Chapter 796 From Florence
Is this a wonderful story about the wandering story of the Western boy Daming?
Even Zhang Shou, who claimed to be knowledgeable, couldn't help but listen to it at this moment. You know, because the Ming sea ships in these days did not have a ban on the sea, the maritime trade after the Song and Yuan dynasties has developed more greatly. But at the same time, sea ships have greater risks than land, and the armed forces on the ship are particularly important.
Therefore, there are people who are willing to invest in the maritime escort business of Shunhe Escort Agency. Cao Wu is also very keen, and he plans to conduct maritime training first, and even plans to train artillery battles and platoon battles... As for how the artillery came about and who the instructor of the platoon battle was, it goes without saying.
So, he didn't have to guess at this time, and he knew what the so-called merchant ship was. Then it was probably the emperor's ship? If he didn't have enough combat power and confidence, how could he be so arrogant on his territory?
就算不是主力战船,可那是欧洲任何一个港口城市的贵族私兵能对付得了的吗?这年头的欧洲可还不是后世指哪打哪的欧洲诸国,就连大航海时代都还没开始呢.而且据他所知,几十年前组织的多国联军,才被正在崛起的某帝国揍到元气大伤,至今还在舔拭伤口.
Of course, when he was in the Military Weapon Bureau, he heard from Zhang Kang that people with the shadow of some intelligence agencies were active in the western area. It is said that many of them were foreigners who were gathered during the reign of Emperor Taizu. Although they do not know whether they are loyal or not, they have grown up healthily after nearly a hundred years. It is said that although there was no founding emperor, they also had powerful ministers in a certain country...
If the only rumor of the East in Europe during the Age of Navigation is the richness of the East and the full of gold, then the most rumored about the East is the power of the East. As for the news... Of course, it was all spread by these foreigners at the time. Over the years, rumors have been spreading, and it has long been no longer decent!
As for whether it was because of the butterfly effect of these people's activities that a great empire that had historically spread across the West Asian continent could not control sea routes and trade as in history, but was often caught in internal struggles to seize the throne. He didn't know.
But Zhang Shou knew very well that even if that great empire rose like history, with the Renaissance and the Great Navigation, the rapid development of various science and technology, and the deepening of colonization and missionary steps, those small Western countries that were once dismissed by the Easterners will soon stage textbook-like victory in which ants swallow elephants, driving the great powers off the stage of history.
If you only think about relying on the advantages of the number of people and cold weapons, and think that the former strong military foundation can continue to dominate for a while, then the once vast empires will have to taste the bitter fruit. Large is not an advantage, and large population is not an advantage. Once the concept is backward and civilization is backward, you may become a hunter to a fat sheep.
From west to east, none of the great empires were spared. And there was only one who had truly been reborn after disasters.
Of course, it was a bit early to say this now, so Zhang Shou sighed in his mind, and then he couldn't help but be curious about the alien boy mentioned by Chen Yongshou. However, when Chen Yongshou mentioned that people knew their words, he did not agree.
No matter which country is from France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and English, it is possible to be familiar with the local language or even a variety of foreign languages. However, an illegitimate child understands Latin? This seems a bit nonsense! Either he is a serious aristocrat, obviously not a human being, or he graduated from a seminary, but the age of the boy Chen Yongshou said is unlikely.
Therefore, he smiled and said, "This young man is now in Guangzhou, right? The foreigners have not reported it and have approved it. They should not be able to enter Beijing. If he comes to Beijing, it should at least be after the Chinese New Year."
"No, he happened to go to Beijing." Chen Yongshou said, and couldn't help but glance at the people around him, thinking that his performance just now seemed a little too much, but thinking that the matter had been reported by the Guangzhou Maritime Bureau. If it was spread, at most some old-fashioned guys would be long-lasting, so he threw it behind his head.
"The captain didn't throw the young man in the sea. It was because he made a big fuss in that city and alarmed the city hall and the church there. Although there were some merchant ships in our dynasty in the past, there were too many national cities there, so the Ming Dynasty ship had not been to that city for a long time. For this reason, the mayor and bishop there wrote a letter to the ship owner."
As soon as these words were said, everyone looked at each other, and Zhang Shou laughed in silence, "Is it a letter from Fanbang? The captain brought it back like this? Eunuch Chen just said that Guangzhou or Beijing have limited translation skills, can they understand the letters they sent back like this? Even if they can understand, will the old-fashioned bosses in the court criticize this? "
"Do they think that the mayor or the so-called bishop are qualified to write letters to the Ming Dynasty? It's not a letter to the country!"
When Zhang Shou said this, he was serious and no one could hear the ridicule in his words. Pride but not arrogant, this is the consciousness that a great country should have the most. As a result, the so-called heavenly dynasty in history has turned around, and the sea ban has become increasingly fierce. From the emperor to the literati, he was arrogant when he should not be arrogant in the front, and when he should not be timid in the back, he was timid in the sick tiger and became a fat sheep.
Of course, Chen Yongshou did not understand Zhang Shou's meaning, but he answered seriously based on Zhang Shou's superficial question: "The letter was naturally not sent to the emperor and the court, but the mayor and the church there who heard that the owner of the fleet was an earl from the far east, so he sent such a letter."
"But the captain would not be so arrogant. After all, whether buying books or taking in a young man from the Fan country or delivering letters, although they were all within his authority, after returning to Guangzhou, he reported to the master's house, namely the Weinan Bo. The Weinan Bo did not dare to be careless and reported to the emperor. Therefore, the two letters from the young man from the Fan country, the mayor and the church were sent together."
Zhang Shou smiled when he heard this.
Weinan Bo Zhang Kang was really a scapegoat. The Xinglong Tea House was called his property before, but now, there is a boat in his name... No, it should be a caravan cruising outside and "harmoniousness makes money"! Such a useful white glove in front of the stage, and a tool holder. Who do you think the emperor doesn't support him?
The others suddenly realized that Zhang Dabo even slapped his hands hard and said, "No wonder my father always said that Weinan Bo is just a little farmer and his salary is simply arrogance and extravagant, spending money like soil. It turns out that his money is all done like this! No, I will tell my father after I go back and let him do business in the west!"
Ji Jiu smiled and said, "Do you think the sea business is so easy to do? You must have the best captain, the best sailor, and the most accurate chart. Otherwise, you will lose your direction at sea, which is not like being on land, ready to feed fish at any time."
Seeing that Zhang Daren looked at him, Ji Jiu squeezed his eyes at him: "You Zhang family has three ranks, and three families do this business together, which is much better than the one alone. Besides, are you sure that Weinan Bo really has only one person?"
Chen Yongshou didn't know that the emperor had told Zhu Ying about some facts and facts, and Zhu Ying had told Zhang Shou quietly, so he just made up stories in a serious way. At this time, he found that Ji Jiu had guessed that someone was behind Weinan Bo. He couldn't help but feel a little shocked and quickly made a few more sentences.
"Of course there are other shareholders in that fleet, not just one Weinan Bo, but Weinan Bo is bold and invests the most... Ahem, since the young man from the foreign country happened to be here and reported to the emperor at this time, why not bring people to the public school? If he knew the words in these books, it would be best. If he didn't know them, then this kid who entered the country privately would be useless."
I don’t have much interest in the small country that is far away and beyond reach, and is not extremely rich, and the Ming Dynasty has no interest in understanding it. This is not during the Taizu period. Instead of raising a useless guy, it is better to throw it into a mine, or...
Chen Yongshou just changed his mind and gave up. The emperor might not be interested in adding a blond and snow-skinned young eunuch to the palace... This emperor has never been as good as Long Yang! That boy is different from the Ming people from head to toe. Unless the taste is special, who would want it!
Zhang Shou knew without guessing that if the boy really confirmed that the word "useless" was not used, what would the end? Seeing that everyone around him were talking, he pondered for a moment and asked with interest: "I had the honor to have been to the Military Weapon Bureau, and I also saw the globes made by Emperor Taizu Mengtian, and I knew some place names. This time, the city he was in?"
"It seems... what is Florence?" After saying these four words, Chen Yongshou suddenly frowned again and said uncertainly, "No, the city where the young man came from was Florence, but the port where the ship was moored at that time was not this, it seemed... what pizza? Well, the names of these franchised cities are really hard to read, and my tongue is like knotted."
He shook his head as he said: "Those words are thanks to Emperor Taizu who drew the map icons early, otherwise his descendants would really not know what to call it when they came there... It is said that in the small countries in the west, one city is a country, and then occupy other cities outside. If the people from the foreign countries were asked to directly name the names of their own countries, it would be like a book of heaven."
Others were either marveling at the fact that a city was a country, or marveling at the innate and wise nature of Emperor Taizu, who actually drew maps of these distant small countries early, or wondering about the strange names of these small foreign countries. Zhang Shou... Hearing this reasonable Florence and Pisa, he couldn't help but take a breath.
He is far from being well-versed in the foreign history of Emperor Taizu, and his foreign map skills have been fully qualified. But he still vaguely remembers that in this era, the once glorious Republic of Pisa seemed to have collapsed, and even the entire city of Pisa was packaged and sold to the Republic of Florence. The Medici family should be as strong as the peak in Florence now in Florence...
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Shou said, "Since that's the case, just bring that little guy who is so brave!"
With Zhang Shou's words, Chen Yongshou felt relieved. The emperor could not find an excuse to promote Zhang Shou, so he came up with such a solution.
If those captains who do not have so many various graphics in the mathematics books and know a lot of astronomical signs but do not know the kind of foreign characters, how can they judge that it is not a mathematics books, but also a book related to astronomical signs?
If you can't recognize that it's a calculation of the book, how could the captain change out three Yunjin so easily? Isn't it because the emperor planned to use these as gifts because Ge Yong was about to celebrate his 80th birthday? Although it was not a real tribute, the value was not particularly valuable, but if he had to pay for the three Yunjin because he was mistaken, the captain also claimed that he felt very distressed in his private message.
As for the words that write books, what if the young man in Fanbian really couldn't translate them, then he would naturally not keep them for nothing. And the emperor's plan to promote someone was not ready, then he had no choice.
As for the possibility that a young man from Fanbian would fool Zhang Shou in the future, Chen Yongshou never thought about it. Although Zhang Shou was young, his vision was extremely poisonous. Even if it was a mathematics and calligraphy of Fanbian, it was also a field that Zhang Shou was good at.
So, after Chen Yongshou agreed, he went quickly and came back very quickly.
However, although the students of Banshantang and Jiuzhangtang were all interested in the foreign youth mentioned by Chen Yongshou, Zhang Shou did not want to let this group of guys watch foreign friends, so he drove the students of Banshantang to discuss their topics early and asked the students of Jiuzhangtang to fight for their sea of questions. He met people alone in the school hall.
Even though I have seen countless foreign friends in later generations, including foreign teenagers and children - after all, going abroad is a very simple thing for later generations - but at this moment, when I saw a blond haired, blue-eyed, white-skinned boy wearing a robe and a headscarf, he still couldn't help feeling a sense of time and space disorder.
Especially when the other party walked up to him and bowed his hands as if he was decent, he felt even more absurd. However, after careful examination, he realized that something seemed to be wrong. After careful examination, he immediately saw the problem!
People today may not have such a deep experience, but as a time traveler who had received foreign exchange day trips in his class in his youth, Zhang Shou felt that this kid was not in the right age.
Whites are different from yellows. They are precocious and premature. Generally speaking, women are more obvious than men. However, just this young man... has seen foreign children but has never asked them much about the Chinese. Maybe they think they are fifteen or sixteen years old. But in his opinion, this foreign naughty child who eats well and drinks well will definitely not be more than thirteen years old, and maybe even younger!
Although I really wanted to say how old are you in English, considering that he was born in Florence, among the Italian city-states, and Britain is actually a countryside these days, Zhang Shou still resisted his bad taste, so he nodded leisurely and said, "What's your name? How old is this year?"
This is a pure test of the daily chat level of Chinese. What he heard was the Beijing dialect with a straightforward word: "My lord, I am fifteen years old this year. I have two names, one is the name of Florence and the other is the name I gave myself after the Ming Dynasty. In Florence, I don't think you will be interested in, but here, I gave myself a name..."
"My name is Wu Dawei!"
Chapter completed!