The cold wind was howling outside and the snow was falling heavily, but Liu Jin was sitting next to the fireplace, drinking tea leisurely and thinking about something.
"This wave of rubber has made me a lot of money. In an era without petrochemical products, natural rubber was absolutely an indispensable industrial raw material."
"It is estimated that in the next hundred years, the rubber market will still be very good. There are many irreplaceable aspects of natural rubber."
"Fortunately, our Ming Dynasty now occupies Nanyang. The best and most suitable places for rubber growth in the world are in the hands of our Ming Dynasty. There will definitely be no problem in achieving rubber freedom."
Liu Jin looked at the world map. The large islands in Nanyang are the best areas for growing rubber in the world. They are more suitable for growing rubber than South America, the origin of rubber.
Think about future generations, rubber and petroleum are all stuck by people. It feels really uncomfortable, so much so that a big country has to suffer from the anger of a bigger country in Nanyang.
"That's right, oil!"
Liu Jin's eyes suddenly lit up when he thought of oil.
Petroleum is a good thing. It is known as the blood of industry in later generations. It is not only a fuel, but also the most important chemical raw material. Chemical raw materials extracted from petroleum are used in various fields, and they have replaced natural gas in many fields.
rubber.
"Yes, you grow rubber, and I will dig for oil!"
"This oil is a good thing. Mastering oil is basically equivalent to mastering the energy of the future. This requires planning early. If you take this treasure into your own pocket early, you can sit back and collect money in the future."
Thinking of oil, Liu Jin became excited. Oil is a good thing. Those Middle Eastern tycoons in later generations who have a piece of cloth on their heads and are the richest in the world, don't they just lie on oil and live a life of dreams and dreams?
"Persian Gulf~"
"Northwestern Golden Continent~"
"Southern Golden Continent~"
Pick up a pen and draw circles on the world map, enclosing these places. These places are known to be the richest reserves in later generations. It is enough to just occupy a few places, and there is no need to do so anymore.
Worrying about oil.
"It was really wise at the time. What a huge territory we have built. I, the descendants of China, no longer have to worry about oil, iron ore, etc., and we no longer have to look at other people's faces."
With a simple stroke, Liu Jin immediately nodded with satisfaction.
Now it seems that except for the Middle East, other important oil-producing areas belong to the territory of the Ming Empire, with vast land, endless resources, and endless wealth.
I traveled through time and struggled for many years, and finally I was able to feel the happiness brought by struggle.
"Well, maybe it's time to take a trip to Imperial College, take a look, and fund them to carry out research on some new topics, such as internal combustion engines and oil refining. As long as these two technologies are developed, the oil age will come.
.”
Thinking of this, Liu Jin immediately shouted: "Come here, prepare a car and go to Imperial College~"
"Yes~"
Some servants quickly started to prepare.
Soon, a four-wheeled carriage drove towards Imperial College in the snow and wind.
Imperial College of Science and Technology, a professional science and engineering university established by Liu Jin with huge investment, is known as the four new universities of Ming Dynasty together with Royal Institute of Technology of Ming Dynasty, Imperial University and Beijing Institute of Mechanical Engineering. It is the top new academic institution among all new universities.
It is like a holy place among students.
There are nearly three million middle school graduates in the entire Ming Dynasty every year. Only the top outstanding students can be admitted to these four colleges and universities. The total number of students admitted by the four colleges and universities in a year is less than 30,000, that is,
It is said that only 1% of people can enter these four top universities.
This shows the status of these four top universities in the hearts of new students. Every year, countless students are eager to enter these four universities.
It is approaching the New Year, and Imperial College has already gone on holiday early. Many students have chosen to go home to celebrate the New Year, but some students are far away from home and choose to stay at school.
On the campus of Imperial College, Liu Jin walked very casually, followed by Huang Chong, the president of Imperial College, and several famous professors He Wenyuan, Xie Geng, and Ding Zhixiang.
Liu Jin is the founder and sponsor of Imperial College, and he is also the owner of Imperial College. In addition, he is also the official minister of the Ming Dynasty. It is not easy for him to come to the school. Imperial College naturally attaches great importance to it.
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"Mr. Huang, the students who stay in school for the New Year must make arrangements so that they can have a happy New Year and organize some activities to make everyone lively and lively."
Liu Jin saw that there were many students in the school and warned Huang Chong beside him.
Huang Chong was a great educator of this era. He was originally the headmaster of a well-known academy. He was always very strict in teaching and educating people. At the same time, he was not a pedantic or old-fashioned person. He was relatively enthusiastic about the many new things brought by the new learning.
Recognition.
So Liu Jin also hired him to be the first president of Imperial College.
Not to mention, Liu Jin has chosen the right person. As the principal, he teaches strictly and pays attention to moral character. Imperial College students not only have extremely professional and solid basic skills, but also often have very good moral character. In emerging industries,
The field of science and technology has shone brightly. Many mechanical designs and new scientific and technological discoveries came from Imperial College.
"Please don't worry, Mr. Liu, I will make all arrangements."
When Huang Chong heard this, he nodded quickly and said.
In fact, needless to say, he has already made all the arrangements. His home, Huang Chong, is on campus, and he also celebrates the New Year here.
Although he has extremely strict requirements in terms of teaching and moral character, in terms of life, he has always been very caring for the teachers and students of the college.
"Hmm~"
"Has the college produced any special research results recently?"
Liu Jin looked at the snowy campus. The colleges and universities he founded were based on the teaching systems of later generations in Europe and the United States, which focused more on hands-on skills.
After all, this is the beginning of science and technology, and theoretical things have not yet come out. Everything requires more experiments and more hands-on experience. Experience and theory can be found through experiments. This is definitely not possible without hands-on ability.
Moreover, what Ming Dynasty needs most now are engineers and designers with practical skills. As for theoretical research, it seems that there is not much market now.
Textile factories, machinery factories, steel factories, etc. all need people with strong practical skills, not people who can only talk on paper and take exams.
In fact, the development of science and technology has officially come out of such a process step by step. In this process, countless talented scientists will be born. They use their own wisdom to continuously push science and technology to one peak after another, making the progress of science and technology
Power truly blooms, thus greatly liberating people's productivity.
"There are quite a few~"
"Among them, the School of Chemical Engineering developed three colors of dyes, which were bought by the textile factory at a high price. They were sold for a total of five hundred thousand taels of silver."
"Research at the School of Physics has discovered a gas in the air that can accelerate combustion. We call it gas. This gas is one of the necessary conditions for combustion. If there is no gas in the air, candles will burn.
Can’t get up.”
Professor He Wenyuan on the side also quickly told Liu Jin some of the achievements of Imperial College.
"Gas?"
Liu Jin was slightly dumbfounded when he heard this. Isn't this just oxygen? Why is it called gas?
"Yes, it's gas~"
"Last year, Professor Wang from the Royal Institute of Technology published an article. He said that we live in air. This air has pressure. The air is also composed of various different gases. These gases
Have different characteristics and functions.”
"This article also immediately attracted a large number of people to participate in the study of air. After many experiments, we discovered the existence of gas."
He Wenyuan thought Liu Jin didn't understand this, so he excitedly explained to Liu Jin what gas was and how to discover it.
"I see, this air actually has a lot of ingredients~"
After Liu Jin listened, he pretended to understand.
"That's of course. Although we can't see the air, it exists around us all the time and is closely related to our lives. If we can study the composition of air and related principles, we can figure out many things, and we can also invent
There are many things that are closely related to life."
He Wenyuan said very seriously.
"In addition, we have made a lot of progress in the field of astronomy. We have accurately calculated two solar eclipses this year and calculated the distance between the earth we live in and the moon. Next, we are going to find a way to calculate the moon.
and the quality of the living planet.”
"In addition, in the field of electromagnetism, we also discovered the phenomenon that electricity generates heat. We continued to cut the magnetic field to generate electricity, and then used copper wires to energize. The copper wires generated heat under the continuous energization."
He Wenyuan introduced the research results of Imperial College to Liu Jin like a treasure trove. In Liu Jin's view, these results were very insignificant results. Compared with the rapid development of science and technology in later generations, they seemed to be very ordinary.
But for this era, it is a very important scientific research result. New discoveries one after another are constantly promoting the development of science and technology in this era. Just like the development of science and technology in later generations, many inconspicuous new discoveries and small
Inventions ultimately promoted the entire technology to achieve leapfrog progress.
The idea that electricity will generate heat will be considered common sense in later generations, but in this age of scientific and technological enlightenment, it is an important discovery.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._
