[Qing] If you don't work hard, you will be forced to inherit the throne

There are three doctors in charge of the host-guest cleaning department, who are from the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han tribes. From this distribution of functions, it can be seen that they are responsible for receiving visitors from which side.

Just like Zheng Keshuang came to Beijing this time, Yinfeng discussed with Xu Qianxue.

If a Mongolian prince comes to Beijing, there will also be a Mongolian doctor who will be in charge of welcoming the guests.

The person in charge of Manchu etiquette was named Sun Guo, who was born in Aixinjueluo, and was a member of the Jueluo clan. If there were princes from the same clan who came from the land of Longxing, he would be in charge of receiving them.

Under the three doctors, Yuanwailang was appointed as a deputy, in charge of more detailed affairs of the subordinate department, the pen post style was responsible for translating documents, recording documents, and passing on confidential information, and Jing Cheng was responsible for writing manuscripts...

These three doctors are all easy to talk to, because Yinreng and Xu Qianxue are the most familiar with each other when they greeted Zheng Keshuang before.

Mr. Xu has been an official for four years older than Yinreng's age, and he passed the Tanhua exam long before Yinreng was born.

Mr. Xu back then was also a flower in the suave capital of the capital. Now the years make people grow old. Mr. Xu is 52 years old and strong.

What Yinreng likes the most is Mr. Xu's style of talking less and working more. If you have anything to discuss with him, it is feasible, right?Then do it, you asshole!

Mr. Xu has been in his current position for more than ten years. He has successively worked as an annotator and a history writer. According to his qualifications, in fact, he can still be promoted. From Yinfeng's point of view Look, Mr. Xu is waiting for an opportunity that will come when it is ripe. When there is an old minister or senior scholar somewhere above, Khan Ama will promote him.

[Another reason for Xu Qianxue's slow promotion in his official career is that he is the nephew of Gu Yanwu, a literati who resisted the Qing Dynasty. 】Speaking of Gu Yanwu, Xiaomei has a lot of information here.

[Almighty talents, can be a local official, know astronomy and geography, canal transport and river management, military art, farming and mulberry, and a famous Confucian who knows all kinds of classics and history, and his musical accomplishments are jokingly called "Ming Cai Yong". 】【He was so courageous that he stood up and opposed Ming Dynasty stereotyped essays when the previous dynasty was still alive.He had been in prison, and after he was released from prison, he participated in the Anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty. In the end, he met a group of pig teammates who made him miserable. He failed to participate and paid all his expenses.He was still obsessed with the restoration of the former dynasty, and wandered around, but he didn't meet a few people who could "do great things" with him.It is because when I was young, I was wandering and traveling everywhere, and I traveled all over the country inside and outside the customs. 】【Ah...he is the man that the big friend's father couldn't ask for.The big friend’s Taifu Xiong Cilu invited him to a banquet, but he refused again. The big friend’s father invited him to open a erudite study of Confucianism. He said that he would rather die than submit. 】Yinfeng was startled: "Then where is he now?"

[He, just last year, was too old to learn how to ride a horse from a young man, but he stumbled and fell to his death. Before he fell to his death, he once again rejected the invitation of Ye Fang'an, the servant of the Ministry of punishment. 】Yinfeng: "..."

[What a pity!However, his rebellion against the imperial court was too strong, and he was also a great Confucian whose every move would affect literati.If he doesn't die, Mr. Xu, a nephew, won't be able to get promoted. 】Now Yinfeng's mood is like watching a golden old donkey speeding past his eyes, he can't catch it, he can only watch it drooling, suddenly, the old donkey fell to his death , He died in pain.

[Don't think about it, Gu Yanwu, a literati with integrity, belongs to the previous dynasty in his heart, he will not do things with your father for the sake of big friends. 】【Confucianism talks about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Didn’t my friend’s father cultivate a new batch of literati who are loyal to him and patriotic to the Qing Dynasty?Gu Yanwu was a literati cultivated by the previous dynasty. His ideas were deeply ingrained and he was stubborn. He would not be loyal to the Qing emperor. 】Xiaomei is like an outsider watching with cold eyes. She doesn't care much when talking about the "former dynasty" and the "current dynasty".

Ever since it was discovered that even the famous Fourth Lord, the final winner of the Nine Dragons Seizure, Emperor Yongzheng could not help it, it has been completely ruined.

Even though he is a Manchu royal family, he has been influenced by Xiaomei since he was a child. The sense of belonging in Yinreng's heart comes from this country, which is composed of more than [-] ethnic groups such as Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Tibetan, Zhuang and Yi. countries together.

This country would not be complete without any one nation.His sense of belonging comes from the land where he was born until now, and from the culture carved into his bone marrow. He has a closeness to all the ethnic groups born in this land, because they all drink the same Yellow River water and eat the same food. Same grain.They are all "insiders" in this land. Among all the courtiers, he is the only one who has a grudge against Nan Huairen, the Western Taifu who taught him a lot of new knowledge since he was a child. He has always regarded Nan Huairen as "" "outsiders" and remain vigilant against "missionaries" and "foreigners".

On this point, no matter how much Kangxi said, he couldn't change Yinrong's concept.

Yinreng was born in the Forbidden City. He is a native of the capital city. He has learned Manchu and Chinese since he was a child. Manchu is a language, but Chinese has four books and five classics. There are countless books and textbooks. What he brings is a A culture engraved in his bones affected his soul.

What he speaks most proficiently is the mandarin with the taste of the capital dialect.

When he was in court, Khan Amma could switch between Manchu and Chinese freely. He spoke Manchu for a while, and Chinese for a while, so it was easy to communicate.If Yinreng hadn't learned these two languages ​​since he was a child, he might not be able to understand them at this meeting.

After Chen Mengqiu went to Taiwan with Yao Qisheng, Qingsi, the host and guest official, received a document from Taiwan.

The document was written in a foreign language, and it was delivered to the host-guest Qingli Department for translation and delivery.

Yinreng was the first to come into contact with this foreign document that was delivered through Taiwan before the Qing Dynasty opened the sea ban.

This document was sent by an envoy from a country called the Netherlands.

In the document, they expressed their deep condolences to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, expressed their high respect to him, and expressed their country's yearning for doing business with the Qing Dynasty.

With Xiaomei's translation, Yinreng also knew that the Netherlands managed to stay in the Qing Dynasty through the relationship of Nan Huairen because of the successful arrival of the Belgian merchant ship, and paid tribute to the Qing emperor with the "Cinchona Tree". He was in a hurry.

[Of course it is in a hurry. It was unable to beat the Zheng family before, and tried to attack Taiwan with the Qing Dynasty. Now the Qing Dynasty has flattened Taiwan by itself, leaving no room for it to intervene. In the end, Belgium gave it a head start.For Westerners, the trade route leading to the mysterious East is huge profits. Of course, they are eager. They want to send envoys to the Qing Dynasty, and they also come to the Qing Dynasty to get close. The Qing Dynasty united to attack Kinmen together.Later, due to disagreements, we could not cooperate further. 】【Later, the ambitious Dutch fleet took advantage of the Qing Dynasty's war with Zheng's and occupied Taiwan's chicken cages as a foothold for colonizing the East. ] Yinfeng suddenly realized: not long after they retreated, the Qing Dynasty won successive battles.

Xiaomei also explained to Yinrong what "colonization" is.

[Colonization refers to other countries conquering new territories, plundering local raw materials, dumping goods, raising local people as livestock, just like herdsmen raising sheep, scraping away the wool, killing and slaughtering fat sheep...] Yinfeng: Stop talking, Gu understands!

The cold hairs on Yinreng's back stood up one by one, like a kitten with fried hair, his eyes were wide open: "The Netherlands is uneasy and kind, we have to be vigilant when interacting with them!"

The translator who was in charge of the translation said strangely: "His Royal Highness, the Netherlands is a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. They wrote in this document that they want to 'pay tribute' to the Qing Dynasty."

Yinfeng pointed to the word Xiaomei translated as "trade".

"The meaning of this word is 'paying tribute'?"

Bi Tieshi nodded and said affirmatively, "Yes."

Yinfeng was furious: "Obviously you want to 'do business', how come it becomes 'paying tribute', will you?"

He hesitated for a moment, and patiently explained to Yinrong: "This word means 'paying tribute' and 'doing business'."

[Big friend, the trade of the Qing Dynasty was inherited from the previous dynasty, which is the tribute trade. This tradition has existed since Zheng He's voyages to the West.This word was written by the Dutch for the purpose of "doing business", but it was understood by officials in the Qing Dynasty as "tributary trade".There are differences in language and culture, and you can't blame the pen post translation for being wrong. 】Yinfeng has one head and two big ones: Tribute trade, isn’t it just that someone gives me a grape and I accept it, expressing my acceptance of your surrender and contribution, and then give you ten watermelons?

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[It can be understood in this way, but the big friend's father is shrewd, so he shouldn't fool people to cheat money. 】 Yinreng was skeptical about this.

Are you really not foolish enough to cheat money?

Bi Tieshi translates "doing business" into "tribute"!

People want to come to them to do business like a businessman, and they don't mention vassalage to do their vassal affairs.

Yinreng raised his eyebrows horizontally, and insisted on changing a few translated words in the document sent by the Netherlands.

It should mean "doing business", so just write "doing business", and write "tribute"!

It's just a polite greeting, how come the taste has changed after translation, every translated word is correct, but it reads like a subordinate's reverence and love for the emperor?

Under Yinfeng's operation, a translation was changed beyond recognition. This kind of translation does not show a trace of awe for the emperor from subordinate countries. If it is handed over to the emperor, will it really not provoke the emperor's anger?

Bi Tie Shi couldn't make up his mind for a while, he was proficient in this job before, and it was really the first time he encountered His Highness the Crown Prince.

The little ancestor in front of him was still something he couldn't offend.

Between his head and offending His Royal Highness, Bi Tie Shi chose to keep his head, and he reported the matter to Xu Qianxue.

Xu Qianxue's astonishment was beyond words, he bent down patiently and asked Yinfeng: "His Royal Highness knows Dutch?"

Yinfeng graciously admitted that with Xiaomei around, the translation of languages ​​from all over the world is not a problem.

Xu Qianxue compared the rewritten translation requested by Yinreng with the document translated by the pen post style. Knowing that this matter is no small matter, he hurriedly turned serious, and said to him: "I may compare the translation instructed by Your Highness with the pen post style translation. The written translation will be reported to Lord Sha, and I implore you to report to the emperor?"

What the outcome of this matter is, it is better to let the emperor decide for himself.

There is nothing wrong with the translation of the blunt statement in the pen post style. Please ask other pen post style to come, and the result is the same.

The language is extensive and profound, and after translation, the taste will change if the words are slightly different. However, when writing documents in the Qing Dynasty, the words used by the civil servants have always had ancient meanings.

This ancient meaning is also deeply influenced by Confucianism, which emphasizes humility and propriety, and uses elegant and appropriate words.

Comparing the translation, this problem is a bit big.

Xu Qianxue hurriedly went to find Sha Cheng after getting Yinreng's consent.

When Sha Cheng first saw him, he put on a business-like look. When he saw Yinreng who came after Xu Qianxue, his face turned green and his beard trembled faintly.

The mountains of documents in front of him warned him how many pitfalls were waiting ahead, but the lofty morality in his heart forced him to listen patiently to Xu Qianxue.

In the end, this matter was stabbed to Emperor Kangxi...