"We in Japan have always regarded China as our teacher. In your Three Kingdoms era, our Queen Yamatai, her name was Himihu, sent an envoy to meet King Cao of Wei. In your glorious Tang Dynasty, our
The emperor sent a total of twenty envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn all kinds of amazing knowledge. The most famous envoy to the Tang Dynasty was called Abe Nakamaro, and his Chinese name was Chao Heng. To this day, in Nara, the envoys to the Tang Dynasty are commemorated every year.
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"In your Song Dynasty, your emperor and our emperor no longer subsidize students studying abroad, but there are many monks like me in the two places who cross the sea to visit each other and exchange Buddhism and Zen. There are many famous Zen monasteries in the south of the Yangtze River, such as
Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou was a place of fascination for many Japanese monks at that time. By the way, it was from the Song Dynasty that your country allowed us to take away the seedlings of tea trees, and the monks planted them in Japan. Our common people
The common people can also afford tea soup."
In the early spring of the 48th year of Wanli reign, in February, the school run by Zheng's aunt and nephew in Songjiang Prefecture, South Zhili Province welcomed its fourth class of young students.
Today is the first day of school. After Zheng Haizhu arranged for Yao, who is the principal, to give them a lecture, he went to the battle in person and lectured for half an hour on the concise history of ancient China to the children who came from the households of tenant farmers and handicraftsmen in Songjiang.
After giving an overview of China's dynasties and its rise and fall, Zheng Haizhu asked Japanese monk Nagai, who had followed him north from Fujian, to tell the children about the history of the development of Sino-Japanese relations. Xu Xinsu's son Xu Yilong served as the translator.
At first, the children were full of good-natured curiosity towards this foreign monk. When they heard him praising Jiangnan and the Ming Dynasty, the curiosity in their eyes became even more intimate.
When they heard Yonghai honestly talking about the Japanese warriors who invaded Dengzhou, Liaohai and other places in Japan not long after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, solemnity and solemnity appeared on the faces of the young people again.
When Yonghai finished his story, Zheng Haizhu told everyone that Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture has now become open and closed like Yuegang in Fujian. In the future, Ming people who can speak English will be needed to serve as dentists or as interpreters for Ming merchants.
Therefore, the school will let Japanese and Thai people teach Chinese.
"Students, in our Shoukuan School, you can not only learn calligraphy from Principal Yao, piano art from Mr. Wang, Chinese language from Master Yonghai and Xu Hanlin's grandma, geometry and arithmetic from other teachers, but also
You can go to our firearms factory to learn smelting skills and artillery science. So you must not listen to the nonsense from outside, saying that our school professors are just to serve as lackeys for the European and American missionaries, to work for them, to capture children and rip out their hearts and livers.
They eat it. It's nonsense! We learn to speak Chinese because we are not the only big country in the world. If we learn their language, like Xu Guangqi and Xu Hanlin, we can see and understand that other countries besides the Ming Dynasty also have something to learn.
The purpose is to learn from the barbarians to learn skills for self-defense, and to learn from the barbarians to learn skills for self-strengthening. Next, let the two senior sisters tell you how to self-defense and self-strengthen."
Zheng Haizhu waved his hand. When the Ming army defeated Nurhachi and the Jin army in Fushun, two female students who were standing on the city wall calculating the elevation angle of the cannon barrel walked into the classroom from outside the door.
The two are now in their late twenties. After becoming famous in the Fushun battle, they continued to practice with Frankie gunner hired by Zheng Haizhu, and were regarded by Sun Yuanhua as cherished talents for the great cause of Songjiang firearms.
Sun Yuanhua asked Zheng Haizhu several times if he could not let the girls get married early. With the imitation of the Hongyi cannon brought back from Fujian, they would also bring apprentices and train local gunners. Zheng Haizhu told each other, and the two female students
Can't get it.
Compared with the sense of accomplishment of going out with the army, returning to the south to teach, and having money for every trip, the concerns of parents and the gossip of the neighbors cannot cause psychological pressure on them at all.
At this moment, the two senior sisters, with a sense of proper pride, vividly told the junior brothers and sisters how the artillery and machine guns in Fushun were more powerful than the Thunder God and Lightning Mother descending to earth, and they blasted the Jianzhou Tatars before they had time.
She cried for her father and mother, but her head was missing, and she even rotted into a pulp of flesh and blood that was worse than the swill fed to pigs.
"When we recited our merits, each of us received twenty taels of silver."
Upon hearing this last sentence, most of the freshmen in the room exclaimed in exclamation.
The children of the poor have long been in charge, and these children already have a good idea of the purchasing power of money. Twenty taels of silver can buy twenty stones of good rice, which is enough to feed a family for two years.
Zheng Haizhu looked at the clear eyes of the children and said loudly: "You must understand that because of their diligence and bravery, the two senior sisters can make more money than their parents and your parents. And they compete for more money.
You are ambitious and have accumulated great virtues, because you have protected many people like you in Fushun City. Our school may not be able to produce high-ranking officials because it does not teach how to write eight-legged essays, but Principal Yao and gentlemen
We all believe that as long as you work hard and are diligent, you will also become talents that the Ming Dynasty needs, whether on the battlefield or in the market and customs."
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After the opening ceremony was held, Yao divided the freshmen, who numbered more than fifty, into classes and sent them to classes in Bei, Qing, Fu, and Jiaoyuan.
Zheng Haizhu led monks Yonghai and Xu Yilong to Qinfang.
Wang Yuesheng is handling a Zhongni-style piano that has just been moved out of the shade room.
"Thank you for your hard work, Yuesheng." Zheng Haizhu walked over and said warmly.
Wang Yuesheng smiled brightly, which was his usual temperament that diluted his calmness.
She then put her palms together and saluted Yonghai, and said slowly: "This harp will be placed and tuned by Yueshan Longgu, and the silk thread will be tied and knotted. It will be finished and can be played by the master. But it does not dare to look at the back of Songshi Jianyi's neck."
, only the shape is similar.”
Yonghai said hurriedly and sincerely: "The two ladies can give the humble monk a Mingguoqin. The humble monk is very grateful."
He didn't say any more, because all three of them looked sad.
In the summer and autumn of last year, after the situation in Fujian stabilized, Zheng Zhilong traveled eastward with Xu Xinsu to the Hirado Domain to marry the Tagawa clan who was already engaged.
Zheng Shoukuan went to Tai Yuan Port, Taiwan, and under the care of Yan Siqi, established the first trading company there to engage in marine insurance business. In this time and space, it was established earlier than the famous Lloyd's of England.
Zheng Haizhu, along with Xu Yilong and Japanese monk Yonghai, asked Yu Zigao to borrow navy soldiers and hired civilian men to transport Dutch artillery and heavy matchlock guns to Jiangnan for imitation.
After arriving in Songjiang to complete the handover with Sun Yuanhua, Zheng Haizhu went to Yangzhou on the pretext of accompanying Yonghai to visit Daming Temple.
After Songshi Jianyi made the sale, Huang Zunsu told Zheng Haizhu that the buyer was a large salt merchant in Yangzhou whose business was near Shouzhiyuan.
However, when they visited the residence of the salt merchant surnamed Jiang, there was only one old man left in the Jiang family as a gatekeeper.
Jiang Yanshang and his concubine who was good at playing the piano were both reduced to ashes along with Song Shi Jianyi in the summer thunder and fire.