"Gentlemen, Han Gang is late."

Just in front of the main hall of the society, Han Gang gave a deep look to the members who greeted him.

Han Gang was indeed late.

Su Song has been here three times, and everyone else has also come once. Only Han Gang, the initiator of the society and the grandmaster of the current Qi Sect Sect, has only come now.

But Zhang Hui didn't expect Han Gang to admit it frankly, so that he apologized so solemnly.

In fact, everyone here knows that among the top ministers and politicians at the top of the society, Prime Minister Han Gang is the busiest one.

Su Song is a semi-retired, ignoring the government, only caring about big things, and he has a lot of time on weekdays, so he has been here three times. The other assistants, important ministers, Shen Kuo, and Wang Juqing have only been here once, and they are like watching the flowers.

And Han Gang, the Great Council was founded by him, as the prime minister, there are countless national affairs to deal with every day, and the Liao people are still eyeing the north, Mo said that it is not easy to take half a day, even for an hour or two.

However, although Han Gang was busy with national affairs and the affairs of the Great Council, he finally rushed to meet with all the participants on the last day before the conference, and admitted that he was late.

This made all the members of the society who were looking forward to Han Gang feel unprecedented respect.

Zhang Hui was moved, and followed other colleagues to return the salute to Han Gang. When I straightened up, I was still a little panting - the result of running all the way just now.

At Namunmon, the carriage that was told by the coachman that Han Xianggong was out of the city and seemed to be heading in the direction of the school. Whether it is Zhang Hui, who doesn't want to go out much, or Li Ying, who is bent on pulling Zhang Hui to go shopping, he is not in the mood to visit Tokyo again.

The coachman understood Zhang Hui and Li Ying's thoughts, and he also let go of the reins and rushed back to the clubhouse by the path. Along the way, the whip was waved again and again, and the carriage was driven very fast. On several occasions even four wheels were off the ground. When Zhang Hui was churning in the car, he didn't even think that the carriage would fall apart in the next moment.

Li Ying called out to the driver in front of him in the car and asked him to slow down a little. Don't have an accident on the road, but delay the opportunity to face the prime minister.

But when Zhang Hui saw the coachman's face flushed with excitement, he felt that he was not trying to help him catch up with the prime minister at all, but that he had been waiting for an opportunity to drive wildly.

Zhang Hui, Li Ying and Li Ying's companions, the three of them finally rolled out of the car. Li Ying and his companions supported each other, went to the hidden place on the side of the road and vomited, Zhang Hui was not better than Li Ying, but he also had to hold on to the wall, dizzy for a while. When I slowed down a little, I saw the carriage of the prime minister's family arrive at the gate.

Before meeting Han Gang, Li Ying had a lot of speculations about this legendary prime minister, and he had heard many rumors.

But on the opposite side, Li Ying found that the rumors were unreliable, and the speculations were quite wrong.

He never imagined that the dignified prime minister would be so humble.

Su Song did this to prevent the members of the society from performing the court's court, and Shen Kuo and the other councilors did not let the members of the society salute them with the courtesy of seeing the nobles.

But there is still a difference between their refusal and Han Gang's refusal.

Su Song, Shen Kuo's refusal, is Corporal Lixian, and the top and bottom are still distinct. But Han Gang's refusal makes it difficult for people to feel like this.

Han Gang came suddenly, and he didn't report it beforehand, and he was even more light and simple, without much fanfare.

But the news spread all at once. On the way from the entrance to the main hall, in a short period of time, at least hundreds of members gathered, and everyone wanted to say a few words to Han Gang, and Han Gang took the trouble to talk to them one by one.

Only a few steps away, I could see Han Gang's mellow smile, without the slightest hint of arrogance, and when he talked eloquently, he was as close as a teacher and friend.

The two young men who followed him—probably the Yanai of the Xianggong family—were also modest and elegant, without the slightest arrogance of a gentleman.

just chatted one by one, and soon, everyone found out that Han Gang's memory was surprisingly good.

As soon as he gave his name, he immediately remembered the papers he had published, and he could also comment on the important points in two sentences.

Zhang Hui's position was slightly back, and when he saw Han Gang gradually approaching, his heart also pounded. It wasn't until Han Gang arrived in front of him that Zhang Hui, who was about to introduce himself, suddenly found that he was so nervous that he opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak.

"This is ......"

Han Gang looked at the nervous Zhang Hui, did not laugh, and asked around.

Someone next to him introduced on his behalf, "It's Xianyuan Zhanghui!" ”

"Xianyuan County in Yanzhou? That's a great place. Chapter ...... It's Zhang Yuanfu, who discovered the '鏱' element. This time, Han Gang also immediately remembered Zhang Hui and his thesis.

"Yes!" Zhang Hui nodded violently, and finally regained a little ability to speak.

"Guess boldly, be careful to verify, Yuan Fu's paper is deep in the samadhi, do research, it should be like this." Han Gang smiled again, with a hint of banter, "But the most important thing is that six new elements have been confirmed so far, and only you have taken your own surname to name it." ”

Zhang Hui's face turned red, and his ears burned.

"When...... At the time......"

He stammered, sweated profusely, and deeply regretted that he shouldn't have had his head congested for a moment and used his last name to name the new element.

"Don't be nervous, you're not wrong!" Han Gang patted Zhang Hui's shoulder and looked around, "Zigong refuses gold, Zilu suffers from the rights and wrongs of the cow, I don't need to say more, everyone knows it." For the sake of a paper, I put in a lot of effort to get a result. To be praised is deserved! ”

All around was silent, and only Han Gang's voice echoed.

"If there is no return for the effort, soon no one will be willing to give. If you don't have a good fortune, who will be the official? If there is no pay for the work, and there is no room and board, who will work? We should learn from Zhang Yuanfu, not ridicule, let alone pretend to be high. Can't you name your own son? There is no such reason! Straighten your chest. ”

Han Gang snorted softly, Zhang Hui's eyes were red, his chest was straightened, and he showed the badge with great pride.

"Forces are mutual, and where there is an action, there is a reaction. This is the principle of mechanics. There is a pay, but also a return, this is the principle of qi and the principle of Gewu, but also the cornerstone of the future to continue to carry forward! I hope you will remember this. ”

"Thank you."

The mood went straight from hell to heaven, and Zhang Hui almost cried and bowed deeply to Han Gang.

"It doesn't have to be this way." Han Gang responded to Zhang Hui with a flat courtesy, "You and I are like-minded, including all of you in the list, as well as those who have not come, all of you agree with the principle of learning from things, and have the heart to explore the truth in all things in nature, and seek knowledge that is beneficial to yourself and the world. Therefore, we are comrades, with one heart and one mind, walking on the same road, or before and after, but there is no dignity or humility. Therefore, there is no need to be so formal, and in the future, there is no need to hide it for His Holiness and for the elderly. That's right, it's time to learn, and if it's wrong, you have to be outspoken, which is the right way to learn from things. ”

The room is quiet.

The prime minister, who is in charge of the great politics of the world, actually treats these members of the society as comrades, and except for being flattered, the people present cannot afford to have any other ideas.

The scholars who became members of the Natural Society may have a rich family background and may be intelligent, but most of them are not the materials for the Jinshi examination, and they have never received much attention in the township, even if they have improved their living environment a little as a member of the Natural Society, they are not as good as those first-class Confucian students.

And the prime minister regarded them as fellow believers, what an honor it was, so that those Confucian scholars who admired the wind and admired the moon and regarded themselves as aliens could see it, and they were afraid not to be frightened to drop their jaws.

Han Gang stood still and did not continue to walk in.

There are some things that are said standing here, much better than sitting in the hall.

"The reason why Qi is different from other studies is that it is based on the purpose of Gewu and facts, rather than taking the sages as what is right and what the sages are right and what is wrong."

Han Gang's voice calmed down people's restless feelings.

Already pointing to the sages?

"He learned from books, from his father's inheritance, and when he put pen to paper, he said, and his father said, according to the story, he didn't analyze, he didn't think. Interrogation, discernment, and thoughtfulness, how many have actually done it? If for thousands of years, there are so many people who have used the method of learning things to understand nature, the fallacy of rotting grass and turning fireflies, and the heresy of the moth and the righteous son, can still spread to the world? Don't bother to think about this, as long as you observe a little, you can correct the ancients, but unfortunately not! ”

Zhang Hui nodded unconsciously, the more he studied the way of nature, the more he found that the ancients' insight was actually not so deep, and a casual move was a lot of mistakes.

"Without the observation, practice and summary of all things in nature, we would not have discovered that water is a synthesis of hydrogen and oxygen, let alone the element 'yerium'." Han Gang nodded at Zhang Hui, "In the third generation, it was already gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, and now, it is still gold, silver, copper, iron and tin. No one wants to find any other metal, even though it's always around. Some people may say that gold and silver are valuable, copper, iron and tin can make money, and this hardware can make utensils. ”

Some laughed to themselves, others grimaced.

What's the use? This is the most common discourse heard in research.

What is really useless is poetry, it is the meaning of the scriptures. Isn't it useless to study medicine? Isn't the study of meteorology useless? But it can't be used to be admitted to the sergeant as an official, and it can only be said to be useless.

"But I will say, it works, it is very useful. Because of the storage of oxygen, the iron will inevitably rust - by the way, the iron pieces that were put into the airtight flask five years ago have not rusted yet, while the iron sheets in the control group have long since rusted. ”

This is a real yàn that appeared in Nature a few years ago, with a long time span, and today the results are finally announced.

"It can be seen that the rust of steel has nothing to do with water, but has to do with the oxygen dissolved in the water - the reason why I mention this matter is because it has been found that 'iron' can prevent rust, when the refined iron is mixed with a certain proportion of 'iron' and 'ploughshare', its strength is far beyond the ordinary pig iron wrought iron, but also above the hundred steel, more importantly, the proportion is slightly adjusted, the new alloy will be extremely difficult to be corroded, and even thrown into hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, corrosion is also very slow."

There was a little commotion in the field.

The meaning of stainless steel, needless to say, everyone present knows it. Don't say that the person present is just to pull an adult on the side of the street and ask him what the meaning of stainless steel is, and he will definitely be able to say one, two, three.

"There are still very few finished products now, mainly '鏫' and 'ploughshare' are still difficult to refine for the time being. You can only make a few hand-me-down magic weapons. However, it can also be used to make tools on lathes and to process steel. Therefore, whether a thing is good or bad, we must also see it with our own eyes, think with our own mind, and use facts as a witness. ”

Han Gang paused slightly, everyone was listening to his speech very carefully, and after hearing the news, more and more people rushed over and gathered in the courtyard.

Han Gang raised his voice slightly, "Speaking of minds, this is another example of how people today are better than the ancients. Mencius said, 'The official of the heart thinks', also known as the heart ape and the horse. The ancients thought that people's thoughts come from the heart. ”

Han Gang didn't mention 'do what you want from the heart', but the people present were of course more familiar with Confucius's words than Mencius's words, and they all thought of it.

"But now, with hundreds of facts, thousands of examples, we have finally proved that they are wrong."

Cold, heat, itching and pain are all transmitted to the nerves and transmitted to the spinal cord, and then from the spinal cord to the brain. The actions of people and animals are controlled by the brain and driven by the spinal cord.

In order to prove this understanding, the medical officers of the Hedong Military Hospital killed and maimed an unknown number of animals in various ways. In order to confirm the role of the five internal organs, I don't know how many real animals have been killed and maimed.

These are all things that the ancients did not do, but people do them today. Compared with the words of the ancients, the real yàn of today's people is more credible - if you don't believe it, you can verify it yourself.

But no one dared to say that Confucius was wrong.

When I first saw the paper, many people were already thinking like this, but in public, no one dared to say it.

Now Han Gang said.

"The role of the heart is to transport oxygen-rich arterial blood from the lungs to the whole body, and from the whole body to the lungs from the veins. It is by no means what the ancients said, and all thoughts come out of here. ”

Han Gang's gaze swept over the courtyard and emphasized, "Even a sage can't be infallible!" Knowledge is observed and summarized, confirmed and recognized by the world, and passed on to future generations through books and teachings, which is a process of accumulation, inheritance and revision. The ancients lived in caves, and then there were Chaos. The ancients ate life, and then there were the Suiren clan. And the dwelling of people today is not only far better than when there was a Chao, but also better than when there were three generations. The food of today's people is not only far better than the time of the Suiren clan, but also better than the time of three generations. Therefore, the wisdom of today's people is learned from their ancestors, and their own knowledge is added to it. It is a matter of course that it is superior to the ancients. The reason for not winning is that he does not learn and does not think. ”

The main theme of the prime minister's speech is that the present is better than the ancient.

Even the members of the mere society can outperform the ancient saints in terms of knowledge.

The rising vanity and pride coiled in the hearts of every member present.

In the same way, hearing from the prime minister's own ears, it feels far more direct and incendiary than the commentary in Nature.

In the same way, when the members have just arrived, and now that they have already felt the role of the society, it is different.

Zhang Hui's heart was on fire, and he couldn't wait to devote himself to the next round of research immediately. But I heard the confused whispers of friends who came to my side at some point,

"Xianggong...... What is this to do? ”