[Tuesday's third round! ] 】

"You've all figured it out?"

Still in that special inner study, Xu Guangqi looked at the three young people in front of him and asked slowly.

"Back to the ancestors, the apprentices and grandchildren have thought it through and are willing to follow the little uncle."

Sun Hedou took the lead, and Zhang Ziyu and another second-generation disciple bowed and replied.

"That's very good," Xu Guangqi smiled and said kindly, "Gongzai, you remember, following Yixian is not only to ask more questions and learn more, but more importantly, to record more...... Although I am full of Western learning, ingenuity and wisdom, but its mundane affairs are complicated, and it is difficult to list the thoughts in my chest one by one...... This is a regret of Xu Men's Western learning, you are willing to follow the immortals, and look forward to you picking up the missing and filling the gaps, sorting out the learning of the immortals into a book, and benefiting the world, so as to live up to this opportunity. ”

Sun Hedou nodded frequently-after he threw out the question of the fire gun three days ago, Chu Fan tried his best to explain a lot to him, but the more he explained, the more confused he felt.

In the end, Chu Fan gave him a demonstration with a bow and arrow, which gave him an intuitive impression - the arrows with the tail feathers were indeed more erratic than those without the tail feathers. Chu Fan told him that this was because arrows with tail feathers would only rotate, and rotating objects would maintain a stable trajectory in the air.

Although he didn't seem to understand, Chu Fan's subsequent words made Sun Hedou excited, "As long as you can make the lead bullet of the fire gun rotate, it is definitely not a dream to pierce the yang in a hundred steps like a bow and crossbow!" …… Even a hundred steps is nothing, and one day, we will be able to build a firebolt that can tear through heavy armor two hundred or even three hundred steps away! ”

Not to mention the rest, this alone is enough to make Sun Hedou make up his mind to follow this little uncle who seems to know everything and can do everything.

And what impressed Zhang Ziyu was different from Sun Hedou - in the past three days, Chu Fan had shown him too much magical mathematical knowledge.

"Pick thirteen random people, and there will be at least two of them whose birthdays are in the same month." When Chu Fan said this, Zhang Ziyu scoffed, but the results of his repeated verification made him have to admit again in frustration that Uncle Xiao's words were absolutely wrong.

Chu Fan briefly said what the basis of "permutation and combination" was, and Zhang Ziyu's great curiosity was completely ignited, and the eight cows couldn't pull back and wanted to follow Chu Fan.

In fact, with Xu Guangqi's encouragement, there are not a few people who want to go with Chu Fan, but these second-generation disciples are all between their twenties and thirties, although Chu Fan is said to be an uncle in terms of seniority, but after all, he is still a child in his teens - it is not difficult to shout "Uncle Shi" once or twice, and if these adults want to learn things with a child every day, many people still can't get over the hurdle in their hearts.

So in the end, after Chu Fan stayed in Xu's house for three days, only Sun and Dou decided to leave with him - of course, at the same time, there were also three craftsmen that Xu Guangqi helped him dig from the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, which were those who made pipes, machine springs, and wooden parts.

Sun Hedou and the three of them, plus the three craftsmen who dragged their families with them, when Chu Fan said goodbye to Xu Guangqi, the team around him swelled to nearly twenty people.

"Yixian, what is the matter with us studying Western studies? For the country and the people! …… It is the conscience of our generation of scholars to relieve the suffering of the people and the difficulties of the people, moisten the world, and turn the tide of the tide...... Mr. Yang Ming's way is only to conscience, conscience is obtained, and the way is not far away...... The way of Western learning, compared with sacred learning, can be said to have the effect of blowing chaff and seeing rice...... That is, from the perspective of Tartar affairs, if there is no Hongyi cannon of the early sun, Ningyuan will be eroded, and if the East Tartar reaches the pass, then the Beijing division is terrified, and there is still the courage to guard the pass and resist the Tartar...... At a time when this state affair is in turmoil, it is the right time to learn from the West! …… I also know that Yixian has no family and country in his heart, but I hope that Yixian will focus on the general trend of the world, so that what he has learned from the cannon, so that hundreds of thousands of soldiers of my emperor and Ming have all the sharp weapons to control the tartar! ”

Xu Guangqi's earnest exhortation when he parted deeply touched Chu Fan.

First of all, these words gave him more glimpse of Xu Guangqi and even the entire Confucian consistent world view, that is, the Song Dynasty Guanxue Zhang Zai began to start, and the answer to the question of what Confucianism should do, is the famous Hengqu four sentences: "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations"!

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, these four sentences are more like Confucian empty and powerless slogans and ethereal ideals, but what Xu Guangqi has done to himself and his ardent expectations for himself are not just the standard footnotes of the four sentences of Hengqu?

It was Xu Guangqi who made Chu Fan realize in horror that although these scholars in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were pedantic, they did not just regard the four sentences of Hengqu as a slogan, but really used them as a guide to action; It is true that for the four sentences of Hengqu, everyone has their own understanding and different ways of acting, whether they succeed or fail, at least their original intentions are good, so for the Chinese nation, they are great! It's a hero!

Xu Guangqi was one of them, he was obsessed with Western learning, and pinned his hopes for saving the nation and the country on the sharpness of weapons - three years later, in 1632, but after Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai, he did his best to support Sun Yuanhua in casting artillery, and even organized the Western army composed of Xiyi, trying to completely turn the tide of the war between the Ming and the Tartars through the superiority of weapons.

As a traverser, Chu Fan can of course criticize himself for being short-sighted and making the same mistake as the "Westernists" represented by Zhang Zhidong -- if he does not reform the system and only pins his hopes on the strength of the ship and the artillery, he will not be able to save China.

But Chu Fan didn't have such thoughts at all, because in addition to looking up at Xu Guangqi in his heart, he was deeply disdainful of himself.

Yes, when it comes to Western studies, the knowledge system, and the understanding of the world, Chu Fan has no doubt that he is more than one grade higher than the old man; But when it comes to the responsibility and responsibility for this country and this nation, Chu Fan feels that compared with the old man, he is like an ant compared to an elephant!

That's right, by now, Chu Fan can now realize his original dream relatively easily: to be a rich island owner comfortably.

As for whether the Central Plains will fall? Will the Tartars slaughter the Quartet? Will the Chinese culture that has been passed down to this day be barbarically castrated? These things that Chu Fan didn't dare to think about before and didn't want to think about them, under the gaze of Xu Guangqi's deep gaze, began to stir up turbulent waves in his heart!

In a trance, Chu Fan himself didn't know how to take everyone out of Beijing, to Zhangjiawan, and went straight to Dagukou along the canal.

It wasn't until he boarded the "Dawn" and unfurled the pair of wing-like winged sails facing the rising sun that Chu Fan, who was standing at the bow of the ship and thinking about it, finally made up his mind.

Come on!

Let me do my part, even if I can't save the day, at least I have worked hard to be born again!

PS: As soon as I opened the history channel in the morning, "War Liaodong" was on the recommendation list! The crab is very moved, thank you to the big people who voted for the crab silently, it was you who raised the crab to the historical recommendation list, bow, bow deeply! Then, the robbery continues...... In addition, let's talk about Chu Fan's mental journey, some book friends in the book review area criticized Chu Fan for having no ambition and sense of responsibility, and Crab believes that in the case of survival problems, it seems a bit too much to talk about ambition and responsibility, however, after the great Xu Guangqi's enlightenment, Chu Fan finally has some ambition, but can this make a modern person decide to fight with the Tartar? I hope you will go to the book review area and discuss with the crabs in the book friend group :)