Wei Bao couldn't help but sigh, only then did he know that if the candidates in Liaodong and Liaodong did not perform well, it would really affect the admission quota of candidates in Liaodong and Liaodong in Liaoning.

But if you think about it, it is reasonable, if the level is too much worse than that of other provinces in Beizhi, how can there be more places?

It's like playing the best team after the World Cup.

If the people are the best team, the candidates from such powerful houses as Shuntianfu, Baodingfu, Zhendingfu, and Hejian Mansion are equivalent to the traditional strong teams such as Brazil, Germany, Argentina, and Italy, and the number of people selected for the best team is larger, which is naturally reasonable, because the overall strength of the people is great.

For example, the candidates in Liaoxi and Liaodong are estimated to be similar to the Chinese team, and they have to burn high incense to participate in the World Cup, do they still want to be selected for the best team?

Seeing that Wei Bao was a little distracted, Liao Fuzi smiled and comforted: "Okay, Master Wei, let's relax first after the exam." This time, there are a lot of students from Liaoxi and Liaodong who come to refer to us, and there are always one or two people who can pass the scientific examination. ”

Wei Bao heard Liao Fuzi say this, and couldn't help but sweat, "Can only one or two people pass the scientific examination?" Master, didn't you say that when you encouraged us at Shanhaiguan? ”

Liao Fuzi smiled: "I definitely can't tell you before, isn't that pouring cold water on you?" The reputation of our candidates in Liaoxi and Liaodong is already stinky, and it is already very good to have one or two people pass the scientific examination, but we must not be discouraged! You still have to strive for self-improvement! ”

"Then, do you think these two people who passed the scientific examination have passed the township examination and won the fame of lifting people?" Wei Bao asked.

"It's hard to say, there's hope! Master, I was only one person who represented Liaoxi and Liaodong to participate in the township examination at that time, didn't I get the fame of lifting people? Liao Fuzi couldn't help but say proudly. It's just that he didn't say that he had already participated in the township examination three times before the middle lift, and he only won the fourth time. It was as if he had been lifted in one.

"Then, Master, I'll go first, if you have any needs, you can contact the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, or the people from the Heaven and Earth Firm, you can say that it is my Master, and the people from my firm will definitely help you." Wei Bao said: "It's the day after tomorrow, right?" ”

"Well, the list will be released the day after tomorrow. I know, Wei Gongzi, you go and rest, we all live in the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, it's good, we don't collect cash, and we have enough good food and good food every day, thank you Wei Gongzi, I don't need anything in particular. Liao Fuzi smiled.

Although there are many rich sons and students under Liao Fuzi, it seems that only Wei Bao can really get light and get benefits, and Wei Bao is the most considerate of his master.

And for Wei Bao's private funding of other poor students, Liao Fuzi is also very grateful.

As far as Liao Fuzi is concerned, he naturally hopes that all the students under his command who have won the fame of Xiucai will have the opportunity to participate in the township examination, but no one supports them, where are these poor students qualified to come to the capital for the examination? It is impossible for him to fund it personally, he runs a school to make money, not to lose money.

Wei Bao arrived next to the carriage, Wu Xuexia saw Wei Bao coming over, and lifted the curtain: "You finished the exam so quickly?" How's it going? What about my brother? ”

Wang Qiuya also hurriedly greeted him and asked Wei Bao if he was hungry or thirsty.

faced Wu Xuexia's questions and Wang Qiuya's cold greetings.

Wei Bao smiled indifferently and repeated what he had just said to Liao Fuzi.

Wu Xuexia was angry and funny: "I knew that my brother must be fine!" I fell asleep in the exams, how can I have hope? ”

"That's not necessarily, I saw that Brother Sanfu had already finished writing. Besides, Liao Fuzi just said to me that sleeping in the examination room is at most a bad impression of the examiner, and it will not be deducted points for this, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal. Wei Bao said.

"Don't talk about him, how sure are you?" Wu Xuexia looked at Wei Bao with concern.

Wei Bao sighed: "I'm not sure, I don't want to talk about this now, let's go home!" For these two days, I'm going on retreat! I don't come to see the list, but the people below look at the results and tell me! ”

Because he had a bad premonition in his heart, Wei Bao didn't plan to see people from now on.

Wang Qiuya hurriedly agreed, Lin Wenbiao didn't speak next to him, he wouldn't ask about this kind of thing, if the son was happy, he would naturally say.

Moreover, Lin Wenbiao is well-informed, so he naturally knows that the candidates from Liaoxi and Liaodong came to Shuntianfu to accompany a group of Xiucai in Beizhili.

"I'm going back, do you want to wait, or do you want to go back with me? I can ask people to wait for Big Brother Sanfu to come out. Wei Bao asked.

Wu Xuexia thought for a while and said, "I'll go back with you, but don't retreat for the past two days, right?" After all the exams, what is there to retreat? It's a big deal if you don't go out in the house, and I won't laugh at you. ”

Wei Bao's face flushed when Wu Xuexia said it, and he blinked, "Okay, go back!" ”

When he returned to his residence, it was already half of the afternoon, Wei Bao had no appetite, drank a bowl of porridge, ate a pancake, and went to rest.

Wei Bao felt very bad when he came to the capital this time.

Compared with the black soil in western Liaodong and Liaodong, Wei Bao is obviously not suitable for a crowded and prosperous place.

The most important thing is that in the capital, he seems to have returned to modern times, and returned to the feeling of being a penniless scum at the bottom of society, this feeling is so worrying.

The superficial knowledge of the imperial examination could not make Wei Bao confident and calm on the battlefield of the imperial examination, and it was far less than the ease of directing the development of diplomacy, politics, economy, and military on his own territory.

Wu Sanfu and other classmates from rich families in Liaoxi and Liaodong finished the scientific examination, so they naturally wanted to 'celebrate' again. Therefore, when it was time for dinner, Wu Sanfu did not come back.

"Is your son going into retreat again?" Wu Xuexia couldn't help but come to Wei Bao.

Wang Qiuya replied: "There shouldn't be, didn't the son promise Miss, he won't retreat?" Now rest in the room. Is there anything wrong with the eldest lady? ”

"It's nothing, it's time for dinner." Wu Xuexia said indifferently: "Do you still want a normal meal?" ”

Wei Bao heard the conversation between Wu Xuexia and Wang Qiuya outside, so he walked out and said with a smile: "Miss, you are really lenient, I only ate in the middle of the afternoon, and I don't want to eat yet." ”

"If you don't want to eat, don't be bored in the yard, come out for a walk, don't you love to walk around? Now that the scientific examination has been completed, is it time to visit the capital? Didn't you promise me to visit the capital? And you said you wanted to buy me something? Wu Xuexia said with a smile.

"Let's go! I just went out for a snack, and I ate too many big dishes at home, and it didn't seem to be interesting. Wei Bao also smiled.

"Well, let's go." Wu Xuexia was also very happy to see that Wei Bao didn't seem to be depressed because of the scientific exam.

Wei Bao then took Wang Qiuya, Wu Xuexia, and Xiang'er out for a walk, as well as Lin Wenbiao and a group of agents from the Statistics Bureau to secretly escort them.

Out of the alley and turning to the main street, Wu Xuexia asked Xiang'er to buy a lot of snacks, most of which were barbecue food.

Wei Bao was nibbling on the meat skewers, relishing and feeling a lot better.

Although he has been reminding himself that he should come to the capital for tourism, his desire to obtain an official position through the imperial examination and enter the official career still oppresses Wei Bao's emotions from time to time.

Wei Bao found that he wanted to be an official, on the one hand, it was the desire of modern accumulation, and on the other hand, it was the customized development direction of this life, which required him to have the power of officialdom to assist him in his development, otherwise it would be easy to go to the road of rebellion, and Wei Bao did not want to rebel and did not want to have a large-scale armed conflict with the internal forces of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, from time to time, there were people beating gongs and drums, and some people set off firecrackers and ran around in a hurry.

Wei Bao was very surprised, and Wu Xuexia couldn't help but ask the boss who sold snacks around her, asking what was wrong? "It doesn't seem like it's a holiday today, is it?"

The owner of the barbecue seller replied, "I seem to have heard that a foreign missionary calculated that there will be a tengu eating moon in a few evenings tonight, which is to drive away the tengu mile early." ”

Wei Bao sweats, tengu eats the moon? Isn't it a lunar eclipse?

"Does the Tengu Moon need to beat firecrackers and gongs and drums?" Wu Xuexia asked curiously.

The idle barbecue boss smiled and popularized science.

Ancient Chinese folk believed that "the tengu swallows the moon", and gongs and drums must be beaten to drive away the tengu.

In fact, the Chinese people discovered the concept of lunar eclipse very early, in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Heng has discovered part of the principle of lunar eclipse, he believes that the earth went to the front of the moon to block the sun's light, "the rush of the day, the light often does not fit, sheltered on the ground, is called darkness, in the stars are the stars are small, and the moon is the lunar eclipse." ”

Aristotle in the 4th century BC deduced that the earth was round based on the fact that the moon saw the circle of the earth's shadow.

The ancient Greek astronomer Aristarchus in the 3rd century BC and Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC both proposed to determine the size of the sun, the earth, and the moon by lunar eclipses.

Legend has it that there was a son named "Meren". He is a good Buddha by nature and a kind person. Very filial to his mother, but, the mother of Mulian, as a mother, is violent by nature, and likes and dislikes. Once, the mother of Mulian suddenly came up with a bad idea on a whim: the monk recites the Buddha and eats vegetarian. Tease them a little, open meat and eat dog meat. She ordered to make 360 dog meat steamed buns, saying that they were vegetarian steamed buns, and that she was going to the monastery to give fast.

When Muren learned about this, he persuaded his mother not to listen, and hurriedly called someone to inform the abbot of the temple. The abbot prepared 360 vegetarian steamed buns. Hidden in the sleeve of each monk's robe. The mother of Mulian came to fasting and gave each monk a dog meat steamed bun. When the monk chanted the Buddha before the meal, he used the vegetarian steamed bun in his sleeve to change the dog meat steamed bun and then ate it.

Seeing that the monks had eaten her steamed buns one by one, Mulian's mother clapped her hands and laughed and said, "Today, the monks are eating meat!" The monk eats dog meat steamed buns! ”

The abbot clasped his hands together and chanted in a loud voice: "Amitabha, sin, sin!" Afterwards, 360 dog meat steamed buns were buried in soil at the back of the temple. When the Heavenly Jade Emperor found out about this, he was very angry. Knock the Mother of Mulian into the eighteenth layer of hell and turn her into a vicious dog, and she will never be able to be reborn.

Muren is a dutiful son, and he learns that his mother has gone to hell. He practiced day and night, and finally became the Jizo Bodhisattva. To save his mother, he opened the gates of hell with a tin rod.

The Mother of Muren and all the demons escaped from hell and were reborn in the mortal world. The Jade Emperor was furious, and he ordered Mu Lian to devote himself to the Yellow Nest. Later, "Yellow Nest killed 8 million", the legend is to collect these evil ghosts who escaped from hell.

After escaping from hell, the mother of Mulian became a vicious dog, because she hated the Jade Emperor very much, so she went to Heaven to find the Jade Emperor to settle accounts. She couldn't find the Jade Emperor in the sky, so she went after the sun and the moon, trying to devour them and turn the heavens and the earth into a dark world. This vicious dog chases day and night! When she chased after the moon, she swallowed it in one gulp; Catch up with the sun and swallow it in one gulp. However, the vicious dog that the mother of Mulian turned into was most afraid of gongs and drums and firecrackers, and the sun and moon that were swallowed by the vicious dog had to spit it out. After the sun and moon were rescued, the sun and moon shone together again and ran again. The vicious dog was unwilling to catch up again, and in this way the eclipses of the sun and the moon in the sky were formed again and again. Folk are called "Tengu eats the sun" and "Tengu eats the moon".

Until later generations, during solar and lunar eclipses, many people still spread the custom of beating gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers to drive away tengus.

Wu Xuexia, who was obedient to a lot of bosses, said something, was very interested, and said to Wei Bao: "Let's also go to see the Tengu Eating Moon, right?" Boss, where is the best place to look? ”

"Stargazing Observatory!" The barbecue owner replied, "It's high. Moreover, ordinary people who specialize in watching the stars can also go. Except during royal sacrifices, they are not allowed to approach, and it is not far from here, just turn a street. ”

The boss said that he was very enthusiastic to show Wu Xuexia the way.

"How? Go ahead? Wu Xuexia patted Wei Bao's arm.

"Let's go." Wei Bao smiled slightly, there was nothing to do anyway.

Built in 1442 A.D. (the seventh year of Ming orthodoxy), the Jingcheng Observatory is one of the oldest observatories in the world, and it is also the royal observatory of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. It is famous for its complete architecture, complete equipment and long history.

As early as 1279 A.D. (16 years of the Yuan Dynasty), astronomers Wang Sui and Guo Shoujing established a Si Tiantai on the north side of the Jianguomen Observatory, which became the earliest traceability of the ancient observatory in Beijing.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in 1442 (the seventh year of Ming orthodoxy), the stargazing platform was built on the site of the southeast corner tower of the city wall of the Yuan Dadu, and astronomical instruments such as the armillary sphere, the simple instrument, and the armillary elephant were placed, and the houses such as the Ziwei Hall were built under the city wall, and the sundial shadow hall was added later. At this time, the observatory and its outbuildings were quite large.

A total lunar eclipse is an astronomical term, a type of lunar eclipse, when the moon, the earth, and the sun are completely in a straight line, the earth is in the middle, and the entire moon walks into the shadow of the earth, and the surface of the moon turns dark red, forming a total lunar eclipse.

On the 15th and 16th lunar calendar, the moon moves in the opposite direction to the sun. At this time, if the center of the Earth and the Moon are roughly in the same straight line, the Moon will enter the Earth's umbra and produce a total lunar eclipse. During a lunar eclipse, the direction of the Sun and the Moon differs by 180° for the Earth, and since the orbits of the Sun and the Moon in the sky, called the ecliptic and the white path, respectively, are not in the same plane, but have an intersection angle of about 5°, only the Sun and the Moon are located near the two intersections of the ecliptic and the white path, respectively, and have the opportunity to form a straight line and produce a total lunar eclipse.

Wei Bao didn't know that it was calculated by those foreign missionaries, but it was only 1624 at this time, and astronomy should still be in its infancy, right? If you can really accurately calculate the time of the solar and lunar eclipses, you can be regarded as a capable person.

Wei Bao remembered that there had always been a matter of asking the Statistics Bureau to privately recruit people with scientific knowledge to go to the Academy of Sciences of the Heaven and Earth Society regardless of whether they were Chinese or foreign, and it seemed that there had been no progress, so he invited Lin Wenbiao to ask.

Lin Wenbiao replied softly: "Have you found a few foreign missionaries, have you forgotten?" For two batches, there are already forty or fifty people, but most of them are relatively young, they are not good at speaking Chinese, and they are not particularly good at learning. Childe has seen it before. ”

Wei Bao sighed, only then did I think that there was indeed such a thing, mainly because my requirements were a bit high, and I had to feel at ease to be in China, and I was willing to have a certain talent.

In fact, at this time, there were no less than 200 foreign missionaries in China, and almost a quarter of them were recruited by themselves.

It's just that Wei Bao didn't find that there was a level that surpassed his own, so he didn't have a special cold for foreign missionaries.

"This trip is a good opportunity, I heard that the most powerful missionaries are in the capital, and they also have a stronghold, which is a church called Nantang! There were several powerful old missionaries in there. Lin Wenbiao reminded softly.

Wei Bao snorted, secretly thinking that this time it was a mistake, just by going to see the lunar eclipse, get to know these missionaries, and see if they can be gathered to the Heaven and Earth Society! For such a big event, the missionaries in the capital should all be there, right?

This is indeed a great opportunity!

Wu Xuexia, Wei Bao, Wang Qiuya, Xiang'er and others rushed to the stargazing platform a street away.

At this time, there were a lot of ordinary people gathered on the side of the stargazing platform, and there were really many blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, who were actually wearing the clothes of the common people of the Ming Dynasty.

"It's really a devil, huh? Look, all of them look like monkeys, how strange? Wu Xuexia giggled and said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao sweated, "Your family's business is so big, has your father never dealt with foreigners?" ”

"No, if my father saw these strange foreigners, he would definitely be far away, and he would never deal with them." Wu Xuexia said with a smile.

Wei Bao nodded, secretly thinking that remote places are not civilized, and they are not as good as Jingshi. Wei Bao saw that many ordinary people could get along well with these foreigners, and even had simple language communication, obviously they had no less contact with each other.

Wei Bao and Wu Xuexia, Wang Qiuya, Xiang'er, Lin Wenbiao and others got closer.

A tall and 30-year-old foreign missionary is educating the people around him: "The process of a total lunar eclipse is divided into five stages: initial loss, eclipse, eclipse, rebirth, and recirclement. The first wane is when the Moon first touches the Earth's umbra, marking the beginning of a lunar eclipse. Eclipse: The western edge of the Moon is inscribed with the western edge of the Earth's umbra, and the Moon just enters the Earth's umbra. Eclipse: The center of the Moon is closest to the center of the Earth's umbra. Light: The eastern edge of the Moon is intangent to the eastern edge of the Earth's umbra, at which point the total eclipse phase ends. Roundness: The western edge of the Moon is tangent to the eastern edge of the Earth's umbra, at which point the entire lunar eclipse ends. The degree to which the Moon is eclipsed is called "eclipse", which is equal to the ratio of the farthest distance between the edge of the lunar ring and the Earth's umbra at the time of the eclipse to the Moon's visual meridian. With a telescope, you can see clearly more than 7 times. You can stand on a high place and look at it, so that the view will be good. It can also be observed directly with the naked eye, and the following two total lunar eclipses can be observed without any special equipment. Everyone, pay attention, it's about to begin. You see, the moon is slowly losing a little horn! In about half an hour, the moon will be eaten all! ”

Everyone paid attention and looked intently, and sure enough, they saw that the moon was indeed missing a small horn, and they couldn't help but sigh.

However, after this foreign priest popularized science, everyone was not very afraid.

Wei Bao secretly thought, just in time!

"This foreigner can still say what we say." Wu Xuexia said to Wei Bao in a strange whisper.

Wei Bao nodded: "It's nothing, he must have been in Daming for a long time, if you go to them for a long time, you can also say their words." ”

"If the moon is eaten, is it invisible?" Wu Xuexia asked again.

"That's not it, after the moon is completely blocked, it will slowly turn blood red, commonly known as the red moon! After a while, it will slowly re-emerge as it was when it was being devoured, and return to the state of a white full moon. Wei Bao explained.

A group of people around saw that Wei Bao was a Ming teenager, but they didn't expect that the Ming teenager also knew these 'foreign things', and they couldn't help but be amazed.

The missionary glanced at Wei Bao with great interest and asked, "This little gentleman, do you know astronomy?" Don't know what to call Mr. Little? Hello, my name is John Tong. ”

"I don't dare to say I understand, just a little peep, hello, my name is Wei Bao." Wei Bao sweated, he didn't expect that this foreign devil was actually the famous Tang Ruowang in history?

Wei Bao has a certain understanding of Tang Ruowang, this guy is in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, it seems that many major events in history are related to him.

Immediately, Wei Bao and Tang Ruowang began to talk.

It is known that John Tong was born in Cologne, Germany in 1592 and studied at the famous Three Crowns High School founded by the Jesuits. This school attaches great importance to the quality education of students, and regards the cultivation of students' pious and kind life ethics as its main goal. The smart and studious John Tang has excellent academic performance.

In 1607, a plague plague in the city of Cologne forced the closure of the Triple Crown High School. At the age of 16, John Tong was recommended by the local Jesuit diocese to study at the German Academy in Rome.

In 1610, he completed all the courses in philosophy, classics, mathematics and astronomy, especially in mathematics and astronomy, showing that he had great potential and talent. It was here that he first came into contact with Galileo's telescope and became intrigued by it.

In October 1611, John Tong joined the Society of Jesus and swore an oath of poverty, chastity, and obedience for the rest of his life. Subsequently, he moved to the monastery of San Andreo in Rome, where he became a probationary monk and underwent rigorous monastic training. He joined the Brilliant Research Institute to explore new and evolving sciences, especially astronomy and mathematics.

The Convent of Andreo has a library with many printed and bound volumes of annual reports, reports, and letters from overseas Jesuits to the General Society.

John Tong often went to the library to look through these materials. He was thrilled by the accomplishments of the early missionaries in the East in China. He admired Matteo Ricci's missionary strategy in China, which was adapted to Chinese culture and customs, and the so-called "Confucianism" that he tried to integrate Catholic teachings with Chinese Confucian culture. When he heard that Father Matteo Ricci, with his mathematical astronomical wisdom, had astonished the Chinese and received the emperor's favor and respect, opening up a new and very large field of faith for the Church of God, he was overjoyed that Western mathematical astronomy had gained such value in China.

In October 1613 he entered the Academy of Rome. Four years of theological and mathematical studies began. Founded in 1551 by Loyola, the College of Rome is a "seminary of the spirit of Christ", and its curriculum includes mathematics, astronomy, geography, mechanical mechanics, chemistry and other subjects in addition to religious content.

Galileo Galilei also served as a faculty member at the Academy, and he once displayed his modified telescope in the lecture hall of the Academy, which was warmly welcomed and admired. John Tong had listened to his lectures and became interested in Galileo's teachings.

In 1617, he completed his studies at the Academy of Rome summa laude and was promoted to priesthood. On April 16, 1618, under the leadership of Kinney Pavilion, 22 missionaries, including John Tong, Deng Yuhan, and Luo Yagu, were dispatched in the name of the Portuguese government to set sail from Lisbon to the east.

On July 15, 1619, John Tong and his parishioners arrived in Macao and were housed in St. Paul's College. As soon as the missionaries set foot on Chinese soil, they began to study the Chinese and Chinese dialects and culture, even with the goal of mastering the official dialect of Beijing. These Western monks followed the customs, took off their monks' robes, changed into Confucian clothes, lived in Chinese-style houses, and devoted themselves to the study of Chinese classics and ethics, looking for the fusion point of Eastern and Western cultures. In the process of interacting with celebrities in the government and the opposition, these Western missionaries, who were familiar with astronomy, geography, and Chinese classics, naturally won the favor and trust of Chinese literati and doctors, and thus achieved their goal of spreading the faith. However, some fanatical missionaries believed that Matteo Ricci was too accommodating to the Chinese, affecting the "purity" of Catholicism and developing Catholics too slowly.

After Matteo Ricci's death, he began to change Ritchie's missionary line, adopted radical missionary methods, resolutely rejected Confucianism, and strictly forbade Chinese parishioners to worship heaven, ancestors, and Confucius, arousing the disgust and suspicion of people in society, resulting in the "Nanjing Teaching Case", and the missionaries were expelled, leaving almost no place in Chinese mainland.

At that time, when the Ming Dynasty was suffering from internal and external troubles, the brave soldiers of Manchurian Nurhachi "cannot be resisted unless they are firearms and chariots". The imperial court sent people to Macao to buy cannons from the Portuguese. The missionaries stranded in Macao, in the guise of military experts, accompanied by artillery, were able to enter the interior.

In the summer of 1622, John Tang changed into Chinese clothes, changed his German name "Adam" to the similarly pronounced "Tang", "John" changed to "John", and officially named John Tang, and the character "Daowei" was published in Mencius's "Looking at the Road but Not Seeing" to go north.

He arrived in Beijing on January 25, 1623. After John Tang arrived in Beijing, he followed the example of Matteo Ricci and catalogued the mathematical and astronomical books he brought from Europe and submitted them to the imperial court. The scientific instruments they brought with them were displayed in the residence and Chinese officials were invited to visit them.

John Tang was appreciated by the court officials for his knowledge of mathematical astronomy. Soon after he arrived in Beijing, he succeeded in predicting the lunar eclipse that would occur on October 8, 1623.

In September 1624, he accurately predicted a lunar eclipse. A Roman method for calculating lunar eclipses was also used to calculate the distance between the Beijing meridian circle and the Roman meridian circle. To this end, he wrote two treatises on solar eclipses, which were printed and distributed to various officials and presented to the imperial court.

The Chinese Missionary Society gave him the task of studying the Chinese language and Confucianism, mathematics, astronomy, and missionary work only incidentally. He studied in Beijing for four years, and with the help of Li Zubai, an official of the Qin Heavenly Prison, wrote a book in Chinese about the Galileo telescope, "Telescope Theory", the first to introduce the latest European inventions to China, and played a considerable role in the subsequent calendar reform.

John Tang talked to Wei Bao very speculatively, because after he brought the telescope he made to Wei Bao, Wei Bao seemed to be very familiar with the telescope and put forward a lot of suggestions for improvement.

"Mr. Wei, please wait a minute, I'm going to call my teacher, Mr. Jinnige, to meet you, as well as a few of my good friends, they are all very good at all kinds of science, and I am really happy to meet a person like you who is proficient in Western studies in the Ming Dynasty." John Tang said to Wei Bao very politely.

Wei Bao was in the middle of it, smiled and nodded: "Then trouble Mr. John Tang, I also want to know you learned scientists." ”

John Tang was very happy to hear Wei Bao call them scientists, and immediately went to invite Jinnige and the others, who were observing the moon on the stargazing platform. John Tang felt close, mainly because Wei Bao seemed to be very familiar with the geography of Europe, and he didn't need to tell Wei Bao the specific location in detail, Wei Bao seemed to already know.

The most important thing is to see that Wei Bao has a noble temperament, and he must have an extraordinary family background, and Wu Xuexia next to Wei Bao, even foreigners can see at a glance that she is not an ordinary woman.

I am naturally happy to meet a Ming Chinese with a noble status like Wei Bao, and to be so respected by the other party.

Wei Bao is the same, Wei Bao thinks that if he can really recruit a group of scientists who are familiar with astronomy and geography, metallurgy, machinery, chemistry, and ammunition science to the Tiandihui Academy of Sciences, it can greatly accelerate the development of the Tiandihui Academy of Sciences!

Although Wei Bao is not very much regarded as a scientist of this era, it is better than him alone.

"What did you say to that foreigner? I don't understand. Wu Xuexia smiled and said to Wei Bao: "If you are so familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, you don't have to worry so much about the scientific examination." ”

Wei Bao sweated, I just put down the matter of the scientific examination, aren't you not opening which pot to mention? Can you still have a pleasant chat?

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