Bianjing Qiminglu

Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty, I decided to use scientific thinking to improve my life - and fall in love by the way. Chen Qi traveled back in time to the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty and became an official scholar in the western suburbs of Bianjing. Faced with the reality of having a poor family and a meager monthly salary, Chen Qi did not choose to recite poems, compose poems or cling to the powerful. His goal was simple: to keep himself and his students fed and clothed first. As a result, a "technological revolution" quietly set off in Bianjing's urban life: Use a convex lens to make a simple microscope, allowing the embroiderer to see the texture of the silk thread clearly and embroider more delicate patterns; Design a bamboo tube automatic irrigation system to help manor owners solve watering problems; Promote alum water purification and simple filters, and teach neighbors to "boil water" at the beginning of the epidemic; They even improved stoves, designed anti-theft mechanisms, made thermometers and hygrometers to improve the storage of medicinal materials... Knowledge is productivity. Chen Qi's "little invention" may seem inconspicuous, but it actually improves the lives of people around him. Integrating modern optical principles into the craftsmanship of this era. However, small inventions gradually attracted attention: Doctors from Taixue became very interested in his microscope, wealthy businessmen competed for invitations to design garden installations, ruffians coveted the business of embroidery shops, and conservative scholars questioned whether "fantastic skills and ingenuity" deviated from the way of the sages... Chen Qi is always sober: he doesn't want to change history, he just wants to improve his life; he doesn't pursue grand narratives, he only cares about the warmth and warmth around him. Use scientific thinking to solve practical problems, use knowledge to warm the world, and in this thousand-year-old capital, step by step, push the world in a better direction. Even just a little bit.