"Wow!" Yang Le sighed, "Then there are a lot of things to learn in this life!" ”

"yes, you can't learn it at all." Yang Changfan nodded in agreement, "So we need to put our limited time on learning more important things." For example, if you don't learn to kick the shuttlecock, it doesn't matter, but literacy is a must to learn, if you don't read, you can't write letters to your father, and you can't read your father's letters. ”

A son and a daughter nodded their heads.

"So the idea just now is that Mr. Su asked him to memorize the Analects, which is not that important to learn, do you agree with Dad?"

Yang Bigui nodded deeply: "I accept this truth!" That's it, as long as Dad says something, he will immediately understand! ”

Yang Le asked, "So what is important learning and what is not important learning?" ”

"That's a good question." Yang Changfan gently rubbed his daughter's head, "There is no fixed answer to this question. For farmers, learning to farm is the most important thing, for merchants, learning to settle accounts is the most important, and for fathers, learning to fight wars and learning to govern the country is the most important. ”

"What about me!" Yang Le pointed to himself and asked anxiously.

"The most important thing is that you read the words thoroughly."

Yang Le stuck out his tongue: "Okay, listen to my father, my mother said the same." ”

"What about me?" Yang Bigui asked, "I already know a lot of characters, should I still learn the Analects?" ”

Yang Changfan said with a smile: "Dad's words are a bit twisty, it's not that Dad is embarrassed for you, it's really hard to express." ”

Yang Bigui nodded: "Can't get around me!" ”

"The most important thing for you now is to lay the foundation for learning important things in the future. For example, you have to learn a lot of things through books, and if you can't read, you can't read books, so you have to be literate first, right? ”

"Yes." Yang Bigui nodded.

"And the more important, the more things that others can't learn, the more complex they tend to be, and the more solid the foundation is needed. For example, if my father wants to learn to fight naval warfare, he must first learn to steer a ship and sail, and also learn to make cannons, make gunpowder, learn to read nautical charts, learn to command, learn to motivate sergeants, and learn a lot of things. ”

Yang Bigui was dizzy when he heard it: "So...... There's no Analects in it, right? ”

"Maybe there is the Analects, but my father didn't realize it, maybe the 'threesomes must have my teacher' in the Analects taught me humility, taught me not to be ashamed to ask, so that I can learn everything I need faster, which is all subtle, and I can't say clearly."

Yang Bigui fell into more tedious thinking, which was too complicated for his head.

Yang Changfan continued: "So you must return, in order to be as powerful as your father in the future, you must lay a good foundation for learning many things, not only the Analects, but also arithmetic, as well as drawing, etc., etc......., etc."

Yang Bigui scratched his head and said, "Even if that's the case...... That memorized the Analects in its entirety...... It's also ......"

"Okay, I'll accept that. I will explain to Mr. Su, you don't need to memorize by rote, as long as you read the whole text, you can tell the truth inside. ”

"Hahaha!!" Yang Bigui was overjoyed, "Thank you, Dad!" ”

"Don't worry, Dad has other requirements." Yang Changfan instructed, "Before leaving this time, my father wrote a few books by hand, and you and your sister should read them." These books will be miscellaneous books, telling you about things other than the Four Books and the Five Classics, such as nature, geography, engineering, and so on. Dad won't write too deeply, just let you know the basic truth, and you don't have to memorize it all, just understand. ”

The children nodded their heads with an oath, believing that what Yang Changfan wrote down would definitely be much more interesting than what Mr. Su taught.

The problem of education is finally the first difficulty.

The conversation with the two children also inspired Yang Changfan's own thoughts. As he himself said, literacy is the foundation of everything, and all the disciplines are now dictated by masters and apprentices.

So how hard is it to summarize these theories and write them into a book?

In fact, it is not difficult, the difficult thing is that there are too few people who can understand, and literacy is the foundation of everything.

In Dongfan, I opened the imperial examination, in fact, I was in a hurry, and the first thing I had to do was to set up a public school and teach literacy.

Yang Changfan became more and more aware that there were too many things to do, and it was impossible for him to finish them in his life.

So, put some time and energy into the legacy.

That night, Yang Changfan chose his familiar way of writing, picked up a Western quill pen, lightly dipped it in ink, paused for a moment and then wrote the title of the book - "Scientific Foundations".

……

In July of the 40th year of Jiajing, Yang Changfan went to the South Seas for the second time. This time, there were more than a dozen bandits like cancer locusts, and all of them went away in Manila to get their certificates, and according to the nautical chart given by Yang Changfan, they committed suicide to their favorite islands.

Little Manila, Yang Changfan finally waited for Shajialu's reply.

The letter suggested that if Yang Changfan was baptized, converted to God, and built churches in Manila, Dongfan, and other places to accept missionaries, Portugal would be sure to draw up a special agreement to recognize the dominance of the Hui palace in Luzon under the supervision of the Pope, which neither Portugal nor Spain would infringe upon.

The letter only talked about this, and did not mention many of Yang Changfan's previous requirements.

At the same time, Yang Changfan found that the Portuguese fleet in the Indian Ocean had sailed into Malacca, with a total of more than 50 large warships and hundreds of small and medium-sized warships.

The other side is ready for war.

Portugal, on the other hand, cut off trade with Dongfan and instead cooperated with Xu Chaoguang, a small island in Nanao, Guangdong.

It can be seen that Xu Chaoguang's arrogance in the Ryukyus is not groundless, Nanao is closer to Macao, and it is impossible for Xu Chaoguang to have no friendship with Portugal.

Good guy, Yang Changfan himself didn't expect that a competitor would appear in the East China Sea.

Xu Chaoguang's advance was put back, and the Nanyang War was about to break out.

In the Manila Governor's Palace, Zhao Guangtou rolled out a large nautical chart, with Xu Wenchang, Ma Laojiu and others beside him, and began to explain the current situation.

First of all, Ma Laojiu, he was very close to the Nanyang Chinese and the local Huihui, and through the news of all parties, he probably understood the situation in Nanyang.

In the whole Nanyang, Ma Laojiu is horizontal and vertical, and it is directly divided into four parts.

First, the northeastern part of the South China Sea - Luzon.

For Yang Changfan, that is, the whole territory of the Philippines, led by Manila Luzon, and some territorial domains, this area has not been invaded by Francois for the time being due to limited profits, and Portugal is also more lenient in the negotiations, if Yang Changfan converts to God, he can recognize his rule. (To be continued.) )