Zhu Cixiang is opening the Golden Finger!
It is to open the biggest golden finger, use the imperial examination method to test mathematics and philosophy, select a group of people with the highest wisdom and intelligence, and then let them study "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian" and Western scientific works translated into Chinese, thereby transforming Western culture. In order to establish China's own natural philosophy and basic science system - Zhu Cihong did not engage in industrial technology in his previous life, so he did not have many golden fingers that could apply technology.
If this were the Song Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, of course he would have many ideas that could be turned into "gold fingers", but this is the middle of the 17th century!
European science and technology have developed to a certain height, and many things are directly copied from the West, which is much easier than Zhu Cihong's golden finger...
However, Zhu Cixiang's knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry and philosophy was in some respects ahead of that of the West in the mid-17th century.
However, this knowledge cannot or is difficult to be directly transformed into applications, at least it cannot be done by Zhu Cihong alone. And his knowledge was deficient in many ways—he was incapable of remembering everything, only some.
Therefore, gathering the smartest people, introducing Western natural philosophy knowledge, and then giving them the fragmented knowledge of later generations in the form of "Confucius' Posthumous Works" is the biggest golden finger that Zhu Cixiang can think of.
With enough smart people who have mastered basic natural philosophy and scientific knowledge, it will be easy to find the golden finger in application. After all, most of the inventions and creations in human history came from academic masters...
Choros Galdan, a nine-year-old boy from the Junggar tribe of Oara Mongolia, still doesn't know what the just-concluded "Tai Xue College Entrance Examination" has to do with him. He didn’t even know that such a thing happened, nor did he think that he would walk into the examination room of the Nanjing Imperial College 12 years later to solve the mathematical problems that fascinated him, nor did he think that he would become the Hongxing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Build a lasting teacher-student friendship!
Now he is still dressed as a young novice, riding a short fat horse, following his uncle who is a lama, the old monk known as Celing Lama (meaning Longevity Lama) on his way to the Laoshan Palace.
He left Dolben Erutsenmu Castle, the capital of the Oara Mongolian Junggar tribe, last summer, and traveled eastward with the longevity lama and a dozen other Junggar tribe warriors dressed as lamas. Because they wanted to avoid the territory of the unfriendly Yeerqiang Khanate and the Khoshuote Khanate, which was still loyal to the Qing Dynasty, they had to take a long way through the territory of the Khalkha Mongolia. Later, because the longevity lama was in Yulin Cheng fell ill and stayed for several months, which delayed his trip. Therefore, it was not until late August in the fifth year of Hongxing that he arrived in Nanjing, a city that was an eye-opener for Galdan and his party.
There is such a magnificent city in the world, and there are so many wealthy residents in the city...and many of them carry guns!
Guns are a very rare weapon in Oara Mongolia. Even tribal alliance leaders like Baturhuntaiji do not have many muskets in their homes.
In Nanjing, Galdan was surprised to find that carrying guns was quite common, and there were even shops selling long guns and short guns openly!
But Galdan is not afraid of guns, because he is just a peace-loving little novice monk, a very Buddhist little boy. It can be said that there are few people in the world who are more Buddhist than him, because he is the reincarnation of the Living Buddha!
Not long after he was born, he was recognized by eminent monks from Tibet as the teacher of the fourth Panchen Lama and the reincarnation of the third Wensa Living Buddha!
If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely become the leader of the Wensa School in the future, the fourth Wensa Living Buddha!
But there is a wonderful connection between the gun and the boy who is destined to become a living Buddha.
Galdan, a Buddhist boy who is not afraid of guns, let alone doesn't like them, was originally going to Tibet to follow the fifth great lama to learn to chant sutras and become a Buddha...but fate made a joke on him. Because his father, Baturhuntaiji, wanted to get the Ming Dynasty's musket, he had to go to Nanjing to attend elementary school.
Of course, you still have to be a living Buddha!
So Baturhuntaiji specially sent people to Tashilhunpo Monastery in Tibet to invite Lama Celing, the senior brother of the Panchen Lama and uncle of Baturhuntaiji, and asked him, who was profound in Buddhism, to follow Galdan. He went to Nanjing to study and urged him to recite scriptures and study Dharma.
When Galdan graduates from primary school, Lama Celing will escort him to Tibet, where he will become a disciple of the fifth great lama and then become a living Buddha...
"Master Ce Ling, we are here." The speaker was a soldier from Shuofang Army named Yuan Ruofei. He was originally from the Liao Dynasty. Because his hometown was lost, he fled to the pass with his parents. He wanted to return to his ancestral home, Fengyang Prefecture, but was kidnapped by Li Zicheng's army in Henan and returned to Chen Yongfu's subordinates. Later, he followed Chen Yongfu to guard Taiyuan. After Chen Yongfu ran away, their family all went to Luliang Mountain to defect to the acting king Zhu Cijiong. They have been considered meritorious over the years. So I got an opportunity to go to Nanjing to make up lessons, and escorted Lama Celing and Galdan along the way. Unexpectedly, the lama and his party walked too slowly and wasted time. The graduation exam of the first supplementary class had already ended, and he had just arrived outside Laoshan Palace in Nanjing.
Emperor Zhu was living in Laoshan Palace these days to accompany his wife and children - Wu Sanmei finally achieved enlightenment and gave birth to a son to Zhu Cixiang, named Zhu Hexing.
However, this child was born a little early, less than a month old, so he was very weak. Emperor Zhu and Wu Sanmei were both afraid that he would die young, so they took him to the newly built Laoshan Palace. Living in the Forbidden City in Nanjing is not comfortable. It is too humid, with cold and wet winters and muggy summers. It is far less comfortable than the Laoshan Palace in Jiangbei.
When Galdan and Celing Lama rushed to Laoshan Palace, Zhu Cixiang was holding a meeting between the two governments to discuss whether to send an envoy north again to discuss with Emperor Shunzhi about marrying the fourteenth princess.
Just a few days ago, Beijing sent Wu Liangfu to the court and expressed his willingness to accept the dowry request from the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time expressed his inability to mobilize the three vassals of Zhongzhou.
If the Ming Dynasty wanted to get the land of San Francisco, it had to get it for itself!
"Your Majesty, I think you should marry the fourteenth princess of the Qing Dynasty," military advisor Li Yan suggested, "Although this is a delaying tactic for the Northern Qing Dynasty, we can also use it as a plan.
This is because I look at all the Northern Expeditions in the Southern Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty and found that the failure was due to the difficulty in consolidating the Central Plains. The Central Plains is flat and difficult to defend, and water transportation is inconvenient. It is a land that is easy to capture but difficult to defend. It is very difficult to achieve the great cause of the Northern Expedition first in the Central Plains and then in Yanzhao. If we can first seize the Central Plains, then spend three years to consolidate it, repair roads, hoard food, build cities and forts, train cavalry, and then move north in one fell swoop, it will be easy to succeed. "
Zhu Cihong said: "But the Qing Dynasty is also determined to reform. If anything is achieved, won't the day of the Northern Expedition be far away?"
"Your Majesty, I think the reforms of the Northern Qing Dynasty are not worth mentioning." Zukofa, who came back from Beijing, said, "The reforms of the Qing Dynasty are nothing more than recruiting troops from the land, adding an unworthy Manchu... But the peasant soldiers We cannot afford to fight for a long time. If the war is delayed even a little, we will be unable to make ends meet and become unsustainable.
Your Majesty has planned to spend ten years, so why should you be afraid of the peasants and soldiers of the Northern Dynasty? Not to mention not returning for ten years, if one hundred thousand peasants and soldiers serve for three years, I am afraid that more than half of them will have to flee!
Moreover, the firearms of the Northern Dynasty were not enough after all, and the peasants and soldiers could not ride horses. In the end, they just defended the city and waited for reinforcements. If you can't go out of the city to fight, and there are more soldiers and fewer soldiers, the difference is not too big. "
Zhu Cihong was already a little shaken after hearing the opinions of "Zhiqing Sect" Zu Kefa, and then looked at Chief Assistant Wei Zaode, "Chief Assistant, what do you think of Shunzhi's reform method?"
"Your Majesty," Wei Zaode said with a smile, "this is just the skin of Emperor Xiaowu. It's a pity that there are no nobles in the Northern Dynasty, they are just some slaves, not worth mentioning. Whether you marry the Fourteenth Gege or not depends on your Majesty's will... Really What we need to worry about is Duduo outside the customs. I suggest that when we go north to the Central Plains, we also find something for Duduo to do."
