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Wei yuan!

The whole of Edo, in just a few hours, everyone talked about this name, and the reason why it was able to cause such a sensation in Japan could not be simpler, because a few years ago, the "Atlas of the Sea Country" compiled by him was introduced to Japan, and the Japanese were immediately shocked to study it, and through this book to understand the advantages of the West, it was regarded as a classic work for strengthening coastal defense, especially after the visit of the black ship, it showed a scene of the government and the opposition vying to buy and read. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When everyone in Japan sighed, "The strategy of coastal defense is not good at it." At that time, Wei Yuan came to Japan with the fleet as a special envoy of the Governor's Office of the Righteous Army, and when Masahiro Abe and others learned that Wei Yuan, who wrote the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", was a special envoy of China, their attitude immediately changed and became more and more respectful.

Since they are very familiar with the Chinese, then things are easy to do, hold a banquet reception, this banquet is far grander than the original reception of Perry's fleet, of course, even without Wei Yuan, they dare not slacken, they prepared the highest level of state banquet to entertain these guests from afar, Wei Yuan and Shen Ming's subordinates, up to the captain, down to the fire, a total of more than 300 people attended the banquet. The banquet cost more than 3,000 taels of gold, which is undoubtedly extremely rare for Japan.

But after the reception banquet, business always needs to be done, that is, after the reception banquet, Wei Yuan submitted the credentials to Abe Masahiro as a special envoy, as for why he did not submit the credentials to the shogun, the reason is very simple, the Tokugawa Ieding general is a fool, Wei Yuan has a certain understanding of this through the foreign bank, in this case, naturally he can only deal with the shogunate elders.

After presenting his credentials, Wei Yuan returned to Sensoji Temple, the largest temple in Edo, and the reason why he lived in the temple was very simple, because the monks in the temple could speak fluent Chinese with a Jiangnan accent, and for many years, the monks played the role of interpreters in the official exchanges between China and Japan.

In the Sensoji Temple, Wei Yuan did not talk or discuss anything with the monks in the temple, but looked at the books in the small courtyard where he lived, and naturally saw that he had just obtained a few books written by Japanese Confucianism on Yangmingxue, and the reason why he read these books was entirely because the Han Governor admired Yangmingxue, and even specially commissioned a foreign firm to purchase Yangmingxue and other sinology works from Japan, and the reason why he sought books in Japan was entirely because Qianlong deleted or burned hundreds of thousands of books that were not conducive to the Manchu Qing Dynasty when he repaired the Siku Quanshu. This is also the reason why after he exchanged thousands of foreign guns and bandits for the "Four Libraries Quanshu" in the Zhenjiang Wenzong Pavilion, he placed it in the library as a collection and was temporarily closed to the public, because these books needed to be corrected. Now the Zhonghua Book Company in Wuchang has begun to organize personnel to re-correct the deletion and correction of the "Siku Quanshu", and the comparison is that tens of thousands of books purchased from Japan.

"Sir is reading again?"

Despite his tenure in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Jiang Litao still respectfully addresses Wei Yuan as Mr.

"I have nothing to do, just to pass the time by reading books, I heard that Manager Chen of the East Asia Ocean Company asked the fleet to transport back more than 13,000 Sinology books that he had purchased in Japan?"

Putting down the "Book of Jiyi and Harmony" in his hand, Wei Yuan asked rhetorically, because he was a special envoy, he naturally wouldn't ask about this kind of thing, but as a literati, he naturally cared about those books. These books were all requested by the Han Governor, and even before Wei Yuan came to Japan, he was instructed by the Han Governor to ask the Shogunate to open his public and private library in order to obtain the works that had been lost in China.

Wei Yuan didn't know why Han Du attached so much importance to it, in fact, he didn't know that in another time and space, in the late Qing Dynasty, during the boom of studying in Japan, I don't know how many old readers in Japan were amazed by the number of Sinology books in Japan, and the Japanese culture is fundamentally based on Sinology, and since the Tang Dynasty, Japan has purchased hundreds of thousands of books from China, and unlike China, most of these books kept in temples and famous homes are well preserved. When those international students were studying in Japan, it was a period when Japan abandoned Sinology, and when many ancient books of Sinology were abandoned, these international students bought books cheaply. Although they tried their best to buy books, their financial resources were extremely limited, and it was a personal act, so it was naturally difficult to buy them all. Now Zhu Yifeng naturally wants to make up for this regret.

Among them, there is naturally no lack of atrocities recorded by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty when the Manchus entered the customs, which was not only needed by the revolutionary party back then, but also needed by Zhu Yifeng now, whether it is to preserve and continue Chinese culture, or to do the ideological work of overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty, it is necessary to bring these ancient books of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties back to China.

Wei Yuan naturally didn't know all this, but as a reader, he naturally knew the preciousness of these books.

"The books have already been shipped on the ship, and if all goes well, when we return, the books will be sent directly to Chongming, and then from Chongming back to Wuchang."

Listening to Jiang Litao's answer, Wei Yuan said again.

"Hey, there are more than 13,000 ancient books, although most of them are reproduced by the Japanese, and so many books may be purchased in a few months.

Wei Yuan's exclamation made Jiang Litao nod approvingly, isn't it, this foreign bank is doing business with Japan on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has purchased these books, and there are many lost and unique books, how can it not make people sigh.

"Indeed, in addition to opening up the Japanese market, the most important duty of the foreign bank is to buy all kinds of books in Japan, far from the Tang and Song dynasties, Japan has purchased more than 10,000 books in China, and its envoys will buy books every time they visit the tribute to produce local products, and in the past hundreds of years, the years have continued, and the Shogunate's Momijiyama Library is a collection of hundreds of thousands of books, including many of its ancient books of Sinology and Song Dynasty that were plundered from Korea on the Korean Peninsula during the Wanli Korean War, and its successive Tokugawa shoguns are very studious, and have engraved many ancient Chinese books, such as " Confucius's Family Language", "Liutao", "Three Strategies", "Zhenguan Political Dignitaries", "Zhou Yi", "Seven Books of Wujing", "List of Great Collections", "Collective Books", etc. The Chinese books that are reproduced in Japan are called "Wakamoto". Since Tokugawa Ieyasu opened his house in Edo, its "Momijiyama Bunko" has played a similar function as a national library, not only the books shipped from China are purchased by him, but the feudal clans have also paid tribute to the "Momijiyama Shoko", for example, decades ago, the lord of the Saeki domain of Oita in Kyushu, Mori Takashi, donated more than 20,000 copies of his collection of fine books to his library for free, and there are no less than 100,000 books on sinology in his library, including many ancient books that have long been lost in Japan......

Jiang Litao's explanation made Wei Yuan sigh.

"I never thought that Japan would respect Sinology so much! At that time, Qianlong repaired the four libraries, and it took the strength of the whole country to collect less than 200,000 copies, and 38,000 copies were put into the library, which included the ancient and modern books of China, and in the land of Dongying, there were no less than 150,000 books of sinology in a red leaf mountain, which shows that ......"

The prosperity of Sinology in Japan was completely beyond his expectations, and he had not thought about it before, but after seeing the private collection of books purchased by foreign companies from the private sector, to be precise, after seeing those books, he found that thirty percent of them were books that had been "lost" in China.

In addition to being amazed, it seems to understand why Han Du felt disgusted when he mentioned the Manchu Dynasty, not to mention anything else, just his crime of destroying 150,000 books and destroying all the official historical materials of the Ming Dynasty will be difficult to atone.

"Manren is really a sinner in my China, and he should be killed!"

When he said this sentence sharply, Wei Yuan himself felt a little surprised, maybe it was just because of the heartache that those ancient books were destroyed, and he issued words of grief and indignation.

"Well, Yu Xin, don't laugh at my gaffe, it's really ......"

"Those who are not sad about Siya Mountain will be disloyal, and it is natural for Mr. to have this kind of situation!"

Jiang Litao said in a rather sighing tone, the sentence "Siya Mountain Jiashen is not sad, his people will be disloyal" came from the mouth of the Han Du, this sentence looks simple, but it fundamentally negates all the words to excuse the Manchu Qing, what is the use of "disloyal people" staying, let alone ordinary officials, even if the left and right in the palace join the army, they dare not defend the Manchu Qing anymore,

However, the reason why Jiang Litao came to visit Wei Yuan was not to talk to him about the sins of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was no objection to the crimes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which could not be atoned, and now Jiang Litao was more concerned about another matter.

"Sir, do you think the Japanese will accede to our request?"

Although there is a precedent for Jeju to enter the city, it is not an occupation after all, but only a "lease", according to the lease charter, the governor's office will pay 7,600 taels of rent to the Korean government every year in the future, which is more than double the annual tax paid by Jeju to the Korean government.

However, the current demand to Japan is different from that of Jeju, which is a lease, and although there is no time stipulated in the treaty, at least there is still some face for Korea, and as for the current situation in Japan, it is directly occupying Ezo, is it possible that those Japanese will agree?

This is the issue that Jiang Litao is most concerned about, if the Japanese do not agree, will they be surprised by diplomacy now? If it strengthens the defense of Ezo at that time, will it affect the attack of the fleet?

"If they don't agree, they have to agree, and if they agree, they have to agree!"

Closing the book in his hand, although Wei Yuan's tone seemed very flat, it was extremely domineering.

"For the Japanese, they have no other choice!"

Sneering, Wei Yuan smiled as he held the teacup.

"To be honest, if I could, I would have liked the fleet to fire a few shots, Yu Xin, do you know why?"

Looking at Jiang Litao who shook his head with a smile, Wei Yuan smiled.

"Because Westerners use cannons to subdue the weak!" (To be continued.) )