sjar Chapter 637 Who knows about this kind of thing?
Chapter 637 Who knows about this kind of thing?
Everyone nodded to show that they understood.
Sang Buyi sighed, "Your Majesty, the local specialties sent by various counties and prefectures are actually their token of appreciation. Your Majesty sternly rejected them and reprimanded the local officials who sent them gifts. Isn't that a bit..."
Ye Kun rolled his eyes:
"Lord Sang, I have said long ago that what goes up must be followed. If I say that I like to eat lychees from Lingnan, the officials from Lingnan will transplant the whole tree into a large vat when the lychees are about to mature, and then use a sea ship and send hundreds or thousands of people to deliver them thousands of miles to Zhuo County.
Moreover, it became a routine that local officials and people would have one more major event to deal with. This would distract officials and prevent them from governing the country, and people would waste time and not be able to focus on production.
Think about it, if I let hundreds or thousands of people serve me just because I wanted to eat a few lychees, would I be a good emperor?
Therefore, I strictly forbid all places to pay tribute to local specialties. The goods produced around Zhuo County are enough for me to eat and drink without worries. Why should I disturb the people? "
Sang Buyi and others stood in awe and saluted together.
Ye Kun added: "And all of you gentlemen, you are all in high positions, you should also refuse tribute from your subordinates. Otherwise, the atmosphere in the officialdom will become worse and worse, and finally it will be out of control."
"We will remember the emperor's words."
Sang Buyi and others nodded.
After lunch, everyone said goodbye.
Ye Kun chatted with Jiang Yourong for a long time, and then played a round of mahjong with everyone. Then he asked everyone to get dressed and go to the theater to watch the show.
Jiang Yourong stayed indoors because her father had just passed away.
Yuejuan and Daixi are very close and stay at home with Jiang Yourong
Xie Baochan and others followed Ye Kun to the Grand Theater.
The audience at the Grand Theater tonight was by invitation only, and consisted mainly of people from the palace, as well as ministers from the nine ministries, officials from Zhuo County and their families, teachers and some students from the university, and two hundred village elders.
There were also one or two hundred representatives from foreign diplomatic missions and merchant groups.
The performance began with a grand song and dance, a classical performance form.
Next, a medley of songs was sung to wish everyone a happy new year.
Cherry led the team personally and performed energetic songs and dances on the stage.
Young people love to watch it and the whole audience is excited.
Sang Buyi, He Kangju and others were too embarrassed to watch, so they covered their faces with their hands and peeked through gaps between their fingers.
After the medley of songs, there were crosstalk sketches, magic shows, martial arts performances, etc.
The martial arts performance received the most applause.
After more than a year of development training and selection of professional talents, the martial arts performances have become very rich.
"Practice your breath internally and your muscles, bones and skin externally. Be strong and flexible and never give in. We have the world in our hearts!"
Accompanied by the passionate and exciting music, the flashing swords and shadows on the stage were dazzling to watch.
Representatives of foreign embassies and business groups were all stunned and exclaimed: "No wonder the Han army is invincible, it turns out that the Chinese people can fly and do kung fu!"
Prince Ye Feng, sitting behind Ye Kun, asked, "Father, will these martial arts masters be very powerful when they go to the battlefield?"
"Of course I'm awesome. One against ten, no problem!"
Ye Kun couldn't explain it in detail, so he could only answer this way.
In fact, martial arts performance and actual combat are two different things.
The young martial arts actors on the stage have never been to the battlefield, do not understand how to fight on the battlefield, and have no actual combat capability.
The real masters in the army are the generals and the scouts responsible for reconnaissance.
Because there were not many programs, the party ended in two hours.
However, it was also very lively outside the Grand Theater, with huge crowds of people celebrating.
The princes and little princesses who lived in the deep palace were reluctant to leave and wanted to play and watch the fun in the square.
Those tumbler girls were swaying back and forth, turning around magnificently from time to time. They looked so graceful, who would be willing to leave?
Ye Kun smiled and said, "Let's go back tonight. We are all here, and I am afraid that the people will not have a good time. But I promise you, tomorrow night, you can go out of the palace in plain clothes to play, just make sure it is safe."
When the royal family travels in a group, with hundreds or even thousands of guards, it would scare the common people.
The princes and princesses were brought back to the palace by Ye Kun very reluctantly.
Ye Kun instructed everyone: "You can all go out and play tomorrow, but you must change into casual clothes, not reveal your identity, and not use the royal power to oppress the people. In addition, each person must bring at least four entourages to provide protection."
Princes and princesses are also human beings and they also deserve to have a complete childhood.
You can't stay locked up in the palace forever, right?
When they heard that they could leave the palace, the princes and princesses were all happy and expressed their gratitude together.
After the third day of the New Year, everyone is still celebrating the New Year.
Ye Kun hid in the Science and Technology City and continued to communicate with some key personnel who stayed behind to tackle technical difficulties together.
Because of the need to keep technology confidential, most senior scientific researchers and their families live in the family quarters of the Science and Technology City and are not allowed to go out all year round.
If you really need to go out, there will be special personnel to accompany and monitor you.
With high welfare and high treatment, scientific researchers are also willing to accept such high-intensity and comprehensive supervision.
He Tiantian took out the recently refined aluminum metal and showed it off to Ye Kun.
During this period, seven or eight kilograms of metallic aluminum were refined and made into a teacup and a bowl.
Ye Kun smiled and said, "With these seven or eight kilograms of aluminum metal, we can start researching aluminum alloys. Take small steps, accumulate experience, and prepare for mass production in the future."
"If it weren't for your Majesty's guidance, we would never have known that in addition to gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin, there is also a metal called aluminum. Oh, your Majesty, there are other elements on the periodic table of chemical elements. Can we collect them all in this lifetime?"
"Who knows about this kind of thing?" Ye Kun shrugged and pondered:
"However, we have already built a complete scientific system. With such a system, future scientific development will enter the fast lane. Finding other elements is just a matter of time."
As they were talking, Huang Ye came to report that Jin Feng, the Minister of the Ministry of Astronomy, Geography and Meteorology, wanted to see him.
Jin Feng is a talent brought by Ye Kun from Chengdu. He is now responsible for astronomical observation and research, calendar revision, map divination, and meteorological research.
A first-rank minister of the Han Dynasty.
However, Jinfeng's major is astronomy and he is quite proficient in the calendar.
Jinfeng is not an expert in map divination and meteorological work, so he can only leave it to his subordinates.
Ye Kun met Jin Feng in his office in the Science and Technology City and said with a smile, "Teacher Jin, Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year, Your Majesty."
Jin Feng hurriedly saluted and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the Spring Festival is not over yet, I didn't expect that you are already working in the Science and Technology City."
Ye Kun smiled and said, "The Chinese New Year is just like that, but scientific research has new and exciting things every day."
"The emperor said so."
Jin Feng nodded: "I just learned that the emperor was in the Science and Technology City, so I came to pay a visit to him and ask him some math questions."
In the past few years, Jin Feng has been intensively studying mathematics, and has mastered all the geometry and algebra knowledge in the elementary, middle and university textbooks. He has even read most of the Greek mathematics works translated by Lao He.
However, Jinfeng still has only a vague understanding of some advanced mathematical knowledge.
He Tiantian's father is considered the best mathematician after Ye Kun, but unfortunately he is not good at theory and cannot explain some problems clearly.
"If you can't learn mathematics well, you can't study astronomy and celestial mechanics well."
Ye Kun nodded and said with a smile: "Have you sorted out Teacher Jin's questions? You'd better sort them out, and I will find time to answer them one by one. It will be clearer if I answer them on paper."
Ye Kun was an outstanding student of advanced mathematics back then. He had a complete understanding of sequences, limits, calculus, analytic geometry of space, linear algebra, series, and ordinary differential equations.
But these things were simply too difficult for the ancients to understand!