Han Dao world

Chapter 1234
Liu Xie chatted with Zhou Buyi and Cao Chong for a long time.

He has high hopes for them.

The youth is the future, and the genius youth is the star that illuminates the future.

In the history of scientific development—especially in the early days of theory establishment—genius means more, and one person is likely to lead an era.

Galileo, Newton, Einstein are all such people.

Now that the East has the opportunity to lead the way of science, it also needs such talents. Zhou Buyi and Cao Chong are both very good seedlings.

He once expected Zhuge Liang to follow the path of scientific research, but Zhuge Liang was more interested in politics than pure theoretical research, so he had to give up and let Zhuge Liang do what he wanted more.

With Zhuge Liang's IQ, if he researches technology with peace of mind, he will definitely be a master.

So it takes one or even two generations to change the climate.Once a person becomes an adult, many ideas are fixed, and it is difficult to completely overturn them.

However, Zhou Buyi and Cao Chong are two blank sheets of paper, which can be planned calmly.

Taking the opportunity of discussing Buddhist scriptures, Liu Xie popularized the theories in modern physics that coincide with Buddhism to the two gifted teenagers, and emphasized the difference between science and religion.

Science can be falsified, and it is progressing in the process of constantly falsifying and preserving the truth.

Religion cannot be falsified, and no matter how subtle it is, it cannot be implemented.

Not only that, science can be falsified, even if it is contrary to common sense, it is only right, and it will eventually be proved to be right.If it is wrong, no matter how reasonable it may sound, it will one day be proven wrong.

Religion is not the case, because it cannot be falsified, and both positive and negative statements may be true, and differences are prone to arise, so that internal unity cannot be unified, and each holds its own and criticizes each other.

Zhou Buyi immediately thought of the struggle within the Confucianism sect, and looked a little embarrassed.

These religious characteristics mentioned by the Son of Heaven correspond to each other in Confucianism, and almost none of them fall into place.

Hearing Zhou Buyi's question, Liu Xie thought for a while and said, "Confucianism does have the possibility of being religious, but after all, Confucianism is more closely related to practice, and it will not go to the point where belief is effective and non-belief is ineffective. Even though the Confucian school highly respects the saints, and some people stick to the chapters and sentences in the classics, Confucianism has always been in line with the times. The Confucianism of Mencius is not the Confucianism of Confucius. The Confucianism of Xun is not the Confucianism of Meng. The Confucianism of Han is not Confucianism in the Warring States period. It is also out of this intention that Master Situ Yang advocated the re-revolution of Confucianism."

Zhou Buyi let out a long breath.

Of course, he had read Yang Biao's "On Confucianism Again", but he didn't understand it deeply at the time.Now after hearing the explanation from the Son of Heaven, I realize that re-revolution is by no means dispensable, but a necessary move for Confucianism to adapt to the new era.

If Confucianism cannot keep pace with the times, it will be eliminated and become a knowledge that cannot be implemented like Buddha Taoism.

This is a price that the Confucian sect cannot afford anyway.

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Not only Liu Xie, but also Yu Fan valued Cao Chong.

After looking through Cao Chong's arithmetic homework by chance, Yu Fan was surprised and delighted, and then told Liu Xie that he wanted to take in students again.

It is a very addictive thing to acquire the best talents in the world and teach them.After Lu Xun went west, Yu Fan always felt that the students in front of him were idiots, and he could no longer find the feeling he had when teaching Lu Xun.Seeing Cao Chong now, it was hard for him to resist such a temptation.

Liu Xie firmly refused.

He told Yu Fan that he would rather let Cao Chong study with Zhao Shuang and others than let Yu Fan teach Cao Chong.

The reason is very simple, Yu Fan is an all-rounder, and he also hopes that his disciples are all-rounders, and those who are partial are useless.

Lu Xun was most satisfied with him, because Lu Xun's goal was also to be an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs.

But he didn't want Cao Chong to become an all-rounder like Lu Xun. He hoped that Cao Chong would achieve academically.Cao Chong can enter the lecture hall, but he can only study ordnance, not military command and other knowledge.

This is also the reason why he has always refused to let Zhou Buyi go to the lecture hall to study military affairs.

Can they become famous generals?of course can.

But not worth it.

There is no shortage of famous generals in the big man, but there is a lack of real scholars.

The art of military command cannot bridge the gap in military technology.With the weapon of dimensionality reduction strike, an ordinary general can defeat a famous general.The art of military command has reached its peak after the appearance of Sun Tzu, and it is impossible to make a qualitative breakthrough, but the research of military technology has just begun, and the development space is amazing.

Yu Fan was very frustrated, but also felt that Liu Xie was right.

In turn, he proposed to expand the enrollment of the ordnance department of the martial arts hall, recruit as many talented students as possible, and train them from a young age.After listening to Liu Xie's ideas about the steam engine last time, they went back and studied it a little bit, and found that there were many problems to be solved, and I'm afraid it couldn't be done by just messing around.

Liu Xie was somewhat surprised.

He never said that the steam engine is simple and can be completed by just doing it casually. He also planned to form several working groups to break down the research work into several projects and tackle key problems separately.

How could it be so easy in the mouths of Yu Fan and others?

Liu Xie and Yu Fan had a careful discussion before realizing that he had oversimplified things.In other words, the craftsmen in the martial arts hall admired him too much, thinking that everything he proposed would definitely be completed, just like the few pieces of ordnance mentioned before.

But they all forgot one thing, the steam engine is not a simple machine, it involves the conversion of energy, which is an order of magnitude more difficult.However, when it comes to energy conversion, it is usually not an easy task, especially the one that requires continuous output and stable control.

Hydrogen bombs are easy to make, but controllable nuclear fusion is hard to achieve.

"Jijiu, you are too conceited." Liu Xieyu said earnestly: "Although you are a master of Yixue, the Tao that Yixue can embody is only metaphysical beauty. The subtle and specific details of Taoism are far beyond your imagination. Don't change this , you will never be able to touch the true Tao. Just like the mountains in the distance, you can only see the peak, but you cannot climb the peak, and you cannot appreciate the true beauty.”

Yu Fan was a little unconvinced. "Your Majesty's words, I dare not agree with you. What you said is a weapon, not a way. A gentleman is not a weapon..."

"A gentleman can't do it, or can't he do it?"

Yu Fan was at a loss for words.

Sitting on the side, Zhou Buyi and Cao Chong looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.They had all seen Yu Fan's arrogance before, but this was the first time they saw him deflated.

Despite this, Liu Xie agreed to Yu Fan's request to expand the enrollment of the ordnance major in the martial arts hall, and he continued to teach in person, and the scope was expanded from the original mathematics to physics and chemistry.

Judging from the practice in the previous period, Wei Boyang, Yu Ji and others talked about alchemy well, but they were not very good at explaining the principles.In the final analysis, they are still warlocks, not Taoists. They are proficient in art but not in Taoism.

In this regard, Liu Xie's advantage is very obvious.

"Prepare a set of exam questions, and recruit those who can pass the exam." Liu Xie scratched his head. "In case someone finds a way out again and tries to squeeze the child in to listen. The child is uncomfortable if he doesn't understand, and I am also uncomfortable."

Yu Fan deeply agrees. "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will write the question myself."

(End of this chapter)