Chapter 303: Cultural Differences
The small sample of the butterfly's desktop was spliced into a number of patterns in the hands of the king, and even Shen Kuo didn't expect that his brother not only knew everything about astronomy and geography; Even the buildings and furniture are not what he won't. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Info looked at Li Jie's stunned appearance, and Shen Kuo patted him: "Silly boy, what are you still doing in a daze?" Don't call Mr. yet. ”
"Oh, oh!" Li Jie agreed, and hurriedly got up and saluted the king.
"Hahaha, are you convinced?" Wang asked with a smile.
"If I'm not mistaken, is this son the king of Zhennan that Mr. Shen said?" He had already guessed it when he came in from the king's side, and after saluting, he asked Shen Kuo.
Li commanded him to be reluctant to go to Wang Bian, mainly because he heard that Wang Bian was a young man in his early twenties, and he could be a prince at such an age, so he must have some background, and he was afraid that he would be arrogant in doing things, and he might not be able to do great things. When I saw Wang Pan today, my thoughts in my heart had changed, and when I heard Wang Pan talk about architecture, and said that this furniture is the head of the way, I couldn't help but admire it. If the person in front of him is really the king of Zhennan as he deduces, then the low-key next to the king is also different from the ordinary king and grandson.
Shen Kuo smiled: "Of course, I said it's my brother......
"Next to the king, I heard Brother Shen mention Ming Zhong many times, so he had the heart to get acquainted. It just so happened that I was going to stay in Yangzhou for a few days to help Brother Shen a little favor. I just came to pay a visit. Wang said with a smile.
"Lord Wang, I didn't expect you to ask so much. I'm just a craftsman, how can I let you come in person~" Li Jie's face turned red, and he said in a cramped tone.
"It's okay, it's okay for me to get acquainted. The door of my Zhennan Wangfu will always be open for you?! The king said with great magnanimity.
Li Jie's heart was infinitely grateful, and the king saw that this Li Jieren was quite sincere, and he didn't say much about the invitation, and got up to say goodbye. Li Jie wanted to stay, but when he thought about it, one of these two people was a prince and the other was a member of the army in Yangzhou, how could they stay in his humble mansion for a long time. Wang saw his embarrassment, so he said: "I have the heart to invite Ming Zhong to the palace to do things, and you can also discuss it with your family, after all, you want to go to Yongzhou with me, the mountains are high and the rivers are far away." It's not too much of a rush, you can make a decision after you think about it. ”
"Yes!" Li Jie bowed his head and responded in his mouth, but he had already thought in his heart, don't look at this prince young, he is not an ordinary person. I have studied hard for so many years, but I have never had the opportunity to show it, and if I can follow the king, I may be able to realize many of my ideas in construction. It's just that Wang Bi is also right, after all, it is a long distance, and he has to discuss it with his family.
"Hey, I said man, I really didn't see how knowledgeable you are...... It's just that there is one thing I don't understand, you know so much, why do you have to pay so much attention to a craftsman? Coming out of Li Jie's house, Shen Kuo looked back at the corner of the street and saw that Li Jie's figure was no longer visible, he turned his head to look at Wang who was a head taller than him and asked.
"What's wrong with the craftsman? We workers have power, hey, we workers have power! He sang two sentences sonorously, but Shen Kuo couldn't stand it, he covered his ears: "You guy sings too badly, I'm asking you seriously." ”
"Hahaha......" Shen Kuo, who is dead in the rhythm of music, doesn't understand what music law king of the Song Dynasty is, and besides, this thing can't be understood by reading the text. After laughing, Wang said, "Brother Shen, you don't know anything." Yongzhou needs talents from all walks of life to build. My king is covered with iron, and how many nails can he make? Besides, I'm all miscellaneous, and I may not be able to take out anything alone. Therefore, professional things should be left to professional people to do! ”
"Yes, you are all reasonable, I see how you solve my fake gold case in this miscellaneous science, and also, what kind of heredity do you say and what kind of cause and effect do chickens have?"
Wang was stunned for a moment, Shen Kuo hadn't forgotten about it for a long time: "Haha, that's called genetics, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse will make a hole!" It's called genetics! ”
Shen Kuo suddenly realized: "Oh, I see, you mean that the Gentile has learned badly since his ancestors." "Hahaha~" Wang laughed loudly, this is a serious but swearing word.
The two of them returned to the palace, Shen Kuo changed into official clothes, and ordered someone to prepare two sedan chairs, and returned to the cross street with the sedan chair next to the official and the king. This time, they were going to the mansion where the fake gold was found, and when they entered the courtyard, Shen Kuo waved his hand and ordered the messenger to wait in place.
Wang looked around the courtyard with his hands behind his back, and there was a water tank on the east side of the courtyard wall, and Wang looked around the water tank, and suddenly found that there were several pieces of ore in the corner behind the water tank, and there were some quicklime. He pointed to something on the ground and said, "Take these to the government."
"Why did this prince ask us to bring a few stones?" The messenger muttered in the courtyard while the king had entered the house. After a while, one after another messenger came out of the room with a jar of wine. "Why did our two bosses even bring back wine." He hugged the wine jar and muttered to the servants in the courtyard.
"This case can't even be understood by our Shen joining the army, can this little prince do it? ~" A few of the officers muttered quietly as they looked in the direction of the main house.
The things were almost collected, Wang Pan and Shen Kuo got up the sedan chair and went home, which Hui Kejun and Han Derong also came back, and they reported: There is really a workshop in Yangzhou City that makes copper products and can get a lot of copper in the near future.
Shen Kuo sent a messenger to "invite" the shopkeeper of the workshop to the government, and the shopkeeper was afraid of this, after all, in the Song Dynasty, the purchase and sale of copper products had to go through the government. The king called him for a simple purpose, that is, to ask if he had sold the copper to other customers, especially foreigners. The source of the copper and how the owner of this workshop, Shen Kuo, dealt with it, Wang Bi did not care. However, the owner of the workshop said: "Although the workshop of the grass people is not big, there are many businessmen who come and go every day. ”
This is also reasonable, not to mention that the king also wants to see what the foreigner whose ancestor has grown crooked in Shen Kuo's mouth is like.
The effort was not great, and the foreigner who made fake gold was brought up by the servants, and this person was really blonde and blue-eyed as Shen Kuo said. He looked like he was in his forties or fifties. Shen Kuo pointed to the blonde foreigner and asked the workshop owner, is this the person who bought the copper? The workshop owner nodded again and again: "Master, others may not be able to remember, how can I not remember this appearance?" ”
The foreigner was also stunned when he saw the man who sold him copper, but soon shouted something into the lobby. Shen Kuo looked at the king's side, as if asking what to do now? The king listened to a few words, which roughly meant: "I didn't break the law, so what am I going to do?" ”
“shutup!” This sentence next to the king is the most familiar and often spoken in American dramas. The Gentile shut up and stared at the yellow-skinned and black-haired man with astonishment.
Shen Kuo was also taken aback by Wang Bei's particularly powerful foreign words, he turned his head to look at Wang Bei and asked. "What do you mean?"
"Shut up!" The king explained.
Shen Kuo covered his mouth, thinking to himself what was wrong with this king, so I asked, and he actually told me to shut up. Good boy, you are the prince and now you are helping me to try the case, I will bear with it first, and then settle accounts with you when I go back to drink.
Wang Bian saw Shen Kuo stop abruptly covering his mouth with his hand, and said with a smile: "I'll tell him to shut up!" ”
"Oh!" Shen Kuo breathed a sigh of relief, and some of the officials on both sides lowered their heads and snickered.
The king asked the foreigner in English, "Where did you come from?" What's your name and how old is it? ”
When the foreigner heard the king's question in a language he could understand, surprise immediately appeared on his face, and he muttered a bunch of words. Wang Bin frowned and interrupted from time to time to tell him to speak slowly. After talking for half an hour, the king finally understood something, this man was Tulle, from Greenland, near the polar region on the edge of North America at that time. But because the weather has become hotter and hotter in the last one or two hundred years, Greenlanders' hunting and seafaring habits have changed. They crossed the southern tip of the Arctic Ocean and migrated from west to east. The last group of people arrived in the Americas and formed an urban culture. In them, the most popular gold and copper crafts. This man named Thule crossed the ocean in order to get more copper, and finally came to the Song Dynasty.
Shen Kuo couldn't understand a word of what he said to the king, so he looked left and right for a while, and looked at Thule for a while. The king asked, "Then why don't you admit that you made fake gold?" ”
Thule said with a blank face: "I didn't say that I made real gold, they just asked me to make gold, but what I made is not gold!" ”
The cultural difference was simply too great, and the king took a long breath, and Thule suddenly laughed and said, "We make copper into imitation gold handicrafts there, but we don't sell them at the price of gold, and they are very good handicrafts." Why do you think I'm a fake gold? When asked about this king, this person was right, but after all, copper is a restricted item, he turned his face and said: "You are where you are, and copper is not allowed to be bought and sold in our Song Dynasty." ”
"oh~no" Thule sighed with regret and pity. Shen Kuo glanced at Tulle and said helplessly to the king: "Look, look, he started to make trouble again." ”
The king smiled and said to Thule: "If I plead with the government and let you go, are you willing to do things with me?" ”
Thule replied with a blank face: "I don't know, the boat I was on is gone, and I can't go back to my hometown now." You Song don't let you buy and sell copper, and I don't know what else I can do. He sighed and hung his head.
"He pleaded guilty? He confessed, didn't he? It was the first time Shen Kuo had seen Thule's expression, and he asked the king excitedly.
"Brother Shen, let me tell you, this person doesn't know that he can't buy and sell copper to make imitation gold and sell it. In my opinion, it is better than this, those who don't know are not to blame, not to mention that he did not really sell fake gold. Why don't you give him to me?" Wang looked at Shen Kuo and waited for Shen Kuo to nod.
Shen Kuo thought for a while and said, what does this mean by giving it to him, probably asking me to hand this person over to him for disposal: "Give it to you?" Can people send it, too? It's okay to send you, then you'll have to tell me how he made fake gold! ”
The king smiled and turned to Thule and said, "You! You have violated the laws of our Great Song Dynasty, and according to our laws, we will expel you into the sea and leave you to fend for yourself! ”
When Thule heard this, he waved his hands in horror and said, "Trouble, trouble!" ”
"However, I have already secured you from the government, and from now on, you are my slave. You're going to listen to me in the future! All you have to do is nod your head and I'll take you away! Wang said with a serious face.
After Wang Bi finished speaking, he looked at Tulle, Tulle thought about it, if he was thrown into the sea like this, he would definitely not be able to go back, even if he went back penniless, he would still have to be a slave, since this is the case, he agreed, after all, this Song man vouched for himself. Thinking of this, he nodded wildly.
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