This is probably the Ming Dynasty version of "Robinson Crusoe"...and it's not a single-printed version, but a public-printed version.
Listening to the story of Zanghai Monk, Zhang Shou couldn't help but have such an idea, and felt quite sad in his heart.
Countless people in later generations think that America is a much better place - not to mention the free air, just the climate and environment. Many people yearn for it - most places are not too hot.
, it is not too cold, the land is fertile, suitable for the growth of crops, there are seashores, waterfalls, the Five Great Lakes, and Yellowstone... It can be said that development and scenery are at the same time.
However, compared with the interconnected Asian, European and African continents, the early American continent was always a large island isolated overseas. There was no cultural or economic exchange, and it could only shut down and go it alone. What's more, unlike Asia and Europe,
Compared with wheat and rice, which are relatively easy to domesticate, it took who knows how many years to domesticate corn, sweet potatoes and the like from their initial form to their later forms.
Moreover, in an era when you were completely isolated from the world, with no external enemies, and at best city-state wars, you had no natural enemies, and not much motivation for development. Even if it developed to the extreme of slavery... consecutive years of natural disasters would knock you down.
Zhang Shou still remembers that until later generations, you could often hear about the various hurricanes and tornadoes in the United States in the news, which frequently blew down houses and caused urban flooding. From this, we can see that going back hundreds or thousands of years, the living environment of that place
In fact, it definitely cannot be considered privileged. In addition, if you have nothing to do, you can sacrifice to the heavens and gods and kill a human head. The so-called amazing civilization has not even entered the Iron Age...
Therefore, in that place, a small group of seafarers who had no strong ships, probably sunk cannons, and didn't know whether their muskets could be used wanted to guide the natives to climb the technology tree when their own technological level was not high enough.
It is really not easy, and the population and settlement of the indigenous people, the resistance of the ruling class, enemies of external city-states, and various natural disasters are all big problems.
It is absolutely impossible to develop such a huge continent without the backing of a powerful country.
The Ming Dynasty was a powerful country, but how could a fleet that crossed the ocean to America and then encountered a shipwreck receive strong assistance from the country? Moreover, based on the information he got from Zhang Kang, the Bo of Weinan,
, at least I have never heard of an official fleet going to the eastern continent according to the records of the globe, and merchant ships are probably even less interested in taking such risks.
It’s unclear whether it was because the Ming Dynasty already had enough land and was unwilling to waste money on ocean voyages, or for some other reason.
Moreover, Zhang Shou couldn't help but think of another deeper question. Does the name Zanghai Monk have any other meaning? This guy can tell that story so well. Is it really just a matter of hearing?
Do you hear it, or have you experienced it personally? These two people...and maybe more crew members, will not be too idle to find a new world, right?
This is not like Columbus. With the Queen's funding, who in the Ming Dynasty would fund such a meaningless move? The merchants were busy with sea trade and did not have time to do business! If someone funded it, then they must know exactly which continent and where it is.
There are certain people living on a continent! And as the old man revealed yesterday, they have gone there more than once!
Zhang Shou's thinking became more and more divergent, and just when he was demonstrating the possibility of Emperor Taizu's exile in the American continent, Old Xianyu spoke again: "Actually, the tablet fragments I gave to you, Dr. Zhang, are the same ones from the original group.
The stele carved by Haike, I don’t know if it was due to the material of the stele or some natural or man-made disaster that caused the stele to break, but they still took it with them when they migrated."
He looked at Zhang Shou with piercing eyes, and the usual smooth, cunning and sophisticated look on his face was gone, replaced by a very serious expression: "Dr. Zhang, if you say that those handwritings are very similar to those on Taizu's manuscript, then,
Let me make a bold guess: those people who were living in exile might have been sent there by Emperor Taizu, so they carved a monument to praise Emperor Taizu?"
If I hadn't heard Zhu Ying tell some inside stories about how Taizu set sail for the sea after his Zen throne and was never heard from again, and later came into contact with a lot of things, I would really think that your bold speculation sounds reasonable...
Zhang Shou chuckled secretly in his heart, and then said thoughtfully: "Maybe, the possibility you said is not small."
At this point, he turned his head to look at Zhu Ying, and saw that the eldest lady's face, which was always bright and colorful, was a little dazed at this time, with an expression that looked like I was in a daze. He thought she was attracted by the series of messages.
A little dazed by the impact, he simply stretched out his hand and shook it vigorously in front of her several times.
"Yingying, Yingying?"
"Ah!" Zhu Ying woke up with a start. When she saw Lao Xianyu and Zang Hai staring at her intently, she stared at them innocently, then yawned and said, "Hey, I just heard the sacrifice
Heavenly Sacrifice God, I was thinking about the human skin thangkas of Usizang Xuanwei Division... I didn’t expect that there are places more barbaric than them."
"Old Xianyu, I wrongly blamed you just now. If you hadn't happened to get there, that poor seafarer might have been buried in a foreign land for the rest of his life. By the way, you can bring back his bones and those of others.
Are you there? If you don’t have the money to help them return to their roots and bury them in their hometown, I can help you with some money. Having been trapped overseas for so many years, it’s a legend that you only met a Chinese person now.”
Her attitude of caring but not caring made Lao Xianyu murmur in his heart, wondering if she had heard his speculation? However, he reacted quickly and immediately said with a smile on his face: "Then I can
I really want to thank you, Miss, on their behalf."
Zhang Shou chuckled, but did not mention a word about the so-called Taizu handwriting stone tablet. Instead, he raised his head and looked at the sky and said: "It's getting late. It won't be long to finish the vegetable garden. Since they all have dinner
, we should also have a good meal and rest for a night before we get down to business."
"Ahem, look at my memory." Old Xianyu patted his head quickly, and then said with a smile on his face, "There are all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables in this vegetable garden, but the tomatoes were heated in another vegetable garden of mine.
There are only a few grown in the shed, and there is no inventory here. Dr. Zhang, don’t you want to show off your skills?"
Seeing Zhang Shou smile, without comment, the very thick-skinned old salted fish added: "If you find it troublesome, why don't you show me how to grill two fishes? I don't have much chili stock in Cangzhou City, but I have a lot of dried peppers here.
Yes, there are quite a lot of varieties..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhang Shou coughed and said, "Okay, find the kitchen, tableware, condiments, and ingredients for me. You can clean them up when you're done. But what I do depends on my mood.
"
"Okay, okay, I understand, I understand!"
Zanghai originally despised Old Xianyu for being so spineless in front of the powerful children - even if it was just pretending. However, when he saw Zhang Shou and Ah Liu going out of the kitchen in person with a basket of utensils that he didn't know what they were.
, and then his eyes widened when he saw several large plates of fresh vegetables coming out of his own garden, and finally two grilled fish.
The future uncle of Duke Zhao... can actually cook? Isn't it said that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen?
When the meal was over, it was Old Xianyu's turn to carry Zanghai with disdain to clean the dishes, bowls and chopsticks. Facing the set of porcelain plates and bowls with exquisite colors and beautiful glazes, Zanghai clicked his tongue and praised him, his lips
As if some random words were about to come out, Lao Xianyu bumped the other person hard with his elbow and stopped him from talking with his eyes, but he started to ramble on.
"I've told you, that Dr. Zhang is a very different person. I see that he has nothing but inability to fight... Even if he can't fight, the young boy beside him,
But he is also a first-class master. Tsk, no wonder he is worthy of the eldest lady of Zhao Guogong’s mansion..."
It wasn't until he finished washing the set of tableware that seemed to be worth a lot while muttering, and then saw Zhu Hong and Zhu Yi coming to take it away, and even asked for hot water to boil them one by one. Then the old salted fish dragged the hidden tableware with him.
Monk Hai left in a hurry.
Zanghai's lower courtyard is his own territory, and there are so many apprentices with good martial arts skills in Wangfeng. Zanghai doesn't understand Old Xianyu's overly cautious approach. Seeing that this is going further and further, he can't help but feel angry.
Stopped.
"Although my dozen or so disciples are not top-notch, they are not blind or deaf either. Do you need such a cup of bow and snake shadow? In Cangzhou, even a dragon crossing the river has always had to give way to an earth tiger."
"Don't talk about the old calendar! In the past, there was the top prince, the dragon crossing the river, and in the back, there was the Mingwei general Zhu Tingfang, the powerful crossing dragon. How about the tiger sitting on the ground? Who jumped across? Who dares to really break the law with force?
Openly fighting against the government? Even that stupid boy Yunhe was forced into desperation and did something stupid out of anger, but he still didn't dare to rebel against his mother."
Old Xianyu retorted a few words. Seeing that his good brother for many years was still disapproving, he said angrily: "It's okay to be careful. Do you think I'm flattering when I say that the guy next to Dr. Zhang is a master? That guy is awesome.
There are hundreds of kilograms of fragments of stone tablets, and he just carries them away. And looking at the capable guards around the young lady, they all stay away from others."
Zanghai couldn't help but snorted coldly: "According to what you said, whoever the imperial court sends down, we will all kneel to the ground?"
"Of course you should stay away from corrupt officials, otherwise they may take advantage of you; when you send honest and capable officials, you should stay away from them, otherwise they may use the martial arts to establish their authority. Otherwise, why do you think Cangzhou City is so lifeless these days? Forget about Yunhe,
The eight people who were imprisoned in the palace with him all had kowtowed to their masters and learned martial arts. Whose master do you think stood up for them?"
Seeing that Zanghai was speechless, Old Xianyu sighed and said: "Only in a place like Cangzhou where martial arts flourishes, can people like us be like a drop of water falling into the sea and not show up. You
Still want to jump around? Are you afraid that people won’t know we’re back in our hometown?”
"But since I've fallen into the court's eyes, I can't get away. That's right, don't glare at me. How do I know that I can be targeted even if I'm selling salted fish on Shuishi Street? How do I know that Yunhe's stinky
Will the boy rebel? In short, the people who come to our door are not enemies or the government who want to accuse us, so we might as well give it a try..."
"What to try?"
Zang Hai's face was as dark as a pot helmet: "You want to tell people that when we narrowly escaped death and sailed across the ocean to the eastern continent, we were sponsored by others to find the whereabouts of Emperor Taizu? That couple outside
He is a top official and dignitary. Once he reports this to the current emperor, he would be surprised if he doesn’t kill us with his monstrous words and deceive the public!”
"I have revealed a lot in my words and deeds these past two days. If someone wanted to chop me down, they would have picked me up and chopped me up long ago because I am Yun He's uncle... I forgot to tell you, because Yun He
When that boy and I were being hunted, I almost got involved with the second young master of Zhao Guogong's mansion. In short, the Zhu family and I are destined to have a bad fate!"
Seeing Zanghai's expression of disgust that you had caused me trouble, Old Xianyu sighed.
"I don't think about anything else. I just think about what Mr. Mu said when he saw us before he died. I feel that it is not an option for us to hide in Cangzhou anonymously. Not to mention other things, the vegetable garden has never been here.
Should we always eat the fruits and vegetables grown from the seeds we finally brought back from so far away, and never let outsiders know about them?"
"The things those people did on that continent in the far east have always been buried like this? Their ashes are just buried in your Zanghai lower courtyard, and they will never be able to return to their hometown? Don't glare at me, I know that as long as we go out separately
, it is not impossible to quietly go to their hometown and bury their ashes in their ancestors' graves or the mountains and rivers of their hometown, but the descendants should not be ignorant of the achievements of their ancestors."
When Old Xianyu saw that Monk Zanghai was finally speechless, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "To be honest, I have never seen so many powerful people from the capital as I have in the past few days.
Only then did I realize that even people who seem useless on the surface are not useless. So, I decided to give it a try. If I really lose my life, I deserve it."
"You deserve it. Why did you drag me into the water..." Zanghai glared at me angrily, but finally said helplessly, "I know, if you want to try, just go and try. I have to pay for the many people here who need to eat."
The person is responsible. Anyway, I have already said that you brought the person back, I just help you raise it, I will not admit anything else!"
"Okay, then it's settled."
Old Xianyu smiled and suddenly raised his head as if aware of something.
But there was no one on the wall not far away, only the bright moonlight, as if what he felt at first was just an illusion.
Although there were no empty rooms in Zanghai Lower Courtyard, Miss Zhu still slept in her specially made carriage. As for Zhang Shou, he set up a special cowhide tent outside the carriage and sprinkled it with anthelmintics, although it was a bit cramped.
, but it was not difficult for him to accept. After taking a walk in the evening, he returned to the tent and was about to sleep when he heard the sound of someone tapping the cowhide gently.
The next moment, Ah Liu's head poked in. Seeing Zhang Shou waving, he took off his shoes and went in, then sat cross-legged in front of Zhang Shou. Without Zhang Shou's questioning, he explained what he had overheard.
Shi Shi recounted it again, and finally said: "Although I hid very quickly, I think that old salted fish found me."
Zhang Shou has always trusted Ah Liu's judgment. He pondered silently for a while, and finally smiled: "Since he didn't say anything, you can just pretend that it's nothing. It's okay, wait until you see the truth before you make any arguments."