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Chapter 352 Obsessed with Song Yingxing

After Chen Zilong got to know Da Wei, he regretted his resistance to the Wei army. However, due to his face, he could never find a suitable opportunity to express his willingness to serve in Wei.

Now, with Xia Yunyi's persuasion and letters from Zhang Kuang and Hou Tongzeng, I finally found the steps.

So he decisively agreed to become an official.

Naturally, Da'ei also dealt with special matters. They first exempted Chen Zilong from hard labor and asked him to go to Guangzhou with Xia Yunyi to persuade Shen Youlong to return to Da'ei...

July is a month of fire. Although the season has entered early autumn, the weather is still hot.

After Da'ei captured all of Zhejiang in early June, due to the hot weather, military activities in various places were temporarily suspended, allowing divisions and brigades to repair and recharge in preparation for the campaign after the autumn harvest.

As the emperor of Damei, Liu Sheng temporarily shifted his focus to government affairs.

His main daily work is to meet with the talented people recommended by his ministers who are willing to serve.

Some of these talented people were originally Ming Dynasty opposition officials, such as Zhu Dadian, Yang Tinglin, Liu Tongsheng, Wan Yuanji, Li Mingrui and others recommended by Li Banghua.

Another example is Sun Jiaji, Xiong Rulin and others from Zhejiang.

Among them, Zhu Dadian was appointed by Liu Sheng as the Right Assistant Minister of the General Staff - although Liu Sheng preferred this position to Zhang Kuang, Zhang Kuang was still young after all, and the position he held as Yin Tianfu Yin was also very important, so it would be better to give it to Zhu Dadian first.

Zhu Dadian had previously known the Ming, Chuang, and Yi armies, and served as the right minister of the staff department and military counselor, which was convenient for Liu Sheng to consult on military matters.

Moreover, Zhu Dadian is already sixty-two years old. He will retire after serving in this position for a few years. At that time, Zhang Kuang can take over the position.

Yang Tinglin had previously served as the chief of the Ministry of War in the Ming Dynasty and had served as military counselor in Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army. After Liu Sheng read his resume, he appointed him as the chief of the Military Pay Department of the Ministry of Armament.

Liu Tongsheng served in the Da'ei Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Wan Yuanji works as a doctor in the trial department.

Li Mingrui was appointed as Zuotongzheng of the Tongzhengyuan.

Sun Jiaji, Xiong Rulin and others were appointed as magistrates and other local officials.

In addition to these people, there are also some historical celebrities who Liu Sheng specially ordered to recruit.

On July [-]th, Liu Sheng met two historical celebrities who he had admired for a long time in Fengxian Hall.

"Caomin Song Yingxing comes to see His Majesty."

In the palace, Song Yingxing followed the Da'ei etiquette taught by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and bowed to Liu Sheng (without kneeling, a very formal hand-over gesture to a distinguished person).

"Flat body."

Liu Sheng raised his hand with a smile and looked at Song Yingxing.

As a lover of late Ming history, Liu Sheng naturally knew about Song Yingxing, a "scientist" in the late Ming Dynasty.

Combining the information investigated by Xiuyiwei and some information from later generations, Liu Sheng had a good understanding of Song Yingxing's situation.

Song Yingxing is fifty-five years old this year. He is from Fengxin (Yichun), Jiangxi Province. He passed the imperial examination together with his brother Song Yingsheng in the [-]rd year of Wanli. After that, he went to Beijing to participate in the joint examination six times, but failed, so he gave up the idea of ​​taking the imperial examination.

Shortly thereafter, his elder brother Song Yingsheng was elected as the county magistrate of Tongxiang, Zhejiang through the official selection, while Song Yingxing returned to his hometown to support his elderly mother.

He has been interested in various arts and crafts since he was a child, and has read many miscellaneous books in the past few years.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, Song Yingxing also embarked on an official career through the selection of the Ministry of Personnel. He first served as the governor of Yuanzhou Prefecture.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the county school was very leisurely. He still had a lot of time to study and even write the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" and other related articles. Most of them were written and published during this period.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen's reign, due to his outstanding political performance, he was promoted to the promotion official of Tingzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. He only served for two years before he resigned and returned home because he did not like the gloomy officialdom.

Historically, Song Yingxing would be recruited by the Ming court again next year to serve as the magistrate of Bozhou in Fengyang Prefecture, and he would resign and return home in the early [-]th year of Chongzhen.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingxing lived in seclusion and did not serve as an official. It is said that he lived until the age of eighty before his death.

Feeling Liu Sheng's appraising eyes, Song Yingxing felt a little uneasy. Because he couldn't figure out why the founder of the country, who already owned seven provinces and would replace the Ming Dynasty and change the dynasty, knew his name, and why he specifically issued an order to recruit him to Nanjing.

After all, he was just a civil servant before and failed in many trials. Although he later entered the official career, he only promoted officials from one government office to another.

He has neither a literary name nor an official reputation.

Even though he and his brother had a little reputation among Jiangxi officials, when other scholars talked about him, they often ridiculed him for being obsessed with all kinds of crafts and arts.

Even he himself thought that he had no ambitions and had nothing to do with talented people. He really didn't know what the purpose of the great Emperor Qianyuan was to call him.

"I heard that Mr. Song compiled a book called "Tiangong Kaiwu", which specifically records agricultural, industrial and other craftsmanship?"

Song Yingxing was slightly stunned after hearing this, but still nodded and said, "Yes."

At this time, Liu Sheng picked up a book, which was "Tiangong Kaiwu" that was circulating on the market. His tone was gentle and joyful: "In my opinion, this book is better than many imperial examination articles and even classic annotations." Value. Unfortunately, it is rarely circulated on the market and may be lost in the future."

Hearing Liu Sheng's words, Song Yingxing was delighted at first, and then became a little panicked and said: "It's just a miscellaneous book recording craftsmanship. It really doesn't deserve such praise from your majesty."

"Why can't you do this?" Liu Sheng said seriously, "Mr. Song, does he know why our Da'ei army has been stronger than the Ming army, had many invading armies, and won many battles since its establishment?"

Song Yingxing said: "It should be because the soldiers are well-paid and the rewards and punishments are clear."

"It is necessary to have adequate soldiers and adequate pay, and clear rewards and punishments. In addition, I have also established the position of military and political officer to teach soldiers literacy, arithmetic, and knowledge of principles. In addition, since the establishment of our army, we have always attached great importance to armaments.

Whether it is matchlocks, grenades, army cannons and some blade armor, they are all top-notch today.

Because by achieving these three points, the army can be invincible and invincible.

I won’t mention the first two points. If the third point is missing, the soldiers may not be able to win if they use their flesh and blood to fight against the enemy’s armor, sharp blades, muskets and cannons, right?

So how can we make our military's armaments better, even more abundant and cheaper than those of our enemies? I think this requires paying attention to the art of all kinds of work. Mr. Song should agree with the logic of this, right? "

Hearing this, Song Yingxing suddenly felt like a confidant.

In fact, although he was influenced by the contemporary concept and believed that various craftsmanship was a minor thing, he never considered these to be useless and cunning skills.

If he thought so, he wouldn't have spent decades studying this method.

Immediately, he couldn't help but reveal his heart and said quite excitedly: "What your Majesty said is true! In fact, the improvement of craftsmanship can not only make the armaments better and cheaper, but also make the fields produce more food, so that the people can Daily necessities are cheaper! Hundreds of craftsmanship are by no means useless!”

Song Yingxing also understood these principles in the process of writing "Tiangong Kaiwu" and told people about it, but unfortunately few people believed it.

"Hahaha," Liu Sheng laughed happily after hearing this, "That's right. The craftsmanship is not only useful, but also of great use to the country and the people!"

He then said sternly: "In my opinion, since the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties have paid too much attention to studying the social and moral principles of heaven and human hearts, while neglecting scientific methods such as hundreds of craftsmanship.

Social principles and science are like two legs of a human being. Only when both legs are healthy and intact and equal in length can a person walk fast or even run.

If the country only pays attention to the study of moral articles such as social principles and the principles of nature and human hearts, it will sooner or later reach a dead end. Therefore, the national destiny of previous dynasties has been difficult for more than three hundred years.

If we want to break the vicious cycle of chaos and chaos in the past, we can only pay attention to the scientific method and make the world have more food, commodities and other wealth than in the past, and even allow the people to truly get rid of hunger and cold, so that the national destiny can be more lasting. "

Song Yingxing had never thought about it so deeply before, so he was quite shocked when he heard Liu Sheng's theory and was speechless for a moment.

But he is digesting its contents.

After a while, he bowed to Liu Sheng with a look of shock on his face and said: "What your Majesty said is really inspiring, breaking through the fog of fighting chaos in the past, and it is heartbreaking!"

Song Yingxing swore that his words were not flattery, but he really meant it.

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "Our university has the Military Affairs Council, the Government Affairs Council, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and below it there are the General Affairs Council, the Hanlin Academy, and the Academy of Sciences. Now that the Academy of Sciences is being founded, we are in urgent need of relevant talents. Mr. Song is willing to serve as the Academy of Sciences in our university. A longer position?"

　First more.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)