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 system of natural philosophy and basic science, 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 mid-17th century!

European science and technology has 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 ahead of the West in the mid-17th century in some respects.

However, this knowledge cannot or is difficult to be directly transformed into applications, at least Zhu Cihong cannot do it alone. Moreover, his knowledge is deficient in many aspects. He is not able to remember everything, only part of it.

Therefore, gathering the smartest people, introducing Western natural philosophy knowledge, and then giving them the fragmented knowledge of later generations in the "Posthumous Works of Confucius" for their study was the biggest golden finger that Zhu Cixiang could think of.

With enough smart people who have mastered basic natural philosophy and scientific knowledge, it is easy to find a golden finger in application. After all, most of the inventions and creations in human history came from academic masters.

Troos 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 doesn’t even know that such a thing exists, and he doesn’t even think of himself.

Twelve years later, he would walk into the examination room of the Nanjing Imperial College to solve the mathematical problems that fascinated him. He would never have imagined that he would become Emperor Hongxing of the Ming Dynasty and establish a lasting friendship between teachers and students!

Now he is still dressed as a young novice, riding a short fat horse, following his great 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 Dzungarian tribe in Oara Mongolia, last summer, and traveled eastward with the longevity lama and a dozen other Dzungarian warriors dressed as lamas. Because he wanted to avoid the unfriendly Ye'er.

In order to occupy the territory of the Qiang Khanate and the Heshuote Khanate, which was still loyal to the Qing Dynasty, they had to take a long detour and pass through the territory of the Khalkha Mongolia. Later, they stayed for several months because the longevity lama fell ill in Yulin City.

The trip was delayed, so it was not until late August in the fifth year of Hongxing that we 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, many of whom even carry guns!

The gun is a very rare weapon in the Oarak Mongols, and 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 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!

However, there is a strange 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 sutras and become a Buddha, but fate made a joke on him. Because his father Baturhuntai

Ji Tai wanted to get the Ming Dynasty's musket, so 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 the 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 of Shuofang Army named Yuan Ruofei. He was originally from Liao Dynasty. Because his hometown was lost, he followed his parents to flee to the pass. He wanted to return to his ancestral home, Fengyang Prefecture, but was captured in Henan Province.

Li Zicheng's army was coerced and returned to Chen Yongfu's subordinates. Later, he followed Chen Yongfu to defend Taiyuan. After Chen Yongfu ran away, his family all went to Luliang Mountain to defect to the acting king Zhu Cijiong. They have been considered meritorious over the years. So they got a person to go to Nanjing to make up for their lessons.

By chance, he escorted Lama Celing and Galdan along the way. Unexpectedly, the lama and his companions 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 spent these days living in Laoshan Palace to accompany his wife and children. Wu Sanmei finally achieved enlightenment and gave birth to a son to Zhu Cixiang, named Zhu Hexing.

However, the child was born a little early, less than a month old, so he was very weak. Emperor Zhu and Wu Sanmei were afraid that he would die young, so they took him to the newly built Laoshan Palace. Living in the Forbidden City in Nanjing was not comfortable because it was too humid in winter.

It's damp and cold, and the summer is sultry, and it's 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.

Because I look at the Southern Dynasties and the Southern Song Dynasty, all the Northern Expeditions failed because it was difficult to consolidate the Central Plains. The Central Plains is flat and difficult to defend, and water transportation is inconvenient. It is an easy-to-take-and-defensible land. I want to start the Central Plains and then Yanzhao, and achieve the Northern Expedition in one fell swoop.

A great undertaking is very difficult. If we can first seize the Central Plains, then spend three years to consolidate it, build 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 it succeeds, 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 peasant soldiers who cannot fight for a long time.

If you delay, you will be unable to make ends meet and become unsustainable.

Your Majesty has already planned to spend ten years, so why should you be afraid of the peasant soldiers of the Northern Dynasty? Not to mention that if you don't return in ten years, if one hundred thousand peasant soldiers serve for three years, I'm afraid 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 they could not go out to fight in the city, there would be more troops and fewer troops, so the difference would not be 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 Princess or not depends on your Majesty's will. What you really need to worry about is outside the customs.
Chapter completed!