"But what's the use of learning these things?"

Zhuo Wenjun was still unconvinced.

Tang Qi said with a smile: "You have already roughly read the first lesson, and when you encounter a major drought in the future, the local rich or powerful people come to you, saying that they will join forces with Dahan Department Store to raise funds so that they can be used to buy sacrifices and sacrifice to the Dragon King to ask for rain, what will you think?" ”

"Am I stupid?" Zhuo Wenjun said without hesitation, "What does the rain have to do with the Dragon King, isn't it all some stuff that cheats me out of the money of the Han Merchant House under the guise of sacrifice!" ”

Three-seven accounts, regular operation!

When the Zhuo family was doing business all day, I don't know how many times they encountered similar frauds.

"That's right!" Tang Qi agreed, "Before you know about the water cycle, even if you know that the local Haoqiang is organized to pit the money of foreign merchants, you will also be out of awe of the Dragon King, a little bit, so as not to anger the immortals, right?" ”

"After learning about the water cycle, isn't it much less psychologically burdensome to refuse their rude demands?"

Zhuo Wenjun hesitated: "That's true, but even if the slave understands, what can he do?" If the people knew that our Han Trading House was unwilling to contribute to the sacrifice of the Dragon King, I am afraid that something would happen. ”

"Yes, this is because there is a gap between the people and knowledge, so it is easy to be exploited." Tang Qi further explained, "This is also the reason why I set the price of the Reader so low, and I would rather lose some profits than the price of cabbage. ”

"Of course, you can't just understand, because even if you explain, the people are more willing to trust the local rich and powerful than foreign merchants."

"But if the book is all over the country, anyone who can afford salt can buy a copy. Even if you can't read, you can ask the younger students who know how to read and write. What happens if children start to use simple experiments in books instead of climbing trees and playing in the mud? ”

Zhuo Wenjun suddenly said: "The people won't buy the lie of pooling money to sacrifice!" ”

"That's right!"

"Even if most of the people still don't know, as long as a few literate people understand, when the time comes, you can do an experiment for the people, and the conspiracy will be defeated."

Tang Qi grinned: "Reading is for reason, even if the "Reader" can't help the people get promoted and get rich, but after knowing and understanding the many principles of this world, the people of my Han Dynasty will no longer be fools." To fool them, the cost will skyrocket. ”

"For example, in this case, if even ordinary people knew about iodine and associated it with nourishment, knowing that iodine deficiency can cause a swollen neck."

"If someone says that people with big neck disease are possessed by demons, I am afraid that without the government's action, they will be beaten into meat cakes by the angry people!"

It's just sick, but you have to say that you're possessed by demons and monsters.

Isn't that a curse!

Looking for a fight!

Zhuo Wenjun nodded again and again.

When Hou Ye said this, it seems to be really reasonable!

"In my imagination, the content of the "Reader" will gradually become common sense known to the Han people." Tang Qi said, "And in this process, there will definitely be fraud tricks derived from the Reader." ”

"It's the swindlers who have read this book, and they use it to deceive people who haven't read it yet."

"Wen Jun, you said that if you were deceived, wouldn't it be embarrassing?"

Zhuo Wenjun was dumbfounded.

I never thought that there was such a statement!

But it makes sense!

As a businessman, Zhuo Wenjun would not have any unrealistic delusions about the moral standards of the group of "scholars".

The official who writes books is a reader, and the one who tells fortunes and tricks on the street is not also a reader?

"Master Hou is right, I'll learn!" Zhuo Wenjun gritted his teeth, "Not only that, but in the future, the shopkeeper and the second guy of Dahan Department Store must learn!" ”

It's better to hurt alone than to hurt together, so use it as an anti-fraud guide!

Tang Qi was satisfied: "That's the momentum, come, let's start with the secret of the water cycle......"

Next.

In the early dynasties, Tang Qi was unsurprisingly besieged by many officials.

Among them, officials who studied Confucianism and Taoism were the most.

If nothing else, the main reason is that these two schools of thought have the strongest integrity, and they are relatively more conservative and more traditional.

In particular, the saying of respecting ghosts and gods and staying away, heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, is also an important part of Confucianism and Taoism.

You even question the existence of ghosts and gods, and deny the influence of ghosts and gods on the human world?

Isn't that prying our roots?

Liu Che actually has the same concern.

Although he didn't think that Mr. Tang would harm him, he was promoting the induction of heaven and man, trying his best to connect the monarchy with heaven.

Here you are weakening the influence of the heavens, isn't it a bit of a pig's heart?

Therefore, when hundreds of officials surrounded and suppressed Tang Qi, although Liu Che did not approve, he also rarely maintained a certain amount of silence.

However, the officials of the Legalists and Mohists ignored this.

The gods don't care about the rain, and we have a fart relationship?

If you don't have to pray for rain in the future, you can still have a lot of money left for the treasury!

However, the experimental methods written in the book are worth learning from.

besieged, of course, to give a corresponding response.

Tang Qi was not stupid enough to really deny the existence of ghosts and gods, and preached some atheistic materialist concepts in the court of the Western Han Dynasty.

He just has a set of rhetoric.

"The ghosts and gods don't care about anything, do they still have to report to you?"

"You said that the dragon king is in charge of rainfall, have you consulted the dragon king?"

"Who said that the water cycle is slandering the gods, how do you know that this is not a rule set by the gods for the world, you have participated in it?"

"Your Majesty is right to be ordered by heaven, who said that Your Majesty's courtiers are also ordered by heaven, are you worthy?"

"Everyone, don't get too involved in the drama, we are all human beings, not gods!"

The officials were speechless, and could only stare dryly.

Although I always feel that something is wrong, Tang Qi's statement can be justified by itself, and I can't find a point to refute it!

Tang Qi's tongue is a group of Confucians, and his combat effectiveness is off the charts.

It's not just sophistry, I don't believe that the little master was born under the red flag and grew up in the New Heavenly Empire, and as early as the era of compulsory education, he heard the teacher expose the modern people of feudal society several times.

Will lose to you!

Do you understand the shoulders of giants!

In the end, the officials were actually shaken as well.

Listening to Tang Qi's statement, not only did he not lose his reverence for ghosts and gods.

On the contrary, it is his practice of studying the operation of all things in the world and making them public, which is the true fear of ghosts and gods!

Our conservatism and opposition are instead stealing the credit of the gods for our own use!

How can this be argued?

"Therefore, the books of ministers should not only not be banned, but should also be established as compulsory reading materials for official schools, and encourage the people of the world to study together!"