New Shun 1730

This news in the newspaper quickly triggered some stress reactions in the Netherlands.

Almost as soon as the newspaper came out, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange experienced a series of shocks.

If this news came normally, it would not cause shocks in the stock exchange, because this happened in the Czech Republic, which is very far away.

But Liu Yu added a strategic outlook with ill intentions, saying that the French Corps stationed in the Austrian Netherlands no longer needed to be a reserve force, so it was hard to say whether the French would invade the Netherlands.

The Dutch people were inevitably panicked, but it was useless. Unorganized people were a group of scattered sands and had no power.

And the forces that had the power to drive them, organize them, or use them did not want to use this mob at this time.

Liu Yu did not want to, because he was waiting for Prussia to withdraw from the war and recuperate.

The Orange faction did not want to, because they could not infer that Prussia had to withdraw from the war because all the cavalry had been sent away, so the situation was so deteriorating that coming to power was purely a brain swap with a pig.

The Regency Oligarchs and the Parliamentary Party did not want to do that either, because they were the ruling party themselves, and whatever they did was wrong.

After writing this strategic analysis in the newspaper, Liu Yu left, and after a period of silence, the subsidized yellow tabloid returned to its original style.

While waiting for news from Prussia, Liu Yu hosted the "Scientific Seminar" that he had invited various great scholars to attend since last year.

At the opening ceremony, he used his tutor's thesis when he graduated from high school, and gave a speech in a moving voice to the academic great scholars who had gathered at that time.

[… History recognizes that those who work for a common goal and thus become noble are great people; experience praises those who bring happiness to the majority of people as the happiest people; religion itself also teaches us that the ideal people that everyone admires have sacrificed themselves for mankind - who dares to deny such teachings? 】

【If we choose the profession that can best work for the welfare of mankind, then the burden will not overwhelm us, because it is a dedication to everyone; then we will not feel a pitiful, limited, selfish pleasure, our happiness will belong to millions of people, our career will exist quietly but eternally. 】

【Noble people will shed tears in front of our ashes. 】

He narrowly defined [professions that can work for the welfare of mankind] as scientific research and mathematics, but he really wanted to win over only "mathematics".

At this time, things other than mathematics did not have much appeal to him. After Dashun started a new natural philosophy, mathematics was the biggest shortcoming.

The etiquette of hiring princes and removing the core of etiquette and law showed the importance of science on the Dashun side; this speech on people's choice of career tells of Dashun's respect for science.

In the next few days, various small experiments on chemistry and the need for oxygen for combustion also made it seem that Dashun had a very high level of science. At this time, people were still arguing about whether there was phlogiston, whether it was gravity or ether, and these natural sciences outside of mathematics could attract the attention of these great gods.

At the end of the scientific seminar, these top figures in the scientific and mathematical circles at that time, under the advocacy of Liu Yu, did a few small things.

They formed an organization called "Union of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Without Borders" and recruited members.

They unified mathematical symbols, so that the messy mathematical symbols of various countries reached a consensus, and proposed that new mathematical symbols in the future should be discussed and unified by the organization.

Liu Yu funded the creation of a magazine called "Gewu" in Chinese and "Natural Philosophy and Mathematics" in Europe.

Every year, ships will be sent to travel between Europe and China to print and publish the latest results in this magazine. In view of the high quality of some of the "scientific results" brought by Liu Yu, the final review and finalization of the magazine are half in the Beijing Academy of Sciences, and the other half are reviewed and determined by members of the organization in Europe.

As well as some material rewards, new member admission rules, initiation ceremonies, etc. within the organization, it is like Freemasonry.

Of course, the biggest achievement is that more than 20 foreign academicians or vice-academicians, including Euler, who are mathematicians or astronomers.

Although they seem to be two different professions, they are actually similar. Nowadays, all astronomers are top-notch in mathematics. This is also the best result for Dashun to make up for its shortcomings as soon as possible.

These foreign academicians of the Beijing Academy of Sciences who decided to go to Dashun were temporarily settled in Amsterdam. In order to show their importance to them, they were given excellent material conditions and asked to bring their wives and children here as soon as possible.

When the monsoon comes next year, they will be sent back to Dashun by ship. The six months of stay here can allow these people to have some academic discussions. Anyway, Liu Yu will pay for it, and these people will not spend much money on food and drink - mathematicians are the most economical, and two sacks of draft paper are enough.

This seminar is destined to go down in history, with many stars gathered.

But in Europe at that time, let alone big news, it was not even a small wave. Whether it was the common people or the royal court, few people paid attention to the scientific seminar held in Amsterdam, but were all paying attention to the situation of the War of the Austrian Succession.

After the formal meeting ended, most of the participants did not leave, but conducted some academic research in Amsterdam. In those days, transportation was inconvenient, and many people knew each other and had read each other's papers, but had never met each other.

After all, life was so tight that we had no chance to get together.

No money.

The Berlin Academy of Sciences was poor and relied on selling calendars to make money. Leibniz made arrangements before his death and obtained the "calendar monopoly" from his father, Frederick II. A group of top mathematicians had a very large annual budget. Most of them are made by rubbing calendars.

In the chaotic political situation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, no one paid attention to it for several years. Peter the Great pursued it wholeheartedly, and his wife inherited the legacy and implemented the Academy of Sciences. But in the era of Empress Anna, she was a standard German Junker landowner. She believed that science was just meaningless sophistry. Jinyiwei and Dongchang were rampant, so they had no funds.

The French Academy of Sciences and its parent institution, the Institut de France, were built through Colbert's efforts. In the era of Black Lives Matter in later generations, Colbert's statue was torn down; at this time, Colbert's reputation was also very bad. The Netherlands hated his tariff protection policy, the United Kingdom hated his fleet development plan, and the wealthy French farmers hated him. He set the highest grain prices. The French nobles hated him for his iron-fist style towards the nobles. French small producers hated his standardized standards. The French church hated him for confiscating monastery properties and being tolerant of Protestants. Even when he died, he was buried secretly. Transporting the body out. The material treatment of the French Society and its affiliated institution, the French Academy of Sciences, which he single-handedly supported, can be imagined at this time.

Not to mention other countries.

Scientists, especially mathematicians, are having a hard time and are short of money.

Although Liu Yu also said that "faced with our ashes, noble people will shed tears", he was really willing to spend money. These people had food, drink, money, and even a chance meeting in Amsterdam. People who have been in the industry for a long time can also discuss the "advanced" scientific achievements here in Dashun. They are really like a fish in water, and their life is quite comfortable.

During the day, Liu Yu put on a face that loved science and that science would bring benefits to all mankind; at night, he squatted in a secret room and discussed with a few confidants about the Dutch coup and who should be hired and when. What does the leader do?

These two faces went hand in hand, day and night alternated until June 22nd.

Early that morning, some people arranged in the north sent news that there were suddenly more people visiting the Orange family's manor the day before yesterday.

After those people visited, the Orange family's manor also sent some carriages out, as if to convey some news. Many Orange people from all over the seven provinces arrived at the Orange family's manor.

The people sent out to monitor could only get such information.

They had no idea who the visitors were, what they said, or what the supporters of the Orange family who had been summoned were discussing.

Anyway, something must have happened.

After getting the news, Liu Yu, as usual, had breakfast and went to discuss with scholars from all over the world whether "Is Boyle's phlogiston theory correct" or "the Yang Qi of young scholars from Dashun" about combustion? Say it right”.

He planned to reproduce the classic experiment of Lomonosov, the first native academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in history - metal will gain weight when heated in an unenclosed space, but the total weight of the container and metal will not increase if heated in an enclosed space. Increase.

It seems to be basically the same as the past few days.

But before leaving, I did something different from usual. He found Kang Bulao and told him that the previous plan could begin.

The article that has been written to incite anger is ready and will be published in full in tomorrow's newspapers.

The "actors" who have been hired long ago are also ready. Once newspapers and periodicals are published and articles spread, these "actors" will show great patriotic enthusiasm and denounce the shamelessness of the regent oligarchic parliamentary faction and their lack of care for the motherland. A despicable act that showed no respect and disregarded the dignity of the country.

The "senior actors" who had already been found were seriously ill and did not have much time left to live. If they "awaken the Netherlands with my blood" at the right time and in the right way, then their wives, children, and children will receive a large amount of gold and silver, and someone will arrange for their children and wives to go to America. Colonial life.

The "super actors" who have been found for a long time will give a speech on the theme of "The Golden Age and the Orange Family" in the center of several important cities. They will think about the past and the present, and welcome the Orangemen with high arms. The returning flag creates an aura that everyone expects.

There is a plan for all this. And Liu Yu, as before, calmly discussed the nature of combustion with those scholars, and continued the "profession that best works for the welfare of mankind."