Hong's family is in Yingdu, and the straight-line distance between Anping is about seventy or eighty miles, but Yingdu is different from Anping, it is a small town located in the mountains, if you take the mountain road to enter, along the way around and eight turns, but there are almost two or three hundred miles, fortunately, there is still a waterway to go, first take a boat to the sea, and then enter the Jinjiang River, and then go upriver along the Jinjiang River, so that about more than three hundred miles, you will arrive at Luncang, and then abandon the boat and go ashore, and then walk another twenty miles, you will arrive at Anping. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It takes nearly four days along the way.

This kind of speed makes Zheng Sen from later generations very unaccustomed, but since he has come to this era, there is no way to rush it. Fortunately, I basically took a boat along the way, but I could also read a book. And at this time, it was already early summer, and it was a little hot, so it was much more comfortable to take the boat by water.

But now Zheng Sen is not reading the Four Books and Five Classics on the ship, but a few books on Western mathematics and astronomy that Zheng Zhilong has gotten from the Jesuits these days. In his previous life, Zheng Sen knew a little French in addition to English. However, in this era, not to mention that English and French are very different from the English and French that Zheng Sen is familiar with, and what is more terrible is that in this era. The lingua franca of Europeans is Latin. At least, scholarly writings and everything are written in Latin. Therefore, Zheng Sen couldn't understand the academic classics that could be used to add prestige to the Zheng family in Zheng Sen's plan.

Fortunately, Zheng Zhilong knew a lot of missionaries, and after deciding that he wanted to use Western studies to build his reputation, in the past few months, Zheng Sen followed a Portuguese missionary named Jose to seriously learn Latin for a few months. And his original foundation in French also helped a lot, after all, French was developed from Latin. By now, he can basically read Latin, although he is not proficient in it, but considering that the basic content of academic works of that era is no different from common sense to Zheng Sen, he can basically get it even guessed.

For example, the book "On Various Triangles" that is now spread out in front of Zheng Sen is the first book in the West to study trigonometric functions separately from astronomy. Trigonometric functions play a very important role in astronomy, navigation, and artillery, both for the imperial court that is compiling the new calendar and for the Zheng family, which is based on maritime trade. Zheng Sen decided to translate the book first, and then through it, maybe he could get Xu Guangqi's attention.

"Young Master, it's almost time to reach Luncang." A scholar walked into the cabin and said this to Zheng Sen.

This scholar was bought back by the Zheng family from the fleeing refugees, he was two years older than Zheng Sen, after arriving at the Zheng family, he re-named Zheng An, because he was smart and hardworking, he was sent to Zheng Sen's younger brother Zheng Xi as a scholar, and after two years, it is said that he read better than Zheng Zheng. Now that Zheng Sen is going to study in the Hong family's ethnology, and he also needs some people around him to take care of him, Zheng Zhilong transferred Zheng An to Zheng Sen.

"Ah, it's almost there." Zheng Sen raised his head, glanced out the window, and then began to put away all the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"Young master, I'll do it anyway." Zheng An hurriedly came up to help Zheng Sen pack up his things, sorted out the books in the same way, put them in the corresponding position of the bookbox, and then went to the side of the boat to wash the pen and inkstone and put them away. At this time, Luncang's small pier was already visible.

Although Zheng Sen didn't want to publicize it, Zheng Zhilong still prepared three servants for Zheng Sen, in addition to the scholar Zheng An, there was also a servant in his thirties named Hai Dafu, and his mother-in-law Zhang. Zheng Zhilong paid to buy a small house in Yingdu Town, and let them take care of it and take care of Zheng Sen's daily life. This Hai Dafu is said to have been a sailor on the Zheng family's ship, but later when he was fighting with Haikou, he helped Zheng Zhibao block an arrow, injured his knee, and couldn't do this as a sailor. Zheng Zhilong considered his loyalty, so he made him a housekeeper at home. This Hai Dafu is respectful in doing things, not arrogant, but never asserts himself when he has ideas. Zheng Zhilong trusted him very much, so this time Zheng Sen came out to study, and Zheng Zhilong sent Hai Dafu to Zheng Sen. However, the two of them were not on the ship at this time, and they went to Yingdu almost a month in advance. Now it is Zheng Zhiyu who took Zheng Sen back to China on the ship.

The boat docked on the dock, Zheng Zhiyu took Zheng Sen ashore, Zheng An followed behind with a bookcase, and at this time, Hai Dafu had already driven a big car and was waiting there.

"Dafu, why did you get an ox cart?" Zheng Zhiyu frowned, "What does this look like?" ”

"Uncle Osprey, I asked Uncle Dafu to prepare an ox cart." Zheng Sen replied, "Uncle Osprey, we are going to other people's territory, and we are not going to challenge others, so it's better not to exaggerate too much." ”

When Zheng Zhiyu saw Zheng Sen say this, he didn't say anything more. At this time, the boatmen also moved their luggage and everything off the boat, and put it on the cart in the same way, Zheng Zhihe looked at the cart, shook his head again, sighed, and then followed Zheng Sen and them into the cart together.

Twenty miles away, the cart walked for almost half of the day, and it was already dark when I arrived. So Zheng Sen didn't go to Hong Chengji's house to visit him, but went directly to the small courtyard that Hai Dafu bought.

The next morning, Zheng Sen got up to visit Hong Chengji, Zheng Zhiju also got up early, although when he didn't go to sea, Zheng Zhiju always liked to sleep lazy, but he still knew the seriousness of the matter.

The Hong family is the so-called family of scholars, although before Hong Chengchou, because his father died early, he was very poor for a while, so that 11-year-old Hong Chengchou had to drop out of school to buy dried tofu, but his father was also a student. Mother Fu is also from a famous family, and there are naturally a lot of rules in the family. For example, there is a rule of "getting up at dawn and sprinkling and sweeping the court". Zheng Sen waited until it was about time to have breakfast, so he took Zheng Zhiyu and Zheng An, with a little meeting gift, to visit Hong Chengjian first.

At this time, the Hong family and Hong Chengchou were already very different before they were developed, although the scale and style of the mansion were still not as good as the mansion that Zheng Zhilong felt was too small and old now, let alone the one under construction by the Zheng family, but, at least, there were already a lot of servants in the mansion, and there was also a child servant in the gatehouse. Of course, this is not relying on Hong Chengchou's Yulu, my Ming Yulu can starve to death of mice. It is estimated that this mansion mainly relies on the land properties that have defected to the Hong family's name to be tax-exempt.

Zheng Sen handed a greeting note to the concierge of the Hong family, and after a while, he saw Hong Chengjian coming out from inside.

"Zheng Sen, little friend, can be regarded as waiting for you. Hahahaha. Hong Chengjian stepped forward and took Zheng Sen's hand, "Come on, let's go in and talk." ”

Zheng Sen followed Hong Chengjian into Hong's house, walked through a small courtyard, and entered a small guest hall. Zheng Zhiyu also went back first.

"Zheng Xiaoyou, you come with me." Hong Chengjian took Zheng Sen into his study.

Hong Chengji's study is quite simple, with four white walls, as white as snow. There is a large window against the south, and under the window there is a desk, on which there are four treasures of the study, and there is a purple sand pumpkin pot with an ancient style. There were some books next to the desk, and Zheng Sen glanced at them, which were generally Confucian classics. On the other side of the desk, there are two chairs.

Hong Chengjian asked Zheng Sen to sit down and said with a smile:

"Zheng Xiaoyou, you probably don't know, I, only my best friend came, so I let him enter my study."

Zheng Sen listened and said with a smile: "Isn't this kid a Xu Ruzi, but he really doesn't dare to be." ”

Hong Chengzhen also smiled: "You deserve Xu Ruzi, but you can't deserve Chen Fan." Well, what books did you read during these times? ”

Zheng Sen hurriedly replied: "I just read the four books carefully, and I tried to finish what I didn't finish." ”

This is also the right way. The four books are the foundation for establishing oneself and becoming virtuous, and they must be carefully considered. But other books must also be read, well, the four books are like rice, without rice is not enough, other princes and history books, is the dish to eat, if not, it is not comfortable to eat. Hong Chengzhen said with a smile, "Back then, my brother, in addition to studying the four books, he also had a wide range of knowledge about the sons of the hundred schools and history books. In this way, we can broaden our horizons. By the way, Xiaoyou, most of your studies are studied by yourself, but I am afraid that no one has taught you some of the skills of taking the fame test. Well, Xiaoyou, you write a few words for me first. ”

Since the crossing, Zheng Sen has also practiced calligraphy seriously, and although he feels that it is not good, it should not be bad compared to children of this age, so he picked up the pen and wrote.

After a while, Zheng Sen wrote. He put down his pen and handed the words to Hong Chengji. Hong Chengjian took it and took a look, but saw that Zheng Sen wrote the paragraph of "The Journey of the Great Road" in the Book of Rites. Then he looked at Zheng Sen's words seriously, but couldn't help shaking his head.

"Zheng Xiaoyou practiced the character Zheng Xiaoyou by himself against Su Dongpo's calligraphy when he was in Japan, right?" Hong Chengjian asked.

"Yes." Zheng Sen replied.

Hong Chengjian listened, nodded and said: "It's no wonder, although Su Dongpo's handwriting is beautiful, it is not a good way to learn calligraphy, and it is easy to mess up your handwriting." Write something plausible out. The structure of the word Xiaoyou is obviously learned from Su Dongpo, but the way of writing this line is not Su Dongpo's, or even ...... It's completely Wild Fox Zen! Make a poor imitation! The habit of this line of writing is broken, and it is more troublesome to correct it than if it has not been practiced. I can't say it, Xiaoyou will have to spend several times the effort to change it again from stroke by stroke. Moreover, there are also requirements for the scientific examination of words, you see me, although the usual writing is a look, but when it comes to the field, it is also necessary to write the words of the cabinet style honestly. This is the rule, and you can't make a circle without rules. So Xiaoyou, I'm afraid you have to work hard to practice a piece of Taige style. Well, you learned it all by yourself, so have you learned how to make pairs? ”

"I haven't practiced it seriously, I just think that although this pair is an elegant thing, it is not really a real knowledge." Zheng Sen replied honestly.

"That's not bad for you, since ancient times, there has never been a person who has been called a great Confucian because he can make pairs. It's just that Xiaoyou rarely reads Shiwen, right? If there is no basis for pairs, how can the text be written? Well, I'll take a few joint entrance exams for you......"

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After a while, Hong Chengjian said helplessly: "Little friend, you go with me to meet Mr. Wang." Well, in the future, you don't have to think about the four books or anything, practice the words well, and practice the pairs. Now you are afraid that your ability to pair is not as good as a four or five-year-old child......"