Chapter 12: Tomei Pires

Yang Shen said: "Brother Lao Nian has been waiting for a long time. Let me introduce you, this is my disciple. I've come to see your Uncle Liang. ”

Zhu Houhuang immediately saluted and said, "I've seen Uncle Liang." ”

Yang Shen had already told him that this official was Liang Zhuo, the head of the Ministry of Rites. Behind him was his retinue. This meeting was also the one he pulled. Otherwise, Yang Shen would not have been able to see the envoy of the Franc machine.

Liang Zhuo smiled and said, "Brother Yang, what do you want to see the envoy of this small country?" ”

Yang Shen said: "This disciple of mine is interested in things from afar, so I just asked these envoys of the Buddha Lang to ask. ”

The messenger of the Franc machine, who was hanging to the side, kept asking the translator around him, the whispered translator, to translate the words of a few people. At this moment, he immediately spoke, and the interpreter next to him said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am the envoy of the Franco, Tomei Pires. What do you want to know? ”

Liang Zhuo's face turned cold, and he felt that this savage of the feudal kingdom was really rude.

Zhu Houhuang said: "I don't know where the country of Franc is located? ”

Tomei-Pires uttered a bird language, and the interpreter next to him said: "Francois is a big country in the western part of the Hercynian Sea. King Frangi was the lord of Guinea and the lord of conquest, navigation and trade with Ethiopia, the Arabian Peninsula, Persia and India. ”

Liang Zhuo sneered: "The tone is so big, I don't know if there is someone in the Franc machine?" How much armor do you have? Also, what Guinea, what Ethiopia, what Arabian Peninsula, how big is it, Persia and India really conquered by your country? ”

Tomei-Pires quietly listened to the interpreter relay Liang Zhuo's words to herself, but the more she listened, the more ugly his face became. A person who can become an envoy of a country is not a fool.

Portugal's family can be called a strong country in Europe, but compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is only a province. What is there to commend.

But he couldn't weaken his momentum.

Tomei Pires said in a loud voice, although Zhu Houhuang couldn't understand Portuguese, but the pride and pride in these words could be heard clearly.

The translator relayed: "Although the Franc machine is small, there are warriors who cut through the waves thousands of miles away, destroy a country like idleness, there are thousands of warships, and they are the lord of the sea, although the Ming Dynasty is big, but it is only the king of the earth." ”

Liang Zhuo sneered and said: "The little Buddha Langji also dares to call himself the lord of the sea, and I also have a treasure ship in the Ming Dynasty." ”

Tomei-Pires sneered and said something to the translator. The translator immediately relayed: "I heard in Daming that there was also an outstanding navigator in Daming, named Zheng He, who had an extremely large fleet, but now he is here. ”

Liang Zhuo sneered and said, "The shaft is rude. After speaking, he didn't say a word, and threw his sleeves away. The officials behind Liang Zhuo followed him and turned away.

Tomei-Pires said something strange, and the translator relayed: "This adult, why did you leave?" ”

Zhu Houhuang can see some clues.

Liang Zhuo's departure cannot be just summarized as annoyance and anger. Although there is a point, the scholars have always thought that overseas is just a barren land, and it is not worth mentioning. Liang Zhuo felt more that arguing with the envoys of the entire barbarian country was a loss of identity. Regardless of victory or defeat, Shilin will not say that Liang Zhuo is good and wins, but it should, if he loses, he will lose face.

Zhu Houhuang also saw that the plan would fail when Francois came to visit.

Zhu Houhuang from the arrogance of an emerging country like Tomei Pires, although he recognized the strength of the Ming Dynasty, but also hoped that the Ming Dynasty would also recognize the strength of the Franco. The trade he pursued, but an implicit requirement in trade, was the enemy.

It is the relationship between the two countries on an equal footing, not between the subject country and the suzerain.

So, Tomei Pires is trying to tout the power of Portugal. In order to deter the Ming Dynasty, the pursuit of an equal relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that Zhu Houhuang can tell Tomei Pires that it's almost impossible.

Yang Shen didn't say a word, as if he hadn't heard Tomei Pires. Only then did Zhu Houhuang discover that the plot of his teacher's Great Heavenly Empire was also quite serious.

Zhu Houhuang had no choice but to come forward and said, "He just had something to do and left first." He deliberately diverted the topic and said: "You just said that the Franc machine is thousands of miles away, how did you get to Daming?" ”

Tomei-Pires may have wanted the Ming people to know more about Portugal, to let them know that Portugal was by no means a small and wild country, and that it would be beneficial to change the situation of the Francois Mission in the Ming Dynasty.

The mission of the Franco machine is not close to grandma in Daming, grandpa is not loved, and everyone loves them and ignores them. This exchange is the first time since Tomei Pires came to Daming.

Tomei Pires begins with the beginning of the Great Voyage, with the exploits of Prince Enrique, and then with Diaz, da Gama. Then he said that he followed the Francophone fleet to Malacca and was ordered to send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty.

This history, not only Zhu Houhuang listened to it with relish, but even Yang Shen was very interested in listening to it, but there was one point, Zhu Houhuang felt very uncomfortable like Yang Shen.

It's Tomei Pires' superiority.

I don't know where his superiority comes from. Zhu Houhuang couldn't help but retract his evaluation of Tomei Pires.

He used to think that Tomei Pires was pursuing an enemy body, and it was a relatively equal relationship, but now he thinks about it wrong, this guy is extremely arrogant, although he is a little restrained in front of Yang Shen and Zhu Houhuang, but he still can't hide his nouveau riche face.

Yang Shen lost interest when he heard this, for example, for Da Gama's voyage, the matter of only four boats and more than 170 people, do you need a Daming Hanlin Scholar to pay attention to?

And when Tome-Pires talked about the Portuguese forces in Malacca, he began to exaggerate desperately, but he also said that they had tens of thousands of troops and dozens of warships in Malacca.

But are these forces in Yang Shen's eyes?

Yang Shen became more and more disinterested, and asked Zhu Houhuang, "Didn't you ask the Copernican scholar?" ”

Tomei Pires listened to Yang Shen's words and immediately asked the translator to relay it.

Yang Shen and Zhu Houhuang, who is the master and who is from, he can see clearly. Therefore, he cares very much about every word Yang Shen says.

Zhu Houhuang has not yet said. Tomei Pires spoke out. The translator relayed: "Who was Copernicus? ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Taixi scholar. Published heliocentric theory. ”

"Oh my God." The interpreter paraphrased Tomei Pires, "Whoever dares to publish this doctrine, if it is in Tessie, will be burned to death." ”

What the?

Yang Shen was very surprised.

Since the Song Dynasty, there has been a ban on folk private astronomy, but the most important thing about this prohibition is to prohibit what to say in private. As long as you don't lie and confuse the crowd or anything. Studying the astronomical calendar in private is what happened at that time.

But Yang Shen never expected that Taixi would actually burn people alive because of this. Yang Shen never imagined it.

Tomei-Pires also didn't expect that he had always wanted to improve the status of the Franc Machine among the Great Doctors, so that the Great Doctors would not regard the Franc Machine as a wild country, but because of this sentence, Yang Shen completely regarded the Franc Machine as a wild country, barbaric and ignorant.

Yang Shen was not in the mood to stay here, so he said a few words hastily. Left here with Zhu Houhuang.

Zhu Houhuang was already a little satisfied.

I don't care what Torre Pires thinks anymore. Anyway, he can be sure that with the attitude of Tomee Pires, it is impossible to reach a written agreement at all, first, he has no idea of bowing to the Ming Dynasty, and second, he does not have the idea of necessarily wanting to complete the mission, at least, the idea of conquering the Ming Dynasty in his heart is not less at all.

But Zhu Houhuang didn't care at all.

As a later generation, although I can't say that I am proficient in the history of the Age of Discovery, I should know it.

The so-called history is contemporary history, and Zhu Houhuang only needs to intercept the parts of this period of history that are favorable to him to prove his views.

As for the contact with Tomei Pires that came out this time, it was precisely to give him a process of money laundering, nay, knowledge laundering, and all his knowledge of the West in the future can be blamed on Tomei Pires.

Anyway, in the history of this world of China, Tomei Pires must be famous, a figure no less than Matteo Ricci and John Tong.

It's just that this reputation will definitely spread in Daming, and as for whether Tomei Pires knows it or not, then I don't know.