In the ancient Roman Cathedral of St. Dobert, a dark and sleepy hall filled with religious suppression, filled with the old and old hall. Ji Yi, Moli, Bai Siwen and others finally sat opposite the Christian Dharma King and several smaller Dharma Kings. Anna Komningna and Baldwin are also here, acting as representatives of the secular power of Christianity.

In addition, Ji Yi's deputy envoy Li Gang did not arrive in Rome. Li Gang went to Greece to visit Aristotle's hometown and learn Greek by the way. In Li Gang's opinion, only by learning Greek well can he truly understand the knowledge left by Aristotle.

While studying Greek and studying Aristotle, Li Gang has discovered that there is still a difference between Wu Haogu's empirical school and Aristotle.

As the name suggests, Wu Haogu's empirical school is centered on positivism. Although rational inference is also used as a tool, the core is still empirical. Only the truth that has been repeatedly tested by empirical means is truly certain truth. The truth inferred from reason is just a hypothesis.

Aristotle, on the other hand, focused on rational inference and placed reason above empiricism (the predecessor of positivism), believing that the truth of the universe can be obtained through rational inference.

This is not a slight difference, especially in the era when empirical means are quite scarce, rational inference is still more important than empirical evidence. Evidence has absolute significance for practical technology. Techniques that cannot be empirical are nonsense, such as wolf dung, etc. However, for many theoretical research, too much emphasis on empirical will also constrain people's thoughts.

Therefore, from the beginning of Li Gang's translation of Aristotle's collection, the Confucian rational school has emerged, and it will develop and grow in the future, becoming a neo-Confucian school that competes with the positivist schools.

By the way, the third neo-Confucian school is actually in the process of taking shape, which is the Confucian school of heaven and law!

If the Confucian positivist school and the Confucian rational school are science and philosophy, then the Confucian Tianli School is more like a religion, and it may be more appropriate to call it Tianli School...

"The laws of heaven... are knowledge from heaven. Does this mean?"

The Christian Dharma King frowned and asked questions.

The topic of "What is the law of nature" was caused by negotiations between the two sides on "free missionary".

The Great Dharma King of Christianity, Passha II, proposed to open churches and freely spread Christianity in the Song Dynasty. Ji Yi asked that opening Confucian academies and spreading the Great Way of Heaven in Europe should not be unilateral, but must be bilateral.

So for the Great Dharma King Passha II, the question arises. What is the "Confucian Academy"? What is the "Great Way of Heaven"?

"It is the source of all things in the universe!" Moli explained, "You think God created everything, and the Peach Blossom Stone believes that the law of heaven created everything!"

What!? The laws of nature are equivalent to God?

"Who proposed this?" asked the Great Dharma King.

"It was the philosopher of Peach Blossom Stone who used rational inference to find the laws of nature..." Moli explained, "In the philosophy of Peach Blossom Stone, gods are not the existence of faith, and the laws of nature are the origin of everything!"

After all, Moli is a saint of Manichaeism. In terms of understanding religion, monotheism, dualism, and polytheism, she is far better than Wu Haogu, and even better than Cheng Yi who proposed the theory of "nature". After all, Cheng Yi does not understand monotheism or dualism. Therefore, she is not very clear that "God" can be anthropomorphic existence full of human nature, or an abstract, mysterious existence without human nature.

And "nature law" is actually an abstract god, equivalent to the existence of "Tao" (Greek is knowledge) in Christianity.

At the beginning of the Christian New Testament Gospel of John, "The Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This passage can be completely transformed into a theory of heaven.

Moli thought for a while and said in Greek: "There is the law of heaven in Taichu, and the law of heaven is the law of heaven, and the law of heaven and the law of heaven are with the law of heaven."

"So that's how it is..." The Great Dharma King nodded, "The peach blossom stone man does not have the concept of god?"

"The law of heaven can also be understood as the gods of the peach blossom stone man, the only, the original god." Moli said, "In addition to the law of heaven, they also have highly anthropomorphic gods, similar to the Greek gods, or the angels of Christianity."

Moli's explanation will later become the theoretical basis of the Confucian Tianli School, but now there is only one prototype.

The Christian Dafa King already understood, or he was fooled. He felt that the charlatan of the Peach Blossom Stone was very philosophical and had a thorough understanding of "God". He did not worship much idols or gave too much humanity to "God". Instead, confuse the origin and beginning of everything with God. From a theological perspective, "origin" and "initial" are the most difficult concepts to break, while anthropomorphic idols are the easiest to refute.

It seems that the Tianli Sect in Taohua Stone Kingdom should be similar to the Tianfang Sect!

"Okay," the Christian Dharma King thought for a moment, "I think we don't understand each other enough and spread religion to each other, so we can discuss it slowly in the future."

“Okay.”

Ji Yi also breathed a sigh of relief. One Manichaeism is enough to give him a headache. If you have another Christianity, wouldn’t that be even more trouble?

"Dharma King," Ji Yi said again, "Let's discuss the matter of trade between the United States of Sinai and both sides.

We hope to have a small port on the land of the United States of Sinai as the home of the municipality of the Borough!”

Ji Yi has been busy for so long, so she naturally wants to gain something. A concession located in the Sinai Peninsula is obviously the most ideal reward.

"Autonomous Commercial City?" The King of Dharma frowned, "Is it a colony?"

"No, no, I won't colonize." Ji Yi said, "The world is big, for us, the world is really big, there are many places to colonize... but we don't have that many people to colonize."

Ji Yi doesn't know that there are New World and Oceania yet. However, he already knows the situation in the South China Islands and California.

For the Song Dynasty, as long as there are enough fleets, there are too many territories that can occupy, but the population is too small.

"Then what is the significance of having an autonomous commerce city in the Sinai?" asked the Christian Dharma King.

"For the money flying!"

"We hope to set up a convenient money service in this autonomous city," Moli translated.

"So..." The Christian Dharma King didn't understand very much.

"It is a kind of business or chamber of commerce that specializes in the transportation of money, lending and exchange of different currencies."

Just open a bank!

The European banking industry has basically not started yet! The Metic family, which became famous in Europe, was still an inconspicuous little nobleman and had not started the currency exchange business at all.

Ji Yi, who had been staying in Constantinople, Venice and Amalfi City, has discovered that Europe does not have the deal of flying money. In the future, East-West trade will inevitably require a large amount of financial transactions, and "flying money" will definitely become a source of wealth!

The Christian Dharma King glanced at Anna Komningna.

Anna Komunina said: "I can accept the conditions of the Peach Blossom Stone Man... A small port should not pose any threat."

The Christian Dafa King nodded, "Okay, since His Royal Highness the Princess agrees, I can agree too. However, this autonomous business city shall not become the center of the spread of the Tianli religion until the two parties reach a missionary agreement!"

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"Crack, crackle..."

The sound of firecrackers suddenly rang on the small Longya Island. This was used to celebrate the completion of the Nanyang Tianli Academy and firecrackers.

This small island next to Nanxin Island has become a busy construction site since the fall of the first year of Daguan. First, indigenous workers hired from Sanfoqi locals went to the island, and began to cut down trees and level the land under the supervision of the vicious good officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty. Later, many Indians captured in the Second Sanfoqi Strait Battle were sent to the island and were also forced to work hard labor.

After the work of logging and smoothing the land was completed, these workers started a new project under the command of graduates from the Construction College of Jiehe Yuntai Academy, which was led by Hua Manshan, Wu Sihai, Shi Bailang and others in the winter of the first year of the Grand View.

The new project is to build a very large-scale "Tianli Academy", which is a very special fortress-style academy. It is the collection of fortresses and academy, with solid exterior walls, trenches, arrow towers, and water wells, warehouses, barracks, arsenals, classrooms, various halls and schoolyards.

It is said to be a college, but it is actually a castle, but the content of the castle is a completely armed school.

And this school is Nanyang Tianli Academy, a subsidiary of the Great Doctoral Order headquartered in Jiehe!

The operation of the Doctorate has been in an orderly manner in the past few years, and has not been delayed by several reforms of the Hontai Academy. Although the doctoral degree in the Hontai Academy has long been reformed, it was replaced by a Tianli College affiliated to the Doctorate.

The reason why the Hontai Academy and the Doctorate are separated is mainly because the Hontai Academy is now becoming more and more like a secular university in later generations, and it is also the base camp of the empirical school that focuses on practice. It is really not so good to open a Tianli Academy with all the mystic colors.

Moreover, the level of Yuntai Academy is there and has developed into an expensive elitist university. The doctoral group is taking the middle and low-end route, and they are also needing poor children who are willing to endure hardships. They do not charge tuition fees, do not require high requirements for students' quality, and do not seek to excel in the courses. They only want to allow students to have rough access to the principles, martial arts and military studies, and they can serve as teachers at Tianli Academy in various places.

Nanyang Tianli Academy is an overseas Tianli Academy hosted by a doctor who graduated from the Tianli Academy of the Doctorate. It is also a fortress for spreading Confucian Tianli and Chinese civilization in Nanyang!
Chapter completed!