The place to eat with Wang Zheng and Xiong Mingyu is set in the professor's cafeteria.

In terms of shape, this place is no different from the university cafeteria in later generations. However, because of the custom of not talking about food, the entire dining process seems a bit dull. Everyone focuses on the food table in front of them, and stops chopsticks after the person with the highest status finishes eating.

Zhu Cixuan was used to this. When everyone had finished eating, he placed the chopsticks horizontally, indicating that he had finished his meal. The waiter in the cafeteria came over and removed the food table, presented clean water for rinsing his mouth, and then served tea and refreshments. This meant that the meal was over and he could speak.

"That's Xue Shuyan, right?" Zhu Cixuan saw the young man who was with him in the last seat. Although he had only met once, he was not easily forgotten because of the extremely high profits brought by the glass factory.

"It's the empress." Xue Shuyan quickly stood up and bowed.

As a guest, it is often just a decoration, but I didn’t expect to enjoy the treatment of the protagonist.

"Aren't you transferred to the Ministry of Works as the head of the Ministry?" Zhu Cixuan asked with a smile.

"When you come back to your highness, I am a visiting professor at Jingshi University. Today I will teach you experimental methods to my annual student." Xue Shuyan was the first person to systematically classify experiments and wrote a booklet, which won the favor of the crown prince.

Although this booklet has become a collection of nonsense in the mouths of some sarcastic people, it does conform to the characteristics of scientific experiments: experiments are nothing more than achieving different results under different conditions, heating, adding pressure and reducing pressure, recording measurement results, and a lot of work can be operated by students.

Xue Shuyan didn't think it was strange, and even used these sarcastic words as memory tips to teach students. When he learned that Song Yingxing was studying chemistry in Jiangnan, he said bluntly: "There is no need to design chemical experiments, just throw anything into a beaker." Although the words were biased, they were also vivid, and the method of throwing was more particular.

"Not bad," Zhu Cixuan said, "Summary of phenomena, explore principles, and summarize and summarize. Your experimental methodology and Mr. Xiong's formula summary are all valuable assets of the Ming Dynasty. They must be passed on to every student."

Everyone said they were taught.

Zhu Cilang said a few more words to Fang Yizhi, but it was about the sad future of King Ding.

Even though he was able to understand both Chinese and Western wisdom, he was powerless to do anything about it, so he could only accuse the crown prince.

Duan didn't know why Zhu Cilang wanted to discuss this with Fang Yizhi, or the female official around her told her: Fang Yizhi was once the teacher of King Ding and King Yong.

In Duan's eyes, King Yong, who loves military, was also unrestrained. He immediately labeled Fang Yizhi as "not strict in teaching, unreliable". He thought that Professor Fang would never let his son enlighten him in the future.

"Mr. Tang and the others are not here to eat?" Zhu Cixuan asked again.

Wang Yongshun replied: "Your Highness, several professors Taixi do not eat in the cafeteria due to religious reasons. They are all served by cooking vegetarian dishes in small kitchens."

Zhu Cixuan heard that some Catholic clergy fasted on Friday and did not eat meat and fish, and thought that the same would be true for those who were Tang Johnson, so he did not ask in detail.

The truth is that the food in the cafeteria is too rich. The professor’s typical meal is six dishes and one soup. The meal includes fish and meat, and meat and vegetables.

If there is any special need, just inform me one day in advance.

This is too extravagant for the Jesuit priests who tend to practice poverty, so they can only ask for "special offer".

"Can you eat hot rice anytime throughout the day?" Zhu Cixuan asked.

"Go back to Your Highness, that's exactly what it is." Wang Yongshun said: "Even late at night, the food is always hot in the cafeteria."

"You can also prepare some pastries and snacks so that the professors can cure their hunger at any time." Zhu Cixuan said.

Everyone thanked Your Highness for his thoughtful consideration. No one of the scholars of all generations could be the right of the crown prince. However, Zhu Cilang never forgot that Jingshi University is actually a royal private university, with expenses paid by himself and the income is also an internal transportation database.

Jingshi University has not yet shown its economic value, but as the application and promotion of steam engines are ready to be promoted, the time for marketization will not be too far away. Of course, this promotion does not refer to rolling stocks, but instead replaces several condensing and pumping steam engines that the Ming Dynasty already has to improve the mining efficiency. Moreover, since the flywheel can be rotated, it will not be too difficult to use the steam engine to promote the blower in steel smelting.

As for further applications, it is necessary to collect the needs of senior personnel in various industries after they are published in newspapers and journals.

It makes sense that the steam engine is called "universal power" by Engels.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cilang was in a much better mood than before. Thinking about it ten years after Watt's improved steam engine was finalized, someone thought of putting the steam engine on the car. From this point of view, the scientists of the Ming Dynasty took two steps in one step, and their achievements should not be underestimated.

Wang Zheng was exactly the opposite of Zhu Cilang.

He was originally quite excited about the achievements he had achieved, especially his most proud invention of "farming on behalf of others". If he could use the huge power of a steam engine, he could farm hundreds of acres a day without requiring too much manpower. However, after exploring the prince's words, he found that the prince actually hoped that a machine could have the strength of hundreds, or even thousands of good horses. This expectation was inevitably too disparate from reality.

Nowadays, the steam engine can produce about three or five horses and it is almost the same, but it is only for the longevity. If you consider the unexpected situations that occur from time to time, even the advantage of longevity cannot be considered.

Since there is no problem with the idea, it has actually been made, what is the gap?

Wang Zheng was puzzled. After the crown prince left, he took his son to various workshops for processing parts to inspect parts to check parts tolerances.

Wang Yongshun couldn't bear it when he saw his father so hard. Unfortunately, he did not have Wang Zheng's talent, Song Yingxing's wild imagination, and Fang Yizhi's curiosity and enthusiasm for museums... The lack of these qualities made it difficult for him to become a great scientist through hard work.

However, as the saying goes, bystanders are clear, Wang Yongshun is very clear that the performance of the steam engines produced by the Ming Dynasty so far has deviations. Even the machines produced by the same design plan are different, and some even collapse directly.

What is the reason for this?

The master's skills are different.

Wang Yongshun suddenly thought of artillery.

The requirements for that thing are much stricter than that of a steam engine, otherwise it will easily kill one's own people.

It is said that someone in the artillery factory has improved the existing machine tools to make it more precise, which is obviously beneficial to the cylinders that make steam engines. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen the machine. If it can be proved that the quality of the cylinder does affect efficiency - this is almost certain, then the next step is to improve the precision of the boring machine rather than to improve the steam engine.

"Father, why don't we contact the artillery factory? It can be used to deal with iron. Maybe they are even more adept at dealing with iron." Wang Yongshun said.

Wang Zheng thought about it: If there is no problem in design, then the problem can be made up for only from the process. He said: "The gun factory has a higher level of confidentiality than the steam engine. You can report it to Your Highness first to see if you can learn it."

Wang Yong followed suit, but was thinking about another question in his mind: If subtle deviations will lead to obvious differences, what are the rules to follow? This seems to be a problem in mathematics?

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Zhu Cixuan came out of the cafeteria and only brought a few guards to walk in Tsinghua Garden with the Crown Princess. Duan was covered with a veil and was a little worried about being regarded as an alien. Unexpectedly, Beijing had already suffered from wind and sand, and many people would wear veils when they went to the streets. There were many men in this era paying more attention to appearance than women, so there were naturally many people wearing veils.

Zhu Cixuan walked around and said, "Just from the forest garden, it looks much better here than in the palace."

For safety reasons, large tall trees are not allowed to appear in the palace. However, people are ultimately part of nature, and their yearning for green forests is inherent and they cannot be obtained even if they are forcibly divided.

"If Your Highness is happy, I will plant some trees in Zhongcui Palace in the future." Duan said: "When I was in Shandong, I planted a small tree with my sister, and now I don't know how old it has grown."

"Don't say it out," Zhu Cilang smiled, "otherwise, Shandong would not know how many 'Crown Princess hand-planted trees' would have to plant."

Duan smiled and said, "Your Highness, why are there no female students in Jingshi University?"

This asked Zhu Cilang's soreness. He said: "Not to mention college, there are few women in rural schools. Rich and noble families do not need to let their children come out to study. After ordinary women finish primary school, they will reach the age of getting married and rarely go further."

What a waste of human resources for the whole society!

Zhu Cilang felt that this was the biggest blow today.

Duan did not realize it and asked again: "Your Highness, I have always been curious. Do those female government officials have men under their command?"

"Of course there are, and there are quite a few." Zhu Cilang paused and said: "The female officials are eye-catching, but there are only a thousand female government officials in the court, and the number of people who are selected for the exam every year is decreasing year by year. It is just a drop in the 160,000 officials in the Ming Dynasty."

"Aren't those male officials under the position of female officials very awkward?" Duan continued to ask curiously.

"They have to make a choice between awkwardness and a future." Zhu Cixuan raised his lips: "And this awkwardness is just a matter of saying. When the Wu family usurped the Li Tang Dynasty, the people in the world served the heroine, but they did not see all the Tang people living in seclusion. Didn't the officials still take their salaries and make the heroine happy with good intentions?"

"There was a disaster in the temple in the previous dynasty, and I'm afraid someone would resist the official." Duan said.

"Are you admonishing me?" Zhu Cixuan suddenly smiled.

"I don't dare..." Duan said in his heart: I just want to find some topics, why can't I say anything? Can I still chat happily?

Zhu Cilang did not go into it in depth. He saw two men wearing dark Confucian robes, square scarves, and veils on their faces walking towards him.

Just looking at the steps of these two people, you will know that they are not wise people and appear rude and impatient.

The visitors were Johnson Chan and Li Lisi.
Chapter completed!