Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 645: Reputation for Romance
After pondering the name Li Zicheng for a while, Emperor Ming could only ignore it for the time being.

Judging from the situation, he did not think that Li Zicheng was an official during the Hongwu period, and it would probably be useless to consider it.

It would be best to wait until after meeting Luo Guanzhong and the Xu Da brothers before discussing the many thoughts about this light curtain.

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

The top priority in the short term is to wipe out the remaining Yuan forces in the north.

During the past hundred years, the country has been consolidating its maritime borders, including responding to the Western Barbarian fleets and planning against Japan.

Ultimately, the issue of the survival of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be the strategic management of Liaodong...

With so many questions in his head, Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily forgot his original plan to confront Marquis Huan on the screen about the rumors about him.

……

Li Shimin in Ganlu Palace yawned.

We watched as Fang, Du and Wei, three ministers, speculated on Neo-Confucianism based on the division between righteousness and profit, and discussed what later generations called the separation of political and cultural centers, the boundaries of civil political discussion, and their lamentations over Zhang Zai's actions.

Looking at the light curtain again, the two lines of words signed by Zhang Fei were still blank after they passed by. Emperor Hongwu said nothing, which made him feel very bored.

"Then Emperor Hongwu wouldn't really be unwilling to fight the Japanese pirates, right?"

Li Shimin made such guess out of extreme boredom.

"Not at all."

Beside the Tang Emperor, Empress Zhangsun peeled a fruit for him and said with a smile:

"When Erlang first told me this, I didn't believe it, until that day when he hurriedly summoned me..."

At this point, Empress Chang Sun also sighed. According to the records of later generations, she had only five years left to live. After that, her beloved man would have to be alone on the throne and look after the world for more than ten years. In the meantime, he would have to face many things such as Cheng Qian, Hou Junji, the assassination by the Turks, the expedition to Goguryeo, etc. It was not easy.

Carefully suppressing the pity that suddenly rose in her heart, Empress Chang Sun adjusted her mood and said:

"Perhaps the Emperor Hongwu was hesitant because he saw this thing for the first time, but Erlang had no hesitation when he first saw it?"

Scratching his chin, Li Shimin recalled the scene in "Soushen Ji" where the light curtain suddenly appeared, and shook his head:

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

"Later, I thought that the immortal might be stingy, so I planned to show me a play by a haiku actor. Who would have thought..."

Continuing to shake his head, Li Shimin seemed a little proud:

"On the contrary, the three ministers, Fu Ji, Ke Ming, and Xuan Ling, thought that I was possessed by evil spirits at that time."

When His Majesty talked about these old stories, all the ministers in Ganlu Palace laughed, but Changsun, Fang Du and the other two could only smile bitterly.

"The pen was right next to me at the time, so I wrote a lot, but I didn't often get to answer. Maybe Zhuge Wuhou only knew how to communicate with words through the light curtain after I reminded him."

"Then Erlang has done a great service to Wu Hou."

Sa Ran nodded, and Li Shimin felt a little sorry:
"According to the time, I think Emperor Zhaolie should have almost completed the restoration of the Han Dynasty. I only regret that I cannot have Marquis Wu accompany me to rebuild the foundation of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."

Empress Changsun was helpless:

"No wonder Emperor Zhaolie was so rude to Erlang."

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised: "Just for such a small matter?"

Du Ruhui, who was busy arguing with Wei Zheng, had time to look up:
"Your Majesty, this little thing is a major event that will shake the foundation of the country for Emperor Zhaolie."

There was laughter again in Ganlu Hall, and Li Shimin sighed helplessly.

Previously, it was believed that the imperial examination was the ultimate weapon, and that by referring to the Song Dynasty's, one could accomplish one's mission and recruit talents.

As a result, observing what happened in the Song Dynasty today, the imperial examination system actually needs further reform.

Whether I want to achieve complete success or focus on academic research, I don’t know how many years it will take.

[In addition, we have said many times before that the Song Dynasty was an era of bursting scientific and technological achievements in ancient times.

The enlightened academic atmosphere and the economic growth brought about by the population explosion led to the Northern Song Dynasty's comprehensive integration and innovation of the scientific and technological achievements of the Tang Dynasty.

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

In their research on science and technology, scholars and literati relied too much on sensory knowledge, intuitive feelings and subjective experience, and lacked scientific research methods for quantitative research and the thinking tradition to match them.

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

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

But on the other hand, the inviolable classical viewpoints and ideas fettered the innovation of scientific and technological ideas, making the science at that time a vassal of classical studies.

However, even so, there are still many technological advances in the Song Dynasty that are worthy of recognition.

For example, in weaving, the Song Dynasty not only summarized, promoted and developed the jacquard machine and weaving method inherited from the Tang Dynasty, but also developed a new axial frame warping method on this basis.

Similarly, the innovative technology of multiple bisque firing and multiple glazing of ceramic bodies was invented, and papermaking was used for different purposes such as sacrifices, official orders, and book engraving. In addition, the ancients seemed to be ashamed to record going to the toilet. The earliest known use of paper was by Emperor Yuan, and it is reasonable to speculate that it also began in the Song Dynasty.

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

Let me add an extra comment here: although iron pans became popular in the Song Dynasty, the method of frying tea was not invented until the time of Emperor Hongwu Zhu Baba. Tea cakes in the Song Dynasty were still cured by steam, and tea was still drunk by boiling tea soup, which most of us modern people find difficult to adapt to.

However, because the tea making method of the Song Dynasty was inherited from the Tang Dynasty, Matcha was pushed to the peak of the feudal era. Eventually, it was introduced to Japan again through the Song-Japan trade. As a result, due to the lack of iron in Japan, it was never iterated to the fried tea 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 terms of agricultural tools. The treadle plow did not require an ox. Five days of treading by a person was equivalent to one day of pulling by an ox. As the Song Dynasty had no shortage of manpower, it promoted the development of the south relatively quickly. It can be said to be the root of the prosperity of the two Song Dynasties.

In addition, the use of slate bricks to reinforce the roadbed and supplement it with drainage ditches 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 integrated the sale of medicine, treatment of diseases and epidemic prevention are all points worthy of recognition in the Song Dynasty.

The most outstanding figures in mathematics were Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty and Yang Hui in the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with the genius Shen Kuo, Yang Hui was more significant at that time.

In terms of advanced aspects, 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 structure of "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" that had been used for thousands of years. He rewrote the algorithm and incorporated the Nine Returns formula into the textbooks, successfully lowering the threshold for mathematics teaching.

Moreover, 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, Southern Song writers such as Zhu Shuzhen and Zhang Yan, thinkers such as Zhang Jiujiao and Deng Mu, and famous painters such as Liu Songnian jointly formed the earliest and largest information exchange center in the world in Lin'an.

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

Based on this, it is also worthy of the praise of being romantic. 】

(End of this chapter)