Chapter 45: The Founding of the Mountain
After Zhu Chongli approved the establishment of a maritime trading house from the private sector, Li Yue asked the widow Ting to go to Quanzhou to start the preparatory work. Daliang Bank's business is also on track, and the second batch of branches will be established after the year. There are special people in charge of specific business, and Li Yue is also happy to be the shopkeeper.
At the same time, the fifth phase of the sale and redemption of the Daliang Royal Lottery was also completed, and Zhu Chongli took out a part of the profits and asked Li Yue to be responsible for establishing the academy in Lin'an.
Li Yue happily accepted the order, and it was also his own idea to use part of the profits from the lottery to establish the academy. The teachers who run the school are naturally the first, so Li Yue found Zhu Kongyang, who was in charge of the Guozijian.
As soon as he heard that Li Yue was going to set up a college, Master Zhu said that he would give his full support. Before Li Yue could speak, he not only promised that he would go to the academy to teach, but also help contact a few great Confucians who belonged to the Taishan Beidou level in Daliang Shilin.
Li Yue reciprocated the favor and said that he would give Mr. Zhu and his friends a good salary. Bachelor Zhu thought that it was his bounden duty to educate the imperial court, and his salary would be exempted. Li Yue insisted again and again, but he still refused.
Li Yue had no choice but to say that if Mr. Zhu didn't charge a penny, it would make it difficult for the future gentleman. Confucius still has to collect a few catties of bacon when he collects his apprentices, so he can't starve to death, right?
After listening to it, Bachelor Zhu felt that what Li Yue said was reasonable, so he said that he would receive a symbolic penny every month as a reward for his own teaching.
Li Yue saw that Zhu Kongyang was so stubborn, so he had to let him go. And the matter of the site selection and construction of the academy was also handed over to him, and with his reputation and connections, it would be much easier to deal with these things. I'm also happy to be relaxed, just give money.
After dealing with this matter, Li Yue was rarely idle. Every day, I went shopping and playing with Xiao Ning'er, and the rest of my time and energy were spent on compiling textbooks for the academy.
Li Yue, who has received a complete modern foundation and higher education, naturally does not want to set up a academy that only combines Confucian classics, he recalled and sorted out the algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry, biology, and geography knowledge he learned in middle school in his previous life.
After half a month of hard work, Li Yue single-handedly completed the "Six Books of Wisdom":
"Enlightenment of Things": This book is divided into four parts: mechanics, optics, thermals, and magnetism.
The first part of the book is mechanics, the main content is the three laws of Newtonian mechanics and pulleys in modern physics, but there should be no Newton Society in the future, and later generations call the three laws of mechanics the three laws of Li Yue in honor of Li Yue. The rest is the lever, specific gravity, gravity, and gravitational force.
The second part of the optical chapter expounds the reflection and refraction principles of light, and explains natural phenomena such as mirages and rainbows after rain. After reading this part, the eldest lady of the wealthy family in Lin'an took out the glass cup at home and filled it with water and reflected the rainbow on the wall. Li Yue, who has picked up colorful auspicious clouds for countless girls, has become the dream lover of thousands of women.
The third part of the thermal science chapter proposes that there are three forms of existence of all things: solid, liquid, and gaseous, as well as the transformation between the three states, and the temperature changes, heat input and output, and specific heat capacity in the transformation process.
"The Essentials of Arithmetic": When writing this book, Li Yue was really surprised by the high level of ancient Chinese mathematics.
On the basis of summarizing the theories of his predecessors, Li Yue only added the theories of functions and calculus, and in this time and space, Newton and Leibniz did not have to argue about who discovered calculus. At the same time, he also systematically introduced the Arabic numerals used in the issuance of the Liang Lottery ticket, plus plus or minus signs, and decimal points. All of this became popular with this book.
"Geometric Original": This book is basically the book of the same name pirated by Li Yue in his previous life, plus analytic geometry, but this did not prevent Si Tianjian and other officials who observed the stars from crying bitterly when they read this book and "The Essentials of Arithmetic".
"Kanyu Quanzhi": This local science work is divided into three parts: Qiankun, Fanwai, and Huaxia.
The Qiankun chapter introduces the basic astronomical theory, and the side chapter says that the whole world is divided into seven continents: Huazhou, South Huazhou, Taixi Continent, Kunlun Continent, North and South Penglai Continent, and Antarctica. This map of the world and the first two theories such as human beings living on a sphere that revolves around the sun and rotates at the same time are regarded by the Lin'an people as similar to the myths and legends in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
In the Huaxia chapter, the anchors, climate, and products of various parts of the territory under the rule of the traditional Central Plains Dynasty are introduced. One of the most eye-catching is to discuss that the cause of the Yellow River and the above-ground rivers in the lower reaches of the Yellow River is caused by the destruction of grass and vegetation in the upper reaches, soil erosion and then sediment accumulation, and proposes to dig sand and build embankments in the downstream, plant grass and trees in the upstream, and return farmland to forests. In this way, the water of the Yellow River can be cleared and the river disaster can be cured.
Although the Yellow River is now in the territory of Youguo, it has nothing to do with Daliang. But everyone knows the ancient precept of "the Yellow River is clear and the sage comes out", but the causes of the river disaster and the treatment methods mentioned in this book seem to be very reasonable.
Therefore, "Kanyu Quanzhi" is the most popular of the six books compiled by Li Yue, but rich people are all sitting in front of the six books, Li Yue, whether they understand it or not, they all buy it back to fill the façade.
"A Brief Chronicle of Chemical Matter": Since Li Yue studied the liberal arts because he hated chemistry in his previous life, the level of this book can be said to be very shallow, and he does not even have a basic periodic table. The book only mentions that everything is made up of atoms and molecules, and that atoms of different properties are composed of different elements, and then proposes the law of conservation of matter, which explains the phenomenon of combustion from a chemical point of view.
"Compendium of Biology" is a modern middle school biology textbook level work, but such as blood circulation, nervous system, conditioned reflexes, and unconditioned reflexes still make the old Chinese medicine doctors in the imperial hospital look at the brain.
Although in the short term, Li Yue's six books did not cause as much of a sensation as one of his "Songs of Righteousness" in prison. However, in the long run, the historical impact of Li Yue's six books is extremely far-reaching.
In this ancient land at the foot of Li Yue, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "deposed a hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone", the scriptures with Confucian classics as the main content have become the only orthodox learning advocated by the government, and the learning of the sages has been used to educate people's hearts.
Of course, Li Yue has no intention of challenging or overthrowing this deep-rooted tradition, to paraphrase a famous Western saying, even if there is no saint, a saint must be created. In this way, we can maintain people's hearts!
However, these six books compiled by Li Yue have completely expanded a new field of education in addition to the classics. The significance of these six books is that they elevate the small production technology and experience, which Confucianism despised, to the level of systematization and even philosophical discourse.
Since then, the world's learning has been divided into scriptures and wisdom, and to put it simply, it is from now on that the arts and sciences have been divided.
The symbol of the founding of the school of Zhixue was the publication of the Six Books of Zhixue, and Li Yue was respected as the originator of Zhixue by later generations.