(PS: Yesterday I stupidly wrote a wrong place, two seconds is multiplication, not division...... Retarded. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info）

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After more than ten days of turmoil subsided, Chen Jian slept for a whole day and a night, and then rested.

When I woke up, my throat was still hoarse and it hurt badly.

Seeing that it was not early, I hurried to Mr. Mu's house. When he pushed the door in, Mr. was still flipping through the book there, and when he saw Chen Jian coming, he put down the book and beckoned to Chen Jian.

"Woke up? It just so happens that you can tell me about some things that I still don't quite understand. ”

Chen Jian walked over, pressed the things that Mr. copied with a paperweight with a hippie smile, licked his face and said, "Sir, this is not busy first." I've got to ask you something. ”

The gentleman raised his head and said with a smile: "Say, what are you going to do?" ”

"Nothing. I just wondered if I could sort out these things and make some books that could be taught and passed on to future generations. From beginning to end, at least we should make this subject clear. It just so happens that I also have a chemical workshop and a glass workshop in Mincheng. There's a lot to look at and ponder there. So I thought, can I find a few brothers and sisters to go to my side and spend some time compiling this set of books? ”

"Writing books?"

The gentleman's expression became solemn, and he thought about it for a moment and said, "This is a good thing. Since these things have become a system, we must always go from shallow to deep, and strive to make people who have never learned it understand from beginning to end. Well, it's a good thing for the rest of the world, and I can call the shots. ”

"Thank you, sir. Actually, it doesn't take too many people, just six or seven. I just thought that in the future, our discipline should be more standardized, starting with some basic things. ”

"yes. I'll pick the things for you. Your brothers and sisters have taken a lot of benefits from you, and they know that you are a good place to go, and you may not learn less than here, so where can you not want to go? You're not here to see me, a gentleman, you're stealing someone from me. ”

The gentleman was not angry, he smiled when he spoke, and Jian Chen said hesitantly: "Look, I can't help it." Seriously, I really don't have the ability to choose words and sentences, and strive to be known to children. Besides, sir, seriously, I'm too busy to get out of it. ”

"You, if you can't get out of it for three years, but you can bring such an earth-shattering demonstration for three years, it's better than anything else. What, what are you going to do when you go back this time? ”

"Nothing. The rest has to be taken slowly, the knowledge in my stomach now is like the water in the stomach of a drunkard, where is there any dryness? I have been thinking about this for more than ten years, and all this thing has been poured out. ”

The gentleman smiled, noncommittal, and did not say whether to believe it or not.

"Do you want to find someone for other subjects? My old face can still be used, otherwise it will be wasted when I die. ”

"Something else...... Other...... In fact, I was looking for money to compile a set of "Science, Reason, and Handicraft Skills", but I am afraid that the current money is not enough. Besides, this has to be done in twenty or thirty years, and it takes a lot of great power to come forward, and your reputation may not be able to exchange for twenty years of time for others. However, our discipline is starting from scratch, and this can be written first. ”

The old gentleman laughed for a while, nodded and said, "Since this is the case, I will ask your senior brother Li Yun to bring a few people with you." I suggest that you make up two sets. One is for the newly enrolled disciples, and the other is for me to satisfy people like us. It's best to be able to connect it. ”

"That's what I thought, too. I'm afraid that it will delay the future of the senior brothers, so it will take a year or two. ”

"Nothing to delay. It's nothing more than to be a petty affairs officer. Pharmacies, gunpowder offices, salt administrations, potash fields, these places. If you want to be an official, you have to go through the civil service exam, and we are just a deputy in this discipline. It's better to count over there, but for the needs of artillery, fortresses, engineering, astronomy, stargazing, etc., our side is here...... I have accepted such a few disciples in my life. In the Great University Palace, there are only a few hundred people who listen to you show this earth-shattering achievement, and there are only a hundred and ten people who really understand and are willing to ponder. If you don't really like this thing, who will try to enter the palace to learn this? ”

Speaking of this, the gentleman smiled and said, "Otherwise, the last time your senior brother came back to say that you were a philistine, I would say that I lacked a disciple of a philistine." It's time for the city to be a little bit bigger, otherwise these disciplines of the school palace will be closed, if it weren't for the hundreds of years of rules, it would have been over. Why has our discipline been focusing all its energy on alchemy for nearly two hundred years? That is to prove yourself useful and not useless. But now I'm relieved, the gold hasn't been refined, but things like fertilizer and glass have appeared, no less than gold, and we're finally of great use. ”

Jian Chen hurriedly said: "Why don't you go to Mincheng, the air there is humid and good for your lungs." Retire there for the rest of your life. ”

"I'm not going, and I'm not afraid to tell you that a new saltpeter was discovered a few years ago, but it's easy to explode, and it's easy to absorb moisture. But this saltpeter is mined in the mine, not raised in the nitrate, and it is easy to mine. I'm going to have to get this old bone right before it falls apart. Besides, I can't stand the toss, in case I can't stand the bumps and die on the way, it's not good. ”

Chen Jian admired in his heart, but joked on his lips: "Sir, you still don't forget to breed war at such an old age." I thought that when people got older, their hearts softened. ”

Mr. Mu laughed and said, "How can the world be determined? Set for one. When the last battle is over, there will be no battle to fight, so why not save a lot of money and do something? Otherwise, both sides have tens of thousands of soldiers, long forts, sails, artillery, guns, and military uniforms, isn't this all money? Since it's useless to rely on lip service, then fight, it's good to finish fighting, this is the real soft-heartedness. Besides, even if you don't fight, you can still blow up mines. ”

It can be seen that Mr. Mu is full of hope for the future peace, at least at this time, there is no war after the First World War, thousands of generations, and Chen Jian has given him the hope of conquering nature in the future, and his mood at this time is indescribably good.

Jian Chen didn't disappoint the fun, said a few words, picked up the paperweight, and prepared to accompany Mr. to read the book for a while.

But he didn't want Mr. Mu to stretch out his hand, pressed Chen Jian's hand and said, "Since it's said this, this one won't be busy first." Jian, I've been worrying about one thing in my heart when I've been reading these things I've been talking about these things these days. ”

"What's the matter? Aren't you also worried that machines will replace people and cause people to starve? ”

"Not really. If that were the case, we should have been slash-and-burn in the first place, so that everyone would have something to do. That's not what I'm worried about. ”

"What's that?"

"I'm worried...... In the future, everyone thinks that they can explain everything in heaven and earth, that science can explain everything, and that only rational thinking can speculate about everything...... Even people. What I fear most is that people see people as a kind of thing, a thing that can be explained by reason. ”

Mr. Mu frowned and said, "There has been this kind of argument before, such as killing people who are disabled and born mentally retarded, otherwise they will suffer if they live, and their children will also suffer." So you say, according to the idea of absolute reason, right? Obviously, there is a point in this. ”

"But it didn't become mainstream."

"Yes, that's because people used to have reverence for morality, for nature, for heaven and earth. It's hard to say now, but what about the future? You have come up with so many things, even the movement of the earth and the sun has to be explained by reason, and over time, people will believe that reason can explain everything, it can plan the future of man, it can treat everything as an arithmetic problem, and everything can be reasoned out with formulas. People used to worship nature, and when the machines you envision actually appeared, they worshiped the machines, and then they worshiped the absolute rationality that produced all this. At that time, will it really not become mainstream? Treat people as formulas and calculate the optimal solution? ”

Mr. Mu sighed and said, "The more I think about it in the past two days, the more worried I become. There is already an argument in the capital that man is a tight machine. A watchmaker built a small machine that could beat its own drum and fastened it with a wooden shell. Human, is it really a machine? Under absolute rationality, is there still morality? Will people wonder what is behind this morality? For example, if a group of people have a disease, the medical student needs to try to open the stomach for treatment, but they can't be sure whether they are alive or dead. But if you try, this person may die, but you can save many more people. So a simple arithmetic problem appeared, a hundred is greater than one, and those who believe in reason and believe that everything is a particle will definitely use arithmetic to solve this matter. ”

This is a trend of thought that inevitably emerges when reason and science are just beginning to show their strength, and no one can avoid it, and it is likely to dominate mainstream thinking for decades or even a hundred years.

Chen Jian knew that it was not his husband's crankiness, as early as a few years ago, when he saw the first pamphlet article about the mass execution of some people who were not fit for survival and thought that it was justice, in fact, this trend of thought had already appeared, and he was just a booster.

It's just that this trend of thought may reach its peak with the advent of new technologies, the emergence of ideas such as human beings explaining the workings of all things, and the theory of evolution and natural selection.

These include the idea that poetry is meaningless, that painting should reveal the rules of nature, and that various theories, including the nature of human fluids, explain that human joys, sorrows, and sorrows are just mechanical movements, and so on, which require decades or even hundreds of years of debate.

Morality always lags behind the times, and it is the feedback of the times, Mr. Mu is not a relic of the old era, he just sees the bright future of the new era, and smells the dirt of the new era.

"Sir, you don't have to worry about that. After a long time, it will naturally be fine. The new era has the morality of the new era, and how can these things know that they are wrong without arguments, speculation, and attempts? So you say that I may be going to use people as test subjects to scare you, but in fact how can I do that? It's the times that use people as experiments, and it takes a lot of death to know that some ideas are wrong...... It's not necessarily wrong, but it can be bad for most people. As you said, it's not one plus one equals two, there must be right and wrong. ”

"Do you want to die?"

"Unless you want to be a god and tell people what's right and what's wrong. But would you like to have a ghost high above a person's head? ”

"I do. But I know no, so ghosts and gods can only tell others through people, and that's better than nothing. If only there were. ”

sat there dejectedly for a long time, and finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't read this book yet." You haven't done your own business when you came to the capital, go and do your business. ”