Where to go? Downing asked Otoyoshi Yamamoto, an old friend of the Japanese people.

I didn't expect Yamamoto Otoyoshi to have friends in Edo.

His friend's name was Yukichi Fukuzawa, a young man of 20 years old, who in 1854 joined the British Governor of Western Australia, James Bush. Stirling came to Nagasaki, Japan, and made friends with a Japanese fellow when he signed the Treaty of Friendship between Japan and Britain with the shogunate.

Unlike his brothers or the children of ordinary samurai families at the time, Fukuzawa Yukichi did not have the concept of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness, nor did he worship gods and Buddhas, nor did he love his family, and he was very envious of Otoyoshi who could run around the world. Yukichi traveled to Nagasaki to study orchidism. It was at this time that the turning point in his life was at this time. As a result of Perry's invasion of Japan, there was a growing demand for artillery tactics in Japan. In order to learn Dutch artillery technology, it is necessary to have people who are fluent in Dutch. So Yuji's brother set up Yuji to learn Dutch. Yukichi then began to visit Yamamoto Monojiro, an artillery expert in Nagasaki, and began to learn Dutch under the guidance of a Dutch translator.

The following year, in 1855, Okuhira Kazuki, who had introduced Yukichi to Yamamoto, had a discord with Yukichi and informed Yukichi to return to his hometown of Nakatsu. However, Yukichi, who had not planned to return since leaving Nakatsu, traveled to Edo via Osaka on his own. When Yukichi, who was not wealthy, arrived in Edo, he thought that Otoyoshi, the interpreter of the English, might have a chance to go to Edo, so he reluctantly spent money to send a telegram to the Edo Station of the newly established British telegraph company to report the address of his bosom guitar in Edo. I didn't expect them to really have a chance to meet again.

When Yukichi used the telegraph, he thought that this technique was the best, but he did not expect that his guest today was the inventor of the wireless telegraphy, and he was also the protagonist of the sailing of the blue ships in Edo.

This master is not just an inventor, but a ...... The monarch of the German states of Europe, Yukichi was even more afraid that his snail house would not be well entertained. However, Downing came with the goal of going deep into the lives of ordinary people in Japan, not to enjoy luxury, luxury is meaningless to him, when he bought Buckinghamshire Stole Garden, he had already enjoyed the luxury of dukedom, this kind of thing is enough to do once, who told him to have a pair of eyes that can see through the essence of things at a glance?

Tang Ning was curious about Yuji, asked about his experience, and suddenly grasped something, and then asked: "Is Lanxue found in many places in Japan?" ”

Yukichi: "Edo, Osaka and Kyoto are all available, and now they are even more popular, but listening to Brother Otoyoshi, the Netherlands is now outdated in Europe, and Europe is the world of Britain and France, right?" ”

Downing smiled: "The world of the British Empire, France is far behind, and even Prussia will surpass France in the future, because they have an ineffective monarch." Japan wants to change and learn more from the UK. ”

Yukichi: "Sir, how do you think Japan needs to change in addition to the founding of the country?" ”

Downing: "This ...... I don't know much about Japan, so I don't have any good ideas, so it's up to you. "His words are good, he only knows that the Great Qing Kingdom is going to be completely changed, what is the situation in Japan, he has just come into contact with it now, and he already feels that the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion is better than that of the Great Qing Dynasty, after all, this kind of Western learning is popular in Edo, Osaka and Kyoto, and it is much stronger than the Qing Dynasty to look down on Western learning at all, and the Great Qing Dynasty is still arrogant and kills people.

After some understanding, Tang Ning also found that although the Japanese people generally dislike foreigners, they have a strong desire to learn, and this Yuyoshi ran thousands of miles to Edo is a living example.

Yuji also expressed a strong desire to go to Europe to see**, and asked his friend Otoyoshi if he could "entrain" him out, and he was out of the way. Judging from Otoyoshi's case, in this era, if you go out, you may not be able to come back.

This is the difference between the Japanese and the Qing people, the Japanese are eager to go to Europe, while the Qing people don't need a ban, no one wants to go out, and many people still think that Europeans are all terrible ogres. Even high-ranking officials like Lin Zexu believed that foreigners' legs could not be bent, and that they had to drink Chinese tea every day, otherwise they would die of constipation. Now according to the meaning of Emperor Xianfeng, it seems that he still wants to play two tricks with foreigners, his father Daoguang Emperor died before he became the most disgraceful emperor of the Qing Dynasty because of the Opium War, and his edict asked Emperor Xianfeng not to put his spiritual position into the temple to show shamelessness in the face of the ancestors, how much Emperor Xianfeng wanted to give his father back some face, however, the general trend of the world, it is estimated that his wish not only could not be fulfilled, but his own humiliation was more than that of Emperor Daoguang.

Tang Ning didn't promise Yu Ji to take him out, I haven't had the opportunity to study abroad and open the country in the Qing Dynasty, so I will get Japanese science and technology up first, so wouldn't my Qing Dynasty be worse than the Qing Dynasty in history?

Walking through the streets of Edo, Downing saw several buildings called "Terakoya" in succession, and finally couldn't help but ask what they were. Originally, the temple house was equivalent to an elementary school, and the Japanese word for son was the same as xiao. Terakoya originated from the education of temples in the Middle Ages in Japan. At that time, the children of the samurai class were often sent to the temples in the domain to be educated. In the past, it was only for monks to learn, but later it spread to the common people, and it is still called this strange name.

How many "elementary schools" are there in Edo? In this way, elementary education in Japan is quite developed. Downing asked Fukuzawa about the education situation in Japan as a whole, and Yukichi said that there should be more than 1,000 terakoya in Edo, and it is estimated that there are more than 10,000 in Japan as a whole, and in short, basically all the men in Edo are literate. That's too high a literacy rate, isn't it? It is simply more than the British and French, and even higher than the Germans, who value education. No wonder...... It is no wonder that Japan caught up with the great powers like a rocket after the Restoration.

Is Japan's emphasis on education related to the competition between feudal domains? However, the Middle Ages in Europe were also divided, and there was no such emphasis on education. After the Industrial Revolution in Britain, due to the socialized division of labor, the emergence of a single type of work made it easier to use technology, and even caused a slight decline in the literacy rate in Britain.

Tang Ning became interested in the teaching materials of the temple house, and asked to take a look, and under the mediation of Yamamoto Otoyoshi and Fukuzawa Yukichi, he investigated the three temple houses, and found that the letters in the teaching materials occupied a very important position, and there were various exchanges such as "court training exchanges", "business sales exchanges", and "common people exchanges". There are also four books and five classics and Confucianism, but it seems that more attention is paid to geography, history and people, which seems to be quite reasonable.

Tang Ning is still more inclined to the influence of the feudal system on Japan, for example, their highest ruling officials, Abe Masahiro, Ii Naobi or something, all of them are feudal lords with actual fiefs, and they can't do it in the shogunate, they can resign and go to their own fiefdoms to live for a long time, the treatment is not much worse, but basically they will not be fatally threatened by the shogunate, so the Japanese officialdom is a fairly flexible officialdom, and there are fewer palace coups to the death. The feudal lord's sense of belonging to his fiefdom made them more willing to develop their own land, and the feudal lord's education was more developed. The Great Qing Kingdom learned to not know which immoral guy invented the liuguan system, and the chief official only knew that "three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", how could he have the heart to build a city that does not belong to him at all? There are only a few people who really regard Confucianism as a spiritual guide, and you just take a completely incomprehensible two-dimensional setting as a theory, and there will be some people who regard it as the truth, not to mention that Confucianism is somewhat reasonable.

If Tang Ning came to govern the Qing Dynasty, of course, he would not return to the era of feudalism, but it was necessary to raise the autonomy of the provinces and cities to a considerable height, which was equivalent to stimulating the enthusiasm of the "feudal lords" to build their hometowns. Well, that's the takeaway from your trip to Edo. As for the low literacy rate in the UK, it may have something to do with the fact that the British are used to letting the market decide on education. As a backward country, the Germans have a strong motivation to exert their subjective initiative, so the whole German region from top to bottom generally attaches more importance to education than the United Kingdom.

No one in this world would have guessed that this god-level scientist came to Japan to "study and observe".

Tang Ning also wanted to go to the Buddhist temple in Japan to stay for a while, and be a little Zen quiet, after all, he killed so many people in Zhenjiang, and he didn't sleep very well at night, and the killing was to save more people in the future, and kill a little more Taiping Army, and the speed of Taiping would be faster in the future, but such a good reason still couldn't let Tang Ning sleep peacefully. Buddhism is still somewhat useful, especially Zen art, which has something to do with the appeal of art.

Tang Ning went to Sensoji Temple to put on a pillar of incense, knelt down to worship the Bodhisattva, looked quite pious, Faraday was also on the side, stunned, the world knew that the Grand Duke of Windsor was an atheist. Lin Fei snatched the Leica in the hands of his adoptive father and captured an extremely precious photo of the Grand Duke of Windsor worshipping the Bodhisattva, it is estimated that there will be Buddhists in the future to use this scene to prove that the Buddha is the true God, you see, the Grand Duke of Windsor believes in Guanyin Bodhisattva. As for Tang Ning's true thoughts, no one knows.

This unexpected event reached the ears of Jing Yi Naobi, who was originally extremely unconfident in Japanese culture and Chinese culture, and was very curious, and took the opportunity to invite Tang Ning to sit at home, this master of the Japanese tea ceremony used his best tea ceremony to entertain the guests, Tang Ning really had a good relationship with Zen Buddhism, and integrated into the tea ceremony very thoroughly, and very quietly observed the extremely strict and solemn samurai tea ceremony. The originally hostile Inoi-sama subverted his perception of Europeans.

Naobu I: "It's very disappointing, but I have to ask, Europeans all believe in God, why do you worship Bodhisattva?" ”

Downing: "Faith is cheap, if you can be redeemed by just believing, how can there be so many things in the world?" I know that Buddhism is divided into Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism attaches more importance to personal practice, which is a spiritual requirement, which is more scientific than believing in God. Europe is not good at everything, Christianity is not good, and I think the spiritual cultivation tradition in Japan and China is better than in Europe. ”

Jing Yi was moved: "It turns out that we also have bosom friends in Europe, but our culture has encountered a crisis of strict zhòng, do you say?" ”

Tang Ning: "A crisis is also an opportunity, both for Japan and for China. ”

Lord Ii bowed to Tangning, "Are you willing to help Japan?" ”

Tang Ning was silent for a long time and said, "What do you think?" ”

Ii Naobi: "We want to send someone to study in Europe, please introduce you, please." I-sama bowed again.

Alas, a long, long time ago, there were no Europeans, Asians, let alone British, French, Germans, Chinese, Japanese, everyone was African. In the near future, there will be no more British, Americans, Chinese and Japanese, only earthlings. Would Downing reject a country that would be willing to be civilized? Of course not.

In exchange for Tang Ning's support, Jing Yi Naobi let him make conditions, and Jing Yi was resolutely ready to accept harsh conditions.

Downing said, "Wait for the people he sent to study to come back and continue to talk about trade," and the German Confederation would not have come to Japan to do business so early anyway. Of course, it is not possible to achieve nothing, and it is enough to make the German Confederation exactly the same as the original Anglo-American peace treaty.

In the course of continuing the conversation, Naobi discovered that Downing was not only the Duke of London, but also a shareholder of the New Netherlands East India Company, and the plenipotentiary representative of the German Confederation, which was the representative of the three major European powers, so powerful. Tang Ning smiled: "The three major powers can all be friends of Japan, and none of them are not satisfied with Russia's expansion into the Pacific Ocean, and there will be no obstacles for Japan to buy coastal defense weapons from these three countries." ”

It turned out that the Governor of Western Australia did not come to the Sea of Japan to sign a peace treaty at all, but to fight the Russians, and later he was scolded by the leader for not doing business.

Naobi Ii thought of a question: "How much silver does a big ship like the Great Eastern need?" ”

Tang Ning said: "Well...... Actually, I am a shareholder of the British East India Company, a shareholder of the Dutch East India Company, a shareholder of the British South Sea Company, and a shareholder of Temasek Capital. ”

Jing Yi Naobu: "I'm just like asking, to learn about the international market." ”

Downing: "If you want to sell it...... £500,000. ”

According to the price of rice in the market, this can buy about 250,000 quintals (stone) of rice, Japan inherited the system of the Tang Dynasty, and the feudal feuds were measured by how many quintals of rice, the most powerful daimyo in northern Japan, Kaga was able to harvest 1.3 million quintals of rice, and the Tokugawa shogunate itself had a rice output of 4 million quintals. If he can collect 2.5 million quintals of rice, theoretically his annual income can buy 10 Great Easterns. It's a pity that Europeans don't eat rice, not to mention the Great Eastern, and Japan will definitely not be able to buy the most advanced British 150,000 pound battleships. Today, Japan, a poor country, has nothing but rice that Europeans don't want, and Europeans can't sell it if they don't want it. Besides, if you talk about heroes by rice, who can compare to the Qing Dynasty, a corn town in the south of the Yangtze River will kill Japan in seconds. The Great Qing Kingdom will never be able to buy the best ship, let alone the current Japan.

Japanese porcelain is now more expensive in Europe than Chinese porcelain, but luxury goods are unlikely to be at the heart of the economy.

Sometimes, the economy is meaningless, Downing is more concerned about the bad habits of Asians who love to eat vegetarians, and said: "Lord Jingyi, you don't have to worry about Haiphong, Europe is strongly and generally disgusted with the territorial expansion of the Russians, shipping, I will soon establish a regular passenger and cargo route to Japan, and when the time comes, I will invite you to join the shares and cooperate in an equal way, my ship is not enough now, the Great Eastern will run from London to Singapore after I go back, and the second ship will run the same route from Singapore to Shanghai as the Great Eastern." There are also the United States, Australia, and Argentina to take care of. There is a question I know you have noticed, the size of the Japanese is very different from that of the Europeans. ”

Ii Naobi said a little uneasily: "Yes, it's too far away, alas, it's a racial problem for our Japanese, right?" The Chinese are also much taller than us. ”

Tang Ning shook his head: "Race is only part of the reason, in fact, people from southern China and the East Indies are also the same size as the Japanese, which is related to eating habits." Meat food is more nutritious, and China is constantly integrated by the carnivorous peoples of the north, so it is a little more like Europe. This is not only related to height, but also related to health, I will give a few examples, the most important nutrient in bones is called calcium, people who are deficient in calcium will not only become smaller, but also prone to osteoporosis in old age. Calcium in plants is difficult to absorb, while the calcium in meat is suitable for human digestion, especially in milk.

There is a substance related to hematopoiesis in the blood (B12) that is abundant in red meat foods, but not in plants, and we have investigated a large number of jù to prove that the proportion of monks who do not eat meat at all suffer from anemia is significantly higher than that of ordinary people.

One vitamin (B1) is beriberi (a systemic severe disease that can be fatal or paralyzing, not just the smoky athlete's foot) that is not found in rice, the staple food of Asians, but in meat.

Of the 20 amino acids that make up proteins, 8 cannot be synthesized by humans and must be ingested from food, and are called essential amino acids. （http：／／.）。 If you eat meat, you can easily get enough essential amino acids, but getting them from plant foods is more cumbersome, and vegetarians must eat specific plant foods (such as soybeans) or pay attention to food combinations to get enough essential amino acids. Taurine is a special amino acid with a variety of important physiological functions, which is basically only found in meat. Herbivores are able to synthesize taurine on their own, while carnivores like cats completely lose the ability to synthesize taurine. Although humans have the ability to synthesize taurine, it is worse than herbivores, so the taurine content in vegetarians is significantly lower than that of ordinary people......"

Tang Ning stopped suddenly, he found that even his translator Yamamoto Otoyoshi couldn't understand his words, hey, forget it, let's talk about it later, the scientist's mistake was made, and it was also to blame Lord Iyi, who looked like he was listening to his ears, so that he even said protein, and it is estimated that no one in the whole of Asia can understand.

In short, it's time for Asians to get rid of their predominantly vegetarian habits. In order to show his authority, Downing had to show that he was the founder of Windsor Hospital, the best hospital in the world, a professor at the University of Cambridge, one of the best universities in the United Kingdom, a chair professor at the University of Munich, one of the best universities in Germany, and the president of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the best university in Switzerland. After letting this series of titles come one after another, Tang Ning suddenly felt that he was more like a charlatan, and hoped that Lord Jing Yi would not have such thoughts.

If it weren't for the huge guy who dared to call the world number one and the magical black technology equipment inside to remind Jing Yi Zhibi all the time, he would really suspect that Tang Ning was a liar.