Dragon Sea Empire

"Which family are you following?" Yu Zigao cut off his words and asked sharply.

"The rules established by the founding ancestor of this dynasty... Well, isn't the Chinese army going to recruit security? Could it be that they can change the ancestral system? You need to help, third uncle, everyone says you are a deputy military adviser. The ship owner can speak in front of the king..." Yu Mingyuan felt something was wrong, it seemed that things were not going as smoothly as he thought.

Yu Zigao shook his head impatiently: "Where did you hear the nonsense, what kind of deputy military adviser, don't go out and talk nonsense! Let me tell you directly, the peace talks between the Chinese Army and the Ming court are true, but after the peace talks, Quanzhou is still Under our jurisdiction, Ming’s rules and laws don’t work. Our place is not bad, you go and find out the name of Butcher Chen in Jiangnan. In order to implement these new policies there, the Chinese army has already let dozens of aristocratic families exterminate their clans and ransack their homes. .”

Yu Mingyuan is just a rich man from the countryside. Although he has a reputation as a scholar, he has never been outside Fujian Province.He lived in the countryside ignorantly, but felt that Yu Zigao was in the family, and the Chinese army would be able to forgive him. At this time, he heard that many people had exterminated the family for this, and he couldn't help being shocked.

Yu Zigao didn't allow him to say any more, and frowned, he taught the 60-year-old nephew as an elder: "The emperor rules the rules. Since Quanzhou is the territory of the Chinese army, it is natural to follow the rules set by them. Only in this way can we protect the country. Let the whole family be safe. Regardless of this, even if the Jiajing Dynasty’s anti-Japanese soldiers from other provinces came to Quanzhou and robbed them, what can you do? Isn’t it a bankruptcy? The Chinese Army still follows the rules and will not violate them. The rules I set, I will discuss this with you politely. Don't make trouble with your nose and make trouble. You must anger them. I am now a person under the captain of the ship owner, so naturally I have to abide by the rules of the Chinese army , you’d better go back quickly and tell the Second Great Master to let the officials of the Chinese Army come to measure the land.”

He picked up his teacup, and was about to see off the guests. After thinking for a while, he added: "Major Wang Shuowang, who is in charge of Quanzhou now, is the adopted son of the captain of the ship, and he only obeys the orders of the king. Moreover, he is the son of a mother-in-law from Lu Song. Er Chuanzi, who is famous for killing people without batting an eye..."

Li Lihua is 36 years old this year. Because of her good nutrition and good makeup skills, she looks like a young woman under 30 years old.

Sitting in front of a white clavichord, she played "Eight Pieces for the Violin" (formerly known as "European Violin Songs Adapted into Chinese") composed by Matteo Ricci for Emperor Wanli.

Matteo Ricci wrote in the preface of "The Music of Xiqin": "In 1601, I, Matteo Ricci, arrived in the capital with several gifts, and wanted to dedicate them to the emperor. Among them, there was an exquisite ancient piano, that It is a western musical instrument, different in form from Chinese musical instruments. As long as it is touched, it will make a strange sound. His Majesty the Emperor is very surprised..."

The piano presented by Matteo Ricci is a 17th-century Italian-made gimbalo clavichord with a rectangular body. It was called the "iron stringed piano" at the time of the tribute, also known as the violin. It can be called the earliest clavichord introduced to China.Matteo Ricci thus became the first foreign music teacher in the Chinese court.

The sound of the piano has a sense of solemnity that is rare in Chinese guqin. Xu Guangqi squinted his eyes and listened, and couldn't help but think of his religious and scientific teacher Matteo Ricci.

He heard this piece of music in Matteo Ricci's apartment in Nanjing.

At that time, although Xu Guangqi didn't know the rhythm, he was fascinated by the sound of nature.Later, Matteo Ricci told him that in the rhythm of the piano, the principle of mathematics can be found.Since then, Xu Guangqi has been fascinated by geometric primitives.

At this moment, he was in Yin Feng's inner study, and as a private visitor, he was personally entertained by Yin Feng and Li Lihua.Xu Guangqi's appearance here is completely like a learned elder visiting his confidant and friend's house.

After Xu Guangqi had more contact with Yin Feng, his personal affection for Yin Feng increased greatly.With Yin Feng here, he can put aside politics and everything in the world, and talk about mathematics, astronomy and world geography with Yin Feng.In the education system promoted by Yin Feng, the public teaching system charges low fees, and the model of centrally funded schools is being extended to Yin Feng's ruled areas. In these schools, the emphasis on mathematics education is almost above everything else, and the teaching content Covers all thirteen volumes of the Elements of Geometry.

Xu Guangqi agreed with this school-running policy very much. Ever since he visited the Chinese Military Academy in Jiangnan, he wanted to talk to Yin Feng about this issue, and wanted Yin Feng to help promote the Chinese Army's school teaching system to the Ming Dynasty ruled area.

Traditional Chinese mathematics has a long history. In the Han Dynasty, a system represented by "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" was formed, and it reached the peak of development in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Brilliant achievements have been made in mathematics and high-order interpolation, hundreds of years earlier than similar results in the West.However, after entering the Ming Dynasty, almost all the achievements of Song and Yuan mathematics were left behind and gradually declined.Xu Guangqi once made a very incisive analysis of the reasons for this backward situation.He said: "The study of arithmetic has been abolished in the hundreds of years of modern times. There are two reasons for the abolition. One is the Confucian scholars who are famous for the truth, and the real things in the world; the other is the magic trick. Knowing to go to Tibet, everything is ineffective. Those who die in the gods have no effect, but those who are real are dead. In the past, the sages developed great methods to control the world and used them. They were not available to scholars and bureaucrats, but their skills and political affairs were inferior to those The beginning of ancient times is far away." (Engraved "Tongwen Suanzhi" preface)

"The Confucian scholars of the name and reason are the real things in the world", which can be said to explain the reasons for the decline of Song and Yuan mathematics in the Ming Dynasty. The logical reasoning method represented by "Elements of Geometry", coupled with scientific experiments, is an important prerequisite for the emergence and development of modern science.In other words, the modern significance of "Elements of Geometry" is not only in mathematics, but more importantly in the way of thinking.Xu Guangqi once said: "This book is beneficial. It can make academics get rid of their anger and practice it meticulously. Those who learn things can rely on its methods and develop their ingenuity. Therefore, there is no one in the world who should not study it.... Those who can master this book, There is nothing that cannot be mastered, and those who are eager to learn this book, there is nothing that cannot be learned." ("Xu Guangqi Collection? Miscellaneous Discussions on the Original Geometry")

In China in another time and space, it was not until the early 20th century when the imperial examination was abolished and schools were revived that elementary geometry, with the content of "Elements of Geometry" as the main content, became a compulsory subject in secondary schools, and Xu Guangqi's goal of "everyone should learn" 300 years ago was realized. prophecy.

But now Yin Feng has fully popularized mathematics education in enlightenment schools, middle schools, military academies, and political affairs colleges, which made Xu Guangqi ecstatic.

Seeing that Li Lihua had finished playing a song, Yin Feng immediately said to Xu Guangqi: "We have prepared a piano and other Western oddities here, as well as some high-quality mercury glass mirrors. I will pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor. Our sincerity."

Xu Guangqi nodded: "Mr. Yin is interested, I will definitely bring these tributes to the capital. Now, let's talk about the school here?"

Today, the two parties involved in the peace talks have basically reached an agreement on the peace talks, and only the issue of the ownership of the east bank of the Liao River is still under discussion in detail.In fact, everyone is waiting for the news: the army of the Ming Dynasty is about to attack the Chinese army in the east. This is already public news, and everyone is waiting for the result.

Xie Xuecheng made two trips back and forth across the Taiwan Strait, brought back several copies of the mansion newspaper, and sent the preliminary agreement on the peace talks to the capital through [-] miles.He sent back news from the imperial court: the cabinet, the six ministries and other senior officials are all waiting for news. If Wang Huazhen's adventure can succeed, then the imperial court will have a certain initiative on the Liaodong issue.Otherwise, the answer to the Liaodong question can only be determined according to the conditions of the Chinese Army.

The day before yesterday, Yuan Chonghuan and Xie Xuecheng boarded the communication ship of the First Taiwan Fleet of the Chinese Army and headed for the capital with the draft terms of the peace agreement between the two parties.Prior to this, a battalion of Yang Dacheng's Second Division and a regiment of Luo Quanxiu's Fourth Division supporting the Liaodong battlefield had already set off from Jilonggang, Taipei by boat.The two battalions of Li Xing's [-]rd Division have come to Taiwan from Luzon Port, are replenishing supplies, and will soon go north.

Like everyone else, Yin Feng is also waiting for news from Liaodong.

About 30 of the Great Angels remain in Taiwan. Since the negotiations have come to an end, Yin Feng began to send people to take these angels to visit various places in Taiwan.

Xu Guangqi came to visit Yin Feng this day to ask Yin Feng to allow the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty to visit the Chinese Military Academy and the arsenal.

Speaking of it, within the Ming Dynasty government, or in China in another time and space, Xu Guangqi can be regarded as the first person in the history of Chinese military technology to put forward the theory of the application of artillery in war. .

Xu Guangqi made many suggestions and kept going to the school.Xu Guangqi also explored the application of firearms in practice, the relationship between firearms and city defense, firearms and siege, and the cooperation between firearms and infantry and cavalry.

Now the envoys of the Ming Dynasty can go to the streets at will. Except for the old-fashioned guy like Sheng Yihong, almost all the members of the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty went to Nancheng District, and many of them followed Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang to watch the performance of the Persian belly dancer.

Xu Guangqi didn't go to the fireworks venue in Nancheng District, but he didn't go shopping too often.Walking in this urban area that reflects the fresh taste everywhere, you can see signs with Chinese characters mixed with Western characters shop signs everywhere, and you can hear pedestrians speaking Hokkien, Hakka, Wu, Shandong, Mandarin, Portuguese, Malay, etc. Indigenous, Dutch, Japanese, and local aboriginal languages, at the same time being dazzled by all kinds of goods from all over the world, East and West, Xu Guangqi felt that this city was both strange and familiar.It has the unique industriousness and excitement of the Chinese, as well as the rigor and enthusiasm of the West.

Many members of the Ming Dynasty Mission have this feeling: Taiwan Hong Kong City is indeed a city built by the Chinese, but there are always some things that are incompatible with traditional Chinese cities.