From Chief to Ball

Disciple Wen Beiyin sits on the left and right, and is willing to give everything to renew Mr. Jiazi. After Jiazi, it will be a brand new republic.

But the gentlemen sighed deeply and smiled wryly, life and death are fate, can it be continued?I have no regrets and have never been busy in my life. Let this prosperous age be left to you young people.Although the soul of the dead is still there, turning into a ladder to climb to heaven, don't forget to burn a few books when burning paper.

Chapter 87 Worry

After the turmoil subsided for more than ten days, Chen Jian slept for a whole day and night before he came to rest.

When I woke up, my throat was still hoarse and the pain was severe.

Seeing that it was getting late, he hurried to Mr. Mu's house.When he opened the door and entered, the husband was still flipping through the book, and when he saw Chen Jian coming, he put down the book and waved to Chen Jian.

"Woke up? It's just right, come and tell me, I still don't understand some things."

Chen Jian walked over, and with a playful smile on his face, he pressed the things copied by Mr. with a paperweight, licked his face and said, "Sir, I'm not busy with this. I have to ask you something."

The gentleman raised his head and said with a smile: "Speak, what are you going to do?"

"Nothing. I just thought about sorting out these things and making some books that can be taught and passed on to future generations. Let's start from the beginning to the end, at least our subject should be explained clearly. It's just right in Mincheng Besides, I also have a chemical workshop and a glass workshop. There are many things that can be seen and pondered. So I thought, can I find some brothers and sisters to go to my place and spend some time compiling this set of books ?”

"Writing a book?"

The gentleman's expression became serious, and he thought for a while and said: "This is a good thing. Since these things have become a system, we must start from the simple to the deep, and strive to make people who have never learned it understand from the beginning to the end. Well, This is a good thing that will last forever, and I can make the decision."

"Then thank you sir. In fact, you don't need too many people, just six or seven. I just think that our subjects will be more standardized in the future, and we will start with some of the most basic things."

"That's right. I'll choose for you about people. Your brothers and sisters have benefited a lot from you, and they know that your place is a good place to go. There may not be less things to learn than here. How can you not want to go? You didn't come to see me, Mr., you snatched someone from me."

The husband was not angry, and he was smiling when he spoke. Chen Jian said hesitantly: "You see, I can't help it. To be honest, I really don't have the ability to choose words and sentences so that the child can understand. Besides, sir, to be honest, I am too busy to get away from myself."

"You, if you can't get away for three years, but you can bring such an earth-shattering demonstration in three years, it's better than anything else. Why, what are you planning to do when you go back this time?"

"It's nothing. The rest has to come slowly. The knowledge in my stomach is like the water in the stomach of a drunkard. Where is the dry stuff? After more than ten years of thinking about it, all the things are dumped." Out."

The husband smiled, noncommittal, and did not say whether he believed it or not.

"Other subjects, do you want to find someone for you? I can still use my old face, otherwise it will be wasted when I die."

"Others...others... I actually thought about paying for a set of "Complete Book of Science, Reason, and Handicraft Skills", but I don't think the money is enough now. Besides, it will take 30 to 20 years to complete. , I need a lot of great talents to come forward, I am afraid that your reputation may not be able to buy others [-] years of time. But our subject is a new start, and this can be written first."

The old man smiled for a while, nodded and said: "Since that's the case, I'll let your senior brother Li Yun bring a few people to go with you. I suggest that we make up two sets. One set is for new students, and the other set is considered a Satisfy me, for people like us to see. It's best to be able to connect."

"I think so too. I'm just afraid of delaying the future of the brothers. It will take a year or two."

"There is nothing to delay. It is nothing more than to be a small affairs officer. Pharmacy, Gunpowder Bureau, Salt Administration, Potassium Field and other places. If you want to be an official, you have to pass the civil service examination. Our subject is just a deputy after all. Count it The other side can be better, artillery, bastion, engineering, astronomy, stargazing and other needs, our side... I have accepted such a few disciples in my life. The University Palace, I will listen to you show this earth-shattering achievement There are only a few hundred people, and there are only a hundred or ten who really understand and are willing to think about it. If it is not for those who really like this thing, who will pass the entrance examination to learn this?"

Speaking of this, the master smiled and said: "Otherwise, the last time your senior brother came back and said you were a philistine, I would have said that I lacked a philistine disciple. It's time to be a philistine, or else all the subjects in the academy would be closed, if not Hundreds of years of rules are supported, and it is over soon. Why has our discipline continued to devote all its energy to alchemy for nearly 200 years? That is to prove that it is useful instead of useless. But now I am relieved, gold It hasn’t been refined, but things like fertilizer and glass have appeared, which are no less than gold, and we finally have a great use.”

Chen Jian hurriedly said: "Why don't you go to Mincheng, where the air is humid and good for your lungs. You can live there for the rest of your life."

"I won't go, and I'm not afraid to tell you that a new kind of saltpeter was discovered a few years ago, but it is easy to explode and absorb moisture. But this saltpeter is produced in mines, not grown in nitrate fields. It is convenient to mine. I have to make it perfect before the old bones fall apart. Besides, I can’t stand the toss. If I can’t stand the bumps and die halfway, it’s not good.”

Chen Jian admired it in his heart, but he joked: "Sir, you still don't forget to breed wars at such an old age. I thought that people's hearts soften when they get older."

Mr. Mu laughed and said: "How can the world be settled? Set at one. After the last battle is over, there will be no more battles to fight. How about saving a lot of money to do something? Otherwise, both sides will have tens of thousands of soldiers Fort stretches, sails, artillery, guns, military uniforms, isn’t it all money? Since it’s useless to rely on words, then fight, and it will be fine after the fight. This is the real soft heart. Besides, even if you don’t fight, you can still explode mines .”

It can be seen that Mr. Mu is full of hope for peace in the future, at least it looks like this at this time, there will be no war after World War I, and for generations to come, Chen Jian has shown him the hope of human beings conquering nature in the future. I feel indescribably good.

Chen Jian didn't disappoint either. After saying a few words, he picked up the paperweight and prepared to read a book with his husband for a while.

But Mr. Mu stretched out his hand, pressed Chen Jian's hand and said, "Now that we've talked about this, let's not be busy. Jian, I have been worried about one thing in my heart after reading these things you said these days. "

"What's the matter? You're not worried about machines appearing instead of people, causing people to starve?"

"That's not true. If so, we should have been slash-and-burn farming in the first place, so that everyone has something to do. What I'm worried about is not this."

"what is that?"

"I'm worried... In the future, everyone will think that everything in the world can be explained, that science can explain everything, and that as long as rational thinking can speculate on everything...even people. What I fear most is that people will regard people as one A species, a thing that can be explained rationally."

Mr. Mu frowned and said: "There have been such arguments before, such as killing the disabled and the mentally handicapped, otherwise they will suffer if they live, and their children will also suffer. Then you say, according to Absolutely rational thought, right? Obviously, it makes sense."

"But it didn't become mainstream."

"That's right, that's because people used to be in awe of morality, nature, and heaven and earth. It's hard to say now, but what about the future? You have created too many things, even the movement of the earth and the sun have to try to change Explain with rationality, and over time, people will believe one thing: rationality can explain everything, plan people's future, treat everything as an arithmetic problem, and reason everything out with formulas. People used to worship nature until they waited for the ones you imagined After the machine really appears, it will worship the machine, and then worship the absolute rationality that produces all of this. At that time, won’t it really become the mainstream? Treat people as formulas and calculate the optimal solution?”

Mr. Mu sighed and said, "The more I think about it these two days, the more worried I become. There has been an argument in the capital that man is a precise machine. A watchmaker made a small drum that can beat its own drum." Machines, dolls made of wooden shells are buckled on top. But people, is it really a machine? Is there morality under absolute rationality? Will people wonder what is behind this morality? Another example, if a group of A person has a disease, which requires medical students to try to open their stomachs for treatment, but they cannot be sure whether they are dead or alive. But if they try, this person may die, but it can save more people. So together A simple arithmetic problem has appeared, one hundred is greater than one, people who believe in reason and think that everything is a particle will definitely use arithmetic to solve this matter."

This is a trend of thought that will inevitably appear when rationality and science are just showing their strength. No one can avoid it, and it is likely to dominate the mainstream thinking for decades or even 100 years. This is inevitable.

Chen Jian knew that it wasn't because Mr. Wang was thinking wildly. As early as a few years ago, when he saw the first pamphlet about mass execution of some people who were not fit to survive and thought it was just, this trend of thought had already appeared. He's just a booster.

It's just that this trend of thought may reach its peak with the emergence of new technologies, human beings explaining the operation of all things, and the emergence of ideas such as evolution and natural selection.

Including thinking that poetry is meaningless, thinking that paintings should express the rules of nature, using various theories including body fluids and temperament to explain that human emotions are just mechanical operations, etc., need decades or even centuries of debate.

Morality always lags behind the times and is the feedback of the times. Mr. Mu Lao is not a legacy of the old times. He just smells the filth of the new era while seeing the bright and bright future of the new era.

"Sir, in fact, you don't have to worry about this. It will get better after a long time. The new era has the morals of the new era, and how can you know that these things are wrong without debate, speculation, and trial? So you say I might scare you by using people as test subjects in the future, but in fact, how can I have that ability? It is the times that use people as test subjects. Only when you die a lot will you know that some ideas are wrong...not necessarily wrong, but It may not be beneficial to most people. As you said, this is not one plus one equals two, there must be right and wrong."

"Do you have to die?"

"Unless you want to enshrine the gods and tell everyone what is right and what is wrong. But would you like to have a ghost on top of people's heads?"

"I am willing. But I know there is none, so ghosts and gods can only tell others through people. It would be better not to have it. If there is, it will be fine."

Sitting there slumped for a while, he finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I won't read this book for now. You haven't done your own business since you came to the capital, go and do yours."

Chapter 88 The Morning Star of the New Era

He left the husband's room with some emotion, breathed the outside air, and stretched himself.

This time it took too much time to demonstrate the experiment in the academy. Hu Lin had come to see him a few days ago, but that was the busiest time, and Hu Lin also knew that the matter was important, so he postponed it.

Now the calculation of centrifugal force using the micro-element method has not been finished, and those who care about those experiments in the academy are busy digesting the things of the previous few days, and it has not yet reached the time when various questions burst out and asked questions.

Thinking that I really don't have much time, look at the time, today is another ten-day holiday.So I went to find Lin Xi, and the two went to meet Hu Lin and the others together.

Lin Xi was busy using charcoal pencils to draw the world under a low-power microscope on the paper. The strange creatures were vivid on the paper, some were fangs and claws, some were round and cute.

Chen Jian tiptoed in and saw half a sesame seed cake on the table. Lin Xi was holding a bit of sesame seed cake residue in his hand, wiping a charcoal drawing on the paper.It should be some kind of small creature in the water, with a strange hair on the outside, caressing like a person's arm.

He walked quietly behind Lin Xi, and when Lin Xi held the charcoal pencil, he gently grabbed her hand. He obviously felt the girl tremble, but after seeing the hand he held clearly, he let Chen Hold it.

The weird arm was blurred and added a few strokes casually, and it became a girl with a bun holding a pot of flowers, on which was drawn a dialog box commonly used in comics, saying: "Excuse me, do you buy flowers?" ?”

Lin Xi giggled, and muttered, "I drew it with great difficulty, but you stained it all."

"Stop drawing, go out for a walk."