Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

Thousands of years of civilization inheritance, many things, it is impossible to be as barbaric and wanton as the West.

Just like Daheng, which is now at its peak, if the signs of the industrial revolution emerge, the ruling inertia of Han civilization and the social environment dominated by agriculture.

Even if the emperor does not make any statement, there will definitely be a large number of officials who will speak out for the people and oppose the vested interests of business.

The cruelty of the industrial revolution, even if it is staged in Daheng, will inevitably have to make many compromises because of the social environment dominated by agriculture and the vested interests of commerce.

This is also the most fundamental reason why the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to new learning, and has never shaken the foundation of Confucian sages, but only embedded the new learning in the sages' theory.

The existence of morality cannot be restricted by laws alone. What's more, it needs a social environment with complete rituals and music, and it needs to be rooted in the subtle influence of thought.

The ugliness of businessmen or capital can squeeze and exploit everything, ignore the law, ignore risks, and only do it for profit.

However, in this social environment with complete rituals and music, no matter how ugly commercial capital is, no matter how reckless it is, no matter how it ignores the law.

But in the face of the moral standards of the whole society, we must maintain sufficient moral standards, even if it is only a superficial disguise, we must abide by the social environment and standards, otherwise, it is impossible to survive in this social environment go down.

Just like the famous businessmen in the past dynasties, none of them will be notorious!

Everyone, no matter how reckless they are in secret, how ruthless they are, they pretend to be themselves on the surface, they have to do all kinds of good deeds, spread their reputation, they are righteous businessmen, Confucian businessmen, good businessmen...

Even if it is two businessmen who are equally ugly and reckless, even if they both know the basics, even if they have close friendship and business cooperation on weekdays.

But when one of them becomes infamous and moral corruption spreads everywhere, the other will inevitably sever ties immediately and take a clear stand.

This is the benefit of the social environment and the integrity of rituals and music.

Intangible moral standards are often far more useful than clear laws and regulations.

The national conditions are different, and it is doomed that the future of Daheng's business, new learning, and development will inevitably be very different from the industrial revolution and colonization of the world in the West in history.

And the emperor who is in charge of everything, facing the unknown future, can only say that he is crossing the river by feeling the stones, taking a step, watching a step, and if something goes wrong, he has to adjust his direction or even take a few steps back.

Fortunately, Daheng is still the undisputed kingdom of heaven, and has enough time to slowly trial and error and develop slowly.

The influence of the outside world on Daheng is negligible, and it is even more impossible for any country to interfere with Daheng's internal affairs and its development...

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Chapter 615 Practice Drives Theory

Compared with other schools in Daheng, Daheng Institute of Engineering occupies a much larger area, and unlike ordinary schools, the Academy of Engineering is more like a rough aggregate.

In the school building, you can see a small ordnance factory. Although it is small, it has all internal organs. There is a boring machine for making gun barrels. There is also an ordnance experiment field, an ordnance warehouse, and an ore warehouse.

There is a smelter, where earthen furnaces for steelmaking can be clearly seen, and there are students like craftsmen, whose faces are covered with black ashes, and are constantly busy.

There is also a gunpowder factory, with bursts of roar and smoke billowing from time to time.

There are also factories that have caught the eyes of the emperor. Various simple lathes have already taken shape, and the students are busy making and researching them using simple lathes.

At the foot of the mountain, there are farmlands, waterwheels, war horses, cattle and sheep...

The steam engine that the emperor has been thinking about has already taken shape. In fact, for this era, it is not too difficult to just make a steam engine.

A steam engine is nothing more than boiling water and converting the kinetic energy of steam into utilization.

To achieve this, if it is only produced, regardless of the cost, and does not pay attention to practicality, it is not a difficult task.

After all, steelmaking is difficult, so copper should be used instead; sealing materials are difficult, so other local materials should be used instead, and if there are large errors, manual work should be done slowly and meticulously.

When he, the emperor, wants something, there are no conditions, and conditions must be created.

As early as the early Ming Dynasty, the so-called steam engine was invented.

However, this steam engine has no use other than as a teaching tool.

It is too bulky to carry, let alone practical.

There is no breakthrough in steelmaking technology, the cylinder material is not good, the pressure is limited, and the kinetic energy is too small to make any sense.

The boring machine technology is not good, the error of the cylinder body is too large, and it is purely repaired by skilled craftsmen...

The sealing process also does not work...

All kinds of disadvantages and defects, completely flashy.

But fortunately, although a lot of money and food were wasted, the entity was finally created. With the entity, the rest is how to solve these defects and how to transform it to make it practical.

From the early years of Jingwu in the Ming Dynasty to the present, hundreds of students have been thinking hard about this aspect, forgetting to eat and sleep.

Up to now, there are several more steam engines in the Academy of Engineering. The ones visible to the naked eye are better than one, and the craftsmanship is more exquisite than the other.

The entire Daheng Institute of Technology is such a model, which drives the development of theory with practice.

And, most importantly, the emperor spared no effort in supporting the Academy of Engineering.

No matter the policy or welfare, it completely solves all the worries of the students.

Just research, everything else, the state solves.

This is the life of a student of engineering college.

Even though it is obvious that there are many disadvantages, the emperor must maintain unquestionable support before the new learning has been thoroughly implemented in the hearts of the people.

If not, the inertia of thousands of years of people's hearts is enough to easily overwhelm this newly sprouted new learning.

Touring around the Academy of Engineering, the emperor also had a general understanding of the current development of new learning.

It is difficult to define the extent to which new learning has developed, and it is also difficult to compare it with the so-called scientific development in history.

It can only be said that under the special national conditions, the new learning is developing steadily. As for how far it has developed...

The steam engine, which is still huge, heavy and inefficient, clearly explains it.

Just like the bolt-action rifle that was conceived long ago, the issue of the primer has not been resolved until now.

Today's new learning is still in the stage of barbaric growth, and the distance from forming a complete system is still very far away.

While his thoughts were flowing, the Son of Heaven, surrounded by officials, stepped into the office of the Academy of Engineering.

Stepping into the main hall, the first thing you see is the clearly visible portraits on the wall.

Portraits, names, titles, deeds...

The emperor took a closer look, and as expected, they were all the portraits and deeds of those who were knighted since the establishment of the Academy of Engineering and helped the development of new learning.

In fact, over the years, although the existence of the Academy of Engineering has been in the stage of accumulating new knowledge, there are still many research results.

Such as cement, such as the crucible steelmaking method, such as the systemization of various lathes, etc...

Of course, for the emperor, it was a great unexpected joy, and it came from the people!

Since the establishment of the Engineering Department of the Martial Arts Academy, it has never given up on the search for folk skills.

Every year, there are various kinds of assessments and special recruitments, as well as the rewards that have never been cancelled.

That is to say, the people of Daheng, all the skills of all walks of life can be recorded in the Academy of Engineering, and rewards will be given according to the importance of the skills.

After the patent law took shape, these filings were also logically transferred to large or small patents.

In this era, the strange and obscene skills that literati and bureaucrats look down on, to the common people and merchants, are all housekeeping skills, passed down from generation to generation.

In order to encourage the registration of folk skills, the emperor has even chosen several titles over the years to set a benchmark and buy horse bones with thousands of dollars!

In recent years, the development of new learning and the assistance of the people should not be underestimated.

These folk skills have naturally become the source of new learning, providing sufficient assistance for the development of new learning.

The emperor stopped and looked around, and the officials of the Academy of Engineering who accompanied him were also extremely disturbed.

Ever since the Son of Heaven entered the Academy of Engineering, he had inspected for most of the day, but he had never said a word about the affairs of the Academy of Engineering. So, they really couldn't help but feel uneasy.

The emperor still didn't say much, stopped and looked around for a while, and then looked through the files and research reports of the students of the Academy of Engineering over the years. After reading the files, twilight had already fallen.

Although the Son of Heaven paid attention to the new learning as a whole, when it comes to a single practice, the steam engine naturally ranks first.

Replacing human and animal power with steam kinetic energy is the beginning of a real change.

For this country, the changes brought about will be earth-shaking.

At this moment, the research report on the steam engine in the hands of the emperor almost perfectly touched the heartstrings of the emperor.

The report records in detail the data performance and research direction of the steam engine's improvement and replacement in the past ten years from the beginning of the steam engine research to the present.

And at the end of the report, the prediction of the future of the steam engine.

For example, the miniaturization of steam engines has changed the impact on mining, transportation, textiles, water conservancy and so on.

Although many of the descriptions have great deficiencies, this concept of applying new learning to practice and changing the world is naturally unquestionable political correctness for the Son of Heaven.

After all, the concept of strange and obscene skills is the biggest enemy of new learning, and it is this concept that leads to the promotion of new learning with half the effort.

It is extremely difficult to promote new learning at the beginning.

Until now, this concept is still the enemy of new learning.

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Chapter 616 Heir

"His Majesty inspects the world?"

In the harem, when Prince Jing rushed to Concubine Shu Li Yueer to share the fun of hunting, after accidentally saying this sentence, the happy scene suddenly broke.

Li Yueer asked eagerly: "When Your Majesty said this, were you all present?"

Prince Jing nodded: "Yes, the second brother, the third brother, and the fourth brother are all here."

Li Yue'er frowned slightly, her eyes seemed a little darker, after a while, Li Yueer said again:

"Does Jing'er want to go on a tour of the world with her father?"

Prince Jing replied without even thinking about it: "Think about it, it's fun outside..."

"Then Jing'er has to seriously study and practice martial arts, otherwise, if she fails the assessment, she won't be able to go. At that time, Jing'er can only watch Huan'er and the others go..."

Prince Jing nodded seriously: "Well, mother, please put it down, Jing'er knows."

Li Yue'er hugged Li Jing, and said with a smile: "Okay, Jing'er, hurry up and go to study..."

"Jing'er is going now."

Prince Jing trotted away, and Li Yue'er's expression also changed from sunny to cloudy in an instant.

The old eunuch on the side spoke cautiously:

"Your Majesty, don't worry, Your Highness has been extremely intelligent since he was a child, and the adults in the academy have always appreciated it..."

Li Yue'er never said a word, even though her family was poor, her temperament was simple, she had been in the palace for so many years, and she was the birth mother of the prince, she should understand, she naturally understood it long ago.

The position of prince...

The emperor's thoughts...

Before the prince grows up, everything needs to be handled by her.

After a while, Li Yue'er said slowly: "Go and find out what's going on in the other palaces."

"Old slave, go here."

The old eunuch immediately resigned and left, but at this time, the seemingly unintentional words of the emperor caused another disturbance in the harem that had just been peaceful for a while.

The position of "prince prince" has been a taboo issue since ancient times.

In today's Daheng, the issue of the crown prince is even more taboo among taboos.

The son of heaven came out of the grass, from the Marquis of Zhenbei, to the Duke of the state who assisted the country in governing the country, and then to the supreme ruler of the world today.

Although he has many heirs, he has no regular wife, and the throne has been vacant for many years. The emperor even sits and watches the chaos in the harem caused by the absence of a master, and has never established the throne.

In this way, the emperor's mind is undoubtedly very clear.

The eldest son is also divided into concubines and concubines.

The distinction between the concubine and the concubine lies in the main wife.

Even though it was obviously a bit of a rogue, but the Son of Heaven acted in such a way that his will was clearly expressed, and no one in the Daheng Court would dare to touch this bad luck.

But no matter how much the emperor suppresses it, it is impossible to violate the change of people's hearts.

Since ancient times, the emperor chooses his ministers, and the ministers also choose the emperor.

Naturally, the emperor and courtiers also have their own opinions and requirements.

No matter how much the courtiers have opinions about the emperor, the founder of the country, they can only bear it.

But regarding Daheng's next generation of emperors, the courtiers naturally have their own opinions.