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Chapter 231 The fierce men gather together

After wiping out all the Jiannu slaves who entered the pass to plunder, Zhu Cixiang began to form an army and the Royal Academy of Sciences, and officially put the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty on the agenda.

The importance of the people Li Ruolian and Gao Wencai sent to find them today is self-evident to him and the Ming Dynasty.

Especially Song Yingxing, a scientific giant of the Ming Dynasty, he will lead the Ming Dynasty into the industrial revolution with the support of Zhu Cixiang in the future.

Song Yingxing was a famous scientist in the Ming Dynasty. His courtesy name was Changgeng, and he was a native of Waxi Archway, Fengxin County, Jiangxi Province.

Born in Juren, Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty was appointed as an eunuch in Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province.

Later, he also served as an official in Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, and as a magistrate of Bozhou Prefecture in Nanzhili Province.

Song Yingxing devoted his life to the scientific investigation and research of agriculture and handicraft production.

Song Yingxing's writings and research fields involve different disciplines of natural sciences and humanities.

Among them, the most outstanding work "Tiangong Kaiwu" is known as the encyclopedia of Chinese crafts in the 17th century.

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

In terms of agriculture, Song Yingxing made detailed records of the entire production process of rice seed soaking, breeding, seedling beating, and cultivating.

Song Yingxing was the first scientist in the world to scientifically discuss zinc and copper-zinc alloy (brass).

He clearly pointed out that zinc was a new metal and recorded its smelting method for the first time.

This is one of the important achievements in the history of ancient metal smelting in my country.

For a long time, China became the only country in the world that could smelt zinc on a large scale.

The method of refining brass using metallic zinc instead of zinc compound (calamine) recorded by Song Yingxing.

It is the earliest record in human history of directly melting copper and zinc to obtain brass.

In May 2021, the International Astronomical Union approved China's naming of lunar landforms near the Chang'e-5 landing site.

Song Yingxing is one of the eight landform names.

Bi Maokang is a firearms expert. He once developed a flintlock gun, and his time was almost the same as that of the West.

Unfortunately, it was not popularized. Later, it was attacked by the eunuchs and impeached by the imperial censor, and was removed from office. It was reactivated after Chongzhen came to power.

Bi Maokang is currently serving in the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs, completely burying his ability in firearms development.

This was definitely a big loss to the Ming Dynasty and China, and Zhu Cihong couldn't tolerate it.

Wu Youke, a giant in the medical field of the Ming Dynasty, lived in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and was the founder of the "warm epidemic school".

Based on his clinical experience, he wrote the book "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" and developed a set of syndrome differentiation and demonstration plans for febrile diseases.

In the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty, plague spread across the country, killing nine out of every ten households.

The epidemic in Zhili, Shandong, Zhejiang and other places in the north and south became more and more severe in May and June. "There are more than a hundred houses in a lane, no one is immune, and there are dozens of people in each door, and no one is left."

The doctors all used typhoid fever treatment, but it had no effect.

Wu Youke has personally experienced every epidemic, accumulated a wealth of information, investigated the source of the disease, and devoted himself to research.

Based on the treatment experience, a brand new book "Treatise on Epidemics" was written, which was the first of its kind in the study of infectious diseases in my country.

Based on his lifelong experience and understanding of epidemic treatment, he boldly proposed the theory of "disease" causing disease.

It was also a great pioneering work in the history of medical infectious disease in the world, and thus won wide respect from future generations.

Wu Youke founded the plague theory and was 200 years ahead of the Western world. He was killed because of his integrity and did not collude with the slaves.

The three Sun brothers are the sons of Sun Yuanhua, an artillery expert in the Ming Dynasty. They all have some research on firearms. Because their father was unjustly killed, they swore not to serve as officials.

Sun Heding and Sun Hedou are good at developing firearms, and there will be sparks between them and Bi Maokang.

Sun Hejing, on the other hand, was good at martial arts. Historically, he participated in the anti-Qing war and died in Jiading. He was also a national hero against the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Ming met Feng Houdun and Yan Yingyuan, who were known as the Three Dukes of the Anti-Qing Dynasty. Zhu Cixiang wanted to combine the three in advance.

We are going to let Jiannu have a taste of the power of resisting the Three Dukes of the Qing Dynasty when he enters the customs in two years.

Zhang Huangyan, a national hero, was promoted to minister of war in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In the first year of Hongguang's reign in the Southern Ming Dynasty, after the fall of Nanjing, he and Qian Sule and others launched an army to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Later, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, contacted the thirteen peasant armies and cooperated with Zheng Chenggong and Li Changxiang.

He personally led troops to attack more than 20 cities in Anhui and persisted in the struggle against the Qing Dynasty for nearly 20 years.

In the third year of Kangxi's reign, Emperor Yongli, King Lu of the Supervisory State, Zheng Chenggong and others died one after another.

Seeing that the situation was over, Zhang Huangyan disbanded the rebel army on Xuan'ao Island in Nantian and lived in seclusion. He was captured that year and later killed in Hangzhou.

Zhang Mingzhen, courtesy name Houfu, a national hero, was a member of the Imperial Guard in Nanjing during the Ming Dynasty.

He was formerly a guerrilla in Shipu, Taizhou, and was granted the title of General Fuping.

In the first year of Hongguang, Anzong was captured, and he recruited righteous troops to work together to recover.

Together with Zhang Huangyan and others, he supported King Lu to supervise the country in Shaoxing, and later returned to Zhoushan from Kinmen, Fujian, on the orders of King Lu to supervise the country.

In the second year of Lu Jianguo's reign, he learned of the uprising of the Su Song gentry, and the unified battleship entered Chongming, but was capsized and defeated.

The Qing army advanced and welcomed the King of Lu to live in Zhoushan. Zhoushan fell, but the King of Lu followed Zhu and succeeded.

Later, he and Zhang Huangyan attacked Chongming and Zhenjiang many times, and went into Jinling, trying to restore China.

In the eighth year of Yongli's reign, he followed Zhu Chenggong in an attempt to regain Zhoushan, but unfortunately died in the army.

Zheng Sen is the national hero Zheng Chenggong who regained Taiwan in history.

Zheng Chenggong was originally a general of the Southern Ming Dynasty in China. Because Emperor Shaozong of the Southern Ming Dynasty gave him the Ming Dynasty surname Zhu, he was named Chenggong and became known as the national surname Ye.

In 1645, the Qing army invaded the south of the Yangtze River. Soon after Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Tagawa family committed suicide in the rebellion.

Zheng Chenggong led his father's old troops to resist the Qing Dynasty on the southeast coast of China and became one of the main military forces in the late Southern Ming Dynasty.

They once raided by sea and surrounded Jiangning Prefecture of the Qing Dynasty, but were eventually repelled by the Qing army. They could only rely on the advantage of naval battles to defend the islands of Xiamen and Kinmen.

In 1661, he led his army across the Taiwan Strait, and the following year defeated the powerful garrison of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan.

He started Zheng's rule in Taiwan and vigorously developed production, but he died of illness soon after.

After Zheng Chenggong's death, Taiwanese people successively established temples to offer sacrifices, among which the Yanping County Prince's Temple in Tainan was the most important.

Zhu Cixiang wanted to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and put China on top of the world. Zheng Chenggong would definitely be an important right-hand man, and Zhang Mingzhen was also good at naval warfare.

At present, the Ming Dynasty does not have a navy, so it can only rely on Zheng Zhilong of Fujian, Zheng Chenggong's father, to resist foreign enemies from the sea.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no external defeat in the Ming Dynasty naval battle. The greatest contribution came from the Zheng family. They not only made a lot of money for themselves, but also firmly defended the Ming Dynasty sea area.

No matter what the Zheng family's purpose was, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they did not allow foreign invaders to invade the Ming Dynasty, and did not allow China to become a Western colony in advance. The Zheng family definitely deserves the greatest credit.

Although Zheng Zhilong was not safe in his later years, the Zheng family's contribution to the Ming Dynasty and China was extremely huge, and no one can deny their merits.

Zhu Cixiang was the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. With the absolute trust of Emperor Chongzhen, he could bring together the powerful men of the late Ming Dynasty.

Firearms were developed by Bi Maokang, the three Sun brothers and Zhao Yuanhua, mechanical iron smelting and agriculture were developed by Ming science giant Song Yingxing, and medicine was developed by Wu Youke. Ming science and technology will surely take off.

There are more talents in the military field. Now there are Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan, Zhou Yuji, the Three Dukes of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and other national heroes.

In the future, there will be Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Mingzhen, Zheng Chenggong, Cao Bianjiao, Qin Liangyu, Yang Tinglin, etc. With the help of so many powerful people, it will not be difficult to revive the Ming Dynasty and China.

I believe that in the near future, the two sentences we often hear: "Those who offend China will be punished no matter how far away they are, and the sun and moon shining on the rivers are all Han soil" will become a reality! Like the Ming Dynasty, the prosperous age began with the prince overseeing the country.
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