Chapter 1412: The Controversy of New Righteousness

"Xinyi" is the general name of "Zhou Guan Xinyi", "Mao Shiyi" and "Shang Shuyi", of which only "Zhou Guan Xinyi" is written by Wang Xianggong himself, and the other two articles are written by Wang Yan and Lu Huiqing.

For example, in "Shangshu", more than 100 questions raised in Su Mingrun's "Shangshu Prayer" were all in ideas, which can be regarded as opening up such a science as distinguishing and analyzing "Shangshu".

Today, the academic community has gradually formed a consensus that many of these chapters have been adapted, deleted, reversed, or even falsified.

These questions were not understood by An Shigong at that time, Wang Yan and Lu Huiqing were even more separated, and their "Shang Shuyi" could be used as a legal textbook for schools? Can it be used as the only reference book for the imperial examination? Isn't this a ridiculous joke?

The same is true of "Zhou Guan", if nothing else, just a "Examination of Work", can it bypass the science and technology?

Regarding the rhythm, size, weights and measures, with reference to the unearthed cultural relics, it will be found that there is a big difference from the understanding of today's people, and the Shang and Zhou Script Examination Bureau has now made a lot of detailed explanations on this issue.

These advances have proved that Wang Xianggong's "Zhou Guan Xinyi" is unreliable in many places.

Now it is clear that the problem is in the wrong textbook, but the blame is on the correctness of the examiner's exam questions.

Because it involved Su Zhe, Su You had to write a book to clarify his position.

Su Zhe's problem is not that he insists on the truth, but that he makes "procedural errors".

The state established the "New Meaning of the Three Classics" as the only bibliography of the Three Classics, and stipulated that it was the only subject for the examiner, so the examiner should abide by the regulations.

If there is a problem with the textbook, after the examiner finds it, he should report it according to the normal procedure and suggest that the imperial court revise it, as Master Sima is doing now.

However, before the state gives a clear answer and issues guidance, an examiner must of course implement the original regulations.

This is called "procedurally correct".

Of course, there are exceptions to the correct procedure, that is, when the incident occurs suddenly and is about to cause serious losses to the people of the country, you can exercise power.

However, there are obviously no exceptions to this exception.

Therefore, Su Zhe children's shoes should be held responsible.

But then again, Su Zhe took responsibility, which does not mean that the problem reflected in his matter is not a problem.

Therefore, the imperial court should not only deal with Su Zhe, but also attach great importance to the opinions he raised.

If there is a problem with the "Three Classics and New Righteousness", then it should be discussed by the learned and talented people from all over the world, and a "official version" of the "New Righteousness" that meets the standards of the Great Song Dynasty should be formulated as a reference textbook for the examination.

If there is a problem, it should be marked as a problem; If there is an objection, it should be marked as an objection; Undecided issues should be marked as undecided.

There is a precedent for this, and the famous "Notes on the Three Families of Historical Records" is such a style.

As for the exam, it can only be selected from those that have been determined and undoubtedly meaningful, and this is the solution to the problem.

To put it bluntly, this piece of music is still the set of "seeking common ground while reserving differences" and "seeking truth from facts" of science and technology, but it cannot be said that there is anything wrong with Su You's recital, and it is completely justified and standable.

But the question is, if you want to follow Su You's method, what are the "erudite talents" that everyone is convinced of?

This is where the real problem lies, Su You put the game of the imperial court on the bright side for the first time, and introduced a new way to solve the problem - collective discussion, seeking common ground while reserving differences, clarifying differences, shelving disputes, and taking care of majority opinions.

Zhao Ji was quite hesitant about this, mainly because he wanted to take care of Wang Anshi's face.

On the contrary, it was Wang Anshi who wrote and pointed out that the problem of "Shang Shuyi" is quite serious, and there are many places in "Zhou Guanyi" that are not rigorous, which is a fact.

He proposed a compromise solution, that is, to start a newspaper called "Journal", which only focuses on academics and does not involve in political disputes, and everyone can submit articles, publish them at a high level, inspire discussion, and finally converge.

Wang Anshi admitted the account, and Zhao Ji couldn't insist anymore, so he agreed to open a journal bureau first, ordered Cheng Hao to edit it, and ran a few issues of "Jingyi Journal" first.

Su You wrote again, Your Majesty, An Shixianggong's method is good, then can we also run a "Journal of Mathematics", "Journal of Science and Technology", "Acta Chemica Sinica", "Journal of Medicine", "Journal of Agriculture", "Journal of Economics"?

Frightened, Zhao Ji hurriedly held it down, Mingrun, let's not make trouble, okay? Many of them are state secrets, so let's talk about them slowly......

Wuchen, Chen Zhaoming played, the transformation of the Bianjing-Chenliu railway was completed, and the first train was on the road, with a maximum speed of 50 kilometers per hour, and the actual operating speed was 25 kilometers per hour, which could drive ten carriages and transport 50 tons of goods at a time.

Chen stayed only forty miles to Bianjing City, and he could go back and forth in two hours, and he could transfer 10,000 stone a day in exchange for grain.

If you speed it up, you can double it.

This capacity is already terrifying in the Great Song Dynasty, but it is actually not very remarkable, because after all, the grain that is now transferred from the southeast to Chenliu is as high as four million stone in ordinary years.

Like last year, there were two consecutive bumper years, and the transshipment shipments added up to 10 million!

But the wealth saved by the railroad in terms of time, manpower, expenses along the way, and official corruption is enormous.

Thinking that if the 400 miles from Luoyang to Bianjing are completed, plus the dispatching station that Chen Zhaoming said, there can actually be many trains running on this road at the same time, Zhao Ji panicked in his heart.

This month, Gao Shilin, who raised the case of Shangzhou, arrived in Zhengzhou, promoted the ordnance superintendent, and at the same time presided over the overall situation of railway construction.

The study of bridge engineering and culvert engineering has also been officially put on the agenda.

China's arch bridge technology has been accumulated for thousands of years, and the famous Zhaozhou Bridge, which already existed during this period, has a span of nearly eighty meters.

That is to say, a river with a span of more than 200 meters, the current Song people, only need two piers to be able to use the arch bridge to cross it.

The first Zhongshan Iron Bridge built in Lanzhou to cross the Yellow River in later generations was only 233 meters long.

Now with steel girder technology and reinforced concrete technology, the difficulty of building a bridge is not on the bridge deck, but on the piers.

Su You proposed two plans, one is to excavate the fork river, and then restore the river after repairing the bridge.

The second is to use a large steel beam to penetrate the center of the river, and then use the outer casing pipe to pump out the water in the pipe, so that you can go down to the bottom of the river to dig the bridge foundation, and then build an iron frame to pour concrete, which should be able to create a sufficient load-bearing pier.

This plan will certainly not work against deep water, but it should be enough to build a bridge from Chang'an to the Jiaozhou Peninsula.

There is no way to do the culvert, it can only be explosives, and in many places it is not even possible to dig the hole, so it is necessary to dig a ditch directly, that is, to remove all the soil and rocks of the entire mountain on the culvert.

Although the amount of work is much larger, but the technical difficulty is much smaller, plus some places that can be taken in a zigzag track, after investigation, the road from Chang'an to Lanzhou, the culvert is reduced to 35.

Of course, these are all hypothetical scenarios, and they are still far from actual operation.

Ren Xu, Li Xian passed through Bian Dukou and joined forces with Liu Changzuo.

The Hexi Jiedu sent a report to Chaogu, and Ali Gu carried a mob of yellow-headed Uighurs along the way to loot the trade routes, bringing a huge security threat to Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Shazhou in the Hexi Corridor, and asked the Great Song Dynasty to agree to send troops to suppress it.

Zhao Ji agreed with the Dang Xiang Eighth Army to enter Hexi, sweep the corridors, and ensure the interests of the trading groups in the Song Dynasty.

The chase began in Ganzhou, and Chaogu and Li Xian swept a hundred miles in one day, and it took fourteen days to drive Ali Gu and the yellow-headed Uighurs along the way through Shazhou.

Wu Chen, Tong Guan reported that a large army of yellow-headed Uighurs had appeared in the west of Shazhou, and they had come to meet the Ali Gu and the yellow-headed Uighur bandits, who had been expelled by Li Xian from Chaogu.

This information fully shows that the horse bandits active in the Gansha area had direct contact with the Yellow Uighurs, and that the Hexi Corridor would not be safe until the military forces of the Yellow Uighurs were resolved.

Wuzi, Zhao Ji issued an edict to reorganize the Western Regions Protectorate and build Shazhou.

With Chaogu as the main commander, Tong Guan as the supervising army, Wang Hou and Liu Shiheng as the deputy generals, a total of 6,000 new troops, 5,000 iron harriers, and 30,000 light cavalry of eight troops, to conquer Ali Gu and Huangtou Uighurs.

Chaogu was ordered, but he didn't rush to conquest, first asked Chen Yu to take the recruited new army veterans and disabled soldiers, outlaws in the Western Regions, and the yellow-headed bandit leader who surrendered, and dared to take risks to get the caravan leader, and entered the Qilian-Kunlun corridor west of Shazhou, responsible for spying on intelligence, liaising forces, and drawing maps.

These things have nothing to do with Su You, after the Qing Tang Dynasty entered the Song Dynasty and cleared Hexi, the security ecology of the entire Ningxia has been very consolidated.