Ming Zuo

Chapter 12
The Zuo family has not been rich for a long time, it is not a big family, and it is very simple inside.

Zuo Menggeng's yard is very simple, there is nothing to say, not even a personal maid.

Zuo Liangyu does not spoil his son, and always pays attention to training Zuo Menggeng, which allows Zuo Menggeng to develop a good martial arts.

Walking into the house and looking around at the familiar environment, Zuo Menggeng finally had time to think quietly.

There is no shortage of troubles in life.

Even if the soul merges and sees the future, it will not make him feel comfortable.

Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of far-sighted people, but there are very few people who can really ride the wind and waves with the help of the trend.

Back to Zuo Menggeng himself, how to choose the path of life is a complicated and arduous task.

This Daming must be finished.

The reasons for the death of Ming Dynasty are very complicated, and it is the result of the superposition of multiple factors.

It can't be changed because of one person, especially not the emperor.

Those who wrote online articles described Chongzhen as a wise ruler who had the will to act and was powerless to return to heaven, as if Chongzhen was not to blame for the death of the Ming Dynasty.

But judging from the knowledge inherited by Zuo Menggeng, this view is undoubtedly absurd.

In addition to irresistible factors such as natural disasters, among the man-made disasters in the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen or several emperors in the late Ming Dynasty were definitely the culprits.

In those novels, the crime of land annexation was attributed to the landlords and nobles, but Chongzhen was heartbroken but helpless.

I really don't know how those people's politics classes are taught.

What is a feudal emperor?
representative of the landlord class.

The big and small landlords under the co-authorship will carry out land annexation, but the head of the landlord class will not do so?

What determines what a feudal emperor does is not who the emperor is, his character, or ability, but the dragon chair under his butt.

Zuo Menggeng knew very well that in the chaos of the late Ming Dynasty, let alone Chongzhen, even the resurrection of Zhu Yuanzhang could not do anything.

As long as he is a feudal emperor, he will inevitably run all the way with the broken car of Daming, and eventually the car will crash and die.

The general trend is like this. If you don’t break the inherent framework, you can’t expect real change.

To be Zhu Ming's loyal and filial son and turn the tide, this is definitely a stupid choice.

Then, just like in the previous life, how about following Zuo Liangyu and taking advantage of the opportunity to suppress the peasant uprising and become a great warlord?
Without much thought, Zuo Menggeng rejected the idea.

Zuo Liangyu's actions, according to his understanding, have almost no possibility of transformation.

This is a thoroughly feudal officer, full of thoughts of promotion and making a fortune, saving his life and cherishing his body.If he continues to follow Zuo Liangyu as in his previous life, Zuo Menggeng can be sure that his end will not be very good.

Either, as in the original history, with [-] old, weak, sick and disabled in hand, and surrendered to the Qing without fighting, and bear the infamy of the ages;

To change all this, a new path must be found.

It is better to rely on yourself to be more confident if you rely on the mountains to fall, and rely on everyone to walk.

Qin lost his deer, and the world chased it.

Why can't this deer fall into his hands?
Fortunately, it is only the first year of Chongzhen, everything is in time, and there is enough time for him to fight.

Zuo Menggeng pondered for a long time, had a little experience, and woke up in the sound of footsteps.

After Xu Ruolin had dinner, accompanied by Zuo Xianmei, she ran to find him.

"Aren't you tired? Why don't you rest?"

Xu Ruolin curiously looked at Zuo Menggeng's residence.

This is the first time she has entered a man's room. Although it violates the etiquette, but for some reason, she likes the stimulation of breaking taboos.

Zuo Xianmei pouted, displeased all over her face.

"I originally said that I invited my brother to meet in the hall. But Sister Xu said that my brother has worked hard all the way and should come to meet him."

Really, who's daughter is so unruly, running to the man's room?

The granddaughter of the Minister of Rites does not obey the rites, which is really a big joke in the world.

Xu Ruolin couldn't hear it, she turned around and pinched Zuo Xianmei's delicate face, tsk tsk.

"Yo, I thought there was a Cao family by my side. Do you want to build a chastity memorial for you?"

Zuo Xianmei was in a hurry and twisted left and right, but couldn't break free.

"How can you... how can you..."

Seeing that his sister was about to cry, Zuo Menggeng had to be a peacemaker.

"Okay, okay, bullying my sister in front of me is unreasonable."

Xu Ruolin just let go, turned around, and sat at the table in front of the window.

"You little sister, at a young age, I don't dare or forget the three obediences and four virtues. If you marry someone in the future, I'm afraid that you will be bullied to death."

Zuo Xianmei hid behind her brother and did not dare to go over, her mouth was hard.

"Sister's words are bad. Three obedience and four virtues are good rules for women of my generation. If you don't follow the woman's way, you will be criticized by thousands of people and the world will scolded you. If you stick to the woman's way, you will be able to sing and follow the wife, the piano and the serenade will be harmonious, and the door will be maintained."

Even Zuo Menggeng couldn't take it anymore.

"Don't read the messy books, the three obediences and four virtues. You are a human being, a living person. You have to live for yourself, not someone's subordination. You are unhappy yourself, and you care about the lives of others?"

"Hahaha. This sincerity is a good word."

Xu Ruolin clapped her hands and laughed and found that Zuo Menggeng's words and deeds were really appetizing.

Zuo Xianmei's thoughts were greatly impacted.

"Mother taught like this, and those books are also like this. Are the words of elders and sages wrong?"

Zuo Menggeng snorted: "Any remarks that slander and undervalue women are all dross. People are divided into men and women, just like the world is divided into yin and yang. If yin and yang are half and half, the way of heaven is balanced. "

Zuo Xianmei, of course, had seen the Taiji gossip chart, and naturally knew that Yin and Yang were really evenly divided on the chart, and there was no one side more.

But this reality made her confused.

"Could it be... are the books I read all wrong?"

A trace of unbearable flashed in Xu Ruolin's eyes, and she pulled her over with a very soft tone.

"We women have hands and feet, so can't we support ourselves without relying on men? My sister may not know, but my sister is from the south of the Yangtze River. There, there are many people and few land, and farming alone cannot support so many people. So many people went to the workshop to work and earn money. In many families, even women had to support their families. In those workshops, women reeling silk, weaving cloth, and carrying goods are not inferior to men at all.”

When Zuo Xianmei heard this for the first time, her heart was dazzled, but Zuo Menggeng sighed: "The economy of Jiangnan is truly the best in the world. It's a pity that the wealth created can't play the biggest role."

Xu Ruolin can't transcend the times.

"Working in the workshop is only for making money, how can it be of great use? Yaya said that the most important thing in the world is farming. If farming is not prosperous and the people have no food, the world will be in chaos. Yaya has been obsessed with farming in recent years. , I just hope that everyone in the world can have enough to eat."

Xu Guangqi's historical achievements, needless to say, but Zuo Menggeng is not optimistic.

"The natural disasters in these years cannot be counteracted by manpower. This is because the earth has entered the Little Ice Age, the temperature has dropped and the rainfall has been unevenly distributed.

Xu Ruolin didn't understand.

"Little Ice Age?"

Zuo Menggeng didn't understand it very well, but he could still speak clearly.

"Our earth revolves around the sun, and sunlight brings energy to the earth. However, the energy generated by the sun is not constant, and the sun's activity will enter a dormant period at a certain period. At this time, the earth's energy is insufficient, and the temperature of the earth is low. It will be lower, it will be colder, and the growth of crops will be greatly affected.”

"Is that right?"

Xu Ruolin understood.

"What? The earth revolves around the sun? No... isn't the sun rising in the east and setting in the west?"

Zuo Xianmei didn't understand, but was frightened.

Xu Ruolin explained to her.

"My sister doesn't know that the ground under our feet is not flat, but a huge sphere. This sphere revolves around the sun, and one revolution is a year."

Zuo Xianmei's face turned pale, it was because what Xu Ruolin said was beyond her comprehension.

"The earth is obviously flat. Besides, if...if the earth is a sphere, why can't it be seen? Also, wouldn't the person on the other side of the sphere fall?"

Xu Ruolin nodded and shook her head.

"The earth is indeed a sphere. Grandpa Guo Jujing said that in his hometown, in the far west, someone sailed around the earth under our feet more than a hundred years ago and returned to the place where we started. As for the sphere Why the people on the other side didn't fall, then I don't know."

Now that Uncle Newton has not been born, and gravitation has not been discovered, Xu Ruolin of course can't tell.

"Because the earth under our feet has a gravitational force that can attract everything to the earth, people on the other end of the earth will not fall down."

Well, as soon as Zuo Menggeng opened his mouth, the copyright of Gravity was replaced.

"gravitational?"

Zuo Xianmei rarely escaped, and even raised her foot and stepped on the ground under her feet.

"Why can't you feel it?"

Zuo Menggeng smiled slightly, the citation is not difficult.

"Think about it, why do we finally fall back to the ground when we jump up? After the fruit on the tree matures, why does it also fall to the ground? No matter how far the arrow is shot, it will eventually fall back to the ground. If If there is no gravity on the ground under your feet, why doesn't the fruit float to the sky? Why doesn't the shot arrow keep flying?"

Of course Zuo Xianmei couldn't understand.

"Because the sky is above and the ground is below, so what my brother said will fall on the ground."

Zuo Menggeng shook his head and laughed.

"Up and down are relative. In many cases, up or down in our eyes, from another angle, it is actually the opposite."

Xu Ruolin corroborated.

"For example, I sit on my sister's left, but for me, my sister is on my right. This is relative, not absolute."

Well, this kind of profound dialectics is beyond Zuo Xianmei's cognition.Her eyes have begun to shine, and it is estimated that she will not be able to come out of them for a long time in the future.

Xu Ruolin looked at Zuo Menggeng.

"I thought I knew a lot, but I didn't expect you to know more."

Zuo Menggeng found a reason.

"Linqing extends in all directions, and many of those Western missionaries have passed from here. I have discussed with them."

In the late Ming Dynasty, China was not closed, and many Westerners came in and out.Especially in Linqing, an important thoroughfare, Xu Ruolin immediately believed Zuo Menggeng's words.

She seemed to have thought of something.

"When I was at home, when I talked to people about this, they were always frightened. Even my father and brother, except for the second brother, always denounced these as fallacies and heresies. I'm not allowed to study or talk."

What a surprise.

Xu Guangqi, who opened his eyes to see the number one person in the world, was as terrified of Western doctrine as a snake or scorpion.

That old man must be very lonely!
Thinking of this, Zuo Menggeng couldn't help feeling a little more pity for this beautiful girl.

"It's okay, what you know is actually the truth. Those who are self-sufficient are the fools."

Xu Ruolin looked at Zuo Menggeng carefully, as if to engrave his appearance firmly in her eyes.

"It's nice to talk to you more."

(End of this chapter)