Geng Youhua listened to their argument several times, but he still couldn't understand the point. He couldn't understand what they were talking about, such as roundness or squareness.
Immediately, the scholar's shameless character came into play. He stood up and walked to the table next to him. He said to these young people who were also dressed as scholars: "I'm here, Geng Youhua, Sanshui. I'm disturbing all of you brothers!"
Those people looked back at Geng Youhua and saw that Geng Youhua was also dressed as a scholar in Confucian uniform. They immediately handed over their hands politely. One of them seemed to have heard of Geng Youhua's name. He immediately stood up and said: "I dare you to ask, Brother Geng, is he thirty-six?"
The second place in Sanshui County in 2016, Geng Youhua from Qingsong Academy?"
When Geng Youhua heard that there were still people who recognized him, and he had ranked second in the county examination, which was considered a small achievement in his imperial examination, he immediately felt a little relieved, but his face was filled with confusion.
He didn't show any pride, but instead said with a humble look: "It's not worth mentioning that he came second in a small county examination? I wonder which year my brother will enter school?"
After hearing this, the young man immediately said, "Back to the seniors, the junior is Deqing Cai Minghang, who just entered the school this year!"
Just entered school this year? You don’t need to ask Geng Youhua to know that the person in front of you must have participated in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty imperial examination and was a scholar who passed the examination.
If it was this time last year, he would have directly scolded this person for turning into a traitor, but now, the situation in the world is different. Not to mention these juniors, even his classmates and friends, and even those who have passed the exam.
I was thinking about taking part in the imperial examination of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty. This world is no longer the same.
However, although he was not ready to talk to the people in front of him, he still remained friendly and changed the subject: "Oh, just now you said that what we have under our feet is a big round ball?"
Hearing what Geng Youhua said, those people started talking again!
"Isn't it? The newspaper said that the ground under our feet is not flat, but round, and it is a huge ball. If we walk in one direction, we can return to the starting point!"
"This is simply a fallacy. If it is a round ball, why don't the people on the other side of the ball fall?"
Hearing that they were arguing again, and Geng Youhua heard them say that they saw it from the newspaper, and there was a copy of the newspaper on their table, he immediately opened the newspaper in his hand.
He quickly flipped through the pages he had already read, and when he finally came to the penultimate page, he finally saw the sphere they were discussing.
This is a small column in the morning newspaper, called "Science Popularization", and there is an introduction in small characters: Popular science astronomy and geography, everything in the world.
This tone is quite loud!
Just look at the text below. This article says the same thing as the discussion just now. It says that the place where people live is not square, but a super big sphere.
And it explains in detail why the earth is round!
First, they quoted the deeds of foreigners' voyages to the earth and used practical examples to prove that the earth was round. Second, they used the curvature of the sea level to prove it.
Then he also explained why he would not fall, because our earth has a kind of gravity from the center of the earth, which firmly binds the people on the surface, and explained it in terms of universal gravity.
At the end of the article, there is a sentence. If any readers are interested or have doubts about this, they can check out the book "Intermediate Physics" written and published by the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Intermediate physics? He has never heard of this title, but he has heard the word physics many times!
Because in the imperial examination of the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty, not only the eight-part essay was tested, even the scholars who were admitted to the Jinshi Department also had to study and take the erudition test, which included arithmetic, physics, chemistry, astronomy and geography, etc.
It's just that the scores of these test questions don't play a big role in the Jinshi Curriculum, but he knows that the entities tested in the Doctoral Curriculum are all based on these subjects, and the eight-part essay is just a reference.
Although this situation has aroused opposition from a large number of scholars, the only good thing about China is that there are many people who want to be officials!
If you resist, don't study, and don't take the exam, other scholars will naturally study, pass the exam, and become officials.
Therefore, after the opposition was ineffective, those students who were interested in participating in the Imperial Examinations of the Tang Dynasty had no choice but to bite the bullet and start learning these subjects that they regarded as miscellaneous subjects. Fortunately, in the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty, the Jinshi science students who applied for the exams
, they do not need to master this knowledge very deeply. As long as they memorize the superficial knowledge, it is enough for them to cope with the imperial examinations below the provincial examination.
Even Geng Youhua, a student who was still waiting on the sidelines, actually secretly bought several books published by the Royal Academy of Sciences, and even asked someone to hand-copy several textbooks from the Imperial Academy.
Exam questions.
Therefore, Geng Youhua still has a basic understanding of this physics. I am afraid that the intermediate physics mentioned in the morning newspaper should be bought to take a look. It is not that he, Geng Youhua, is interested in where the earth is round. In fact, it does not matter to him.
What the hell, no matter whether it is round or square, it is still alive and well.
The reason why he wanted to read "Intermediate Physics" was naturally to prepare for the future imperial examination.
He is a scholar, and participating in the imperial examination and becoming an official is the meaning of his entire life. If the army has been unable to annihilate the Puppet Tang Dynasty and regain the land of the three provinces, then he must join the Puppet Tang Dynasty like those classmates who took the lead.
Imperial examination.
He must participate in the imperial examination. Regardless of whether the imperial examination was held by the Pseudo-Tang Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, there is actually no essential difference for him. The only thing that needs to be encouraged is the risk.
So after reading the morning newspaper, Geng Youhua stood up directly and prepared to go to the bookstore opened by the Royal Academy of Sciences to buy books.
As far as he knew, most of the books published by the Royal Academy of Sciences were related to the imperial examinations. Most of the books published in the early days were related to science. Later, they also published books closely related to their Jinshi subjects, especially those in the Jinshi subjects.
The collection of examination papers was even more popular among scholars.
If we look at it from the perspective of later generations, in fact, all the books published by the Royal Academy of Sciences were teaching aids. Scholars bought and read them not because they liked them, but because these books were directly related to their success or failure in the imperial examinations.
Some scholars from well-off families would buy one copy at a time, and even those from less privileged families would find a few friends to jointly purchase the complete set, then copy each other's books, and then personally collect the entire set of manuscripts.
With these books, they can self-study the contents of those general subjects, and can also better understand the key points of the imperial examination requirements for some historical theory and policy theory.
This is actually no different from the students of later generations. China's education for thousands of years has been exam-oriented education from beginning to end. The biggest motivation for students to study is to cope with exams and reach the peak of life.
As for what they learn, they actually don’t care much!
Soon, he arrived at the bookstore affiliated with the Royal Academy of Sciences. Sure enough, as soon as he entered, he saw rows of 'Intermediate Physics' in the most conspicuous position. He just picked up a book without looking or thinking.
By the way, I also purchased the new ‘Intermediate Chemistry’, ‘Intermediate Arithmetic’, ‘Intermediate Astronomy and Geography’ and ‘Geometry’.
He found that these books had just been launched yesterday, and there were many scholars buying them. Many people, like him, came directly for these new books.
He even found several Juren seniors who wanted to buy it!
When he took these books to pay the bill, the new books on the bookshelf were already less than half. When he left with the books, the new books on the bookshelf had been robbed, and many scholars were shouting.
Let the clerk quickly bring out the new books in stock.
He, Geng Youhua, didn't care about the situation in the bookshop. He had already bought the book anyway!
On the way back, he briefly read through the book Intermediate Physics, and found that the content in it was too profound, and many of it was unbelievable. He also saw the article about gravitation, and followed what was said above.
When I tried to calculate the formula, I found that my arithmetic skills were not up to par, and I had no choice but to give up.
However, I have already planned to study these new books carefully. If I participate in the imperial examination this time, I am afraid these books will be of great use.
His guess was not wrong. Li Xuan instructed the Royal Academy of Sciences to compile and publish this series of intermediate science books based on the textbooks of the Young Army Camp, in order to increase the weight of science content in this year's provincial examination and next year's national examination. At the same time,
Increase the difficulty.
In the past, students in Jinshi subjects only needed to calculate simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to pass the test, but this will no longer be possible in the future.
And the subject of erudition will be even more profound!
Otherwise, why would he ask the Royal Academy of Sciences to publish these books? These books were all written by Li Xuan himself and used as teaching materials for the young army camp.
Later, it slowly evolved into the Imperial College, a teaching material for young students from all over the country, and now, he wants to make these teaching materials a teaching material for ordinary students.
However, there are textbooks, but there are not many teachers. Except for the Imperial College, the Young Military Camp, and the Youth Academy, other students can only rely on self-study.
There is nothing that can be done about it. As for books, as long as they are printed, you can have as many as you want, but there are not many teachers, especially those who can teach advanced courses.
Nowadays, the largest source of teachers is the Young Army Camp, but there are not many senior students in the Young Army Camp, and the students who can become senior students are all academic masters, and they will spend a lot of time to learn more new things on their own.
content, and then experiment, do some research, and be a teacher? It's a waste of time for them.
Chapter completed!