Chapter 23: The Anger of the Cat Slaves
"First of all, what is the earth?"
Yang Xin stood at the table solemnly and said to the white paper on the wall.
Then he drew a circle with a brush.
"You don't need to say this, the red-haired people have already said it, they also said the latitude and longitude, I have also seen the map of all countries they painted, it is said that there is also a map of all countries they drew in the palace, which is more detailed and clear. They also say that someone drove a boat around the earth, and even the America you blew last time they said that there is no 3,000-foot waterfall as you said! ”
Wang Wanqing protested.
Xu Guangqi is not at home, but he has no other relatives around him, Chen Yujie has always been with him, and he can have the final say in the Xu Mansion.
"Shut up, I'm talking now!"
Yang Xin knocked on the table in front of him with a small bamboo pole.
"Brother Yang, you still go around the earth and talk directly about the sun, moon and stars, we are not mountain village husbands, there are many missionaries I have seen below, Miss Wang's grandfather studied under Li Zhuowu, Li Zhuowu also met with Matteo Ricci six times to distinguish between the East and the West, you won't know this, Miss Fang is not only the daughter of Mr. Jinghan, but also a well-educated family, and I think of these things are also clear."
Chen Yujie said.
"It's okay, what Yang Gongzi said is also novel."
Miss Fang said gently.
Obviously, she really didn't know that the Ming Dynasty scholars did not accept these things brought by the missionaries like Xu Guangqi, in fact, the northern Confucianism was fiercely resistant.
Her father is probably such an old stubborn.
"Look, Miss Fang is still sensible!"
Yang Xin said.
Then he reintroduced the earth in Miss Fang's speechless gaze.
Wang Wanqing was dissatisfied at first, but she was quickly attracted and sat there with her cheeks held in high spirits and listened to the lecture like a good student, while Miss Fang couldn't take her eyes off it, and soon even Chen Yujie began to find paper notes. After all, the missionary knows a limited amount, and many things cannot be known as clearly as Yang Xin, even if Yang Xin actually has reservations, such as Australia, which has not yet been discovered, he will definitely not talk about it, in case it is not good if it is known by the missionary.
He only speaks of what is known.
But even if it is known, it is far more than the missionaries.
The latter were not really scholars, they were missionaries and did not spread astronomy.
Yang Xin is really describing the world to these people, the sea, the land, the islands, the vast Sahara Desert in North Africa, the endless Amazon rainforest in South America, the wildebeest galloping in the Serengeti savannah, and even the giant elephant birds in Madagascar, the frozen Antarctic continent, the fantastic Arizona Grand Canyon, and the Himalayas stretching for thousands of miles.
All of this made the three listeners feel like a dream.
In particular, his introduction also includes the general history of each place, and even mixed with various peels.
This guy is not good at being a teacher, he just has no clue what to say, but what he says is too novel, and soon all three listeners are led astray, forgetting that the original purpose is to listen to him talk about the composition of the solar system. Then he talked like this for more than an hour, and Yang Xin finally forgot about it, and even the content was so crooked that it was completely out of the geographical category, and became a collection of all kinds of insider jokes.
"Burn the witch?"
Chen Yujie said stunned.
"Yes, in fact, most of them are innocent, for example, if someone fails to propose marriage, they can collude with the people of the Inquisition to frame them as witches, and then arrest them and burn them to death, and they should still be burned, not only witches, but anyone who is judged as a heretic by the Inquisition. Including scholars who preach that do not conform to the ideas of the Holy See, they just burned one twenty years ago, and our Wang Gen, He Xinyin, Li Zhen and others will definitely be tied to the stake and burned to slag according to their standards, and they even burned all cats to death back then! ”
Yang Xin said.
"What, cats are so cute, why do you want to burn cats!"
Wang Wanqing exclaimed.
"They believe that cats are the embodiment of witches, and witches can turn into cats."
Yang Xin said.
"This young lady, please don't believe his lies!"
With a strange shout, the door of their room was pushed open, and a European dressed in a Ming costume walked in first, looking at Yang Xin with unfriendly eyes, followed by an old man in a cyan official uniform, with long legs on his chest......
"Dragon Priest!"
Chen Yujie stood up and said respectfully.
"Swear by your hands, according to your Bible, that you have not burned witches, cats, cats, heretics, and swear to your Yahweh that Bruno was not burned in Campo de' Fiori in Rome."
Yang Xin stretched out his hand and said.
"I admit that in the past there have been people who have misunderstood doctrine......"
Priest Long said.
"Have you burned it, so I asked if it had been burned? Lay your hand on your scriptures and say to your Yahweh, that your Inquisition does not exist, that you have never burned heretics, that you have never burned cats, that you have never sold indulgences, that you can go to heaven for money. You have never preached the holiness of not bathing, you have not consecrated a queen who has not bathed for forty years and has worms on her body, you have not banned the celestial movements of Copernicus, you have not condemned and burned Bruno, a scholar who supports heliocentrism, as a heretic. Please swear to Yahweh, these are all fake, they don't exist! ”
Yang Xin pointed at him arrogantly.
"I ......"
What else did Priest Long want to say?
"Please swear, yes or no!"
Yang Xin said.
Priest Long took a deep breath.
"Yes, I admit that these things have existed, but I must state that heliocentrism is indeed heresy, and Bruno deserves it."
He said.
Wang Wanqing screamed in surprise and looked at him in disbelief, as if she was looking at an executioner, but it was obvious that her focus was not on Bruno, and she didn't know who Bruno was, she just couldn't believe that someone would burn the cute cat, and even Miss Fang looked at Priest Long in shock. It is estimated that this is also a cat slave, in fact, in addition to Hongwu and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, so far, almost all of those emperors are severe cat slave patients, and the palace of Wanli is basically like a cat nest at present.
With the emperor taking the lead, there is no need to talk about the people.
"On the contrary, heliocentrism is the closest to the truth!"
Yang Xin said.
At this moment, Miss Fang stood up.
"Gong Xu, it's not early, the little girl's house is outside the city, I need to leave!"
She saluted.
"Say hello to Mr. Jinghan on my behalf!"
Xu Guangqi in the back said with a smile.
Wang Wanqing also stood up to say goodbye, but when Miss Fang went out, she looked back at Yang Xin and said, "Young Master Yang, don't you want our two weak women to go back by themselves?" ”
"Uh, then I'll be the flower messenger!"
Yang Xin hurriedly said.
Then he also said goodbye to Xu Guangqi and the others.
Before leaving, he looked at Priest Long, whose gaze was deep and shocked, as if he were looking at a little demon.
Soon the three of them left the Xu Mansion.
"Sister Fang, why did you leave in a hurry?"
Wang Wanqing asked suspiciously.
"Silly girl, Long Huamin has long been expelled back to Macao by the Holy Decree, although in fact most of them are hidden by folk believers, even this capital can come and go freely. But Xu Zanshan is still an official of the imperial court after all, we met Long Huamin in his house, and we were very embarrassed to him and us, why don't you leave quickly and stay there? ”
Miss Fang said.
"They actually burned cats, it's crazy!"
Wang Wanqing said indignantly.
"What is this, there are many more! And they burned cats and were retributed, but the lack of cats led to a flood of rats, and eventually the plague spread by rats killed half of the people in Europe at once, which they called the Black Death, and there is still a plague from time to time to this day. ”
Yang Xin said in the back.
"How do you know that?"
Miss Fang turned around and said suspiciously.
"Well, I don't want to make up a story to deceive people, in fact I have had amnesia before."
Yang Xin said seriously.
"What does your amnesia have to do with knowing this?"
Miss Fang said.
"You can think of me as a book, the memories of the past are like turning a page, and then the present me is a new page, and these things are written on this page, but if you ask me who wrote it, then I don't know, and I don't know who turned my past. Anyway, it's all written in my book now, and I can guarantee that it's true, but please don't go back to the roots, because I don't know why. Where did I come from in life and where did I die? Why am I in this world? What does my presence mean to the world? ”
Yang Xinxin's melancholy gaze looked up at the sky at a forty-five degree angle, repeating Lu Xiucai's famous sentence.
"You're a fugitive!"
Wang Wanqing exposes his true colors.
"And it's a fugitive with a bunch of charges, but the wanted warrant for Tianjin Bingbeidao has been sent to the capital, I saw one yesterday!"
Then she said.
"I'm still your life-saving benefactor, without me you would have drowned in the canal, saying that you walked out of the cabin with a small group of fans, and then were knocked over by the tide and thrown up all of a sudden, it was like a goddess flying into the sky, as if it was like a light cloud covering the moon, fluttering like the snow of the wind, at this moment I still remember it vividly!"
Yang Xin said viciously.
"I'll strangle you!"
Wang Wanqing screamed angrily, and was about to scratch him when she turned around.
"Okay, don't make trouble both of you, it's not early, you go home first, as for you, follow me!"
Miss Fang hurriedly grabbed her and said.
"You don't think about killing people again, do you?"
Yang Xin said in horror.
Miss Fang's face turned red instantly.
"Tie him up!"
She said through gritted teeth.
"You can't do this to me, I'm innocent!"
Yang Xin retreated as fast as he could, shouting and looking vigilantly at the Fang family slaves who were coming around.
"Then shut up and follow me honestly!"
Miss Fang said.
(Thanks to book friend Jin An Mingyue, jokes about indigestion, madness in the dark, Xuanyuan noble ancestor Shu Yao Shun, 1000 tigers on the mountain, Juventus fans and others for their rewards)