Electricity belonged to the second industrial revolution in its original history, which brought mankind into the electrical age, and it was until the mid-19th century.

Relatively speaking, what was triggered by the first industrial revolution was actually the mechanical revolution. Ancient people could understand this.

However, in ancient times, there was lightning.

Therefore, it would be much more difficult for Zhang Mingwei to open up the technology tree of electricity at this time of the Ming Dynasty than steam technology.

At this time, when he heard Emperor Chongzhen’s question, he smiled bitterly: “Your Majesty, it’s not difficult to make electricity, but it requires more people. For now, I can only squeeze out time to demonstrate an experiment on electricity to everyone. However, in terms of specific knowledge, it is still necessary to wait for the newly learned people to grow up!”

Zhang Mingwei was Duke Xingguo, commander of the Jinyiwei, dean of the Ming Dynasty Jingshi Academy, leader of various laboratories, lecturer of the Finance Department, etc. He was busy all day long, and he couldn't do everything. He could only give some instructions and then ask someone to do it.

Steam power is because many things are actually a layer of window paper. If he breaks this layer of window paper, someone will do it. For example, Song Yingxing actually knows a lot. As long as Zhang Mingwei gives a little advice, Song Yingxing can do it.

However, even Song Yingxing was also fooling around. Although Zhang Mingwei really wanted to do the power technology, the foundation was really too poor.

The same is true. Zhang Mingwei only took more than a year to give the students studying at the Ming Dynasty Jingshi Academy the first exam. Those who passed the exam will first promote some people to the laboratory as helpers, but they are actually interns and then learn through hands-on work.

Some people will become teachers in the academy to teach more students.

As for him, even his direct disciples, he didn't have much time to teach basic courses.

Fortunately, two yamen have been established, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Department of Finance, and those who are new to the school can be qualified to become officials without passing the imperial examination. Although they are technical officials, they are still officials after all, attracting many scholars from relatively poor families to embark on this path.

Of course, this is also a cheap plan. After that, it will still be regular and there must be scientific research.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was not disappointed when he heard Zhang Mingwei's words, and immediately said with great enthusiasm: "Okay, when will this test on electricity begin? I have promised several concubines to see what the hell is."

Hearing this, Zhang Mingwei thought for a while and said, "Then let's go tomorrow! But in the palace, Princess Kunxing can come and demonstrate. She has been following me and learned a lot. She just demonstrates it, but there is no problem!"

Emperor Chongzhen was not disappointed when he heard this. He immediately nodded with a smile and said, "I seem to be really foresighted. I will see the benefits of arranging my mother to the side of my husband!"

Zu Dashou next to him was stunned. Princess Kunxing was beside Duke Xingguo? What is the situation?

While he was thinking, Zhang Mingwei finally dealt with Emperor Chongzhen, so he turned around and looked at Zu Dashou, which was much older than he thought.

So he greeted Zu Dashou and said, "You are in Cao's camp and are in Han. You have passed the news several times, which are very useful. And this time, it also hit Jianlu's helpers heavily, further weakening Jianlu's power, and the contribution is even greater!"

Hearing the praise from Duke Xingguo, Zu Dashou hurriedly was humble.

Zhang Mingwei did not be polite to him, so he said to him: "About the situation in Liaodong, I will send a Jinyiwei lieutenant to come over tomorrow. You can go back today to sort it out and then talk about it in detail. We still have too little knowledge about the Jianlu in Liaodong!"

Because of the current strategy, although it is difficult for Jianlu to obtain information from the pass, it also makes it difficult for the pass to obtain information from Liaodong. This time, Zu Dashou escaped and lost the source of information from Liaodong.

Therefore, Zhang Mingwei's idea was to immediately understand the situation in Liaodong and see if he could take any targeted measures that could further weaken Jianlu.

In his plan, although he believed that the Ming Dynasty was stronger than Jianlu, he did not think about fighting Jianlu head-on because he could not make any mistakes!

The longer the time is, the stronger the strength of the Ming Dynasty will be, and the gap between it and Jianlu will be further widened. At that time, many people will be killed less.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally would not disagree with Zhang Mingwei's arrangements.

So things settled.

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Just before the scattered yamen, an imperial edict was passed to various yamen. The next morning, a grand court meeting was held.

In other words, the court meeting was opened in the Huangji Hall, and officials of all sizes and big and small in the capital had to attend.

This will surprised many people, wondering what happened?

They guessed that it might be a good news on the grassland. The emperor was happy to open the dynasty to discuss the merits and rewards!

By the next day, they found that they were indeed not wrong. At the beginning of the show, Emperor Chongzhen officially announced the great victory in the grassland and issued an order to reward him.

Although Zu Dashou had already received news from the emperor yesterday, he was still very excited when the official title was officially added.

At the same time, he was also staring at Duke Xingguo, not knowing what the thing Duke Xingguo was going to demonstrate was?

When the reward for the great victory of the grassland ended, just when the civil and military officials thought they were about to end the grand court discussion, they heard Emperor Chongzhen say to them: "There is another very important thing today. The sir is going to demonstrate a little electric test. Come on, please come with me and take a look!"

When everyone heard this, they became curious and turned their eyes to Duke Xingguo.

They all understood that the experiment of Duke Xingguo was going to be demonstrated in the grand court discussion, which was definitely a very important experiment.

However, many people were also a little worried. Just as before, Duke Xingguo took out a steam train from a kettle to boil water. If Duke Xingguo only demonstrated such things as boiling water, they were afraid that they would not be able to see anything. If the emperor was interested and asked what he had gained, it would be a big trouble!

When they were thinking this way, Zhang Mingwei ignored them and asked Liu Jin to bring things into the hall and set them up in front of the imperial court.

The officials behind the station could not see it, but the cabinet and the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the

I saw that the things that Duke Xingguo had put on were very strange. Many of them recognized the individual things, including copper wire, iron bars, magnets, etc., but why are these things all weird? What is the use of combining them like this?

Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the imperial table, was also very curious. He was a little confused. Can such things be used to create electricity? Just like lightning in the sky?

Zhang Mingwei personally operated it, and after setting it up, he smiled at Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, am I going to start now?"

"Sir, start quickly, I can't wait!" Emperor Chongzhen urged with a smile when he heard this.

So, Zhang Mingwei picked up something, signaled, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this is an iron rod wrapped in copper wire. It has no magnetism and cannot absorb iron, right?"

"Of course!" Emperor Chongzhen answered without hesitation when he heard this. However, after he finished speaking, he thought for a while, then stood up again, walked towards Zhang Mingwei and said, "I'll take a look at what first?"

Zhang Mingwei was fiddling with him, and no one thought about whether this thing was dangerous. Therefore, he just watched Emperor Chongzhen and Duke Xingguo interact curiously. The people standing in the back row were still looking at him with their necks stretched out.

"Your Majesty, please let me know!" Zhang Mingwei responded with a smile when he saw it.

By the time he finished speaking, Emperor Chongzhen had already walked to him, took the iron rod wrapped in copper wire in his hand, and observed it carefully, and found that nothing special, so he walked to the table where the objects were placed, came to a pile of small iron pieces, and tried to get close, but did not find any magnetism!

So he smiled and said, "It's true that there is no magnetism and cannot absorb iron."

When he said this, he picked up a magnet and touched the pile of small iron pieces, and they were immediately sucked onto the magnet. This proved that the pile of small iron pieces were indeed iron sheets and could be attracted by the magnets.

So, the things were returned to Zhang Mingwei, and the small iron piece was also returned to its original place with the help of Wang Chengen.

Zu Dashou looked at this scene with a little duke of shock. One was the powerful Duke Xingguo, the current emperor, and the other was the eunuch, the chief of the Sili Supervisor, known as the inner minister. The three of them made this demonstration?

If someone had told him this before, he would never believe it. After all, the emperor wanted to be majestic, and Duke Xingguo and the eunuchs in charge of the seal of the company should also be majestic, right? He actually did it himself?

However, the others did not have such thoughts as he did, because before they knew it, they had already become accustomed to it. They knew that their emperor had been led by this Duke Xingguo.

At this time, they just stared at Duke Xingguo without blinking. The experiment was so solemnly placed in the Huangji Palace, but it was still in the grand court discussion. This experiment was absolutely extraordinary and we must read it carefully.

Then Zhang Mingwei looked at Emperor Chongzhen first, then glanced at the civil and military officials of the Huangji Palace, and then smiled and said, "Now, I want this non-magnetic iron rod to be magnetic and can absorb iron."

After saying that, he nodded to his assistant Liu Jin and signaled him to take action.

So Liu Jin immediately went over, walked to a strange object, held a handle and shook it.

The people in the hall saw the wheel between two large magnets and began to rotate.

Then they all stared at Zhang Mingwei, but saw no changes.
Chapter completed!