If Ang Lee wanted to control these talents under his command well, he had to hold back. He absolutely could not tell these guys all his secrets. Moreover, even if he really said it, these guys might not believe him. At that time, it was likely to bring him a lot of trouble. Therefore, it was better not to say it too clearly.
Ang Lee was very confident in developing battery products. As long as a few important components were found, the product could be developed successfully. This would not waste much time. Once the research and development was completed, Ang Lee needed to build a battery manufacturing workshop specifically to produce batteries. Moreover, the scale could not be too small. He needed to use a huge output to share the cost of a single battery, so that the battery produced could be cheap and affordable for ordinary people.
Even for Ang Lee, the dry battery technology was very simple, and there was no difficulty in research and development. However, it would take a certain amount of time to really make a sample. After the sample was made, he also needed to design a reasonable assembly line workshop to maximize the cost. This would take time. Therefore, it seemed like a very simple small item. If he really wanted to let the people use it, it would be difficult to do it in less than half a year.
Making a sample did not require purchasing too many raw materials, so the raw materials that Ang Lee needed could be prepared quickly. Then, the people in charge of various aspects could start to try to make a battery according to Ang Lee's requirements. As long as the battery could really discharge, the experimental task was considered completed. Next, they could design a large-scale assembly line.
Ang Lee wanted to focus on research and development, but the emperor did not seem to want to let Ang Lee be too idle. He had already let Li Yu learn from him. However, this time, the emperor was even more ruthless. He directly let most of the grandchildren of the Baisun Courtyard learn scientific knowledge from Ang Lee.
Of course, some of them were too old and too young to learn from Ang Lee. Only those of moderate age would learn some scientific knowledge from Ang Lee. Of course, these guys were not all imperial grandchildren. A small number of children were imperial grandchildren. For example, the eldest son of the imperial grandson Li Yu, Li Shi, was already at the age of learning. Although he was still too young, the emperor still wanted him to learn early.
Since his son had come to learn, as a father, Li Yu naturally could not come with him. Otherwise, if the father and son studied together and the son learned better than the father, wouldn't it be very embarrassing? Therefore, Li Yu was very sensible and did not join the learning ranks. He only pushed his son in.
In fact, all the imperial grandchildren and imperial grandchildren were educated. Moreover, they were all elites of the imperial court of the Tang dynasty. Everyone's cultural heritage was better than Ang Lee's. However, these people were only far better than Ang Lee in the field of literature. In the field of science, Ang Lee surpassed them by a large margin. This was the main reason why the emperor wanted the imperial grandchildren to learn from Ang Lee. Of course, even if these imperial grandchildren could not learn anything, as long as they learned a little bit, it was still good. It was enough to broaden their horizons.
Sometimes, even the emperor himself would study some scientific knowledge. After fully understanding it, he would be very excited. He felt that Ang Lee was a genius who could discover many wonderful phenomena in life. Naturally, these most basic knowledge needed to be known by his children and grandchildren. Therefore, the emperor asked Ang Lee to find time to teach these imperial grandchildren so that his grandchildren could know some of the most basic scientific knowledge and increase their horizons.
Since the emperor had already spoken, Ang Lee naturally could not refuse. He still had to teach the knowledge that should be taught. However, Ang Lee would adhere to the purpose of quality-oriented education. He would never force these aristocratic flowers of the Tang dynasty to learn. They did not care whether they listened or not. They could learn whatever they wanted. Moreover, the burden of learning was very light. He would not give them homework, so as not to tire these flowers out.
As for the content of the teaching, Ang Lee had already thought about it. He would do some simple physics and chemistry experiments and let them watch the fun. Then, he would tell them the most basic principles of these experiments. In this way, they would be able to deal with these guys.
Because there were too many grandsons in the Baisun Courtyard, Ang Lee needed to go there personally for safety reasons. He would teach in one of the inner halls.
"Assistant Minister Li, His Majesty said that these imperial grandchildren are all juniors. Assistant Minister Li can call them by their names without any scruples."
A young eunuch who led the way led Ang Lee into the Baisun Courtyard and said.
Ang Lee nodded and strode in. Two assistants from the R&D Center followed behind him. They carried some of the most basic instruments and acted as Ang Lee's teaching assistants. They were just doing some hard work.
"Assistant Minister Li."
As soon as he entered the hall, Ang Lee first saw eight old men who were much older than him. They were the teachers of the imperial grandchildren and were responsible for teaching them cultural knowledge, such as poetry and songs.
Because they were worried that Li An, who had just arrived, would not be able to intimidate these proud and arrogant flowers of the motherland, they also planned to listen from the side in the main hall to intimidate these delicate flowers and prevent them from becoming chaotic.
It must be said that the status of these imperial grandchildren was so high that the future emperor might come from them. However, the teachers in charge of teaching were also of high status. Half of the eight teachers of the imperial grandchildren were members of the imperial family of the Tang dynasty. The remaining four were also from the five clans and seven bloodlines. They were all well-known nobles. Otherwise, how could they be qualified to teach the sons and grandsons of the emperor?
Because of the high status of the teachers, they could intimidate these imperial grandchildren when teaching. If any imperial grandson dared to be disobedient, they would definitely teach him a lesson.
For ordinary imperial grandsons, they could directly use a ruler to teach them a lesson, and the Emperor would not blame them if he found out. However, for imperial grandsons and those who were especially favored, these teachers naturally did not dare to really punish them physically, but they would fiercely teach their close companions a lesson. They would also beat up the companions of the imperial grandsons in front of them. Because the status of the companions was lower, they would not show any mercy when beating them up, even if they were their own grandsons.
Under normal circumstances, those who could be the companions of the imperial grandchildren were at least the sons of concubines of the fifth-rank ministers in the imperial court. Their status was neither high nor low. Coincidentally, among the companions of the imperial grandchildren, there were likely to be the grandsons of these teachers.
When the royal grandson made a mistake, they had to use their own grandson as an example. They had to severely punish their own grandson in order to make the royal grandson admit his mistake.
These old guys naturally recognized Ang Lee's ability very much, but at the same time, they still had a faint contempt in their bones. After all, in the eyes of these cultured people who were familiar with poetry and books, only poetry and etiquette were the most noble. As for the scientific knowledge that Ang Lee mastered, although it was also very useful and completely changed the situation of the Tang Empire, they also felt that it was just a strange skill that could not be used in the hall of elegance. The emperor asked his imperial grandchildren to learn this as an extracurricular interest. His main energy was still used to learn cultural poetry and books.
Of course, not to mention the Tang Dynasty, even in the civilized society of later generations, many people also adhered to the idea that studying and being an official were the most noble, and that other jobs were just inferior. Scientists had never been a profession popular with most people. Being an official was always the highest pursuit of people.
The thoughts of these old fellows had long been deeply ingrained in their minds. They would never think that science and technology were more important than poetry, books, and etiquette. However, they recognized these wonderful skills that could improve people's living standards, but they could only rank this science behind poetry and books.
With the Eight Great King Kongs in the classroom, all the imperial grandchildren sat quietly. No one dared to be presumptuous. They all looked curiously at Ang Lee and the two bumpkins behind him.
Ang Lee looked around. There were more than thirty imperial grandchildren and imperial grandchildren in the room. Li Longji definitely had more than these, but some of them were too old and too young. They definitely wouldn't come to class, and they weren't easy to manage. The children between the ages of five and fifteen were the easiest to manage and the most obedient.
Ang Lee had never seen these imperial grandchildren before. After all, Ang Lee didn't go to the Hundred Sun Courtyard to play when he had nothing to do, so he naturally wouldn't see these guys. However, Ang Lee had seen a few children before. One was the eldest son of imperial grandson Li Yu, one was the eldest son of imperial grandson Ang Lee, one was the eldest son of imperial grandson Li Mao, one was the eldest son of imperial grandson Li Huai, and one was the eldest son of imperial grandson Li Gui.
These children were all the Emperor's grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They were all of the Emperor's bloodline, but not all of them were favored. Among these Emperor's grandchildren, some of them were born of concubines for two consecutive generations, so their status was relatively low.
For example, some of the princes' mothers were only Li Longji's wives, so their status was naturally relatively low. Moreover, this prince married a concubine, and the concubine's children were born of concubines. Thus, two generations of concubines, so one could imagine how low their status was.
In this generation of princes, there wasn't much of a difference in status. After all, even though many of them were born of concubines, they had at least been bestowed the title of king. Since they were kings, their status was naturally more respected.
However, the next generation of imperial grandchildren were different. Their fathers were bestowed the title of king, but many of them didn't have a title. At the very least, a few of them were bestowed the title of king. Some of the sons of concubines found it difficult to be bestowed the title of king, much less the sons of concubines.
This was the difference of two generations. If it was a few generations later, they would probably only be poor commoners. For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Liu's ancestor was also an emperor. However, after generations of alienation, Liu Bei's generation became a poor man who sold straw sandals.
Of course, there was another reason why these imperial grandchildren weren't bestowed the title of king. It was because they weren't old enough to be bestowed the title of king. At the very least, they could be bestowed the title of Junwang in the future.
On the other hand, the imperial grandchildren were more special. Li Yu had already been bestowed the title of king, while Li Yu's son was bestowed the title of Junwang Fengjie not long after he was born. It could be seen that the children of the first wife were different.
In other words, this imperial grandson was bestowed the title of Junwang not long after he was born. On the other hand, many of his uncles hadn't even been bestowed the title of Junwang yet. It was estimated that they would have to wait for a long time.
Ang Lee was more or less pressured to teach these grandchildren. At this moment, there were eight old men listening. The pressure in his heart was even greater. Fortunately, Ang Lee was sufficiently prepared to deal with the situation in front of him.
Science classes were different from ordinary poetry classes. There must be a lot of experiments. Otherwise, if he were to explain it out of thin air, no one would be able to understand it. Once they couldn't understand, the imperial grandchildren would lose interest and wouldn't want to continue listening. This gave Ang Lee a good opportunity to complete this task. However, Ang Lee was a responsible person. He would never deliberately explain some profound theories that the imperial grandchildren couldn't understand just because he was lazy.
Since the emperor asked him to teach these imperial grandchildren, Ang Lee had to show his true ability. He started from the most basic science and taught them simple physics knowledge step by step.
The first lesson was also the most important lesson. After all, a person's first impression was very important. Ang Lee wanted these imperial grandchildren to like his first lesson. In the future, they would want to attend science classes.
Because there was no blackboard in the hall, Li An brought one himself and hung it in front of him. Then, he took out plaster chalk and wrote the words "Light Refraction and Reflection" on the blackboard. Then, he turned around and looked at the royal grandchildren.
Some of these brats looked at him honestly, and some were looking around. However, when they saw the eight old men, they shrank their necks. Obviously, they were a little afraid.
"Imperial grandchildren, His Majesty asked me to teach you about science. I hope you can learn well. Today is the first lesson. We will start with the simplest knowledge."
Ang Lee looked at the imperial grandchildren in a neither servile nor overbearing manner, and then continued, "The refraction and reflection of light is the content I am going to explain today. It is also very common and simple. You will definitely be interested. My class is different from other classes. It will not be very boring. It will be very interesting."
When the imperial grandchildren heard Ang Lee's words, they were all in a state of confusion. They could not understand what Ang Lee was saying at all. The eight old men who came to hold the line also frowned. They wanted to see what Ang Lee was talking about.
"My class is not like poetry, books, and etiquette. It requires frequent experiments. As long as you can understand it through intuitive experiments, it will be more interesting. Okay, let's do the experiment first."
As Ang Lee spoke, he gave the assistant beside him a look. The assistant immediately handed over a transparent glass, a pair of chopsticks, and a pot of water.
After putting the chopsticks into the transparent glass, Ang Lee let everyone see. Then, he said, "Look, is this chopstick straight or curved? Who will answer this question? "
"It's straight, it's straight."
One of the older imperial grandsons blurted out.
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