At the back door of Qiao Mansion, Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu were waiting anxiously, and their eyes were often set in the distance.

Not long after, the little maid Cui'er Lan'er ran back from a distance.

Cui'er ran and shouted, "Miss, we bought it."

Before Cui'er could continue shouting, Qiao Muxue nervously made a "don't shout" action. The two sisters didn't want their father to know about this.

"Don't talk, don't take it out, go back to the room first." Qiao Muyu said to the two little maids who were approaching.

A group of four people carefully returned to Qiao Muxue's room from the back door of Qiao Mansion. After closing the door and window of the room, under the gaze of Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu, Cui'er and Lan'er each took out two not-so-thick books from their sleeves.

These four books are the four books currently on sale in Wenhua Bookstore, "Translation of Common Characters with Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese", "Elementary Mathematics", "Common Knowledge" (Traditional Chinese Version), and "Common Knowledge" (Simplified Chinese Version).

Modern people have probably heard of the saying "A woman without talent is virtue."

"A woman without talent is virtue" comes from Zhang Dai of the Qing Dynasty's "Public Memorial to Mrs. Qi": "Mr. Mei said: A husband with virtue is talent, and a woman without talent is virtue. This is very untrue."

Chen Jiru (born 1558) said in the late Ming Dynasty: "Women who are proficient in literature and can understand the great righteousness are virtuous, but they are not many. Others like to read novels, provoke evil intentions, and even do things that are good at doing nothing. It is better to be illiterate than to keep a simple and steady person. A woman who has no talent is virtue. It can be said to be the most important thing."

In fact, literati and scholars like beautiful women. On this basis, it would be better if women knew how to play music, chess, calligraphy and painting. They had a common language. How many famous prostitutes in the Ming Dynasty were illiterate?

The Qiao family is a scholarly family. Both Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu are literate and have a certain literary talent.

After learning about Wenhua Bookstore, the two sisters were very interested in the simplified Chinese characters of the People's Army and the books sold by the People's Army, so they asked Cui'er Lan'er to buy the books back.

The two sisters dare not let their father know about buying books. In Qiao Rong's words, the People's Army is still a "thief" and will not let the two sisters buy books sold by the People's Army, so they have to do this secretly.

The four books sold in Wenhua Bookstore are almost cost-effective and have low prices. The two sisters can easily buy four books with pocket money. Now the two sisters want to read the contents of the four books.

With nervousness and curiosity, Qiao Muxue opened her first book "Translation of Common Words with Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese".

The content of this book is very simple, it is a very thin book that translates traditional Chinese and simple characters from thousands of commonly used characters. However, since simplified Chinese characters have changed a lot compared with traditional Chinese characters, it takes a long time to learn simplified Chinese characters, especially when you have learned traditional Chinese characters, there will be many inconveniences in learning and using them.

Regarding this book "Translation of Commonly Used Words in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese", Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu just looked through it. Neither of them had the idea of ​​learning simplified Chinese characters for the time being, so they put down "Translation of Commonly Used Words in Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese and Simplified Chinese" and opened "Elementary Mathematics".

The previous article of "Elementary Mathematics" introduces the book. Mathematics means arithmetic. The various mathematical symbols in the book dazzled the two sisters, so they turned their attention to the third book "Common Sense" (Traditional Version).

"What? The earth is round?" Qiao Muyu said in surprise.

Qiao Muxue was also surprised. She thought that "the sky is round and the place is round", while Qiao Muyu thought that the earth is flat and directly to the end of the world. However, "Common Knowledge" says that the earth is round, people live on a sphere, the moon is a sphere smaller than the earth, and the sun is a sphere much larger than the earth.

In this section, there are several pictures, including the three spheres of the earth, the moon and the sun, and the simple pictures of the earth. The pictures of the earth also mark the general territory of the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army, and the alien race.

The content of the first section of common sense alone surprised the two sisters and were almost speaking. They could not believe that the earth was round and that people could still stand on the earth with their heads facing down.

Not only are the two sisters Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu, but also the scholars and scholars in Guangzhou City all argued about the content of the first section of "Common Sense".

Most literati and scholars have not yet studied simplified Chinese to participate in the People's Army's imperial examinations, but there are also people who are idle to buy all four books and take them to a friend's party to read them together, mainly to criticize the People's Army's books.

"Translation of Common Characters with Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese" and "Elementary Mathematics", which is almost incomprehensible, are both studying "Common Knowledge" (Traditional Chinese Version). The first section of "Common Knowledge" directly made the literati and scholars quarrel. The two sisters Qiao Muxue and Qiao Muyu couldn't believe that the earth was round, and these literati and scholars couldn't believe that the earth was round.

"The earth cannot be round!"

"The earth should be flat, and the sky is like a jade bowl pressed upside down on the earth."

"No, the earth is flat, the sky is flat, endless."

Not only did the literati and scholars disagree with the introduction to the earth in "Common Sense", but even literati and scholars argued because of their different views, and none of them could be recognized by most people.

Fang Nan cannot explain the debate about the "earth is a sphere" this time. The best solution to this debate is to send a fleet to sail around the earth and set out to the east to return from the west. This is a better way to prove it. As for the method of seeing the flagpole first and then on the ship on the sea, it cannot be fully proved.

Literary scholars argued over and over again, but seeing that they could not get a conclusion that everyone could agree with, they put it aside. Soon, the world map in the first section of "Common Knowledge" attracted everyone's attention.

No matter how arrogant the intellectuals in the old era were, they knew that there was a world outside the Ming Dynasty, and there were aliens living in Guangzhou City.

In the world map, the territory of the Ming Dynasty is located at the center of the world map, which makes a group of literati and scholars sigh that the Ming Dynasty is worthy of being the supreme country of the Celestial Empire, and is actually located in the richest place in the center of the earth.

After sighing at the position of the Ming Dynasty, everyone sighed at the vastness of the earth. They thought that the territory of the Ming Dynasty was already large enough, but they did not expect that the land was more than ten times larger than that of the Ming Dynasty.

They only had the feeling of "bigness" in their hearts, and they had hardly thought how good it would be if they occupied the land outside the Ming Dynasty. If they occupied those lands, all the people under the Ming Dynasty would need to worry about the land again.

More importantly, literati and scholars still believe that the land outside the Ming Dynasty was barren, and all the rich land was in the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to go to the land outside the Ming Dynasty.

A very interesting thing, literati and scholars don’t believe that the earth is a ball, but they believe in the content on the simple world map...
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