After the four godfathers were led to live in an idle courtyard, Zheng Chenggong asked people to call Lu Ruoteng, Zeng Ying, Lu Zhenfei, Wang Zhongxiao and other major civil officials.

When everyone arrived, Zheng Chenggong said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I promised a priest in Macao that if they were willing to help me open a college, I would allow them to spread Catholicism. Now that they are here, I have decided to open a Xiamen Gewu College. ”

Lu Ruoteng heard it and said, "General, dare to ask what the Gewu Academy is studying?" ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while, and organized the text and said: "Gewu College mainly teaches students manual skills, as well as guides them to study the origin of things. ”

When Gu Chaojian heard this, he hurriedly said: "Strange tricks are ingenious, and they mess up people's minds. General, this wind cannot rise! ”

Zheng Chenggong heard some objections, and said what he had already thought of, "In today's troubled times, such strange tricks are needed to strengthen our army and drive the Tartars!" ”

Gu Chaojian objected: "The way to build a country, still etiquette and righteousness are not yet power schemes, and the fundamental plan is not in the hearts of the people. Faithfulness should be the armor, and propriety and righteousness should be the backbone to resist foreign insults. ”

Zheng Chenggong retorted: "Chen is very high, and his arguments are very correct. However, the Tartars can be courteous and faithful, and the Ming Dynasty may have resisted foreign teachings. Taking propriety and righteousness as the backbone and faithfulness as the armor is not conducive to self-improvement and reality. For the Chinese plan, we should sincerely take the learning of the number of Westerners, and take the way of Wei Wuyao, Shun, Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Zhou, and Confucius. ”

In the face of the invasion of the Tartars, many scholars and scribes were pondering what went wrong and why the Ming Dynasty was defeated?

In order to resist the Qing Dynasty, many scribes abandoned literature and military force and personally led troops to fight.

Now after hearing the example of Zheng Chenggong moving out of the Manchu Tartars and the Ming Dynasty, Gu Chaoxuan was silent.

Seeing that he persuaded his subordinates, Zheng Chenggong chose a large courtyard in the east of Xiamen as the site of Xiamen Gewu College.

In the name of "taking the number of Chinese people as the original, supplemented by the art of prosperity and strength of all countries", Zheng Chenggong persuaded Song Yingxing to let go of his prejudices against himself and served as the dean of Xiamen Gewu College, and Feng Chengshi became the teaching director.

For those scribes in the Ming Dynasty, the teaching of Gewu was a strange skill and a skillful skill, and it was difficult to get into the hall of elegance. They don't care about it, they don't understand it, and they can't expect anything to teach them.

Now the only people who can teach Gewu are missionaries, they are craftsmen who can read and write.

But this kind of craftsmanship is scarce, and it is far from satisfying the needs of the college.

In order to find enough teachers, Zheng Chenggong hired all skilled craftsmen who could read and write, and hired them at a high price.

Teachers of Gewu were invited, and teachers who taught the traditional literature of the Four Books and the Five Classics were easy to find.

Within a few days, Zeng Ying, Lu Ruoteng and others arranged for several children from Fujian, Zhejiang and other places to come to Gewu College to teach.

These children all listened to the persuasion of Zeng Ying and others and came to Gewu Academy to seek a livelihood.

Zheng Chenggong gave them a shackle at the beginning, and it was three or two five a month.

In order to let more good workers come to the college to teach, Zheng Chenggong gave good workers ten taels.

There were only three or two of five for these children, which immediately attracted the strong dissatisfaction of Zeng Ying and others, thinking that Zheng Chenggong was insulting the readers, and those children's talents almost resigned for this.

Under the strong pressure of civil officials, Zheng Chenggong had to raise their shackles to ten taels, which barely calmed their anger.

After choosing a teacher, Zheng Chenggong consulted with the missionary, Song Yingxing, and Feng Chengshi to determine the books for the students to study.

During the Ming Dynasty, the overall scientific and technological level of China was no worse than that of the West, and even far surpassed the West in many aspects.

Just like Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", it is the world's first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production, and it is a great scientific and technological work in Chinese history.

It systematically summarizes the various technologies of ancient China and constitutes a complete scientific and technological system. The rich experience in agriculture is summarized, and the achievements of process technology are fully reflected.

"Heavenly Creations" is the world's first scientific discussion of zinc and copper-zinc alloys (brass).

The Heavenly Creations clearly states that zinc is a new metal, and for the first time records how it was smelted.

This is one of the important achievements in the history of metal smelting in ancient China, making China the only country in the world that can smelt zinc on a large scale for a long time.

The Tiangong Kaiwu records the method of refining brass with metal zinc instead of zinc compound (calamine), which is the earliest record in human history of using copper and zinc to directly melt two metals to obtain brass.

The series use of iron-making and iron-frying furnace is summarized and proposed, and the pig iron is directly fried to mature iron, which has the important characteristics of modern metallurgical technology. This method did not exist in Europe in the 17th century.

After the first edition of the book "Heavenly Creation" was released in the tenth year of Chongzhen, it quickly attracted the attention of the academic community and the book engraving circle. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi's "Physics Knowledge" quoted the relevant exposition of "Heavenly Creation" earlier.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to consolidate its rule, it carried out a centralized sorting, inspection, revision and destruction of ancient Chinese books, which is commonly known as the collation of the "Siku Quanshu".

"Heavenly Creations" was destroyed because it was believed to be "anti-Manchu" and buried for 300 years.

Huaxia's "Heavenly Creations" was destroyed, but it attracted great attention abroad.

In the eighteenth century, the industrial revolution in Europe had begun, but agricultural production was still very backward, and manual sowing was still used.

This sowing method is very arbitrary in the density of seeds and the depth of soil covering, which directly affects the emergence rate.

At this time, China was already using seeders.

European plows are also simpler, primitive in design and laborious to operate, while Chinese plows are more efficient and less labor-saving. When "Heavenly Creation" was introduced, it directly promoted the European agricultural revolution.

Europe learned to make paper from the 12th century, but has been using rags as raw materials to produce hemp paper alone, after the 18th century, paper consumption surged, but the supply of rags was limited, so the paper industry had a raw material crisis.

In 1840, Rulian translated the paper-making chapter of "Heavenly Creations" into French and published it in the Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences.

It mentions the use of wild bark fibers, bamboo and grass fibers instead of rags to make paper, and the use of various raw materials to mix pulp. This information was quickly fed back, and the French, British, and Germans successfully made paper from other raw materials, which finally alleviated the raw material crisis.

It will cause modern China to lag behind the West, just because in the Qing Dynasty, in order to enslave the Han people, tighten their rule, and suppress the development of science and technology.

Now that there is an academy, Huaxia will not lag behind anymore, and it will definitely not let the century-old national shame reappear!