The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1830

[1830. Chapter 1740: Transform into a dragon when encountering wind and rain]

Li Tian said yes repeatedly, but he was suspicious in his heart. He couldn’t help but look at Fang Jifan and said: “Master, I don’t know what the purpose of these buildings is. Although the students are watching here every day, But I have been thinking about it for many days and still don’t understand… If we want to use this place as a residence, I’m afraid…”

Fang Jifan glanced at Li Tian and saw the confusion on Li Tian’s face.

This is the difference of having an extra lifetime of experience. Some things may not be easy to understand even if they are explained. When things are put into practice, you will naturally understand them even if you don’t explain them. So he simply waved his hand: “You are an engineer, you are blind.” What are you asking? You don’t understand the unnecessary things, so hurry up and build things for me.”

Immediately, Fang Jifan returned to the Zhenguo Mansion.

As the Duke of Zhenguo, Fang Jifan regarded Zhenguo Mansion as his home. The place has been well repaired and it is finally magnificent. It is very comfortable to work here and occasionally take a nap.

As usual, the new issue of the weekly magazine will be delivered to Fang Jifan’s desk at this time.

Nowadays… the papers in weekly magazines have become more and more popular. Of course, this does not mean that they are useless, but more papers are conducted to demonstrate and follow the path of predecessors to continuously improve various new theories.

After all, there are not many breakthroughs that can make people’s eyes shine. Some academicians even went so far as to say that people in the past had already explored the road, and people in the future would only need to make repairs.

Fang Jifan picked up the magazine and glanced at it lightly, but stopped at a certain place in the magazine.

This is a humble paper… On Magnets.

What’s interesting about this paper is that it was previously recognized that amber or glass would become magnetic after being rubbed, so people called this phenomenon magnetization.

In today’s Ming Dynasty, glass is not new at all. It is everywhere on the streets. It is precisely because of the magnetism generated by friction that no one questions this view.

Very few people pay attention to the research on frictional magnetization. After all… this thing is of little use. If friction can generate magnetism, then why don’t I get a magnet and have to rub it out?

But what’s really interesting about this article, “On Magnets,” is that it denies the idea that friction produces magnetism.

Instead, he believed that what is produced by friction should be some kind of substance that has not yet been discovered in this world. He even conducted some crude experiments to prove his judgment, and the final result was, The phenomena of magnetism and those caused by friction are completely different.

For example, although the objects produced by friction have a magnetic attraction effect, they can absorb any substance. Magnets can only attract iron objects. At the same time, magnets have positive and negative poles, like ones repel each other and opposite sexes attract each other. They can rub the material produced by friction, and there is only attraction.

Finally, based on his argument, he came up with a bold idea. The material produced by friction can even sputter out sparks. This material is not something that ordinary people understand.

Of course…this paper…obviously the inference is correct.

However… it’s obvious that the reviewers of the weekly magazine don’t think much of this paper. Although they agree with his verification process and his hypothesis, they still think that this kind of research has no practical significance.

Therefore, although it was published in the weekly, it was only in a corner of the weekly, unknown.

Fang Jifan suddenly felt interesting. This bitch was quite good at thinking things over.

In fact, in the entire Xishan Academy, there are many people who are thinking about it all day long.

On the one hand, Xishan Academy has always guided and encouraged students to conduct research on the world.

On the other hand, the emergence of weekly magazines has turned a lot of research into fame and fortune.

Many predecessors before, because of their research and published papers, they immediately became famous all over the world, or received huge royalties, or even became academicians or bachelors.

Because of this, other junior students in the academy have a great interest in ‘investigating things’.

They were speculating on any kind of phenomenon, and when they thought of some possibility, they thought about how to verify this possibility or conjecture, and then published articles that overturned previous theories.

After the theory was subverted, more conjectures were confirmed, and others even used this basis to demonstrate new possibilities and conjectures.

This is a gradual process.

Fang Jifan glanced at the author’s name of the paper and couldn’t help but said: “This name sounds familiar. Have you seen it before? Come on, come on, call me Xiao Jingteng.”

A moment later, someone came out of breath and met Fang Jifan .

, was extremely excited, and quickly prostrated: “Disciple has met Master.”

Fang Jifan looked at this person, and felt more and more familiar that this guy looked familiar, so he couldn’t help but ask: “Have we met before?”

Xiao Jingteng immediately said: “Master, tell me Come on, I really saw it. Master, do you still remember that more than ten years ago, the master ordered a real person to pray for rain. For some reason, the master ordered his disciples to be tied up. He said that if the prayers did not come, he would kill the students to sacrifice to heaven. “

Ah, there is such a thing!” Fang Jifan felt shocked. It was beyond his imagination to know when he would do such a thing.

Xiao Jingteng then added: “Thanks to Master, after praying for rain, the disciple was appointed as a small captain in Jinwu Guard, but he made meritorious service and sealed a hundred households of Jinwu Guard. At that time, the disciple Then I knew that the master was really an extraordinary person. Later, I heard that the master had set up Xishan Academy to recruit disciples. The students tried their best to enroll in the school and even refused to accept them. Over the years, they followed their mentor, uncles, and brothers. We studied together with our master and benefited a lot. Every time I thought about this, I couldn’t help but shed tears of gratitude when I thought of my master’s kindness.”

Fang Jifan felt a little apologetic when he saw that he really looked grateful and said, “Hey… maybe at that time. …Master, I…I…have a brain disease, you know, I am…ah…don’t take offense, just let the unpleasant things go by.”

Xiao Jingteng was immediately moved. Said: “Master must not say this. Without Master, there would be no disciple today. There is no way to repay the kindness of rebuilding.”

Xiao Jingteng was a little touched. When he suddenly heard his master summoning him, he was shocked in his heart. Who was he? The master was still thinking about him.

Seeing the apologetic look on his master’s face, and knowing that his master felt guilty towards him, he was even more moved. It is said that a scholar dies for his confidant…

But Fang Jifan tapped his finger on the document and got to the point: ” There is a paper here called “On Magnets”, but you wrote it?”

“Yeah.” Xiao Jingteng suddenly looked ashamed.

To be honest, he has been doing research for more than ten years since he has been in school. The direction of his research has always been partial. Unlike other senior fellow students, some of them have achieved fruitful results. At the end of the day, those engineering students with little technical content are now also They are all working alone, only themselves, and they are still researching, and there are no results.

As for this essay, he has been studying it for many years, but he also knows that this result is there, but it is very inconspicuous when placed in a weekly.

He hurriedly said: “Yes, it was written by a disciple. The disciple has insulted the teacher.”

Fang Jifan shook his head and showed a smile: “This paper is very interesting to me. Why, what is the name of the substance you mentioned? ” This…” Xiao

Jingteng

showed some annoyance: “The student didn’t think about it.”

Then Fang Jifan’s eyes lit up and he said without thinking: “The sparks produced by friction are called electric light. How about it?”

Zizi nodded repeatedly: “It’s the best thing that the master is willing to give me the name. After that, the students called him Ding Teng.”

Xiao Jingteng was shocked deep in her heart. She never expected that the master would actually… conduct such useless research on her. , also interested.

He is indeed a great master!

Fang Jifan immediately said, “You should continue to study this thing in depth.”

“Yes, but…”

“But what?” Fang Jifan looked at Xiao Jingteng with a pleasant look.

Xiao Jingteng smiled bitterly: “Although the students’ research has made some progress, in the past ten years, the students have not stopped observing and verifying every day. It is a pity… So far, although there have been small achievements, the students still do not understand what the use of this electricity is. , Not only that… the student has never really seen what this electricity is.”

“Haven’t seen it yet?” Fang Jifan scratched his head.

Yes, this is indeed a regrettable thing. It is rare that this guy has done research on this, but science is like this. Once the research comes to a standstill, there may not be any breakthroughs even after a hundred years.

This is the situation Xiao Jingteng is facing now.

But what a pity it would be to miss the results like this!

So Fang Jifan said: “Do you want to give it a try, or want to capture this electricity?”

Xiao Jingteng said seriously: “If you hear the Tao in the morning, you will die in the evening. I have been studying this thing for more than ten years. If I can make a breakthrough , I am willing to die. “

This request is very reasonable.

Fang Jifan thought for a moment, and in fact… Fang Jifan also had a headache now.

After all, he is not a science student. If he is asked to research electricity, ten Fang Jifan will not be able to research it.

But Fang Jifan knew something about the general development of electricity. Just because he knew it, he could avoid many detours. This is the case for any scientific research. If you take fewer detours and make more breakthroughs, then… everything will fall into place and progress by leaps and bounds. .

Fang Jifan didn’t hesitate anymore and said, “In that case, I’ll satisfy you as a teacher. Come, come… bring me a rope.”

Outside, someone quickly came in with a rope.

Xiao Jingteng blinked, looking puzzled.

Fang Jifan pointed at Xiao Jingteng: “Come, come, come, tie up this bitch.”

Xiao Jingteng still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were a little blank: “Master… Master…”

Several big men had already tied up Xiao Jingteng pushed him down and then began to tie him up.

Only then did Xiao Jingteng understand something. This… seemed to be a familiar smell.

He yelled: “Master, Master, I am Xiao Jingteng, Master…”

(End of Chapter)