Steel Dynasty - Chapter 806

[Chapter 805 The Beginning of the Renaissance]

“Emperor’s Academy!”

Xiao Ming personally wrote the plaque in the Imperial Study Room, and he implemented it after returning from Qingzhou University.

Just as he did before, he now also aims to inspire students’ enthusiasm for science.

Putting away his pen, Xiao Ming said to Qian Dafu: “Send this plaque to Qingzhou University, and call Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing over. Now it’s time to get rid of the old abuses.”

Qian Dafu vaguely guessed what Xiao Ming was going to do. The science and technology of the Great Chongqing Kingdom now only stays in Qingzhou, and the outside of the Great Chongqing Kingdom is still controlled by feudal ignorance. If this ignorance is not completely eradicated, the speed of the popularization of science in the Great Chongqing Kingdom will be restricted.

Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing devoted themselves to studying astronomy at Qingzhou University, and now they have completely torn apart the mysterious veil of the starry sky.

Qian Dafu left and took Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing to the imperial study room half an hour later.

Seeing the two of them, Xiao Ming said directly: “How are you preparing?”

Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing had been looking forward to this day, and they both said at the same time: “We are ready and can popularize astronomy at any time.”

Xiao Ming looked at him Weird, he said, “I will send people secretly to protect you to prevent you from being beaten to death.”

Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing looked calm and calm when they heard this. He said: “What the common people preach is the true way, and How can you be afraid of life and death?”

“Okay.” Xiao Ming praised, “I will leave the Renaissance of Great Chongqing to you, but you don’t have to worry, I will always support you.”

Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing bowed. “Yes, Your Majesty.”

After saying this, Yan Zhengyi handed a book to Xiao Ming, and he said: “Your Majesty, this is what the two of us learned after studying astronomy. All we need to do is publish the content in it. Just print it on Qingzhou Daily.”

Xiao Ming took the book. The cover of the book had the words “On Celestial Bodies” written on it. He opened the book, which recorded in detail the data on the movement of celestial bodies observed by the two of them and their opinions.

If this “Treatise on Celestial Bodies” were published in a newspaper, the two of them would become the target of criticism from Confucian scholars.

What Xiao Ming needs is this effect. His purpose is to turn the two of them into truth fighters, thereby completely tearing apart the Confucian system.

When the two of them charge forward, and he provides support to them from behind, the renaissance of Great Yu will no longer be a problem.

“I will give it to the newspaper office.” Xiao Ming put the books away.

“Thank you, Your Majesty.” The two of them bowed and turned around and left the imperial study.

Watching the two people leave, Xiao Ming looked thoughtful. In fact, the Renaissance movement was not just an expose of ignorance in astronomy.

In fact, it is a new cultural system that subverts the existing cultural system, such as the fourteenth century in Europe. During this period, Europe was dominated by Catholic culture.

Social culture is centered on Catholic theology.

Later, with the development of productive forces, the emerging bourgeoisie was dissatisfied with the church’s control of the spiritual world, so a group of people subverted church culture by reviving ancient Greek and Roman culture.

This subversion reached its peak in the sixteenth century, and an independent cultural system gradually formed, the core of which was humanism.

Its core emphasis is to be human-centered rather than God-centered, affirm human value and dignity, advocate that the purpose of life is to pursue happiness in real life, advocate individualism, oppose ignorant and superstitious theological thoughts, and believe that human beings are The creator and master of real life, in general, this is a transformation of human beings from deification to secularization.

Xiao Ming now also needs Confucianism to step down from the altar and become secular.

But now that he uses Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing as weapons to destroy the old cultural system of Dayu, a new cultural system is needed to replace the old culture.

The reason why it took him so long to get the two of them ready to start the Renaissance was because he had been struggling with the issue of this new cultural system.

In the contemporary era in which he lived, compared to the Western humanism with freedom, equality and self-worth as its core, the country he lived in was replaced by a party culture after the old cultural system was destroyed. Strictly speaking, it is the governing philosophy of the ruling party.

Under the party culture, the traditional cultural system still exists, and the combination of the two is the characteristic of his era.

Walking out of the imperial study, Xiao Ming looked at the setting sun.

After the actions of Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing, he also wanted to take the opportunity to establish the cultural system or core values of Dayu.

After thinking about it for a period of time, he believed that the traditional culture of Dayu was enough to support the cultural system of society, but some disadvantages needed to be completely eliminated.

His ultimate goal is to make Confucianism purify itself like the Western religious reform, recognize science in culture, oppose ignorance, and advocate concepts such as equality for all.

In this way, the cultural system of Dayu will be rebuilt, and this is how every generation of kings in history came about.

After looking through the information, he found that in history Confucianism has gone through the Simeng School, Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism, Xinxue, Qixue, Jinwenxue, Gongyangxue, Chenwei Theology, Ancient Literature School and Exegesis. Generally speaking, each dynasty has Confucian culture is different. It can be seen that Confucian culture is constantly developing and changing.

And Confucianism sometimes makes corresponding changes in order to please the king. In other words, Confucianism is still very aware of current affairs.

Every time there is a change of dynasty, the Kong family will always vote for a new owner in time. Xiao Ming has been waiting for the Kong family to send someone over, but there is still no news.

Although he knew that the Kong family had been observing the situation, it was time to make a choice now. If he didn’t know the current situation, he would have no choice but to take action.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ming sneered twice, and he asked Qian Dafu to send Yan Zhengyi and Huang Yanqing’s celestial theory to the newspaper for publication tomorrow.

He didn’t believe that the Kong family could still sit still. Since he became the emperor, he would make new rules for the country of Chongqing.

After receiving the theory of heavenly bodies, Qian Dafu immediately went to the newspaper office.

At this time, Fan Zeng hadn’t gone back yet. Fan Zeng was stunned for a while after seeing the theory of heavenly bodies sent by Qian Dafu.

After a long silence, he said: “This is really unheard of. If it is published, it will definitely cause an uproar.”

“Just follow the emperor’s orders. If anything happens, the emperor will naturally be responsible.” Qian Dafu frowned. , he knew that Fan Zeng was an old Confucian scholar with some deep-rooted ideas, which made him sigh a little heavier.

Fan Zeng was sweating slightly on his forehead. He nodded and said, “Yes, I will ask someone to print it now.”

Nodding with satisfaction, Qian Dafu turned and left. He had supported Xiao Ming from beginning to end, and was following Xiao Ming. He just saw that the Great Yu Kingdom was becoming stronger and stronger. Although this celestial theory was a bit shocking, if it couldn’t cause waves, how could it bring about earth-shaking changes in the Great Yu Kingdom?

(End of chapter)