In a flower hall of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Chongzhen, who had sent away Wang Chengen, saw the three geographers brought in by Xu Guangqi.

Scholars in this era studied and studied geography for the purpose of interpreting historical books and military purposes. Geology, on the other hand, is only an incidental to geography, with only some fragmented knowledge and no independent knowledge system.

Under Chongzhen's promotion, the Army and Navy Military Academy and Yenching University began to unite to organize and summarize the knowledge of geography and geology, and formalize the research content of these two disciplines.

After greeting Xu Hongzu, Peng Tianxi, and Gu Rouqian respectively, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said to the three of them: "You led the students to conduct a one-month inspection of Jizhou, Tangshan, and Qianxi this time, and I have already read the inspection report you wrote.

For the new way of surveying and mapping the terrain, the recording of the local natural vegetation, and the collection and research of geology and ores, I think these inductive survey methods are very good.

However, I think that in the future, your reports can be developed into standardized tables and filled with survey data, so that it will be easier to compare them with other regional survey reports and find out the similarities and differences, what do you think? ”

Xu Hongzu bowed slightly, but did not make a sound. Gu Rouqian and Peng Tianxi quickly echoed Chongzhen.

After continuing to talk for a few words, Zhu Youzhen said his true intention to summon the three of them, "Actually, I summoned you today to entrust one or two of you to go to the Korean Kingdom after the beginning of spring next year.

A geographical and geological survey was conducted for the area south of Cheolsan-gun, Ganghwa-do and north of the Han River. Find out the direction of mountains and rivers, the geographical and topographical characteristics of the area, and the types of local mineral resources. ”

Xu Hongzu, who originally looked indifferent, suddenly couldn't hold back, and he asked Chongzhen with a little excitement: "But where is King Kong Mountain?" I ask Your Majesty's permission to go to Korea. ”

Gu Rouqian hesitated a little, now the land route from the Ming Kingdom to North Korea was cut off by Jiannu, and if he wanted to go to North Korea, he could only take the sea route, but he heard that the sea route from North Korea to Shandong was not very easy to walk, and the place where the trip was surveyed was a vassal country that was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to control, which made him not only a little afraid.

Although Peng Tianxi became a teacher at the Army Military Academy under the recommendation of his friends, he was always tightly suppressed by Xu Hongzu and Gu Rouqian on weekdays, and when he heard Chongzhen's inquiry, he suddenly felt that it was a good opportunity for him to enter the emperor's field of vision.

Although he lagged behind Xu Hongzu, he automatically asked Chongzhen before Gu Rouqian.

Zhu Youzhen saw the performance of the three of them, he thought for a while and then said: "I heard that Professor Gu was slightly ill when he came back from this expedition, I think the opportunity to go to North Korea this time should be given to Instructor Xu and Instructor Peng first..."

"That's just nonsense." Looking at the concise Chinese history book in his hand, Fan Wencheng couldn't help but shout out his feelings in his heart with anger.

As soon as he spoke, he realized that something was wrong, this was in the capital of the Ming Kingdom, or before the public, how could he say what he wanted.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the clerk who accompanied him to choose the books looked at him in some surprise and took the initiative to ask: "This merchant, what is wrong with this old Qian Ge's book, why is he so angry?" ”

In order to be able to buy a large number of books, Fan Wencheng excused himself as a businessman from Xuanhua and wanted to open a bookstore in Xuanhua City, so he came to the capital to purchase.

Along the way, he had already bought hundreds of books, and they were all tomes of expensive goods, worth nearly a thousand taels. Therefore, the bookstore specially assigned a clerk to follow him and record the titles of the books for him so that they could be packed uniformly.

Looking at the suspicious appearance of the clerk next to him, Fan Wencheng couldn't help but snort, hiding the horror in his heart and replied: "I mean these Jiannu are really nonsense, obviously from the Tunguska Plateau, but they recognize their ancestors indiscriminately, and they have to have a relationship with the Jurchens, which is really shameless." ”

The clerk nodded thoughtfully and agreed: "Fan Keshang is right, this Jurchen is indeed shameless, since Qian Ge Lao wrote this book, all the people who have read this book are the same as Fan Keshang, and they are indignant at these Tunguskas..."

The bookstore clerk, who was expressing his feelings, did not notice that at this time, Fan Wencheng was holding the hand of "A Concise History Reader of China", and his muscles were already exposed. Obviously, this bookseller from Xuanhua is not as calm as it seems on the surface.

After seeing this history book that speculated on the origin of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, Fan Wencheng's interest in seeing so many classics suddenly became very bad, and he had no intention of continuing to carefully select, and after hurriedly selecting eighty or ninety kinds of books, he told the clerk the address of the Fan family's business and asked the bookstore to send someone to deliver the books to the door.

Fan Wencheng, who was about to turn around and go out, was suddenly stopped by the clerk, which suddenly shocked him, he didn't know where he had a flaw, so that the clerk could see something wrong.

When Fan Wencheng was secretly on guard, the clerk, who was a head younger than him, pointed to his left hand disapprovingly, and said with a smile: "Fan Keshang, you still have a copy in your hand, can this book also be added to the book list?" Or is it something else? ”

Fan Wencheng's face was a little stiff and he glanced down at his left hand, then smiled unnaturally and said, "I took this book with me." ”

As he spoke, he took out a small leather bag from his waist, took out a five-corner note from it, handed it to the clerk in front of him, and said, "The rest will be your tea money, I have worked hard for you today." ”

The smile on the clerk's face became brighter, and after he took the money in Fan Wencheng's hand, he nodded and gave way and said, "Thank you Fan Merchant for the reward, the villain must send the books to the merchant as soon as possible, so that you can rush back for a good year." ”

Fan Wencheng carefully put the "Concise History of China" in his hand, nodded to the clerk, and strode towards the door.

When his mood was agitated, he was a little distracted. When I got out of the courtyard gate,,The same person bumped into a full arms.。

Although Fan Wencheng was a Confucian student, he had a burly physique, but he was more like a charging general. In fact, he did go to the battlefield, and it was precisely because of this physique that he was not cut down by the Jurchens as a useless Confucian student.

Because of this, after colliding with the same person, Fan Wencheng's body only shook slightly, but the other party fell firmly.

Fan Wencheng hurriedly bent down and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiandou was distracted for a while, and he dared to ask this brother if there was anything wrong... Brother Tai is a Franco? ”

With the support of Li Boan, the interpreter next to him, Andre, who had fallen strongly, finally got up from the ground.

He glanced at Fan Wencheng, who was even more burly than him, and found that the other party was wearing the clothes of a scholar in the Ming Kingdom. At this time, he already knew a little about Chinese customs, and the most powerful people in this country were still these scholars, and if they provoked one, they could lead to a group, and even the nobles of the Ming Kingdom would have to give them three points.

Compared with the current Europe, the king, nobles, and clergy have unrestricted power at home, and the Chinese civil service examination system can obviously greatly restrict the power of the king and the church, which is also what surprised him.

Naturally, he would not entangle himself with these scholars, after all, there was also racial discrimination in this eastern land. Just as they discriminate against the indigenous people of the Americas, the blacks of Africa, and the natives of Asia, the Chinese also discriminate against all non-Chinese races.

Although the Chinese emperor seemed to be quite courteous to him, the Chinese commoners he met privately called them red-haired and green-eyed Europeans Western barbarians, who were ignorant and unhygienic.

When Andrei first heard this evaluation, he felt very aggrieved. After all, as an English squire, he was not of the same class as the seamen and sailors of inferior European origin.

Those European seafarers rarely change their shirts once every six months or so, and some of them don't even wear shirts at all. However, in the past, when he was at sea in the most difficult time, he had to change his shirt once every half a month, but since he landed on Chinese soil as an envoy of the British king, he changed his shirt every three days.

This standard of living is already equivalent to that of the great nobles of Europe. Therefore, regarded by the Chinese as a dirty and unhygienic barbarian, Andrei has a heartfelt anger and grievance.

After negotiating business matters with the representatives sent by the Emperor of China, he forced the Chinese captain to be his interpreter and asked him to take him to a deeper understanding of the culture of which Chinese was proud.

Li Bo'an was also a little nerve-wracking about Andre's request, after all, although he had read for a few years, he was not a serious reader. He really doesn't know where to start with this so-called Chinese culture.

However, after Li Bo'an communicated with the officials of the Siyi Pavilion, he decided to bring this overly knowledgeable representative of the British King to the bookstore, thinking that the vast number of books in the bookstore was enough for this Yi man to understand what Chinese culture is, even if he couldn't read the words on it, he could understand what kind of culture was represented behind hundreds of thousands of books.

Fan Wencheng looked at Andre who got up from the ground, and after talking a few words with a Chinese beside him, he barely squeezed out a smile and said to him bluntly: "It's okay." ”

Listening to Andre's ridiculous voice, Li Boan shrugged his shoulders and said: "This talented man, this Englishman is talking to you that it has nothing to do with you, just now he patronized the scenery, but he didn't notice that you walked from the opposite side." If you're okay, let's go our separate ways. ”

Fan Wencheng nodded with Li Bo'an, and then crossed paths with the two. Being disturbed by this Englishman, his heart, which was still a little panicked just now, suddenly calmed down.

Fan Wencheng subconsciously touched his chest and found that the book was still there. He made up his mind in his heart, this Ming monarch and minister is really bad, while deliberately befriending and seeking peace with my Houjin, but on the other hand, he is writing a book to slander my Houjin Nuzhen's origin, their peace must be deceitful, I will take this book back to the Great Khan to see, it will definitely make the Great Khan no longer be confused by the Ming Kingdom...