Wanli ordered Beihai to come over with his ear, whispered a few words, and Beihai bowed out, leaving Li Quan kneeling on the ground. Li Quan peeked at the emperor nervously, only to see Wanli standing in front of the imperial case with his hands in his hands, staring at the curling white smoke in the sandalwood burner, as if he was thinking about some people and things.

After a while, heavy footsteps sounded outside, and Bei Hai came in with four powerful eunuchs of the Punishment Division. At this time, Wanli opened his pursed lips and said, "Li Quan, you are guilty!" ”

"Slave, slave," Li Quan said in fear: "What is the crime of a slave?" ”

"What is the sin?" Wanli snorted, pointed to those pieces and said: "I have already spoken in advance, all pieces must be inspected by the master of ceremonies, and the bullets that dare to speak out and win love will be sent directly to Jinyiwei and must not be submitted, what is going on?" A cold glint flashed in his eyes: "You tool that eats inside and out, how dare you commit a crime against the wind, and send these things to me in the name of the congratulatory watch!" ”

Hearing Wanli ask this, Li Quancai knew that the situation was serious, and replied in a trembling voice: "This is not a slave business." The slave maid just forwarded it, and the palace people who were in the Dongnuan Pavilion just now saw it, and it was the eunuch Hou Yi who brought those pieces to the door. The slave maid thought that they had already checked it, so they took it and presented it directly. ”

"Dare to quibble!" Wanli slapped the table and shouted: "Don't say anything about monkey eunuchs and chicken eunuchs, just say that you are the palm print of the celebrant supervisor, there is a problem with the celebrant eunuch, do you want to be responsible?!" ”

"......," Li Quan said listlessly.

"If you want!" Wanli looked at the eunuch who was standing at the head and said, "Zhou Bizheng, you know everything, what crime should this Li Quan be guilty of?" ”

The eunuch Zhou Bizheng made a difficult mistake at this time, this kind of thing can be big or small, if it is light, the emperor will definitely be angry, and if it is heavy, if Li Quan retaliates against himself in the future, he will not be able to eat and walk around. In a hurry, he came up with an idea, and replied respectfully: "It should be a staff!" "O magical scepter, heavy or light.

This is a light and heavy measure, which fell into Wanli's hands, and immediately bowed his head and said: "Just do as you say, court staff!" You fight hard for me! As he spoke, he waved his hand outward and said, "Just fight outside this door, so that those ignorant minions will have a long memory!" "The Emperor of Feelings has made a breakthrough outside the noon gate, and he must concoct it in the same way and rectify the inner court.

The reward and punishment of "slaves and maids must have a long memory" made Li Quan unable to even beg for mercy, so he could only let a few eunuchs take him down.

After a while, the leading eunuchs of the various prison bureaus in the palace were summoned and stood on the field outside the Dongnuan Pavilion.

The eunuch of the Criminal Division over there also turned Li Quan into a bare pig and was ready to be executed.

After placing everything, Zhou Bizheng remembered that the emperor just said the court staff, but he didn't say a few more times.

When I looked back, I saw Wanli standing at the door with his hands in his hands, looking at the field with a gloomy face. Zhou Bizheng hurriedly trotted over, knelt down and asked, "Dare to ask the emperor how many times the court staff is beaten?" Wanli said coldly: "Just fight, don't talk more!" ”

"Hit" Zhou Bizheng stood up and turned around to order. So the rod that had just hit Wenchen fell on the head of the eunuch again. The only thing that disagrees is that because of the worry of the queen mother who quarreled with the Xinuan Pavilion,

The emperor did not let Li Quan's chew be removed.

A dry eunuch trembled and looked at the flesh and blood of the palm print eunuch being beaten, and he was a little cowardly, so he simply closed his eyes and didn't dare to look at it. Wanli stared wide-eyed with the pleasure of revenge on the corner of his mouth, and refused to miss a moment.

In the bright room, Empress Dowager Li still heard the news, came over to take a look, and saw that Li Quan was beaten into an inhuman shape, and she was a little unsinkable and said: "Amitabha! It's hard to fight, the emperor is resting."

Wanli smiled and said, "Queen Mother, don't worry about it, there is me here!" Let's go back and rest."

Empress Dowager Li looked at her son's calm face, her nose was sour, and tears splashed in her eyes: "The emperor has an idea, the queen mother doesn't care" and went back to Xinuan Pavilion to recite the scriptures under the flock of female officials.

After sending off the Queen Mother, Wanli came back and found that the board had stopped, and the people were motionless. Immediately said angrily: "Who told you to stop!" ”

Zhou Bizheng hurriedly came over to report and said: "The emperor Li Quanji has fainted and died"

Wanli looked at Zhou Bizheng, and the narrow eyes that looked like Naizu narrowed slightly: "If you faint, you are not dead......

"Yes" Zhou Bizheng looked at the young emperor in fear, and for the first time in his heart regarded him as a real emperor.

"Do you want to be a favorite?" Wanli looked at him coldly and said.

"Slaves don't dare," Zhou Bizheng quickly knelt down and shook his head.

"I came to ask you, in the sixth year of Longqing, when the court staff was his predecessor," Wanli said quietly: "How many canes did you beat?" ”

"Back to the emperor, it's forty rods." Zhou Bizheng suddenly understood that Gonggong Li's unwarranted disaster actually did not complain at all.

"In the past, forty rods could beat my eldest companion to death" Wanli's eyes flashed with tears, but his face was murderous: "The current forty rods, but only beat him half to death, Zhou Bizheng, Zhou Bizheng, I think you want to be his companion." ”

"Slaves don't dare!" Zhou Bizheng kowtowed violently and said loudly: "Long live the Lord, I just hit a total of thirty-nine canes, and there is still a little more than forty canes!" ”

"Okay, you can't kill him, it's you who dies." Wanli said coldly.

Zhou Bizheng shuddered, responded loudly, and immediately returned outside, looking at Li Quanshi, he had woken up leisurely, and it was good, the people in the Criminal Division were not human, but in fact, it was just a flesh wound, if he went back and smeared the secret gold sore medicine made by the palace, he would be able to get up and run in less than a month.

However, Zhou Bizheng couldn't show mercy anymore, he looked at the thugs on the left and right, stepped forward and arched his hand to Li Quan, and said loudly: "Gonggong Li, it's not that the villain's subordinates are ruthless, long live the lord is asking for your life today, the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, you go all the way." Looking at the despair and horror in Li Quan's eyes, Zhou Bizheng secretly sighed: "I have been friends with you and me for many years, and my brother told them to make a little more profit, so that you will suffer less" As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the eunuch who had already prepared for the execution raised his staff and slashed at the back of Li Quan's head. Li Quan's tui kicked a few times, and he bled from seven orifices, whining and mourning

Wanli felt a little depressed in his heart, got up and wanted to return, waved his hand and said, "It's all gone."

"Slaves and maids retire" The eunuchs bowed and retreated, more disciplined than when they came.

The Criminal Division used felt to roll up Li Quanquan and transport it to the chemical field, and then the little eunuch of Xinuan Pavilion brought water and towels to wash the blood stains and broken flesh on the floor tiles.

"Companion, I have finally avenged you today......" Wanli was still standing at the door, he looked up at the sky, tears flowed down his cheeks, and said secretly: "It turns out that revenge is so simple, it's ridiculous that I have endured him for more than a few years, if you are still here, I will definitely not be ignorant for so many years......, one by one Thirteen people, including Ministry Yuanbiao, were detained again, and they were not treated as public demonstrations at noon, and they executed the court staff in the Zhenfu Division overnight. At the same time, Wanli issued a stern edict to his ministers: "As a monarch, I have the right to decide the advance and retreat of ministers: Zhang Juzheng is in charge of the affairs of the world, how can he allow me to go around one day?" The group of villains borrowed the Gangchang to say that the plan of exclusion "is to isolate me." In the future, if there are evil people who deceive the king again, they will not forgive the crime", this incident violently hit people's hearts, but the most shocking thing happened in the third watch. On this unpeaceful day, even God joined in the fun......

That night, in the Qintianjian located in the east of the imperial city and south of the Honglu Temple, Luo Mingjian, the chief of the Qintianjian, was observing the bright night sky with his assistant Matteo Ricci and his students Xing Yunlu and Xu Guangqi, who had just been erected.

There was no cloud tonight, it was a good time for observation, and the young man named Xu Guangqi, under the guidance of the teacher, pointed his camera at the moon. I saw that the charming and beautiful hard drive he was usually familiar with, but in the telescope, it became a scarred and ugly "marijuana face" and couldn't help but be frightened: "Oh my God, this is where Chang'e lives?!" ”

His teacher, Luo Mingjian, is a European with a big nose and blue eyes, but he is wearing a five-grade Ming official uniform. This undoubtedly shows that he is the master of Qin Tianjian and the Qin Tianjian of the Ming Dynasty. Let a "Xiyi," "Shengfan," be the person in charge of observing the celestial phenomena and promulgating an important part of the legislation, which no one could have imagined more than ten years ago. But now, the two Jingqin Heavenly Prisons are both run by Westerners.

All this has to start with the former Father Xavier, under the care of silence, Father Sha arrived in Beijing in the last years of Jiajing, and in the early years of Longqing, he saw the emperor "offering all kinds of Western playthings." Among them, Western musical instruments and clocks are deeply loved by the royal family. Because musical instruments and clocks need to be adjusted on time, the emperor gave him the status of a Ming citizen and allowed him to live permanently in Beijing.

Xavier was proficient in Chinese, and his attainments in Confucian classics such as the Four and Five Classics even crossed many Ming Dynasty officials, and he became a guest at various gatherings in the capital, so he met many high-ranking officials and celebrities, and even many of them had a good relationship.

Father Sha, who was a scholar of great Confucianism, noble quality, gentle and elegant, used his unremitting efforts to change the views of the emperors, officials, and even the common people of the Ming Dynasty on Westerners, proving that Europeans were not barbarians, but had the same high degree of wealth and civilization, but after more than three years of unremitting efforts by Lou, Xavier finally realized his lifelong wish, and Emperor Longqing allowed him to build a church in the capital and spread his religion. With the help of a friend, Xavier bought a property in the Xuanwu Gate and rebuilt it into a church. In the third year of Wanli, the church was completed, and looking at the magnificent Baroque style building, Xavier had no regrets in this life, and slept with a smile...... In accordance with his wishes, Father Sha's coffin was buried in the open space behind the church, where he was forever accompanied by his children to the graceful music of the organ.

Although Xavier has passed away, his life's work has borne fruit. In the past 10 years in Beijing, more than 8,000 members have been baptized by him, including many high-ranking officials and celebrities...... Again, Xavier accepted a silent exhortation or warning and controlled the number of members.

Otherwise, with him and his, curing the sick and saving people, giving to the poor, and that mature theology, it would be absolutely no problem to raise a gang of tens of thousands of people in the city of Beijing.

Xavier is very clear about his mission, which is just to let Catholicism gain a firm foothold in the Ming Dynasty, and as for the development of things, it is up to the younger generations to accomplish it. Therefore, he agrees with Shen Mo's policy of "controlling quantity and winning by quality: establishing word of mouth and winning in the long run."

And he also realized that just by learning Chinese and familiarizing himself with Confucian classics, in fact, he could not really win the respect of the Ming Dynasty, and the scholars and doctors would only regard them as envoys sent by various countries in the Tang Dynasty to learn Chinese culture. If you want to win their respect, you have to come up with tools that are stronger than them, because in the contact, he found that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were very curious about the tools they had never known, and they respected those who had mastered this knowledge, and they were able to learn with an open mind.

In Europe in this era, what is stronger than the Ming Dynasty, that is, the Science Institute Xavier turned his residence into a science and technology museum to spread science and culture, and let the preachers sent by the Jesuits explain to them the knowledge of heaven, music, art and other aspects. Many officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty were here, and they started their interest in science and studied with great interest. Guozijian, the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty, also hired these preachers to teach practical scientific knowledge to the inmates...... All this has made Catholicism have a good reputation in the Ming Dynasty, and the door has a bit of a noble color.

After Xavier's death, his policy was firmly implemented by his successor, Luo Mingjian. And Luo Mingjian himself refers to the problems in the calendar, wrote a chapter on the revision of the calendar, and submitted it to the imperial court through a friend.

Under the great attention of silence, after comparative practice, it was found that the calendar formulated by Luo Mingjian was indeed more advanced than that of this dynasty. However, the conservative forces strongly rejected the use of "Western law and calendar", believing that only the "Huangji Jingshi" of the Song Dynasty was applicable to the national calendar, so they insisted on the Huangji calendar of the Tang Dynasty.

However, two days later, the eclipses were used to predict the problem by traditional methods, and Luo Mingjian's prediction with Western methods was very accurate, which forced the imperial court to accept Western law and compile the "Wanli Almanac" and named it "Lunar Calendar" by Shoufu silently. Although it has not been implemented for the time being due to the old school's strong rejection of the "lunar calendar", it has obtained this errand for Luo Mingjian. @