Chapter 185 Shameful Utopia

Mr. Descartes did not think there was anything wrong with Yun Zhang's request.

After all, these people will live in the Ming Dynasty for a long time in the future. If they can't even understand the language, this will not work.

However, Mr. Descartes still believes that there is a big inappropriate point in this.

It was not that he saw some clues, but that he instinctively felt that the traitorous hero of the Ming Emperor Yun Zhao was far from the saint's behavior.

However, he could not see anything wrong here. First of all, the Ming people did not stop anyone from leaving the Ming Dynasty and returning to Europe after they finished their studies. At the same time, the Ming people did not force anyone, everything was voluntary.

As a scholar, he knew very well that for everyone who was dedicated to studying science, the Ming Dynasty was paradise.

Mr. Descartes did not agree immediately about this matter, but was preparing to discuss it after Mr. Pascal wisely arrived.

To be honest, no one of the more than 600 scholars who followed him to the Ming Dynasty regretted it.

Yushan Academy prepared very comfortable residences for them and provided them with very generous salary. Even the work they were engaged in was resettled after soliciting their opinions several times.

Here, the Yushan Library has been completely opened to them, and they can borrow the vast amount of documents passed down by this ancient nation. The only obstacle is that the documents are written in ancient texts, which is not conducive to the understanding of them, such as outsiders.

Here, as long as they have demand, the huge laboratories of the Ming Academy of Sciences are also open to them, and the supply of experimental materials they need seems to be endless.

Here, they don’t have to worry that the ideas they put forward will conflict with religion and law, because, in Yushan Academy, you can put forward any opinions and opinions. As long as these opinions are not published outside Yushan Academy, there will be no problem.

The huge Yushan Academy is a palace of science. Here, the Goddess of Wisdom is the real ruler. Here, people will only respect those scholars who have genius ideas and implement them.

In their spare time, they can go for a picnic, dance, take the train to Chang'an to watch concerts, watch beautiful songs and dances, and even, as long as they are interested, they can make various operas, dance dramas and hold various concerts by themselves.

Here, they completely feel that researchers of new disciplines are really the darling of this huge country.

At the same time, Yushan Academy is also a small society. They were surprised to find that the students here are not so unfamiliar with Latin, French, English, and Spanish. As long as they are willing, these scholars from Europe are always lacking in support.

The inner and outer environment here is so good that these scholars who have just escaped from the darkness think they have come to heaven.

Here, there is no war, no oppression, no poverty, and everyone's face is filled with a happy smile. If you see a person's face is gloomy, needless to say, the only trouble must come from your wife.

After the French philosopher Louis Harvey visited Lantian County, the passion in his heart could not be suppressed, so he locked himself in the house and wrote his own book in a month and a half.

Louis Harvey himself is a historian and an utopian socialist.

In his book "The Kingdom of Heaven", he used Lantian County as a model, added a lot of subjective consciousness and his dreams, and used incomparable passion and fanaticism to describe a utopia in his mind.

In this book, he fictionalized the travel experience of a navigator, Raphael Heslad, sailing to a strange country called Lantian, a strange country called "utopia".

There, property is publicly owned and the people are equal. The principle of distribution on demand is implemented. Everyone wears uniforms and eats in public restaurants. Officials are elected by the public.

There was a pastoral society where there were no taxes or deductions or thieves. He believed that the advantages of Lantian society were "freedom, democracy, and fraternity".

He also described his ideal country in this way: Lantian is not only free, democratic, and fraternal, but also extremely rich. The people there are all handsome and flawless moral values.

Lantian is also an amazing city. It is decorated with countless gold and silver, and millions of tons of gleaming metals are produced every day.

It has well-equipped stations and trains, and objects that can carry people to soar in the sky.

First, they regard themselves as an integral part of nature, rather than the dominant of nature. Their tribes migrate before they deplete prey from an area so that the prey can be restored to its original state. In this way, their extraction will not deplete resources.

They discovered grafting of plants and were able to use them, such as wheat hybridization. They discovered the principle of waterproofing from rubber fluids. They knew how to make cotton coats and textile techniques were unparalleled.

In society, there is no hereditary power, nor permanent power. For every decision, everyone puts their own opinions during tribal meetings. This is the earliest parliamentary system.

If most people don’t trust their leader, the leader will automatically abdicate.

This is an egalitarian society. Of course there will be a leader, but you will be the leader only when you follow you spontaneously. Everyone must follow the suggestions accepted by the representative meeting only when the vote is passed.

In their society, only by finding the right laws can the plan be implemented!

European scholars, as the first readers, praised the appearance of this book and collectively urged Yushan Academy to publish the book as soon as possible, and translated it into Chinese from a European heraldry professor Paris, who has transformed into a sinologist.

After reading this book, Yun Zhao was amazed at Paris's language talent. How long has it been? This guy can skillfully quote allusions from ancient books such as "The Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", "Records of the Grand Historian", "Zizhi Tongjian", "Wenxin Diaolong" and other ancient books. When delivering books to Yun Zhao, he also recited Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" with both voice and emotion.

So, after successfully giving the book to the emperor, Paris successfully made himself the Latin teacher of His Majesty the Emperor.

Yun Zhao was in a good mood when reading this book "The Kingdom of Heaven". When he saw the happy scene, he would even chant with his head shaking.

When Zhang Guozhu from the Prime Minister's Office saw this book that brought Lantian to the sky, he was so embarrassed that he almost hid his head in his crotch, and blushed his face and repeatedly hoped that the emperor could forbid the book. Otherwise, when the book was spread to later generations, it would bring unscrupulous shame to the emperor and the consuls.

Facing Zhang Guozhu who was furious, Yun Zhao sniffed: "The content in the book is very realistic, there is nothing wrong with it."

Zhang Guozhu grabbed his hair and said, "Are we really as good as the book says?"

Yun Zhao said lazily: "Look, the book says that we do not have the right to be hereditary. When most people join me, I will step down. This is true."

Zhang Guozhu looked around and didn't see outsiders, and then whispered: "Do you believe it?"

Yun Zhao grinned and said, "Of course I believe it."

"The book also says that all our property is publicly owned and everyone distributes it as needed. Do you believe it?"

Yun Zhao said impatiently: "All land is publicly owned land. Isn't this fact? It's just that the state allocates it to the people to plant it? Is it difficult to understand?"

"The book says that we wear the same clothes and eat the same big pot of rice."

Yun Zhao said angrily: "Art comes from life, and is higher than life. This is a general principle of artistic creation. Li Bai also said that the flow of water flows down three thousand feet and the white hair is three thousand feet long. Why don't you criticize me?"

Zhang Guozhu said with full of malicious intentions: "Since Your Majesty likes it, I have organized a group of people to write such books. Give me half a year to write thousands or eight hundred books."

Yun Zhao said lightly: "If my country writes such a book, it will be banned immediately, and the author will deal with it on the charge of being chaotic. In addition, the versions of this book, such as Latin, French, English, German, Spanish, etc., will be printed in large quantities, and the mail ship will be taken to Europe and will be widely distributed."

"This book tells all kinds of clever stories that I had never heard of when I was young. Should I delete them? Once they are exposed, how can you deal with it?"

Yun Zhao said expressionlessly: "All these things have happened."

Zhang Guozhu gritted his teeth and said, "Why do we know nothing?"

Yun Zhao said angrily: "Get out, I tell you that it happened. What are you doing like this?"

Zhang Guozhu looked at the angry emperor and threw the book on the table and said, "I won't do such a shameful thing. Go and find your flatterer to help you."

After saying that, he left angrily, and he felt that Yun Zhao had begun to become stupid.

So Yun Zhao found Xu Wuxiang.

After reading this book, Xu Wu was shocked. Without waiting for the emperor's order, he carried the book straight to the secretary's seal shop. He had the same view as the emperor. This kind of book should be allowed to be handed over by everyone in Europe!

Mr. Louis Harvey received a royal fee of 2,700 silver dollars for a book!

If calculated based on European prices, the manuscript of this book would be enough to allow Mr. Louis Harvey to buy a luxurious house in Paris, and it would be enough for him to buy a manor with at least five hundred acres of vineyards in the Paris countryside.

When two boxes of heavy silver dollars appeared in Mr. Louis Harvey's residence, Mrs. Harvey held a grand cocktail party to entertain European scholars who came to the Ming Dynasty. At this cocktail party, Mrs. Louis proudly announced that the money was only the first royalties for printing. After the second and third batches of books began to be printed, more money would be recorded.

This news made all the scholars here understand a truth: in the Ming Dynasty, wisdom can be sold at a very high price.

While others were singing and dancing, Mr. Descartes faced the crown prince Yun Chang, who took the time to attend the cocktail party, saying: "I just hope that this utopian society can exist for a longer time and a larger scale."
Chapter completed!