Chapter 1461 If you don't even study, how do you know you can't?
"Old Liu, no wonder this place has become the top brothel in the capital. The boss here really knows how to play. He is so good at playing hard to get~"
Zhu Houzhao was enjoying his meal. The food at Tingyuxuan was really good, and the wine was the best. There were top red wines from Europe and famous wines from all over the Ming Dynasty.
Coupled with the environment, the graceful singing and dancing, the moving sound of the piano, and the vaguely visible courtesan next to him, Zhu Houzhao's little eyes were straightened, and he was completely distraught.
"Ahem, today we are meeting friends through literature, so be careful about your image~"
Liu Jin coughed helplessly, but his attention was entirely focused on Li Nanshan, wanting to hear some of his views on Xin Xue.
But Zhu Houzhao's thoughts were all on eating, drinking and having fun. The way he ate was a bit ugly, not like a prince at all. He also had a pair of squinty little eyes, which he kept staring at the dancing singer, and he didn't care about the screen.
After that, the oiran even wanted to open it up and take a closer look.
This guy is completely enlightened.
There were a lot of women in the house, all kinds of women. Yan Huan was fat and thin, but she was still not satisfied. Outside, she still looked like a pig, which made Liu Jin couldn't help but shake his head.
Ignoring Zhu Houzhao, he looked at Li Nanyun.
"I just heard you criticize the new learning as useless, saying that it is heretical and third-rate. I wonder if you have studied the new learning carefully?"
Li Nanyun asked, looking at the many talented people present.
"What's the use of learning from side doctrines if you don't have enough to hang on to?"
Jing Yang replied calmly.
"Yes, I can't learn the Confucian classics. How can I have the energy to learn the new things? What's more, the new learning only emphasizes skills but not virtue and loyalty. It's okay not to learn."
Some people also echoed.
"It's just, it's just, I've seen some new things~"
"They divided the courses into mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, Chinese studies, history, etc. Among them, only Chinese studies included a few Confucian classics, and the others did not mention the principles of Confucianism. What can such a new study have?
use?"
There are many people who are qualified. The rise of New Learning has had a huge impact on traditional Confucianism. Naturally, some Confucian students will go to see and learn the content and courses taught by New Learning.
"I think among the new subjects, history is the only one that is worth learning. If you take a look, you can learn more about the history of China."
"As for the rest, there is nothing worth learning from."
Liu Jin listened carefully to the conclusions of these talented people and couldn't help but frown.
They are more stubborn than I thought, and these are still young people. Young people should be full of interest and curiosity about new things.
However, these Confucian talents really paid no attention to the content of the new learning.
"You are belittling the new learning so much, don't you know that the trains we take when traveling, the clothes we wear, the food we eat every day, and all aspects of our lives are closely related to the content taught by the new learning?"
"Without the rise of new learning, I'm afraid we would still be able to rely on oxen and horses when traveling far away, and we would even have to rely on our legs to walk in many cases."
"Instead of like now, you can take trains, carriages, and bicycles!"
"Also, the clothes that everyone wears are made of cloth. In the past, when the new learning was not emerging, one person could not weave a few pieces of cloth in a month, and the color of the cloth was also very monotonous."
"But now, in textile factories all over the Ming Dynasty, a worker can spin hundreds of pieces of cloth just by relying on machines in a day. Therefore, the price of cloth has dropped greatly, and everyone can afford it and wear it.
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"Taking wheat as an example, in the past, no matter how diligent a farmer was, he could only cultivate a few acres of rice fields in a year. However, now, relying on powerful machines, farmers can easily cultivate dozens of acres.
Hundreds of acres, even thousands of acres of land."
"The fertile fields cultivated by our country during the Ming Dynasty are dozens or hundreds of times more than before. The grain produced in the Hezhong area alone is enough for us to eat for a whole year."
"Can't everyone see this?"
"These are also closely related to the New Learning. Without the foundation established by the New Learning, how can we create these machines, how can we produce more cloth and grain, and produce powerful trains?"
Li Nanshan's voice was very loud and sonorous when he asked the question.
Although he is a child of traditional Confucianism, Nanyun Province is not deeply influenced by traditional Confucianism because there are a large number of troops stationed there. In the places where these armies are stationed, a large number of new schools have been built for the students of the army to study.
Li Nanshan loves learning and has studied extensively. Not only has he studied Confucian classics, but he has also studied a large number of new books and subjects in depth. He has even read books from the West, the Middle East, Persia, India and other places, and has also written for
Learn new languages and scripts.
After studying it carefully, he felt that although the content taught in the new school was very different from Confucianism, it seemed insignificant and heretical in the teacher's words, but a lot of the knowledge in it was very practical.
Moreover, students from new-style schools are very comprehensive in all aspects.
Being able to know history, astronomy and geography, apart from being inferior to traditional Confucian scholars in terms of poetry, poetry and poetry, they can completely crush traditional Confucian scholars in all other aspects.
Especially useful in improving productivity.
All kinds of mechanical inventions, innovations, new discoveries, etc. that are constantly emerging are based on the new school education.
In medicine, machinery, shipbuilding, textiles, agriculture, transportation, military and many other aspects, new learning is shining brightly, making the Ming Empire become more and more powerful.
However, in the eyes of these traditional Confucian students, it is still a third-rate, heresy, unworthy of mentioning. This makes Li Nanshan feel incredible.
"It's just Kit Kat Yin skills~"
"The true way to govern a country still depends on Confucian etiquette, justice, loyalty and filial piety, and on Confucian children like us."
Jing Yang said without thinking.
"That's right, that's right~"
"The new learning is all about strange tricks and tricks, which are useless in governing the country, so they are heresy."
Some people also followed suit.
"Haha, it seems that I came to the wrong place today. I originally thought that the talented people in Ming Dynasty should be full of knowledge, humble and eager to learn, but now it seems that they are just a group of short-sighted, arrogant and unprogressive people."
"The way to govern a country is to open your mouth and keep your mouth shut, the way to be loyal and filial~"
"But have you ever thought about whether the so-called loyalty and filial piety are enough to govern a country?"
"Is it possible that just by shouting about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, the people all over the world can have enough food to eat, wear warm clothes, and have houses to live in?"
"As the saying goes, people know honor and disgrace when they have enough food and clothing. Only when people have enough food, warm clothes and a house to live will they consider the issue of honor and disgrace. Only then will the Ming Dynasty be prosperous and stable."
"Many things taught by the new learning have greatly improved productivity, allowing people to cultivate more land, produce more cloth, and build more houses."
"In this way, people in the world can have more food to eat and be full, instead of causing a famine if a disaster occurs, and the land is full of hungry people, and people exchange their children for food."
“Only by spinning more cloth can people have clothes to wear and avoid freezing to death in winter.”
"Only when more houses are built can more people have a place to live and settle down. Tens of thousands of buildings can be built, and the poor people all over the world can look happy. This is what I am talking about."
Li Nanshan looked at these talented people present and couldn't help but laugh. In his words, he was very dismissive of these so-called talented people. He could not see the advantages of new learning and did not study and think deeply.
The so-called talents are actually just rotten scholars who can only play word games, which makes Li Nanshan very disappointed.
He originally thought that these talented people from the Ming Dynasty should be well-educated, humble and eager to learn, able to draw on the strengths of others and combine the best of each school. But now it seems that they are not even as good as the students in some middle schools in Nanyun Province.
At least these students have a very wide range of knowledge and can talk about everything. Although their literary talent is not as good as these talented students, and although they cannot write beautiful articles, their learning attitude is still very good, and they are willing to learn and study many things.
After saying this, Li Nanshan left the attic without even bothering to look at him with disappointment. He felt so disappointed by these Ming Dynasty talents present.
"What a talent~"
Liu Jin couldn't help but nodded slightly when he saw Li Nanshan leaving.
The reason why I want to develop new learning is naturally because I know that traditional Confucianism cannot cultivate talents who can truly change the destiny of the Chinese nation.
Confucianism has become solidified and decayed. Not only has it become solidified and decayed, but the entire country and nation have also been imprisoned by them, making it difficult for innovation and progress to occur.
No matter how good the poems, lyrics, and poems are, they are still just playing with the excellence of words. I don’t know how many people are studying those Confucian books. I don’t know how many research books are written by famous writers.
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But what's the use?
According to the trajectory of historical development, the Ming Dynasty will sink, and even foreigners will move into China and fall behind others in a few hundred years, so much so that their spines will almost be broken.
I have worked so hard to develop new learning, but in the end it is not to save the country and nation imprisoned by Confucianism. However, there are too few traditional Confucian students who can really see the huge role and potential of new learning.
