Taixing 7th year, August 14.

The year is in Bingwu, the moon is in Yiyou, the star is in Kuimu, and the god is in the southwest.

In the capital with a gust of golden wind, something big happened.

Next to the bell and drum tower, the crowd of people passing through the stream seems to have been weathered into ice sculptures by the cold winter.

The entire northwest corner of the capital stood at that moment, and countless people raised their heads and looked up at the strange object flying in the air.

The child stretched out his fingers, jumped, and shouted.

The adults blocked the glare of the sunlight with their hands, a little frightened, but they didn't want to dodge.

The soldiers who patrolled the streets stood there, asking their commander.

The mage of the Gokokuji Temple stopped the wooden fish in his hand, not knowing what kind of monster it was.

The missionaries in the Xuanwumen church drew crosses on their chests, speculating about what kind of apocalypse it was.

The Taoist priest in Cao's old man's temple held a wooden sword and asked the Xuanqiong High God what it was.

The students in Taixue raised their heads, thinking to themselves that they were silent and wonderful.

…… This scene, in the eyes of the balloon, is just a small black dot.

Liu Yu raised his head and looked into the distance.

After the wall, over the mountains, over the desert, it is thousands of miles away.

Dashun Taixing seven years, eighty-two years after the death of the Ming Dynasty, 1726 AD.

In the city of Beijing, for the first time, human beings flew into the sky with an enlarged Kong Ming lantern.

This year, at the age of eighty-four, Newton knew he was going to see God, and for the first time told his autobiographer the story of the apple that had been smashed into his head.

In this year, the sixteen-year-old Louis XV had just come to power, and his wife from Poland was about to conceive his father, who had been guillotined by the tricolor.

In this year, the fourteen-year-old Frederick II, educated by his father's club and whip, fantasized about one day escaping to England and escaping from the life of a soldier prince.

In this year, the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia in the north formally signed an anti-Ottoman Turkish pact, and the Fourth Russo-Turkish War was brewing.

That year, Maine in America began recruiting volunteer militia to hunt down Indians, with a scalp bounty of up to £100.

This year, speculators who had just experienced the South China Sea bubble and the Mississippi company crashed were ready to set off a new round of bubble traps, forgetting the despair of tulips and the cruelty of the stock market, which Niu Jue could not understand.

In this year, the Dane Bering ran through the vast Siberian wilderness, preparing to find the strait that would bear his name, and see Alaska in the Americas.

In this year, Euler went to Petersburg to raise the baby-like calculus, began to think about the number theory and topology that countless college students had a headache for in later generations, and began to standardize mathematical symbols such as independent variable functions, differences, sums, etc., and in the near future, the symbols of semi-unified mathematics textbooks will not be annihilated.

This year, Montesquieu and Voltaire traveled to England and met casually, in a coffee shop in London, the two of them discussed the newly published "Encyclopedia of Science and Technology", hoping that one day reason and machine could triumph over the ignorant gods.

Liu Yu no longer tried to turn his head to look at the boring and profound Forbidden City, nor did he think about what those big people would think of today's sensation.

With such a view, it is better to calm down and enjoy it.

It is life and death; It's a blessing and a curse.

Go down, you should know.

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In the Mansion of the Duke of Qi on the banks of the Crescent River, Tian Suo, the Duke of Qi, was flipping through books with a few Qing guests.

"Yu Guogong, we have checked many documents of the former Ming Dynasty, but we have not found the 'Yongning Temple inscription' mentioned by Guogong."

"In the ninth year of Yongle, Yisha did serve as a eunuch to inspect Nuer Gandusi and other places. In the seventh year of Xuande, Yizha went to Nuer Gandusi again. But I didn't find anything about Yongning Temple in the book. ”

"But I don't know where Guogong found out?"

These Qing scholars who make a living by searching for chapters and sentences are very puzzled, how can Guogong pay attention to the distant bitter cold land? It is bitter and barren there, and no one in the court is willing to go, how can anyone care about whether the former Ming Dynasty established the inscription there?

Tian Suo frowned, looked at Liu Yu's dictation and Tian Ping's transcript of "A Brief Examination of Western Kingdoms", and thought about something else in his heart.

This "Brief Examination of Western Kingdoms" already has the emperor's annotations on it, a few simple words.

"Great goodness. Write some more and send it to the palace."

These simple words are not simple at all.

Tian Suo, as a nobleman, knows the bird-like appearance of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the future, and knows that the next generation must bring out a "own person" who can shelter the future generations.

In his eyes, his own people, the children of Yu Yin of the Sanpin officials, are not counted, so he naturally wants to find the children of those founding princes.

Now it seems that it is working well.

It's only the piece that was sent that day, and some of it made Tian Suo unable to understand.

After preparing his own and the Rakshasa Kingdom's delaying plan, he also added something about the Yongning Temple during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor drew a circle on the top of the words Yongning Temple and so on.

The following is annotated with a sentence that Tian Suo needs to figure out.

"The duty of the nobles, is it to find chapters and excerpts? White mountains and black waters, who can make meritorious contributions? ”

This is the Emperor's annotation, the question is what does this mean?

Is it a compliment?

Is it dissatisfaction?

Or something else?

While thinking hard, the housekeeper hurried over from outside, and he also had to be decent, and said in a loud voice: "Grandpa Guo, go out and have a look, there is a monster flying in the sky!" ”

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Imperial.

Coal Mountain.

The old crooked-necked tree is still there.

After a stone, in order to win the hearts of the Ming ministers, the Manchu Qing Dynasty locked the old crooked neck tree with iron chains, saying that they were here to avenge Emperor Chongzhen.

This crooked neck tree that hanged Chongzhen is guilty!

This is a sin, and it should be punished with chains, so as to show that the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains to avenge Emperor Chongzhen, and bewitched people's hearts.

Now the chains on it have already been smashed open by Li Laiheng, the king of Xiaochuang himself, and there is an inscription standing next to it.

The content of the inscription is part of the enthronement edict of the "pseudo" emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Alack! For 30 years, the country has not seen a real government that cares for the people. The new salary is the old salary, and the flesh and bones are eroded in Liaodong; Lack of levy and pre-levy, exhausting the brains to whip. The turbulence stops seeing like an enemy, mourning who is the parent! To my people, there is no telling of the bitterness.

Although Dashun did not recognize the Southern Ming as orthodox, the content of the enthronement edict of the only bloody and wise emperor in the entire Southern Ming Dynasty undoubtedly provided a lot of legitimacy to the Great Shun.

The descendants of the Longwu family are the "two kings and three kes" recognized by Dashun, how to say that the Longwu family not only confessed their guilt, but also put forward the strategy of the joint emperor.

The rest of the Lianyu Pingkou have no good reputation. In the end, there was a family of people who fell ill and went to the hospital, and the court fully believed in the Catholic Church and wrote to the Holy See for help, which is even more unlikely to be recognized.

It is written like this in the enthronement edict of the puppet emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, that is, the Zhu Ming royal family is forced to chaos in the world, and hanging here is to blame, where is this crime?

The descendants of the Zhu family all admit that they are solid.

On the road not far from the foreigner's neck tree, Li Gan, the emperor of Dashun Taixing, was looking at the crooked neck tree in a daze.

The eunuchs beside him did not dare to speak, but stood carefully on both sides. The female officials of Taizong's posthumous training are also on both sides, after all, they are not as good as the original fantasy, these female officials are just decorations.

Because of the consideration of avoidance and other reasons, the royal children used more strange names, so as not to avoid a fart, so they used the uncommon name Gan.

Now that Li Gan has been on the throne for seven years, he is in the prime of life, and he has only passed and stood up, and he is not confused. In addition to those eunuchs and palace maids, there were also several missionaries beside him.

The missionaries all had black faces and bowed heads.

Emperor Li Gan's face was not good-looking, and the eunuch next to him did not dare to say anything.

These missionaries are called here today for nothing other than the Catholic liturgical controversy.

Li Gan was determined to solve this matter as soon as possible, he was not unaware that Xiyi was strong at this time, nor did he not know that Xiyi had a lot to learn, but he did not want the Jesuit Society to continue to develop.

Dai Jinxian's face was even darker, and today Li Gan made a holy decree:

Dai Jinxian, the eunuch of the Qin Heavenly Prison and the courtesy of the government, will not be able to make Rome in the near future.

Not as the vice president of the Jesuit Society in China, but as an official of the Great Shunli government, he met with the Pope of Rome and finalized the liturgical controversy that had been tangled for decades.

Dai Jinxian will soon go to Macao and return to Europe by boat, bringing with him Dashun's ultimatum.

If the pope does not let up on the issue of etiquette, then Dashun will ban religion, and there will be no room for bargaining.

In order to express Dashun's determination, this time the Rakshasa delegation came, and Li Gan did not use those missionaries who had always followed the will of the Holy See.

Since Matteo Ricci's time, missionaries in China have been divided into two factions. One school of thought that the Chinese Christians were heretics; The other school of thought believes that local conditions should be adapted, otherwise there will be no development at all.

Li Gan knows very well that the gap between Dashun and the West is widening day by day, and if religion is completely banned, I am afraid that the gap will become wider and wider.

He didn't say it by hearsay, but he knew it many years ago when he was still a prince.

At that time, France sent a large number of missionaries to China, and Li Gan, as the crown prince, also received a gift.

A telescope with a simple ranging function and a binary hand-cranked mechanical calculator invented by Leibniz were presented by Bai Jin, the leader of the French missionaries.

Bai Jin is the Chinese name taken, the word Mingyuan, the number nine is considered a layman, and the "Zhou Yi" is passed. The telescope with a simple altimetry function is also very promising.

It was given by Louis XIV to his polio-bearing son, the Duke of Mann, probably because he was appointed guardian and educator of King Louis XV of France because polio was unlikely to usurp the throne.

This telescope was a reward from Duke Mann's father after his contribution in the Palatine Succession War, and Bai Mingyuan once returned to France to introduce China, and Duke Mann gave the telescope to Bai Mingyuan.

After Bai Mingyuan came back, he gave Li Gan as a gift.

Just this telescope with a simple ranging function, Li Gan can guess what kind of skilled country is behind these missionaries, the so-called peek at a glimpse and see the whole leopard.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Westerners were able to travel thousands of miles to Fujian, but Fujian maritime merchants could not go to the West.

Therefore, after decades of liturgical disputes, even if the Holy See had sent a plenipotentiary envoy to China to denounce missionaries in China as heretics, Li Gan still hoped to make a final effort to get the Pope to abandon those dogmas that China could not accept.

However, after today's conversation, nothing came out, and the group of missionaries, like the Confucian scholars in the DPRK and China, did not back down on some matters.

Li Gan became more and more irritable, and suddenly remembered one thing that he had read in the past few days.

Suddenly stopped, and asked Dai Jinxian, Bai Jin and others: "In the past, Iskandar destroyed Persia, cut down poison, and was called the king of kings, and after that, this number was spread to Sassanid Persia. Belus, the last prince of Sassanid Persia, was exiled to the Tang Dynasty, and was appointed as the governor of the Persian Prefecture and the general of the Right Weiwei, and presented the title of King of Kings to Tang Gaozong. ”

"Now that I am the Son of Heaven, I am called Basileus ton Basileon?"

As soon as these words came out, several missionaries exclaimed in unison: "No! The basileus ton basileon is the holy name of our lord......"

As soon as the words came out, Dai Jinxian knew that something was wrong, and his face changed drastically.

Li Gan seemed to have guessed the reaction of the missionaries a long time ago, and said in his heart that the third child of the Yiguo family was indeed right.

He wasn't angry, he just snorted.

Iskandar is Alexander's Central Asian translation, long before the missionaries came to China, there were many legends of this person on the steppe Iskandar's exploits, Li Gan knew it, but he didn't know that Tang Gaozong had such an allusion.

Seeing that these missionaries seemed to have been stepped on by their tails, Li Gan said coldly: "You say all day long that you want to be tolerant, you want to be tolerant, how have you ever been tolerant? ”

"That Qianming built a church for Matteo Ricci in Xuanwu Gate, and after I established the country in Dashun, the church in front of Xuanwu Gate was not demolished, but you were allowed to expand it."

"But I wonder if you can build a Zhougong Temple, Taoist Temple, and Nunnery opposite St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican?"

"When Ming died, you fought for thirty years for who was a heretic, but now you only say that I should be tolerant. Then I sent monks and Taoist priests to the Vatican to preach, and the Holy See might agree? ”

"Only let my Celestial Empire tolerate you, but you refuse to tolerate others, how is this reasonable?"

Speaking of urgency, Dai Jinxian and others were silent.

They all thought that this Chinese emperor was pure nonsense, and it would definitely not work to go to Rome to build a nunnery and a temple of Zhou Gong, let alone build it opposite St. Paul's Cathedral.

The problem is that Emperor Dashun's words are not wrong, the Xuanwumen Church, which is opposite the mansion of the former Ming Dynasty's Yan Shenggong in Beijing, is no less than building a Zhou Gong Temple opposite St. Paul's Cathedral.

Dai Jinxian and the others are very aware of the emperor's attitude, but they feel in their hearts that you are all lost lambs, and we can build a church here to lead you to heaven, and if you go to Rome to build a temple, it will defile the holy land.

It's just that I think so in my heart, and I can't say anything about it, so I can only bow my head and say nothing. It was a great honor to go to the coal mountain and the Taiye Pond to watch the scenery with you, but now it has become a fire burning.

Li Gan was in a bad mood and was about to go down the mountain, when he suddenly looked up, only to see a black thing floating in the northwest corner, floating in mid-air.

Just outside the Forbidden City, it looked like it was about three to five hundred steps away, extremely huge, floating in the air.

"What is this?"