There are too many cafeterias in Taishan Academy to count, and there are so many kinds of food from all over the world.
There are biscuits from the Western Regions, pasta from the north, and rice from the south.
The only thing that is the same is that almost most of the food ingredients come from the tens of thousands of acres of farmland of the Agricultural College.
It is impossible to feed tens of thousands of people with tens of thousands of acres of fields, but if it is just vegetables, meat, and fruits, they can still barely supply it.
Just like the oranges in Huainan become tangerines in Huaibei, the Agricultural College does not have that much ability to develop hybrid rice. They are now doing research on agricultural fertilization and changes in climate, soil, and crops.
These studies are mainly reflected in the "Book of Fansheng" written by Fan Fansheng of the Western Han Dynasty. Through the methods of predecessors, we conducted in-depth exploration and improved fertilization methods to make crops more productive.
Somewhat similar to the "Essentials for Qi Min" from the Northern Wei Dynasty, it systematically summarized agriculture, animal husbandry, breeding, fishery, and brewing.
Generally speaking, the current scientific level in Qingzhou is far from a very high level. It may be that the ability in the Tang and Song Dynasties has not yet reached the height of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. But for a feudal dynasty, this is already a great achievement.
improvement.
If we can continue like this, the level of scientific research will steadily improve every year.
Especially when the School of Chemistry polishes the glass technology to perfection and manufactures astronomical telescopes, it will definitely be a great advancement in science and technology. After decades or hundreds of years, it may really be like the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.
certainly.
Maybe some people don’t understand why astronomical telescopes can advance science and technology?
But in fact, what has restrained the Chinese people for two thousand years has never been imagination, but strict feudal etiquette and inherent oppressive thinking.
Just like the Western church's suppression of science, scientists promote humanism and oppose theology. Due to the related interests, the church naturally dislikes those who engage in science. The burning of Bruno and the persecution of Copernicus and Galileo are typical examples.
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Similarly, everything in China's feudal dynasty must serve the monarchy. The deification of monarchy started with Dong Zhongshu. For example, the divine right of monarchy, various auspicious signs, the emperor is called the Nine-Five Supreme, the symbol of the dragon, etc.
And if one day an ordinary person looks up at the stars and sees the true appearance of this world, he suddenly realizes that there is no God in this world at all.
The emperor and the emperor are just ordinary people like them.
What will happen then?
Thousands of years of Chinese history have long proven that unless the imperial court has become so dark and decadent that it needs to be replaced every day, and the people are on the verge of starving to death, it will be difficult to have a large-scale uprising, because the imperial power has always been suppressed by them.
The mountain in my heart.
But once the majesty of the divine right of kings is overturned, and the emperor is no longer the authority in the eyes of the general public, it will be a catastrophe for the ruling class.
Princes, generals and prime ministers would rather have the seed!
The first uprising launched by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang was also the same cry of countless oppressed people later.
Therefore, under the relationship of interests, the rulers of the feudal dynasties would not do anything that could threaten the imperial power.
Just like the Qing Dynasty, Britain had already completed the industrial revolution in the mid-Qing Dynasty. However, the Qing Dynasty still closed the country after Qianlong, calling all high-end industrial products of foreigners "wonderful skills" and locked them in the treasury, not allowing technology to come in.
It was not because people like Qianlong were ignorant, but because of the Western Enlightenment Movement at that time, European countries set off a wave of democracy. European emperors abdicated, constitutionalized, and beheaded.
The Qing Dynasty was originally a dynasty in which a minority of Manchus ruled the majority of Han people. If Western technology was introduced and Western ideas spread quickly, which would lead to the awakening of nationalism, the Qing emperor's throne would definitely be unstable. Therefore, even if he knew the benefits of technology, he would not
Ignore it.
At this point, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the emperor of Japan implemented completely different approaches, which also created the most shameful humiliation and darkness in the early days of the new era.
Therefore, an astronomical telescope or a steam engine means nothing.
But the role they can play is very large.
Letting people see the world with their own eyes is far more effective than preaching it with great principles.
Break the inherent thinking that the sky is round and the earth is round, and the power of kings is divinely authorized.
Tell the people, tell the people, there is no God in this world.
If so, then humans are gods, and even mortals can do things that gods can do!
Liberation of the mind is true liberation.
This is actually what Chen Mu is doing now, and it is also something that will take Taishan Academy as the starting point and radiate to the entire Han Dynasty in the future.
However, due to the concern of a group of great Confucian scholars who support the divine right of kings and advocate the view of monarchy, such as Zheng Xuan and Cai Yong, Chen Mu has not dared to let the new learning begin to impact the feudal system.
The concept he has been promoting is that the new learning is to serve the monarchy. Things including astronomical telescopes and microscopes that explore the world are also consciously suppressed. Even if the glass technology is mature enough to make completely transparent glass, he will not
Will do it immediately.
Because once these tools for exploring the world are born and people suddenly begin to doubt the past divine right of kings, they will inevitably question Dong Zhongshu’s Confucianism. At the same time, Zheng Xuan’s group of old masters will also firmly oppose it.
When the time comes, the turmoil caused by academics will be no easier than war. Therefore, Chen Mu has been secretly engaging in science under the guise of feudalism. He does not want any technological war to break out today. He only hopes that after many years, science will be in the Han Dynasty.
After this land had a certain amount of soil, it slowly developed.
Boiling frogs in warm water and moistening things with spring rain are actually the same principle. If you are too radical, it will lead to violent storms. Survive carefully in the cracks, slowly figure it out, plant the seeds of science, and wait for the germination in tens or hundreds of years.
That's what a person with a long-term vision can do.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chen Mu inspected most places in the academy. Although the theoretical knowledge has not yet been established, all the science and technology in the academy are in a simple and crude era of creation, like a mindless person.
The flies generally bump around, unable to find a specific target.
But at least they are working hard to find and find the direction of this goal. They are right and have not taken a detour. Then everything is possible in the future. This world needs such a group of people to have a brighter and broader world.
The future world!
After visiting the School of Confucianism, the School of Agriculture, the School of Astronomy and the School of Geography, Chen Mu finally came to the School of Political Science and the School of Military Affairs, where he taught. He had previously served as a doctorate in these two schools.
Compared with other colleges, every student they meet here no longer calls him Palace Chief, but respectfully calls him Master, which means that he is their teacher.
The School of Political Science is located on a gentle slope on the west side of Mount Tai, with mountains and forests on both sides. You need to go up some steps to reach a complex of continuous palaces.
Follow the steps into the first hall, and then walk in from the garden on the right. The students you meet along the way say hello to Chen Mu. After passing a forest, you look up and see a long pavilion on the mountainside not far away.
Corridor, and two buildings.
This is the chess club of the School of Political Science. Chess competition is a common practice in the Taishan Academy. Among the chess competitions organized many times, the School of Political Science and the Academy of War are the strongest and often compete for the top spot. Therefore, in order to reward them, the Academy has won the first place several times.
, built a chess club for them inside and outside the hospital, and hung the leader medals for several years to show their honor.
Although students from other colleges were also dissatisfied, the Academy also said that if you can get first place, I will also repair it for you. As soon as this sentence came out, everyone gradually stopped talking. Because they are really not as good at chess as those from the Political Science Academy and the Academy of Political Science.
The people in the Military Academy are inferior in skills and there is nothing they can do.
Chen Mu had nothing to do, so he thought about going over to take a look, so he walked up the stairs and walked outside the chess club. He saw many students in the chess club playing chess when there were no classes. Even the pavilion and corridor outside were crowded.
Got people.
Some are watching, some are playing, watching the chess in silence. Although there are not many people, there are not many people talking. Apart from the sound of the moves, it is very quiet.
The School of Political Science trains local officials and teaches people's livelihood management issues. In addition, it also teaches social phenomena, such as local powerful forces colluding with officials to deceive county officials, and some methods of powerful land annexation. It teaches officialdom,
Students need to be more aware of words and expressions, understand how to fight against local forces, and how to play politics.
Therefore, the style of chess played in the School of Political Science has also been affected. The layout is often insidious, focusing on building momentum in the early stage, strangling in the mid-term, and finishing in the later stage. On the contrary, those in the Military Academy play military, and sometimes organize to suppress bandits to gain experience, kill people, and start playing chess.
Come and open the door and close the door, burn the cauldron and sink the boat. Either you die or I die, which is more direct.
This results in students from the School of Political Science sometimes playing chess for a long time, and the two sides struggle for several hours, and the game will not end until the end of the game. However, when playing chess at the School of Military Affairs, the fight is often fierce in the early stage, and the game ends within a few quarters of an hour.
Being able to tell the winner is a very interesting thing in the academy.
It is worth mentioning that there are still many historical celebrities in the School of Political Science and the Academy of Military Affairs, such as Cui Lin, Zhang Cheng, and Zhuge Jin. But they are also graduating and will soon become officials, so they are not here.
Since everyone was watching the chess game carefully, no one noticed Chen Mu's appearance. He walked through the corridor, looking around from time to time, nodding occasionally, admiring a certain student's wonderful chess move, and then went elsewhere.
, but didn’t stay much longer.
Although the School of Political Science is a place to train officials, these are still students. Only when they start as officials in the future can they truly experience the darkness of officialdom. So in fact, they are still very immature and cannot attract the attention of an old monster like Chen Mu.
At least in terms of chess skills, in this vast world, there are probably not many people who can compete with his cunning chess style.
After walking around, there were many students who were very good at chess, but compared with Chen Mu, they were still far behind, so he felt bored and wanted to leave. At this moment, he heard a rustling sound. It turned out that he was behind the chess club.
There is also a waterfall. In front of the waterfall is a pebble beach and a grassland of hundreds of square meters.
It was spring and summer, and there were a lot of mosquitoes on the grass. The students wearing large robes didn't want to be bitten, but a few students did the opposite and ran to the edge of the pool near the bottom of the waterfall to play chess. It was really attractive.
focus on.
Chen Mu looked at it intently and immediately laughed. It was Zhuge Liang, Kong Jian, Yao Bo, and Huang Qi. They were also students in the small class he taught at Taishan Academy. They have all grown up now.
Zhuge Liang and the others are quite naughty. Although there are many mosquitoes on the grass, the water temperature near the waterfall is very low and it emits air-conditioning. Mosquitoes are very inactive in low-temperature environments, so there are almost no mosquitoes near the waterfall.
Although the noise is very loud and interferes with people playing chess, this state is very easy to exercise the mind, just like a great man reading a book in a busy city, practicing to find tranquility in the chaos.
Chen Mu asked his attendants to wait where they were, while he stepped onto the grass and slowly approached the waterfall.