After taking his seat, Nicholas talked about his life in Paris, saying: "I did go to university in Paris, and I did study with Mozart, but ......! ”

Nicholas said this, his face seemed a little dissatisfied: "It's just that if he hadn't been in a hurry to admit students in the first place, he could have told me that music has no future." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Duan kept hearing Nicholas's slight complaints, and he also understood why Mozart had taken him as an apprentice, and according to Duan's history, Mozart had always been plagued by poverty, which may have been the reason why he was eager to take this young man as an apprentice.

At this point, Nicholas said no more about Mozart and his own study of music, because this kind of thing is indeed a luxury for most people, and he kept talking about some things in Paris with disgust on his face.

"Hmmm! What do you want to know about Paris? The stench of the city, the disgusting noise, or the thief who can kill people? ”

Duan kept hearing Nicholas say this, and he also knew that this was the inevitable thing that a country had experienced in its development, that this was the origin of the rapid development of the country's material life, that it was the beginning of the emancipation of labor, and that it was also the beginning of the control of capital.

"There's nothing to talk about!"

Duan kept waving his hand: "You still tell me something about the daily life of the people of Paris, such as what the Grand Theater of Paris looks like, whether the king is only in the palace, or the Louvre." ”

Nicholas smiled, dipped his finger in water on the table, drew a sketch of the Grand Theater, and told Duan about some famous actors, and they also talked about the daily life of the king and queen in the palace.

Louis XVI and his queen were relatively close to the people, but this was of little use, and people were still dissatisfied with the king's rule for a long time.

Nicholas told Duan about the ideas of philosophers such as Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau, and Duan knew about them.

Diderot was a materialist scholar who compiled the first French Encyclopedia, and Voltaire was the forerunner of the French intellectual Enlightenment, as for Rousseau, the French thinker, the intellectual forerunner of the French Revolution, who strongly criticized monarchy.

Nicholas said a lot, and at the end he gave Duan a copy of the Encyclopedia, and he continued: "It sounds like a good thing, but the truth is much worse than that, people have no faith. ”

Duan kept hearing this, he probably understood what the young man on the other side wanted to say, he showed an expression of disbelief, and said, "Probably not!" I think the development of science, this is a good thing. ”

Nicholas had a bit of mockery on his face: "Sir, it is very dangerous to be unconstrained by religion in this era, people have no faith, they act unscrupulously and lawlessly. ”

"Huh?"

Duan constantly raised his eyebrows: "What's so dangerous about this?" Isn't it a good thing that these feudal superstitions have been broken and science has been well developed? ”

Nicholas showed a trace of worry between his eyebrows, and said with a forced smile: "Sir, you really say this like a modern person living in the 18th century, but when no one takes moral values seriously, even atheism has become popular, this kind of popularity is unimaginable. ”

Duan kept hearing Nicholas say this, and he also knew what this young man was thinking, religious thought had ruled in Europe for more than a thousand years, from the Crusades to the fall of the Roman Empire, it had always been theocracy above imperial power, but he had a different view on this kind of thing, in his modern thinking.

"I think things may not be as bad as you think, at least the times have progressed now, and no one in my family believes in religion, it should be said that in most aristocratic families, many people have long since disbelieved in religion."

Duan's constant remarks were not groundless, and in Lester's memory, it was true, there was no tradition of belief in gods in this family, and even Lester once wanted to be a priest, which made his marquis father furious.

Duan kept trying to explain to the young man in gentle words that she did not want to stimulate the faith of a believer, and Nicholas said blankly: "Is it really possible for people to live without faith?" It's a terrible thing to think about. ”

"Not really!"

Duan constantly knew that after the Industrial Revolution, the influence of religion was not as strong as before, because the material life has been improved, and the rapid development of science has allowed people to have a clear understanding of some unknown and incomprehensible things, which has broken the unshakable status of religion.

However, in the years of scientific development, people have not abandoned religion like this, and there are still many people who have lost themselves in money and interests in the end, and look back in religion to find solace in their souls.

Duan continued to pour several times of strong wine into his mouth, and then said: "You know Nicholas, my family has not believed in religion for a long time, and I have always had no faith, do you know why?" ”

Nicholas listened to Duan Zhi's words, and his face showed a puzzled expression, and Duan Zhi's memories began from then on, with his modern understanding of Dan History, and Lester's memories when he was a child.

"Do you remember the story of the shrine maiden?"

Nicholas nodded and said, "You wept for the burned shrine maiden at the place where you burned it. ”

Duan continued to smile reluctantly, although it was something Lester experienced, but this emotion had a deep impact on him, he knew that in medieval Europe, there would always be some young girls in religion.

Then they put natural or man-made disasters on their heads, believing that they were witches sent by the devil to bring suffering to the people, and thus burned these innocent women at the stake, or those who dared to question the authority of religion.

Duan continued to say: "You should know that the place where the witch was burned, that place was burned black, how many men and women, old people and children were put there to be burned alive in so many years of religious rule, what a barbaric and irrational thing, these religious guys, aren't they a demon in human skin?" ”

Duan has always hated these things in history, and this kind of thing is easy to say in China, because since Qin Shi Huang unified China, Legalist ideas have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Although, since the unification of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism, but Legalism has been secretly influencing China.

At the very beginning, Confucianism also taught people to self-cultivation and govern the country, but in the Song Dynasty, a group of physicists appeared, narrowing Chinese Confucianism and making it the most a tool to control people's thoughts.

However, these are only short-lived, China has always been a society under the rule of law under the premise of the rule of man, and even the rule of law in China can be regarded as the ancestor of Europeans, and they do not know why so many people worship everything in the West madly after modern times to modern times.

You know, in the Middle Ages in Europe, how barbaric, religion can burn people at the stake, and it is a random list of crimes, not even crimes, religion says that you are an apostle of the devil, then you will be burned to death, which is unimaginable in China during the same period.

Duan kept thinking of this, and said to Nicholas: "When my mother was very young, she told me that there were no witches in the world, they were just the martyrs of feudal superstition. ”

"But!"

Nicholas said, "But my mother told me that witches are apostles of the devil, and if they were burned to death, the world would be clearer." ”

"Hahaha!"

Duan kept hearing the other party's words, and he almost laughed out loud: "If these people are the apostles of the devil, and those hypocrites who burn people to death and believe in gods are righteous. Then I would rather be with the demons, and I would rather fall into the abyss forever and fight these 'gods' to the end. (To be continued.) )