In Haizhou at the beginning of November, the north wind rose strongly.

Haizhou thrives on the sea, and the strong sea breeze means that the busy business season has arrived.

Because the wind blows from the north, it is the time when the merchant ships go south. If the northeast wind blows, it is the day when the sea ships departing from Goryeo arrive, and the hunters and ginseng households of Goryeo have just experienced the busiest summer, and they have hoarded countless furs, ginseng, and medicinal herbs, all of which have to be transported to Haeju.

However, among the Wu family ships that came with the wind today, there are several particularly large and sturdy warships with 5,000 materials! That was the main force of the Wu family's warfleet, and it rarely appeared in Haizhou Bay in previous years.

But this year, for some reason, the Wu family's warship actually sailed into Haizhou generously and docked directly at the dock of Tianya Town.

The dock of Tianya Town is also facing a great enemy at this moment, and many sturdy warrior Baoding and Wu Baoding have all driven over from their respective Zhuangzi at some point, holding shields and straight knives, carrying bows and arrows, and completely blocking the area around the dock.

Wu Yanzhen, the head of the Wu family's navy, personally dispatched, stood on the dock and commanded a group of blackened strong men, lifted the heavy wooden boxes off the ship, and sent them directly to the Haizhou branch of the Jiehe Daxiangguo Solution, which had just opened.

This depot was built on the edge of Linhai Village, a two-storey building with blue bricks and black tiles, a five-bay façade, all the windows were equipped with solid wooden fences, and the front and rear portals facing the east and west sides were installed with thick and sturdy large wooden doors.

In addition, there is a basement floor, which is built according to the standards of a masonry burial chamber, and is also exceptionally sturdy. It's used to store real money!

Wu Haogu, Wu Yanen, Wu Yanzhong, Hua Manshan, and Pan Xing'an, who presided over the debunk, were standing at the entrance of the basement at this time. Witnessing more than a dozen Pan Xiao'an from Kaifeng Mansion sent to unpack the treasury and men, busy unpacking and counting the gold and silver and weighing it.

Every box of gold and silver transported from the Wu family's warship had to be carefully checked, and then repacked, sealed, and sent to a huge underground vault for sealing.

By the way, this Jiehe Daxiangguo Temple is actually controlled by the ancient republic of Wu Haogu and the gold and silver of Pan Xiao'an. It's just that the name of the Great Xiangguo Temple is hanged, the Kaifeng Great Xiangguo Temple does not occupy a share, and the Jiehe Great Xiangguo Temple accounts for two percent of the shares.

The actual operation of the depot is the people sent by Pan Xiao'an. However, Wu Haogu still has a lot of say - he is now a legend in the shopping mall! Even Poly Virtue, which has been plagiarizing and imitating Wuhao's ancient business routes, is now thriving, who would dare to take his words as a deaf ear?

However, Wu Haogu did not put forward any clever strategy for the solution of the Jiehe Great Xiangguo Temple in Haizhou, but instead gave a seemingly conservative guidance - hoarding gold and silver!

That is, to hoard gold and silver as much as possible into the treasury of Haizhou, and it is a long-term hoarding.

Seeing boxes of gold and silver being sent to the vault, Wu Haogu's face showed a satisfied smile.

This time, the king of Goryeo really spent a lot of money, bringing in 860,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold, which is almost equivalent to 1 million taels of copper coins.

This money was deposited as a deposit for the purchase of weapons from the Great Song Dynasty by the Goryeo Kingdom, and was deposited in the unraveling treasury controlled by Wu Haogu and Pan Hyo-an.

In addition to the millions of gold and silver, there were also a lot of silk silks transported from Kaifeng Prefecture in this warehouse, with 300,000 horses, which were intended to be used to purchase rice and grain in Haizhou.

"That's it!" Seeing the last box of gold and silver transported into the underground vault, Wu Haogu laughed, "Wu Zhoumu, let's leave for Jiehe Business City tomorrow." ”

"Okay, let's leave tomorrow."

Wu Yanzhong's brows were still furrowed, the money he brought this time was a little small, and he didn't know if he could get his wish?

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Haizhou, Puyuan.

At the same time, in the back garden of this somewhat remote mansion with few visitors on weekdays, today, somehow, the melodious sound of silk and bamboo sounded.

The secluded house of Zhang Dian has a visitor today.

The visiting ones were Lu Jiawen and Jian Xuchen, who had just come from Kaifeng Mansion. Lu Jiawen was placed in Haizhou, while Jian Xuchen received the official position of the new Southeast Sixth Route Shipping Envoy in Kaifeng Prefecture, and was ready to go to Pingjiang to take up his post (the shipping envoy was in Pingjiang), and accompanied his father-in-law to Haizhou by the way.

I don't know if it's because he is a fallen person like Zhang Dan, after arriving in Haizhou, Lu Jiawen temporarily lived in Puyuan and was with Zhang Dan.

"Hopefully, let's mourn by the way......"

Seeing Lu Jiawen's sullen appearance, Zhang Dian was also a little sad, personally filled him with a glass of wine, and said softly: "Wu Haogu can't be arrogant for too long." ”

"How?" Lu Jia asked and drank all the contents of the cup, "Zihou, do you also think that he will be planted on the northern grain and southern transportation?" ”

"The transportation of grain from the north to the south is not difficult for him." Zhang Dian shook his head, filled himself with another glass of wine, and then glanced at Jian Xuchen, "A million stones...... You can buy anything. ”

One million stones in Kaifeng Mansion, in Luoyang, in Guanzhong Xingxing may be a large amount, but when it comes to Lianghuai, which is rich in rice and grain, it is not a large number at all. If Wu Haogu had made up his mind in advance, he would have been able to buy an extra million stones.

Even if Jian Xuchen is the Southeast Sixth Road Shipping Envoy, Dingtian is looking for some trouble in Caoyun. But if Wu Haogu used the method of sea transportation, he would have nothing to do.

"Zihou," Lu Jia asked, "don't sell Guanzi, tell me quickly." ”

Zhang Dian smiled: "He is going to be planted on learning." ”

"Planted on knowledge?" Lu Jia asked and sneered, "What kind of knowledge does the surname Wu have?" Is it the study of painting or the study of management? ”

"You also underestimate Wu Haogu, right?" Zhang Dian stretched out his hand and took a thin thread-bound book from the hand of a concubine who served closely, and on the cover of the book was Su Dongpo's inscription - Practical Preaching Test.

"Let's take a look at this, shall we?" Zhang Dian smiled and handed the book to Lu Jia and asked.

Lu Jiawen took the book and looked at the cover, "Practice preaching?" This is Su Dongpo's inscription? ”

"Yes," Zhang Duan said, "the set of empirical tests, you should have seen it from 'Wenqu Xing', right?" ”

"I've seen it, didn't that mean that the Lantian Mansion soldiers tried it out?"

"How can you try out the government soldiers?" "Instead, it can be used to test everything you know, and it can be used to follow the way of nature." The right and wrong of what people know and know can only be tested and distinguished by the effect of actual use. Truths that cannot be tested by visible and observable methods cannot be verified as true or false, nor can they be regarded as knowledge that is truly mastered by the world, but can only be regarded as unknown assumptions.

In the past, Confucius asked Lao Tzu to seek the natural road, which contains countless paths, which can only be tested and explored through visible and observable methods. Confucianists who explore the way of nature should summarize the laws of a certain path and explore its root essence through repeated practice, and then call it the truth, the law of nature, and then master a kind of natural path......

This "Practical Doctrine of Taoism" is a general theory of positivism that Wu Haogu discussed and summarized with Su Yu, Su Guo, and Lu Jiawen's cousin Lu Haowen during this period of time - the main points of course come from Wu Haogu. However, the contributions of Su Yu, Su Guo and Lu Haowen are not small. Especially Lu Haowen, who later joined the "Positivist Exploration", is a great Confucian in history!

Wu Hao's ancient and later generations were not engaged in philosophy, so they could not come up with much "positivism" and "scientific method", and could only put forward some programmatic content.

Lu Haowen derived from the general theory proposed by Wu Haogu, and deduced a series of sub-subjects such as "arithmetic empirical evidence", "astronomical empirical evidence", "physical material empirical evidence", "materia medica empirical evidence", "empirical evidence of birds, beasts, fish and insects", "medical empirical evidence", "historical empirical evidence" and "geographical empirical evidence". It also advocates using the "empirical method" to test and sort out the knowledge in various books currently held by Yuntai Academy...... This is a huge project, not to mention completed, as long as it is launched with great fanfare, it is equivalent to opening a new era of great development of oriental science!

Not only the goal of scientific research is there, but also the pursuit of Confucianism's natural path! There are tools and methods for the study of science, of course, positivism plus a little summary of the scientific method. The division of various subjects and the basis for research have also been established, and the prototypes of the two "Millennium Universities" have been established, and research funding has been continuously flowing.

"He's going to start a sect?"

Lu Jia's character is not good, but his Confucian attainments are not bad. Of course, you know what these are that Wu Haogu tossed?

In fact, most of the Confucianism in the Song Dynasty (not because of good exams, but because of high Confucian skills) can see the wolf ambition of Wu Haogu...... He wants to use positivism to explore the road of Confucianism!

The so-called avenue is the worldview, although Confucius asked the Tao and searched all his life, but he did not study Christianity and Buddhism to make up a story that cannot be falsified. Therefore, the Confucian road is lacking, and it is easy for foreign religions to take advantage of it.

But at the same time, the Confucian road is another problem to be solved. It is the question that Confucius left to future generations!

And Wu Haogu has now come up with a way to answer Confucius's question - positivism and the scientific method.

Moreover, he also held the banner of Su Dongpo and established a school of thought that used "positivism and scientific method" as a tool to explore the Confucian way of nature.

Zhang Dian smiled: "That's right, it's the beginning of the sect...... And it is also a school that offends the three religions! He's going to be the target of public scrutiny soon. When the time comes, he won't have to do it with you and me, he will have to drown the spitting stars! ”

"Humph!" Lu Jia asked and snorted coldly, "He is self-inflicted, but I can't wait for the day when he can't live!" The revenge of killing the son can't be counted like this! ”