Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

After thinking about the name Li Zicheng for a while, Tomorrow could only ignore it for the time being.

Judging from the situation, he didn't think that Li Zicheng was an official from the Hongwu period, and it was probably useless to think about it.

It is best to wait until we meet brothers Naluo Guanzhong and Xu Da to talk about the many thoughts about this light curtain at the moment.

This involves not only the authenticity of the light curtain, but also the issue of Ming Dynasty's next national policy.

The top priority in the short term is to eliminate the remaining elements in the North.

During the course of a hundred years, the maritime territory was consolidated, including the response of the Xiyi fleet and the strategy against the Japanese.

And what ultimately affects the life and death of the Ming Dynasty seems to be the management of Liaodong...

There were so many questions in his head that Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily forgot his original plan to use the rumors about Huan Hou to talk to him on the screen.

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Li Shimin of Ganlu Hall yawned.

As they watched, Fang Du and Wei Sanchen speculated on Neo-Confucianism based on the dichotomy of righteousness and benefit, and also discussed what later generations would call the separation of political and cultural focus, the boundaries of civil discussion, and laments about Zhang Zai's actions.

Looking at the light screen again, the two lines signed by Zhang Fei were still bare after floating by. Emperor Hongwu said nothing, which made him feel very bored.

"Then Emperor Hongwu really doesn't want to fight the Japanese pirates, right?"

Li Shimin guessed this out of boredom.

"Definitely not."

Beside Emperor Tang, Empress Changsun peeled a fruit and said with a smile:

"When Erlang told me, I didn't believe it, until that day he hurriedly called me..."

Speaking of this, Empress Changsun also sighed. If according to the records of later generations, her remaining life would only be five years. After that, the beloved man next to her would have to be alone on the throne and look at the world for more than ten years. In the meantime, she would have to face Cheng Qian and Hou Jun. The massacre, the Turkic assassination, the conquest of Goguryeo and many other things were not easy.

Carefully suppressing the sudden pity in her heart, Queen Changsun adjusted her mood and said:

"Maybe Emperor Hongwu was hesitant because he saw this thing for the first time, and Erlang didn't have any hesitation when he saw it for the first time?"

After scratching his chin, Li Shimin remembered the scene in "Sou Shen Ji" where the light curtain suddenly appeared, and shook his head:

"Why are you hesitating? At that time, I thought it was an immortal praising my merits and planning to send one or two divine generals to me."

"Later, I thought that the immortal might be stingy, so I decided to show me a puppet show. Who would have thought..."

Continuing to shake his head, Li Shimin actually looked a little more confident:

"On the contrary, the three ministers, Auxiliary Machinery, Keming and Xuanling, thought that I was possessed by evil spirits."

Hearing His Majesty talk about such old things, all the ministers in Ganlu Hall laughed, while Zhangsun and Fangdu smiled helplessly.

"The pen was at hand at that time, so I wrote a lot in handwriting, but I didn't often answer questions. I wonder if Zhuge Wuhou was still prompted by me before he knew how to communicate with the light screen."

"Then Erlang owes a lot to Marquis Wu."

Sa Ran nodded, and Li Shimin felt a little pity after it was over:

"Calculating the time, I think Emperor Zhaolie should have almost accomplished the task of reviving the Han Dynasty. I just regret that I can't have Marquis Wu accompany me to rebuild the foundation of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."

Queen Changsun was helpless:

"Then it's no wonder Emperor Zhaolie was so rude to Erlang."

Raising his eyebrows, Li Shimin was a little surprised:

"Just waiting for something trivial?"

Du Ruhui, who was busy arguing with Wei Zheng over there, still had time to raise his head:

"Your Majesty, this small matter is nothing less than a major matter that shakes the foundation of the country to Emperor Zhaolie."

Everyone in the Ganlu Hall laughed again, and Li Shimin sighed helplessly.

Previously, it was believed that the imperial examination was a supreme weapon, and that by referring to the records of the Song Dynasty, one would be able to recruit talents based on merit.

As a result, looking at everything in the Song Dynasty, the imperial examination still needs to be revised.

If you want to achieve full success, you still have to focus on academic research, and I don’t know how many years it will take.

[In addition, as we have said many times before, the Song Dynasty was an era when ancient scientific and technological achievements exploded.

The enlightened academic atmosphere and the economic growth brought about by the population explosion drove the Northern Song Dynasty to comprehensively integrate, absorb and innovate the scientific and technological achievements of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the shortcomings of technological development in the two Song Dynasties are also obvious:

Scholars and scholar-officials relied too much on perceptual knowledge, intuitive feelings and subjective experience in their research on science and technology, and lacked scientific research methods for quantitative research and a matching thinking tradition.

Moreover, due to the social structure at that time, the research of science and technology could not be independent of Confucian classics.

On the one hand, these very crude native scientific and technological ideas drew nourishment from traditional Confucian classics.

But on the other hand, the inviolable classical views and ideas constrained the innovation of scientific and technological ideas, making science at that time reduced to a vassal of Confucian classics.

But even so, there are still a lot of scientific and technological advances in the two Song Dynasties that deserve recognition.

For example, in weaving, the Song and Song Dynasties not only summarized, promoted and carried forward the jacquard machines and weaving methods inherited from the Tang Dynasty, but also developed a new creel warping method on this basis.

Similarly, innovative technologies were invented for ceramics in which the body was fired and glazed multiple times. Paper was made for different purposes such as sacrifices, official orders, and book engravings. In addition, the ancients seemed to be shy about recording the matter of going to the toilet. At present, The earliest known thing is that Emperor Yuan used paper, and it is reasonable to speculate that it also started in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, workshops such as woodblock printing, wine making, lacquer craftsmanship, oil pressing, sugar making, and tea making are also flourishing.

Here is an additional sentence. Although iron pots were popularized in the Song Dynasty, the invention of tea frying method was not until the time of Emperor Hongwu Zhu Baba. The tea cakes of the two Song Dynasties were still steamed, and the method of drinking tea was still to boil tea soup, which is difficult for modern people to adapt to.

However, because the tea method was inherited from the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty pushed Matcha to the peak of the feudal era. It was eventually introduced to Japan through the Song-Japan trade. As a result, due to the lack of iron in Japan, it has not been able to be repeated to the tea frying method. Instead, some people now praise Matcha as the essence of tea art, which is another matter.

In addition to handicrafts, the Song Dynasty promoted the treadle plow and dragon bone waterwheel invented during the Three Kingdoms period in agricultural tools. In particular, the treadle plow does not require cattle. Five days of treading by a person is equivalent to one day of pulling by an ox. In the absence of a shortage of people in the Song Dynasty, the development of the south was promoted relatively quickly, which can be regarded as the root of the prosperity of the two Song Dynasties.

In addition, the use of stone slabs and bricks to reinforce the roadbed and supplement it with drainage channels became the designated style of official roads, the construction of a relatively complete fire department in the feudal era, and the establishment of the Taiping Huimin Bureau, which integrates the sale of medicine, treatment and epidemic prevention, are all points worthy of recognition in the two Song dynasties.

In mathematics, the most outstanding are Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty and Yang Hui of the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with the genius Shen Kuo, Yang Hui's significance at the time was greater.

In terms of depth, Yang Hui continued to study high-order arithmetic series after Shen Kuo and was at the top level in the world at that time.

In terms of education, he dared to break through the traditional classification pattern of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" that had been used for thousands of years, rewrote the algorithm and incorporated the Nine Returns Formula into the textbook, successfully lowering the threshold of mathematics teaching.

And Yang Hui has always emphasized the practical application and popularization of mathematics in his works, which is quite worthy of recognition.

On the basis of the above, the writers Zhu Shuzhen, Zhang Yan, thinkers Zhang Jiujiao, Deng Mu, and famous painters Liu Songnian of the Southern Song Dynasty jointly formed the earliest and largest information exchange place in the world at that time in Lin'an.

Although these inventions, systems and academic achievements did not influence the course of history at the time, they themselves are traces left by a group of unknown ordinary people like you and me who have done their best to learn and do their best for the progress of mankind.

Based on this, they are also worthy of the praise of being elegant. 】