"Lord Zhao, do you think these warriors are disturbing the peace?”Zhu Youjian asked with a cold smile.
Zhao Nanxing glanced at him and said nothing.
Everyone sat down in a pavilion. Zhu Youjian gave Wang Chengen a look. Wang Chengen understood and ordered Little Lian and Little Cui to serve tea.
The tea was the cheapest tea sold on the market. It tasted bitter. After walking for a long time, everyone's mouths were dry. They picked it up and tasted it, frowning.
Zhu Youjian looked coldly at the civil and military officials drinking tea and winked at Wang Chengen.
Xu Guangqi and Zuo Guangdou stood up and walked out of the pavilion. They came to a row of tile-roofed houses. Through the half-opened windows, they could hear the sound of reading coming from inside.
Zuo Guangdou then realized that there was a wooden board nailed to the lintel of each house. On it were written in small seal characters," Astronomy, Geography, Arithmetic, Law, Physics, Shooting, Artillery, Logistics, Agriculture, Medicine," and many other words. There was almost no repetition.
His favorite disciple, Shi Kefa, was standing in the room, holding a thin wooden stick in his hand. He was knocking on a black wooden board in front of him, teaching something to the East Chamber natives sitting in the room.
"Lord Zuo is a good student!”Xu Guangqi looked at Shi Kefa and nodded in satisfaction." Shi Kefa is now the most outstanding mathematics teacher in our Wubei Academy.”
Zuo Guangdou smiled awkwardly. Because of Xu Hongru's rebellion, the road to Jiangnan had been cut off, and the general exams had been delayed from February to now. Seeing that midsummer was approaching, the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court had already issued a memorial to summon all the candidates from the country to the capital to take the exams. The exams would be held in the next few months.
He wanted Shi Kefa to focus on the exam and fight for a good future. However, he was not interested in the imperial examination now. Instead, he was focused on studying mathematics. Zuo Guangdou wanted to talk to him several times, but he thought about it. So what if he could get a Jinshi title and bring honor to his ancestors? If there was no one in the imperial court, wouldn't he be sent to a remote county and become a seventh-grade county official for the rest of his life?
Even if he was the top scholar, he would only be sent to the Imperial Academy as a small editor and sit on the cold bench for a few years. Then, he would be sent to Jiangnan or the Northwest. By then, who knew when it would be!
Because of this concern, he didn't try to persuade Shi Kefa. Shi Kefa was obsessed with mathematics every day and completely forgot about the imperial examination.
"These are the rare herbs that His Highness ordered to be collected from all over the country.”Xu Guangqi led Zuo Guangdou around a small pond. In front of them, there was a large farmland. A few farmers wearing bamboo hats and coarse clothes were tending to the crops in the farmland.
"Zixian, what is this?" Zuo Guangdou asked curiously when he saw a green plant with wide leaves growing out of the ground.
"This item is called corn. It came from the far west of Taixi and crossed the sea.”Xu Guangqi led him into the farmland and pointed out the items one by one as if he was counting his family's treasures."Brother Yizhi, please take a look. These are cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, potatoes, chili peppers, wolf peaches (tomatoes), chrysanthemum (sunflowers)..."
"I didn't expect that there would be so many exotic flowers and herbs in this small manor!”Zuo Guangdou looked at these strange plants and smiled approvingly." I wonder what use these flowers and plants have?”
"This thing can produce tens of thousands of catties per mu." Xu Guangqi squatted in front of a sweet potato seedling and looked at the green heart-shaped leaves. His eyes revealed a sincere desire." If this thing can become popular in the world, I wonder how many people it can feed."”
"In recent years, the Central Plains has been suffering from drought, and the people have been suffering. If these plants can really help the people as Zixian said, I will thank them on behalf of the people!”
After saying that, Zuo Guangdou was about to bow, but Xu Guangqi waved his hands." Brother Zuo cares about the people of the world. You are really a role model for the officials of our dynasty. If you want to thank someone, you should thank His Highness Prince Xin. If he didn't spend a lot of money to buy it, we wouldn't be able to see such a rare object here!"”
" Prince Xin is talented and intelligent, but I don't know where he learned some strange theories from. He even dared to denounce Kong Sheng's mistakes. What a pity. I originally thought that with Prince Xin's intelligence, he could become a benevolent king…"
"My Great Ming Empire has been established for more than two hundred years and has been delayed until now. The imperial court has been fighting for factions, the borders have repeatedly been in danger, the unruly people have rebelled, and the wind and clouds are surging.”
" This..." Zuo Guangdou's face turned red. Ever since he was scolded by Zhu Youjian last time, this question had been lingering in Zuo Guangdou's mind for a short month. What went wrong?
Emperor Taizu was wise and mighty. He started in the wilderness. In a few years, he swept across the eight wastelands, expelled the barbarians, unified the world, diligently governed the country, and loved the people. He was admired by all generations. Naturally, there was nothing wrong with that. The emperor of our dynasty was intelligent and kind. He was good at accepting advice. He only favored eunuchs and relied on the court. With righteous people like us to turn the tide, even the Wei eunuch would not dare to act rashly. Such a monarch and sage, but why was the world still not peaceful?
What Zuo Guangdou was most unwilling to think about, and also most afraid to think about, was that the root of the problem lay in the teachings of this Supreme Saint.
However, this was the truth. Although Prince Xin's words were aggressive and disobedient, Zuo Guangdou still agreed with one sentence. There was no way to govern the world. The world was no longer the world that Emperor Taizu had set up in the Divine Prefecture. The method of governing the world should also keep pace with the times, and not cling to the old ways.
The sturdy barrier of Confucian learning that had been rooted in his heart for many years finally cracked open under the influence of Prince Xin Zhu Youjian.
It turned out that the creation of artifacts, which was denounced by Confucianism as a strange skill, was actually so complicated!
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