Xinshun 1730

Chapter 12 Give it a go, it's a big deal

Back in the mansion, Yuyan smelled the smell of alcohol early, and hurriedly sent someone to the inner kitchen to ask for some hangover soup, and helped the drunk Liu Yu into the house.

"My wife just sent someone to say that since you went to Duke Qi's mansion for a drink, you don't need to visit her tonight. I just want you to rest early, don't be greedy for the cold, and cover yourself with a quilt at night."

"I also told you that since you ate crabs, you must not eat persimmons. My wife said, don't go out for a few days to eat wine. You have to cultivate yourself. After a few days, you will go to Wude Palace to go to school. You can go there tomorrow." Be with her."

While conveying these concerns from her mother, Yuyan helped Liu Yu take off her alcohol-smelling clothes.

It is true that I drank too much at Tian Ping's, and Liu Yu also forgot whether he said something to Tian Ping that he should not have said at the wine table.

At this time, I can't remember clearly, but I am in a good mood.

At the very least, it can be seen that the Emperor Taixing of the Dashun Dynasty seemed to have a pioneering heart, and he would not be in a daze and be at a loss in the coming 3000 years of great changes.

He didn't pay too much attention to the matter of banning religion.

As the saying goes, without Butcher Zhang, pork is still eaten.

The Jesuits insisted on preaching, but the Holy See insisted on etiquette. It would be a ghost if they couldn't help teaching.

Prohibition of religion does not mean that communication with the West is cut off.Not to mention that the Thirty Years War has already been fought, and a large number of Protestant countries only want to do business and have little interest in missionary work. Even in Catholicism, there is a big filial son, France.

It was a Catholic country that could arrest the Pope for molesting, and it was difficult to break off communication with China.Among the missionaries sent by France before, there were several academicians of the French Academy of Sciences. They said they were missionaries, but in fact they were more likely to grab the position of the Jesuits.

In my memory, in the previous life, Manchu was closed, and the communication with France has continued.Even Emperor Jiaqing sent a congratulatory gift to Napoleon, the number one disputer in France, and the bed was full of ivory miniature sculptures of the Fenyang Palace to celebrate his birthday.

The congratulatory gift was robbed by a British warship halfway and returned to France when "His Majesty will arrive in his faithful Paris today".Moreover, this ivory miniature sculpture was also given to the ruling wife Josephine. Guo Ziyi, the king of Fenyang, has many children and grandchildren, and he can’t remember the names of his children and grandchildren when celebrating his birthday. It's also quite embarrassing - don't say that the bed is full of many children and grandchildren, Josephine... can't bear half of them.

Taking this as a lesson, we can know.Prohibiting religion does not mean cutting off communication with the West.

The key is how to communicate?

Japan next door also banned religion, but Lanxue has always existed. During the Black Ship incident, the country had been locked down for 300 years, and a lot of samurai who knew Dutch were still able to be caught as translators.

Liu Yu didn't have a good impression of Catholicism, although it must be admitted that the missionaries represented by Matteo Ricci did start a trend of learning from the east and learning from the west. The half-volume "Elements of Geometry" alone is enough to support the name of "profit child".

But now the Jesuits are decayed and tend to be culturally aggressive, so it would be good to ban them.

I just don’t know how to maintain communication with the West after Dashun banned religion?How far can we communicate?
I am afraid that this depends not only on the emperor, but also on the pressure exerted by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. The stress response caused by the Fujian religious case does not know where it will go.

These things, Liu Yu is very soft-spoken at this time, it's useless to talk about it, the only way is to find ways to climb up.

Fortunately, in the Duke of Qi's mansion today, after I write "A Brief Examination of the Western Countries" in a few days, I should be able to keep it simple in the emperor's heart.

Coupled with enough family background, he can be regarded as a big one among the group of dudes in Wude Palace, and there are still opportunities.

While drinking with Tianping, Liu Yu thought of a way.

This method can not only become famous, it can be said that everyone in the capital will know it after it is used; it can also test the bottom line of the Dashun Dynasty, the ability to accept new things, and it is also convenient for oneself to plan for its own future.

It is the ruler who chooses his ministers, and the ministers also choose their ruler.

If Dashun didn't even dare to accept new things, it would be rotten.

Then I might as well sweep some of the family's money, abandon the identity of the Duke's Mansion, and go to Nanyang to do something.

Not only must it be famous, but once it is famous, it must be known in the capital, and it must be a new thing. Liu Yu thought of hot air balloons.

As long as that thing flies up, everyone in the capital will know it, and the palace will shake.

There is nothing more romantic than flying into the sky, and there is nothing more ingenious than flying into the sky. This thing is enough to test the reaction of the court.

The worst result is nothing more than absurd skills, spying on the forbidden palace, being beaten, and not dying due to the merits of one's own ancestors, it is nothing more than cheating.

Winning the fight proves that Dashun can at least accept new things, the emperor is enlightened, and he can become famous quickly.

Losing the battle, Dashun is rotten and can't accept new things, the emperor is a bastard, at worst, he will break his family and run away to do some business in Nanyang.

As for parents?It's only been called for a day, and I haven't had that much emotion yet.

Thinking of this, he called Swift, who was serving at the side, and said, "Everywhere is not locked yet. You go to those girls and ask something."

"what's up?"

"Go and ask the price of silk and satin in the capital?"

Yuyan is a big girl, she grew up in the mansion and has no relatives, she entrusts others to buy things like silk and satin, she has never left the mansion.But there are still some servants in the mansion, who know the price.

She didn't know what it was for, she felt weird, but she didn't ask any more questions.Lighting up the lantern, I went to the place where I slept, and came back in less than two quarters of an hour.

"I've asked. Lu silk in Shanxi costs one tael or eight dollars a piece; tussah silk satin in Liaodong costs one tael or seven dollars. The rest of Hangzhou satin, Japanese satin, and Shu brocade are all terribly expensive. Third Lord What are you going to do?"

"Play."

I answered casually, but I don't know which one is suitable, Lu silk or blue satin?
"You take some money tomorrow, go over there and ask someone to go out, and also get me a horse, and I'll take a look."

"Yes."

On weekdays, Liu Yu doesn't touch money, and has no interest in money, and the money in the house is taken care of by Swift.

She didn't know what Liu Yu was going to do, she thought that Liu Yu was just joking, so she agreed.

Pulling fingers to do the math, a hot air balloon with a diameter of 40 meters, unfolded to calculate the surface area, is [-] square meters.

Simple formula.

Scary stats.

The size of a piece of silk is four feet long and one foot eight wide, and the area of ​​a piece of silk is only eight square meters.

With [-] square meters of silk cloth, I can tell with a little calculation that my plan needs at least [-] bolts of silk.

In addition, a certain amount of alum is needed to soak a part of the silk for fire prevention.

Add in the grease and the like for burning, and that's another fortune.

Just buy the cheapest Lu silk and blue satin, and I guess it will cost 1000 taels?

I don't have much income on weekdays, and I go to school in Wude Palace, and the court distributes some Lumi, but that's not enough for me to go out for a meal on weekdays.The family gave him five taels of silver a month, food and clothing were all in the house, pens, ink, paper, inkstone, carriages, horses, guns and medicine also went to the family's public account.

The mother feels sorry for the youngest son who will give some occasionally, and the money is enough to spend on weekdays. The problem is that if you really want to take out 800 taels of silver all at once, it seems that it is not enough.

Seeing Liu Yu scratching his fingers and muttering about the amount of money, Yu Yan asked, "Will the third master use money?"

"Well. How much cash is in the house?"

"63 taels." Yuyan said like a treasure, "on weekdays, the third master treats people generously, and some girls borrowed money to gamble, and the girls still have 80 taels in their hands."

Sixty or seventy plus seven or eighty, 150 taels?

"Why so little?"

"Let's talk about it. The third master spends money lavishly on weekdays. When he is joking, others grab a handful of money to reward him, but the third master rewards the silver. The third master has no income, but some monthly money every month. Wu De The palace sends out some more every month, but there are not many. On weekdays, the third master can buy some Xiyi gadgets, so how can you keep money in your fingers?"

Thinking back, it is true.I am good to the girls on weekdays, and I am used to spending money lavishly. Although the things I use are all high-quality goods, there is no way to turn them into cash.

This is a bit far from the 1000 taels I need, isn't it?
"Third Master, if you really need the money...you can go to your wife to embezzle some. But if you embezzle it, it's best to mention it in front of the eldest grandma and the second mistress. Otherwise, go quietly and tell your wife that your wife loves you. But I'm afraid that walls have ears, and when the time comes, people will listen to them and chew their tongues."

The eldest grandma and second grandma in the language mouth are Liu Yu's two sister-in-laws.

In the previous life, he was an ordinary family, but at least he understood the family affairs of his brothers and sisters-in-law.

What Yuyan meant was that if you want to borrow money, don't borrow it secretly, and say it in front of the two sister-in-laws, so that they won't be gossips sometimes.

The youngest son steals money from his mother, and if the elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law know about it, they will definitely make a fuss. This is a simple truth.

Thinking that I have to "wake up in the morning" every day, and the two sister-in-laws have to serve my mother for dinner. In addition to the money from the public account, the mother also has a lot of private money and dowry. It seems that this money is also easy to solve.

Damn it, the prince of the country is cool, at least he doesn't have to worry about money.Although my family's money is the blood and sweat of the farmers in the manor, or the flesh and blood of usury, I don't know how many people have been killed, but it is very refreshing to spend money.

With a hum, I couldn't help feeling better.When I was in a good mood, I howled a few words of "Chaoyanggou" lyrics.

"Mr. Joseph, sit down, let's talk about our hearts. I know that after you get married, the carpenter, you will marry Mary. She conceived a baby before she got through the door, and I know you are worried about it. Who is the father of the baby? You can't sleep every night..."

When singing to the top, she stretched out her hand and slapped Swift's roundness standing beside the bed.

The crisp sound made Swift tremble all over in shock, but she didn't dare to call out, for fear that it would be bad for the girls outside to hear it.

"go to bed!"

Satisfied, Liu Yu rubbed her fingers and fell asleep.

Only Swift with a flushed face was left standing by the bed, at a loss.

My heart was beating wildly, holding a gauze to wipe sweat in my hand, the wrapped hands were a little white, biting my lip, as if recalling the crisp sound just now, my body couldn't help shaking .

I just think, this morning when the third master came back after drinking, something was wrong, he looked at himself strangely, it would never be like this before.

I have long been hoping that things will come to fruition in my heart, and I have already secured the seat of this housekeeper girl, which can be regarded as having a future support.

I have also heard those older women say many things that blush, but it is not because they don't understand, but they just can't hold back their faces.

Today is an opportunity, it seems that the third master is in a good mood, and he is drinking to his heart's content.

It's just that these few days are not the right time for me, I'm afraid that after these few days, I will lose my chance...

My heart was ashamed, anxious, and messy, and it seemed that there was a small bug crawling on my body from the place where I was photographed just now.

The gauze scarf in his hand was wrapped several times, and finally put down the sand tent lightly, retreated, staring blankly at the lamps and candles outside.

(End of this chapter)