After Chen Mu talked about this matter with Liu Bei, he returned home. A luncheon was now being held in full swing at the Chen family residence.
A wedding is a big day, and all relatives and friends should be invited to come over for a meal. In the "Etiquette: Shihun Li", this is called setting up a banquet and entertaining relatives and friends.
In addition, there are also very complicated and cumbersome etiquette, including the location of the seats, which is quite troublesome.
Soon it was noon, and relatives and friends from all walks of life came.
In addition to Zhang Fei Jushou who came from Pingyuan Kingdom for the meeting, Wang Jun, the former emperor's constant attendant, was also in Qingzhou. The Wang family had moved here and was already living and working in Qingzhou. Wang Jun himself also spent his old age here.
Chen Mu met with many old friends, exchanged heart-to-hearts, and asked them to sit down one after another, waiting for the banquet to begin.
Liu Bei, Zhang Fei Ju, Xun Yu, Wang Jun, Zheng Xuan and other people with higher status and close to Chen Mu held a separate banquet. There were dozens of seats in the outdoor courtyard, while others made dozens of rows of long banquets in the square outside.
The seats are more crowded than those with individual seats.
In addition to many relatives and friends, members of the Chen and Qin clans, there were also officials from Linzi, some relatives and friends, several old masters from the academy, and Chen Mu's students.
Zhuge Liang, who was only six years old back then, is now thirteen years old. He looks like a grown-up, with a face as beautiful as a crown jewel and very handsome appearance.
According to original history, Zhuge Liang's father Zhuge Gui died when he was eight years old. After Zhuge Gui's younger brother Zhuge Xuan took care of the future, Zhuge Liang followed his uncle and moved around, finally settling in Jingzhou.
But now when Zhuge Gui passed away, Qingzhou invited Zhuge Xuan to serve as Beihai County Magistrate, so the three Zhuge brothers stayed in Qingzhou and did not move away.
In addition to him, there were more than 40 people in the large and small classes of Taishan Academy at the beginning, and there were also more than ten people including Kong Jian from the Kong family, Yao Bo from the Yao family, Huang Qi from the Huang family, and all of them have now entered Taishan Academy.
The people who stay here are basically close to their families. They are either the children of local aristocratic families in Qingzhou, so they don’t have to worry about the dangers of going out or getting into trouble in troubled times. Or they are like Kong Jian, who lives in the nearby Lu country and can’t live far away.
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Everyone else left at the same time, and most of the earliest batch from Taishan Academy left.
For example, Lu Yi has followed his ancestor back to Lujiang, and Chen Qun's brothers have also returned to Yingchuan. The reason why they were in Qingzhou before was because Lu Kang, Lu Yi's ancestor, was the prime minister of Le'an, and Chen Qun's Chen Ji was the prime minister of Pingyuan, but
Both of them have already left office, so in troubled times, they naturally dare not leave their children abroad.
The Cui brothers did not leave. After all, Qinghe Kingdom was very close to Qingzhou. However, they were no longer studying in Taishan Academy. Instead, they went to Taishan Academy. After all, seven years had passed and these children had grown up.
When Zhuge Liang saw Chen Mu, he knelt down respectfully and kowtowed as a disciple: "Liang has met Master."
"Get up."
Chen Mu helped him up and looked him up and down: "I haven't seen him in a few years. He has grown a lot taller. How is his academic progress?"
Zhuge Liang said seriously: "It's okay."
Zhuge Xuan on the side couldn't help stroking his beard and smiling: "This child is so humble. After entering the Academy, he ranked among the best in various grades. Last month, he also used Huang mentioned in the letter written by Dr. Guanglu to the Academy of Chemistry.
The muddy water discoloration method successfully removed the pure white stone honey."
Stone honey is the condensate of sugarcane juice. Sugarcane has a very long history of development in my country. It has been recorded in literature during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Western Han Dynasty, it has been widely planted throughout the country, such as in the Yellow River Basin in the north, including Cao Pi's "Sense of Feelings". "Wu Fu", it was recorded that sugar cane was planted in his courtyard.
As the main source of sugar, sugar cane is naturally distributed in Qingzhou. However, the sugar produced from sugar cane at that time was dark, which was the solid sucrose after the sugar cane juice was boiled and cooled. There were many impurities in it and the color was very ugly.
But even so, brown sugar was still a luxury product enjoyed by dignitaries at that time and was very expensive.
Taishan Academy has already established a chemistry discipline. Although the current research is still in its very early stages, there are still some achievements in various aspects. For example, under the guidance of Chen Mu, sulfuric acid was produced by retorting stone gallbladder, and then
Hydrochloric acid is produced by mixing sulfuric acid and table salt and heating it.
Now Zhuge Liang has used yellow mud to remove impurities from brown sugar, adding another achievement to this discipline.
In fact, that's not all. In recent years, Qingzhou has also secretly purchased sulfur minerals in Jingzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou and other places, as well as saltpeter minerals in Yizhou and Liangzhou, to prepare in advance for the manufacture of gunpowder in the future.
In addition, dozens of chemicals including nitric acid, calcium hydroxide, sodium sulfate, potassium nitrate, etc. have been discovered and named by these chemists from the Academy.
The reason why so many chemicals are so easy to discover is also simple.
Firstly, these chemical substances themselves widely exist in nature. They are substances separated from some natural ores by boiling them with fire and other methods. They are very easy to prepare. Secondly, some chemical substances have been studied by alchemists in ancient times.
, such as Liu An of the Western Han Dynasty and Wei Ao of the Eastern Han Dynasty were both famous alchemists. These two people were highly accomplished in smelting.
Among them, Wei Ao, a famous ancient chemist who was born in the first year of Yuanjia, is now in Taishan Academy. He is 41 years old and is obsessed with alchemy all day long. He dares to throw any mess into the furnace. Chen Mu provides a theory
Wei Ao led his disciples to carry out practical operations and achieved many useful results.
So don’t think too hard about chemistry in many cases. This subject is actually a subject that mixes elements that originally existed in nature and reacts them by heating them to become another new element. As long as there are raw materials,
Those alchemy students in Taishan Academy who are obsessed with chemistry don't care if they blow up the academy.
It is just because of its danger that the administrators of the academy can only open a quiet place for them to conduct experiments. Otherwise, with the hundreds of students studying chemistry in Taishan Academy, several people will be killed or injured every year.
, Zheng Xuan, Wang Lieguan, Ning Bingyuan and other old masters, were also afraid that they would really bring harm to other students.
Hearing that Zhuge Liang was so promising, Chen Mu was unhappy and worried. He frowned and persuaded: "Ah Liang, although chemistry is broad and profound and can greatly help people's lives, it is a very dangerous subject after all.
If you have the talent to govern the country and secure it, you should focus on learning the art of governing the country and not get involved in this way again."
He didn't want a famous strategist, politician, military strategist, writer, or inventor to become a chemist. That would be a waste of Zhuge Liang's talent. Chen Mu also hoped that Zhuge Liang could take over from him when he gets old.
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Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang said with a smile: "Chemistry is still very interesting, but I am just curious to give it a try. I have not joined the Chemistry College of Wei Normal University. I am still in the enrollment stage. I am studying Confucianism with Zheng Jun. I have not officially joined yet."
In a certain subject, I just often go to other colleges to audit and learn by analogy."
"That's good."
Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
It was he who gave the name of the School of Chemistry, which is interpreted as "the subject of change".
In addition, there are the Confucian School, the School of Political Science, the School of Mathematics, the School of Science, the School of Economics, the School of Medicine, the School of War, the School of Agriculture, the School of Law, the School of Earth, the School of Heaven, etc., representing Confucianism, politics, and mathematics respectively.
, Physics, medicine, art of war, economics, agriculture, law, geology, astronomy and other studies.
In fact, these subjects are not fabricated out of thin air. Rather, these subjects already existed as early as the pre-Qin period.
Needless to say, Confucianism was founded by Confucius and is the foundation of all disciplines. After entering Taishan Academy, you must first study Confucian classics before you can study in other colleges.
The Institute of Political Science is the way to build a country. It was taken from the political strategists of the pre-Qin period, with Guiguzi’s school of thought as the main research direction. Among the books written by Chen Mu now, there are dragon-slaying techniques in this area, such as in-depth studies of various classes in the Han Dynasty.
Books about class analysis, such as from slaves to powerful men, aristocratic families, and political clans, will also be released from political academies in the future.
There is also the School of Physics, which is derived from Mohism and Luban Shu and studies mechanical aspects. Ma Jun and various inventors gathered here to discuss the theoretical knowledge of physics provided by Chen Mu and at the same time put these theoretical knowledge into practice.
Trying to develop more tools to improve productivity, their most important research direction now is the steam engine.
In addition, the Agricultural College is for farmers in the pre-Qin period, the Law School is for legalists, the Military College is for military strategists, the Mathematics College is for mathematicians, the Medical College is for physicians, the Earth College is for geographers, the Astronomical College is for astronomers, and the School of Economics is for economists
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These schools of thought that existed as early as the pre-Qin period were picked up again by Taishan Academy and continued to shine and spread their remaining warmth.
To put it simply, the current Taishan Academy is just a Confucian cloak. In fact, the hundreds of schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have once again revived and become what they were before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundreds of schools of thought and only respected Confucianism.
Confucianism is the core ideology, and other subjects are mainly practical.
This is the pragmatism that Qingzhou now advocates.
Some people may say that Confucianism, political strategists, Mohism, farmers, legalists, medical experts, military strategists, and mathematicians are understandable. They are indeed hundreds of schools of thought among the pre-Qin scholars, and they still existed during the Han Dynasty.
But geographers, astronomers, and economists are a bit outrageous. How could they exist in ancient times?
However, people like Li Daoyuan, Zhang Heng, and Guan Zhong are all representatives of these subjects. However, they did not create this subject, which does not mean that they did not pay attention to this aspect of knowledge.
Therefore, the ancients' exploration of the world was actually very advanced, but because their research on chemical physics was not profound, they could not live as simple and convenient as people today.
However, since these disciplines have only developed for seven or eight years, the research progress is still quite slow. Currently, they are still in the stage of studying and restoring the literature materials left by various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period.
It is estimated that it will take several years or even decades to reach the innovation stage. Therefore, at present, the research of Taishan Academy still cannot provide much help to the Qingzhou Group's battlefield.
Of course, scientific research is a long process, and Chen Mu did not expect that they could create long guns and short cannons in a few years.
So now they are just laying a foundation. I just hope that within one or two hundred years, they can reach the level of later generations in the 19th century. We do not expect Taishan Academy to develop any future technology overnight.
After meeting Zhuge Liang, Chen Mu met some other students, as well as teachers from major colleges in Taishan Academy, such as Wei Ao, Ma Jun, and Wu Pu.
He plans to continue teaching at Taishan Academy and Taishan Academy next year to polish this group of students.
Because he estimated that except for the final battle at the end of this year, there should be no major wars in the next two years.
In ancient times, productivity was insufficient, so it was not that simple to launch a large-scale battlefield.
Food, grass, soldiers and horses, financial resources, weapons and equipment must all be prepared in advance.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's crusade against the Xiongnu required the precipitation of Wenjing's rule.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty's campaign against the Turks lasted for more than thirty years.
Now Qingzhou has just finished the war with Dong Zhuo. It has consumed a lot of food, grass, soldiers and horses, and needs to recuperate. We cannot learn from Yuan Shao in history. He just defeated Gongsun Zan and wanted to rush for success to deal with Cao Cao, which led to the Battle of Guandu.
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Therefore, as long as Tao Qian and Yuan Shu can be defeated this year, there will definitely be a period of peace in the next one or two years. When the strength is accumulated, Wang Fen can be eliminated in one fell swoop and the north can be pacified.
However, Chen Mu didn't know that plans could never keep up with changes. He thought that within one or two years there would be a period of peace, but he couldn't stand the fact that the world was changing so fast. The current situation was changing every day. His idea of stability was destined to be shattered.
We entertained all the relatives and friends at the luncheon, and towards dusk in the afternoon, it was finally time to welcome them in person.