C1080 primary productivity

Basic science is of great significance to human society, but it is also the most easily overlooked, because humans have a bad character and are short-sighted and short-sighted.

Basic scientific research does not take practical purposes into account. It produces general knowledge and an understanding of nature and its laws. This general knowledge provides a solution to a number of important practical questions, but it does not provide a fully specific answer to any of them. It is the duty of applied research to provide such successful answers.

Just like in ancient astrology, people used telescopes to observe the movement of celestial bodies and speculated that the earth was round, speculated about heliocentrism, and deduced calendars. These studies are one of the basic sciences, but they do not live to say that it is difficult to directly turn them into money.

Through the study of astrology, the basic science, the Chinese and the Arabian were the first to master the technology of Star Appraisal, allowing ships to traverse the ocean without relying on their vision to see the coastline. This applied technology can be turned into money.

A big part of the reason why Middle Age merchants were so rich was because they had mastered the Star Appraisal Spell at the earliest, which allowed them to trade effectively across the Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.

At that time, European navigational technology was still on the small, broken boats sailing along the coastline. If a sailor could not see the coastline of the mainland in three days, he would be scared half to death.

Was Newton's "Law of Nature" important? Everyone knew that it was important, but it did not mean that money could be earned. Money was actually obtained from applied science research, but applied science research had to be built on the foundation of basic science research.

Is Einstein's Theory of Relativity important? But relativity also belongs to the basic scientific research, and atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb are derived from the relativistic matrix of applied science research.

This was just like a towering tree. People needed the fruits on it to feed their hunger, the branches of the tree to fuel their hunger, and the thick trunk to build the house to make furniture. However, there were only a few people who were willing to study the roots.

This is a bad root of mankind, fast, short-sighted, especially in a society that has oppressed craftsmen for thousands of years.

Xiao Letian was very clear that if the Basic Science Foundation were to use the state's budget, then the opposition he was facing would probably be even louder than the Patent Office.

Even Xiao Letian's Four Heavenly Kings and the other officials found it hard to understand this investment. In the eyes of the Chinese, direct investment in applied science was still acceptable. After all, success could see the actual benefits.

But this kind of illusory basic science research, especially mathematics, physics, logic... Wait a minute, people first felt that it was useless, that it was all a waste of money.

Faced with such a cultural background, Xiao Letian was already too lazy to explain. He could only start an independent foundation from his own pocket, since I have lost my own family business.

When the 5 million Dragon-striated Silver Coin was thrown in, Xiao Letian clearly heard a burst of a regretful sigh! But due to their reverence for Xiao Letian, no one dared to say anything.

However, the miracle created by the Shaw's's Foundation for Basic Science in the following ten years was unimaginable to everyone present today!

Five million Dragon-striated Silver Coin did not directly invest into the research investments, but converted into various stocks and properties to increase their wealth.

Xiao Letian used his' authority 'to obtain a lot of special treatment for the Foundation. Almost all of the industries that could earn money, clearly did not lack shares, were all forcibly mixed in due to Xiao Letian's tyranny.

Later generations famous Huamei British Joint Telegraph Company, Shaw's Real Estate Group, Letian Bank, Tanggu Industrial Group, Ryukyu Ocean Trading Company... The foundation had stolen a lot of the original shares of the extremely large enterprises.

Not only that, Xiao Letian licked his lips and looked for rich people he knew to donate, $120 thousand was not too much, $100,000 was not too much, and in the next few hundred years, the Foundation for Basic Science didn't face any problems with insufficient funds.

They discovered to their surprise that in the first three years of the Foundation for Basic Science's establishment, Xiao Letian ordered all of his funds to be invested into basic electromagnetic research, basic petroleum industry research, and basic smelting research.

Coincidentally, these three categories were core changes in the Second Industrial Revolution, especially in the fields of electromagnetism and the oil industry, which would be the main direction for the development of the human race in the next few hundred years.

Other than recognizing Xiao Letian as a great prophet, the descendant Historian s were unable to explain such an astonishing coincidence.

The army council, Consultation, and Science Society were officially announced, and before everyone could digest all the information, Sima Yun once again threw out the concept of a council of citizens.

"In addition to military personnel, merchants, scientists and craftsmen, there are even larger and larger groups of citizens. There are farmers, fishermen, construction workers, ocean-going crew members, and so on …"

"All these movements and 360 lines of citizens shall be divided into the management of the Public Council! Everyone is a hero in life. Even if he is the most ordinary worker who has put in the most effort, he would also have the chance to enter the level of Sixth and Eighteen! "

"The farmers accidentally discovered a high-yield crop, the navigators found a brand-new island for the kingdom's territory, the civilian heroes who emerged from the unexpected disaster … These ordinary citizens, who occasionally shine in the ordinary world, will also not be forgotten by the Chinese Order! "

"The important task of the Public Council is to select the outstanding contributions of these people and report them to the Parliament of the nobility as a reward!"

The crowd began to whisper to each other again. Many old officials were keenly aware that the Prime Minister had merged the farmers and the other citizens into one group. Could it be that the Prime Minister was going to give up the thousand years of tradition of establishing his own country as a farmer?

"Prime Minister!" Are you going to give up the thousands of years of classification tradition of the industry? The Military Council, the Consultation are easy to understand, but the Science Society only involves those elite craftsmen. You are categorizing ordinary craftsmen and farmers into the same category, is it really possible that there won't be any problems? It's so unstable! "

"What's the most important thing? Who is in charge of the head of the four citizens? Don't these people have merits? Their achievements in governing the country are not recognized? "

The question was extremely sharp. Xiao Letian nodded his head, drank some water and moistened his throat, then said softly, "No, I didn't forget about them. Since you raised this question, it means that you don't understand the essence of the Chinese Order …"