From another perspective, the establishment of a polytechnic is to bury the seeds of knowledge in the soil of the Chinese nation.
For a nation, having one Li Zhi is not enough. Even if Li Zhi led the team to engage in research and development for 365 days, he could only advance the technological level to the level of the 19th century in a few industries.
Industrial production in the 19th century was still very simple. As an industrial designer, Li Zhi had seen many industrial design drawings of this era before traveling through time, and was familiar with various machines. But going forward, the division of labor in industry became more and more complex.
The finer the product, the more complex the product. Not only has Li Zhi never learned to understand those complicated machines, but even if Li Zhi had some knowledge, he would not be able to produce those complicated machines out of thin air.
Because by the end of the 19th century and the 20th century, industry had become a system. The production of any part of a large machinery involved a large number of other industries. For industrial products at the end of the 19th century, any industry
The success of any product requires the cooperation of the entire industrial system.
For example, even if a complete set of drawings of an internal combustion engine were given to Indians of this era, Indians with no industrial foundation would not be able to produce such products. Even a screw or a lighter on an internal combustion engine cannot be made by Indians.
come out.
The further the industry develops, the more it becomes a system, requiring a social division of labor and cooperation, and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of engineers to collectively tackle difficult problems.
For engineers, theoretical knowledge is the basis for the development of all skills. Only by cultivating a group of talents with basic scientific knowledge can qualified engineers be trained and trained from these talents.
Li Zhi led a group of factory executives into the polytechnic, walked into the classroom, and saw two textbooks placed on the desk.
One is physics and the other is chemistry.
Li Zhi has compiled and compiled these two books over the past six months and wrote them himself. These two books contain high school level scientific knowledge. Li Zhi plans to recruit polytechnic students from primary school graduates in Tianjin. Of course, those who have studied in primary school will
Active workers are the priority for recruitment. For students who have studied in elementary school, it is not difficult to study these two books in three years.
Li Zhi is responsible for all the tuition fees for the one thousand students of the polytechnic. Even food, clothing and accommodation expenses are financially allocated. Students only need to study at ease in school, and even poor families can afford it.
Li Zhi's second uncle Li Dao opened the physics textbook on the desk and took a casual look.
But Li Dao quickly frowned. Unfortunately, Li Dao didn't understand even one page.
For people in this era, knowledge of physics and chemistry is undoubtedly advanced science.
In the past, it was impossible for Li Zhi to popularize this scientific knowledge. In the past, what was more important to Li Zhi was technological confidentiality. Only by hiding technical secrets could Li Zhi gain technological advantages when facing other forces. At that time, Li Zhi even
People should be sent to monitor the workers who master the technology, and the technology should be kept in the hands of a few people as much as possible to facilitate confidentiality work.
But as Li Zhi's power grows, the difficulty of keeping technology secrets becomes less difficult. In the past, when Li Zhi was weak, technicians only needed to seek refuge with other senior officials in Tianjin to sell out Li Zhi's technology. But now technicians want to sell out Li Zhi
, even if the technology is sold to other provinces, Li Zhi will obviously pursue him all the way.
Ruan Dacheng's family was wiped out by Li Zhi even though he was making counterfeit banknotes in Anqing Mansion. This shows that Li Zhi's revenge methods are sharp now.
So now, unless it is some sophisticated military technology, Li Zhi does not need to be as vigilant as before. For some civilian technology, especially theoretical knowledge, Li Zhi can teach a large number of specific groups of people. The losses caused by these talents selling knowledge to the outside world
, far less than the contribution this group of talents brought to Li Zhi after they took up the position of engineers.
Of course, at this stage, Li Zhi is still doing some basic confidentiality work to prevent this scientific knowledge from flowing into the West and being used by brutal Western colonists.
Li Zhi was looking at the classroom there, but he saw a hundred new students of the college standing outside the classroom.
Li Zhi walked over and walked up to a small young man.
"What did you do before you entered school?"
"Xiaomin is a worker in the bearing factory."
"Have you read the textbook? How many pages did you understand?"
"You can understand the first ten pages of the physics textbook, but you can't understand the rest."
Li Zhi smiled and asked, "What are you going to do after graduation?"
The young man puffed up his chest and said, "I plan to return to the bearing factory to work as an engineer to improve the quality of Fanjiazhuang precision bearings."
"good!"
Li Zhi patted the young man's shoulder and nodded.
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In a gun workshop in Batavia, rifle maker Basten sat on a chair and looked carefully at a Minie rifle bullet in his hand.
It was a Mini bullet used by Li Zhi's Tiger Army. This bullet was shot into the body of a Dutch soldier in Hsinchu, and was later removed by a Dutch doctor with a scalpel. There are more than a dozen such bullets in the military doctor Stam.
He kept these bullets in his weapon room. It was not until recently, when the new Batavia Governor Kuhn took office, that Batavia officials paid attention to these new rifle bullets.
The unit of length used by the Dutch in this era was called "ell", which was about sixty-nine centimeters long. Knowing that Li Zhi's rifle could accurately shoot targets on 300 "ells" and could shoot three times a minute, the new governor immediately ordered
Give the rifle bullets in the equipment room to the riflesmith for research.
One of the bullets, which was in good shape, was assigned to Basten.
Basten was a skilled rifle maker.
In fact, the rifle was born very early. Rifles were already born in the 16th century when matchlocks were commonly used in continental Europe. The Germans in the early 15th century had discovered that rifling the barrel of the matchlock could make the bullet fly more stably.
In the era of knights and retinues, rifles were already made.
However, loading rifle bullets has always been a problem. To make the bullets and the rifling in the barrel bite together, bullets slightly larger than the barrel caliber must be used. When loading, the rifleman must use a hammer to hammer the steel rod.
Knock the bullet from the barrel. It usually takes more than three minutes for the rifleman to complete a kill.
Not to mention the damage to the rifling caused by loading like this.
This was the first time Basten saw Mini bullets. He saw that the tail end of this lead bullet was larger than the front end, and there was a bulge on the tail end that meshed with the rifling. The experienced Basten knew that the tail end of the lead bullet was larger than the front end.
There is no doubt that this Ming Dynasty bullet is a rifle bullet.
Basten asked the corporal standing next to him: "The Ming Dynasty's rifle can shoot three times a minute?"
The corporal replied: "Yes, Mr. Basten."
Basten played with the bullet in his hand and turned the bullet to the back. He saw the hole in the butt of the bullet.
Basten was stunned for a moment, then picked up a rifle beside him. He loaded the bullet into the rifle's chamber, and then poured it out.
He suddenly became happy: "Smart people from the Ming Dynasty."
He turned around and said to the corporal next to him: "Go and report to the governor, I know the secret of the Ming people's rifles!" (.)
