Daming Yinghua

"We in Japan have always regarded China as our teacher. In your Three Kingdoms era, our Queen Yamatai, her name was Himiko, sent envoys to visit Cao Wang of Wei State. In your glorious Tang Dynasty, our The emperor sent a total of [-] envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn all kinds of amazing knowledge. Among them, the most famous envoy to the Tang Dynasty is called Abe Nakamaro, and his Chinese name is Chao Heng. So far, in Nara, the envoys to the Tang Dynasty are commemorated every year .”

"In your Song Dynasty, the emperor of your country and our emperor no longer supported overseas students, but there were many monks like me in the two places who crossed the sea to visit each other and exchanged Buddhism and Zen. There are many famous Buddhist temples here in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Hangzhou At that time, it was a place of fascination for many monks in Japan. By the way, it was from the Song Dynasty that your country allowed us to take away the seedlings of tea trees. The monks planted them in Japan, and our common people You can also afford tea soup."

In the early spring and February of the 48th year of Wanli, the school run by Zheng's aunt and nephew in Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili Province welcomed the fourth freshmen.

Today, the first day of school, after Zheng Haizhu arranged for Yao Shi, who is the principal, to teach, he went to the battle in person and told the children from Songjiang tenant farmers and handicraft families a brief history of ancient China for half an hour.

After finishing the overview of China's dynasties and rise and fall, Zheng Haizhu asked the Japanese monk Yong Hai who followed him from Fujian to the north to tell the children about the history of the development of Sino-Japanese relations. Xu Xinsu's son Xu Yilong served as the interpreter.

At first, the children were full of good-natured curiosity about this foreign monk, and when they heard him praise Jiangnan and Ming, the curiosity in their eyes became more friendly.

When Yong Hai honestly said that not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were Japanese warriors invading Liaohai Dengzhou and other places in Japan, the faces of the teenagers were dignified again.

At the end of Yonghai's narration, Zheng Haizhu told everyone that Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, has now opened and closed like Fujian Yuegang. Therefore, the school will let people from Dongying and Taixi come to teach the words.

"Students, in our Shoukuan School, you can not only learn the art of calligraphy from Principal Yao, learn the art of piano from Mr. Wang, learn Chinese from Master Yonghai and the grandma of Xu Hanlin's family, learn geometry and arithmetic from other gentlemen, and You can go to our firearms factory to learn smelting skills and cannon balls. So you don’t listen to the rumors outside, saying that what our school professors say is to serve as lackeys for the Thai and Western missionaries, work for them, and catch children. They eat. It’s a bunch of nonsense! We learn words because we are not the only big country in the world, and we can learn their language. Like Xu Guangqi and Xu Hanlin, there are also things to learn from seeing and understanding countries other than Ming Dynasty. It is for the sake of self-defense by learning from foreigners’ skills, and self-improvement by learning from foreigners’ skills. Next, let the two senior sisters tell you how to defend and strengthen yourself.”

Zheng Haizhu beckoned. When the Ming Army beat Nurhachi Empress Jinjun in Fushun, two female students who were standing at the top of the city and calculating the elevation angle of the cannon barrel entered the classroom from outside the door.

The two of them have now passed the age of Ji. After Fushun became famous in the first battle, they continued to practice with the Frankie gunner hired by Zheng Haizhu. Sun Yuanhua regarded them as cherished talents for the great cause of Songjiang firearms.

Sun Yuanhua asked Zheng Haizhu several times, please don't let the girls marry early. With the imitation of the red cannons brought back from Fujian, they will also have apprentices to train local gunners.Zheng Haizhu told each other that the two female students couldn't wish more.

Compared with the sense of accomplishment of going out with the army, returning to the south to teach, and getting money when they go in and out, the worries of their parents and the gossip of the neighbors can't form psychological pressure on them at all.

At this moment, the two senior sisters, with a sense of proportion and pride, vividly described to the younger brothers and sisters how the artillery and machine guns in Fushun are more powerful than the Thunder God and the Mother of Lightning, and it is too late for the Jianzhou Tartars Crying for father and mother, the body was decapitated, and even rotted into a bloody paste worse than the swill fed to pigs.

"We received 20 taels of silver each during the meritorious service."

Hearing this last sentence, most of the freshmen in the audience let out a "hiss" in exclamation.

The children of the poor have long been in charge of the household, and these children already have a good idea of ​​the purchasing power of money. Twenty taels of silver can buy twenty shi of good rice, which is enough to feed a large family for two years.

Zheng Haizhu looked into the clear eyes of the children, and said loudly: "You have to understand that the two senior sisters are brave because they are diligent in their studies, so they can earn more money than their parents and your parents. And the money is much more competitive. Ambitious, and have accumulated great virtue, because I have protected many people like you in Fushun City. Our school may not be able to produce high-ranking officials because it does not teach how to write stereotyped essays, but Principal Yao and gentlemen We all believe that as long as you work hard and work hard, you will also become talents that Da Ming can use, no matter on the battlefield or in the market customs."

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After the opening ceremony, Mrs. Yao divided the freshmen, who had more than 50 students, into classes and sent them to Bei, Qing, Fu, and Jiao gardens to attend classes.

Zheng Haizhu led monks Yonghai and Xu Yilong to the piano workshop.

Wang Yuesheng is handling a Zhongni-style piano that has just been moved out of the shade room.

"Yuesheng has worked hard." Zheng Haizhu walked over and said warmly.

Wang Yuesheng smiled sweetly, showing his usual calmness.

She clasped her palms together to salute Yonghai, and said slowly: "This piano has been placed by Yueshan Long's Gum and tuned with silk thread, and it has been customized. You can ask Master to play it. But it doesn't dare to look at the back of Song Shijianyi's neck." , but similar in shape."

Yong Hai hurriedly said sincerely: "The two ladies can give the humble monk a Ming Guoqin, and the humble monk is very grateful."

He didn't say any more, because the three of them were all concerned.

In the summer and autumn of last year, after the situation in Fujian stabilized, Zheng Zhilong traveled eastward with Xu Xinsu to the Hirado Domain to marry the Tian Chuan family who had already been engaged.

Zheng Shoukuan went to Dayuan Port, Taiwan, and under the care of Yan Siqi, he established the first trading company operating marine insurance business there. In this time and space, it was established earlier than the famous British Lloyd's.

Zheng Haizhu, with Xu Yilong and the Japanese monk Yonghai, asked Yu Zigao to borrow navy soldiers and hire civilians to transport the Dutch artillery and heavy matchlock guns to the south of the Yangtze River for imitation.

After completing the handover with Sun Yuanhua in Songjiang, Zheng Haizhu went to Yangzhou on the pretext of accompanying Yonghai to visit Daming Temple.

After "Song Shi Jianyi" made the move, Huang Zunsu told Zheng Haizhu that the buyer was a big salt merchant in Yangzhou, and the Bieye was near Shouzhi Garden.

However, when the mansion of the salt merchant surnamed Jiang was found, there was only one janitor left in the Jiang family.

Jiang Yanshang and his concubine who is good at piano were all reduced to ashes together with Song Shi Jianyi in the summer thunder and fire.