In the ancient Roman Basilica of St. Tobert, there is a dark and sleepy hall full of religious oppression, and it is old and old. Ji Yi, Mo Li, Bai Siwen and others finally sat opposite the Christian Grand Dharma King and a few other smaller Dharma Kings. Anna. Komenina and Baldwin were also here, acting as representatives of the secular forces 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 view, only by learning Greek well can he truly understand the knowledge left by Aristotle.

In the process of studying Aristotle while studying Greek, Li Gang had already discovered that there was a difference between the positivist school of Wuhaogu and Aristotle.

Wu Haogu's positivist school, as the name suggests, is based on positivism, although it also uses rational reasoning as a tool. However, the core is still empirical evidence, and only the truth that has been repeatedly tested by empirical evidence is the truth that can be truly determined. The truth deduced by reason is only a hypothesis.

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

This is not a small difference, especially in the era when empirical means are quite scarce, the importance of rational reasoning for philosophy and science is still higher than empirical evidence - empirical evidence is absolutely meaningful for practical technology, and technology that cannot be verified is nonsense, such as wolf dung or something. But for many theoretical studies, too much emphasis on empirical evidence can also constrain people's minds.

Therefore, since Li Gang began to translate Aristotle's collected works, the Confucian rationalist school has already emerged, and it will develop and grow in the future, becoming a neo-Confucian school that competes with the positivist school.

By the way, the third neo-Confucian sect is actually in the process of taking shape, which is the Confucian Tianli school!

If Confucian positivism and Confucian rationalism are science, they are philosophy. Then the Confucian Tianli school is more like a religion, and it may be more appropriate to call it Tianlijiao......

"Heavenly Reason...... Is that what it means to be heavenly knowledge? ”

The Christian Grand Dharma King asked with a frown.

The topic of "what is the principle of heaven" was raised by the negotiations between the two sides on "free mission".

The Christian Grand French King Passha II proposed to open churches in the Great Song Dynasty and spread Christianity freely. Ji Yi, on the other hand, demanded that the opening of Confucian academies in Europe and the dissemination of the Great Dao of Heavenly Truth be the reciprocal conditions - opening up cannot be unilateral, it must be two-sided.

Then for the Great French King Passha II, the problem arises. What is a "Confucian Academy"? What is "Tianli Avenue"?

"It is the source of all things in the universe!" Murray explained, "You think God created everything, and Peach Blossom thinks that God created everything!" ”

What the!? Is Heavenly Principle the same existence as God?

"This, who brought this up?" The Great Dharma King asked.

"It was the philosophers of Peach Blossom Stone who used rational reasoning to find the ...... of Heavenly Principles," Mo Li explained, "In Peach Blossom Stone's philosophy, gods are not believed in existence, and Heavenly Principles are the origin of everything!" ”

In the end, Mo Li is a saint of Manichaeism, and in terms of understanding religion, monotheism, dualism, and polytheism, she is far stronger than Wu Haogu, and even stronger than Cheng Yi, who put forward the theory of "Heavenly Principles". After all, Cheng Yi doesn't understand monotheism or dualism. Therefore, it is not very clear that "God" can be an anthropomorphic existence full of human nature, or it can be an abstract and mysterious existence without human nature.

And "Heavenly Principle" is actually an abstract god. It is equivalent to the existence of the "word" (Greek for knowledge) in Christianity.

In the Christian New Testament. The Gospel of John begins with the words, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." This paragraph can be completely turned into a heavenly reason.

Mo Li thought for a moment and said in Greek: "In the beginning, there was a heavenly principle, and the heavenly principle is the beginning, and the heavenly principle is with the beginning." ”

"So that's ......" the Great Dharma King nodded, "The Peach Blossom Stone people don't have the concept of gods?" ”

"Tianli can also be understood as the god of the peach blossom stone people, the only and original god." "In addition to the heavenly principles, they also had highly anthropomorphic deities, similar to the Greek gods, or Christian angels. ”

Mo Li's explanation would later become the theoretical basis of the Confucian Tianli school, but it was only a prototype now.

The Great Dharma King of Christianity has understood, or rather, he has been fooled. He felt that the magic stick of Peach Blossom Stone was very philosophical, and he had a thorough understanding of "God", and there was not much idol worship or giving "God" too much humanity. Rather, it confuses the origin and beginning of all with God—from a theological point of view, "origin" and "beginning" are the most difficult concepts to break, and anthropomorphic idols are the easiest to refute.

It seems that the Heavenly Doctrine of the Peach Blossom Stone Country should be similar to the existence of the Heavenly Sect!

"Well," the Christian Grand Venerable thought for a moment, "I think we don't know each other well enough, and the issue of spreading religion to each other can be discussed slowly in the future." ”

"It's fine."

Ji Yi also sighed, one Manichaeism is enough to give him a headache, and if there is another Christianity, wouldn't it be even more troublesome?

"Your Majesty," said Ji Yi again, "let us discuss the United States of Sinai and trade between the two sides.

We would like to have a small port on the land of the United States of Sinai as a home for the municipality! ”

Ji Yi has been busy for so long, so he naturally wants to gain something. And a concession in the Sinai Peninsula is clearly the most desirable return.

"Municipality?" The King frowned, "It's a colony, right?" ”

"No, no, it won't colonize." Ji Yi said, "The world is big, and for us, the world is really big, and there are many places to colonize...... It's just that we don't have so many people to colonize. ”

Ji Yi still doesn't know that there is a New World and Oceania. But he already knew a little about the islands of the South Seas and the state of Africa.

For the Great Song Dynasty, as long as there is enough fleet, there is too much territory that can be encircled, but the population is too small.

"So what's the point of having a commercial city in Sinai?" The Christian Grand Dharma King asked.

"For flying money!"

"We hope to set up a money office in this municipality," Murray translated. ”

"...... the Christian Dafa King doesn't quite understand.

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

It's about opening a bank!

In recent years, the banking industry in Europe has basically not started! The Medici family of Florence, a banking family that later became famous in Europe, is still an inconspicuous small aristocracy and has not yet started a currency exchange business.

Having spent a lot of time in Constantinople, Venice and Amalfi City, Ji Yi has discovered that there is no such thing as flying money in Europe. In the future, the trade between the East and the West will inevitably require a large amount of capital exchanges, and the "Flying Money Bank" will definitely become a source of money!

The Christian Grand King looked at Anna. Komenina.

Anna. Komenina said, "I can accept the conditions of the Peach Blossom Stone Man...... A small port should not pose much of a threat. ”

The Christian Grand Dharma King nodded, "Well, since Her Royal Highness the Princess has agreed, then I can also agree." However, this municipality must not become the center of the spread of Tenrikyo until the two sides have reached a missionary agreement! ”

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"Crackling, crackling......"

The sound of firecrackers suddenly rang out on the tiny Dragon's Tooth Island. This is a firecracker to celebrate the completion of Nanyang Tianli College.

This small island, which is located next to Nanshin Island, has been a busy construction site since the autumn of the first year of Daikan. First, indigenous workers hired from Sriwijaya went to the island and began to cut down trees and level the land under the supervision of the vicious officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty. Later, many Indians who had been captured in the Second Battle of the Srivijaya Strait were sent to the islands and were also forced to do hard labor.

After the work of logging and leveling the land was completed, these workers began a new project under the command of the graduates of the Jiehe Yuntai School Construction College, which arrived with the reinforcement fleet led by Hua Manshan, Wu Sihai, Shi Bailang and others, in the winter of the first year of Daguan.

The new project is to build a rather large "Tenri Academy", which is a very special fortress-style academy. It is a combination of a fortress and a academy, with a solid outer wall, a moat, and an arrow tower, and an interior with wells, barns, barracks, armory, classrooms, halls, and school grounds.

It is said that it is a academy, but it is actually a castle, but the castle houses a fully armed school.

And this school is the Nanyang Tianli Academy, which is affiliated with the Great Doctor Group headquartered in Jiehe!

The operation of the doctoral group has been carried out in an orderly manner in the past few years, and has not been delayed due to several reforms of the Yuntai Academy. Although the doctoral department of Yuntai Academy has long been reformed, it has been replaced by a Tianli College affiliated with the doctoral group.

The reason for separating the Yuntai Academy from the doctoral group is mainly because the Yuntai Academy is now more and more like a secular university in later generations, and it is also the base camp of the practice-oriented empirical school. It's really not like opening a somewhat mystical Tianli Academy in it.

And the grade of Yuntai Academy is there, and it has developed into an expensive elitist university. The doctoral group is taking the low-end route, and what is needed is also the children of poor families who are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work. There is no tuition fee, the requirements for the quality of students are not high, and the curriculum is not refined, only to let students have a rough understanding of science, martial arts and military studies, and can go to serve as teachers in Tianli Academies in various places.

Nanyang Tianli Academy is an overseas Tianli Academy presided over by a doctor who graduated from Tianli College, and it is also a fortress for spreading Confucian Tianli and Chinese civilization in Nanyang!

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