The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

Regardless of the future generations, at this court meeting, a few fake envoys who claimed to be from France were really not as good as those envoys from the vassal states. They were always a little surprised. When they came to pay homage to Tu Jingnian, they were almost on the same hands and feet, which made a lot of jokes.

Tu Jingnian didn't take it too seriously. Tu Jingnian casually flipped through the so-called credentials, and he knew that [-]% of them were counterfeit. Not to mention that the credentials were actually made of rattan paper and ink produced in the south. It's also relatively inferior oil fume ink, and the coat of arms on it doesn't look like the real thing. I don't know who I found to get a radish to engrave the seal!However, he didn't have the idea of ​​revealing it. It is estimated that the Lifan Yuan of Honglu Temple had similar ideas. Anyway, no matter whether these people are true or not, they are always visitors from overseas. If they come to make up their numbers, it can be regarded as the coming of all nations.

Naturally, these few people don't have any tributes that can be sold. The West is proud of music boxes, clocks, glass mirrors and the like. The problem is that at this moment, under the vigorous promotion of Tu Jingnian, these things are just like the Like the Apple Macintosh, it has changed from a luxury item to an arcade machine. Even a small landlord in the country wants to buy a glass target mirror when his daughter gets married!What's more, these things are not cheap goods everywhere in Europe. These people just borrowed a sum of money, bought some glass beads and the like, and planned to sell them as gems to the natives of Nanyang. I met pirates, they were poor ghosts to pirates, they had no oil and water, so after a search, they were almost stripped and thrown into the sea. Fortunately, there was no storm at that time. The team saved.

Those merchant ships that run on the sea these days are not so kind. They carry a lot of food and fresh water on board. After all, more space must be reserved for goods!It might not be enough to save one more person. At that time, one of them had the idea of ​​pretending to be an envoy. Anyway, the ship was taken away by pirates, and there was no proof of death.

The people in the fleet thought that since they were envoys from foreign countries, they could get some rewards from the government when they brought them back, so they got him up. I can't turn back. When I arrived in Guangzhou, the fleet ran to the government and said that some people claimed to be envoys from Western France, but they were encountered by pirates on the way and were almost wiped out. I don't know if it is true or not. These people sold off immediately. With the only belongings on his body, he borrowed a sum of money from the people on the merchant ship, and after a lot of effort, he came up with a credential that he felt was not bad.One of them was born as a court aristocrat. The court aristocrat sounds good, but there is no land and no property, and the annual annuity is so little. Without the emperor's favor, it is nothing. Once the previous emperor died, the family almost fell into ruin. , his eldest brother inherited the title of the family, and he and the other brothers could only find their own way out, either joining the army or entering the church, but he couldn't bear that kind of life, so after drinking a few glasses of wine, he made up his mind After making up his mind, he decided to try his luck in the place full of gold in Marco Polo's travels, and then hit it off with these companions, bought the ticket almost impulsively, and ran out with a merchant ship.

That is, he first thought of pretending to be an envoy, and then forged the iris coat of arms of the French royal family. Although due to the haste, the coat of arms looked a bit deformed and there were some mistakes and omissions, but anyway, Da Jin had experienced There are not many people who have passed this coat of arms, so they can be fooled.

It's not that they've been fooled. Those officials have some doubts about their true identities, but one more thing is worse than one less thing. Anyway, envoys from other countries also receive them. This is a country that can't be dealt with and has never formally established diplomatic relations. The envoys were also received, and these people were obviously bumpkins, so they were easy to fool, so they met Tu Jingnian so smoothly.

Naturally, it is impossible for Tu Jingnian to get angry directly, doubting their origins, and these people speak Chinese very badly, probably because there is something wrong with the object of study. At first, they met the maritime merchants in Guangzhou, and then they passed the sea. After going to Quanzhou, the dialects in Fujian are different. After that, I can be regarded as keeping up with the large army of envoys to Beijing, and started to learn official Chinese again. These poor guys are almost confused by these hugely different dialects. There were few words that he could understand when he was muttering, but it made Emperor Chengqing want to laugh.

The Longevity Festival is very grand, and the arrival of these envoys from the vassal state also made Emperor Chengqing feel at ease. Naturally, he was very talkative, and with a wave of his hand, a large sum of rewards was sent out, which made the envoys even more elated, and almost spent their entire lives. His eloquence is flattering.Those guys from France were even more dazzled by the generous rewards. With these, if they could go back safely, it would be enough to buy a large manor and obtain the title of a court nobleman!

The problem is, they didn't expect that Tu Jingnian didn't intend to let them go back easily. He suddenly remembered that this is the time when western natural sciences are on the rise, and he should get some talents back, so he ordered them casually. In a word, he said that he was somewhat interested in the West, and asked the people from Honglu Temple to keep those French people here so that he could tell him about the affairs of the West.

Tu Jingnian made a request, and Honglu Temple will naturally agree. Anyway, according to their opinion, you few foreign barbarians are lucky. The saint wants to summon you alone, and there will be more benefits for you in the future. The saint pointed a little A little leakage from the inside of your head can make you very rich, maybe you can even get a job in the court!Of course, if you are not honest, you just expelled a group of missionaries before, because the two armies were at war, and they didn’t kill them, so they went back whole. Getting rid of it is also a very simple matter.

A few officials from Honglu Temple directly threatened, you so-called envoys don't know if it's true or not!Pretending to be an envoy is a serious crime of beheading. Even if what you said is true, all the original credentials were taken away by pirates, but how does your emperor know whether you were killed by pirates, or you died here because of disobedience? Woolen cloth?

These unlucky guys were so frightened that they broke out in a cold sweat. Some time ago, it was the time when the autumn executions were concentrated. There is no shortage of gallows and guillotines. They have also seen the scene of the church burning so-called witches. However, in such a concentration, dozens of people's heads can be chopped off at once, which is still beyond their psychological capacity.What's more, according to their understanding, many of the people who were killed were very noble nobles, who were similar to the lords in the locality, and they were killed directly by the emperor with a single word.

Therefore, the people at Honglu Temple sent people to teach them Mandarin, and at the same time trained them again on the etiquette of meeting the emperor. They showed the spirit of being a hundred times more focused when they were playboys picking up girls, and while studying hard, they wondered what skills they have. , so as to please the Eastern Emperor.At least, the emperor of France didn't have the ability to make a promise and kill whoever he said he would kill.

There is no need for Tu Jingnian to accommodate them. Learning French or Latin, which has relatively old grammar in this era, is enough to worry about learning English and Russian in his previous life. What's more, after so many years, he has not been able to use it. Naturally, he has almost forgotten how to say it. Now, with his current status, there is no need to accommodate anyone. Therefore, after asking these people about their study progress, he temporarily let go of his hands and went about his own business.

The basic industry has now taken a certain rudimentary form, and the next step is nothing more than expanding production.Tu Jingnian is actually thinking about the light industry and the pharmaceutical industry now. He has no intention of rushing to study various antibiotics and vaccines, but directly starts to gather doctors from all over the country to recompile the herbal pharmacopoeia, and to get some proven prescriptions in it.There is no Compendium of Materia Medica these days, and no matter how powerful Li Shizhen is, he can't compare to the strength of the collective.Western medicine certainly has its merits, but in the end most of them treat the symptoms rather than the root cause. It is better to systematize traditional Chinese medicine and combine it with some technical means of western medicine, which can naturally greatly improve the level of medical treatment.

Of course, the weapons industry is also indispensable, and Tu Jingnian has been doing this in his previous life.When he was the crown prince, he only did some basic preparations. Now that he is the emperor, he can naturally wave his hand and announce that various firearms will be developed.In fact, firearms had already been used in the former Yuan Dynasty. During the Taizu period, a magic machine camp was organized. However, the gunpowder technology has not been improved, and it is still the ordinary black gunpowder. The power is very limited and it explodes. It is also better than fireworks and firecrackers used for entertainment; secondly, it is still limited by materials. The previous artillery can not be made of iron at all, and the chamber will explode if you are not careful, so you can only use copper. There is a money shortage, and the output of copper is too small. People have to be accused of melting copper coins to make bronze wares. Besides, a cannon needs a lot of copper. Although the imperial court has been exchanging gold and silver with many feudal states through sea trade these years However, copper is expensive and silver is cheap in Japan, and the other small feudal states are even more in pursuit of the copper coins from the Jin Dynasty.Therefore, a large amount of copper coins flowed out, but there was a lot of gold and silver, which also limited the production of artillery.

Fortunately, after years of preparatory work by Tu Jingnian, there is no problem with the materials, and the gunpowder has also been changed from black powder to picric acid. Now TNT is being developed, and Tu Jingnian has produced some rough and primitive guns and artillery. Drawings, the Ministry of Industry has set up a new department called the Department of Firearms. The relevant craftsmen trained by Tu Jingnian over the years have been stuffed into it. The person in charge of this department is also Tu Jingnian's confidant. In the future, this department will be named as the Royal Arms Research Institute and become independent directly.

It took more than half a year for the Ministry of Industry to finally produce a batch of relatively primitive flintlock muskets. Because of the advancement of steelmaking technology, threaded steel pipes are used instead of ordinary iron pipes. Not only the bombing rate has dropped significantly, but the accuracy has also improved a lot.Tu Jingnian got another batch of blueprints of guns from World War I and World War II, and ordered the Ministry of Industry to make a trial production, and then first sneaked out the Shenji Battalion, replaced their equipment with this kind of flintlock gun, and then announced the holding A military exercise.