Transmigrating To The Ming Dynastys Imperial Examination - Chapter 291

The missionaries also wanted to give Cui Xie something, begging him to say something nice to the emperor. Cui Xie shook his head slightly and said with a smile: “If you only have these things, it won’t be enough to get the chance to stay in China.”

He said this as if he wanted to openly ask for bribes. Master Liu couldn’t help but stare at him. The missionaries felt the joy of missionary hope and happily asked the translator to pass on: “What do you want? Our business not only brings us. Books that spread the Gospel of God, as well as various glassware and oil paintings from the West, jewelry, woolen fabrics, Indian gems and spices from Central Asia… We came by Portuguese merchant ships. If adults have any needs, they can also be shipped by merchants. come.”

Cui Xie pointed to a transparent prism among many glass cups and said: “The glass is good. The plant with the red fruit in the pot is unparalleled in China. This kind of mathematics book is also very good. These are all you Italy. Produced? What kind of sea-going ship did you take when you came to China, and how could you bypass the 10,000-mile sea route to Guangdong? What weapons do you have on board to prevent piracy?”

The oldest missionary said cautiously: “We are on a marine merchants ship, and we dont know the structure of the ship. If adults like books, we have brought more books on mathematics, logical argumentation, and astronomy and calendars. . Its just that there are not too many glassware and peppers. Could you please ask your emperor for us to allow more maritime merchants to visit Hong Kong and trade with your country?”

Master Liu said solemnly: “I have had a maritime prohibition order since the reign of Emperor Taizu. The maritime prohibition must not be arbitrarily moved. I hope Master Cui will not only be greedy for temporary gains.”

Cui Xie replied in a low voice: “I didn’t mean it. I just heard these missionaries say that their merchant ships can withstand overseas storms, and they can sail to China from thousands of miles away with treasures full of cabins. It must be There are extremely powerful weapons. My Ming navy has been quite weak in recent years. Even the small Japanese pirates have invaded the border. They can’t sail for hundreds of miles and cut off the roots of their evil. I think they are good at sea, and they are really happy.”

Master Liu was stunned and wanted to ask him if he was fascinated by comics. But Cui Xie only asked that one and left the ship, and asked if any of these missionaries could burn glass, or knew the formula of colorless transparent glass, he couldn’t say anything.

Cui Xie told the missionaries that if they could burn such glass, or build strong boats and cannons for Daming, he could also praise “capable” in front of the saint and introduce them as talents. If you can only preach a few doctrines and make people believe in their Lord-I’m sorry, then they can only be treated like ordinary maritime merchants. Goods can enter the port, but people cannot enter.

The missionary realized that he did not want to cherish beautiful objects, as long as they had advanced European technology. What is hateful is that they obviously want this technology, but they still refuse to beg them. Instead, they put the sugar on their noses, forcing them to offer everything.

But for the Jesuits, science is just a way to interpret theology. It would be worthwhile to exchange science and send more advanced technology and weapons in exchange for the opportunity to preach in this vast country.

In addition to the Jesuits, there are Franciscans, Dominicans, and Augustinian priests also preaching in India, Manchuria, Japan and other places on Portuguese or Spanish ships. They were the first to open the door to China, and they must firmly hold onto this vast country that once refused all exchanges with Europe, just like an independent world.

The lead older missionary lowered his head slightly.

They hope to officially stay in Beijing, build a church for the gods, and translate the books they bring. In exchange, they can obtain glass technology and weapons that Cui Xie wants from Europe and sell them to China.

Cui Xie shook his head slightly, put down Euclid’s original, and turned to leave.

The missionaries hurriedly held peppers, glass tea sets, maps and other gifts to give him. Cui Xie himself also traced a bunch of high-definition world maps of the 21st century. He was lack of interest in this ancient version and waved his rejection. He only asked if Europeans now consider peppers as edible.

Can eat.

Anyhow, it’s not considered a poison like tomatoes.

The Chinese translator only said that the food touched the nose and stung the tongue, and the taste was not good. The missionaries refused to eat it. The translator is also from the southeast coast. The taste is light and I don’t like the spicy taste.

Then he can safely cook with peppers!

Cui Xie left the meeting hall with satisfaction, and signed a list with Director Liu.

Master Liu didn’t have a good impression of these missionaries. In the memorial, he directly denounced them for being cunning and ignorant of etiquette. The book he wanted to offer to the emperor was actually filled with pictures like the tantric double practice diagram. When he wrote the memorial, he felt ashamed when he thought of the picture, and waited for the evil sect to not allow them to preach in China.

Cui Xies watch affirmed that there are talents who are good at arithmetic among them. The books such as Euclids Originals that came with the ship are classics obtained by talents of other countries, and the prism is also a tool for checking things. You can ask these people to stay in the capital, send someone to teach them Chinese, and assign the interpreter at Siyi Pavilion to learn Thai and Western languages, so that in the future, more Thai and Western talents will come to China to serve the emperor of Hongzhi.

However, these missionaries should not be allowed to preach in China. They should be circled to translate foreign scriptures for our Confucian scholars to figure out.

Furthermore, the sea-going ships that the missionaries took can travel far to China. The sea-going ships must have something extraordinary, and the craftsmen of the Guangdong Shipyard can try to imitate them. In particular, it is necessary to find out what the nails, the woods and the cables on the ship are made of, and where the crops were born. In the future, we should try to introduce Da Ming to prepare the Ming navy to build a ship.

As for the maritime merchants on the ship, don’t treat them too politely. These people carried heavy artillery on their ships and bought and sold goods and people in various countries. They were called maritime merchants and were actually pirates. Everywhere his ships must be monitored by local navy forces to prevent them from harming coastal areas by relying on their strong ships and guns.

He wrote more than a thousand words eloquently, and until the end of the article did he mention his own selfishness: “The missionary brought a kind of pepper from overseas, the taste is extremely spicy, and the minister thought it could replace cornel as a seasoning. Or it has medicinal effects. It can also make the medical officer of Taiyuan Hospital judge.”

The emperor Hongzhi worked **** the two memorials for a long time, and finally realized that no matter how bad the doctrines of these missionaries were, he also knew some knowledge of counting and calendering. Just treat them as the horse bones in the bones of a thousand dollars. Keep these few, and in the future, you will be able to recruit talented people with real talents.

The emperor made a decree and asked these people to live in the Huitong Pavilion. From the Siyi Pavilion, they selected translators to teach them Chinese and learn their Latin. He also chose Qin Tianjian astronomy students to learn foreign calendars and arithmetic with them.

Regarding the iron cannon mentioned in Cui Xie’s memorial, he ordered the chief of the military department, the Ducha Yushi, and the internal supervisor to go to Guangzhou for field investigation. The ship is not in a hurry to build for a while, but if you have good guns, you can buy some from the Italians, and use them during the Northern Expedition to Tartar.

The imperial court accepted these people. Soon, the East Palace sent a waiter specializing in agricultural crops to ask for a few pots of peppers to bring into the palace for the prince to study.

Because Cui Xie’s letter mentioned that chili peppers can “touch the nose and sting the tongue”, the waiters personally tasted it, and they all found it spicy and bitter, fearing it might be slightly poisonous.

The crown prince is noble and should not touch such things easily, so he only asked the waiters to slice and observe, and watched by themselves. The little eunuchs first drew the morphology of the pepper branches, leaves, fruits, and calyx, and then opened the microscope, sliced, dripped water, twisted the lens tube, carefully observed the pepper epidermis and leaves, and drew the cells. Structure diagram.

Seeing that the cells are not any different from the plant flowers and leaves they usually observe. It’s just that the fruit tastes spicy. After touching it, even the fingers are spicy. If you touch your eyelids by mistake, you can sting your eyes and make them swollen and painful.

The little servant who missed his hands and touched his eyes cried so much that he didn’t dare to lose his honor in front of the prince, and went on hurriedly. The prince looked at his embarrassed image, and felt deeply that this thing might be poisonous, so he didn’t dare to touch it. He asked people to divide it into two pots and give it to Mr. Cui, and threw the rest into the flower shed.

Cui Xie waited for the emperor’s replied memorial and did not wait, but waited for two pots of peppers, which was a surprise.

The **** who delivered the decree said politely: “When your Royal Highness checked this thing before, he found that its spiciness could stain the skin and flesh. Touching it and then touching the delicate places like your eyes will cause you to cry. Your lord will go back. Be careful when you study it, dont let this hot air sting.”

Cui Xie thanked the **** for his kindness, holding the chili pepper and moving to the Xiangyang window, admiring it with delight. The bachelors in the same room also watched and asked him what it was. It was small and pointed, but delicate.

Cui Xie had met an Italian, and asked a few questions about the pepper, and he could blow it casually when he came back in the imperial courtyard. He immediately named this unnamed hot pepper, telling everyone that this pepper is very spicy, but the taste is pure and without bitterness. After frying it, the spicy oil obtained must be better than the spicy oil made by cornel.

The two bachelors in the same room with him were both from Zhejiang and didn’t like spicy food, but Jiangxi tip Xieyuan was quite interested when he heard about it.

It is a pity that there are too few peppers in the two pots, and they have to be kept for seeding, and Cui Xie is not willing to eat it.

After he fully endured the harvest, he dried the chilies and cut out the seeds. The dry skin on the outside was then fried into chili oil by the cook, mixed with red oil, white meat, and red oil pork ears. Add some sesame oil and chopped peanuts to the remaining red oil, and pour it on the tender chicken to make a less authentic saliva chicken.

All in all, I made such a small amount of chili dishes, it is not enough to give it to people. He had to have a banquet at home, invited Teacher Li from Hunan and Fei Jieyuan from Jiangxi, and then invited his neighbor Xie Tongzhi over to join the table for a banquet.

The first time Xie Ying went to Cuis house to have a banquet, he rescued brothers Li Dongyang and Yang Yiqing halfway, and they invited them to Cuis house.

Now that the two of them were at the same table again, Li Dongyang recalled the past and looked at Xie Ying as beautiful as before, but with a lot of sharp faces reduced, and sighed: “I still remember the time when I was rescued by Master Xie and the younger brother. So I came to Cui’s house and accepted He Zhong, a good apprentice. This time I came to Cui’s house and I had to be at the same table with Xie Zhenfu. Unfortunately, my younger brother was in Nanjing and I didn’t have the fate to eat this foreign pepper.”

He picked up a chopstick of pork ears in red oil, chewed it squeaky, his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: “This chili fried oil is so delicious! There is no sour gas from cornel, and no red oil in lime. The bitterness, spicy and fragrant, I have never tasted such a positive spicy taste!”

He was so pleased that he personally picked up a few chopsticks for the juniors on the table, and asked Cui Xie: “Next year, we will have more chili peppers. When Junior Brother Yang returns to Beijing, we will have another chili dish together!”