Female Official In the East Palace

In February, the crown prince and the eldest grandson of the emperor went on a tour with Kangxi.

The things brought back by merchant ships from overseas were still on the way. The prince was worried about others, so before leaving, he instructed Rong Xin to collect them on his behalf, and carefully checked and screened them before handing them over to others.

The Prince's attitude towards Western learning is more tolerant than many ministers in the DPRK, but the tolerance is limited, and some things are not suitable for spreading among the common people and must be filtered.

Rong Xin understood the meaning of the prince, so after the convoy arrived in the capital, after counting the number, she did not let the escorts go, but gathered them all together.

There must be a lot of thoughts at home, my banquet is really out of place, but it is not easy for me to go out of the palace, and I will find you guys to talk later, and it will delay your reunion with your family, please forgive me."

There are half complaints."

"Exactly, I have no complaints."

"That's right."

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"No." Rong Xin raised his hand and asked everyone to take their seats, saying: "Everyone is loyal to His Royal Highness, His Highness must be lenient and lenient, I have prepared a gift and brought it back after the banquet to chat. Express your heart."

In fact, for their trip, the prince will pay them, and they will also bring some things to buy and sell. They make a lot of money. One or two.

Rong Xin ordered her to take the others down, then turned to the middle-aged man, and said with a smile, "Mr. Yang, I have to respect you a few cups, this time it's all thanks to your hard work."

"The lady official is polite."

This Mr. Yang is named Yang Zhen. His father used to work in Honglu Temple. He was not talented in the imperial examination.

Rong Xin went through this person's life in his mind, and while inviting people to take a seat, he smiled and said, "This time, Mr. Yang can rest for a while."

Yang Zhen heard the words and asked, "Officer Rong, does His Royal Highness have any other orders? I still want to serve His Highness, and I don't need to rest."

"Your Highness naturally wants to reuse talents like yours, but it's not in a hurry."

Yang Zhen calmed down visibly to the naked eye, "That's good, I'm not afraid to let the female official make jokes, I have nothing else to do. If it wasn't for His Royal Highness, I'm afraid that even the young and old would not be able to support the family."

This is his modesty, Rong Xin smiles, no matter what era, talented people will always find a foothold easier than ordinary people.

However, Rong Xin can understand his meaning, and can serve the prince, the future is naturally different from the other side, and it is common to not want to let go.

Therefore, Rong Xin said with a smile: "His Royal Highness did have an explanation before leaving the capital, Mr. Yang just wants to be at ease with his family for a few days, so as not to be busy in the future and the family will complain about you."

"I also ask the female official to convey that I would like to do my best for His Royal Highness."

The last time Rong Xin drank with a man, it was also for His Royal Highness, but at that time, a young man was sitting opposite.

This wine is not as strong as it was then, as light as water.

The corners of Rong Xin's mouth rose, and he returned to his senses, and said casually, "Mr. Yang, the drawings requested by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I don't seem to have seen it before..."

"There are a lot of people, so I didn't specifically point it out. The two boxes above the book box are."

Rong Xin heard this and praised: "Mr. Yang is as careful as he should be."

"It should be like this, the female official won the prize."

At that time, the merchant ship went out to sea, and the prince also sent a painter who was good at fine brushwork with the ship, in order to better understand the western countries.

However, the painter was a very unruly person. On the way back, he encountered the prince's new merchant ship, and he traveled again and never came back.

Rong Xin was very excited when he heard the prince talking about it. At this time, when he heard that the album was close at hand, he became more and more itchy and wanted to see it, but he had to treat Yang Zhen patiently.

The two didn't say anything during the banquet. After the banquet, Yang Zhen opened the huge book box, took the book list and explained to Rong Xin what books there were one by one, and then opened the other two slightly smaller ones. wooden box.

Rong Xin saw that one of them was a painting tube, and the other box was still filled with books. He did not open it immediately, but asked, "Can you clean the cabin every day as required?"

Yang Zhen nodded and said, "Don't worry, Madam Rong, I will follow His Highness's instructions and clean it carefully every day, and I have been using realgar and other objects to expel insects."

Rong Xin picked up a book with a handkerchief across it, and asked, "This handwriting looks like Mr. Yang's?"

"The female officer has good eyesight." Yang Zhen introduced, "This is a record of passing through various places. According to His Highness's instructions, every day I saw and heard, not a single thing fell."

Rong Xin simply flipped through the pages, and it was indeed extremely detailed, so he said, "Mr. Yang has worked hard."

"Don't be."

Afterwards, Rong Xin ordered people to take out the gifts and distribute them, and then personally sent Yang Zhen and others away, and then returned to check those things.

In addition to the wooden boxes for books in the house, there are also more than a dozen large wooden boxes in the yard, all of which are brought back from overseas. Xin then let them stay in the courtyard to bask in the sun for a while, and went straight to the hall.

At this time, Qianhang in the backyard heard that the outsider had left, and brought Dongzhu here.

The three put on their smocks, masks and gloves, and slowly sorted out the scrolls of books.

Yang Zhen and the painter use Chinese characters, and those foreign books are available in all languages, even if Yang Zhen has translated and annotated a small part of them as much as possible, it is still confusing water.

Qianhang picked up one of them and asked, "Is it really useful for your Royal Highness to find these books from heaven?"

Rong Xin still has some memories of English. Compared with Qianhang and the others, she is not clueless. Looking at the book in Qianhang's hand, she sees the name spelled out by the letters on the cover. It was Isaac Newton.

Rong Xin didn't mean this, but according to the general mentality of the people of this dynasty, it was indeed more acceptable for Qianhang to say this, so she nodded in approval of her statement.

The three of them tossed with a few palace attendants of Yuqing Palace for an afternoon, and finally moved the books to the study to arrange them according to the classification, and then rushed back to the palace before the palace door was locked .

The Crown Princess just asked a few questions, and didn't care much.

In the days after that, Rong Xin took Dongzhu and Qianhang to the house outside the palace to sort things out whenever she had free time. When Qianhang saw the strange things, she thought it was strange, but Dongzhu was against a certain Some things appear to be very straightforwardly sharp.

Will give up to pay attention, but Dongzhu can stare at a graphic for a long time.

When Rong Xin was busy, she would think that maybe their previous arrangements for Dongzhu were still a little off.

Such thoughts cannot be eliminated once they arise, so Rong Xin did not wait for the prince to come back, so he invited Jiu Ge Yinzhen to be a guest at her house, and in accordance with the prince's instructions in advance, asked Jiu A Brother introduced Yang Zhen.

Nine Brothers has been learning Western languages ​​these years, and after a few simple exchanges with Yang Zhen, he invited Yang Zhen to teach at his mansion every day.

Rong Xin waited for them to finish their exchange, and then took out the book that Dongzhu was more interested in, and said to Jiu'er: "Can I ask for your help? book translated?"

Brother Jiu took it without saying a word, looked at the books they were sealing, and asked, "What are those?"

"These are religious books from other countries, which are inconvenient for dissemination. I am going to wait for His Royal Highness to return, and then hand it over to His Royal Highness to seal it up."

Brother Jiu frowned in disgust, "Don't Yang Zhen know how to screen? What are you doing with these **** books?"

Some of those foreign missionaries did bring many advanced things to the Qing Dynasty, but some people arrogantly pointed fingers at the Qing Dynasty and did not abide by the laws of the Qing Dynasty. People are extremely disgusted.

Rong Xin also heard about it, so he did not try to persuade Brother Jiu, but only spoke for Yang Zhen: "His Royal Highness ordered Mr. Yang to collect it, and he naturally dare not make an assertion."

As Rong Xin said, if these things are useful, take them back, the prince will naturally judge, but Yang Zhen can't judge subjectively.

This time they borrowed the merchant ships of the sea merchants, and they got back limited ones. When the merchant ships of the prince and the eldest brother come back, it is estimated that the things on them are even more varied and require more laborious screening. This is for the sake of To be safe, steps must be taken.

And what are they doing? I am afraid it will take a hundred years to see the difference.