Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 141 The strongest blow in history (fourth update!)

Zeng Cheng would rather face a person like Howard who is full of hatred for Daming than a fanatic like Pierre.

As a French Enlightenment thinker, writer, philosopher, king of French thought, the best poet in France, the conscience of Europe, the largest elite, the leader of the middle class, the leader of the fifty cents, and a student of the University of Voltaire, Pi After seeing the difference between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Er firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty was the ancient oriental country full of gold described by Marco Polo, and it was the utopia in the minds of his teacher and himself.

As for Tartar?

A group of savage, vulgar and rude moths who only know how to plunder but don't know how to produce.

According to Pierre, his teacher, Voltaire, who criticized the European monarchy all his life, was a die-hard fan of Chinese Confucian culture. He admired Confucius very much, and even hung a portrait of Confucius in the chapel at home day and night. Worship.

In Voltaire's eyes, the Confucian "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith" are the culture of true equality, freedom, and fraternity, and China at that time was a model of enlightened autocratic monarchy, and it was the object that France should learn from.He also called the Chinese "the most rational of all people" at the time.

And the one who can compare "hardcore" with Voltaire is another French bachelor, Quesnay.Quesnay wrote China's Confucian culture and political system as "Chinese Despotism", and was therefore called "European Confucius".

In a private conversation with Zeng Cheng, Pierre even scolded me: "Those damned barbarians, they whitewashed feudal, dictatorial, and brutal monarchs one after another into wise and powerful emperors, and they deceived me. teacher, and deceived all the Europas."

"It's a pity that my teacher, Grand Master Voltaire, was summoned to heaven by God a long time ago. Otherwise, he would have come to Daming with his own eyes to see with his own eyes what the Golden Kingdom is."

"However, fortunately, Grand Maester Denis Diderot and Grand Maester Paul Henry Holbach are still alive, and they still have a chance."

For Zeng Cheng, an Englishman like Howard who is full of hatred for Ming is not scary, but what is scary is a Da Ming fanatic like Pierre.

They wanted to learn everything about Ming Dynasty, and they even wanted to let France move back all the systems of Ming Dynasty.

In 1735 in the Western calendar, Du Hede, a French missionary who had never been to China, completed a difficult action: only based on the letters and records of the missionaries sent to China, he became the translation of the Ming Dynasty agronomy book "Nongzheng Quanshu" Volumes 31 to 39 of .

Since then, these eight volumes of literature recording the chapters on silkworm breeding and cotton planting in China have been widely circulated in Europe, and various versions such as English have appeared one after another. Tsarist Russia also specially imported and translated Russian.

Moreover, such a "difficult" breakthrough is not a missionary who is too enthusiastic.

In 1765 in the Western calendar, the French Minister of Finance Durgot put forward 52 tasks for the French missionaries who were about to go to China, including must learn Chinese papermaking, fruit tree cultivation, agronomy and other technologies, and China's unique huge paper manufacturing Technology, tung oil production technology, etc., were continuously brought to Europa by these missionaries, and even grain seeds and tea planting techniques were gradually learned by the Europeans during this period.

Even porcelain, as early as 1717 in the Western calendar, was successfully mastered by Yin Hongxu, a French missionary who visited Jingdezhen secretly. In 1768 in the Western calendar, France produced exquisite hard porcelain, thus breaking the Export monopoly of Chinese porcelain.

Zeng Cheng still remembered the unconcealable excitement, showing off, contempt for the Qing Dynasty, and expectations for the future when Pierre told him these things.

If I am still the prefect of Tai'an Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, then how much Pierre learns is Pierre's business, and it has nothing to do with myself, the prefect of Tai'an Prefecture who is not even qualified to be a slave.

But now that he is the Chief Assistant of Daming, if this kind of thing that the Emperor of Ming hates the most happened during his tenure, wouldn't he be infamous forever?
Zeng Cheng couldn't help but want to pluck his hair when he thought that the people who could follow Pierre to visit Daming must be French people who were similar to Pierre.

This is different from the foreign students from France who came to Daming - it is easier for French foreign students to master what they can learn, but it is not so easy for these French nobles.

But when Zeng Cheng had a headache and wanted to pluck his hair, Zhu Jinsong said with a smile: "Zeng's family thought too much about things - the reason why the nobles in Europa are nobles is because of their origin, even if they are A pig, as long as it can successfully reincarnate into the Bourbon family, then this pig is also a nobleman."

"Among the more than 200 people, it is not easy to have a few scholars. The rest are basically high-ranking officials and dignitaries who come to see strange things. These people are the best to deal with."

If the person who said this was not Zhu Jinsong, the Ming emperor, but someone else, Zeng Cheng would probably have to ask, are you eating ashes?Otherwise, how could he release such a light fart!

The problem is that it was Zhu Jinsong who said this, so Zeng Cheng could only ask half-believingly, "I don't know what trick the emperor has?"

Zhu Jinsong said: "Have someone dig out the rituals of Zhou from the pile of old papers, and teach them the rituals."

"The more cumbersome and complicated etiquette these European nobles are, the more they are willing to learn. It seems that only in this way can they prove that they are superior. It just so happens that Zhou etiquette is enough to meet their needs,"

"Since Louis XIV could hold a "King of China" ball 100 years ago, let them study Zhou etiquette and strive to do better next time."

On January 1700, 1 in the Western calendar, Louis XIV slowly walked out of a sedan chair with eight carriages in the magnificent Palace of Versailles, wearing Chinese costumes, and held a grand ball for the new century, called "The Palace of China". Wang's "Chinese Ball" represented the new trend of "Chinese fever" that had swept Europe for a whole century at that time.

After hearing the news, Zeng Cheng suddenly became happy: "This old dog Qian Deaf can learn everything from his grandfather, even the problems of going to the south of the Yangtze River. Could it be that Louis XVI of France also learned from Qian Deaf old man?" Like a dog?"

Zhu Jinsong glanced at Zeng Cheng in disgust, and said mockingly: "Louis XV is the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and Louis XVI is the grandson of Louis XV. If you really count, Louis XVI should be the fifth king of Louis XIV." Sun."

Zeng Cheng nodded embarrassingly, and then regained his spirit: "These barbarians really don't know what to say. It is really inconvenient for the great-grandson of Louis XIV to use the reign name of Louis XV. In my opinion, it is better to use the reign name Teach them the rites."

"There are also posthumous names, temple names, and the language and characters of our Ming Dynasty. Let them learn these things. Most people may not be able to understand these things in their entire life."

"When they have finished their studies, give them the titles of a few Great Ming Bachelors, and lend their hands to help translate the books on Europa."

While opening and closing his mouth, Zeng Cheng clearly arranged these French nobles, even Zhu Jinsong was dumbfounded.

Compared with Zeng Cheng's Zengfutai, Zhu Jinsong felt that he was quite generous.

……

When Zeng Cheng made clear arrangements for Pierre and other French nobles, Pierre was happily introducing Daming to the nobles on board, as well as various precautions after arriving in Daming.

"Please remember, gentlemen, ladies and ladies, in the Ming Dynasty, please remember to respect anyone. If you show kindness to them, you will gain their kindness."

"Please remember, you must put away your arrogance, gentlemen, ladies, and ladies, because anyone here may have ancestors who were emperors thousands of years ago, and they are all nobles passed down from generation to generation."

As Pierre's words fell, the French nobles on board couldn't help covering their mouths.

"Oh my god, this is really unbelievable. The nobles of thousands of years are really unimaginable."

"I want to know, how many years is the history of our France? Is it 1000 years?"

"Are they older than the Roman Empire?"

Pierre shrugged his shoulders and said: "Yes, the inheritance of thousands of years has never been broken. Whether it is the royal family or the common people, they all have their own, emmmmm, family tree, and they have a family tree to prove that their family Every generation has someone."

"The same is true for the history of the country. They have a complete set of recording methods, including the year, who, and what happened, all clearly recorded."

"From this point of view, our so-called history in France, or the history of Europa as a whole, is a joke at all-so, don't tell them our history, otherwise, they will misunderstand that we are barbarians without history people, just like the Taqing we have come into contact with before.”

Speaking of this, Pierre shrugged his shoulders again, and said humorously: "Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty we have come into contact with before is simply a group of shameful robbers, thieves, and executioners. During the chaos, they invaded the Ming country and enslaved the citizens of the Ming country."

"They whitewashed those despicable, shameless, feudal, dictatorial, and brutal monarchs as wise monarchs, and they deceived all Europeans."

"Fortunately, the brave and fearless Ming people have never stopped resisting. Even though the Ming country has been destroyed for more than 150 years, until now the Ming emperor appeared, they finally succeeded."

"Gentlemen, ladies, and ladies, let us raise our wine glasses and congratulate our Far East allies of France for re-establishing the Ming Empire, and congratulate us for having the opportunity to see the magical country full of gold described by Marco Polo."

A group of Roman nobles were so excited by what Pierre said, they raised their cups one after another and shouted, "To our Far Eastern allies of France!"

"Respect ourselves too!"

After everyone drank the red wine in the glass, Pierre went on to say: "Listen, gentlemen, ladies and ladies, on the land of Ming Dynasty, don't say that the emperor of the Republic of China did not do well. .”

"Even if you hear their citizens commenting on their emperor, don't interrupt rashly, because this is the right granted to them by the laws of the Ming Dynasty. They can even openly say that the Ming Emperor is a fool, but if you dare to say it, Then the consequences could be severe."

"Doing this will not only be very disrespectful, but the citizens of the Ming Dynasty may think that you don't respect their emperor-they will be hostile to you because of this, and may notify the government to expel you from the country."

"Believe me, the laws of the Ming country are infinitely biased towards the citizens of the Ming country. In terms of protecting civilians, the emperor of the Ming country is better than all the monarchs in the history of Europa."

"In addition, gentlemen, don't hug the women you see. Even if you want to express your enthusiasm, they will think you are a barbarian who doesn't know etiquette, because Ming people's feelings are very reserved and introverted, and they hug you rashly. A woman you don't know will only bring trouble to you."

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