Xinshun 1730

Chapter 878 Beware of Priests Playing the Science Card
After bidding farewell to the emperor, the emperor first sent people to Macau non-stop to inform the local Jiedu envoy, defense envoy and others, and Liu Yu would deal with it cheaply after Liu Yu went.

Check and deal with the word, so that they only need to pay attention to checking the word now.

Liu Yu also returned to Songjiang Mansion, asked someone to prepare the boat, and arranged things for Songjiang Mansion.

It is only said that some major shareholders are ready to prepare, and a ship will take them south in a few days, and they will go to Nanyang after meeting in Macau.

As for the purchase of goods, it has been arranged long ago, and it is carried out according to the plan.

The cruise ship has already run the route from Songjiang Prefecture to Guangzhou and Macau, smoother than an old mare raised by a cooper.

We sent each other off with the wind, and arrived in Macau in less than ten days.

On Lingdingyang, the fleet fired a salute.On the shore, officials of all sizes, Macao local councils, military leaders, Jesuits, bishops, etc., all respectfully greeted the noble imperial envoys who left the town.

In front of the emperor, Liu Yu was submissive and only dared to mutter a few words in his heart.

But outside, it was really under one person, and there was no need to deliberately create an atmosphere or put on a guard of honor, even the reputation there was enough.

Most of the people who greeted him were familiar, familiar, or even old friends; the rest also knew his name and habits, and were nervous.

After the pomp and ceremonies were over, the Guangdong Jiedu Envoy hurriedly said: "Fortunately, Your Majesty sent the Duke to handle this matter. In all Western affairs, the lower officials are far inferior to the Duke. I am really afraid that I will make a mistake and damage the imperial court. thing."

Liu Yu didn't say anything in an official tone, such as "as long as it is handled impartially, how can I make a mistake", but said with a smile: "This matter, His Majesty wants me to kill my relatives righteously. How should I put it, I am a teacher of Western characters. , is also the rector of the Jesuits. It seems that I have to deal with it harshly. If I deal with it lightly, wouldn’t people think that I am practicing favoritism? Hahahaha..."

The Dashun officials, including the Jiedu envoy, all laughed.

Those few Portuguese in Macau, who could understand the official language and understand the many rules of Dashun's officialdom, were ashamed when they heard this.

Only a 30-year-old missionary next to him paid homage to Liu Yu, and then said in fluent official dialect: "What the Duke said is wrong. Master said: You can't avoid hatred by exercising externally, and you can't avoid enmity by exercising internally." It's fair to avoid children."

"It's the same for recruiting talents, so it should be for handling cases. The law and evidence should be the top priority. If you want to prevent people from being accused of favoritism and deal with it deliberately, isn't it also a kind of injustice?"

Liu Yu was not surprised. In the circle of missionaries before the capital, a lot of ancient literature were more transparent than him.

But he still couldn't help joking with a few naval officers next to him: "Listen, listen. Now it's the Xiyi people who are talking to you, but we Chinese people are doing geometry and algebra all day long."

The officers also laughed. After laughing, Liu Yu looked at the boldly speaking missionary and asked, "Are you from the Jesuits? What country are you from?"

"Returning to the Duke, I am a native of France. I happen to have a few letters of recommendation here. I was planning to submit them to the Duke in the future, but I didn't expect to meet here."

The 30-year-old missionary took out a letter of recommendation from his pocket while talking.

"I'm Jiang Youren, whose cursive character is Deyi. Those who are friends with benevolence are taken from the "Analects of Confucius·Wei Linggong" "A sage who serves his doctor, and a benevolent man who is friends with his scholars."

"For those who are worthy of virtue, take the sentence of Dongpo Layman's words of "rebirth of loyalty to Qing and virtue, and praise of Yi in the three dynasties"."

While speaking, he handed several letters of recommendation to Liu Yu respectfully.

It was all in French, Liu Yu could understand it.

Liu Yu also recognized the person who wrote the recommendation letter.I saw it when I held an academic seminar in Amsterdam.

One of the people who wrote the recommendation letter was a corresponding academician of the Dashun Academy of Sciences, and now the head of the Department of Astronomy of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Delier.

Previously, the reason why Liu Yu asked Bering and others to search for Australia was to facilitate the observation of the transit of Venus in the future to measure the distance between the sun and the earth.And at the scientific symposium in Amsterdam, I also wanted to take this opportunity to have Dashun preside over the work of knowing how far the sun is from the earth for the first time.

Delille was the French organizer of the Venus transit observation event in history, but when the French he sent to the Pondicherry observation point in India arrived in India, the British had just occupied Pondicherry...

Before he went to Petersburg at the invitation of Peter, he had agreed to go back to China in four years after setting up the astronomy department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.But after arriving there, because Euler and a large group of mathematics experts were there, he has been the head of the Department of Astronomy in Petersburg.These days, astronomy and mathematics are inseparable.

It should be said that Russian astronomy went from lagging behind to catching up with Western Europe, and it was also brought out by this person.

He knew Liu Yu very well.

Originally, Liu Yu went to Russia to recruit many talents, including Euler.

Moreover, Liu Yu knew that Dashun couldn't produce a nautical clock, so he felt that it was difficult to take the engineering route, and he had to take the science route to draw a star chart and navigation table, so he naturally communicated with De Lier.

They are also expected to perfect the star charts, so they are naturally familiar with them.

As for the rest of the recommendation letters, if the astronomical circle has basically played with Messier objects in the future, they can also know their names. They are also important figures who have completed the Messier celestial catalog.

As for the Jiang Youren in front of me, he will be considered a famous figure in later generations - not just because he supervised the twelve animal heads and made the fountain of the goddess that was supposed to be naked into the twelve zodiac signs.

The main reason is that the words "Taiwan Prefecture" are clearly written on the world maps he drew in history, and the Diaoyu Islands are also drawn very clearly.

The level of Sinology is indeed high, because others can understand when translating the Latin "Analects of Confucius", but he translated the most outrageous "Shangshu", and it is said that the translation is not bad.

When people saw words such as "New York, New Amsterdam, New Holland" on the world map he drew, they were puzzled.

When asked, he answered with an allusion in Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes": The Supreme Emperor moved to Chang'an, lived in a deep palace, and was sad and unhappy.Gaozu stole it from left to right and asked about it...Gaozu made Xinfeng, and moved it to the old people... Putting dogs, sheep, chickens and ducks on the road, he also competed for his home.

The words are similar to the "Xinfeng" story, and the meaning of Xinfeng is not the old Feng of Pei County, and new characters are added to distinguish it.Everyone then understood.

In this era, Dashun also uses this rule to name the new islands and land in the south of Nanyang, but it coincides with Liu Yu.

Liu Yu has also met many people over the years. Although he also knows Jiang Youren's name, there is not much trouble now.

But in the letter of recommendation, some acquaintances in the scientific community said that the child's level is not low, he is good at mathematics, and his level of astronomy is sufficient.In addition, he is a member of the Society of Jesus, who is about to come to China, so I recommend him to Dashun Academy of Sciences, so that he can participate in the observation activities of the transit of Venus in the future.

Judging from the date on the letter, it should be one or two years since I came to Macau. I probably learned Chinese in France before, and I guess I have been reading Confucian classics in Macau in one or two years.

Folding these letters of recommendation, Liu Yu roughly explained the contents of the letters, and said with a smile: "Be wary of Jesus playing the science card."

Then he looked at Jiang Youren again, and asked with a smile: "Why, Jesus would think that taking the scholar-bureaucrat route will not work. This is another way to go, and I am going to take the scientific route? I feel that my attitude is very important for foreign exchanges, so I gave up. Scholar-bureaucrat, are you going to follow my path?"

Jiang Youren blushed slightly, the Jesuits really meant that.

Firstly, because of Dashun’s prohibition of religion, the path of scholar-bureaucrats is not easy.

Secondly, Liu Yu held a scientific seminar in Amsterdam, and the Jesuits felt that Liu Yu was the real "foreign minister" of Dashun. Therefore, after the discussion, they decided to send a group of Jesuits with high scientific literacy to China. In the name of communication, make a good relationship with Liu Yu.

After the Amsterdam incident, the Jesuits felt that although the level of the Jesuits sent before was not bad, they were not quasi-first-class scientific literacy after all, and they were better at the level of classics.So this time I tried to send some specially selected ones, which were good in natural science.

Jiang Youren was hit by Liu Yu's words, and when he heard Liu Yu's words such as "Beware of Jesus playing the science card", he couldn't help but feel nervous.

He didn't expect that Liu Yu would handle this matter himself.I thought about going to Beijing after studying Confucius and Mencius for a few more years in Macau.

Now that Liu Yu came, he was quite happy at first, thinking that with his letter of recommendation, he might be able to intercede.

Jiang Youren was a little helpless when he thought that Liu Yu would speak directly.

Fortunately, he is also smart. If he had studied calligraphy since he was a child, he might have been able to pass the Jinshi examination.After thinking about it, he said, "Duke, the Fujian matter has nothing to do with our Jesuits."

"The Dominican Society is the Lord's watchdog. It used to deal with heresy. The dispute over the etiquette of the Chinese Christians was also caused by the Dominican Society."

"Guogong also studied with President Dai, so you should know about this case. The Holy See assigned the matter to the Dominican Church, and our Society of Jesus withdrew early."

"Moreover, when the Holy See assigned Fujian to the Dominican Church, the Celestial Dynasty did not ban religion."

Wanting to get rid of the relationship with the Jesuits without any leaks, Jiang Youren felt that since the Celestial Dynasty attached so much importance to this matter and sent such a heavyweight here, then don't even think about getting out of it unscathed.

It is impossible to retreat completely. The most urgent task is to keep the missionary work in Macau and keep the Jesuits still active in China.Since Dominic will seek death by himself, and I can't save him now, I should sell it quickly.

Furthermore, the relationship between the Dominicans and the Jesuits is definitely not good.

One is the "Lord's watchdog", which specializes in heretics.

One is notoriously flexible. Later generations were able to come up with liberation theology. The reason for the dissolution was that the business went bankrupt, and a group of people who studied Confucius and Mencius slipped away than ordinary Chinese.

Even without the [-]th Commentary on the Jesuit incident, the relationship between the two parties would not have been good.

Jiang Youren thought to himself, it is better to see the situation clearly, keep the permission of the Jesuits in China, and then talk about other things.

(End of this chapter)