Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Empress Zhou smiled as she heard the slight whisper in her ears.

She clamped her legs and slowly sat on the brocade stool on the side.

"I don't know if the dragon crystal this time will allow me to give birth to a prince for Your Majesty..."

Queen Zhou's green-white arms rested on her cheeks.

Looking at the hazy emperor through the mosquito net, Queen Zhou had only one thought in her mind:

"I really want to give Your Majesty another little monkey..."

……

Daming Royal University City.

In a laboratory of the School of Petroleum and Industry.

Ding Wei is busy.

Ding Wei's students at the same time have all graduated and filled official circles everywhere.

Although they are just officials, most of them are only low-level officials of fourth or fifth grade.

However, when the emperor sets a clear path for promotion, his future as an official will not be cut off as soon as he joins a subordinate position as before.

The emperor even made clear rules for the promotion of officials.

In the laboratory, the fire was blazing and smoke was billowing.

All the windows on all sides were open, but the smoke still couldn't be dispersed.

The pungent smell of paste filled the nostrils.

Ding Wei pulled off his mask and kicked the test furnace angrily.

"What? Failed again?"

Song Yingxing walked in happily.

"Old Song!"

Ding Wei stood up hurriedly and stretched out his hand to scratch his messy hair.

He looked unwilling:

"Mr. Song, I failed again..."

Song Yingxing looked at the unshaven young man and laughed.

"Boy Ding!"

Song Yingxing walked up to Ding Wei and slapped him on the shoulder:

"Don't worry!

This is the case with every new thing that appears.

Tried thousands of times, but may not be able to succeed even once.

My child, calm down.

I've seen this experimental project of yours.

This is a good thing that will last forever!

Since it is a great achievement, how could it be possible to succeed so easily? "

Ding Wei rubbed his eyes vigorously, his dark hands making his already dirty face even dirtier.

Just like the butt of a tabby cat.

"Mr. Song, I have spent all three thousand silver dollars.

If I don't succeed, I really don't know how to repay His Majesty's kindness. "

Ding Wei's face was full of bitterness.

At the end of last year, the one-eyed brother's proposal opened another window for him.

After he experimented several times, because his family could not support such a huge experiment, he had to experiment and submit a report.

Unexpectedly, before he handed it in, he met the one-eyed brother who came to visit him.

After reading it, he took out the seal and stamped his big seal on his report.

Only then did Ding Wei know that the one-eyed brother he called his brother was actually the former emperor of Dashun and the current king of Dashun, Li Zicheng.

For a moment, Ding Wei didn't know how to get along with Li Zicheng.

Who would have thought that Li Zicheng would have no airs and act like a big brother.

He kept praising his wonderful ideas.

It was with Li Zicheng's encouragement that Ding Wei finally submitted this report.

Unexpectedly, one of my ideas was personally approved by the emperor.

He was specially recruited to become an assistant professor at the School of Petroleum and Industry of the Royal University of Ming Dynasty.

Every day, in addition to spending an hour to teach new science students using the knowledge I just learned last year.

At other times, you can tinker with your own ideas.

Who would have thought that he spent a total of three thousand silver dollars - this is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Still have no clue.

Ding Wei lowered his head, glanced at the experimental procedures, and murmured:

"Purification, evaporation, sulfidation...catalysis, nitrification, high-temperature heating...sulfidation, nitrification..."

Ding Wei raised his head and looked at Song Yingxing, who had gray hair on his temples:

"Mr. Song, am I a waste?

Your Majesty believed in me so much and gave me so much funding for experiments, but I didn’t get anything done..."

"Hahaha!"

Song Yingxing turned off the stove, stretched out his hand to grab Ding Wei, and pulled him to the pool outside the door:

"Child, wash your face first and go back to sleep.

That’s how it is with experiments, no one can guarantee success!

Your Majesty said that making rubber from petroleum is the most complicated process.

We can succeed only if we burn high incense.

Failure is the norm.

His Majesty said, if our fleet can reach the New World, we can get the seeds of rubber trees from there.

It’s much easier…”

Ding Wei washed his face carelessly, water droplets dripping along the beard stubble on his chin and onto the ground.

His red eyes looked at Song Yingxing:

"Mr. Song, I...I'm really sorry for Your Majesty!

So much money was spent, but nothing came out..."

Although the Ding family does not come from an ordinary family.

However, a small merchant family in the county is not yet a direct descendant of the family——

Ding Wei naturally knows the value of three thousand silver dollars.

The emperor wasted so much money, but he didn’t have any clue...

His conscience is so condemned!

"You child!"

Song Yingxing smiled:

"Who said you didn't tinker with anything?"

Song Yingxing reached out and pulled the wheel on the side and said:

"This new tire of yours is worth three thousand silver dollars!

Boy Ding, look at this, your previous work, isn’t it already popular? "

Ding Wei looked at the wheel with a look of embarrassment on his face.

This is the idea of ​​the good brother Li Zicheng. He just took the money given by the emperor and perfected it...

At the end of last year, when he met Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng accidentally said - wrap the reins around the wheel to achieve shock absorption.

Inspired Ding Wei.

He immediately began to experiment, first wrapping the rope tightly around the wheel in order to achieve shock absorption.

The result - not wearable.

Later, he thought about cement.

So, after many experiments, I found that the hemp rope was soaked in cement slurry first.

Weave it into a rope while it's wet, and then fix it to the wheel immediately. In this way, after the cement solidifies, it will be much more wear-resistant than a simple rope.

However, the lifespan is still not long.

Ding Wei's year was spent in various experiments.

However, the Ding family was just a small businessman and could not afford much money, so with Li Zicheng's encouragement, he chose to submit an application.

After the emperor specially recruited him as an assistant professor at the University of Petroleum and Industry, Ding Wei used the natural asphalt in the university town to create a new type of shock-absorbing rope.

That is the new wheel that Song Yingxing said.

Ding Wei looked at the smiling Song Yingxing and shook his head vigorously:

"Mr. Song, this is not worth three thousand silver dollars at all, it is very simple.

It's just soaking hemp rope in asphalt and then winding it into a rope.

After being fixed on the wheel, because it is wrapped with a layer of asphalt, it can achieve the purpose of wear resistance and shock absorption as long as it solidifies.

This is something that everyone can do, it’s not my fault…”