Chapter 126: Asking the Heavens and the Geometry

Zhu Qizhen rarely gets sick.

At most, it was typhoid fever, but this time it lingered for many days.

After the prince returned from Changping, he came to Zhuqi Zhenbian to serve the decoction.

even once let the cabinet scholars live in the palace, and Empress Qian lived near the Qianqing Palace.

This is to worry that the sudden death of the emperor will appear.

However, Zhu Qizhen's illness has not reached this point. It's just that under the ancient medical technology, everyone's life is not guaranteed.

Emperor Xuanzong did not lead his troops to fight in the autumn, and he felt unwell on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and died on the second day of the first month.

There are more cases of people who seem to be healthy, but they die in the blink of an eye.

Especially when Emperor Xuanzong died, he was only thirty-five years old, and Zhu Qizhen had already lived two years longer than his father.

If you count the twenty-seven years of orthodoxy in history, that is, the sixth year of Tianshun, and the Tianshun era is only eight years.

When Zhu Qizhen thought of this, his heart would only be heavier.

He had to think that he didn't even live to be sixty years old, and he died without doing many things. The more he thought about it, the worse it became.

He didn't know if there would be a time-traveler like him in the afterlife.

But he estimates that this situation will probably not happen.

And all his changes and reforms now are actually based on the changes of the Ming Dynasty itself, and have not touched the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, this sentence, in other words, is that even if Zhu Qizhen created the so-called orthodox prosperity, it is nothing more than to prolong the life of the Ming Dynasty for decades or hundreds of years.

It doesn't touch on radical change.

If after his death, the Ming Dynasty developed according to the original inertia, although it would probably not be destroyed by the Jurchens, after all, now that Haixi Province has been established, the Jurchen people have been naturalized into Han people.

One or two hundred years later, it is estimated that most of the Jurchen tribes are only in the Heilongjiang realm.

But there will still be the malpractices that the Ming Dynasty should have.

Even if there is no Li Zicheng, there is Zhang Zicheng and Ma Zicheng.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen didn't think that Daming would never die. However, the Ming Dynasty as a whole is biased towards science, and the way of thinking that focuses on the heart does not change.

China's future fate will not change much.

It's just that he has more capital left, and he will lose a little slower in the future.

Of course, Zhu Qizhen can think in a good direction. For example, because of his policy of opening up the sea, Daming has always maintained close exchanges with the West, and the Western Industrial Revolution will not throw Daming down.

It's nothing more than the first wave.

After all, even though the Ming Dynasty is known as a closed country in history, the speed of learning from the West is not slow at all, and there is no generation difference with the West.

It was the Qing Dynasty that really distanced itself.

Now there is no Qing Dynasty. If it weren't for alien domination, it would be much better. Don't worry about that.

Moreover, if Zhu Qizhen sets off an unsuccessful change, there will be a backlash in many cases.

It's like Wang Anshi's various law change policies, whether they are suitable or not, let's not talk about it for the time being. With the defeat of Wang Anshi, these policies have been put into a separate book.

You can't even listen to it.

If Zhu Qizhen's reform fails after his death, the result is likely to be like Wang Anshi's reform, and he will be thrown into the political cold palace.

Never turn over.

Even the things that have been done well.

All kinds of ideas swirled in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

In a word, unwilling.

If we want to change the course of Chinese civilization, we must do three things: First, ideological revolution. The second industrial revolution, the third revolution of the political system.

In terms of difficulty, on the contrary, three is the easiest, two is second, and one is the most difficult.

Although there were various criticisms in later generations, many people probably didn't really study what Zhu Xi said, so they criticized Zhu Xi from the perspective of character.

Of course, this is not to say that Zhu Xi is good.

Rather, it is said that science began to develop in the Northern Song Dynasty and prevailed between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the people of these two generations for five or six hundred years were extremely stupid.

It is true that the academic rigidity of the Qing Dynasty made science lose its vitality at all, but this problem is not to be memorized by science, but by the Qing Dynasty.

Qingfeng is illiterate, why after flipping through the book, who dares to make some inventions in academics, and wants to try how to die, which is more comfortable, so the highest peak of academic in the Qing Dynasty is exegesis.

And the Ming Dynasty still had self-renewal, such as Xinxue.

In fact, the science of mind is a branch of science, and it has something in common with science in various aspects, even Wang Yangming did not completely deny Zhu Xi. It is just a denial that the people of the present world have gone astray.

Why is this happening?

It is because of Zhu Xi's theory that he dare not say that it is perfect, but it is interlocking and can justify itself. There are almost no flaws to be found. In the history of Chinese civilization, it is also a monument.

Even if Zhu Qizhen withdraws from a set of theories, it will be difficult to win in a short period of time, and even if he can win, it will be difficult to expel them from the hearts of the majority of readers.

After all, the scholar is known as a man who does not obey the king.

This Tao is the way of Confucianism, and more recently, it is the way of Zhuzi.

The Enlightenment was also accumulated over a hundred years before it developed into what it was for later generations.

It is easy to be a thief in the mountains, but it is difficult to be a thief in the heart.

On the matter of the industrial revolution, Zhu Qizhen has actually been working hard.

Shaofu is under the direct management of Zhu Qizhen, and many things do not need to be reported to the civil official group, with the large-scale operation of Chidao, Zhu Qizhen has ordered the research and development of steam engines.

But this task has made a lot of craftsmen at a loss.

Zhu Qizhen even asked Qin Tianjian's people to join, because Qin Tianjian's people are all mathematicians, and many astronomers are also very skilled in instruments.

But there is still no progress.

The success here depends more on the will of God.

Zhu Qizhen's understanding of the steam engine is just a simple diagram, and there is nothing more.

However, he cultivated a market for the steam engine, whether it was a large number of water conservancy machinery used by Shaofu, or a horse-drawn carriage on the galloping road, as long as the steam engine was successfully researched, Shaofu alone could place an order for hundreds of units, and if a steam locomotive could be built on the galloping road, it would be even more in terms of 10,000 units.

This market is enough for the development of the steam engine industry.

As for the reform of the political system, what Zhu Qizhen can do now is the most dangerous. Because he wanted to touch the power of the scholars, Zhu Qizhen decided to compete with the Ming gentry for the right to rule the grassroots.

Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty seems to be more than a thousand counties, a big empire, and its practical microscopic point of view, it should be a central government, with tens of millions of small princes.

It is impossible for the policies of the Ming Dynasty to reach the level of the common people.

Under such a rule, the labor market needed to develop industry is problematic.

Any merchant who, after making money, will return to his hometown and clan, rather than wanting to expand production. Because being a businessman has no social status.

There are no career prospects when you are a businessman.

As long as he has a large area of land in the local area, has the identity of a gentry, and allows his children to be admitted to fame, he can become one of the tens of thousands of small princes under the Ming Dynasty. Only on the ground have a voice.

Otherwise, he will never be a member of the slaughter.

It is also because of this that business has always been subordinate to political forces. Even commercial victories and defeats are just a subordinate extension of political changes.

In this case.

How could Zhu Qizhen allow China to be deeply involved in the battle for the sea, without a political group actually related to maritime trade to control the power of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if Zhu Qizhen launched a war against Nanyang, it was likely to be like the Battle of Annam during the Yongle period.

But the Shidaifu group is so strong that anyone who grabs meat from them will not end well, then it is the emperor.

Zheng He is very illustrative.

Whether Zheng He Yuanyang lost his capital, this matter can be seen from the secret files in the palace, and it is not a loss. But this benefit was the sole preserve of the emperor. And the deficit fell into the hands of the emperor. Naturally, they were reluctant and bent on abolishing it.

Even the royal family can't support the development of the ocean.

The more Zhu Qizhen thought about it, the more and more he thought, and all kinds of scrutiny and speculation about the future poured into Zhu Qizhen's heart like seawater.

completely disrupted Zhu Qizhen's timetable, before he wanted to do it step by step, this idea was his subconscious feeling that he could live for a long, long time as a premise.

But does this premise exist now?

He didn't know.