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Chapter 1035 The Old Man Throwing Iron Balls 2
But finding it does not mean it is useful. Some of them are not doing well, while some are doing quite well. It is hard to get them to travel thousands of miles to a strange Eastern country to continue their research work. From language to living habits to academic environment, there are huge gaps in all aspects.

As long as your thinking doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than problems. It's basically fantasy to let Hong Tao rely on memory to reverse scientific theories, but it's still possible to let him fool people.

The first is the language problem. In fact, the language should not be an obstacle. The official and folk languages ​​of the Ming Empire are both Chinese, but as long as students can graduate from secondary schools, they can definitely use Latin, so there is no particularly big obstacle in communication.

The second is living habits. In the 17th century, the diet between the East and the West was not as distinct as it was in later generations. It was not too difficult for missionaries and businessmen who came to the Ming Dynasty from Europe and officials who served as ambassadors from the Ming Dynasty to Europe to adapt.

Finally, there is the academic environment, which is indeed quite different. At that time, Europe already had dozens of relatively mature universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Bologna, Heidelberg, Prague, etc., and the academic research atmosphere was very strong.

Although many universities are supported or invested by the church, in addition to teaching theology, these schools also conduct relatively systematic discussions and research on natural sciences.

In contrast, in the Ming Dynasty, there were many private schools and academies, and the number of intellectuals was much greater than in Europe. However, most of these schools and people focused on the humanities, and very few studied natural sciences.

Although new schools and royal academies were established in recent years, and natural science courses such as mathematics, geometry, physics, chemistry, and geography were offered, they were limited to teaching and rarely involved deeper research.

This is not because the Han people are born dislike natural sciences or have no talent for them. It is mainly due to the influence of cultural heritage. Since the abolition of Confucianism, for 1,600 to 1,700 years, all Han intellectuals have taken the Four Books and Five Classics as the standard, and other subjects are miscellaneous. There is no system of natural sciences at the foundation.

It is not impossible to reverse this trend by relying solely on a few textbooks that Hong Tao came up with from nowhere. It just takes time, a very long time, perhaps even one or two generations, to see initial results.

However, after Hong Tao's unremitting efforts over the years, the Ming Empire also had a royal academy and many large Taoist temples. No matter how different the names and organizational forms were, what they did was basically the same, so it could be said that they were reaching the same goal by different means.

In fact, the biggest obstacle is not these tangible cultural and material foundations, but very subjective beliefs. The vast majority of Europeans at this time believed in Christianity, and it didn't matter which sect they belonged to.

However, in the Ming Empire, all Christian sects, like Buddhism and Islam, were in name only. Citizens had no choice but to choose Taoism as their only faith.

In the early 17th century, religion was still powerful, and the Inquisition was common in European countries. Asking a Catholic to live in the East was like asking a person living in a big city to live in a primitive tribe in the Amazon jungle. It was terrifying to think about it!

Even God and Buddha cannot resolve the gap between different religions, so Hong Tao naturally has no ability to mediate. But he has a way to make people ignore it for a short time, two words, interests.

As the ancients said, money makes the devil work. This sentence is very insightful and explains human nature. As long as you are a human, you can't avoid the word "interest". Someone said, I eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha, I don't like money or beautiful women, I refuse to be corrupted and never touch it.

There have indeed been such people in history, but it’s not that they don’t need benefits, but that they didn’t choose the right type of benefits. When it comes to benefits, the first thing that comes to people’s minds is money, and then power. Yes, these two are benefits, but they are too incomplete. There are too many types of benefits, almost covering every aspect of human needs.

Anything that can satisfy human desires can be called benefits. Human desires are endless, all-round, and ever-lasting. They are different for each individual, so they must be different for each person.

When it comes to politicians, money and beautiful women may not work, but as long as power is given, everyone will flock to them, and the specific degree of succumbing to it depends on the size of the power.

When facing a businessman, he may not be happy to be the director, but if you talk to him about a business that can make big money, especially the kind that is unique like the scorpion's shit, as long as the profit is high enough, it won't be a problem for him to kill people.

When it comes to women, power and money are certainly tempting, but compared to everlasting beauty, it is not clear which is more important. If you add a gentle, considerate, humorous and strong handsome man, you can throw away both.

When facing intellectuals, money, power, and beauty may not be extremely tempting, but don't let them find new topics that match their expertise. That thing is like a fisherman seeing free fishing in unexplored waters. He always feels itchy in his heart and has to try his luck whenever he has time.

If we add some specific ideas and inspirations, or the possibility of publishing the results to the world, it is like a fisherman seeing a lot of big fish swimming in the waters, he has to call and say he is on a business trip, pick up the rod and go fishing for half a day first.

Hong Tao likes to fool people and then enjoy the pleasure of success, which is actually also the pursuit of profit. It's just that his profit is more niche and niche, but it is still considered profit.

Galileo was fooled by his astronomical telescope and microscope. This father of modern science was revered by later generations, but he suffered a lot during his lifetime because his research results and academic views seriously undermined the foundation of the church and belittled the authority of God.

It is said that colleagues are enemies. In fact, science and theology are also colleagues. Both sides are using sets of theories to fool the public and hope that they will believe it.

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Theocracy started early and had a strong mass base, so it had the upper hand; natural science started later, had fewer followers, and was suppressed everywhere. But the latecomers were very aggressive, and every move hit the vital points of theocracy, and the momentum was quite fierce, so it was naturally severely suppressed by the church.

In 1632, the book Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems was published. In order to avoid risks, Galileo deliberately set the heliocentric theory as a hypothesis, but he still couldn't avoid it and still aroused the disgust of the church.

The following year he was found guilty by the Inquisition. Because he had friends in the high-ranking church who interceded for him, he was not burned at the stake like Bruno. Instead, he was sentenced to publicly renounce the heliocentric theory and was forbidden to write similar articles again. He then returned to his villa in Florence to reflect on himself. He was not allowed to see guests or move around freely, which was basically equivalent to house arrest.

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