Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 312 Voyage to the West

  Wang Shouren looked at Fang Jifan calmly.

After listening to Wang Shouren's words, Fang Jifan raised his head, pondered for a long time before saying: "Your temperament, you lose because of your uprightness. Of course, your mentor is also upright, but your mentor has suffered a lot because of it. Now that you are an official, you also lose Start being a teacher like a teacher, and learn to be more tactful in the future, otherwise you will have to suffer a big loss just like a teacher."

  This is from the heart!

"Look at your senior brother Xu Jing, he is very tactful and flexible, and he behaves properly. If you can learn from him, you can rest assured as a teacher. As a teacher, you know that you are very good. Those who People who twitter will be afraid of you, but in this world, fists alone cannot solve problems, as a teacher, you should convince people with virtue."

Wang Shouren snorted, looked at Fang Jifan suddenly, and asked a question: "But Senior Brother Xu is also very straightforward. He quarreled with the attendants of the Cultural and History Museum of the Imperial Academy over the matter of the sea chart, and almost got into a fight. Fortunately, I was persuaded, otherwise the school attendant would be beaten to death by Senior Brother Xu because of his old age..."

   Is there such a thing?

  Fang Jifan was stunned.

  In his impression, Xu Jing is the most worry-free for himself, except that he is occasionally lustful and often sneaks away from his brothers and goes to indescribable places.

  But... This guy actually got into a fight with someone?

   He almost didn't get killed... no, almost beat him to death?

Thinking of this, Fang Jifan suddenly became angry, and suddenly slapped the table and said: "Which one has no winks? He is like a dog. He doesn't take Father Heng seriously, but he looks down on me, Fang Jifan, and doesn't fight for his teacher. If you kill him, the square characters will be written upside down."

  Hengfu is Xu Jing's character.

  Wang Shouren hurriedly persuaded: "Master, don't be impulsive, Senior Brother Xu was not injured, but the attendant..."

   "As his younger brother, you didn't help him when you learned about this. What's the use of learning this martial art?" Fang Jifan's eyes widened, and he pointed at Wang Shouren angrily.

Wang Shouren hurriedly bowed down and said: "The students are all dead, but when the students and a few senior brothers rushed to go, they saw Senior Brother Xu riding on the school attendant, who was over fifty years old and was crying bitterly. I will wait to see Senior Brother Xu." He raised his fist to hit, so he pulled Senior Brother Xu away..."

  Fang Jifan's eyes turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "It seems that if one day, the teacher rides on someone else's body and raises his fist to fight, you will definitely not help, but will pull the teacher away instead, hey..."

   "..."

  Wang Shouren already felt that dealing with people was very laborious. Now facing his mentor, he felt that his brain was turning too slowly. He had never realized that he was so bad at dealing with people.

  Fang Jifan originally thought that Wang Shouren would yell and say that the students and their teacher must have beaten that dog thief until NIANG didn't even recognize him.

  But Wang Shouren held back for a long time, but said: "In the eyes of the students, the mentor is of high moral character. Although he loves to joke, he is definitely not someone who will repay his enemies. Presumably, the mentor will not have such conflicts with others."

   "..."

  This is very nice to hear.

   But Fang Jifan felt that something was missing.

  But now I don't care about the young man Wang Shouren. What happened to Xu Jing is the most important thing. Why did that guy change his mind? Could it be that he is busy with official duties these days, and he goes to less indescribable places, so his temper has become rough?

   Being a father, no, being a mentor, I really worry about it.

  Fang Jifan thought for a while and said, "How did the Imperial Academy deal with this matter?"

  Wang Shouren quickly said: "After Shen Xueshi of Hanlin learned about this, he didn't punish Senior Brother Xu severely, but asked him to apologize to the attendant in public."

  Fang Jifan nodded. This Bachelor Shen seems to be quite upright. It is said that his moral articles are very good, but now it seems that he is also a very flexible person.

   Otherwise, if this Hanlin scholar becomes serious and uses this as an excuse to kick Xu Jing out of the Hanlin Academy, Fang Jifan can guarantee that Shen Wen will have a good life one day, and Fang Jifan will not be surnamed Fang in the future, but will be surnamed Shen.

   "Well, he is quite sensible." Fang Jifan nodded with satisfaction.

  At this time, Wang Shouren said: "But Senior Brother Xu still insisted that Haitu was wrong and refused to make amends."

   "..."

  Fang Jifan: "..."

  The cause and effect of things are actually very simple.

  Xu Jing is a concubine. Because he is young and has low qualifications, the so-called concubine is probably the same as a miscellaneous worker in the Imperial Academy. The school attendant of the Literature and History Museum was ordered to sort out the nautical chart materials collected from Liu Daxia.

   As a servant, of course, it is impossible to do it by yourself. These things are handed over to the sages below.

   But Xu Jing found many mistakes in the process of sorting out the materials.

  The Xu family is a family in the south of the Yangtze River. The most outstanding achievement of their ancestors is that when the Mongols went south, they collected a lot of astronomical and geographical data in the Song Dynasty. After these disasters, many precious materials have long been lost.

   Even if there are still ancient books left, not many people actually care about them, because a large number of ancient documents survived the chaos of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Most of the works involved are astronomy, geography, travel notes and the like, but now that stereotyped scholars can't read the four books and five classics enough, who cares about these.

  These precious materials are the heirlooms of the Xu family. After several generations of research in the Xu family, Xu Jing has been in contact with them since he was a child. He is extremely proficient in astronomy and geography.

  During the Song Dynasty, in Fujian and other coastal areas at that time, a large number of Song Dynasty merchant ships went to the West and even further afield for ocean trade. Many private businessmen recorded what they saw and heard overseas. In the Yuan Dynasty, in order to check and balance the large number of Han people, the Mongols adopted a policy of discrimination against the Han people in the south. Instead, they hired big cannibals on a large scale. Therefore, at that time, a large number of big cannibals began to live in Fujian. At the same time, the ocean trade began to become more and more frequent.

   These were all recorded.

  Countless records, in the early Ming Dynasty, after the war, the world was settled, people's minds were at peace, Emperor Hongwu opened the imperial examination, and scholars began to study stereotyped writing, these handed down materials have no one to study.

However, several generations of the Xu family are still working hard for this. They collected ancient books everywhere, detailed a large amount of information on astronomy, geography, customs and customs, and conducted research based on this. The tallest building of the Xu family is neither the family's ancestral hall nor the The front hall is the "Wan Juan Building" built by Xu Jing's great-grandfather. In this Wan Juan Building, they kept sorting out the materials, corroborating various materials from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and sorting out countless ancient books.

Therefore, Xu Jing, as a descendant of the Xu family, was smart since he was a child. Under the influence of his father and grandfather, he began to browse a large number of ancient books since he was a child, and wrote down countless ancient books. Documents brought from abroad.

  He pointed out the errors in the labeling of certain islands in the information on voyages to the Western Seas. As a result...Of course, others spoke lightly, and no one paid attention to him.

   But Xu Jing was in a hurry. He thought he was right, so he insisted on his own opinion, and finally had a conflict with Shi Xue.

  In the evening of the next day, Xu Jing got off duty and returned to Fangfu.

  He had a very unhappy time in the Hanlin Academy.

   After all, he was originally smooth and flexible, but suddenly made such a fuss, although he was not severely punished, the other Hanlins were more or less indifferent to him.

When he arrived at the front hall, he forced a smile, wiped his forehead as usual, smoothed the messy hair on his forehead, and pretended to be suave, but when he just entered, he saw his teacher with a gloomy face, Sitting in the front hall.

   "Student... I have met my mentor." Xu Jing hurriedly stepped forward, saluting with a smile.

  Fang Jifan's eyes were wide open, and he took a copy: "You did a good job in the Imperial Academy."

  Xu Jing was bowing at first, but when he saw his teacher getting angry, he immediately knelt down and said, "Yes, the student is dead, and students shouldn't have conflicts with Liu Shixue, but..."

  He hesitated to speak.

  Fang Jifan still looked at him sullenly: "But what?"

"The compilation of the materials on the voyages is for the preparation of my voyage to the West. If there is a slight mistake, the consequences will be unpredictable. In the documents of Emperor Wen's period, many places are missing due to the age. The location, perhaps due to the carelessness of the scribes in the fleet at that time, was wrongly marked."

"Student..." Facing Fang Jifan's cold face, Xu Jing finally showed grievances on his face: "Although the student is only responsible for sorting out, he found that several islands have wrong standards, and there is another place where there is no fresh water on the island, but it is marked Yes, Master, this is going to be a big deal. If you go to the Western Ocean according to this chart, the fleet thinks that there will be fresh water when they arrive at the island. How many people have to die? Students dare not joke about such a big matter, so they want to correct these mistakes."

"Students have studied ancient books at home since they were young. Among them, three big food merchants and two sea merchants in the Song Dynasty all said with certainty that the island should never dock... This can be confirmed by each other. The so-called There is no evidence to stand alone, these nautical chart materials of the Imperial Academy are only from one family, and a large number of maritime merchants in the Song and Yuan Dynasties..."

  Fang Jifan frowned: "You mean, there are a lot of mistakes in Western maps?"

  Xu Jing raised his head and stared at Fang Jifan: "There are a lot of mistakes, and there are serious problems with these materials. It is not from the original edition."

   "Not the original version?" Fang Jifan looked at Xu Jing suspiciously.

Xu Jing went on to say: "The maps and materials of Emperor Wen's period will be archived in the Ministry of War, but after all, the paper is old. Once the age is long, these materials will inevitably be damp or not well preserved. Therefore, the Ministry of War will redo every 20 years. Transcribe. That is to say, copy a copy according to the original version, and then seal it up."

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   The last two days were really tiring, and I slept a little late today. I revised it after writing it, and this chapter is even later, so everyone has been waiting for a long time! In addition, someone asked about the book, the group. Ordinary, group: 491966624; VIP group needs fan value verification: 623443904

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