At the night banquet, after talking and laughing with the ministers, Xiao Tianjian summed up some of the work of the ministries in the past two or three months, and on the one hand, he also sent a batch of new books published by the printing bureau that had just been established under the Ministry of Industry some time ago.

After Xiao Tianjian asked the new batch of newly printed books to be sent, he immediately sent a set to everyone present.

So the ministers began to look at these new books that still exude the fragrance of ink, the first set of books that caught everyone's eyes, with a few big characters printed on the cover "Tiangong Kaiwu", and the name of the person who wrote the book next to it, with the words "Song Yingxing" written in small letters.

Several of the ministers were immediately excited, for some of them had seen or heard of the book before.

Ding Qirui, who is currently a scholar of the History Museum of the Great Chinese Dynasty, once read some of this set of books, and even called the name of the person who wrote the book, and immediately exclaimed: "Good book! It's a good book! The person who wrote this book is really a great talent, as far as Weichen knows, Song Yingxing once served in Bozhou, previously served as a teacher in Fenyi County, Jiangxi, and wrote this book after many years of hard work! It's really rare! It's a pity that I don't know where this person is now! If the Holy One can find this person, he must ask the Holy One to reuse this person! ”

Everyone opened this book one after another, and simply read the table of contents first, and after reading it, they were all amazed, it turned out that this book was really a strange book, which included agriculture, handicrafts, industry - such as machinery, bricks, ceramics, sulfur, candles, paper, weapons, gunpowder, textiles, dyeing, salt making, coal mining, oil extraction and other production technologies, and there were more detailed explanations, and at the same time there were pictures, it can be said that these technologies were recorded in simple terms, so the people who could write this book, He is definitely a well-educated person, and he is not the kind of person who only knows how to read dead books, he must be a person who has gone deep into the people, studied various practices in detail, and accumulated a wealth of knowledge, in order to write such a set of books.

So although they didn't have time to read the contents carefully, everyone still called this book a strange book, and they couldn't help but look down quickly.

Xiao Tianjian laughed and said: "What Ding Aiqing said is good, but Song Yingxing is a great talent, and he can be called an all-round talent!" And this book was not published by me, but as early as the previous dynasty Chongzhen ten years ago, it has been compiled and printed in Nanjing, I just saw one some time ago, after inquiry, I learned that it is a pity that the engraving of this book has been damaged, so I quickly ordered the Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to reopen it and print it, and I printed the first batch of 5,000 copies, and in the future, if necessary, I can continue to print more.

The set of books that I give to you today is the book that he wrote with all his painstaking efforts, and since this person is a great talent and an all-rounder, how can I abandon it violently?

Don't hide it from you, Song Yingxing I have sent someone to find it, this person after we captured Bozhou, he abandoned the official and returned to his hometown of Jiangxi, these two years did not ask about political affairs, at home to write books, this year Jiangxi subjugated to our dynasty, I sent someone to his hometown, and found this person.

He not only compiled this set of "Heavenly Creations", but also had a profound attainment in astronomical matters, and also wrote "Observation" and "Talking about the Heavens", so after many persuasions, he had agreed to become an official, and for the time being, I planned to set up a large Chinese academy under the Ministry of Industry to focus on various academic research.

And Song Yingxing has a wide range of knowledge, and he is the best person to preside over this matter, so I have already issued an order to give him the post of supervisor of the Academy of Sciences! ”

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, the ministers nodded one after another, although they didn't know what this academy was, but they also knew that Xiao Tianjian would come up with some new terms from time to time, so they were used to it, since Xiao Tianjian wanted to set up such a department, then it would definitely not be unpurposeful and playful, so everyone didn't care about it, and they were happy that Xiao Tianjian could recruit such a talent.

Xiao Tianjian put this set of "Heavenly Creations" aside from the table, then patted the remaining books, and said to the ministers: "Everyone put this set of books aside first, and take a look at the following!" There are a few more books that I have ordered to be published this time, so you can check them out!

There are also the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration", "Geometric Original" and "Taixi Water Law" written by Xu Guangqi, an important minister of the former dynasty, "Western Divine Machine", "Jingwu Quanshu", "Geometric Usage", "Geometric Body Theory", "Taixi Calculation" written by Xu Xiake, "Xu Xiake's Travels" written by Xu Xiake, "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by the famous doctor Li Shizhen, and "Herbs for Saving the Famine", of course, there are also some other books......

The reason why I publish these books today is mainly to let everyone know that there are actually many capable people in the former Ming Dynasty, and many of them are geniuses, but unfortunately they have not been taken seriously by the previous dynasty, and even a great talent like Sun Yingyuan was unjustly killed by the previous dynasty, which is really distressing!

Reading is not just about reading the Four Books and the Five Classics, what is the purpose of reading a book? As the saying goes, learn literature and martial arts, buy with the emperor's family! Doesn't a scholar just want to one day after completing his studies, he will be able to govern the country in peace and the world?

If the scholars continue to read for a long time, and only know how to read some of the Four Books and the Five Classics, will they be able to govern the country and the country? When the Ming Dynasty dies, he will die in this way! Most of you are scholars, and I am afraid you will not believe what I say.

But let's just put it simply! Just according to the things examined in the imperial examination of the previous dynasty, officials often had to be awarded officials after winning the jinshi, and most of them were sent to the local government as local officials, and many people did not know about agricultural politics at all, how to manage local agricultural politics well?

Therefore, this dynasty must abandon the old system of the previous dynasty, and the imperial examination is not just a rigid examination of the four books, five classics and eight strands, which can only cultivate more and more people who read dead books, and it is definitely not the talent needed by our strong country!

Therefore, in the future, I will not look at whose Bagu writing is good and whose handwriting is beautiful, but to study people, learn something special, each has a skill, whether they are specialized in agricultural politics, or specialized in law, or even specialized in the study of arithmetic, I will appoint them according to their talents! This is the way to make the country rich and the people strong in the future!

Think of me in China, thousands of years of outstanding people, how many miracles have been created, but now it has begun to lag behind the Western countries, that is, what you often call Taixi!

If we can't introspect ourselves because of this, then it won't be long before our China will be left far behind by the Western countries of this era! ”

After Xiao Tianjian's words came to this, all the ministers in the court frowned, not only a little resistant, some people think that Xiao Tianjian suddenly changed the method of employing people, so what a blow it will be to many scholars in the world, you must know how many scholars have been cold for ten years, read four books and five classics, and write eight strands of literature, and suddenly Xiao Tianjian said that he doesn't value these, then it means that the time spent on what these scholars have learned for so many years is equivalent to wasting in vain!

And let the reader learn some miscellaneous studies in the future, what kind of system will this become? As a result, many Wenchen suddenly became nervous about this, and some people even thought that what Xiao Tianjian said was a bit alarmist, how brilliant China has been for thousands of years? How is it possible not to learn these miscellaneous sciences, and in the future, those Tessy countries will be left behind?

So the atmosphere was still very lively, but after Xiao Tianjian said these words, the hall immediately cooled down, and many people showed resistance, but in terms of military generals, nothing changed.

This chapter has a little less word count, and I'll add another chapter in the afternoon!