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In order to avoid entertainment, Yang Yi has been hiding in the new house of Xingguofang for the past few days, except for the notes and books every day, that is, to have fun with beauties, and the life is not comfortable.

Two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Yang Yi and Thirteen Niang, as well as Mu Wanling and Ling Zi, came to the grange outside their city early in the morning and personally distributed New Year goods to the villagers, each family with ten pounds of pork, one cotton cloth, and some fruit and vegetable cakes.

Dealers with the old and young to receive, all smiles, each family received the value of the New Year's goods worth about five dollars, say not much, say less, there are family difficulties can also receive more, always a heart of the Yang family, the Zhuang family is grateful, straight to the thirteen Niang they as a living Bodhisattva.

The main function of the Changping position is to harvest grain in good years and produce grain in disaster years, so as to stabilize the grain prices in the market as much as possible, and avoid the cheap grain hurting the peasants, or the grain prices soaring in disaster years.

The people also have more Yicang, Yicang is mostly organized by the clan, donated grain money by the rich households in the clan, or set aside a piece of public land in the clan, the income of the public land belongs to Yicang, Yicang is mainly used to help the farmers in difficulty in living in the clan, the state attaches great importance to Yicang, from Renzong, the emperors of all dynasties have made a holy decree against Yicang, which has played a great role in helping the disadvantaged groups.

The Yang family also built a Yicang, but the meaning of relief is not much, because the Yang family's households are relatively wealthy, so the Yicang is no longer aimed at a certain villager, but like the administrative units of later generations, some gifts are distributed as benefits during the New Year's holidays.

In addition to the Zhuang family, the teachers and students in the Academy of Sciences are indispensable.

Today, the Academy of Sciences has more than 500 skilled craftsmen and more than 200 students. The Great Song Dynasty did not restrict private academies, whether they were private schools scattered throughout the country. It is still a world-renowned higher education place like Yuelu Academy, which is privately run. As long as reactionary rhetoric is not promoted, the authorities do not interfere too much in the teaching methods of the college.

The special feature of the Yang Academy of Sciences is that it not only teaches Confucianism, but integrates encyclopedias, integrates scientific research and teaching, and many textbooks are compiled by Yang Yi and Thirteen Niang themselves, and the students first learn Chinese and mathematics for a few years, and then increase the knowledge of geometry, physics, chemistry and other aspects after a few years. At the same time, he practiced with professors in the Academy of Sciences.

Because Yang Yi is famous all over the world, and the college does not charge tuition, and also provides students with a living allowance of three meals and one night, many children of peasant families want to enter the academy to study, Yang Yi takes into account the lack of teachers in the academy, and currently accepts 100 students a year, and then slowly increases the income after the conditions are met.

Yang Yi and the others walked towards the Academy of Sciences. The dean of Thirteen Niang introduced to him the situation of the Academy of Sciences in the past year: "Official, in addition to the 12 scientific research projects you have arranged, such as steam engines, yellow explosives, textile machines, hydraulic presses, and penicillin, more than 30 new research projects of various sizes such as clocks, glass, cement, and instruments have been opened this year. ”

"How's it going?" Yang Yi asked with a smile.

"There are more than 10 kinds of results, and the most valuable ones are the table clock and glass. However, both are still a bit insufficient, and the grandfather clock is usually two or three minutes slower at the end of the day. There are also deficiencies in glass, and there are many bubbles in the finished product. Further improvements are needed. ”

When Yang Yi heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "The grandfather clock is slowing down." You guys solve it yourself, I have a way to solve the problem of glass bubbles. ”

"Really? The official said quickly. ”

"Well, it's very simple, that is, during the dissolution process, constant stirring can effectively eliminate air bubbles in the solution."

Thirteen Niang said happily when she heard this: "After the New Year, let the concubines try it." ”

The Academy of Sciences has taken annual leave, but the craftsmen and their families have been placed in the Zhuangzi, so there are still many people who continue to study the projects they are responsible for in the Academy.

In particular, Huang Zuo and Di Daye, who were in charge of the steam engine and yellow explosives, simply forgot to sleep and eat, because these two projects were the key projects that Yang Yi confessed, what they wanted from the Yang family, and the treatment was extremely generous, but they had not produced results in two years, which made them feel very ashamed.

Yang Yi's arrival made everyone feel that they couldn't raise their heads, Yang Yi not only did not blame them, but comforted and encouraged them more, and at the same time discussed with them for a long time, like the steam engine has been roughly made, but due to poor breath-holding, large energy consumption, large volume, low work efficiency, and little practicability.

But this is also a very good progress, as long as the research is carried out slowly, after solving the problem of apnea, the steam engine will no longer be a problem when it is put into practice.

In terms of yellow explosives, there has also been great progress, at least dissolving mercury into nitric acid to create thunder mercury, this thing is extremely dangerous, Yang Yi has repeatedly warned them, they would rather be slower, but also must ensure safety, glycerin, sulfuric acid and other substances are in the refining process, in fact, these are the real problems that need to be solved, with these things, how to prepare yellow explosives Yang Yi knows.

The research and manufacture of glass, cement, table clocks and other instruments Yang Yi also took the trouble to look at them one by one, among which glass and cement were refined, and the cement was not yet finished in a small blast furnace outside the Academy of Sciences, and Yang Yi only knew that the main raw materials of cement were limestone and clay, but the specific how to fire and the proportion of raw materials were unknown, which could only be slowly explored by the craftsmen. In addition to these large-scale research projects, the skilled craftsmen in the courtyard have also fiddled with many interesting small objects.

For example, a small fan, this small fan is gently shaken by hand, and there is a box at the air inlet to store ice, and the air passes through the ice cubes, which can play a role in cooling, and it is much cooler to cool off on hot days than a fan.

The craftsmen make the small fan into various shapes, delicate and beautiful, and can be used as decoration at home, but also have practicality, Han Bier has let people build a workshop to specialize in production, it is estimated that the sales are good, there are many similar small objects, and Ling Zi and Mu Wanling are amazed.

In addition to their own research, the Yang Academy of Sciences also acquires patents, whoever has any invention, can take it, as long as there is practical value, the Yang Academy of Sciences will fund and buy out. To this end, Yang Yi was ready to push the imperial court to introduce a patent law to protect and encourage private inventions.

When he came out of the Academy of Sciences, Yang Yi was pleased, although most of those big projects did not produce results, they have accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience, as long as they break through some bottlenecks, they can be done.

After getting into the car, Thirteen Niang quietly glanced at Yang Yi a few times before she squirmed and said, "Official, the concubine has something to tell you." ”

"Well, let's talk about it, the lady is well managed, and I'm very satisfied with the progress of the Academy of Sciences, let's say, what's the matter?"

"Without the consent of the officials, the concubines changed some regulations without authorization, that is, whoever produced the research and development results, 20% of the income from the transfer went to the craftsmen and scientists involved in the research and development."

Yang Yi couldn't help but laugh when he saw her spitting, well, the salary given by the Yang family is very generous, and the salary of a backbone is higher than that of Zhizhou.

And for a long time, even if it is the general of the imperial court, the craftsman is very low in terms of status and actual income, and the treatment given by the Yang family is now ten times better, which has made them grateful to Dade, and Thirteen Niang will reward the craftsman with 20% of the income from the transfer of scientific research results, no wonder there are many people in the academy who are selfless in their research even if they are on annual leave.

"The lady did the right thing, Emperor Zhenzong said that there is a golden house in the book, so that countless people sharpen their heads and study hard, we also want people to know that there is a mountain of gold in scientific research, as long as there are results, there will be rich returns, and you can live a life of fine clothes and food, which will have a great effect on the development of science and technology."

"Thank you, officer."

Yang Yi stretched out his hand and patted his fragrant shoulder, smiling without saying a word.

The Great Song Dynasty encouraged industry and commerce, and the social status of merchants was the highest in all dynasties, and after doing business and getting rich, you could build a princely mansion and wear silk and satin, unlike other dynasties, there were all kinds of harsh regulations on merchants, such as the children of merchants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examinations, etc., and the status of merchants was suppressed very low.

In the Great Song Dynasty, there were no such regulations at all, and the children of merchants were married to the families of eunuchs, and there was no provision that the children of merchants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

With such a relaxed policy, and the fact that the imperial examination is a single-plank bridge crossed by thousands of troops, there are only a few people who can be named on the gold list, and as long as they are slowly guided, it will not be difficult to attract some intellectuals to other aspects.

Yang Yi thought about it and was ready to use newspapers to vigorously promote the knowledge of physics, chemistry, machinery, medicine, etc., and whoever produced the results would vigorously publicize them and let him be famous all over the world;

At the same time, the establishment of awards in related disciplines, like the Nobel Prize, so that they are more glorious than the middle jinshi, I do not believe that this series of means cannot change the old habit of people who only know "the one who cares" all day long.

Well, the prize money for each award is tentatively set at 30,000 yuan, which is equivalent to about 10 million yuan in later generations, so that if you don't get into the jinshi and transfer to other disciplines, if you win the grand prize, it will be enough for you to raise a large group of beautiful wives and concubines and live a prosperous life for a lifetime.

As for funding, is there anything wrong with that? It's okay to invest money in the West Indian Ocean Trading Company to do the fund, but it's really not good to let Le Tao rob them, and after robbing Africa and the Americas, we are not short of money, hahaha!

The more Yang Yi thought about it, the happier he became, and he couldn't help laughing, and Thirteen Niang asked in surprise: "Official, what are you laughing at?" ”

"Hahaha, lady, let's hurry home and write for my husband."

"Oh, do you have another good work for the officials? It's good to read it first and listen to the concubine's body. "I don't know at first glance, Thirteen Niang is really much gentler than before, more like a little woman.

Yang Yi didn't avoid Mu Wanling's order, hugged Thirteen Niang's fragrant shoulders and said with a smile: "Well, this article by the official will definitely cause a sensation in the world and make many people crazy about it." ”

"Officials say it quickly, what kind of article is it, tell me quickly."

"The Buddha said, don't say, don't say, remember to help me polish the ink when the lady goes home.".

(To be continued......)