Xinshun 1730

Chapter 288 French Joke
Tian Zhenyi's letter is completely looking at the problem from the perspective similar to "Gong Dou".

Women's minds and perspectives are always different from men's.

But after reading it, Liu Yu felt that this angle of looking at the problem seemed interesting. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that this was really the case.

The emperor did beat him once before, but the beating after the Western Regions were pacified was so light that it was like stroking his head or pinching his nose.

The strange metaphor Tian Zhenyi used seemed to say that the emperor "was too deeply involved in the drama, and really regarded himself as the emperor of Han Wu Tang", so he was too involved in the drama and regarded Liu Yu as Huo Qubing.

And Huo Qubing died too early, after Dashun's "Huns" were pacified, if "Huo Qubing" hadn't died yet, what would be his position?
If you want to do great things in Nanyang, then you should be an orthodox honorable man.If you want to change internally, then be a qualified staff officer.

Things to be done can be done quietly, but don't say; those things that must be said, don't express your position, just report the pros and cons to the emperor, let the emperor "sacred", and don't express support or opposition.

This letter has a strong "feminine" flavor. This is not "personnel is politics", but "human relations are politics".

Let Liu Yu seize the buffer period of these few years to complete the "image transformation" in the emperor's heart, which made Liu Yu have to think more.

The letters that follow are all interesting stories in the capital and the family affairs of Duke Qi after he returned from Rakshasa. The words between the lines are filled with the joy of the little girl. Duke Qi also seems to have intentionally or unintentionally expressed his support for the marriage of the two, at least he does not object.

But at the end of the letter, Tian Zhenyi should have suddenly remembered something, and carefully instructed another thing.

"Third brother, I almost forgot. Regarding the management of Huanghuai, as Mr. Kang said, it is only due to Dongfeng that everything is ready."

"Everything is ready, which naturally includes the Huaihe River governance plan after the water transport is abandoned in the future."

"However, never, never, never, never send people from Jinghai Palace who have studied practical science and mathematics to search, research, investigate, or even find someone to make plans. To make plans, His Majesty must arrange Do it manually."

The letter ends here, and there is nothing left behind. The last paragraph is also written through the back of the paper, which is completely different from the happy woman in the front.

Burned the letter clean with a fire, rubbed his head, and tore up the memorial he had prepared.

I should no longer need to express my support for shipping. Just like what Kang Bushao said, the success of shipping this time has already bound myself to the shipping faction.

What Tian Zhenyi and Kang Busiao both said made sense, so we might as well make a compromise.

This time, Tan Zhen wants to take advantage of the success of the trial of sea transportation to discuss the abolishment of water tanks and reform of the sea, but looking at it now, perhaps the time has not come yet.

I can only continue to wait.The more I talk at this time, the more things will happen in the future, and it is indeed like slapping the emperor in the face.

The emperor's face, in the eyes of the emperor, may be more important than hundreds of thousands of people.

Thinking that Tan Zhen may not be using himself as a gunman, but he can only use a method that Tan Zhen may not like to match the ideas of the Haiyun School.

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As soon as the winter month comes, and there are many things this year, Jiedu envoys from all over the country will come to Beijing.

Liu Yu came to Beijing with Lian Huai Guan who had visited Songjiang for a period of time. There was no snow in Batavia, and he had never seen snow at all. Lian Huai Guan was very excited to see the scene of snowflakes fluttering for the first time.

The brothers who followed him were trembling, and they did not ride in the carriage with glass windows, and these Batavians who grew up could not ride horses.

Dressed like a bear, wrapped in cotton-padded clothes, trembling all the way to the capital.

Liu Yu's Earl's Mansion has not yet been built, but fortunately he does not lack housing in the capital. After arranging these people, he went to the capital to inquire about the news.

Knowing that North Korea also sent a tribute envoy this year, it seems that North Korea still has a lot of opinions on how many pieces of land the Celestial Dynasty wants to lease.

After settling down, Liu Yu went to his uncle's house when he met the people he needed to see. His cousin Dang Xuanming did not stay in Europe, but returned with the mission.

The uncle who had been working in the Southwest to reform and return home also came back. After the visit, his cousin Dang Xuanming also knew Liu Yu's purpose and brought out a thick stack of books.

When he left, he even called him "Shou Chang"; when he came back, Liu Yu had already been knighted, even at home, he still called him by his official name first, and after Liu Yu politely said that you and my cousin don't have to be like this, then did you come back? Called the table word.

Dang Xuanming's room had already been installed with glass, which was polished extremely brightly by the servants.The wind and snow outside were blocked by the glass, but they couldn't block the sun's light. It was noon and the sun was warm.

These glasses were presented to the emperor by Liu Yujin a few years ago, and the emperor rewarded the ministers.

Driven by the imperial palace and ministers, there has been a wave of glass replacement in the capital in recent years. Of course, the most important thing is that the glass is cheaper.

In the past, it was a luxury item, and officials all paid attention to being clean and honest, at least on the surface.Even glass that cost fifteen or six taels of silver was affordable back then, but it was too ostentatious: in the imperial palace, there were only a few places where the emperor read before. up.

Nowadays, even if the glass is taxed before leaving the factory, the price is still affordable by the wealthy households in the capital.Falling from luxury goods to daily necessities, no one would choose window paper that is dark compared to glass.

Dang Xuanming didn't think anything of it, this time he followed Qi Guogong to Europe, and stayed for a few years, so he saw a lot of things like glass windows.

"Shouchang, I brought you back the few books you asked for. There are some other things in the Qi State Duke's mansion. I can't understand the "British Star Catalog" and "Southern Hemisphere Star Catalog". It's just You deliberately entrusted me when you left, I dare not forget that."

From a stack of books, he found two books that Liu Yu had carefully instructed before he left, and handed them to Liu Yu.Liu Yu glanced over, looked at the name, and was sure that this was what she wanted.

"Fourth brother, you've worked hard. These two books are too important. Well, when I asked you to send me gifts and letters, those people in the Rakshasa Academy of Sciences, did they reply to the letter?"

Dang Xuanming nodded.

"It's not with me, but with Duke Qi. He knows that what you do will be of great use. When he was in Luocha Kingdom, he sent people to visit and gave gifts. By the way, when he was in Paris, someone returned Ask me to bring me a book. It seems that his son is an academician of the Academy of Sciences in Luocha, and he is not a small country in Switzerland."

When he said Switzerland, he used Latin, and he didn't know how to translate it.

I found a copy of "Integral Course" written by Johann Bernoulli of the Bernoulli family. Looking at the name on it, Liu Yu couldn't help but think of that famous transaction.

L'Hopida spent money to buy the "L'Hopital's Law" from Bernoulli, relying on gold coins to be famous in the history of science, the L'Hopital's Law that future generations of college students must learn, this business is really profitable.

Dang Xuanming smiled and said: "This person is very interesting. Before we went to Rakshasa, didn't His Majesty give the group of young people in the Rakshasa Mission a blow? There were some problems. This person learned from his son Hearing about this, he sent books to Paris all the way, and asked me to bring a letter."

After giving the letter to Liu Yu, Liu Yu read it and couldn't help laughing, thinking that this person was really interesting.

There are only two contents in the letter.

First of all, he didn't believe that the question of the fastest deceleration was the content of Dashun's general exam.

If such topics are the content of general examinations in Dashun, then a lot of research he has done seems to be meaningless repetition of work that others have already done.

Furthermore, the letter reiterated that Newton's theory of universal gravitation is wrong, and Descartes' theory of ether vortex is the real reason to explain the movement of celestial bodies. lead astray.

This is not to say that he was secretly playing tricks, but that this person really believed in Descartes’s mechanical materialism ether vortex theory, and for this reason he often quarreled with Newton: he is a good friend of Leibniz, In order to spray Newton, he spared no effort. For this reason, he even brought the British to spray it together. It can be called the king of trash talk in the mathematics world at this time.

The letter was written in Latin. Although Dang Xuanming could recognize some characters, he didn't recognize some special proper nouns, and there were a lot of strange symbols on it, which he had no interest in.

Just looking at Liu Yu's letter, the corners of his mouth smirked, thinking that this is strange, if I show those people Tang poetry and Song Ci, how can they understand the inside?Conversely, I couldn't understand the babbling dramas they showed me.

But these weird symbols, separated by tens of thousands of miles, can still communicate with this person, even talk about it?
It seems that this should be some knowledge like the sun rising from the east, regardless of Eastern or Western learning.

After Liu Yu finished reading the letter, Dang Xuanming pointed to the two star catalogs and said, "What are these two books for?"

"Hey, those things from Qin Tianjian. The main reason is that I am useful at sea. Since they made it up, I can use it as soon as I take it. It saves me to observe it myself. The main thing is this "Star Catalog of the Southern Hemisphere", we think It's really hard to get it out, so I pay extra attention, no matter what the cost."

After some explanation, Dang Xuanming didn't quite understand.

Liu Yu also knew that although these two star catalogs were very important, until a genius solved the problem of the moon's orbit, he still couldn't look at the sky to know where he was.

Fortunately, I heard from Dang Xuanming that Euler, whom I followed, wrote a reply letter to himself, and it was in the hands of Duke Qi.Maybe under his own influence, Euler can solve this moon orbit problem earlier?

As long as Euler can solve the moon orbit problem, he can organize people to take the lead in compiling an astronomical almanac, and Dashun’s navy can be half a position ahead of the UK in terms of navigation: Although the nautical clock is good, it cannot be mass-produced. The current lead has not yet reached the point where it cannot be surpassed.

After putting away these books, what Liu Yu was most interested in at this time was the feelings of these people after they returned from Europe.

Asked about this, Dang Xuanming couldn't help laughing.

"This Frenchman seems to have a hobby. He likes to show people how they attack the city."

Liu Yu also smiled and said, "Yes, it's an old tradition."

"Well, not long after we arrived in France, France started fighting with others. His Majesty sent us there to see how Westerners fight. I thought that the French would not agree to military matters, so I never thought that France would say that they There has always been a tradition of inviting people to visit the besieged city.”

"This time I attacked a place called Philipsburg. It is said that the former French Marshal Vauban had besieged it, and he used your method of digging holes to advance. This time he attacked this place again, and this time he led the team. He is also a field marshal, and I heard that he is the illegitimate son of the King of England by a woman named Churchill."

"It's very confusing. His uncle seems to be the Marshal of England, and he is the Marshal of France. After that, the French will say that Marshal Vauban attacked Phelpsburg back then. He is familiar with the road and told me to wait to see France. The siege methods used in the city mostly have the meaning of showing force."

"The French often brag to us that their ability to attack and siege castles is unparalleled in the world."

Speaking of this, Dang Xuanming couldn't bear it anymore, and burst out laughing.

"In the end, the French marshal was in a bad life. During the siege... hahahahaha, what a coincidence, he was killed by the artillery of the defenders. We only watched half of it, and the rest of the time we watched French jokes .”

(End of this chapter)