Xinshun 1730

Chapter 123 Small Group

"Young master, what is the effect of going to Europa this time?"

At home, Kang Buxio saw that Liu Yu was not in a good mood after returning, and thought something was wrong, so he asked.

Liu Yu was still thinking about Chen Zhen's matter, and when he heard Kang Buxio's question, he actually didn't have a solid foundation in his mind.

"It's hard to say. Ten years before Wanli, Japan also sent a youth troupe to visit Europe. It has been 50 and [-] years ago, right? After that, the one-eyed dragon Date Masamune also built a Galen ship, crossed the Pacific Ocean, walked around Mexico, Went to Spain. It’s the same way as those youth groups, and it can be considered as sailing around the world, only a short distance from South America. But what’s the use?”

The tenth year of Wanli is an extremely important year for Asia.

In that year, Matteo Ricci set foot on the land of China for the first time, Japan sent the first Asian mission to visit Europe, the Gregorian calendar was changed to the Julian calendar. defense.

A hundred and fifty years later, Date Masamune's Galen became the last swan song. After the return of the Japanese youth group from visiting Europe, they faced seclusion.

Liu Yu was worried about many things, but worrying was useless.

What will become of this mission will not be known until three to five years later.

Kang Buxi knew a lot of Liu Yu's plans, and as Liu Sheng identified him as a chivalrous and trustworthy person, Liu Yu had also discussed many things with him.

Hearing Liu Yu talking about Japan, Kang did not hesitate to say: "Japan is closed to the outside world. According to what you said, you are worried about Catholicism. During the reign of Chongzhen in the previous dynasty, there were riots among the congregation? Now we send people to Luocha , France, even if religion is banned, there is still communication, so there is no need to worry too much."

Liu Yuxin said that you don't understand, but I'm not worried about banning religion and cutting off communication, but I'm worried that those people have seen many things they don't want to see.

If you really want to go out and have a look, you can see the good and the bad, the key is how to look at it.

There is no one way, as long as enlightenment and initiation are good, but bad initiation and enlightenment can be avoided.

When he was worried, a young man came over and said, "Third Lord, someone outside said that he was your old friend, and there was no post. He only said that his surname was Du, and he was an acquaintance in Beijiang. He picked up some things and was waiting outside the door. You see ..."

"Surname Du?"

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Yes, Mi Ziming's uncle is here. I'll go to meet him."

When Kang Buxi heard this surname, he also laughed and said, "Is this the 'official boy' that the young master said?"

"Hahahaha, that's right. The young man is not bad. Zhongxian sit down, I will come when I go."

Follow the boy around to the small gate, and go out from the corner gate of the Duke's Mansion.

Outside the door, Du Feng was standing there. He might have been frightened by the gate and gate of the Duke's Mansion. He was never afraid of the lead bullets flying around the city when he attacked the city, but now he is facing the huge stone lion and the scarlet red The door, but a little timid.

Next to him was a horse, which looked like d'Artagnan's attitude when he first came to Paris. The horse, which was originally quite majestic, was frightened by the traffic in the capital, and now it was a little sluggish. There were muskets and sabers on the saddle. A good thing, but when I arrived in the capital, I was quite poor and sour.

There were two bulging pockets beside Du Feng.

"Oh, Du Feng!"

When Du Feng saw Liu Yu, he quickly saluted and said, "Lord Liu."

Glancing at the two pockets next to Du Feng, Liu Yu smiled and said, "Why, do you think our Duke Yi's mansion is short of food and clothing?"

"My lord was just joking. It's just that I want to come. It's one thing for my father to say that my lord doesn't want to bring some gifts. It's another thing if I don't bring some gifts myself. The door of my lord's house is worth the whole land of my house. It's not worth anything Money, a few catties of dried mushrooms and fungus, two pieces of mink fur, and some ginseng bought from the North Koreans. I don’t know what to bring when I come here for the first time, so please don’t laugh at me.”

The boy behind him hurriedly carried the two bags into Liu Yu's courtyard, and another boy came to help lead the horse away and feed it.

Liu Yu didn't go through the corner gate, but took Du Feng straight to his small courtyard.

When he was about to enter the door, Du Feng looked back at the tall stone lion and the majestic vermilion gate, and admired the gleaming gold-plated animal head knocker.

Liu Yu's small courtyard has no female relatives or maids, just some young servants.

He asked someone to make tea, introduced Kang Bushao, and sat down as guest and host.

I haven't seen you for nearly a year, and I feel a little unfamiliar. Liu Yu first showed off and said: "Hey, Du, you may not know. Now I have another Wen Xun Zanzhi Shaoyin on me. I have entered the Shangshe again, let's talk about it." My thighs are almost thick enough. Followed me back then, right?"

After deliberately showing off, Du Feng gradually let go of his embarrassment, and seemed to have returned to the atmosphere on the battlefield back then, knowing that Liu Yu's words were telling him not to be restrained.

"Your Excellency has your own credit. Now I have also been admitted to Wude Palace, and I will officially enroll in a few days."

"Okay, I got what I wanted. There is a place to stay in Wude Palace. Come and sit with me when you have nothing to do in the future. Just go through the small door. My family is troublesome and there are many things. My brother is the eldest son of the family. I don't want to get involved. Besides, you just entered Wude Palace, to be honest, even if you meet my father, you won't be able to help me. Let's not bother you."

Du Feng's heart warmed, knowing that what Liu Yu said was the truth.

This road went from Shenyang to the capital after the exam. Before I grew up, I had only been to the Jilin shipyard. When I arrived in the capital for the first time, I was really overwhelmed.

After asking about the location of Duke Yi's mansion, he saw the gate of Duke Yi. Under the pressure of the stone lion, he shrank from being small and humble, and also felt that in the future, his own home could also be mixed with the vermilion gate. The Rhapsody of Gilded Beast Rings.

Under this kind of coercion, Liu Yu was still the same as before, and he still spoke the truth back then, which warmed Du Feng's heart.

After taking a few sips of tea, Liu Yu asked the boy to fetch a cigarette tray, and bought a cigar from Macau from Luzon, rolled with dried tobacco leaves, which Du Feng saw for the first time.

Liu Yu sent a servant to call the mantou over.

After spending the embarrassment of not seeing each other for many days, he asked, "How is it? Is it easy to take the exam?"

Du Feng put down the cigar and smiled shyly.

"It's quite simple. My lord heard from me that the person who translated the last few volumes of the Geometry Text was dispatched to the Acropolis of Handoli because of something wrong. Fortunately, I learned well. I’m not from a good family of the fifth battalion, but thanks to my father’s slashed honors, I’m finally qualified to apply for the exam. In the north of Liaodong, I took the exam in Shenyang. In fact, there are not many people. I got a few, and I was the first.”

Liu Yu generally knew the examination process of the Martial Virtue Palace. The Liangjiazi of the Old Fifth Battalion basically adopted the land equalization system and the Yitian system. As Liangjiazi, they were not serfs in the former guards, but low-ranking military nobles. It has a spokesperson, and it is also a group of soldiers that the emperor can trust most, and it can be regarded as the basic board of the Habayashi Guard of Dashun.

If it is not a good son of the old fifth battalion, his parents have to have honors, or he has to pay a lot of money to buy a place in the exam.

This is the power directly under the emperor's control, and the management is still very strict, and people from the imperial examination side cannot intervene.

Du Feng was lucky, not to say it was a blessing in disguise, but if he hadn't been exiled there because someone broke something, he probably wouldn't have been admitted to Wude Palace in his life.

"Xiao Du, do you take to heart what I said that day?"

"Well, I will remember what your lord said. I will definitely learn more about sailing in the future. By the way, where is Master Shu now?"

"Jiaolao Butu? He is guarding there in Heilongjiang. He has been promoted to General Xuanwu and has his seal. Now he has the post of Xuanfu envoy, who is mainly in charge of the border trade and fur trade there. Collect Diaogong and build a trade city. Don't you know about this?"

"Uh, I went to Shenyang and never returned home after taking the exam. My father asked someone to bring me some souvenirs. I've never heard of this. So, I've been promoted?"

Liu Yu nodded and said with a smile: "Gao Sheng doesn't count. The area under his control is thousands of miles away, which is huge. Unfortunately, there are not many people. He can't control too many soldiers in Zhechong Mansion. Let's make do. But it's done. , is also a good place. Now Rakshasa trades with us, and two ports have been opened. For tea, raw silk, rhubarb, etc., they must go to Mongolia, and they will not look far away. But for fur and the like, they still have to go to Jingqi Lijiangna for trade. I greeted him, he collects mink and forbids Raksha people to trade privately, and it is estimated that he can make a lot of money in a year. After a while, I will see if I can get a shipping route from Vladivostok to the mouth of Heilongjiang, and get some Cloth, ironware, etc., directly exchange skins with the local tribes to make a difference.”

It doesn't sound like a high promotion, after all, it is a place of bitter cold.

But Du Feng still understands the difference between promotion and conferment. This Shu Tu was only a fifth-rank official back then, but he moved to fourth-rank in just two years following Liu Yu.

Of course there was a reason for besieging Shileka River Castle in the future, but if he didn't follow Liu Yu, he wouldn't have such an opportunity.

Not to mention the seal now, but still in charge of a place that looks like bitter cold but actually has a lot of oil and water, which further proves that the choice of the day was correct.

Follow along, there is meat to eat.

Not long after, the steamed buns also came.Before seeing the ceremony, Liu Yu first talked about Mantou's change of surname and character, and Du Feng also knew the meaning of it, so he only called him Brother Ziming.

"Just in time, Xiao Du is here. I am also much more relaxed. In a few days, I will find a teacher who understands Latin. Xiao Du will learn Latin from Ziming, and then teach Ziming geometry. How close you two are, I'm also relaxed."

"My family has a small courtyard outside Wude Palace, and no one in my family goes to Wude Palace to study anymore. You can just live there. Come to me when you have nothing to do. I live in Kyoto. It's not easy. It's not easy for me to eat meat. no problem."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to Kang Bushao and said, "Mr. Zhongxian is talented, and you can ask him about anything you don't understand about classics and history in the future."

The small group of several people gradually became acquainted and had a meal together.Liu Yu also spared most of the day to walk around the capital with Du Feng.

When he got home, he sent some cheap souvenirs that Du Feng had carried back to the backyard.

My mother heard Liu Yu talk about Beijiang, and she had a deep memory of this young man, and she also knew the anecdote that Liu Yu had played tricks on him in the past to trick him into plotting big things.I also heard from Liu Yu that he was so frightened that he shed tears at the beginning, and the tears pattered in the cold wind, and his face smeared with badger oil froze, and he also laughed a few times.

Knowing that he is not a son of a good family of the old Wuying, and he has no sons of non-honored nobles, and he came from the Zhechong Mansion of Kushangougou, he must be someone who can be admitted to the Wude Palace.Although there is luck, intelligence and hard work are also indispensable. It is always right to make friends with such people.

Let's talk about human relations, etiquette is indispensable, but giving money seems to be an autumn wind, but it seems a bit condescending.

So he asked the servant girl to find two good pieces of satin, and only asked Liu Yu to pass them on, and asked someone to cut two pieces of clothes for wearing in the capital.And a few stacks of paper, brushes and the like.

Hearing Liu Yu talk about Mantou's thoughts again, the mother laughed and said: "After all, the people who go out of the house, since they don't look down on maids and have high vision, they also have affection."

After thinking about it, I found two pieces of jewelry that were as cheap as possible. They were never used before. They were given by others during the Chinese New Year. Fortunately, the style was not presumptuous, so I asked Liu Yu to bring them along, saying that they were for his sister. of.

Before leaving, the mother called Liu Yu back again, screened the servant girl away, and said with a smile: "You have the intention of being a matchmaker, so you should think about your own affairs, right?"

Liu Yu smiled wryly, thinking that in the previous life, the mother urged, and in this life, the mother also urged. Sure enough, this thing can't even stop time and space?
Seeing Liu Yu's wry smile, his mother spat: "Why are you wryly smiling? In the future you will be separated, and the family affairs have nothing to do with you. Who you have to marry is a matter for your elder brother and second brother. You just want what you want. Yes, but you have to give me an explanation, is it tall, short, fat and thin? Is it knowledgeable? Or something like that?"

"This...uh..."

This question is really difficult to answer, this year you can't even see each other before you get married, it is very likely that the first meeting and the first night are on the same day, it all depends on luck.

Definitely going to get married anyway.It's actually easy for him to get married.

There is a beautiful maid named Swift in the quilt, and there are no rubber products in this day and age, if the maid who has not married a regular wife and stays with her is pregnant first, it is actually fine.

One is that he does not inherit the title, and the other is that he does not marry. If there is a marriage, it must be the so-called "right family".

If the concubine gave birth to a concubine's eldest son, the woman's family would definitely disagree, but if there is no marriage, there is no need to worry about this.

The key is that his status is not embarrassing now.

If it's just a casual rider, it's easy to say.But now that they are in the limelight, it is hard to find them.

There are too many things about him, and the few things he did are really frightening.

In this age of entanglement, those who are eligible for marriage will definitely not think of marrying their daughter to such a dangerous person.

Hearing her mother's question, Liu Yu faltered for a long time before saying: "Mother, but there is one thing, I don't want to bind my feet, and I don't want to be stuffed with gourds. Anyway, I can't decide, so my mother will help me to see it. But if it is to bind feet or stuffed gourds... ... In the future, it is inevitable that the mother will make troubles. It is certain that the dog and the dog will be restless."

Mother laughed and shook her head and said: "It's not difficult if you don't bind your feet. In Xungui's family, there are fewer young ladies who are born in the imperial examination. Duan Hulu, don't say you don't like it, even I don't like it. Apart from these two things, you can Is there nothing else?"

Liu Yu chuckled, spread his hands, and read a poem.

"It's not like willow catkins blow up by the wind."

When the mother heard the words, she couldn't help laughing and said, "Your request is so high. It has been around for a thousand years. Can you compare it with...or Li Yi'an? Or Shangguan Zhaorong?"

"When Taizu raised the army, although there were brave and good fighters in the camp of healthy women, Xie Daoyun's talent was missing; there were many women who could chant Xu, but they lacked heroism. Wen Neng wrote lyrics to pass on through the ages, and Wu Neng was in danger. Raising a knife indiscriminately to kill the enemy...you really want to think so..."

Halfway through the conversation, he seemed too lazy to continue.

Liu Yu also had a hippie smile.

"Mother, look, there is always a gap between what I want and what I can do in reality. It's not up to me to decide who to marry. I have no choice but to just have those two? One can't bind feet, and the other can't be Stuffy gourd. If it is better, it will be regarded as a blessing."

Seeing that Liu Yu was out of shape again, his mother just smiled and let him go.

Out of the house, I just muttered to this point, thinking about the phrase "If the catkins are blown by the wind", I thought to myself, but I said that sister Lin "sings the catkins". Could it be that in the real version, sister Lin really needs to train A servant, a knife to kill someone, became a general?

(End of this chapter)