In early summer, it's not dry. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info the sun is rising, and more than 3,000 Nanyong prisoners outside the Confucian Temple and the disciples of the Sanfu School Palace gather on the square.

"Well, have you heard? Today seems to be the new Lin Siye to innovate the school system, which is very interesting. ”

"Innovation? We all have to take the scientific examination, the four books and the five classics are serious learning, what else is this innovating? Someone yawned.

Someone on the side chimed in, "That is to say, I heard that it is a miscellaneous study such as arithmetic, my God, what do you think about the sacrificial wine, are these useful?" ”

Whether it is useful or not, it seems to have become a benchmark for judging the value of a culture.

Lin Lan wore a black robe today, looking more solemn and calm. He walked slowly from the main path towards the front of the Confucian Temple. The disciples of the Academy Palace on the side of the road all looked sideways, such a young Guozijian Siye, I'm afraid it's still the first one.

When Lin Lan stepped onto the platform of the steps, the golden bell on one side was sounded. The disciples of the Academy Palace who were still talking about it below all quieted down.

"Today, I'm not going to argue with you about anything."

Lin Lan looked at the disciples of the Academy Palace in the audience, these people were all intellectuals of the Great Jing Dynasty, if their thoughts were rigid and rotten, then innovation would always be just empty talk.

"Is it useful to learn arithmetic and physical science? I said, it works. However, it's useless for me to say, there are still many people who think like this, eat a meal and pay the bill, this little arithmetic still needs to be learned? ”

Many people laughed. They all think the same way, whether it is arithmetic or gewu, in their opinion, none of them has Confucianism.

Lin Lan said again: "However, what I want to tell you is that maybe in a hundred years, or even two hundred or three hundred years, the status of arithmetic and physical science will be beyond your imagination. It's all about learning that you look down on right now. Without pioneers, there are no enterprising. I will not force you to learn anything, these learnings may not be exchanged for high-ranking officials, or they may not be exchanged for real money. ”

"But what I want to say is that your names will live on through the ages. The Nanyong Confucius Temple, that is, behind the stone statue of Confucius you see, will erect a large white marble monument with a height of one zhang, and those who have made outstanding contributions to arithmetic, physical science, astronomy and geography and other miscellaneous sciences will leave their names on it. ”

The people below were stunned.

"What? Leaving a name in the Temple of Confucius should be a matter of glory to the ancestors. ”

Some people are looking forward to it, and some people are ready to move. Lin Lan can't make these natural sciences deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in an instant, so he can only use this way to induce fame and fortune. Perhaps when arithmetic, gewu, astronomy and geography have developed into huge learning, he can get rid of the aura of Confucianism, but in such an initial stage, even the Western Europe he understands is shrouded in the aura of theology.

Not only that, the two Taoist temples of Confucius will set up a stone statue and engrave his outstanding contributions on it. Want to glorify your ancestors? Then do a good job, no one will say that if you learn arithmetic and physics, it will affect the scientific examination. In the same way, no one will say that what you have learned is useless! When you have made enough achievements to be engraved on the stone tablet, what do you think makes your children and grandchildren more proud than the petty officials who have not left a little ink in the history books? ”

The people below were squirming and talking. Nanyong has stood for thousands of years, and more than a dozen dynasties have changed, this Confucian Temple is still the same, and being able to leave something outside the Confucian Temple is naturally something that scholars dream of, or rather, something that they have never dreamed of.

However, Lin Lan threw out such a temptation, which naturally surprised everyone, including Yao Xijiu and Lu Jiancheng on the side. They are not worried that Lin Lan will poke out some basket, innovating the school system is originally a difficult thing to implement, no one will spend energy for a kind of knowledge that has no practical value, but now it is different, for the sake of fame, there will really be people to study these knowledge.

In fact, for arithmetic, gees, and astronomy and geography, the foundation of the ancients was no worse than that of the Europeans, and the backwardness was backward because it was not developed into a systematic science, and there was no successor.

Before the Dajing Dynasty, there were also books and materials on this kind of knowledge, and Lin Lan threw out such words to promote the natural formation of academics, and it would be more perfect to have the effect of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

"Adjournment!"

Lin Lan waved his sleeves, and the young talents who were still looking forward to the inscription of my name on the tablet scattered away. Yao Xijiu came over worriedly and said, "Lin Lan, do you know what you're doing?" ”

"Is it wrong to reform the school system?"

Yao Xijiu said with an ugly face: "Outside the Confucian Temple, how can you build a monument at will? Insulting to the gods! ”

"Why don't you go talk to Xiao and the others? That's all there is to it in the late life. ”

"You're a threat!"

Lin Lan said with a smile: "To make learning into academics, it is not something that can be completed in one or two generations. Yao sacrificial wine, when you know the spring, you will understand what an important day today is. ”

Yao Xianjiu wiped his sweat, okay, he still didn't understand when he was alive, so he told him what happened after death.

If Lin Lan wants to teach equations and functions, it will simply cost him his life. The development of natural science has its own certain cognitive laws, and what Lin Lan does is to guide, not stifle, these seemingly useless disciplines.

Since the previous traveler owes the world a Confucius and an era of a hundred schools of thought, what Lin Lan has to do is to open up this multi-academic era.

One day, those mathematical theorems and physics knowledge will also bloom in ancient China.

Lin Lan walked down the steps, and a young disciple of the Academy Palace walked over with longing and said, "Si Ye, I have heard Master Wang Chuan's arithmetic, it is very interesting. ”

"Are you interested?"

The young man nodded and said, "He is not the same as Confucianism. I feel like it's closer to the laws of nature. ”

"Will you continue to study?"

The young man thought for a moment and said, "If it was before, probably not. But listening to you today, maybe the people in the family will not be so opposed. ”

"That's good. When we do more knowledge and exchanges, discuss and discuss, often the truth comes out. Don't cherish yourself with a broom, hide it if you find it a little, so you will never become a master. ”

The young disciple thanked him and then left confidently.

Lin Lan may not have imagined that many years later, this young disciple of the Academy Palace would become the first person to complete the collection of arithmetic, and he was also the first person to engrave his name on the white marble tablet of the Confucian Temple......