Chapter 14, Zheng Zhilong, the master of Western learning (3)
When he arrived at the place, he heard that the main person he wanted to see was not there, but Zhou Bofu didn't feel very disappointed, because he came out this time, discussing mathematics or something is certainly one of the purposes, but taking the opportunity to come out and indulge is a more important purpose. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is just this Zhou Bai who follows him, although he has followed him since he was a child, but he is a traitor, he must find a way to get rid of him, so he can be happy. It's just that this Zhou Bai stared at himself tightly, refusing to relax at all, and refusing to help lie, it's really hateful!
Zhou Bofu also asked Zhou Bai: "You won't tell a lie if you ask you to help?" Zhou Bai replied: "Young master, you can't lie well to your wife, how can I lie well?" "In short, this Zhou Bai has completely rebelled, which is really hateful.
Although Zheng Zhilong is not there, everyone is still interested in the manuscript he left behind. So everyone got into the car.
After entering the Zheng Mansion, Zheng Cai hurriedly picked up the wind and washed the dust for everyone, and after the feast, he arranged a place to stay. Mu Tiande asked about the manuscripts again, and Zheng Cai took them out and handed them to look at them carefully.
When the manuscript was taken out, Zhou Bofu almost laughed out loud when he saw it, and said to himself in his heart: "It's really not a loss to be a military general, take out this word and paste it on the door, it can scare a large number of ghosts to death at night!" "But the joke in the heart is the joke in the heart, and the manuscript still has to be read. Before Zhou Bofu came, he had also read the book "On Various Triangles" translated by Zheng Zhilong, and he could still understand most of the places, including the difficult annotations on it, and he also understood a lot. But now looking at this new annotation of the commentary, Zhou Bofu found that there are many things that he does not understand.
"Is there an abacus? Is there pen and ink? Zhou Bofu lowered his head and looked at the manuscript and asked.
"Yes, yes!" Someone handed over an abacus and pen and ink.
"Zhou Bai! I said, you count! "As a showman, it's always not good to plan the plate in person.
After a while, Zhou Bofu stopped and began to bite the pen in his hand.
"Isn't that right? Wu Lun is ready for you to come and see, what does this mean here? ”
Pastor Wu Lunbei hurriedly came over and looked at it, and after a while, Wu Lunbei shook his head and said, "Zhou, I don't understand this place too much, maybe, it would be good if General Zheng was at home." ”
"Where? What's the problem? Suddenly, a voice asked.
"Here, I don't understand." Zhou Bifu didn't have time to turn around and said directly.
"Is there anything wrong here?" A little head squeezed in, "Oh, here, you see, here we can change shape like this, well, it's easier to write like this......"
Only then did Zhou Bofu realize that it was Zheng Zhilong's son who was about eight or nine years old. I saw the child holding a carbon rod and writing a long list of formulas on a white piece of paper, and then sighed: "Sure enough, just like my father said, this Western mathematics is still convenient to use Western formulas." Well, you see, no problem, right? ”
So everyone looked at each other decisively.
Then Zheng Sen showed his magic powers, explaining in detail to the visiting scholars the use of coordinate axes, trigonometric curves, and how to use algebraic means to solve geometric problems in the coordinate system. The Xiucai and missionaries who were gathered around were stunned.
"Okay, that's probably it, right? No problem, right? Dunson put down the carbon rod in his hand.
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"Brother Zheng? How can you make such a difficult question so clear? Su Xiucai reacted first.
"This father taught me." Zheng Sen hurriedly replied that everything was going smoothly according to plan. Now, Zheng Zhilong has not appeared at all, but in the eyes of others, he is just a child he taught, and he has such a level, so Zheng Zhilong, as a master, is naturally even more unfathomable. As a result, Zheng Zhilong's image in everyone's hearts immediately changed. In the past, when Zhou Bofu and others heard Zheng Zhilong's name, they would often make up such a picture in their heads:
Eight feet tall, with a waist circumference of eight feet, a big black man like an iron tower, with a beard on his face, a steel needle in his roots, and two big axes in his hands, shouted from the boat over there, jumped over, and asked: "You pinches of birds, do you want to eat chaos, or do you want to eat bandao noodles?" ”
Later, I read Zheng Zhilong's translation of "On Various Triangles", so Zheng Zhilong's image in their hearts has changed a little. Although they suspected that most of the books were paid by Zheng Zhilong to make them, he didn't know much about them. But knowing that doing such a thing, even if it is paid to someone else to do it, this image is definitely not the previous category of the black old three. So Zheng Zhilong's image in their hearts immediately became like this again:
Medium stature, white skin, triangular eyes, a piece of Western eyes on the nose, holding a bill in one hand and a golden abacus in the other......
And now, Zheng Zhilong is not there, if Zheng Zhilong asks a certain staff member to receive them and discuss with them, no, it should be said that it is to explain and teach Western mathematics, they will all feel that their guess is completely reasonable. This Zheng Zhilong is a cunning person who wants to deceive the world and steal his name.
However, the current situation was completely beyond their expectations, Zheng Zhilong was not there, but he left behind a pile of esoteric manuscripts, and the one who could explain this manuscript was actually his child who was not yet ten years old. His sons are so powerful, so isn't he himself...... So in the heads of these talents, Zheng Zhilong's image has changed again.
Tall and thin, white skin, five strands of long hair fluttering on his chest, holding a scroll in one hand and a feather fan in the other, with an elegant temperament, although he is a military general, he looks more like a scholar in the past.
And Zheng Zhilong failed to welcome them in the mansion at this time, and they also felt that it was much more acceptable, after all, they were loyal to the king.
Of course, Zheng Sen's goal in this arrangement was not just to give Zheng Zhilong some prestige, Zheng Sen knew that although Western studies had a little influence in Shilin, the influence was still quite limited. The prestige that comes from this is actually stronger than the prestige of Liu Jingting's storytelling. It's just a little bit of a change in Zheng Zhilong's image and a way to get in touch with Shilin. And how meaningful are these things? As a traverser, Zheng Sen knew that with the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty more than ten years later, the prestige in Shilin, and even Shilin itself, would become worthless.
But Zheng Zhilong didn't know this. So he's going to think that these things are very, very important, very, very meaningful. And Zheng Sen, who has done such a thing, will naturally be very valued, and his voice in the family will be greater. In the original history, after Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, who insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, only pulled out a few thousand men and horses at the beginning, and most of the Zheng family's tens of thousands of troops surrendered or collapsed, and the Zheng family's wealth was almost lost. Later, Zheng Chenggong spent a lot of strength to recover some strength step by step, and the difficulties were countless. As a traverser, Zheng Sen didn't want to start from such a low starting point. In his heart, at that time, the power of the entire Zheng family must be used by him. Therefore, in the past ten years, he has to establish his prestige in the family, his own team, and even if necessary, build up a force that is enough to overthrow Zheng Zhilong at a critical moment. Therefore, for Zheng Sen, time is running out, he must become famous early, and he must take power early!
In the following days, Zheng Sen successfully turned this academic exchange meeting into a report meeting, and the daily process was basically that Zheng Sen lectured on some issues, and then others asked questions on difficult issues, and then Zheng Sen explained. After working like this for more than half a month, the entire academic exchange meeting was successfully completed, this was a united conference, a successful conference, and then, according to the practice of the Celestial Empire, of course, it was to distribute souvenirs and organize a publicly-funded tour by the way.
So each of the participants was given some small souvenirs, of course, just souvenirs, definitely not gold, silver, silver tickets or anything. It was so tacky that each of the delegates was given a beautifully carved cross made of gold, weighing a pound. What, you say this thing is golden? How can this be the same? Gold, he is money, send money directly, how vulgar is this! Aren't you insulting the personality of other people's readers? But the golden cross and the gold are two different things. First of all, it's a cross, it's a symbol of noble faith, and you see how beautifully the golden cross is, it's a work of art, isn't it? Artwork, you know? Sending art, that's the business of elegant people, can it be considered money? So, you dirt buns, it's really ...... Well, what did you say Zhang Xiucai was doing crying and laughing while hugging the cross after returning to his room? That is a good performance of piety, Zhang Xiucai held the cross, remembering the courage of Jesus Christ to save mankind...... That's why it's so moving, okay? Why do you say that Zhang Xiucai still bites the cross with his teeth? Is it obviously a kiss on the icon of Christ, this is a sign of piety!
In short, this little souvenir that fits the Catholic identity was unanimously liked by everyone, including the two missionaries. Except for this souvenir, the rest is a matter of publicly-funded tourism.
According to Zhou Bofu's idea, it is best to have a one-day tour of customs, no, no, it should be a half-month tour or a January tour of Fujian customs, of course, it can't be too long, after all, Zhou Bofu still misses his wife very much. But there were two missionaries in the group, and it was a very difficult thing. Although it is said that many missionaries are also interested in customs and sightseeing, especially those cute boys, it seems that it is not good in front of the believers. However, Zhou Bofu soon got a good news, because of some things in the church, the two missionaries did not participate in the publicly-funded tour, but had to go back first. Now for Zhou Bofu, the biggest remaining problem is how to deal with Zhou Bai, a traitor, but Zhou Bofu doesn't think it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's over, and then go home and kneel down to make a calculation, can she really take a break from herself?