Zhu Zaiyu was silent, thinking hard for a long time, and then said cautiously: "Generally speaking, it seems to make sense, and it is indeed colder than before in recent years, but there is such a thing as climate temperature difference... Gao Longwen, you and
That's all I'm talking about. Let's just discuss and study it, but don't spread it at will. After all, there are still many fans of the theory of telepathy between heaven and man."
Gao Pingshi felt relieved. It seemed that no matter whether Zhu Zaiyu believed in the Little Ice Age or not, at least he should think that he was a thinking person, so he would even care about himself.
However, Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "Thank you Mr. Jiu Feng for the suggestion, but it doesn't matter. I am a student of the same lineage, from Duke Wang Junchuan to Duke Xuan of my third uncle's high school, but I have always opposed the theory of telepathy between heaven and man.
I haven’t seen anyone shouting, beating or killing us.”
Gao Pragmatic's words are really not nonsense. Practical scholars in the Ming Dynasty, especially those in the lineage of Wang Tingxiang and Gao Gong (Gao Gong is considered to have inherited Wang Tingxiang's lineage), have always clearly opposed the theories of heaven and man's induction and various ghosts and gods.
Not only did he oppose it verbally, but he also wrote it into works and even memorials. After all these years, he has never been beaten or killed for it.
Of course, there must be academic debates, but they are basically just wars of words and writing, with little sublimation.
This is not surprising. Heretical thinkers like Li Zhi can live well, which is enough to prove that the Ming Dynasty has no control over public opinion. Especially for the scholar-officials, apart from shouting "Down with the brutal rule of the Zhu family", it may be a bit troublesome.
Others belong to the category of academic debate and will not be discussed online.
You must know that compared to the practical theory of economics, Li Zhi, the self-proclaimed "Confucian heretic", has more radical ideas. He even dared to openly oppose Confucius's view of right and wrong as the standard of right and wrong, and his critical edge was directed at the Neo-Confucianism of the Song Dynasty.
Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Zhang Zai, and Zhu Xi denounced Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as pseudo-Taoism. He also advocated human equality, respect for women, freedom of marriage, individuality... and even advocated anarchism!
Li Zhi is not dead yet, is he so pragmatic?
As for the issue of the induction of heaven and man and even Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, Gao Pragmatic did not put it in Gao Pragmatic's eyes. The reason was identity! If Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Ma Fang, Liu Xian and others were to stand up and speak out against Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, they would definitely be criticized.
Criticize the bad things, but if he stands up and opposes Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in a pragmatic way, he will definitely not do it!
Everyone in the world knows that he is the successor of Gao Gong, and Gao Gong's practical thoughts were learned from Wang Tingxiang. How did Wang Tingxiang criticize Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism? He said Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was "pseudo-Confucianism"! Gao Gong did the same, and directly denounced Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Neo-Confucianism is "thinking about human feelings and thinking about heaven's principles"!
Gao Pragmatism is not afraid of criticizing Xinxue, because Wang Tingxiang still criticizes Xinxue’s theory of Xinxue as a heresy! Wang Tingxiang thinks that there is nothing outside the heart, which is all nonsense. The pragmatism school believes that all things are composed of "qi", and "qi" is divided into yin and yang.
It has two states and can be transformed into different forms, so "qi" itself is a physical object - this idea is almost close to the element.
However, it seems that although Zhu Zaiyu is a law sage, due to his status, he does not do much research on these topics that may be "politically related". Gao Pragmatic thought about it and decided to introduce it to him a little.
"In the past, Duke Wang Junchuan believed that the weather and stars could not be used to predict human affairs. He said: 'The sun and the moon are eclipsed and the stars are latitude and bright. The Li family can deduce it in reverse... It can be inferred and known. It is a certain degree of heaven. Of course,
Isn't it a false accusation to say that the government should be governed by human masters? This makes it impossible to explain it.'
He also said: "Heaven is one. There are thousands of countries in the world. Changes in celestial phenomena are all caused by the king of China. It is wrong to think that thousands of countries should respond to it, but the good and evil of the king's administration may not be the same."
"The sun and the moon are equal." Since Mr. Jiu Feng knows that the student is from the Gao family in Xinzheng and has inherited practical knowledge, he should know the student's position."
Zhu Zaiyu laughed after hearing this: "So, it seems that Zhu is worrying too much." However, the laughter was just a smile, and he soon became serious: "In this case, let's not worry about whether this Little Ice Age really has its own
Yes, it is possible, but what does that have to do with the cooperation between Prince Zheng’s Mansion and you, Gao Longwen?”
Gao pragmatic sighed: "Once such a situation really occurs, there will definitely be refugees everywhere. Once there are too many refugees, how will the court respond? In the past few years, students recruited refugees to open mines and factories. It was originally a helpless thing, but later it turned around.
Look, it seems that there is also a way..."
Zhu Zaiyu shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid there is a difference between the last time and this time. The refugees last time were actually from Shandong and Huaibei. However, the disaster in Henan Province was not serious. You use the profits from mining and factories in Henan to feed these people.
The reason why it is possible is that there is actually food in Henan, but the refugees could not afford it originally. But after being recruited by you, they have something to do and have savings, so that they can have money to buy food."
Zhu Zaiyu looked grim: "However, according to what you just said, once disasters occur, not only Henan, but also Northern Zhili, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places will be affected by large-scale disasters. By then, I am afraid that all northern provinces will be short of food...
...No matter how many refugees you recruit, no matter how many mines and factories you open, won't there still be trouble if you can't buy food?"
This is the key point. The Little Ice Age itself was not fatal, at least not how many people were directly frozen to death during the Little Ice Age. What was really fatal was that the disasters of the Little Ice Age severely affected the food production in the north. The original food production in the north was
The output is not as good as that of the south. Otherwise, why would the capital have a grain supply system? So if the north is still severely affected by disasters, there will definitely be a huge gap!
No matter how the land is distributed, the food produced on the ground in the north is not enough to feed so many people in the north, which is the source of the chaos in the north. And the bigger this shortfall is, the bigger the chaos will definitely be.
Of course Gao Pragmatic knew about corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, the three most high-yielding crops in South America, but his power in the south was insufficient. The people he sent had not been able to get the seeds so far, but they had only identified the Franconians in Luzon.
The robot seems to have the three things mentioned by the young master on hand, and is still trying to think of ways to sneak some out.
Pragmatic Gao understands this situation: the so-called Francois of Luzon are actually Spanish, but there is no official name for "Spain" at the moment. The current Spain is actually the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of Aragon, and
A common monarchy consisting of the lowland territories of the Netherlands. However, only the Kingdom of Castile has the right to colonize overseas.
Today's Spain is not a second-rate power in the future, but a true king. Its predecessor, Charles V, once said: "On my territory, the sun never sets." Therefore, it is the first empire in the world where the sun never sets.
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At this time, Spain had the Spanish Grand Phalanx that defeated Europe in terms of land warfare, and the world-famous Armada in naval warfare. It was its moment of glory—but the Dutch bourgeois revolution that had dragged Spain half to death was now over.
It has begun. In another ten years, the Armada will suffer its first major defeat, and the Maurice's Square will replace the Spanish Grand Square...but that is all for another time.
According to the provisions of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Pope Alexander VI divided all the Americas except Brazil to Spain (Castile). The Spaniards in Luzon came from the east of the Pacific Ocean.
The Americans came all the way west, and they also brought the seeds of some high-yielding crops in the Americas.
However, the Spaniards had not been in Luzon for many years, and had not even fully occupied this later Philippine territory. The seeds of high-yield crops in the Americas were still closely monitored by them.
Gao Pingshi didn't have much power in the south of the Ming Dynasty, let alone Luzon.
