Accompanied by the slightly shrill voice of a young eunuch, the first batch of academicians of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty, headed by Zhang Xingjian and Gao Lu, walked into the Golden Palace in two rows wearing uniform academician uniforms.
This is the first time that Xinxue has truly entered the core of the Ming Empire in the past decades!
Liu Jin looked at these Ming academicians and sighed deeply in his heart.
If we want to say that we really value technology and talents, the Ming Dynasty actually pays more attention to it now.
Whether it is major factories, commercial banks, or the government and the public, they all attach great importance to these scientific and technological talents.
Everyone in society is in great need of these new students. Because of industrial development, if you want to stand out in the fierce competition, you must have unique skills.
For example, if you are also making clothing, if you master a unique printing and dyeing technology, and others cannot produce this color or pattern, you will have a great advantage in the competition.
For example, blue is very expensive now. Blue clothes are much more expensive than ordinary clothes. If ordinary white cloth is dyed blue, the price will immediately increase several times.
This is the competitive advantage of color.
Because blue was a very rare color and expensive during this period, as long as you mastered the formula of this dye, you could just sit and collect money.
This is a technical advantage, and it requires professional researchers to conduct continuous research and experiments to study it.
The people of Ming Dynasty have already tasted the sweetness of technology. With technological advantages, machines are faster, better in quality, cheaper and more efficient.
The competitive advantage is even greater.
This will naturally and slowly develop an emphasis on technology and talent.
It will be different in future generations, because we are rising stars and plagiarize a lot of things. The cost of plagiarism is low and very fast. Once we get used to plagiarism, we will not have much motivation for innovation.
Rather than spending a lot of money on it, it would be faster and less labor-intensive to just copy it after others have done it.
Naturally, there is not so much emphasis on scientific and technological talents. It is all plagiarism anyway, and it does not require you to have much innovation and research ability.
Anyway, the penalties and costs for plagiarism are very small, and the benefits obtained are huge. However, the cost of investing in research and development is very large, and the possible benefits are very small. Everyone knows how to choose.
The government and the public said that the Ming Empire also gained countless benefits from the development of science and technology. Because of the development of science and technology, the Ming Empire had strong national power, advanced weapons, huge factories, convenient transportation, etc.
All of this is seen by everyone.
Even the most stubborn corrupt scholars in the Ming Dynasty had to admit the huge role of science and technology. They despised the new learning for not being up-to-date, but they did not say that they thought this technology was useless.
This enjoys the benefits brought by the development of science and technology. Ming Dynasty naturally attaches great importance to science and technology. The development of new learning is actually the result of everyone benefiting from new learning and acquiescing to and supporting its development.
Among the elders above the court, who has not invested in several factories? If the factories want to develop well, they naturally need to use new technologies and new equipment.
Don't expect to rely on traditional manpower and methods to compete with those machines. The competition is not bad at all.
No matter how well a person can weave cloth, there is no way he can be as good as a machine.
No matter how fast a person walks, you can't outrun motorcycles and cars.
No matter how strong a person is, he can only lift a few hundred kilograms, but a machine can easily carry objects weighing several thousand kilograms or even tens of thousands of kilograms.
This is the power of technology, and it is also the most intuitive feeling for everyone.
Only by slowly feeling the benefits and changes brought about by technology from the very beginning can we truly value technology!
In later generations, there are still many people who believe that studying is useless, there are still many people who believe that technology is just that, and there are also many people who believe in the theory that college students are working for primary school students.
At the same time, in the field of science and technology, there are always laymen giving blind orders to professionals. Not only do they not pay much attention to and respect knowledge and talents, they even despise those people, thinking that their studies are useless and they can't earn a lot.
For money, it is better to go out and work early to make money, and maybe become a boss. It is hard to say.
Such a phenomenon is absolutely impossible to occur in Ming Dynasty.
Learning is valuable than anything else!
Not to mention the scholars from the old school, all of them are very noble. After passing the examination, it is even more amazing. Not only can they enjoy privileges, but they also have the opportunity to become an official.
Although this new school is despised by the old school, the students who come out of the new school are also talented people and are very popular. All the major commercial banks and factories are vying for these talents.
Many people have been robbed before they graduate.
Even after they graduate, their salary and benefits are much better than ordinary people. If they work for a few years, they can work as managers or something, and their income will be higher. If those who are engaged in technology have any achievements, the reward will be even more enviable.
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After all, scholars in this period all had status and status. Whether they were studying new or old studies, they were all people with status and status.
Of course, this is also because although Xinxue is becoming more popular, the number of Xinxue colleges and universities is very small, and only the truly top-notch people can enter them.
Ordinary people who can't read should start working early. If they can recognize some words, do arithmetic, and know some common sense, it's enough. They don't need to know too much.
Leave professional matters to professionals. If you don't know how to read, don't force it.
It is in such an environment that everyone in Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to and supports technology.
Of course, from another aspect, now is the period when technology is beginning to develop. Many times, casual investment can yield huge returns, which also stimulates everyone to continue to invest in it.
It will be different in later generations. Technology has already passed its initial golden period. A large number of patents are in the hands of Westerners. They rely on patents to form a patent fortress. If you enter it, you have to invest a lot and get a small profit, and you have passed the initial golden period.
, it is difficult to achieve any big breakthroughs and results.
The returns are greatly reduced, and naturally there is less emphasis on technology and talent.
Liu Jin looked at them and kept thinking.
The advantage of being the first to develop is that it is fun, and all kinds of benefits have been taken away. If a rising star wants to catch up, the price will be very high, and it can even be said that there will never be a chance to catch up.
For example, the Ming Dynasty has been able to produce cars on a large scale, but many countries in Europe are still in a backward state, with technology and industry still in their infancy. If they are now destroyed by the Ming Dynasty,
Don't even think about it.
After summarizing, Liu Jin came to the conclusion that no matter what you do, you must do it early and taste the benefits and sweetness early in order to become stronger.
"Well, not bad, not bad!"
Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked at the Daming academician in front of him and nodded with satisfaction. This academician uniform looked very handsome.
"The winner of the Science and Technology Progress Award for the first year of the Ming Dynasty and Zhengde came forward to receive the award!"
"Zhang Xingjian!"
shouted out along with the small yellow door.
Zhang Xingjian quickly stepped forward respectfully, and Zhu Houzhao walked down the stairs and came to Zhang Xingjian.
"Work hard, I hope you can develop more drugs to treat more diseases!"
Zhu Houzhao gave a few words of encouragement.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Zhang Xingjian replied respectfully.
Then Zhu Houzhao took out a gold Daming Science and Technology Progress Award medal from the plate held by the little eunuch next to him. This medal was made of pure gold and weighed 10 taels. It had the portrait of Emperor Zhengde, the year and the year engraved on it.
The name of the winner.
Then he took out three stacks of one hundred taels of silver notes, one stack of 100 taels of silver, and three stacks of 30,000 taels of silver, and handed them all into Zhang Xingjian's hands.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zhang Xingjian bowed respectfully and thanked him.
"Gaolu!"
Soon it was Gaolu's turn again, with the same gold medal and thirty thousand taels of silver as rewards.
"Zhu Shou!"
At this time, Zhu Shou's name was shouted out along with Xiao Huangmen.
Zhu Houzhao immediately became excited, hurried to the side, then hurriedly took off his dragon robe, put on the academician uniform that had been prepared long ago, and returned to the front of the hall with a smile on his face.
All the ministers were dumbfounded when they saw Zhu Houzhao's operation.
Those who know the truth are better off, but those who don’t know the truth are confused and don’t even know what Emperor Zhengde is playing.
"Liu Jin, Liu Jin!"
"Come here, come here."
Zhu Houzhao, who returned to the main hall, smiled and said to Liu Jin.
"..."
When Liu Jin saw it, he was immediately speechless. He couldn't award himself the award, so he asked himself to take over temporarily.
This Zhu Houzhao is really good at playing. It's just a Science and Technology Progress Award, but he is not willing to part with it.
But this is also very consistent with Zhu Houzhao's character.
It's not surprising at all that he could pull off such a trick. After all, in history, when King Ning rebelled, he was able to let him go and catch him again.
Nowadays, it seems that it is possible to give awards to oneself for fun.
There was no other way, so Liu Jin could only hurry up and award the certificate and bonus to Zhu Houzhao.
"Ha ha!"
Zhu Houzhao received the certificate and bonus, and he suddenly laughed happily.
This feels very good. Being able to get this Science and Technology Progress Award for my own research shows that I am really powerful.
As for the other ministers, they finally understood that the emperor was Zhu Shou. No wonder they didn't see the man named Zhu Shou coming this time. Who could have known that Zhu Shou was the emperor.
Medals and bonuses were distributed continuously. After the distribution, Zhu Houzhao took them out of the Golden Palace to take pictures in Taihe Square.
