Everyone, including Chen Yan who asked the question and Queen Zhou, were stunned. The prince had learned such shocking knowledge when he returned from the fairy world, and what he revealed was like a mountain weighing down, which was unbearable.
How big the sun is, how big the earth is, the prince said that everything is right, and that dragon, it turns out that there really was a dragon on the earth, then the real dragon emperor is real. Uncle Hou Yi, who worked hard and made great achievements, was simply ignored by everyone...
Chen Yan wanted to continue asking questions, but he couldn't remember what he wanted to ask. The reason was that the knowledge released by the prince was so vast and so profound that even a scholar like him could not digest it in time.
As for whether humans evolved from monkeys, that has to be explained by Uncle Da. What Yaoji relayed at the court meeting of the Dachu Dynasty must be fried. I am afraid that even the Han generals around him will not believe it. This statement.
He will definitely be criticized verbally and writtenly by the officials, and the news will spread to the market, and the prince's majesty will be greatly reduced among ordinary people. He must not do such a thankless thing.
You have to choose what they are willing to listen to and believe, or to deceive. Seeing that the following discussion was almost complete, Yaoji cleared his throat and said: "Of course humans are not transformed from flies, humans are from the Empress Nuwa. The legend of creation is true, but humans were not created by Nuwa Empress from clay, but by Nuwa Empress using her own flesh and blood. Both humans and animals are composed of cells, which are the smallest components of a living body. Unit. Empress Nuwa used her own cells to hatch continuously, one part split into two, and two parts split into four, gradually shaping the first batch of humans, and then letting them reproduce on their own. Why haven't we seen it yet? Empress Nuwa, because after creating human beings, Empress Nuwa returned to her own planet in her interstellar battleship. This interstellar battleship is like a flying bird, dozens of miles long, and can travel freely in the universe. A battleship It can destroy a planet the size of the Earth!"
Further down the line, Empress Nuwa returned to her hometown - Cybertron, and lived happily with the local native King Megatron...
The ministers were shocked again, but what the prince said was more consistent with myths and legends, and it explained well why mortals could not see gods.
However, what the prince said aroused Chen Yan's great thirst for knowledge. Out of curiosity, he couldn't help but ask again: "Your Highness, I don't know why Empress Nuwa first created flies and then mortals. Is it putting the cart before the horse? And why? Mortals have limbs, not the snake body of Nuwa?"
Secretly, they want to embarrass this seemingly omniscient little prince. Could it be that returning from the fairy world can really explain everything in the world?
As long as you can believe the "Oral Bound Edition" compiled by me, it will be much easier to deceive. Yaoji calmly said: "Nuwa first created dinosaurs and then flies." , and finally created mortals. Mortals take into account the characteristics of dinosaurs and Nuwa Empress. They have both the ability to reproduce and the talent for invention and creation. They are by no means comparable to ordinary creatures. The appearances of mortals and Nuwa Empress are not exactly the same. Because God will not create creatures that are exactly like Himself, otherwise it would be blaspheming Himself.”
After a little thought, everyone accepted this statement. It was indeed true. There seemed to be no more reasonable explanation than this.
Chen Yan did not comment, so he pulled out a masterpiece for comparison: "Your Highness, the external chapter of "Zhuangzi" "Bliss" mentioned that humans evolved from horses, and horses are the evolution of sheep. According to His Highness, the speculated content of "Bliss" is inconsistent with mortal history."
As for who was right and who was wrong in the end, Chen Yan began to deliberately leave half of the words unsaid, let alone express his position easily.
If you speak carelessly, it is easy to offend the prince and make the whole family eat a feast of locusts. Secondly, he has no conclusive evidence. Besides, where can he find such evidence?
Yaoji understood this guy's "good intentions" and avoided the laid "landmines" by saying, "Zhuangzi has never been to the fairy world, let alone met Nuwa, so there is no harm in inferring that it is biased."
Even if people guess wrong about the origin of mankind, they are still Zhuangzi, and they are a hundred times better than you guys who just know how to make money!
If anyone is dissatisfied, he can also publish a book to see if it can be compared with "Zhuangzi". I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to write memorials even if he has enough ink.
The conversation involved interstellar battleships, which may be a kind of infinitely powerful magic weapon. Wei Zhaocheng, the left minister of the Ministry of War, felt that he had a say: "Your Highness, have you seen any battleships of Nuwa Empress in the fairy world? Can you be a foolish minister? Briefly describe it? It will also open the eyes of this foolish minister who is like a frog in a well!"
Hearing his sparse question, everyone else immediately became very interested and enthusiastic. The warship built by God must be invincible. The prince said it was dozens of miles long. Isn't its appearance larger than the entire capital city?
The generals headed by Sun Chuanting had green eyes. If the prince could pray to the immortal world, it would be easy to send a vessel with such a magical weapon to suppress rogues internally and powerful enemies externally.
Yao Ji directly saw what they were thinking from the expressions of these useless courtiers, and said quietly: "I believe all of you dear friends know that God is a higher existence than immortals, the most powerful existence in the universe, I am going to The land is in the fairyland, and I have not seen the Nuwa Empress, let alone the battleship on which the Empress is riding."
Upon hearing this, the ministers immediately sighed sadly. If they could see the goddess in person, wouldn't it be as easy to revive the Ming Dynasty?
I can't completely extinguish the little flame in your heart. People, whether officials or common people, always think about or look forward to: "However, there are also battleships in the immortal world. Their power can't even destroy the heaven and earth, but they can go up to Tianpeng." After traveling thousands of miles, he entered the sea like a dragon. This magnificent scene was truly witnessed by me."
Yes, I have seen airplanes, submarines, and aircraft carriers. Unfortunately, there are too many materials required and they cannot be stacked up immediately. If you tie up a hundred small sampans, they are not aircraft carriers. They are called "big sampans"!
Wei Zhaocheng's eyes suddenly widened and he blurted out: "Has Your Highness learned how to make immortal weapons?"
At this time, all the civil and military officials in the court were holding their breath and concentrating. If the prince could create any weapons that could travel thousands of miles, how could he still worry about the Donglu's failure to plunder the customs for many years?
Yaoji smiled and said meaningfully: "Wei Aiqing, among the weapons in the fairy world, the easiest thing to make is the net bag for catching locusts. The most difficult thing to make is the fairy weapon. I have said it, but Aiqing can't imagine it. Even though I have been traveling for a long time, Short, but I have learned more or less, but I need the smartest assistants of my Ming Dynasty to help me, those people who are looked down upon by some people and like to play with strange and obscene skills. ZTE cannot do without the Ming Dynasty. The production of these fairy weapons cannot be separated from the people I mentioned. Therefore, in future meetings and memorials, I don’t want to hear it, and I don’t want to see anyone attacking and slandering these people. The name of the fairy world is scientists, and they are the most valuable talents. The weapons created by a few scientists can easily kill tens of thousands of enemies!"
The net pocket is an immortal weapon, the prince has said this a long time ago. Nowadays, insect plagues are raging everywhere. Although everyone disagrees, they can't think of a better way to catch insects, so they can only obey the prince's order.
The prince said that he had other magic weapons in the fairy world, but he did not show them. However, the situation in the court was now beginning to be favorable to the prince, and everyone would rather believe that they existed than that they did not exist.
You can deny it in your heart, but you must support it with your mouth, otherwise a disaster will come. No one will get amnesia at this time, because before discussing the current topic, Yin Daiao of Shuntian Prefecture had just been imprisoned...
Only then did Xue Guoguan realize that the ultimate goal of daring the prince to spare such a big deal was this. People who like strange and obscene skills would find it difficult to get into the elegant hall. If the prince did not explain the reason first, he would definitely be attacked by a group of people. The opposition of the ministers.
When Yaoji saw the still-remembering look in his eyes, he didn't want to give him any instructions. He could naturally understand what he needed to know, and he could only memorize what he couldn't understand.
It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. If I can't fool you once, I'll fool you twice. If I fool you twice, I'll fool you every day. If I don't fool you guys into idiot fans, I'll feel like I'm carrying a thorn in my back.
Matteo Ricci drew a map of the world in Guangdong in 1583. The ancient theory of a round sky and a round place began to stir up debate. This map frightened people in the Ming Dynasty no less than an eight-magnitude earthquake.
From the emperor to the scribes, many people showed great interest in this map that could help them understand the world. After meeting with Uncle Li, Emperor Wanli asked for more than ten world maps so that they could be hung in many palaces. .
Because the maps and customs of Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and other places were roughly similar to those recorded in the documents of Zheng He's voyages to the West, the information provided by Western missionaries became more credible and easier to be accepted by the Ming Dynasty.
Western learning, mainly mathematics, geography, and astronomy, also entered the Ming Dynasty with these missionaries. In the 42nd year of Wanli, Jinni Pavilion returned to Europe on the order of Long Huamin. Its main task was to collect scientific books and supplied thousands of volumes.
It includes famous works such as "The Secret of the Universe", "Summary of Copernicus' Astronomy", "Refractometry", "Rudolph's Star Catalog", among which the "Rudolph's Star Catalog" was given to the Great Dynasty by the famous astronomer Kepler himself. The work of the missionary Deng Yuhan.
The main reason for such a flood of knowledge was that the East and the West each had their own strengths in specific fields of science and technology at that time. The West had absolute advantages in mathematics, astronomy, geography, and machinery, and the Ming Dynasty maintained its dominance in chemistry, medicine, metallurgy and other industries. holds a slight lead.
Zhu Xi, a famous educator in the Song Dynasty, once commented with regret on the situation at that time: Numbers are arithmetic, but now everyone ignores it. The six arts of a gentleman are all practical and none are indispensable, but today’s people are useless from beginning to end...
It can be seen that Zhu Xi had great resentment towards the imperial examination. He believed that this move made the scholar-bureaucrats busy writing superficially gorgeous articles to please their superiors, which directly led to the weakening of the national power of the Song Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was different from the Song Dynasty in almost every aspect. However, it inherited almost all the legacy of the Song Dynasty in the field of science. Although there were some developments, the progress in the field of mathematics was not significant. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were not many scholars in the Daguo Dynasty. I personally know "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" very well.
Analytical geometry, linear algebra, and calculus in modern mathematics are closer to Chinese mathematics. "Nine Chapters of the Book of Mathematics" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" have touched upon it, but they have not been able to form a scientific and practical system for future generations. Come and learn.
As calculations were controlled by the abacus, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had completely lagged behind Western mathematics in terms of numerical symbols, axiomatic equations, subdivisions, and ease of popularization. However, the abacus did not promote mathematics. The real use of this thing It's accounting!
Academic comparison is like a mirror, through which one can see one's own flaws and shortcomings, which set off an upsurge in understanding Western learning among the intellectual community in the Ming Dynasty.
For example, Zhang Guowei, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and the censor of the right Qiandu, was an expert in water conservancy, proficient in engineering, and also dabbled in mathematics. Otherwise, the dams and cities he built would not be very strong and receive praise from all quarters.
A group of patriots led by Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua applied Western knowledge to the military field, greatly improving the Ming Dynasty's capabilities in the manufacture and use of firearms.
Xu Guangqi, who had a close personal relationship with Matteo Ricci, did his best to introduce Western military tactics and weapon products at that time. His subordinate and student Sun Yuanhua even wrote the famous book "The Divine Machine of Western France" which introduced the manufacture and use of Western artillery in the 16th century. .
However, this military genius was executed by the court because of the Dengzhou Rebellion launched by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in the fifth year of Chongzhen. Of course, the credit of the scapegoat is indispensable here...
"Fire Attack on the Key", written in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, was dictated by the armed warlock Tang Ruowang and written by Jiao Xu. The content is similar to "Xifa Shenji". It mainly introduces the manufacturing methods of fire blunderbuss, artillery, shells and gunpowder, and is related to the previous part. This work can be called a companion volume.
Military technology is just a branch of Western science. Without a rigorous structure, it is impossible to form a reasonable and effective development system.
The Ming Dynasty is not without its masterpieces. "Tiangong Kaiwu", known as the encyclopedia of craftsmanship in the 17th century, can be compared with "The Story of Strange Weapons of the Far West" which introduces many mechanical structures. Unfortunately, it was short-lived because it coincided with the Ming Dynasty. The dynasty perished.
Originally, under the premise of the popularization of papermaking and printing, people in the Ming Dynasty gradually mastered the mechanical technology, navigation technology, astronomical and geographical knowledge introduced from the West, and could develop Chinese civilization to an unprecedented new height.
But everything came to an abrupt end when the "Master of the Qing Dynasty" entered the country. From then on, the gap between the East and the West became wider and wider until an insurmountable gap formed.
Many geniuses born in the late Ming Dynasty also had a rough fate. Wang Hui died of hunger strike, Bo Jue died of depression, Song Yingxing disappeared, Jiexuan lived in seclusion all his life, and Wang Xichan died of starvation.
These talented people ended up extremely miserable, and they would rather die than serve the Qing court. Their noble integrity is particularly admirable. In contrast, the large numbers of scholar-bureaucrats who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty are like zombies!
The blood of heroes will not be shed in vain, even if they sacrifice their lives for the country, the blood of scientists will not be shed in vain...
