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"Boss, do you know what I regret the most now?" Ding Zhenxin asked.

"Don't beat around the bush, just say it!" Zhu Wencong took a sip of tea.

"I should have the surname Song!" Ding Zhenxin said with a serious expression.

Zhu Wencong stared at Ding Zhenxin, even if he bore the surname Song, he had nothing to do with Song Yingxing.

Song Yingxing hadn't surrendered to the Qing but chose to hide in the remote mountains and continued his resistance against the Qing.

The seeds of industry in Jiangnan from the late Ming to the early Qing had started to sprout, only to be snuffed out after several mass killings.

In the Shunzhi era, "Tiangong Kaiwu" was ready for publication, but it got banned and destroyed just because it contained terms like "northern barbarians" and "barbarians."

"In the past, I didn't understand Western patent rights, and in the East, there wasn't even the concept of patents.