Novelty, heat becomes force through the evaporation of water, force can be changed to electricity, electricity can generate light, and can also transmit information. ”

Regarding Chen's Tao Te Ching, Xiao Wanli said: "It has similarities and differences with Qi Shuai's new book of Ji Xiao, the entries are clear, the chapters are accurate, and the practicality is paid attention to, whether it is a steamer motor or a weapon gunpowder, everything is detailed, but is this related to the quelling of the rebellion by me questioning?" ”

The little emperor didn't forget, he asked Chen Mu about quelling the rebellion that he didn't finish at the court meeting, but he didn't know how Chen Mu said his Tao Te Ching.

But fortunately, there are too many things that interest the little emperor in Chen Mu, regardless of whether it is a method to quell the rebellion or the Tao Te Ching, he is interested enough, not to mention that there is usually no one to chat with Xiao Wanli like this, which feels like the New Year.

No, happier than the New Year, ten times over!

"It's very relevant."

Chen Mu raised his palm and gestured in front of him, his trademark deceptive smile on his face again, but this time he didn't lie, and said, "The analysis method that Your Majesty said is clear, accurate, and detailed, and it is scientific. ”

"I don't understand." Wanli was not confused, he simply blinked with his little goose egg face, and restated with doubt: "Science? ”

In short, it is a science to drill deeper into a field, summarize and summarize the experience of predecessors, and continue to progress and explore by future generations. Science is not fixed, it has never been said that it is necessarily scientific, it is the progress of man's understanding of everything, and the process of this progress is science itself. ”

In fact, Chen Mu didn't really understand what science was in the past, he only knew a concept in general, knew what science was and what was ignorance, but didn't know science itself.

So it was also difficult for him to summarize these words, he used both hands, first raised his left hand, then raised his right hand and said: "For example, in agricultural science, in the past, the ancestors used to seek food in the wilderness, and one day they found that slash-and-burn farming is more beneficial to human survival and reproduction than finding food in the wild, and continued this discovery, and slash-and-burn cultivation was science at that time." ”

"Later, we found that iron plough ox farming is better and more productive, so slash and burn farming is the science of the past, and iron plough ox farming has become the new science, which ......"

Chen Mu said this hard, only to realize that he had given a very inappropriate example, he was actually talking to an emperor about slash-and-burn farming, iron plough and ox farming.

The little emperor looked confused, and it was difficult for him!

Chen Mu decided to change the example that was easier for the little emperor to understand, but as soon as he raised a finger, the little emperor raised a finger and waved it like an empathetic little adult, and said, "You don't have to accommodate me, although I don't understand the farming method you said, but I am very smart, not a child, I can understand." ”

"Continuing the sages, seeking progress is science, in the past, with water to generate power, now with fire to generate power, before the power of the river to be counted in the pond, through the flow of waterwheels, people can take dozens of auspicious to control the world; Today's technology innovation, burning coal to make fire, boiling water into force, people have a huge amount of power. ”

The little emperor's immature face had a pious expression, and he said things that were completely inappropriate for his age, but he was categorical: "Science is the wisdom of man." ”

What is the sky?

Maybe at this time, the sky represents the world - Chen Mu doesn't know if the little emperor thinks so in his head, but if he thinks so, then their understanding is on the same level, and science is a means to systematically understand everything in the world for his own use.

"Your Majesty is indeed very intelligent." Chen Mu's words were by no means flattering, Wanli's words surprised him very much, this was not like what a little boy could say, he slowly bowed his head and said: "When the minister is as old as His Majesty, he doesn't understand this. ”

"That's because you don't need to go to court every day, and there is no Taifu to be your teacher, and there is no other Nanyang minister to teach you everything, my teacher is the smartest person in the world!" Speaking of Zhang Juzheng, Xiao Wanli was very proud, raised his chin slightly, and said: "One day, I will govern the country like Taifu and reform the evils, and drive this ship steadily to a long place." ”

Chen Mu opened his mouth slightly, his thoughts were suddenly interrupted, and he didn't know what to say next-he didn't expect Emperor Wanli to govern the country and reform the evils, if he could honestly maintain the traditions of the previous dynasty and not let forty percent of the governors, governors, prefects, and ministries in the world be vacant for several years, this generation of courtiers who experienced the capture of the south and the north would be worth it in this life.

Now the little emperor is extremely revered by the Taifu Zhang Juzheng, and after his death, he copied his home, and it is estimated that the little emperor himself did not believe it.

The saddest thing is not this, but the death of people.

"What the teacher always says about governing the country, I can't understand it, and the words of the sage are difficult to understand, so it's not as interesting as what you say." The little emperor became interested in the previous topic again in a blink of an eye, and said: "Sitou Shu made things to sell and earn gold and silver to make things, but why is this related to governing the country, it seems that the teacher also thinks you are right." ”

Chen Mu is willing to talk to Wanli about the rebellion, their time is very tight, and if they don't talk about it, they won't have a chance to say it, and Wanli will be driven to the Empress Dowager Li for dinner in the evening, and he will also go to Zhang Juzheng's mansion for a banquet.

He said with a smile: "The people are poor, they can't eat enough food and wear warm clothes, no one wants to die, so they naturally want to rob, and if there are more robbers, it will become a rebellion, but if the court allows them to eat enough and wear warm clothes, most of the people are very hardworking, see a little hope, and they are not afraid of difficulties no matter how much they pay, they will live well." ”

"Orphans grow up on the streets, and what they learn is naturally to be cheated and robbed, and the elderly are lonely and helpless, and they are easy to be biased when they are instigated; If the sick cannot be healed, their relatives will be disappointed and angry. Emperor Taizu set up a sanatorium, a leaky garden, and a Huimin pharmacy because he was kind-hearted, but this could make the people live a good life. ”

"Zhang Gelao's examination method is also to use the court regulations to restrain officials from another aspect to reduce looting of the people and do more good deeds. What's more, this is also an open source and throttling, if there is no war in the country for three or five years, it can save less than 3 million taels of military spending, which is not much different from the capital transportation of the entire Nanyang Military Government. ”

The Ming Dynasty has begun to recuperate, and the overseas use of troops by the Nanyang Military Government does not need to consume the country's silver taels, and without the southern and northern captives, if there is no rebellion itself, it only takes a few years to make the national strength climb to a higher level.

Chen Mu looked at Xiao Wanli and pursed his lips heavily.

This little emperor is not easy, the test of life has just begun, and Chen Mu can even foresee that the biggest problem in front of him is not governing the country or expanding outward.

Rather, Zhang Juzheng has continued the top-down reform for ten years this time, and there may be bottom-up changes in the future.

After all, the power of one person is weak, but no one can stop the general trend, and when something affects the lives of most people, in fact, they are already in the midst of change.

The storm is coming, and the rudder in the little emperor's hand is a thousand weights.

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