Chapter 51                                                             �

Wang Su brought great surprise to Zhou Mengchen.

However, other experimental projects are not as big as that.

Zhou Mengchen led Wu Tinghan to see the firearm project, leather tanning project, wool treatment project, etc.

In fact, to be honest, today's research is very primitive. There are only three or five people in each project. Just like a leather tanning project. In fact, there is no need to develop any new technology, but to organize the original technology.

After all, the history of tanning leather has been around for one or two thousand years. The ancients naturally had certain rules. It was just that many formulas were either kept confidential or were just nagging. It was not conducive to mass production at all. Moreover, Zhou Mengchen also noticed the fur business.

This is the biggest business beyond the livestock business.

However, in Datong, it is initially processed and rarely made into ready-made garments. They are sold in semi-finished products.

Of course, there are many top-quality fox furs. They are not famous masters who dare not take action. But they are more of the consumption habits of this era. There are very few ready-to-wear ones.

However, Zhou Mengchen still wanted to keep the leather deep processing industry in Datong. First, Datong has its own unique advantages. Second, Zhou Mengchen always felt that he should leave something for the people of Datong.

In fact, Zhou Mengchen also adhered to the idea of ​​sorting out the country's past in the leather tanning project.

He actually found that many technologies and craftsmanship in the Ming Dynasty were not behind. It can even be said to be very exquisite. Some masters were all the artists in later generations. Zhou Mengchen had previously thought that the industrial revolution was new technology.

However, after he deeply understood this era and participated in the research and development of steel and artillery steam engines, he found a problem. That is, any new technology is based on the foundation of the old technology. Zhou Mengchen was sure that the steam engine he built was very different from the steam engines of the British in terms of specific processes. Even if the structure was the same, the process was completely different.

This is the greatest wealth passed down from generation to generation by Chinese ancestors and craftsmen.

Zhou Mengchen didn't know what achievements Hu Shi had in sorting out the country's past. Zhou Mengchen's sorting out the country's past is not so much a technical investigation than a country's past. The previous technology was accurately formed to form a process file. And all the processes were touched, and it was best to form a set of technical manuals. When you want to use it in the future, you would also be able to query it so that you would not repeat the wheel.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen can only think about it now. Do something within his ability. Other things can only be discussed in the future.

Zhou Mengchen introduced these projects to Wu Tinghan one by one.

In fact, Wu Tinghan has some understanding of these specific technical issues, but some do not understand them. He doesn’t know what the benefits are. But seeing the students in their prime, there is a rolling hot stream in Wu Tinghan’s heart.

It’s nothing more. All the students who stay here for the experiment are not personal disciples of each tutor. They are also included in the alternative. It is impossible for ordinary people to receive this treatment. Not to mention anything else, many experiments cost dozens, hundreds, or even over a thousand taels.

This money is not a small amount. If you don't trust it, you can't let them come here.

In other words, these people are all from the direct sect of Qixue. Their teachers are either Zhou Mengchen's disciples, Zhou Mengchen's outer disciples, Li Shizhen's brothers, and people whom Wu Tinghan sent them to see them.

They are all direct descendants of Qi and the future of Qi.

This is the happiest thing for Wu Tinghan.

He is old and is still in the evening. As a master of Qi, he never believes in the sayings of ghosts and gods. He is not afraid of death. The only thing he can't let go is the inheritance of the Wang Sect lineage. Now he has seen dozens of students here, each full of energy.

These alone are more than those he trained in Wuwei.

How could he be unhappy? Seeing this, he let go of the last hint of grudge in his heart. Now Qixue is a great situation and cannot be destroyed. If he and Zhou Mengchen have a disagreement on academic views today, Qixue will be divided first. Wu Tinghan said in his heart: "Stop it, let it go, and it will take a thousand years to know right or wrong. If you are not satisfied with your life, why worry about a thousand years?"

Zhou Mengchen sent Wu Tinghan to the guest room, but Wu Tinghan did not let Zhou Mengchen go. He said, "Tell me, you should use the burning experiment."

Zhou Mengchen looked at the sky and said, "It's too late. Why don't you talk about it tomorrow."

Wu Tinghan's old face turned bright and his eyes shone. He said, "No, my old man will not die for a while. Now this matter has been in my mind. If you don't say it, you will suffocate me to death."

"Speak first and feel at ease."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Okay. Let's accompany my senior brother."

Wu Tinghan immediately asked someone to hold the lights, so under the dim light, Zhou Mengchen and Wu Tinghan began to talk.

This time it was Wu Tinghan asking, and Zhou Mengchen answered again.

Wang Tingxiang's thoughts were very complicated. Generally speaking, although the Qi-based theory is used as the context, there are many other things, such as the economic idea that is rich in the people, the gradual reform idea that eliminates the accumulated problems, etc. Zhou Mengchen puts these political content aside from the beginning.

It is based on the theory of qi, and several experiments such as combustion experiments, which prove that the whole world is formed by the gathering and dispersion of qi. If the accumulation of qi is large, it is solid, followed by liquid, and then it is gas. Then the theory of energy conservation hypothesis is extended from the theory of qi, but there is no way to prove it yet.

Then Zhou Mengchen's own astronomy achievements were included and he proposed active ideas to oppose the tranquility of Neo-Confucianism.

Zhou Mengchen also proposed climate information collected by the Imperial Heavenly Supervision to draw a table of changes in meteorological conditions in ancient and modern times to prove that Wang Tingxiang's Tao is indefinite and is better than ancient historical views.

Overall, Zhou Mengchen did not seem to have added his own ideas to his thoughts.

They are all signs that hold Wang Tingxiang high. These ideas can be found in Wang Tingxiang's thoughts.

However, the explanation and proof below are completely different. They are based entirely on scientific logic or some social disciplines. In short, every word is recorded. Of course, some things have been prepared by Zhou Mengchen. Some have not been prepared yet. For example, the climate information of the Imperial Heaven Crime above.

This is not difficult to do. After all, although Zhou Mengchen is no longer in the Imperial Heaven Supervisory, there are disciples in it. The Xinli has been promulgated. Although Zhou Mengchen has not participated in it completely. But everyone knows that the dominant ideas of the Xinli are all Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen's status in the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau is simply the founder of all the officials of the Imperial Heaven Supervision Bureau.

There are a lot of astronomical materials in the Imperial Heavenly Prison, even from the Yuan, Song and Tang dynasties. But this is a hard work. However, someone will definitely do it.

Wu Tinghan looked a little dazed when he heard this.

He was not a person without knowledge. He could see at a glance that Zhou Mengchen was not Wang Tingxiang's disciple. His relationship with Wang Tingxiang was like the relationship between Zhu Xi and Confucius. If Confucius was reborn in the ground and read what Zhu Xi wrote, I don't know if he was angry or raised his fist as big as a casserole and cleaned up the portal.

The relationship between Zhou Mengchen and Wang Tingxiang is the same now. Although they both look at the same thing and have the same ideas and opinions, they seem to have the same compositions with the same title but completely different contents. It cannot be said that there is no academic inheritance relationship between Zhou Mengchen and Wang Tingxiang. But Wang Tingxiang seems to be the one who put forward the guess. Zhou Mengchen is the one who solves the guess. Only they themselves know how big the relationship is.

Wu Tinghan was silent for a while and said in his heart: "Stop it, even if the master heard this, he would only sigh that the Yangtze River pushed the previous waves. Why should I be a villain in vain? In the future, my mentor will have a place in history books. It is probably Chang Hong and Shi Xiang to Confucius. If Junior Brother Zhou had not been busy with official duties and had a weak skill in the classics, I would not need me."

According to legend, both Shi and Xiang were from Confucius' teachers. If there was no such relationship, who would have known these two people?

Wu Tinghan asked, "I am going to write books and biography in the general way. I will adopt these views. When the time comes, it will be written by you and my brothers. What do you think is the name of this book?"

"Let's explore the source of Qi." Zhou Mengchen said: "Looking back to the origin, and repel evil sayings to face the sound and see the sound."
Chapter completed!