalt on the outside.