Zhang Shou's method of lobbying Xie Wanquan was very simple: every profession has its own expertise, just these five words.
He saw clearly that among scholars over the past thousands of years, there have been many outliers such as Zhang Heng, Zu Chongzhi, and Shen Kuo, but more people disdain those miscellaneous studies. Instead of letting those who are committed to official careers learn mathematics and physics, it is better to pick out geniuses from those who have no foundation and prepare for the next batch of students in Jiuzhang Hall.
You have to know that the phenomena of those later generations who were biased to the point of being outrageous were definitely not caused by the times, but rather were common phenomena over the past few thousand years. It was just that most of the ancients who had never received a complete mathematical enlightenment education had no chance to prove their mathematical talents.
As for those scholars who think highly of themselves, the common people who cannot read the books of sages, will not compete with them for the places of Jinshi, and will never enter the official career, even if they learn a little arithmetic, some strange things, and then learn to operate or even study those strange machines, they will definitely not be able to make a big difference.
He was not the type of person who could study philosophy and classics and history, or calmly lecture to real scholars, so he could only try to slowly expand from the bottom up to see if he could use a sufficient base to lay a solid foundation for a subject.
Those talented people with mathematical talents who emerge from the grassroots may not be able to obtain any high positions or dominate the court, but this is not shameful, just like countless Western scholars running around to the doors of nobles and wealthy businessmen to receive funding.
Because after such silent influence, there will always be oddities like Lu Sanlang in the official class, and there will always be people like Zu Chongzhi and Zhang Heng whose skill trees have opened up a large number of side branches, and they are also geniuses among the literati, and they will gradually pay attention to those fields.
Of course, the most important thing is that even Ge Yong, the imperial teacher who likes to be called the master of mathematics, has not been able to do it before. He does not want to rashly fight against the stone with an egg. Even though Lu Wan listened to his nonsense for the time being, the emperor would still issue an order to retain him several times. Whether Lu Wan would really take on this big stall depends on the results of the two places hundreds of miles south of the capital!
Zhang Shou fooled Xie Wanquan for a full quarter of an hour by presenting facts and reasoning with him, and then he finally sent him away. Then he glanced at his spacious study room, silently counting the various textbook knowledge points he had accumulated based on his memories during his three years in the countryside, as well as the basic mathematics textbooks he had compiled before, and the first two volumes of simple physics that he had just started to compile. He felt that he still had a long way to go.
Handwritten textbooks are really killing me, and this is all thanks to his memories and accumulation from the past three years! Don’t be fooled by the piles of books on top. In fact, if modern printing technology is used, those handwritten math, physics and chemistry books probably can’t fill up a bookshelf. People who are used to typing change to using a brush. How can it be described as ecstasy
Xie Wanquan left Zhang Garden with the fear of dealing with the scheming Minister Lu again, and the complicated thought that he might do another useful career without returning home. Not long after he left, Zhu Er excitedly entered Zhang Garden with Ah Liu. As soon as he crossed the threshold, he looked around and blurted out a sentence.