"Which family's rules do you follow?" Yu Zigao cut him off and asked sharply.
"The rules established by the founding ancestor of this dynasty... aren't the Chinese army going to recruit troops? Can they still change the ancestral system? You have to help, third uncle, everyone said that you are the deputy military advisor.
The one who can speak in front of the captain of the ship..." Yu Mingyuan felt something was wrong, it seemed that things were not going as smoothly as he thought.
Yu Zigao shook his head impatiently: "Where did you hear this nonsense? What kind of deputy military advisor? Don't go out and talk nonsense! Let me tell you directly. The peace talks between the Chinese Army and the Ming Dynasty were true. It's just that after the peace talks, Quanzhou was still
It is under our jurisdiction. The rules and laws of the Ming Dynasty do not apply. We are pretty good here. Go and find out the name of Chen Butcher in Jiangnan. In order to implement these new policies there, the Chinese army has killed dozens of aristocratic families and ransacked their homes.
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Yu Mingyuan is just a rich man from the countryside. Although he has the reputation of being a scholar, he has never been outside Fujian Province. He lives in the countryside with little knowledge. He just feels that with Yu Zigao in the family, he can make the Chinese military network open to the public. At this time, he heard
He said that many people had been exterminated because of this, and he couldn't help but turn pale with shock.
Yu Zigao did not allow him to say any more, and frowned as an elder to lecture this eldest nephew who was in his fifties or sixties: "The emperor once followed the rules. Since Quanzhou is the territory of the Chinese army, we naturally have to abide by their rules. Only in this way can we
Keep the whole family safe. Regardless of this for the moment, even if the foreign soldiers who fought against the Japanese in the Jiajing Dynasty were to rob Quanzhou, what can you do? Isn't it a waste of money to deal with it? After all, the Chinese army still follows the rules, and it won't
I have violated the rules I have set. I would like to discuss this with you politely. Don't make trouble with your nose or face, otherwise you must anger them. I am now a subordinate of the ship owner, so naturally I have to abide by the rules of the Chinese Army.
As a rule, you should go back quickly and tell the Second Master to let the officials of the Chinese Army come and measure the land."
He picked up the tea cup and was about to see the guests off when he thought for a moment and added: "Major Wang Shuowang, who is currently in charge of Quanzhou, is the adopted son of the ship owner and only obeys the king's instructions. Moreover, he was born to Lu Song's mother-in-law.
Erchuanzi, who is famous for killing people without blinking an eye..."
Li Lihua is thirty-six years old this year. Due to her good nutrition and good makeup skills, she looks like a young woman under thirty years old.
She sat in front of a white fortepiano and played "Eight Songs of Xiqin" (originally titled "European Xiqin Songs Adapted to Chinese") composed by Matteo Ricci for Emperor Wanli.
Matteo Ricci wrote in the preface to "Xiqin Music": "In 1601, I, Matteo Ricci, arrived in the capital with several gifts, wanting to present them to the emperor. Among them was an exquisite clavichord, which
It is a Western musical instrument whose form is different from Chinese musical instruments. As soon as you touch it, it will make a strange sound. His Majesty the Emperor was very surprised..."
The piano presented by Matteo Ricci is a rectangular-body clavichord made in Italy in the 17th century. It was named "Tiexianqin" when presented as a tribute, also known as the Xiqin. It can be called the earliest clavichord introduced to China.
Matthew therefore became the first foreign music teacher in the Chinese court.
The sound of the piano had a sense of solemnity that was rare in the Chinese guqin. Xu Guangqi squinted his eyes and listened, and couldn't help but think of his religious and scientific teacher Matteo Ricci.
He heard this piece of music at Matteo Ricci's Nanjing residence.
Although Xu Guangqi didn't know music at that time, he was fascinated by the sounds of nature. Later, Matteo Ricci told him that the principles of mathematics can be found in the piano music. After that, Xu Guangqi began to understand the elements of geometry.
Obsessed.
At this moment, he was in the study room of Yin Feng's inner house, accepting the personal hospitality of Yin Feng and Li Lihua as a private visitor. Xu Guangqi behaved here exactly like a learned elder in his confidant.
Visiting a friend's house.
After Xu Guangqi had more contact with Yin Feng, his personal favorability for Yin Feng greatly increased. With Yin Feng, he could put aside politics and everything worldly, and talk exclusively to Yin Feng about mathematics, astronomy and world geography.
In the education system promoted by Yin Feng, the public teaching system has low fees and the model of centrally funded schools is being extended to Yin Feng's ruling areas. In these schools, mathematics education is valued almost above all else, and the teaching content covers
All thirteen volumes of Elements of Geometry.
Xu Guangqi agreed very much with this school-running policy. From the time he visited the Chinese Military School in Jiangnan, he wanted to talk to Yin Feng about this issue and wanted Yin Feng to help promote the Chinese military's school teaching system to the Ming Dynasty ruled areas.
Traditional Chinese mathematics has a long history. In the Han Dynasty, a system represented by "Nine Chapters on Arithmetic" was formed. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it reached the peak of its development.
Mathematics and higher-order interpolation methods have made brilliant achievements, which are hundreds of years earlier than similar results in the West. However, after entering the Ming Dynasty, many achievements in Song and Yuan mathematics have almost no successors and gradually declined.
Xu Guangqi once made a very incisive analysis of the reasons for this backward situation. He said: "The study of arithmetic was abolished in the past few hundred years in modern times. There are two reasons for its abolishment. One is the Confucian scholar Ju
There are real things in the world; one of them is the art of demons and illusions. There are many false words with divine principles, which can know where and where they are, but they are ineffective. Those who die from gods have no effect, but those who are real survive only after death. In the past, the saints developed and used them to control the world.
The great Dharma was once unavailable among scholars and officials, but its skills and political affairs are far inferior to those in ancient times." (Engraved preface to "Tongwen Suanzhi")
"The Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty are responsible for the practical affairs of the world", which explains the reason for the decline of mathematics in the Song and Yuan Dynasties in the Ming Dynasty. The logical reasoning method represented by "Elements of Geometry", coupled with scientific experiments, is the birth and development of modern science.
The important premise of "Elements of Geometry". In other words, the modern significance of "Elements of Geometry" is not only in mathematics, but more importantly in terms of thinking methods. Xu Guangqi once said: "This book is beneficial and can make scholars get rid of their arrogance.
Practicing it carefully, students can use its methods and develop their ingenuity, so there is no one in the world who cannot learn from it... Those who can master this book will not be able to master anything, and those who love to learn from this book will not be able to learn anything." ("Collected Works of Xu Guangqi")
?Miscellaneous discussions on the Elements of Geometry》)
In China in another time and space, it was not until the early 20th century that the imperial examinations were abolished and schools were established. Elementary geometry with the content of "Elements of Geometry" as the main content became a compulsory subject in secondary schools, and only then did Xu Guangqi's goal of "no one fail to learn" 300 years ago be realized.
prophecy.
But now Yin Feng has fully popularized mathematics education in enlightenment schools, middle schools, military academies, and government affairs colleges. This makes Xu Guangqi extremely happy.
When Yin Feng saw that Li Lihua had finished playing a song, he immediately said to Xu Guangqi: "We have prepared a piano and other Western gadgets here, as well as some fine mercury glass mirrors, and will pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor as a token of appreciation.
Our sincerity."
Xu Guangqi nodded: "Mr. Yin is determined. I will definitely bring these tributes to the capital. Now, let's talk about the school here?"
Today, the two parties in the peace talks have basically reached an agreement on the peace talks. Only the ownership of the area on the east bank of the Liao River is still being discussed in detail. In fact, everyone is waiting for the news: The Ming Dynasty's army is about to attack the Chinese army eastward. This
It is already public news and everyone is waiting for the results.
Xie Xuecheng made two more trips back and forth across the Taiwan Strait, brought back several newspapers, and rushed the preliminary peace agreement to the capital via eight hundred miles. He sent back news from the court: the cabinet, the six ministries and other officials
, are all waiting for news. If Wang Huazhen's adventure succeeds, then the imperial court will have a certain initiative on the Liaodong issue. Otherwise, the answer to the Liaodong issue can only be determined according to the conditions of the Chinese Army.
The day before yesterday, Yuan Chonghuan and Xie Xuecheng boarded the communication ship of the Chinese Army's First Taiwan Fleet and headed for the capital with the draft terms of the peace agreement between the two parties. Before that, a battalion of Yang Dacheng's 2nd Division and Luo Quanxiu's 4th Division, who supported the Liaodong battlefield
A regiment has already set off from Jilong Port in Taipei by boat. Two battalions of Li Xing's Third Division have arrived in Taiwan from Luzon Port and are replenishing supplies and will soon head north.
Yin Feng, like everyone else, is also waiting for news from Liaodong.
There are about thirty angels left in Taiwan. Since the negotiations have come to an end, Yin Feng began to send people to take these angels to visit various places in Taiwan.
Xu Guangqi came to visit Yin Feng that day to ask Yin Feng to allow the Ming imperial envoy to visit the Chinese Military Academy and arsenal.
Speaking of which, within the Ming Dynasty government, or in another time and space in China, Xu Guangqi can be regarded as the first person in the history of Chinese military technology to propose a theory of the application of artillery in war.
Xu Guangqi made many suggestions and kept elaborating. Xu Guangqi also explored various aspects such as the use of firearms in practice, the cooperation between firearms and urban defense, firearms and siege, firearms and infantry, and cavalry types.
Now the Ming Dynasty envoys can go out on the streets at will. Except for the old-fashioned guy like Sheng Yihong, almost all members of the Ming Dynasty imperial envoys went to Nancheng District. Many of them followed Zhang Ye and Zhou Xiang to watch the performance of Persian belly dancers.
Xu Guangqi didn't go to the fireworks venue in Nancheng District, but he did go shopping a lot. Walking in this urban area with a fresh flavor everywhere, he saw signs with Chinese characters and store signs with Western characters mixed in everywhere, and heard passers-by speaking Hokkien dialect.
, Hakka, Wu, Shandong, Mandarin, Portuguese, Malay, Dutch, Japanese, and local indigenous languages. At the same time, he was dazzled by all kinds of goods from all over the world, from the east to the west. Xu Guangqi felt that this city was unfamiliar.
It is also familiar. It has the unique diligence and liveliness of the Chinese people, as well as the rigor and enthusiasm of the West.
Many members of the Ming Dynasty mission have this feeling: Taiwan Port City is indeed a city built by the Chinese, but there are always some things that are incompatible with traditional Chinese cities.