Huang Chongde asked his son: "Do you know, Xu'er, what's the mystery behind the word 'Jingguang' given to you by Sir?"
Huang Xu thought hard, shook his head and said, "I don't know, kid."
Huang Chongde said with emotion: "May you uphold virtue and love Jingguang at all times. Sir, you are connecting your name with my father's name, with the promise of a loving father and a filial son. At the same time, I am warning you to cherish your time and work hard in the future.
Study! Jingguang means time!"
Wang Yuan scratched his head, wondering whether to laugh or cry: "Huang Yuanwai, I really haven't thought about that much."
"Ah?" Huang Chongde said in surprise, "What does that mean, sir?"
Wang Yuan said to Huang E next to him: "Little sister, please tell me."
Huang E and Wang Yuan have both been studying "Mozi" recently, looking for the physics knowledge in it. As soon as Wang Yuan asked, she understood immediately and said with a smile: "Mozi said: 'The person in Jingguang is as warm as a shot, and the one below is as bright as a ray of light.
People who are taller are also taller, and people who are taller are also lower. This means that light propagates along a straight line, revealing the principle of small hole imaging. Sir, I hope you will have a good time studying physics in the future!"
Huang Chongde was instantly embarrassed and flattered him: "Scholar Wang is a scholar of heaven and earth. He talks too much and means too much, and is hard to fathom."
"Whatever, what your father said makes sense. You must cherish your time from now on," Wang Yuan warned his disciples, and then asked, "I heard that the children of Huizhou merchants believe in Lumen Xinxue. Have you studied Lumen Xinxue?"
Get up and speak."
Huang Xu stood up, bowed, and replied respectfully: "Student knows a thing or two."
Wang Yuan asked: "Why do merchants' children believe in Lu Men's Xinxue?"
Huang Xu replied: "The Lumen's Xinxue was learned from Mencius, who advocated putting the people first. The foundation of the people is wealth, and financial management is the most important thing! Confucius said: 'A gentleman is likened to righteousness, and a villain is likened to profit.
.' Lu Ziyan said: 'If a merchant can do public benefit, he should also be a gentleman when he talks about it; if a scholar only seeks small righteousness, he is just a villain when he talks about righteousness.'"
Wang Yuan originally had no research on Lu Jiuyuan's knowledge, but after hearing these words, he was able to understand.
Lu Jiuyuan adheres to the righteousness of Mencius, and believes that the distinction between villains and gentlemen should not be based on their status. Merchants who pursue profit all day long can also be called as long as they have benevolence and righteousness and can bring public benefit to the world.
For a gentleman.
Merchants naturally like this theory!
"I know that from now on, you can continue to study Lu Men Xinxue." Wang Yuan nodded.
Huang Xu saluted again and then stood aside.
He Guangzu and He Xianzong immediately came forward with tea and prepared to perform the apprenticeship ceremony. Wang Yuan stopped them, holding a cup of tea and said: "You two do not need to become apprentices. From now on, we are both teachers and friends, and we can be friends as equals!"
He Tang went to Kaizhou to become a fellow scholar, but he threw his two sons here, saying that they wanted to study under Wang Yuan.
He Guangzu was older than Wang Yuan, and He Xianzong was similar in age to Wang Yuan. In addition, they had a father with profound knowledge, so Wang Yuan really had no shame to accept these two brothers as his students.
Seeing that Wang Yuan refused to accept it, He Guangzu said: "In this case, we should treat him with the courtesy of an elder brother. Brother Ruoxu, please don't hesitate to teach me in the future!"
"Easy to say." Wang Yuan smiled.
Bao Chaozhen came back during the Chinese New Year and brought a cousin named Bao Chaoxiang with him. Today they worshiped Wang Yuan together.
There are also six children, who are Wang Yuan's servants and the children of tenant farmers. Wang Yuan said that he would receive six children every year, and today they also officially became disciples.
Wang Yuan did not teach these servants and tenants' children personally, but left them to Bao Chaozhen, Du Jin and others to teach on their behalf. Only after a few years, when talented and intelligent people appear among them, will Wang Yuan accept them as his direct disciples
.
However, since they have learned basic mathematics and physics knowledge, even if their qualifications are mediocre, they will definitely be appointed as various stewards in the future. They can manage homes, factories, and even be sent to do maritime trade.
At this point, Wang Yuan has accepted more than 20 official disciples. The total number of people who are both teachers and friends and followers of the same path exceeds 60!
There is also a noble son among them, who is the grandson of the British Duke Zhang Mao and has no right to inherit the title. His name is Zhang Cheng. Because this kid loves to read "A Chinese Ghost Story", he must buy "Acta Physica Sinica" every issue. As a result, he is very interested in mathematics.
He became interested in physics. As long as he got the approval of the British Duke Zhang Mao, Zhang Cheng could come to study as a disciple at any time.
After all the disciples had finished their apprenticeship, Huang Chongde had another business chat with Wang Yuan, saying that many fields in Shandong had been replanted with cotton and that Shandong would definitely have a bumper cotton harvest this year.
In the following days, Wang Yuan discovered that Huang Xu was indeed smart.
Although this son of a merchant has just turned fourteen, he has studied the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as traditional arithmetic. He is very out-of-the-box thinking and does not like to immerse himself in studying or do the homework assigned by his senior brother Bao Chaozhen.
Hanging around the physics experiment group. Even so, among the newly recruited disciples, Huang Xu's theoretical knowledge has improved the fastest.
He Tang's two sons are a bit hard to describe.
No wonder, in history, they never passed the exam. They were just the kind of poor students who studied hard every day and worked harder than anyone else, but always failed the exam.
But the victory is to be honest and honest, and have high moral character. Taking benevolence and righteousness as one's own standards of life. In terms of character, he can be called a gentleman!
It's May in the blink of an eye.
The central government's finances have finally improved, and the most direct manifestation is that officials are finally given a Dragon Boat Festival banquet, and banquets are no longer dispensed with in the name of saving money.
Yang Yiqing, the Minister of Civil Affairs, resigned again, saying that he was in poor health and had no one to take care of him. The emperor refused and transferred Yang Yiqing's son from Nanjing to Beijing to serve as an official, so that he could take care of his old father nearby.
Immediately afterwards, Sun Jiao, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Fu Gui, the Minister of Rites, resigned, and the emperor agreed.
The science and education officials who were not in the same group as Yang Tinghe immediately asked the emperor to take back his life. Yang Yiqing also said, I am so sick that I am still lingering on. How can Sun Jiao and Fu Gui leave? Once they leave, the court will
Why don't the senior ministers follow suit and resign one after another?
"What do you think of Ruoxu?" Yan Song asked.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Your Majesty is completely disappointed with Sun Jiao and Fu Gui!"
Yan Song didn't know much about the court and asked, "Whose are Wang Qiong and Liu Chun?"
Wang Yuan explained: "The new Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Qiong, has always been His Majesty's person; the new Minister of Rites, Liu Chun, is a person left behind by Mr. Li Ge (Li Dongyang)."
"That's it!" Yan Song understood the situation instantly.
Sun Jiao and Fu Gui chose to resign because they were ignored by Yang Tinghe's faction. The emperor did not allow them to resign before because he wanted them to continue to support him. Now it seems that the mud cannot hold up the wall, so he might as well let Wang Qiong and
Liu Chun takes over!
Liu Chun is already old and probably has little to accomplish.
Wang Qiong is still in his prime, and he has the support of the emperor. The Ming Dynasty in the next few years will definitely be a battle of wits between Wang Qiong and Yang Tinghe.
Wang Qiong is a very special person, with extraordinary talents and clear dealings with households. The frontier requested the allocation of grain and grass, and the civil and military officials jointly received kickbacks. He directly replied: How much grain and grass is there in a certain warehouse and a certain field, how much is transported to each place every year, and how much is collected by border soldiers every year.
As much food as I can give you, that's enough. If I extend my hand any more, I'm just trying to embezzle you!
When it came to constructing water conservancy projects, Wang Qiong directly took out an abacus and calculated the accounts for the officials who wanted money. The calculated expenses made people speechless.
Wang Qiong relied on his ability to hire people. Historically, he became the Minister of the Ministry of War. Although he had never met Wang Yangming and Wang Yangming never gave him a penny, Wang Qiong used Wang Yangming to suppress bandits thousands of miles away. This is how he came to be.
Wang Yangming’s battlefield myth!
Wang Qiong himself is not corrupt, and King Ning does not accept money from him, but is he really upright and selfless?
No!
Wang Qiong once did something: a noble embezzled the common people's property. He helped the noble to overturn the case and added insult to injury to the victims! Officials of the Manchu Dynasty impeached Jiang Bin, but he hugged Jiang Bin's lap and was regarded by the civil servants as Jiang Bin's
running dog.
This is a talented person with a complicated personality, and he does things unscrupulously!
Anyway, the structure of the Ming Dynasty changed dramatically again. Two ministers were replaced at one time, and they were both from the emperor's side. There was still a vacancy in the cabinet, and the emperor refused to fill it, so the cabinet position remained vacant.
Everything fully showed that the emperor was very dissatisfied with this cabinet.
Yang Tinghe finally calmed down and did not dare to place his cronies at will, but he was still unscrupulous in many places.
Soon in June, Jin Lei got married and invited Wang Yuan to attend the wedding.