The rise of the prince

Chapter 582 Wangfu Academy (with popular science)

Some things always need someone behind the scenes.

Whether it is out of various considerations or out of interests.For example, the great things that Qifang and others did in Xia Kingdom cannot be said at all. Maybe decades later, when Xia Kingdom is gone, he can order someone to quietly write it into the history books.

But reality is often more exciting and cruel than drama.Some well-known fantasy writers in the West wrote about all kinds of evil deeds and crimes of human beings, and they couldn't even write them directly. Instead, they turned into some inhuman monsters and wrote directly. People didn't believe it.

But no matter how secret it is, someone will know it after all.

Your Majesty, Degong, He Zhao, and some high-level people in the palace.

The emperor was very happy about this matter, and he has asked him to enter the palace several times to ask about the details of this matter, and slowly studied his emotions, and repeatedly mentioned that he would wait for Qi Fang, Fang Xin and others to come back, and to meet them in person. They will be rewarded heavily.

Degong and He Zhao also frequently asked him about the whole story of this matter. They seemed to be very curious about how Qifang and others did it, and why they did it. Find all kinds of evidence.

But obviously, their discussions were not in-depth, or did not have a scientific spirit.

"What do you mean that you haven't gone deep?" Gillian asked in the evening, after dinner, when the evening breeze was blowing and talking.

Qiu'er leaned on his lap, listening to him quietly, Shiyu was looking at the accounts for the past two days, Gillian was helping out, and He Qian and Yue'er were playing the new game of backgammon he taught.

"A subjective floating summary, rather than an objective and quantitative exploration, is not in-depth." Li Xingzhou said that in the scientific spirit, quantification is very important.Gillian still doesn't understand.
Shiyu gave him a blank look: "Anyway, he can never understand what he said."

Li Xingzhou laughed and did not refute.

The discussion between Degong and He Zhao always focused on summarizing the experience of the predecessors and himself. When he heard that the people of Xia State were crazy about profit, Degong said with emotion, "All the prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world is full of prosperity for profit." , Tai Shigong is really right, he is worthy of being called Tai Shigong.

Speaking of good and evil, Degong felt that this incident proved Mencius's "human nature is evil". On weekdays, the people of the Xia Kingdom were able to farm, raise livestock and do business in peace, so good is the main thing, but only because of the lure of interests, there are evil deeds.

However, He Zhao disagreed. He believed that this just showed that Han Feizi and other Legalists were right. "Human nature is inherently evil." , the nature will be exposed immediately.
The weather was just right in the afternoon, and in the small garden in the backyard, the flowers were in full bloom, and the sun was rising three poles. The two of them came and went, citing scriptures, from Confucianism and Law, to Buddhism and Taoism. No one can convince anyone, each insists on his own words.

I'm going to go back tonight and think about it, and come here tomorrow to argue.

Li Xingzhou watched it funny and wanted to laugh.

In fact, the debate between the two is still a judgment based on experience summarization, without in-depth and scientific spirit.

Li Xingzhou is not surprised by this, nor does he mean to belittle it, at least De Gong is much more enlightened than those stubborn old people in court.

Taoism and Buddhism were relatively popular in Jingguo, and the emerging Confucian Neo-Confucianism itself was a hybrid of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

But the theory itself also does not have the spirit of science, because people's cognition of the relationship between man and nature follows Dong Zhongshu's theory of "interaction between man and nature".

And Li Xingzhou knew that if he didn't intervene, it would continue until a thousand years later, when people who were intoxicated by the connection between heaven and man were blasted away by the merciless Western artillery fire.

So for Qiu'er, Shiyu and the others, Li Xingzhou only let them read "Xunzi", and distributed a copy of "Xunzi" to all the stewards and craftsmen of the palace, so that they could read it when they had time, regardless of whether they could read or not.

There is a big gap between science and judging and summarizing based on experience.

A question like this: Why do people become anxious, restless, panicked and irritated with the development of technology?

Once this kind of question comes up, there must be countless experts, scholars, and celebrities from all walks of life jumping out to give you all kinds of answers.Some say that young people have become impetuous; some say that electromagnetic waves affect brain waves; some say that this generation has lost the peace of mind;
These various answers seem to be very scientific. Thinking about it, it seems that there is some truth in all of them, but I can't tell where the truth is.

This is an empirical summary, which can also be called pseudoscience because it does not have scientific thinking.It's like someone telling you that "eating sheep's tail behind the door can cure stuttering", maybe someone can really eat it.

A person with a real scientific spirit, or he will tell you: I don’t know;

Or he told you: This is because when a person is emotionally excited, the sympathetic nerves are collectively activated, and the released norepinephrine and adrenaline will cause a large amount of activity in the whole body and blood flow to the limbs, which will lead to these situations.This is the survival instinct of human beings. When stimulated by a large amount of information, the blood will flow to the limbs and the heartbeat will speed up.

The brain is what keeps your body ready to run or fight, a response that allowed our ancestors to survive harsh situations.But in peacetime, this survival instinct will cause the brain to misjudge and put people into a state of stress, leading to restlessness, anxiety, and irritability, because the more advanced technology is in modern life, the more people are stimulated by a large amount of information.

The solution is to control yourself, reduce the external stimuli you receive at the same time, how far you move, and try to concentrate on one thing, such as eating when you try to eat, instead of watching videos or listening to music while eating.Concentrate on the things in front of you when studying and working, and don't multitask, which can reduce the stimulation of this survival instinct.

This is the answer of science, science is always quantitative, pursues the objective origin, is operable and forward-looking, and will not tell you some ambiguous conclusions like astrology.

The debate between De Gong and He Zhao seems reasonable, but it is obviously not scientific.

Li Xingzhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart. It is a long way to go to popularize the spirit of science, unless one day people all over the world accept Xunzi's theory, and first establish in their hearts the concept of "the destiny is permanent, and people can control it and use it" ,.

Everything has to be done step by step.
Let's start by letting the students of the academy teach the children "Xunzi".

The palace's own academy was converted from the Yongyue Pavilion, which can be said to be very tall.

The teacher also followed Li Xingzhou's request, and hired a scholar who was not very old. The children in the palace are the grandson Gu Qi and the granddaughter Gu Yan; Ji Chunsheng's son Ji Xiaming, daughters Ji Xiali and Ji Xiayu; Zhao Pu, the youngest son of the four families, and Yan Li, the grandson of Yan Kun, are all studying in the college.

At first, Gu Feng and others were opposed to granddaughters or daughters going to school, but Li Xingzhou told them, what can children do if they don't study?There is no shortage of that little money in the palace, and then under the strong demand, as long as the children under the age of 12 are sent to the academy.

And it's not just the children of the palace. After his cousin Li Yu heard about it, he sent his son Li Si to study in the academy. On the other hand, when Prince Kang heard about this, he insisted on sending his 35-year-old son and 36-year-old daughter to the academy. They are twins. They are only seven years old. The elder brother is Li Qi and the younger sister is Li Shuang.

Li Xingzhou counted his fingers, damn it, this old man is really disrespectful
The teacher invited is mainly to teach the children how to read. As for "Xunzi", he is going to teach the children himself when the children have almost mastered the basics.

While Li Xingzhou was busy at both ends of the Academy and the Privy Council, on the morning of the last day of April, Meteor, wearing a red robe with a flag on his back, galloped across the street and hurried through Kaiyuan City, bringing a shocking good news!
(End of this chapter)