This book "Qi Lun" is more like a summary of Wang Anshi's new learning, Ming Dynasty official learning, Northern Song Dynasty policies, and Ming Dynasty policies.

It also analyzes why Wang Anshi's reform failed, and explains why a series of policies of the Ming Dynasty were successful. In the discussion, he mainly quoted the thoughts of "Xunzi" that he hated most when he was young.

By the way, Chen Gongfu hated Neo-Confucianism very much, and he was the first person in the Southern Song Dynasty to propose banning Neo-Confucianism.

"This man has great talent!" Zhu Guoxiang sighed after reading it.

Although the content of the first chapter is a bit nonsense, it has already made great progress at this time. That is to say, it completely abandons the theory of ghosts and gods and uses materialism to explain all things in the universe.

But his materialism is still based on vitality, yin and yang, five elements, and all things.

He materialized Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, believing that Yin-Yang and the Five Elements were invisible and intangible substances.

The next day, Zhu Guoxiang carefully annotated the book in the academy.

For example, in the chapter on the composition of the universe, Zhu Guoxiang commented: This theory is excellent, but it needs to be confirmed. An unproven theory can be regarded as a hypothesis and studied. It may be correct, or false, or there may be errors and omissions. Readers should double their efforts.

Try to eliminate the false and preserve the true.

There is another comment that is the most important: The emperor and I have already mentioned this theory. The principles of all things can indeed be represented by mathematics. Those who cannot be represented by mathematics are not unable to do so because of the lack of current academic practice. Later generations encourage it.

Zhu Guoxiang supplemented the rest of the chapters in the form of comments. For example, he wrote down the common sense of economics that he knew.

Moreover, in the education chapter, Zhu Guoxiang publicly wrote about epistemology, methodology, contradiction and other views for the first time.

"Make two copies together with the annotations, and send one to the emperor and one to Chen Gongfu." Zhu Guoxiang put away the pen and said.

A few days later, Zhu Guoxiang finished touring the scenery of Maoshan and headed to Nanjing to take a boat up the Yangtze River.

Chen Gongfu got the transcript and carefully read and thought about Zhu Guoxiang's annotations.

He was amazed and said with emotion: "Everyone calls the Emperor Yao and Shun, and today I finally believe it. It's a pity that I didn't know Mingjun at the beginning, so I didn't stay as an official in the new dynasty!"
Chapter completed!