Wang Yuan's plan to leave Beijing was postponed again because the emperor was about to celebrate his birthday, and Wanshou was a very important festival in ancient China.

On this day, Zhu Houzhao first went to Fengxian Hall to meet the Empress Dowager, and then went to Fengci Hall to meet Empress Dowager Zhang. Thanks to their nurturing grace, after all, without the two queen mothers, there would be no Zhu Houzhao and his father Emperor Hongzhi.

Then drive to the Fengtian Temple, and the ministers shout long live to celebrate the emperor's birthday.

According to the etiquette system, the emperor should give banquets to his ministers. However, this year, due to the severe disasters in various places, the grain production has been seriously reduced, so the banquet has been waived to save expenses.

Subsequently, the envoys of various states entered the court in turn, congratulating the Ming Emperor on his birthday, and the emperor gave a banquet, a gold weaving clothes, and a Ming treasure to show his favor.

Announcing that the reward was over, the envoys of the vassal kingdom should have retreated, but the Korean envoy Liu Mei suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty the Holy Emperor, the minister requests to stay in Daming, and I would like to study science with ten years of work!" ”

The ministers were stunned, and then ecstatic, even Zhu Houzhao was very happy.

What qualifications are still shallow, it is pure nonsense to put it on Liu Mei. This guy's North Korean official position is Hu Cao Shen Ju, which is analogous to the official position of the Ming Dynasty is the head of the household department, a proper two classes of important ministers!

Moreover, the full name of his family is "Cultural Liu", which belongs to Confucian orthodoxy.

A vassal squire from a Confucian orthodox background actually gave up high-ranking officials and took the initiative to stay in Daming to study knowledge. What does this mean? It means the indoctrination of China.

"Accurate!" Zhu Houzhao said happily.

The civil and military officials shouted in unison: "Your Majesty Shengming! ”

Liu Mei is also very happy, he stayed in Daming to study, with his family background, not only will not delay the future, but it is equivalent to accumulating qualifications and fame. And how happy the days in Beijing are, the entertainment projects are much more complete than Seoul, and there are a bunch of buns in Seoul.

What's more, the North Korean side is playing party fighting!

On one side is the old faction, which is equivalent to the alliance of aristocratic and large landowners, who try to maintain vested interests.

On one side were the Shilin faction, all of whom were emerging small landlords who had risen to power through the imperial examinations, hoping to carry out reforms and build the country.

Over the past hundred years, many Shilin factions have gradually mixed into the old school and become what they hated the most. However, with the prosperity of the imperial examination, the power of the Shilin faction grew stronger and stronger, and even overshadowed the imperial power for a time.

So, the last king frantically attacked the Shilin faction. The previous king first supported the Shilin faction, and then supported the old faction, the purpose of which was nothing more than to maintain the balance of the court, and the game collapsed and was abolished by a coup d'état.

Now this king is reusing the Shilin faction and fighting the old faction with all his might.

The Shilin faction was in full swing at this time, and the life of the old school was very difficult, and Liu Mei was born in the old school.

According to the law of struggle in the Korean officialdom, the king will soon turn against the Shilin faction, because these mud legs are too arrogant after gaining power. They pursued the concept of "Zhizhi", and the king had to take out the "public opinion" when he renovated the toilet, and Hongwenguan was similar to the Hanlin Academy, and the two prefectures were similar to the Six Departments and the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, and there were a large number of Shilin factions, and the Shilin faction had the final say.

However, once the Shilin faction loses power, the old faction will inevitably show its teeth and claws. After a while, it will be time for the king to use the Shilin faction again and turn to the old faction.

Fall together, the cycle repeats, and no one can kill anyone.

If the king suppresses a certain faction too harshly, there will definitely be people jumping over the wall in a hurry, and the last deposed Korean king is a lesson from the past.

In addition, political struggles are also mixed with academic struggles, and Korean Confucianism has a dispute between the school of science and the school of qi.

The school of science admired Cheng Zhu's style of science, emphasizing personal experience and moral cultivation. The Qi school also respects Zhu Xi, but believes that "qi" is the essence of the world, and advocates the accumulation of external knowledge and experience.

Why is Liu Mei interested in the School of Physics?

Because the school of physics can be understood as "rational qi and mutual development", but the actual operation is more biased towards "qi", and it also puts forward the "methodology" of doing experiments, which is certainly worth vigorously promoting back to North Korea.

Liu Mei planned to ignore the North Korean party disputes, stay in Beijing for ten years to study, and then go back after thoroughly studying physics. At that time, "physics" can be changed to "qi science", and the Korean school of science and qi can be unified, so that Liu Mei can become a master of Confucianism!

It is not difficult to popularize the school of physics in North Korea, but due to the increasingly fierce social contradictions, Xu Jingde's subjective materialism is in vogue, and Liu Mei can add another fire to it.

Even, Liu Mei felt that he could unify the old school and the Shilin school. The Xun Old School is mainly based on science, and the Shilin School is mainly based on Qi science, and he put forward the idea of the Partial Qi School as the Xun Old School, which is likely to be supported by both factions, and it may also be jointly opposed.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, before he had time to leave the imperial city, Liu Mei saluted Wang Yuan's disciple in full view of everyone: "Master Wang, I want to learn physics, please don't hesitate to teach!" ”

The ministers were shocked, most of them sneered and despised it, thinking: Sure enough, he is a minister of Fanbang, who does not know the true meaning of Confucianism, and he does not ask for advice from the great Confucianism of the Manchu Dynasty, and actually worships a backward scholar as a teacher.

Wang Yuan was also surprised, and replied: "Don't dare to be, just learn from each other." ”

The next day, Wang Yuan left Beijing for Shandong to inspect the management of the Yellow River.

Accompanying Wang Yuan out of Beijing was Wang Wensu, who was borrowed from the household department, and this humanoid calculator was particularly convenient to use. There are also three disciples, Bao Chaozhen, Bao Chaoxiang and Zhong An, as well as four government students who failed in the township test, all of whom have to perform auxiliary measurement work.

His disciple, Du Jin, remained in the capital and was responsible for teaching other students, including math to North Korean student Yoo Mae.

As soon as the teacher leaves, the students go crazy!

Wang Xu, this guy, is not well prepared for next year's exam, and actually quietly started a tandem. Through his younger brother Huang Xu, he contacted Huang Chongde, a Hui merchant, and opened a academy outside Xuanwumen, called the "School of Physics". There are three lecture halls, three back halls, and other buildings, which are more than ten rooms.

Because of the financial support, the college is free of tuition, and boarding students only charge room and board.

These physical radicals printed thousands of leaflets with wax printing machines and distributed them to people outside the Xuanwu Gate. Most of the officials and citizens who went out of the city to watch the football game needed to pass through the Xuanwu Gate, and the leaflets could be distributed in minutes.

The first time I gave a lecture at the academy, more than 200 people came, and anyway, everything was free, just to see the excitement.

There were several keynote speakers, and Wang Xi was the first to take the stage.

Because there are all kinds of listeners, including wealthy sons, scholars, ordinary people, and even monks and Taoists, the content of the lecture must not be too profound, and it must be explained in simple terms.

Wang Xi said: "I'm Wang Xi." The sun appears and disappears in the clouds. The gentleman gave the word hidden, thinking that I showed too much, and it seemed that I was too little. Today, I'm coming out again! I'm just a pawn of the physics school, but I have the cheekiness to give a lecture, which is really throwing bricks and stones! ”

"What is physics? It is to have the reason of all things and respond to all things, so as to spy on the principles of heaven and the way of heaven. As long as we study physics carefully and integrate knowledge and action, everyone can become a holy ......."

Elaborating on the ideas of a large number of physics schools, Wang Xi also said: "Everything has three states, namely solid, liquid, and gaseous. For example, we use water, which is ice, water, and steam. Ice absorbs energy as water, and water absorbs energy as qi, so qi is the highest grade. People also have three states, namely posture, demeanor, and demeanor. ”

"Every human being has a body, a human body. Eat whole grains, absorb the essence of food, and strengthen martial arts training, so that you will be strong; Feasting on the subset of classics and history, absorbing the teachings of articles, and being familiar with various cultures, you will be knowledgeable. ”

"It's like ice absorbs heat and turns into water, and people have temperament when they absorb energy, which is a demeanor. The military generals are intimidating, this is the demeanor; The scholar has poetry and books in his belly, which is also a demeanor. ”

"Once you have your manners, you have to continue to practice. We must unite knowledge and action, continue to do good deeds, and gradually cultivate our own demeanor. The demeanor is an innate state, which everyone has and is buried when it is born. It is equivalent to the steam losing energy, turning into water and turning into ice. Our physics is to turn ice into water and water into steam. Let people repair their manners and restore their original demeanor! ”

Rory talked a lot, and the Taoist priest muttered in the audience: "This is the Taoist refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming the gods, how can you remove the refining of the gods?" It should be made up. Wang Erlang's knowledge originally originated from Taoism. ”

Yes, Wang Yuan and Wang Yangming ran away completely.

Wang Yangming is regarded as a Buddhist Zen sect, and Wang Yuan simply became a Taoist heir.

Wang Xi smiled: "Having said so much, I think you must feel very bored, let's do an interesting experiment." ”

The physics disciples carried the vat into the field and directly lit a fire to boil the oil pot until it boiled.

"I'm going to fish it out!" Wang Xi threw a steel weight into it, rolled up his sleeves and reached into the oil pot to fish.

The crowd exclaimed.

Wang Xi was graceful and free-looking, and took out the weight and said: "This is not a trick, nor is it that I have trained a pair of iron arms." Instead, most of the pot is vinegar, and only the surface layer is oil. Why is this so? This involves two physical knowledge, boiling point and density. The density of vinegar is large, so it sinks to the bottom; The density of the oil is small, so it floats. Vinegar has a lower boiling point, so it doesn't burn when boiled. ”

"Let's talk about this clairvoyant mirror, why can it see farther, which also involves physical optics knowledge......"

Today's lecture is not in-depth, it is purely of a popular science nature, and I am afraid that I will scare away the listeners.

After the end, a Taoist priest found Wang Xu: "The poor Tao is true, it is a traveling Taoist person, can I live in the academy to study physics?" Your school studies the principles of all things, and the lead and mercury avenue is also among them, and they may be able to learn from each other. ”

Wang Xi's goal is to preach, no matter what monks and Taoists, he said very happily: "If a real person is willing to study physics, the academy will naturally welcome him." ”

As a result, the Zhizhen Taoist joined the academy and used Taoist theory to help Wang Xi improve the "three-state theory of physics".

When Wang Yuan came back from his errand, he couldn't cry or laugh when he saw that set of doctrines and thoughts, so he could only delete and change them in person.