Chapter 1026

The crowd couldn't help laughing. Li Yifan was very serious at the moment, and became so funny the next second, which made them laugh.

Some people couldn't help shouting: "actually, I used to think it was strange, how could a person have so many titles? In the history of China, Confucius has been a very powerful person, but his title is nothing more than thinker, educator and philosopher. I don't think Aristotle is more powerful than Confucius. "

"Yes Mo Lingyan couldn't help nodding, "I also think that Aristotle really wants to be so powerful. Isn't he omniscient and omnipotent and become a God?"

"Don't be funny. In ancient Greece, if people could learn a little knowledge, they would be called literati. If they had more knowledge than others, they would be called everyone. If people like us go back to that time, they will be the top great writers! " Wu Xiaoxiao said with rolling eyes.

With a faint smile, Li Yifan said, "it seems that everyone and I have the same view. It is impossible for a person to be involved in all fields. It is extremely powerful to be involved in several fields. But Aristotle dabbles in everything. Is that normal? It's obviously not normal. The most funny thing is, how many words did Aristotle write in his life? Three million! "

"What?" The crowd's eyes widened.

Some people are even dumbfounded, "funny? Thousands of years ago, in that kind of environment, I wrote three million words of works. Why didn't I go to heaven? "

"Confucius' works add up to only a few hundred thousand words. Many students have quoted him and given him some works that are not his works. That's how many words there are!"

"That's bullshit, three million!"

People's eyes turned straight, this is not now a computer, you can directly tap the keyboard instead of writing. In the age when papermaking was not invented, some of it had to be written by hand.

Three million words. When do I have to write it?

"I think Professor Mike knows the figure of three million words very well?" Li Yifan smiles and looks at Mike.

Mike didn't say a word. He remembers that he just looked it up on the Internet and said that Aristotle's literary works are more than three million words.

"Since professor Mike doesn't speak, I'll go on," Li Yifan said with a smile. "Now let's talk about whether it was realistic to write three million words of works in Athens, ancient Greece."

"It must be unrealistic!"

"Isn't that bullshit? I remember very clearly that Aristotle's works were all written on parchment! Parchment is not ordinary paper. It's expensive! "

"In ancient Greece, the population of Athens was only tens of thousands. How many sheep can tens of thousands of people raise? Thousands of heads! What can we do with this amount? It's not enough to write all of them. If you can write more than one hundred and two hundred thousand words, that's great! "

Before Li Yifan explained, people couldn't help answering for him.

Fools know it's impossible.

"You don't have to worry," Li Yifan waved his hand with a smile, indicating that everyone should be calm. "I know many people doubt this, but to tell you the truth, if there is no objective theoretical reasoning, I think some people are unconvinced, aren't they?"

"Well, that's right!" People nodded one after another, convincing only when they were justified.

"Then what happened in ancient Greece? Let's refer to the ancient Chinese cities. Generally, cities with a population of 100000 are super large cities, such as Chang'an. The average city has a population of tens of thousands at most. In ancient times, the productivity was very weak, and an important reason for the small population was that the poor productivity led to the low grain yield. If the population was too large, it was easy to starve to death. So a city can't hold too many people. "

They all nodded, which is true.

"That is to say, the population of Athens at that time was tens of thousands at most. Under such a large population, even if all the people raised sheep, the sheep raised could not have enough sheepskin to make parchment. Now you can check that only the skin of young lambs can be used to make parchment, while the skin of sheep that are too big and too old can not be used to make parchment, because the skin of old sheep is too thick! "

heard this as like as two peas of people, who had been asked to do the same thing and found it was exactly the same as Li Yifan said.

"Really, that is to say, if you can only make it out of lambskin, then the parchment that can be made in Athens of ancient Greece will be hundreds of pieces a year!"

"No wonder in ancient China, people liked to carve characters on bamboo slips and write them on stones. It's not because you can't get parchment, but because there is too little parchment, there will be more bamboo slips. "

"But bamboo slips are too heavy, easy to break and inconvenient to store."

There was a lot of discussion.

"Be quiet," Li Yifan continued to explain with a smile. "Obviously, the amount of parchment that could be provided in Athens was very small. Even if you take the parchment of the whole country, it's not enough to write. There is also a basic problem, the price of parchment. I think all fools know that the price of parchment must be very expensive. Where did Aristotle get so much money? I'm afraid he has taken all the financial resources of the whole country and used them to write books? "People roared with laughter, as long as the brain is a bit normal people, it is impossible to think that this is true.

After all, there were other people who were as famous as Aristotle in ancient Greece. If he consumed the whole country's financial resources alone, is there anything else for him?

From the basic logic is not set up!

"There used to be some earth washing parties on the Internet, saying that Aristotle was the master of the Three Kingdoms, such as the Ottoman Empire, the ancient Greek Empire, and so on! I have to say that there are so many people who are taking root in their knees these days. Even if the facts make up their faces, they have to copy them mechanically to make up a bunch of lies and lick their feet for his foreign father. It's pitiful and pathetic! "

Li Yifan tut tut emotion, satirized some people's mind, some people present unnaturally some embarrassment.

Thinking of the flattery they had given Mike before, they felt hot on their faces.

"Now let's refer to the situation of Confucius. At that time, in order to sort out Confucius' works, the Zhou Dynasty made great efforts of the whole country. At that time, Confucius took the financial resources of the whole country and spent the painstaking efforts of two generations. Then he took out all the bamboo slips, jade, stones, parchments and so on that recorded his works. Finally, it was only half a million Just words! Aristotle wrote more than three million by himself. It's amazing! Is this man still human? " Li Yifan said with a wink.

All the people laughed tacitly. For anyone with normal thinking, it is impossible to believe that Aristotle has this ability.

Later, Li Yifan changed his mind. "Of course, there was a saying of the land washing party, that is to say, Aristotle did not write so many books, but he is a pronoun, equivalent to a symbol. Many people later wrote works, but they all count on him. I have to say that there are idiots every year, especially this year. If you have written a great book of your own, will you be willing to take credit to others? "