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To the north, Chen Jian led several ships along the coastline all the way north, where he was entertained by officials along the way, and defeated more than 300 Japanese pirates along the way in Wenzhou.

When I arrived in the Bohai Sea, it was already September of that year, and I had just come ashore and was treated with a higher standard than before, and I think the news of the Battle of the Ryukyus had reached the capital.

At this time, in the city of Beijing, it was a grand longevity festival, and the emperor's birthday was an extremely important festival. Although there are disasters everywhere, they do not affect the festival.

The piles of concerts made the Ming Dynasty at this time like a broken ship full of holes, if it weren't for the fact that Emperor Wanli had experienced too much since childhood, I was afraid that the psychology had collapsed at this time.

A cow in Shandong gave birth to a monster with two heads, two noses and three eyes, and the Ministry of Rites thought that this was a warning from heaven, so it hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would exempt Shandong from taxes.

Shaanxi earthquake, the border fort collapsed, and asked for money to repair it. A woman in Henan gave birth to a conjoined baby, which was a sign of calamity, and asked for free money and food.

Shanxi is in a drought, and he asked for exemption; Fujian flood, request for exemption; Nanchang flood, ask for exemption......

Nurhachi took five or six thousand people to show off his might, demanded to increase the purchase price of ginseng and asked to buy all the ginseng he carried, although he said that he was not here to fight, but only happened to bring a few thousand people to walk, but this armed march also frightened the officials and generals of Liaodi.

The defenders of Wenzhou fled without a fight in the face of 300 Japanese pirates, and wanted to be impeached by others, but they still relied on a group of tributary Fanbang fleets that happened to pass through here to defeat the Japanese pirates......

One by one, one by one, every one of them is related to the lives of tens of thousands of people.

However, the number of people who died in these things is just a number, even if there is a shortage of money and food everywhere, the 30,000 acres of farmland given to Princess Shouning are still the same. How to say that Princess Shouning was also born to Concubine Zheng Guifei, and having a good father and mother is worth tens of thousands of acres of land, anyway, the family is the country, and the country is the home.

In general, the tinkering with this broken ship is still open, so this Halloween is still extremely normal.

Shortly before this Wanshou Festival, the Wanli Emperor received news of the Battle of the Ryukyus, and when he received the news, the order to allow these people to pay tribute had already been issued.

Emperor Wanli knew better than some of his ministers where this group of people came from. He is a good reader, when he was a child, he had a queen mother and a regent, and he had nothing to do at a young age, so he had to study, and when he grew up, he retained his habit of liking reading. In addition, there is the cabinet to help deal with government affairs, and he also has time.

The emperor had already read it when the demon book case happened, and asked the eunuchs to collect all kinds of rare books on weekdays.

So when the group of people who claimed to be from far away came to Beijing last year, the Wanli Emperor quickly saw the book and was amazed by the various things depicted in it and some of the black and white photographs mixed in.

Last year, that group of people came to Beijing to cause a great sensation, just in time for the comet to come, whether good or bad, finally let the whole capital know that there is such a group of people who are good at astronomical calendars, and the noise is boiling, and the limelight overshadows the Korean envoys who asked for the canonization of the new monarch, which can be said to be unique for a while.

Because of this, the emperor sent the eunuch Xing Hong of the Imperial Horse Prison to bring some eunuchs to contact these people, learn the musket training methods of these people, and at the same time send some rare gadgets into the palace.

A few years ago, Matteo Ricci of Bonbang sent some elaborate chiming bells and some musical instruments, which at the time seemed extremely elaborate, but they were far from what these men had brought.

A prism that can disassemble sunlight into a rainbow, a small puppet that can beat its own drum by means similar to a chiming clock, a table clock with a meridian written on it, and a match that burns with a single stroke......

These things are gadgets, gadgets, very delicate and practical. And the eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Prison reported that those firearms were easy to use, not afraid of wind and rain, far superior to bird guns, and they should really find some skilled craftsmen to imitate them to equip the Beijing camp, but there was no money, and it was still a tear between the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, so they could only be put on hold for the time being, anyway, there was no big threat and enemy for the time being.

Before these people came to the capital, some officials from Fujian talked about Quanzhou's disaster relief and trade, and Gao Yu also kept saying good things about these people. The emperor knew very well that Gao Yu must have received a lot of money, but it was not a problem to get money for himself, extortion or robbery and bribes.

After this group of people came to the capital, Emperor Wanli often heard Dongchang talk about these people's actions, these first messengers seemed to be very honest, and there was nothing too out of the ordinary on weekdays, but they were curious about everything, especially some medical skills, textiles, handicrafts and other things.

However, this group of new emissaries has also caused some small things. After some conversation, Zhao Shizhen, a member of the Zhongshu House, committed suicide; Matteo Ricci, a missionary from far afar, argued with these people about astronomy, geography, or other things, and became depressed and unhealed. This group of people predicted a solar eclipse, which made some people in charge of the calendar extremely dissatisfied, and wrote to impeach them that although these people could measure the calendar, they did not use the calendar left by Yao Shun, and even if the reason was wrong, even if it was right, it could not be used.

Emperor Wanli didn't care much about these things, but he was very interested in the list of gifts sent by some of the envoys behind them, such as the deer skin that can have many children and grandchildren, which is something that some superstitious emperors hope to live long. The experience of Taizu and Chengzu comes first, and it is true that there are more children and grandchildren, and they can live longer.

Paying attention to these envoys is not only the emperor, but also Ye Xianggao, the only official of the Ministry of Rites who is really a cabinet minister at this time.

Ye Xianggao met Matteo Ricci when he was in Nanjing, and he has always admired Matteo Ricci's talent. One is that Matteo Ricci is also a great man in the Jesuits, gifted and intelligent; the second is proficient in Chinese, and can also write poems and classical Chinese; The third is that he has indeed mastered some knowledge that is advanced at this time.

However, Ye Xianggao didn't expect that the character who could already be called "Lizi" would fall ill after debating with this group of people, which made him really a little surprised.

At first, he did not have a good impression of these people, and even suspected that the eunuchs had found out specifically to deal with the bureaucrats. However, after this group of people made a comet incident that caused a sensation in the capital, it made the officials of Prince Bao's faction find a good excuse: this comet is an astronomical phenomenon, so Taizu stipulated the size of the fiefs of each vassal king when this comet came, isn't this the revelation that let King Fu become a vassal domain?

Everything can be learned and applied, and that group of Fanbang people don't care about these things at all, it seems that they really just focus on learning, and regard astronomy as a science. Even if he was accidentally caught in the political whirlpool, Ye Xianggao believed that these people were not intentionally inspired.

One day last year, Ye Xianggao also invited these people to his house. He was extremely obsessed with the Nineteen Paths, but he didn't expect that this group of people who were tens of thousands of miles away were also proficient in this technique, and said that this was a game that was handed down hundreds of years ago when the country was founded, and there were even masters among them.

Originally, Ye Xianggao didn't believe what these people said, but after playing chess this time, Ye Xianggao felt more and more that it seemed that there was really such a possibility.

First of all, although the pronunciation of many words is stiff, the rhythm is very similar; The words of these people are plausible, and if you look closely, you can recognize a lot, but the meaning has changed slightly; Although these people did not understand the words of the saints, some of the words they said were clearly vernacular versions of the words of the saints, and some of them were even word for word. What's even more weird is that the banner of these people is a yin and yang fish, if they have nothing to do with King Wen, it is really unreasonable, and some of the legends of these people make Ye Xianggao feel that it is really incomprehensible and similar.

Many things can be faked, but the inheritance of this culture cannot be faked.

Ye Xianggao felt that looking at this group of people and listening to this group of people was like looking at the haha mirror sent by these people: looking like it, but not like it, between the image and the dislike.

If you say like, the most similar place is gone; The system is not right.

If it is not like it, except for the place that should be like the most, it is like everywhere else.

So a lot of things are explained, because these people left during the rebellion of the three prisons, so they don't know the saints, but they know yin and yang; These people are obviously tens of thousands of miles away, and it is even said that they are farther away than those Francophone people, but they just tie their hair to the right side; These people can play chess and Go, obviously not beginners, but really have a preference since childhood; These people have no relatives and no reason with the Ming Dynasty, but they just helped with the disaster relief, and also wrote a "Sweet Potato Preparation Book", teaching them to fish to solve the problem of famine.

Although these people do not recognize the co-lord of the world, they recognize the tributary system of Chixian Shenzhou, which makes some originally complex issues more operational.

After a few exchanges, Ye Xianggao found that this group of people could be regarded as gentlemen. This is inevitable, these people are all selected by thousands of people, and they are all top figures when it comes to intelligence, and before coming, Jian Chen also told these people what to pay attention to, and when they came here, they were careful to do things, which naturally made some people feel good.

When it came to some things like disaster relief, governance, morality, and tax supervision, the group of people answered in a clear manner. The only thing that hasn't been talked about is the political system of the republic, even if it is a pseudo-chaebol and a republic of hidden aristocracy, but the concept of a republic is still a little too scary, and if you say it, you will not be far from getting out of Beijing. I asked a lot, and at most I said that it was the law of the three generations of Zen, and the language was unknown.