In the past few years, the crossover drama can be described as a fire, and until now there are still cross-over dramas broadcasting. In history, there are also people who are suspected of being crossers because of some actions, like Wang Mang, because the actions he made are really difficult for many people to explain. Although he only reigned for ten years, he did not do a small job. For example, he attributed the land to the state, and the people could not sell it privately, which is nothing now, but Wang Mang was a person in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty. Some of his other actions are also deeply suspected, and in modern times there is also a person who is suspected of being a crosser, and there are still some claims that affect us.
This man's name was Xu Shou, and he was born on the twenty-second day of the first month of the twenty-third year of Qing Jiaqing (1818). His family was born poor, but his grandfather was angry and left some family property. Unfortunately, Xu Shou's father died early, and his mother raised him and his two younger sisters alone. By the age of 17, his mother had also died, and by this time he already had a wife and a son, and the ancients married very early.
The imperial examination system implemented by the Qing Dynasty relied on eight strands of literature, which was rigid and rigorous and difficult. Xu Shou is not like a reader who only wants to get a meritorious name all day long, he has to consider the livelihood of his family. He chose to farm on the one hand and do business on the other. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was actually in decline, and Qianlong favored the bitter fruit left by Kun in his later years. Emperor Jiaqing was often busy suppressing peasant uprisings, while the British were eyeing the coastal areas.
The Qing Dynasty practiced a closed country, which led to the fact that people at that time were backward in thinking compared with the West, and their military and science and technology were backward. Xu Shou lived in such an environment, and he saw the decline of the Qing Dynasty. Xu Shou was determined to apply the purpose of the world and began to study useful knowledge in books. He had read all the useful ancient books, Xu Shou's hometown was in Wuxi, and Wuxi was also a handicraft production place.
Under such influence, Xu Shou is also very interested in the industry and is also extremely interested in the knowledge of science and technology. However, in his era, because of the seclusion of the country, there was no scientific and technological education at all, and scientific research was even more impossible. Xu Shou taught himself, and he often discussed some difficult problems with the famous mathematician Hua Xiangfang. In 1853, they went to Shanghai to find the Mohai Library founded by the British, and met Li Shanlan, who had learned Western knowledge. They bought a lot of books and some tools for physics experiments.
After returning home, Xu Shoujin, based on his knowledge in books, ground the crystal seal into a triangle and turned it into a triangular glass. He began to study the seven-color spectrum of light, probably by talent, and he soon learned a lot of modern physics. He also passed on the knowledge of friction to others, and in 1856, he went to Shanghai to buy some books on chemistry. His perseverance eventually led to his transformation into a renowned scholar of modern scientific knowledge.
In 1862, Xu Shou and Hua Xiangfang, who had already entered the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute founded by Zeng Guofan, began to study the steam engine. They had no drawings or materials, but had seen a sketch of a steam engine and observed a small foreign steamship. They studied it repeatedly and made China's first steam engine in three months. This was the beginning of China's modern industry and the beginning of Chinese scientific research.
Xu Shouhua then built the first steam-powered ship of the Chinese Navy, the Huanghu, in April 1866. In the ancient Chinese books, the yellow crane is a big bird, which kills thousands of miles in one fell swoop. China's modern shipbuilding industry began, and Xu Shou also made great contributions to the translation industry. He set up a translation officer in the Jiangnan General Manufacturing Bureau, and then worked here for seventeen years, creating Chinese corresponding to chemical elements, such as "zinc", "manganese" and "magnesium" as we know it.
On March 31, 1901, Xu Shou was killed in a gunpowder explosion during research, and he was the first scientist in China to die in his career. It was he who pioneered the scientific path in China, and some people doubt whether he was a crosser, because his ideas were not the same as those of the feudal Qing Dynasty at that time. However, it was also because he dared to be the first to let science develop in the Qing Dynasty, and many of the knowledge he left behind are still in use today.
References: Compilation of Grace, Anecdotes of Mr. Xu Xuecun, Supplement to the Collection of Steles