Spring, the second year of Wanli.
Feng Zijing, the minister of Huguang Chasi, was relegated to guard Baling, and he was impeached by Liang Menglong, the governor.
Chen Yisong, the minister of Dali Temple, passed the exam in three years and was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Punishment; Chen Dong, the left young minister of Dali Temple, passed the exam in two years, but was reduced by one year due to merit and was promoted to minister of Dali Temple.
He Yongqing, the envoy of general affairs, became an official because he was old and ill, and presented it to the Minister of Rites; Ni Guangjian, the envoy of general administration, passed the examination in nine years and was promoted to envoy of general affairs.
Hai Rui, the censor of Qiandu, passed the examination in one year, but due to the loss of two years of merit, he was promoted to the right deputy censor of the capital procuratorate.
During the inspection of Dongcheng Yushi to study the rituals, the eunuch Zhang Zhong, the eunuch of the royal horse, beat his mother to death and begged for strict punishment; when he inspected the Guanglu household department, he impeached Yan Rongshu in the incident, and the official of the Shangshan prison, the emperor, beat the cook to death for making excuses.
Serving and begging for edicts are all subject to law and order.
Zhu Xixiao, the right commander of the Jinyi Guards, quoted the British Duke Zhang Maoliu and begged for a posthumous gift of the title of Prince Zhu Xizhong to his brother.
The officials said that Zhang Mao's posthumous title was not an example. Although Xizhong lived in three dynasties, he only fulfilled his duties as a minister. He was not as powerful as a frontier, and he threw himself into the army. Being favored during his lifetime was enough reward. After his death, it is said that
It is difficult to achieve outstanding performance in martial arts. It is not appropriate to pursue the title of king.
The previous reply said that because of his boundless merits, he should not be granted the title of king, but because of his high loyalty and great achievements, he was given the title of earl of the Duke of Chengguo. He was moved to the south of Zhili, and a new mansion was established, stationed at the Longjiang Shipyard.
Zhu Xixiao, the guard in charge of the royal robe, violated the rules and acted inappropriately, forcing him to live idle.
Under the orders, everyone praised the emperor for being clear about rewards and punishments.
…
These are the contents of the newspaper.
In addition, there are some other things. All the officials in the Imperial Palace gave speeches to celebrate the eighth prayer. Shengji Town, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Xieshou West Road, Zhang Chen’s Department, Governor Qian Shi, continued to assist as usual. Li Congshan was promoted to the post of Li Congshan in Ge Luowen Valley, and he was ordered to the left.
Governor Qi Jiguang returned to Beijing to report on his duties.
After Liu Sanpao read it once, he made a general impression, then carefully folded it up and put it into the box at hand.
He took a look at the bright sky. It was just after noon, so it was a good time to waste time.
Liu Sanpao couldn't wait to take out a stack of new newspapers from the box beside him and put it on the desk.
These are the previous issues of the newspaper. I have read all the other contents, except "The Legend of Heroes of Yuan and Ming Dynasties", which I have specially left unread. I plan to save them and read them together.
Liu Sanpao finished reading the second volume last time.
Just as it was said that the world was in chaos and the people were in dire straits, even the Huangjue Temple, which the rich and powerful people often paid tribute to, could not uncover the blame. Therefore, the unlucky Zhu Chongba was sent by the abbot of the Huangjue Temple to travel around the world and fend for himself.
Zhu Chongba left Huangjue Temple and went south from Haozhou to Hefei. Then he turned west and entered Henan. He went all the way north to Ruzhou, Chenzhou and other places, passing through Luyi and Bozhou in the east. His footprints were all over the north and south of the Yangtze River.
And every section during the wandering period can be described as ups and downs, which is amazing.
Frightened, the bandits managed to escape cleverly.
Danger, demon Buddha deceives people into fighting evil cults.
When angry, he joins up with good men to kill evil officials.
With good luck, White Lotus will be born to form a good relationship.
It wasn't until Zhu Chongba ended his "growth period" and returned to Huangjue Temple that the story came to an end. The ordinary Zhu Chongba in the first volume gradually became brave and resourceful.
Liu Sanpao suffered from the slow update, and later vowed not to open this article again until he finished updating a volume.
Fortunately, after today's issue came out, the third volume has finally been published.
Liu Sanpao took out the latest issue of the newspaper from his arms and placed it at the bottom of a stack of new newspapers.
After checking the order, he rubbed his hands, nodded with satisfaction, and read with relish.
But after Zhu Chongba returned to Huangjue Temple, the world was in turmoil. The Red Scarf Army rose up and boldly proclaimed themselves king; the White Lotus Sect attacked the city and captured the stronghold, opened a mansion and built a tooth...
Reading novels always flies by.
Noon gradually turned to dusk, and the sky, which had just been bright, seemed to darken in the blink of an eye.
Squeak...
With a groan from the old door, Liu Sanpao's door was slowly opened.
Liu Sanpao was startled before he came to his senses. He raised his head and saw his grandfather standing at the door.
He stood up quickly: "Grandpa."
Liu Daneng's trouser legs were rolled up, and the lower part of his calf was covered with mud. He held a bucket in his hand and put on a smile on his face: "If you eat fish today, there will be fish every year."
Liu Sanpao hesitated to speak, but finally couldn't help but persuaded: "Grandpa, the school has given out a lot of annual supplies, which is enough for us to celebrate the New Year. You should stop picking up other people's fish."
Liu Daneng frowned: "That's your wife Ben. She doesn't know about the financial constraints. Does she want to be a bachelor for the rest of her life and make the Liu family unable to succeed?"
After that, he snorted coldly, turned around and left.
Apparently he was dissatisfied and a little unhappy.
Liu Sanpao had become accustomed to this kind of chicken-to-duck conversation, so he silently began to clear away the things on the table, then walked out of the room and prepared dinner with his grandfather.
His ancestral home is a farmer in Guangdong, and his family has always been poor.
As for how a poor family can move to the capital...
Liu Sanpao's father was originally a child student. After marrying and having children, he continued to study in a government school.
Then he died suddenly.
Birth, old age, illness and death are the normal conditions of the human world.
But after Liu's father died, Liu Sanpao's mother was distraught and sought death again and again. People from all over the country tried to dissuade her, and finally the county government was alerted to come to express condolences.
Unfortunately, he was prevented from praying for death more than ten times. When Liu's father was buried, Liu's mother failed to stop him when she was alone at the funeral - "swallowing the lump and touching the coffin hole", that is, she died in love.
Liu Sanpao was only three years old at that time and experienced all this firsthand.
When I thought about this when I was young, I felt only sadness.
As he grew older, he felt resentful that his mother had left him.
Until... I looked at the martyrdom archway in my home.
Until he learned that Martyr's Arch could be exempted from tax, exempted from corvee, and exempted from taking the examination to enter the county office.
Until, he remembered his mother's weird attempt to seek death more than ten times.
Only then did Liu Sanpao understand that there was a reason behind all the incomprehensible things.
It was also from then on that Liu Sanpao became uncontrollably resistant to the so-called chaste and heroic women, Neo-Confucianism, and even the Four Books and Five Classics.
When they contradict each other, what follows is naturally a plummeting decline in classical knowledge.
Grandfather Liu Daneng saw it and was anxious in his heart. He didn't know where he heard that Shuntian Prefecture's provincial and provincial examinations were far simpler than those in other places.
So he sold the tax-free share to the local gentry, exchanged it for a large sum of money, and led Liu Sanpao to Shuntian Mansion.
Unfortunately, even if Liu Sanpao changed his household registration to Renshangren, he could not change his resistant mentality.
There has been no improvement in my studies.
Fortunately, in the end, by chance, I was admitted to a new school outside Donghua Gate through my talent in counting.
This kind of second-best result disappointed my grandfather Liu Daneng for a long time.
Liu Sanpao looked at his grandfather's busy figure, couldn't help but sigh, and stepped forward to help his grandfather.
Tonight, according to Guangdong custom, we will make a fish head soup and steam the fish body.
Grandfather and grandson are busy working together, so this first month is not too deserted.
Liu Sanpao has a flexible mind and always has two minds when doing these things.
He thought again of the article he published in the New Paper last time.
That was the closest he got to the emperor - the emperor thought his writing was a bit messy and logical, and even gave him personal instructions on how to format and use words.
It's a pity that there are no stories like those in the storybooks, about winning the favor of noble people, having countless opportunities to give alms, and then reaching the sky in one step.
The manuscript fee is settled based only on the page fee, and the other benefits are gone.
Maybe it's because his thinking about "force" is not accurate enough.
He said at that time that an object is stationary without force, but the emperor disagreed.
And asked him, if this is the case, then after the force is removed for a moment, the object should stop instantly instead of continuing to move.
This made Liu Sanpao realize that he might have thought wrong somewhere.
Although the emperor finally recognized the inspiration brought by his ideas and included the manuscript.
But afterwards, Liu Sanpao kept thinking about this issue.
What exactly is wrong?
Liu Sanpao casually sprinkled a few grains of coarse salt into the fish head soup.
The object itself is stationary...it will only move after a force is applied...then, after the object loses the effect of force, the object should indeed return to rest immediately.
Why does it take a while to stop?
Could it be that the power was not revoked immediately, and there is a mystery behind the case I thought of?
Or... his premise itself is wrong. An object without force may not be stationary?
Liu Sanpao was thinking wildly.
I had no idea for a while.
He was still thinking about this problem until he finished eating.
It was only then that the two of them were clearing away the dishes.
Dude.
Tuk-tuk-tuk.
There was a brief and powerful knock on the door.
The grandfather and grandson reacted immediately and hurriedly went to open the door - in the poor alleys, most of the neighbors would call or knock on the door. It was rare to knock on the door so politely. In the past two months, only Liu Sanpao's classmates
Master, that's why you have such a wealthy attitude.
Liu Sanpao hurriedly wiped his hands on his clothes.
Liu Daneng turned around, straightened his beard and hair, and forced a smile.
Liu Sanpao stood behind Liu Daneng and watched the door being opened. Sure enough, he saw the division commander standing at the door.
"Teacher Li."
"Master Li!"
Li Chengming stood in front of the door and nodded to Liu Daneng with a smile: "Sir, I will lend you your help."
As he said that, he waved to Liu Sanpao.
Liu Daneng wisely dodged.
Liu Sanpao pursed his lips, paused, then lowered his head and walked towards Li Chengming.
Every time Teacher Li came here, he never asked about his grandfather's name. Whenever something happened, he never asked for his grandfather's opinion. He came as a matter of course.
Although he behaves and speaks politely, the arrogance in his heart is almost overwhelming.
This teacher was a relative of the emperor, so it was normal for him to be so arrogant, but Liu Sanpao was still a little uncomfortable getting along with him.
It just so happens that he is his own teacher.
It's really awkward.
Li Chengming turned around and walked in front to lead the way, asking for help: "Are you having a good time during this official holiday? Are you still short of money? The college can advance you one season's share at its discretion."
Liu Sanpao quickly replied: "There is no shortage of it, teacher."
Li Chengming nodded and started some other household chores.
He is nineteen this year. He has been through hard work in the past two years and has matured a lot compared to when he went to Zhejiang to purchase dilapidated maritime merchants at the age of seventeen.
When he came out of the narrow alley and walked onto the main road, Li Chengming didn't realize that the wall had ears, and then he got down to business: "I have nothing else to do when I call you today. I just want to take you somewhere."
Liu Sanpao was startled for a moment.
He asked curiously: "Are you going to do some experiment?"
There are always a lot of experiments in the college.
Throwing objects from high altitude, dismantling water tankers, etc.
Li Chengming shook his head and said with a smile: "No, I'm going to Siyi Pavilion."
Liu Sanpao looked confused.
The county school will not introduce the major government offices in the center.
Seeing this, Li Chengming explained thoughtfully: "The Siyi Pavilion is for receiving vassal countries. It has nine pavilions including Mongolia, Nvzhi, Xifan, Xitian, and Siam."
"Mainly translating for envoys who don't understand the language, and also translating foreign books."
Li Chengming took care of Liu Sanpao's background and introduced it to the point without making it too complicated.
Hearing this, Liu Sanpao became even more confused: "Then the teacher took me there..."
Li Chengming said everything he knew and was very open-minded: "Last time you thought about force, His Majesty said that your desire for discovery and curiosity are rare."
"It just so happens that there are some foreign books in the Seiyi Museum with similar thoughts. Your Majesty asked me to lend you the translated books for your reference. I hope you will continue to work hard."
Liu Sanpao was happy and burst into tears of gratitude.
Li Chengming looked back at the young man behind him and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.
Although my cousin said that he just happened to have some translations, in fact he had been secretly searching for them for a year and sent several batches to the Seiyi Museum, so he was obviously relieved.
In this way, I often privately resent the slow progress and the low quality of the translation.
Tu Xiying, the minister of Honglu Temple, was so criticized that she resigned and returned home. Li Chengming felt it was hard to say whether there was any connection.
Anyway, he never dared to neglect what he told the emperor.
It was the first lunar month, and after nightfall, there were more and more people in the capital.
People were coming and going on the street, and there was a rush of people.
The two walked very slowly.
The guards before and after Li Chengming also had to stay closer to avoid any oversight.
The Siyi Pavilion is outside Daming Gate.
It's close to the royal road of the palace, and it's hard not to be busy.
Although the emperor skipped the Aoshan Lantern Festival in order to save money, he still had some conscience and took out the old gunpowder from the Military and Arms Bureau to make fireworks and managed to light them up.
In the emperor's original words, it was called firecrackers blasting together and a huge crowd of people.
Along the way, there were romantic young men strutting through the streets, groups of wealthy ladies, nobles reciting poems and poems, and young boys jumping up and down, cruising with flowers, lantern riddle contests, Shao Ji soliciting guests, playing tricks, and fighting.
It's so playful and noisy that it's hard not to be lively.
Liu Sanpao passed through these prosperous places all the way - he would not pass in this direction on his way to Donghuamen from school.
Not to mention being dazzled, the atmosphere makes people's nose sore.
He stared at a couple with a child for a long time.
The father held the child and straddled it on his shoulders, while the mother smiled like a flower beside her. A firework exploded and the light shone brightly, reflecting Liu Sanpao's envious expression.
Suddenly, Liu Sanpao felt a tap on his shoulder.
"Let's go." Li Chengming took back his hand and turned around.
Only then did Liu Sanpao come to his senses and hurriedly followed Li Chengming.
Not long after.
The two came to the outside of Honglu Temple.
There is a plaque with the characters "Honglu" hanging on the government office, and lanterns hanging on the left and right of the gate, creating a bright and elegant atmosphere.
Now is the time to take a rest during the Lunar New Year, but there are still people on duty.
Li Chengming brushed the emperor's cousin's face and drove straight in with Liu Sanpao.
Liu Sanpao didn't know the rules in this important office, so he had to lower his head and didn't dare to look more.
After following Li Chengming into a public house, he dared to raise his head and look at it curiously.
There was an official standing in the duty room. When he saw Li Chengming coming, he stood aside respectfully.
Li Chengming waved his hand, and the clerk went to the door.
There is a small desk in the center of the check-in room, which is covered with books, and a chair is placed perfunctorily next to the desk.
In addition, the entire room is filled with bookshelves.
With the faint candlelight, Liu Sanpao could only see that every book in sight had crooked characters, which were obviously not Chinese characters.
"The books on display on the bookshelf are all untranslated books."
As Li Chengming spoke, he walked to the desk again and patted the books on the desk: "The twenty or so books on the desk are the translations."
"The college has told the Seiyikan that you can come here to read these books after school starts. They cannot be damaged or taken away."
Liu Sanpao quickly followed and turned his attention to the books on the desk.
He was surprised: "There are so many books about force?"
Can a simple question lead to so many works?
Li Chengming shook his head and said in an elusive tone: "It's not even just these. These are Western books written a thousand years ago, and they will gradually be translated in recent years."
"Of course, you'd better just use the foreign stuff as a reference and don't believe it."
Liu Sanpao was stunned for a moment.
Thousands of years ago... that was too long ago. The West was probably not yet civilized at that time.
But this teacher is not someone who makes a fuss out of a molehill.
With curiosity, Liu Sanpao picked up a book from the desk... "On Floating Bodies", the title of the book is very strange.
He looked at the author again, well, the name was also very strange, Archimedes, which sounded like he was not a lucky person.
Liu Sanpao wiped the sweat off his hands, turned to the first page, and started reading.
Li Chengming patted Liu Sanpao on the shoulder and told him, "Read it slowly. After you finish it, just tell the clerk outside the door and I won't accompany you anymore."
Seeing that Liu Sanpao didn't respond at all, he smiled, turned around and left the room.
Li Chengming gave another instruction to the clerk outside the door.
He did not leave Honglu Temple directly, but instead went around to the main hall of Honglu Temple.
The hall of Honglu Temple was brightly lit, and two guards in golden clothes were guarding outside the door.
When he saw Li Chengming coming, he did not stop him and allowed Li Chengming to enter the lobby.
There is another figure sitting on a chair in the lobby, reading at night.
There is a man standing next to him, with a strong back and a strong back, showing no anger and self-importance.
"Your Majesty, I will bring you here." Li Chengming saluted softly.
Sitting in the lobby of Honglu Temple was the emperor himself.
At this time, Zhu Yijun was flipping through the "Book of Calculations".
Without even raising his head, he gave a favor and said, "Tell Xu Jie that we will follow this rule from now on. Those with sufficient talent will be sent to foreign vassal translations."
Li Chengming was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask any more questions: "I obey the order."
Zhu Yijun raised his head, glanced at Li Chengming, and waved his hand: "Since we came out secretly, don't be so strict. Get up. We are all a family. If you want to ask anything, just ask."
After hearing this, Li Chengming slowly stood up.
After thinking about it for a moment, he asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, I have read a few copies to Liu Sanpao's translator. If you have other sources, why don't you just print another copy and give it to the students of the college to borrow?"
The emperor suddenly closed the book and said in a haphazard manner: "Is it really just a stone from another mountain?"
Li Chengming was silent for a moment.
Finally, he replied: "There may be some good words, but I can't understand them."
Zhu Yijun laughed. If you don't understand, you can understand it best.
He stood up and stretched, and then answered Li Chengming's question: "You have to understand all seven things to treat it like an ordinary book."
"If an ignorant person reads it, he will either abandon it like a pair of worn-out shoes or be directly killed."
“Only when you reach the threshold and look at these things can you use them for your own purposes and bring forth the new.”
The most important thing is the mind.
If you look at these things in pursuit of knowledge, then you can call them the rocks of the mountain.
Enlightenment and enlightenment can only rely on cramming. If the fundamental nature is not changed, reading too much will be harmful rather than helpful.
Why can only Liu Sanpao watch it?
Because he really started to think about things in the material world!
Although it is very crude thinking, although it is a poor summary, and there are many mistakes and omissions, this is the sign of enlightenment!
This is a very important prerequisite.
What Zhu Yijun wants is this kind of enlightened student, not an academic tailor who has read through the translation.
Did the Ming Dynasty urgently need scientific tools to save lives?
Not so eager yet.
Contrary to the desire for quick success and instant benefit, natural philosophy is to lay the foundation for future generations - he does not wish to see the unification of the four basic forces in his lifetime.
Since there is no rush, we must proceed steadily.
On the one hand, it established academies to select students, gave them corresponding social status, and supported corresponding interest groups.
On the one hand, the leader is allowed to lead the backbone to innovate, slowly evolve, and establish a system based on its own cultural connotation.
Even if you read what Liu Sanpao has chewed, you cannot directly show the translation to students.
Only local culture derived from one's own thinking will be more stable.
If it's all Westernization, what's the point?
Li Chengming didn't understand what he heard, and he didn't understand what mourning meant. He just nodded thoughtfully: "No wonder the translations selected by His Majesty are so ancient. It turns out that he doesn't want to affect the students' true nature."
Zhu Yijun chuckled: "Self, this word is used correctly, it is indeed to maintain the self, but it is not just for students."
"Also, it's not that I deliberately picked something so ancient, but in the past thousand years in the West, mechanical thinking has been neither advancing nor retreating."
"Not much better than us."
Galileo and Newton were still young at this time.
Natural philosophy has not yet become a system.
Only after relying on philosophical speculation and delegating the authority to judge right and wrong from the Bible to scientific argumentation, that is, decentralizing it, can these people start a sect.
This point is very similar to today's Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun put the "Book of Calculation" in his hand into Li Chengming's arms: "If you finished reading "Elements of Geometry" last time, you can take a look at this."
After reading geometry, it’s time to learn Fibonacci algebra.
Zhu Yijun glanced at his cousin, "Hey, it's a pity that my talent is limited. I can only learn from the predecessors and cannot introduce new ones. Otherwise, after one plus one, I will start to do algebra synthesis."
Li Chengming, who was secretly ridiculed, didn't know it and silently accepted the translation given by the emperor.
Then he bowed respectfully: "Your Majesty, I will escort your Majesty back to the palace."
The emperor secretly came out and if he didn't go back early, he would be discovered by Empress Dowager Li. The unlucky one would definitely not be the emperor.
Zhu Yijun was displeased: "I have just come out, why are you so anxious? I will move into my dormitory the next day, and I won't have this chance by then."
Li Chengming looked bitter and was speechless.
Seeing this, Zhu Yijun comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, Governor Gu and the Jin Yiwei are following you. I don't know how to play with the white dragon fish suit."
Li Chengming raised his head and glanced at Gu Huan, the governor of the capital camp next to the emperor, and reluctantly raised his lips.
He looked uneasy and asked cautiously: "Where else is Your Majesty going?"
Zhu Yijun had already made a plan and smiled: "Isn't there a literary gathering at Gu Xiancheng's club tonight? Find me a private room with a good view and a clear hearing, and I'll go and listen."
Chapter completed!