After drinking a bowl of hot soup, Su Yonglin's mood improved a little, and then looked at Su Zeying, who had been eating silently and not talking.

"Zeying, I haven't asked much about your homework recently. What are your homework? Have you studied hard at school and followed the teacher's guidance?"

"Last monthly exam, I was the first in the class and the first in the entire grade."

When his parents were talking, Su Zeying didn't understand it very much, so she just listened and didn't speak. However, when it came to the topic of academic performance, he raised his head and straightened his waist, looking very proud.

Su Yonglin was very pleased that his son inherited the academic master genes of himself and Zhao Xirui.

I won’t talk about Zhao Xirui. She is a talented woman with a strong memory and extensive reading. She is not comparable to ordinary women.

Although Su Yonglin was a professional rebel and became an emperor without taking the serious Southern Song imperial examination, he also participated in many mock exams held in the school when he was studying, and was selected as the first place every time.

The old master in the school sincerely believed that Su Yonglin had the ability to take the imperial examination and become a Jinshi, and could become a high-ranking official and noble person, below one person and above ten thousand people.

My grandfather and father were also very happy about this, thinking that Su Yonglin would definitely be able to honor his ancestors and promote the reputation of the Su family.

Although Su Yonglin's achievements are a little different from their predictions back then, this does not hinder Su Yonglin's true nature as a top student.

Now Su Zeying can also achieve excellent academic results, which is very good in Su Yonglin's opinion.

But he couldn't take this credit for himself, because no matter what, he was not a hero in Su Zeying's growth process. At most, he could only be a helper. Zhao Xirui was the main one who taught Su Zeying carefully to study.

So Su Yonglin got up, served Zhao Xirui a bowl of soup, and handed it to her with a smile.

"As the biggest hero in the process of growing up, Xirui, let's drink soup."

Zhao Xirui gave Su Yonglin a blank look, ignored him, and then looked at Su Zeying.

"Zeying, you must remember in the future that you can't be a man like your father. Your wife has helped him so much and done so many things, and she can get rid of a bowl of soup. How unscrupulous."

Su Yonglin was stunned on the spot, her whole body was covered with goose bumps, and her toes could cut out three bedrooms and one living room on the ground.

"No, of course I'm not using a bowl of soup to dispense you. Don't teach your children what they have! Zeying, Daddy is not such a person, really isn't it!"

Su Zeying was eating calmly, looking indifferent.

"I am just young and not blind. I know what my parents are like."

Looking at Su Zeying's appearance as if she was a little devil, Su Yonglin and Zhao Xirui looked at each other and couldn't help laughing together.

After dinner, Su Yonglin and Su Zeying were walking outside together. As they walked, Su Yonglin asked about something he cared about very much.

"Zeying, you are so insightful, have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?"

Su Zeying looked up at Su Yonglin.

"I want to do something that can help my dad."

"Can you help me?"

Su Yonglin laughed and said, "There are too many things that can help me, including military, political, judicial, agriculture, industry, navigation, economy, many things, all of which can help me. Do you want to do it?"

"I will definitely not be able to do it, and I will not be able to chew too much."

Su Zeying shook her head and said, "What is the thing Dad wants and urgently wants to do now?"

"The most hope is the most urgent?"

Su Yonglin thought for a while and said slowly: "That should be to see the steam engines become more outstanding in our country, replacing the human and animal power for thousands of years with steam power, and leading our Ming Dynasty to a new era.

You know the train, what Dad is thinking about is the train, which is 2,500 miles from it to Hangzhou. No matter how fast it is, it will take half a month to arrive. Once the train is successful, a track will be laid and it will arrive in two or three days. How much time can it save?

Zeying, think about it, if there is any emergency in Hangzhou, I will send people to solve it. In the past, I used to go back and for at least one month, but now I will go back and forth three or five days, how much can I save? How many times can I improve my work efficiency? It is so important."

Su Zeying thought about it after hearing this, then nodded.

"It's really important, what about it?"

"Also? If there is one, probably I want to create a device that can quickly deliver messages from a long distance. This time, the Shandong incident is a lesson. If we have a device that can quickly deliver messages and a train superimposed on it, where is there any rebellion that needs to be worried about?"

Su Yonglin sighed: "The biggest problem in our country's governance is that the message is transmitted too slowly and the speed of people traveling too slowly. If these two problems are solved..."

"There is no problem with the Ming Dynasty, right?"

Su Zeying answered directly.

Su Yonglin, who was interrupted, was not angry, but just grinned.

"No, there will be more new problems waiting for us, which are more difficult to solve and more difficult to deal with, and there will be more poor-minded people who use these technological innovations to do bad things."

"This...then is it still necessary?"

Su Zeying was very puzzled: "If the problems would be more and more difficult, why should we develop technology?"

"Because of those benefits."

Su Yonglin took out a copper coin from his wallet and handed it to Su Zeying: "Zeying, this is a copper coin, which has both positive and negative sides. The front is just and the negative side is evil. So, do you think this copper coin is valuable?"

Su Zeying took the copper coin and looked around.

"It is a copper coin, which can buy things and is of course valuable."

"The same is true for technology, which has positive and negative meanings, but this does not hinder the value of technology itself."

Su Yonglin said slowly: "After all, people use technology, there is no distinction between good and evil in technology itself. The upright people use it to do good and sinister people use it to do evil, which has no much connection with technology itself. So Zeying, we need to develop technology."

Su Zeying held the copper coin tightly in his hand.

"Dad, if you say this, I think technology is not the most important thing. You cannot let technology fall into the hands of sinister people. This is the most important thing."

Upon hearing this, Su Yonglin looked at his son with a little surprise.

Then he smiled.

"If you want to say this, it is true. Any good thing can become a tool for evil in their hands, but the biggest problem is that we cannot tell at a glance who is the good person and who is the bad person."

Su Zeying was stunned, and then fell into deep thought.

"It makes sense, how to tell who is the good person and who is the bad person? The bad person will not write about me as the bad person on his face."

"Dad doesn't know what to do with this problem. Zeying, when you have time, come and think about it."

Su Yonglin patted Su Zeying on the shoulder with a smile, then stretched, preparing to teach the group of representatives a little more before going to bed.

Su Zeying stayed there, found a stone bench to sit down, and thought about the questions raised by Su Yonglin carefully, but after thinking about them, he could not get the answer to the solution.

He was confused, so he decided to ask Zhao Xirui for this question.

Zhao Xirui, who is guiding her youngest son Zexiong to complete today's homework, was a little surprised when she heard Su Zeying's question.

"How to distinguish between good people and bad people... Zeying, my mother doesn't know how to answer you this question, because my mother doesn't know this question either."

"Don't my mother know, either?"

Su Zeying was a little disappointed, and then her face became more serious.

"Didn't dad or mother know the answer to this question, you can imagine that this must be a very difficult question and is of great value to think about."

Looking at the appearance of Mr. Su Zeying, Zhao Xirui smiled happily.

"Zeying, there is no answer to this question in a sense. The ancients were confused about it, but because they didn't know how to solve this problem for thousands of years, they used two methods to make up for the regrets that could not solve this problem."

“What is it?”

Su Zeying was very curious.

“One is law, the other is education.”

Zhao Xirui touched Su Zeying's head and smiled: "Education can make people know right and wrong, avoid being a bad person, and the law can severely punish bad people who know right and wrong but do not correct them. In this way, even if there is no way to know the good or bad person in advance, it can limit the appearance of bad people to the greatest extent."

"That's how..."

Su Zeying continued his thoughts with some doubts and insights.

On the other hand, Su Yonglin is still working hard to fulfill his responsibilities.

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