After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

"Your Majesty, the distance between Daming and Tianfang does not seem to be far away." A minister visually measured the distance between the two sides, pointed to the map and introduced to the crowd, "Tianfang's Mughal Dynasty is adjacent to Uzang Lada Ke area. If Daming can set up a guard in Ladakh, the westernmost part of Uzang, it will be able to connect with Tianfang.”

"At that time, the Ming Dynasty and Tianfang will be a whole."

After hearing the words, the officials looked at the map one after another, and found that it was exactly what the lord said.Ladakh is at the very edge of Uzbekistan at Rooster's Tail, with Kashmir nearby.

If Ladakh and Kashmir can be opened up, then Daming will be connected with Tianfang.

"It makes sense!" Zhu Yuanzhang took a serious look, and felt that what he said was right. He nodded and said, "This area is indeed the closest land distance between the Ming Dynasty and Tianfang."

"However, from the map, it seems that there is a mountain range in the Ladakh region, lying between the Ming Dynasty and the Tianfang Mughal Empire."

Zhu Yuanzhang searched along the map with a pole in his hand, and said, "This mountain range is called the Himalayas."

"My fellow ministers, there are many well-educated and well-informed people among you. Do you know whether the Himalayas are big or high?"

"If it's not too tall, you can consider manually shoveling it down, so as to open up the main road between the two countries. It will connect Daming and Tianfang."

"This..." Hearing the question raised by Emperor Zhu, the officials were embarrassed.

Everyone was silent, not daring to speak up.

They have thoroughly studied the so-called "sages" books of the Four Books and Five Classics.

But the size of the Himalayas is not recorded in the sage books.

Even some of the previous geography were looked down upon by these scholars, who thought they were miscellaneous books with strange skills and obscenities, and could not be put on the table.

Therefore, for these scholars of the Manchu Dynasty, including Liu Bowen, Song Lian, and Gao Qi, they were omnipotent in finding chapters and excerpts, choosing words, but they knew little about practical knowledge.

They couldn't answer Lao Zhu's casual question.

"Your Majesty, I guess that this Himalayas must be very high and very large," said a minister.At this time, the crowd doesn't even have the concept of map scale, and everything can only be guessed.

"What is the basis for Aiqing's guess?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"I don't have any basis, just a guess based on common sense." The civil servant said, "If your majesty really wants to know the height and size of the Himalayas, ask Duke Wei Deng Yu if he knows soon?"

"Deng Yu and Mu Yinger will follow the order to conquer Wusi Tibet, and bring Wusi Tibet into the territory of Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the two of them must know the geography of Wusi Tibet very well."

"Makes sense!"

"Makes sense!"

The rest of the ministers seconded the proposal one after another.

"We want to know the human geography of the Himalayas right away, and we don't want to wait so long. If you can't answer such a trivial matter, what's the use of the court supporting you?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with some hatred, "If this matter is related to As for the emergency military situation, are you the same as now, let us ask others?"

The officials were ashamed and speechless when they heard the words.

"Deng Yuyuan is in Uszang, so he can't call back for inquiries in a short time. It's okay to ask Mr. Qin." Liu Bowen said, "I heard that Mr. Qin and Xu Da have returned from Tianfang, and they will arrive in Yingtian soon..."

"It seems that's all there is to it." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "These scholars really don't know what to ask."

"Da Ming, what do you want me to do?"

"The common people pay their tax burdens and anoint you with the fat of the common people, but you don't even know whether the Himalayas are tall or short. Common people, you have been raised for nothing."

"My Majesty, the sage books I read before have no such knowledge..." Liu Bowen said awkwardly.Being reprimanded by the emperor in this way, not only Liu Bowen, but also the scholars in the whole court felt humiliated and wished to find a crack in the ground to sneak in.After reading sage books all my life, I finally became useless.

Even when the emperor asked them the size of the Himalayas, they couldn't answer.

"It seems that we should eliminate Confucianism and study natural science, which is correct." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "Mr. Qin said that physics, chemistry and mathematics are not the knowledge of gods, but natural science."

"We should pay attention to practical natural science, but should be immersed in the Four Books and Five Classics that are only humanly sophisticated."

""University", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects" and "Mencius", these so-called sage books, what have we learned after thousands of years? Hundreds of years later, they were invaded by foreign powers and suffered a hundred years of humiliation!"

"Being shit on the head of a small country called Wa!"

"The entire nation has lost self-confidence, and people are so disappointed and blind that even Chinese characters want to be abolished!"

"The heirs of the dragon have become the heirs of the worm."

"The so-called quintessence of the so-called sages' books is that the technology is hundreds of years behind the West, just being rubbed on the ground by others? Such a sage's book like the quintessence of the country, it doesn't matter if you don't want it."

"Your Majesty, you said that our nation will be invaded by foreign powers in a few hundred years, and will be shit on the head of Japan?" Liu Bowen stepped forward and said, "Who said all this?"

"It was deduced by Mr. Qin." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"It turns out to be like this." Liu Bowen sighed, "Actually, I have also deduced the situation 500 years later, which is similar to the result deduced by the Dean. It’s actually all deduced, and it’s so detailed. Dean, you really are a god!”

"Mr. Qin said, if we can change now, there is still time!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Mr. Qin is in Lujia Village. We have arranged the knowledge of the popes, such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, into books. Then, they will be printed and distributed on a large scale across the country, and will be used as basic education textbooks and distributed to all provinces!"

"Nine-year compulsory education in natural sciences is implemented, and the subsequent imperial examinations are also for physical chemistry, mathematics, and Chinese."

"Your majesty is wise!" Li Shan said, "From now on, our Chinese nation will no longer study the Four Books and Five Classics, but study natural science instead."

"To be honest, the knowledge in the Four Books and Five Classics, the doctrine of the mean, and the ethics are all sophistication of the world without any practical use. But physics, chemistry, and mathematics have strong practicality."

"We descendants of the Yellow Emperor should not be trapped in the quagmire of sophistication,"

"Should come out of it and try to develop science."

"Goodness, you are right." Zhu Yuanzhang said.The ancients were not stupid. Once they broke the shackles of Confucianism, they would soon understand what development really benefits the country, the people, and the Han family.

"Goodness, you are the first chief examiner of the imperial examination." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "So, the important task of carrying out compulsory education in natural science in Daming is entrusted to you."