From Chief to Ball

"I'm teaching the future ruling class how to control public opinion. Once the people's wisdom is opened, the enlightenment is over. If they don't know how to adapt to the rule of the new era, they will be so frightened that they want to go back to the old era to block the people's wisdom."

"What is your so-called enlightenment?"

Chen Jian thought for a while, pointed to the preface that the old man had just finished writing, and said, "Everyone can occasionally think like you wrote."

The old man stared blankly at the words he had just finished writing, as if he no longer knew them at this time, imagining what kind of world it would be, and couldn't help being a little crazy.

……

Farewell to Mr., took the preface inscribed by Mr., and led those brothers and sisters who were full of curiosity and fantasies about the trip to Fujian County, and who might be eager to leave the school.

These juniors and younger sisters were allowed to go to Min County. The old man used the reason of reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles to retain the qualifications of these people as students in the academy, and let them leave the academy before they completed their studies and set foot on a road. It looks beautiful, but it's a boring road.

These heroes selected from all over the country think that this road is a dreamy rainbow-like overpass, they can discover something like those brothers and sisters, and easily leave their names in history.The fame of electrolyzed sodium at that time allowed this temptation left over many years ago to brew a mature, attractive taste like peaches.

But after this temptation, Chen Jian prepared for them a year of re-basic study and two years of boring laboratory life, which they didn't know.

Chen Jian is the master of the Academy, but these young people still call him Senior Brother in order to appear familiar.

Like Chen Jian ten years ago, young people who were full of dreams about the world asked about this trip to Min County. They had heard about the prosperity of Min County for a long time. It was a kind of prosperity completely different from the capital city, a kind of world meeting busy and prosperous.It is also the source of many new ideas and new academics, just like the Xiacheng city-state a long, long time ago.

"Brother, is there anything in Mincheng that is not here?"

"A lot, you can see a lot of animals brought by voyages around the world, such as moa and tortoise."

"Elephant tortoise? Is it the kind that can live in the cabin for a year without eating or drinking, and the crew can eat fresh meat at any time?"

A little junior sister suddenly thought of something and said, "Is it the big turtle that Lin Xi rode on to take pictures?"

"Yeah, you guys are lucky. There are also a few very big ones. We didn't want to eat them at sea, so we brought them back. There, you will see a miniature of the whole world. All kinds of people, all kinds of animals all kinds of goods, so you can travel thousands of miles there."

Many people were full of curiosity and anticipation, asking: "Then where are they raised?"

"After going back, Min County will build a huge museum where these animals will be raised. In the future, Min County's university will also be near there, and there will also be botanical gardens and agricultural colleges. The museum is nearby. In short, it is a good place to stay away from. It’s a place for learning about worldly affairs. However, this is not the biggest difference, do you know where the biggest difference is?”

Deliberately playing tricks to lure these young people, the young people really all looked at the senior brother who was already in their forties, waiting for the next sentence.

"The biggest difference is that it is a chaotic place. It is so chaotic that any value can find a foothold. What is the purpose of you coming to the academy? I think the purpose must be different."

"Perhaps, after witnessing those strange experiments in the capital seven or eight years ago, and reading the few pamphlets we wrote, he became interested in understanding the world; Officials in places such as saltworks, gunpowder workshops, and powder bureaus started out and gradually became officials; perhaps because they saw glass factories, egg white photosensitive paper factories, cement factories, acid-base workshops and other profitable things, they wanted to do something in the future. As. Maybe there are very few people, who have touched our internal brochures, who really want to devote their lives to the advancement of technology that makes life better for all.”

"But no matter which one is, it is better in Min County than in the capital. The chaos at the turn of the old and the new there has disintegrated the old morality and the new morality has not yet been established. Any kind of lifestyle you pursue, and the discipline you study Any kind of purpose is not shameful, not ridiculous, not out of reach, there will be different people telling you that it is correct to think so, and you will find more people who think like you.”

"So, the biggest difference is that you will never feel lonely there. This kind of spiritual loneliness is inevitable at your restless age, and Min County is such a big puddle, which is so muddy that you don't know until you enter it. There are carp, crucian carp, dried shrimp, and snails..."

These young people didn't feel that there was anything wrong with such old-fashioned words, but a little girl asked in a timid tone that she no longer treated her senior brother but treated Mr. Xuegong: "Then...then have you ever been lonely? "

Chen Jian raised his head, recalling the events that have passed for a long time that have become history, recalling the events that have not been passed for a long time and few people have become history, and pondered: "I used to be lonely, but I won't now, and I won't be in the future." .”

"Are you mature? From the restless age you said you have grown up to not be confused?"

"No, more people are finally getting restless."

Chapter 73 Steamed buns, steamed buns, meatballs

The young man didn't understand the joy and cruel loneliness in this strange sentence, but felt that the restlessness Chen Jian said was real.

What is the purpose of entering the academy?Especially after learning natural history, a subject that was not very good before, there are really so many possibilities and so many differences as Chen Jian said.

"Brother, what is the difference between the university in Min County and the school in the capital?"

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Universities in Min County are not qualified to be officials in the capital. They can only work as public officials in some counties in Min County, or be employed by Nanyang Company and other places to receive salaries."

"Of course we know this, what about the rest?"

"leftover?"

Chen Jian thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Different people have different differences."

"For example, if the family is not well-off, you can choose to stay in the university in Min County as a teacher. The monthly salary is not low, plus the subsidies from the party property fund and the scientific and technological progress fund from the original Progressive Alliance, life will be easy. Pretty good."

"For example, those with a better family background can choose to invent something in Min County. As long as the family has money, there is no place closer to various chemicals than Min County. Whether it is doing research by yourself or inventing something to apply for Min County It is not impossible for legends such as patents, or their own family to directly open workshops to copy glass factories and egg white photosensitive paper to get rich overnight."

"And those who stay in the university as teachers have other things to do besides teaching students. For example, oil refining workshops, glass workshops, or some other workshop owners will come to pay you to help improve some production techniques , or please help me find a way - you must have heard Mr. Mu said that in order to tell those natural history students who lost their knowledge after alchemy failed that knowledge can be exchanged for money, he used lime as the lining of small castings to make lime Breaking it down to help cast the money-making story in its entirety, that's about it."

"The other is that our party produces money, and I come up with ideas, and you try and experiment. Including those that make money and those that don't. For example, weighing the weight ratio between hydrogen and oxygen is not profitable, such as It is profitable to improve the raw materials and mass production of egg white photosensitive paper, such as being employed by mining, metallurgical and infrastructure investment companies abroad, which is very profitable and can learn to manage, etc. "

"The third is that you find something and think it will be very helpful, and then submit an application. After I discuss it with our brothers and sisters, I will find a way to allocate money, and you will do research."

"In short, no matter what, whether it is for money, power, fame, or for the better progress of more people, you can find reasons for you to display your talents. I can tell you clearly if you are seeking fame, even if it is I give the direction of thinking, and the final signature is you. If you are asking for money, it will be a bit troublesome, and we will take part of the future patents, unless you make it with your own money."

"This is the mainstream trend in Min County at this time. It is very different from the capital city. Capital dominates everything. Where capital is unwilling to set foot, our party property allocates money to do basic research, but we add a name when signing the name." It is the second signature of the Institute of Science and Technology of the Mexican Party."

"Anyway, it's hard for you to imagine. You'll know when you get there. For example, if you invent a method of mass-producing photosensitive silver salt with better effect today, many people will step through your factory the next day. Damen is begging to cooperate with you to open a workshop; even if you just put forward a feasible idea, even without our party property, there will be a lot of spare money from venture capital pouring in to fund your research. As long as the estimated profits in the future It can exceed the average dividend and interest in Mincheng."

Hearing what Chen Jian said, some people were fascinated leisurely, while others were a little displeased.

"Brother, in Min County, reading and learning have no glory at all, and they are all reduced to the employment and trading of capital? The sacred glory of studying is gone?"

Chen Jian nodded and said: "That's right. This is the progressive nature of Min County compared to other places. Putting all feelings and sacredness into the trash, the straightforward and naked money-employment relationship forces Min County to move forward. Walk."

"But what about those directions that don't make money? Like the proportion of hydrogen and oxygen you mentioned, it's hard to get investment."

"Giving up personal hobbies without being troubled by food and clothing, the will to regulate and control above capital, and investment not for profit. These are not things that free capital can do, so this is the internal influence of the Min County model. The problem of development is why there is a Mo party that both praises and opposes the Min County model. What is praised and opposed is not the same thing, just like my objection to the thick skin of buns does not mean that I am against buns; I praise buns Having fillings doesn’t mean I’m celebrating the thick crust of the bun.”

These words are meant to cast a wide net. Chen Jian believes that among these people there must be young people who have read the pamphlets issued by the Mo Party. Chen Jian will not give up the opportunity of publicity.

Sure enough, someone in the crowd asked: "Brother, what you Mo party mean is that there are steamed buns in other places, and steamed buns in Min County, but what you want are meatballs. Therefore, no matter how bad steamed buns are, they are better than steamed buns, so you Support buns and oppose steamed buns, after all, there are fillings; but when buns become the mainstream, you start to oppose thick-skinned buns, either become thin-skinned buns with eighteen pleats, or jump out of the category of buns and make meatballs?"

Listening to this metaphor, which is quite traditional for foodies, Chen Jian laughed and said: "It is inevitable that buns will replace steamed buns. Thin-skinned buns or meatballs? I don't know now, but I definitely oppose steamed buns."

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When Chen Jian lured these momentarily heroic juniors and younger sisters to go to Fujian County and discuss steamed buns, steamed buns and meatballs there, a group of people on horseback ushered in a bustling street market with the characteristics of the capital.

This street market has been famous for a long time. When Chen Jian came to study Gong Boming many years ago, this street market and the nearby square performed an exhibition of novelty gadgets with magical and realistic colors. The annual exhibition has become a practice. .

The concrete platform where children stand upright to play, the concave moon-shaped rail car that inspires the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy, the hot air balloon that rises every day, the wonderful spectroscopic prism designed according to the sundial, the concrete streets and squares that promote cement regardless of cost... …making this place one of the busiest places on weekends in the capital.

This is not the time for the opening of the exhibition. In addition, when young people in the academy think of metaphors, they first think of steamed buns, steamed buns and balls. It is conceivable that the place is filled with the smell of various foods and the lively cheers of children.

This is the most international place in the capital, and it is also a place that seems normal to others but somewhat magical to Chen Jian.

The small square brick stove, the iron grate, and the cheap briquettes that have been popularized for a long time are smoking, and a large pot of tea eggs is boiled on it.

On the left side of the tea eggs, there is a frowning and pleasant person pinching sugar. Nowadays, the sales of malt sugar are not good, and there is a steady stream of beet sugar and sucrose. Apart from relying on one's hand to make flowers to attract those curious children, it is really not a good sale. .

Further to the side is a large teapot. Compared with the pergola ten years ago, there are a few more words, which are obviously new, such as coffee and sugared cocoa.The old shopkeeper is old, and the young shopkeeper, who inherited his father's business, keeps pace with the times. Many people sell it well in order to try something new.