Chapter 41: Enlightenment (2)

Gu Yan didn't care about eating, so he went to the night market in a hurry. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info A section south from the state bridge is the night market. As soon as he entered the night market, Gu Yan smelled a fragrance. Selling rice on the street. Meat. The sound of dried preserves, and the fragrance of various buns not far away, made Gu Yan's appetite greater. There are also all kinds of pastries and snacks, and the number of zeros is not clear.

Gu Yan asked for a coiled fried lamb white intestine and rice, but it was a large piece of food. This fried sheep white intestine is made by filling the large intestine of the fat sheep with sheep blood and adding sheep fat. The taste is quite good, and it is even more enjoyable with refreshing rice. The price is not very expensive, but it is more than 30 yuan. After Gu Yan finished eating, he felt a little dissatisfied again, so he bought two more fried meatloaf and ate them. Looking at this lot of food, Gu Yan touched his stomach, but he felt powerless. I gave up the idea of continuing to eat and just hung out. I saw the plum ginger in the plum red box in front of me, so I couldn't help but buy some more. Pick one up and put it in your mouth. But the dried plums were macerated in sugar and sprinkled with some finely crushed ginger and perilla. It tastes pretty good. Gu Yan wandered around for a while, and saw a small stall in front of him selling crispy honey food and clear sand dumplings. Thinking that the two daughters in the family liked to eat some desserts, he pondered to bring some back.

When I walked into the stall, I saw a person standing in front of the stall, and I couldn't see it very clearly in the night, but I saw that the person was thin and didn't look very old. I was buying some Chengsha dumplings, and I didn't seem to feel very hot, so I poked one with a skewer and sent it to my mouth, which looked a little impatient. Gu Yan couldn't help but feel a little funny, but when he thought that he seemed to have chewed on the case just now, he felt that it was fifty steps and a hundred steps.

This person found Gu Yan's gaze, raised his head, and Gu Yan smiled back. Seeing the smile on Gu Yan's face, this person was stunned for a moment, and he also pulled out a smile - but this smile could be seen even in some dim night. As if he hadn't smiled in a long time, this smile was stiff and strange, and it was a perfect interpretation of the literal meaning of the word "skin smiles and meat does not smile". Seeing such a smile, Gu Yan couldn't help but hesitate. I don't wait for Gu Yan to react. The man bowed his head and strode away—he hadn't forgotten to stuff a ball in his mouth before leaving.

Is this dumpling so delicious? Gu Yan also ate one with some curiosity - it was just some red bean paste wrapped in glutinous rice flour. What a strange person. Gu Yan didn't care about these anymore, and went back with the packaged food, it wasn't too late.

Life in Bianjing is not bad. Gu Yan printed the last two editions of the "Annotations to the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences" in his hand. This is like throwing a bomb in the calm Northern Song Dynasty literary scene - Gu Yan has once again become a hot topic. Now Gu Yan's name can be said to be known to everyone. Thanks to Gu Yan's prudence, he didn't let those who were curious about Gu Yan, those who had different understandings of the "Four Books", and those who deliberately found fault and wanted to raise their fame crowded at the door. You must know that a large part of Gu Yan's fancy to this house is due to its cleanliness. Even so, Gu Yan had to reduce the number of times he went out. But such fame, in the end, is still beneficial, and it can be regarded as a sweet burden! Gu Yan thought like this, and wondered whether to print the books in his mind one by one.

Although Gu Yan regretted that he was not a science student, he could hardly do anything about making glass, distilling alcohol, making steam engines, improving gunpowder and the like - in his liberal arts mind, Gu Yan only stayed at silica for glass, which seemed to be made by melting sand at high temperature, and distilled liquor had only been distilled in the chemical laboratory, and now there was no equipment. The steam engine only knows one principle, and it knows nothing about gunpowder. But in fact, he also knew that in fact, this time he was extremely lucky, and those clear memories in his mind allowed him to exert the full power of liberal arts students. Especially in modern times, he likes to read, and the books he has written down in his head are definitely not few. Not counting all kinds of Chinese books, even foreign works, from "Hamlet" to "Harry Potter" Gu Yan can remember it clearly. Gu Yan slowly pondered. Maybe some of the works of the foreign Enlightenment could be translated? Although it is all translated into classical Chinese, and it is difficult to make this book corroborate in terms of scripture and history. But Gu Yan speculated about his current level, and there should be no problem. Although there was no budding capitalism in the Song Dynasty, the commodity economy was relatively developed. If it can be accompanied by the ideas of the Enlightenment, maybe ...... Gu Yan secretly made up his mind.

However, what worries Gu Yan more than the Enlightenment ideas of the West is the development of science and technology. Although Gu Yan is a liberal arts man, he has a lot of basic knowledge of science from junior high school to high school. If this scientific knowledge can be compiled and published, this is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people, even if it is not reflected now, but as long as there is this book, there will always be so many people to improve and improve it in the process of historical development. With hundreds of years to go, who knows what will happen? After all, Gu Yan knows that science and technology are the primary productive forces!

Such a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, why did Gu Yan hesitate again? Although Gu Yan sincerely hopes that the country can develop smoothly and steadily, this is also an important reason why he wants to participate in politics. But after all, he is a human being, and he still has a little selfishness. Bruno was burned to death in support of the geocentric theory. Although the religious power is not as good as that of the Western Middle Ages, Gu Yan does not have to worry about being burned to death. But in this day and age, to tell the world that "we all evolved from monkeys...... and that "our thoughts do not come from the soul or from the 'heart', that is only the function of the brain...... is absolutely enormous. To put it mildly, as soon as Gu Yan's book is published, it will be ridiculed by most people in the world, and to put it mildly, Gu Yan is likely to be regarded as a madman who talks nonsense, and his accumulated good reputation will be ruined. Besides, whether this kind of book is like gibberish or not, whether there is a place to publish it is two words. However, if you say that you don't publish it, Gu Yan is unwilling! Ancient Chinese history has always been centered on humanities and literature. And once this knowledge is disseminated, even if only a part of the population believes it. It is also throwing down a seed of science. Let people look at the universe, society, and life from a scientific perspective. How could Gu Yan give up so easily?