Wentang

Chapter 700
The next day, Yue Shan came to the academy early.

As soon as he met Wang Ji, he said helplessly: "Can't you think about it when you speak, the good situation created by the rule of the Three Families was ruined by your words."

Yue Shan spread his hands and said: "The situation at that time allowed me to think so much. Choose one of the two and what do you think I can do."

Wang Ji sighed and said, "This is too bad luck."

He naturally understands what the so-called choice between the two is, either to make everyone believe that the heroine Chang is to improve the status of women, or to damage the reputation of the princess.

Maybe there is a better way to explain it, but when the incident happened, he didn't have time to think about it so much. It was very rare for him to think of this way to break the situation.

Yue Shan said: "However, it is good to cool down the governance of the Three Schools, but it is not a good thing to elevate its status too high."

Wang Ji said: "It's a pity that such a good opportunity, I still want to take advantage of the victory and pursue the attack to suppress the ancient school."

Yue Shan said: "You are thinking too simply. The new school has already passed the rapid development period, and the rest is slowly eating away. It is impossible to completely replace the ancient school within a few tens or hundreds of years."

Wang Ji said: "I understand the truth, but I just don't want to waste such a good opportunity."

Yue Shan smiled and said: "Speaking of which, there is really an opportunity to severely attack the Ancient School. I don't know if you dare to use it."

"Don't try to force me, tell me quickly if you have any ideas."

"Do you still remember the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"Four Books and Five Classics? That concept you put forward in Confucianism?"

"Yes, the ancient school is based on the "Seven Classics", and my new school is based on the Four Books and Five Classics, completely breaking with them. We have the support of the imperial court, and the academic and political system and the imperial examination system are under the control of my new school. The joint efforts of several companies can completely cut off the future of the ancient school."

Wang Ji sneered and said, "Your boy is really vicious, but I like it. If you don't dare, tomorrow I will summon the famous people of the new school to settle this matter."

The "Seven Classics" are different from the Four Books and Five Classics. For example, "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Mencius" are not included, but "Yili" which was criticized by Yue Shan is included.

"Yi Li" and "Li" are not the same book, the former is just a book that records the customs and etiquette rules of the Zhou Dynasty.

Yue Shan's abandonment of the "Seven Classics" to shape the core position of the Four Books and Five Classics is indeed a fatal blow to the ancient school.

Of course, the biggest trump card is that the academic and political system and the imperial examination system are in the hands of Xinxue.The government academies ensured that the standards they set were universal, and the imperial examination system forced those who wanted to become officials to accept this standard.

I stick to the bottom line and just don't accept it?The main purpose of everyone studying in this era is to become an official. If your school can't be an official, gradually, no one will learn it.

Just like the Confucianism of the Han Dynasty.

But if the new school really implements this new standard, it is equivalent to completely breaking with the ancient school.

In the past, although the competition between the new school and the ancient school was fierce, the classics used by everyone are still the same, but there are differences in interpretation.

Now the new school suddenly wants to abolish the Seven Classics and make up the Four Books and Five Classics. Although many books in the two are duplicated, such as the Analects of Confucius and the Book of Changes, the fundamental concepts have changed.

The ancient school will certainly not sit still, and the degree of resistance will be very fierce.

In the past, the foundation of new learning was relatively shallow, and Yue Shan only proposed this concept without focusing on its development.

After so many years of development, although the influence of the new school is still slightly inferior to that of the ancient school, with the blessing of the academic and political system and the imperial examination system, it still has overall strength.

There has been a complete split between capital and the ancient school.

This is also one of the reasons why so many people criticize him for arrogance and arrogance of classics, and he does not refute it. There is no need for a verbal battle, and even if you quarrel for a lifetime, you will not be able to tell the winner.

The best way is to solve this problem fundamentally.Isn’t your ancient school of thought taking the Seven Classics as its core, and isn’t it advocating "Yi Li", then I will remove this book from the core of Confucianism.

See how you still line up with me.

As for why Wang Ji is so keen on attacking ancient schools of thought, in fact, sometimes the minds of scholars are narrower, and they spare no effort to promote their own knowledge to attack dissidents.

This is the case for him, and he wished that the ancient school would be buried immediately.

Sometimes Yue Shan couldn't bear his radical style, but looking back, if it weren't for his style, the New School would not have the scale it is today.

Which academic founder in history did not travel the world to promote his knowledge?Confucius still traveled around the world.

Have you seen Yue Shan do this before?With the identity of the dean of the academy, I can't attend a few classes a week.Rely on him to promote new learning?The day lily is cold.

As the leader of the new school, he was only responsible for writing books, and it was Wang Ji who really promoted this school.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see this situation, otherwise, why would Wang Ji be able to instigate those celebrities of the New School with a single letter?
Convince the other party by his own knowledge?No, it actually relied on Xinxue's identity as the helmsman.

To ask Yue Shan to list a few people he is most grateful to, the undisputed eldest grandson Wugou is the first, Pei Ju is the second, and Wang Ji is the third.

Then there is nothing.

……

It didn't take long for others to arrive one after another.

Counting him, ten people attended the meeting, Wang Ji, Sun Simiao, Ma Cong, Wang Zhi, Tian Shungu and others.

Wang Zhi is the son of Wang Xiaotong, a famous mathematician in the early Tang Dynasty. His family has a high level of mathematics, but he was convinced by Yueshan's mathematics and joined the academy.The remaining Tian Shungu and others are the stewards of the various departments of the Gewu Academy.

Just by looking at the participants, one can guess that this meeting has a lot to do with Gewuyuan.

Yue Shan didn't say too many polite words, and went straight to the point: "The main purpose of calling everyone here today is to discuss the subject of fine chemistry."

"What is the discipline of refinement?" Wang Ji asked.Just now I was so busy discussing the Four Books and Five Classics that I forgot to ask about the purpose of today's meeting.

"To put it simply, it is to classify all kinds of knowledge according to the law." Yue Shan said:

"Big disciplines are divided into liberal arts and sciences. The knowledge of literature is collectively referred to as liberal arts, and the thoughts of Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, and Buddhism are all considered liberal arts. Science is the discipline of the principles of the operation of all things, such as the way of material changes in the investigation of things, the way of mathematics, etc. Wait."

"The liberal arts can also be refined, such as Confucianism, law, etc. The sciences can also be further refined, such as mathematics, medicine, etc."

"We don't need to pay attention to liberal arts. In fact, the academy has already had a preliminary subdivision. It is mainly science. There have always been only two categories of Gewu and medical schools. This is not conducive to long-term development."

"In fact, when I first founded the academy, I wanted to subdivide Gewuxue, but the power of Gewuxue was too weak at that time, and there was no need to separate it."

"Now Gephysics is gradually developing and growing. There are more than [-] students alone. Some time ago, the refining of three acids opened the door to material changes. The medical school has also stepped into a new level by using microscopes... It is time to further subdivide it. "

Everyone looked at him seriously, but no one spoke.

As long as you are not stupid, you can realize that this subdivision of disciplines is likely to affect the direction of academic development for thousands of years in the future.It is a great honor for them to be fortunate enough to participate in it, and they might be famous in history.

After pausing for a while and waiting for everyone to digest those words, Yue Shan said again: "For the time being, I am going to divide Gephysics into four subjects. The first subject is mathematics, so I don't need to explain it, everyone understands it."

Wang Zhi was naturally very happy to see that mathematics became a specialized subject independently.And he must be the first head of the mathematics department, a proper name in history.

"The second is physics, which is the subject of studying the principles of all things. Why does the stone fall down when it is thrown into the sky? Doesn't it keep flying towards the sky? The flight trajectory and acceleration of the stone when it falls from the sky..."

"There is a lot of knowledge in the Gewu book I wrote. I have split the part that belongs to physics, and I will share it with everyone when it is printed."

Tian Shungu was the happiest to hear the news. He has always been interested in the knowledge of physics instead of the so-called theory of change.

It's just that Ma Cong is a gentleman, and his preferences directly affect most people.Now that physics is an independent subject, they can gather like-minded people to study physics without interference.

Moreover, there is a high probability that he will become the head of the physics department, and his status in the world has improved.

"The third subject is chemistry, which is the study of the way of changing matter. I don't need to give too much introduction to this, as Mayuan is doing very well."

"The fourth door is relatively unfamiliar to everyone. It is closely related to chemical medicine. I call it biology. As the name suggests, it is the study of all living objects."

Finally, when something related to medicine was mentioned, Sun Simiao's spirit was shaken, and he pricked up his ears to listen.

"The knowledge of biology is closely related to medicine. I entrust the task of establishing this discipline to you, Daoist Sun. I don't know much about this aspect. I only know about the research directions. I wrote all these in the pamphlet Come on, I'll give it to you when the meeting is over."

Sun Simiao said happily: "Okay, don't worry, Dean, I will definitely do a good job in this biology." As long as it is beneficial to the development of medicine, he is interested.

Next, everyone began to discuss which knowledge belongs to which discipline, what overlaps exist between each discipline, how to cooperate when there is overlap, and so on.

After some discussion, everyone was surprised to find that all subjects are inseparable from mathematics.

Later, Yue Shan told them directly that liberal arts are the foundation of all subjects, and mathematics is the foundation of science.Now that everyone had no doubts, they discussed with Wang Zhi about setting up mathematics courses.

Wang Zhi had never received such attention before, so he was naturally very excited.He said on the spot that he would organize all the excellent teachers of the mathematics subject to offer mathematics courses for the other three subjects.

Then there is the issue of the separation of physics and chemistry. Originally, the two were unified in management and use of equipment, and students also taught together.Now it is no small trouble to separate.

How to allocate equipment, how to manage and use, how to allocate students... all need to be solved one by one.

But this kind of thing needs to be negotiated by themselves in private, and Yue Shan doesn't bother to take care of it.

He found Sun Simiao, gave him the booklet he had written before, and then explained to him what biology needs to be studied based on the booklet.

By the way, he also explained the difference between biology and medicine to Sun Simiao. Medicine was born out of biology but not equal to biology. It is also deeply related to physical chemistry.

Acupuncture, for example, uses physics knowledge.There are more chemical knowledge, and the important thing is that the medicinal materials play a chemical role and then treat the disease.

Afraid that he would not understand, Yue Shan gave an example: "Garlic does not actually contain allicin, but it contains two elements collectively called allicin. The two elements in complete garlic exist in harmony and exist independently. Smash them and they meet and chemically react to form allicin."

Sun Simiao immediately understood, and said that in the future, he would communicate more with the Department of Physics and Chemistry to promote each other.

Subdividing disciplines is easy to say and very troublesome to do. It took a week to barely set up the grass-roots teams of each department, and it took another nearly a month to draw the scope of each discipline.

For such a long period of time, everyone is almost busy with the division of subjects, and all other research has stagnated.

The matter of Gewu Academy's subdivision of disciplines spread quickly, and Yue Shan's words at the meeting were naturally spread.People from the Faculty of Liberal Arts knew that they were classified as Liberal Arts, so they naturally didn't react. To them, Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts were no different.

What really makes them proud is that Yue Shan said that liberal arts are the foundation of all disciplines.

Quietly, the foundation of all disciplines, our liberal arts is indeed the most powerful.

In fact, the original sentence should be that Chinese is the foundation of all disciplines, but there is no such discipline as Chinese at this time, and Yue Shan has no plans to subdivide liberal arts for the time being, so he can barely say that 'literature is the foundation of all disciplines'.

Then the teachers and students of the Faculty of Liberal Arts began to watch the process of dividing the science subjects, taking it as a pleasure.

The turmoil of Yue Shan belittling the book "Yi Li" because of his misfire as the client, the turmoil quickly passed, and the ancient school thought that they had won, and everyone celebrated with each other.

The women's academy also gradually faded out of everyone's sight, and many dignitaries sent their daughters in again, which made the eldest grandson Wugou heave a sigh of relief.

As for spreading rumors and murdering the Crown Princess Wu Chang, it has almost become an unsolved case. The people behind the scenes are very clean and have not left any flaws.The only flaw, Tai Shicheng, was also suppressed.

In fact, after Tai Shicheng was silenced, Li Shimin and Yue Shan knew that it was unlikely to find out anything, and in the end they could only catch a few unlucky ghosts and kill them as an example.

This matter just passed in such a muddle-headed way.

Wu Chang was naturally extremely grateful to Yue Shan who had rescued her, and it was a surprise that he finally recognized him as a master from the bottom of his heart.

Libraries established in the name of Princess Changle have also sprung up one after another, and countless new books that are released by the printing house are transported away to fill these libraries every day.

It can be said that everything went so smoothly, and Yue Shan had a rare period of rest.

He waited for the construction of the four major disciplines to complete normal operation before he found the dean of the School of Physics, Masada Shunya.

"Drop a group of the best talents, I have a difficult and great task for you."

(End of this chapter)