I am the king of the dead

The envoys of the Great Qin Kingdom did not have any valuable property except for a thousand Roman gold coins weighing three coins. Those books were not worth much in the eyes of the Oirats.

Wang Fu didn't say too much about the situation in Taixi, or even about the Great Qin State.

It is also the first time I have heard of this Great Qin Kingdom.

The official envoy of the Great Qin Kingdom is named Nicolaus, and the deputy envoy is named Elena. She is a very young girl, and everyone likes to call her Zoe (Note).

In fact, Wang Fu was prepared to be discovered, but he was too worried.

In the name of the funeral of the two princes, Wang Fu sent these 300 people to Suiye City. During the whole process, no one asked who these 300 people were.

Even Boyan Timur didn't inquire. After these 300 people successfully settled in Suiye City, they headed towards the ancient road of Tianshan Mountain.

Wang Fu and Sai Yin didn't manage his family's shops outside the Great Wall, and few people asked what they were selling.

One must know that in this era, even the emperor took the lead in selling firearms and steel feathers outside the Great Wall, and Wang Fu just secretly sent some people away, which is really not a big deal.

Faster than the envoys of the Great Qin Kingdom were the memorials written by Wang Fu, who followed the trade route to Jiayuguan, and then headed for the capital.

At this time, all the harvests that the Oirats robbed in Samarkand were finally sold in the mutual market in Jiayuguan, and nearly one million silver coins went to the outside of the Great Wall.

The Tianshan Ancient Road, a commercial route from the Han Dynasty, has finally regained its vitality.

Those "bad metals" of good people in Ulugh Beg are worthless. If there is no letter card that is not accepted at night, all the items in Ulugh Beg in the observatory will be treated as waste.

When Zhu Qiyu received Ulugh Beg's broken copper and iron, he received Wang Fu's second memorial.

The news that the envoy of the Great Qin Kingdom came from Constantinople with thousands of books was placed before Zhu Qiyu's case.

"Go and find Hu Shangshu." Zhu Qiyu looked at the memorial in front of him with a complicated and strange expression.

The Great Qin Kingdom, or the Eastern Roman Empire, was still alive, which was completely unexpected to him.

According to the course of history, Constantinople in the Eastern Roman Empire had already fallen in May of the fourth year of Jingtai.

But it was already close to September, and Zhu Qiyu received news from the Roman Empire, and according to the inscription, the mission set off from Constantinople in June.

Fatih, Sultan of the Ottoman Kingdom, actually had a cousin in Constantinople.

This is why Constantinople still exists.

Constantine XI was a subjugated king, there is no doubt about it.

Although the Eastern Roman Empire remained firm in the Principality of Morea for more than ten years, it is also a generally accepted conclusion that the Eastern Roman Empire died in the eleventh century.

But Constantine himself was not insane. When he took over, the situation in Dongluo was already too corrupt, and it was not something a hero could save.

When Constantine XI returned to Constantinople from the Principality of Morea, he could not find a ship from the Roman Empire, so he had to return to Constantinople on a Venetian merchant ship, which shows his embarrassment.

But Constantine still found the weakness of his lifelong enemy Fatih, that is Fatih's cousin, another Ottoman prince Orhan.

The succession law of the Ottoman Kingdom is the Guards Succession Law, and every prince has the right to inherit the throne.

During the crucial battle of Varna in Constantinople, Constantine XI funded the prince Orhan to provoke internal strife in the Ottoman kingdom to oust Fatih .

In fact, Constantine XI succeeded.

With the victory of the Battle of Varna, the Yeniceri Legion launched a coup and ousted the Ottoman Sultan Fatih who had never returned to the capital. Fatih had to return the Sultan's throne to himself again father of Murad II.

Fatih was exiled.

Of course, the prince who presided over the coup did not succeed in sitting on the throne and fled back to Constantinople again.

After the death of Murad II, Fatih successfully ascended the throne again.

Constantine XI has been using this prince to blackmail Fatih, which is the only bargaining chip in the hands of the last emperor of Rome.

The information Wang Fu collected was extremely rich, and Zhu Qiyu also waited for Hu Wei.

Zhu Qiyu handed the information in his hands to Hu Wei who was waiting, and asked full of doubts: "Is there a messenger between our Da Ming and Da Qin?"

Hu Yan nodded and said, "Yes."

Hu Wei has been looking at the information. Among the information, all the handling of Constantine XI, the king of subjugation, is almost the best answer under the corrupt situation.

But just like Li Binyan's preface of the four seasons, the Great Qin Kingdom has entered the winter preface at this time, and its vitality is cut off.

Hu Yi put down the information and said: "In August of the fourth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao received the envoys of the Great Qin State, Nie Gulun and Pu La, and went to the Great Qin State to issue an edict to convey the news of the Ming Dynasty to the Great Qin State. country."

"Bingxu in the ninth month of the eighth year of Hongwu, Sanghalie Yulan, king of Nanyang Three Buddha Qi, sent ministers Tanmeng, Mahama, etc., to come to the court with the special envoy Puci who returned from the Great Qin Kingdom."

"In the 19th year of Yongle, the envoys from the sixteen countries of the Western Regions entered Beijing to congratulate the new capital, and then participated in the hunting parade, and then returned to the country. So far, they will never return."

"I always thought it was probably dead."

"Until I received their request for help this year, and now I have received the news again, it is really...unpredictable."

It was only then that Zhu Qiyu realized that it was not that the Ming Dynasty and the Roman Empire were ignorant of each other's existence, and that they also had contacts during the Hongwu and Yongle years.

Hu Ming recalled: "The Timur kingdom paid tribute to Daming nine times only during the Yongle period. Shah Ru, the fourth son of Timur, once sent more than [-] missionaries to the capital to participate in the hunting parade. .”

Shah Ruh is the uncle of the four emperors of the Timur kingdom and the father of the good man Ulugh Beg.

Timur died during the expedition, and he appointed his grandson to succeed him, but the grandson couldn't keep it, and the fourth uncle took the throne.

Hu Wei continued: "The Ottoman Kingdom translated by Wang Fu, we actually call him the Lumi Kingdom, but of course we can also call him Ottoman. They all refer to that country. They have always sent envoys over there."

"Lu Miguo also invented a gun and dedicated it to Emperor Wen."

"Lu Mi and Timur both paid tribute during the Yongle period."

"Just talking about the Great Qin Kingdom, when Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty first opened up to China, both Jin and Wei were called Great Qin, and they paid tribute. In Tang Dynasty, it was called Fushu, and in Song Dynasty, it was still there, and they also paid tribute." A Study of Roman Emissaries to China")

Zhu Qiyu nodded, feeling that the Central Plains Dynasty has always been connected with the Roman Empire, and it started since the Han Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Then what do they mean by bringing a woman here?"

Hu Yu fell into deep thought, and after a long time he said: "Let me take my time to figure it out."

"It should be at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty that the two daughters of Michael VIII married the khans of the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate."

"It's not surprising. The Great Qin Kingdom is in decline, and they have to rely on anyone who can help them."

"Therefore, it is not an accident that Great Qin State sent a daughter here to marry Daming. After all, they have already survived a catastrophe with the help of the Mongols who went west."

Zhu Qiyu understood, and described in Wang Fu's letter, that woman should be a princess.

Zhu Qiyu said helplessly: "This is also weird at first. He has already won a military victory in Samarkand, and he has also won certain political victories."

"At least Wang Fu helped him stabilize his surroundings and place. With the death of the two princes, the crisis of the White Horde Khanate disappeared invisibly."

"Yexian has now become the actual master of Samarkand, why does he have to use Daming's obedient king's seal?"

"Find a stone and carve it yourself!"

Hu Yan took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you have to carve a piece yourself before others can recognize it, so he can't do it, so he can only act with the seal and ribbon of King Da Ming's obedience."

"Before he arrived at Batu Sarai and became Khan, he had only one seal that could convince the public, because he relied on that seal to rule Oirat."

This is the power given to Mahamu by Emperor Wen. After that, he had to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty and be canonized. This is the reason why the Wala people were canonized.

Hu Wei thought for a while and continued: "The life and death of Shang Jinfu, the king of Ryukyu, is uncertain. Wang Shizi and his brother launched a desperate contest, and both sides suffered losses. The palace was completely burned down, and Shuri Castle was almost destroyed."

"But no matter who becomes the king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, he has to accept the canonization of Ming Dynasty, otherwise he is not a king."

Hu Wei's remarks are to explain why Yexian uses the Daming Seal Ribbon as a footnote.

The Ryukyu king must accept the canonization of Ming Dynasty before he can secure his position.

This is part of the seal.

"Emperor Taizu Gao once said: The way to govern the barbarians is to use both power and virtue to make them fearful. This is not the case. The barbarians are not afraid of power and do not care for benefits, but if they are powerful, they will not be able to feel their hearts. If you use benefits alone, you can't deter violence, but the combination of prestige and benefits is the way to control the barbarians."

"Emperor Taizong Wen said: There is a way to control the barbarians, and you must be prepared for it. If it comes to invade, you will defend it, and if it comes to subdue, you will deal with it."

The two emperors, Taizu and Taizong, had a very clear understanding of the barbarians who were afraid of power but not virtuous, and had the same virtue as the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf.

Don't be afraid of non-power, don't be afraid of non-benefit, power and benefit go hand in hand.

As for obedience and forgiveness, the way since cultivating literature and virtue is the crooked monk reciting crooked scriptures.

"I understand." Zhu Qiyu nodded, indeed, Emperor Yonglewen used his life to practice the importance of parallelism.

Zhu Qiyu took Li Binyan's memorial and handed it to Hu Wei and said: "This Li Binyan, who has the universe in his heart all day long, looks up at the starry sky, but he looks up to something. This sequence of four seasons is a bit interesting."

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the periodicity of historical development, was summed up very well by Li Binyan.

This law of history can summarize a lot of content, put it into the scale of the past and present, and it can also be glimpsed. It is the law of the development of things.

Hu Wei looked at it for a long time, nodded and said: "It's just a hobby in leisure time. Governor Li has done a very good job in Songjiang City Shipping Department. It may be that he has experience in Mizhou Shipping Department. This time everything is in order and leisurely. Sometimes, it’s okay to look up at the starry sky.”

"Li Binyan is right."

Hu Wei has no disagreement with Li Binyan's order of the four seasons. Li Binyan's sixth-rank rank does not conflict with the order of the four seasons. It can even be directly set as the standard for Ming to observe foreign countries. This is also one of the etiquette laws.

Zhu Qiyu took out another memorial and said: "It was also written by Li Binyan, Hu Shangshu has a look."

The name of this book is "Tianchen Calendar Revises Predecession Book".

Daming's calendar can no longer be used properly. What Li Binyan means is that he requests to correct the precession difference and re-edit the calendar.

"The study of elephants and numbers, the big one is the calendar, the law, and other tangible and qualitative things. There are degrees and counts. They can all be used. They can be used inexhaustibly cleverly, huh?" Hu Wei frowned. Finished the whole book.

To repair the calendar, it should be meant.

In fact, the purpose of re-establishing the Guo Shoujing Observatory in Beijing for four years was to re-correct the calendar.

But Li Binyan proposed an idea, that is to set up a calendar bureau and not one, but a total of ten.

For example, "be good at reading, able to make machines, with small strength and heavy responsibilities, make machines for civilian use and benefit the people's livelihood".

For example, "Lawsuits and accountants are quite useful, and ministers of financial management are especially urgently needed." The Bureau of Accounting and Calendaring specializes in cultivating talents for the Ministry of Finance and Economics of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, "Since the degree is known, water and land can be measured. All dredging of rivers and canals, building embankments, and irrigating acres of fields can be done without mistakes, which is beneficial to civil affairs." Specialized in water calendar bureaus and so on.

This calendar is based on arithmetic, and the degree is bypassed to understand ten things. There are ten calendar bureaus in total.

Translation translation is the Royal Society of Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Qiyu got this memorandum, he agreed with it very much, and it was approved by Zhu: "The degree is bypassed, and the achievements are divided into Cao's cooking and research and training."

Hu Wei naturally saw Zhu Qiyu's criticism, bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, do it!"

Chapter 443 Mozi is a more brilliant saint than Confucius

To set up this Royal Society, the resistance from the top ten calendars will not be great.

First of all, the first obstacle is the issue of money. As the secretary of the household department, Jin Lian has a strong hamster temperament.

But he won't stand in the way of these things.

In fact, Jin Lian did not object to fixed salaries for officials, but Jin Lian opposed supplementary salaries for officials.

Jin Lian has never been stingy when it is time to spend money. Whether it is to suppress rebellion or establish a government office, he has never been stingy. That is why he is so stingy on weekdays.

Good steel is used on the blade, which is another characteristic of Jin Lian.

Shijing Factory, Shengzhou Factory, Maan Factory, and Jianghuai Factory, these official factories jointly operated by coal and steel, were strongly supported by Jin Lian, including Liuzhi Factory supervised by King Xiang in Guizhou. Jin Lian never made any reservations.

After the establishment of the Li Bureau, Dr. Li Bureau's food, clothing, housing and transportation were all provided by the imperial court to promote the development of productivity, which was also an important benevolence, righteousness and etiquette of the imperial court.

Zhu Qiyu's internal funds will also provide a large amount of money to reward those who have made contributions, and they can also give out extraordinary merit cards and first merit cards every year to reward ten subjects for study.

A sharp handle benefits life and death, food and clothing, honor and disgrace.

Another resistance must come from the Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy.

Because after the establishment of the calendar bureau, there will inevitably be many doctors. These doctors were originally controlled by them, but now they are assigned to people with extraordinary skills. Of course, they will not be satisfied.

How can scholars be on an equal footing with these Guizhou chiefs?

But just like the miracle card in the hands of the Ming emperor, it is easy for craftsmen and soldiers to get it, but it is difficult for officials.

Honor and disgrace are also sharp handles.

The emperor is now in full swing. Their opposition must be well-founded, based on social phenomena, discover problems, find out the reasons, and propose feasible solutions to oppose. The threshold is actually very high, otherwise it will be very dangerous.

These are the rules of the game set by His Majesty.

It's okay to scold the king of subjugation, as long as the scolding is realistic, Zhu Qiyu will be happy.

The Royal Society of Ming Dynasty, according to Li Binyan's main idea, is that "degrees can bypass ten things", and first use arithmetic to calculate these.

And these ideas are very similar to the length of Zhongshan National Track in "Guanzi Collection School" compiled by Yu Qian and others in the court.

"Your Majesty, what about "Mozi"?" Although Hu Wei is old, he still responds quickly to the numerous court disputes.