The offensive and defensive battle of Chifeng City has been going on for ten days, and the walls of Chifeng City have been heavily damaged. After all, this is a rammed earth city wall. There is a huge difference in defense between bricks and bricks.
The slaves were not idle these ten days. They brought trees from the mountains and made a large number of siege weapons. After all, this place is very close to the mountains.
Now that the season is covered with heavy snow, it is easy to cut off the branches and bark of heavy logs and drag them over with oxen and horses. Because they had to pass through no-man's land, the slaves had to drive cattle and sheep to make food. They have no shortage of cattle.
Jiannu built hundreds of trebuchets and kept throwing ice cubes into the city every day. Because there is no place to find stones. You can only collect ice from the river and load the big ice blocks into the trebuchet.
The hardness and weight of the ice are very impressive, and the destructive force when it hits the city wall is very powerful.
Over the past few days, many of the city walls have collapsed.
Madeng Yun already had a countermeasure for this. He prepared a wooden fence nailed with iron nails in advance. Wherever the city wall collapsed, it was immediately sealed with wooden fences.
Then they threw in sandbags and quickly blocked the gap in the city wall. I persisted until night and poured water on it, and it froze into a whole piece overnight.
Ma Dengyun held a monocular telescope bought from Tang Ruowang and carefully looked at the situation below the city. This was bought by someone in the capital when he went to attend a platform meeting before taking up the post of Chifeng Commander-in-Chief.
Tang Ruowang is the only place in the capital that has this very valuable thing.
At that time, this old man from the West tried his best to encourage him to believe in religion. If he is a believer, you can give it to him for free, otherwise he has to sell it for three hundred taels of silver.
Madeng Yun was a man of faith. How could he believe in his religion? He paid three hundred taels and took away a telescope.
Tang Ruowang did business part-time because life was not easy and the priest had to do business.
It was very difficult for him to preach in the Ming Dynasty. After all, the church's funding was intermittent.
Sea transportation in this era was not guaranteed. The old man made some strange and clever things by himself to supplement his living expenses. He soon discovered that it seemed more profitable to make equipment with military uses.
He has Italian glass there, and he knows some knowledge about optics. He can make a lot of money by making some copper tube telescopes. After all, his church also needs money to maintain.
Every time a religious event is held, eggs and the like must be distributed to old men and women. Otherwise, no one will come to the door.
Later, he discovered that the local Xinghe supermarket sold plate glass, and the quality was much better than those in Italy. Moreover, the variety of products in Xinghe Supermarket is staggering. He simply used local glass to grind it.
He worked very hard to win over military commanders such as Ma Dengyun, hoping to increase his connections in China. However, little success was achieved. Scholar-officials were always wary of them. Maintain a polite and non-leaving attitude.
In his reply to the church, he lamented that he found that in China, only if you are successful can you have connections. Rather than relying on building connections to achieve success. But when you have no social status, all you can associate with are people of little use.
Every time he replied to a letter, he would report back the various scientific and cultural knowledge he had learned recently. Because the West is eager to learn the knowledge of the East. At the same time, he wrote back with instructions. That is how to make the Chinese people believe that this knowledge and culture were not created by themselves, but came from the West.
He was very troubled by these tasks. This is not easy to handle.
He felt that the big shots didn't understand the ordinary people here. Although they are humble, they are not weak. Those so-called historians are writing the history of civilizations around the ancient Mediterranean. They eagerly hope to keep pace with the East in terms of historical inheritance, or even surpass the East.
The "research results" brought by those who came to Daming recently made him feel like he was going crazy.
Many sages suddenly appeared. These people are proficient in astronomy, legislation, mathematics, music...all.
One of the great sages, the complete works include "Physics", "Astronomy", "Metaphysics", "Instrumental Theory", "Rhetoric", "Politics", "Poetics" and other works. Three million words in total.
However, there was no paper in the era in which he lived. On what surface were so many words written and passed down? Isn't this a joke? It is impossible to deceive the Chinese people by using this to make them believe it.
It would also be impossible to write on parchment.
Parchment was made from lambs within a year. Even if all the sheep in Europe at that time were used to make parchment, it would still not be able to write 3 million words. What made him almost faint was that they actually found out that ancient Greece had a population of 10 million at that time. You must know that the fragmented terrain and barren land there make it difficult to feed hundreds of thousands of people.
The new scholars actually said plausibly that it was a place where maritime trade was developed and food was purchased from Egypt. But the Nile River is an impact plain, and the sediment is reclaimed from the sea year by year.
At that time, in the Ming Dynasty, Tianjin was in the sea.
This made his hair almost fall out due to worry, so he had no choice but to make up random things.
In fact, in modern times, with advanced genetic technology, these sages could not find a single descendant. All these historical celebrities have died. There is not a single person on earth who has their genes.
Recently, the official named Yang Xianguang began to accuse them again. Tang Ruowang is organizing people to write books. Come to criticize Yang Xianguang. This book is called "Biography of Tianxue"
"First of all, I believe that all nations in the East and West are descendants of gods. This has been true since Fuxi (Chinese God of Creation). The ancestors of the Chinese people actually came from the West."
"Secondly, I think Chinese philosophy is nothing more than the light of a firefly compared with holy religion. China's "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius", etc. are all products of people who believe in our gods. Confucius Meng Zhixue and others are just my "micro-language" to teach thought. "
Tang Ruowang said confidently to the crowd. That's the tone of the book. Their civilization is only an insignificant branch of ours. We are the orthodox.
"Are you sure that writing this way will be effective and they will believe it?" A scholar from France asked doubtfully.
"You don't know, my brother." Tang Ruowang said maturely: "We started from the uneducated lower class people. They are all illiterate. Except for their own ancestors, they don't know anything about history. Ninety percent of this country People are all illiterate. As long as we brainwash them, 90% of people in the future will think that what we are talking about is history."
Tang Ruowang was full of confidence, but he didn't know that he was doing this. Not far from being unlucky.
He fooled the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty into fools, and after only a few years of running around, they were all caught and imprisoned. They were not released until Shunzhi came.
Kangxi considered them to have problems with the Han people, so he specially used them. Their favor cannot be overemphasized.
He even opened the royal library to them and personally taught them the Book of Changes, which only emperors were qualified to learn. Rather than the version circulating in society.
Tang Ruowang decided to severely punish the idiots who sent him to jail.
He copied almost all the books and materials collected by the government and the palace and took them back to the West. Especially books on science and technology of the Ming Dynasty. Many of the existing fragments have had key pages torn out.
And the Zhouyi that Kangxi leaked to him was even more extraordinary.
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