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

Fame is indeed important. This "History of Portugal" has just become famous in Europe, and it can actually push Wang Wenlong directly into the Imperial Academy.

Wang Wenlong nodded and said: "Ye Siye and all of you are very favored, and I am grateful. Do you dare not to do me a favor?"

Zuo Guangdou breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, nodded repeatedly and said: "Sir's talent and character are in his place, and no one can say anything wrong."

As soon as Zuo Guangdou left Wang Wenlong, he spread paper and ink, and wrote letters of thanks to Ye Xianggao and all the officials who recommended him to the Imperial Academy. In addition to letters, of course he also sent gifts. He directly sent his servants to go north with the letters and gifts.

Everything went well, and Wang Wenlong's position as Guozi's assistant coach was secured half a month later. Moreover, the Imperial College did not urge him to become an official as soon as possible, so Wang Wenlong could slowly go north.

In the editor-in-chief's office of "Xunbao", Wang Wenlong finished writing the last word, put down his brush and breathed a long sigh of relief.

After spending more than half a year, he finally finished writing "Shu Zheng". Originally, Wang Wenlong only planned to completely copy the original text of "Shang Shu's Ancient Wen Shu Zheng", but with Li Zhi's entrustment before his death, Wang Wenlong paid more attention to this book. The "Book of Ancient Texts" in his memory is missing dozens of items due to being lost in the process of circulation, and some argument methods are not rigorous enough. Even because of the memory error of the original author Yan Ruochu, the appendix of "Zhu Zigu" in the book is missing. There are still many mistakes in the document.

For these contents, Wang Wenlong researched and rectified them one by one, in order to make this book the authority to falsify the "Guwen Shangshu".

In later generations, many contents of "Guwen Shangshu" have been falsified. The most important basis is the 08 Warring States Bamboo Slips "Tsinghua Slips" collected by Qing University in .

This batch of bamboo slips returned overseas was determined to be cultural relics from the middle and late Warring States period based on carbon 14. At that time, books had not been burned and scholars were buried, so a large number of ancient books from before the Qin Dynasty were left in their original form.

Several pieces of content from the "Old Classics" were found in "Tsinghua Bamboo Bamboo Slips", such as "Fu Shuo Zhi Ming", "囧 Ming", "Yin Gao", "Xian Yi De" and other chapters of "Shang Shu" - and Mei Chu passed down The contents of "Fu Shuo's Ming" and "囧 Ming" in "Guwen Shangshu" are completely different.

The "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" definitely prove that the handed down version of "Gu Wen Shangshu" is a forgery. Later generations' study of the relevant chapters in Mei Zhixian's book is more like people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties looking at the title of "Gu Wen Shangshu" and writing it themselves.

Many issues in "Gu Wen Shangshu" are easily ignored before it is falsified, but once it is falsified, many of its contradictions will be seen by everyone at once. Holding the authentic copy against the fake copy, Mei Zhao's version of "Gu Wen Shangshu" There are errors and omissions everywhere, and Wang Wenlong naturally has much more information that can be used to question it than Yan Ruocha.

The original text of Yan Ruoquan's "Shu Zheng of Ancient Texts" contains 128 items, but only 99 items have been passed down to later generations. Wang Wenlong added the doubts in his mind about "Shangshu Ancient Texts" and directly expanded the version he wrote to One hundred and fifty articles, almost half of the book was rewritten by him.

After finishing the manuscript, Wang Wenlong had already piled up a large basket of deleted, revised and revised manuscripts. He had no intention of proofreading the manuscript anymore, so he carried the basket of manuscripts to Pan Xiu and ordered: "If Bo Feng has time, hurry up and Please copy this manuscript for me first. If there may be one or two typos in it, please ask Bo Feng to help correct it."

Pan Xiu had a headache when he saw a large basket of manuscripts, but he did not dare to say no, for fear that Wang Wenlong would not take him to Suzhou if the matter did not go well.

He nodded and took the manuscript, and while sorting it out, he said as if he was careless: "I read in the newspaper that my husband is publishing historical records in the UK, but the person in charge of publishing is still a British aristocrat."

Wang Wenlong said: "Walter Raleigh, this man is also a legendary figure. He can be said to be an academic wise soldier. He is the top among the British. I haven't heard of his name for a long time. Now it seems that he has a good vision."

Pan Xiu's heart trembled, and she asked calmly: "Sir, are you familiar with this British noble?"

A hint of a slip of the tongue flashed across Wang Wenlong's face, and he smiled and said, "Haha, the overseas affairs have long since passed. Bo Feng, please don't ask any more. It's serious to help me write the manuscript first."

Pan Xiu did not dare to continue asking, but lowered his head and secretly thought that Wang Wenlong had indeed had a relationship with this British nobleman.

He had just recently reported the news that he was going north, and then he saw the information about Walter Reilly that Wei Malang ordered Li Jin to send him.

Pan Xiu was surprised when she saw the information.

According to data, Walter was once a prominent figure in the British army. He was once a close minister of Queen Elizabeth, and his status was far above Wei Malang.

Pan Xiu really couldn’t figure out when Wang Wenlong had an intersection with Walter?

According to the data, Walter participated in a circumnavigation, but he seemed to have only been to America, and that was decades ago. Could it be that Wang Wenlong also visited South America decades ago?

But Wang Wenlong was only under ten years old at that time. Even if a Chinese child under ten years old went to South America with the ship, how could he have the opportunity to associate with a British knight?

Or is it that Wang Wenlong met Walter Reilly through someone else?

This is even more surprising, because the American expedition that Walter launched earlier was a waste of money. It was basically a tour group of nobles. For example, there were three knights who went with him in his first team to America, except Walter. The other two were also famous navigators, including the founding fathers of the Tudor dynasty and Catholic nobles within the Church of England.

As Wang Wenlong became popular in Europe, Wei Malang speculated too much about Wang Wenlong's identity, especially since this matter also involved Walter. Starting from the investigation of Walter's personal relationship, Wei Malang couldn't help but think more and more. The most feared thing in investigating the matter was this. Wei Malang was concerned and confused. He collected a series of intelligence about the people around Wang Wenlong without a main line, and finally pulled out the carrot and brought it out of the mud. Now he has revealed Wang Wenlong's identity to the British royal family. It's too late, and it's only a matter of time before we can find it again on the European continent.

While the two were talking, they suddenly saw an official under Xu Xueju hurriedly walking in outside. As soon as Wang Wenlong saw him, he quickly put aside the typing puzzle with Pan Xiu, stood up quickly and said, "But what's going on there, sir?"

The clerk nodded, took out a letter from his bag and said, "Your Excellency, I heard at Zhenhai Tower that Jianyang is now famous in Europe. I would like to ask you, Sir, to visit Xiangshan Ao for Fujian Haiphong."

Wang Wenlong took the letter and opened it, and then he knew what Xu Xueju was thinking. After Xu Xueju took over the border guard station in Fujian, he planned to cooperate with Shen Yourong to carry out a large-scale campaign to suppress the Japanese pirates on the ocean in Fujian. He was currently short of firearms, so he sent someone specially for this trip. The reason he came to Fuzhou from Zhangzhou was to let Wang Wenlong go to Macau to see if he could get some European-made guns for the Fujian Guards.

Wang Wenlong put down the letter and said with a smile: "Isn't it a coincidence? I just received an invitation from the Portuguese in Xiangshan Ao two days ago. I didn't plan to go at first. Now that you want to use the Portuguese, I happened to go here. One trip.”

Now that Wang Wenlong has finished all the things at hand, he just happened to report to the Imperial College after returning from a trip to Macau.

Wang Wenlong took a few servants and Pan Xiu, led the horse and set off. He first went to Zhangzhou to meet Xu Xueju. Xu Xueju was now in charge of the Fujian border defense. He had soldiers and money under his command, so he sent a group of soldiers and several officers directly to Wang Wenlong. , the official brand management along the way is even more thorough.

With these arrangements, Wang Wenlong's land route from Fuzhou to Macao is naturally smooth. He can take Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Chaozhou, and Huizhou. Although it sounds very far, it is actually coastal flat land and does not require climbing many mountains. This is really practical and saves a lot of money. With more effort, although the distance is longer, the journey time is even shorter than that from Fujian to Zhejiang. In less than ten days, Wang Wenlong has arrived in Huizhou.

After Wang Wenlong arrived in Huizhou, he immediately sent someone to notify the Portuguese in Macau. The first person to receive him was Long Huamin who came from Shaoguan.

When this person saw Wang Wenlong, he said: "I have heard a lot about Wang Jianyang's understanding of Europeans. I have also heard about the 'Matteo Ricci Rules' advocated by you. This matter has been discussed among the Jesuits in Macau." It caused a lot of discussion.”

In order to preach in the Ming Dynasty, Long Huamin gave himself a name, Jinghua.

Wang Wenlong asked: "What does Jingjing think of this method?"

Long Huamin shook his head and said, "This is a sign of subverting the imperial edict and serving the Chinese nobles."

Wang Wenlong was not surprised.

In his previous life, Long Huamin took over Matteo Ricci's position after his death and became president of the Chinese Diocese of the Society of Jesus. His greatest achievement was to abolish the "Matteo Ricci Rules" and stipulate the so-called "Papal Prohibition."

The content includes that Chinese Catholics are not allowed to use "God" or "God" to call Jesus (because these are Chinese names for ancient gods), believers are not allowed to participate in worshiping Confucius and ancestors, are not allowed to enter ancestral halls, and are not allowed to worship ancestors. Sweeping tombs, kneeling down to pay homage, setting up ancestral tablets in believers’ homes, etc. are not allowed.

At the same time, Long Huamin objected that Ricci was a missionary who spent his main energy on spreading scientific culture.

The result of Long Hua's dissatisfaction was that the "Nanjing Mission Case" occurred a few years later. Shen, the Minister of Rites of Nanjing, impeached Catholic missionaries for not following etiquette and colluding with the White Lotus Sect.

As a result, a large number of Catholic churches established by Matteo Ricci during his ten years of missionary work were destroyed, and the Jesuits were escorted back to Macau.

In short, if you don’t seek death, you won’t die.

Wang Wenlong shook his head and said: "If Long Jingjing wants to use this method to preach, not to mention whether it is feasible, he must first guard against being falsely accused of blackmail."

Long Huamin said proudly: "I already have many believers in Shaoguan. They are very united and can resist the frame-up of sinister people."

Wang Wenlong pouted, Long Huamin will know the pain in the future.

Wang Wenlong actually doesn't dislike Long Huamin that much.

Historically, a very important reason why Long Huamin was able to become a leader in the Chinese diocese was that he really followed the bottom line.

(End of this chapter)