Last time, it was mentioned that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to recruit people from all over the world who were interested in "learning from things", and decided to give priority to the bureaucracy, so he asked the officials and scholars to formulate it first.

"The ministers and others have started to play the emperor, and there are currently the 'trilateral governor' Wu Zhiwang, the 'Denglai governor' Sun Yuanhua, the 'Liaohai Supervisor of the Military Road' Wang Zheng, the 'review officer' Fang Yizhi, and the 'Zhejiang Tongxiang County Order' Song Yingxing......" As the scholars of the Ministry of Rites reported the names of the officials one by one, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said: "All summoned to Beijing!" ”

"Huh? Emperor? This...... If these large and small 'court officials' are summoned into Beijing to be placed under the 'Luban Gate', I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right? After all...... "————" hum, I have a golden mouth, and I say the same! Emperor Chongzhen said unhappily: "Personnel arrangements, according to the law, wait for yourself to do it!" ”

"Uh...... Ministers obey the emperor's orders! The ministers retired. In this way, those officials who like to engage in "scientific research" were ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to be transferred back to the capital at this time and space. Although their positions were about to be replaced by new successors, their rank and rank remained unchanged, and they still enjoyed the full amount of money paid by the imperial court.

In the following time, "Lubanmen" became very lively, because not only the prince of the dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, often appeared in the square in front of the palace, refining various ordnance and firearms with spells in public, but even the emperor Laozi and the queen mother also came to cheer from time to time, but the figure of the "national teacher" was not seen.

It is no wonder that the "national teacher" does not give face, because he really looks down on these so-called "science and technology", that is, "learning from things", after all, it is just a "Western foreign way". For ordinary mortals, "Knowing Things" is full of mystery, but for "cultivators", it can be ignored, because they can't become immortals!

However, among these "unprofessional" officials, there is a person named "Song Yingxing" who has attracted the attention of Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen, because this kid not only has a broader vision than others, but also has a wider range of interests, especially a deep knowledge reserve, and may be able to focus on training.

"Song Yingxing" was born in 1587, the word Chang Geng, Jiangxi Fengxin County, Waxi archway, hometown is the later generation of Jiangxi Fengxin County Songbu Commune archway production team. Song Yingxing was born in "lifting people", and served as the teacher of Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province in the seventh year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1634). Later, he also served as the governor of Tingzhou Prefecture in Fujian, and the governor of Bozhou in the south, although the officialdom was not very satisfactory, but the change of dynasty did not prevent him from becoming a famous scientist in the Ming Dynasty.

"Song Yingxing" devoted his life to the scientific investigation and research of agriculture and handicraft production, and collected a wealth of scientific materials; At the same time, his advanced consciousness also made him a thinker with a critical attitude towards "feudalism" and "medieval academic tradition", and lived in seclusion in his later years.

Song Yingxing's writings and research fields cover different disciplines of natural sciences and humanities, and his most outstanding work, Heavenly Creations, has been praised by the international scientific community as "the encyclopedia of Chinese crafts in the 17th century". In May 2021, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the naming of China's lunar landform near the landing site of Chang'e-5 as "Song Yingxing" (So

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"Song Yingxing" studied with his brother Song Yingsheng when he was a child, and he studied in the family school opened by his uncle Song Heqing. "Song Yingxing" began to recognize his uncle Song Guozuo as a teacher in his hometown prose private school. After that, "Song Yingxing" became a student under the new "Juren" Deng Liangzhi, learning the "Four Books and Five Classics" and "The Way of Confucius and Mencius".

Song Yingxing has been smart and strong since childhood, "can rhyme at the age of a few years" (compose poems), has a talent that is unforgettable, and is very popular with teachers and elders. Slightly longer, he was admitted to Fengxin County School as a student, familiar with the "scriptures and history" and "Zhuzi Baijia". Among the "Four Great Masters of the Song Dynasty", Cheng Yi-Cheng Hao, Zhou Dunyi, Zhu Xi and Zhang Zai, he single-handedly promoted Zhang Zai's "Guan Xue" and accepted the "materialist view of nature" from it. This played an extremely important role in his future career as a scientist.

"Song Yingxing" had a great interest in astronomy, acoustics, agriculture and craft manufacturing, and had read the "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by the medical scientist Li Shizhen, because it was published in 1596, when Li Shizhen had been dead for three years. In addition, "Song Yingxing" also likes music and poetry. He often goes to the scenic spots of the county with his classmates and friends, and urges each other to write poems, encourage each other, talk about world affairs, and enjoy a quiet life.

In the forty-third year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1615), "Song Yingxing" and his brother Song Yingsheng went to the provincial capital Nanchang to participate in the "Yimaoke Township Test". Among the more than 10,000 candidates, 29-year-old Song Yingxing won the third place in the province's "lifter", while his brother Song Yingsheng only ranked sixth, but he was also a "lifter".

Only two of their brothers were among the lives of Fengxin, so they were called "Fengxin Ersong". Encouraged by the success of the "Township Examination", they went to Beijing (Beijing) in the autumn of that year to prepare for the "Bingchen Branch Examination" the following year, but they were defeated by Sun Shan. So, they decided to try again next time. In order to prepare for the exam, Song Yingsheng, Song Yingxing and others went to the ancient "White Deer Cave Academy" in Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province to study.

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (1619), this was the last year of the examination during the reign of Shenzong. Brother Song Yingxing and other candidates in Jiangxi met with the Beijing Division, but the two brothers still did not reach the first place. After that, they tried again in the early years of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, but they all failed, and since then they have rejected the idea of "imperial examination".

In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), his brother Song Yingsheng was "selected" by the Ministry of Officials to serve as the commander of Tongxiang County, Zhejiang, and "Song Yingxing" returned to his hometown to serve his mother. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), "Song Yingxing" served as a teacher in Fenyi County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, and his work was to teach students, that is, teachers who had not entered the stream.

In that year, his brother Song Yingsheng was transferred to Enping County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong, and was awarded the title of "Wenlin Lang" because of his political achievements. "Song Yingxing" taught in Fenyi County for four years, which was an important stage in his life, because all his major works were published during this period, including "Heavenly Creations", which had a great influence on later generations.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1638), Song Yingxing's term of office expired in Fenyi, and he was promoted to the position of Fujian Tingzhou Prefecture Governor (Zheng Bapin), a subordinate official under the provincial "observation envoy", in charge of a government prison, commonly known as the "Punishment Hall", also known as the "manager".

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen (1640), Song Yingxing's term of office was not yet completed, and he resigned and returned to Li. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), he served as the governor of Bozhou (now Bozhou City, Anhui) in Nanzhili, Fengyang Prefecture (now Bozhou City, Anhui). However, this was the eve of Ming's death. After "Song Yingxing" took office, the state was destroyed by the war, and there was no place to go to the church, and many officials left. Therefore, after several efforts to rebuild, the initial scale was formed, and he donated funds to build a academy in the city.

At the beginning of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644), Song Yingxing resigned and returned to Fengxin. In March of that year, Li Zicheng's army captured Jingshi and died in the Ming Dynasty. In April, the Qing troops entered the customs and built the capital of Beijing, and "Song Yingxing" also became a "citizen of the country". In May, Zhu Yousong, the "Blessed King", established the "Southern Ming Regime" in Nanjing.

In the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty (1645), "Song Yingxing" was recommended to be awarded the Chuhe Military Patrol Road and the Nanrui Military Patrol Road (between the province, the government, and the prefecture), but Song Yingxing resigned. Before the death of the Ming Dynasty, his brother Song Yingsheng had been promoted to the prefect of Guangzhou, and after the death of the Ming Dynasty, he had no intention of falling in love with the official, so he hung up the crown and returned to the city.

The "Song Yingxing" brothers pinned their hopes on the Southern Ming, but this regime was controlled by the "eunuchs" Ruan Dacheng and Ma Shiying, who rejected Zhongliang and quickly perished. The Qing troops went south to take Jiangxi. In the second year of Longwu in the Southern Ming Dynasty (1646), his brother Song Yingsheng took poison and died in the country. Since then, in the more than ten years of tug-of-war between the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Qing army, "Song Yingxing" has been living a reclusive life, "retiring from home food, expressing his life and academic ability, and picking up literary algae." Therefore, he spent his old age in poverty and refused to leave the office.

In the twentieth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (around 1666), "Song Yingxing" died at the age of 80. The time of death of "Song Yingxing" is not specifically recorded, because he lived in seclusion. His last work was the Biography of Song Yingsheng, which was revised by his brother in 1655. After that, there was no more news.

As a famous scientist in the late Ming Dynasty of China, "Song Yingxing" made a summary of the knowledge of agricultural production and handicraft production that had appeared in China for thousands of years, and also made a summary of the technical experience, and made them systematic and organized, and then wrote a book and made it possible to pass it down, but he made a great contribution to the "Meiji Restoration" in Oriental Japan two hundred years later.

Because the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty did not believe in science and only liked to play politics and power tricks, so in the Qing Dynasty, when the imperial examination was prevalent and the "literary prison" was flourished, Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations" was not welcomed, and even after publication, it may not be able to sell back the capital, but it was inadvertently spread to Oriental Japan before it worked.

The books written by "Song Yingxing" include agriculture and handicrafts, such as machinery, bricks and tiles, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt making, coal mining, oil extraction, and other production techniques.

In terms of agriculture, "Song Yingxing" made a detailed record of the whole production process of rice, such as soaking, breeding, seedling rolling, and grass cultivation, such as "wrapping and a few days, frustrating its sprouts, scattering them in the field, and giving birth to inches, and its name is 'seedlings'." The seedlings will be plucked and planted in 30 days...... The seedlings are expired, old and long, that is, planted in the mu, a few grains of grain, and the fruit is self-sufficient. This is a true portrayal of the "field transplantation method" used by the ancient working people to increase the yield when they planted rice.

At the same time, "Song Yingxing" also pointed out various problems worthy of attention in rice cultivation. In terms of handicrafts, "Song Yingxing" tried to use quantitative methods. When describing the production process, he pays special attention to the quantitative relationship between raw material consumption and finished product recovery rate, and has a clear concept of quantity control.

When analyzing the seedling migration, "Song Yingxing" pointed out: "Where the 'seedlings' born in one acre of seedling field are for transplanting 25 acres", that is, the ratio of "seedling field" to "Honda" is 1:25. This important ratio data is a summary of the experience of "reasonable intensity" in ancient rice cultivation, and it is said that Jiangxi people in modern times still follow it.

"Song Yingxing" also gave a definite explanation of the "oil yield" of various oil crops: "Where flax, castor beans, and camphor seeds are worth 40 catties of oil per stone. The vegetable brigade gets twenty-seven pounds of oil per stone. Brassica is worth 30 pounds per stone ......". The specific and accurate data description of oil crops has both theoretical significance and practical value. This is because it is beneficial for farmers to take into account the economic value of oil crops when planting them.

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