Chapter 139: Opposition and Conspiracy
"Lord Wang, you go slowly, I will communicate with our colleagues in the Wisdom Pavilion as soon as possible about your proposal, and I won't let you wait too long."
"Okay, I'll go back to my house for the time being, and I'll wait for you to bring me good news."
After saying goodbye to Abdul-Jabbar, Zhao Weiji and Wang Dayuan left Abdul-Jabbar's residence together.
"Lord Wang, what did the curator do when he called you alone? Why did I see that the curator's complexion had changed a lot when you came out just now, how could I feel exhausted? ”
"I also find it strange that this curator actually told my fortune and used their astrology after he approached me alone. But he didn't figure out why, but made himself as exhausted as you say.
In fact, it didn't take too long for us to tell fortunes in his study, but he suddenly lost his strength, and I helped him to the bench and let him lie down for a while. ”
"Strange, strange."
Although the two of them couldn't figure out what was going on, they didn't dwell on the matter for too long, but rushed back to the house as soon as possible.
And here, after sending away Zhao Weiji and Kendi, Jabbar immediately turned home, because the previous divination results were too shocking and consumed a lot of his energy, so he didn't dare to tell Zhao Weiji the truth of the matter.
Because the divination showed two completely different results, the result obtained through the astrolabe corresponding to the eight characters of the birth date was that Zhao Weiji should have died fifteen years ago, and that time happened to be the last night of stargazing with his master.
But the card divination showed another result, and that was that the man would become a figure like King Alexander, and the two diametrically opposed contents were too shocking.
And I don't know why, when Jabbar divined these two results, the experience in his body was instantly emptied, so that he passed out directly at that time.
But this made Jabbar understand how his master died, after his master's death, after he carried his master's body back to the city, he did not bury it immediately, but found a doctor to conduct an examination on his master's body, and the results of the test were very unexpected.
The doctor told him that his master had died of exhaustion, and that his whole body had no injuries or diseases, but suddenly the whole person seemed to have lost his vitality, and the whole person was exhausted.
And the reason why Jabbar is not like his master this time is because he is still young, after all, he is not yet fifty years old, and he is basically in the prime of life.
But this time he still felt extremely tired, so when he returned home, he immediately went to the bedroom, and then fell into bed and fell straight to sleep.
Even his servant, when he called him to eat at night, did not wake him up in any way, and if it were not for the slight snoring of his sleep, the servant would have almost thought he was dead.
When he woke up, it was already noon the next day, and he had basically slept for nearly a day.
Since the master had woken up, the servant had to wait for the master to wash up, but when the servant entered Abdul-Jabbar's room with water, he saw a terrible picture.
That is, Abdul-Jabbar, who originally had only a small amount of gray hair, turned gray overnight, and his entire head was gray.
And not only that, the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, as well as the nasolabial folds on both sides of his mouth, also deepened overnight, and the same goes for the forehead lines.
This whole person feels like he has aged ten years overnight.
The servant who was ordered to jump by the scene in front of him directly weakened his hands, and the basin fell directly to the ground, and the water was scattered all over the ground.
Jabbar, who was still sitting on the edge of the bed, sleepy-eyed, was startled by the loud sound of the basin falling to the ground, and he was about to get up and get angry when he saw the servant staring at him as if he had seen a ghost.
"What the hell are you?"
"No, it's you." The servant replied in a trembling voice, "Your face, and your hair." ”
Since he hadn't looked in the mirror since he had woken up, Jabbar had no idea what was going on with him, and when he heard the servant's words, he hurried to find the mirror.
As a result, when he saw himself in the mirror, his reaction was stronger than that of the servant, and he did not believe that the person in the mirror was himself.
But the reality is cruel, when he feels his face with his own hands, he has to admit that the face in the mirror is his own, because his hands can clearly feel the changes in his face.
Then he pulled a few of his own hairs casually, and the result was that many of the hairs he pulled off were white.
"I don't think that Master's death was not simply a death of exhaustion, but he still overdrew his life, and I thought that because I was still young and did not return to Allah, I still spent maybe ten years of my life. Zhao Weiji, what kind of person are you? ”
Although he looked like he was ten years old for no reason, but life had to go on, and after Jabbar asked the servant to refill a basin of water to wash up, he went to the Wisdom Hall.
He needed to spread out Zhao Weiji's proposal in its entirety, so that the entire senior management of the Wisdom Pavilion would know about it, and then make a decision.
It's just that when making decisions, trouble arose, that is, almost the entire high-level of the Wisdom Pavilion was unwilling to come up with any academic successes to exchange with Zhao Weiji, and they even wanted to stop those volunteers who were not engaged in translation.
It would be nice to have a translation, and there was no need for other scholars to do the same.
This kind of thing is actually a common phenomenon, but the high-level in the wisdom hall will appear so uniformly, which is a bit unexpected.
In fact, this is also normal, after all, although the Wisdom Pavilion is an academic institution, it is always funded by the government, and serving the government is the real purpose of the Wisdom Pavilion.
Since it is for the official service, it is natural to give priority to the interests of the official, and a lot of academic knowledge in the wisdom hall here is basically a taboo for the imperial officials that cannot be leaked, which is why Abdul-Jabbar's proposal will be opposed.
It took Abdul-Jabbar to become the director of the museum in just seven years, and in addition to his academic excellence, he also had an excellent performance in dealing with interpersonal relationships and his ability to deal with the authorities.
Of course he knows what everyone here thinks, but he has his own way.
In fact, no one in this world is stupid, Zhao Weiji looks down on the so-called knowledge that needs to be kept secret by the Arab Empire, and Jabbar will not give it to him.
Abdul-Jabbar put forward the idea at the meeting, that is, they themselves will screen those volunteers in advance, and the talent and knowledge that will never be able to drain will be withheld.
Anyway, Zhao Weiji did not mention what kind of talents and knowledge can be selected in the requirements, so they can exploit such a loophole.
There is also the fact that there can be a part of the spies mixed in this group, and the role of these spies is to steal knowledge that may be of great help to the Empire.
Swapping and stealing go hand in hand, so as to achieve the effect of maximizing benefits.
Abdul-Jabbar's proposal was naturally welcomed by the entire high-level of the Wisdom Pavilion, because they also knew that Xinhua City's technology was too tempting, and if they were to give up like this, they really had no way to do it.
And now that they have such a way to get the best of both worlds, they naturally have no reason to object anymore.
Since there was no objection from the top management of the Wisdom Pavilion, the matter was reported to the royal family, and with Jabbar's prestige in the royal family, as well as the support of all the high-level leaders of the Wisdom Pavilion, and the perfection of the plan, the royal family naturally passed the entire plan.
After the plan was adopted, Jabbar's side began to implement it.
At the same time, Zhao Weiji is also walking according to his plan.
The first step in his plan was to send the sorted out books and all the royal ones to the Black Pearl first. He has his reasons for doing this.
It's not that he's worried about the people here in Baghdad, but he's not worried about the situation on the peninsula as a whole. In fact, the Arab Empire today is not as powerful as it was three hundred years ago.
Today's Arab empire is deeply divided, and the royal caliphate is no longer able to control the entire vast empire.
In addition to the rebel areas, there are a number of other areas that have effectively become independent. It just so happens that there is such an area in the southern part of the peninsula.
Moreover, the port of Khomeini is still very close to this area, which gives Zhao Weiji reason to believe that if they complete the whole process, everything will be transmitted in Baghdad and then on the road, it is inevitable that they will be intercepted.
After all, gold, talent, knowledge, these treasures are not coveted by hostile forces.
So as early as the first day of transporting the books out of the warehouse, Zhao Weiji had already sent someone to quickly rush back to the Black Pearl to find helpers. At the same time, fortunately, the two requirements put forward by Zhao Weiji before and after made the senior management of the Wisdom Pavilion have been discussing, so before the results came out, the whole thing was not publicized to the whole of Baghdad, which also helped Zhao Weiji buy time.
Just after Zhao Weiji finished this matter, news also came from the Wisdom Hall, they agreed to Zhao Weiji's two proposals, and had already selected the entire "study abroad" team, as long as Zhao Weiji signed the agreement here, they could go.
On the day of the signing ceremony, a grand ceremony was held in the Wisdom Museum, in which part of the books of the Library of Alexandria and the cooperation with the Great Song Dynasty were all announced in the form of prayers.
After the prayer was completed, it was Zhao Weiji's turn to sign a cooperation agreement with Jabbar Muhammad, the director of the Wisdom Museum.
However, before signing the agreement, Abdul-Jabbar asked to see the books, but he didn't expect to get such an answer from Zhao Weiji: "The books have been loaded and shipped away." ”