New Shun 1730

After bidding farewell to the emperor, the emperor first sent people to go to Macau quickly to inform the local military envoys, defense envoys and others, so that Liu Yu could deal with it easily after Liu Yu left.

With the word "investigation", they only need to pay attention to the word "investigation" now.

Liu Yu also returned to Songjiang Mansion, asked people to prepare a boat, and made arrangements for Songjiang Mansion.

He only told some major shareholders to get ready. A ship will take them south in a few days, and they will meet in Macau and then head to Nanyang.

As for the purchase of goods, they have already been arranged and implemented according to the plan.

The cruise ship has long been familiar with the route from Songjiang Prefecture to Guangzhou and Macau, and it is smoother than the old mare raised by the cooper.

Facing the wind, we arrived in Macau in a few days.

On Lingding Yangtze, the fleet fired a salute. On the shore, officials of all sizes, Macau's local council, military leaders, Jesuits, bishops, etc. all respectfully greeted the distinguished imperial envoys who left the town.

In front of the emperor, Liu Yu was submissive and only dared to mutter a few words in his heart.

But when you get outside, you are really under one person. There is no need to deliberately create any atmosphere or put on a show of ceremony. Even your reputation is enough there.

Most of the people who greeted him were recognized, familiar, or even old friends; the remaining half also knew his name and habits, making them nervous.

After the pomp and ceremony, the Governor of Guangdong hurriedly said: "Fortunately, Your Majesty sent the Duke to handle this matter. In Western matters, lower officials are far inferior to the Duke. They are really afraid that they will do it wrong and damage the imperial court. thing."

Liu Yu did not say anything in an official tone, such as "As long as it is handled impartially, how can something go wrong?" Instead, he smiled and said: "This matter is because Your Majesty wants me to kill my relatives out of justice. How should I put it, my real teacher of Western writing , is also the Rector of the Jesuits. It seems that I have to take a harsher approach. If I do it lightly, won’t people think that I am bending the law for personal gain? Hahahaha..."

All Dashun officials including Jiedushi laughed.

Those Portuguese people in Macau, those who could understand Mandarin and understood many rules of Dashun officialdom, turned pale after hearing these words.

Only a missionary who was about thirty years old next to him bowed to Liu Yu and said in fluent Mandarin: "What the Duke said is wrong. Confucius said: Don't avoid hatred when doing things externally, do not do things internally. If you don't avoid your son, you can be called fair."

"This is how you promote talents, and you should do the same when handling cases. The law and evidence should come first. If you deliberately deal harshly because you want to prevent being accused of favoritism, isn't this also an injustice?"

Liu Yu was not surprised. In the missionary circle before the capital, there were a lot of people who knew more about ancient literature than he did.

But he still couldn't help joking with several naval officers next to him: "Listen, listen. Now it's the Westerners who are talking to you about Ziyue, but we Chinese people are doing geometry and algebra all day long."

The officers also laughed. After laughing, Liu Yu looked at the missionary who spoke boldly and asked: "Are you a Jesuit? Which country are you from?"

"My lord, I am a Frenchman. I happen to have a few letters of recommendation here, which I planned to submit to my lord in the future, but I didn't expect to meet here."

The thirty-year-old missionary said as he took out a letter of recommendation from his pocket.

"I am Jiang Youren, whose cursive character is Deyi. A friend of benevolence is taken from the words of "The Analects of Confucius: Wei Linggong", 'A wise man who serves his officials, a benevolent person who makes friends with his scholars'."

"Those who are virtuous and Yi should take the saying of Dongpo layman: 'Loyalty and virtue will be reborn, and Yi will be praised in three dynasties'."

While talking, several letters of recommendation were respectfully handed to Liu Yu's hand.

It was all in French, and Liu Yu could understand it.

Liu Yu also recognized the person who wrote the recommendation letter. I met him when I held an academic seminar in Amsterdam.

One of the people who wrote the letter of recommendation is Delisle, a corresponding academician of the Dashun Academy of Sciences and now the head of the astronomy department of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

Previously, the reason why Liu Yu asked Bering and others to search for Australia was to facilitate the observation of the transit of Venus in the future to determine the distance between the sun and the earth. And at the scientific symposium in Amsterdam, I also wanted to take this opportunity to have Dashun preside over this work that for the first time mankind knows how far away the sun is from the earth.

Delisle was the French organizer of the historical Venus transit observation event, but when the Frenchmen he sent to the Pondicherry observation point in India arrived in India, the British had just occupied Pondicherry...

He had previously gone to Petersburg at Peter's invitation. He had originally agreed to spend four years building up the astronomy department of the Russian Academy of Sciences before returning home. But after arriving there, because Euler and a large group of mathematics masters were there, he has been the head of the astronomy department in Petersburg. In these days, astronomy and mathematics were indistinguishable.

It should be said that this man single-handedly brought Russian astronomy from being backward to being on par with Western Europe.

He is very familiar with Liu Yu.

Originally, Liu Yu went to Russia to recruit many talents, including Euler.

Moreover, Liu Yu knew that Dashun could not produce a nautical clock, so he felt that it was difficult to take the engineering route. He had to take the scientific route to draw star charts and navigation tables, so he naturally had many exchanges with Delier.

I also expect them to perfect the star chart, of course they are very familiar with it.

As for the remaining few who wrote letters of recommendation, future generations who have basically played with Messier objects in the astronomical circle will know their names. Several of them are also important figures who completed the Messier celestial catalog.

As for the Jiang Youren in front of him, he would be considered a famous figure in later generations - not just because he supervised the construction of the twelve animal heads and turned the fountain that was originally supposed to be a naked goddess into the twelve zodiac signs.

Mainly because historically the words "Taiwan" were clearly written on the world map he drew, and the Diaoyu Islands were also clearly drawn.

The level of Chinese studies is indeed high, because others can still understand it when they translate the Latin "Analects of Confucius", but he translated the most arrogant "Shang Shu", and it is said that his translation is not bad.

People at the time saw words such as "New York, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands" on the world map he drew and were puzzled by their meaning.

When asked, the answer was based on an allusion from Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes": The emperor moved to Chang'an and lived in a deep palace, feeling miserable and unhappy. Emperor Gaozu asked about the cause of the crime... Emperor Gaozu created a new harvest and transferred it to the old friends... Letting dogs, sheep, chickens and ducks along the thoroughfare, they also compete for their homes.

The words are similar to the story of "Xinfeng". The meaning of Xinfeng is not the old Feng of Peixian County. New words are added to distinguish it. Everyone then understood.

In this era, Dashun also uses this rule to name new islands and land in the south of Nanyang, which coincides with Liu Yu.

Liu Yu has met many people over the years. Although he also knows Jiang Youren's name, it doesn't cause much trouble now.

But in the letters of recommendation, some acquaintances in the scientific community said that this student was not low-level, good at mathematics, and good at astronomy. In addition, he was a Jesuit who was about to come to China, so he was recommended to go to the Dashun Academy of Sciences so that he could participate in the observation of the transit of Venus in the future.

Judging from the date on the letter, it seems that I have been in Macau for a year or two. I probably learned Chinese in France before, and I have probably been reading Confucian classics in Macau for the past two years.

After folding these letters of recommendation, Liu Yu briefly summarized the contents and said with a smile: "Beware of the Jesuits playing the science card."

Then he looked at Jiang Youren and asked with a smile: "Why, the Jesuits felt that taking the scholar-bureaucrat route would not work anymore. Are you changing the path again and preparing to take the scientific route? I felt that my attitude was very important in foreign exchanges, so I gave up. Scholar-bureaucrat, are you ready to follow my path?"

Jiang Youren's face turned slightly red. The Jesuits did have such an intention.

First of all, because of the ban on religion in Dashun, it was not easy for the scholar-bureaucrats to take this path.

Secondly, Liu Yu held a scientific seminar in Amsterdam, and the Jesuits felt that Liu Yu was the real "foreign minister" of Dashun. Therefore, after discussion, they decided to send a group of Jesuits with high scientific literacy to China to conduct scientific research in China. In the name of communication, build a good relationship with Liu Yu.

After the Amsterdam incident, the Jesuits felt that although the Jesuits sent before were of good quality, they did not have quasi-first-class scientific literacy after all, and they were better at classical studies. So this time I tried to send some specially selected people with good natural science skills.

Jiang Youren was rightly told by Liu Yu, and he felt nervous after hearing Liu Yu say something like "Be wary of the Jesuits playing the scientific card".

He never thought that Liu Yu would handle this matter personally. I plan to study Confucius and Mencius in Macau for a few more years before going to the capital.

Now that Liu Yu is here, he was quite happy at first, thinking that with his letter of recommendation, he might be able to intercede.

Who would have thought that Liu Yu would make it clear directly, and Jiang Youren would be a little helpless.

Fortunately, he is also smart. If he had studied calligraphy since he was a child, he might have been able to pass the imperial examination. As soon as his mind changed, he said: "My lord, the matter in Fujian has nothing to do with our Society of Jesus."

"The Dominicans are the 'guarding dogs of the Lord,' and they used to deal with heretics. The etiquette disputes among Chinese believers were also caused by the Dominicans."

"The Duke also studied with President Dai, so he should be aware of this public case. The Vatican assigned the Fujian matter to the Dominicans, and we, the Jesuits, withdrew early."

"Moreover, when the Holy See placed Fujian under the Dominican order, the Celestial Empire did not ban Christianity."

Wanting to clear up the relationship with the Jesuits without leaking anything, Jiang Youren felt that if the Celestial Empire paid so much attention to this matter and sent such a heavyweight to come, then there was no need to think about escaping unscathed.

Since it is impossible to escape unscathed, the top priority is to preserve the mission in Macau and the Jesuits' activities in China. Since Domingo is seeking his own death and can't be saved now, he should sell it quickly.

Furthermore, the relationship between the Dominicans and the Jesuits was definitely not good.

One is the "Lord's guard dog" who specializes in dealing with heretics.

One is famous for his adaptability, and later generations can come up with liberation theology. The reason for dissolution was business bankruptcy, and a group of Confucian and Mencius scholars escaped from the ordinary Chinese people.

Even if the Seventeen Commentaries on the Jesuits incident had not occurred, the relationship between the two parties would not have been good.

Jiang Youren thought to himself, it is better to look at the situation clearly and keep the permission of the Jesuits in China before talking about anything else.