Chapter 140 Starting from Tiangong Kaiwu

At the night banquet, after chatting and laughing with the ministers, Xiao Tianjian, on the one hand, summed up some of the work of the ministries in the past two or three months, and also sent a batch of new books printed by the Printing Bureau that had just been established under the Ministry of Industry some time ago.

After sending the new books printed in this batch of new issue, Xiao Tianjian immediately sent a set to everyone present.

So the ministers began to look at these new books that still exude the fragrance of ink curiously. The first set of books came into the eyes of everyone. Several large characters "Tiangong Kaiwu" were printed on the cover, next to which was the name of the person in the book, and the three words "Song Yingxing" were written in small regular script.

Several of the ministers immediately became excited, because some of these people were former ministers of the previous dynasty and had seen or heard of this set of books.

Ding Qirui, who is currently a university scholar at the History Museum of the Dazhong Dynasty, has also read some of this set of books, and even called out the name of the person who wrote this book, and immediately exclaimed, "Good book! But it's a good book! The person who wrote this book is actually a great talent. As far as Weichen knows, Song Yingxing once served in Bozhou. Previously, he served as an oracle in Fuyi County, Jiangxi Province. He devoted himself to editing for many years before writing this book! It's really rare! It's a pity that I don't know where this person is now! If the emperor can find this person, he must ask the emperor to reuse this person!"

Everyone opened the book one after another. They simply read the catalogue first. After reading it, they were all surprised. It turned out that this book was really a strange book. It included agriculture, handicrafts, industry - such as machinery, bricks and tiles, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt, Coal mining, oil extraction and other production technologies have relatively detailed explanations. At the same time, there are also pictures. It can be said that these technologies are recorded in a simple way. Therefore, the person who can write this book is definitely a full-learned person, and he is not the kind of reader who only knows how to read dead books. He must be deeply The people have thoroughly examined all kinds of practical people and accumulated rich knowledge to write such a set of books.

So although there was no time to read the content carefully, everyone still called this book a strange book and couldn't help looking down quickly.

Xiao Tianjian laughed and said, "Ding Aiqing is right, but Song Yingxing is a great talent, and he can also be called an all-talented person! Moreover, this book is not published by me, but it has been edited and printed in Nanjing as early as the ten years of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty. I just saw one some time ago. After inquiry, I learned that it was a pity that the engraving of this book had been damaged, so I quickly ordered the Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to reopen it and print it. It came out, and I have printed 5,000 copies in the first batch. If necessary in the future, I can continue to print more.

The set of books given to you today is exactly the book that has exhausted his painstaking efforts. And since this person is a great talent and all-in-the-all, how can I abandon it?

To tell you the truth, Song Yingxing has sent someone to find him. After we captured Bozhou, this person abandoned the official and returned to his hometown of Jiangxi. For the past two years, he did not care about political affairs and devoted himself to writing at home. After Jiangxi returned to our dynasty this year, I sent someone to his place of origin and found this person.

He not only compiled this set of "Tiangong Kaiwu", but also has a deep knowledgeable understanding of astronomy. In addition, he also wrote "Viewing" and "Talking about the Sky". Therefore, after many persuasion, he has promised to be an official. For the time being, I plan to establish another Dazhong under the Ministry of Industry. The Academy of Sciences focuses on various academic research.

And Song Yingxing has been involved in a wide range of people, and he is the best person to preside over this matter, so I have issued an order to award him the position of supervisor of the University Academy of Sciences!"

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the ministers nodded one after another. Although they were not sure what the Academy of Sciences was, they also knew that Xiao Tianjian would come up with some new nouns from time to time, so they were used to it. Since Xiao Tianjian wanted to set up such a department, it would definitely not be aimless. Hu It's a joke, so everyone doesn't care about it, and they are also happy that Xiao Tianjian can find such a person.

Xiao Tianjian put this set of "Tiangong Kaiwu" aside from the table, then patted the remaining books and said to the ministers, "Let's put this set of books aside first and look at the following! There are still a few books printed by my decree this time. You can have a look!

There are also the "Agricultural Administration Complete Book", "Geometry Original" and "Taixi Water Law" written by Xu Guangqi, the important minister of the previous dynasty, "Western Magic Machine", "Jingwu Quanshu", "Geometric Usage", "Geometry Theory", "Taixi Calculation", "Xu Xiake's Travels" written by Xu Xiake, and "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by famous doctor Li Shizhen. , and "Save the Wilderness Herbs", of course, there are some other books...

The reason why I publish these books today is mainly to let everyone know that there are many capable people in the former Ming Dynasty, among which there are many people with wizards. Unfortunately, they are not valued by the previous dynasty. Even a great talent like Sun Yingyuan was unjustly killed by the previous dynasty, which is really heartbreaking!

Reading is not just about four books and five classics. What do readers do for it? As the saying goes, learn literature, martial arts, and buy from the emperor's family! Don't scholars just want to be able to govern the country and the world after learning one day?

If a scholar goes on for a long time and only knows how to read some four books and five scriptures, can he govern the country and the world? If the Ming Dynasty dies, he will die in this way! Most of you are scholars, and I'm afraid you won't believe what I said.

But let's talk about it briefly! Just according to the examination of the imperial examination in the previous dynasty, officials often have to be appointed as officials after being a scholar, and most of them are placed as local officials. Many people don't know anything about agriculture at all. How to manage local agriculture?

Therefore, this dynasty wants to abandon the old system of the previous dynasty. The imperial examination is not only a rigid four books, five classics and eight-part essays, so that it can only cultivate more and more people who read dead books, which is by no means the talent that our powerful country needs!

Therefore, in the future, I will not look at whose eight-part essays are well written, whose handwriting is beautiful, but the people who want to study, have their own skills, and each has their own skills. Whether they are specialized in agriculture, law, or even mathematics, I will appoint them according to their talents! This is the way to enrich the country and strengthen the people in the future!

Think of my great China, how many miracles have been created for thousands of years, but now it has begun to lag behind the Western countries, which is what you often call Taixi!

If we can't reflect on ourselves, it won't take long for us to be left behind by the Western countries of this era!"

After Xiao Tianjian's words came to this point, all the ministers in the court frowned. Not only was they a little resistant. Some people think that Xiao Tianjian suddenly changed the method of employing people, so what a blow will it will be to many scholars in the world? You should know how many scholars have read four books and five classics for ten years, and write eight-part essays. Suddenly However, Xiao Tianjian said that he didn't value these, which means that the time spent on what these scholars have learned for so many years is a waste of time!

And what kind of style is it to let readers learn some miscellaneous studies in the future? So many literary ministers suddenly became nervous about this, and some people think that what Xiao Tianjian said was a little alarmist. How glorious has China been for thousands of years? How can it be left behind by those Thai countries in the future without learning these miscellaneous studies?

So there was a very lively atmosphere. After Xiao Tianjian said these words, the hall immediately cooled down. Many people showed resistance, but there was no change in the generals.

The number of words in this chapter is a little less. Let's add another chapter in the afternoon!