The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

After reading only half of the first volume, Wang Keshou was already filled with admiration for Wang Wenlong. He raised his hands and said, "If my master sees this article by Mr. Jianyang, he will definitely be unable to sleep at night."

Ma Jinglun said: "Can you allow us to relay the contents of the book to Master?"

Wang Wenlong said calmly: "What's the harm? I originally planned to finish writing and publish it, so that's all."

"The Book of Ancient Texts and Documents" was so well written that Li Zhi began to praise it greatly after seeing only a few sentences in it.

Li Zhi originally thought that Wang Wenlong was cowardly, but after reading this book, he would understand that Wang Wenlong was much more ruthless than him when he really took action - he just came up with his own set of doctrines to confront Confucianism, while Wang Wenlong could defeat Confucianism. The root of it has been dug out, but Confucian scholars can't tell what the problem is.

In the next few days, Wang Wenlong and Mao Wenlong entered the capital from Tongzhou. He had connections with the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party. He had a good reputation and was quite popular in Beijing, so he made friends everywhere to help Mao Wenlong's upcoming shipping business. Pave the way.

When Wang Wenlong returned home after a busy day of socializing, he had to light a lamp and boil oil to write his "Ancient Documents and Documents". He was extremely busy.

He estimated that the thirty-year anniversary of Wanli could only be passed in the capital.

While Wang Wenlong was busy, on the other side of the earth, in South America, was Trinidad Island.

A huge sailing ship swayed and tried to approach the port.

The sailors stationed in the harbor whispered to each other.

When the ship sailed closer and saw the size of the ship clearly, the sailors on the dock fell into panic.

"This ship is so big, it doesn't look like a ship that goes to the Cape of Good Hope."

"It has many cannons. Does it want to attack us?"

"Go and report to the commander!"

Soon Walter Reilly, the commander of the expedition, came to the dock. He squinted his eyes and looked at the approaching sailboat in the distance.

At this time, it was still seven years before the Petersburg optician Hans Riboll in the Netherlands built the world's first telescope. Sailors in this era could only observe distant ships with a pair of naked eyes.

And Walter was almost fifty years old. He studied at Oxford University Law School in his early years, and later his eyes were damaged due to working at his desk for a long time, and it took him half a day to distinguish the appearance of the ship.

Then Walter took a breath of cold air: "Damn it, this is the Spanish Manila galleon. It was a ship they hired the Chinese to build on Luzon Island. The Spanish fought back!"

He quickly ordered the sailors behind him: "Pull out our gun carriage!"

Walter Raleigh was not an unknown person: he studied at Oxford University Law School in his early years, and was once involved in Elizabeth I's war planning. Twenty years ago, Walter participated in the suppression of the Irish uprising and gained Elizabeth's attention, so he received the Queen's support. Funds were raised to build a fleet for the expedition.

Walter's expedition was very fruitful. He was the first European to bring tobacco back from the Americas. He was later knighted and became Elizabeth I's captain of the guard. Then the romantic and handsome Walter became Elizabeth I's lover.

This gentleman was also a playboy. While he was Elizabeth I's lover, he married her maid without telling Elizabeth I.

When Elizabeth I learned of this, she was furious and had Walter imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Walter managed to escape prison only a few years ago, but was also ignored by Elizabeth I, so he organized an expedition to Trinidad and Venezuela to find the legendary "El Dorado" of the Incas.

But when he saw the Manila galleon, Walter was still afraid.

Trinidad, where they are now located, was declared Spanish territory by Columbus more than a hundred years ago.

After coming out of the Tower of London, Walter had already lost the favor of the Queen. This expedition was organized at his own expense and had no official background. He took advantage of the Spanish not paying attention and went to the island to plant a flag himself. The whole process of declaring this place to be owned by the British was completely satisfying to me.

He knew that if the Spaniards came back with a big ship, their small expedition would be wiped out in minutes.

Just when the entire army was on alert at the dock, a sailor suddenly pointed to the ship in the distance and said: "They seem to be injured, and a help flag was hoisted on the ship."

"Really?" Walter also quickly squinted his eyes and observed for a long time. Sure enough, he found that the Manila galleon only looked large in size, but had actually tilted to one side, and there were signs hanging on the ship to show that he had no ill intentions and wanted to seek help. Flags of help, and even a flag of a Catholic religious order, presumably to indicate that the ship was carrying church personnel.

Walter thought for a while and then told one of his captains: "These Spaniards may be cheating. We can't let them get close to the port. Let's row up first and take a look."

The captains under Walter were all his old team members who had been with him for more than ten years. Some of them nodded immediately, put on their weapons and rowed the boat towards the Manila galleon in the distance.

After waiting for a while, the boat returned quickly. In addition to the sailors and the captain who went to check the situation, the boat also carried a Catholic priest and a first mate-like crew member.

The priest and the first mate both looked embarrassed, and there was obviously a look of fear on their faces. Walter first asked his captain: "What's going on on the ship?"

"Report Sir, the sailing ship really encountered a storm and sailed to Trinidad Island before sinking. There were many casualties among the sailors on board and the cargo was also damaged."

"I have checked that the gunpowder on their ship is all wet, and now they want to request to dock at our port."

Walter felt relieved instantly and looked at the Catholic priest.

When Walter looked at Yang Mano, Yang Mano looked back at him, feeling very scared.

He is a Jesuit who arrived in Macau from Goa to preach a year ago. A few months ago, he was requested by the Macau Jesuits to bring information about Macau back to the headquarters in Paris. On the way, he arranged for a Manila galleon with the Spanish Governor of Luzon. Join them as they cross the Cape of Good Hope and head north.

Unexpectedly, the ship encountered a big storm in the West Indies of South America. Fortunately, the Spanish navigators on the ship said that the nearby Trinidad Island was a Spanish colony, so they came to ask for help. To show their sincerity, they flew a distress flag and returned. There is a Jesuit flag.

But when the boat on the small dock approached Yang Mano, they realized that the group of colonists on the dock were not Spanish but British. Yang Mano and the Spanish sailors on the boat were instantly frightened.

For the Spaniards, a group of British people came up to their colony at some point, and they might turn against them and kill them.

For Yangmano, the British did not believe in Catholicism, and most of these British explorers did not have a good impression of their Jesuits.

Just when Yang Mano was frightened, Walter looked at him curiously and asked, "Which order are you from?"

Hearing Walter's words, Yangmano couldn't help but be startled, because Walter spoke standard Latin.

Latin was indeed the language of communication among the upper classes of various ethnic groups in Western Europe, but that was more than a hundred years ago. Not many British people today can speak Latin fluently, and what Walter spoke was not even New Latin. language, but closer to the Medieval Latin used by the Holy See.

Yangmano reacted instantly - with such a level of Latin, it was obvious that the person in front of him was not a vulgar explorer, but an educated person.

Hope rekindled in his heart, he quickly introduced: "We are from Asia. I am a monk from the Jesuits in Macau. I brought back the classics needed by the Holy See from China."

"China?" Even Walter couldn't help but be curious when he heard this distant place.

In addition to being a jurist, a soldier, a politician, and an explorer, Walter was also an important poet in the British Renaissance.

Whoever controls the oceans controls trade, whoever controls world trade controls the world's wealth, and ultimately controls the world itself. ——This famous saying in the later theory of sea power was adapted from Walter’s poem.

By the way, the theory of sea power was also first raised by Walter to Elizabeth I.

Walter looked at the young Yang Mano and said with a smile: "Please go to the back and rest."

Yangmano looked at the gray-faced first mate behind him, knowing that Walter would definitely go on a killing spree, so he quickly begged: "There are several Jesuits from the Portuguese colony of Macau on the ship. Please spare their lives for the sake of the Lord." .”

Walter nodded in agreement, Yangmano was escorted off, and then Walter's sailors boarded the ship to arrest people.

Well, Yangmano is a Portuguese and doesn't care that much about the life and death of the Spaniards, as long as he can save the lives of the Jesuits.

The Manila galleon that had just experienced the storm had no ability to fight back. Walter had suppressed the Irish uprising with bloody hands. What's more, the British had only destroyed the Spanish Armada a few years ago and killed several Spaniards. For Walter, No psychological burden.

But Walter did not intend to kill them all. He just killed a few people who dared to resist to establish his authority. After all the Spanish crew surrendered, he asked the sailors to grab as much supplies as possible on the ship before the galleon sank.

Then Walter ordered that all the Spaniards on the ship be captured and let them build their own prison camp. If the Spanish colonists in Venezuela are willing to spend money to redeem them, then exchange them for money. If the Spaniards ignore these sailors, then put them in prison. They were sold as slaves.

……

Yang Manuo and his assistant were detained, feeling extremely uneasy.

He waited until evening before he saw Walter entering the room with a group of people.

Walter threw Yang Mano's suitcase to him and asked curiously: "What are the things recorded in these thread-bound books? Are these Chinese characters?"

Yangmano knew that this was his chance to survive, and quickly introduced: "This is the philosophical book "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution" and the historical work "History of Portugal" written by a great Chinese scholar, Mr. Wang Jianyang. Wang Jianyang is one of the Chinese The most insightful scholar, his two works will definitely cause a sensation in Europe!"

(End of this chapter)