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Power loom…

"The large-scale use of machines in production greatly improved the efficiency of manual factories and ultimately led to the birth of modern factories. However, these factories had limitations, and without exception they all chose places close to rivers as their factory sites."

Europe's largest water wheel power, the huge wheel slowly rotates driven by the water flow...]

When I first watched it, I thought these people were useless, but I was also shocked by the rapidly prototyping weaving scene above.

The phrase "men farm and women weave" is not unfounded. Every family with some wealth will also have a loom. Rich families directly support people to weave and are self-sufficient.

They weave cloth, the shuttle shuttles once, swings the loom, and then continues the shuttle shuttle. The whole process is not fast, and the cloth produced is just enough for the family to wear. Therefore, the clothes are precious, and everyone cherishes them even if they are made of linen.

This was not just a mechanized electrical factory weaving fabrics, it was a scene that far exceeded their understanding of weaving, and already everyone was transfixed.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Mohists saw that they had no silk on hand and it was difficult to record on bamboo slips, so they directly tore off their own clothes, spread them out, and recorded the styles of spinning wheels and looms on them.

The looms above are much more powerful than what they tried to improve, and they use the non-stop flow of water to make them faster and save manpower.

Water, water...

Several Mohist disciples took notes and gathered together to discuss. When they talked about the 'exercise' mentioned by the anchor before, they seemed to understand something.

The Song Dynasty during the Zhao Xu period and the Ming and Qing Dynasties were periods when the commodity economy was developed, and water was used much more than in the past. Many people instantly understood the principle of this. Weaving shops with some strength were extremely excited to see it, and hurried I asked someone to write it down, and I watched it without blinking, ready to summon the craftsmen to study it later.

[In the black and white picture, the spider is slowly spinning its web, and the donkey is walking forward.

"This reliance on the power source provided by nature severely restricts production. Therefore, whichever country can be the first to build power machines that meet the needs of industrialization will be in a leading position in the competition."]

Shen Kuo sat by the window and thought carefully: "Production... power... wind and water power are limited and will disappear when the season comes; human and animal power can produce all year round, but the power is not as powerful as water power.

So is there a new way for Britain to get rid of these dynamics? "

Zhu Yuanzhang was also thinking about why the East lost its leading position, allowing this small country to lead the world for two hundred years.

He knew very well that there would be no such thing in the Ming Dynasty now, because no one would think about how to do these things, and the real talents would want to study and become officials instead of studying what these craftsmen should do.

The improvement of such tools is indeed useful to the country and the people. It can make weaving much faster and produce a lot more cloth. But can these alone allow a country to reach the heights boasted on the sky?

["In March 1773, Mr. Watt's partners went bankrupt..."

The shiny letter paper was pressed very flat, and traces of the passage of time could be vaguely seen on it.

"Britain, the homeland that frustrated Watt, may let an unsuccessful businessman leave at this time, but it will not let an inventor who will bring unlimited business opportunities out of his sight.

Because it has already prepared various mechanisms for incorporating ingenuity into the use of tracks. These mechanisms are like a huge and fine net, collecting the best talents and technologies in the world to the UK.

Among them, patent protection is the most important measure. ”]

Smart people have realized that it is this patent protection that will leave Watt behind, and he will change the previous fast enough production methods and bring something even more extraordinary.

There are also late corrupt scholars who have a cold face. How can they be regarded as the best talents who do such craftsmanship?

Everyone looked at the sky, waiting for what Watt would do.

["Matthew Bolton tried hard to retain Watt...the steam engine invented before Watt..."

The densely packed gears rotated, and the heavy and thick iron guys moved under the shaking of the workers.

“In the thousands of years before the birth of modern science, human activities basically followed this pattern: production, technology, and science.

That is to say, production is based on experience, technology is refined in the long production process, and then science is produced in the process of improving the technology.

This is a process of doing things based on experience, so we have taken many detours and wrong paths. ”]

Shen Kuo thought carefully and found that this was absolutely correct. From astronomy and calendar, textile farming, papermaking and printing, etc., they are all slowly improved through experience from generation to generation in the process, but so far, he still doesn't know what this science is.

So they stopped at the step of experience and were just one step away from science, right?

When the anchor talked about astronomy before, he also mentioned scientists. Those who can observe the universe and calculate the orbits and masses of planets are scientists. Those who can improve crops and increase yields are agricultural scientists. Those who can improve textile technology are also science... This science seems to be completely different. Relevant to people.

["Watt did not take the detour that humans have taken for thousands of years. In order to completely transform the old steam engine, Watt studied mechanics, mathematics, chemistry, conducted systematic experiments, and carefully calculated the thermal efficiency of the cylinder...

Isaac Newton, the giant of modern science..."]

The Mo family members listened thoughtfully to Newton's deeds that the previous anchor had also told.

The young junior brother murmured: "Yes, why do apples fall to the ground? Why has no one thought about these questions..."

Wang Shouren took a long breath with complicated eyes: "I couldn't figure out anything when I was looking at bamboos, but this Newton was looking at apples, and he was able to figure out such extraordinary knowledge..."

The four laws that Newton realized revealed the nature of life that he had always taken for granted. He was an unprecedented genius.

He knew why he could not figure out these things about Newton because he had never thought that these could be questioned and explored. He had been looking at bamboo for three months and would not have thought about why the bamboo was climbing up instead of growing. Take root downwards in the sky.

Not just him, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty paid attention to this. Farmers are busy farming, businessmen are busy doing business, scholars are busy studying classics and historical records, and officials are balancing the interests of the court and their own.

Who would think about why the apple fell to the ground?

There were many people who wanted to go with him, and everyone else seemed to understand why there was no "Book of Sages" in the bookcase of the descendants of Wuhou. Just as they think these things are useless now, Confucianism will also be useless in future generations.

["In 1727, Newton died, and the United Kingdom buried him in Westminster Abbey with a grand state funeral ceremony. This has always been the cemetery of princes and nobles. Newton became the first scientist to be laid to rest here.

On the day of the funeral, thousands of ordinary citizens poured into the streets to see him off. The coffin bearers were two dukes, three earls and a chancellor.

In the chorus of dirges in the church, princes, nobles, government ministers and scholars bid farewell to this scientific giant.

The French thinker Voltaire, who witnessed this funeral, was deeply moved by it. He said with emotion: "When walking into Westminster Abbey, what people admire is not the tombs of kings, but the country's gratitude to those who served the country." Monuments erected by the greatest men of glory. This is the British people's respect for talent. The whole society expresses heartfelt respect to a scientist.

This is a country’s attitude towards scientists and a country’s attitude towards science’. "

There are also a few large characters engraved on the ancient floor tiles: Here lies Sir Isaac Newton. ]

People from all time and space in the Central Plains fell silent.

Ordinary people admired Newton's intelligence and were shocked that he could be knighted based on his brain. After his death, he was highly respected and honored.

The rulers saw the difference between the East and the West.

When they meet such a genius, can they take him as seriously as the UK does?

Shen Kuo shook his head. He studied and studied on his own out of his own interest, but there was no place in the Song Dynasty that would teach and discuss these things like the "university".

Even if the Central Plains had a genius like Newton and figured out incredible laws, he might not be appreciated by local officials. Even if you are lucky enough to come to the Holy Spirit with your theories, who can pay attention to these new theories?

Can these theories be recorded in books and printed to be passed down to future generations?

Can a genius be valued in the court, give full play to his abilities, be knighted during his lifetime, and be buried with honors after his death?

They know that someone who can see with discernment and give rewards is already a rare sage monarch. As for a knighthood and a state funeral?

Impossible.

The Mo family looked at Newton's story, and they, who had been no longer taken seriously after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, suddenly had a goal to move forward.

The elder pointed at the sky and said: "We, the Mohist family, if we cannot make 'universal love and non-aggression' acceptable to the king, we should also learn from this gentleman to decipher the truth of the world."

The young people nodded one after another. They were also obsessed with those different theories and envied Mr. Newton's achievements.

Mo Weishang, who was addicted to copying and answering questions from the anchor, raised his head: "Uncle Master, let's set off after the anchor finishes writing."

The world is about to change, and your Majesty is probably anxious to see them now.