"Continue to write the "Yongle Canon"?"

As soon as the apocalypse came out, it should be said that he came out of his own royal experimental workshop, and he heard about Zhang Gui's idea of continuing to write the "Yongle Canon", and specially summoned Zhang Gui to ask about it.

Although the Apocalypse is not a very good achievement, he does hope that he can compile one or two canons during his reign to show his achievements as an emperor.

After all, whether an emperor can be regarded as a Ming Jun depends not only on martial arts, but also on civil governance.

What's more, Tianqi now also begins to want future generations to remember that his Tianqi Dynasty has begun to flourish ten years after the reform of the law, and the Ming Dynasty has once again entered the prosperous era.

And one of the ways to prove the prosperity of this era is to repair books!

Therefore, after Zhang Gui proposed this idea, Tianqi was moved.

After Tianqi asked, Zhang Gui also replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, this can be regarded as inheriting the foundation of Emperor Cheng Zuwen, carrying forward the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty, and showing that Your Majesty has not lost the ancestral industry." ”

Apocalypse nodded.

And Zhang Gui said: "Moreover, since Emperor Cheng Zuwen compiled the "Yongle Canon", I have been in the country for more than 200 years, during this period, there are brilliant talents, great scholars, not to mention as many as stars, at least it is innumerable, especially since Your Majesty succeeded to the throne, the wisdom of the people has been broadened, the imperial examination has expanded, and the world's learned people have gained a lot. ”

"For example, Song Gong (Song Yingxing) wrote "Heavenly Creations", as well as Bi Gong (Bi Maokang)'s current "Illustrated Description of Weapons", and Da Si Nong's "Duzhi Concert Hall Manuscript" and so on."

"More importantly, how can your own accumulated knowledge of instruments and nature be lost?"

"Now, the Ming Dynasty needs to write this continuation into the canon, print it in multiple copies, hide it everywhere in the world, and even directly build a government-run library in the world, so that the Han people can read it!"

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"How can we let future generations know more about these books, and know how Your Majesty and these people are governing the world and learning when the country is in crisis."

"Those who are afraid of the Chinese are also firearms! To be precise, Hu Wei and I are not only firearms, but also cultural heritage, and the accumulation of a lot of practical knowledge and skills. ”

"Therefore, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that these advantages that my Ming Dynasty relied on cannot be lost, or even forgotten by future generations, but instead make the barbarians come from behind, and make the skills of the barbarians become the advantages of the barbarians!"

"For this reason, Your Majesty should continue to write the canon, and add to the knowledge related to practical studies and various skills that have not been supplemented in the canon, so that even if the science and scriptures are revived again in the future and become an official school, all the accumulation of today will not be destroyed. In addition, after more people see it, it also makes it difficult to ignore Shixue, which is the so-called science. ”

Zhang Gui said excitedly.

In fact, this is the real purpose of his desire to continue writing the "Yongle Canon" by the Apocalypse, and if the "Yongle Canon" does not add the content of natural science, it will seem very imperfect.

In addition, Zhang Gui clearly remembered that in history, the scientific and technological works of the Ming Dynasty, such as "Heavenly Creations" and "Illustrated Weapons of Weapons", were indeed listed as banned books in the Qing Dynasty, and only now that more are printed can they avoid being banned and forgotten by more Han people.

In addition, Zhang Gui felt that if he did not take advantage of the emperor's emphasis on natural science to revise books and classics, and influence more Han people to come into contact with mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even let more Han people have natural philosophical thinking, then science may really make a comeback as an official science, and then the Han people in the world still do not have the consciousness to explore the truth of this world, but have always only known to maintain ethics, pay attention to the construction of inner morality, and find ways to maintain the ideological stability of agricultural civilization.

Therefore, Zhang Gui put forward a suggestion to repair the book, and also encouraged the apocalypse to repair the book to promote the rule of culture when showing martial arts.

After listening carefully to Zhang Gui's explanation, Tianqi stood up and said with an impassioned expression: "It's not just about repairing books, it's also about major repairs!" Now that I have raised so many scholars, he can't help but do something for me. ”

"I'll leave this matter to you!"

Then, Apocalypse said one more word, then turned and left.

Seeing this, Zhang Gui asked, "Your Majesty, where are you going?" ”

Tian Qifu turned around and replied: "I want to write down all the skills and skills I have accumulated over the years, just like Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang, lest others not know about my mastery in the future!" ”

"I knew I should have practiced calligraphy."

Zhang Gui was quite surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect that the apocalypse would be the first to want to speak to future generations.

So, Zhang Gui took the initiative to propose: "Your Majesty, why don't you continue to write the canon, and directly name it "The Great Canon of the Apocalypse"?" In addition, print more copies of the "Yongle Canon", and even print a few more copies of the new edition of the "Apocalypse Canon", and then extensively repair the library in the world to collect its books, so that all Han people in the world can have the opportunity to read it? ”

"Very good!"

"Don't save money for me! Since I ascended the throne, I have not built much for myself, nor have I selected concubines on a large scale, expanded the palace people, nor purchased the world's rare treasures, and I have made a lot of money with the only hobby criticized by many Confucian ministers. ”

Apocalypse said.

"Yes!"

So, in the next step, the Apocalypse officially issued an edict to continue to write the "Yongle Canon", and named it "The Apocalypse Canon", and ordered Hanlin and the world's academic and political officials to search for unrecorded books everywhere.

Because the "Dictionary of the Apocalypse" is mainly to record the neglected scientific and technological knowledge, Zhang Gui also specially asked Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang to recommend officials who understand natural science knowledge to find such books, so as to make the continued "The Dictionary of the Apocalypse" more perfect.

At the same time, all kinds of learned people were also called into Beijing to study books one after another.

In addition, the "Yongle Canon" has also begun to enter the reprinting work.

Zhang Gui believes that after reprinting many copies of the Yongle Canon in this life, it may be difficult to lose it again.

In addition, in order to encourage people all over the world to write books and compile books, and expand the new canon, Zhang Gui specially asked Tianqi to issue an edict to set up the highest book award of the Ming Dynasty, rewarding the best authors of all kinds of books published over the years, mainly economics awards, selected by the main persons in charge of the Department of Industry, the Hanlin Academy, the Ministry of Rites and various universities.

For a time, the number of people who wrote books increased greatly.

In addition, Zhang Gui also asked Tianqi to issue an edict to set up the highest drama award and the script award of the Ming Dynasty to encourage people in the world to write more dramas and scripts.

Because drama and market scripts are the cultural products that are most likely to drive the common people, Zhang Gui's cultural construction in Daming is to transform the people of this nation, and naturally he will not ignore this aspect of cultural construction.

Otherwise, Zhang Gui would not have let the Apocalypse issue an edict aimed at building a library equivalent to a library in later generations in all political departments, prefectures, prefectures, and counties in the world, in order to improve the literacy rate of the people of the Ming Dynasty in the future, so that more people can have access to all kinds of knowledge.

In addition to repairing books, setting up awards, and building a library of books, Zhang Gui also invited Tianqi to set up their own associations, such as the Mathematics and Science Association, the Textile Association, etc., so that people of all kinds of knowledge in the world began to join together, so as to avoid being ignored.

It's just that Zhang Gui didn't think that when he attended the inaugural meeting of the Textile Association, some weavers began to take the initiative to hope that the imperial court would issue an edict to ban the foot binding of Han women in the world, because the textile weavers themselves set up research institutes have studied that textile women workers will greatly improve textile efficiency if they do not bind their feet.

"This is the right thing to do!"

Zhang Gui said directly after hearing this.