Steam Daming: Stop calling me to supervise the country

Chapter 211 Theory of Biological Evolution

Just when Zhu Zhanchang was distressed about choosing a concubine, a conspiracy was slowly unfolding.

One afternoon a few days later, Zhu Di was discussing with the cabinet about the planning of the Mobei Xuancheng Chief Secretary. According to the three aspects of geography, tribe, and history, eighteen abruptly divided into the Mobei Xuancheng Chief Secretary.

This is still a preliminary discussion. Now they want to divide Mobei a little bit, and strike them. Some of them are obviously willing to be ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and they will give awards.

"This child, Zhanchang, has an active mind and thinks well."

"His Royal Highness is really a strange person."

When Zhu Xi was happy, a little eunuch hurried in and said something in Zhu Xi's ear with a flustered expression. Zhu Xi's face was furious.

"You all go down first, Weizhe, you stay." Zhu Di sent everyone away halfway through the discussion, leaving only the most trusted Xia Yuanji, and the rest of the cabinet naturally knew that it must be an extremely important matter.

When Yang Shiqi and others walked to the gate of the palace, they saw a person kneeling. It was Chen Yun, the ceremonial doctor of the Ministry of Rites who came to see him, and Tanhualang who had been in Yongle for 16 years.

This person has always been known for being able to give advice among people, and he is also a literate person who is articulate and eloquent.

Zhu Di in the study gave the secret letter handed by the eunuch to Xia Yuanji, and then he took a book handed over with "Origin" and looked at it.

The author column of the book has two names, Wenda and Zhu Zhanchang.

After reading the secret letter, Xia Yuanji was shocked.

"Your Majesty, you have to thoroughly investigate what is said in this letter, and even more thoroughly investigate the person who wrote the letter. His heart should be punished, but he actually framed the Prince of Zhujiang County with his intention to rebel!!!" Xia Yuanji immediately expressed his attitude.

"Do you know what was written in the book mentioned in his letter?" Zhu Di's tone was calm, but there was a hint of coldness.

Xia Yuanji did not answer.

Zhu Di continued, "I'll show you too. I just read a page, but what I said in the letter is correct. Just this first page has the intention of wanting to shake the ancestors of the gods, and is mad and rebellious."

Xia Yuanji took the book and opened it.

"Flowers, insects, birds, beasts and birds are not created by gods. All things have spirits, born in chaos, multiply, survive the fittest, and natural selection. Although humans have spirits, they are not created by Nuwa, and their natural appearance is similar to that of apes and monkeys. It should be derived from apes and monkeys for thousands of years, there are no gods and Buddhas in the world, and all things are derived from heaven.”

"There are no gods and Buddhas in the world, all things are derived from the sky, and humans are derived from monkeys. You say it's ridiculous." Zhu Di was both angry and funny.

Xia Yuanji turned two pages more than Zhu Di, but even a scholar like him couldn't read this kind of article, so he closed it and said, "Your Majesty, this book is absurd. , His Royal Highness the Prince of Pearl River County has always acted differently from ordinary people. Perhaps it was because of the interestingness of this book that people continued to write it. How can there be any intention to rebel, but the person who falsely accused should be punished properly. ."

"The one who plays is Chen Yun."

"Chen Yun?" Xia Yuanji didn't expect such a rising star in the officialdom to sue the emperor like this.

"His Majesty……"

"Let Chen Yun kneel outside first, come and call the Prince of Zhujiang County."

"Jokes, jokes, people come from monkeys, and even Emperor Wa dares to disrespect." Zhu Di asked the eunuch to call Zhu Zhanchang, but he was still talking, and he was indeed a little angry.

The young Zhu Zhanchang was still worried about where his love was going. When my youth was flowing down the river, the eunuch came to pass him on.

As soon as he stepped into Zhu Di's study, Zhu Di threw the book in front of him: "Have you read this book yourself?"

Zhu Zhanchang picked up the book, and it said [Origin] on the cover. It was a book he asked Wenda to write. It was intended to be a textbook for biology at Nanhai University. With the origin of the name written by Wenda himself, he only gave Wenda some ideas and ideas, but Wenda insisted on writing his name as well.

Zhu Zhanchang picked up the book, smoothed the folds and said, "Grandpa Huang, my grandson has read this book."

"It's a ridiculous statement that makes people laugh, and you dare to write your name on it?"

At this time, as long as Zhu Zhanchang said a joke, the matter was over like this, and at most two words were said.

But since Zhu Zhanchang asked Wenda to write this book, he made up his mind to write out the theory of evolution for people to know. Although these ideas are relatively advanced, in history Darwin suffered a lot because he said that man was a monkey and changed. Years of ridicule, but someone has to do it. Since this person has been discovered, he cannot be allowed to sink.

"Grandpa Huang, I read the book, and my grandson thinks that many of them are indeed reasonable." Xia Yuanji was surprised by Zhu Zhanchang's words.

"What's the point?" Zhu Di said coldly, the emperor who was high above had no smile on his face.

Xia Yuanji hurriedly persuaded: "The old minister also read this book just now. The angle is novel and the words are interesting, but it can be regarded as a new type of novel reading. His Highness has been in contact with newspapers and novels all the year round, so he should want to use it as a novel manuscript."

Xiayuan Kedah's roundabout, I hope Zhu Zhanchang will close it when he sees it, and go down the stairs. Zhu Di's theory about this book is indeed very uncomfortable, and it is equivalent to an anomaly at the moment.

After all, the power of the emperor is granted by heaven, and all emperors call themselves the Son of Heaven. Now you want to overthrow the way of heaven, saying that there is no god, no Buddha, and our ancestors were not created by Nuwa, but evolved by monkeys.

This does not completely overturn the theory of imperial power and divine authority. It seems that it does not matter much, but once this theory takes root in the hearts of the people, it will be over.

Whether it is Buddhism or Taoism, there are gods. Although Huaxia is not as extreme as Western beliefs, if you are not good, you will be called a heretic and you will be burned to death, but if you shout in your temple that the Tathagata is a monkey, it is estimated that you still have to beaten.

The biggest enemy of the theory of evolution is theocracy, which is much better than the West in China. Zhu Di is still treating it as a joke. If it was the West in this era, Wenda would have been arrested and killed.

But Zhu Zhanchang ignored Xia Yuanji's roundabout, but did not answer Zhu Di's question.

"Grandpa Huang, I want to meet this participant."

"What do you want to do?"

"I just wanted to ask him, what's his motive?"

Zhu Di stared at Zhu Zhanchang with a pair of eagle-like eyes, and the gaze from the Great Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was menacing.

"Come on, bring Chen Yun in."

Xia Yuanji stood aside, knowing that today's events would not pass easily, but Zhu Zhanchang seemed to be not as harmonious as when he was a child, and he refused to give in just for the trivial matter of today.

Chen Yun walked in. It was an elegant young man with a face like the kind of person who can't make a joke, the kind of person who would fight if he didn't understand something on the basketball court.

"My minister, Chen Yun, the clerk of the Ministry of Rites, see Your Majesty."

The Ritual Master of the Ministry of Rites is the person who supervises the Ritual System in the secondary school of the Ministry of Rites, and it is the things that Zhu Zhanchang likes to overstep the most.

"Chen Yun, you wrote that the Prince of Zhujiang County participated in compiling this book, intending to rebel. You know that if there is no real evidence to slander the emperor's grandson like this, it is a serious crime of beheading."

"Your Majesty, as a minister of etiquette, I naturally understand this principle, but I only occasionally read this book, and what is written on it is all outrageous, contrary to the principles of heaven, and the minister is His Majesty's minister. Courtesy of people."

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanchang: "Zhanchang, what do you have to say?"

Zhu Di didn't want to let Chen Yun come in at first, he just wanted to let Zhu Zhanchang casually say that this was a joke, it would be fine to fool him, but Zhu Zhanchang's attitude made him a little uncomfortable, so Chen Yun came in and confronted him in court. , you have to say why.

"Where is the great rebellion, where are the words that go against the principles of heaven?"

"The book records that Wenda took a merchant ship to various places in the South China Sea and to Australia. There are creatures like turtles and fish on many islands. There are slight differences. It is said that different environments have produced different evolution directions. Then I asked His Royal Highness, Guangzhou and Shuntian Prefecture, the geographical environment, weather and climate are different, why haven't they evolved into two different people?" Chen Yun said righteously.

"So he put forward a hypothesis, and you think it is absurd, contrary to the principles of heaven and the general rule? Since Chen Langzhong is a Tanhualang, then the story of the two children's debates should be known. To distinguish right from wrong, did the sage Confucius say that the two children are rebellious and contrary to the principles of nature, and now Dawen just expresses his own thoughts and you give him a big hat, who will dare to ask questions in the future of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty? Dare to explore?"

Chen Yun still did not change his face: "Da Wen said that people evolved from monkeys, doesn't he say that the ancestors of ministers were monkeys, that the ancestors of His Majesty were monkeys, the ancestors of Emperor Taizu were monkeys, and the ancestors of Nuwa Fuxi, Shennong, Yan and Huang were monkey?"

"Pangu opened the sky, Nuwa created man, the three emperors established the country, and the five emperors opened the border. Are they all a group of monkeys playing and playing."

Xia Yuanji shouted when the situation was not good: "Chen Yun, you are bold!"

Chen Yun hurriedly saluted: "Chen Yun, a scholar, just speaks uprightly and directly for the country."

Daming never lacked advice.

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Zhanchang: "What did you say about what Chen Yun said just now?"

"Grandpa Huang, when my grandson said that there is no horse to drive a car and no wind to make a boat, no one believed it. The grandson looked at the lid of the kettle and invented the steam engine, which made everything a reality. It has only been five or six years. Time, the rivers and seas in Daming are all steamboats, and the train from Tianjin to Shuntianfu has already passed, why can't people make assumptions? Can't make people guess?"

Chen Yun replied: "His Royal Highness, the hypothesis is not nonsense, the conjecture is not random thinking, what is said in the book is too unfounded, without root and no basis, Wei Chen suspects that this Dawen has deceived His Royal Highness, he may be from some small sect. Those who confuse the Ming Dynasty, such as the pseudo-Buddhism of the Tang Dynasty, wantonly build temples in the name of Buddha, occupy land to oppress the people, and make people miserable.

Xia Yuanji knew the emperor best, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, the Yongle Gold List encourages folk inventions and creations, and there are more and more new creations, and cultural creation is one of them. , why don't your Majesty give the order to stop the printing of this book first."

Then he said to Zhu Zhanchang: "His Royal Highness, this book is really too unbelievable. After a lot of speculation, it will be published. What do you think?"

Xia Yuanji gave a compromise solution, and Zhu Zhanchang also understood that maybe the theory of evolution was too advanced, the emperor obviously didn't like it, and he had to wait if he wanted to. Just listen.

At this time, Chen Yun spoke again: "Your Majesty, Wenda, who wrote such a demonic book, I ask Your Majesty to order someone to arrest him and bring him to justice, and behead him for public display."

"You TMD." For the first time in so many years, Zhu Zhanchang wanted to scold his mother in front of the court.

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