The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 88 Rapid Fermentation

Europeans who entered the Age of Discovery accumulated knowledge much faster than any previous era known to mankind.

This advantage in knowledge cannot be compensated by individual talent.

Therefore, even if Xu Guangqi in the original history later became a pavilion elder, had seen the big scenes in Liaodong, and had a vision worthy of the Ming Dynasty, he would still show a kind of pious stupidity in front of a small European missionary, and treat others nonsense. Write down your random words as truth.

According to the original history, Xu Guangqi should have entered Christianity at this time, but in the 27th year of Wanli in this time and space, he saw Wang Wenlong's "History of Portugal".

Xu Guangqi had previously come into contact with Italian missionary Guo Jujing in Shaoguan, and was fascinated by the Europe described by Guo Jujing.

But he did not know that many of them were based on the nonsense of missionaries.

After reading "History of Portugal", anyone with a brain can judge that the content written in "History of Portugal" is more like real history, and based on "History of Portugal", we can probably imagine what the living conditions of Europeans are like.

At this time, by comparing the European countries that Guo Jujing had described to him before, Xu Guangqi could directly tell in which aspects Guo Jujing had lied.

Xu Guangqi is just religious about technology, not stupid. He also doesn't like to be deceived.

When he discovered that the missionaries were full of nonsense, he instantly felt a strong resistance to Christianity.

This feeling comes very naturally.

According to the "History of Portugal", these missionaries are just ordinary priests in Europe. They are roughly equivalent to ordinary monks with ultimatums. In the Ming Dynasty, they would have to take the initiative to dress up and pay tribute to him, the master of the people. characters.

In the end, these guys actually dared to fool him around. How could Xu Guangqi not be disgusted?

Xu Guangqi closed the book and thought for a while, then spread out his pen and paper and quickly wrote down his thoughts on "Tianyan Lun":

"Combining the theories of "The History of Portugal" and "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", it can be seen that the scholarship of Westerners was not given by God. First, the Portuguese sailed to open up the sea frontiers. Countries rushed to develop ships and guns, cultivate land, and compete with each other. This is the competition of things, and then knowledgeable people observe its principles, put forward opinions and verify them, and choose the good ones to keep. This is natural selection..."

Now Xu Guangqi felt that his previous pursuit of those missionaries was stupid and never wanted to mention it again. Instead, he highly praised Wang Wenlong's "History of Portugal" and this "Tianyan Lun".

He felt that the idea of ​​natural selection in "The Theory of Evolution" was the best way to develop science and technology.

At this time, he still believed that the Ming Dynasty needed to learn Western technology, but after reading "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", he began to try to examine the technological development process from a scientific perspective.

"Tianyan Lun" directly prompted Xu Guangqi to condense the discussion of scientific deduction method.

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Capital, Guozijian.

Yuan Hongdao, who had just been promoted to an assistant professor at the Imperial College, was writing an article with a frown on his face.

A year ago, he came to the capital to help his brother Yuan Zongdao handle affairs, but he didn't expect to be unable to leave after he arrived, and his brother left him as an official in the capital.

Yuan Hongdao is not an official at all. Last year he became a professor at Shuntian Prefecture. He didn't do much. Instead, he took Xie Zhaozhe, Huang Hui and other friends who were also in the capital to run to Chongguo Temple in the west of the city to organize He founded a "Grape Club" and went to lecture on poetry every day.

Even if he is like this, he still has the nerve to write in "Manjing Travel Notes": "The only person who can't wander around and wander around in the mountains, rocks, grass and trees is this official." - All because he is still an official, Otherwise, I would be so happy playing among the rocks, vegetation and trees every day.

His subordinates were so angry that they would curse after reading this article.

It seems that Mr. Yuan came to the capital not to serve as an official, but to create.

This year Yuan Hongdao was assigned to the Imperial College as a teaching assistant.

For others, this is a good and noble job, but Yuan Hongdao suffers from giving lectures every day and feels that it is easier than being Professor Shuntian.

At this time, Yuan Hongdao was working in the Imperial College classroom when he suddenly heard someone calling from outside, "Brother Zhonglang, come and read this article."

When Yuan Hongdao heard the voice, he knew it was editor Huang Hui's voice. Without saying a word, he dropped his pen and stood up. When the guy passed by his boss's desk, he smiled and said, "Take a leave of absence." Then he ran away like a storm.His boss had long been accustomed to asking the supervisor to bring over Yuan Hongdao's unfinished speech.

The boss read it for a long time and found that although the manuscript was written hastily, it was extremely well written. He could only smile bitterly and said: "Yuan Zhonglang has such talent, why can't he concentrate on his work?"

Yuan Hongdao's brother is an official in the East Palace, and even his superiors have a hard time talking about him.

Outside the house, Huang Hui, the Hanlin editor and editor from Sichuan, saw Yuan Hongdao coming out and hurriedly thrust a pamphlet of "Tianyan Lun" into his hand.

Yuan Hongdao glanced at the author's name and couldn't wait to open it and read it.

After reading it silently, Yuan Hongdao's eyes lit up: "This is a truly thought-provoking and clear discussion, which is in line with the reforming style of writing. Let's go find some social friends and write an article together to respond."

Since all things compete with each other, why can only one style of writing prevail in the literary world?Let's all compare it to see who is more popular and then praise whoever is more popular!
As an advocate of the Xingling School, what Yuan Hongdao read in "Tianyan Lun" was theoretical support for reforming the traditional style of writing in the literary world at this time.

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Lanxi, Zhejiang.

A landowner was thoughtful after reading "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution".

He called his son and said: "Go and try to plant the sweet potatoes we got back from Fujian for business!"

The son asked in surprise: "Didn't my grandfather say that sweet potatoes are something that our ancestors have never grown, so we can't grow them? Should we continue to grow cassava in that field this year?"

The small landowner shook his head and said: "Our ancestors also learned to grow cassava and then discovered that it can feed people and successfully survive the drought, thus earning today's family business. Our ancestors also learned to grow cassava through trial and error, so why can't we now Try planting sweet potatoes? If successful, there will be another kind of ration in the countryside, which may become a treasure to tide over famines in the future!"

"Mr. Jianyang's book is right. How can things in this world be born like this?"

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Haicheng County, Zhangzhou.

A poor scholar who had failed many times finished reading "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", gritted his teeth and took off his turban. He said to his surprised wife:

"Since I can't study well, I might as well go overseas to do business!"

"All things in the world compete with each other, and the one who is best in me will be the best. In this way, doing business may not be worse than studying."

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Even the rebels must read "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution".

Kuizhou, Sichuan.

Several bandits nesting in the mountains listened to the teacher they captured read the "Tianyan Lun" book. After explaining it for a long time, they finally understood it. The bandit leader was full of excitement and slapped his thigh: "This book makes sense. !”

"The commentary said that there were 64 rebels against the king and [-] smoke and dust. Everyone was fighting for the world. In the end, Emperor Zhu and his family were favored by God and became the emperor. This is natural selection."

The husband glanced at him and thought that the Eighteenth Route Rebel King was from "Sui and Tang Dynasties". This mountain king must have heard of the story.

"If we rebel now, maybe God will choose us to be emperors. Natural selection will give us a chance. No need to ask, we will attack the county tomorrow!"

Now, in order to suppress Yang Yinglong, the imperial court mobilized a large number of troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, Sichuan, which made Kuizhou's defense lax, and these bandits gathered.These bandits were hiding in the mountains and robbing the caravans, but no one was there to take care of them, but they were so crazy that they wanted to attack the county town.

The teacher who was cowering aside was frightened to death when he heard this. He held "Tianyan Lun" in his hand and made up his mind to escape as soon as the bandits relaxed their guard at night.

Based on the strength of this group of bandits, if they really go down the mountain to attack the county, they probably have no chance of coming back.

(End of this chapter)