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The first steam engine that Li Yi and others built based on Qin Mu's drawings actually had many flaws. There were many places where steam leaked and the power was not strong. When one person pulled the flywheel hard, the cylinder leaked everywhere and the piston also pushed. No more.
But no matter what, it is the difference between having and not having it. The existing problems can be solved by slowly grinding them.
Qin Mu took 20,000 taels of silver from Han Zanzhou's book sales as investment and asked Li Yi to open a steam engine manufacturing factory. Li Yi's name is attached, but he, the king of a country, is the big boss behind the scenes.
If this move was known to the imperial officials, they would definitely say that he was competing for the interests of the people;
Qin Mu doesn't care about so much, he wants to make money first. He is like a miser now. Of the 9 million taels donated by the Zheng family, he only gave 2 million taels to the national treasury, and he legitimately took the remaining 7 million taels into the inner treasury. , this is what the Zheng family donated to this king to build the palace. It’s not bad to give you two million taels...
Qin Mu plans to save a large amount of money and then provide five years of compulsory education in Da Qin. There are too few children who can study these days. If most children in Qin can study for five years, it will improve the quality of Da Qin's population. Played an immeasurable role.
If a country wants to develop, talent comes first. And talents come from education.
Compulsory education in the name of the royal family. Once this can be implemented, the reputation of the royal family will surely reach an unprecedented height. By then, I wonder who will dare to have different intentions and who will dare to rebel
When Qin Mu returned to Hangzhou, he received exciting news. Xiang Xi, who had volunteered himself last time, had successfully built a smelting blast furnace in Ma'an Mountain. The smelting furnace he built not only had a fast smelting speed, but also had a high furnace temperature. The quality of steel has been greatly improved.
Later, according to Qin Mu's instructions, coal was added during smelting. After constantly adjusting the proportions and trying constantly, carbon steel was finally made. This kind of carbon steel has high hardness and high strength, which is definitely not comparable to the iron that was made before.
Qin Mu immediately sent an order to Song Yingxing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, to use this carbon steel to make gun barrels and cannon barrels for testing.
He was in a good mood and asked Han Zanzhou: "Old Han, Daqin Times has published a reward for so long, but no one can improve the textile machine?"
The smile on Han Zanzhou's face condensed. He bowed and replied: "Back to King Qin, not yet. How about I ask someone to publish the reward in another issue?"
"Well, if you publish it for ten consecutive issues, I won't believe it. There are so many talented people in our country, Qin, but no one can improve the textile machine."
It's not that Qin Mu is impatient. The steam engine has come out, but the textile loom cannot be improved. Are steam engines used to drive those handlooms
It's a pity that Jenny Textile Machine was not introduced in the textbooks of his previous life. Qin Mu had no impression of it anyway.
Qin Mu is very proud of the spring breeze these days, but Sima Kai is very haggard. In order to compile the mathematics textbooks Qin Mu wanted as soon as possible, he worked day and night and almost became myopic.
However, he has recently found a few people who are talented in mathematics:
Xue Fengzuo, forty-seven years old. A native of Yidu, Shandong.
Li Tingji, named Zijin, is twenty-five years old. A native of Zhecheng County, Henan Province.
Wang Xichan, 20 years old, is from Wujiang, Jiangsu.
Du Zhgeng, named Duanfu, was 24 years old and a native of Zhecheng, Henan.
Gu Dashen, thirty-two years old, had the courtesy name Zhenzhi. He not only studied mathematics, but was also good at poetry and prose, and was good at painting landscapes. What was even more rare was that he was also good at water conservancy and had great insight in water control. He was a rare multi-faceted person. Talent.
After the unremitting efforts of these people, when the ship arrived in Hangzhou, Sima Kai finally took out a mathematics enlightenment textbook. As soon as Qin Mu opened it, he couldn't help but frowned. It was densely packed with words connected to each other.
This is an enlightenment textbook. How long do you want children to spend before they understand it
Sima Kai had been working day and night for so long, but as soon as he finished the first draft, King Qin frowned. This meant that King Qin was not satisfied. King Qin was not satisfied, and the consequences would be serious...
"King Qin, if there is anything wrong, if there is anything wrong, I can just change it."
"It's really inappropriate."
Qin Mu's words made Sima Kai, Xue Fengzuo, Li Tingji, Wang Xichan, Du Zhigeng, and Gu Dashen very frustrated. The old man Yang Shen next to him was there with a smile on his lips;
Comrade Jin Lei and Jin Gongnan, a concubine, did things that had nothing to do with themselves and took pleasure in others' misfortune. Qin Mu caught a glimpse of his attitude from the corner of his eye and said, "Ahem, Jin Lei, grind the ink."
"Uh... ... yes." Comrade Jin Gongnan looked embarrassed and hurriedly came over to polish the ink.
This time it was Sima Kai's turn to have some fun. However, he still knew things and took the initiative to help Qin Mu lay out the paper.
Qin Mu dipped his pen in ink, and with a few swipes, he wrote down the Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then the symbols +-x÷. On the occasion, he also listed several mathematical formulas for Sima Kai, Xue Fengzuo and others to see.
"The numbers in our dynasty have many strokes, which is not conducive to counting. Each of these Arabic numerals is written in one stroke, which is much more convenient and faster when counting and calculating a large number. In the future, enlightenment textbooks will popularize these writing methods, as well as these addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. The symbols are also useful for written calculations and should be popularized..."
Qin Mu finally made the move. ;:,? ! ""... I also wrote down these punctuation marks, and said while writing: "For a long time, the hyphenation of our dynasty has been a problem for many people. These are symbols to assist in writing and are used to express Pauses, tone, and the nature and function of words..."
Now even Yang Shen, who was in the presence of the old god, couldn't sit still. He came over and asked: "King Qin, my Chinese writing is broad and profound, why do I need these?"
What kind of bullshit is this? The knowledge of our ancestors is so extensive and profound that it is even more necessary to find out the punctuation marks. There is not a single punctuation mark in a book, and just hyphenation is a headache.
Qin Mu glanced at him, and then wrote down a line: People can follow it but not know it.
"Look, I'll show you these ten short words of saint."
Qin Mu then wrote separately:
"If the people can do it, let them follow it; if it doesn't do it, let them know it."
"The people can follow it, but they cannot know it."
"As you can see, the same sentence has different interpretations and completely opposite meanings. The first interpretation means that if the people are law-abiding and kind, let them act independently without too many restrictions. If the people are ignorant and violent, they must be punished and educated. He knows his fault.
The second method of judgment means that people should be left alone, and they should not be allowed to know too much.
Everyone in this world has different knowledge and different word-breaking abilities. The same sentence has many different meanings due to different word-breaking methods;
In the study of sages, it is precisely because of inaccurate hyphenation in some places that the sages’ meanings have been misinterpreted, so that there are many contradictions in the Analects of Confucius;
If the sage had used such punctuation marks to break words when he originally wrote the book, would there still be many misinterpretations of the sage's teachings? As the saying goes, it is not too late to make up for the situation before it is too late. I decided to immediately promote these punctuation marks of judgment;
All official texts from now on must be hyphenated with punctuation marks. This king has no intention of discussing this with you. This is an imperial decree. "
Yang Shen and others were all people with extraordinary knowledge, but Qin Mu had no intention of discussing this matter with them, and immediately decided to implement the decree. Several people looked at me, and I looked at you, their throats were surging, and their expressions were different.
Qin Mu laughed and said: "When you accept new things, you will inevitably have some resistance. Just get used to it. It's just a few punctuation marks. This is beneficial to reading and hyphenation. If any of you If you dare to object, just go down to the river and swim back and forth, and then come back to object after you wake up.”
Others did not speak, but Gu Dashen said first: "The move of King Qin, in my opinion, is really a stroke of genius. With these punctuation marks, from now on, you only need to read characters and do not need to learn hyphenation. It will be of great benefit to children's reading and writing." Wisdom, I can't wait for the unexpected, I admire you."
Well, Gu Dashen is a talented guy, and his flattering skills are not bad either. Then Xue Fengzuo, Li Tingji, Wang Xichan, Du Zhigeng and others also praised him, saying that King Qin's initiative was unprecedented and would be of lasting benefit.
Well, they are all math geniuses who know when to add and when to subtract.
Qin Mu laughed again, and then asked Han Zanzhou to bring a copy of "The Analects of Confucius". He immediately broke off a few pages with punctuation marks, and then explained the usage and meaning of those punctuation marks one by one;
"Old Han, publish this in the Daqin Times, and then print it in the Chengdi Newspaper, and distribute it to officials in various ministries and local yamen, so that all officials can learn from it. From now on, all memorials must be punctuated and hyphenated. After March, all memorials will be written. If the writing is incorrect, my salary will be deducted."
Han Zanzhou seemed to have seen countless officials of the Qin Dynasty painstakingly studying these little earthworms. He was secretly happy and smiled like a Maitreya Buddha: "Yes, I will find a workshop to have it printed when I arrive in Hangzhou."
Qin Mu suddenly remembered something and said: "Wait a minute, there is another thing. I don't know who took the wrong medicine at the beginning and made a pound of sixteen taels. Change it. This must be changed. From now on, everything will be changed." It’s ten taels per catty, so it’s easy to calculate.”
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