After a bowl of hot soup, Su Yonglin felt a little better and looked at Su Zeying, who had been eating silently without speaking.
"Zeying, I haven't asked much about your homework recently. How is your homework? Did you study hard at school and follow the teacher's instructions?"
"In the last monthly exam, I was first in the class and first in the entire grade."
When his parents were talking, Su Zeying didn't quite understand, so he just listened and didn't speak. But when the topic of academic performance came up, he raised his head and straightened his back, looking very proud.
Su Yonglin was very pleased that his son had inherited the academic gene from himself and Zhao Xixin.
Zhao Xixin will not go into details. She is a talented woman. She has a super memory, is well-read, and her knowledge and knowledge are not comparable to those of ordinary women.
Although Su Yonglin was a professional rebel and became emperor without taking the official Southern Song Dynasty imperial examination, he still participated in many mock examinations held in the school when he was a student, and was chosen first every time.
The old masters in the school sincerely believed that Su Yonglin had the ability to take the imperial examination and become a Jinshi, and that he could become a high-ranking official, one person less than ten thousand people.
Grandfather and father were also very happy about this, feeling that Su Yonglin would definitely honor his ancestors and promote the reputation of the Su family.
Although Su Yonglin's current achievements are slightly different from their predictions back then, this does not hinder Su Yonglin's true qualities as a top student.
Now Su Zeying can also achieve excellent academic results, which Su Yonglin thinks is very good.
But he couldn't take the credit for himself, because no matter what, he was not the hero of Su Zeying's growth. At most, he could only be regarded as a helper. The main person who carefully taught Su Zeying to study was Zhao Xixin.
So Su Yonglin stood up, filled a bowl of soup for Zhao Xixin, and handed it to her with a smile.
"As the biggest contributor to a child's growth, Xixin, let's have some soup."
Zhao Xixin rolled her eyes at Su Yonglin, ignored him, and then looked at Su Zeying.
"Zeying, you must remember from now on that you can't be a man like your father. His wife has helped him so much and done so many things, and then just throw away a bowl of soup. How heartless."
Su Yonglin was stunned on the spot, with goosebumps all over his body, and he could dig out three rooms and one living room with his toes on the ground.
"No, no, of course I'm not going to kill you with a bowl of soup. Don't teach your children to have everything! Zeying, dad is not such a person, really not!"
Su Zeying ate calmly, with an indifferent look on her face.
"I'm just young and not blind. I know what my parents are like."
Seeing that Su Zeying looked like a brat, Su Yonglin and Zhao Xixin looked at each other and couldn't help laughing together. ,
After dinner, Su Yonglin and Su Zeying took a walk outside together. As they walked, Su Yonglin asked about something he cared about.
"Zeying, you are so insightful, have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?"
Su Zeying looked up at Su Yonglin.
"I want to do something that can help dad."
"Can you help me?"
Su Yonglin laughed: "There are so many things that can help me, military, political, judicial, agricultural, industrial, navigation, economics, many, many things, these can help me, you Do you want to do it all?”
“You will definitely not be able to do it all, you will bite off more than you can chew.”
Su Zeying shook her head and said, "What is the thing that dad most hopes and most urgently wants to accomplish now?"
"The most hopeful thing?"
Su Yonglin thought for a while and said slowly: "That should be seeing the steam engine becoming popular in our country and becoming more brilliant, using steam power to replace thousands of years of human and animal power, leading our Ming Dynasty into a new era.
You know about trains. The train is what my father is thinking about. It is 2,500 miles from Zhongdu to Hangzhou. No matter how fast it is, it will take less than half a month to arrive. Once the train is successful, a track can be laid and it will arrive in two or three days. How can it be done? How much time will be saved?
Zeying, think about it, if there is an emergency in Hangzhou that requires the central government to send people to solve it, it used to be a one-and-done trip for at least a month, but now it takes three to five days to come and go, how much can be saved? It is so important to improve work efficiency several times. "
Su Zeying thought for a while after hearing this, and then nodded.
"It is indeed important, what else?"
"What else? If there is anything else, I probably want to create a device that can quickly transmit messages over long distances. What happened in Shandong this time is a lesson. If we have a device that can quickly transmit messages and superimpose it on the train, where will it go? What other rebellion is there to worry about?”
Su Yonglin sighed: "The biggest problem in our country's governance is that the transmission of information is too slow and the speed of people rushing is too slow. If these two problems can be solved..."
"There will be no problem in Ming Dynasty, right?"
Su Zeying answered directly.
Su Yonglin was not angry when his words were interrupted, he just grinned.
"No, there will be more brand-new problems waiting for us, which are more difficult to solve and deal with. There will also be people with more bad intentions who will use these technological innovations to do bad things."
"This...is all this still necessary?"
Su Zeying was very confused: "If the problems will be more and more difficult, why should we develop technology?"
"Because of the benefits."
Su Yonglin took out a copper coin from his wallet and handed it to Su Zeying: "Zeying, this is a copper coin. It has two sides, the front is justice and the back is evil. So, do you think this copper coin is valuable? ?”
Su Zeying took the copper coin and looked at it over and over.
"It's a copper coin. It can buy things, so of course it has value."
"The same goes for technology. It has both positive and negative meanings, but this does not hinder the value of technology itself."
Su Yonglin said slowly: "After all, people use technology. Technology itself is not good or evil. Upright people use it to do good things, and sinister people use it to do evil things. It has nothing to do with technology itself, so Zeying , we need to develop technology.”
Su Zeying held the copper coin tightly in her hand.
"Dad, when you say this, I feel that technology is not the most important thing. We cannot let technology fall into the hands of insidious people. This is the most important thing."
When Su Yonglin heard this, he looked at his son in surprise.
Then he laughed.
"If you want to say so, it's true. Anything useful can be turned into a tool for evil in their hands. But the biggest problem is that we can't tell who is a good guy and who is a bad guy at a glance."
Su Zeying was stunned for a moment, and then fell into deep thought.
"It makes sense. How can I tell who is a good guy and who is a bad guy? Bad guys won't have it written on their faces that I am a bad guy."
"Daddy doesn't know how to deal with this problem. Zeying, when you have time, come and help daddy think about it."
Su Yonglin smiled and patted Su Zeying on the shoulder, then stretched, preparing to give another lecture to the group of public representatives before going to bed.
Su Zeying stayed where she was, found a stone bench and sat down, thinking carefully about the questions raised by Su Yonglin, but after much deliberation, she could not find an answer.
He was confused and puzzled, so he decided to go to Zhao Xixin to ask about this issue.
Zhao Xixin, who was guiding her youngest son Zexiong to complete today's homework, was a little surprised when she heard Su Zeying's question.
"How to distinguish good people from bad people... Zeying, my mother doesn't know how to answer this question, because she doesn't know this question herself."
"Doesn't grandma know either?"
Su Zeying was a little disappointed, and then her face became more serious.
"Both dad and mom don't know the answer to this question. You can imagine that this must be a very difficult question and very valuable to think about."
Looking at the appearance of little Su Zeying, Zhao Xixin smiled happily.
"Zeying, in a sense, this question has no answer. The ancients were also confused about this, but because they didn't know how to solve this problem for thousands of years, they used two methods to make up for the inability to solve it. The regret that comes with this issue.”
"what is it then?"
Su Zeying was very curious.
"One is law and the other is education."
Zhao Xixin touched Su Zeying's head and said with a smile: "Education can make people know right and wrong and avoid becoming bad people, and the law can severely punish bad people who know right and wrong but do not change their mistakes. In this way, even if there is no way, we can know the good people in advance It’s bad, but it can also limit the appearance of bad people to the greatest extent.”
"That's it..."
Su Zeying continued her thinking with some doubts and insights.
On the other side, Su Yonglin was still working hard to complete his responsibilities.
