All of this created Yao Jiuye's character of not being superstitious about authority and daring to ask questions.
While other princes would be timid when facing the great scholar of the time, fearing that the questions they asked would be ridiculous, Yao Jiuye had no feeling at all. He was very serious in "asking for advice" from the great scholar of the time.
Some of the great scholars of the time were dumbfounded.
You said they were here to cause trouble, but they were holding a small notebook and taking notes seriously. It didn't look like they were joking at all.
You said that people are really asking for advice, and the questions they ask are sometimes too sharp.
You can even doubt the words of a saint?!
But Yao Jiuye is very reasonable and well-founded. When someone gives an example, you will immediately be speechless.
There was no other way. I was worried about the other party's identity, and there were so many princes and grandsons here waiting for answers. It was really hard for a great scholar in this world to "bluff" casually, so I could only discuss it seriously with Yao Jiuye.
When unable to answer, the great scholar of the time would also respond to Yao Jiuye: "What about you, what do you think? If no one can answer this question, how are you going to solve it?"
Yao Jiuye looked serious and said: "Since there is a problem, there must be a way to solve the problem, but I don't know what the answer is. But it's okay, I don't know, there are so many smart people in the world, I'm sure
Someone will know."
"If you don't know, sir, then I will publish it in the newspaper and ask everyone around the world."
"If no one in the world can answer this question, then we have to go back to the question itself and ask another question: Why can't anyone answer this question? Is this question too difficult? Or has no one ever considered this question?"
"If it is too difficult, then we need time and can wait patiently. But if no one has considered this issue before, then more people need to be mobilized to consider this issue and find answers."
…
"My mother often said something. She said that it is more important to ask questions than to solve them." Yao Jiuye looked at the great scholar of the time and said, "There are many smart people in the world. No matter what kind of problems arise, they can't be troubled."
As long as the world is given to them, they will definitely be able to solve it. In comparison, there are fewer people asking questions, because no one asks questions, so everyone thinks that all the problems are solved. But in fact, it is really
Is that so?"
"If this is really the case, then why can't anyone answer the questions my mother asked? Why can't anyone answer the questions I asked?"
Yao Jiuye looked certain, "There must be many problems in the world that need to be solved urgently. Just because no one has raised them, it doesn't mean they don't exist. And what we need to do is to raise the problems and solve them."
Yao Jiuye shared his "Natural History" plan with the great scholars of the time.
They first relied on their own strength to look for answers in books. Some could find them, but some could not. Because they could not find the answers, they came to ask their husband for advice.
If even the gentleman can't answer the question, then he really has no choice but to "post it in the newspaper and ask for advice."
At first, the great scholar of the time thought that Yao Jiuye was a troublesome naughty boy who only asked these questions to show off. But when he heard Yao Jiuye’s words, he suddenly realized that he was not doing it to show off or make a joke.
, putting people in trouble, he is really asking.
The sentence "raising problems is more important than solving them" deeply shocked him.
Isn't it true that the great scholars of the time realized it?
People live in this world. Everyone only knows the "result", but they don't know the "why", and no one asks the "why".
Just like Yao Jiuye said, the sage said that the sky is round and the earth is square, but who has really seen it?
How to prove it?
Could it be that just because they can't see further places on the map, they think that further places are the "borders" of the world?
What you think is just what you think.
What if there is another country at the "border" that you think is even more powerful than the Ming Dynasty. It just hasn't discovered the Ming Dynasty for the time being. What if people discover the Ming Dynasty when society develops to a certain extent in the future?
Although it is just an "imaginary enemy", it is an enemy or a friend, do you know?
Do you want to gamble with the future of Ming Dynasty?
"Obviously we still have a chance now. We can understand and understand the world through our own efforts and make Ming Dynasty a better place. Why don't we do it?"
"If nothing is done, it will happen in the future."
"But if we work hard, the future may become what we imagine."
…
The great scholar of the time looked at Yao Jiuye and said solemnly: "Your mother taught you extremely well!"
Although Yao Jiuye was still very young, some of it was his thinking, and some of it was his narration of Princess Chong's words, but the great scholar of the world knew that in the eyes of this child, the world was very big, much bigger than imagined.
Compared with his peers, and even compared with some adults, Yao Jiuye has a pair of eyes that can see very far away.
These eyes allowed the great scholar of the time to see his future - the birth of a saint.
He was a little excited and went directly to Mingguang, saying that he wanted to teach him personally, ah, no, he was guiding Yao Jiuye from the side.
If Yao Jiuye really has the potential of a saint, if a saint falls because of his mistakes, it will be a loss for the entire Ming Dynasty.
Emperor Mingguang: "..."
Wait, what did you say?!
saint?
Isn't it just a group of children who came to you to ask questions? Why do you... think that Yao Jiuye has the potential of a saint?
"If you question the sage's words, are you sure you're not being stubborn?"
The great scholar of the time shook his head gently: "Weichen is very sure that he didn't ask casually, he thought seriously. He really realized that asking questions is more important than solving problems. Even Weichen himself has been doing this all his life.
When solving problems, he never thinks about 'raising problems'. But he is different, he thinks about raising problems and then solving them."
Emperor Mingguang was confused.
The great scholar of the time had no choice but to tell the story of the question that day one by one.
It means that no one has discovered these problems, but they just flashed in the mind and then were thrown away without thinking about solving them.
I'm even used to it and don't think it's anything.
The more you get used to it, the less you feel there is anything wrong, and the easier it is for a crisis to arise. Obviously, Yao Jiuye especially likes to ask questions. He is good at observation and will take every problem he encounters seriously and find a way to solve it.
"Your Majesty, you must also be aware of Princess Chong's map issue. So may I ask, has Your Majesty ever thought about solving it?"
"Uh..." Emperor Mingguang looked embarrassed, "Princess Chong was just teaching the children, she was just guiding them to think..."
He wanted to emphasize that this was a problem left by Princess Chong to the children, not to him.
How could he, an emperor, have nothing to do to answer Princess Chong’s questions?
What's more, she asked those taboo questions and was still in solitary confinement.
The great scholar of the time sighed: "Your Majesty, you see, you also think these problems are difficult to solve, right? Because they are difficult, you put them aside for the time being and are not in a hurry to solve them. But Yao Jiuye is different. He is serious about it.
