Avril has changed his Chinese surname to Chen, and his name is Chen Fuli.
This was for the purpose of naturalization as soon as possible. According to the provisions of the Transfer Registration Law, free citizens who wanted to become Han citizens must have Han Chinese names.
The Spaniards living in Shengzhou, without exception, all changed their names. They were either surnamed Chen, or Lu, or Huang, or Hong. Anyway, they all followed the surnames of several leaders, and the majority of them were surnamed Chen.
most.
Just like every Westerner who came to the Ming Dynasty, from shock to admiration, Avril already regarded this place as a paradise before arriving in the capital.
Tianjin, canal wharf.
Avril's family was escorted off the ship. He was the father-in-law of the chief minister of the dynasty, and he was always well-served by Shengzhou.
A gray-haired, ascetic-like missionary was very surprised to see Avril's condition. He stood by the roadside and shouted in French: "Sir, can I say a few words to you?"
Avril didn't react at all, because he couldn't understand French and didn't know he was talking to him.
The missionary called again in Italian: "Sir, can I say a few words to you?"
Avril still didn't respond.
The missionary became a little anxious and shouted again in Spanish: "Sir, can I say a few words to you?"
Avril finally turned around: "Are you talking to me?"
The missionary said happily: "Yes, my name is Nicholas Copernicus, and I am a Polish priest."
Avril said: "Hello, dear priest, how can I help you?"
Copernicus said: "I want to go to Beijing, but my money is missing. Can you lend me some?"
As we are both Europeans, this can be considered as a fellow countryman meeting a fellow countryman. Avril smiled and said: "Come with me."
"Thank you for your generosity." Copernicus finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Copernicus is 61 years old this year. His main job is a priest and his side job is a doctor, and he is known as a "miraculous doctor". He also has some hobbies, such as astronomy, and has studied the "heliocentric theory" for decades.
Copernicus lived in Poland most of his life and was invited to lecture in Rome two years ago.
This man had the courage to tell some of his research results from twenty years ago, and very vaguely claimed that the sun is the center of the universe. He was testing the pope's reaction, but the pope had no reaction. Afterwards, Copernicus became more and more frightened as he thought about it.
. He didn’t know whether the Pope didn’t understand, or whether the Pope just ignored him and was so frightened that he packed his bags and returned to his hometown in Poland.
At this time, a local Roman astronomer secretly gave Copernicus a translated book.
This book is called "Introduction to Astronomy". The author is Li Lun, the imperial eunuch of the Qin Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, and the translator is Camillo (Chinese name: Ke Yudao), the five senses and Lingtai Lang of the Qin Tianjian.
Camillo is very famous in Europe, and his representative works include "Travel to the East", "Chinese Mathematics", "Chinese Physics", and "On the Dilemma of the Spread of Catholicism in China". The manuscripts of these books were sent by European shipping companies in the form of letters.
The merchants brought it back and published it one after another. European scholars waited for new works to come out every year.
Only "Introduction to Astronomy" could not be published in Europe because the publishers were afraid of being persecuted by the church.
However, the book "Introduction to Astronomy" has been circulated in a small area in Rome, and astronomers quietly copied and exchanged it.
Copernicus was immediately shocked. Some of the astronomical data listed in the book spanned thousands of years. In addition, Chinese astronomers also summarized the movement patterns of several major planets, and the depth of their research far exceeded Copernicus' own.
"On the Movement of Heaven and Earth".
Copernicus, who was already sixty years old, suddenly wanted to go to China urgently.
But he had no money, so he had to find someone to finance his travel expenses.
Copernicus went to the Principality of Florence in the name of a theologian and miraculous doctor. After some hard deception, the Medici family was willing to provide financial help. He crossed the Mediterranean to the Ottoman Empire, then traveled overland through the Ottoman Empire, and then transferred to the Ottoman Empire.
The ship went to India, and then arrived in Tianjin on a Ming Dynasty merchant ship, and then all the money he had on him was stolen.
Avril asked his entourage: "This man wants to go to Beijing. Can I take him with me?"
The entourage, all Chen Li's confidants, smiled and said, "Of course."
So they walked to the train station.
After waiting for a long time, a passenger train came into the station, and the entourage took Copernicus, Averil and their families on board.
The thick smoke emitted by the train startled Copernicus. He instantly thought of the evil beasts from hell, and then began to speculate on the operating principle of the train.
As soon as Copernicus got into the car and sat down, several Ming Dynasty scholars came up, observing the interior of the car and talking about it.
"This steam train is really extraordinary. It can pull thousands of kilograms of weight and travel thousands of miles a day."
"I asked, you can travel nine hundred miles a day."
"What's the difference between nine hundred miles and a thousand miles? Brother Wei Cheng loves to pick out words."
"We physics disciples must be more precise in our words, otherwise our paper will never be published."
"Don't mention Nao Shizi's physics to me. Last year, I studied physics under Mr. Ji Wu, and I was stunned. It was hundreds of times more difficult than the Four Books and Five Classics."
"No matter how difficult it is, you must learn it. Physics will definitely become a prominent subject in the future."
"Don't tell me this. We came from the south of the Yangtze River and saw great rivers and mountains along the way, and encountered magical things like steam trains. Why not compose a poem to express our feelings."
"Poetry is not my ambition. I want to imitate the king and abandon poetry for prose (literature refers specifically to the Four Books and Five Classics), and finally become a minister of the country."
"In this prosperous age, with flowers blooming and fire cooking oil, how can we not recite poems? Next year I will go to Hetao to see the Yinshan Qin Great Wall. Then I will go to the Western Regions to see the Loulan ancient ruins. If I don't visit these places,
How can I recall the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties? I will go to Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Yinzhou to visit all the territories of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Brother Zongli has great ambitions, but it's a pity that I don't have enough money in my pocket to accompany him all the way to the end."
"..."
These scholars talked loudly and energetically, which made Copernicus feel emotional.
Copernicus asked: "Sir, what are they talking about?"
Avril said: "They are young scholars in China. They are discussing academic issues and saying they want to travel to various parts of China. Have you seen their clothes and hats? The clothes are called Confucian shirts and the hats are called Sifang scarves.
In China, only scholars can wear it. I know a scholar named Huang Liang, he is very knowledgeable, and he helped give me my Chinese name."
Copernicus was surprised and said: "I stopped in a city called Hangzhou in the south and saw many people wearing Confucian shirts and square scarves. Are there so many scholars in China?"
Avril is also half-full: "In China, from the emperor to the officials, all scholars are scholars, and only scholars can be administrators. They have an exam that children can take, and they have to pass many exams before they can be assigned an official position by the emperor."
Copernicus had been living in Poland and had not read Camillo's Journey to the East.
This is a book that is continuously serialized. A batch of manuscripts are sent back every two years and are regularly published in Italy. In the book, Camillo regards Emperor Zhengde as the philosopher king and Wang Yuan as an unprecedented military genius who governs the country.
Ministers and great scholars.
Let’s excerpt two paragraphs——
"The great Emperor of China, Mr. Zhu Houzhao, was determined to regain the homeland of the empire, which was occupied by the barbaric Tatars. His Majesty the Emperor sent his most loyal minister, General Wang Yuan, with an army of 300,000 to conquer. Praise to the great
His Majesty the Emperor, he is so wise and wise, and has the virtues that all great kings should have. When he made this decision, His Majesty the Emperor was already terminally ill. He was burning the last flame of life to complete the glorious mission left by his ancestors..."
"His Majesty the Emperor is so smart and hard-working. He could have had many wives, but he only loved his concubine. Unlike European monarchs, who indulged in luxury and enjoyment, he was always governing the country and at the same time eager to learn knowledge.
His Majesty the Emperor knows several languages, Chinese, palindrome, Sanskrit and Latin. I am very honored to be his Latin teacher. He knows riding, archery, and fighting. He is also proficient in poetry, music and painting. He also studies religion.
and philosophy, he is the philosopher king in Plato's "The Republic"."
"In the last few years of the emperor's life, he had been conducting experiments on weapon improvement. Under the leadership of the emperor, China's muskets and artillery were already a century ahead of Europe. Europe was ignorant and barbaric, and China was so
The civilization and richness of the country. All the kings of Europe put together are less than one ten thousandth of His Majesty the Emperor of China..."
"The emperor's illness is very serious, and the doctor said it will be difficult to survive this winter. His great Majesty did not choose to lie on the bed and wait for death, but held a grand triumphal ceremony. Yes, the land occupied by the Tatars has been occupied by the great
The Chief Minister Wang Yuan recovered. His Excellency Wang Yuan was always omnipotent, and he had never been defeated on the battlefield. Those Mongolian cavalry that once swept Europe were just a group of trembling lambs in front of His Excellency Wang Yuan...
…”
"In that unparalleled triumphal ceremony, the emperor reviewed his ministers and troops. He stood on the top of the city tower, dragging his ailing body, constantly shooting into the sky, and ordered his minister Wang Yuan to dance his sword under the city. Great.
Your Majesty, he died there and still stood after his death. This was a hero saying the most heroic farewell to his subjects and army..."
The Philosopher King quoted from Plato's "Utopia" and pinned the hope of building an ideal country on a philosopher with noble morals and junior ideas.
This was the ultimate expectation of ancient European scholars for a monarch.
After "Journey to the East" was published in Italy, it quickly caused a sensation along the Mediterranean coast and spread to France and the United Kingdom. The Chinese Emperor Zhu Houzhao was even more famous than Wang Yuan and was praised by countless European poets.
In addition, the imperial examination system was also highly praised by Camillo, and all its shortcomings were deliberately ignored.
"China is a country governed by scholars. Even the most remote mountain villages will have schools. Children start studying at a very young age. Some of them took the Children's Examination before they were ten years old and became the lowest class of scholars - Tong Sheng.
, that is, a young scholar. Then he has to take the county examination and become an advanced scholar - a scholar (or student), that is, an outstanding scholar (or a formal scholar)..." "
"Being recognized as an official scholar by the country will have preferential tax treatment. This is the highest respect for knowledge. China is so great, but the European monarchs are persecuting scholars. Under this kind of preferential treatment, countless scholars are born in China every year
,Therefore China is civilized, rational, philosophical, wealthy and advanced."
"After becoming official scholars, they have to take the provincial examination to become outstanding scholars - Juren. Juren can already be civil officials, but Chinese scholars have higher pursuits, and they will not stop there."
"The last two steps are the joint examination and the imperial examination. Thousands of scholars take part in each examination, but only 300 to 400 pass. Those who pass the examination are awarded the title of Jinshi, that is, an outstanding scholar.
The palace examination is personally presided over by the Chinese emperor. The place where the emperor and ministers handle government affairs will be temporarily used as the examination room for the palace examination. As long as a child from a poor family has extraordinary knowledge, he can pass the examination and meet the emperor. This is impossible in Europe.
Imaginary. The Chinese often say that princes, generals, and ministers would rather have their own blood. This means that kings, nobles, generals, and officials are not determined by blood, but by their own knowledge."
"The chief minister of China, the great general Wang Yuan, was born in one of the most remote and poor mountain villages in China. His father was just a humble farmer. Through hard study, he became an outstanding young scholar. He took the Imperial Examination at the age of sixteen.
to His Majesty the Emperor. And in Europe, a sixteen-year-old scholar can at most become a guest of a noble lady..."
These descriptions simply made European scholars nervous, and they regarded distant China as an ideal country in their minds.
There are philosopher kings and emperors, where knowledge is everything, and there is a paradise that scholars yearn for.
The Chinese style is blowing again in Europe, but this time it has nothing to do with silk and porcelain, and it is only popular among intellectuals. In Italy and France, scholars talk about everything about China, and study Camillo's quotations in "Journey to the East"
All the famous sayings of sages.
Laozi, Confucius, Mencius, Xunzi, Mozi... among European scholars, they are already on par with the three Greek sages.
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