Chapter 143 The Junior Class of the Academy of Sciences
Tian Wenheng held a palm-sized glass mirror.
He walked to Yousha and asked, "Manager Yousha, how long will it take for this kind of glass mirror to be on the market?
How much will it cost? Can we afford a glass mirror?"
You Sha looked at Tian Wenheng with a wry smile. He didn't know these things. Their company was only responsible for production and sales and had no right to set prices.
Su He saw Tian Wenheng's expectant look.
At the same time, I also saw Yu Sha’s entangled look.
He smiled and said: "Tian Aiqing, if even you people can't afford a glass mirror.
The glass manufacturing company produces so many glass mirrors, but it is losing money.
Qian Mingyi, please introduce to everyone the price of glass mirrors."
Qian Mingyi heard Su He's order and followed him closely.
Immediately took a step forward and came to Yusha and Tian Wenheng.
"Shilang Tian.
A half-palm-sized glass mirror is priced at one or two silver coins.
A large, beautifully decorated glass mirror that is as tall as one person, priced at three thousand taels of silver coins.
The price of other types of glass mirrors is between these two. Depending on the size of the mirror and the decoration on the outside of the glass mirror, the price is between the prices of these two glass mirrors.”
When Tian Wenheng heard that the glass mirror was priced at this price, he was immediately relieved.
The lowest selling price is one or two silver coins. A glass mirror at this price is not expensive.
He gritted his teeth and could still afford the most expensive large glass mirror.
After experiencing the glass mirror, it felt too awkward for him to use a bronze mirror where he couldn't see faces clearly.
It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.
Su He looked at everyone and felt that the glass mirror was not expensive.
He smiled and said: "The palm-sized glass mirror is positioned as a high-end industrial product that ordinary people can afford.
Large, beautifully decorated glass mirrors are the main profit point of glass mirrors.”
Academician Hong Feiyu added: "Large glass mirrors are very fragile, so you should be careful when using them.
Glass has many advantages, but its biggest disadvantage is that it is fragile.
Large glass mirrors are too thin, very difficult to transport, and will break if bumped slightly.
Three thousand taels of silver coins for a large glass mirror is the company's ex-factory selling price.
We are only responsible for transportation under the rule of the Prince of Qin, and we will compensate for any damage during transportation.
If purchased and sold elsewhere, we are not responsible for damage.
From our glass mirror to Jiangnan, if we choose to transport it by land, eight out of ten glass mirrors will be broken.
A large, beautifully decorated glass mirror here costs three thousand taels of silver coins.
In Jiangnan, thirty thousand taels of silver are possible.
Those who are interested in large-scale purchases can contact me later and there will be discounts.”
Many people were moved when they heard what Hong Feiyu said.
This kind of glass mirror can really be shipped to the Jiangnan area, and you can just make money with your eyes closed.
Qu Qingyi stared at the glass mirror, the joy in her eyes unbearable.
Su He saw that not only Qu Qingyi, but also many officials expressed their desire to buy glass mirrors.
He directly ordered: "Manager You, with so many people wanting to buy it, the glass mirror will be on the market sooner or later.
Today is the opening day of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company, and the glass mirrors will be launched directly today."
Upon hearing Su He's instructions, You Sha began to organize the employees of Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company to sell glass mirrors to the officials who came to attend the company's ribbon-cutting.
Without Su He's instructions, he would not dare to give away the valuable glass mirror directly.
The sales situation must be used and a formal invoice must be issued.
Without invoices, these incomes cannot be recorded in the accounts. If the tax bureau audits the accounts, there will be an imbalance in the accounts.
Su He saw many people buying glass mirrors.
Since the mirror was manufactured, it has been a best-selling industrial product.
Many officials came to Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company to participate in the ribbon cutting.
Walking out of this small warehouse, everyone has at least one glass mirror in their hands.
Many people also order an ordinary large glass mirror.
Qu Qingyi directly purchased a beautifully decorated glass mirror.
Her year's salary can't even buy half a glass mirror.
Su He expected that the money Qu Qingyi spent would be the reward given to her by his wife Wang Wenjun.
"Manager You, you have to send me to Baihua Clothing Store, No. 206 Qianmen Street."
Qu Qingyi clenched her little fists and said excitedly: "With the existence of this beautiful large mirror, my sisters' clothing store will definitely become a prosperous business."
Su He looked at Qu Qingyi's performance and was very satisfied.
Qu Qingyi has been with him for such a long time and learned a lot.
She bought a large glass mirror not for her own enjoyment, but to help her close friends develop their clothing store.
Su He saw that everyone wanted to go back and share their own mirrors after buying them, but they were not interested in visiting the company.
"We're done visiting here today, everyone can leave."
Su He was not prepared to return to Prince Qin's Mansion and asked everyone to leave the glass manufacturing company on their own.
After everyone heard this, they took their glass mirrors and walked towards the company's door one after another.
Qu Qingyi People who buy large glass mirrors can only have the glass manufacturing company transport them to a designated location.
Su He is on the way leaving Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company.
He told You Sha and Hong Feiyu: "Go all out to produce glass products, and don't be afraid that glass products will be unsalable.
The demand for glass products is very large, and your company alone cannot meet the needs of society.
The most important thing is not to rest on your laurels, you must explore different types of glass and expand the uses of glass."
Hong Feiyu promised: "Your Majesty, King Qin, please rest assured that I am not a complacent person.
On cement and glass, I found the value of my life.
In the future of my life, I will definitely continue to explore the potential of these two materials.
I feel that the potential of these two materials is still far from being realized.
My team from the Academy of Sciences is already exploring these two materials."
Su He just urged me, and now the Academy of Sciences system can barely run.
If Hong Feiyu fails to fulfill his expectations, someone else will take over and complete it.
He looked at Qiao Zhenghua, who had always been silent in the team.
"Deputy Chief Engineer Qiao Zhenghua, now that glass is in mass production, can the production of various glass lenses keep up?"
Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company not only produces glass, it also produces glass-derived industrial products.
The two most important products are mirrors and various glass lenses.
Various concave lenses, convex lenses and other lenses of different specifications are combined with each other.
They can be combined into products such as telescopes and microscopes.
When Qiao Zhenghua heard Su He's question, he responded modestly: "Your Highness, King Qin, glass is very easy to process.
The most important thing is that the quantity is large and the price is low, which allows me to keep trying and making mistakes.
With the cooperation of the machinery factory, I have built several simple grinding machine tools.
Various lenses are processed through grinding machines.
Craftsmen of average skill, such as my apprentices, can operate this machine tool.
They can easily process a glass lens according to the fixed processing sequence I designed."
When Su He heard Qiao Zhenghua's words, he was very satisfied.
Qiao Zhenghua is also a very subjective and proactive craftsman.
He is not a self-respecting craftsman, but is very good at teaching his disciples.
Qiao Zhenghua knew his own shortcomings and took the initiative to seek help from others.
Craftsmen, like Qiao Zhenghua, no longer regard their unique skills as family heirlooms.
Technology will usher in major breakthroughs and enter industrialization in small steps.
If everyone makes a small step forward, the society will make a big step forward.
"Deputy Engineer Qiao Zhenghua, please finish processing as soon as possible. The Academy of Sciences will send you lenses of various specifications, at least a hundred of each type.
You send the processed lenses to the Academy of Sciences.
The sooner this is done, the better, preferably by the end of this month."
When Qiao Zhenghua heard that His Highness King Qin only wanted a hundred various lenses, he immediately relaxed.
"Your Highness King Qin, I used a grinding machine to trial-produce glass lenses.
To test which grinding process works better.
I have been processing glass lenses with a grinding machine these days.
At least 10,000 pieces of each type of lens are processed.
Most lenses do not meet the standards due to inexperience in debugging and grinding machine tools.
But I have found more than 100 qualified products from more than 10,000 processed glass lenses.
His Highness the King of Qin is eager to use it, so I will send it to the Academy of Sciences for you right away."
When Su He heard the news, he was very happy.
"This is really great. You don't need to send it to me. I will take it directly to the Academy of Sciences."
Su He was very happy and had lenses of various specifications.
He was giving a lecture to the junior class of the Academy of Sciences today. After finishing his lecture on mechanics, he could continue his lecture on optics.
With the glass lens in hand, Su He was also ready to let Tian Jiapeng lead researchers from the Academy of Sciences to rebuild astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
They used crystal lenses to make astronomical telescopes and microscopes in the previous stage, but they failed directly. These two tools could not be used normally at all.
Su He boarded the carriage and began to assemble some simple equipment using glass lenses.
These equipments can open the door to astrophysics and biology for students in the junior class of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Su He arrived at the Academy of Sciences. He was on the carriage and had already assembled the experimental equipment for today's lecture.
There are still a lot of glass lenses left, ready to be handed over to Tian Jiapeng.
There are more than ten specifications of glass lenses, which are mainly used to make conventional telescopes, astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
Su He walked into the Academy of Sciences, which is not far from Hanzhong Glass Manufacturing Company and is also located in the new city on the south bank of Han River.
The Academy of Sciences is a reinforced concrete building, consisting of five or seven-story buildings.
After a long period of experiments, the quality of cement and steel produced now is very good.
These materials can already support high-rise buildings.
Buildings above seven floors are too tall, and going up and down the stairs is too tiring.
Only auxiliary tools such as elevators are needed to make high-rise buildings practical.
The current high-rise buildings under the Qin Palace do not exceed seven floors, and most of them are below five floors.
Tian Jiapeng came to greet Su He at the gate of the Academy of Sciences.
"Dapeng, when I came this time, I brought enough lenses to assemble an astronomical telescope and microscope.
You take most of the lenses and let researchers from the Institute of Optics assemble conventional telescopes, astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
I'm going to teach the junior class students."
"Your Highness King Qin, I will arrange for researchers to make conventional telescopes, astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
Some time ago we used crystal lenses to make a batch of astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
The manufactured astronomical telescopes and microscopes cannot be used at all, and the display results are very blurry.
Some people suspect that this is a deviation in the lens group data I calculated.
But after many calculations, the data of the lens group is correct.
I think the problem lies in the material. The light transmittance of the crystal lens is not very good, and our crystal processing technology does not meet the requirements.
In addition, assembly errors will definitely occur. Combining so many results will result in blurred display results, making these two appliances unusable.
Now that high-definition glass lenses are manufactured, we can verify what is causing the blurry display."
Tian Jiapeng and Su He explained why they made astronomical telescopes and microscopes some time ago, but the results were blurry and could not be used.
He directed the logistics staff of the Academy of Sciences to carry the glass lenses brought by Su He.
Su He watched them carry the lenses, and he walked up to the top floor alone.
The technology for making telescopes and microscopes is very mature, and researchers led by Tian Jiapeng can easily complete it.
The lens group of the telescope used by the army was designed by Su He himself.
Conventional telescope design is very simple, as long as you master the basic knowledge of light propagation and lenses.
If you understand a little bit of mathematics, you can design a barely usable telescope lens set based on the data of various lenses.
Before the military, telescopes were expensive, mainly because the raw material, transparent crystal, was too expensive. They were very expensive jewelry.
Transparent without a trace of impurities is so rare.
Crystal reserves are still very scarce.
In addition, grinding into a usable lens requires many processes, and the success rate of craftsmen's processing is not high.
These reasons keep the cost of telescopes high.
Glass is produced, and cheap glass is more suitable for lenses than crystal.
Regarding optical knowledge, Su He only remembered some impressive knowledge.
Forming a conventional telescope is already his limit.
After Tian Jiapeng arrived, Su He put him in charge of managing the Academy of Sciences.
Mathematics is the crown of natural sciences and the main tool for other scientific research.
A superb mathematician can greatly improve science.
Especially in terms of theoretical formulas of physics and chemistry, Tian Jiapeng played a greater role than Su He.
Su He could only use these formulas himself, and was completely confused as to how they were derived.
Tian Jiapeng quickly finished studying the elementary school textbooks, and Su He, in the name of taking the exam, asked him to re-invert the formula proposed by Su He in the elementary school "Nature" book based on his existing knowledge.
Su He originally thought that Tian Jiapeng could derive three or four formulas.
What he didn't expect was that Tian Jiapeng had debunked most of the formulas.
This allows Su He to memorize relatively scattered knowledge into an effective system.
Su He plans to rewrite primary school and university curricula based on this knowledge.
He used this new knowledge to teach the geniuses in the second junior class of the Academy of Sciences.
The geniuses in the first youth class of the Academy of Sciences are now the backbone of the Academy of Sciences.
Together with craftsmen with strong independent learning ability, they constitute the Academy of Sciences.
Systematic knowledge can make students learn more efficiently.
The second session of the Junior Class was indeed more efficient than the first session of the Junior Class.
These people in the junior class have extremely high self-learning abilities, are also very talented, and have similar IQs.
Otherwise, he would not have stood out from the crowd and been selected by Su He.
Suhe has prepared to build a university based on these junior classes of the Academy of Sciences, with scientific research as the mainstay and teaching as the supplement.
The astronomical telescope and microscope lens set are one of the achievements of Tian Jiapeng in Suhe's examination.
Tian Jiapeng learns basic optical knowledge and lens imaging principles.
He used mathematical methods to deduce the lens groups that make up astronomical telescopes and microscopes.
Astronomical telescopes and microscopes have been reproduced through lenses made of crystal, but they have failed.
Tian Jiapeng failed this time, which means there was a problem with the theory.
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Su He came to the place where he usually teaches talented teenagers.
These people were divided into several interest groups and discussed knowledge with each other.
When they saw Su He walking into the house, they immediately stood up and said hello respectfully.
"Hello teacher."
"Hello classmates, today the teacher will give you new knowledge."
Su He looked at the new junior class of the Academy of Sciences. There were many very young faces among them.
The average age of the junior class students in this period is even lower.
Su He has already taught the first junior class of the Academy of Sciences.
This session of the Academy of Science's junior class is basically in a free-range state.
During this period of time, Su He spent most of his time leading troops to fight.
Many times communication can only be done through letters.
But many geniuses also emerged from the first youth class of the Academy of Sciences.
Relying only on the knowledge provided by Su He, they became self-taught.
Several students from the Glass Mirror Factory are among the students with the worst grades in their class.
However, the chemistry skills of these students far surpass Ma Qiankun, the most famous chemist in Hanzhong Prefecture.
Suhe only provided an opportunity for these geniuses who were not good at imperial examinations to show their abilities.
When the second junior class of the Academy of Sciences began, Su He was not prepared to adopt free-range farming.
The Qin Palace's territory has now been stabilized, and it has shifted from conquering the world to equal emphasis on conquering the world and governing the world.
Su He has also completely controlled the army. With the current system of the Qin army, soldiers are not controlled by generals, and there is no room for warlords to survive.
Su He knew how good he was at leading troops in war.
He has the vision of future generations and is strong in strategy and knowing people well.
In a real fight at the tactical level, most of the commanders of the Qin army were far stronger than Su He.
From now on, Su He will not lead troops to fight unless it is a war that will overwhelm the country.
He can have more time to manage the place and teach more students.
Su He looked at the second batch of students in the Academy of Science's junior class.
These people are mainly composed of two parts.
Orphans of martyrs produced by the war and talented students who stand out in elementary school.
If you want to enter the junior class of the Academy of Sciences, the most basic requirement is to fully master the knowledge in primary school textbooks.
Su He is getting ready to start class.
He closed the curtains on the window, leaving only a gap.
The hot sunlight outside shines into the classroom through this gap.
Su He held a prism in his hand and walked to the gap.
"Students, don't blink."
Su He pointed the prism at this beam of light. The sunlight was refracted by the prism and turned into seven-color light.
Only a rainbow appeared in the sky.
Qin Yun, the youngest student in the junior class, saw a rainbow appear.
She shouted in surprise: "Wow, look, everyone, this is a rainbow."
When Su He heard Qin Yun's voice, he smiled and said, "Classmate Qin Yun is right, this is the rainbow.
The sunlight we see is composed of many kinds of light.
The seven colors that the human eye can see are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
The colorful world that our eyes can perceive is made up of these lights.”
In this class, Su He began to explain the refraction and reflection of light to the students.
He took out the lens and explained the focus of the lens, the changes of light in the lens, and the principle of lens imaging.
This big class lasted all afternoon.
The knowledge points that Su He talked about were very dense. He almost talked about all the physical knowledge related to light that he knew.
But for these geniuses in the junior class of the Academy of Sciences.
Su He's lecture speed was completely acceptable to them.
The youngest Qin Yun could keep up with Su He's lecture speed.
Su He looked at the thirty-six students in the youth class.
They are geniuses selected from the best among tens of thousands of people.
The learning ability is really too strong. If they want to fully master these knowledge points, they need to combine it with the real line.
But they can keep up with Su He's lecture speed. This group of people have excellent learning and self-learning abilities, and are naturally suitable for scientific research.
After Su He finished class, he saw that it was already dinner time.
"After class, the assignment for this class is for you to choose to make an instrument that uses light based on the knowledge you have learned."
Su He announced the end of get out of class and left homework for the students.
Liu Dongliang held the pencil stick in his mouth and thought seriously.
When he heard that get out of class was over, he said with some unfinished thoughts: "Teacher, this is the end of the lecture. I feel that this is just an introduction, and there are many things that can be derived from it later."
When Su He heard Liu Dongliang's words, he looked at him with a smile and encouraged: "Classmate Liu Dongliang is right.
I also feel that this is just the beginning, and there is still a long way to go.
What I have learned from your teacher is quite mixed, but not comprehensive.
It’s up to you to continue exploring the road ahead.
I hope you can take the teacher’s doubts and try your best to explore the path called science.”
When Liu Dongliang heard Su He's words, his eyes were extremely firm and he sincerely promised:
"Teacher, don't worry, I will definitely take your doubts and explore what is the end of the road to science?"
When Su He heard what Liu Dongliang said, he was very satisfied.
If I can help create another great scientist in the future with just a few words of encouragement, it would be really worth it.
"Students, let's go to the cafeteria on the first floor to eat."
Su He took the students in the junior class to the cafeteria on the first floor for dinner.
More than half of the students in the juvenile class are orphans.
Only the families of Qin Yun and Liu Dongliang are in Hanzhong City. The families of the others who are not orphans are not in Hanzhong City either.
They usually live in the dormitory and eat in the cafeteria.
When Su He was teaching, he would eat with them and cultivate their relationship.
In order to prevent Qin Yun and Liu Dongliang from being isolated, they also live in the dormitory.
Only during the holidays in primary school, Su He would give them both a holiday together and let them go home to be with their parents.
There are no private rooms in the cafeteria on the first floor, everyone eats in the cafeteria hall.
All meals in the canteen are free.
The food in the cafeteria of the Academy of Sciences is richer than that in Prince Qin's Mansion.
Long-term supply of meat, eggs, and milk, with balanced nutrition.
Su He went to prepare meals in person, and many people in the Academy of Sciences knew him.
These people are already very familiar with Su He, and they are not as wary as people in other places. People who are familiar with Su He take the initiative to say hello to Su He.
Su He stepped forward to chat and asked about the progress of his scientific research.
Several sumptuous portions of food were placed on a large long iron table.
Everyone was sitting on wooden chairs, ready to start eating.