Chapter 104: Sacred Learning
Song Yingxing said goodbye to the crown prince Zhu Cihong and King Yong.
In his hand, he still held the information given to him by Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Chongzhen, and stared at the towering Qianqing Palace under the blue sky for a long time and couldn't let go.
Regarding the many studies that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen had just proposed, Song Yingxing did not understand much.
But for him, it did make him realize that he seemed to be in contact with a grand world of knowledge, a world that could make many impossible things possible.
What is Element?
What is Electron?
Why is iron represented by Western characters in the chemistry mentioned by His Majesty?
Is it true that everything we can see is a tiny particle, the atomic composition of what His Majesty is talking about?
Emperor Taizu Hongwu is said to be just a Huaiyou cloth cloth, can he really understand so many vast ancient books that are not recorded in the slightest knowledge?
Because the scholar is His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Youzhen.
Song Yingxing didn't want to question Zhu Youzhen, so he could only hide these questions in his heart.
And Zhu Youzhen asked him to memorize Arabic numerals and English letters, and he could only carry out the order.
Zhu Youzhen was silent for a long time when he saw Song Yingxing's distant back.
As the emperor, he held the supreme power, but he was not sure whether he would be accepted or even understood by these scholars and doctors if he directly took out the knowledge accumulated in later generations.
Zhu Youzhen is indeed selling out the science and engineering knowledge accumulated over hundreds of years now, and even people like Song Yingxing, who are at the forefront of the times, can't digest it.
But Zhu Youzhen didn't expect Song Yingxing to digest much.
The current situation does not give Zhu Youzhen much time.
He could not let the people of his time discover the basic composition of matter step by step, and then prove the atomic theory through various experiments, as well as prove various theories.
Now he can only provide first-hand theoretical knowledge to Song Yingxing and others, so as to promote them to improve equipment manufacturing in a correct direction with ideas.
Otherwise, let them rely on their own experience and inspiration to improve technologies such as steel smelting and gunsmithing.
In that case, it's simply too late.
By the time the war with the Tartars starts next year, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to have an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment.
After all, the current Tartars have also mastered relatively advanced firearms technology since Kong Youde and others joined.
Of course, that's not to say.
After Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen forcibly instilled some theoretical knowledge beyond the times in Song Yingxing, he really succeeded in shaking the ruling foundation of Confucian scholarship.
Even Song Yingxing and several other scholars and doctors all mastered Zhu Youzhen's knowledge.
The overall environment of the Ming Dynasty has not changed.
The people of the world still take Cheng Zhu Lixue as the right path, and still promote the theory of self-cultivation and Qi family governing the country and leveling the world, and they still emphasize the way and ignore the arts.
Zhu Youzhen still has a long way to go if he wants to completely turn the Ming Dynasty into an industrial country, make Confucianism the mainstream thought, and make the natural sciences as popular as the social sciences.
What needs to be changed in this journey is the values and economic system and system of the entire Ming Dynasty from the common people to the scholars.
Zhu Youzhen didn't expect to change Daming in such a short period of time, it was unrealistic and impossible, he could only sow some fire first.
first affect one Song Yingxing, then one Bi Maokang, then others, and then a group of people.
Of course, even if you change it now, it will backfire, and you may even repeat Wang Mang's mistakes.
Peter the Great of Russia used his imperial power to give a serf state a certain industrial base.
Zhu Youzhen's current purpose is this, he wants to use his imperial power to let the Ming Dynasty have a certain heavy industry base, and then through this foundation to change the production mode of the Ming Dynasty, and then change the small peasant economic system, and give birth to a comprehensive transformation of the Ming Dynasty's education and academic thought.
No one knows how many years this process will take.
But at least now it is still possible to let Daming have a certain industrial base.
In the military, Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", "Practical Record of Military Training" and the manual compiled by himself based on the training of later generations of the army can make the 123rd Army of the Ming Guards surpass any army in the world in terms of military discipline and tactical coordination, collective sense of honor and command efficiency.
As long as there is a slight technological breakthrough in science and technology, the Ming army can be invincible in the world.
In the middle of the lunar month, when the cold winter was about to freeze the entire city of Nanjing into an ice city, Bi Maokang was finally taken to the Wei Mansion by Xu Wenjue.
In the original history, it was in this year that Bi Maokang died.
But fortunately, in this life, Zhu Youzhen, the king, did not hang himself, and Bi Maokang was missing a great tragedy.
Xu Wenjue brought better doctors to Zhu You's order, and used the strength of Wei Guogong to use the best ginseng, cinnamon and other medicines, so that Bi Maokang did not succeed in being killed by the king of Hades.
The butterfly effect after Zhu Youzhen's crossing finally took effect.
At least some of the people who should have died that year survived.
Not only the famous scholars, but also the nameless people, if it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's move south and the decisive integration of domestic military and political forces, at this moment, at least the north and south and Shandong would not be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, did not dare to take it lightly, and Zhu Youzhen's will made him understand that the wealth of his Xu family was all tied to Bi Maokang alone.
These days, Xu Wenjue personally supervises people to boil medicine for Bi Maokang, and also personally selects the best charcoal for Bi Maokang to keep warm.
Hearing that Bi Maokang's condition had improved, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also came to the Wei Mansion accompanied by Wang Chengen.
"Your Majesty, I heard Wei Guogong say that Bi Gong got a disease called malaria, and many people in the Jiangnan area suffered from this disease, especially in recent years, there are too many displaced people who have died, and many of them have not been buried, and I heard some veteran doctors say that this disease is because of this began to spread in a large area, and the plague in the Gyeonggi area a year ago is as terrible, if it were not for these epidemics, the world would not be in chaos."
It was the first time that Zhu Youjian knew that Bi Maokang had malaria.
However, listening to Wang Chengen's words, it seems that Daming is now not only facing the impact of the Xiaoice River climate, but also facing the devastation of various plagues.
"I remember that there is a miracle doctor named Wu Youke, this person has a lot of experience in plague research, you people from Dongchang find a way to find it, let him preside over the epidemic prevention work of the entire Ming Dynasty, the imperial court can't just let these epidemics run rampant!"
Not long after Zhu Youzhen said, he arrived at the Wei State Mansion.
"Your Majesty forgives your sins, because Bi Gong suddenly had a fever this morning, Weichen didn't dare to leave for a moment, so he never greeted His Majesty far away!"
Xu Wenjue hurriedly came over to apologize.
And Zhu Youzhen didn't have the leisure to care about Xu Wenjue's rudeness at the moment, and when he heard Xu Wenjue say that Bi Maokang began to have a fever, he couldn't help but hurriedly walk inside: "Bi Gong, where are you?" ”
"Now the warm pavilion is waiting for Your Majesty!"