Ji Qingwen has always liked this kind of person who understands the rules and can carry it clearly, and when he saw Tang Ruowang stepping forward to greet him, he immediately took two steps forward, bowed his hand back, and said with a smile: "Old Tang, I haven't seen you for a long time, but your Chinese is getting better and better." If I had closed my eyes, I would have been talking to a Han person! ”

Tang Ruowang said: "This is also no way. I'm going to preach here, I can't always speak Latin or Greek. I always have to say a few words in Chinese. I'm not just going to say it, I'm going to translate the Bible into Chinese......"

Ji Qingwen heard that as soon as Tang Ruowang mentioned the matter of preaching, it was endless, so he hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Okay, okay." I didn't tell Lao Tang earlier, I, Ji Qingwen, have no fate with God and Jesus, so I won't join your teaching. But I don't stop Lao Tang from preaching and others from joining the church—if I don't nod my head and I don't pay for this church, can you build it? ”

Tang Ruowang hurriedly thanked him: "Then I'll thank Lord Ji, oh no, it's Lord Ji." ”

Ji Qingwen smiled and waved his hand: "There's nothing to thank or not thank." When my brother Li Yan was away, he handed over all the dock affairs to you Lao Tang, I don't know how you helped me run it? ”

Tang Ruowang immediately nodded and said: "Whether it's good or not, I don't know, anyway, I wrote down all the accounts for Lord Ji, and I also spent a few hundred taels of silver to buy a set of drawings." I heard that the lord can use it here. ”

Regardless of the doctrine of the Abrahamic lineage, a devout disciple like John Tong is still reliable and honest in his speech, and since he has said that he has made the accounts clear, there will naturally be no moisture.

However, Ji Qingwen still had to knock Tang Ruowang, and said in a tone: "Old Tang, I can rest assured that you are doing something." But there's something wrong with your account book. It's not that you don't know Chinese, so why do you have to use foreign characters to record it? Didn't you deliberately want to hide something? ”

When Tang Ruowang heard this, he quickly shook his head and waved his hand: "No, no, no, Jesus Christ said: It is more difficult for a rich man to go to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, not to mention that he is abducted and deceived to obtain money." There is also a saying in China that 'a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way', and I don't love money, and I can't do anything to deliberately deceive the lord! This is going to hell! ”

Ji Qingwen originally just intended to tease Tang Ruowang, but he didn't expect him to say it so seriously that he couldn't get off the stage for a while.

Li Yan came over to help and said, "Okay, okay, Brother Ji will let this foreign monk go." If Brother Ji is not at ease, I can learn the language and writing of foreigners, anyway, I am also desperate for scientific research, and I am idle when I am idle. ”

Only then did Ji Qingwen find the steps to step down and said, "Okay, since even Brother Li believes in Lao Tang, I naturally have nothing to doubt." ”

After that, he quickly changed his words and said, "By the way, Lao Tang, you just said that you bought me a few drawings, what are the drawings?" ”

John Tang had been in China for a long time and was already very familiar with the style and way of acting and speaking of the Chinese, so he hurriedly changed the topic: "It is a set of shipbuilding drawings, which I asked a few Spanish parishioners to bring over." Mr. Song Yingxing was ordered by Lord Ji to discuss the shipbuilding with me several times. It's a pity that I can only build houses, not ships, and no matter how much I discuss, I can't get results. It's better to buy a set of drawings directly to ......"

Ji Qingwen was overjoyed when he heard this introduction.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the war for supremacy at sea in Europe had entered a white-hot stage, and the emerging British navy was rapidly rising, and had begun to challenge the traditional maritime hegemon, and this old overlord was Spain.

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At that time, Banya had built an invincible armada that could compete with the European powers, and roamed the oceans, and although it was defeated twice by the British, it still maintained a great advantage. This advantage had to be maintained until the middle of the seventeenth century, which was the era in which Ji Qingwen was now.

In this regard, Ji Qingwen, as a rough programmer who is not proficient in history, does not understand this situation, but only knows that Spain's current navigation technology is top-notch, and obtaining their country's ship drawings naturally has a great effect on the improvement of its own shipbuilding technology.

But what he didn't know was that Spain's shipbuilding technology had gradually begun to lag behind and could no longer represent the world's leading level. The latter are undoubtedly the emerging capitalist countries, such as Britain and the Netherlands.

It was impossible for John Tong to import shipbuilding technology from England and the Netherlands.

There is no other reason than that after a European Reformation with heads falling to the ground and flesh and blood, the entire European religious community was divided into two camps: Catholicism and religious beliefs. And how could John Tong, as a missionary of the Catholic Jesuits, bow his head and buy the latest technology from England and the Netherlands in the Protestant camp?

Such a shackle, even the open-minded Tang Ruowang could not break free, and there was no big difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty's view of the party, regardless of etiquette, righteousness and shame, and reversing black and white.

But that's all for later.

Ji Qingwen was still very happy after getting the drawings of the ship, and even put aside the matter of going to Xu Guangqi's old house in Songjiang Mansion to look for sweet potatoes for the time being.

But as soon as he saw the drawings of the ship, Ji Qingwen suddenly sighed in his heart - he crossed the specialty of the hard-working programmer before, and it was really useless to return to the end of the Ming Dynasty - this drawing, he could only understand the three views of the appearance, as for the internal structure, equipment, size and other details, he didn't understand anything, compared with some smart people in ancient times, there was no advantage.

Fortunately, the missionary John Tang was proficient in mathematics and knew some architecture, and it was not particularly difficult to understand shipbuilding drawings, so he explained to Ji Qingwen pointingly.

Ji Qingwen listened to it and half-understood, and nodded half-truthfully while listening.

When it was over, John Tang couldn't help but say politely: "Lord Ji, are the ship drawings I got from the Spanish missionaries still visible?" Don't know where to give advice? ”

Ji Qingwen just barely understood the drawings under the guidance of John Tang, so what could he teach?

But he didn't want to show his cowardice in front of everyone, and after thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly had a plan, coughed lightly twice, cleared his throat, and said, "That's it." I look at the Spanish ship...... It's pretty good. It's just that the ship doesn't seem big enough, right? ”

"Not big enough? Not big enough? Tang Ruowang almost exclaimed, "Sir, this is the latest first-class battleship in Xibaya, and it is the largest in Europe, and Sir, does it feel small?" ”

Ji Qingwen smiled: "Is this considered big?" When Emperor Chengzu sent the Three Treasure Eunuch Zheng He to the Western Ocean, the largest treasure captain was forty or fifty zhang, which was much larger than your so-called 'first-class battleship', and it was three times larger! ”

John Tang was a little surprised: "When I was preaching in Malacca and Temasek, I also heard about the Three Treasures Eunuch, but I didn't expect his battleship to be so big, isn't the lord lying to me?" ”

Ji Qingwen said: "How can that be? I didn't say this alone......"

Li Yan also interjected: "That's it." Brother Ji's printing workshop has issued a book called "The Romance of the Three Treasures and Eunuchs in the West", and foreign monks might as well buy it

Let's take a look at it and see if what Brother Ji said is the same as what is written in the book. ”

Tang Ruowang was convinced and said: "I didn't expect that China would have such a history of traveling across the ocean, and there would be such a great navigator. ”

Ji Qingwen smiled: "That's nature. China has a vast land and abundant land, and its land is about the same size as that of European countries combined, and its resources and population are much richer, and the boats it builds are naturally much larger. ”

He paused and said, "I think it's like this, it's the same shipbuilding, so let's just build it bigger." In two days, I asked Song Yingxing to come over, be conservative first, and build a ship according to twice the size of this drawing. Try to build one first, and the first one just wants to be watertight and unsinkable. As for the procurement of raw materials, you can talk about the old soup, wood, iron nails, sails, ropes, north to Liaodong, south to Nanyang, west to the Western Regions, east to Japan, as long as you need it, you can spend money to buy it. As for the shipbuilders, I think these guys on the docks are good, they watch the ships every day, and they respond to the saying 'I haven't eaten pork, I haven't seen a pig run', let them build ships here, move things on the docks, and so on, and then recruit people. ”

Ji Qingwen arranged it very properly, and Tang Ruowang felt very reasonable when he heard it, and added a few more words, and then agreed.

After staying at the Dianshan Port Wharf for a day, Ji Qingwen led everyone to Xu Guangqi's old house in Songjiang Mansion.

Xu Guangqi's old house is located in Xujiahui, downtown Shanghai in the later generations - in fact, the name of the three words "Xujiahui" is derived from Xu Guangqi. In later generations, Xujiahui was one of Shanghai's many commercial centers, and it can be described as a place full of gold, where even a 30-square-meter small house can sell for millions of yuan.

But now, Xujiahui is a large piece of farmland, although it is not desolate, but you can't see half of the shadow of the high-rise business district hundreds of years later.

Ji Qingwen inquired with a few old villagers, and then learned that the land with a radius of hundreds of acres here is Xu Guangqi's industry, and the old house of the Xu family is in the middle of this land.

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he also sighed with emotion - Xu Guangqi was considered honest among many high-ranking officials in the late Ming Dynasty, but his official position is so far, and the annual regular income plus the additional income of "taking it without harming the incorruptible" is also a large amount. However, with Xu Guangqi's vision of "opening his eyes to see the world's first person", after Xu Guangqi made so much money, he could only buy land, collect rent and eat interest, and became the most traditional feudal landlord in China.

However, it was useless for Ji Qingwen to sigh about this matter, just a little entangled, and then continued to set off towards the main goal - the old house of the Xu family.

The old mansion of the Xu family is very simple, just the appearance of an ordinary rich family.

Because it was the residence of a cabinet scholar, although Xu Guangqi was not included, Ji Qingwen did not dare to make a mistake, so he personally dismounted and stepped forward, knocked lightly on the wooden door, called the old man who was the gatekeeper in the door, and said deeply: "This old man, in Xia Ji Qingwen, came to visit. ”

The old man was older than Xu Guangqi, and he looked at Ji Qingwen for a long time with squinted eyes, seeing that he had a sense of nobility, and seemed to be an official and eunuch, so he returned the salute and said, "This ...... This gentleman, my lord has been an official in the capital for a long time, and no one here knows. Why didn't you inquire beforehand when you came to visit? I'm afraid you're going to have to run for nothing this time. ”

Ji Qingwen hurriedly said: "No." Old man, this time I was entrusted by Elder Xu Ge to come to the old mansion to find something. ”

When the old man heard this, he suddenly became suspicious: "Looking for something? We don't have anything of value here, so please come back to this gentleman. ”

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