Shen Jianxin said with a hint of excitement: "We have calculated the curvature of the earth and found that the circumference of the earth is about 100,000 miles. But this is only calculated by us using indirect methods. No one knows the real situation. Even the world is We can't be sure that it is not a sphere because there is no clear evidence.
And when you go to the place where rubber trees grow, going back is not the fastest route, but continues to sail eastward. You can help us verify this idea. If the world is really a sphere as the president said, even if you If we keep going east, we should be able to return to Daqian from Tianzhu."
Then he said excitedly: "And if you really return to Daqian from Tianzhu, your name will go down in history and you will become the first person in the world to prove that our world is a sphere, and the round sky and the square earth will become a complete joke!"
Zhen Xing worriedly said: "Going all the way east like this, I won't reach the end of the world. What will happen if I fall?"
Shen Jianxin said disdainfully: "So you are a scumbag. In recent years, the government has led us to use longitude and latitude lines to measure the curvature of the world. Even if everyone accepts that the world is a sphere, there is no actual example to prove it. And now you have a chance to prove it, which is even more important than finding a rubber tree. Not everyone has this opportunity to be famous in history! Do you know how rare this opportunity is? The emperors of the Han Dynasty may not be as famous as you. "
Zhen Xing said in embarrassment: "I thought you would care about the life and death of my old classmate, but I didn't expect you to be so cruel."
Shen Jian said excitedly: "You died for scientific truth. You deserved to die. It is as heavy as Mount Tai. Your name will forever be recorded in history."
Zhen Xing could only roll his eyes and said: "Damn! You really want to be remembered in history. I'll give you this opportunity. Why don't you just follow me to that unknown continent to look for rubber trees? I'll give you the title that will be remembered in history."
But Zhen Xing didn't expect that Shen Jianxin really thought for a while and said: "Forget it, I studied mechanics, not geography. If I can make a name for myself in machinery, I will still be willing to do it, but it will take a few years. It makes no sense to me to waste it on the ocean."
Zhen Xing looked at him and shook his head and said: "You are delayed by the machine. The students in the same batch as us have either become county magistrates, prefects, or in the military, they have become lieutenants, lieutenants, generals, etc. It can be said that each of them has a high position, and their future can even go further."
"Look, you are also a student of the government. After studying mechanics, you can only become a professor at the University of Mechanical Engineering to teach students. Your life has been delayed by machinery!"
But Shen Jianxin smiled calmly and said: "You don't have to be in a high position to have a meaningful life. Success in learning, doing what you like to do, and relying on this ability to achieve a career can still be regarded as achieving the goal of life. Ambition. And why do you look down on the professors of the University of Mechanical Engineering? Just kidding, there are hundreds of prefects in Daqian and thousands of county magistrates, but there are only a few hundred professors. From this aspect, I It is much more important than the county magistrate and prefect."
Zhen Xing smiled and said: "According to what you said, our family can be regarded as the richest man in Daqian. Then does my family have the same status as the prime minister of Daqian! It's impossible. Well, my lord met the prefect. Everyone is nodding and bowing! It is impossible for this professor of yours to be as good as the prefect."
"I didn't expect you to come to the football match too!" A voice came from behind them. The two looked for the owner of the voice and found that it was their old classmate Xu Lun.
Xu Lun sat beside them unceremoniously and said: "It's better to be in Jidu! All kinds of new things are always spread from here. A football field with more than 20,000 people, I don't know how much cement it costs, I'm afraid The cement consumption in any county in Jingzhou is not as much as that of a football field!"
Shen Jianxin smiled and said: "Who said there are so many cement factories in Jidu? This thing can't be transported long distances. If you want to build such a football field, you have to build more cement factories on your own site!"
"You think we don't want to, I want to build cement plants, steel plants, machinery plants, train plants, all of them, but if the Qian court doesn't give us any ideas, it's impossible to conjure up these factories out of thin air!"
Zhen Xing smiled and said: "If you are not a prefect in Changsha County, why are you here in Jidu!"
Xu Lun is also one of the orphans in Jizhou. He is relatively outstanding. He started as a low-level village chief and worked his way up to the position of prefect in more than ten years.
Xu Lun said: "Why else? Of course I want to ask for the support of the imperial court. I will come to Jidu to see if I can find a few wealthy locals to let them invest in Jingzhou."
"You don't know how short of money Jingzhou is now. The governor is all over the lake and farming. There is a serious shortage of labor. Not to mention the slow progress of the project, the money is just like water. And the imperial court wants us to find a way to mobilize the hundreds of Vietnamese barbarians in the mountains to come down. What are the mountains? The living conditions are not difficult, but they are also difficult to manage. Now that there is a lot of land in Jingzhou, if we arrange houses and fields for them and centralize them, a prosperous town will soon appear and it will be easy to manage.
But these things all cost money, and the Jingzhou governor’s office simply cannot afford such a resettlement cost, so it can only ask the court to pay for the resettlement.”
"So it has become the most important thing for us in Jingzhou to go to the imperial court every year to ask for support. This year, the governor sent me here, so I returned to Jidu, but it's okay, just relax, Jingzhou can There’s no such fun as Jidu!”
Shen Jianxin smiled and said: "You actually have the nerve to come to the imperial court to ask for support. This year, the imperial court's budget for Jiangnan has exceeded 10 billion. The governors and governors in various states have complained repeatedly, saying that the government has treated you Jiangnan too favorably, and Jingzhou is also the center of Jiangnan. I think Jingzhou has received the most financial support, which should be five to six billion.
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Not to mention that Jingzhou still has the silk textile factory left by Liu Bei. Now Jingzhou can be regarded as the center of the textile industry in the south of the Yangtze River. I should have left you billions of dollars this year. This much money is not enough to spend. You Spending money too fast!”
Xu Lun smiled bitterly and said: "You are wrong. Jingzhou used to be the center of Jiangnan, but now Yangzhou is the center of Jiangnan, especially since the southern capital is set in Yangzhou, and the imperial court has also set a strategy to promote the development of Jiangnan through maritime transportation. More than 6 billion yuan in financial support allocated by the imperial court was taken away by Yangzhou. The imperial court clearly favored Yangzhou. They used the money to build docks, roads, and cities. Yangzhou developed much faster than Jingzhou. But it took Yangzhou's money. It doesn’t matter if it’s more, but they also attracted the people from Jingzhou to Yangzhou, which is too much. We fought all the way to the prime minister for this matter.”