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In October 1864, thousands of workers came to the wilderness in the southwestern suburbs of Nanhua. In the following two years, high-rise buildings, playgrounds, and even artificial lakes, gardens, etc. appeared here. This is the University of Nanhua.
In that year, in order to promote higher education in Nanhua, Zhu Xianhai proposed to establish a university. Although Nanhua already had many colleges and universities at that time, Zhu Xianhai's goal was to establish a first-class university in the world.
At the time, it seemed that this was a bit counterproductive. After all, Nanhua did not have a professor of its own at that time.
If you don’t have any connections, just pay for it from outside. Anyway, scientists in this era are all communicating with each other!
While the campus was under construction, headhunters from European and American branches began their "hunting" journey. Their "hunting" targets were outstanding scholars and professors from various countries. In return for high salaries, in March 1866,
When the university opened, there were 78 professors and lecturers in the school. Except for a few lecturers who taught Chinese studies, most of the other professors were from European countries. The vast majority of them were professors or lecturers at the university. Their arrival made Nanhua
From the beginning, the university has reached some kind of academic peak. After all, most of its professors are world-class.
However, there are exceptions. In the Department of Agriculture, there is a scholar from Austria. Others call him "Father" in the university. He is indeed a priest. In fact, Mendel was stationed in the Austria-Hungary Office. According to Zhu Xianhai's
The list was obtained from the monastery, where he conducted pea hybridization experiments. This experiment was conducted for a total of 8 years from 1856 to 1864. Although as early as 1865, Mendel compiled the results of his research into
The paper "Plant Hybrid Experiments" was published, but it failed to attract the attention of the academic community at that time.
After all, Mendel's experiments were far ahead of this era, and the scientific community lacked the ideological foundation to understand Mendel's laws. Although he was not taken seriously in Europe, Zhu Xianhai still included him among the thousand people who "introduced experts and scholars"
Among the list - according to Zhu Xianhai's plan, in order to promote the development of industrial science and technology, it will take ten years to introduce 1,000 experts and scholars from various industries, which is basically equivalent to catching all the well-known scholars he can think of in the 1870s and even the 1880s.
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The introduction of these experts and scholars will not only accelerate the development of science and technology in Ming Dynasty, but also bring education in Ming Dynasty to a new level.
However, among the imported experts and scholars, Mendel was an exception. This weirdo who was brought in "looking for nothing", after arriving at Nanhua University, he cultivated a field behind the College of Agriculture and conducted wheat breeding experiments all day long.
From January 1866, this lecturer, who had a big head and a slightly fat body, devoted himself to this experimental field. Of course, as a university lecturer, he also taught botany and mathematics in the classroom.
"Mr. Meng, the wheat in field No. 13 is growing much better than before. I estimate that the yield can be increased by more than 20%."
The student's words put a smile on Mendel's face.
"If this is the case, we can report our test results this year.",
Mendel, who was born in a poor peasant family, was very fond of natural science, although he had no interest in religion or theology. However, in order to escape from a life of hunger and cold, he had to enter a monastery against his will and become a monk. After receiving an invitation from the University of South China
At that time, he immediately abandoned everything and came to the New World.
Entering university and becoming a professor was what Mendel longed for. On the ship to South China, he had been thinking hard about how to prove his worth to the school through the "pea hybridization experiment" that no one could understand? This was obviously not possible.
Too possible.
As a scholar, Mendel was never a pedantic person. To a certain extent, he always longed for world recognition for his talents.
While he was grateful to the University of Nanhua for its kindness in educating him, he was also eager to prove to the university that their choice was correct through corresponding research.
After learning that flour was South China's most important export commodity, he chose wheat as a breakthrough point. On the day he arrived in South China, he began conducting wheat hybrid experiments. In order to obtain as many seeds as possible, he sent seeds to India, Egypt, Canada and
The United States and other parts of the world wrote letters asking for seeds of different wheat varieties.
After obtaining these seeds, Mendel, who had found a treasure, carefully planted these seeds in the experimental field and took good care of them. Year after year, with the help of more than a dozen students, Mendel patiently hybridized hundreds of wheat varieties.
Pollination, each time retaining the best seeds for continued selection and use in the next year. He and the students recorded detailed information on each variety in their notebooks: where it comes from, which varieties it has been crossed with, growth cycle, yield and weather
Wait, it’s all there.
"The yield in the experimental field increased by 20%, but in field cultivation it may only be less than 10%, which means there is potential for further improvement."
Mendel adjusted the frames of his glasses and stared at the experimental field through his gold-rimmed glasses, the smile on his face getting bigger and bigger.
5 years!
Finally seeing results!
Where there is a will, there is a way. After five years, Mendli finally developed a new variety of wheat through sexual hybridization. The wheat he bred produced more and was of higher quality than other varieties of wheat.
“Hybrid wheat!”
After learning that the yield of wheat cultivated by Mendel increased by 21.5%, Zhu Xianhai was stunned for a while. He originally invited Mendel here to make the University of South China the founding institution of "genetics", but he never thought that...
Mendel actually developed a new type of hybrid wheat.
In fact, hybrid wheat is not new. Wheat cross-breeding began in the mid-19th century. After the rediscovery of Mendel's law in the early 20th century, wheat cross-breeding finally developed rapidly, and now...well, it is
Grandmaster takes action.
It’s really extraordinary!
However, the increase of 22% is not enough. It seems like a lot, but the basic yield of wheat in this era is very low. The average wheat yield per mu in Daming is only 120 kilograms. If it is increased by 20%, it still does not exceed 140 kilograms.
"It has increased by 21.5%. Even after switching to field cultivation, the output has decreased, but when viewed from the perspective of the entire Ming Dynasty, this is an extremely impressive number, well..."
After thinking about it, Zhu Xianhai said to Li Weimin, the Minister of Education of the Ming Dynasty.
"This is a blockbuster! His name can be listed in this year's educational commendations. We will never be stingy with giving reputation and money to scholars!"
For many scholars, what they care about is never money, but reputation. Since the Ming Dynasty was not stingy with money, what's more, it is just a false reputation?
"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"
However, the rewards given by Ming Dynasty are not just reputation, but also corresponding bonuses.
Even Zhu Xianhai has a corresponding plan to launch the Ming Dynasty's "Dynamite Award" when the time is right. Of course, by then it will definitely not be called the "Dynamite Award".
But what is certain is that the influence of this award in the world will definitely exceed that of the so-called "Dynamite Award" in the future.
After all, even now the bonuses awarded to those scholars by the Ming Dynasty are extremely generous.
"In the final analysis, His Majesty is still able to discern people. When he was first introduced, he had no reputation at all. Some people felt that bringing in those people was a waste of time and money. However, judging from the past few years, the candidates selected by His Majesty are
Even if there are no results for a while, they will soon achieve quite astonishing achievements in many aspects. In the final analysis, they should still thank His Majesty, after all, it is His Majesty who kept them from letting their pearls fall into dust."
This is not nonsense!
Zhu Xianhai secretly thought in his heart that as long as he could recall the names and write down the names on the list, they were definitely famous scholars in the history of science. They had already shined in history, but now they have better knowledge.
Can the environment not shine?
Each one of them will not only shine, but also shine more dazzlingly than in history!
Compared with politicians, these scholars are the real light of humanity!
"Gold will always shine!"
Zhu Xianhai said modestly, and after thinking about it, he added.
"Since it is an improved seed, it must be promoted. Well, let's set up an improved seed breeding company. Let's call it... well, let's call it Monsanto!"
Monsanto, well, the name is pretty cool. In another world, this name would be notorious, but in this world!
This name can totally be reinterpreted.
"The seeds cultivated by Mendel can grow even on mountains!"
Zhu Xianhai explained straightforwardly.
A few years later, thanks to the promotion of Monsanto, the hybrid wheat bred by Mendel made Daming's wheat famous in the international market due to its stable yield and extremely high quality. Grain merchants from all over the world flocked to Australian wheat.
Of course, this is all a later story. Whether it is Mendel's hybrid wheat cultivation or the establishment of Monsanto Company, it means that Ming Dynasty's agricultural science has reached a new level. In the academic field of "genetics" and the financial support of Monsanto Company
Next, Ming Dynasty's breeding of improved seeds was on the right track, which also meant a new era for agriculture.
Of course, as a scholar, Mendel also became famous and became a world-renowned scholar. To a certain extent, he even became the "horse bone" of the Ming Dynasty. Mendel's achievements in the Ming Dynasty attracted the attention of many European scholars.
of envy.
After all, before Mendel came to Ming Dynasty, he was just an unknown person. However, here he not only became a university professor, but also obtained research resources that were unimaginable in Europe.
So in the next few decades, countless young European scholars came to this country, to this hot land of science...