Chapter 185 A shameful Utopia

Chapter 185: The Shameful Utopia

Mr. Descartes did not think there was anything wrong with Yun Zhang’s request.

After all, these people will live in Ming Dynasty for a long time in the future. If they don’t even understand the language, this will not work.

However, Mr. Descartes still thinks there is something very wrong with it.

It was not that he saw any clues, but that he instinctively felt that the Ming Emperor Yun Zhao, a great traitor, was far from the behavior of a saint.

However, he could not see anything wrong with this. First of all, the Ming people did not prevent anyone from leaving the Ming Dynasty and returning to Europe after completing their studies. At the same time, the Ming people did not force anyone to People, everything is voluntary.

As a scholar, he knew very well that for everyone who devoted himself to studying science, Ming Dynasty was a paradise.

For this matter, Mr. Descartes did not agree immediately, but was prepared to wait until the wise Mr. Pascal arrived to discuss it.

To be honest, none of the more than 600 scholars who came to Ming Dynasty with him regretted it.

Yushan Academy prepared very comfortable residences for them and gave them very generous salaries. Even the jobs they were engaged in were arranged after soliciting their opinions several times.

Here, the Yushan Library is completely open to them. They can borrow the vast documents handed down by this ancient nation. The only obstacle is that the documents are written in ancient Chinese, which is not conducive to outsiders like them. understand.

Here, as long as they have needs, the huge laboratories of the Ming Academy of Sciences are also open to them. The supply of experimental materials they need seems to be endless.

Here, they don’t have to worry that the ideas they put forward will conflict with religion and laws, because in Yushan Academy, you can put forward any views and opinions, as long as these views and opinions are not in Yushan Academy If it is published outside the academy, there will be no problem.

The huge Yushan Academy is a palace of science. Here, the goddess of wisdom is the real ruler. Here, people will only respect those scholars who have genius ideas and implement them.

In their free time, they can go on a picnic, go dancing, take a train to Chang'an to attend concerts, watch beautiful singing and dancing, and even, as long as they are interested, You can also produce various operas, dance dramas and hold various concerts by yourself.

Here, they completely feel that researchers in new disciplines are really the darlings of this huge country.

At the same time, Yushan Academy is also a small society. They were surprised to find that the students here are not so unfamiliar with Latin, French, English, and Spanish. As long as they are willing, these students from Europe can Scholars always have no shortage of fans.

The internal and external environment here is so good that these people have just escaped from the darkness.European scholars thought they had arrived in heaven.

Here, you can see no war, no oppression, no poverty. Everyone has a happy smile on their face. If you see a person with a gloomy face, it goes without saying that this is the only one. The trouble must come from my wife.

After the French philosopher Louis Harvey visited Lantian County, his passion could not be suppressed, so he locked himself in a room and wrote his book Kingdom of Heaven in one and a half months.

Louis Harvey was a historian in his own right and a utopian socialist.

In his book Kingdom of Heaven, he used Lantian County as a model, added a lot of subjective consciousness and his own dreams, and described a utopia in his mind with incomparable passion and fanaticism. .

In this book, he fictionalized the travels of a navigator, Raphael Sislade, who sailed to a strange and exotic "Utopia" called Lantian.

There, property is publicly owned, people are equal, and the principle of distribution according to need is implemented. Everyone wears uniform work clothes, eats in public restaurants, and officials are elected by the public.

An idyllic society developed there, with no knowledge of taxes, suffering or theft. He believed that the advantages of Lantian society were "freedom, democracy, and fraternity."

He also described his utopia Lantian as not only free, democratic, and philanthropic, but also extremely wealthy. The people there were all handsome and had flawless moral values.

Lam Tin is also an amazing city. It is decorated with countless gold and silver, and millions of tons of a gleaming metal alloy are produced every day.

It has well-equipped stations and trains, as well as objects that can carry people into the sky.

First of all, they regard themselves as an integral part of nature rather than the master of nature. Their tribes migrated before they depleted an area of ​​prey so that the prey could recover. This way, their extraction does not deplete the resource.

They discovered grafting of plants and were able to use it, for example, to hybridize wheat. They discovered the principle of waterproofing from rubber liquid. They know how to make cotton clothes and their weaving skills are unparalleled.

In society, there is no hereditary power and no permanent power. For every decision, everyone puts forward his/her opinion during Tribal Council. This is the earliest parliamentary system.

If most people no longer trust their leader, the leader will automatically abdicate.

This is an egalitarian society. Of course there will be a leader, but you are the leader only if it follows you spontaneously. Recommendations accepted by the representative meeting must be followed only if they are passed by vote.

In their society, plans can only be implemented if the correct laws are found

European scholars, as the first readers, praised the appearance of this book and collectively urged it Yushan Academy published this book as soon as possible, and it has transformed into a HanParis, a professor of European heraldry, translated him into Chinese.

After reading this book, Yun Zhao was amazed by Paris’ language talent. How long ago, this guy could skillfully quote the Book of Songs, the Songs of Chu, and Zizhitong in the book Appreciate allusions from ancient books such as "The Heart and the Dragon are Carved" and so on. When delivering the book to Yun Zhao, he also recited Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" with great emotion.

So, after successfully sending the book to the emperor, Paris also successfully became the Latin teacher of His Majesty the Emperor.

Yun Zhao was in a good mood while reading this Kingdom of Heaven. He would even shake his head and chant aloud when he saw something happy.

When Zhang Guozhu of the Prime Minister's Office saw this book that blew Lantian to the sky, he was so embarrassed that he almost hid his head in his crotch, and blushed and repeatedly hoped that the emperor would ban the book. Otherwise, when this book is passed down to later generations, it will bring indelible shame to the emperor and their consuls.

Facing the furious Zhang Guozhu, Yun Zhao sniffed and said, "The content in the book is very realistic, there is nothing inappropriate."

Zhang Guozhu pulled his hair and said, " We are really as good as the book says."

Yun Zhao said lazily, "Look, the book says that we have no hereditary rights. When most people don't trust me, I will step down. "That's right."

Zhang Guozhu looked around and saw no outsiders, so he whispered, "Do you believe it?"

Yun Zhao bared his teeth and smiled, "Of course I do." "

"The book also says that all our property is publicly owned and distributed according to needs. Do you believe it?"

Yun Zhao said impatiently, "All land is publicly owned. Isn’t this a fact? The country only allocates land to the people for planting. Isn’t this difficult to understand?”

“The book says that we wear the same clothes and eat from the same big pot.”

Yun Zhao said angrily, "Art comes from life and is higher than life. This is a general principle of artistic creation. Li Bai also said that the flow of water flows down three thousand feet and the white hair reaches three thousand feet. Why don't you criticize me?"

Yun Zhao said calmly, "If a foreigner writes such a book, it will be banned immediately, and the author will be charged with tampering with the public. In addition, the versions of this book in Latin, French, English, German, Spanish and other European languages, Print it in large quantities and order it to be taken to Europe by mail ship to be widely distributed."

"This book tells all kinds of witty stories about His Majesty's childhood that I have never heard of. Do you want to delete it? Once someone exposes it, How does your majesty handle yourself?"

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Yun Zhao said expressionlessly" These things have all happened before."

Zhang Guozhu gritted his teeth and said, "Why does Wei Chen know nothing about it?"

Yun Zhao said angrily, "Get out, I told you that it happened, why are you digging so hard?"

Zhang Guozhu looked at the angry emperor, threw the book on the table and said, "Such a shameful thing I won’t do it, you go find your flatterer to do it for you.” After saying that, he walked away angrily. He felt that Yun Zhao was starting to become faint.

So Yun Zhao found Xu Wuxiang.

Xu Wuxiang was astonished after reading this book. Without waiting for the emperor's instructions, he went straight to the secretary's printing bookstore with the book in his arms. He had the same opinion as the emperor. This kind of book should be It is only right that every European scholar should have a copy

Mr. Louis Harvey received a remuneration of 2,700 silver dollars for a book

If calculated according to European prices, this book The remuneration from the book was enough for Mr. Louis Harvey to buy a luxurious residence in Paris, and it was also enough for him to buy a manor with at least 500 acres of vineyards in the countryside of Paris.

When two boxes full of heavy silver coins appeared at Mr. Louis Harvey's apartment, Mrs. Harvey held a grand cocktail party to entertain the European scholars who came to the Ming Dynasty. At this cocktail party, Mrs. Louis I am proud to announce that this money is only the royalties for the first printing. After the second and third batch of books are printed, more money will be added to the account.

This news made all the scholars here understand the truth that wisdom can be sold at a very high price in Ming Dynasty.

While others were singing and dancing, Mr. Descartes said to Crown Prince Yun Zhang, who took the time to attend the reception, "I only hope that this utopian society can exist longer and be larger in scale."

Yun Zhang raised his wine glass, clinked it with Mr. Descartes and said, "As you wish."