Wang Yuan's plan to leave Beijing was postponed again because the emperor's birthday was coming, and Wanshou Festival was a very important festival in ancient China.
On this day, Zhu Houzhao first went to Fengxian Hall to pay homage to the Empress Dowager, and then went to Fengci Hall to pay homage to Empress Dowager Zhang. He thanked them for their upbringing. After all, without the two empress dowagers, there would be no Zhu Houzhao and his father, Emperor Hongzhi.
Then he went to the Fengtian Palace, where all the ministers shouted long live to celebrate the emperor's birthday.
According to the etiquette system, the emperor should give banquets to his ministers. However, this year there were major disasters in various places and the grain production was seriously reduced, so he skipped the banquets to save money.
Subsequently, envoys from various states came to the court one after another to congratulate the Ming Emperor on his birthday. The emperor gave a banquet, gold woven clothes, and Ming treasure banknotes to show his favor.
After the rewards were announced and the envoys of the vassal state were supposed to retreat, the Korean envoy Liu Mei suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, the Holy Emperor, I request to stay in the Ming Dynasty and devote ten years to study Neo Confucianism!"
The ministers were stunned and then overjoyed. Even Zhu Houzhao was particularly happy.
It's sheer nonsense to put Liu Mei's qualifications at such a low level. This guy's official position in North Korea was Hucao Shenjian, which is similar to the official position in the Ming Dynasty when he was Minister of Hubu, a proper important minister in the second class!
Moreover, the full name of his family is "Wenhua Liu Family", which sounds like it belongs to Confucian orthodoxy.
A minister of a vassal state who was born in orthodox Confucianism actually gave up his high position and salary and took the initiative to stay in the Ming Dynasty to study knowledge. What does this mean? It means that he has made great contributions to the enlightenment of China.
"That's right!" Zhu Houzhao said happily.
All civil and military officials shouted in unison: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Liu Mei was also very happy. He stayed in the Ming Dynasty to further his studies. With his family background, not only would his future not be delayed, but he would also be able to accumulate qualifications and reputation. Moreover, life in Beijing was so happy, and the entertainment options were much more complete than those in Seoul.
A bunch of bumpkins.
What's more important is that North Korea is playing party politics!
On one side is the old faction, which is equivalent to the alliance of aristocrats and big landowners. They try their best to protect their vested interests.
On the one side is the Shilin faction, who are emerging small landowners who rose to power through the imperial examination and hope to carry out reforms and build the country.
Over the past hundred years, many Shilin sects gradually merged into the Xunjiu sect, becoming what they originally hated most. However, with the rise of the imperial examination, the power of the Shilin sect became stronger and stronger, and even overshadowed the imperial power for a time.
So, the next king crazily attacked the Shilin sect. The previous king first supported the Shilin sect, and then supported the Xunjiu sect, with the purpose of maintaining the balance of the court (it failed and was abolished by the coup).
Now this king is re-employing the Shilin faction and fighting against the Xun old faction with all his strength.
The Shilin sect was at its peak at this time, and the Xunjiu sect was having a very difficult time, and Liu Mei happened to be from the Xunjiu sect.
According to the rules of struggle in North Korea's officialdom, the king will soon fall out with the Shilin faction, because these mud-legged gangs are too arrogant after gaining power. They pursue the concept of "perfect governance", and the king has to take out the renovation of the toilet for "public comment", and
There are a lot of scholars in Hongwen Hall (similar to Hanlin Academy) and Liangfu (similar to Liu Ke and Du Cha Yuan), and it is the Scholars who have the final say in everything.
However, once the Shilin Faction loses power, the Xunjiu Faction will inevitably show its teeth and claws. After a while, the king will activate the Shilin Faction again and attack the Xunjiu Faction.
One after another, the cycle repeats, and no one can kill anyone.
If the king suppresses a certain faction too harshly, some people will definitely jump to the wall. The last deposed King of Joseon is a lesson learned.
In addition, political struggles are also mixed with academic struggles. Korean Confucianism has a dispute between the Neo-Confucian school and the Qi school.
The Neo-Confucian School admires Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which emphasizes personal experience and moral cultivation. The Qi School also respects Zhu Xi, but believes that "Qi" is the ontology of the world, and advocates the accumulation of external knowledge and experience.
Why is Liu Mei interested in the school of physics?
Because the physical school can be understood as "the mutual development of rationality and qi", but the actual operation is more biased towards "qi", and it also proposed a "methodology" of conducting experiments, which is certainly worthy of being taken back to North Korea and vigorously promoted.
Liu Mei planned to ignore the party strife in North Korea and stay in Beijing to study for ten years to thoroughly study physics before going back. By then, he could change "physics" to "Qi Neo-Confucianism" and unify the Neo-Confucian and Qi schools in North Korea. In this way, Liu Mei would
You can become a Confucian master!
It is not difficult to promote the physical school in North Korea. Due to the increasingly fierce social conflicts, Xu Jingde's subjective materialism is very popular (Qi School), and Liu Mei can definitely add another fire on this basis.
Liu Mei even felt that he could unify the Xunjiu sect and the Shilin sect. The Xunjiu sect was mainly based on Neo-Confucianism, and the Shilin sect was mainly about Qi. As a member of the Xunjiu sect, he put forward the idea of favoring the Qi school, which was likely to gain support from both schools.
Common support - well, it may also be common opposition.
After the dispersion of the dynasty, before leaving the imperial city, Liu Mei, in full view of everyone, made a discipleship ceremony to Wang Yuan: "Scholar Wang, I want to learn physics, please give me some advice!"
All the ministers were shocked, and most of them sneered and looked down upon him, thinking: He is indeed a minister from a foreign country, and he does not know the true meaning of Confucianism. He ignored the great Confucian scholars of the whole dynasty and did not ask for advice, and he actually worshiped a junior scholar as his teacher.
Wang Yuan was also surprised and replied: "I don't dare to take it seriously. It's just a matter of learning from each other."
The next day, Wang Yuan left Beijing for Shandong to investigate the Yellow River management issues on the spot.
Following Wang Yuan out of the capital was Wang Wensu, who was borrowed from the Ministry of Household Affairs. This humanoid calculator was particularly convenient to use. There were also three disciples, Bao Chaozhen, Bao Chaoxiang and Zhong An, as well as four students from the government who failed the provincial examination.
personnel, they all have to perform auxiliary measurement work.
Disciple Du Jin stayed in the capital and was responsible for teaching other students, including teaching mathematics to North Korean student Liu Mei.
As soon as the teacher left, the students went crazy!
Wang Yan, instead of preparing for next year's general examination, secretly started a series of connections. Through his junior brother Huang Xu, he contacted Huizhou merchant Huang Chongde and opened an academy outside Xuanwu Gate, called the "School of Physics". There were three lecture halls.
, three rooms in the back hall, plus other buildings, there are more than ten rooms.
Because of financial support from donors, the college is free of tuition and boarding students are only charged room and board fees.
These physical radicals used wax printers to print thousands of leaflets and distribute them to everyone outside Xuanwu Gate. Most of the officials and citizens who went out of the city to watch football matches had to pass by Xuanwu Gate, and they could hand out all the leaflets in minutes.
For the first academy lecture, more than 200 people came. Anyway, everything was free, and they just came to watch the fun.
There were several speakers, and Wang Yan was the first to take the stage.
Because there are all kinds of people attending the lectures, including wealthy young men, scholars seeking education, ordinary people, and even monks and Taoists, the lecture content cannot be too profound and must be explained in a simple and profound manner.
Wang Yan said: "I am Wang Yan. Yan, that is, the sun disappears and appears in the clouds. The teacher gave me the word 'Yin Zhi', thinking that I appear too much and appear too little. Today, I will appear again."
!I am just a junior member of the physics school, but I shamelessly give a lecture, which is really just trying to attract others!"
"What is physics? It means that it has many principles and responds to all things, so as to gain a glimpse of the laws and ways of heaven. As long as we study physics seriously and integrate knowledge and action, everyone can become a saint..."
After expounding a lot of concepts of the school of physics, Wang Xian added: "Everything has three states, namely solid, liquid and gaseous. Let's take water as an example, which is ice, water and steam. Ice absorbs energy and becomes water, and water absorbs energy and becomes gas.
, so Qi is the highest level. Human beings also have three states, namely body, manner, and expression."
"Everyone has a body, which is the human body. If you eat all kinds of grains, absorb the essence of food, and strengthen martial arts training, you will have a strong body; if you read the classics and history, absorb the teachings of articles, and be familiar with various schools of knowledge, you will have profound knowledge."
"This is just like ice absorbing heat and turning into water. People absorb energy and have temperament, which is the manner. A military commander has a breathtaking aura, which is the manner. A scholar has poetry and calligraphy in his belly, which is also the manner."
"If you have a demeanor, you must continue to practice. You must unite your knowledge and actions, continue to do good deeds, and gradually develop your own demeanor. The demeanor is an innate state, everyone has it, and it is buried when you are born. It is equivalent to steam losing its energy.
It turned into water, turned into ice. Our physics is to turn ice into water and water into steam. Let people cultivate their posture and restore their original posture!"
Luo Liba talked a lot, and a Taoist priest in the audience murmured: "This is the Taoist method of refining qi and refining qi to transform into spirit. How come the refining spirit has been removed? It should be added. Wang
Erlang's knowledge originally originated from Taoism."
Yes, Wang Yuan and Wang Yangming completely ran away.
Wang Yangming was regarded as a Zen Buddhist, and Wang Yuan simply became a successor of Taoism.
Wang Yan smiled and said: "I have said so much, I think you all feel bored. Let's do an interesting experiment."
The physics disciples came in carrying a large vat, lit a fire and boiled the oil pan until it boiled.
"I want to fish it out!" Wang Yan threw a steel weight in, rolled up his sleeves and reached into the oil pan to fish it out.
Everyone exclaimed.
Wang Yan, however, was leisurely and leisurely. He took out the weights and said, "This is not a magic trick, nor is it because I have developed a pair of iron arms. It's because most of the pot is vinegar and only the surface layer is oil. Why?"
How could this happen? This involves two pieces of physical knowledge, boiling point and density. Vinegar has a high density, so it sinks to the bottom; oil has a low density, so it floats to the surface. Vinegar has a lower boiling point, so it doesn’t burn your hands when boiled.”
"Let's talk about why this thousand-mile mirror can see farther. This also involves knowledge of physical optics..."
Today's lecture is not in-depth, it is purely science-based, just for fear of scaring away the listeners.
After the meeting, a Taoist priest came to Wang Yan and said: "I am a poor Taoist, but a wandering Taoist. Can I stay in the academy to study physics? Your school studies the principles of all things, and the lead-mercury path is also among them. Maybe we can learn from each other and improve."
Wang Yan's goal was to preach, regardless of whether he was a monk or a Taoist priest. He said very happily: "If you are willing to study physics, I will naturally welcome you to the academy."
Therefore, Taoist Zhizhen joined the academy and used Taoist theory to help Wang Xian perfect the "Three State Theory of Physics".
When Wang Yuan came back from finishing his errands, he couldn't laugh or cry when he saw the set of doctrines and thoughts, so he had to delete, delete, and revise them himself.