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Chapter 12 Promoting Western Learning

After Zhu Cijiu passed the imperial edict, the Ministry of Rites immediately began to prepare for school management. As the Minister of Rites, Xu Guangqi naturally didn't have to do everything himself. He just assigned the tasks and his subordinates would do it for him properly.

Qian Qianyi, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, was outstanding in literary talent, and Xu Guangqi ordered him to write and post admission notices;

Wen Tiren, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, was careful in his work and was responsible for the school's site selection and internal layout.

As for himself, he was responsible for writing the tutorial. He once translated the "Geometric Original" by the Greek mathematician Euclid, which just covered the physics and mathematical knowledge needed to identify part drawings. Based on the "Geometric Original", this tutorial is not difficult to write. Just extract the basic figures such as points, lines, surfaces, quadrilaterals, circles, angles, and radians, and then describe the simple measurement and calculation methods.

As for teaching, he and Bi Maokang and others don’t have to do it themselves. He once opened a school in Shanghai, teaching Western mathematics and physics. As long as you find a few students with excellent grades to come over, you can teach these basic knowledge.

Everything is under intense preparations. Isn’t it difficult to promote Western learning in this situation? Why did Zhu Cijiu think wrong again?

As long as the emperor is not too outrageous, no one dares to object, but at that time, it was so weird that some people like to pull the emperor's braids. As long as the emperor does something a little unreasonable, some people will come out to object.

There are all people who jumped out to sing the opposite tune, some for personal gain, some for the interests of the political group behind them, and some for the sake of opposition, to put it bluntly, it is to become famous and prove that he has the pride of a scholar!

This time, people will naturally use it to do something new to promote Xixue. Others will not talk about it for now, just talk about Qian Qianyi, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites.

In order to join the cabinet and become a concubine, he had already passed by Xu Guangqi once when he built a military factory last time, but he was a miscarriage by Sun Chengzong's roar, which scared him so much that he didn't dare to do anything for several months. This time, Sun Chengzong was not here, and he became brave again. Of course, he would not jump out to perform big shows by himself, and the underestimation behind him was his strength.

As soon as he received Xu Guangqi's order, he thought about it. After thinking about it for a while, he had an idea.

He first racked his brains to write an admission notice. After reading Xu Guangqi, he ordered the people below to copy and post hard. It would be best if the streets of the capital were posted within one day.

Is he a positive attitude towards work? Of course not. He just wants everyone to know that the Ministry of Rites wants to promote Xixue. The more people he knows, the more beneficial it will be to his plan.

After get off work, he returned home and rewritten another copy, and then went out with a written notice with a smile.

What is he going to do? Of course, he went to find the gunman and learned from the lessons of the last failure. This time he was looking for not a minion, but a boss from the Donglin Party.

Isn't it boring to find some more minions and be slapped back by Sun Chengzong and others? He knew that he had to find a big boss who was about the same weight as Sun Chengzong in the Donglin Party, and slapped him over there and dared to slap him back here, so that his plan would have hope of success.

The Donglin Party cannot be all good people or bad people. As a bureaucratic political group, all kinds of officials in it are:

Good officials who are honest and dedicated to the public and devote themselves to the people, such as Sun Chengzong and Han Kuang;

Treacherous ministers who have false benevolence and righteousness, such as Qian Qianyi;

There are capable ministers who seek truth and be pragmatic, practical and practical, such as Bi Maokang;

There are also great scholars who are dedicated to the knowledge of sages and are famous for the world, such as Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou;

Qian Qianyi was looking for Huang Daozhou this time. Huang Daozhou was a Hanlin lecturer and a scholar-official lecturer, which was the imperial lecturer for the emperor who talked about classics and history. Although he usually studied and studied knowledge and wrote poems, songs and essays when he was fine, he looked like a good man who was harmless, but once he became stubborn, he was really the master that the emperor dared to scold him.

When Chongzhen was the emperor, this man was dissatisfied with the then chief assistant Yang Sichang and "argued with Sichang and went forward, and many of them retreated, and all the viewers were trembling."

Chongzhen rebuked him: "In his life, his knowledge can only be done with a slander!"

This guy argued: "The word "loyalty and flattery" is not dared not to argue. I dare to say that I am a slander before the king and father. How can those who slander the other person be loyal?"

Chongzhen was speechless afterwards. Later, he became stubborn and even asked Chongzhen sternly: "If there is no distinction between loyalty and flattery, then evil and righteousness will be confused. How can we cure it?"

Emperor Chongzhen was so angry that he almost squirted blood and directly demoted him to the sixth level in a row. This guy was still "stern and cold, not as good as the common people". He still did not repent.

Of course, it is now the Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijing who is in the dynasty, and this guy has not yet won the reputation of "the world's direct advice must be called Huang Shizhai". But as a clever and friend, Qian Qianyi knows the stubborn temperament of this guy. As long as he is allowed to commit crimes, it will definitely shock the world and the ghosts and gods, so he is the gunman this time.

When Qian Qianyi came to Huangdaozhou's mansion, this guy was just as usual, taking the book and savoring the wine. Qian Qianyi didn't say much to him, and took out the notice from his arms and handed it over.

Huang Daozhou thought he had written another poem for him to appreciate it, so he quickly put down the book, took the notice, and asked eagerly: "Is there any excellent work he received?"

Qian Qianyi didn't answer, but just looked at him with a sad face. Huang Daozhou was so stupid that he made him look. He quickly opened the notice and looked at him.

As he looked at it, his face gradually became cold and harsh. At the end, he was so angry that he slapped the notice on the table and said furiously: "Absurd, what does Xu Guangqi want to do to promote the learning of barbarians? As the Minister of Rites, he did not spread the articles of saints well, but instead praised the strange and lustful skills of these barbarians. Has he read the book of saints in vain?"

Qian Qianyi knew that this guy would get angry. When he wrote the notice, he vaguely belittled the role of Confucianism, which was a bit like that only Western studies could save the Ming Dynasty. Xu Guangqi's thoughts were originally biased towards Western studies, so he did not see anything wrong.

It’s different when it comes to Huang Daozhou. He is a great scholar in the world. Who dares to belittle the academic knowledge of sages in front of him? Wouldn’t you seek death?

Seeing that Huang Daozhou was indeed angry, Qian Qianyi quickly added fuel to the fire and said, "Oh, Lord Xu doesn't have any books of sages in his eyes. He is the Taishan Beidou of the barbarians. Naturally, he should praise the barbarians' learning. Otherwise, how could he show his 'deep knowledge'."

This means that Huang Daozhou and Xu Guangqi, who did not learn the calligraphy of sages, was good at learning barbarians, so he had to do everything possible to promote the learning of barbarians to demonstrate his knowledge.

Huang Daozhou was indeed deceived, and that's not bad. If Xu Guangqi promotes the barbarians like this, where will the learning of sages be placed?

He was so angry that he slapped the table and stepped on the chair and said, "It's extremely shameless, and I'm extremely shameless. For the sake of personal humiliation, such a person occupies a high position as the Minister of Rites, and the Ming Dynasty is in danger. We will immediately write a letter together and write a book to him. We can't let him continue to mess around like this."

Qian Qianyi naturally refused to rush forward to be a fool. He pretended to be embarrassed and said, "This is a slander of Shangguan. I have also skimmed some articles of sages. How can I do this unkind and unrighteous act? I also asked Mr. Shizhai to speak up for our scholars for justice. I will accept it from behind and wave the flag and shout for you."

Huang Daozhou knew his little thoughts and really thought he was a moral model. He heard this and praised: "It is right to accept it. Xu Guangqi is not respecting the learning of sages. We cannot and respect it. Slandering Shangguan is indeed an unrighteous act. If you are not convenient for you to come forward, leave this matter to me."

Qian Qianyi knew that the two guys were stubborn, and immediately saluted solemnly: "Then Mr. Luo Shizhai."
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