At that time, Zhao Xin felt a buzzing in his head. He never expected that the plot rewards this time would be so powerful.
A copy of "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" instantly made up for his shortcoming of not being able to invent things like other time travelers.
Although "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" can only represent the level of the Ming Dynasty, it is enough for him now.
For example, in salt making, sugar making, papermaking, smelting, etc., the Ming Dynasty's level was already quite advanced for that era.
Even contemporary Europe was far inferior in many aspects, otherwise this book would not have been translated into so many versions in Europe.
To a certain extent, it can even be said that the introduction of this book to the West directly accelerated the development process of the West.
From this perspective, Zhao Xin's original feelings towards this book were complicated.
From the perspective of modern people's archaeological value, this book has enormous reference value.
However, from the perspective of that time, the lack of confidentiality awareness among Chinese intellectuals was also an indirect accelerator of the Chinese national disaster.
There are two so-called Chinese scientists who were praised by later generations. One is Song Yingxing, the author of Tiangong Kaiwu, and the other is Shen Kuo, the author of Mengxi Bitan.
But at that time, both of them made little contribution to the development of their nation.
On the contrary, one led to the development of nomadic peoples, and the other made up for the shortcomings of the Western world in agriculture, papermaking, silk manufacturing, printing and other fields.
Some people say that the Chinese themselves do not take it seriously, but many people forget that these two people have one thing in common, that is, their so-called science is just a record.
Although there have been some improvements in some areas, overall they have not surpassed the developments and creations of the time.
In other words, what they recorded were already known to the craftsmen of the society at that time. So what if they paid attention to them?
It was only in later generations that some scholars tried to prove that the Chinese nation, like the West, had Western-style scientists, and thus praised these two so-called influential scientists in the Western world.
Of course, no matter what, now this book "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" is like a divine help to Zhao Xin.
Moreover, once he got this thing, he would be more confident in dealing with this drought.
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