Chapter 18: Bai Yi's Preaching

Bai Yi bowed his hand to everyone in the hall, "All the gentlemen are Confucian students and well-educated people, but the court thinks that the monarchs know very little about the Great Dao, and they need to learn and study again!" ”

The venue suddenly moved, and all the Confucian students in the hall were in an uproar.

Bai Yi had already experienced this situation, he lifted a piece of startling wood, and with a "snap", the chaotic noise was immediately subdued.

"Well frogs can't speak the sky, and summer insects don't know winter snow. Do you really think you have exhausted all the world's knowledge? Bai Yi put down the shocked wood and glanced at the audience, "Gentlemen, you have read the sage books for many years, and you should learn the mind very well, and you should be self-cultivation and rule the country and the world." But the world's learning is not just about the mind. In addition to Confucianism, there are also Mohists, Taoism, and Legalism, and in addition to Xinxue, there are many learnings such as practical studies and Western studies.

During the Chongzhen period, the great Confucian Liu Zongzhou wrote to Emperor Chongzhen to clean up the hearts of the people, and to govern the outside and the inside, and said that if the heart of Yao Shun can be used to carry out the government of Yao Shun, the world will be peaceful. In all fairness, this is not a big mistake, but you must know that this Chongzhen period is the Xiaoice River period, the weather is the coldest, the coldest in a thousand years, and the second in 10,000 years, it can be said that human beings came from the flood era, and the Chongzhen period is the coldest period! ”

At this time, the curtains were all lowered, the hall was darkened, and the projector cast a bright light onto the white wall. Seeing the sudden appearance of text pictures on the wall, everyone couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

"Don't panic, this is a slide, like a shadow puppet show."

How could the shadow puppet show be so subtle, many suspicious eyes in the darkness kept visiting the projector, but the pictures and words on the white walls quickly attracted their attention.

The slides list the various climate changes during the Chongzhen period, such as the orange orchards and orange orchards in Jiangxi Province that were completely destroyed in two cold cháo; The Taihu Lake, the Han River and the Huai River all froze four times, and Dongting Lake also froze twice. In addition, in the southern tropics, snow and ice are also extremely frequent.

"The sudden intensification of the extremely cold and bad weather and the sudden drop in food production across the country were a fatal blow to an empire with a huge population. Therefore, at this time, a Confucian who truly comprehends the Great Dao and knows that a natural disaster has occurred should tell the king about the situation, assist the imperial court in disaster prevention and relief, and raise food to save the people, rather than just knowing Song Xiangzhiren. Therefore, we should not only study the scriptures and history, but also study all other knowledge that is beneficial to society and the common people.

The main purpose of study is to break out of ignorance, let our hearts be clear, learn and study the true meaning of the universe, the origin of the universe, where the universe came from, and where we human beings came from, and grasp the law of change of everything in the world. ”

Seeing that everyone in the audience was silent, Bai Yi changed the topic, he used the slide projection to first briefly tell the fairy tale of the Ming Dynasty returning from overseas, showing the Ming Dynasty's strong ships and artillery and strong soldiers, and then through agricultural production, industrial construction, urban appearance, cultural achievements and other detailed picture materials, it shows that the achievements of the Ming Dynasty are epoch-making, unparalleled, and absolutely incomparable with the barbaric Manchu Qing Tartars.

These pictures were edited by the propaganda department from film and television dramas, as well as photos from later generations. The colorful pictures attracted the amazement of the scholars who watched.

Bai Yi then talked about what he had seen and heard overseas and the general trend of the world, and he used pictures to explain the rise and fall of the world's powers.

Although Bai Yi said that his humanistic knowledge and social experience were okay, compared with Jing Ying in this time and space, he was far from dragging his book bag and painting poems. But Bai Yi is not timid at all, he has more than a hundred years of knowledge in his head, and he is very confident.

He said that the Manchus considered themselves the Zhongyāng Empire and despised the Dongyi, Xirong, Nanman, and Beidi, and as a result, the Yingjia Yiren killed them with strong ships and cannons. The Xiyi people must not be taken lightly, and the Tianzhu Kingdom where the Tang Dynasty Master Xuanzang learned scriptures from the West has all fallen into the hands of the Yingjia Yiren.

Speaking of Tianzhu, Bai Yi talked about Buddhism. Tianzhu is the birthplace of Buddhism, why is Tianzhu Buddhism extinct now? It is because when Buddhism arose and developed, Buddhist monks often influenced other foreign ways to convert to Buddhism through debate. Later, the Green Sect killed Tianzhu, and the Buddhist disciples still wanted to persuade them through debate, but the Green Sect did not pay attention to this set at all, they just used the knife to speak, and the Buddhism of Tianzhu did not know how to be flexible and could not keep pace with the times, so it declined, and the Hinduism of Tianzhu used the sword to talk to the Green Sect, so it was preserved.

Bai Yi then talked about the origin of the Green Religion and the history of the struggle between the Green Religion and Christianity. He said that since the Green Church seized Istanbul from Christianity, it has cut off communication between East and West. In order to carry out commercial exchanges with China, the Westerners began a vigorous voyage, and as a result, the American continent was discovered, and the earth was round, so the British people crossed the ocean and defeated the Manchu Qing with strong ships and cannons.

Bai Yi also said that gunpowder was invented by the Chinese people, and was transmitted to Xiyi by Genghis Khan's expeditionary army, and then it was seriously studied and carried forward by the Xiyi people. He told these scholars that there are two attitudes towards the study of knowledge, the Chinese people generally look at the general idea and do not seek to understand it, while the Xiyi people chew the words and study carefully. The Western Yi people divided their knowledge into very detailed disciplines, and studied gunpowder, steel, and ships very thoroughly, so they were able to cross the ocean and defeat the Manchus.

"It takes so much effort to build a cannon?" Someone sharply questioned in the dark, and Hu Renpei knew that it was Zhong Zhicheng when he heard it.

Bai Yi smiled, "It's not difficult to make cannons, it's difficult to start making cannons in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and Chinese has already started to build cannons." However, if you want to build a good cannon and a powerful cannon, you can't have the idea of looking at its general meaning and not seeking to understand it, and you must carefully study it. ”

He told these scholars that gunnery alone involved knowledge of metallurgy, mechanical engineering, alloying, etc. If you want to be accurate, you also need to study ballistics, which involves geometry, algebra, as well as the arrangement, manufacturing, and improvement of gunpowder.

Speaking of which, Bai Yi talked about the definition of science. He said that science is literally the study of different disciplines; In essence, it is a degree of studying the Great Dao, which is the so-called study of learning from things in the Confucian classics.

Bai Yi went around and talked about the education system of the Xiyi people. He talked about the current education system in the West and the education system that the Ming Dynasty was about to implement.

He briefly explained to everyone that Daming will divide education into three stages, primary school, middle school, and university. Middle school is divided into 3 years of junior high school and 3 years of high school. All school-age children must receive nine-year compulsory education, poor children are exempted from tuition fees, and those who have graduated from high school with excellent grades are admitted to universities.

The Daming education plan was drafted by Qin Fuzi. Qin Fuzi applied the non-Xu school system of the Republic of China, and the course content was basically in accordance with the curriculum standard outline of the non-Xu school system, and some of the more advanced content was deleted. It is just that the six-year primary school curriculum is compressed to four years, so that the age of primary school graduation is still young, and then through the encouragement policies such as the assignment of jobs by the imperial court after graduating from junior high school, the graduates are promoted to junior high school.

Bai Yi spoke for more than an hour, and the saturation bombardment of a large number of picture information made these scholars dizzy, but not very much could really be understood.

When the slide show ended, the curtains were drawn and the light shone in. Bai Yi looked around the hall and held up the booklet, "Everyone was discussing this booklet just now, and it was clearly written on the booklet, the degree acquisition of my Ming Dynasty was separate from the entrance examination. ”

He told everyone that the degree, that is, the acquisition of fame, is attributed to the Ministry of Rites. Primary school is equivalent to a child's life, and the graduation certificate will be issued by the county magistrate after graduating from middle school. When you graduate from university, if you are excellent in every course, you can write a dissertation and obtain a degree in liberal arts, medicine, and science through approval. There are graduate schools in the university that specialize in research degrees. If a person passes the examination, he or she can enter the Graduate School to pursue a Jinshi degree, and finally after being reviewed and approved by the Academic Degree Committee, the corresponding Jinshi degree will be awarded.

The entrance examination belongs to the Ministry of Officials. At present, the imperial court stipulates that only those who have obtained a secondary school degree or above can obtain the qualification to participate in the entrance examination. All candidates who participate in the imperial examination will go through a period of training in Guozixue, pass the examination to obtain the qualification to participate in the entrance examination, and then participate in the entrance examination.

Everyone in the audience was in an uproar, and Wujiang Xiucai Zhong Zhicheng took the lead in asking whether the Manchu Dynasty's fame, whether the Ming Dynasty recognized it, and whether the Manchu Dynasty's talent and promotion could directly participate in the entrance examination.

Zhong Zhicheng's question was also the content that everyone was concerned about, and the hall suddenly fell silent.

Bai Yi replied very straightforwardly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's talents, the knowledge of the history of the people may be very good, the article may be well written, but the knowledge of mathematics, science, nature and other aspects is very lacking, the training course opened by the Ming Guozi School is mainly to let everyone make up for the shortcomings of science, improve thinking ability, and reach the level of middle school education.

He told everyone that learning is simply divided into liberal arts and science. Liberal arts can be divided into, classics, history, management, education, etc.; Science can be divided into physics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, agriculture, and so on.

He said, we admit that you are a former Qing Xiucai, a former Qing Juren, and a former Qing Jinshi. If you want to obtain the qualifications of Daming Xiucai, Daming Juren, and Daming Jinshi, you must apply to the Daming Degree Committee and take the relevant examinations. Jinshi can directly apply for the Daming Jinshi, Juren can directly apply for the Daming Juren, Xiucai can directly apply for the Daming Xiucai, write relevant academic articles, and then obtain the degree certificate of Daming Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi.

Da Ming Xiucai is not divided into disciplines, and the promotion of people and jinshi is awarded by sub-disciplines, and there are liberal arts and sciences, and jinshi and medical jinshi are divided, representing a person's academic level in a certain discipline.

He said that everyone has been studying in the pile of old papers, and can be regarded as professionals in economics, and hopes that after passing the entrance examination, you will apply to Guozijian and write an article on research, so as to obtain the corresponding Xiucai degree, liberal arts and science promotion, or Jingxue Jinshi degree.

Bai Yi called on the scholars present to actively participate in the training of the Ming Dynasty, "Now is a turbulent era, welcome all gentlemen to participate in the training of my Ming Dynasty, keep up with the cháo flow of the times, get rid of the life of the Manchu Dynasty, get rid of all the shackles that restrict the take-off of our Chinese nation, and enter the era of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

My late Ming Dynasty prisoner Mao Runzhi once said that revolution is not a dinner party, not a fuss, not a painting and embroidery, not so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and frugal. The revolution is a riot ~ movement, and it is a violent action of China to overthrow the anti-Hu; Revolution is also construction, and it is the struggle of China to rise among the nations of the world.

Daming represents the revolution, Daming represents the well-being of 50,000,000 Chinese sons and daughters, and Daming represents the hope of the Chinese nation to take off!

You are welcome to consciously and voluntarily participate in the revolution, and if you don't want to join the ranks of the revolution for the time being, it doesn't matter, you can take a walk around Dinghai City, or go back and think about it, and when you make up your mind, we still welcome you. ”

Bai Yi finally showed everyone the study sample books of training courses such as "Mathematics", "Logic", "Gezhixue" and "Nature".

Gezhixue includes preliminary knowledge of physics, chemistry, etc. Nature includes general knowledge in astronomy, geography, biology, and more.

The scholars present heard Bai Yi's infectious speech, and then saw "Mathematics", "Logic", "Gezhixue", and "Nature", which they had never heard of, and the crowd was excited, and the hall suddenly boiled.