After returning to Chongqing, the first thing Deng Ming did was to inspect the work of the Feng Shui Research Society. Deng Ming didn't know how the scientists in his previous life had discovered the principles of electromagnetism, but that didn't prevent him from copying them - of course, Deng Ming combined many theories and terms from this era to ensure that the people of the Feng Shui Institute could understand them.

Although Deng Ming invested a lot of money in this research society, the metal wire pulled out did not look very good, but Chen Siyuan, the person in charge of the Feng Shui Research Association, was already very proud. If it weren't for this skilled and intelligent lacquer worker, Deng Ming would not have thought of seeing results even if he threw ten times the money into the research society.

Chen Siyuan is the only person in this research group who knows the source of the theory and design, and Deng Ming does not intend to let his name appear in the history of electricity in this universe, at most as a sponsor of this exploration direction. Deng Ming believed that he had already gained too much prestige because of his military success, and that authority would always be the enemy of scientific progress. Deng Ming wrote a book about his junior high school and high school electrical knowledge, gave it to Chen Siyuan alone, and asked him to swear never to reveal the book.

Deng Ming's excuse was that his knowledge of Feng Shui had been taught by an immortal who had asked him never to make the book public. Although Deng Ming took advantage of the loophole in the oath, if this matter spread, it would still bring him heavenly punishment. After carefully copying the handwritten book of Deng Ming and confirming that it was correct, he burned the original book, and secretly made up his mind in his heart that he would see the king of Yama in the future, and would rather go into the oil pot than reveal Deng Ming's name.

While the other members were still speculating about how to use this thing to predict fortunes, Chen Siyuan was immersed in the bright prospects depicted in Deng Ming's book.

The vitality of heaven and earth in Chen Siyuan's mouth actually comes from the concept of energy in Deng Ming's heart. Deng Ming said to Chen Siyuan that it is the vitality that makes the clouds rise and the rain falls, and the rivers flow, and the machinery we are about to build can refine the vitality that drives the rivers to flow - Chen Siyuan faintly felt that this was of course stealing the property of the Heavenly Court, so he was also mentally prepared to be punished by heaven.

And in Deng Ming's book, he called this kind of vitality electricity, and he told Chen Siyuan that this is the mana of Lei Gong and Dian Mu. The electric energy is divided into yin and yang, and under normal circumstances, the yin and yang electric energy always tends to be mixed; It is only when the metal moves in the magnet that the yin and yang energy converges to the two ends of the metal: this invisible electric energy flows like a river, and in the process of flowing, it generates heat.

"The immortal said that this vitality can be used to generate heat, and we have confirmed it; Well, Xian Weng also said that he could use his vitality to shine and let the instrument work on its own...... "Chen Siyuan asked.

"Of course, will the fairy be wrong?" Deng Ming replied in a natural tone: "Yuan Qi pushes all things in the world, makes the sun shine, and makes rivers flow, so as long as the method is appropriate, the refined Yuan Qi can of course shine and promote the movement of equipment." ”

After confirming the initial results of his investment, Deng Ming asked Chen Siyuan to gradually pass on the knowledge taught by Xian Weng to others, of course, this still has to be in the name of Chen Siyuan: "The formula given by Xian Weng, as well as resistance and voltage, you don't take it out all at once, you have to take it slowly." ”

Since Chen Siyuan is the professor of Xianweng, then Deng Ming also called electricity a spell, and told Chen Siyuan that he could study spells through guò and become a ** teacher.

Deng Ming was still hesitant to fund another alchemy research society, but he decided to take precautions and establish a base for these research institutes in advance: "I will set aside a piece of land for you to study spells." The capital is not divided by pavilions now, well, this area is called Fifty-one Pavilions. ”

In the future, if there are other research departments, they can also move here, and Deng Ming intends to give the best security protection and the highest priority to the construction of facilities here.

"It seems that there are fifty-one pavilions." Chen Siyuan said that the kiosks established in Chengdu are numbered in order to facilitate management.

"It doesn't matter, starting from the current fifty-one pavilions, all the other pavilions will be postponed by one." Deng Ming is obviously not afraid of trouble.

"Fifty-one." Chen Siyuan muttered and asked suspiciously, "Is there any explanation for this number?" ”

"Heaven must not be revealed."

For the time being, there was no prospect of using electric energy, and Deng Wei fell into deep chagrin that he knew nothing about the steam engine or the internal combustion engine.

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Three hundred and fifty years later.

The end of the sixteenth century is the most exciting flashpoint when introducing the history of the development of human science (the Chinese word for this universe is not translated as science but spell) and the outstanding figures in it, and the author of a brief history of human science begins his book by saying:

"If I had to choose a piece of history to look at, I would choose the 51st district of Chengdu in China after the year 2220 (the first year of the birth of Confucius), or the University of Cambridge in England after 1670, which was the most glorious moment in the history of science."

Newton of England and Chen Siyuan of China are always mentioned at the same time: an apple gave Newton a glimpse of the mysteries of mechanics, while Chen Siyuan summarized and put forward conjectures about electricity from the use of magnets in feng shui, and his definitions of voltage, resistance, and current and related formulas have been used until the space age of mankind.

Chen Siyuan believed in gods and Buddhas, which was a very normal phenomenon among early scientists, and there were no atheists in that era, but only a few decades later, the situation changed dramatically...... Chen Siyuan was undoubtedly greatly influenced by the traditional Chinese theory of yin and yang, so he guessed that electricity was divided into two types, yin and yang, and boldly asserted that lightning was also an electrical phenomenon with his genius intuition...... The laws of electricity and mechanics appeared in the East and West at about the same time. When the scientists from the East and the West communicated, they were amazed by each other's talents and quickly learned from each other. ”

Great figures undoubtedly influenced each other, and other Chinese masters soon summed up alchemy (a discipline called chemistry in parallel universes) from classical alchemy, and other Chinese scientists also proposed the element hypothesis and speculated that it was the electrical attraction in elemental particles that formed stable compounds. During Deng Ming's time, Chengdu University was the first university in the world to open an alchemy department (chemistry department), and those who made outstanding contributions in this field were awarded the title of Great Alchemist.

Optics came from Europe, and the controversy between wave and particle properties also came to China along the ocean. In the late Deng Ming era, a Chinese scientist (a first-class teacher in the Department of Optics at Sichuan University) discovered the photoelectric reaction, which caused a sensation in the scientific community. Soon after, an anonymous contributor proposed the wave-particle duality hypothesis – an anonymous manuscript that had no argument and therefore didn't make much sense, but was undoubtedly a hint that other optics masters had written papers on this conjecture – opening the door to quantum research.

When the advanced universe discovered the backward parallel universe, the scientists observed with great interest the history of the scientific development of their neighbors, and they found that there was only one of the two geniuses left in the parallel universe, Chen Siyuan, who was known as the most intelligent human in history like Newton, seemed to have been annihilated in the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty - China was conquered by the Manchus and made no contribution to the development of science. And because alchemy did not appear in China in time, Newton, who made great contributions to both electromagnetism and alchemy in the advanced universe, studied alchemy for decades in his later years.

As a result, until 1942, when the parallel universe observatory was put into operation, humans in the neighborhood were still using primitive fossil energy sources to power their vehicles. The scientific community noticed that this neighbor had taken a detour, and their electricity appeared very late, so for a long period of time, they were extremely dependent on various fossil energy sources and went further and further down this wrong path, and even after the advent of electricity, they could not completely replace the location of fossil energy, nor could they enjoy all the research power exclusively. Perhaps because electricity came so late, the neighbor's research on microscopic particles, dimensions, and space-time has lagged behind. After several years of observations, the scientific community came to the conclusion that:

"On the whole, our neighbors are one hundred and fifty years behind us. Interestingly, though, they didn't acquire the ability to fly much later than we did. Because they are taking the road of fossil energy, their aircraft actually appeared before the computer, what an unreasonable scientific development route - they flew out of the earth not too long later than us, and they also use fossil energy. And our research on starships came after the widespread use of implantable memories and computer chips. ”

In this advanced universe where the application of electrical energy was greatly advanced, the steam engine and the internal combustion engine never had a place in the industrial field, and it was not until the high-energy battery was designed with the help of electronic computers that human beings in the advanced universe produced manned vehicles with both global capabilities and commercial value in 1852. Fifty years later, the first space shuttle was built; After another forty years, it has the ability to observe parallel universes.

In the year 2013, a student sighed on the communication network: "In the initial choice of energy, our masters of the universe chose electric energy, and today the scope of human activities has stepped out of the solar system, and one foot has stepped into the threshold of immortal silicon-based organisms; And our neighbors are still paying the price for their choice of fossil fuel paths, and their most powerful countries have less energy to use than we can individually, and they are struggling with the environmental degradation of their only planet. ”

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On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, after Deng Ming had selected the site for the 51st Pavilion, he came to the venue of the Imperial Parliament. The seats in front of him were full, and all the Imperial Councillors were there early, waiting to hear Deng Ming's speech to them.