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Chapter 333 [The Northern Expedition Coming Soon]

Fang Yizhi was thrown into the Public Works Department as Song Yingxing's assistant.

Song Yingxing was also inspired by Zhao Han in physics, but he was too busy with official duties, so he was not as active in researching physics as Fang Yizhi.

The two of them staying together should be able to collide with each other for some sparks.

As for physics, Zhao Han could only remember his junior high school knowledge, but he had forgotten most of his high school physics. He couldn't remember even a single high school physics formula.

He can only inspire and teach the methodology of studying natural science.

Fang Yizhi was in a state of madness, studying mechanics all day long.In less than half a month, this product will be an autonomous dynamometer, and let the craftsman make it.

Song Yingxing quit, saying that Fang Yizhi was not good as an assistant, and that he was absent-minded during working hours.

Zhao Han simply established specialized institutions, namely the Imperial Academy, the Academy of Mathematics, and the Academy of Physics.

This Hanlin Academy is not that Hanlin Academy.

The Imperial Academy of Ming Dynasty is a central senior cadre preparation institution.

Zhao Han's Hanlin Academy is purely an academic institution.

Research on Datong theory, compiling the correct pronunciation of Datong, determining standard characters and dictionaries in the future, even re-editing primary and secondary school textbooks, or compiling "History of Ming Dynasty" after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, all these tasks were handed over to the Imperial Academy.

Officials of the Imperial Academy are not allowed to participate in politics, let alone be transferred to official positions with real power!

Hanlin Academy, Mathematics Academy, and Physics Academy are temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of Zhao Han.

The Faculty of Physics is the poorest, with only Fang Yizhi alone.

Zhao Han ordered him to select [-] students, and while helping Fang Yizhi to do experiments, he also studied with Fang Yizhi.These students are not paid, but they are provided with food and housing.

There are so many houses in Duke Xu's house in Nanjing, and they will be distributed to various institutions in the future.For example, Wanzhu Garden is arranged to be the site of the School of Physics. The environment is absolutely elegant and the researchers are guaranteed to be happy physically and mentally.

"Total town!"

Another day, Fang Yizhi took out the schematic diagram, pointed to the drawing and said: "The object itself remains stationary because of the balanced force. Take this inkstone as an example. It has its own power to fall, and the tabletop gives it an upward force." Lifting force. When the lifting force is the same as the gravity, the inkstone can remain still. Just like people stepping on the mud, it will sink due to gravity. The deep footprints are the gravity of the person. When the mud is stepped on , the lifting force on the ground can counteract the force of gravity, and the person will not be able to stand still.”

Zhao Han asked with a smile: "So, what general (law) did you come up with?"

Fang Yizhi replied: "Everything thinks of tranquility. When any object is subjected to a balance force or no external force, it must be still."

Zhao Han crumpled Fang Yizhi's drawing into a ball and threw it out casually: "What kind of force did this paper ball bear?"

Fang Yizhi drew the picture again, thought carefully, and kept writing the force: "It is subjected to the force of the general town's throwing and its own gravity. When these two forces combine, the paper ball will fall forward."

"really?"

Zhao Han took out another piece of paper, unfolded it without kneading it into a ball, and threw it out, asking: "These two pieces of paper are equal in weight, and the force I throw is also similar. Why is one thrown farther and the other thrown away?" close?"

Fang Yizhi thought hard.

Zhao Han picked up a book, used it as a fan, and fanned Fang Yizhi: "Did you feel it?"

"Wind." Fang Yizhi replied.

Zhao Han asked: "Your hair moves with the wind, what kind of force does it bear?"

Fang Yizhi's eyes widened: "The wind is the movement of the air, and the air is the real thing!"

Fang Yizhi's understanding of wind in "Little Knowledge of Physics" is: yin and yang drive each other to make aerodynamics, and ventilation can make wind.

Zhao Han smiled and approved.

Fang Yizhi added to the drawing again, saying: "The paper ball still has air resistance. When the resistance is balanced with the throwing force of the general town, the paper ball will no longer...not right!"

Jumping from Newton's first principle to Newton's second principle suddenly, Fang Yizhi was stunned instantly. He felt that this problem was very complicated.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "I don't want to think about this for now. If my desk is extremely smooth without any resistance, will it stop after pushing the inkstone?"

Fang Yizhi thought seriously, shook his head and said, "No, the inkstone will keep moving forward."

"Then your previous conclusion is wrong. Things don't stay still, but keep their original state unchanged." Zhao Han said.

Fang Yizhi nodded: "Indeed."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "How about calling this representation of things 'inertia'? Consistency."

"Yes."

Fang Yizhi felt that this question could be further studied, and he cupped his hands and said, "General Town, I will take my leave first, and go to sort out the cause and relationship."

"Go." Zhao Han felt relieved.

When Fang Yizhi walked to the door, Zhao Han suddenly shouted: "If you make any more achievements, you can invite people from the School of Mathematics and let them go to the School of Physics to have a look. Maybe there can be more like-minded people."

"Yes!" Fang Yizhi bid farewell.

Zhao Han leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to meditate. Physics research finally had practitioners. He believed that if the fire was lit, it would definitely spread.

It is also time to go to Nanjing. After the summer harvest, troops will be dispatched to Jianghuai. Ji'an's position is really a bit biased.

The General Military Mansion also had to be changed, not to mention becoming a king, at least it had to be upgraded to the Governor's Mansion. Zhao Han decided to call himself "Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses".

This position is on a par with Zhu Houzhao's "Governor of Military Affairs, Mighty General, Chief Military Officer"!

……

Chongzhen's 13 years are destined to be extraordinary.

The Manchu Qing army had surrounded Jinzhou for half a year, immigrating to the fields outside the city.

Zu Dashou has been sticking to Jinzhou City all along, showing no signs of surrendering.

How could he surrender?

The ancestral family has a great career in Liaodong. It can be said that it is the local emperor of Liaodong. Surrender means losing one's basic base.

Unless, ammunition and food are exhausted, there is no way out.

Next to Jinzhou City, there are Songshan Fort garrisoned by Wu Sangui and Xingshan Fort garrisoned by Liu Zhouzhi.

Wu Sangui was in a panic now, he only had three thousand soldiers in his hands, and Zu Dashou had been besieged for half a year right under his nose.He kept asking the imperial court for reinforcements, but not only did the imperial reinforcements fail to arrive, but the military pay was also wiped out.

Throughout Liaodong, Chongzhen sent people 10 taels of silver.

It's useless to make money, the court really has no money.

Liaodong military generals suddenly became loyal to the emperor and patriotic.Alas, if you don't pay the army, you won't give it. The battle still has to be fought, and it is impossible to surrender.

As long as there is even the slightest hope of becoming the emperor of the earth, who the hell is willing to be a dog for the Manqing?

Liaodong has already allowed the establishment of regiment training, and Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, is currently serving as the head of the Ningyuan regiment.

There is more than one training commander in the Ningyuan Regiment, Jin Guofeng is also in this position, and Wu Sangui is applying for this position.Anyway, these Liaodong military generals, facing the arrogance of the Tartars, were all recruiting troops to fight with their own money.

Once surrendered, they are nothing.

They don't take the Ming Emperor seriously, and they don't want to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and their own interests always come first.

When Jinzhou was besieged for half a year, Subbandai (a Mongol) who was stationed at the Xingshan Beacon Tower secretly wrote a letter wishing to bring his family to join the Qing Dynasty.

The Manchu Qing general Ji Erhalang only led 1500 people to meet him. Wu Sangui, Liu Zhouzhi, and Dai Ming found out the news, and a combined force of 7000 people attacked to intercept.After wanting to win this battle, return to the division and Ningyuan soldiers to attack the Qing army that besieged Jinzhou.

7000 Liaodong soldiers raided 1500 Qing troops and were defeated.

At the same time, Nomqi, a Mongolian stationed in the outer city of Jinzhou, quietly wrote a letter to surrender to the Manchus.

When Zu Dashou heard the news, he led his troops from the inner city to the outer city, beheading the Manchu and Qing generals Mu Husa, Jue Luolantai, and Hongke.Outnumbered, Zu Dashou retreated to the inner city, and the Qing army occupied the outer city of Jinzhou.

The outer city has been occupied, Zu Dashou still sticks to the inner city, it looks like he can hold on for at least another half a year.

Huang Taiji was flustered instead. He didn't dare to consume food like this anymore, so he simply continued to send troops to attack Songshan and Xingshan.

Wu Sangui had only 4000 soldiers left, half of which were freshly recruited regiments, who were besieged in Songshan Fort.

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Over there in Hubei.

Xiangyang mutinied due to lack of pay, and the soldiers killed the governor and the commander-in-chief, and they all went to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong then sent his troops to surround Yunyang, Huguang's border south of the Yangtze River, only Yunyang Mansion was not Zhang Xianzhong's territory.

Henan direction.

Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu, Zuo Liangyu, and Meng Ruhu are still encircling and suppressing Li Zicheng, saying that they are encircling and suppressing bandits, but more often they are robbing food.If the imperial court can't pay the army, they will starve to death if they don't grab food!

Not to mention officers, soldiers and rogue bandits grabbing food, Henan has another severe drought this year!

The people in Henan couldn't survive. Yuan Shizhong, Li Jiyu, Liu Yuchi, Zhu Chengju and others rebelled.He didn't even bother to get a bandit number, and directly used his real name to rebel, and Zhu Chengju was even a member of the Ming clan.

The whole of Henan is full of rebels in all directions.

These rebels all obey Li Zicheng as the leader, but in fact they listen to the tune and not the propaganda.They captured the strongholds of the big landlords, formed strongholds one by one to protect themselves, and occasionally attacked each other.

Unable to suppress the thieves anymore, Zuo Liangyu left Henan again, went to Shandong to rob food, and recruited refugees as soldiers by the way.

Li Zicheng called on the leaders of all bandits to join forces to counterattack. Yang Guozhu and Wang Pu were defeated and fled. They were killed when they broke through like tigers.

Since then, Henan has become the territory of the rebels. Li Zicheng led his troops back to Shanxi, intending to take Shanxi and go straight to Beijing!

The situation is changing so fast that it is dizzying to see.

There is only one real reason: Zhao Han occupied the south of the Yangtze River, the Yan Xiaos fought in the Jianghuai River, and the imperial court could not collect taxes and pay the soldiers.

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as far away as Europe.

The British bourgeois revolution officially kicked off this year.

In fact, it has nothing to do with the bourgeoisie, it is just a by-product of the Thirty Years War.

Britain has fought wars for decades, and the royal family has gone bankrupt.So they collected taxes crazily, forcing the nobles, merchants, and peasants to their death. The king also took the initiative to provoke religious conflicts, and the whole country was rebelled by a slapstick operation!

The Thirty Years War is still going on in Asia at this time.

The Netherlands realized that its army was not good enough, and spent money to hire thousands of Swedish mercenaries this year.Sailing all the way from Europe by boat to attack Portugal's eastern colonies, the main targets were Goa, Ceylon and Malacca.

No sooner had the Portuguese fleet removed 500 Indian horses than the Dutch began to lay siege to Goa.

If Zhao Han wanted to continue buying horses in the future, he would probably have to pay heavy taxes to the Dutch, and Malacca would definitely be taken away by the Dutch.

April.

500 Indian Wari horses arrived in Shanghai, all of which are strong and vigorous horse breeds!

It's a pity that more than 30 horses have died during the long-distance transportation by sea.

Zhao Han came to Nanjing again, the General Military Mansion was renamed the Dudu Mansion, and the entire team moved to Nanjing City.

Everyone knows what Zhao Han will do next.

Northern Expedition!

Northern Expedition!

Chapter 334 [South Flood and North Drought]

The Imperial Palace in Nanjing is already in ruins.

During the orthodox period, a thunderbolt caught fire and burned the palaces and pavilions such as Jinshen and Huagai.Then there were storms and floods, and only the walls of the imperial city remained, and the rest of the wooden buildings were all rotten.

Even the Nanjing Taimiao was burned down!

Zhao Han took his wife, children and younger sister and moved into the Nanjing Inner Defense Mansion temporarily.

The Ming Dynasty left three sets of teams in Nanjing. The Inner Garrison Mansion was the office of the eunuchs and civil servants, and the Outer Garrison Mansion was the office of the generals.

The last time Nanjing was occupied, all the chief eunuchs were killed, and the ordinary eunuchs remained and were hired by the government to clean up.

Now, the sign of the Inner Garrison Mansion has been removed and replaced with a new one: Dudu Mansion.

"Ah, this place is much bigger than Ji'an General Military Mansion!" Zhao Zhenfang ran around in the back house.

Pan Qimei followed suit, and the yard was bigger than she imagined, and it seemed inappropriate to use it to feed chickens.

With a smile on her face, Fei Rulan directed everyone to move things, and some rooms also had to be cleaned up.

The relocation of the ruling center from Ji'an to Nanjing is not only due to the issue of title.

Another important reason is that Ji'an Fucheng is too small.With the expansion of Zhao Han's territory, there are more and more various institutions, and the Ji'an General Military Mansion simply cannot accommodate it.

"Chief town, there are many eunuchs petitioning outside!" The personal guard hurried over to report.