Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Taizu's Manuscript
Although he didn’t know what the emperor’s thoughts and considerations were based on when he gave Taizu’s relics to him, Zhang Shou put on the silk gloves provided by the emperor and glanced at the first piece of paper. His feeling was...
The tall and positive image he had built up before through various channels, including those anecdotes about Taizu that he had learned through insinuations, now completely collapsed in one breath.
He thought he might see a note written in Pinyin.
If it were more difficult, then maybe it would be a diary written in English, French, various foreign languages, or even minor languages. In that case, he would be miserable if he only knew most English words and a few basic French vocabulary...
He even imagined that maybe the Emperor Taizu would use simplified characters wisely - of course the possibility is very small. The Chinese language and culture are of the same origin. Modern people who have used simplified characters since elementary school can still recognize traditional Chinese novels, but they are a little tired.
, then it should not be difficult for the ancients to recognize simplified characters.
But now this handbook is a combination of various Chinese English and pinyin. Even if you ask a British person who is proficient in Chinese, he will never recognize it!
What's more, the English of today is still different from that of later generations, and Britain, which is currently in the latter stages of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, is still far away from becoming a powerful nation. During this period, the official language of Europe should be Latin.
Even Spain, the first so-called empire on which the sun never sets, has never truly risen. Therefore, it is basically impossible to find a pure British person to decipher the secrets.
At this moment, looking at this thick stack of Chinese-English notes full of no zuo no die, no door, too awful, etc., Zhang Shou couldn't help but rub his eyebrows, and then pressed down the raised corners of his mouth, and then
He took a deep breath and warned himself to be calm and not to laugh out loud. Otherwise, if the sound spreads, everyone will know that he can understand the Taizu Codex!
The letter paper was yellowed but well-preserved, probably because no one except the time-travelers could understand these letters. Moreover, it seemed that the tone was written in those early embarrassing years. Emperor Taizu’s initial descriptions were very casual and playful.
He cursed without any scruples, and it seemed very much like a diary, but he flipped through a few pages and found that there were subtle changes in the handwriting, which must have been accumulated over time.
"It's true that you will die if you don't do it. I went hiking in a thunderstorm, and the lightning and thunder happened and I actually traveled through it. Fortunately, I brought a backpack at that time!"
"If I had known I was going to time travel, why would I not only bring a few historical reference books but also my senior brother's article on the structure and development of artillery in various periods at home and abroad? I would have to bring all kinds of physics and mathematics textbooks.
, Otherwise, how can I open the technology tree? Alas, I regret that I made a bet with someone and said that I would go to the mountains to retreat for two months to write my graduation thesis. This is great, I will never be able to go back to this retreat for the rest of my life!"
"It turned out to be the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and the lady who saved me turned out to be Han Shantong's wife Yang Sanniang. She was really a warm-hearted and good person!"
"I'm teaching Han Jin'er how to practice archery... It's great to be able to travel through time. I also brought my thirty-pound bow over. It's so cool to play rapid fire in this backward era! But I
I brought spare bow strings, but not many arrows, because the arrows these days are terrible."
"Han Lin'er actually fell off the cliff and died? Although that kid was quite annoying, even if I were a butterfly, I didn't do anything. When he died, I was still practicing archery with Han Jin'er. By the way, Han Lin'er shouldn't be drowned by Zhu Yuanzhang
Dead?"
"You want me to marry you? No way! Although Jin'er is indeed very nice and cute, a man can't marry him to death!"
"After getting married, I will be the Holy Son of the White Lotus Sect? This... they actually want me to replace Han Lin'er and pretend to be a descendant of Song Huizong? These religious people just like this kind of ghostly business! My surname is Zheng, and I don't
The surname is Zhao!”
"Yang Sanniang came to persuade me personally. They don't need me to change my surname. They are willing to marry their adopted daughter Jin'er to me because they believe that this person who fell from the sky, dressed in strange clothes, and shoots fast is the Holy Son of Light in the legend of the White Lotus Sect! What is called marriage?
I just want to reassure Han Shantong and will not publicize it to the outside world..."
"Well, Jin'er came to me and cried several times. A man should be soft-hearted when he should be soft-hearted. Anyway, only Han Shantong and his wife know that, and they don't want to change their surnames, so let's just marry into each other. But first I have to remind Han Shantong not to just incite others.
, you have to pay attention to safety, otherwise how could he die and Liu Futong still be alive and well?"
Zhang Shou was very interested in the history of Taizu's family development before he unified the world, so although it took a little time to identify the characters mixed with English and pinyin, he still read it with great interest.
After Taizu married his wife, he gradually won prestige among the White Lotus followers by relying on his words and archery skills, and then he rose to prominence and gathered a group of people under his command. However, he tried his best to reverse the rebellion. At the beginning of the uprising, Han Shantong was killed.
The situation of taking prisoners and losing their lives was not successful at this point.
During the period when Taizu was fighting in the south and north, the diaries were very brief. They often included who came to surrender today, who he defeated tomorrow, and what city he occupied the day after tomorrow... In short, he recruited troops and recruited talents in various ways, and the momentum was overwhelming.
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Although Taizu modestly said in his handwriting that the direction of his thesis was to discuss the art of war and talent recruitment methods by which Taizu unified the world, and the reference books were also from this time period, and the time, place and people were favorable, Zhang
Shou still couldn't help but marvel.
Talking about it on paper and actually doing it are very different difficulties!
Although the part of the manuscript that unified the world was incomplete, the specific time could still be seen. He roughly calculated that Taizu was two years ahead of Zhu Yuanzhang's unification process in history. He was in his prime when he ascended the throne and was less than forty years old.
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However, compared to after Taizu ascended the throne, the previous manuscripts were already very detailed. Because in the part after the emperor, Taizu seemed to carefully consider every word, and the Chinglish he was most familiar with disappeared, and more English words were used instead.
In Chinese characters, I have created many strange sentence patterns, and my awareness of concealment has become stronger.
Taizu kept very brief records of the overt and covert struggles of the ministers in the court, and even the elimination of all kinds of ambitious people. However, Taizu often described the progress of the research and development of artillery and gunfire in very detail; and when it came to shipbuilding and going to sea, Taizu kept very brief records.
Various other matters were even more intense. What left him speechless the most was that Taizu's surname was Zheng, so he gave the name Zheng He to the general who was a bandit who went out to sea for the first time on an official ship...
And when he turned to the last piece of paper, Zhang Shou finally saw what he wanted to know most.
"The papers and reference books I hid in the Jiuzhangtang plaque of the Imperial College should always be kept there. And I have always liked Li Bai's poems, so I chose two lines of his poems to be included in the Thousand Character Essay.
After the regular shift, it was used as a key, and the Korean craftsman built this secret box and sealed the last bit of my manuscript."
"When the dynasties change in the future, both the plaque and the paper in this secret box will have decayed and turned to dust, right? In this case, I decided to keep this watch as a reminder of the time and space that a space-timer once left here.
The last piece of evidence. It was supposed to be a mobile phone and a power bank, but the out-of-charge Apple phone was worse than a brick. When I saved Jin'er and hit someone with it, it actually broke. The power bank was also used to block arrows and the wires were strangled.
People have died..."
"Jin'er was injured when she was little, and the doctor said she couldn't have children, so she persuaded me to take a concubine and have children to have children. I feel sorry for her. Now she has passed away, and my sons have grown up. One of them has grown up.
He is even more majestic and will definitely become a wise ruler in the future. Now that I have abdicated, in order to prevent father and son from being suspicious of each other in the future, I decided to set sail personally."
"I want to bring the best people in astronomy, the most skilled craftsmen in design and repair, and a group of male and female orphans, just like Xu Fu did back then, because if they can't go back, they are the hope of the future... Of course, Southeast Asia is also good.
, South Asia, Europe, and Africa, they are all too close. As a map guru, I decided to go west, through Malacca, the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Atlantic Ocean, and take the route of Columbus to the Americas. I have lived a good enough life, so that’s it
, why not go further?”
"Since I have replaced Zhu Yuanzhang and replaced his Ming with my Ming, then why can't I get ahead of Columbus and plant the Ming's dragon flag on the American continent?"
After reading this last paragraph, Zhang Shou couldn't help but take a breath. He put the last piece of paper back in place, solemnly put the pile of letters in his hand back into the box, and then closed the lid, as if he had something to say.
He thoughtfully took out the watch. It was the last thing left by the senior in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course he could tell that the watch was not a famous watch. There were countless scratches on the watch body, metal strap and even the cover glass. He had gone through many hardships, but after pondering for a long time, he opened the button and put the watch on.
This watch is worn on the right wrist.
Just express your respect to your seniors! Of course, if you go right, it will be an unexpected surprise!
"Master, we have arrived at the Imperial College."
Hearing Ah Liu's voice outside the car, Zhang Shou closed the box, messed up the code plate, and got out of the car with the box. Seeing that it was indeed the university archway, he handed the secret box to Ah Liu without thinking.
But he directly exposed the watch on his right wrist, and said with a smile: "The box contains those manuscripts that are like heavenly books. You continue to keep them for me. I will wear this as a souvenir."
Ah Liu's eyesight was very good. For just a moment, he saw that on the dial of the watch in Zhang Shou's hand, besides the two needles that didn't seem to be moving much, there was another needle that seemed to be moving. He blinked and finally
Nothing was said.
When I was winding up the clockwork, I didn't know what time it was, but there was a sundial in the Imperial College, so Zhang Shou planned to go back and find the hour before adjusting the pair of watches. Of course, the most important thing now is to check it out first.
There is no need to worry about the students in the two classes of students in the Jiuzhang Hall and the supervisors in the Jiuzhang Hall, but it is hard to say in the Banshan Hall. None of the disciples of Guijie are good at saving money!
When he passed by the sundial, he took a look and found that it was past one o'clock, so he turned directly to Banshan Hall. When he saw the building that was very different from the Sixth Hall from a distance, he heard a familiar voice vaguely coming from the wind.
When he distinguished the voice carefully, he couldn't help but be surprised. Because it turned out to be Zhang Chen.
"Then, here's the next question! Two people, A and B, are going from the capital to Tongzhou by carriage..."
Zhang Shou was suddenly surprised. Did he go the wrong way? This is Banshan Hall, not Jiuzhang Hall. Why did he suddenly talk about the pursuit issue? And, it was Zhang Chen who talked about it? If he remembered correctly, this was the case at the time.
The eldest son of the Duke of Qin hated doing questions the most. When he came to the door of Banshan Hall, he saw a figure running out from the side, and it was Zhang Lu.
"Teacher, you are back! I heard that you and Lu Sanlang were going to court together early in the morning, and some people wanted to skip class. As a result, Brother Chen was so angry that he asked Awu and I to block the door, and then asked who could do it
Whoever comes up with five questions will be let go. The result..."
He paused for a moment and then said awkwardly: "As a result, Brother Chen asked a total of twenty questions, but even those guys who stayed in Cuiyun Room for months couldn't answer five questions.
Brother Chen, with the support of the third and fourth princes, taught seven or eight people a lesson with the imperial ruler."
Zhang Chen can do it!
After Zhang Shou came up with such an idea, he suddenly remembered something more important: "Can Zhang Chen remember so many questions?"
"Thanks to Ah Wu for this." Zhang Lu smiled and said in a low voice, "Ah Wu copied all the questions you asked teacher before in a manual, which came in handy at critical moments. Besides, the third prince made a
The fourth prince made two questions about the question, and the other people were scolded by Brother Chen as being worse than two children, and then they stopped."