The sacred capital of Shijing, the new capital of the Song Dynasty, was the largest city in the north built on the basis of the former capital of the Yuan Dynasty and moved eastward.
As the capital of a huge empire, it houses a large number of important institutions throughout the empire, such as the Government Administration Office, the Royal Palace, various ministries and temples, and various important universities.
Especially as the country recovered from the decline in the late Yuan Dynasty, a large number of academies were gradually established in the capital, forming a national academic center in the south of the city.
What was different from before was that in addition to Confucian classics, a series of new disciplines such as theology, martial arts, and practical studies also established their own academies, and they continued to add students to the entire imperial bureaucracy.
Since Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, this land has once again entered an era of contention among a hundred schools of thought, but no one is clearly aware of this now.
The reason for this is also very simple: the political hall and the royalists compete with each other, and the various factions within both sides are also competing. Therefore, for each side, they need to do their best to gain enough power.
Although the losers in the competition will not lose their biological lives, they will lose their political lives, which for those political animals is no different from losing their biological lives.
In this way, all kinds of competition will naturally be very fierce: in order to survive, no one will cheat in this situation, and in the case of mutual competition, a large number of ideas will be connected together, and brilliant sparks will burst out
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This in turn forced Confucianism, which occupied the mainstream of thought, to carry out drastic reforms. It shifted the focus of thought from Confucius to Mencius. Large-scale propaganda was similar to "the people value the monarch" and "it is heard that one man will be punished by Zhou, but regicide is not heard."
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The fierce ideological collision also attracted the attention of princes, cabinets and even emperors, who often came here to inspect various schools.
In addition to regular tasks such as visiting scholars and inspecting colleges, the most important thing is to ensure that you can keep abreast of academic changes and stay at the forefront of academic research.
While Liang En and the others were analyzing the location of the change of gods, the elites of the entire imperial court came to the gate of the Practical Academy in the city of academies in the south of the city, and the leader was the Cabinet Prime Minister Yao Guangxiao.
As soon as he got off the carriage pulled by Pegasus, Yao Guangxiao glanced at the construction site blocked by a temporary fence on the high platform on the left side of the school yard, and then turned to the right towards another huge building.
This building was built three years ago. In order to have as large an indoor space as possible, a large number of Western and even European architectural designs were adopted. Therefore, it has naturally become a talking point among college students and surrounding residents.
There are different opinions on the purpose of this building. The academy's official explanation is that this building is a facility for students to learn mechanical skills, but in fact students will only study in the power room and mechanical room outside the main building.
Only a few teachers and their assistants from the college, as well as officials from the cabinet, Qin Tian Jian, and even Jin Yiwei, were able to enter the main building of the room, but they never revealed what was inside.
After passing numerous security checks, Yao Guangxiao finally led the officials to the core building of the factory, and then a huge machine appeared in front of everyone.
This machine is composed of countless gears, levers, rotating shafts, etc., and is now running and making a clicking sound, which even overwhelms the voices of those around it.
"I've met the Prime Minister." After seeing them come in, a middle-aged man in linen and straw sandals bowed his hands to them. Although he spoke not loudly, everyone heard him.
"I've seen Juzi." After seeing the middle-aged man in front of them salute, the visitors returned the salute one after another. To them, this Juzi of the New Mohism School was a person very worthy of their respect.
Because after the war to regain the Yuan Dynasty started, the Mohists, who had been hidden for thousands of years, joined the ranks of the rebels under the leadership of Juzi due to the influence of the original Confucianism. Thanks to their help, the rebels were able to win in many key battles.
Win the war.
When peace came, the Mohists, under the leadership of Juzi, began to research various production tools, which greatly made up for the shortage of manpower caused by the declining population at that time.
The current replacement machine was also designed and built by the Mohists. It can even be said to be the core project of the entire Mohists in the past 30 years - a machine that can think on behalf of humans.
Yes, it is not difficult to make something have the ability to think in the extraordinary world, whether it is cultivating the soul of an instrument or sealing certain souls into objects.
However, these items have a fatal shortcoming - they are high cost and require extremely high requirements on operators, so they are not destined to be widely promoted.
Not to mention that except for a very small number of growth magic weapons, most of the weapon spirits can only maintain the level when they appear, which also greatly limits their scope of use.
So under the initiative of the previous Juzi, this machine began to be built. However, after two years of the original plan, the computer that gathered the power of the entire school could only perform the simplest four arithmetic operations.
For this world with extraordinary power, such a machine can be said to be worthless, and most people in the Mohist family also hope to turn their attention to the research and production of various magical weapons.
But when Hu Weiyong, the Prime Minister at the time, saw this cabinet-sized computer that could only do four simple arithmetic operations, he immediately realized that it was an existence that would change the future.
He began to mobilize his own power and connections to provide a large amount of money and manpower for the project, and converted the project into a national project.
Compared with the school of thought, the country was obviously much more powerful, so a larger computer was built in less than a year, and had the ability to perform low-power exponentiation and square root operations.
Many leaders in the empire do not understand the significance of this project. They feel that, let alone some extraordinary powers, it is simply impossible to use such a large machine to solve problems that can be solved by just one person with a pen and paper.
waste.
Fortunately, the military and Qin Tian Supervisor saw the potential of this computer, and after receiving their investment, the plan was smoothly promoted. Soon, more complex computers showed stronger computing power.
For example, this computer can now complete the workload of a person in one day without eating, drinking or sleeping for an entire year without making any errors.
The excellent performance also makes everyone willing to believe that this type of machine will become a new source of strength for the entire country.
"——The biggest problem now is that we still can't get rid of the help of extraordinary power. For example, all mechanical parts can only ensure sufficient accuracy by using extraordinary power."
After a brief exchange of greetings, Juzi began to introduce the project.
"In addition, the power source is also a big problem. We can't find a power source that can guarantee stable power supply and can be used all year round, so we can only use extraordinary power."
"This is already very good." Prime Minister Yao Guangxiao is very satisfied with the current situation, because both the military and the Qintian Supervisor have received a lot of benefits from this project.
Especially in terms of mathematical calculations and data sorting, this computer can be said to be unparalleled - everyone has tried training machines or similar things, but those things really can't learn mathematics.
"The Bank Secretary is calling quickly——"
At this moment, the small door next to the main gate opened, and then an official wearing a black flying fish uniform ran in. At the same time, he shouted loudly, and everyone on the scene moved out of the way.
This is the highest-level emergency in the empire. Only the chief official of one place is eligible at the same time. At the same time, if the matter is not urgent, the official who issued the emergency will be demoted or even punished.
Therefore, this channel will only be activated in the most urgent situations, and each activation represents the occurrence of an important event.
So when the document was delivered, Yao Guangxiao's face immediately became serious, and he took the document.
Since there was too much content in the document, he simply skipped the context and read only the important sentences:
"——The gods died suddenly, innocent people were slaughtered, and thousands of people suffered from hanging upside down. They were getting worse day by day... When disasters come, no one can stop them. I beg the court to dispatch troops and generals to ward off the enemy's attack... I only use
What I see day by day is painted into a picture, but it is already shocking to the eyes, but is there anything even like this?..."
Yao Guangxiao was very surprised that a small county magistrate dared to speak quickly on the bank, and what the other party said made the prime minister, who had been a monk, treat him differently.
When he unfolded the attached map, the red dots on the map made his eyes widen. A few minutes later, he ordered the officials around him to immediately find information about the replacement of gods and similar mountains near the mouth of the Yangzi River in the past year.
Information about ghost attacks.
After reading the picture, he asked the Mohist Juzi to stop the computer's calculations, and then calculated a series of data based on the information found by the officials, and then deduced the possible enemies and their strength based on those data.
Only then did they discover that some officials had filed a petition about this six months ago, but because those officials did not conduct a comprehensive analysis and report through ordinary channels, no one realized that something was wrong.
"The attackers will number about 20,000 people and attack the entire Yangtze River estuary from the sea in 10 to 15 days."
Naturally, the information collected as the center was much more than that collected by Liang En and the others, and the experts who could analyze it were much better than the three of them. Therefore, Yao Guangxiao obtained a detailed analysis after more than two hours.
"What is certain is that a large-scale war is about to break out in South Zhili."
"Qitai, the governor of Southern Zhili, was incompetent and put the people in trouble. So many things happened under his nose and he was not noticed."
After reading the analysis report, Yao Guangxiao, who usually remained calm even when the mountains were falling, became extremely angry, but he soon regained his composure.
"Convene the political hall to hold an imperial meeting. I hope a decision can be made today. After all, Magistrate Yuanhe has bought us ten days, and I hope it will not be wasted."