In addition to teaching Catholic doctrine, the Macau Theological Seminary also has some natural sciences, and most of them are Jesuit missionaries sent to China.

Wang Yan followed Bai Yingli to visit the seminary for a day, and found that there was a big difference between Xiyi's emphasis on exploring the laws and essence of things, while China's ability to sum up experience.

However, after Wang Yan thought about it, in fact, China also has similar thoughts, as in the "Book of Rites and Universities", "Zhizhi is in the object, and the object is then known", but since the Ming Dynasty, it has been eight strands, and the scientific thought has been distorted, so many of the original things have been lost.

In the seminary, Xiyi's achievements in arithmetic and navigation, as well as Bai Yingli's depiction of the Western Zhuyi competing for hegemony on the sea and swallowing land everywhere, surprised Wang Yan, and what surprised him the most was a map of all nations drawn by Xiyi, which was very different from the "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu" painted by Ricci Ricci during the Wanli period.

In "Kunyu Wanguo Quantu", Daming is in the center of the world, and in the map in front of him, Daming is in the corner of the map, which makes Chen Bangyan and others who accompany him unhappy, but Wang Yan somehow sees it.

He did not have the anger of Chen Bangyan and others in his heart, but a strong sense of crisis arose, so he proposed to bring the map of the world in front of him back to Guangzhou, and Bai Yingli naturally had no reason not to agree.

After looking at it one day, Wang Yan had to admit that every missionary trained by the seminary was a rare talent, and almost all of them were involved in cannon casting, navigation, arithmetic, water conservancy, and other knowledge.

In contrast, the academy of the Ming Dynasty only taught the Four Books and the Five Classics, and rarely dabbled in miscellaneous studies, and most of the scholars who taught them could only write articles, but they did not understand agricultural administration, water conservancy, or local management.

In the operation of the imperial court, these scholars who were admitted to the jinshi and were able to become officials often had to work in the local area for a long time before they could learn how to govern the country.

For major national affairs, such as river control, water conservancy, and city construction, the officials of the Ministry of Industry must also explore and explore before they can be competent, and the waste of time and resources can be imagined.

Wang Yan was a little surprised to see that in the seminary, in addition to the courses taught in theology, the other seventy percent were miscellaneous studies, but he had to admit that if the academies at all levels of the Ming Dynasty also offered miscellaneous studies such as arithmetic, agricultural administration, water conservancy, cannon casting, etc., then the scholars trained would inevitably be much better than those who could only write and write poems.

In fact, China was a long time ago, and it was not only a matter of poetry and scriptures, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when a hundred schools of thought contended, Confucian sages taught according to their aptitude, hundreds of disciples, Shinong and industrialist, from all walks of life, but now only scholars are valued, and the six arts in ancient times are only important to books.

After Wang Yan finished reading the seminary, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and when he marveled at the achievements of Xiyi, he also found that China originally had these ideas, but they were gradually abandoned.

Since the national change, Wang Yan has been thinking in his heart, why was he defeated by the Puer clan?

In the face of the loss of both capitals and the repeated defeats of the imperial court, any scholar of the Ming Dynasty will reflect and ask a question, why is this? Isn't the Ming Dynasty the kingdom of heaven? Why is it so badly defeated now?

Wang Yan once thought that this was because the people didn't know about China, but during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the people were the same, but why could they be powerful?

If you think about it, the problem can only appear in the court and the scholar class.

Because we have lost many good thoughts and spirits, we have become what we are now.

He said that after the West experienced hundreds of years of extremely dark Middle Ages, the Crusaders brought back a large number of ancient Greek and Roman classics from the Arab world, causing the Renaissance to take place in the West.

From those civilizations that have disappeared, they find the brilliant ideas of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and other sages, which made the medieval West shine.

When Wang Yan faced the humiliating reality of the Ming Dynasty and the Han Dynasty but could not defeat the 200,000 Manchurians, he had to start thinking about changes, and he had to think of regaining the martial arts of the Han and Tang dynasties, and regaining the openness and broadness of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Yan wanted to regain the spirit of China, reduce the people's sufferings from "the people are noble and the monarch is light", clean up the hearts of the people, promote talents from "selecting and appointing talents", and regain martial arts from "those who commit strong men, although they are far away", and unconsciously the word "change the law" appeared in Wang Yan's mind.

Wang Yan wanted to reform the tax system, open up sources of revenue, collect business taxes, and reduce agricultural taxes. I want to reform the academy, join miscellaneous studies, and want to improve the status of military generals, so that I can achieve both civil and military affairs, but things will not be so simple and so easy to achieve.

Since ancient times, there must be a dispute between the old and the new, a dispute between radical and conservative, Wang Yan really wants to change, everything will be counterattacked by traditional forces, if nothing else, just let the academy teach miscellaneous studies, he will be scolded to death by Shilin.

At this time, although Wang Yan had an idea in his heart, it was definitely impossible to implement it immediately, but he decided to make some changes slowly.

When he left the seminary, Wang Yan promised to allow the Jesuits to preach in Guangdong, but hoped that Bai Yingli could recommend a group of talents for him, he needed to go to Guangzhou, and establish a new cannon foundry, and he was ready to formalize the military academy in the general, in addition to teaching military books and battle strategies, for firearms, foot combat, cavalry warfare, logistics, all to give certain teaching.

Bai Yingli immediately responded to Wang Yan's request and wrote a letter to Julius, who was a missionary in Fujian, asking him to go to Guangzhou to help Wang Yan establish a cannon casting workshop and develop Christianity in Guangdong.

The next day, Wang Yan led his men and horses to rush back to Guangzhou with a hundred artillery pieces purchased from the Portuguese, and immediately handed over the artillery to Shi Lang.

Compared with the artillery built by the Ming Dynasty, these cannons are indeed better, which comes from Xiyi's attitude of excellence.

Shi Lang ordered people to load the cannon onto three lucky ships, of course, this lucky ship could not be compared with Zheng He's lucky ships in the West, which was more than a few sizes smaller.

"Boom~" and "Boom~" The cannon sounded, and Shi Lang happily said to Wang Yan: "Lord Guogong, this Xiyi artillery has a long range, and in terms of accuracy, it is much stronger than the self-cast artillery. On the sea, the warships were facing the wind and waves, and it was difficult to be hit during the voyage, but with this batch of artillery, the artillery bombardment of the Guangdong Naval Division could at least three out of ten, and they would be sure to go to sea in the end. Now the Hakka people are ready to move into Qiongzhou, and the people of Yangzhou on Qiongzhou Island are also in urgent need of material support, but the Zheng family pretended to be a Haikou to attack the Cantonese sea ships, so that Wang Yan did not dare to send ships to the sea.

Now when Wang Yan heard Shi Lang's words, he immediately asked, "How sure is the general?" ”

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