The next day, Shen Kuo entered the imperial city again.
Soon, he was summoned, and the summoning place was still in the front hall of Chongzheng Hall.
When Shen Kuo arrived, there were still many soldiers inside and outside the palace.
Shen Kuo was led by his ministers. When he arrived at the palace, he saw the young master already sitting on the throne.
"I am dedicated to making military weapons. I wish His Majesty the Emperor long blessings!" Shen Kuo bowed obediently and bowed twice.
"No gifts!" the young master in the palace ordered: "Give Shen Aiqing a seat! Give her tea!"
A chair was moved behind Shen Kuo, and a cup of snow-white tea was delivered to Shen Kuo's hands.
Shen Kuo thanked him and bowed again before sitting down.
The young master on the throne clapped his hands at this moment.
The chamberlain who had been serving the young master bowed to him, then led the maids behind him and the attendants on the left and right, all left the hall and pushed them to the sidewalk on the other side.
Obviously, this is something that the young master has already ordered.
Shen Kuo's mood was inexplicably tense.
He sat on a chair, took a sip of tea soup, and after alleviating some of his tension, he said: "I would like to inform your majesty that yesterday, the ruler of the capital, Zhang Dun, came to the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau in accordance with the orders of the two palaces. middle……"
"Zhang Dun?" When the young master in the palace heard Zhang Dun's name, his tone became ridiculing: "He went to the weapons manufacturing bureau and saw the method of soaking copper in gall water. What did he say? ?”
Shen Kuo lowered his head and replied: "Zhang Zhiyan: It's so amazing! Isn't this magic?"
The young master asked very curiously: "How did Aiqing answer?"
"I replied: This is the way to know things!"
"Zhang Zhizong asked: What does it mean to study things to achieve knowledge?" Shen Kuo trembled and said: "I can't be right..."
"I enter the palace and ask for your Majesty's advice..."
"What does it mean to study things to achieve knowledge...begging for His Majesty's holy teachings..."
This was the focus of his entry into the palace today.
What is the study of things to achieve knowledge? !
He can't just slap the butt of a courtier and explain it according to his own ideas, right?
If the explanation is wrong, wouldn't it mean that flattery slaps the horse on the thigh?
Therefore, the emperor must personally draw the range or specify a direction.
…
Zhao Xu looked at Shen Kuo's appearance and felt deeply relieved.
"My efforts to recall you from Suizhou will be in vain!" Zhao Xu thought in his heart.
For Zhao Xu, Shen Kuo had too many advantages.
He understands technology and engineering, has strong subjective initiative, and is highly enterprising. He is also a civil servant-official at the level of being drafted!
the most important……
Look at her flexible figure!
Can Su Song have such a figure? No!
"The so-called study of things leads to knowledge..." Zhao Xu stood up and slowly walked down the imperial steps to a place close to Shen Kuo.
He waved to Shen Kuo.
Shen Kuo hurriedly approached with his hand, and he stopped only when he was only three to five steps in front of Jun.
Then, he heard the young master's childish voice whispering: "Didn't the saint say it a long time ago?"
"The way to know is to study things! Study things and then know!"
"Everything in the world is like this!"
"Why do you get copper clay by putting pig iron in bile water?"
"Why not something else?"
"There must be a reason and a reason for this!"
"The principles of the saint must also be contained in it..."
Shen Kuo listened, swallowed his saliva, and bowed: "Your Majesty, please make it clear..."
"Everything in the world has its own form..." Zhao Xu said: "Just like when water is heated, there will be water vapor, and when the water vapor is cold, it will condense into water droplets..."
"There is nothing more wonderful than this in the creation of Yin and Yang!"
"When gall water meets iron, copper comes out..."
"Could it be the same?"
"This is what Shen Tiju has to do! It also needs Shen Tiju to explain it according to the meaning of the sage's scriptures!"
Shen Kuo listened and understood, understood.
Use the sage's principles to explain the smelting of copper with gall water.
This is not a problem for him!
After all, he is also a Confucian official!
Although he is not top-notch in his Confucian attainments, he is still a first-rate contemporary scholar.
The Confucian classics are familiar to the heart and can be picked up at will.
For example, at this moment, Shen Kuo remembered the explanations of many contemporary schools of thought.
Zhang Zai's Qi theory - everything is Qi, and the principles are in Qi.
Therefore, he praised the scholar-bureaucrats for "recognizing things with virtue and benefiting the world with virtue".
He also remembered some descriptions in Wang Anshi's New Meanings of Three Classics...
But now that Wang Anshi is still there, the final power of interpretation rests with Wang Anshi!
That stubborn man is really difficult to deal with!
Similarly, Er Cheng's Confucian interpretation was also abandoned by him - there are still living people! If you are talking nonsense, be careful and someone will knock you on your door.
Some of Shao Yong's understanding of heaven and earth can also be used.
The trouble is that Shao Bowen, Shao Yong's son, is difficult to deal with.
Some of the insights of Mr. Hu Yuan and Zhou Dunyi seem to be useful too!
Thinking like this, Shen Kuo lowered his head and bowed with the phoenix in his hand: "I understand! I will bear in mind your Majesty's lesson!"
Zhao Xu nodded and suddenly asked: "Shen Tiju, Zhang Zihou asked about the investigation of things and knowledge yesterday... When Tiju returns today, will he also mention the matter to Zhang Zihou about what he asked before?"
Shen Kuo shook his head at first, but when he saw the smile on the young master's lips, he nodded again.
Zhao Xu smiled: "You know what is going on here, and I know it. Let Zhang Zihou let him guess!"
"And the rest... you don't need to know!"
"I obey your Majesty's will!"
Shen Kuo understood.
It would be fine if he personally knew what happened here today, but he could reveal some details or hints and let Zhang Dun guess.
For others, it must not be said.
only……
The young master's attitude towards Zhang Zihou is a bit subtle!
Shen Kuo has already noticed that although the young master conceals it well, it may be because he is in private and no outsiders are present, so every time he mentions Zhang Dun and Zhang Zihou, it is mostly ridiculing, joking, and in a bad taste. Mentality!
…
After seeing Shen Kuo off, Zhao Xu flicked his elastic robe and let out a slight breath.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought about clarifying some common sense of modern chemistry with Shen Kuo.
However, that was too shocking.
Moreover, Shen Kuo may not be able to accept it, let alone the scholar-officials in the world today.
It is better to wrap it up with Confucian theory first and let people know that there are these things, principles and laws.
As for the future?
I have a great scholar to interpret the scriptures for me!
After society develops to a certain level, scientific spirit will be born!
Of course, in this case, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be some people who are obsessed with the book of Confucius and Mencius.
But, what does this have to do with it?
When Zhao Xu was in modern times, he met several foreign girls who believed that the earth was flat and that human beings were created by the so-called Jehovah!
But this did not prevent Zhao Xu from doing things with them that promoted international religious and cultural exchanges between different ethnic groups.
"Let's go!" Zhao Xu told Feng Jing who was coming up to him: "Go to Kunning Hall first to pay your respects to the Queen Mother!"
In this chapter, let’s make up for the two thousand words I owed yesterday!
(End of chapter)
