Chapter 407: What is Science? Two

"It's just," Wang Yangming's voice turned, and he said, "Your Highness, why are you doing this?" ”

It's not that Wang Yangming is strange, but the things that Zhu Houhuang is concerned about are a little too strange, because these things are generally explained by Confucianism.

Zhu Houhuang took a deep breath, he couldn't figure out how to explain to Wang Yangming, what is science. Zhu Houhuang suddenly thought: "I can explain to him, Wang Yangming is a first-class smart person in the world, naturally has his superiority, Lone only needs to put science in front of him, he can naturally understand the truth, isn't it better than my thousand words?" So what experiment to put in front of Wang Yangming. ”

Zhu Houhuang's eyes lit up when he thought of this, and he secretly said in his heart: "It's the simplest, just the classic leverage theorem." ”

Zhu Houhuang looked at Wang Yangming and said, "Lone has heard that Master Wang once checked bamboo, and he was seriously ill for seven days and seven nights, but nothing came out. Is there such a thing? ”

This is a famous joke about Wang Yangming, which is very famous even in later generations.

Wang Yangming did not deny it, he said: "There is indeed such a thing, but it is just ignorance for a young time. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Lone is in the knowledge of things, and I also have a little experience, and I want to share a little bit with Master Wang. ”

"Oh." Wang Yangming became interested. Because Wang Yangming's knowledge is above the knowledge of things. Wang Yangming thought that Zhu Houhuang wanted to ask him for advice, and said, "Your Highness, please speak." ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Master Wang, wait a minute. He immediately went to the guards and brought over what he needed.

A lot of little things, one by one, put them out. This is a trebuchet model. After a while, Zhu Houhuang finished talking about the principle of leverage.

In fact, it is very simple things, and even Wang Yangming's own life experience is enough for him to understand this. And at the moment he was still stunned.

He was not stunned by the principle of leverage, because he did not know how many years ago, the Chinese ancestors knew this principle. It's some of Zhu Houhuang's techniques.

Hypothesis, calculation, analysis, summary, induction, from a small toy, summarize a principle.

"Gewu Zhizhi, is this Gewu Zhizhi? Am I wrong? Wang Yangming said as if talking to himself.

Gewu Zhizhi interprets Gewu's things as things in Wang Yangming's place, which is not consistent with Zhu Xi's explanation, and Zhu Houhuang's series of studies are clearly following Zhu Xi's path.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Master Wang, I think it's right, because Yangming Xinxue is to focus on the spiritual world, not the material world, and this kind of knowledge can only study ignorant dead things. ”

"How did you come up with the idea of doing this?" Wang Yangming said.

"The disciple is shallow, and when he followed Master Zhu Yuzhu to learn the astronomical calendar, he learned some calculations, and astronomical stargazing requires a lot of calculations. Therefore, the disciples used the method of calculating the stars to deduce all kinds of things and find out the mathematical laws from them. Zhu Houhuang said.

"You measure the world by the ruler of mathematics." Wang Yangming said. "Your Highness's meaning, the minister understands. The ministers will promote this method of learning things in the government. ”

"Master Wang, the reason why Gu values this method of learning things is that he can accumulate characteristics. Mathematics can explain the avenue clearly. Lone played in front of Wang Shi, Wang Shi already knew the leverage theorem, and Wang Shi could continue to study on the basis of Lone. In this way, the master and apprentice will accumulate from generation to generation, and one day they will be able to understand all the truths in the world. Zhu Houhuang said.

Zhu Houhuang tried his best, which opened a door for the future development of science, and naturally he had to strike while the iron was hot.

When Wang Yangming heard this, he was shocked, got up and paced back and forth. Then he slowly sat down and said, "It's just a trail." Confucianism, Qi family ruling the country and leveling the world is where the avenue lies. You can't put the cart before the horse. ”

Zhu Houhuang gritted his teeth in his heart and said: "Wrong, this is where the avenue is, and the Qi family is the way to govern the country and level the world." Wang Shi, even if he can join the family, a hundred years later, he has the family, can govern the country, and after a thousand years, he can survive. Even if the world is pacified, what can it do, but the world is reincarnated, and the flies and dogs in the world are sloppy. What is the significance, and the truth realized by the solitary ginseng should be like this in a hundred years, a thousand years later, and ten thousand years later, what should be the same for the people who become and live in the void as the eternal and unchanging avenue? Zhu Houhuang's words were deafening, and they were indeed Zhu Houhuang's heartfelt words.

Scientists, especially theoretical scientists, are actually quite remarkable. However, the taste in Zhu Houhuang's words is far from Confucianism and close to Taoism.

However, this is the era of Confucianism and mutual interpretation. Wang Yangming didn't care much.

It's just that Wang Yangming felt that there were too many things to accept, and his brain crashed for a while. Wang Yangming's performance is not because Wang Yangming is stupid, on the contrary, because Wang Yangming is smart enough, ordinary people listen to Zhu Houhuang's explanation, just to listen to the excitement, Wang Yangming can see an almost infinite future from it.

If it weren't for Zhu Houhuang coming from later generations and knowing how science developed like flying, he wouldn't have come up with so much. So in terms of wisdom alone, Zhu Houhuang is far inferior to Wang Yangming.

Wang Yangming took a deep breath and said, "The so-called experiment alone can't convince me, and it can't convince the world." He needs more evidence. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Master Wang, the experimental method summarized by the disciple. Experimentation refers to one of the basic methods of learning from things. According to the purpose of learning from things, the influence of the outside world is excluded as much as possible, the main factors are highlighted and some techniques are designed, and the research object is artificially changed, controlled or simulated, so that some things (or processes) occur or reproduce, from observation to the Great Dao theorem. ”

Immediately, Zhu Houhuang gave Wang Yangming an experimental lesson. How will experiments be done, and so on.

Unconsciously, Zhu Houhuang and Wang Yangming talked about late at night, and from late night to dawn. Zhu Houhuang was very excited, he finally had a like-minded person.

Maybe it can't be said that he is like-minded now, after all, the current Wang Yangming is working hard to understand everything Zhu Houhuang said, and at this moment Zhu Houhuang also understands what a genius is. But after a night's work, Zhu Houhuang said that the way of Gewu that he had learned had been fully understood by Wang Yangming, and he couldn't wait to try it.

When Wang Yangming got up to say goodbye, Zhu Houhuang suddenly remembered the most important thing, and he said: "Master Wang, do you know about Master Lu's illness?" ”

Wang Yangming said: "The minister knows. Wang Yangming's face was a little unsightly, in fact, he had expected it a long time ago, and he had guessed that he would serve as the chief historian of King Yong before he came. He was also mentally prepared, but he never expected that King Yong would say this to him, this night, Wang Yangming was immersed in joy, he didn't know whether what Zhu Houhuang said was right or not, but Zhu Houhuang's idea was very good, so Wang Yangming was willing to give it a try.

He was ready to do experiments, and Zhu Houhuang actually wanted to give him the position of Changshi again, and Wang Yangming was a little unhappy.

Zhu Houhuang is still excited.

"As long as Wang Yangming stands on my side, Xinxue will also stand on my side in the future. With the support of the mind, it is easier for me to do things. ”

As long as Zhu Houhuang and Wang Yangming are in harmony with each other in the development of science, they can compromise with each other in other aspects, and Zhu Houhuang feels that it is too satisfactory to have Wang Yangming as the prime minister. In his heart, he secretly dreamed that in the future, Wang Yangming would incorporate the way of science into the study of the mind, and then he would take the study of the mind as an official science, and when people tried again in the future, they would find that they would not only have to do eight strands, but also to study things and arithmetic. and so on. Then Dongyong's official examination will be infinitely close to the modern civil service examination system in the future. By the way, there is also a devotion.

Zhu Houhuang was thinking.

"Your Highness, the minister can't be a long history." Wang Yangming said.

"Why?" Zhu Houhuang was shocked, Zhu Houhuang spent a night discussing with an old man all night, isn't it just to find a prime minister who matches the three views? He finally found out, Wang Yangming didn't want to do it?

"The courtier's heart is to the avenue, and he is unwilling to live in the empty thing." Wang Yangming said.

For a while, Zhu Houhuang didn't know what to say, although Wang Yangming was an official, he was.