Xiao Letian's dazzling appearance shocked everyone present. The literati were too afraid to say a word because of his domineering eyes, while the famous prostitutes all over the building had peach blossoms on their faces and stared at Xiao with shyness and shame. Lotte, I can't wait to commit myself to you immediately, even if it's upside down.
To be honest, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, society's aesthetic view of men was still very normal. Pretty boys with regular facial features, handsome features, and a well-proportioned figure were basically the favorites of all women, and Xiao Letian was in line with the standard aesthetic standards of women in the Qing Dynasty.
However, the aesthetics of women in the late Qing Dynasty was too twisted and perverted. Xiao Letian felt bitter in his heart when he saw this room full of so-called top prostitutes. Is this beauty? Why do they all have tiny feet? Look at the dead make-up they put on. They just need less powder!
It seems that the historical data is not deceptive. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was popular to have small breasts, small feet, white face and a little red lips. God, these things put together, it seems that there is no chance of an affair tonight.
In fact, Xiao Letian really wanted to experience what it was like to be a famous prostitute in a brothel at this time. This guy himself was not a moral gentleman, but the aesthetics of later generations were far different from those of the late Qing Dynasty. Obviously Xiao Letian's taste was not that good. Heavy.
Since an affair is absolutely impossible, let's put all our energy into these literati. Unfortunately, Xiao Letian had just sat on the main seat and had not had three glasses of wine before he was already overwhelmed by questions.
"Mr. Xiao, since Prince Enrique has contributed so much to Portugal and is so talented, why didn't he become king in the end?"
"Mr. Xiao, you said that the Age of Discovery launched by Portugal was almost the same period as Zheng He's voyages to the West. Then why didn't the Ming Dynasty go to Europe around the Cape of Good Hope you mentioned..."
"Sir, was China really that powerful in navigation at that time? Is there any basis for your desperate attack on the policy of isolation from the country in your book?"
"Also, why was Spain able to annex Portugal in the end? Is there any hidden secret here... And in your last chapter, you wrote that the Spanish fleet was about to meet the king of the ancient Inca country. What happened next? Why? I won’t write anymore…”
A lot of questions came flooding in, and even though Xiao Letian was mentally prepared, he almost choked to death. The first update was just when Xiao Letian was about to take out the Western Master's Fan and show it off, when suddenly a cold snort came from the other table.
"People who seek fame and reputation, demagogues, fool people with their fantasy stories, and yet some people believe them. How stupid is this." As he said this, he slapped the table and knocked over four or five wine glasses.
"I have never seen such a shameless person in my life. He abandoned his ancestral home and tomb, forgot about the great favor of the emperor, and committed himself to the foreigners as a Japanese devil. He actually had the nerve to publish a book and write a biography, and write such words as a child. If you dare to say that you are a great master of Western learning, you are simply deceiving the world and stealing your reputation..."
Xiao Letian was stunned by the scolding. He didn't expect that as soon as he sat down, he became so angry that he didn't even let me eat. It was really rude. He looked at Luo Hanlin and Wen Zhangjing with doubtful eyes, and they quickly explained Xiao Letian's doubts.
"Mr. Xiao, this is a well-known Hanlin veteran in Beijing. The great Confucian Wang Shizhengzi Huizhi, and several other well-known old gentlemen in Qingliu..." Xiao Letian understood as soon as he heard that this was the start of the old rotten Confucianism. They didn't expect that this book, which was only a few hundred thousand words long, was already giving them trouble sleeping and eating.
Xiao Letian was not angry at all. Instead, he saluted the old men with a smile, "Old sir, please give me some advice. I am all ears..."
Wang Shizheng and Wang Laohanlin twirled his three strands of snow-white beard and looked at him with a sneer, "The Journey to the West comic book you wrote, if it is regarded as a book about gods and monsters such as "Journey to the West" and "The Romance of the Gods", then it is still It’s nothing. But you actually dare to say that if you want to establish a sect, are you worthy of being a great master of Western learning?”
"Sages have told us thousands of years ago that the sky is round and the places are square. Why have copper coins been round on the outside and square on the inside since ancient times? This is the truth, and Zhu Xi said in "The Original Meaning of the Book of Changes": "The sky is round. Place, round one and surrounded by three. Three in one is strange, so it towers into three. The square is one and surrounds the four, and the four combine with the two, so the two places become two..."
"Listen, can the sage's words still deceive you? The foreign devils in the West are talking nonsense, saying that the earth is round. Then let me ask you, didn't all the people standing on both sides of the sphere fall? Under the sphere Aren’t all the rivers and lakes drained away?”
Wang Laohanlin is now giving a lecture to a group of newly enlightened children, just holding a bamboo board in his hand and slapping the palms of their hands one by one. Updated as soon as possible. "Look at you, you are instigated by foreigners' lies that confuse people's hearts. You are simply forgetting your ancestors. What good things do foreigners have? What they instill is nothing more than stirring people's hearts and making people forget their roots. , how unwise are you?"
Good guy, the old man was spitting foam and flying stars all over the place. None of the people below him dared to open their mouths. There was nothing he could do about it. He was older and senior, and no one among the young people dared to have a direct conflict.
"It's always the words of saints, and the words of saints have made foreigners look like this. Why can't we learn from other people's principles of foreigners' strength?" Someone at the banquet muttered softly.
"Who! Who is this..." Master Wang's righteous beard puffed up, he slapped the table, stood up and pointed at those people with his fingers, "You have the guts to say it, but don't you have the guts to stand up? Let me see who dares to insult the saint. Words!"
"Foreigners' principles? Who wants to learn them! Barbarians who have no respect for their ancestors, no sense of shame, and are full of profit. Some people still want to learn from them! I let you learn it. If anyone tries to learn it, I will report it to the court and have you revoked. ..." The old man's outburst frightened the table full of prostitutes. They didn't understand why Wang Hanlin, who had always been known as the protector of prostitutes, was so angry today.
Now that he has said this, Xiao Letian has no choice but to fight back. This old guy clearly wants to use the rules of officialdom to suppress people. If these scholars don't listen to him today, maybe he will go to Benshen and these young people the next day. .
"Since the old gentleman has some doubts about my remarks, I would like to ask you something. Since the foreigners are a group of barbarians as you said, then why can these barbarians build large ships that can sail thousands of miles? How can these barbarians make The foreign guns and cannons that the Qing Dynasty could not defeat came out? Why could these barbarians force the Qing Dynasty to open our seaports one by one? And why did they invade the capital and burn down the Old Summer Palace..."
Before Xiao Letian could finish asking, Old Hanlin pointed at his nose angrily and scolded, "You still ask me why? Didn't the Qing Dynasty produce traitors like you who regard foreigners as their ancestors? Gong Cheng four years ago He is a role model for you. If he hadn’t betrayed the secrets of the Qing Dynasty, how could the British, French and foreigners have burned down the Old Summer Palace?"
Old Hanlin was really furious. The Gong Cheng he was talking about was Gong Banlun, the eldest son of Gong Zizhen, a celebrity in the late Qing Dynasty. But even Xiao Letian was angry with this unfilial son. According to unofficial records, after the British and French forces entered Beijing, they did not intend to burn the palace. It was Gong Cheng who took the initiative to offer a plan to burn three mountains and five gardens, forcing the Qing Dynasty to sign an alliance immediately.
This Gong Cheng was highly appreciated by the British, and his monthly salary alone was as high as ten thousand gold. Now four years have passed, Gong Cheng is hiding in the Shanghai Concession and living freely, while the scholars of the Qing Dynasty want to kill him with a thousand knives. Please come to more and faster chapters.
When Wang Hanlin said Gong Cheng's name, there was a low commotion in Baihua Tower, and there was a trace of wavering in the young man's eyes. Master Wang was pursuing the victory and attacked Xiao Letian's remarks bit by bit, "You mean a big ship? What's so great about it? Even if it can sail thousands of miles, can it land ashore? As for foreign guns and cannons, this kind of strange skills can not only It is of no use at all except for the moment..."
"Let me ask you, before the Eight Banners entered the pass and before King Chuang entered the capital, were the firearms of the Ming Dynasty powerful? But how could such powerful firearms not be able to stop King Chuang's army, and how could they be completely defeated by the Eight Banners' cavalry? Now you What's the use of repeating old tunes..."
Wang Hanlin is now standing in the Jinluan Palace and quarreling with the scholars, staring at the scholars in the room with disdain, especially Xiao Letian: "I started my career in riding and archery in the Qing Dynasty, so naturally I have to follow the old rules of riding and archery. As long as civil servants If you don’t love money, if you are a military officer who is not afraid of death, if you practice martial arts internally and martial arts externally, why worry about the foreign barbarians being destroyed? Look at the Hongyang Rebellion, isn’t it our Qing Dynasty that ultimately wins?”
After speaking, Old Hanlin raised his wine glass and congratulated the Emperor and the Queen Mother: "Although the national destiny of our country in the Qing Dynasty has been slightly hampered, its prosperity has not diminished. With the Holy King and the Queen Mother in the government, the Qing Dynasty will surely prosper for me for thousands of years... Qing congratulations, congratulations to the Emperor and Queen Mother!"
Damn it, Xiao Letian almost had his nose crooked with anger. He thought to himself that this old man is so powerful in combat. He has taken the rules of officialdom to the extreme, and in the end he actually used imperial power to kidnap everyone.
When the men and women in the building heard that the old man had moved the emperor and the queen mother out, they all quickly stood up and faced the palace to congratulate the emperor and the queen mother. Even Xiao Letian stood up.
Wang Hanlin was like a proud cock, squinting at Xiao Letian with disdain in his eyes. As for the Confucian scholars in the room, except for Luo Hanlin and Wen Zhangjing and some hard-working people, all of them had doubts in their eyes. Please come to more and faster chapters.
There were only a handful of literati in the late Qing Dynasty who truly understood politics and economics, and most of them were fooled by reading eight-legged essays. It's okay for this kind of people to manage the domestic people according to the script, but as long as the matter involves foreigners, everyone will be dumbfounded.
In their eyes, the father-in-law is right when he talks about the public. Anyway, I will listen to whoever has the loudest voice. Whoever wins is justified.
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Haha, if the Qing Dynasty is filled with people like the old gentleman, I think the Qing Dynasty will be over!"
"How dare you! How dare you curse the Holy Dynasty..." A group of old men were about to get mad and even wanted to go to Shuntian Mansion to report Xiao Letian to the officials. But Xiao Letian waved his hand, "Excuse me, I'm not a citizen of the Qing Dynasty. I am a serious foreigner now. I was born in the West and grew up in the West. Do your laws in the Qing Dynasty control me?"
"Old Hanlin, the truth you said is simply not worth refuting. You said the earth is flat? Then let me tell you, four years ago, the British and French allied forces landed at Dagu Port on sea ships. What happened to those sea ships after the war? What about those who returned home?”
"Half of them traveled through the Southeast Asia, towards Vietnam, out of the Strait of Malacca and headed straight for India. This was the old path before they came. The other half went all the way east, straight to the direction of the rising sun, across Japan, across the Pacific Ocean, and South America and then into the Atlantic Ocean and finally back to Europe, these fleets circle the Earth exactly."
"Let me ask the old gentleman, a big ship has been sailing eastward, and it has been driving back and forth and finally returned to the starting point. If the earth is not round, how can you explain it! I know you are going to say that I am talking nonsense again, but you have a chance. Go to the British and French embassies to inquire and see if what I said is correct!"
Xiao Letian looked around, stared at all the Qing literati present, and said quietly, "I didn't want to come today, you invited me here. Didn't there be such a debate on the invitation? But it doesn't matter, since you have If you have any questions, I will explain it to you, but before I explain it, I have to clarify a truth..."
"True knowledge can only come from practice. Don't use the words of saints to refute my truth. Foreigners don't listen to the words of saints, and they still beat the Qing Dynasty..."
"You!" Wang Laohanlin felt dizzy and was about to go crazy. "You are so rebellious and unethical. You are so rebellious and unethical... How can the words of a sage be wrong? They are words of a sage..."
Xiao Letian curled his lips and ignored him, and then said something incredible. At that time, the entire Baihua Building was in an uproar. All the scholars, including the prostitutes, were dumbfounded. An incredible world was revealed from Xiao Letian's mouth. out.
