We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

Chapter 514: The Science That Obsessed Emperor Qing

evening.

Emperor Qing sat quietly behind his desk, holding a brush in his hand, dipping the tip of the brush into ink and then dropping it on the paper.

As the pen flies, four short sentences appear on the paper.

"Your Majesty, great handwriting!" Huang Jin on the side flattered the emperor professionally.

Emperor Qing sneered and threw the brush aside: "You are insincere. I know my handwriting very well."

As the founding emperor, Emperor Qing's handwriting cannot be said to be ugly, but it cannot be said to be beautiful either.

After all, calligraphy requires time and experience to hone. Emperor Qing has devoted half of his life to the battlefield, so naturally he is not very good at calligraphy.

"Yes, yes, yes." Huang Jin smiled innocently, "This old servant is saying, Your Majesty, what you said is very good!"

Huang Jin did not go to Fengguo University with Emperor Qing, so he didn't know that these four sentences came from Li Che's mouth.

Emperor Qing glanced at him and said, "You can understand these words well."

"Yes, to establish a mind for heaven and earth, to establish a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost knowledge of the ancient sages, and to bring peace to the world for all eternity." Huang Jin sighed. "Although this old servant hasn't read many books, I can see that this is a very good statement. If the person who said this can really do it, then surely the ancient sages must have been no more than this."

After hearing Huang Jin's words, Emperor Qing didn't say anything else. He just sat at the table and tapped the table lightly with his fingers.

Did he do it?

Establish a mind for heaven and earth.

However, heaven and earth have no mind, but people have mind.

The human heart is what enables a person to possess the heart of a benevolent person who loves and helps others, and the heart of a saint who is broad-minded and impartial.

Emperor Qing believes that he cannot do this. He has committed too many sins in his life. Some people died because of him, some were good, and some were bad. The killings were not done out of a public heart, but out of the heart of an emperor who rules the world.

What about Old Six...

Thinking of the smiling faces of the people in Chaoyang City, Emperor Qing felt that if there was anyone in the world who was worthy of the phrase "establishing a mind for heaven and earth", his own sixth son would be one of them.

Live for the people.

Establishing and clarifying moral principles and upholding social norms is the way to govern the people.

It seems that Emperor Qing felt that he had done a good job in this regard. He unified the chaotic world, swept away many rebel kings and barbarians, and brought peace to the Chinese people. He could be said to have established a mission for the people.

Although Lao Liu is not as good as himself now, he is still young and may do better in the future.

To carry on the lost knowledge of the ancient sages.

Emperor Qing chuckled. Neither the father nor the son did very well in this regard.

Therefore, the ancient sages are the ancient Confucian scholars represented by Confucius and Mencius.

Although Emperor Qing also employed Confucian scholars, he himself did not believe in Confucianism from the bottom of his heart. He was a typical pragmatist and would use whatever was beneficial to maintaining his rule.

Li Che, on the other hand, was a complete rebel against Confucianism. This could be seen from the fact that the students at Fengguo University did not study Confucianism but only literature.

However, do these ‘ancient sages’ really only represent the teachings of Confucius and Mencius?

Perhaps, what Lao Liu wants to inherit is not Confucius and Mencius, but the aspirations of various schools of thought, Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang, and even the sages of all dynasties in China from ancient times to the present?

Emperor Qing wasn't sure if he had over-interpreted the meaning, but that was how the words came across.

When Li Che brought the Four Sentences of Hengqu into this world, the right to interpret this sentence no longer belonged to him, but to all scholars in the world.

To bring peace to the world forever.

Emperor Qing's gaze fell on the last sentence. Without thinking any more, he just sighed slightly.

To him, this sentence is more like a grand wish.

As for ambitions, these kinds of things are not meant to be realized and cannot be realized.

Like Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's "I will not attain Buddhahood until hell is empty", like Du Fu's "I wish I had thousands of spacious houses to shelter all the poor people in the world", and like Mr. Yangming's "Establish virtue, establish merit, establish words, and establish oneself in heaven and earth".

Emperor Qing knew that he was not a saint and could not do such a big thing, but he was very clear about what he could do.

He reached out, turned the paper in front of him over, and picked up the brush again.

The ink has not yet dried and is so strong that it can still be seen on the back of the paper.

Emperor Qing closed his eyes and thought for a moment. When he opened them again, his eyes were full of determination.

He raised his hand slightly, and four more big words fell on the paper.

"Huang Jin." Emperor Qing tossed the paper to Huang Jin, who quickly caught it. "Tomorrow, give this letter to Prince Feng."

"I obey your command." Huang Jin replied quickly. When he looked up again, he found that Emperor Qing had already disappeared from the room.

He subconsciously looked down at the paper, only to see four large characters written in a flamboyant style:

Science should be popular!

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In the next few days, Emperor Qing was completely obsessed with Chaoyang City, or rather, science.

He traveled back and forth between Fengguo University and Chaoyang City all day long, and every day he sought to communicate with different Fengguo scholars and asked for advice tirelessly.

He would also visit the fields with Taoyuan School agronomists to learn about the laws of crop growth; he would communicate with the leaders of the Fengguo merchant caravans to inquire about business operations; and he would sit in the same classroom with the students, repeating with the teacher the jingle: "If it only involves addition, subtraction, or multiplication and division, proceed from left to right. If it involves both addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, calculate multiplication and division first and don't be careless."

Chaoyang City is like the ocean, and Emperor Qing is like a dry sponge, greedily and eagerly absorbing fresh knowledge like sea water.

Emperor Qing is studious, or perhaps it can be said that those who achieve great things are all studious. This kind of learning is not limited to textbooks, but to studying the laws that operate in this world.

Emperor Qing knew that he could not achieve perfection in scientific matters, but he should at least have a general understanding of it so that he would not be easily fooled by other scholars in the future. That would be enough.

Li Che did not stop Emperor Qing from doing this, but was happy to see him like this.

In the eyes of the rulers and ministers of Daqing, science seemed to have become an emerging discipline, and even had the potential to challenge the giant mountain of Confucianism.

And Li Che is the creator of science.

The ancients could not understand that science is different from Confucianism, Taoism, and law. It is not a certain doctrine or the words and deeds of a saint, but the basic rules that govern the operation of the world.

However, Li Che didn't mind them thinking this way. It would be great if all the intellectuals in Daqing became believers in science.

Anyway, no matter what they do, you are the one who benefits in the end.

After all, the orthodoxy of science lies in Fengguo.