Was Sun Yuanhua's teacher Xu Guangqi very powerful?
Please shout four words after me — The Complete Book of Agriculture.
This book could be said to be the most important book on agriculture in ancient Chinese history, second to none.
As the Minister of the Ministry of Rites and the Grand Secretary of the Imperial Library, Xu Guangqi wrote a book on how to farm, which was extremely rare among the ancient literati. The key was that he wrote it very well. He was a real talent.
Although Xu Guangqi hadn't written this book in 1617, he had written many other agricultural books, which laid the foundation for the Complete Book of Agriculture. Therefore, as Xu Guangqi's disciple, when Sun Yuanhua learned that the Revolutionary Army was very successful in farming, he was actually very unconvinced — no matter how powerful these rebels were, could they be more powerful than my teacher? My teacher was a real expert.
The Revolutionary Army promoted education and taught everyone without discrimination, but Sun Yuanhua was also unconvinced — Xu Guangqi and Matteo Ricci cooperated to translate Euclid's Geometry. The word 'geometry' was determined by Xu Guangqi, and this book was still a compulsory course for primary and secondary school students after 400 years.
(Incidentally, Euclid lived in ancient Greece from 330 BC to 275 BC, when China was in the Spring and Autumn Period. This man was really a monster, he laid the foundation of modern mathematics more than 2,000 years ago, and China only introduced this knowledge more than 1,800 years later.)
Xu Guangqi also had extraordinary achievements in astronomy, and he compiled the Chongzhen Calendar in his old age. Therefore, Sun Yuanhua didn't think that the knowledge taught by the Revolutionary Army to the civilians could surpass his genius teacher — Xu Guangqi was the top scientist in the present, with profound achievements in agriculture, mathematics, and astronomy, and he even knew military affairs.
As a proud disciple of Xu Guangqi, who was Sun Yuanhua? History books wrote that he was' well-versed in Chinese and Western knowledge, peerless intelligence, and read all the books of ancient and modern times, 'but unfortunately, he died too early.
Even so, Sun Yuanhua's Xi Fa Shen Ji was the first book in China that specifically talked about how to make artillery, and Jingwu Quan Shu talked about Western tactics. He was the most powerful artillery expert at the end of the Ming Dynasty. After his death, there was no one in China who really knew how to make artillery. The people of China had to wait until the end of the Qing Dynasty when they were beaten up by the great powers before they could work hard.
This pair of master and disciple was like a bug in existence. They were definitely not worse than Wen Ruolan, who was by Zhou Qingfeng's side. After solving the problem of Jia Gang's' human radio ', Zhou Qingfeng once again realized the importance of talent. He had to admit that science and technology often relied on a few extremely smart people to advance.
Recently, Zhou Qingfeng was actually quite annoyed. His business of cloth, salt, ironware, fish, and other goods was continuously expanding. But the Canal Gang that controlled the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was stubbornly stubborn. They actually wanted to collect taxes from him and monopolize his business. It was just like how the Great Uncle Zhou in Tianjin did not collect taxes from other people. Unexpectedly, there were still people who wanted to collect taxes from him. They were truly audacious to the extreme!
The Canal Gang did not cooperate, and neither did the gentry of Jiangnan.
The goods shipped by sea had a huge impact on the southern economy. Especially the cloth merchants of Song Jiang prefecture and the salt merchants of Yangzhou, they were the most fiercely resisting. Uncle Zhou would dump the goods at the drop of a hat, and the goods he sold were especially cheap, forcing the other party to have no way out.
The gentry of Jiangnan were extremely powerful and especially rich. They were forced into a corner and openly intercepted the merchant ships of the 'Revolutionary Army' at sea. They even strictly inspected the goods of the 'Revolutionary Army' in the market, burned the warehouses, and attacked the merchants who cooperated with the 'Revolutionary Army'. This made Zhou Qingfeng extremely angry.
Blocking people's road to wealth was like killing their parents!
Uncle Zhou originally wanted to think of a way to clean up these disobedient bastards, but now he was too busy. His mind was tied up by the more important problem of talent. Wen Ruolan had a lot of young prodigies that were being trained, but it would take at least five years for them to grow up.
Wait for five years? Zhou Qingfeng was not willing to wait for a year.
Since his own talent training was not that fast, he could only first see what kind of talent Daming had to recruit. Flipping through the history books, who was the first person that caught his eye?
Song Yingxing.
This fellow had written a book called 'Tian Gong Kai Wu'. This was the world's first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicrafts. It was known as the seventeenth century's encyclopedia of crafts. The content of this book was all-encompassing, including biology, physics, chemistry, and many other aspects. It also recorded smelting, ore dressing, and other technologies that the 'Revolutionary Army' urgently needed.
Song Yingxing was too practical for a boring scholar who only knew how to talk. These things that he wrote were related to the fundamentals of social life, and belonged to academic works that could greatly improve social productivity. Even if all the scholars in the imperial court of Daming came together, they would not be as useful as a strand of his hair.
Song Yingxing was born in 1587 and was only 30 years old at the moment. He was in his prime. But he was still studying in Jiangxi's Jiujiang Prefecture's Bailu Cave Academy, which was a bit far from Tianjin. Zhou Qingfeng could not go in person, so he could only let his subordinate, Ye Na, drive the triplane to Jiujiang. If he could persuade him, he would persuade him. If he had any requests, he could ask him. If he was not moved, he could even kidnap him.
Ye Na had been gone for several days, but there was no news from her. He did not know if she had been found. It was so annoying.
Who was the second person to kidnap, no … to invite?
Xu Xiake.
This man was the same age as Song Yingxing. Although he was not a technical talent, what he did was even rarer than technical people. He was worthy of being called a geographer. He said, "What man has yet to reach, what man has yet to reach." The Western powers were constantly exploring while colonizing other countries. Shouldn't China go to Egypt to dig up the Pharaoh's tomb? Go to Easter Island to see something new? Go to the Americas?
Zhou Qingfeng did not need to find Xu Xiake. He wanted to send some students to him and fund him to travel every inch of China. Xu Xiake could have recorded all the places he had been to in his travelogue. Over time, we could dig out his book and tell it to outsiders. See? It was written clearly in the book that this land was' since ancient times … '!
Xu Xiake was only 30 years old and had a lot of time to travel. He could take a steamship to Southeast Asia and Australia, he could take a triplane to the North Pole, he could cross the ocean to discover new continents, and he could even cross the ocean to record those shameless white pigs in Europe. He would definitely be happy, right?
The world is so big, we should explore it.
As long as Xu Xiake wrote it in the book, it would be our territory.
It's reasonable and well-founded. We're not trying to bully others!
China still had a lot of scientists. Talents were everywhere. Whether or not they could be used well was the responsibility of the ruler. Zhou Qingfeng flipped through the history books to find talents and soon found Xu Guangqi. The old man was almost 60 years old and seemed to be in Beijing.
Compared to the other scientists who only learned local knowledge, Xu Guangqi's horizons were much wider. Science was about interaction. Stacy's science and technology were working hard, and talents were coming out in large numbers. China also needed people to understand the world, and Xu Guangqi was the leader.
Zhou Qingfeng was overjoyed. He hastily called Wang Kunpeng over and gave him an order, "Help me think of a way to respectfully invite this great talent to Tianjin. Having an old man at home is like having a treasure. The old man is old, don't anger him. At most, we can kidnap his son or grandson or something. We must persuade him. Do you understand? "
Wang Kunpeng nodded and left. But two days later, he sent back news that Xu Guangqi was originally in the Zhan Shi Fu. But not long ago, this old man was suddenly put in an important position. He was now the Zhan Shi Fu's Junior Zhan Shi Fu and the Henan Province Imperial Censor. He was supervising the new army in Tongzhou. He was now a powerful official, and it would not be easy to persuade him.
Now that the Taichang Emperor was on the throne, he removed the original Governor of Ji Liao, Xue Sancai, and appointed the Supreme Court's Left Premier Xiong Tingbi as the Governor of Ji Liao to lead the army in the capital region. As soon as this old gentleman took office, he swiftly and decisively executed more than a dozen Ming generals who did not perform well in battle. Even Du Song was kicked aside by him and impeached until he was dismissed from his post. He then promoted a large group of young generals who dared to fight.
Xu Guangqi was cooperating with Xiong Tingbi. The two of them did a good job.
Zhou Qingfeng scratched his head. There was nothing he could do about this situation. Xu Guangqi was an important Ming court official. It was difficult to get close to him, let alone kidnap him. He could only take a step back and ask, "Xu Guangqi has a student called Sun Yuan Hua. Where is this guy?"
"Sun Yuan Hua is in our Tianjin."
"What?"
Zhou Qingfeng was inexplicably excited.
Wang Kunpeng went with the flow and said, "I have bribed many spies in the capital. In addition, Chief Ma Keshi has many old friends in the capital. It is easy to get some information. Xu Guangqi was promoted by the Ming court's Grand Secretary Fang Yizhe, so he recommended his student Sun Yuan Hua. But for some reason, Sun Yuan Hua did not stay in the capital. He actually came to our Tianjin. "
Zhou Qingfeng's expression immediately darkened. "Where is this Sun Yuan Hua now?"
"Sun Yuan Hua lives in the Yunlai Inn in the city. That is the lair of the Ming court's Brocade Guards here. We have people watching and even bribed a few of them. We originally thought we could use this Dark Nest to send some false information to the Ming court and at the same time instigate some people to defect. If Grand Marshal is worried, I will send people to wipe them out. "
Many people in the Ministry of Security were trained by Xu Bing using modern detective experience. Even Wang Kunpeng had learned a lot of intelligence countermeasure methods that were ahead of the times. In addition, the Revolutionary Army provided sufficient funds. As long as money was spent, it was basically successful. It was not difficult to deal with the Brocade Guards.
Zhou Qingfeng shook his head. "I don't care how you fight against the Brocade Guards. That is your mission. But what is this Sun Yuan Hua doing in our Tianjin? "
"It may be to spy on the military. After all, his teacher Xu Guangqi is training in Tongzhou. As the saying goes, 'If the teacher has something to do, the disciple will do it.' It is normal for him to come to Tianjin. "Wang Kunpeng said.
"What did Sun Yuan Hua do in Tianjin?"
"He has only been here for two days. He is just wandering around. There is nothing special."
"Keep an eye on him. But if he wants to see, let him see. Our skills are not that easy to learn. I hope he can see some secrets. "
"Grand Marshal, it is said that Sun Yuan Hua is extremely intelligent and good at Western learning. If he really secretly learns something and brings it back, I am afraid it will be very disadvantageous to our Revolutionary Army. "
"If he can secretly learn something, this shows that he is really talented. Let him learn. If necessary, I can even help him. If he can't learn anything, I don't want to talk to him. If he is really that smart, I will have a sense of accomplishment by kidnapping him. If worst comes to worst, I will personally go kidnap him. "
Zhou Qingfeng was so happy that he burst into laughter. He did not mind it at all. Wang Kunpeng did not understand why his Grand Marshal attached so much importance to this Sun Yuan Hua, but he knew that this person must be carefully served.
At this moment, Sun Yuan Hua was standing outside Tianjin, secretly staring at a public carriage that had recently been put into use in the city. Others would at most be surprised that this four-wheeled carriage could carry a lot of weight and easily pull people and goods. But he was walking around the carriage, his eyes never leaving the axles on both ends of the carriage.
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