Qian Qianyi, Qu Shisi, Shi Kefa and others watched coldly, waiting for Tang Wenjie and his group to find the audience, and finally left Gushan in shame. What surprised them was that Western missionaries in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other places gathered towards Gushan like sharks smelling blood.

After a few days, most of Gushan's listeners were blondes and blue eyes. After being widely promoted by the Yangzhou Times, they caused a sensation in the entire Jiangnan. The people near Gushan saw so many Western missionaries all at once, and they all praised them. They couldn't help but go to watch. Gushan finally began to become noisy, no longer the bleak situation at the time.

Not only the people near Gushan, but also some good people who have eaten all day long, rushed to Gushan from all over the south of the Yangtze River to see the rare wonders.

Qu Shixi was shocked and hurriedly found Ai Ruluo and asked why.

Ai Ruluo and Qu Shili have been intersecting for more than ten years, and they also baptized Qu Shili and officially accepted Qu Shili as a Catholic. After hearing Qu Shili's question, Ai Ruluo laughed and explained:

"The so-called speculation and debate are essentially the logic mentioned in the West, which was created by the ancient Greek great philosopher Aristotle. Aristotle was almost the same age as Confucius. I have also read some of the lectures in Xingzhishu Hall these days, which are essentially translated from Aristotle's "Instrumental Theory" and added some of their views."

Qu Shixi said in surprise: "Aristotle? It's not true? Since he is a great Western philosopher, the missionaries are naturally familiar with it. He has to go to Gushan to listen to the lectures?"

Ai Juliu said: "Although logic was created by Aristotle, it only talks about some tools and methods. For two thousand years, a systematic discipline has not yet been formed. As far as I see, the gentlemen of Xingzhishu Hall have developed logic into a systematic discipline, which has taken a big step forward from Aristotle. Missions are likely to be fascinated by the progress of logic and have come to Gushan."

Qu Shixi seemed to understand Ai Ruluo's words, so he had to shake his head and leave.

In essence, missionaries flocked to Gushan. The progress of logic is certainly one aspect, but more critical, for missionary purposes! As a missionary, Ai Ruluo himself would never say this to Qu Shisi.

Looking at Qu Shisi's depressed back, Ai Ruluo's face showed a smile.

He knew that when the missionaries arrived in the Ming Dynasty in the early days, they worked hard to promote doctrines, but the effect was very poor. Later, some missionaries learned from their mistakes and felt that they would have to be recognized by scholars to preach smoothly in the Ming Dynasty. So the missionaries tried their best to bring some Western scientific knowledge and books to the Ming Dynasty.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty have always been open and are fascinated by fresh scientific knowledge. For example, Xu Guangqi, who joined the Catholic Church in order to learn more scientific knowledge.

In other words, according to the overall strategy of the missionaries, they wished more and more Ming people would accept Western knowledge, become more and more fond of Catholicism, and eventually convert to Catholicism.

Now, Xingzhishu Hall is actually preaching the essence of Western knowledge: logic. When the missionaries learned about it from the newspaper, they were extremely excited. Later, they learned that there were almost no listeners in Xingzhishu Hall's lectures, and they were afraid that this lecture would die. Therefore, they traveled thousands of miles to Gushan and be a qualified listener.

As for what insights and developments in Xingzhishu Hall have in logic, what does it have to do with them? As long as they sit there, they are a great dedication to the missionary cause.

Qu Shixi returned to Hongdou Villa and saw Qian Qianyi flipping through the newspaper one by one, and kept nodding, muttering: "Well, it's a bit interesting! It's not completely unreasonable."

Qu Shixi gave a tribute and looked closely. These newspapers were the Yangzhou Times. Qian Qianyi was reading the lecture contents of the past few days.

Qu Shixi asked in surprise: "Teacher, why do you also seem to be talking nonsense?"

Qian Qianyi laughed and said, "You know yourself and your enemy. However, these lectures are really not nonsense, but they are a bit unspeakable than before."

Qu Shixi felt uneasy, and Qian Qianyi felt that he had never said anything about his predecessors. What about the others?

Qu Shixi buried his anxiety in his heart and told Qian Qianyi the reason for the gathering of missionaries. Qian Qianyi still didn't care and said very easily: "What's the use of just attracting the attention of missionaries? There are no more than two hundred missionaries in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they all run to Gushan, what kind of storms can they have? "

Qu Shixi felt that Qian Qianyi was right. The mainstream of the Ming Dynasty was still the words of saints, the ways of Confucius and Mencius, and the mere missionaries could do what the scholars in the world?

However, Lin Xiaosan has never fought a battle without confidence. What is his gourd sold?

Qu Shizi couldn't figure it out.

Qu Shisi's uneasiness is obviously not groundless.

The atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty was quite open, and the scholars were not blocked at all. Most of them had no bad habits of arrogance and had a strong interest in fresh ideas and knowledge. When they first saw a proposition, concept, and authenticity, they did not know what the use of this thing was. After a moment of looking at it, they threw it aside.

When the content of lectures is increasing, and gradually talking about basic rules, reasoning, induction, deduction, analogy, syllogism, etc., it finally aroused the interest of a small number of people. They quickly found out the early newspapers and began to systematically understand the so-called dialectics.

I am not afraid that they are not interested, but I am afraid that they are too lazy to even look at it. After seeing this, some scholars were indeed attracted by the biography of thought. What's more, they felt that the biography of thought was endless, and the more they thought it made sense.

The lectures are still continuing, so these scholars will certainly not miss the opportunity to listen to them and start to gather slowly towards Gu Shan.

In the Jiangnan region, there are outstanding people and a place where almost every family is studying, with a literacy rate of more than 40%. There are no less than one million scholars who are preparing to pass the exam and have already obtained the fame.

Among the million scholars, even if only one thousand is interested in speculation and debate, then one thousand people. Among the thousand people, even if only 30% arrive at Gushan, then three hundred people.

Now, Gu Shan’s audience has not reached 300, and there are only more than 100 people, including missionaries, but this is enough to make Qian Qianyi and Qu Shisi’s face burnt and restless.

"We have to fight back, teacher, we can't sit idly by. If we continue like this, where is our Donglin's face?"

Qu Shixi was furious and turned around again in front of Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi was also uneasy: Xingzhishu Hall was in Jingzhou, Shanghai, and even in Huqiu and Imperial College. No matter how much sensation it caused, Qian Qianyi could ignore it. However, now they were teaching in Gushan, which was equivalent to sitting at his doorstep and scolding him every day. How could he bear it if he was a living person?

All faces are lost, all faces are lost!

A tree lives with a layer of skin and a person lives with a face. The Han people value face even more than life!

Xiaosan Lin, you are cruel!

Qian Qianyi couldn't bear it anymore, stared at Qu Shixi and asked, "Is there any handle in Jingzhou that has been held in our hands recently?"

Qu Shixi did not expect Qian Qianyi to suddenly change his attitude and was stunned for a moment. After a while, he stumbled: "The handles of Jingzhou are all ready-made. You can dispatch troops without authorization to dissect the corpse, and disrespect the saints... It's hard to write about!"

Qian Qianyi said dissatisfiedly: "The last verbal battle was all about these things, but we were defeated. Do we still need to use these this time?"

Qu Shisi was ashamed and could not speak for a while. Some time ago, he looked at Lin Xiaosan's jokes, but instead forgot to launch a counterattack.

The two were facing each other and wandering, and suddenly the servant came to report: Hedong Jun is visiting.

Qu Shixi was uncomfortable and annoyed Qian Qianyi was trying to fight in the wind and flowers, and when he heard the three words "Hedong Jun", he was even more annoyed. He spoke without saying a word and shouted: "Let her go back! The teacher has no time!"

Seeing Qu Shili's actions over the business, Qian Qianyi's face turned gloomy and shouted at Qu Shili: "Random! How can you be abrupt and beautiful woman? Leave!"

Qu Shixi almost went wild, but due to the secular world of respecting teachers and respecting Taoism, he forced himself to breathe in his heart and retreated resentfully.

Qian Qianyi shook his head and ordered his servants to welcome Liu Rushi into Hongdouzhuang.

Seeing Liu Rushi's smile and his eyebrows were filled with emotions, Qian Qianyi felt a little old bones and was in a good mood. He asked, "Why don't you know what it costs to do when you go to Hongdou Villa?"

Liu Rushi said, "I come to say goodbye to Mr. Muzhai."

On a sunny day, Qian Qianyi's face changed drastically and he asked, "Where is Hedongjun going?"

Liu Rushi Yingying said: "Listen to my sisters, Zhou Feng in Jingzhou has opened a girls' school, and the female teacher is extremely lacking. I want to go and have a look!"

"What?" This news is obviously more shocking than Liu Rushi's departure. Not only is the pain in Qian Qianyi's heart when Liu Rushi is going to, but it is unheard of that women's school openly established. Qian Qianyi was stunned: "Where did this start? Why did I never hear it?"

Obviously, Qian Qianyi was surprised by Liu Rushi's expectations. Liu Rushi smiled and said, "I'm afraid Lin Chunhong was worried about causing an uproar, so he didn't make a big publicity in the newspaper, right? I also learned it through word of mouth."

Qian Qianyi woke up for a long time and felt ache in his heart. He was already in his old age and his career was not going well. His only comfort was that he had Liu Rushi, a confidante. Now, even his confidante was attracted by Lin Xiaosan and wanted to run to Jingzhou!

Oh my God, you don’t know whether it’s right or wrong or not to be in vain!

Qian Qianyi wanted to roar loudly, and finally suppressed the sourness in his heart and said calmly: "Huguang is damp and hot, your body is weak and it is difficult to adapt. Why not go?"

Liu Rushi shook his head and said quietly: "I heard that the women's school not only teaches and educates people, but also takes in abandoned girls. If the slaves were not abandoned by their parents, why would their fate be so miserable?"

Qian Qianyi was silent, and Liu Rushi bowed and said, "Take care of Mr. Muzhai. Lin Chunhong's mind and spirit cover the world. Please don't fight for leisure..."

After saying that, Liu Rushi left Hongdou Villa without looking back and left the pale-faced Qian Qianyi behind him.
Chapter completed!