"We scholars don't have the privilege anymore."

A restaurant in the capital.

A man in a long robe suddenly said this at the wine table, and the faces of his companions around him changed in fright.

"Be careful."

Someone reminded in a whisper.

Jin Yiwei is still arresting people on the street, and no one knows how big the matter will be, but no one wants to be implicated.

"Since ancient times, the prosperity of our Chinese civilization is because we attach importance to scholars, and now the imperial court does not pay attention to scholars, which is the foundation of our Chinese civilization."

So far, no one has been killed.

Since His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun entered Beijing, although the rules are strict, he has never had to be severely punished, giving people a sense of leniency.

Some people even say that His Royal Highness the Emperor is a third-generation person born in the Gaomen compound, unlike his ancestors who came from the people, so he is quite humane.

Such remarks can be born, and their hearts can be punished.

It is also the consequence of not killing people.

As long as all the dissatisfied people are killed, there will be no discontent of all kinds.

The imperial grandson once said that he wanted the inner saint and the outer king, and this sentence spread from Beiping to the north, and then to the south as he went south.

While people are relieved, they will not be grateful to Dade for this, but will make people more and more bold.

"Fallacy."

The person at the next table couldn't help but retort when they heard their conversation.

"Oh? I don't know what Brother Tai thinks? ”

"The crown prince not only did not pay attention to readers, but he paid more attention to readers than ever before."

The man held up his glass, very polite.

Opposition is opposition, but in terms of etiquette, he seems to be very gentlemanly, and everyone sees this, feels his demeanor, and also returns the courtesy.

"Although the preferential treatment of showing talents without tolerance and free food from the fields has been abolished, new schools have been established to provide food and free clothing."

"Huh."

At first, the scholars scoffed: "Students are provided with allowances and daily necessities by the local yamen, which is not a treatment only available in new-style schools." ”

The man said with a smile: "The imperial court has reformed the official system, giving students more opportunities to go to the public examination to become officials, and officials can also be promoted to officials, and they can continue to participate in the imperial examination." ”

"And the imperial court is also gradually canceling, or gradually reducing the showdown, and changing to a recruitment system."

There is a debate between the two sides about whether the treatment of scholars has increased or weakened.

"There are more scholars."

"As long as you pass the assessment of the Ministry of Science and Technology and meet the initial threshold, you can become a first-class scholar, receive a talent allowance, and political immunity."

"There are assessments at each level, and the corresponding talent allowances and voice are also different."

The man got to the point.

In the past, the reserve of officials was the most important, and now the technical talents are the most valued, which is exactly what the later writers said in Mingyue, the essence of any struggle is nothing more than a struggle for power.

Scholars are the best readers, and then they are readers.

At the beginning, the ability of scholars to take the imperial examination was not very good, and they failed to participate in the imperial examination several times, but now their rights have been weakened, how can they be satisfied.

While they were arguing, there were indeed more and more scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

In the spring of the 33rd year of Zhu Gaochi's reign in the country, the Department of Science and Technology was upgraded to the Ministry of Science and Technology.

This is also the right of the Division, and the department that was born specifically for this purpose wants to obtain rights, and merit is to protect the privileges of scholars.

More and more scholars apply to the Ministry of Science and Technology for the examination of scholars, and they are no less enthusiastic than the imperial examination.

When something has a big benefit, people will inevitably flock to it.

"It's better to be an official than a scholar."

The official of the Ministry of Industry lamented that after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince returned, he asked for the extermination of the family, and not let anyone go.

The officials of the imperial court trembled with fright.

The officials have personal contacts, and no one dares to guarantee that they have not had a past with the person who committed the crime, and if they have contacts, they may be implicated.

Jinyiwei has been investigating for half a year, and he will not let go of any clues, and he will wipe out all the villains who are plotting to kill the saint.

There were more than 1,000 people in the prison, and they were probably going to be beheaded.

The Ministry of Industry official tentatively went to the Ministry of Science and Technology for assessment and raised several questions.

Asking questions is no small thing.

He was the first person to formally put forward the concept of logistics numerical values, and he actually passed it and became a first-class scholar.

"According to the study of Zheng Guoqu, there are two main questions, the correlation between water diversion and channel relations."

"In the Zhengguo Canal, the principle formula of the technical aspects such as the sedimentation ground and the mud filter ridge."

"Inlet and outlet formulas for intake and gate outlets."

……

New problems in the journal Mathematics have sparked the interest of mathematicians and provided them with new ideas.

But no one thought that the mathematical problems proposed by Zhang Hao, the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry, stumped the mathematicians.

"This is no longer ordinary mathematics, it should be the rational aspect of mathematics and physics, combined with the numerical concept of logistics, it can be called physics."

In the exchange section of the mathematics journal, mathematicians express their opinions one by one.

The crowd brainstormed.

"According to the concept of degrees, the same name as Zhengguo Canal, the bottom of the weir is inclined to the upstream five degrees, this feature can increase the stability of the weir body, I think with the Zhengguo Canal, the sediment and the mud filter and other technical aspects of the principle formula, is the same, or related, should belong to a class of difficult research."

……

"Poof."

Zhu Gaochi took a sip of tea and looked at the technical report in his hand strangely.

Don't underestimate anyone, and don't be presumptuous.

There are many excellent aspects of Chinese civilization, and of course, it is impossible to be better than others in any aspect, this is not a human being, but a god.

The achievements in mathematics, including the practical application of science and technology, are nothing less than strong.

But in physics, the ancient Greek civilization did have better theories – if their historical sources were true.

Only China has books that have been recorded from generation to generation, relying on the large number of books produced every year in ancient times, so that future generations can pass on one or two.

It is this one or two that has been handed down, and it can also allow future generations to have historical materials of each year in ancient times.

There is nothing around China, let alone the West.

In the long millennium of the West, the books of ancient Greek civilization have long disappeared, and they were sorted out by the descendants of the West.

As for how they actually sorted it out, only God, or God, knows.

The physics and geometry of the ancient Greek civilization were recorded in the same way as the ancient Chinese mathematicians.

The formulas for the depiction of Arabic numerals and symbols were formed by later generations.

For example, in ancient times, the concept of water was written, and later generations had the combination of water elements, so in order to be clearer, the concept proposed by the ancients was directly written as H2O.

If you want to understand the difference, if you don't understand it, you will worship it as a miracle.

Zhu Gaochi understood that the ancients understood physics, but they did not form a scientific concept in later generations, and they needed to know that if they did not understand physics, they could not build great projects.

For example, the ancients burned stones to open mountains and extract minerals, which was to use the physical knowledge of thermal expansion and cold contraction.

The technology of water control, irrigation, navigation and other aspects is inseparable from the principle of fluid mechanics.

However, it is true that the ancients did not form a complete and rigorous concept and formula.

Zhu Gaochi was pleased that with the development of industrialization in the Ming Dynasty and the importance attached to scholars, he began to have the concept of concepts and formulas.

Zhang Hao, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, Zhu Gaochi knows this person.

This man's full-time work revolves around river affairs, and he is a practical type of official, and it is not surprising that he can ask questions about physics.

Moreover, because this person opposed Zhu Di in history and assisted in cutting the domain, Zhu Di's persuasion to surrender was rejected by him and finally killed.

If Zhu Gaochi is thick-skinned, he can say that Li Bing, the organizer of Dujiangyan, founded hydrostatics as early as 256 BC.

It's not impossible.

As long as the Chinese civilization has been developing and has the right to speak in the world, it will of course be able to make the world accept this concept.

Then it develops to the level of later generations, and it is placed in a modern formula, and in the eyes of the people of other countries, it is a miracle for them to worship.

It is as if modern Western scholars have proposed that the origin of Eastern civilization is the West, including the race, which flowed into the past from the West.

Such a shameless view, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, because of the backward gap, many Chinese scholars did not dare to refute.

That's the power of discourse.

It was also this period.

Many erroneous views poured into China, causing China to fall into more confusion and inferiority, which is why the Qing Dynasty was created.

In the process of the great development of the world, the Qing Dynasty's seclusion and the imprisonment of science and technology and ideology caused the quality of the entire Chinese civilization to fall into a great regression.

Even in New China, with the development of national strength, there are more scholars with independent thinking ability, and a large number of physical objects have been unearthed, which proves that Western scholars put forward the erroneous idea that the Chinese race is migrated from the West, and extends more refutations.

With the prosperity of China's economy, Chinese scholars have financial and material resources, and have the ability to study Western history, and then a large number of books and letters of modern Western scholars have been found.

For example, the letters of the French scholar Bai Jin in the 17th and 18th centuries were discovered by later generations of Chinese scholars.

In his letters, he discussed the I Ching with his friends, saying, "I bring with me special knowledge, such as the Hebrew philosophy of Moses and the Jewish secret philosophy and the philosophy of Plato-Pythagoras, which are the true elements of Chinese hieroglyphic wisdom."

The character of Fuxi has been given the name of several wise men, such as Hermes of Egypt and Greece. Trismystus, Hebrew Enoch, and Zoroaster of Persia. ”

According to the journal of the Italian Institute of Far Eastern Studies, "If we analyze the linguistic technique pictorially, Hermes's poetry clearly has a Chinese origin. ”

According to the 18th-century research of the German orientalist Haguel, the goddess Isis and the god Osiris in ancient Egypt were created with reference to the Chinese "feminine" and "masculine".

For example, Egyptian hieroglyphs are similar to ancient Chinese characters, so some Western scholars in later generations concluded that Chinese characters came from the West, which became evidence for them to put forward the Western origin of Eastern civilization.

Hagail, on the other hand, believed that Egyptian hieroglyphs were derived from Chinese characters, based on the fact that Chinese characters were culturally significant.

He said: "It seems to me that the first 'Egyptian hieroglyphs' were 'deduced' by European scholars in the seventeenth century using Chinese characters. ”

Because Chinese characters are different from the Latin alphabet, the origin and formation of each Chinese character have a matching deep meaning and connotation.

There is also the excavation of oracle bone inscriptions in later generations, which completely proves Hagail's statement.

It is not that Chinese characters come from ancient Egypt, but that Western scholars use Chinese characters to deduce ancient Egyptian characters to fabricate the origins of various modern scholarship to ancient Greek civilization, which is one of the origins of Western hypothesis.

Some speculate that the church is the biggest behind it.

Because scholars are in the hands of the church, scholars study science in order to prove the religiosity of the church.

The missionaries belonged to the church, and a large amount of knowledge of Chinese civilization was contained by the Western church.

Some say that Needham in the twentieth century was a traitor to the West because he believed that Western civilization originated in the East.

It's just that what people don't know is that there are a large number of Western books and letters from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, all of which discuss Eastern civilization, and various ideas believe that the development of Western civilization is inseparable, or that it absorbs the knowledge of Eastern civilization.

Joseph Needham was nothing more than a man who faced history squarely in later generations.

And because of the backwardness of the Qing Dynasty, Westerners conquered the world, and their cultural self-confidence reached its peak.

After reconstructing history and identifying their inner position, there was a large number of views that Eastern civilization was the origin of the West.

Before the end of the Qing Dynasty, the views of the modern West were extremely respectful of the great achievements of Chinese civilization.

For example, Santinelo wrote: "Greek wisdom comes entirely from the East. But it has oriental origins in philosophy, mathematics and geometry. It is said that it was created by the ancient Greeks. Burnet said, 'Every Greek theory can be traced back to its Eastern origins.' ’”

Columbia University religious historian Jenny. Ross writes: "Beurrier says that ancient Near Eastern philosophy is consistent with Chinese religious thought. In fact, it wasn't until the 18th century that Zoroaster, Hermes, and Enoch were identified as Fuxi, an ancient Chinese mystical figure and the original creator of the I Ching. Plethon points out that Platonic philosophy did not originate in himself, but was derived from Zoroaster through Pythagoreanism. ’”

Pythagorean philosophy, on the other hand, came from China.

A large number of speeches from the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, some people have deduced the true context from a large number of Western speeches.

"Greek wisdom" comes from the East.

"Greek wisdom" (philosophical and other) ← Near East (Hermes, Logos, Zoroaster) ← China (I Ching, Tao and scientific knowledge).

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, ideology and science and technology were not completely imprisoned, and there were still Western missionaries in China.

During the Qianlong period, the thinker Dai Zhen, in the process of communicating with the Jesuits, had a very clear evidence that the relevant Western methods were derived from the "Zhou Ji Sutra".

Dai Zhen discovered that the Jesuits were manipulating "Chinese astronomy", and they lied that the West "existed in ancient times".

Even when New China became rich and powerful in later generations, some scholars pointed out that the Jesuits in China in ancient times were the "sucking tubes" of the Western history-making movement.

But the forest was big, and there were all kinds of birds.

Because of the long-term backwardness, there are not many people with low self-esteem, even if there are many domestic scholars in later generations.

There is a scholar in China who has visited abroad all the year round

He attacked Joseph Needham's writings, belittled his work, and peddled his "Western Doctrine" at home.

It is claimed that the "Zhou Ji Sutra" is, to a large extent, a foreign heavenly science that was studied, and is believed to have come from ancient Greece.

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