Alive, of course alive.

And he is alive and well, not because the set of "Heavenly Creations" he wrote two years ago sold tens of thousands of copies, but because last year he was just promoted to the official of the Tingzhou Mansion in Fujian.

In other words, people are now officials in the system, and they may not be rich and rich, but they are also delicious.

In this way, Zhu Guoqiang naturally gave up the idea of inviting Song Yingxing to come over for the time being, after all, people are now doing a good job as officials in the system.

"Shiziye, since you want Song Yingxing but can't, in fact, you might as well write a letter to invite Chen Hongxu and Liao Bangying and others to come over, when he wrote the book "Heavenly Creations", he had the help of friends, most of these people are also well-versed in the wilderness of the wilderness talents......"

Ge Shizhen's suggestion made Zhu Guoqiang, who was originally a little disappointed, light up and said immediately.

"Oh? Is it? In this case, you might as well repair a few books for me and invite them to come to Jinan. ”

Zhu Guoqiang is naturally very clear about the importance of talents, especially in this era, his thirst for talents cannot be described by his thirst for talents, after all, there are too few talents in this world...... In fact, there are a lot of them, and unlike what people in the other world imagine, in fact, the Ming Dynasty was a watershed in Chinese history that was extremely rare - the watershed between classical China and modern China.

This watershed is not history, but politics, economy, culture, and customs...... Begin a full transformation. This change is the first time in Chinese history, and unlike the late Qing Dynasty, the accurate ideological awakening after the Russo-Japanese War, when the Chinese people abandoned the old Confucian thought, this change is a bottom-up, a spontaneous ideological change.

The reason for this is not only because the scholars want to break through the eight confinements, but also because the social economy has reached a critical point of prosperity.

According to the record that the water is too cold, "During the Zhengjia period, the scholars took the passage as a detour, and in the season of Wanli, the scholars took reading as a secret!" ”。

That is to say, from the beginning of the Zhengde Dynasty, scholars actually regarded the knowledge of the Five Classics as pedantic. In the Wanli Dynasty, scholars were even embarrassed to say that they liked to read. The reason for this is nothing more than that they feel that the eight strands are useless, and they find another way out ideologically, and begin to pursue the practical value of knowledge.

And this is also one of the reasons why "practical learning" prevailed in the late Ming Dynasty and became the mainstream of the late Ming Dynasty. This ideological change, which can be called the "Enlightenment Movement of Ancient Chinese Thought", originated before Zhengde and flourished in Wang Yangming, Wang Yangming

The idea of "Xinxue" is like a lightning bolt piercing the night sky, bringing the mainstream of Confucianism from science to psychology, and the idea of "Xinxue" has played a key role in connecting the past and the next in this "ideological enlightenment". In the Wanli period, "Xinxue" gradually changed to "Shixue". In the Tianchong period, most of the world's well-known scholars were also "practical masters", even if the "water is too cold", in fact, they were also "practical masters", advocating "from the scriptures to practice", but they deviated, turning "practical learning" into "real-time practical learning".

Of course, in this ideological enlightenment, it is inevitable that many readers will deviate, because they look down on the eight shares, and they will not read the scriptures or books. That is, to memorize the reference materials to cope with the imperial examination. said that he was a talent who had been used in the world, and disdained to be in the company of pedantic scholars. After all, whether it is the ideological enlightenment in Europe or the ideological reform in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there are many people who have deviated from the theme, but generally speaking, the theme of "ideological enlightenment" in the late Ming Dynasty has not deviated, and still adheres to the purpose of "practical learning".

What would have happened if this "intellectual enlightenment" had not been interrupted by a barbaric invasion?

Looking at the "Heavenly Creations" in his hand, Zhu Guoqiang thought a lot about it this day. This set of classical Chinese scientific encyclopedias is full of explanations of how Manchu enslavement destroyed Chinese civilization.

Because of the introduction of the book "Heavenly Creation" in the middle school textbook, this book is very famous, but how many people know that this great scientific and technological work in Chinese history once disappeared in China for nearly 200 years.

In the early years of the Republic of China, someone found that he quoted a book called "Tiangong Kaiwu" in the "Yunnan Tongzhi", so he was full of curiosity about this book, but he went to the major libraries in China to search for this book, but he did not find any of them, and asked well-known bibliophiles, but no one knew about this book.

That is to say, under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the book had completely disappeared from China, and almost no one even knew about it. Later, this person happened to find the Japanese version of this book at a Japanese friend's house, so he went to the Japanese library to check, this check does not matter, and found that this book is actually translated in Britain, Russia, Germany, Japan, and France, and there is a full translation in France, ironically only China does not have this book, it is not a real one, and later he found the original original engraving of the Ming Dynasty of "Heavenly Creation" in the National Library of France, and this original engraving is the most beautifully printed of all editions, It can also be seen that the folk printing industry in the Ming Dynasty was developed. Then, according to this original inscription, the book of Tiangong Kaiwu was widely printed in China and saw the light of day again.

The disappearance of this book is directly related to the ban on the destruction of the Manchu Xiu's "Siku Quanshu", and I don't know how many ancient Chinese works were destroyed in this way. Under the brutal, closed and ignorant rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how many valuable technologies and ideological works were completely wiped out, future generations will never know.

But one thing is for sure, people nowadays tend to confuse the Ming Dynasty with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which is really the result of the propaganda of the foolish people. There is even a group of bastards who are not enough slaves, in order to exonerate their masters, they "transfer flowers and trees", put the experience of Wei Zheng's "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" on the book "Tiangong Kaiwu", saying that Song Yingxing, a poor talent, tightened his belt and published "Tiangong Kaiwu" at his own expense, which was not valued by the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and its circulation was limited, and it was listed as a banned book in the Qing Dynasty, so it naturally disappeared.

However, how do they explain that after the ban of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the only record of the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" is not in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where it was issued, but in Yunnan on the southwestern border. In fact, the fact that this set of "unvalued" encyclopedias was able to spread to European countries shows that it was extremely popular in the Ming Dynasty, even in the study room of the living womb.

"Ni Mom!"

Again, staring at the book in his hand, Zhu Guoqiang's heart had only one feeling at this time, which was anger. Boundless rage!

Not just because of the fate of the book, but because of it - the fate of this intellectual enlightenment!