Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 262 The Glory of Wearing a Flying Fish Suit
Zhu Houzhao glared at Yan Song unhappily, and only wrote down the elements that were now well known to the people of the Ming Dynasty on the first edition of the element table of the Ming Dynasty, and said to Yan Song:

"Now these are the elements we know. Different elements have different properties, but they also have common rules. You see, these elements all belong to gold, so we can call them metals. Coincidentally, the ancients also put gold next to them, while sulfur and the phosphorus I mentioned to you before have stone next to them, indicating that they are not gold. In the future, new elements can also be created with this character."

Yan Song was shocked for a moment and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty's words are very reasonable. We only said that all things have different qi and endowments. Now Your Majesty replaces them with elements. For an indivisible thing, each word is replaced by a word. Gold is called gold, and non-gold is called stone. In this way, the elements can be named separately, and people all over the world can learn them and record them in books. It is also very convenient."

"Everything has three states. What we see with our eyes, such as charcoal and sulfur, are solid, while water is liquid. If water is burned, it will become gas and evaporate, which is the gas state. Therefore, some substances composed of elements can be seen by us when they are solid or liquid, but if they are gaseous, they cannot be seen. Therefore, many elements are still invisible to us and need to be gradually discovered."

Zhu Houzhao continued, "Different elements have different properties. For example, the phosphorus fertilizer I asked you to make before can make rice and wheat grow better. Green vitriol is as pure as water, but it can generate heat when shaken and can destroy a person's face. As long as we use the properties of these elements to create some new things, it will benefit the country and the people."

"For example, after soap was invented, it became more convenient for people to wash clothes and wash away dirt from their bodies, which reduced the number of people who got sick from the plague. Gunpowder, when used in firearms, gave the Han people a powerful weapon to counterbalance the barbarians. In the future, the Ming Dynasty might also be able to use the properties of various elements to build a car that doesn't need to be pulled by horses, or even a flying vehicle that can carry people, or a boat that can move forward without paddling."

When Zhu Houzhao said this, Yan Song opened his mouth wide. He was stunned for a moment before he had to smile and said, "Your Majesty, a car that can run without horses, an object that can carry people and fly, and a boat that can move forward without paddling, this is impossible. Even gods have to ride deer and cranes."

"Everything is possible. As long as you master the properties of all elements, nothing is impossible. Before glass was invented, could you imagine that there was a telescope in the world?"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, Yan Song also understood a little, and hurriedly said: "According to your majesty, if you understand all the elements, you can create new things and control the laws of all things. I was responsible for improving crops before, and found that the ash from burning charcoal and the feces of humans and animals can help rice and wheat grow. Now it seems that the elements in the charcoal, the elements in the feces, and phosphorus can all be used to fertilize crops. Your majesty, can you figure out which element is fertilizing rice and wheat? Then I can directly make this element as fertilizer without having to burn wood and collect feces?"

"That's right. Phosphate ore can be made into phosphate fertilizer. So maybe some ores also have the elements in carbon ash that can fertilize rice and wheat? If you find this kind of ore and make fertilizer from it, it will naturally be cheaper than cutting down trees and burning them!"

Zhu Houzhao said.

Yan Song could not help but get excited: "I wish I had received your Majesty's teachings earlier. If I could really get this fertilizer, my Ming Dynasty would have a bumper harvest and every family would not have to worry about starvation!"

Immediately, Yan Song bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said, "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely find the element that can make rice and wheat fatter!"

"I will wait for your good news. You can carefully check what the charcoal ash is made of. You can go to the Imperial University of Peking, the Royal Industrial Experimental Base, and the Ming Academy of Sciences to ask them for specific methods. I will ask the Ministry of Personnel to give you a doctorate in agricultural science at the Ming Academy of Sciences to facilitate your work. In addition, I will ask the Royal Tax Bureau to give you 10,000 taels of silver as capital."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yan Song was overjoyed, and thought to himself, "Since the promotion of Champa rice and phosphate fertilizer, the grain yield per mu in our Ming Dynasty has increased to 2.5 shi. Now if new fertilizer appears, there will be no problem of breaking through 3 shi. Now that Your Majesty has ordered the tax on government farms to be the same as that on private farms, it may be possible for a family with 100 mu of land to have 10 shi of grain left!"

Zhu Houzhao only knew that Yan Song was a famous treacherous minister in later generations, but he never thought that he would be so interested in agriculture. In his heart, he looked at Yan Song with some admiration, thinking that perhaps in history, Jiajing used Yan Song not only because Yan Song was good at writing Qingci.

In any case, Yan Song, who came to Beijing to serve as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, spent his free time, apart from his official duties, on burning charcoal and developing new elements. Unlike other civil servants, he was extremely devoted to his wife, Ouyang, and did not drink or gamble.

If Zhu Houzhao was not a time traveler, and only looked at Yan Song from the perspective of people of that time, he would only think that Yan Song was a good official with good moral character and integrity, or even a pure heart, which was completely inconsistent with the image of a treacherous minister in later generations.

Although Yan Song did not dare to enter water and fire into the table of elements because Emperor Zhu Houzhao did not think that water and fire were elements, he still insisted in his heart that water and fire were elements.

In Yan Song's view, he was a child prodigy after all, and he had been admitted to the Imperial Academy, so he would not have a wrong understanding of the elements. Therefore, he believed that charcoal must be composed of the element of fire and charcoal ash. Of course, he also believed that charcoal was not composed of a single element. Yan Song creatively named substances such as charcoal as compounds. He wrote in his notes:
"Charcoal is burned into fire and charcoal ash, so charcoal is made from charcoal ash and fire, and is a compound!"

Yan Song was very happy. He felt that he was creating a new discipline. He believed that his future achievements would not be inferior to Wang Shouren's, and he thought he might even be better than Wang Shouren, because what Wang Shouren said about the philosophy of mind might not be correct, but what he said about the discipline must be correct. No one could refute the idea that charcoal was a compound, because the combustion test was enough to prove it.

"A true man's ambition is to achieve merit, to establish a reputation, and to establish virtue. Although I, Yan Song, cannot achieve merit or virtue, at least I can establish a reputation!"

Yan Song thought so as he looked at the row of glass instruments in front of him.

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Wang Shouren was identified as the winner of the National Studies Award, the Royal Highest Science and Technology Award, for his pioneering work in the School of Mind.

Wang Wensu, Tong Laowu and Tao Hei were selected as the winners of the Imperial Science and Technology Award for the category of Gewu and Arithmetic. Wang Wensu needs no further introduction. His book "Mathematical Treasure Mirror" has completely recorded the methods of using abacus to complete operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and square root, and provided knowledge related to mathematical permutations and geometry. He also summarized the rules for Ming tax rate conversion and price statistics. Under the influence of Zhu Houzhao, he even proposed calculus and formally introduced Arabic numerals to establish a new method of calculation.

In this era before computers, Wang Wensu applied simple and complex mathematical calculations to abacus, which was of great help to the Ming Dynasty in opening banks, financial control, and fiscal scheduling.

Otherwise, to be honest, without a foundation in computer technology, it would be difficult for Zhu Houzhao, a time traveler, to open a successful bank, or even to successfully carry out monetary reforms.

Therefore, Wang Wensu deserves this award.

It is also a good opportunity to let people of the Ming Dynasty know that the Ming Dynasty not only values ​​civil and martial arts, but also mathematics and physics.

Tong Laowu was awarded this prize because he manufactured percussion rifles in the Ordnance Bureau.

The awards for chemical engineering and smelting were won by eunuchs Qiu Ju and Tao Hei.

Qiu Ju was the first person in the Ming Dynasty to master the technology of manufacturing two acids and two alkalis. Whether a country's industrial base can be complete depends on whether it can manufacture three acids and two alkalis, and Qiu Ju's role is naturally very important.

Tao Hei was awarded this award because he repeatedly improved the steel smelting technology from crucible steelmaking to open-hearth steelmaking.

Besides.

Li Yanwen won the Medicine and Physiology Award because she was the first female surgeon in the Ming Dynasty who mastered the method of suturing wounds intact after caesarean section.

Originally, Zhang Zhong, one of the eunuchs, could also compete for this award, but Zhang Zhong was good at surgical operations such as cutting 0 packs and 0 skins, which involved suturing small wounds. His role was relatively less valuable than Li Yanwen's, so Zhu Houzhao finally chose Li Yanwen to receive the award.

The winner of the Money Law Award was Xu Jing. After all, the current economic situation of the Ming Dynasty was largely due to the contribution of this steward beside Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

The Fengtian Gate, where hundreds of officials gathered, was as grand as a grand ceremony. Civil and military officials all appeared in crowns and robes, and Zhu Houzhao himself also came here in crown robes to show his importance to the award.

After the cheers of "Long live the emperor", Zhu Houzhao asked the Minister of Rites Ouyang Dan to preside over the award ceremony.

then.

Ouyang Dan began to call out the names, explaining why Emperor Zhu Houzhao established this award and the winners. He praised each person he called out in front of all the civil and military officials.

In the past, only those who had made great contributions could have such an honor in this grand ceremony. But now Zhu Houzhao used it as a ceremony to reward the Ming Dynasty's innovative achievements in the academic field, which naturally made these winners feel honored.

Even the civil and military officials had never expected that the imperial court would attach so much importance to the nine schools of learning.

Although some Neo-Confucian scholars felt a little jealous, they could not say anything after learning that Guo Nan was demoted, and could only accept the existence of this phenomenon.

The Minister of War Wang Shouren never thought that one day he would be awarded such a grand prize by His Majesty for his views on the philosophy of mind.

Many officials also expressed their envy. They had not expected that His Majesty would attach so much importance to statements, especially those that were as unorthodox as the School of Mind.

For example, Yan Song at that time felt that in the future he would be able to wear a flying fish suit and win awards like Wang Shouren did now because of his innovative ideas and pioneering new academic fields.

The second rank was awarded the Feiyu suit, which was the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Now, according to Zhu Houzhao's will, these award winners will receive the title of Shangshu, which is the treatment of a high-ranking official in modern times, but in the Ming Dynasty, a Shangshu was generally a second rank official. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao awarded them all a set of Feiyu suits.

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