Chapter 847: The second boot that fell to the ground
The promised fall out? What is this reaction? Look at the weird expressions of the third prince and the fourth prince that almost made their eyes pop out. That is the reaction they should have, right? Eunuch Liang, what is your expression that makes you want to agree again?
Ghost? And it was said that the emperor, a crazy admirer of Taizu, also felt the same way?
Zhang Shou only felt a faint sadness filling his heart. He also wanted to receive a few scoldings for this, and then people would have less expectations for him. After all, he was too far away from the turbulent era of Emperor Taizu.
, unless a person is immortal or travels through time twice, there is no chance of meeting him. In fact, he has no interest in reading this painful note.
Therefore, after a long while, he smiled bitterly and said: "I thought Eunuch Liang, you would get so angry and scold me!"
"I remember when I raised such a point of view to the emperor, the emperor was so angry that he almost chopped me alive." Talking about the past events, Liang Jiucheng still seemed very calm, as if he was not the one who almost lost his head at that time. Everyone praised him for his calmness.
The steady Crown Prince also dragged the fourth prince. The two brothers looked at him curiously, and he coughed lightly.
"I don't have much understanding of small countries that use this kind of writing. Moreover, because they are too far apart and have language barriers, I can't say much about their language. The Western Ocean is too far, the land route is difficult to travel, and the sea route is dangerous, even if it is a boat
The team occasionally brings over a few people from their side, and nine out of ten are illiterate, and those who are literate are often not used to the life in our country, and their lives are short."
"The most important thing is that the previous emperors like Gaozong and Sejong were no longer so enthusiastic about the old affairs of Emperor Taizu. Even Emperor Yingzong was the same. Most of the royal ships only sailed in Goryeo, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. Until the late emperor and the emperor,
Then we gradually returned to the old system, so there were not enough samples. I also compared it with a book from that small Western country, and I felt that Emperor Taizu had not learned it well."
When Zhang Shou saw the person, he turned around and headed to a nearby bookshelf. After a while, he came back with a book. He just glanced at the cover and almost lost his composure. It was a Bible...a "Bible"!
Thinking about the far west, and the dark Middle Ages before that, the easiest book to obtain was indeed the Bible. He could only suppress the weird feeling in his heart and secretly speculated on the possibility that Liang Jiucheng's Eunuch Liang was just being humble just now.
How big.
Could it be that the fleet had already diverted from the west and even kidnapped a missionary who knew English, and then the eunuchs in the palace who had really strong learning ability had already translated the corresponding text? Although Britain is considered a remote area in Europe these days, English
The status is far inferior to Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, etc., but this is not necessarily impossible!
"I painstakingly studied the words and sentence patterns in this book, and compared them with many words and sentences in Taizu's handwriting. Over the past ten years, I compiled dozens of boxes of notes, and finally confirmed that the words used in it were the same as those used by Emperor Taizu.
Some of the words are very similar, but the sentence structure is very strange. This is also because the people brought back from that small country are too short-lived and cannot learn our language well..."
Hearing Liang Jiucheng solemnly talking about the difference in vocabulary and sentence structure... He just didn't mention the difference in tense. After all, it is impossible for someone who has not actually come into contact with Indo-European languages to go into such depth. Zhang Shou still had mixed feelings.
After meeting each other, I just felt like I was back to the time when I learned English in advance and my eyesight went dark.
I think back then he marked all the English words with Chinese characters and forced me to memorize and recite them. But who would have thought that in this day and age, someone would be able to compare so many words with a pile of Taizu's manuscripts and a Bible.
It’s a mess. I’ve sorted out a lot of notes, and my perseverance in learning is really terrifying!
As for the third and fourth princes, one looked at the disabled old chamberlain with admiration, while the other stared blankly like a clay sculpture, filled with the descriptions of the dozens of boxes of notes.
Dozens of boxes, ten years, this Eunuch Liang is so patient!
Therefore, Zhang Shou could only laugh and said: "I just said this casually, and it cannot compare to Eunuch Liang who really put in the hard work. In this case, Eunuch Liang, please consider what I said before, just in case the emperor asks about it.
, also report one or two things on my behalf.”
This time, Liang Jiucheng readily agreed. Now that the matter was over, he did not continue to move out those Taizu's letters for Zhang Shou to continue to read. Instead, he led the people back the same way, and along the way, he told the emperor what he had said to the third prince and the emperor last night.
What the fourth prince had said was repeated again and again - it was the so-called tradition that emperors of all dynasties would move all Taizu's manuscripts and remember their locations.
Regarding this point, Zhang Shou had secretly thought about this before, and this time he even thought about it countless times in his heart. He even glanced at the third prince sympathetically. As a result, he felt his gaze
His Royal Highness, the little prince, said very seriously: "Not only me, my fourth brother will also help."
"When the fifth brother is old, he can come in. As long as everyone pays attention to it, Taizu's manuscripts will one day be understood."
That's right. When Taizu's Codex is really translated, I really have to consider whether to imitate Taizu and set sail to colonize overseas... However, the sea route is indeed too risky, so I might as well go by land.
, the prerequisite is to have a strong army, because if you go west, you will have to run into the Ottoman Empire!
Although he can also make emergency forgeries and tamper with the Taizu Codex in his hand, but who knows what the other codes will be like!
With such pain in his stomach, Zhang Shou finally left Gujin Tongjiku. However, just as he stood firm, he saw a familiar figure rushing over in a hurry. When he arrived, he didn't even say hello.
, just grabbed him and left. Zhang Shou ran a few steps and realized that he couldn't keep up with the pace at all. He was so angry for a moment.
"Hey, hey, let go quickly, or someone will die if you don't let go!"
But the final result of his protest was not to let go, but to be thrown up high. When he landed safely, he was already lying on the other person's back. If this was normal, he would just laugh and curse.
It was over, but at this moment in the palace, the third and fourth princes and Liang Jiucheng might have been completely confused. Of course, he couldn't let it go.
"Ah Liu, let me down quickly and speak clearly! Do you hear me? This is the palace, not my home!"
"I'm here on orders." Ah Liu said these five words simply and directly. He noticed that Zhang Shou behind him seemed to have stopped breathing for an instant, so he added, "Everyone in the family is fine. Everything is fine."
It wasn't until Ah Liu finished speaking the second half of what he said that Zhang Shou felt relieved, and then he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead that had just been frightened. You must know that Ah Liu's posture just now was really amazing.
My first reaction was that the madam who suddenly fell ill had something in store.
But even though he breathed a sigh of relief, a premonition that something big was about to happen still lingered in his mind, so he couldn't help shouting angrily: "Everyone is fine, please tell me clearly first! You are so arrogant in the palace,
Do you want everyone in the capital to discuss you carrying me around the palace from before the New Year to after the New Year?"
"Don't worry, young master, they won't discuss you because there are other things to discuss."
When Ah Liu uttered such a meaningless sentence, he realized that Zhang Shou behind him had begun to pick his ears in annoyance. He could only say helplessly: "It's not that I didn't want to say it, it was the lunatic who told me to let you see the emperor first."
Let’s talk about it later.”
Hearing these extremely awkward words, Zhang Shou couldn't help but pick his ears, and then he yelled angrily: "Do you listen to him, or do you listen to me? You keep saying that he is crazy, why do you still listen to him? After all, you listen to him.
What happened?"
Zhang Shou had already asked for the third time. As if because it was really difficult to escape from the past, Ah Liu whispered: "There is a mission claiming to be from China to Qinhuangdao to the east of Shanhaiwei. The envoy said that they were from China
The king is a descendant of Taizu, who founded the country on Haidong Continent tens of thousands of miles east of me, and this time he came back to acknowledge his ancestor."
"..."
At that moment, Zhang Shou felt as if his second boot had finally landed. In this freezing twelfth lunar month, even if Qinhuangdao was a frost-free port in later generations, Qinhuangdao these days is close to Shanhaiguan, as if
Hasn't it developed yet? Wait, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty seems not to be as long as later generations. Shanhaiguan seems to have been built, but it is far from the momentum of the first pass in the world...
Zhang Shou unknowingly lost his train of thought and ran for a while before finally being able to recover. Then he endured the toothache and asked, "Let me ask you, is it a big ship or a small ship? If it is a big ship, what about Qinhuangdao?"
How can we anchor there? There is no port over there, right? Also, in terms of monsoons, winter is always more suitable for going south, and summer is more suitable for going north..."
Having said this, he suddenly realized another absolutely very important issue. That is, if he really came across the ocean from America, he would probably have to be like the original Western sailing ship, not relying entirely on wind power, but also relying on huge ships.
Oarsman. Of course, if a steam engine and internal combustion engine could be built on the American continent in such a short time, that would be another matter.
Of course, Ah Liu couldn't answer Zhang Shou's very detailed question. He directly carried Zhang Shou to Qianqing Gate before stopping, but he saw that Chen Yongshou had been waiting there early. When he saw the two of them, he greeted them with joy.
Come forward.
"Xiao Liuye, if you can, please do me one more favor... Can you bring His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince here together? And please ask Eunuch Liang to come over as soon as possible?"
"Yes." Ah Liu has never been in the habit of refusing others' sincere and well-intentioned requests. He nodded, and seeing Chen Yongshou thanking him repeatedly, he then personally led Zhang Shou in. Then he turned around and ran away without a trace.
He didn't think about it, his actual master Hua Qi was also here, why he was asked to bring the two brothers back together alone.
Zhang Shou was carried by Ah Liu and ran wildly for a while. When he came out of the ancient and modern Tongjiku, the heat on his body had not been completely blown away by the cold wind. Therefore, when he first entered the Qianqing Palace, he didn't feel warm, but felt that the place was real.
It's too hot.
In fact, the emperor who was pacing back and forth in the hall at this time, Chu Kuan who was as motionless as a stone Buddha, and Hua Qi who was standing still and leaning on a pillar, just glanced at these three people.
, he felt an irritating and troublesome atmosphere coming over him. Obviously, the three people here, Jun, Chen, master and servant, could not make a decision about the news that Ah Liu had just brought.
Sure enough, as soon as he saw him coming, the emperor said: "Chu Kuan, tell Zhang Shou first."
Although Ah Liu had already said it, Zhang Shou still listened carefully to Chu Kuan's explanation of the whole story. In fact, there were a few more details than Ah Liu said, such as a small boat ashore, a large ship anchored at sea, and a small boat.
A total of twenty-eight people were transported ashore in one trip. Shanhaiwei temporarily detained them all there, and sent out small boats to guard them.
After he listened thoughtfully, he asked: "Let's leave aside the credentials and the like, and leave aside whether we can prove that we are descendants of Taizu. I just want to know one thing, that is, how can they prove it?"
Are you from Haidong Continent?"
How do these guys prove that they are from the Americas? Are they bringing a bunch of seeds and fruits of American crops? However, thanks to the two guys, Lao Xianyu and Zanghai Monk, the government is now very accepting of overseas crops.
, which means that it is impossible for people to prove that they are not Mingren through these simple things.
As for the setting of fancy clothes, that is even more impossible. You claim to recognize your ancestors and go ashore wearing indigenous clothes. Are you embarrassed?
Normally, the emperor would praise Zhang Shou for his keenness, but at this time he was really not in the mood. He glanced at Chu Kuan and saw that Chu Kuan was hesitant to speak, so he simply said to Hua Qi: "What do you mean to Zhang Shou?"
Tell me, Shou, what kind of evidence these guys have produced!"
"There is a piece of handwriting written by Taizu." After saying these words, Hua Qi saw that the expression on Zhang Shou's face was actually a bit subtle. He knew that Zhang Shou felt that this kind of thing was nothing to worry about, so he sighed helplessly.
In one breath, he said, "Don't think this is making a fuss. There are indeed many authentic works of Taizu in the world. However, this calligraphy has content."
"It says that when Taizu drifted there, he was temporarily unable to return because of a shipwreck. Although there were enough craftsmen on the ship and there was wood in the area, he encountered natives, so he fought one battle, and then several more.
Because the natives were aggressive, they had to subdue an indigenous tribe, and then they fought in all directions..."
Zhang Shou couldn't help but interrupt: "This is somewhat similar to what Lao Xianyu told me last time about the stone tablet he found in Haidong Continent. It's not that I'm suspicious, Taizu's handwriting can also be forged."
The emperor looked at Zhang Shou with even more satisfaction - no matter which emperor, of course he would be extremely satisfied with his ministers who adhered to the orthodoxy unwaveringly. He waved his hand to signal Chu Kuan and Hua Qi not to continue talking, and then said one word
One sentence said: "What they brought back was the magic bow that Emperor Taizu used to have."
The expression on Zhang Shou's face almost froze. Although Taizu's archery skills are the best in the world, this rumor is still circulated for a while, but he knew that there was something fishy about it, because the man who wanted to play rapid fire at the beginning, in his treasured share
The handbook also mentioned distressingly that there were spare bow strings, but there were not enough special arrows. Is it possible that this kind of old antique can really be preserved?