Chapter 23: Xu Guangqi's Value

As soon as Li Jiancheng's novel point of view came out, the ministers were in a commotion, and immediately a minister stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers have a discussion!" ”

It was Zhang Wenda, the imperial history of Zuodu, who spoke, and Li Jiancheng said: "If you have any opinions, let's listen to them!" ”

Zhang Wenda didn't bother to mention Li Jiancheng's rude words, he said directly: "Your Majesty, what you said earlier about moving the people who were affected by the disaster to places with good water and soil understands, but this increase in new crops does not understand, and the types of grain are all certain, how can this be increased?" ”

"Oh, did Aiqing say that the type of grain is certain? But have you ever heard of the 'sweet potato, sweet potato', and did this crop exist before? Also, I've heard that some people in the Liangguang area are still growing a new crop called corn, and I ask you where these crops come from! Li Jiancheng said solemnly with a loud voice!

That's right, in fact, sweet potatoes have been introduced to China during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, from the Philippines, Vietnam, and Myanmar to China. Sweet potatoes were first planted in Fujian, Guangdong and Yunnan, and soon Zhejiang also introduced sweet potatoes, and since then the cultivation of sweet potatoes has gradually spread. The yield of sweet potatoes is very high, and thousands of catties can be obtained per mu, so it spreads quickly. However, because people's processing of sweet potatoes is still very poor at this time, sweet potatoes are difficult to preserve if they are not processed, and they are easy to mold and bacteria, and sweet potatoes are also easy to be poisoned! (Poisoning here refers to the accumulation of toxins in sweet potatoes as they grow and the roots knot, which is equivalent to a cancerous disease.) The sweet potato seeds we use in modern times are all detoxified, so the yield of sweet potatoes is much higher. At this time in the Ming Dynasty, the yield of sweet potatoes would begin to decrease after a few plantings, and some would even rot directly in the field. Therefore, although the yield of sweet potatoes is high, it is not easy to preserve, and other reasons make sweet potatoes flourish for a while and then fall silent!

Zuodu Yushi listened to Li Jiancheng's words and was speechless for a while, these members of the imperial court actually know very little about agricultural crops, these people may have no idea what a sweet potato is at this time, the concept of ancient Shi agricultural and industrial hierarchy is extremely serious, people holding a book basically don't do anything, and the peasant class is completely another world of people, and I don't know what Lu Dao they think when they eat.

Wang Zuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came out at this time and said: "Your Majesty can respect overseas crops? ”

The Ministry of Industry is responsible for logistics, and naturally it is clearer than what others said about Li Jiancheng's crops, Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "That's right, I not only want to promote these overseas crops, but also let people go overseas to introduce new crops, which of you knows a lot about overseas countries?" ”

Li Jiancheng said this, the audience was silent, they have always looked down on those overseas barbarians, how can they have an understanding of overseas countries, the Ming Dynasty is a dynasty that forbids the sea, basically none of these guys have any understanding of overseas, Li Jiancheng was very disappointed with the expressions of these elites, he said directly: "I heard that there is a person named Xu Guangqi in my Ming Dynasty, this person has been overseas, and he knows it very well, so he should know overseas crops very well." ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly brought up Xu Guangqi at this time, and the ministers were surprised, who said this person to the emperor, they didn't know the Tao at all, and the first assistant Fang Congzhe said: "Your Majesty said that Xu Guangqi is a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli, and he once served as the editor of the Hanlin Academy!" ”

Li Jiancheng's eyes lit up and said, "Well, it's him if there's no one else!" ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng's words were finished, Yushi Zhang Wenda hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Xu Guangqi also knows the Tao of this person, but this person has entered the Yiren Doctrine is really a traitor, Your Majesty, this person is not available!" ”

Li Jiancheng's eyes widened and said: "Why did you enter the Yiren Sect and apostasy, did Confucius say so?" Or is that a verse in that verse? ”

"Uh... This..."Zhang Wenda was dumbfounded for a moment, and the other people who were about to speak were also choked by Li Jiancheng's words, Xu Guangqi entered Catholicism as a jinshi This fact is actually known to many people, after all, he is a jinshi. In the era of the Ming Dynasty, when there was little entertainment, scandals were definitely something that was happy to see, so in fact, there were many people who knew him, at least half of Xu Guangqi's popularity in history came from this!

Li Jiancheng saw that this guy was speechless and continued: "Since the sage didn't say it, and it wasn't written in the book, how can you say that people are deviant?" Aren't you wearing little shoes for people? I haven't read a few sage books, so don't the sage books have such a simple truth as being generous? ”

As soon as Li Jiancheng said this, the ministers also made a commotion, Zhang Wenda knelt down in a cold sweat, and today he Zhang Wenda lost the face of the entire saint in front of the emperor with a word, he dared to say that no one in the saint taught generosity? If this matter is rumored, he Zhang Wenda may be more famous than Xu Guangqi in front of the entire Shilin people, Zhang Wenda hurriedly said: "It's Weichen who is stupid, please punish the emperor!" ”

Li Jiancheng was relieved to see that this person was soft, Li Jiancheng smiled and said: "Well, knowing mistakes can improve greatly, we can't look at people with colored eyes!" What about joining the Yiren Sect, although I have always called these people overseas barbarians, but there is a saying, Shibei should be impressed in three days! Yi people are also people, and they can't be barbarians forever. Let's just say that those Yi people who know the Dao now, they have traveled tens of thousands of miles across the ocean to my land of China, how dangerous the sea is, do you all understand? So just this spirit is worthy of my respect! Do you think this is something that barbarians can do? What does this mean? It means that they are civilized. Take their Yiren religion, I also have a little understanding, and his teachings are the same as Buddhism, which also teaches people to be good, which shows that they also have their own culture! They can travel thousands of miles across the sea to our land of China to teach people to be good, this spirit I ask you, can you do it? ”

Standing at the highest point of moral goodness, Li Jiancheng's words are always right! Li Jiancheng tried his best to beautify these foreigners, and he had no way to do it, if he wanted these Shilin people to pay attention to foreigners, he couldn't let these people look at foreigners as barbarians. There is a saying that only those who respect the enemy can win all battles, and Li Jianchen has this kind of thinking, overseas civilization has risen, China has looked down on overseas people for thousands of years, this kind of thinking must be changed in order to improve, only in this way will they face it squarely.

Otherwise, this kind of ideological arrogance and recklessness is absolutely empty, but China's thinking for thousands of years is exactly like this, so the lesson we have learned is also extremely painful. Li Jiancheng will never allow such a thing to happen again. Chinese need to get rid of this empty shell too much, and it is out of this consideration that Li Jianchen proposed Xu Guangqi, he just wants to knock on the door of the Chinese people to value foreigners through Xu Guangqi! First of all, he started with his own advocacy!

Xu Guangqi is definitely a person who is at the forefront of thinking in this era, and he is also a very good scientific researcher, but Li Jiancheng is not ready to let him engage in scientific research, the historical value of this figure is by no means here, what kind of science and technology can Li Jianchen have books that can't be piled up, and it is too wasteful of talents to let Xu Guangqi engage in scientific research.

Li Jiancheng took a fancy to Xu Guangqi's courage to join the Catholic Church to understand foreigners and learn their skills, and this spirit of sacrificing his life for righteousness was too precious. In addition to this, there is his epochal vision, and this person can definitely see the importance of the word 'technology' to the entire Anthropocene world.

Therefore, Li Jiancheng wants to make full use of the value of this person, he is an important lever! It is an important fulcrum for Li Jiancheng to further promote industrial civilization and ideological reform of scientific research achievements! He is definitely an important help for Li Jianchen to introduce a series of knowledge that changes human cognition of nature in the future, such as modern medicine, electricity, steam engine, chemistry knowledge!

It is conceivable that Li Jiancheng's introduction of these techniques will definitely make a breakthrough in the development of the entire human mind, and when the time comes, idealism will definitely not be unique, and materialists will definitely rise with the trend, but Li Jiancheng does not want the beginning of the rise of science to be as difficult and bumpy as history, so it is really suitable for Li Jiancheng to make Xu Guangqi the initiator of materialism and Xu Guangqi to become the escort of science in the 17th century!

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