Zhu Cihong is opening his golden finger!

It is to open the biggest golden finger, use the method of the imperial examination to test mathematics and philosophy, select the group with the highest IQ, and then let them study the "Sub-Theory of Gewu" and Western scientific works translated into Chinese, so as to turn the West into China and establish China's own natural philosophy and basic science system - Zhu Cixi did not engage in industrial technology in his previous life, so he did not have many golden fingers that could apply technology to open.

If it was the Song Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, of course he had a lot of ideas that could be turned into "golden fingers", but it was the middle of the 17th century!

European science and technology have developed to a certain height, and many things are directly copied from the West, which is much easier than Zhu Cihong's golden finger......

But much of Zhu's knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and philosophy was in some ways ahead of the West in the mid-17th century.

However, this knowledge cannot be directly translated, or it is difficult to directly translate into application, at least Zhu Cihong alone cannot do it. And his knowledge is flawed in many ways - he is not capable of remembering everything, only some of them.

Therefore, concentrating the smartest people, introducing Western natural philosophy knowledge, and then handing over the fragmented knowledge of later generations to them for study as "Confucius's Last Works" is the biggest golden finger that Zhu Cihong can think of.

With enough smart people who have mastered the basics of natural philosophy and science, it is easy to open the golden finger in application. After all, most of the inventions and creations in human history came from scholars......

A nine-year-old boy from the Dzungar Department of Warat Mongolia. Galdan, at this time, I don't know what the just-concluded "Taixue College Entrance Examination" has to do with me? He didn't even know that there was such a thing, and he would never have thought that he would walk into the examination room of Nanjing Guozijian 12 years later to solve the math problems that fascinated him, let alone that he would become the Emperor Hongxing of the Ming Dynasty and establish a lasting teacher-student friendship!

Now he is still dressed as a novice, riding a short and fat horse, following his uncle who was a lama, known as the old monk Tseling Lama (meaning longevity lama), on the way to the old mountain palace.

He left the Dzungar Castle in the Dzungar region of Warat Mongolia last summer and traveled east with the longevity lama and a dozen other Dzungar warriors dressed as lamas. Because they wanted to avoid the territory of the unfriendly Yeerqiang Khanate and the Heshute Khanate, which was still loyal to the Qing Dynasty, they had to take a long detour and pass through the territory of the Khalkha Mongols, and later because the longevity lama stayed for several months because of the illness of the longevity lama in Yulin City, and the trip was delayed, so it was not until the end of August of the fifth year of Hongxing that they arrived in Nanjing, a city that opened the eyes of Galdan and his party.

There is such a magnificent city in the world, and there are so many rich inhabitants in the city...... And a lot of people still have guns!

Guns were a rare weapon in Warat, and even the homes of tribal alliance leaders like Batur Huntaiji did not have a few muskets.

In Nanjing, Galdan was surprised to find that gun ownership was quite common, and there were even shops that openly sold long guns and short guns!

However, Galdan is not afraid of guns, because he is just a peace-loving little novice, a very Buddhist little boy. It can be said that there are few people in the world who are more Buddhist than him, because he is the reincarnation of a living Buddha!

Not long after his birth, he was recognized by the monks from Tibet as the teacher of the 4th Panchen Lama and the reincarnation of the 3rd Wensa Living Buddha!

If nothing else, he will definitely become the head of the Winsa School in the future, the fourth Wenza Living Buddha!

But there is a wonderful connection between the gun and this boy who is destined to become a living Buddha.

Kaldan, a Buddhist boy who is not afraid of guns and doesn't like guns, originally wanted to go to Tibet to learn to chant sutras and become a Buddha with the Fifth Great Lama...... But fate played a joke on him. Because his father, Batur Hun Taiji, wanted to get the musket of the Ming Dynasty, he had to go to Nanjing to attend elementary school.

Of course, the living Buddha still has to be!

Therefore, Batur Huntaiji specially sent people to Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet to invite the senior brother of the Panchen Lama, who is also Batur Huntaiji's uncle, Tseling Lama, and invited him, who is highly profound, to follow Galdan to study in Nanjing, and by the way urge him to recite the scriptures and study the Dharma.

When he graduated from primary school, Lama Tseling would escort him to Tibet, join the Fifth Grand Lama, become a disciple, and then become a living Buddha......

"Master Celing, we're here." It was a member of the Shuofang Army who spoke, named Yuan Ruofei. He was originally a Liao, because his hometown was lost, he fled to Guannei with his parents, and wanted to return to his ancestral hometown of Fengyang Mansion, but he was coerced by Li Zicheng's army in Henan and returned to Chen Yongfu's subordinates. Later, he followed Chen Yongfu to guard Taiyuan, and after Chen Yongfu ran away, their family went to Luliang Mountain to defect to Zhu Cijiong, the acting king, and they were also meritorious over the years. So I got an opportunity to go to Nanjing to make up the class, and escorted Lama Tseling and Galdan along the way. Unexpectedly, the lama walked too slowly, delayed time, and the graduation exams of the first make-up class had already ended, and he had just arrived outside the Laoshan Palace in Nanjing.

Emperor Zhu has been living in Laoshan Palace these days to accompany his wife and children - Wu Sanmei finally achieved positive results and gave birth to a son to Zhu Cihong, named Zhu Hexing.

However, the child was born a little early, less than a month, so he was very weak. Emperor Zhu and Wu Sanmei were afraid that he would die, so they took him to the newly built Laoshan Palace. The Forbidden City of Nanjing is not comfortable to live in, it is too humid here, the winter is wet and cold, and the summer is sultry, far less comfortable than the old mountain palace in Jiangbei.

When Galdan and Lama Tseling arrived at the Laoshan Palace, Zhu Cihong was holding a meeting between the two governments to discuss whether to send an envoy to the north again to discuss with Emperor Shunzhi about marrying Fourteen Gege.

Just a few days ago, Beijing sent Wu Liangfu to the court, expressing its willingness to accept the dowry demanded by the Ming side, but at the same time saying that it was unable to mobilize the three feudatories of Zhongzhou.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to get the land of the Three Domains, he must take it himself!

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you should marry the fourteenth princess of the Qing Kingdom," the military advisor Li Yan suggested, "Although this matter is a delaying tactic of the Northern Qing Dynasty, we can also plan it."

Because of the successive Northern Expeditions of the Southern Dynasties and the Southern Song Dynasty, those who could not succeed were all because it was difficult to consolidate the Central Plains. The Central Plains is flat and difficult to defend, and it is inconvenient to transport by water. It is a place that is easy to take and difficult to defend, and it is very difficult to achieve the great cause of the Northern Expedition in one fell swoop if you want to first the Central Plains and then Yan Zhao. If you can first take the Central Plains, consolidate it in three years, repair roads, hoard grain, build cities and forts, train cavalry, and then go north in one fell swoop, then it will be easy to succeed. ”

Zhu Cihong said: "But the Qing Kingdom is also determined to reform, if there is any achievement, the day of the Northern Expedition's victory, will it be far away?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reform of the Northern Qing Dynasty is not worth mentioning." Zu Kefa, who returned from Beijing, said, "The reform of the Qing State is nothing more than recruiting troops from the land, plus a Manchu without a score...... However, the peasants and soldiers could not afford to fight for a long time, and if the war was delayed for a while, they would not be able to make ends meet, and it would be difficult to continue.

Your Majesty has already planned to spend ten years, so why be afraid of the peasants and soldiers of the Northern Dynasty? Don't say that you won't return for ten years, 100,000 peasant soldiers will serve for three years, and I'm afraid you will have to flee more than half of them!

Moreover, the firearms of the Northern Dynasty were not enough after all, and the peasant soldiers could not ride horses, so in the end they were nothing more than guarding the city and waiting for help. If you can't go out of the city to fight, there are more soldiers and fewer soldiers, and the difference is not too big. ”

Zhu Cihong listened to the opinion of the "Zhiqing faction" Zu Kefa, and was already a little shaken, and then looked at Shoufu Wei Zaode, "Shoufu, what do you think of Shunzhi's reform method?" ”

"Your Majesty," Wei Zaode said with a smile, "Emperor Xiaowu's skin is just a curtain." It's a pity that there are no scholars in the Northern Dynasty, but they are just some minions, which are not worth mentioning. Whether to marry or not to marry fourteen Gege, it is up to His Majesty's will...... What really needs to be worried is the Duoduo outside the gate. Chen suggested that when we went north to the Central Plains, we should also find something to do for Duoduo. ”