"Novelty, heat turns into force through the evaporation of water. Force can change electricity, electricity can produce light and transmit signals."

Regarding Chen's Tao Te Ching, Xiao Wanli said: "It has similarities and similarities with Qi Shuai's new book, with clear entries and accurate layout, and focuses on practicality, whether it is steamer motor or military gunpowder, everything is detailed, but is this related to the quelling of the rebellion that I asked?"

The little emperor did not forget. He asked Chen Mu about the quelling rebellion that he had not finished at the court meeting, but he didn't know how Chen Mu mentioned his Tao Te Ching.

Fortunately, Chen Mu had too many things that interested the little emperor. No matter whether it was the method of quelling the rebellion or the Tao Te Ching, he was very interested enough. Moreover, no one usually chatted with Xiao Wanli like this, which felt like the New Year.

No, it’s even happier than the New Year, ten times!

"Big connection."

Chen Mu raised his palm and gestured in front of him, and raised his iconic deceptive smile on his face, but this time he did not lie and said, "Your Majesty's words have clear entries, accurate composition, and detailed analysis methods are scientific."

"I don't understand." Wanli was not confused. He simply blinked his little goose face and reiterated with doubts: "Science?"

"This word is not profound, and the meaning of learning is to study in different sciences. Simply put, it means to dig deeper into a field, summarize the experiences of predecessors, and continue to make progress and explore later generations. It is science. Science is not fixed, and it has never been said that what is a certain scientific one is. It is the progress of people to understand everything, and the process of progress is science itself."

In fact, Chen Mu didn't quite understand what science was in the past. He just knew a general idea, what science was and what ignorance was, but he didn't know what science itself.

So it was difficult for him to summarize these words. He used both hands, first raising his left hand, then raising his right hand and said: "For example, agricultural science, in the past, our ancestors sought food in the wild, and one day they found that slash-and-burn farming was more beneficial to people's survival and reproduction than finding food in the wild, and continued this discovery. At that time, slash-and-burn farming was science."

"Later we found that iron plowing ox plows are better and yields are more. Then slash-and-burn ploughing is the science of the past, and iron plowing ox plowing becomes a new science, this..."

Chen Mu said this hard and realized that he had given a very inappropriate example. He was talking with an emperor about slashing and fire, and iron plowing and ox plowing.

The little emperor looked confused and embarrassed!

Chen Mu decided to change the example that the little emperor could understand more easily. However, as soon as he raised a finger, the little emperor raised a finger like an understanding little adult and waved it, saying, "Don't accommodate me. Although I don't understand the farming method you said, I am very smart and not a child, I can understand it."

"Continuing the sages and seeking progress is science. In the past, water was used to generate power, but now fire was used to generate power. In the past, the power of rivers had to be calculated by ponds. After the flow of water trucks, people could take dozens of lucky people to control the world. Now, the technology was innovated, burning coal to make fire, boiling water made power, and people gained the power of heaven and scattered."

The little emperor had a pious expression on his tender face, and he said something that was completely inconsistent with his age, but he was determined: "Science is the wisdom of man overcoming nature."

What is God?

Perhaps at this time, the sky represents the world Chen Mu didn't know if the little emperor thought so, but if he thought so, then their understanding would be on the same level. Science is a means to systematically understand all things in the world for themselves.

"Your Majesty is indeed very smart." Chen Mu's words were by no means a compliment. Wanli's words surprised him very much. This was not like the words that a little boy could say. He nodded slowly and said, "I don't understand these things when I was as big as Your Majesty."

"That's because you don't need to go to court every day, and there is no Taifu for you to be a teacher, and there is no other Nanyang minister who teaches you to know everything. My teacher is the smartest person in the world!" When talking about Zhang Juzheng, Xiao Wanli was very proud and raised his chin slightly and said in his eyes: "One day, I will govern the country like the Taifu and drive the ship to a far place steadily."

Chen Mu opened his mouth slightly, and his thoughts were suddenly interrupted. He didn't expect Emperor Wanli to govern the country and eliminate corruption. If he could honestly maintain the tradition of going to court and prevent 40% of the governors, governors, prefects, and ministries from the world from vacancies for several years, this generation of court officials who had been in the south and the north were worth it.

Now the young emperor respects Zhang Juzheng, the grand tutor who is extremely respectful, was confiscated by him after his death. I guess the young emperor himself would not believe it.

The most tragic thing is not this, but the demise of the people.

"I don't understand what the teacher always says about governing the country. The saint's words are difficult to understand, so it's not as interesting as you said." The little emperor became interested in the previous topic again in a blink of an eye and said, "Si Tenderou Shu made things and sold them to earn gold and silver to make things. However, why is this related to governing the country? It seems that the teacher also thinks you are right."

Chen Mu was willing to talk to Wanli about the rebellion. They were very nervous. If they didn't say it, they would have no chance to talk. Wanli would be driven to Queen Mother Li's place to have dinner in the evening, and he would also go to Zhang Juzheng's mansion to attend a banquet.

He smiled and said, "The people are poor and cannot eat enough to wear warm clothes. No one wants to die. Naturally, they have to rob. If there are too many people who rob, it will become a rebellion. But if the court allows them to eat enough to wear warm clothes, most of the people will be very hardworking. Seeing a little hope, no matter how much they give, they will not be afraid of difficulties. They will live well."

"What orphans grow up on the streets is naturally to cheat and rob. The elderly are lonely and helpless, and they are prone to partial belief when they are incited; the patients cannot be treated, and their relatives will be disappointed and angry; Emperor Taizu set up Yang Jianyuan, Luze Garden, and Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau are kind-hearted, but this can allow the people to live a good life."

"Zhang Ge Lao's examination was also to use court regulations to restrict officials from reducing plundering the people and doing more good deeds. Moreover, this is also to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. If there is no war in the middle school for three to five years, it can save less than three million taels of military expenditure, which is not much different from the Beijing movement of the entire Nanyang Military Prefecture."

The Ming Dynasty had begun to recuperate. The Nanyang Military Administration did not need to consume the national banking of the country when using troops overseas. Without the resistance of the southern Japanese and northern enemies, if there was no rebellion in itself, it would only take a few years to get the national strength to another level.

Chen Mu looked at Xiao Wanli and pursed his lips heavily.

This little emperor is not easy, and the test of life has just begun. Chen Mu can even foresee that the biggest problem before him is not governing the country or expanding outward.

Instead, Zhang Juzheng has continued ten years of top-down reforms, and there may be bottom-up changes in the future.

One person's strength is ultimately poor, but no one can stop the general trend. When something affects the lives of most people, in fact they have long been in the process of change.

The storm is coming, and the rudder in the little emperor's hand is as heavy as a thousand.
Chapter completed!