Boyle said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I not only know nitric acid, I also know sulfuric acid, and I also know the methods of preparing nitric acid and sulfuric acid. If Your Majesty the Emperor needs it, I can prepare it immediately."

Chongzhen smiled and said: "No, no, no, what I need is not nitric acid, but nitrocellulose."

"Nitrocellulose?" Another unheard term directly stumped the Latin translator.

"Plant fiber is a kind of fiber." Chongzhen pointed to the casual clothes on his body, "Plant tissue."

The Latin translator was a businessman from Guangdong. Because he was exposed to metallurgical knowledge, he could translate nitric acid, sulfuric acid or fulvic acid, but he really didn't know what fibrous tissue was.

Chongzhen talked for a long time and the translator still didn't understand, so he immediately stopped Chongzhen.

There is indeed a huge gap between professional foreign languages ​​and daily foreign languages, which is a bit troublesome.

"Come on." Chongzhen said with a dark face at that moment, "Tell him to learn the Ming Dynasty Mandarin within a year, and then compile a set of chemistry textbooks for the Imperial College based on chemistry textbooks from various European universities, and then compile a set of junior textbooks.

"

Of course, the university textbooks are for the further study of the scholars of the Imperial College. The elementary textbooks are provided to the talented students from various prefectural and county schools. The content in the textbooks will be tested in the future Imperial College Examination.

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Boyle nodded repeatedly and asked a few questions in a low voice.

The interpreter then asked Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Mr. Boyle said that there is no problem in learning Ming Dynasty Mandarin and writing textbooks, but can he be retained as a professor?"

"Professor?" Chongzhen slapped his forehead and said speechlessly, "He is the dean of chemistry. Of course he is a professor. How can a lecturer be the dean of the college?"

After listening to the interpreter's translation, Boyle was overjoyed.

"God, your merciful and generous Emperor, please let me say something..."

"You should seize the time to learn Chinese and the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty." Chongzhen interrupted Boyle. It seems that every civilization and every race has flatterers. Of course, another way of saying it can also be said to be high emotional intelligence.

The remaining 34 scholars, those studying medicine, were assigned to the medical school.

Others are assigned to be professors in the schools of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Several Western scholars, including those who were good at theology, were assigned to the School of Mathematics, the School of Physics, and the School of Chemistry to serve as assistants to Pascal and Boyle.

It is impossible to establish a seminary without establishing a seminary.

On the other hand, Boymig tried his best to persuade him to establish a seminary in the Imperial College to specialize in the study of theology and God.

Chongzhen was not moved at all. Eastern gods were all born out of mortals, so what is God? Do we need to set up a special seminary to study him?

It is quite necessary to have a College of Chinese Studies and a College of History.

Let’s go back and narrow down the candidates and select a suitable dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a dean of the School of History.

Add a Latin School, a Geography School, and an Astronomy School, and the disciplines will be complete, and the Imperial College will truly become a comprehensive university.

With this comprehensive university, the foundation of natural sciences has been established.

Within ten or twenty years, Ming Dynasty's achievements in various fields of natural science will definitely not be comparable to those of Europe, but it is difficult to say after thirty or fifty years.

After all, Ming Dynasty had greater support for academic research.

After all, it only took a short time for natural science to develop rapidly in Europe, and its achievements were limited.

Moreover, the academic environment in the Ming Dynasty was better than that in Europe, because Europe was still constrained by stubborn forces including the church, but the Ming Dynasty had no such constraints.

Because Ming Dynasty's Neo-Confucianism will soon be replaced by Xinxue.

Some Taoist scholars are still fantasizing about counterattacks, but Chongzhen knows that they have lost from the beginning, because Xinxue has been deeply bound to industry and commerce through concepts such as personality equality and gender equality, and has not seen most of today's handicrafts.

Are workshops starting to hire a large number of female workers?

Just relying on this point, the Taoist teacher who still advocates that women should not leave the house will be overthrown by capital. Can the Taoist teacher's words be better than capital?

In fact, there are already signs of this.

Because not long after the New Year, Nanjing had three more newspapers.

The Ming Dynasty Merchant Newspaper, the Ming Dynasty Opera Newspaper, and the Ming Dynasty Newspaper.

From the names of these three newspapers, we can see that the newspapers are highly targeted.

However, as soon as these three newspapers came out, they immediately joined the battle between Neo-Confucianism and Xinxue, and launched a frantic attack on Neo-Confucianism supported by Hanlin Times with full firepower.

The debate between Royal Times and Hanlin Daily is an upright academic debate.

However, the Shangjia Bao, the Xiqu Bao and the Xiqu Bao Bao went all the way to launch personal attacks on the Taoists who wrote articles criticizing Yangming's Xinxue in the Hanlin Daily, and the methods of attack were also various.

Later it was said that this Taoist gentleman had an affair with his daughter-in-law and had a child.

After a while, they said that the Taoist gentleman was a beast. He looked sanctimonious on the surface, but secretly he was a male thief and a female prostitute, sleeping with all the wives and concubines of the younger generations of the same clan.

He even spared no one who was a good preacher.

Doesn’t Neo-Confucianism advocate the preservation of natural principles and the destruction of human desires? These tabloids specifically focused on this point and attacked the Taoist teachers who admired Neo-Confucianism as hypocrites who do one thing to their faces and another behind their backs.

Suddenly, all the Taoist teachers who supported Neo-Confucianism were in danger.

This is actually the same as the smear campaign by trolls from another time and space. Although it is very despicable, it is really effective because many Taoist teachers also have unclean bottoms.

So now Neo-Confucianism is almost overwhelmed.

While thinking about it, the craftsman had already dismantled the steam engine.

After seeing the internal structure of the steam engine, or to be precise, seeing the internal structure of the cylinder, Western scholars such as Pascal and Boyle showed a look of astonishment.

Obviously, Pascal and the others had understood the principles of the steam engine.

To put it bluntly, the principle of the steam engine is actually very simple, and it is easier to understand for scientists like Pascal and Boyle who have considerable scientific literacy.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing this, Chongzhen asked Fang Yizhi and others to bring out the drawings.

Seeing the drawings, Pascal and others seemed to have discovered a new toy.

"Your Majesty, what you just saw was just a verification machine. Is this a real steam engine?"

Pascal understood it immediately and asked enthusiastically: "Your Majesty, can we participate?"

"Of course." Chongzhen agreed. Anyway, as long as these scholars came to the Ming Dynasty, they would not be able to return to Europe, so there was no need to worry about leaking secrets. Moreover, Fang Yizhi, Song Yingxing and others also had certain scientific literacy and could communicate with Pascal and Boyle.

It is also easier to learn, and it will also help Pascal and others master Chinese as soon as possible.

Of course, Chongzhen himself would also participate in the manufacture of steam engines as much as possible.

If nothing else happens, there will be no war in the next year or even two years.

Chongzhen decided to use these two years to open up the Ming Dynasty's technology tree as much as possible. First, steam engines must be put into use, and secondly, various machine tools must be built.

Then the smokeless gunpowder must be obtained.

Then rifled guns must be equipped in small quantities.

Ammonium nitrate must also be produced as much as possible.

With ammonium nitrate, Ming Dynasty no longer has to worry about food shortages.

If possible, mercury fulminate must also be researched, so that the military technology of the Ming Dynasty can be completely improved, and it can cause a crushing dimensionality reduction blow to the surrounding barbarians.

The flintlock gun alone can hardly be said to be a dimensionality reduction strike.

That's all Chongzhen can think of for the time being.

…

But what is the saying?

If nothing else, an accident will happen soon.

Accidents came as they came, and two of them came at once.

Wang Chengen and Xu Yingwei came over almost at the same time.

After finding a corner, Chongzhen asked: "What happened?"

Xu Yingwei then said to Wang Chengen: "My lord, please speak to the Holy One first."

Wang Chengen took out a wax pill from his sleeve and handed it to Chongzhen, saying in a low voice: "Long live this pill, Li Ruolian just sent it to Nanjing through a secret channel, and it was an expedited channel."

"Expedited channel?" Chongzhen's face darkened, which meant something big had happened.

At that moment, Chongzhen gently crushed the wax pill and took out the secret message. At first glance, it turned out that it was indeed a big deal.

"Youzhen, what do you think?" Chongzhen handed the secret letter to Xu Yingwei, "What does Dorgon want to do?"

After reading the secret letter, Xu Yingwei said with some astonishment: "Your Majesty, this matter is really strange. In the past, whenever there was a war, the slaves would drive away the Han army of the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Mongolia were fighting. Why did it go against the norm this time and only use the Eight Banners?

Manchuria didn’t even use the green battalions?”

"But there are more than 90,000 Eight Banners coming to Manchuria and 80,000 are coming!"

Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "Almost everyone came out in full force."

"But they are definitely not here to fight us." Xu Yingwei paused, then continued, "Based on the express delivery sent by Chen Zilong before, it seems that those who attacked the various towns and fortresses in Xuzhou were only small groups of slaves. From this,

It can be seen that Dorgon probably just wanted to use Xuzhou and Guide as hunting grounds for the Eight Banners Manchuria."

Xu Yingwei's analytical ability is still very strong. With only limited clues, he can roughly guess the truth.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei continued: "Obviously, Dorgon has also realized the power of the Huanghuai defense line built by the Holy Emperor. He knows that if Xuzhou Zhentai and Guide Zhentai are allowed to exist, Jiannu will forever lose the opportunity to go south.

That’s why he did not hesitate to use 88,000 Manchurian banners to come to Germany and launch a war of harassment in Xuzhou.”
To be continued...