The director of the Wisdom Pavilion can be said to be a legendary figure, not only did he rise from an ordinary scholar to the position of curator in seven years, but he also created a lot of research results.

This person can be said to be the first person to study the civilization of the Far East, and he has translated a large number of works of the Central Plains over the years since he entered the Wisdom Museum, especially his accurate translation of "The Art of War", which has always made him favored by the upper echelons of the empire.

However, in addition to being a scholar, he also has a special status, that is, he is an astrologer and a descendant of the legendary Canaanite astrology.

It's just that he hasn't done any astrological activities for more than ten years, even including stargazing at night. The reason why this is so is not because he himself hates astrology, but because something happened more than ten years ago.

It happened fifteen years ago, when he had just finished his entire astrology studies from his teacher, who took him on a stargazing session similar to an exam.

It was supposed to be just a relatively ordinary stargazing activity, but his teacher died during that stargazing activity, and since then he has completely abandoned stargazing and began to study the culture of the Central Plains, and then became a great scholar.

But now, fifteen years later, he has picked up astrology again.

In fact, the reason why he picked up astrology again was just another coincidence, and this coincidence was the upcoming meeting with Zhao Weiji.

Originally, because of the matter of book translation, their Wisdom Museum needed to have a formal contact with Zhao Weiji, and when the translators were solicited, the registration of many scientists made the curator have a strong interest in Zhao Weiji and the Xinhua City behind him, so he decided to have a personal contact with Zhao Weiji first.

And the time of contact is about tomorrow.

Originally, it was just a meeting, and the nature was still private, so there shouldn't be anything wrong. But that's not the case.

The night before the meeting, the curator, who should have fallen asleep according to his daily schedule, has not been able to sleep today, and a strange emotion has been in his mind since the sun set, and it has been haunting him and making it impossible for him to sleep.

This strange emotion was the same one that haunted him on the day of his master's death, except that he didn't take it seriously that day.

However, because he did not take this emotion seriously that day, his master unfortunately died that night.

So when this sentiment recurred, the curator decided to revert to the astrology he had given up for years, because he realized that this time it might be to unlock the secret of his master's death.

Thinking of this, he put on his coat and stepped out onto the balcony, ready to look up at the starry sky he hadn't seen again in fifteen years.

Because Master died inexplicably in stargazing, he never looked up at the stars in the night sky at night for the next fifteen years.

One of the important reasons why he chose to study hard, and even chose the extremely difficult Central Plains culture and Chinese characters, was that he wanted to use these to divert his attention and make his night occupied by this knowledge, so that he had no time to think about the dark night sky.

But today, the strange emotions of fifteen years ago finally gave him the courage to face the night sky again, and when he raised his head, he saw a scene of the night sky that he would never forget, and it also made him finally understand the words of the master before he died: "The alien star appears, and the world turns." The meaning of the first half of the sentence.

When his master took him for the stargazing exam, he completely blindfolded the curator before the exam, so that he could not see the starry sky.

Only then did he take him to the best stargazing spot near Baghdad to prepare for the exam. However, after arriving at the stargazing point, his master saw the starry sky before uncovering his eyes, and was shocked by the difference in the starry sky, and inexplicably entered the near-death stage.

Therefore, when the curator heard the sound of Master's accident and unfastened his blindfold, he didn't care about looking at the starry sky at all, and when he went to check on Master's abnormality, Master grabbed his shirt and said two words, the first sentence was to give up stargazing and stop looking up at the starry sky. And the second sentence is the previous one.

Although I don't know what the master saw that caused him to die inexplicably, the master, who is a master astrologer, actually wants to completely give up stargazing and astrology, which brought an incomparably shocking to the curator.

Master's last words of death at home made the curator never look up at the starry sky from that moment on, not once.

However, although he had not looked up at the stars once in fifteen years, the knowledge of astrology was still there, so he could still remember their Canaanite astrological charts.

But at this moment, why did he finally understand the first half of Master's deathbed sentence, it was because a star appeared in the starry sky, although it was not very dazzling, but it was very eye-catching, it was a star that was not in the star chart.

In the countless stargazing that night before that night, the curator had never seen this star, and this should be the alien star that Master said.

However, since he had not conducted astrological research for many years, the curator at this moment could not understand what the second half of Master's sentence meant.

However, not being able to understand what it means does not mean that the curator does not intend to pay attention to this star, because this star is quite close to his natal astrolabe at the moment.

The curator was puzzled as to why this was the case, and in order to think about it clearly, he did not sleep all night.

It wasn't until the next day that the servant reminded him that there was a guest coming to the door today, and he woke up because he had been thinking all night, so he hurriedly went to wash and change his clothes, and prepared to welcome Zhao Weiji's arrival.

However, when he was washing, he was surprised to find that the abnormal emotion had disappeared, and he didn't know when, but at this time he didn't have too much energy to dwell on this problem anymore, because the important guests were coming soon.

It didn't take long for the old man Kendi to take Zhao Weiji to the curator's house, but it was not only Kendi and Zhao Weiji, but also Wang Dayuan, because Zhao Weiji needed Wang Dayuan as a translator.

However, to Zhao Weiji's surprise, when the curator greeted them at the gate, he actually greeted them in fluent Da Song official dialect, although the accent was a little strange, but there was no doubt that it was Da Song official dialect.

"Welcome, welcome, esteemed prince of the Song Empire, Your Excellency Zhao Weiji." The curator generally said a welcome speech and bowed to Zhao Weiji.

The curator's welcome in the official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty did startle Zhao Weiji, but he quickly regained his composure and returned the salute.

"I didn't expect His Excellency the Curator's Da Song official language to speak so smoothly, it's really amazing, I don't know what His Excellency the Curator says?"

"In Lower Jabbar, Muhammad, you can call me Jabbar. I myself have studied the culture of the Central Plains, so I naturally know some official dialect of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"You've been so gracious, Lord Jabbar. Let me introduce you to some, this is my companion, Wang Dayuan. Zhao Weiji said as he motioned for Wang Dayuan to come over and salute.

After Director Jabbar saw Wang Dayuan coming to salute, he also hurriedly returned the salute.

"It turned out to be Wang Dayuan, Wang Huanzhang, I really admired you for a long time, and several Great Song businessmen who taught me the official language of the Great Song Dynasty have mentioned you to me."

Hearing that the curator actually knew his name, Wang Dayuan was a little flattered, and hurriedly said a few polite words.

After the group exchanged pleasantries at the gate for a while, the curator hurriedly invited them into the house. However, the moment Zhao Weiji entered the curator's house, the feeling of the previous night returned to the curator, which made the curator surprised.

Although he was surprised, the curator didn't show it, but took Zhao Weiji and the others into the house normally, took them to the living room, and then asked the servants to serve drinks and snacks.

At this time, the curator didn't have the heart to explore the reason for this feeling of coming back, and at this moment he wanted to understand why so many people who studied technology signed up to go to the distant Xinhua City.

So at this moment, he was no longer polite, and asked Zhao Weiji directly: "Lord, do you have a question that you want to ask the prince?" ”

"Excuse me."

"We, here in the Wisdom Pavilion, have roughly agreed to your request, as long as you have a meeting with our entire senior management in a few days and sign an agreement."

"That's a good thing."

"It's just that when we were recruiting translation volunteers, we encountered a strange thing, that is, many technical scholars who had not been engaged in translation research before have signed up to go to Xinhua City, can you give me a clue to answer this question?"

As soon as Zhao Weiji heard Abdul-Jabbar's question, his heart immediately blossomed, because his plan worked. As early as after he returned to the Wisdom Pavilion, he sent someone to quietly reveal to the technicians in the Wisdom Pavilion some information about the relationship between gold coins and cotton cloth and Xinhua City, as well as some other technical descriptions.

These are undoubtedly fatal attractions for scholars who have been dealing with technology and science all year round, so when they learn that they can have the opportunity to go to Xinhua City, of course, regardless of whether the official needs talents like them, they will sign up first.

"For your question, I can only reveal a little clue to you, that is, we in Xinhua City have a lot of knowledge beyond your imagination, and I think it is those things that attract those scholars."

If Zhao Weiji's words are said to any Arab who does not know the Central Plains, they must be convinced, but Jabbar is a Central Plains expert, although he has not been to the Central Plains, but over the years he has dealt with the merchants from the Central Plains, and he has not rarely gotten books from them, so he still has some knowledge of what technology the Central Plains has.

Judging from what he learned about the Central Plains technology, he didn't think there was anything that could attract these scholars to travel far and wide, because a lot of excellent knowledge had already been learned by the Arabs.

But just as he was thinking so, Zhao Weiji took out a small box from his pocket, and then took out a small stick with a small pimple on his head from the small box, and scratched it on the side of the small box.

With just a stroke, the stick actually burned on its own, and Zhao Weiji used the flame burning on the stick to light the candlestick in front of Jabbar.

This convinced him that Zhao Weiji's words should be true.