After a long silence, Mr. Mu suddenly asked: "Seven or eight years ago, you asked your senior brothers and sisters to go to Minjun with you, saying that you were going to compile a book of "One Hundred Thousand Whys" and a new "New Textbook of Synthesis and Decomposition", how did you compile it? You can always show me, right? ”

Jian Chen hurriedly said: "Mr. said that he was laughing, not only do I want to see it, but I also want to ask Mr. to do the preface." The new "Chemistry and Decomposition Textbook" was originally the purpose of taking my brothers and sisters to Minjun, even if I went to sea later, but I never dared to forget such a thing. Speaking of which, I am inferior to them in writing articles, and writing textbooks is not something that can be done by one person, but after so many years, I have almost written it. ”

Taking out the textbook that had been compiled and handing it over respectfully, Mr. Mu looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "The first thirty pages were written by you, and the latter ones were written by your brothers and sisters, right?" You have taken your bold assumptions as the basis of this textbook, making chemistry a basic discipline rather than an observational and unfounded discipline. ”

Jian Chen also smiled: "Yes." Without a foundation, this science is always naturalism. With a foundation, the discipline is not an observational and descriptive naturalist. The foundation may not be right, but it can be justified, it can be revised, and it can be overturned by experiments, but there must be a foundation after all. It's just that the back is indeed written by the senior brothers and sisters, but there are also their recognition and efforts in the front, and not all of them are my words. ”

Mr. Mu coughed for a long time after hearing this, and said, "This is natural. The foundation of the world is influenced by you, and as you said, what they learned before can only be regarded as naturalism, although they have some knowledge in chemical decomposition, but on the basis is a blank sheet of paper, not how you draw it? Isn't that little girl of yours also trying to find out the hidden secrets between animals and plants? Isn't she also trying to strip organisms out of naturalism, trying to classify them in the way of species? This is the foundation, and the person who defines the foundation is the place where the world based on this will never be able to go around in the future. ”

Jian Chen bowed and said, "Sir, I think so. The foundations I envision may not be correct, but they are still good compared to foundations that don't have them or have proven to be wrong. Therefore, in the first thirty pages, I boldly adopted my own hypothetical world foundation, and used it to influence many young people in Minjun, which is probably the reason why the school in Minjun is not recognized by the capital. ”

"What if it's wrong?"

"If it's wrong, it's corrected. Self-justification, self-consistent theory, until the loopholes are found, is a kind of worldview. Just as the school palace is still offering high prizes, allowing people to solve the doubling cube problem, the ruler and gauge third angle problem, etc., if you can't use logical algebra to deduce this impossibility within the mathematical system, there will always be people who try, until one day people deduce this logic that does not conform to mathematics from logical algebra, and this problem will be solved. I don't think anything will last forever, so I've never worried about it being overturned in the future, but it does explain a lot now. ”

Mr. Mu shook his head and said, "You are taking a shortcut." I don't want to argue with those people, and directly use your business in Minjun to forcibly promote your worldview. In the past ten years, batch after batch of children who have grown up under the influence of your worldview will take all these conjectures of particles, electricity, and other chemical decomposition as the basis for their understanding of the world. ”

"A hundred schools of thought contend, always unified. I have not closed the mouths of the people of the world, nor have I blocked their hands of verification and research, it is difficult to say whether it is right or wrong now, but at least for now I can give a theory and basic explanation and there is no error for the time being. Sir, have you heard the story of those who came back from sailing to tell the story of a hundred schools of thought on the other side of the ocean? I just learn from those sons and teach my disciples according to my own worldview, which is the Tao. Among the hundreds of schools of thought that have left their names, are there those who only have art but no Tao? ”

Mr. Mu said with a smile: "Then you want to overthrow the hundred schools of thought in chemistry and respect the theory of indestructible energy conversion of particulate electric matter?" Anyway, you Mo Party in Min County is rich and powerful, and it is not good that you have been exposed to such a foundation since you were a child in the school. It's good to be right, you can say that you took a shortcut, but what if you're wrong? What if others did the same as you? Child, I don't think your guesses and assumptions are wrong, but it seems to me that it is also a feeling of sudden enlightenment...... It's just that the process and procedure of this operation ......"

After thinking for a while, Mr. Mu shook his head again and smiled bitterly: "Yes, what you said is also right, it's nothing." If it is right, there is an argument against it, but the particles cannot be seen with the eye, and after all, it can only be verified by experiments. ”

"Sir, when a person is born, he is like a blank piece of paper. What the world is like is not something that can be deduced by innate reason, but needs to be studied and inculcated before it can be pondered. What is observed is taken for granted, but the way of heaven and earth hidden inside the matter is summarized and deduced, and whether it is right or wrong can always be verified by observation and experiment. If there is something wrong, then the foundation is naturally wrong, and then it will be corrected. I have always felt that the separation of our discipline from the naturalism of observation and description is a kind of progress, and this progress must have a basic view of the world. The theory of particulate electricity, whether it is right or wrong, is just a descriptive summary that explains all this, nothing more. ”

Mr. Mu stopped talking, looked down and flipped through the compiled "New Textbook of Synthesis and Decomposition", and realized what he wanted to describe in the first thirty pages, and some things that were originally incomprehensible suddenly became clear, at least there was a theoretical basis that could be justified and supported by today's experimental results.

The tone of the book is based on particles and electricity, and it makes an easy-to-understand analogy of the starry sky and gravitational solar system as observed by telescopes.

Relying on the experimental electrolysis technology that has been formed and the concept of a dialectical unity of the size of the universe, he has made the basic concepts of junior high school chemistry that he knew in his previous life into the way of the whole textbook, that is, the foundation.

Compounding, decomposition, displacement, feminine, masculine, similar to the nucleus and electron of the solar system...... These foundations, which can explain many of the problems at this time, appear in the textbooks in this way, and they are textbooks that are already in use in Min County but have not yet been recognized by the capital.

When Mr. Mu saw Chen Jian's hypothesis of unifying electricity and particles, he couldn't help but pat the case: "In this way, it can really explain a lot of problems." Electrolysis, Bonding, Decomposition...... To least justify itself. ”

Jian Chen hurriedly said: "Sir, this is driven by the progress of the rest of the disciplines, and the world in the narrow sense is connected by sailboats; The world in a broad sense will also be connected by science. Without the means of making glass in our discipline, there would be no telescopes; Without a telescope, you can't see the moons around Tai Sui; Without this astronomical model, I would not be inspired to hypothesize what particles look like. In the same way, the craze for electricity brought about by the electrolysis of table salt from the last round has inspired me a lot. And without the foundation of a centuries-old stack, these things are not acceptable to people; Without a telescope to visually observe the system of the planet, it is difficult for people to intuitively imagine the system of particles. ”

Mr. Mu did not comment on Chen Jian's words, but said with emotion: "It turns out that the world is so big and the world is so small. Is this a coincidence? Or is it some kind of inevitability? ”

Closed the book, thought for a long time, shook his head, sighed again, and asked, "The junior brothers and sisters who followed you to Minjun this time also want to learn from this textbook?" I support. ”

"Thank you, sir. That's why they need to relearn these basics. You also know that the school capital of Min County does not recognize it, so the world's junjie is still in the school palace after all, so I hope my junior brothers and sisters can help me. ”

"That's good. Like you said, they used to learn naturalism as observation and description, but now they can call it chemistry. You think you've compiled textbooks for other subjects, right? ”

Jian Chen nodded, "Not all disciplines. Literary and historical classics, I can't do it. In mathematics, the foundation is already in the same lineage, so there is no need to change the foundation. However, such things as mechanics, natural knowledge, chemistry, simple biology, geography, etc., all of the places we can influence, we have to use newly written textbooks. For children, they don't need to know how to use the micro-element method to deduce the centripetal force and then calculate the gravitational force, they just need to know that the gravitational force exists, what the force is, what the mass is, and the difference between acceleration and velocity. ”

"But how are you going to teach that?"

"Word of the word. In the subject of chemistry, the brothers and sisters have accepted these foundations, just like you, they only need a sudden understanding and integration, and then teach others as a husband. One is seventy-two, seventy-two is five thousand one hundred and eighty-four, and that's it. For example, the factories in Minjun they said sent in cotton, and the same cotton cloth came out. Mr. Teaching, it is just a salaried job, no different from the shuttle worker in the cotton factory, and it is no longer the mode of accepting disciples as it is now. Our party has built a normal school based on these foundations in Minxian County to directly train young people who have accepted the basics of mechanics, natural knowledge, animal and plant classification, and chemical particle and electricity theory, so that they can accept our world view, and then pass it on to more people in batches. ”

Old Mr. Mu exclaimed, "In this way, aren't those young people stronger than these old guys in the Academy Palace in some disciplines?" ”

Jian Chen smiled: "No, it's just strong in Minjun, because the capital hasn't fully accepted such a foundation yet." The foundation is different, so what's the point of learning more? There are also university halls in Europe, but their foundation is theology, and the young people in Minjun will not be recognized there. ”

"This is what you call the way of the sons of a hundred schools? Do you want to use the Tao of the Min County School to depose the rest of the Dao? ”

"Sir, this Tao is not static, but a method, a way to understand the world. I believe that the dialectical method of yin and yang, material and energy, is correct, but the conclusion is not immutable. If you have to say that this is a way, then I can only say that this way is a method, not an immutable conclusion and the words of a saint. ”

Jian Chen thought for a moment and then said, "Sir, the reason why you see only a conclusion is because you have already learned this method, so you take it for granted. These new textbooks seem to teach conclusions and processes, but in fact, they teach methods from beginning to end, which is the most important thing and the way in the book. Whether it is the inductive summary and logical deduction I wrote ten years ago, or the dialectical unity of yin and yang contradictions that we have always believed in, this is the method. The conclusions that are called 'science' are only an adjunct to this approach, not 'science' itself. ”

"The Tao can derive the technique, in this way, the method is the Tao, and the conclusion is the technique. On the other hand, the conclusion of 'science' is the Tao, and technology is the technique. I hope that all people in the world can understand the original Tao and grasp this way of understanding the world, not just those conclusions. Freedom and liberation for all is the first step, and it is also a dream that I have never given up. ”

Mr. Mu said angrily: "This is even farther away than I thought. It's hard, and it's contrary to tradition. ”

"I also have a good heart, although I still have no regrets after nine deaths. Those who are good in their hearts change with the times; But what the heart is good has not regretted nine deaths, and it has never changed. We inherit the goodness of our hearts and die without regrets, that is, we have truly inherited the spirit of China; But if we inherit the goodness of the heart at that time, then it is inevitably pedantic and cannot distinguish the essence of dross. What was good hundreds of years ago is not necessarily what should be done today; But what the heart did hundreds of years ago was good, and the nine deaths without regret are still praised today. Between the skin and bones, sacrificing bones for skin is not a tradition. ”

Jian Chen bowed, saluted and said, "Sir, the road is long, and I have no regrets." Actually, I have many titles nowadays, but what I want most is to be called Mr. ”

"Son, your disciples may still have such thoughts, but what about your follow-on disciples? And what about the countless descendants who will distort all this in the future? It's too hard for you to get it, and I'm afraid you'll never be able to do it. I want it to be far away, but at least it doesn't require everyone's involvement, and sometimes it's okay to have leftovers. ”

"Sir, you must have seen the Archimedes spiral that I brought back from Europe after the round-the-world voyage. When we shrink to the size of an ant, we think we are going further to the south, south, west, and northwest, but in fact we end up going up. What you hope for, what I hope for, is on it, and it is the future. But we can try to make this spiral a little bit bigger, or at least try. ”

"That's why I don't give you words. To try means to use people to try. This is not a wheat plant, nor is it a chemical decomposition. ”

"Everyone in the world is trying. The ancient priests tried to build a good future, the chiefs tried to build a good future, the kings tried it, the European believers tried it, the sons of the hundred schools of thought in Asia tried it, and the big merchants and factory owners in Min County were also eager to try. Actually, I've been trying, but no one has said it's trying. Far from it, the Jesuits are now trying to establish a Jesuit state in the south, the Ming Empire is trying to establish scholars to rule the world, the Confucian scholar He Xinyin is trying to establish a clan commune, the merchants of the Netherlands are trying to establish a provincial republic of money and power, the European Protestants in the tropical islands are trying to establish a Covenant Puritan, the Catholic Church is trying to rebuild the order of the world from the end of the world, the Great Wilderness City is trying to establish a reclamation cooperative, Wangbei City is trying to republic, the big family is trying to rebuild the patriarchal guild, and the Min County is trying to be laissez-faire...... This is an era of experimentation, the old era is like a cloud under the rainbow, about to disperse, what the new era is like, everyone is trying. ”

Chen Jian saluted again and said, "Sir, I also want to study more problems, but this era is not the era of hiding in the school palace and ignoring the spring and autumn. Everything has changed, the old one must be outdated, but what should the new one look like? It's not that I'm going to try, it's that I'm getting involved. If you don't try, you can only follow others, and the foundation is set by others. If you want to set the foundation, you always have to pay a price. ”

"The price?"

"Yes, the price. Sir, since the founding of the country, not counting the people who were involved in the rebellion in the capital at the beginning, but only died on the new gas, herbs, ores, etc., four hundred and ninety-seven people. And people like you who have been sick for a long time, cough incessantly, and poison invade the body, I don't know how many. That's the price. And in exchange for this price, the whole world will use the abbreviations of chlorine, sodium, hydrofluoric acid, phosphorus, and so on, and the names introduced at the end of each abbreviation. If you keep coughing as you are now, do you regret the price? ”

"But it's my own choice."

"Yes, people's freedom and liberation are also their own choices, who can force others to ask for it? It's just that no one ever thought about it, we just told people that people were free. It's not that they don't want to choose, it's that they didn't have the opportunity to choose and didn't know about it, so it sounds scary at this point. Just like the new glycerin explosives, it's not that the people who killed people before didn't want to use it, but they didn't have the opportunity to use it before. The earth shook when it exploded, but it wouldn't have exploded without this thing? It's just that we have changed the form of explosives, instead of we have planted explosives underneath, the explosives have been planted by others, we have just provided new types of explosives to turn the originally buried black powder into mercuric acid and glycerin explosives. ”