After returning to Chongqing, Deng Ming's first thing was to inspect the work of the Feng Shui Research Association. Deng Ming didn't know how the scientists in his previous life explored the principle of electromagnetics, but this did not prevent him from copying it. Of course, Deng Ming combined many theories and nouns from this era to ensure that the people in the Feng Shui Research Association could understand it.

Although Deng Ming invested a lot of money in this research association, the wire pulled out looked really bad, but Chen Siyuan, the head of the Feng Shui Research Association, seemed very proud. If it weren't for this exquisite craftsman and intelligent lacquer, Deng Ming would not have thought of seeing the results even if he threw ten times the money into the research association.

Chen Siyuan is the only person in this research association who knows the source of theory and design. Deng Ming did not intend to let his name appear in the history of electrical mechanics in this universe. At most, he was a sponsor of this direction of exploration. Deng Ming believed that he had too high prestige because of his victory in military battles, and his authority was always the enemy of scientific progress. Deng Ming wrote his junior high school and high school electrical knowledge into a book, which he only gave to Chen Siyuan for his own review, and asked him to swear that he would never reveal the book.

The excuse Deng Ming found was that his Feng Shui knowledge came from the teachings of an immortal man, who had asked him to never make the book public. Although Deng Ming took advantage of the loopholes in his oath, if this matter was spread, it would still bring him divine punishment. Deng Ming's unreserved trust made Chen Siyuan feel a tragic feeling of dying for his confidant. After carefully copying the book written by Deng Ming and confirming it was correct, he burned the original book and made a secret decision in his heart that even if he met King Yama in the future, he would rather put it in a oil pan than reveal Deng Ming's name.

While other members were still guessing how to use this thing to predict fortune, Chen Siyuan was immersed in the beautiful prospects described by Deng Ming's book.

The energy of heaven and earth that Chen Siyuan mentioned actually comes from the energy concept in Deng Ming's heart. Deng Ming told Chen Siyuan that it is the energy that makes the clouds rise and rain fall, and the rivers flow, and the machinery we are about to create can extract the energy that drives the rivers to flow. Chen Siyuan vaguely feels that this is of course stealing the property of the Heavenly Court, so he is also prepared to be punished by heaven.

In Deng Ming's book, he called this vital energy electricity, and he told Chen Siyuan that this is the magic power of Lei Gong and the mother. Electrical energy is divided into yin and yang. Under normal circumstances, yin and yang electric energy always tends to mix; only when metal moves in a magnet, yin and yang vital energy will gather to both ends of the metal: this invisible electrical energy will flow like a river and will heat up during the flow.

"The immortal said that this vital energy can be used to heat up, and we have confirmed it; well, the immortal also said that the vital energy can be used to shine and let the equipment work on its own..." Chen Siyuan asked.

"Of course, is the immortal man wrong?" Deng Ming replied in a natural tone: "The vital energy pushes all things in the world, making the sun shine and the rivers rush. So as long as the method is right, the extracted vital energy can of course shine and promote the movement of the equipment."

After confirming that his investment was initially effective, Deng Ming asked Chen Siyuan to gradually impart the knowledge taught by Xianweng to others. Of course, this still needs to be in the name of Chen Siyuan: "The formula given by Xianweng, as well as resistance, voltage, etc., don't take it out at once, take it slowly."

Since he fooled Chen Siyuan, this is Xianweng's professor, Deng Ming called electricity a spell and told Chen Siyuan that he could become a great wizard by studying spells.

Deng Ming was still hesitating whether to fund another alchemy research association, but he decided to prepare for the future and establish a base for these research institutes in advance: "I will specially draw a piece of land to study spells for you. Isn't the Du Mansion divided by pavilions now? Well, this area is called Fifty-one pavilions."

If there are other research departments in the future, they can also move here. Deng Ming plans to give the best security protection and the most priority facilities to build here.

"It seems there are fifty-one pavilions." Chen Siyuan said that the pavilions built in Chengdu are numbered in order to facilitate management.

"It doesn't matter. Starting from the current Fifty-One Pavilion, all other pavilions will be postponed." Deng Ming was obviously not afraid of trouble.

"Fifty-one." Chen Siyuan muttered and asked in confusion: "Is there any explanation for this number?"

"The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed."

There is no prospect of using electricity for the time being. Deng Mingwei actually knew nothing about steam engines or internal combustion engines and fell into deep annoyance.

...

Three hundred and fifty years later.

When introducing the history of the development of human science (the Chinese word in this universe does not translate this word as science but is called magic), the late 16th century AD was the most exciting point of explosion. The author of a brief history of human science said at the beginning of the book:

"If I could choose a piece of history to watch, I would choose the 51st District of Chengdu, China after the 2,220th year of the East (the first year of Confucius), or the University of Cambridge, England after 1670 AD. That was the most glorious moment in the history of science."

Newton from Britain and Chen Siyuan from China were always mentioned at the same time: an apple allowed Newton to see the mystery of mechanics, while Chen Siyuan summarized the use of magnets by Feng Shui and put forward conjectures about electricity. His definitions of voltage, resistance, current and related formulas have been used in the human space age.

"Chen Siyuan believed in gods and Buddhas, which was a very normal phenomenon among early scientists (Great Masters). There were no atheists in that era, but only a few decades later, the situation changed drastically... Chen Siyuan was undoubtedly greatly influenced by the traditional Chinese theory of Yin and Yang, so he guessed that electricity was divided into Yin and Yang, and used his genius intuition to boldly assert that lightning was also an electrical phenomenon... The laws of electricity and mechanics appeared in the East and the West almost at the same time. When the East and West scientists (Great Masters) communicated, they were all amazed at each other's talents and quickly learned from each other."

The great figures undoubtedly influenced each other. Not long afterwards, other great masters in China summarized alchemy from classical alchemy (a discipline called chemistry in parallel universes). Other Chinese scientists also proposed elemental hypothesis and speculated that it was the electrical attraction in elemental particles that formed stable compounds. In the Dengming era, Chengdu University was the first university in the world to open an alchemy department (chemistry department). Those who made outstanding contributions in this field were awarded the title of great alchemist.

Optics came from Europe, and the dispute over volatility and particle nature also came to China across the ocean. In the late Dengming era, a Chinese scientist (a great master from the Department of Optics of Sichuan University) discovered the photoelectric reaction, which caused a sensation in the scientific community. Soon after, an anonymous contributor proposed the wave-particle duality hypothesis - this anonymous manuscript has no arguments so it has no significance, but it is undoubtedly a hint that other great masters studying optics completed papers on this conjecture - and opened the door to quantum research.

When the advanced universe discovered the backward parallel universe, scientists observed the scientific development history of their neighbors with interest. They found that only one of the two geniuses in the parallel universe was left. Chen Siyuan, who was known as the highest IQ in history, seemed to have been obscured in the war in the late Ming Dynasty - China was conquered by the Qing Dynasty and made no contribution to scientific development. Because alchemy did not appear in China in time, Newton, who made great contributions to both electromagnetics and alchemy in the advanced universe, studied alchemy for decades in his later years.

Therefore, until 1942 AD, when the parallel universe observatory was put into use, the humans of the neighbors were still using primitive fossil energy to power their vehicles. The scientific community noticed that the neighbor had taken a detour, and their electricity appeared very late, so for a long time, they relied heavily on various fossil energy sources and went further and further along this misalignment. Even after the electricity appeared, they could not completely replace the location of fossil energy, nor could they enjoy all the research power alone. Perhaps it was because the electricity appeared too late that the neighbor's research on microscopic particles, dimensions and space-time lags a lot. After several years of observation, the scientific community came to the conclusion:

"In general, our neighbors are 150 years behind us. But what's interesting is that they have not obtained flight capabilities much later than us. Because they are on the path of fossil energy, their aircraft actually appeared before electronic computers. What an unreasonable scientific development route - they fly out of the earth no longer than us, and they also use fossil energy. Our research on interstellar spacecraft has only made a breakthrough after the extensive use of implantable memory and computer chips."

In this advanced universe, steam engines and internal combustion engines, which were greatly advanced in the application of electricity, never had a place in the industrial field. It was not until the design of high-energy batteries with the help of electronic computers that humans in the advanced universe produced manned aircraft with global capabilities and commercial value in 1852 AD; fifty years later, the first cosmic shuttle was built; in another forty years, they had the ability to observe parallel universes.

In 2013 AD, a student exclaimed on the communications network: "In the initial energy selection, the great wizards of our universe chose electricity. Today, human activities have stepped out of the solar system, and one foot has stepped into the threshold of immortal silicon-based organisms; while our neighbors are still paying the price for the fossil energy path they choose. Their most powerful country can use less energy than the energy that one of us can use, and they are very troubled by the environmental deterioration problem of the only planet they have."

...

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, Deng Ming finished selecting the site for the Fifty-One Pavilion, and then came to the venue of the Imperial Parliament. The seats were packed in front of him, and all the Imperial Parliament members arrived early, waiting to listen to Deng Ming’s speech to them.
Chapter completed!