Chapter 180                                                             

"Sir, sir----" Zhou Mengchen asked carefully.

Wu Tinghan came back to his senses and said, "Oh, I have a problem. The power of machinery here can replace the work of several people. If these machinery is very popular in the world, I don't know how many people are unemployed. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen immediately felt a sudden heart and said, "Sir, I think this is a great mistake."

"First of all, people are lazy and hate labor. There is a simple way. Who can't use it? The loom in Jiangnan was not invented by me, Zhou Mengchen. But it is not the same now. Jiangnan has only enriched the world, but it has only changed from the previous land of fish and rice to weaving the world. Although most of the food depends on the import of Huguang, it is also what the court should solve at this time. We cannot blame the Jiangnan area alone."

"Secondly, when one thing is released, there are pros and cons. We should take advantage of its advantages and avoid its disadvantages. Within a year of military weapons, tens of thousands of artillery cannons were produced to support Jiubian, which was an indispensable contribution. Moreover, the cost of artillery was greatly reduced, so that more places in Jiubian could equip cannons. Isn't this a great thing? This allowed the court to have one tael of silver and two taels of silver. As for other craftsmen, they could naturally do something else."

"The most important thing to do is to open the edge."

"Sir, you don't think that without these, the court can remain unchanged and be stable for a long time, right?"

Wu Tinghan said: "Mr. Zhou, what are your opinions?"

Zhou Mengchen said everything he said to Jiajing about the population that day. Finally, he said, "The world is still peaceful, and the population will not stop. Although it may not grow as fast as the royal family because of various natural disasters and man-made disasters, the population base is too large. The imperial court has only tens of millions of registered numbers? But how many? I believe that the sir understands it too."

"The people are infinite and the land is limited, and sooner or later there will be problems in the court."

Wu Tinghan heard this and sighed and said, "Snatch the mouth of the mud swallow, cut the iron needle, scrape the gold Buddha's face and search carefully: I'll find anything in nothing. I'll find peas in the quail's cube, egrets split the flesh on the legs, and the mosquito's belly fat and oil. I'll do it! I just felt greedy before. Now it seems that it's a different feeling."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Therefore, the imperial court opened the border and immigrated the landless population to the border. However, now the imperial court------"

Wu Tinghan said: "I didn't know before that you still have such ambitions."

Zhou Mengchen thought of Zeng Xian and felt a little depressed, saying, "Sir, I laughed. It's just a little delusion."

Wu Tinghan shook his head and said, "Preserving the principles of heaven to destroy human desires? What is the principles of heaven? What is human desire? The principles of heaven are originally derived from human desires. If a person's inappropriate thoughts are naturally evil desires. However, countless people in the world want to have a full meal and want a peaceful world. This is human desire? No, this is the principles of heaven."

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen couldn't help but slamming his high-fives and said, "What sir said is very true."

To be honest, Zhou Mengchen used to be just for the sake of qi studies. Now he is indeed impressed by this old man and has witnessed the true style of a great Confucian scholar. Unlike those who study hard, those who study hard will move Confucius, Mencius, Zhu Zi and other senior Confucian scholars.

Wu Tinghan rarely mentions the name of Wang Tingxiang. Many of his ideas come from himself. Even if he has something in line with his predecessors, he will only feel that his ideas and secretly match his predecessors, and he will not quote the words of his predecessors to increase the credibility of his statements.

Or in Wu Tinghan's mind, he did not dare to be on par with Confucius and Mencius, but he was confident that he could not go down the road.

Of course, your own evaluation of yourself is two completely different systems from others' evaluation of yourself.

This confident and open-minded attitude, and the secret combination on the basis of thought made Zhou Mengchen admire Wu Tinghan more and more, and even regret it. Perhaps if he had known Wu Tinghan's location and applied to his post to become a disciple, he might have entered the storm of this era a few years later. It was a completely different start.

Wu Tinghan said: "You still want to worship under my disciple."

Zhou Mengchen said: "That's natural."

Wu Tinghan said: "But it's not possible."

Zhou Mengchen was shocked and immediately asked, "Sir, what's wrong with Mr.?"

Wu Tinghan said: "No."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Why is that?"

Wu Tinghan sighed and said, "It's great. I don't think it's your teacher. Your knowledge has become one of your own. Although you still lack some aspects. However, as a fellow practitioner, it's time to communicate with each other. As for apprenticeship, there is no need to."

Zhou Mengchen was shocked. I wonder what to say?

This is too much force.

Zhou Mengchen also knew where he couldn't learn anything from Wu Tinghan? At most, he understood the internal story of Confucianism in this era and the struggle between the school. For example, he didn't know in depth. He didn't know at all that Wang Yangming was a mortal enemy of Wu Tinghan in academics.

So much so that Wu Tinghan has the temperament of a great Confucian scholar at all times. However, when he mentions the study of mind, Wang Yangming and his disciples, he is a little disgraceful.

But what he wanted most was to be an entry ticket for the king's sect and become a person in the circle of great scholars. Without this entry ticket, Zhou Mengchen said at least ten years before he could make a little progress in this circle.

Zhou Mengchen made his last effort and said, "Sir, you can see that I have always been exploring alone and cannot enter the door. Although I have achieved some success over the years, I have more doubts. Please feel sorry for you." Wu Tinghan said, "You really want to join the king's sect. I can't be your teacher. But if you don't mind, I will introduce you to a teacher?"

Zhou Mengchen immediately said, "I don't know which sage is it?"

Zhou Mengchen thought carefully in his heart and said to himself: "Is it Luo Qinshun?"

The three great masters of Qi science are generally Wang Tingxiang and Wu Tinghan. Another one is Luo Qinshun. However, Luo Qinshun is already very old. He and Wang Tingxiang are from the same era. He talked about the passage with Wang Yangming, but Wang Yangming has not known how many years have passed since Wang Yangming. Zhou Mengchen did not ask about Luo Qinshun's age, but he didn't think he would have longed for him.

However, what Zhou Mengchen wanted was not the famous teacher, but the title of the famous teacher. In this way, Luo Qinshun was also good.

But he never expected that Wu Tinghan said another person and said, "You are a family teacher. You are born to be a member of our school. And your knowledge has reached the point where you have reached, and you no longer need to study as a teacher. You are just at the beginning of your learning, without anyone guiding you, you are proficient in tools, and are neglected in the Tao, but you have already walked your own path. You will follow this path in the future. From the lower tools to the upper path may not be a path of learning."

"I'm not enough to teach you, but I can accept disciples on behalf of the master. Then you and I will be brothers. What do you have to understand? How can I not answer it carefully?"

There is also some tricks from Wu Tinghan.

There are naturally reasons why Wu Tinghan said that he did not accept Zhou Mengchen as his disciple. But there were also some worries about Wu Tinghan. He was worried that he accepted Zhou Mengchen as his disciple today and decided to have a master and apprenticeship. Is it really good?

The master-apprentice status is too important.

A master and apprentice for a while, a master and apprentice for a lifetime. The only thing Wu Tinghan has specialties is the way of learning. In addition, he can't give Zhou Mengchen anything. Although the relationship between master and apprentice cannot be just a transaction relationship, Wu Tinghan is worried that people's hearts will change in the future.

I gave too little to Zhou Mengchen, but I got too much to get. I was worried that Zhou Mengchen was unbalanced in his heart.

Of course, Wu Tinghan was not so worried about other disciples. But Zhou Mengchen was different. In Wu Tinghan's view, Zhou Mengchen was a genius who could carry forward Qi studies, just like Wang Yangming's study of the heart.

It is true that Wang Yangming's mind learning has his own creations. Many of them inherit the knowledge of his predecessors.
Chapter completed!