Da Song: Shhh, I'm really not a prince

Chapter 238 The Controversy Between Science and Confucianism
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As if interrupting on purpose,
bang
Just when Cheng Yi was about to seriously refute Zhao Shi, he heard... There was a bang, and a plume of black smoke rose from the backyard of the Kaifeng government office. There was also a thick, pungent smell in the middle of the black smoke... …

"What happened?"

Zhao Shi tilted his head and asked,

"I'll take a look." Ever since Zhao Shi saw Lao Youzi's side, Yang Chuan was a little eager to express himself, and rushed to the backyard in a hurry, and came back after a while with a weird expression: "Shen Kuo seems to be demonstrating something to the students." The flames blazed."

Flame?

Zhao Shi frowned slightly, not quite understanding, but knowing that it was Shen Kuo's fault, Zhao Shi relaxed a little, and when he was about to concentrate on dealing with Cheng Yi, he froze again, and slowly looked at Yang Chuan: "What did you say? Flames can't be... black powder, can they?"

"Black powder?"

Yang Chuan scratched his head, uncertain: "It seems to be quite dark."

"Grass!"

Even though Zhao Shidang didn't care about bickering with these Taixue students, he cursed, jumped off the carriage and rushed to the backyard, and then, just halfway through...

bang
The whole backyard... is full of flames.

Grass!
Zhao Shi stopped slowly, and it was useless to be anxious, and then he saw Shen Kuo with a dark face, leading a dozen or so seven or eight-year-old ditch children, rushing out of the backyard in a hurry, There are still a few wisps of black smoke behind the person...

Collision between science and Confucianism?
Zhao Shi couldn't help looking at Cheng Yi and the others who ran over after him, and... dozens of ordinary people, one of whom was pushing his wheelbarrow, saying... my Kaifeng government office servants Is it for dry rice?
Zhao Shi looked at Yang Chuan,
He looked at Zhou Tong again,

The training of Kaifeng government officials is really on the agenda, and then he looked at Shen Kuo quietly and said, "Are you studying black powder in the Kaifeng government government where people come and go?"

"Try, try."

Shen Kuo was a little embarrassed: "The main reason is that the students want to see it."

students?
The students looked at each other in blank dismay, and then they all looked at the child of Mrs. Cui, who was rescued by Zhao Shi and called the "bastard". Later, Zhao Shi named the "bastard" Cui Pin, and Cui Pin said seriously : "Ah Lang, it's not that the students wanted to see it, but the teacher insisted on showing it to us."

Shen Kuo trembled,
I was so kind to you before, and then I heard Cui Pin seriously say: "It's just that the teacher is our teacher, can I ask Alang not to punish him?"

Zhao Shi was startled,
Just as he was about to speak, Cheng Yi's eyes lit up and he couldn't help asking, "What's your name?"

Cui Pin was taken aback, looked at Zhao Shi, Zhao Shi nodded slightly, and then he was serious and meticulously bowed to Cheng Yi: "Please ask for my respect, student Cui Pin."

Cheng Yi's eyes became brighter immediately, and he couldn't help but took a step forward, sighing, "It's rare for you to know both loyalty and righteousness at such a young age, have you read the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"Students only read the Four Books and Five Classics roughly."

"Rough reading." Cheng Yi frowned slightly. It's fine for a folk prince like Zhao Shi not to study. At such a young age, it is a waste for a benevolent student not to study.

"Ah."

Cui Pin didn't think there was anything wrong, so he glanced at Zhao Shi again, and continued to answer: "Students mainly study arithmetic."

"Arithmetic? Arithmetic?"

Not only Cheng Yi, but also Zhen Ling came over, frowned and said, "How can such trivial skills as arithmetic be learned as the main knowledge?"

"A tiny technique?"

Shen Kuo was originally unwilling to pay attention to these Taixue students whose eyes were above the top at first glance, but when he heard the words "mindless art..." he instinctively stopped and looked slowly. Turning to Zhen Ling, Zhen Ling frowned slightly: "As a teacher, you don't teach the knowledge of governing the world, but you only teach these trivial skills. Could it be that you don't let people talk about it?"

Don't tell anyone.

Shen Kuo slowly turned his head: "His Royal Highness once said that arithmetic is the foundation of all laws. If he doesn't even understand arithmetic, even if he learns it all the time, he will be nothing but a talker."

well said.

Zhao Shi applauded in his heart, that is...why did you add...the prince once said?Didn't you notice that even though you were the one arguing with others, almost everyone's eyes were on me?

Zhao Shi was a little helpless,

Shen Kuo was more and more unwilling to give in. He originally liked mathematics, hydraulics, and astronomy, which are definitely not mainstream in this world. He had to temporarily give up his liking for these in order to seek an official. However, when he met Zhao Shi , when Zhao Shi came, he was able to do it for him, and secondly, it was indeed different from this world. The attitude of other big figures towards science gradually caused Shen Kuo to focus on the things he likes, the things he likes...

How can you be insulted.

Just ...

Don't add the prince.

"His Royal Highness said again..." Shen Kuo seemed to be suffering from a disease that could not speak without His Royal Highness. , even the theory of yin and yang, is actually nothing more than a philosophy that satisfies people's spiritual pursuits!"

"philosophy?"

Zhen Ling, Cheng Yi, and even Jia Changchao, Hu Yuan and others who followed behind from dozens of people all looked at Zhao Shi slowly...

Watch my dry hair?

Zhao Shi glared at Shen Kuo fiercely, you are not angry, you are jealous, you want to fight each other, so you just fight each other, why are you involving me?
"Good philosophy."

Zhen Ling slowly looked back at Zhao Shi, more or less yin and yang, and said: "Confucianism is the only one, and it is enough to be ignorant if Confucianism is juxtaposed with Taoism, yin and yang, and other Huang-Lao theories. Come to think of it, there are still people who collectively refer to these knowledge of the world as "philosophy?"

Don't look at me!
Zhao Shi slowly stood with his hands behind his back, and Shen Kuo retorted: "This is what I said...you can only use your tongue, if you have the real ability, just like what His Royal Highness the Prince once said...philosophy can count how much it takes to control the water Sand and stone, how much labor does it take to control the water?"

Zhen Ling froze,
Looking at Zhao Shi,

Do you usually chat with people like this?Thank you for having the nerve to hang a portrait of Confucius, and then gritted your teeth slightly: "Confucianism is a university for governing the world, including arithmetic, not arithmetic..."

"Oh?"

Shen Kuo didn't think that arithmetic was so important. However, after getting in touch with Zhao Shi during this period, although Zhao Shi was not a great math expert, he came from later generations and had a solid scientific world view, which was deeply rooted. The feeling will be brought out, so Shen Kuo is gradually affected, that is...

"His Royal Highness once said..."

Zhao Shi slowly closed his eyes,
I swear, I really just want to touch the surface of the scholar-bureaucrats to see how they will react. The common people have never seen how to govern the world and show learning, but if you don't have arithmetic, you probably don't even know how old you are?"

"Outrageous."

Snapped

Behind the crowd, an old man in his sixties slapped the shoulders of the people who were pushing the wheelbarrow, and said, "This is a really misleading theory. Even if you have the knowledge of arithmetic, what is the use?"

Liu Hang.

However, Zhao Shi slowly looked at a somewhat unkempt middle-aged man in his forties next to Liu Hang, and felt that this middle-aged man had a... aura of the universe.
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(End of this chapter)