Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 127 The Real Purpose of Emperor Zhu
Hearing the name Nicolas Tregaud, Pierre nodded, and said: "Of course I know, generally we regard him as a Frenchman, but he himself thinks he is a Belgian, and I know , He once came to the Ming Dynasty, but it was more than 100 years ago."

Zeng Cheng nodded and said, "Nicola Trigo, the Jinni Pavilion I mentioned just now, arrived in Jinling in the 39th year of Wanli and started preaching. He can be regarded as a sage."

"In the 46th year of Wanli, Mr. Jin Nige came to Daming again. In addition to Deng Yuhan, Luo Yagu, Tang Ruowang, Fu Fanji and other well-educated people, he accompanied him, as well as [-] western books."

It wasn't until this time that Zeng Cheng revealed his real purpose.

Like solving the problem is worse than directly solving the person who asked the question, like helping Pierre get a kickback of 6 taels of silver, in fact, they are all to make Pierre let go of his guard and pave the way for Zhu Jinsong's ultimate goal.

This matter is more complicated to say, it almost has to be traced back to the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time during the Wanli period, the barbarians in Europa had not yet risen, or had just begun to rise, and the Ming Dynasty had just begun to decline. In the eyes of the barbarians in Europa, Daming was still the "everywhere" described by Marco Polo. The mysterious oriental country that is gold".

In order to preach to the East, they wished they could take out all their wealth and spend their own money to transport it to Daming, so there were [-] western books in China——

Back then, Matteo Ricci set foot on the mysterious East described by Marco Polo with great enthusiasm, intending to spread the glory of the Lord in the East.

Comrade Matteo Ricci's plan is very good. He will go directly to the upper level. As long as the upper officials of the Ming Empire are settled, with their help, preaching is not as easy as sprinkling water?
However, to Matteo Ricci's great disappointment, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were all great Confucians and educated people, and they were not easy to fool like the European barbarians.

After all, my Central Plains hall has developed for thousands of years. When it comes to the ability to fool people, none of the three schools of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism is weak. The officials of the Ming Dynasty are better at fooling than Matteo Ricci. Can people be interested in Mr. Ye Dong and Mr. Hua?

Besides, what are the officials of Ming Dynasty best at?Talking about it, shameless, the emperor can keep them from going to court, and Matteo Ricci still wants to fool them?
It can only be said that Matteo Ricci's design is still broken, and it is only natural that the officials of Ming Dynasty regard him as mentally ill.

Since it is not possible to preach directly, Matteo Ricci changed the game - let's not preach today, let's talk about mathematics and astronomy first, I don't believe you are still hooked!
As a result, when Matteo Ricci made such a move, many people in Daming really took the bait, and a large group of people ran to learn mathematics and astronomy from Matteo Ricci.

After the news was sent back to the Holy See, those bigwigs in the Holy See were excited.

Can you preach with books?Science turned out to be an absolute condition for preaching among upper-class intellectuals in the East?

In order to preach, the Holy See immediately asked the missionaries to work hard to improve their academic level, and Europe vigorously solicited books, and then translated these Western books in China, which is what the Holy See called the "Library Apologetics Movement".

Gu Qiyuan's "Guest Zuoyu" stated that "Matteo Ricci brought a lot of books printed by his country", "Western Learning Fan": "In addition to prescriptions, there are more than [-] books on pretense and performances. Enter. The book cage can be seen in Dunxiangshanao, so that once it can be presented to the Ming court, Dangning will send out the Yibu and Cilin, and make a contract with the translators of Confucianists from the West."

Xu Guangqi once said that "thousands of scriptures have not been fully translated today"; Fang Hao believed that "in addition to seven thousand books, there must be thousands of books brought in by western scholars from all over the country."

But what the Holy See and Matteo Ricci, who promoted this matter, did not expect was that those scholars in Daming were not good birds.

These people are very active in learning mathematics and astronomy, but as soon as Matteo Ricci talks about missions, these people start to laugh: Ah, please, please tell me how Copernicus calculated it?

It's just like some ruthless guest officials in the brothel.

Among them, the most ruthless is the good friend of Matteo Ricci, Xu Guangqi.

If it's just based on appearance, no one would think that this little red guy from Songjiang Mansion is the worst one: "Friend Li, you see, I believe in religion, and I have a Christian name Paul, don't you know that? So let me translate the "Elements of Geometry" from Greece?"

Matteo Ricci certainly disagreed, thinking that you only asked me to translate, and you didn’t talk about missionary work. You are somewhat careless, after all, you have to use bait for fishing, don’t you?
Then Lao Xu stopped talking to him about what was left, and dealt with Matteo Ricci ruthlessly, while turning his head to learn the barbarian language by himself. Song Yingxing of "Heavenly Creation".

Of course, Lao Xu is a particular person. At least after Matteo Ricci passed away, when the Holy See planned to give Matteo Ricci a generous burial, Xu Guangqi also strongly supported it.

Then he asked the Holy See to send someone to help him translate "Taixi Water Law".

At that time, the missionaries who came to bury the students who lost their lives were stunned—brother, do you know what we do?

Why do we want to enslave the whole world by preaching, not a good person who came to spread technology, how can you be so shameless as a human being?

Old Xu was very dissatisfied with this, and after yelling at you, he stopped talking about whether he believed in religion or not. Until the sixth year of Chongzhen's critical illness, Lao Xu was still struggling to write, "I'm sick on the couch, I'm still He seized and managed the almanac", and asked the family members to "quickly copy and submit the "Nongshu" to complete my ambition", and there was not a single word about whether to teach or not to teach or not to be the master.

But, manpower is always limited. Although Lao Xu and the scholars at that time had worked hard to translate these western learning books, no matter how hard Lao Xu and others worked hard, they really couldn't handle [-] western books.

When I entered the Qing Dynasty, no one paid any attention to these academic books that might have changed the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and even many books were destroyed by Qian Deaf Old Dog and their family's successive Ming emperors and sages. .

Now that they have managed to connect with France and the British Empire, which are currently the most powerful in Europe, Zhu Jinsong and Zeng Cheng naturally have their eyes on the latest Western knowledge.

To put it bluntly, the real purpose of Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was never to make money. Even if the arms business can make Zhu Jinsong's Daming finances looser, in Zhu Jinsong's eyes, it is just a temporary seventh division. Hugging the grass and hitting the rabbit is the best if you can hit it, and it's okay if you can't hit it.

But what Zeng Cheng didn't expect was that his winking was completely thrown to the blind man.

Pierre didn't pay as much attention to the books and knowledge of Europa as Zhu Jinsong and Zeng Cheng imagined. Instead, after hearing Zeng Cheng's request, he said generously: "It's just a few books. As long as we can find a way to get them, we can get them." Lao Pi will definitely find a way to get Master Zeng, the price is negotiable.

What are books and learning to Pierre?Can I eat it?Can it be exchanged for 12 francs?

The current situation is that Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, needs Europa's books, especially books on mathematics, physics, and chemistry, while Pierre needs francs and arms.

Therefore, in this kind of friendly atmosphere like a pheasant meeting a satyr, the two parties quickly reached a consensus cooperation.

Except for France, the rest of the British Empire, Eagle Sauce, and Windmill Country are all the same. The members of these so-called missions all got the guns, artillery, tea, silk, etc. they wanted, and Zhu Jinsong could also get what he wanted. Western books.

With these books, as long as Zhu Jinsong can find someone to translate them as soon as possible and then sort them out, then these knowledge can be quickly incorporated into the current curriculum system of Daming's social studies, county schools, prefecture schools and universities, which is enough to make people feel better. The entire science system of Ming Dynasty took another big step forward.

More importantly, Daming still has the existence of Zhu Jinsong.

At this time, all disciplines have not yet ushered in the technological explosion after the collective opening of the second generation of small broken balls. For any discipline, it may only take ten or twenty years to learn the most cutting-edge knowledge. shorter time.

This means that many scientific researchers will be in the most golden scientific research age.

According to Zhu Jinsong's version of the Ming Dynasty's efforts to promote social studies, county schools, prefectural schools, and universities, it is estimated that after ten years, the Ming Dynasty under Zhu Jinsong's rule will have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions of scientific research. personnel.

This is a number that is huge enough to make any other country desperate.

There are so many people, who knows what they will research?
Don't believe in the so-called introversion of college students, too many college students are useless, universal college education is not as good as elite college education, and the education model of flower growers is not as good as the happy quality education of Eagle Sauce and Europa. Advocate this kind of argument Most of them are either stupid or bad jerks.

Because these bastards will never tell the truth—all scientific research and innovation depend on the popularization of basic knowledge. The more the world develops, the more important it is to popularize basic knowledge.

If you want to know more about it, you can read "Class Z, Grade 13 in Denmark VS Class [-], Grade [-] in China".

If you still can't understand, just think about how many researchers participated in the Manhattan Project.

Of course, to fully popularize basic education, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Judging from the current financial situation of the Ming court, it is a fluke to be able to popularize social studies (elementary school). If you want to go to the county school (junior high school), it is estimated that it will take 20 or even 30 or 50 years. It is possible. If you want to popularize it to the level of prefecture (high school), it is estimated that Zhu Jinsong may not be able to see it in his life.

Zhu Jinsong is only promoting the popularization of education in an attitude of tightening his belt and promoting education and enlightening people's wisdom.

If the situation is ideal, Zhu Jinsong feels that he may not be able to use a mobile phone in this life, but there should be no doubts when telegrams and telephones appear.

That's right, things like electric lights, telegraphs, and telephones actually already have related foundations——

Regardless of whether Franklin's kite experiment was true or not, he mentioned this experimental design in the "Pennsylvania Journal" in 1752, when Qian Deaf was 17 years old.

也不必在乎伽伐尼到底是在1780年还是1786年才发现“动物电”，因为1780年是钱聋45年，1786年是钱聋51年，恰好就是朱劲松登基当了大明皇帝的第一年。

Hiraga Gennai died in 1780, that is to say, at the latest 45 years before Qian Deaf, Hiraga Gennai had already referred to European electricity and invented the Japanese version of the electrostatic power generation device.

Zhu Jinsong decided to get the voltaic battery more than ten years ahead of the volta—so, what should the unit of potential difference (voltage) be called after the Ming Dynasty?How much?How many pine?

……

When Zhu Jinsong was thinking about what to use as a unit for voltage, Howard, Pierre and other "envoys" had already set off on their way home.

(End of this chapter)