After taking Mr. Nong to meet His Majesty, Chu Ze took him to find Prince Zhu Biao and told him about the seedling research institute.
After Zhu Biao heard about artificial incubation, his reaction was almost the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's.
However, the biggest difference between him and his father was that when he heard Chu Ze mention awarding awards to those at the testing site, Zhu Biao agreed without even thinking about it.
He also said that if his father was unwilling to complete the matter, then he would complete the matter.
The father and son hold different opinions on the same thing.
This may be the generation gap between young people and old people.
"How is the construction of your school going?"
After Chu Ze arranged for Mr. Nong to be sent back to the testing site, Zhu Biao and Chu Ze also came to the pond in the East Palace where they had their first conversation.
Beside the pond, under the light of the waves, there is a tea table and two chairs.
Everything was so calm and peaceful.
"The construction of the school's hardware has basically been completed. The most important issue now is teacher resources."
"Because they are all new textbooks, not only the students have to learn them, but also the teachers have to learn them from scratch before they can teach and educate people."
"I guess we need to train a group of people to serve as teachers first."
After taking the teacup handed over by Zhu Biao, Chu Ze silently took a sip of tea, and then threw a stone that he had been playing with for a long time into the water again.
Looking at the ripples gradually spreading on the water, Chu Ze's eyes gradually became deeper.
"The progress is still a bit slow. I don't know when the school will start to operate properly. Even if the school starts to operate, those students who will succeed in their studies in the future don't know where to go."
"To be honest, I don't know if my plan is correct."
Establishing a school to spread an academic that is completely contrary to current popular knowledge.
People who have accepted this knowledge will find that what they have learned is of no use when they really walk out of school in the future.
If so, that would be such a sad thing.
Although he knew this, Chu Ze had to do this!
If this knowledge is not spread, wouldn't it be so redundant for him to travel through time?
"Whether it's right or not, at least we did it, right?"
Zhu Biao looked at Chu Ze, whose face was full of sadness. Although he didn't know what Chu Ze was feeling melancholy about, he still gave him some encouragement.
"No matter what the outcome is, we just want a clear conscience."
Zhu Biao's words made Chu Ze's hand movements stiffen slightly.
Then, he shook his head with a wry smile.
"What you said is so light! Then do you know that once the knowledge I spread gradually takes root in this era, as the knowledge gradually takes root in people's hearts, things like imperial power will gradually disappear?"
"The more developed technology is, the weaker the imperial power will be. Because if you want to explore technology, you must have the courage to explore. Once the pioneers appear, the latecomers will follow."
"The era of imperial power will eventually come to an end, and the era of human rights will gradually rise."
"You and I are just a pawn under this general trend. When the general trend comes, everyone will be a victim."
Zhu Biao, who originally wanted to encourage Chu Ze, raised his head and looked at Chu Ze in disbelief after hearing his words.
His eyes were full of shock and bewilderment.
What did he just hear?
The era of imperial power will come to an end.
And what caused all of this to happen was Chu Ze and what he was doing.
He, the next controller of imperial power, is gradually disintegrating himself.
"Are you surprised? Do you feel weird? Do you feel like you are rebelling against yourself now?"
Chu Ze looked at Zhu Biao, who was dumbfounded, with a teasing smile on his lips.
Zhu Biao looked at Chu Ze, who was still sitting opposite him and drinking tea quietly. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
A very strange feeling gradually rose from Zhu Biao's heart.
"Did you know there would be such a result from the beginning?"
After a long time, Zhu Biao finally recovered from the shock.
However, after reacting, Zhu Biao lowered his head and stared blankly at the teapot and teacup in front of him.
The expression on his face was very cold, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.
"Absolutely. In fact, I told you from the beginning. The longer I exist, the greater my changes in the future will be. This is called the butterfly effect."
"However, the ending of history is always similar. As the times gradually develop, once some things start to spread, they can no longer be contained."
"Actually, it's not me who ends the era of imperial power, but our culture itself."
"To be specific, it is your old Zhu family who started this era."
As gunpowder gradually flowed into the West, the West has been at war with each other because of its many countries.
The continuous wars have led to explosive growth in technology between each other's countries.
In just a few hundred years, it surpassed the Chinese civilization in one fell swoop.
And the beginning of all this can be said to have started from the Ming Dynasty.
"It's been a long time since I heard you talk about the future. Why don't you tell me about it today?"
"I still have to go to work in the Etiquette Department, why don't I stop talking about it? I'm afraid you'll be so angry after talking about it."
"Is this future history so miserable?"
"Um, what do you think?"
Looking at Chu Ze's half-smiling gaze, Zhu Biao couldn't help but hesitate for a moment.
Curiosity about the future is true, but fear about the future is also true.
Who wouldn’t be afraid when facing the unknown?
Chu Ze looked at Zhu Biao who was still hesitating. He had no intention of urging him, but just waited silently for Zhu Biao to make a decision.
If he was really prepared and wanted to hear about the funeral, then Chu Ze wouldn't mind telling him some.
There are some things that a person always carries on his back, which is actually quite tiring.
"Huh, let's talk about it. If I get really angry and faint, please wake me up later."
"If I also know what happened in the future, maybe I can understand your thoughts better?"
"If everything is bound to happen, then it is inevitable that it is better to be a promoter than to be a victim. People who take the initiative at least have room to turn around, right?"
Maybe it's because the two are similar in age, or maybe Zhu Biao's thoughts have changed after he and Chu Ze have been together for a long time.
At this time, he actually had a sense of freedom and ease that was similar to that of Chu Ze.
And it was this freedom and ease that allowed Zhu Biao to learn that Chu Ze and what he was doing were actually laying the foundation for the disintegration of the imperial power era step by step.
The reason why he could still maintain his composure.
After some deep thought, Zhu Biao decided to know what happened in future generations.
Based on his understanding of Chu Ze, Chu Ze would generally not act without aim.
Since he raised this point today, he must have his reasons.
"I won't tell you anything too specific. After all, it's hundreds of years of history. If I were to explain it in detail, I wouldn't be able to finish it in three days and three nights."
"We are talking about technology today, so let's just talk about technology. What do you think?"
After Chu Ze saw that Zhu Biao was mentally prepared, he did not hesitate and started narrating it directly to the other party.
After Zhu Biao heard Chu Ze's proposal, he just nodded silently.
It was considered as acquiescence to Chu Ze’s proposal.
Although this way, Chu Ze seemed to have always been in the dominant position when the two talked.
But Zhu Biao also knew that if he was talking about the future, he would have no room to interrupt.
"Okay, since we're talking about technology, let's mainly talk about firearms. The flintlock guns that our Ming army is assembling now are actually originally from the West."
"According to the original history, the firearms during the Ming Dynasty, especially in the early stage, were the simplest firecrackers, and most of them were made of copper. Later types include bowl-mouth cannons, magic guns, three-eyed firecrackers, etc. of."
"But these things are basically in vain. As time goes by, gunpowder gradually flowed into the West starting from the Ming Dynasty."
"The terrain and topography in the West are relatively complex, and they are in war all year round. It is somewhat similar to the Warring States Period in our pre-Qin period."
"As gunpowder and firearms flowed into the West, the successive wars made them particularly enthusiastic about researching weapons."
"Compared to them, the Ming Dynasty was a unified dynasty. Although the previous generations of emperors worked hard to govern and develop in various ways, the disadvantage of the unified dynasty is that the later the dynasty, the more corrupt it will be."
"From the late Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, which was the next dynasty that completely took over the rule of your Ming Dynasty, the majority of them were Jurchens."
"From here on, Western firearms and technology have begun to comprehensively surpass ours."
"Let me give you an example. I'll think about it for a moment. Please wait a moment."
When Chu Ze gave an example, he couldn't think of a more appropriate example for a moment.
Zhu Biao looked at him who was frowning and thinking hard, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.
Jurchen Qing Dynasty.
Although he always knew that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed and the Ming Dynasty would collapse in the future.
However, this was the first time he knew that the dynasty after the Ming Dynasty was not the Han dynasty.
This is simply.
While Chu Ze was thinking hard, Zhu Biao was also meditating.
However, after the two of them pondered for a long time, they both looked at each other with tacit understanding.
What Zhu Biao saw on Chu Ze's face was embarrassment, but what Chu Ze saw on Zhu Biao's face was expectation.
"Biao. It took so long that I completely forgot about it. I don't know where to start."
"Well"
Zhu Biao didn't expect that after waiting for a long time, Chu Ze would actually come up with such a sentence for him.
Looking at Chu Ze who was sitting in Duomian, embarrassed and speechless for a while, Zhu Biao silently raised his middle finger to him.
"I said, are you making a mistake? I've been waiting for so long, and you tell me you forgot?"
"I really don't remember. The history of your Ming Dynasty is relatively vague... let alone the events of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty!"
"You also know that this kind of history is usually deliberately erased, especially since foreigners were still ruling the Han people at that time. Naturally, it can be erased as soon as possible."
"That's what I'm saying anyway. The flintlock rifles and bullets with tail fins that I have freed up here. In fact, these things are all produced in the West."
"I can't remember the details of technology at all, so I'd better tell you something else."
Chu Ze, who lost his temper on the spot, actually felt quite embarrassed when faced with Zhu Biao's raised middle finger and disdainful eyes.
He originally thought he could remember it, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his brain shut down.
In desperation, Chu Ze could only tell Zhu Biao other things.
From the late Ming and early Qing dynasties to modern history.
Finally, the story reaches the modern era in which he lives.
As an expounder, Chu Ze's voice was very suppressed when he spoke.
As a listener, Zhu Biao's expression also seemed particularly depressed.
"After the disaster, with the rise of two big mushrooms, the people on this land finally stood up again."
"Many of the martyrs are ordinary people, but in the face of national calamity, they still stand on the front line one after another."
"To be honest, I'm just an ordinary person. I just went to school. Because I like some messy things, I often watch videos and learn from them."
"As you can see, after I built the testing ground, I was actually very incompetent in many areas, such as rifling the gun and making primers."
"I clearly know that one-piece bullets need a primer, but I don't know how to make a primer at all."
"There's also rifling. If the barrel can be rifled directly, I won't even make any physical bullets with tail fins."
"To be honest, if I really knew that I would travel through time, I would have just memorized it by rote, and I would have had to memorize some useful things, right?"
"I'm not a great man. Even compared to the elites of later generations, I'm just a useless person."
The more Chu Ze spoke, the deeper his voice became.
When the book comes to use, Fang Henshao actually cannot fully understand the meaning of this sentence before traveling through time.
But when he now traveled through time and really started to rely on himself, he realized how insignificant he was.
Especially when you really need to use what you have learned.
That feeling of powerlessness was almost infinitely amplified at this moment.
Zhu Biao, who was sitting opposite Chu Ze, was already so shocked that he didn't know how to speak.
Looking at Chu Ze who lowered his head and felt a little depressed, Zhu Biao could roughly feel Chu Ze's powerlessness at this time.
"Actually, you have done a good job. If it were me, I might not be as good as you."
After Zhu Biao sighed, he looked at the pebbles at his feet, finally bent down to pick them up, and then followed Chu Ze's example and silently threw them into the pond.
"Now, am I considered a pebble?"
(End of chapter)
