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But what about my son?Every day I don’t study the books of sages at home, but I actually study some mathematics and Western studies.What's the use of these things?

A few days ago, a man named Song Yingxing came to Jinling.I don't know why I, a rebellious son, ran to see Song Yingxing, but I couldn't call him back. "

Wan Yu said with worry on his face, rather uncomfortable.

When Zhao Wen heard that it was Song Yingxing, his eyes lit up, and his heart instantly became excited.

Zhao Wen pretended to be calm, and asked, "Song Yingxing? Is that Song Yingxing from Fengxin, Jiangxi?"

If it was really Song Yingxing, no matter what he said, he would have to get this Song Yingxing to Xuan Town.

This is a great character, "Heavenly Craftsmanship" written by him is known as the encyclopedia of ancient crafts and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

If Song Yingxing could be brought to Xuan Town, it would be beneficial to the development of Xuan Town.

"Do you know this Song Yingxing?" Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen and said slowly: "He is indeed from Fengxin, Jiangxi, and he seems to be writing a book called "Heavenly Creation."

"It really is him." Zhao Wen muttered in a low voice, and then avoided the topic.After all, the purpose of my coming to Wan Yu now is to find craftsmen.

"By the way, I almost forgot. I came to you today to discuss something with you." Zhao Wen looked at Wan Yu and said slowly.

"What's the matter?" Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen suspiciously.

I am not familiar with the person in front of me, what can he do with me?

"It's nothing. Didn't Eunuch Cao ask you to transfer a group of craftsmen before? The purpose of my visit this time is the same as Eunuch Cao's. It is to find some craftsmen from you. Craftsmen who can build ships are the best.

Of course, I won't ask for it for nothing, I will give you 20 taels of silver for each craftsman.There is no quantity requirement for craftsmen, the more the better. "

Zhao Wen sat on a chair, held tea, and sipped it.

20 taels of silver for a craftsman is simply not too cost-effective.

Upon hearing this, Wan Yu fell into silence.He looked at Zhao Wen with flickering eyes.

"Brother, maybe you don't quite understand. Although I am the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, I can transfer craftsmen. However, this craftsman is not transferred casually.

The transfer of craftsmen is for the emperor, without the emperor's decree, I dare not transfer the craftsmen casually.

If the emperor finds out about the random transfer of craftsmen, it would be a crime of beheading. "Wan Yu sipped his tea and said solemnly.

Zhao Wen smiled slightly, with a playful look on his face, "No, you didn't have this attitude when Eunuch Cao asked you to mobilize craftsmen last time."

"Eunuch Cao is Eunuch Cao, and you are you. I don't even know who you are. Why would I risk beheading to mobilize craftsmen for you?" Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen and said in a deep voice.

Zhao Wen put down the teacup in his hand, looked at Wan Yu, and stood up, "My identity? My identity, I can't tell you now, but I want these craftsmen to be of great use.

And these craftsmen are not what I want, but Eunuch Cao asked me to ask for these craftsmen.I don't believe you won't listen to Eunuch Cao.

You know who Eunuch Cao is. Do you think you will end well if you don’t help Eunuch Cao?

If you help me, you are helping Eunuch Cao. I can assure you here that as long as you can help me get the craftsmen, under the operation of Eunuch Cao, maybe you will become the Minister of the Ministry of Industry in the capital.

I don't believe that you are willing to stay in Jinling for the rest of your life as a Minister of the Ministry of Industry who only manages a group of craftsmen? "

Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen, wondering which of Zhao Wen's words were true and which were false.

To be honest, although Jinling's Minister of the Ministry of Industry sounds good, but in terms of status, it can't be compared with the capital's.

To put it bluntly, it is the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and to put it bluntly, it is a craftsman who is in charge of the craftsmen in Nanzhili.

Sitting in the yamen of the Ministry of Industry with nothing to do all day, you can be free.

"Eunuch Cao can really help me run to the capital and become a real minister of the Ministry of Industry?" Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen and asked in disbelief.

Cao Huachun is a big celebrity by His Majesty's side, he is a person who came out of His Majesty's hidden residence, and he got tens of millions of taels of silver for His Majesty a while ago, which makes him extremely favored by His Majesty.

If Cao Huachun is really willing to operate for him, maybe he can really be operated in the capital.

As long as you arrive in the capital, let alone a minister of the Ministry of Industry, even a servant will do.

Zhao Wen laughed and said, "Why should I lie to you? If you don't believe me, you can write a letter to Eunuch Cao and ask."

Wan Yu saw that Zhao Wen didn't look like he was telling a lie, so he agreed.

"I'll send you another two thousand craftsmen from other places in Nanzhili, what do you think?" Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen and said slowly.

Zhao Wen clapped his hands and said with a smile; "Then it's settled, I will tell Eunuch Cao about your affairs, and I will definitely work it for you when the time comes.

By the way, by the way, where is Song Yingxing?I'm going to see you. "

"Song Yingxing is in the Tongfu Inn in Jinling City. It's easy to find. It's not far from the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry." Wan Yu looked at Zhao Wen and said slowly.

"In that case, I would like to thank you very much." Zhao Wen cupped his hands at Wan Yu, and then took out a few bank notes from his bosom.

"Here is 2000 taels of silver, which is a deposit. After all these craftsmen are in place, I will send you the rest."

Zhao Wen slapped the banknote on the table and said with a smile on his face.

When Wan Yu saw the banknote, he immediately smiled like a flower.

"In that case, then I will be disrespectful." Wan Yu picked up the bank note with a smile on his face, and stuffed it into his sleeve.

After Zhao Wen left Wanfu, he led his men towards Tongfu Inn.

"Tongfu Inn!"

Zhao Wen stopped at Tongfu Inn, looked at the signboard of Tongfu Inn, and said with a smile on his face.

"Go, let's go in!"

With a wave of his hand, Zhao Wen led his personal guards into the room.

At this time, it was meal time, and there were many people eating in the inn.

Zhao Wen looked at the diners in the inn, frowning tightly.

Zhao Wen had never met Song Yingxing, and there were so many people now, it was like finding a needle in a haystack.

So he walked to the counter of the inn, looked at the shopkeeper standing in the counter, and asked in a deep voice: "I heard that a man named Song Yingxing came here, isn't it?"

The shopkeeper looked at Zhao Wen, and asked with a puzzled look: "Who are you?"

Looking at the shopkeeper's appearance, Zhao Wen didn't talk nonsense, and directly took out an ingot of five taels of silver from his pocket and slapped it on the table.

"Do you know now?"

The shopkeeper looked at the silver on the table, and smiled like a flower in an instant, "My lord, you are asking the right person. There is indeed a person named Song Yingxing in the inn, but I don't know if it is what you are looking for."

"The one I'm looking for is from Fengxin, Jiangxi." Zhao Wen looked at the shopkeeper and said slowly.

"My lord, Song Yingxing in the inn is from Fengxin, Jiangxi. He is in the inn now. How about I take you to look for it?" The shopkeeper came out from the counter, bent over, and looked flattering way.

Zhao Wendao: "Okay, let's go!"

As soon as Zhao Wen finished speaking, the shopkeeper led Zhao Wen to the second floor of the inn.

At this time, Song Yingxing was sitting in his room, opposite to him was a young man about 25 years old.

This young man is Wan Yu's son, Wan Jingyu.

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Chapter 229 Please Song Yingxing

Wan Jingyu was holding a brush in his hand, writing and drawing on the rice paper on the table, while Song Yingxing was sitting opposite, talking non-stop.

Every time Song Yingxing said a sentence, Wan Jingyu wrote a sentence.

After a while, Wan Jingyu put down the brush in his hand and looked at Song Yingxing, "Sir, I still don't understand. You are so talented, why didn't you take the imperial examination? If you continue to take the imperial examination, you will definitely be a Jinshi."

It is not that I, Ming Dynasty, did not have examples of late bloomers. Although my husband failed several times in the general examinations, with my talent, I was still able to pass the Jinshi examination. "

Song Yingxing shook his head with a smile, and said slowly: "My ambition is not in the imperial examination, I want to write a book including agriculture, water conservancy, manufacturing methods, etc.

Back then, I went to Beijing five times to take the exam, but I failed in all of them.Since then, my heart for the imperial examination has died.

Today's imperial examination articles are all exaggerated lies.The sage is often discussed, the sage said, and the words of the sage are talked about every day.

If there is a little bit of other things on the test paper, you will be dismissed.I really don't understand, if what the sage said is useful, then why did my Ming come to this point? "

Song Yingxing let out a long breath and stood up. He looked at Wan Jingyu who was sitting on the stool, and said slowly: "Today's scholar-bureaucrats and scholars can only talk in exaggeration. How to implement it? One by one doesn't know anything.

The year before last, Jiannu invaded the land of Jingji and besieged the capital.Why didn't the Manchu officials say anything about it?One by one can say so, why don't they let Jiannu retreat?

If it wasn't for the defense of Longmen Fort, could the siege of the capital be won so easily?

Today's scholar-bureaucrats and scholars can talk one by one when it comes to lip service.But how many of them know how clothes are made?How many people know the difference between wheat seedlings and leeks?How many people know what kind of iron is used to make weapons sharper?

What good is a group of people who can only talk and talk, good for the country?How to rejuvenate the country without doing facts? "

Song Yingxing slapped the table and said impassionedly.

In history, Song Yingxing went to Beijing to rush for the exam five times, but failed all five times. The reason why he failed the rankings five times actually has a lot to do with his articles.

His articles are not like other Juren, who are full of empty sage words.

His articles are all about practicality, but this kind of article was not liked by the examiners at all at the time, so it is normal for him to be dismissed.

After failing the examination, Song Yingxing returned to his hometown and began to prepare for writing "Tiangong Kaiwu".

In the process of writing "Tiangong Kaiwu", the biggest difficulty is poverty and being unaccepted.

He wrote in the preface of "Heavenly Creation of Things": "It's so sad and poor!"If you want to buy strange textual research, but beg for capital from Luoxia, and want to attract colleagues, the business plan is fake, but you lack the museum of Chen Si.

It means that you want to verify it but don't have enough money, and you want to talk about the truth with people, but you don't have a place.

Despite this, Song Yingxing completed the first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production in human history in the seventh year of Chongzhen.

Unfortunately, after the completion of "Tiangong Kaiwu", Song Yingxing almost failed to publish it because of poverty.It was not published until the tenth year of Chongzhen, with the support of his friend Tu Shaoying.

At that time, Song Yingxing's "Tiangong Kaiwu" also attracted the attention of those in power. Although the scholar-officials and scholars in Ming Dynasty liked to talk empty words, many people became very interested in "Tiangong Kaiwu".

Therefore, Song Yingxing became the prefect of Haozhou.But at this time, it was the last years of Chongzhen. Song Yingxing had been an official for a few years, and Li Zicheng broke into the capital.

When Nanming was defeated by Jiannu, Song Yingxing's elder brother Song Yingsheng died of poison.

Song Yingxing returned to his hometown and became a teacher.

During the reign of Qianlong, when Qianlong was in charge of literary inquisition, "Tiangong Kaiwu" was also destroyed by those in power on the grounds that "it is the words of the previous dynasty, and it may have the intention of treason".

Since then, there has been no more such a wonderful book "Heavenly Creation" on the land of China.

The ridiculous thing is that when "Heavenly Creation" spread to Japan and Western countries, it caused a huge sensation in an instant.

"Tiangong Kaiwu" played a huge role in the production of Western countries at that time, and even directly promoted the agricultural revolution in Western countries.

Later generations of foreign scholars spoke very highly of the book "Heavenly Creation of Things".

If it hadn't been for later generations to discover the original of "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the island country, I am afraid that the people of the country would never know that there is such a wonderful book in the history of China.

Of course, at this time Song Yingxing didn't know about it at all, and now he is still traveling in Ming Dynasty, preparing for "Heavenly Creation".

When Song Yingxing said those words, Zhao Wen was already standing at the door.

He didn't go in immediately, but stood at the door listening to Song Yingxing's words.

At the same time, the deeds of "Heavenly Creation" also appeared in his mind.

Zhao Wen looked at the door, heaved a sigh of relief, and then knocked on the door slowly.

"Who?"

When the knock on the door rang, Song Yingxing's voice came from the room.

Zhao Wendao: "I heard that Fengxin Song Yingxing is here, so I came here to see you!"

"Meet me? Come in, the door is unlocked."

Zhao Wen asked Zhao Daniu and others to wait outside, then pushed open the door and walked in.

"You came to see me?" Song Yingxing stood in the room, looking at Zhao Wen curiously.

Zhao Wen looked at Song Yingxing carefully.

I saw him wearing a blue round-neck shirt, wearing a world-unifying cap, over forty years old, with a beard, staring at himself curiously.

Zhao Wen walked forward quickly, cupped his hands towards Song Yingxing, and said slowly: "Dare to ask, but Mr. Song Yingxing Song?"

"It's me, why are you looking for me?" Song Yingxing looked at Zhao Wen and asked curiously.

Zhao Wen smiled slightly, and said: "I have admired Mr. Song for a long time, and today I am here to pay my respects."

"Looking up to me for a long time? What do I have to look up to? I'm just a white man now."