Chapter 72                                                             �

Only then did Zhou Mengchen notice that Yin Zongyi, Yang Jie, and Feng Congdao, who were following Zhou Mengchen, said, "Hey, why are you here?"

For a moment, the three disciples looked at each other, not knowing how to answer or answer something.

Zhou Mengchen immediately reacted and said, "Let's go, let's sit together, let's see how you are doing now?"

Zhou Mengchen immediately brought three disciples to the living room.

Zhou Mengchen began to ask about the three of them’s homework.

The questions about Yin Zongyi were more about the progress of the steam engine, the progress of the Hukou Railway, etc. Yin Zongyi answered it smoothly. Moreover, the two did not look like traditional master-apprentice questions at all. They were more about discussions with colleagues.

After all, Zhou Mengchen had not studied pure technical problems for a long time. Although Yin Zongyi improved the craftsmanship under Zhou Mengchen's theory, many of Yin Zongyi's craftsmanship were formulated directly by him with reference to various technical means in the Ming Dynasty. Zhou Mengchen had many unclear aspects of these technical details, and he did not know whether it was right or wrong in many places. However, Zhou Mengchen clearly had the general direction of technology and also gave Yin Zongyi some problems.

After some discussion, Zhou Mengchen and Yin Zongyi gained a little. Zhou Mengchen learned about the latest progress of the steam engine, and also made his own judgment on whether the steam engine could be boarded, or whether it would be useful or not.

Zhou Mengchen felt that it was not very useful to board the steam engine for a long time. Because the horsepower of the steam engine is still a little small, although it can drive trains, the large ships in the Ming Dynasty were not small. Zhou Mengchen hoped that the Ming Dynasty's ships would be mainly large ships in the future. Therefore, the horsepower of the steam engine is not large enough.

Yin Zongyi also had many things that made him suddenly realize. He felt that he had new inspiration.

Zhou Mengchen finally said, "This time I shouldn't have asked you to come here, but there is something today. After thinking about it, you must have something." Then Zhou Mengchen told all the things about Jiangnan Shipyard and said, "It's better to move your home in Anqing Wood Processing Factory directly to Shanghai. As part of Jiangnan Shipyard, this will be faster."

After hearing this, Yin Zongyi was overjoyed.

As Yin Zhengmao's son, Yin Zongyi also inherited some things from Yin Zhengmao, such as the desire for wealth.

It cannot be said that Yin Zongyi is greedy for money. However, there has been a division of labor within the Yin family.

Yin Zhengmao was responsible for being in the officialdom, while Yin Zongyi was responsible for making money. The two changed the Yin family together. Only the other members of the Yin family had the power to choose. As Yin Zhengmao's eldest son, he had no power to choose.

There was a father's order for the family. Yin Zongyi had nothing to say.

So making money for the Yin family is all about Yin Zongyi. Yin Zongyi could see at a glance that the Jiangnan shipyard had great business opportunities. If the Yin family could occupy a stake in the Jiangnan shipyard, it would be a property that could be passed down from generation to generation. Yin Zongyi naturally would not refuse. He said, "Please rest assured by the teacher. I immediately wrote a letter to ask my uncles in the family to move all the Anqing places to Shanghai, and move them over with skilled workers. I just don't know what the situation is in Shanghai?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "I have already told Shanghai County to help you. I don't know much about the specific situation. Just go and find Master Lu."

Yin Zongyi agreed.

Zhou Mengchen thought about it, took his own famous sting and gave it to Yin Zongyi and said, "You use my famous sting and went to Wang Tianjun. Wang Tianjun naturally knows what to do, but it is also a big deal for me to do this now. It is not to bully you by virtue of your power, you have to understand."

Yin Zongyi immediately agreed.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "Can you really not bully others by virtue of your power?"

Zhou Mengchen didn't know. In fact, he knew that this matter had always started. In the eyes of the laws of later generations, it was full of collusion between officials and businessmen, and even transfer of interests, etc. It was not fair to most people.

But this is the norm in this era. Without some backend, many things cannot be done.

When Zhou Mengchen used his power to promote these things, he sometimes wondered, is I creating a better era or a worse era?

There can be many roads in thought, but in reality, there is only one road, so I can only think about walking like this.

Zhou Mengchen then looked at the two disciples, Yang Jie and Feng Congdao, and said, "What are the homework for you two?"

Yang Jie and Feng Congdao immediately took out a stack of papers. Zhou Mengchen took them and found that it was a survey by Chaoyi County. However, this was the first time these two people did this and did not catch the key points in many things. Many places were just simple data stacking, and mathematical tools were not very useful. In short, if they were in later generations, the results of this survey would fail.

Zhou Mengchen also understood that he had taught nothing and asked the two of them to investigate. It was already good that they could do this.

If Zhou Mengchen was on weekdays, he would naturally have to give a detailed instruction and tell them where they were wrong, and how to use mathematics on it? But where does Zhou Mengchen have time at this moment?

Military affairs are not just about making arrangements. Zhou Mengchen also urged the people below to implement them, and prepared for battle, not only to urge the army, but also to do all aspects.

In addition, Zhou Mengchen should continue to pay attention to the grain issue.

There is another thing that needs to be prepared. That is, to discuss lectures with Wang Shizhen.

In Zhou Mengchen's view, this matter is as important as the battle in front of him. One is to obtain maritime interests and change the direction of the imperial court's maritime ban policy, and the other is to establish the ideas of official studies, which can influence the future of the Ming Dynasty and even the future of China. None of them can be given up.

Especially the latter.

The former requires more maintenance, or urging the operation of the Governor's Office headed by Zhou Mengchen, and more of a step-by-step preparation. Before the real war begins, Zhou Mengchen will not have to make too many decisions.

And the latter is different.

The latter is to teach Zhou Mengchen the real talent and knowledge. Although Zhou Mengchen has prepared a lot of lectures, he can consciously make up his own opinions and perfectly stitch scientific theories into Confucianism.

But the problem is that many things are not enough if Zhou Mengchen thinks they are good. They need the views of great scholars like Jiangnan.

Moreover, these great scholars have been immersed in their knowledge for many years. Zhou Mengchen did not dare to underestimate the enemy at all. Who knows, what tricky and weird questions they would ask?

If it is tricky and weird, Zhou Mengchen is not too worried.

Because Zhou Mengchen has not given him for nothing in the past few years, he is confident that he can deal with these tricky and weird problems. But the problem that Zhou Mengchen is most worried about is that the more he studies, the more he discovers that there are many things that can be bridged and fooled between scientific thought and Confucianism, but in essence, some things are simply impossible to fool.

In other words, Zhou Mengchen's path of scientific thought in Confucianism, such as Zhou Mengchen, has come to an end.

This made Zhou Mengchen very uncomfortable. If someone could see that, Zhou Mengchen only had two choices. The first was to admit defeat and admit that there was something wrong with his knowledge, and the second was to break out. It was to let Qi break out of the wall of Neo-Confucianism.

Neo-Confucianism started from the Tang Dynasty to the prosperity of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even when it declined during the Jiajing period, everyone discussed issues within the framework of Neo-Confucianism. The Qi science that Zhou Mengchen adhered to may not be inappropriate to say that it is a lineage of Qi in Neo-Confucianism.

Breaking through the wall of Neo-Confucianism means denying theorem from the root, which means that Zhou Mengchen did not start with Wang Yangming, but with Cheng and Zhu.

In this way, Zhou Mengchen had to face too much criticism. A lean camel was bigger than a horse. Zhou Mengchen had to consider various influences and consider whether he should do it? In this way, the conflict between Qi and Mind may very well turn into a conflict between Qi and Confucianism. After all, Confucianism is now circulating in the Ming Dynasty, which is almost equated with Neo-Confucianism.

Zhou Mengchen had so many things hidden in his mind, so he didn't have time to correct his homework. So after opening it, he said without comment: "Some things are better to understand by yourself. You two have a strong foundation and have already understood many things. But I'm not practicing enough, but now I'll give you two choices? You can choose for yourself."
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