Chapter 158: Shangguan Diqiu
Qiu Yunyi, a doctor of the Hanlin Academy, was talking on the way to Runzhi's farewell, and learned that Runzhi's housekeeper Shangguan Diqiu was very proficient in the strange geography, history, and customs of white-skinned and blue-eyed, so he immediately told Emperor Yongzheng the truth.
This Emperor Yongzheng recently received many strange gifts from a group of white-skinned and blue-eyed envoys.
These gifts are also very strange, those white-skinned and blue-eyed people have been dancing for a long time, and they have not yet figured out why.
Because Emperor Yongzheng saw that this white-skinned and blue-eyed person was dancing very cutely, he thought that these things were used for stage drama props, so he sent them all to the court drama troupe to use them as props.
Everyone in this court drama looked at these strange things, and they were also very curious, because according to the lack of tired props in Peking Opera, considering that they could not be used at all, they all sent them to everyone and used them as their own children's toys.
So these things that these white-eyed and blue-skinned people paid tribute to were all used as toys by many members of the theater troupe for their children to play with.
I don't want to be one day, when the drama troupe was acting for the 60th birthday of Liu Xingya, the father of the Ministry of Rites, at the home of the Ministry of Rites, the head of the drama troupe who participated in the acting, the family lived nearby, and the relationship with the Ministry of Rites Shangshu family was very close, and the children of the two families also played together.
Yin'er, the child of the Ministry of Rites, was more domineering, and when he saw the new and strange toy of Lu Er, the child of the head of the drama troupe, he felt very curious and fun, and he also wanted such a toy to play with himself, seeing that Lu Er had been playing and not giving himself a chance to play, so Yin'er simply snatched it directly from Lu Er's hands, and Lu Er was definitely unwilling, so the two children scrambled.
Liu Xingya, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, saw that the two children were desperately snatching something like a strange bastard, so he rushed to stop the two children.
I only heard the sound of "pop", and I don't know what shot out of this wooden toy, and suddenly shot at this Liu Xingya, who fell head-on before he could speak, and his head was bloody.
This Liu Xingya twitched twice, rolled his eyes, and showed infinite horror in his eyes before he died.
Now, this Liu Xingya's father's 60th birthday suddenly became Liu Xingya's own sacrifice day.
The whole scene was a mess.
Fortunately, because Tian Wenjing lived not far from here, when he heard that the wind was quiet, he immediately united with the general of the Royal Forest Army and led him to rush over, collected all the mysterious toys, and detained everyone present.
After carefully interrogating what Zhong Rao had seen and heard, Tian Wenjing and the others noticed that it was originally a ghost caused by this wood-like thing.
The death of Liu Xingya, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, shocked everyone in Kyushu in an instant.
Emperor Yongzheng was also surprised.
In order to prevent this from happening again, at the suggestion of Tian Wenjing, he began to retract the stick-like weapon in the hands of these theater troupes.
By this time, these white-skinned and blue-eyed people had already left.
From this time on, the Yongzheng Emperor was extremely interested in the living environment of these white-skinned and blue-eyed people, and the geography, humanities, history and customs in which they were located attracted the idea of the Yongzheng Emperor, so he began to order the Hanlin Academy to start compiling the Great Book of Writers.
The so-called big book does not refer to a certain book, but tens of thousands of books of different categories, according to different classification standards, so that all the different categories of books are collected and sorted together, for future generations to consult and use very useful exquisite books, this aspect is more representative of the Kangxi Emperor participated in the compilation of a big book, that is, "Siku Quanshu".
For safety reasons, Emperor Yongzheng put all these bastard-like mysterious hidden weapons in the basement of the palace, prohibiting anyone from touching them privately, and violators will be killed.
It is quite complicated to start the compilation of this big book of geography, humanities, history, customs, and human feelings.
It took a lot of effort for many of these scholars of the Hanlin Academy to collect the relevant information of Kyushu and some of the subject countries and countries around Kyushu, and to use these materials, so that the editors of these Hanlin Academy could compile these 100 orders and eight volumes of relevant information books in an instant.
But apparently these things alone are far from enough, because these white-skinned and blue-eyed bastards are like hidden weapons, and in other uncivilized places, some strange populations have begun to carefully study such special hidden weapons.
In the eyes of Emperor Yongzheng, this will surely be a huge threat to the people of Kyushu in the future.
That's why Emperor Yongzheng thought that he had to compile a big book as appropriate.
This large book will be used to guide the people of Kyushu to many trade contacts in these places, and can also enable some specific Kyushu people to understand the special geography, cultural customs and other factors of these places in a timely manner, so as to better serve the trade and trade between the two places in the future.
This Emperor Yongzheng heard that there was a person named Shangguan Diqiu, who was actually very familiar with the customs, geographical and cultural conditions of the white-skinned and blue-eyed Rao, so he directly asked the emperor to announce the emperor's dictation, and ordered him to directly follow the father-in-law's sedan chair and directly enter the palace to talk face-to-face with today.
During this period, the Yongzheng Emperor asked:
"I've heard that you know a lot about white-skinned and blue-eyed people, I wonder if there is such a thing?"
This Shangguan replied in a loud voice:
"Emperor Qiqi, the grass people have indeed studied this white-skinned and blue-eyed person for decades, and they have been circulating with dozens of such white-skinned and blue-eyed countries for decades, and they do have an understanding of these places and these white-skinned and blue-eyed people."
This Yongzheng Emperor then said:
"In that case, I don't know if you know this"
Emperor Yongzheng sent people to give things to people with white skin and blue eyes like sticks.
This Shangguan Diqiu just glanced at it and told Emperor Yongzheng:
"This is a white-skinned and blue-eyed shooter that uses our Chinese gunpowder technology to produce a new kind of gunpowder, which can hit the enemy a few hundred meters away, and put the enemy to death, so that more talents in Kyushu can study it carefully, such a weapon is inevitable for us Kyushu to fight with white-skinned and blue-eyed people in the future."
This Yongzheng Emperor said:
"Although your words are reasonable, but this kind of strange trick is ingenious, and it is a secret weapon, which is despised by our Kyushu gentlemen, and it is just a shell of our gunpowder in Kyushu, and it is just like this, and it still needs to be considered in the long run."
This Emperor Yongzheng then continued to ask:
"I am ordering the Hanlin Academy to urgently compile a "Complete Book of Geography, History and Humanities", and urgently needs relevant materials, now please go to the Hanlin Academy to take up your post temporarily, I will give you a special mansion, and temporarily reward you with 1,000 taels of gold, if you make outstanding progress, I will appropriately increase the reward."