Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Thank you, Miss Xiuwei, just don't look down on me."

Wang Wei blushed and said: "Mr. Jiezi is still angry that the little girl was rude that day at Xuanwu Lake. How can Wang Wei apologize before he can let go?"

Zhang Yuandao: "When I make friends with internal officials, I will always be cast aside by some people."

Wang Wei hesitated for a moment and said: "A gentleman loves his mouth, and a peacock loves his feathers. Since Mr. Jie has the ambition of a swan, he should cherish his feathers."

Zhang Yuan asked: "You still think I shouldn't have too close contact with the eunuch, right?"

Wang Wei hesitated for a moment, but nodded and said: "Yes, making friends with internal officials may bring immediate benefits, but it will harm the reputation far away."

Wang Wei still had the courage to speak out, because it was Zhang Yuan who resolved the crisis this time through Eunuch Xing. If Zhang Yuan retorted about this, it would be difficult for her to resist and she would be very hurt. The reason why she put her softness

The vulnerability is exposed to Zhang Yuan because she trusts Zhang Yuan. She wants to tell her true thoughts and not change her position because she has benefited——

Zhang Yuan certainly understands Wang Wei's good intentions, which is why he doesn't want Teacher Jiao to know that he is dating Eunuch Xing. He is still young and has not yet entered the officialdom and the reputation circle of scholars. Making friends with internal officials will damage his reputation.

The consequences have not yet appeared, but he must enter the official career, and the conflict between Donglin and the internal officials will break out sooner or later. He thinks that walking the tightrope of balancing will become more and more difficult——

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan sighed: "If you don't know me, what do you want from me? If you know me - well, not yet."

Wang Wei was silent, his eyes were as bright as stars in the night, and he said after a while: "Xianggong Jie is only seventeen years old. Why does this moment make people feel so vicissitudes of life? I really want to know more about Xianggong Jie -"

This girl was still very sensitive, but Zhang Yuan didn't want to say more about those things, and said nonsense: "Maybe it's because young people don't know what it's like to be sad. Okay, Miss Xiuwei, please come on board. I'm hungry and want to taste Wen Lao."

Delicious food.”

Wang Wei smiled sweetly and said: "If Mr. Jie doesn't give up, you might as well go to Youlan Pavilion for dinner together. The little girl is quite good at cooking, so she won't be too embarrassed to eat."

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Let's wait for another day, otherwise I will lose sight of myself when I say goodbye and my brother will laugh at me."

Wang Wei knew that Zhang Yuan was declining, and felt a little confused. She didn't know Zhang Jiezi well, and she wanted to know more about him. She was also puzzled, and asked herself: "Wang Guan, when did you have such curiosity?"

…

In the past two days, Zhang Yuan took the time to correct Du Dingfang's eight-part essays. After correcting ten eight-part essays, he wrote a long letter to Du Dingfang, discussing the craftsmanship based on Du Dingfang's current composition level, and instructing Du Dingfang on which books to read intensively.

Cheng Wen also said that he would return to Shanyin via Zhenfengli at the end of winter or the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, and then he would comment on Du Dingfang's new works——

Zhang Yuan wrote the letter and gave it to Du's servant together with ten essays with eight-part essays on small topics, and sent him back to Zhenfengli. It was the ninth day of August. In the evening, Executive Officer Jiang from the Imperial College brought two more people.

, when Fu'er saw these two people, she shouted in surprise: "Daddy, why are daddy here, and Uncle Qian——"

The visitors were Zhang Laoshi and Qian Laoben, servants of the Xi Zhang family, each carrying a basket. When they saw Fu'er, they quickly put down their burdens and said happily: "Finally we found Fu'er, where is the third young master?"

Fu'er was overjoyed and shouted towards the east building: "Third Young Master, my father is here, there is someone in the family."

Zhang E was playing chess with Zhang Dai. When he heard the shouting, he hurriedly ran to the corridor, looked down, and said, "We're finally here." Soon he came downstairs, and Zhang Yuan, Zhang Dai and others gathered over.

Zhang Laoshi wiped his sweat and greeted the three young masters with Qian Laoben. Zhang E hurriedly asked: "How many dimming glasses, myopia glasses and incense glasses did you bring?"

Fu'er brought two glasses of water for his father and Uncle Qian to drink. Zhang Dai smiled and said, "It's not too late to drink some water first and then reply."

Zhang E was impatient, so he went to look through the four baskets, only to see that there were wooden boxes in the baskets, and the boxes were locked——

Zhang Laoshi drank the water in the cup in one gulp, handed the tea cup to Fu'er, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhang E: "Third Young Master, this is the letter, the key is sealed inside the letter."

The letter was sealed with fire paint. Zhang E opened the letter and pulled out a letter and a key. Zhang E handed the letter to his eldest brother Zhang Dai. He hurriedly opened the lock and opened one. The gaps were filled with cotton wool and stacked with ordinary-sized

There are about a hundred wooden boxes. The wooden boxes are made of mahogany and are quite exquisite. One of them is a pair of glasses. Zhang E put it on and turned around to look at it and said, "These are the glasses for fainting." He took them off and took a closer look.

, nodded and said: "The mirror-making technology has improved."

Zhang Dai opened the letter and read it, and said: "This is a letter written by my third uncle Zhang Bingfang -" and then repeated his belief. The letter mainly talked about the mirror workshop, saying that this time, Zhang Laoshi and Qian Laoben were asked to bring dizzy glasses.

One hundred and fifty pairs, one hundred and twenty pairs of myopia glasses, one hundred incense mirrors, three telescopes...

Zhang E was overjoyed when he heard that there was also a "thousand-mile mirror" and asked hurriedly: "In which box is the telescope?"

Zhang Laoshi pointed to one of the boxes and said, "It should be this one."

Zhang E opened the lock and saw that there were indeed three copper tube telescopes. Each of the three brothers took out one and turned it open. Zhang Yuan retreated to the courtyard wall and used the telescope to look at the Jiming Temple in the back mountain. He slowly adjusted it while speaking.

Said: "Yes, it is much better than the telescope last time -"

Zhang E also retreated to Zhang Yuan's side to look at Jiming Temple and said, "It's still not as good as the telescope I bought from the Haojing Macao Taixi people."

Zhang Yuan was very happy and said: "The telescope made at the end of April was blurry, but this one has become much clearer. It has only been less than half a year, and we have made great progress. I will reward the three mirrormakers when I go back."

Zhang E became happy after hearing what Zhang Yuan said and said: "Very good, I will send these glasses to the Imperial Academy for sale tomorrow. The supply must exceed the demand."

Zhang Yuandao: "Third brother, it is not good to do business in the Imperial College. Although Mao Jiancheng has been put on trial by the Ministry of Punishments, we still have to be more cautious in our words and deeds."

Zhang Dai nodded and said, "Jiezi is right."

Zhang E said: "That's easy, let the supervisors come to our Tingchan residence to buy them themselves."

Jiang Zhiyi, who had been waiting by the side, now said: "The three Mr. Zhang of Haojiao have learned that Mr. Gu, who is offering wine to the guests, has returned to the Imperial College this afternoon."

Zhang Yuan said: "Then I have to go and see Gu Jijiu." He rewarded the officer Chiang with a coin of silver.

After dinner, Zhang Yuan was about to enter the prison to pay a visit to Gu Jijiu, but he heard Fu'er who answered the door shouting: "Master Jiezi, Master Jiao, Mr. Jiao is here."

Zhang Yuan hurried out to welcome him, but he saw that Jiao Hong, Jiao Runsheng and his son had come to listen to the Zen residence together with Gu Zijian offering wine. Gu Qiyuan, Zhang Dai and Zhang E heard the sound and hurried out to see the ceremony. They went into the small hall and sat down. Gu Qiyuan said: "

Zhang Yuan, I have learned about what happened on Yiyou day. You have nothing wrong. You will go back to the Imperial College tomorrow to attend classes as usual. You don’t have to do your usual homework. In the afternoon, you will go to Danyuan to help Jiao Taishi compile the book. You still have to go back to the Imperial College room at night. Don’t be lazy.

.”

Gu Qiyuan had obviously discussed it with Jiao Hong, Zhang Yuan said: "Yes, the students will enter the monitoring class early tomorrow morning."

Gu Qiyuan said again: "That maidservant of yours who is good at archery should never go to the archery garden to practice archery again, for fear of being criticized by others."

Zhang Yuan bowed and said, "Yes." He then begged, "I'm going to offer wine. My father will return to Shanyin from Kaifeng via Nanjing in the near future. The student wants to wait until he sees his father off before spending the night in prison, so that the student can have time to show his filial piety."

, please forgive me for offering wine."

Gu Qiyuan nodded in agreement, and gave Zhang Yuan a few more words before getting up and going back. Zhang Yuan said: "Please wait a moment, Gu Qi to offer wine." He went to get a pair of dimming glasses and presented them, saying that they had just been delivered from Shanyin Mirror Factory.

Arrived——

When Jiao Hong saw the dimmed glasses, he smiled and said: "It's a good thing, try it in the beginning. You also have dimmed eyes, so you can use them right now."

Zhang E on the side laughed secretly and thought to himself: "This is a foreshadowing by Jiezi. He gave Gu Jijiu a pair of glasses for blindness. In the future, even if someone says that we sell glasses to the prison students, Gu Jijiu will just laugh it off. This is what makes the prison students look at him."

Qing Mu Ming, you’re not selling "Jin Ping Mei" to them——"

Gu Qiyuan tried the glasses on, and they were indeed good. He was very happy and said to Zhang Yuan: "These glasses are sold in Suzhou and Hangzhou. They cost a lot of money. A pair of glasses costs several taels of silver. How can I accept such a generous gift from you? Tomorrow

I'll ask someone to send you some money."

Zhang Yuan was a little embarrassed. He looked at Jiao Hong and crossed his hands and said, "Teacher, please forgive Zhang Yuan. These are glasses made by the student's mirror shop. They are considered earthly rituals. How dare you accept the money from the wine sacrifice."

Jiao Hong whisked his beard and said with a smile: "Brother Taichu, you are embarrassing Zhang Yuan. These glasses are clearer than the dimming glasses made by those mirror shops in Suzhou and Hangzhou. They are the only ones of this kind. How about I count them as a gift to Brother Taichu?"

Although Gu Qiyuan was incorruptible, he was well-educated and well-versed in Yi Shu. He was not a rigid person, so he smiled and accepted it. He left and returned to the Imperial College. Jiao Hong and his son stayed behind to talk to Zhang Yuan's brother. Zhang Yuan took out a pair of telescopes and presented them to Jiao Hong.

, Zhang Yuan explained to Teacher Jiao that he couldn't see far at night, and Jiao Hong said in surprise: "This is a telescope. I once heard Xu Zi first say that the Thais can make such magical eyepieces, and you can do it too!"

Jiao Runsheng explained to Zhang Yuan that Xu Zixian was Xu Guangqi. In the 25th year of Wanli, Jiao Hong was the chief examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination.

In appreciation of Master Jiao Hong’s virtue, I often send greetings in letters——

Zhang Yuandao: "This telescope is copied from the telescope of the Westerners. The study of astronomy, physics and mathematics of the Westerners is indeed superior to our Ming students, and we should imitate and learn from it."

Jiao Hong looked at his son Jiao Runsheng and smiled and said: "Look at how Zhang Yuan spoke to Xu Zi in the same tone. He highly praised the knowledge of the Westerners and regarded Matteo Ricci as a great Western scholar. Xu Zixian also lobbied me to join the Western Catholic Church. This is

It's a bit ridiculous. I rejected it. I was a Confucian when I was born in the Ming Dynasty, I was a Buddhist scholar when I was born, I left Confucianism and entered Buddhism, and I traveled among the three religions. Why should I be saved by God? - Zhang Yuan, when you see Xu Zixian in the future, don't be persuaded by him to join Catholicism.

, now the courtiers are quite dissatisfied with the Westerners preaching in the Ming Dynasty, and there are many articles opposing it. Sooner or later, there will be a big chaos. You are young and energetic and can cause trouble. Don't get involved in the future."

Zhang Yuandao: "Of course students will not join Catholicism, but students think that in today's world, introducing Catholicism will be beneficial to the world, especially in Jiangnan, where extravagance is too prevalent."

Jiao Hong said "Yes" and said: "Xu Zixian also told me that Catholicism values ​​frugality, but Catholic teachings are very wrong in matters of right and wrong. Xu Zixian has a talent for practical work, and it is a pity that he went astray when he became a believer."

Zhang Yuan certainly did not think that Xu Guangqi had gone astray, and asked: "I wonder if Senior Brother Xu has any official position now?"

Jiao Hong said: "He is still serving as a casual post in the Hanlin Academy, and recently lived in Tianjin to grow vegetables and study farmland water conservancy. Xu Zixian has the ambition to help the world. Talents are rare. He is not an empty talker who can only write stereotypes. It is a pity that the court does not use it.

he."

After drinking a cup of tea at the Zen House, Jiao Hong got up and went back to Danyuan. He asked Zhang Yuan to come to Danyuan every afternoon to compile the "Guo Chao Zhi Lu". With Zhang Yuan's help these days, this masterpiece is expected to be a hundred volumes long.

Progress is very fast.

…

Starting from the tenth day of August, Zhang Yuan went to the Imperial College to study again. In the morning, he listened to the doctor's lectures on the classics and the writing of edicts, edicts, tables, policies and judgments. In the afternoon, he went to Danyuan to help Teacher Jiao compile books. As the Mid-Autumn Festival approached, Zhang Yuan gradually

I became a little anxious: Why hasn’t my father Zhang Ruiyang arrived in Nanjing yet?

Zhang Dai also went to prison to study, and Zhang E still went in and out of the Imperial College at will. In just a few days, more than half of the dimming glasses, which cost four taels of silver a pair, and the myopia glasses, which cost six taels of silver a pair, had been sold. Zhang E was extremely happy——

On the evening of August 14th, Zhang Yuan returned from Danyuan to Zen Residence. He walked slowly with his brows slightly furrowed. He was worried about his father's safety, but he had no way to inquire about it——

Mu Zhenzhen didn't know how to say nice things to comfort the young master, so he had to accompany the young master to worry.

Returning to Tingchan Residence, he saw a dozen unfamiliar servants standing in the courtyard. Zhang Yuan was asking where these people came from. Zhang E accompanied four people out of the small hall. Zhang E shouted happily: "Jie Zi, you

Look who's here, it's full of guests."

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