Chapter 349 Harvest of Science and Technology Month
Chapter 349 Harvest of Science and Technology Month
After dinner, I asked Xiaoqi to call Lu Xiufu, the director of the Military Affairs Academy, and Wen Tianxiang, the director of the Government Affairs Academy.
"See you, Your Majesty," the two of them said excitedly when they heard that I was back.
"My dear friends, please take a seat."
"Your Majesty, is everything going well?"
I nodded and said: "Well, everything has been settled. You two, I have just met with the Queen Mother. I have a general understanding of the affairs in the DPRK, but I still need to hear your report on the specific situation. Lu Aiqing, you Let’s talk about the recent military affairs first,”
"Yes," Lu Xiufu said, "Your Majesty, everything in the military affairs is normal. Each military region has learned from each other's military training methods. In the past two months, the personal abilities and technical tactics of the soldiers have been greatly improved. I believe that not only In a year, our army will be able to successfully fight the Mongolian army. In addition, according to the latest news received from each military region by the Military Affairs Council, currently, the establishment of base areas behind enemy lines is still progressing slowly. Basically, the four major military regions on the frontier only have one or two. A small team has established a firm foothold, and most of them are in the area adjacent to my direction,"
"Techniques and tactics are the foundation of the army. If you continue to practice, you will get benefits sooner or later. As for the base area behind enemy lines, we will discuss it specifically in a few days."
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother must have told Your Majesty about the recruitment of troops in the Guangnan Military Region. Your Majesty will make your decision on this matter,"
"Well, I already know about this. Since the original Forbidden Army no longer exists, there is no need to recall the demobilized Forbidden Army soldiers. Jun Shi, Fan Wenhu still lacks many sergeants,"
"Your Majesty, there are still four to five thousand people missing."
"Four to five thousand people, that is to say, there are only one and a half soldiers in the two-wing establishment of Guangnan Military Region,"
"Exactly,"
"Jun Shi, send an order to Fan Wenhu to expand the scope of recruitment, and Song Rui to ask Guangnan East Road and Jinghu South Road, which are adjacent to Guangnan West Road, to assist. With a gap of several thousand people, I don't think it will be difficult,"
"Yes, Your Majesty, I obey your order,"
"Well, let's talk about Li Beiyang's situation,"
"Your Majesty, in mid-March, Li Beiyang's army has successfully arrived a hundred miles away from the Ryukyu Islands. Zhang Xuan did not confront our army head-on. Instead, as before, he escaped into the inland sea of Okinawa, one of the Ryukyu Islands. According to the After planning in advance, Mr. Li ordered the attack to continue, and it only took half a day to sink most of Zhang Xuan's ships. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Xuan and others immediately hid on Okinawa Island. Mr. Li immediately sent an interpreter and landed on Okinawa Island. , requiring the other party to hand over all the pirates Zhang Xuan and others that our court was hunting to our navy. The people in Okinawa refused, so Mr. Li launched a landing campaign and occupied the entire island of Okinawa in late March. In early April, Five thousand soldiers from the Lin'an Military Region also arrived in Okinawa. By late April, the Ryukyu Islands including Okinawa, Amami, Sakishima, Miyako, and Yaeyama had been occupied by our army. At the end of April, our expeditionary navy troops were divided into two groups. , one group was led by Mr. Li, and together with the 5,000 army troops from the Lin'an Military Region, continued to march to other islands in the Ryukyu Islands, the other group was led by Li Zengbo, deputy commander of the Navy, and set off back to the Wenzhou Navy Base."
"Okay, by the way, Junshi, let the Navy send a clipper to notify Li Beiyang to establish our first overseas province, let's call it Ryukyu Province, and also ask him to find a capable force on the Ryukyu Islands. A force for the use of our government, and support this force to become the nominal manager of Ryukyu Province. If there is no ready-made one, we will find a way to cultivate a force. Once confirmed, let this force come to Lin'an to see me,"
"Yes, Your Majesty,"
"After Li Zengbo returned, he asked him to explore the sea route to Goryeo."
"Your Majesty, this has been arranged. After Mr. Li Zengbo returns to the base, he will personally lead the two thousand navy to Goryeo,"
"Well, Song Rui, please tell me about the situation of the Government Affairs Council. Let's put aside the candidates for envoys in each province. We will discuss it after I read their detailed information."
"Yes, Your Majesty, generally speaking, the government affairs in the past two months have been carried out as planned. The Science and Technology Month in March was very fruitful. According to Mr. He Ji, they got a lot of talents because of this event. Among them are Chen Ziming and Yan Yonghe, medical masters who have lived in seclusion for many years, Zhu Shijie, who was praised by Yang Hui as a mathematics prodigy, and Wanyan Tianlei, a former Jin Dynasty firearms expert who Yun Bofei introduced as his confidant, who was the artillery used by the Jin Dynasty. Other ministers cannot remember the inventor of Zhentian Lei. In addition, the Ministry of Education also benefited from the Science and Technology Month activities. One of the four major academies in our country, Hengzhou Shigu Academy, took the initiative to send people to find Ouyang, the Minister of Education. Shoudao said that he is willing to accept our new education law and convert half of the academies into new schools. In addition, the two major academies of Yuelu and Bailuzhou, which expressed their intention for the new education law in February this year, have also responded and said they are willing. Accept this, our country already has three large academies ready to carry out new education restructuring,"
The four major academies during the Song Dynasty were Bailudong Academy in Lushan, Jiangxi, Yuelu Academy in Tanzhou, Hunan, Shigu Academy in Hengzhou, Hunan, and Yingtian Academy in Yingtianfu. The Yingtianfu mentioned here is not Nanjing as it was known to later generations. , but Shangqiu, Henan Province. In the Ming Dynasty, Yingtian Prefecture was in Nanjing. Most of the academies in the Song Dynasty were government-run in the Northern Song Dynasty, and applicants were required to come from government-run academies. After the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, students who graduated from private and public schools had The same status made the academies of the Southern Song Dynasty prosper. At its peak, there were more than 80 famous academies. Great scholars such as He Ji and Jiang Wanli all had experience in running schools. The academies also cultivated a large number of outstanding talents, such as Bailuzhou. The academy trained Wen Tianxiang, Liu Chenweng, Deng Guangjian and other patriots in the late Southern Song Dynasty.
According to historical records, Jiang Wanli, who founded Bailuzhou Academy, jumped into the river and died after the Mongols captured Raozhou (now Boyang, Jiangxi, where Jiang Wanli lived for a long time after he was dismissed from office). This may be the spirit of Bailuzhou Academy. It is also the epitome of the unyielding spirit of the Chinese nation.
These representative mainstream academies are willing to try new education, which will undoubtedly promote the process of new education and be of great benefit to the cultivation of scientific and technological talents.
The talents mentioned by Wen Tianxiang are even more interesting to me. Chen Ziming and Yan Yong are not very familiar to me. Although these two doctors in the late Song Dynasty have famous works handed down in history, I am not familiar with ancient doctors. Only a few people such as Hua Tuo, Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, and Li Shizhen are known.
But I know Zhu Shijie.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, mathematics in China developed rapidly, and a large number of mathematical geniuses emerged. Among them, the most outstanding mathematicians were known as the Four Great Masters, namely Qin Jiushao, Li Ye, Yang Hui, and Zhu Shijie. , the child prodigy Zhu Shijie mentioned by Yang Hui is one of them. Zhu Shijie was born in 1249. He loved to travel around the world since he was a child. He studied "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" diligently throughout his life, bypassed various other algorithms, and wrote it at the end of the 13th century to summarize and popularize it. At that time, "Arithmetic Enlightenment" was written for the purpose of various mathematical knowledge. This "Arithmetic Enlightenment" went from the shallower to the deeper, starting from single-digit multiplication and continuing to the latest mathematical achievement at that time - Tianyuan Shu, forming the most complete mathematical system at that time. , later generations have a very high evaluation of Zhu Shijie. If many mathematicians are compared to mountains, Zhu Shijie is the tallest and most majestic mountain. Standing at the height of Zhu Shijie's mathematical thoughts and looking at traditional mathematics, you will have "a glimpse of all the mountains." feeling.
It suddenly occurred to me that Zhu Shijie was from the north, how could he come to Lin'an: "Song Rui, this Zhu Shijie is from the north, how could he appear in our court?"
"Your Majesty, we have also made detailed inquiries about this group of scientific talents. Zhu Shijie is from Yanshan. According to him, he has liked to travel around the world since he was a child. He will visit anyone who is interested in mathematics. In the past one or two days, In recent years, the war between Song Dynasty and Mongolia has eased slightly, and business exchanges between the two places have increased slightly. In late February this year, Zhu Shijie followed his uncle to our country's Yangzhou, and happened to see our country's promotional materials about Science and Technology Month, and got A mathematics textbook from Lin'an University, which was the first draft of the textbook by His Majesty, immediately sighed at the development of mathematics in our country. He said goodbye to his uncle and came to Lin'an alone. After talking with Mr. Yang Hui, he was called mathematics by Mr. Yang. The prodigy of the world,”
From Zhu Shijie, I thought of another famous scientist in the north, Guo Shoujing, but this Guo Shoujing was a disciple of Liu Bingzhong. At this time, he had already made his mark in the north, attracted the attention of the Mongols, and was appointed as the Dushui Shaojian (equivalent to today's Officials of the Ministry of Water Resources), unlike the unknown child Zhu Shijie who can sneak into the south through some "illegal" channels.
"Okay, Zhu Shijie is a talented person. Even if this technology month costs a lot of money, I can only get this one person,"
Wen Tianxiang hesitated for a moment and then asked: "This Zhu Shijie is just a young man. Does your Majesty know this person?"
"Ah, haha, to be able to catch Yang Hui's eyes must be a talent,"
Yang Hui is a master of mathematics. If he is valued by Yang Hui, he is a talented person, but His Majesty is not like this, Wen Tianxiang secretly thought.
However, among the several people introduced by Wen Tianxiang, the one that interests me the most is Wanyan Tianlei, a firearms expert from the Jin Kingdom. After all, talents who are proficient in firearms production are what I urgently need. I have also heard of Zhentian Lei, which was already in the final years of the Jin Kingdom. It was used for city defense, but it was a pity that the Kingdom of Jin was destroyed by Song and Meng together before the thunderbolt could mature.
"Are these scientific talents currently at Lin'an University?"
"Your Majesty, Zhu Shijie and Yan Yonghe entered Lin'an University. Among them, Zhu Shijie served as Yang Hui's assistant while studying, Yan Yonghe was hired by the university as a professor and deputy dean of the medical school, Chen Ziming entered the Academy of Sciences and concentrated on organizing his works, and Wanyan Tianlei Joined the Gunpowder Department,"
"Well, Song Rui, tomorrow afternoon you arrange for Yang Hui, Zhu Shijie, Yun Bofei, and Wanyan Tianlei to go to Shifeng Trading Company. I want to talk to them."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Wen Tianxiang continued, "After April, the Ministry of Commerce formulated preferential policies to increase exports, and designated Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Mingzhou (now Ningbo) as special zones. In addition to the exclusive purchase of products , relaxed restrictions on foreign businessmen selling goods to private individuals, and implemented a tax rebate policy for some export goods. In order to facilitate importers and exporters, the Ministry of Commerce, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education, followed the practice of the original Guangzhou and opened two in Mingzhou and Quanzhou. Two schools for the children of foreign businessmen. In mid-April, the Ministry of Commerce sent several teams led by officials from the Ministry of Commerce and joined by various shipping departments to go out to sea with the caravans on voyages. They brought our country's credentials and our country's unique high-quality goods. Items, such as porcelain, monosodium glutamate, tea, silk, etc., go overseas to promote the superior performance of our items and our strong support for foreign businessmen. According to the plan of the Ministry of Commerce, this long-distance promotion activity is expected to take about half a year,"