Li Mi never thought that he would be inspired by Xiang Mu's Mansion, and he had a flash of inspiration, and after all, he had a new direction for investigation.

Of course, it is said that it is a flash of inspiration, but in fact, it is not, if Li Mi calms down, sooner or later he should have imagined it, but when Xiang Mu said this, Li Mi was also inspired.

At that time, Japan was still in the Muromachi shogunate period, which was the Warring States period that was often boasted about in later generations of Japanese films, television and comics.

The Wako were composed of fallen nobles who were driven out of the shogunate, as well as samurai, ronin, thieves, thugs, poor people, etc., mixed with some or most of the pirates, as well as traitors of the Ming Dynasty.

If you look at their ingredients, you can see that Kaoru Asakusa is unlikely to absorb this kind of knowledge from the ground if she wants to understand and use the principle of aperture imaging so skillfully.

In other words, there must be someone behind who understands these physics and optics and is teaching Kaoru Asakusa!

As pirates, they don't have much access to, and if they go to the shore, they can only go back to places like Japan or the Ryukyus, and they can't learn anything.

They are not welcome on the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and unless they sneak in, they can only be beaten when they come up.

Therefore, the most contact they have with should be those merchant ships that are also at sea, or the envoy ships and exploration ships that come to Daming for cultural exchange and dissemination!

In other words, the person who taught Kaoru Asakusa is most likely an outsider, neither Japanese nor Ming, so it can only be a Francophile or a red-haired ghost!

Although Xiang Mu is also a very curious person, he is not Jian Dingyong, he will not stay in suspense overnight, seeing that Li Mi is leaving, he hurriedly grabbed Li Mi, Li Mi is in a hurry, and can only explain to Xiang Mu truthfully, Xiang Mu suddenly realized, and let Li Mi leave comfortably.

Li Mi hurriedly returned to the county office, Jian Dingyong was still having dinner at this time, and when he heard Li Mi say this, he hurriedly gathered all the officials and scribes of the household and began to search the household registration booklet of the household.

Suzhou is an important town in the south of the Yangtze River with a dense population, and Wu County is also a large population, and there are many outsiders.

However, the Ming Dynasty can be called the most backbone dynasty in history, they will not be as flattering as later generations, and people who become vagabonds in their own country are also sought after here, even if it is just to learn English, and these foreigners are offered as treasures.

Ahh I am the world of China, the country of all nations, the king of all countries, you and other barbarians, only worthy of kneeling and kowtowing, who will give you confidence, whether you are a white-skinned ghost or a red-haired ghost, they are all ugly ghosts, it would be good for you to come to my Great China to find food, and you want courtesy?

Therefore, the treatment of these ghost guys in the Ming Dynasty was not as good as imagined, although they were also given temporary household registration, but after all, it was only temporary.

Jian Dingyong didn't expect Li Mi to come with clues so quickly, and all the manpower in the household was mobilized, and he even sent someone to Changzhou County next door to retrieve the list of foreigners over there, and it was soon placed in front of Li Mi.

Li Mi looked at the long list, on which were written the translated names of foreigners, as well as their motherland, what they did to come to Daming, the deadline for staying, etc., which was also very detailed.

Although their identities are mentioned in these pamphlets, it is not possible to record all the knowledge and skills they have mastered, so it is impossible to judge who knows physics or optics from the pamphlets.

However, Li Mi is not without direction, he remembers that Xu Guangqi, an official of the Ministry of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, is a Catholic, and he also joined forces with Matteo Ricci and others to translate many Western popular science books.

At that time, cultural and scientific exchanges were not through maritime merchants, let alone emissaries, but mainly through missionaries.

Therefore, it is very likely that the people who have this knowledge are the missionaries in the city of Suzhou!

As a result, the scope of candidates has narrowed down a lot, and Li Mi singled out all these people, just two pages away.

But even so, the key question remains, according to Li Mi's theory, then these people are likely to have such knowledge, and how to determine who has something to do with Kaoru Asakusa?

Although there are only a dozen people, these ghosts are very grouped in the Ming Dynasty, and they often communicate with each other.

If they are all arrested at once, and they are too mobilized, and the social impact is not good, it will be fine, and the county government will send a large number of people, which will also make Asakusa Kaoru escape in advance.

Just when Li Mi was embarrassed, a name jumped into Li Mi's field of vision, Li Mi's eyes lit up, he pondered for a moment, his fingers focused on the name, and said to Jian Dingyong: "My lord, pack up your hands and prepare to arrest people, it's him!" ”

Jian Dingyong didn't expect Li Mi to be so sure, because the time they have been in contact with them is not short, and even he, the magistrate of the county, knows that Li Mi often talks about evidence is king, and without evidence, even if it is reasonable to infer it, he should not act recklessly.

But this time Li Mi was so determined, and Jian Dingyong couldn't help but look at the name carefully.

"Levi, whose real name is Emmanuel?" Jian Dingyong really couldn't see anything special, and couldn't help but be confused.

As mentioned earlier, foreigners at that time wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty to make a living, they had to take the initiative to learn Chinese, they learned all kinds of etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, in order to get close to the scholar class, even eating, drinking and having fun had to imitate, each of them had a nice Chinese name, it is not surprising.

Ricci, Guo Jujing, Luo Ruwang, Julius and John Tong were actually Chinese names for foreign missionaries, who took off their monk's clothes, changed into Confucian clothes, grew their beards and hair, and took the initiative to make friends with literati and doctors, in this way, to spread the teachings and develop believers.

This person's Chinese name Li Wei is also decent, but his real name is very problematic!

In Catholicism or Christianity, Emmanuel is a very sacred name, and later transliterated as Immanuel, which means that God is with us.

In the Gospel and in the book of Kings, the prophet Messiah prophesied that their God would send down a sign, a miracle, a virgin who would give birth to a son, and everyone would call him Emmanuel.

Before Jesus was born, God also prophesied that Joseph would tell Joseph in a dream that the virgin Mary would give birth to a son and that everyone would call him Immanuel.

So, Emmanuel is a divine name, and as a missionary, you should know the stories and legends of the Bible, how could you use that name!

The only explanation is that this person is not a real missionary, or in the capacity of an orthodox missionary, doing the business of spreading cults!

In later generations, there were also many cults, which were inhumane, brainwashed people, claimed to be omniscient and omnipotent, and gave themselves all kinds of sacred names in order to confuse others.

After Li Mi explained these explanations to Jian Dingyong, Jian Dingyong was also surprised, because they didn't know these at all, Li Mi's little catcher was too unbelievable, as if there was nothing he didn't know!

At this time, missionaries did not go deep into the lower classes to spread the doctrine, because the people at the lower levels were not well educated and could not understand their gods, so they usually came into contact with the scholar class.

In other words, only literati doctors would have such a clear understanding of these missionaries, and Li Mi was not one of those noble literati doctors, so how did he know this?

Jian Dingyong didn't know anything about this, but he was finally able to understand why whether it was Chen Heguang, Song Zhiwei, or Xiang Mu and Wu Weizhong, these people were so favored by Li Mi, this young man really had too many surprises and too many mysteries that people couldn't see through!

As soon as Li Mi became the chief arrester, he immediately made such great progress, even if some people questioned his qualifications, who had ever questioned his ability? Who would question his abilities!

And in view of the fact that Emmanuel is very likely to harbor Kaoru Asakusa, Li Mi also brought a lot of catchers, let them go into battle with knives, and asked the autumn and winter girl to retrieve the antique gun, and then went to the east of the city with Jian Dingyong to arrest people!

This antique flintlock pistol is struck with a flint to create a spark, into which the spark falls into the *, which inspires* and shoots a bullet.

Although it is more advanced than the arquebus, it is not possible to successfully activate it in one go, and sometimes it is necessary to constantly pull the trigger and click several times before it can be ignited smoothly.

This kind of old antique needs to know how to maintain, otherwise the anvil will rust or pollute, and it will not be easy to hit the spark.

Even so, with this old antique gun, Li Mi also has a lot of confidence, because the other party is a missionary, and knows some modern science, and is not involved with the pirates, all kinds of signs show that this person is very likely to have a firearm, if there is really a conflict, the brothers of the saber are obviously very dangerous.

Kaoru Asakusa and those Japanese thugs robbed and slaughtered the prison, which has made these officials talk about the tiger's color, and this time they have arrested people in the past, the brothers are also frightened, and they must give these officials enough security, so Li Mi did not hide it anymore, but hung the musket on his waist, and the Qi family knife was inserted horizontally on the back waist, and gently pressed the handle of the knife.

Jian Dingyong knew that Li Mi was Wu Weizhong's apprentice, and it was not surprising that he had such a sophisticated firearm, although the rules were a little overstepping, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Sure enough, as soon as the musket came out, the brothers calmed down a lot.

"We always catch a firecracker, it's good now, the female thief can't escape, and she can finally avenge her brothers!"

The firearms of the Ming Dynasty are well-known in the world, and Bi Maokang, a weapons expert at the end of the Ming Dynasty, once said that the people who are most afraid of China are also firearms, and this strongman is the inventor of the flintlock pistol of the Ming Dynasty, and he called the flintlock pistol a self-generated firearm.

However, this weapon master was only admitted to the Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, and at the moment it is estimated that he does not know where he is unknown.

Gossip is not mentioned, only that after Li Mi hung up the old antique flintlock pistol, many fast catchers also had confidence, and their morale was greatly boosted, Li Mi and Jian Dingyong glanced at each other, nodded, and set off.

The night gradually deepened, but the city of Suzhou became more and more lively, silk and bamboo singing and dancing, the sound of beauty continued to echo, Li Mi looked at the lights in the distance, took a deep breath, and strode out.