From Chief to Ball

This time, Qi State's envoys were of extremely high standard, and the son of Qi Hou personally led the team, which can be said to be the highest standard after decades of war subsided.

It's like a signal, the outside world speculates frequently, and rumors continue to spread, but there is no official statement about what happened.

It is said that those old aristocrats headed by Marquis Qi who founded the country and divided them into fiefdoms are going to present the oath of alliance of the year and give up the title and nominal land ownership of Uncle Hou's son.

It is also said that the two sides are preparing to sign a permanent peace treaty, or open up maritime trade, and may even fight pirates together.

Among all kinds of rumors, there is only one that says that Qi Hou is going to give up all rights, because this is obviously impossible.

For this matter, the merchants and the workshop owners in the capital are very concerned, and once they open the sea trade, they will make a lot of money.

There are too many rumors about Qi State, but what is closely related to ordinary people is some wide cotton cloth brought from Qi State.

The quality is no different from the cotton cloth here, but the cloth is wide and cheap.

The rumors about this cloth were quickly revealed as a semi-factual truth: this is a new type of loom sent by Mr. Chen Jian, the school master, because it is too expensive to apply for a patent here and the law enforcement is not strict.This was created by the Science and Technology Practical Association of Mincheng. It is said that it was going to apply for a patent to sell it at the beginning, but the Cotton Spinning Guild of Mincheng refused to pay any fees, and only gave those craftsmen [-] silver coins. Give.And Mr. Chen thinks that science should not be so cheap, so he applied for a patent in Qi State angrily, so that the efficiency of weavers in Qi State is double that of the weavers in their hometown...

The rumors spread well, and the people in the market had always known the faces of those in the guild, so they believed it firmly.

However, this is just a rumor among the marketplace. In a higher level above the marketplace, a pamphlet titled "Division of Labor, Labor, Wealth, Trade, and Eternal Peace" is also taking the opportunity to spread.

With the influence of this cloth and sea trade, this pamphlet expounds the importance of trade from another perspective.

The pamphlet puts forward an illusion that as long as there is free trade, exchange of what is needed, and the use of trade to connect each other, then it is possible to achieve a delicate and permanent peace, which is beneficial to both parties.And from the vast amount of data, the comparison of the wealth and handicraft industry between the time when Hou Boguo stood side by side and after the unification after the elimination of local barriers was taken as evidence to support it.

In addition to these, it also expounds the analysis of the source of wealth from some perspectives, labor is a means of increasing the total wealth of society, division of labor leads to efficiency improvement, and so on.

In the description of the profit section, use the operator who runs a farm as a simple example: the profit earned by the farmer is equal to the price of the harvested agricultural products, minus the input of seeds and fertilizers, minus the income received by the land owner. Rent, minus the wages of the hired hands.

It was a simple formula, and there was certainly something wrong, but it was the first attempt to explain economics mathematically.

And this simple formula also directly and simply illustrates a terrible problem: the bourgeoisie and the landholders are opposed, the bourgeoisie and the hired workers are also opposed, and the hired workers are still opposed to the landholders.

Regardless of whether it is crude or not, it is a precedent for using theory to explain the economic operation of the real world.

With the help of the spring wind that everything that has blown up in the past few years can be written into formulas, and the way of heaven and earth can be revealed by logic and theorems, some things that don't know whether they can be written into formulas have also begun to appear.

These bits and pieces all show that this group is slowly moving forward in the chaos, and may make mistakes, but it does not stand still.

One of the most convincing aspects is about the dissemination of newspapers.

Someone came up with the ingenious idea of ​​adding a printing tax of twenty coppers to each printed newspaper.In this way, the reading of newspapers is cut off for most people, lest these wildfire ideas spread everywhere, and newspapers are not banned, but taxes are raised.

After the news was spread, there was no more to say. After blowing the air, I found that there were too many objections, so I withdrew.

If you know how to shrink, there is great hope.

In addition to these, the capital city has the first photo studio, the first cement road, the first kerosene lamp, the first high explosive murder case, the first extremely cheap market tabloid, and the first wooden track road.

For the first time, someone in the academy proposed to use the principle of electromagnet to make an instrument that can measure the magnitude of electricity. For the first time, someone discovered the element antimony. For the first time, someone spent a thousand silver coins to get a more accurate instrument. Balance, the first time someone began to calculate the complete trigonometric function table, the first time someone was poisoned by hydrogen fluoride when trying to make white phosphorus from apatite, the first time someone traveled all over the north and south to measure the precise latitude of various places...

For the first time, people in the medical department used ether anesthesia to perform appendicitis surgery, the first time to use a microscope to observe the coagulation caused by the problem of blood type in blood transfusion, and the first time someone put forward a preliminary theoretical guess of cytology called nest in a journal...

Some are artificially influenced for the first time, some are because of the need to spread spontaneously, and some are meaningless for the first time but prove that a road does not work.

Some of these first times will be recorded in the annals of history, and most of them are just a piece of news at this time and do not have much impact.

For the first time, because of photography, cement, kerosene, glass, explosives, ray mercury, and wooden rail transportation, these extremely useful things in reality have changed from meaningless to meaningful, and opened up the desire to walk out of a road with Chen Jian. It also turns science into a new way of money, technology, and practicality.

Under this silent and slow influence, the Mo party continued to expand its influence in the capital in a tenacious, secretive and unnoticed way that was completely different from Mincheng.

At least, people in the capital don't think of the Mexican Party as a political force, but as a philanthropist association or a group helping the poor.

Apart from occasional inappropriate discussions or thought-provoking pamphlets, it didn't attract much attention.

This is the development strategy in the capital, and it is growing here tenaciously with methods such as religious relief and medical treatment.

But now, the influence has been quite large.

All this stems from the smallpox epidemic last summer.

There is smallpox, and there is syphilis.

Chen Jian once wrote a letter to Lin Xi, telling her that vaccination with vaccinia could prevent smallpox.

His original intention was to let Lin Xi have enough reputation in medicine and biology in the capital, accumulate enough knowledge of circumnavigating the world and her own influence, so that she would have the idea of ​​evolution in her lifetime, and use her fame to spread it quickly open.

Nobody can ever attract the attention of others.

For this reason, Chen Jian took great pains. After Lin Xi wrote "Microscopy" with a microscope and caused a sensation in the capital, Chen Jian asked Haichuan to drop by several letters.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when he became famous just now, Lin Xi completed the bacterial retort experiment again, proving that there are invisible substances in the air that can spoil the broth, and for the first time scientifically explained the use of bacteria that has been circulating hundreds of years ago. Alcohol is used to prevent infection, and a scientific disinfection theory is proposed, and it is believed that these invisible things are also a kind of life.

Then, according to the agar sent by Chen Jian—there is no Hainan Island here, so the name of this thing should be Minzhi at this time—as well as glass dishes, repeatable experiment reports, etc., repeated the accidental accidents in the actual development. Penicillium experiment, put forward the idea that the juice after growing Penicillium can be used as external application on wounds to remove infection.

In just two years, with the help of Chen Jian's reputation and Mr. Xuegong's attention, as well as Chen Jian's repeated experiments that were almost plagiarized, Lin Xi became famous in the academy, and his reputation was very large.

After Chen Jian told her about vaccinating against smallpox, Lin Xi believed Chen Jian too much, so she did an experiment with herself, and it turned out that she really didn't die, so she excitedly published another theory.

In the summer not long after, a smallpox epidemic broke out in the slums of the capital, and people were panicked for a while. In order to prevent the infection, the slums were decisively sealed off.

Lan Qi, who was considered to be the first official member of the Mexican Party in the capital city, is not someone like Lin Xi who is obsessed with the mysterious world of life. She is a vigorous social activist.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, the official members of the Mexican Party in the capital immediately held a meeting. At the meeting, Lan Qi took the article written by Lin Xi and proposed that the Mexican Party should handle the epidemic to expand its influence.

The Mexican party has few industries in the capital, and the funds for activities are limited, but Chen Jian's business company in the capital will have a large amount of money every month.Chen Jian said a long time ago that if something unexpected happens, he can use his private property. If it is not enough, he can go to Lin Xi. She still has more than 1 silver coins in her hand, which is enough for emergency.

Unlike the well-established organization in Mincheng, the basic organization of the Mexican Party in the capital basically does not exist. It is just a charity relief association or a salon discussion organization.

No one had any experience in dealing with such emergencies. Lan Qi persuaded most of the internal members with a whole day of speeches. After the vote was passed, she explained the situation to Mincheng and used the assets of the trading company in the capital.

Lin Xi also took out 1 silver coins in her hand and donated them.

For the first time, Lan Qi took on the task of coordinating, organizing a small number of members of the Mexican Party, and with the help of money, some relatives who were quarantined, and poor people who were not afraid of death, they vaccinated batches of vaccinia with a knife.

After healed, he led these people deep into the blocked blocks, maintained order inside, used silver coins to buy a lot of food, vaccinated people who had not been infected with vaccinia in the blocked area, and publicized it outside the blocked area. The idea of ​​vaccinating against vaccinia, relying on the panic brought about by the epidemic, made many people readily accept this dangerous idea under the threat of dying.

Such behavior caused a violent sensation in the capital, and what was even more sensational was that a girl had such organizational skills—in fact, it was supported by a party’s backbone organization, but she was a woman, so it was extraordinarily sensational.

Soon after, the epidemic subsided, and sure enough, none of those vaccinated died of smallpox after a few days of fever.

The people who survived the catastrophe carried all those who went deep into the blockade area when the epidemic was severe, and walked through the streets one after another, cheering.

Purple robes were offered for the girl who was the first to experiment with her own body, for the other who organized against the plague god in a panic, for the first people who tried to use human power to conquer the terrible disease of death, and It wasn't long before the purple robe was officially certified.

This is the first time in decades that a woman has worn a purple robe. The last time was during the Unification War.

The government also decisively seized the opportunity and fully compensated the expenses of the Mexican party, which was greatly praised.The names of the two women were inscribed on the Shrine of the Immortals, and a plaque was also given to the branch of the Mo Party in the capital.