Chapter 1282 Pioneer of Natural Sciences
There is a horse chestnut tree several feet high in the courtyard of the house. The trunk is straight and the new leaf buds have just sprouted. In early summer, the tree is full of flowers, and the huge white inflorescence is like a gorgeous candlestick, which is a sight to behold.
At this moment, there is a young man in white clothes standing in front of the tree with his hands behind his hands. He is looking at a bud on the tree attentively. His eyes are twinkling, as if he can hear the blooming of life from the tiny buds growing and stripping. Non-sound...
As soon as Fang Jun stepped into the courtyard, he saw this scene in front of him.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, the young man in white turned his head. His face was as handsome as a crown jade, his sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, his lips were red and his teeth were white. It was Yu Minglei who had not seen each other for several days without saying goodbye...
Fang Jun was slightly stunned and asked: "Where are you running to without even saying hello?"
Speaking of which, his tone was somewhat dissatisfied.
From mutual use with the Yu Ming family to friendship with Yu Minglei overseas, Fang Jun has long regarded Yu Minglei as a friend. As a result, this guy left without saying goodbye, which made Fang Jun worried for a while.
As if feeling Fang Jun's displeasure, Yu Minglei nodded slightly, his handsome face revealed a smile as dazzling as the sun, and said softly: "I'm sorry, it's a private matter of the family. Time is running out for one thing and I don't have time to talk about it, and the other is a matter of personal importance." We apologize for the inconvenience of sharing family privacy with outsiders.”
Fang Jun nodded and said indifferently: "Okay, I forgive you."
A family like the Yuming family that has been passed down for thousands of years always has countless secrets. Friends should tolerate each other without getting to the bottom of things. Keeping some privacy from each other will last longer than being honest with each other.
Yu Minglei seemed to have known that Fang Jun would understand as long as he listened to his apology and would not ask for the reason. He smiled happily and said: "I passed by the construction site by the Kunming Pool today and was very curious about some tools and equipment. , if you have nothing to do tomorrow, can you accompany me to explain something? ”
Tools and equipment on the construction site?
They were nothing more than shovels, hoe heads, pickaxes and other objects from later generations that had very different shapes from the current ones, as well as tools that had never appeared before such as tipping buckets. They were completely different from the loading and unloading equipment on the wharf of Huating Town in Jiangnan.
For Yu Ming, who loves to explore the truth of new things, nothing can attract more interest than this...
Fang Jun nodded happily: "Why not? Tomorrow afternoon, I will accompany Brother Yu Ming to the construction site."
The great road becomes simple, and all laws return to their origin. In later generations, this is a fantasy saying, but in this era, it is also the truth pursued by the three schools of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Fang Jun didn't understand this, let alone whether the ultimate truth of all things that Yu Ming was searching for could be inspired by some new inventions, but he was willing to copy the inventions one by one to benefit this era.
It would be great if we could open up people's wisdom in natural science and make natural science attract the attention of the whole society.
The special status of the Yuming family is more prominent than that of the legendary Mohist family. At least the latter was suppressed and ostracized by the imperial court in various periods, until the entire inheritance was no longer sustainable. However, the Yuming family had a transcendent status and was highly respected by the royal family. ……
Yu Minglei smiled and thanked him softly.
He admired Fang Jun very much, not only because Fang Jun could always turn the fantastic ideas in his mind into reality and design and create all kinds of incredible tools and mechanisms, but also because of Fang Jun's broad mind and tolerance. Bo's courage!
Since ancient times, no matter what kind of technology, the inventors have done their best to conceal it and become a tool for themselves to seek fame and fortune. Even if they would rather die and be carried into a coffin, they will never teach others easily.
Others say they have learned it, what should I do?
It is common for a disciple to starve his master to death. It is human nature to be selfish, so it is understandable to cherish one's own self.
Because of this, Fang Jun's magnanimity and magnanimity, which never hides various technologies and is even very happy that someone is interested in it, is particularly unusual and precious!
Therefore, Yu Minglei asked doubtfully: "It seems that not only have you never worried about these unique skills being learned by others, but you are even willing to teach them yourself. This has never happened before. I just want to ask, do you really not care? Are these technologies enough to make a family prosperous for a hundred years? Or is there another plan? ”
Fang Jun chuckled: "Actually, what you want to ask is why someone is so great?"
Although he was very shameless, Yu Minglei did not refute and nodded in agreement, staring into Fang Jun's eyes and waiting for his answer.
Fang Jun looked at Yu Minglei's pure eyes, sighed slightly, and said in a sincere tone: "You are the wisest among the Yu Ming family, so I want to ask you, no matter what kind of technology or knowledge , is it better for one person to make great progress by working hard behind closed doors, or is it better for countless like-minded people to work together to study together? ”
"Do you still need to ask? Manpower is sometimes poor, and no matter how strong one person is, he can't match the wisdom of more people. This is the saying that when three people walk together, there must be a teacher."
"So, this is my answer. I just want more people in the world to know that there is actually a lot of knowledge hidden in nature. A person can use a rope to put more pulleys on it. It can lift heavier goods. The slightly concave front of the shovel can dig out more soil with less effort. Adding a rib in the middle can achieve greater sturdiness with less iron material. Several simple materials are mixed. Together they are enough to burst out the power to break mountains and crack rocks. Even a piece of steel can still float on the water as long as it is made into a special shape... These are knowledge, knowledge given to us by nature, and it is definitely not only found in the Four Books and Five Classics There is knowledge in it. Only by better understanding nature and making better use of Dali's principles can we conquer nature faster. ”
Confucianism is excellent for cultivating one's character and improving one's own quality. However, Confucianism cannot increase food production, irrigate dry land and turn it into fertile farmland, cure terminally ill people, or refine stone into iron or iron into steel...
If you can't even support your life, how can you talk about cultivating one's moral character?
This sentence is the Confucian thought, but even the Confucians themselves have forgotten it. Or maybe they haven't forgotten that it's just that those high-ranking Confucian scholars, after eating all day long, are thinking about how everyone in the world should abide by the rules and not think about refuting or rebelling, so they use a series of so-called micro-words and righteousness to imprison them. People's thoughts, bound people's bodies.
This is not the law of natural development...
Just like in later generations, there are always people who say that the quality of Waiguo Kernel is better than that of Chinese people, but why don't those people think about the simplest truth - how many days have you had enough to eat?
Human beings are always contradictory like this. When you rebel and become the emperor, you will be prepared for others to rebel. You will strongly encourage people to stay in peace and be loyal to the emperor and patriotism... Why the hell didn't you just rebel when you didn't have enough to eat? Disloyal to the king and patriotic?
If you say this to others, someone will naturally scold Fang Jun for blasphemy against saints and fallacies.
But Yu Minglei is different. Yu Ming, who tirelessly pursues the truth of heaven and earth, can best understand what Fang Jun said about how powerful the power from nature is. In comparison, even the most powerful human beings cannot stand up to the power of nature. It is vulnerable!
Yu Minglei admired: "People in the world always believe in their own eyes, but they don't know that their own eyes are actually the most deceptive. The mist rises, the rain falls from the sky, the sun rises in the east, and the jade rabbit falls in the west. This seems to be ordinary. This scene must actually contain some truth that we don’t know. Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence that one rises and one falls, rising in the east and falling in the west? Compared with these truths of heaven and earth, what are the four principles? The Five Classics and any trivial meanings are all bullshit! Yu Ming has studied the books of those sages for hundreds of thousands of years, and the principles he finally summarized are all understood from nature. Only by returning to nature can we truly get close. If we look for the most original principles in the Four Books and Five Classics, we will go in the opposite direction. ”
Fang Jun was really surprised.
How could an ancient person still have such knowledge?
Although I don’t know the process of water vapor evaporating and condensing into rain, or the phenomenon of the earth’s rotation and revolution, I can guess that it contains the principles of heaven and earth. This imagination is enough to become the greatest scientist!
Then, Yu Minglei asked another rather strange question: "Fang Jun... Do you think lotus flowers can really grow in fire?"
Fang Jun was confused by the question, so he said casually: "I haven't heard about this, but what I am best at is summoning rainbows of seven colors..." (End of Chapter)