Chapter 445: Tradition really means backwardness? Did the ancients know about steam?!

Neither Tianqi nor Zhang Gui expected that Fan Jingwen would suddenly make such a advice after experiencing the steam locomotive.

However, Zhang Gui didn't feel very strange about this.

Because in history, when steam trains appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, some Confucian officials in the Qing Dynasty were afraid of this, saying that it would shake the Dongling, and the smoke and dust that emerged would destroy the purple air in the sky and affect the national destiny.

Although Fan Jingwen is very talented in history, as a Confucian minister, he inevitably felt an unfamiliar sense of panic about new things.

In fact, not only Fan Jingwen thinks this way, but also Ni Yuanlu and other officials from the Eastern Palace also have such concerns at this time.

Fortunately, Tianqi was an emperor who studied science. To be precise, this side job has almost become a main job.

Therefore, Tianqi paid more attention to using experimental methods to verify, especially after using lightning experiments to prove that lightning is not loyal and treacherous, it made him more determined that only the results reflected in the experiment are objective laws, and he said: "Will the dragon vein be shaken? You have to experiment to know that if it really shakes the dragon vein, our ancestors will give me a dream."

After Apocalypse said this, Fan Jingwen and others were not good at speaking.

Zhang Guize also said: "Your Majesty is right. Specifically, the dragon vein will be reflected in the geographical advantage, and the geographical advantage is nothing more than agriculture. Therefore, I believe that it is better to choose a mu of farmland from the farmland near the railway as the test field, and then choose a mu of farmland that agrees with the degree of fertility as the control group in other places where there is no sound of motorcycles. Let's see if the crop yield is affected, you can know whether it affects the dragon vein and Feng Shui."

"Very good, just do it!"

Apocalypse said.

Seeing this, Fan Jingwen couldn't say anything else, and he was not obviously willing to let the court do an experiment.

For him, the behemoth in front of him who could travel on the railway without a horse was still a little surprised.

He has always been educated by Confucianism and has the idea of ​​respecting the ancient times, especially the ancient sages and wise kings, who believed that they should follow the ancients as kings and ministers. Now he is thinking about whether there were such cars in ancient times.

Fan Jingwen now wants to go back and read ancient books.

At the same time, he is very worried about one thing now, that is, if there is no such motorcycle that does not use oppression of human and animal power to move forward, does that mean that it is wrong to respect the ancients? In other words, the ancients are not as good as the present?

Ni Yuanlu also has the same concerns as him. Worrying that traditional things are really things that are not worthy of being pursued, but backward things that should be abandoned. Nowadays, people should innovate.

Not long after, Wen Tiren, Bi Ziyan, Qian Xiangkun and other important officials in the court were ordered by Tianqi to come to the steam locomotive test base in Xishan to experience the steam locomotive.

After experiencing the steam locomotive, the three views of Wen Tiren and Bi Ziyan were also affected by a collapse.

Bi Ziyan even took the initiative to ask Qian Xiangkun, the Minister of Rites: "Da Zongbo, you are well-versed in the past and the present. Do you know that the ancients mentioned such carts that do not use cattle, horses or people to pull? Did Zhuge Kongming have made it, or Lu Ban?"

Qian Xiangkun shook his head: "Nothing has ever been heard."

After hearing this, Bi Ziyan looked serious: "So, the ancients were not better than the moderns? This world really should be reformed."

"What do you say?"

Qian Xiangkun was suddenly shocked and asked Bi Ziyanlai.

Bi Ziyan replied: "You think, before the uncle returned to the capital, what is the most urgent matter that needs to be solved besides the reward for pacifying Jiannu? That is how the large amount of coal mines mined from Hanhai Coal Mine turned into silver. But none of us, the Confucian ministers, could only ask our uncle to come back, fulfill the agreement, and buy these coal mines. As a result, our uncle really purchased these coal mines as promised. It turns out that I only now understand that our uncle purchased a large amount of coal from Hanhai Coal Mine because we knew that there was a coal-eating motorcycle to appear! If the ancients didn't know this car, would it mean that the ancients would not solve this matter? I still have to rely on the current people?"

When Qian Xiangkun heard Bi Ziyan say this, he also realized the problem here and couldn't help but say: "So, people today are more capable than the ancients? Oh my God, no wonder I have thousands of civil servants who have read poetry and books. Now I still need his uncle Zhang and his relatives to take charge of the government!"

"However, everyone is reading the books of ancient sages. Why did Your Highness know that this steam locomotive can be used by eating coal, which can solve the problem of transporting troops and grains in the world, and can also make lands with coal but without grains a treasure?"

Bi Ziyan was an official who was good at managing money and food. His mind was more flexible than Qian Xiangkun, the Minister of Rites who was only good at discussing etiquette and talking about scriptures. Soon he thought about why Zhang Gui knew that they did not know this key issue. In Bi Ziyan's opinion, these scholars and officials must have read more books than Zhang Guojiu.

Qian Xiangkun also nodded: "This is the puzzling thing."

Bi Ziyan had already come to Zhang Gui here on his own initiative and bowed to him: "I would like to ask Your Highness to give me advice. Why did Your Highness know that this artifact appears in this world, and it is powered by burning coal instead of chariots and horses and manpower. They are all people who read ancient sages, so why did Your Highness only possess this wisdom? Is it your Highness who has read the lonely book that we have never read, or is it what Your Highness himself realized?"

After seeing Bi Ziyan asking seriously and returning the ceremony seriously, Zhang Gui said, "It was not that Gu saw it from the ancient books, but that Gu himself understood it. But it cannot be said that the ancient books were really useless, otherwise, it would not be enough to answer why the man read the books of sages but did not know, but Gu knew it."

The other civil servants on the side were nodding after hearing Zhang Gui say this.

Bi Ziyan bowed again because of this: "So I want to ask for advice."

"This is related to the fact that I am not following the imperial examination. It is because I am not profession, so I study very much. It is not just about the Confucian family's studies. I also read the books "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and "Mengxi Bitan", so I feel it. In addition, after His Majesty has used coal-burning steam to pump water to benefit agriculture, I have thought about whether I can use coal-burning steam to drive the wheels so that the car is no longer driven by people and animals. Therefore, to be precise, the steam locomotives today are because we stand on the shoulders of giants, which is not in conflict with Zhang Zi's unique skills in inheriting the past saints. Respecting the ancients is not only to inherit the ancients' learning, but also to carry forward it, and to have new breakthroughs on this basis."

Zhang Gui replied.

The chief assistant Wen Tiren knew what Zhang Gui said, so he summed up: "Your Highness's words are enlightening, so it should be like this. We must constantly innovate and dare to innovate! We must learn from all the strengths. Fortunately, the current imperial examination in this dynasty no longer only discusses the knowledge of one family, so the spirit of the great spirit is far away and the pursuit of Yao and Shun, and it is also a harmonious political and harmonious person!"

Although Bi Ziyan knew that Wen Tiren was flattering Zhang Gui, he could not refute it. He nodded and said divergently: "Coal can be the power of a motorcycle, and I have also read "Mengxi Bitan" and knew that it has oil. From now on, coal can be the source of power required for vehicle-mounted transportation. Can oil also be the source of power required for vehicle-mounted transportation in the future?"

Zhang Gui nodded: "Maybe there is, or it may be very common. The official can submit a memorial to the court to set up an official office to explore this thing!"

"That's what it should be!"

Bi Ziyan replied happily as if he had seen a trace of heaven.

"No!"

At this time, one person shouted, deliberately refuting Bi Ziyan to do this, saying: "The rule of the country is to choose people. How can we use national treasury to destroy nature? This is why it is not only a matter of harmony between heaven and earth, but also a lot of coal is enough. Why should we discuss oil again? The sages regard frugality as a virtue. We should follow this imitation, how can we exhaust natural things too much?!"
Chapter completed!