How to let Jiajing see his ability, this question, Yang Cong thought about it for a long time.

Do you want to clean up the southern and northern captives now?

He thinks that he doesn't have this ability yet, and it is not for nothing that the southern and northern captives frequently enter the Ming Dynasty, and it is not that just defeating them will solve all problems.

Besides, it is not so simple to completely defeat the southern and northern captives, people are not fools, and if they can't win, they will run away, and it is quite unreliable to try to solve the southern and northern captives by winning one or two battles.

Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun, Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang and other famous military generals who have left their names in history have spent decades to defeat the Southern and Northern Captives, and he does not think that he has this ability now.

Now learn from Zhang Juzheng to eliminate maladministration and come to Jiajing Zhongxing?

He knows quite well that he doesn't have this power at all now, and if he doesn't become the head of the cabinet and controls the power of the court, it's just a joke to get rid of bad governance.

He is only a cultivator of the Hanlin Academy now, and he is still 108,000 miles away from the first assistant of the cabinet.

So, what can he do now?

Thinking about it, at this time, only writing books and speaking can show his ability, and the Hanlin Academy is not responsible for writing books, to put it bluntly.

He also had the idea of compiling a masterpiece "The Principle of Knowledge of Things", and compiled "The Principle of Knowledge of Things" into an encyclopedia that led the development of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, writing a book is also a great achievement, if you can compile a masterpiece of the world, not only can show your ability, but also show the ability of the dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties have attached great importance to this kind of masterpiece, because the emperor also wants to live for generations, if he can produce a masterpiece under his rule, it is also a great achievement for an emperor.

For example, "Yongle Grand Canon" is one of the symbols of Yongle Prosperous Age, and later generations will think of Yongle Prosperous Age when they see or even hear "Yongle Grand Canon".

"Yongle Canon" is a masterpiece that has a far-reaching influence and is simply immeasurable, and Xie Jin, who is the editor-in-chief of "Yongle Canon", is also known as "the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty" or even "the first genius of the Ming Dynasty".

It is rumored that Jiajing likes to read "Yongle Canon", basically, as long as he has time, he will flip through the "Yongle Canon", and he even intends to copy a copy of "Yongle Canon".

This guy, copying the "Yongle Canon" is not a joke, because the "Yongle Canon" has thousands of copies, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of words, it is rumored that after the finalization of the "Yongle Canon", Ming Chengzu Zhu Di organized more than 2,000 people to copy the original for five years before copying the original, the huge workload is evident, and Jiajing actually wants to copy a copy, and his love for the "Yongle Canon" is also evident.

Of course, not all books can become masterpieces, and it is not that you can represent a dynasty by writing a book casually, and there are more people who have written books and talked about them, but there are only a few books that have been passed down for generations, and the books compiled by most people have not been circulated at all, and it is even difficult for the title of the book to appear in history.

In order to compile a practical masterpiece, the content of the compilation must first have use value, and others can use it, so that the book can be passed on, such as "Yongle Canon", "The Art of War", "Compendium of Materia Medica", etc., all of which are practical masterpieces that have been handed down for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Then, the content you compile must also attract the attention of those in power, otherwise the book will not only be slow to compile, but it will also be difficult for you to become famous, such as the "Yongle Canon" and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" are obvious examples.

The compilation of "Yongle Canon" was valued by Ming Chengzu, so thousands of volumes, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of words, was compiled in a few years, and Xie Jin, who presided over the compilation, also became a famous talent in the Ming Dynasty, and the official was the first assistant of the cabinet.

The compilation of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" did not receive the attention of those in power, so there were only 52 volumes in total and more than 1 million words, and Li Shizhen compiled it for more than 20 years, and until the "Compendium of Materia Medica" was written, and even Li Shizhen died, his fame did not spread.

In other words, how to impress Jiajing and make him pay attention to the compilation of "The Principle of Knowing from Things" is also a very important issue, if Jiajing is not interested, then he may die of exhaustion and make a wedding dress for future generations.

It doesn't matter if this wedding dress is done for future generations, the main thing is that he wants to let Jiajing see his talent by compiling "The Principle of Gewu Zhizhi", and he also wants to lead the development of Daming through the promotion of "Gewu Zhizhizhi", so that Daming will gradually become stronger.

So, how to impress Jiajing and make Jiajing pay attention to the compilation of "The Principle of Knowing from Things"?

This question is not simple.

If he ran over and told the truth and told Jiajing that he would compile an encyclopedia to lead the development of Daming and make Daming gradually stronger, Jiajing would probably think that his brain was in water.

What are you kidding, what leads the development of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty gradually becomes stronger, for thousands of years, the emperors of all dynasties are agriculture-oriented, everyone thinks that planting enough food, so that the people have food is fundamental.

What is "The Principle of Gewu Zhizhi", what development, what becomes stronger, Jiajing wants to know this, Daming will be invincible in the world long ago, and you are still waiting for you to compile "Gewu Zhizhi"?

The development of a country is not an overnight thing, especially like this kind of development similar to industry, there is no effect in a few years or even decades, Jiajing cannot have such a long-term vision, only from reality, let him see the real benefits.

So, how to make Jiajing see the tangible benefits?

Yang Cong quickly thought of a lot of things.

For example, what Jiajing wants to solve most now is the problem of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and even the exam questions he gave during the palace examination were how to solve the problem of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, but there is no specific solution to this problem now, including Yang Cong's champion article, which is only a general discussion, and there is nothing substantial.

Now it's different, he is compiling "The Principle of Gewu Zhizhi. The Art of War", this "Art of War" has a detailed introduction, how to use hot weapons to defeat cavalry holding cold weapons.

This method is almost common sense in later generations, no matter how high the kung fu is, one shot down, you take a sword to fight with a person equipped with guns, it is purely a search for death, and there is no suspense about the outcome of the victory.

However, people of this era do not think so, the main thing is that the thermal weapons of this era are not very powerful, the equipment is not very common, and there is no specific method of warfare.

If you take dozens or even hundreds of arquebuses to deal with tens of thousands of cavalry, it will naturally have no effect at all. The Art of War has a detailed description of how to use hot weapons to deal with cavalry, and I believe Jiajing will definitely be interested in this.

Also, Jiajing likes to hunt for curiosities, Yang Cong has long heard Lu Bing say that Jiajing's favorite when he translated "Yongle Canon" was those strange contents, and "The Principle of Knowing Things. Geography can satisfy his curiosity.

He believed that a "Complete Map of Kunyu Wanguo" drawn in various colors would definitely attract Jiajing's attention.

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