Song Yingxing's agronomic collection is actually much more professional than Kong Minxing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

For example, rice soaking, breeding, seedling sowing, grass and other agricultural affairs, specific to each day, the use of oil for various plant oil extraction, how to squeeze, how to use animal power, how much oil yield and so on.

Not only the cultivation of rice, wheat, rape, cabbage, greens, and various vegetables, but also the different cultivation methods brought about by the different soils and climates of provinces, prefectures, prefectures, and counties, etc., are also well documented.

These materials were all Song Yingxing's own slow reading, observation, collection, summary, and then screening and detailed records, at that time, the military personnel who assessed Song Yingxing's records sampled and inspected, and found that the accuracy rate was 100 percent, and Song Yingxing's status was of course affirmed to a considerable extent.

However, it is a pity that Song Yingxing does not have his own research, his main job is to collect, although he is also qualified to be a good person, and wants to get the attention and attention of the higher levels of the military department, after all, it is still a little worse.

Of course, it is mainly caused by Zhang Han's ignorance of these things, he still doesn't know that Song Yingxing is a famous figure in later generations, and sometimes, collecting information can also be famous through the ages......

Song Yingxing's collection was not complete at this time, and his book was intended to be divided into many parts, including "Nai Li", "Nai Fu", "Zhangshi", "Cuijing", "Zhi Zhu", "Danqing", "Burnt Stone", "Zuo Xian", "Finishing Stone", "Hardware", and "Jia Bing".

Although there is not much originality, it is also very energy-consuming to collect evidence, not only in the craftsmen and fields, but also in the records of the ancients and various books, which are screened, tested, researched, and finally recorded into a book.

Just like Li Shizhen, he studied literature and did not study medicine, and then had more efforts and dedication in herbal medicine, and finally Li Shizhen left a work on herbal medicine and prescriptions, which influenced the development and application of Chinese medicine in the following hundreds of years. Song Yingxing's achievements and status should have been greater than Li Shizhen's, and his book recorded all the best and most advanced sciences and operations in China throughout the ages, not only in craftsmanship and agriculture, but also in the great achievements of scientific works.

Of course, the book is not yet finished, and Song Yingxing has spent at least another thirty years on this book.

"I think we still have to spend some energy on figuring out the times." Song Yingsheng saw his brother's obsessed look, and he felt a little uneasy.

Song Yingsheng said seriously: "Except for the ones sent home, the two of us can save more than three hundred taels a year, and in another year, it will be five or six hundred." In this way, the supply at home is much easier, and we can also go to Beijing in the second half of next year for half a year, and then study with the same examiner. If you don't have to worry about the envoy fee of the Jingshi, I'm afraid the chances will be much greater. ”

Song Yingxing smiled bitterly: "Let's take the test again for the fourth time, if we can really win, the first time we will win." ”

"It's weird, too." Song Yingsheng said with a sad face: "All the teachers of the year said that my brothers and sisters were waiting for the middle school to take the test, but the result was that they failed to test repeatedly. ”

The two brothers are all in Wanli 43 years, Song Yingxing is still one of the five kui, that is, the top five in the township test, at that time, the two brothers were lifted together, Song Yingxing is the third, although it is not Xie Yuan, the ranking is also quite high, causing a sensation, known as "Fengxin Ersong". originally thought that they could take the Lianjie examination, but who expected that the two brothers failed in the forty-fourth year of Wanli's examination.

In the examination system of the Ming Dynasty, it is relatively easy for children to take the show, as long as they work hard to study, they are not stupid and stupid, and they can still get their fame.

Later, the talent was examined, and it was a thousand difficulties, and it was not an exaggeration to say that thousands of troops crossed the single-plank bridge.

Jiangnan belongs to the South List, it was originally fiercely competitive, and Jiangxi at that time was a prosperous literary style, as a province, Jiangxi's sense of existence in the Ming Dynasty was a hundred times stronger than that of later generations, this province, contributed quite a lot of Jinshi and champions, it can be said that the results of the exam are not under the South Zhili, many of the famous court officials are also Jiangxi origins, of course, the most famous is the Yan Song Yan Ge of the year.

In Jiangxi, it is extremely difficult to raise people in the Xiucai examination, and then it is much easier to lift people to take the Jinshi, three thousand will try to lift people, and take more than one-tenth of them, which is ten times higher than the number of places in the township examination, generally as long as there is no big mistake, the literary style is prosperous, and the high level of lifting people is much higher than the rest of the provinces, which is also the reason why the power of the court officials is almost all occupied by the southerners after the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

However, the brothers of the Song family have taken the exam many times in a row, but they did not succeed in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, nor did they fail in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and they still failed in the second year of the Apocalypse.

Ten years have come by like this.

The cost of the two brothers to catch the exam is also extremely high, even if they are from a scholarly family, they can't hold on.

Song Yingsheng said: "Chang Gung is not in a hurry, if he is not in the next department, the foolish brother will decide to go to the Ministry of Officials to challenge the county, and take the eunuch as one side, so that he can do something and continue to make up for the family." ”

Song Yingxing said miserably: "Could it be that we have been studying for 20 years just to earn money as officials and supplement our families?" ”

Song Yingsheng was puzzled: "What does Chang Gung mean? ”

He said with some vigilance: "You must not say that you stay in Heyusheng, although we are given hundreds of taels of silver a year here, and the family has made up for a lot of deficits in the past few years, but studying and improving is the right way." Let's just say the most ugly words, the magistrate of Shangxian County, who is not greedy or profitable, has a normal income of one or two thousand taels of silver, which can be compared with Yusheng. ”

"I heard that the military personnel who have served for a long time are also accountable, and they will divide the fields in the north." Song Yingxing said a word, and when he saw that his eldest brother Huo Ran's color changed, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Big brother doesn't have to take it seriously, I'm just talking." ”

"Well, Kong Zhizhi's road, we must not go." Song Yingsheng said: "There is a lot of silver, and this is also a place to do things, but the clan has cultivated our brothers for 20 years, just hoping that we can be an official in the Jinshi and shelter the clansmen in the township, if we stay here, Zhang Han is a person who may raise the flag and rebel at any time, in case there is disharmony, we can't give back to the clan, but also affect the clan, in this way, the clan will be removed from the name, and we can't be buried in the ancestral grave after death, then we are really unwilling to die." ”

The parents of the two Song brothers have passed away, but they still have elders and relatives in their hometown, if they follow and Yusheng to rebel regardless of it, not to mention anything else, won't their wives and children be affected? If there is anything unbearable to say, it will really harm the family, and the family will not be able to die well.

Thinking about it like this, it was really terrifying, Song Yingxing did have the intention to stay, but this time he could only sigh and give up from the bottom of his heart.

"Zhang Wenlan is not necessarily the opposite." Song Yingsheng turned his head and comforted his brother: "He is already the king of the north, and the Ming Dynasty is not something he can covet casually, with the millions of border troops of the Ming Dynasty, and the grace of the world for more than 200 years, how can he easily regret it?" With Zhang Wenlan's cleverness, he will definitely not do anything stupid out of place. ”

"That's right." Song Yingxing nodded and said: "I talked to him, this person is indeed a first-class smart person, shrewd and exposed, everything is open-minded, I am just worried that he is too conceited." ”

"And Sun Xiaozheng and Li Zunlu?" Song Yingsheng said: "I will always persuade him." ”

"Sun Xiaozheng, Kong Zhizhi, and many old people will not persuade him to rebel. Li Zunlu......" Song Yingxing shook his head and smiled, and said, "He wants to be the Li Shanchang of the new dynasty." ”

"Back then, Li Shanchang didn't die well." Song Yingsheng sighed: "Why did the predecessors pounce and the descendants have to follow and suffer?" ”

"You can't escape fame and fortune left and right!" Song Yingxing said: "Aren't we too?" I don't plan to stay, I have to leave next year at most, and the calculation of silver is still a bit tight. I've been to the watch bureau a few times lately, and I have a vague idea that if we can get this done, I think we'll have the money to leave. ”

"That's right." Song Yingxing said again: "There is another method, the military secretary should be very useful, this method brother go and come forward, it can't all fall on me alone, the military secretary will definitely be reluctant to let me go." ”

"Chang Gung was originally my Song family's Qianliju." Song Yingsheng smiled and said: "The year after tomorrow, when the school is opened, when the spring comes, my brothers and sisters will definitely be able to get the middle jinshi." ”

Song Yingxing was already reading again, and Song Yingsheng began to write after dinner.

This courtyard was assigned to them by the military department, and the place was very large, and there lived two brothers, as well as two attendants, an old man who guarded the door, a gardener who did chores, and several women who were responsible for cleaning and cooking. The two brothers were in the second year of Wanli to Beijing to take the exam, the result was not in the exam, was hesitating and hesitating, was recruited by Yusheng, they lived in the hall in Beijing, sometimes also to the temple to live, the two brothers squeezed a room to live is a common thing, the price of the Beijing division is expensive, the two brothers with two long entourage, as well as the utensils for the examination all the way from Jiangxi to come, the road fee will be more than 100 taels, and the return road fee will be 300 taels. The food and clothing in Beijing are also very expensive, after studying for so many years, there is no entry if you are not an official, and when you are in Jiangxi, you can still fight the autumn breeze of the same year, and you can only use your own in the capital.

To He Yusheng here, the allocated courtyard residence, as well as the furniture and utensils supplied by the military department, even rice, noodles, firewood, salt, these daily items are supplied by the military department, the annual two people add up to more than six hundred taels, Song Yingsheng this time is to write a letter to send silver home, the total is one hundred taels, and Yusheng to the south of course there is no logistics and account bureau, but the silver is also convenient, write a ticket to the Beijing branch of Yusheng, take the silver and send it to the Jiangxi Hall, and then the people of the hall can find a way to send it back to their hometown.

In this year, the general exchange of information, the sending of money and goods, is generally such a process, and so on the way businessmen or acquaintances in their hometowns, almost all of them in a city know the roots, if the businessmen are not from other provinces, they are not worried about what will go wrong, the Song brothers have sent many silver taels before, and the hometown has replied to receive it.

The land price in Jiangxi is still very cheap, three taels of dry land, five taels of paddy fields, the two brothers have sent back five hundred taels, in addition to the dozens of acres of land bought, the rest is to pay off the debts of so many years of study, even so, the debts have not been paid off, but next year for the cost of the Jinshi examination, of course, the debts will not be paid back for the time being, everything is mainly based on the cost of the examination.

Song Yingsheng is also glad to think about it, if it weren't for the money earned here with Yusheng, the two brothers didn't have to say what they owed over the years, and they had to borrow money everywhere again, although they would definitely be able to borrow silver as a lifter, but if they didn't win two or three more subjects, they really didn't know how to face the creditors and their hometown fathers at that time!