Last time, it was mentioned that Zhu Youzhen and the concubines went to the camp to watch the "Xu Shangshu" training, during which Zhu Youxiao arrived quickly with the help of Zhu Youxiao and saw that there were "Westerners" present.

"Really? If you don't believe in your Lord Jesus, are you going to hell? Not necessarily, I'm afraid? Ha ha. Emperor Chongzhen laughed.

"O Lord Almighty! Please forgive His Majesty the Emperor for his unintentional actions! We can all guarantee that he definitely didn't mean it. The three missionaries hurriedly prayed while drawing a "cross" on their chests, and after looking at each other, they turned to Emperor Chongzhen and said, "Your Majesty, Emperor, you are laughing. ”

"Oh? Really? Ha ha. Emperor Chongzhen suddenly smiled and said: "It's not impossible for you to want to preach openly in my Ming Dynasty, but you must use it for me!" ”

"Uh...... No problem! Your Majesty, Great and Supreme Emperor, your request is our honor. We are confident that you will make the wisest decision! The three Westerners nodded to each other and said, "We will turn the 'faith, hope, love' and 'truth, goodness and beauty' of 'Lord Jesus' into strength and fully display them in front of you!" ”

"Haha, Westerners, you do your job well first, and then you won't lose any money!" Emperor Chongzhen smiled: "Xu Dashangshu, what about the recruits?" ”

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the recruits will be here soon!" As soon as Old Man Xu's voice fell, he turned around and shouted: "Western drum music sounded!" Foreign guns and foreign cannons are lit up! ”

I saw a group of well-armored archers being the first to enter the field, followed by soldiers with foreign guns on their shoulders or pushing foreign cannons, marching in a neat pace.

Two rows of archers were only responsible for vigilance, while three rows of musketeers fired in waves like distant targets in front of them, and the first few foreign cannons were only in swing.

There are always some geniuses in history, with wisdom and talent that others can't match, and have made amazing achievements, shining in the long river of history, and Xu Guangqi of the Ming Dynasty is one of the most typical, because he is not only a "scholar", but also the first to accept Western civilization.

In terms of politics, he was an official in the Chongzhen Dynasty to the "Ministry of Rites Shangshu" and "Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar", "Cabinet Second Assistant", that is, "the prime minister of the dynasty"; In terms of scientific research, he has made outstanding contributions to agriculture, mathematics, water conservancy, astronomy, economy, military and other fields, and has achieved fruitful results, and can be called a "genius of science and technology".

In terms of ideology, he is a Chinese who opened his eyes to the world very early, actively promoted cultural exchanges between China and the West, let China understand the world, let the world understand China, and became a pioneer of modern Chinese science. Xu Guangqi was born in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and was a native of Songjiang Mansion, that is, "old Shanghai".

"Songjiang Mansion" was still a small place at that time, and it was not the same concept as the "Greater Shanghai" hundreds of years later. Xu Guangqi's parents were farmers who cultivated the fields, so he had the opportunity to do farm work in addition to studying, which laid a solid foundation for him to engage in agricultural research in the future.

Xu Guangqi took a normal path of a scholar, because he was 19 years old when he was admitted to the "Xiucai", and then took the "Juren" and "Jinshi" exams, and endured a lot of hardships, and finally at the age of 42, he was admitted to the "Jinshi", and was able to go to the "Hanlin Academy" as a "Shujishi", and worked for a period of time and then went to the "Ministry of Rites".

With his erudition and practical ability, Xu Guangqi worked all the way to the number one of the "Ministry of Rites" - "Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites", and also entered the "Cabinet" as a "second assistant", and embarked on the apex of his career. In the process, Xu Guangqi became acquainted with Matteo Ricci, a Western missionary, and opened a new door.

Xu Guangqi's erudition owes a foreigner, Matteo Ricci, an Italian "Catholic" who went to China to preach. Xu Guangqi was impressed by Matteo Ricci's profound attainments in the astronomical calendar, and was willing to worship him as a teacher, following him to learn mathematics, astronomy, geography and other natural sciences.

This has greatly improved Xu Guangqi's own ideological insight, vision, and academic quality. Under the guidance and encouragement of Matteo Ricci, Xu Guangqi began to translate Geometry. It is conceivable how difficult it would be to translate such a mathematical monograph in old China, where modern scientific knowledge was extremely scarce. Xu Guangqi is gifted and tenacious, and with his amazing talent, he actually completed the translation of the first six volumes of this book in one year.

The concepts of points, lines, planes, planes, right angles, obtuse angles, perpendicular lines, parallelism, quadrilaterals, circles, center centers, and incisions in the "Geometric Original" were all created by him and used to later generations, which really amazed the Chinese people at that time. The translation of Geometry has greatly influenced the original habits of mathematics learning and research in China, changed the direction of the development of mathematics in China, and gradually developed towards the modern "study of Gezhi".

Xu Guangqi used advanced Western scientific theories and techniques to revise the "Great Unification Calendar" that was used from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. This incident attracted a lot of opposition at the time, because in feudal society, celestial changes were often associated with "heaven".

Reuse the art of foreigners and change the calendar of the ancestors, this is worth it?! But Xu Guangqi did not flinch in the face of doubts and opposition. He believed that the spherical astronomical formulas of the Western calendar and some measurement and estimation methods and formulas had a rigorous mathematical basis, and their precision greatly exceeded that of the Great Unified Calendar.

As long as we dialectically absorb Western techniques and "unify with the Chinese calendar", we will definitely be able to compile a more accurate almanac. So, at his insistence, the revision of the "Great Unification Calendar" was finally completed. Because the revision work was completed in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the revised "Great Unification Calendar" is called the "Chongzhen Calendar".

The compilation of the Chongzhen Almanac is an epoch-making event in the history of the Chinese calendar, laying the foundation of China's current lunar calendar and marking a transformation and improvement of traditional Chinese astronomy, in which Xu Guangqi has indeed made great contributions.

Xu Guangqi loved and studied agriculture all his life, and compiled many works on agriculture, such as "The Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", "Sweet Potato Shu", "Agricultural Relics and Miscellaneous Books", "Draft Agricultural Book", "Taixi Water Law" and so on. Among them, the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" has 60 volumes and more than 600,000 words, including the policies, systems, measures, agricultural tools, technical knowledge, etc. related to agricultural production at that time, and the content is very rich.

This book records more than 400 kinds of plants and wild vegetables, and details the edible parts of these plants and the specific methods of eating, for which Xu Guangqi has personally tasted more than 50 kinds of wild plants and plants.

The Encyclopedia of Agricultural Administration brings together the essence of all the agricultural books at that time, and is the most complete encyclopedia of ancient agriculture in the history of agriculture in China, which has had a profound impact on the development of agriculture in China and even Japan and South Korea in later generations, and still has high academic value and practical value to this day.

Xu Guangqi lived in a period when the Later Jin forces in the northeast were constantly invading the territory of the Ming Dynasty. As a patriotic official, Xu Guangqi attached great importance to the study of military science and technology, and was also "invited out of the mountain" by Emperor Chongzhen to participate in military training and the defense of Kyoto.

In the face of military malpractices, Xu Guangqi repeatedly discarded the emperor and frankly put forward the idea of "regular soldiers", that is, the rectification of the army, and demanded strict training of the army.

Xu Guangqi sent people to the Portuguese colonists in Macao to buy Western artillery, namely the "Hongyi Cannon", which was more powerful than the "Furlong Machine", and in the battle against the Houjin, Huang Taiji and his Eight Banners Army were beaten to the head, suffering heavy casualties, and it was difficult to be at ease with fear, so that the Western artillery showed great power.

At the same time, Xu Guangqi struck while the iron was hot and persuaded Emperor Chongzhen to create an arsenal in the capital to manufacture Western firearms, and to manufacture new muskets and artillery to arm the Ming Dynasty army.

This arsenal in Beijing is the first military factory in Chinese history to manufacture foreign guns and cannons, more than 200 years earlier than modern military factories. It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty at that time was completely erosive, and no matter how good the weapon was, it couldn't save its fate.

Xu Guangqi later became a "Catholic". Together with his good friends Li Zhizao and Yang Tingyun, he was also accepted by God and was known as the "Three Pillars" of Catholicism in the Ming Dynasty. Xu Guangqi was an honest official, and he was bound by the rules and precepts of the Catholic Church, and when he died in a prominent capacity as "Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites", "Scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion" and "Prince Taibao", others tidied up his bedding and found a tattered and musty mattress.

This rotten quilt turned out to be because the kettle he used before his death leaked, and the mattress was rotten over time. Xu Guangqi's body was buried outside the west gate of Shanghai, where the descendants of the Xu family and their clansmen lived, and in order to commemorate him, later generations called it "Xujiahui".

Xu Guangqi's descendants have produced many characters, the most famous of which should be his seventeenth-generation granddaughter - Ni Guizhen, because she gave birth to three sisters, Song Qingling, Song Meiling, and Song Ailing, which influenced the development of modern and modern power in China, but these are all things that happened in another time and space.

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