Since the Academy of Social Sciences moved to Yanjing, the Academy of Engineering has ushered in an era of great development.
Not only did it annex the old site of the Academy of Social Sciences, it also more than doubled its area, even extending to the depths of Mount Tai.
In this way, the entire east of Jinan City, including the Academy of Engineering Sciences, Central University, Imperial Medical University, Imperial Industrial University, Imperial Normal University and other higher education institutions are all concentrated in this area, making it a veritable imperial academic center.
If the military ensures a country's security and politics ensures a country's stability, then science and industry ensure a country's upper limit.
Especially in this era of great development, countries and nations must not rest on their laurels. Otherwise, they will definitely be surpassed by others and fall into a miserable situation of falling behind and being beaten.
Therefore, Zuo Menggeng attaches great importance to science and industry. No matter how busy he is with his daily work, he always cares about the progress of various disciplines.
"At present, we have cultured penicillin and demonstrated its effect. The next difficulty lies in the purification and mass production of penicillin. We have been conducting experiments in several directions mentioned by your majesty. I believe that in time, it will be able to benefit all citizens.
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At the Medical Research Institute, the person in charge of the penicillin project is Lu An's disciple Yu Qingyan.
Although this young girl is taciturn, she has a stubborn tenacity in scientific research.
Ever since she learned about the effects of penicillin, she vowed to develop this life-saving drug in her lifetime.
The help that Zuo Menggeng can provide is just one-sided information that later generations will learn. But for scientific researchers of this era, there is no doubt that he is a guiding light.
Although there are still many difficulties in the purification and mass production of penicillin, in terms of progress, it is of course an achievement that transcends the times.
Seeing Yu Qingyan who was extremely thin because she was busy with scientific research, Zuo Mengeng did not hesitate to encourage her.
"It seems that we are going to have another precious national scholar."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was undoubtedly envious of Qing Yan.
In the empire, everyone is very clear about what it means to be a national scholar.
Although Yu Qingyan was silent on the surface, she was more determined in her heart to speed up the research on penicillin.
"Cinchona is indeed as good as your Majesty said, and has a good effect in treating malaria. However, we have also found through research that malaria parasites can develop drug resistance. Therefore, it can only be used as the first treatment. If you want to achieve a complete cure, Artemisia annua is still the first choice.
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The Medical Research Institute has made great achievements. Another disciple of Lu An, Fang Heng, also completed a comparison between Cinchona and Artemisia annua.
In this way, malaria, a disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, can be regarded as conquered by the medical workers of the empire.
Also bringing progress in medical technology is the Institute of Precision Instruments.
According to the classification, this research institute belongs to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, but it also overlaps with the medical profession. Therefore, the medical device department is placed next to the Medical Research Institute to facilitate communication between medical researchers at any time.
The biggest achievement of the Precision Instrument Research Institute so far is to increase the power of the microscope by about twenty times, allowing medical researchers to detect more subtle lesions.
The rest of the supporting tools such as scalpels, stethoscopes, suture needles and threads are even more innovative, and the precision is so high that even Zuo Mengeng was a little shocked.
Zuo Mengeng thought of something and went to other R&D departments.
Sure enough, since medical equipment can achieve improved accuracy, other tools and equipment will naturally improve accordingly.
This is the beauty of modern science.
Many disciplines are interrelated, and often a breakthrough at one point can lead to improvements in related disciplines.
"Your Majesty, please see, this is our latest bullet production line, which can accurately produce bullets for striker guns down to the millimeter level. We have conducted shooting tests with newly manufactured bullets, and only one defective bullet will appear for every thousand rounds.
.Currently we are studying the combination of steam engines and production lines. If successful, we can achieve a daily production of 50,000 rounds of bullets."
Hearing this data, Zuo Mengeng couldn't help but be speechless.
"Good guy, this will make the production of rifles unable to keep up."
Zuo Dai stood by and smiled bitterly.
"It is more difficult to accurately manufacture gun barrels than bullets. We have invested our strongest efforts and a large amount of money to strive to achieve a breakthrough within three years so that the entire army can use better rifles."
The striker gun is superior to the Migne rifle, and everyone sees it.
It is a pity that only the Second Division has completed the equipment change of three regiments, and most of the troops in the army still use Minie rifles.
How could the commanders of those troops be willing to do so? They almost broke through the threshold of Zuo Dai's office.
They used various methods to please, threaten, humiliate, and give gifts, just to make the equipment master prioritize his own troops.
Zuo Dai was also very annoyed and simply hid in the research institute.
Anyway, the place was heavily guarded and no one else could come in, so he felt a little quieter.
Compared with him, Bi Maokang is much more leisurely.
The man who was the greatest contributor to the introduction of springs is now in a semi-retired state. In view of his advanced age, Zuo Menggeng personally persuaded him to serve as the director of the Institute of Special Materials.
On a daily basis, I mainly focus on administrative work, and bring in new people by the way, and no longer take root in the front line.
Bi Maokang enjoyed his current job so much that after his wife passed away, he did not even return home and lived in the research institute.
"Currently, our work mainly has two aspects. One is to continue to develop springs with higher strength, and the other is to study spring steel plates. If this is successful, the vehicle's load-bearing capacity will be increased by more than three times, and the shock absorption effect will be better.
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The biggest function of the shock-absorbing steel plate is to be mounted on the bearings so that the vehicle can load more things and at the same time improve the shock-absorbing effect on rough roads.
This is a request made by the military under huge logistical pressure.
The most important thing is that this research project has not received any guidance from Zuo Mengeng. It can only be said that this is the inevitable development.
Zuo Menggeng picked up the experimental sample and found that it looked almost the same as the shock-absorbing steel plate familiar to later generations. Since it cannot be put into use yet, it can only mean that there are many deficiencies in the steel material.
And if you want to improve the quality of steel, there is no doubt that materials science is involved.
But no matter in any era, when it comes to materials science, it is enough to cause a headache.
Because there are no tricks in this subject, we can only explore the optimal ratio through experiments again and again.
Or when good luck strikes, a blind cat accidentally encounters a dead mouse and discovers the best ratio, which is enough to celebrate.
When Zuo Menggen walked into the Materials Research Institute, he found that all the people he saw were thirty-five-year-old social talents. He couldn't help but smile in his heart, and at the same time, he secretly decided to improve the salary of the Materials Research Institute.