Liu Fan knows a little about the Chongzhen almanac compiled by Xu Guangqi, and the book has not been completed from the second year of Chongzhen to Xu Guangqi's death. After the death of Xu Guangqi, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, this new calendar was continued to be compiled by Li Tianjing until the end of the Ming Dynasty. But at that time, the Ming Dynasty had come to an end, and no one cared about this strange book because of this.

Although Liu Fan's arrival has changed some history, some people and things have not been affected by this. Xu Guangqi still spent a lot of time and energy to sort out and compile this huge book. This is the brainchild of half his life, and Liu Fan can't bear to be sad about this respectable old man. Considering this reason, Liu Fan still gave up the plan to continue persuasion, and said helplessly: "Since the teacher doesn't want the student, it's not easy to be reluctant, but if the teacher is useful, please ask the teacher to tell me directly, Liu Fan will definitely do his best to help the teacher fulfill his wish!" ”

Xu Guangqi said with emotion: "The old man also had the intention of repaying his kindness when he accepted Jimin as a student, but after such a long period of contact, he gradually fell in love with Jimin's studious personality and outstanding character. The old man is already over the age of old, and he doesn't have a few years to live, so it is a blessing to be able to accept a student like you in his old age! Jimin, although the old man can't leave with you, there are some things to be handed over to you! ”

After Xu Guangqi finished speaking, he turned around and took out a small sandalwood box from the bookshelf behind him and put it in front of Liu Fan, then looked at Liu Fan and said solemnly, "Jimin, these books are some Western works that the old man and Ricci have translated together in recent years, as well as some books on land reclamation, water conservancy, famine relief, salt law, and tuntian specially collected by the old man. There is also a world map that the old man specially asked for from Priest Guo Jujing. The old man has devoted most of his life to promoting Western learning, advocating the use of Western learning in the East, but his personal strength is limited, and he has had little effect. I know that Jimin is very interested in Western science and technology, and now I will leave them all to you! Jimin hopes that you can uphold the old man's wish and open a new road for my Daming. ”

Xu Guangqi couldn't help but burst into tears after speaking, since the defeat of the Ming army Salhu, he has been looking for a way to save the Ming Dynasty for half his life, and what makes him happy is that he has found a bright road, but he has been excluded because it does not conform to the current mainstream literature. He gave the court a lot of practical and effective twists and turns, such as "Proposed to Defend the Enemy on the Border", "Proposed to Slow Down the Three Palaces and the Chaomen Project", "Disposal of Zonglu Border Salary Proposal" and "Caohe Proposal" The strategy of governing the country and the country, but none of the suggestions have been reused. Now that he is old, he is about to be unable to walk, and he can only walk into the grave lonely with his blood and revenge.

Looking at the pain and helplessness unintentionally revealed between Xu Guangqi's eyebrows, Liu Fan's heart was also a little sour, and he took the wooden box from Xu Guangqi's hand and cherished it, Liu Fan said sonorously, "Teacher, don't worry, Liu Fan can't guarantee anything else, but he will definitely be able to guarantee that the teacher's hard work will not be in vain." Three years, only three years, I will let the teacher's work spread all over the world. ”

"Good, good, good!" Xu Guangqi patted Liu Fan's shoulder excitedly and said, "That's the case, what's the matter if the old man holds this stump and waits for you for three years?" If Jimin can let everyone in the world open his eyes to see the world, then the old man's wish will be completed, and the old man will have no regrets in this life! ”

Liu Fan said firmly, "Teacher, don't worry, Liu Fan will definitely do it!" Seeing the old man's happy appearance, Liu Fan secretly made up his mind that the old man must see the day when his writings will circulate all over the world, and quickly. Now Liu Fan is even thinking that if he really can't do it, he will print tens of thousands of copies and sell books for free, anyway, even if it is the high cost of two taels of silver for a book, it will only cost less than 100,000 taels. Liu Fan can still bear this number, as long as he can repay the teacher's kindness, Liu Fan will definitely not be stingy with some money.

Although Liu Fan couldn't invite the Xu family father and son back to Shandong this time, it was a pity that he had gained so many cutting-edge scientific works in the world today. Liu Fan is well aware of how difficult it is to translate books nowadays. The most advanced language in Europe today is not the seemingly noble French, let alone English, which was widely spoken in later generations, but Latin, which originated from the ancient Roman Empire. In Europe, where the Church is powerful and powerful, some famous scientific works are written in Latin, and the Latin grammar is complex and changeable, and it is very difficult to master it. This creates a huge obstacle to the translation work. In the past two years, there have been many missionaries in Liu Van Solo, but not much progress has been made in the translation work. Now that he has these books, Liu Fan no longer has to worry about the lack of teaching materials in military schools. Not to mention the need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources on translating Western works.

After Xu Guangqi's hospitality, Liu Fan stayed and enjoyed a warm dinner, and then Liu Fan hurriedly left Xu's mansion with a sandalwood box, and returned directly to the military camp in Niutunbao without even going home. After returning to the barracks, Liu Fan immediately found Li Xiaohu and asked him to send two people to guard the box day and night until he returned to Shandong.

After anxiously waiting for three days, Liu Fan finally waited for Chongzhen's holy decree and the military department to issue an order. Perhaps Liu Fan's contribution this time is indeed not small, but this time the imperial court is rare and generous, and directly promoted Liu Fan from deputy general (deputy commander-in-chief) to Jiaolai general and Jiaolai salt transportation department salt transportation envoy. This also indicates that Liu Fan and Zuo Liangyu and others are at the same level, and they no longer have to be in the embarrassing position of having many generals but very low positions.

On September 20, Liu Fan bid farewell to Wang Pu, Luo Yangxing, Xu Ji and others who came to see him off, and embarked on the journey back to Shandong with more than 4,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 prisoners.

After more than half a month of marching, Liu Fan arrived in Shandong in early October. At this time, Liu Fan has been away from Shandong for more than a year, this year Liu Fan has fought in the south and the north, not only played the prestige of the Broken Army, let the reputation of the Broken Army spread all over the country, but also won a very high prestige for himself. The most important thing is that Liu Fan's official position has been promoted, and Liu Fan has been promoted to the general army of Jiaolai and the salt envoy of the Jiaolai Salt Transportation Division, which also means that Liu Fan can justifiably include Laizhou in his sphere of influence. The reasons that previously restricted Liu Fan's development in terms of mineral raw materials and population and land no longer exist, and with Chongzhen's support, Liu Fan can rest assured that he can boldly develop his own power, and no longer worry about too many constraints. (To be continued.) )