In the afternoon of the next day, Naoxiu successfully met Mr. Xiao Nan.

To be honest, Naohide is a little afraid of dealing with high-level samurai and Confucian scholars, because these people have many rules and big shelves, and those who are full of mouths are also able to understand Naohide, but it is not good to say it, so Naohide listens more and speaks less.

Counting up, Naohide and people are all to their liking, based on "inducement", Ito Xuanpu, Egawa Yinglong and other Lan scholars are very pragmatic, and there is no frame for people, and they are easier to get along with, Yoshida Intaro and Murata Yongmin are also very good to deal with as long as they do what they like, Yokoi Xiaonan is Naohide is ready to talk in detail, it is estimated that it is difficult for Naohide to be such a "vulgar" posterior boy as it is difficult to enter the blue eyes of the Confucian scholar Yokoi Xiaonan, who already has a certain reputation.

It's really hard to do things in this era, identity differences, cultural contempt, and the alienation of the shogunate and various feudal domains, things must be done, one step at a time.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Konan was quite enthusiastic about Naoxiu, and it is estimated that Mr. Ito Hyunpa's letter played a big role.

Zhixiu respectfully asked Mr. Xiao Nan a few questions:

First of all, the Confucian road is "rule of propriety", "rule of virtue", and "rule of benevolence", but I can show my stupidity, so can I achieve the four virtues of "benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and filial piety"? “

Mr. Xiao Nan replied: Benevolence is innate, and through hard cultivation, there are four virtues that can be attained. As for how to cultivate, it depends on one's understanding, Zhu Zi said, "Exhaustive reasoning and knowledge", "backward practice", according to this, there will definitely be progress.

Zhu Zi also said that he wanted to "live in respect", and he should think silently in the quiet room, and Zhixiu asked Xiao Nan, "Then why is my gain from Jujing not as good as reading books?" ”

"If you can't learn, Jujing naturally doesn't get much."

Zhixiu asked again, "Zhu Zi said "apply what you have learned", so I don't learn much and my knowledge is shallow, but the situation is limited, and I still have to do things, so isn't it that the more I do, the more wrong I am? ”

"This will get better as you become more knowledgeable."

Naoxiu finally leaked out his fangs: "Between the universe, there is only one reason", so what Lan Xue said is reason?

Mr. Xiao Nan was silent for a while, "Mr. Xuanpu's disciple is indeed not simple. ”

What did Zhixiu and Mr. Xiao Nan talk about for a long time? It is to the effect that:

Naoxiu said, "Confucianism is very good, but I think that according to the method of Zhuzi's theory, I am afraid that it will not achieve the effect that I boasted." Mr. Xiao Nan said, "You can do it, I am optimistic about you." Zhixiu also questioned, "Since Zhu Zixue preaches that everything in the world exists in reason, the core study of Zhu Zi's Confucianism is reason, and Lanxue also studies the principle of all things, so does Zhu Zi's Confucianism recognize the academic status of Lanxue?" ”

Mr. Xiao Nan is a decent person, and in the future, this old gentleman will respect George Washington as "the white-faced and blue-eyed Yao Shun", who is particularly bold, very flexible, and open-minded.

Lan Yi has become a climate at this time, especially in the land of Kyushu, cowpox has saved countless children from smallpox death, so from common sense, Lan Xue must be "reasonable", and he is very right, so Mr. Xiao Nan can't say "Lan Xue is a kitsch and obscene skill" anyway. He can only divert the topic, you kid has a stake, let's talk about something else.

As for whether Mr. Xiao Nan will roar angrily, "Lanxue is miscellaneous", no, because at this point in time, the statement of Gewu Zhizhi has begun to include the scope of natural science in later generations.

In the future, when Western academia, especially Western natural sciences, flocked to Fusang in large numbers, the Fuso people called Western studies "Zhizhi", and at the same time, China called Western studies "Gezhi", which means to learn from things.

The term "science" was first coined by Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), and after the success of the Restoration, he translated "Science" as "science" in his published articles, Kang Youwei (1858-1927) first introduced the word "science" in China when translating Fuso books, and then Yan Fu (1853-1921) translated "Science" when translating "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution" and "Yuan Fu". Later, the terms "Gezhi" and "Zhizhixue" were gradually replaced by the word "science".

When Naoxiu came to this era, he didn't want to open the Crystal Palace, and he didn't have any ambitions, but he just hoped that he could live well, and it was best for his relatives and friends to live well, and if possible, as many people as possible would suffer less in their lives.

Now only Lan scholars have a common language with themselves, but don't look at the Lan scholars who are said to have been at the end of the Edo period, but in fact, according to Fuso's own statistics, from 1774 to 1852, Fuso translated foreign books 147 people, if you count those who have achieved some schooling, it is estimated that there are a few thousand people at the end of the Edo period, and most of them are professional doctors.

To tell the truth, after Naoxiu thought about it, he was punished by heaven and heaven at the end of the scene, and then he fought a few battles, in case he encountered something, a group of doctors behind said, "We support you, Naoxiu, you can go with confidence", the bright and shiny knife on the opposite side, the picture is too beautiful to imagine.

So Naoxiu is looking for people everywhere, just in the hope of expanding some basic plates, and Yokoi Xiaonan not only has a great influence on himself, but also the teacher of Matsudaira Keinaga, one of the four virtuous marquis at the end of the shogunate, at least Fukui is one of the victors after the fall, and it is normal to hug his thighs on the line.

And Naohide likes Yokoi Konan and Matsudaira Keinaga, both of whom are idealists, and their personalities are not extreme, and they are rumored to be cute.

Yokoi was hated by some of the samurai who were arrogant because of his founding theory, and one day he was drinking with his friends when an assassin suddenly broke in. Mr. Xiao Nan had an idea and said to the Assassin, "Can I go to the longhouse and get a knife?" The assassin didn't notice it, because the duel according to Shidao was to be conducted fairly, "Then I'm sorry to take my leave", and Yokoi ran away. But his friend was not so clever, and the Assassin felt fooled and hacked his friend to death. Someone criticized Yokoi for injuring his friend, explaining that "there were no weapons at the time, and both of them had to die when I started to do it, so I went to call someone after I ran away, but I came back late."

Matsudaira Keinaga was very sympathetic, and when he took over as the lord of the domain, he took people around to inspect the domain because the princes of the time had lived in Edo for a long time according to the rules of the Hajj. When he discovered that the peasants made a living from "vegetable chowder and weed dumplings", Keiega ate them, but when he found them "extremely difficult", Keisei immediately left tears in his eyes, and then initiated various reforms in the Echizen domain, which improved the living standards of the peasants. As a feudal lord, it was very rare to be able to eat the simple food of the peasants at that time, and it can even be said that it was the only one.

In addition, Matsudaira Yoshinaga has a very simple personality and is willing to trust others, and his important assistant Hashimoto Saunai once commented that he is "too honest to be a hero in the world". From the point of view of a politician, credulity is a weakness, but from the point of view of a retainer, it is the head of the family with charisma.

Naoxiu wants to establish an intimate relationship with Yokoi Xiaonan, and it is difficult for such a hero to impress him with personal friends and interests, so Naoxiu just wants to leave a strong impression with "strange words", and slowly figure it out later, anyway, according to the future trajectory, Mr. Xiao Nan will teach at home for 14 years, and in 1857, Matsudaira Keinaga will officially hire Xiao Nan to Fukui to carry out reforms.

What Naoxiu didn't expect was that the opportunity came so quickly. After Mr. Xiao Nan drank tea, he asked Zhixiu, "You can learn Lanxue, you can get something", which means "You think Lanxue is also a positive theory, don't just brag, take two steps to see".

Finally, when it was time for me to play, Naohide first took out two books and introduced them to me that I wrote them, and Mr. Egawa Tanan valued them very much, and experimented in Izu Nirayama and prepared to promote them.

Mr. Xiao Nan took two books and looked at them, and then frowned, "Hori-style Farming" and "Hori-style Rice Field Producing Carp", the agricultural book is also Lanxue? It's possible, everyone wants to have a good meal, but this doesn't fit the impression that Lanxue gives people, so he asked, "What are you learning about?" "It means in general, if that's all you don't deserve to tell me that Lanxue is right.

Naoxiu smiled ghostly and asked Murata Yongmin to bring the bookcase he brought with him - this product usually keeps an inch from Lanshu, and takes the initiative to carry the bookcase every day, and he is stupid when he has nothing to do, and Naohide can't say or persuade.

Naohide first took out a book and began to introduce "Population Theory", what did the Pastor Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) say about the population theory that swept the world?

In his Treatise on Population (1798), he pointed out that the growth of population in a geometric progression, while the resources of subsistence can only increase in an arithmetic progression, inevitably lead to famine, war, and disease, and he called for decisive measures to curb the birth rate.

Of course, Reverend Malthus did not expect that technology would develop so quickly, with fertilizers and pesticides increasing agricultural yields and machinery increasing the area of farmland, but this theory was deafening for Fuso at the time.

"Magakure" was common in the middle and late Edo period, and Magakushi was the title of Fuso who drowned infants, because Fuso only the eldest son could inherit the family business, including the lower-class samurai families, and generally the second and third sons had to fend for themselves when they grew up, and the economic development at this time was almost stagnant, especially in the countryside, poverty and more children caused a lot of tragedies, and there was no effective contraceptive measures at this time, so "Magakure" was very serious, it is said that it could reach two out of ten, and the shogunate and the feudal clans banned it many times, but it did not work.

In the future, Yokoi Konan was famous for his feudal reforms, so he was familiar with the economy, and he understood this point of view as soon as he heard it.

Scholars of the Edo period had already vaguely discovered the problem of the population crisis, and according to the ten censuses of the shogunate, the population of the Edo period remained around 26 million for the last hundred years, so the officials of the shogunate had a certain understanding of the population crisis. The shogunate elder Nakadanuma Yoshiji (1719-1788) made a plan to develop Ezo (Hokkaido) in order to solve the demographic crisis.

Mr. Xiao Nan watched Zhixiu take out three books, only picked up one to start speaking, he asked Zhixiu what the other two books were about, Zhixiu said that these two books are a set, the name is "A Study of the Nature and Causes of National Wealth", which is the study of today's Western economics (economic and people-oriented), and today's largest overseas power, England, governs the country according to this book, the country is rich and the people are strong.

Yokoi Konan was an advocate of mercantilism, and he briefly listened to Naohide's introduction of "strengthening the division of labor to increase labor productivity" and "increasing capital accumulation, thereby increasing the number of laborers engaged in production." He also heard the idea of a free market and exclaimed, "It is very much to my liking."

At this time, it was already late, and Yokoi Xiaonan invited Naohide and others to dine together, and continued to talk after the meal.