Zhu Zaiyu stayed in the Yangxin Hall for three hours, during which time he was given the honor of dining at the same table as the emperor. A few days after leaving the palace, all the princes or representatives who had entered the capital knew about it.
Zhu Zaiyu was immediately invited by various families and began attending several banquets every day. The information about the clan reform that he received in Yangxin Hall also spread from these banquets to all directions of the empire.
In the first month of the fifth year of Wanli, two Beijing daily newspapers announced that the emperor had used internal funds to establish the Royal Academy of Furniture, and the first director was Zhu Zaiyu, the eldest son of Prince Zheng. After becoming an ancestor, Zhu Zaiyu was the only one in the clan in the world who held an actual position in the royal organization in Beijing as the crown prince, and was also the top leader. This news was like a pebble falling on the water, but it caused ripples among the clan. A huge wave.
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Because the Institute of Science and Technology was developed from the imperial factory laboratory, it did not receive a salary from the imperial court, nor was it selected by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. There was no comment from the outer court. Although several people in the imperial court admonished the emperor for neglecting the big road and focusing on petty arts, there was no major disturbance after Zhu Yijun stayed in the imperial court.
The Imperial Academy does not recruit literary talents, and the standards for recruiting talents are rather strange. On the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month of the fifth year of Wanli, two Beijing and three daily newspapers published a brochure for talent recruitment at the Royal Gewu Academy, with dozens of questions. Anyone who intended to come to the Gewu Academy to get a high salary must come with the answer to at least one question.
For more than a year, everyone in the world who knew how to read was troubled by the topic published every few days in these daily newspapers. They asked each other and shouted.
These questions are written in half-literary and half-white words, and even traffickers and foot soldiers can read and understand them. Most of these questions are seen by everyone every day, but no one thinks deeply about the reasons behind them. At this time, they were suddenly After the newspaper was published, many people in the world who were usually willing to think more about it really started to study it.
With the promotion and advertising of this newspaper, Rishenglong from various places also made a small fortune. Various types of glassware, balance weights, steel rulers and blowtorches were sold out - because the advertisement said that in order to facilitate everyone to conduct experiments, the test equipment was sold by Rishenglong at low prices.
In Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, a young man named Xu was attracted by several questions in the newspaper. He pondered the question copied from the newspaper for a few days, and then asked his father for money to buy some glassware for testing.
His father, Xu Sicheng, was a scholar. His ancestors' family background was originally good, but Xu Sicheng was unable to do business and study, and his family was in decline. After hearing his son's request, Xu Sicheng scolded: "My family is already struggling to support your business. How can I have spare money for you to think about this? You have the time to take stock of the accounts in the shop!"
The seventeen-year-old Xu Guangqi's genius brain has been enlightened by the questions in the newspaper, and the curiosity in his heart cannot be contained. In the next two months, he scrimped on food and clothing, and finally went to Shanghai County to buy a beaker sold by a merchant at a markup, and conducted the first experiment in his life.
The original question of this experiment is: something is flammable and something is not flammable. When something is burning and there is fire, place the fire under the cup. When no air enters the cup, the fire immediately goes out. Please design an experiment to answer the question behind this phenomenon—it can also explain why something is flammable and something is not.
Using a basin of water, a candle and a beaker, Xu Guangqi easily found the reason without the interference of the "phlogiston theory": there is a gas in the beaker that can make the candle burn. , the candle went out. This gas, which causes the candle to burn, accounts for one-fifth of the gas in the cup.
Driven by a perfectionist mentality, he studied the second question of this question and came to a conclusion. Then, he wrote the complete answer to this question, put it in an envelope, and found a newspaper seller in Shanghai County. The merchants allowed the letter to return to the daily newspaper through newspaper sales channels.
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At this time, Lukou Village, Xiuning County, Huizhou Prefecture, South Zhili Province, has achieved financial freedom, and businessman Cheng Dawei, who studies mathematics at home, is also answering questions. However, the question he answered did not require experiments and was a purely speculative question:
Assumption: Any point can be connected to any other point in a straight line; any straight line can be extended infinitely from both ends; with any point as the center, a circle can be drawn with any radius, and a circle can be divided into 360 degrees ;All right angles are equal.
The question is, based entirely on these four sentences, prove that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle composed of straight lines is equal to 180 degrees.
Cheng Dawei's level of arithmetic research may be a little higher than Zhu Zaiyu's, but in the Ming Dynasty, when there was no geometric thinking, this problem still troubled him for more than half a month.
After he finally started from these four sentences and proved the question with impeccable derivation, what he didn't know was that with the encouragement of the emperor, the sprout of logical thinking finally sprouted in the land of China.
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Zhu Yijun, who lives in the imperial court, does not know how many talents will be attracted by the high salary of the Royal Academy of Sciences, or gather under his command out of interest. All he can do is invest resources, money and advice besides dealing with political affairs.
In February of the fifth year of Wanli, Wang Ning, the governor of Yunnan, who was escorted back to Beijing for trial by the Jinyi Guards, was finally sentenced by Dali Temple and sentenced to prison. The memorial was reviewed by the cabinet, approved by the Chief of Ceremonies, and went to Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun did not play the trick of "benefit comes from the top" and gave instructions: "His crime is obvious, he will be beheaded to sacrifice the flag on the day when the new army sends troops." Instead, he advanced the beheading in autumn to spring.
Wang Ning was the highest-ranking civil servant to be killed since Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, which shocked the officialdom of the world. The crimes committed by Wang Ning were not only the crimes of losing land, but also one of the crimes reported by Di Bao was: "deceiving the emperor and failing to report important military information." Zhu Yijun also deliberately used Wang Ning to give high-ranking officials in the governor's area a slap in the face. This way, they all understood the consequences of deceiving themselves.
On February 16th of the fifth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun came to Nanyuan and presided over the first oath-taking expedition for the Beijing camp since he ascended the throne.
With an army of ten thousand people plus supporting baggage troops and medical troops, the total number of troops deployed reached 12,300. These people, together with the head coach, the entire cabinet, the director of the Ministry of War and above, and other high-ranking officials such as martial arts professors, all stood at attention in the school grounds waiting for the emperor's arrival.
When the horn sounded, the emperor entered from the northeast gate of the school grounds. Officials, generals and soldiers all over the school grounds greeted him according to the ceremony. When the emperor followed the flag officer and was guarded by the brightly-clad imperial guards as he entered the school grounds, everyone saw a heroic emperor whom they had never seen before.
Zhu Yijun is riding on a white horse, wearing a helmet with golden phoenix wings and red tassels. Under the red tassel is a gold statue of Zhenwu Emperor, with a fire-breathing golden dragon on each side. The dragon body spreads out and looks like phoenix wings. The top of the helmet is decorated with red tassels, feathers, and flags. The back of the helmet is decorated with gold armor pieces.
He wears a yellow square collar with a dragon pattern on his shoulders and knees, long body armor with a double lapel, golden animal head shoulder armor on both shoulders, red shoulder tassels, and gold armor plates on both arms. Wearing silver fish-scale leaf armor, there are golden dragons spelled out by golden armor plates on the left and right chests facing each other.
The leather belt around the waist, the sword, the bow pouch, the quiver, etc. are all decorated with carved dragons and phoenixes, which are extremely exquisite.
Zhu Yijun's equipment has extremely low defense and extremely high weight. After careful weight loss by skilled craftsmen, there are still forty kilograms left. But for fifteen-year-old Zhu Yijun, who has been deliberately exercising and honing his strength for many years, this weight is nothing.
After Ciping was behind him, the officers and soldiers at the school field saw the emperor riding a tall and splendid white horse, covered with golden light, coming through the snow under the winter sun. He is truly extremely heroic and overbearing.
Zhu Yijun rode up to the front of the army and inspected the expedition troops. Then he climbed up to the throne on the high platform and signaled the swearing-in to begin.
The commander-in-chief, the Commander-in-Chief of the Zuo Army, the Prince's Taibao, and the Burmese General Liu Xian, after requesting the order, made a mobilization oath to all the troops. The basic idea was that we were about to go out to conquer the Toungoo Mangrui Ti that had invaded Yunnan, our country. We hoped that the officers and soldiers of all ministries would use it. Fight for victory with the courage of a horse-hide corpse, don't be greedy for life and be afraid of death, and endure humiliation and live in vain.
After returning from victory, the emperor will generously reward those who have made meritorious deeds; those who shrink back and disobey military orders will be punished by military law. The entire manuscript was written by Hanlin, and the words were elegant and parallel. Zhu Yijun estimated that even though all the soldiers had learned to read in two years, none of them could understand what Liu Xian said.
Subsequently, the Minister of War, on behalf of the emperor, awarded Liu Xian the commander's flag with the character "Liu", and the chief assistant of the cabinet, on behalf of the emperor, awarded him the royal command flag for killing generals below the commander-in-chief. After the flag presentation was over, the royal guards took Wang Ning into custody.
When all the troops saw the high-ranking officials in red robes tied to the flag, their hair disheveled and shaking like chaff, they felt secretly in their hearts. Everyone said that even such high-ranking officials were killed to sacrifice the flag. It seemed that the emperor attached great importance to the attack on Burma and that this battle must be a great victory.
After the banner with the character "Liu" was lowered, the Jin Yiwei asked for an order to carry out the execution. Zhu Yijun suddenly signaled at this time: "I want to say a few words to the troops."
Zhang Juzheng, Tan Lun and others all stared at each other. The emperor's appearance was unprecedented in the swearing-in ceremony, and they looked at each other for a while. Zhang Juzheng reacted quickly and hurriedly motioned for Liu Xian to come over and whispered a few instructions. Liu Xian hurriedly arranged for his troops to announce the decree: "The emperor has a decree. All the troops stand silently and listen!"
Zhu Yijun stood up from his throne, walked down the steps, mounted a white horse, and motioned for Liu Xian to follow him. Liu Xian quickly asked his soldiers to take his horse and mount it. Following the emperor, the two of them arrived in front of the army formation.
Zhu Yijun faced the soldiers, whose faces were flushed with cold. He was secretly satisfied when he saw that they were all wearing New Army cotton-padded clothes, leggings, and blankets on their backs. They were neatly packed and looked like the People's Liberation Army of later generations.
After quickly going over the draft he had made before, Zhu Yijun shouted: "All troops! This time we go out to kill our border people and attack our country because of their recklessness. I want to attack them for no reason! I'm telling you now, This is what I say from the bottom of my heart!"
"Two years ago, you entered the Beijing camp and became a new army. The training was hard and tiring. I know it! In the past two years, you have been ready to go out to prove your bravery. I also know it! Today, This glorious day has come!"
"Why are you here at the Thousand Days Military Training Institute? For my Chinese nation! What you bear today is not only my expectations, but also the honor of my people of the Ming Dynasty! The rise and fall of the country and the well-being of the people all depend on the steel that you hold tightly in your hands. On top of guns, birds and cannons! Your parents and family members are standing behind you and watching you go abroad to fight. They all know very well that what you conquer and capture is not only the heads of your enemies, but also the well-being of all people in the world! "
"I ask that you be decisive, brave, and obey orders as you have been trained every day! I hope that you will win and smash the Mangrui Ti army and Taungoo to pieces like a piece of tofu! I also hope that you can Be calm and cautious, don’t be fooled by your enemies, kill every enemy without being killed by them!”
"I look forward to your future. When you grow old, your grandchildren will ask you, 'Grandpa, what did you do when we fought in Burma?' At that time, you will stand proudly. , tell him, my grandson, that my grandpa followed the emperor’s order and beat him until he cried for his father! He beat the southwestern barbarians so hard that they dared not raise their heads. From then on, when they see my Chinese people, they are afraid in their bones!”
After saying this, Zhu Yijun, whose face was a little red, pulled out the sword from his waist and pointed it at it, and asked loudly: "We have all the troops. Do you have the confidence to destroy the Mangrui body and defeat the Dongyu Dynasty?"
Like a landslide, like a tsunami, like an ancient beast roaring loudly: "Yes!"
Zhu Yijun shouted again: "I didn't hear you clearly. Say it again. Do you have confidence?"
After hearing the order, the soldiers roared loudly: "Yes!"
Zhu Yijun waved the sword in his hand: "Destroy the Mangrui body and defeat the Dongyu Dynasty!"
"Destroy the Mang Rui Ti and defeat the Dongyu Dynasty!"
"Sacrifice the flag! Go to war!"
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