People's destiny will always undergo earth-shaking changes due to history. Even Emperor Zhu Da did not expect that the great master of Chinese studies took a "wrong path" in the Ming Dynasty and became a mechanical engineer. As for this famous master's meeting in the Ming Dynasty,
What kind of results will be harvested can only be left to the future. As for Tesla, no one knows how far he will go.
Regarding the former, Emperor Zhu Da didn't even know about his existence. He didn't even know that this master of Chinese studies was in the Ming Dynasty. However, he was very concerned about the latter. After all, Tesla was almost the most famous to some extent.
He was an inventor. Emperor Zhu Da was very much looking forward to what kind of fruits he could produce in the Ming Dynasty.
However, despite paying attention, Emperor Zhu Da also knew nothing about Tesla's application for funding from the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation. The attention... was just attention. He cared more about Tesla than paying attention to it.
The most important thing is how many Ming scientists the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation can incubate.
"Encourage basic scientific research and education by setting up and providing grants, scholarships and fellowships, and fund scientific and technological personnel through awards, promote academic exchanges, science popularization, personnel training and transfer of scientific and technological achievements, and promote the scientific and technological progress of the empire to adapt to science
The challenges of technological development and the requirements for scientific and technological progress for the development of the imperial economy."
This is the purpose of the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation of the Ming Empire. In the six years since its establishment, it has not only funded basic science education in Ming Dynasty, but also funded tens of thousands of young scholars. It is through official funding that Ming Dynasty’s
The level of science and technology has developed by leaps and bounds.
"During the curriculum reform two years ago, the foundation provided substantial funding to more than 10,000 research groups and research projects, including the Physical Science Research Council, primary and secondary school mathematics research groups, biological science curriculum research plans, and primary and secondary school chemistry curriculum research
Plan), the Imperial Science Education Research Plan and other projects. Last year, the foundation provided 19.6 million yuan for basic research and education plans and other projects, of which 12 million yuan was used for basic research and 7.6 million yuan was used for education plans..."
In His Majesty's study, Jiang Hongwei, the vice president of the Imperial Science and Technology Foundation, reported to the emperor one by one the foundation's work in the past year.
These figures may not seem very impressive, but on a global scale, they are absolutely astonishing. Almost 20 million yuan was used to encourage and promote the development of science and technology. In this era, this expenditure is absolutely astronomical -
Many small countries do not have that much fiscal revenue!
"Nearly 20 million!"
Emperor Zhu Da nodded and then said.
"However, the investment in the education plan is still a bit low. Let's increase it by another 10% this year. After all, the future of the empire lies in education."
19.6 million!
£4.3 million!
At this time, the British government's fiscal revenue was only 85 million pounds, and the Ming Dynasty invested almost 5% of the British fiscal revenue in promoting science and technology. This shows that the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to science.
However, the reason why Ming Dynasty was able to spend this money was entirely due to the income from state-owned farms - the income from hundreds of millions of acres of state-owned farms, which kept Ming Dynasty's finances in a very loose state - a lot of money!
It is precisely because of the abundance of money that Emperor Zhu Da was able to continuously burn money on education, industry and infrastructure, and by burning money, he built up the Ming Dynasty's status as a technological power.
To a certain extent, burning money is the best way. With sufficient funds, Ming Dynasty can hire scholars from all over the world to teach in Ming schools. With sufficient funds, Ming Dynasty scholars can work on many scientific research projects.
research.
Burning money has indeed changed the situation of Ming Dynasty's science and technology to a great extent. Of course, this kind of "burning money" is compared to this era. How is the funding for scientific research in this era guaranteed?
In addition to universities relying on official or unofficial funding, European and American countries rely on commercial funding or personal investment, which directly limits their inventions and innovations, especially the latter. Many scientists rely entirely on their own salaries to support their experiments.
Compared with European and American countries, Ming Dynasty adopted a relatively mature "state support system" in another world, which allowed scholars to obtain sufficient funds for scientific research through official funding, which greatly promoted Ming Dynasty's scientific and technological level.
To a certain extent, in the scientific arena, Ming Dynasty competed with the national team and European and American individual teams. Such results are conceivable. Moreover, Ming Dynasty also had the golden finger of Emperor Zhu Da as support.
Although Ming Dynasty's science and technology developed at a rapid pace through official support from various channels, Emperor Zhu Da also had some opinions on this.
"In education, we need to increase scientific education, especially the promotion of research plans in primary and secondary schools. We need to cultivate a large number of students with scientific spirit and innovative spirit. Only in this way can Ming Dynasty win the competition in the future national competition.
After all, the competition between countries and civilizations is essentially a scientific competition. After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces. In the future competition, the party that lags behind in science and technology is destined to fail, and
Those who do not have the spirit of innovation will also fail. It is extremely necessary to increase investment in scientific education."
Jiang Hongwei immediately agreed.
"What your Majesty said is true. In fact, I have always had an idea and I don't know whether to say it or not."
"you say."
"I think that in order to increase middle school students' excitement about science, we can hold a science competition and encourage students to participate in the competition by providing bonuses."
"Science Fair!"
Emperor Zhu Da's eyes lit up. Thinking of the competition in another world, he certainly agreed.
"This can be coordinated with the Ministry of Culture, Culture and Sports, and the Ministry of Culture and Culture can also join in."
After a pause, Emperor Zhu Dahou said.
"This competition is carried out across the country and all students can sign up. In addition to providing certain bonuses, it can also be linked to universities and encourage universities to provide full scholarships to winners."
Universities in Ming Dynasty are basically free - but the so-called "free" is not really "free", but free through scholarships provided by universities. 75% of students in universities in Ming Dynasty can get scholarships of different levels.
, for college students in Daming, scholarships are their best opportunity to study in college.
For many people, a full scholarship means that the family does not need to bear any expenses for attending college. Such rewards are naturally enough to attract many ordinary students to participate in the competition. In the end, the students get education and the country gets talents...
