Three Kingdoms

This time, although Fei Qian could not be said to be a great victory, he still gained a lot, especially the "Xijing Xingfu Shangshu Desk", which basically means that Fei Qian has the right to be appointed by the imperial court. , in other words, the official positions conferred by Fei Qian before were all "private conferrals", but after gaining this title, the official positions conferred by Fei Qian were equivalent to enfeoffments by the imperial court.

Just like the previous Sichuan-Shu Rebellion, those guys could be said to be Fei Qian's rebellious officials and refused to comply. If they are still restless, Fei Qian can label them as rebels.

Status is very important, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many mistresses eager to kill the yellow-faced woman...

After hearing the news of Fei Qian's return, Pang Tong also rushed to Tongguan from Chang'an, Guanzhong, and specially met Fei Qian with Ma Yan.

Ma Yan is now older. Although Tongguan has been relatively peaceful during this period, as time goes by, he is somewhat unable to do what he wants. After meeting Fei Qian, Ma Yan deliberately found Fei Qian and met Fei Qian. Qian expressed his intention to "retire".

Of course, Ma Yan would rather hand over the position at hand to his son.

Fei Qian thought about it and expressed a limited agreement, which meant that his son Ma Yue could be brought back, but it would have to wait for a while. After all, Ma Yue was basically equivalent to Fei Qian's current cavalry instructor. It was not just a matter of swapping. Replaced. It's just that Ma Yue has indeed been in Yinshan for a long time, and it's time for a rotation, so Fei Qian plans to let Li Dian go to Yinshan first, and then hand over to Ma Yue, and it will take about a year to get used to it before he can be transferred.

In this way, the embarrassment between Li Dian and the Cao family was avoided. On the other hand, Li Dian, as a training officer, was not bad in military management skills. At the same time, Fei Qian also needs to assign another deputy position to Li Dian, so that they can assist each other and also check and balance each other.

Of course Ma Yan was happy and thanked him without mentioning it.

"Let Captain Zhang go to Yinshan..." Pang Tong, who was called later, suggested, "Under Zilong, Colonel Zhang also attacked the royal court of Xianbei. His merits are outstanding and he can be a partial general..."

Fei Qian thought for a moment and nodded. Zhang Xiu is indeed a good candidate. Firstly, Zhang Xiu has also stayed in Yinshan and is familiar with the Southern Huns. Secondly, Zhang Xiu is a cavalryman, so his riding skills are natural. Thirdly, take this opportunity to raise It's just right to stand up and be a partial general.

Pang Tong asked Fei Qian again about the arrangements for the rewarded official positions. Fei Qian did not tell him first, but asked Pang Tong to make adjustments based on the previous arrangements and then add in the changes during this period...

Anyway, it's Pang Tong who has to worry about it, Fei Qian will just do the final review.

Pang Tong was also helpless, but also a little excited. After all, in this way, the Xijing Shangshu Ling he had on hand should not be able to escape. It was almost equivalent to the organizational minister of later generations. Although he was not the top leader, his right to make suggestions was very powerful. .

Pang Tong also informed Fei Qian of another incident, which was that after receiving Huang Chengyan's request, Pang Tong sent Xu Huang to Wuguan to support Huang's strategy for the Nanxiang area.

Although Fei Qian felt that using Xu Huang to deal with the remaining Yellow Turban thieves in Runan was a bit like killing a chicken with a knife, maybe Liao Hua from Wuguan would be enough, but to be on the safe side, sending Xu Huang was not a mistake, so he didn't What adjustments to make.

"Besides...there are two other things..." Fei Qian told Pang Tong his thoughts on the road while drinking tea. The main purpose was to prepare for the promotion of medicine and mathematics in the next stage.

Regarding medicine, Pang Tong did not have many opinions, because this matter has obvious benefits. After all, if Zhang Yun and others had not controlled the plague, Fei Qian strictly required military health regulations, etc., there would be no telling the number of people who died due to disease and plague infection in Guanzhong. It will be doubled several times!

What's more, building a "Hundred Medical Clinic" in Chang'an is not a huge project. Pang Tong, who has worked on the architectural system of Qinglong Temple, said it is a piece of cake.

However, regarding mathematics, Pang Tong had some ideas that were not consistent with Fei Qian's.

In fact, the Chinese nation opened up this branch of mathematics very early.

At the end of primitive society, after the emergence of private ownership and exchange of goods, the Chinese people had already opened the technology tree of mathematics. The crude counting method of knotting ropes was soon replaced by formal numbers. When Xia Yu was controlling floods, he had relatively complete measurement and measurement tools. The so-called rules, rules, standards, and ropes were the earliest mapping and measurement tools.

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Book of Rites states that the children of Western Zhou aristocrats must start learning arithmetic from the age of nine, and be proficient in the recording and calculation methods of numbers, and this will be used as an assessment method for the "Six Arts of a Gentleman". By the Spring and Autumn Period, arithmetic had become a basic and universal calculation tool, and the decimal system was determined as the main counting method. This is a very important link for the entire mathematical system.

The contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period promoted the further development of mathematics. Along with the concepts of "big one", "small one", "non-half" and so on, which were born in the philosophical system, brilliant and colorful brilliance was produced in the collision of ideas.

Then……

What Pang Tong wants to say is this and then.

"Do you want to be an official? Pang Tong frowned, "Lord, please forgive me for speaking frankly... I'm afraid it's inappropriate..."

"Why?" Fei Qian asked.

Pang Tong hesitated for a moment, as if something was not easy to say, but after a moment he said: "My lord, do you know that there were hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period, why only Confucianism survives today?" 』

Fei Qian scratched his head. Is this mathematics also related to the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period?

"In the early Han Dynasty, Huang Lao was also used, but why was he defeated? Pang Tong smiled slightly and said, "It's not Huang Lao's intention to be poorer than Confucianism...but it's not the right time..."

"Untimely" sounds like the choice of the so-called "Heaven", but Fei Qian understands that what Pang Tong calls "untimely" is actually not the real "Heaven", but the ruler.

Fei Qian, who was also born under the inheritance of Pang Degong, naturally also knew some of the thoughts and concepts of Huang Lao's studies. Even according to the concepts of later generations, Huang Lao's things still have many shining points, such as Comrade Shi Chuan Jianguo. "Sari" and "I have" are often mentioned...

Just like Lao Tzu, he emphasizes "doing nothing and doing everything". To give the people sufficient "now", it makes it very difficult for the rulers. If they can't control it in the early stage, or if they don't want to control it, they can still "do nothing" and just treat it as I can't see it, but now that the land is going to be sold and demolished, how can those shanty towns continue to be regarded as "doing nothing"?

Although Zhuangzi, who developed on the basis of Laozi, did not belong to the Huang-Lao sect, he was also incompatible with the rulers. What Zhuangzi pursues is unrestrained personal life. The rulers looked at it and said, "How can this be achieved? You haven't paid your damn taxes yet!" Haven't you heard that every dynasty has always shouted "ten thousand taxes, ten thousand taxes, ten thousand taxes" when they bow to the emperor?

After understanding this, you will naturally understand why China's mathematics has been cut off...

Fei Qian fell silent. He really didn't think that much before.

Pang Tong looked at Fei Qian, and Fei Qian waved his hand, indicating to Pang Tong to continue.

According to Pang Tong's statement, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, if you had the opportunity to open the mathematics technology tree, there were generally three more outstanding schools. The first was the "famous". Famous people were the first to study the definition of language and the exploration of logical thoughts, and were most likely to turn to logic. However, in terms of politics, Dengzi proposed "no kindness" and Huizi proposed "respect", and then required that logic should not be wrong. Language cannot be vague, it must be clear and clear, and there must be no ambiguity, so that the rulers cannot confuse right and wrong, confuse the public, suppress speech, and deceive people's hearts...

When the ruler saw it, how could he do this? Put a sophistry label on the "famous person", fuck him!

The famous man died.

Then there is the Mohist family.

The Mohist school is also a huge school that may open up the mathematics technology tree. After all, many things in the Mohist school are linked to mathematics, and there are even some branches of scientific practice. Unfortunately, the Mohist school has expressed "non-attack", "universal love", etc. The incompatible ideas of the rulers were also suppressed.

The last one is Huang Lao, and Taoism derived from Huang Lao's studies. Not to mention anything else, just the sentence "man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature" has already made the ruler frown, not to mention the saying of "quiet and inactive", how can the ruler use "heaven" To deprive individuals of their freedom in the name of

The ruler feels that he is not mellow at all. Pan him!

Since then, many of the edges and corners of Huang Lao and Taoism have been polished away, and merged with alchemy, immortal shamanism, yin and yang, etc., to become Taoism with Tao as its skin and mysticism as its bones. By the way, it has been dedicated to providing education for thousands of years. The old emperor sells counterfeit medicine, which on the one hand proves that he is useful, and on the other hand, it is considered revenge.

From then on, mathematics began to transform from "study" to "technique", from theory to application. Until later generations and modern times, there are still cases that are not called "mathematics" but "arithmetic"...

It seems that China is not very interested in theorems and propositions that have nothing to do with specific applications and are abstractly proved by certain assumptions, as well as the so-called geometry. Therefore, Chinese mathematics is fragmented and fragmented. It is just a technique and cannot be called For learning?

Just like "Zhou Bi Suan Jing" talks about Pythagorean but doesn't say how to prove it, this is even more obvious in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic". All of them are in the form of problem sets. The 246 problems are divided into 9 chapters, in order: Field, corn, decline, Shaoguang, business merit, loss, surplus and deficiency, equation, Pythagorean.

For a long time in history, China has been in the first echelon of the world, whether it is population, economy, or cultural development. The hard-working Chinese people are engaged in a large number of production and life processes. Naturally, there are problems of this kind or that, and we will also encounter mathematical doubts. In order to solve these problems, various arithmetic scriptures were produced. After "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", many arithmetic scriptures were produced one after another, and these arithmetic scriptures were produced one after another. The scriptures only focus on the problem, and once it is solved, it is considered settled, and there is basically very little in-depth study.

Pang Tong's general meaning is that this is because the common people understand the logic, proof, and deduction in mathematics, which makes it inconvenient to rule. They will inevitably argue over a certain answer. For example, when collecting taxes, if they all know how to calculate, one person When people calculate a pile of grains, the calculation methods are different, and the results may be different, and then they may fight over the difference of three to five buckets...

So it is better to do the calculation without knowing it, which is simpler.

On the other hand, the reason why the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were chaotic was because of ideological confusion, which led to the collapse of the original social structure. If Fei Qian had just published the Qinglong Temple Treatise, the wave of scriptures was still being digested. Will engaging in mathematics again lead to the entire Guanzhong cultural disorder, and eventually turn into two sides?

The third aspect, coupled with the official position, is mostly a carrot and a pit. Using mathematics as the criterion for official positions will inevitably affect the current officials in the entire political system of Feiqian. These Most officials may not have relatively high mathematical abilities, so under such circumstances, it is very likely that history will repeat itself, that is, the old literary officials will unite to suppress the newly born mathematical faction... …

This kind of suppression and the backlash of officials from the scripture faction may occur in Fei Qian's generation, or they may be tolerated by Fei Qian's next generation. Even if this generation of Fei Qian can stand up to mathematics, what can the next generation of Fei Qian do?

Lift the coffin board and climb out?

Um……

I have to say that Pang Tong's statement does have some truth, and it is indeed a problem.

Feiqian can indeed promote the Bachelor of Mathematics in the same way as the Bachelor of Agriculture and the Bachelor of Engineering, but the problem is that agriculture and engineering have great demand from the public, and the Bachelor of Mathematics is somewhat repetitive in this aspect, and secondly, it is missing. It must get the support of the people. After all, the people have demand for agriculture and industry, but also for mathematics...

There may be demand, but it is certainly not as strong as that of agricultural workers.

Therefore, if the "Hongdu Academy Incident" happened again here in Fei Qian, wouldn't it make the Shandong nobles very happy?

For all these reasons, Pang Tong concluded that medicine can be promoted, but mathematics should be cautious.

Medicine is easy to talk about. After all, people will grow old, sick, and die. Therefore, no matter how high or low they promote medicine, they will support it. But for mathematics that cannot be eaten for a while, not everyone may understand its subsequent importance like Fei Qian. Therefore, if Fei Qian really wants to promote the development of mathematics, relying only on temporary decrees may have an effect, but it is also likely to have counter-effects. Maybe it will be like the hundreds of schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period...

The hundreds of schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, whether they were Legalists, Confucians, or Taoists and Mohists, may not have been supported by some rulers when they were first developed and implemented. However, those who could survive would only be able to live in line with the rulers' caliber. , resulting in new fusions and changes in Confucianism.

After Pang Tong left, Fei Qian couldn't help but fall into a long examination. Can Fei Qian alone and one generation of efforts overthrow the entire feudal social structure and change the historical process of China?

Obviously impossible, because He Crab said no.

So how can we ensure that the wheel of history that Fei Qian is striving to push forward can find a reasonable and legal new angle of progress, so as not to fall back into the old track?

Pang Tong's reminder undoubtedly made Fei Qian face up to this problem. After all, what Feiqian needs is not a short-term change, but a long-term change.

So, how to do it? How can mathematics, like scriptures, have a path that is compatible with each other and can coexist and develop with China?