Since the Nanyang Incident and Cardinal Alexander's departure from Burma, Matteo Ricci has become much quieter.

He no longer had to pull him to preach when he saw someone like before, but quietly stayed and translated some Western books for him according to Xiao Ruxun's request.

Matteo Ricci hoped that this would impress Xiao Ruxun, show him that he was still useful, gain his trust, and then restart his missionary program.

As a result, without waiting for his efforts to complete, Xiao Ruxun left, went to the Central Plains, and later came back for a short time, and then mobilized the entire Burma army of 100,000 to fight.

Matteo Ricci is a cold sweat.

Is Xiao Ruxun going to rebel against his emperor?

It's to create opposition, right? This is a rebellion, right?

Matteo Ricci felt that it seemed impossible to succeed in using a piece of secession against the entire powerful central government, Xiao Ruxun's death was doomed, he would definitely die, Myanmar would be destroyed, and the point of him continuing to stay would be gone?

As a result, before he could make up his mind to leave Myanmar, the news of Xiao Ruxun's success came back.

He succeeded in his rebellion, he successfully defeated the central government and took over the capital, and even established a new government to rule the huge China!

This is simply an incredible miracle.

He was shocked for a long time, and when he was shocked and regained his senses, an edict brought him a great surprise.

The Great Qin Emperor Xiao Ruxun summoned Matteo Ricci, a missionary from Taixi, and asked him to go to Beijing to meet with the emperor.

The flame of hope reignited in Matteo Ricci's heart.

This enlightened general, a general who had a strong interest in science, a general who was even willing to hire the Portuguese to produce muskets and artillery for him, and a general who was willing to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to improve the people's livelihood, is now an emperor.

Will China be as open as Myanmar?

If it could, it would be a huge stimulus for all of Europe.

Matteo Ricci arrived in Beijing with great excitement and met Xiao Ruxun, who had been absent for a long time.

Xiao Ruxun didn't talk to him about his old feelings, but directly told him that he wanted him to learn Chinese characters.

Without hesitation, Matteo Ricci immediately revealed his own way of learning Chinese characters and a little bit of his method and method of teaching other missionaries, that is, the way of learning to phonetize Chinese characters using the alphabet of their homeland.

There is no doubt that Matteo Ricci is a learning genius, the former Da Ming and Xu Guangqi failed to make good use of Matteo Ricci, leaving endless regrets to history, this time, Xiao Ruxun will not let go of this opportunity, he wants to use Matteo Ricci to do something he has always wanted to do.

Matteo Ricci's learning ability and memory ability have always been talked about, and if such a talent is not used to contribute to education reform, Xiao Ruxun himself will not let himself go.

From Matteo Ricci's point of view, if he can play his role when Xiao Ruxun needs it, then one day he can gain Xiao Ruxun's trust and be qualified to preach.

You must know that Xiao Ruxun is already an emperor now, and in China, the emperor can do anything.

At least in Ricci's experience over the years, the authority of the Chinese emperor far exceeded that of the monarchs of European countries.

The monarchs of those countries could not be mentioned in front of the Chinese emperor, who was called the Son of Heaven, exercised power on behalf of Heaven, and was the son of Heaven, while the European monarchs had a god on their heads, and they were believers in the gods.

The aristocrats of Europe have their own territories, and the monarch cannot point fingers at will, while although there are nobles in China, the land in China belongs to the emperor, everything belongs to the emperor, and they can only receive the corresponding money, but they cannot control the land and the people on the land.

This is unimaginable in Europe, but it is real in China.

On this point alone, Matteo Ricci was able to affirm that the power of the Chinese emperor far exceeded that of European monarchs.

Of course, this is also the case.

Therefore, if he can get Xiao Ruxun's trust and permission, he can spread his religion in any piece of land in China and achieve his ideals.

Therefore, he tried his best to please Xiao Ruxun even more than before.

In front of the Ministry of Education officials, Matteo Ricci elaborated on the pronunciation of some of the letters in his hometown, and then explained some of his pronunciation notes for the official dialect of the season.

After Zhu Yuanzhang settled in Nanjing, he used the official dialect of Nanjing as the official language of the whole country, and the official dialect of this season sounded somewhat similar to the dialects and Hokkien dialects in the modern Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and influenced China until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China.

Later, Emperor Yongzheng determined that the Beijing official dialect was the national pronunciation, and the Beijing official dialect was formed by the fusion of Beijing dialect and Nanjing dialect plus some transliterated Manchu languages, and on this basis, modern Mandarin was formed, but throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nanjing official dialect had a very important position.

Xiao Ruxun did not need to change the pronunciation of the national official dialect at this time, so he asked Matteo Ricci to put forward his plan and submit it to the officials of the Ministry of Education for review, so that the officials could mark it through their understanding of the Nanjing official dialect and the pronunciation of the Latin script.

Everyone did it, and also sent consultations to some people in the court who were very culturally accomplished, asked them to participate together, and then took out their own plans to discuss and determine the most formal pronunciation plan.

Matteo Ricci will play an irreplaceable role in this.

After the plan is finalized, a group of Mongolian children will be recruited to do a teaching experiment, and then relevant talents will be cultivated, and the new literacy program will be gradually rolled out to the whole country.

Teach them to know the pronunciation of the Latin alphabet, memorize this pronunciation, and then learn Chinese characters and Nanjing official dialect against the pronunciation, so that children can be exposed to Nanjing official dialect from an early age, and at the same time, they can also achieve the unity of the national pronunciation in the true sense.

This plan has caused a lot of controversy in the DPRK and China, some people think it is very interesting and can be tried, some people think that this needs to be planned for a longer term, and some people are opposed, thinking that using the Xiyi script to make phonetic pronunciation of our Chinese characters is to defile what has been passed down from our ancestors.

They don't dare to argue about politics, but when it comes to this kind of cultural transmission, some people start to move.

For this reason, Xiao Ruxun specially convened a court meeting and expounded his views at the court meeting.

"I can't say that Xiyi's things must be bad, our things must be good, in fact, we do have many places that are not as good as Xiyi, and even places we haven't set foot in, Xiyi has begun to get involved.

In the pre-Qin period, we did not have a strong cavalry, it was very difficult to deal with the Huns, and later Zhao Wuling King Hu Fu cavalry shooting, enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains army, defeated the Huns, this is also to learn from the barbarians, Zhao Wuling King still has such courage, we don't have it?

Not to mention far away, let's say that the bird guns and Furlong machine guns we use now are all made by the Furlong machine people, the warships of the Furlong machine people are large and strong, and they can carry more artillery, we have them ourselves, but they are obviously inferior to others, but so what?

Now our bird guns and Furlong machine guns are excellent, long no longer under the Xiyi, the new flint guns are also amazing, the new warship can carry fifty or sixty guns, the South China Sea War annihilated the Fran machine sailors, occupied Luzon.

Whether it is Xiyi or not, as long as there is a benefit, then take it and learn it, and after learning, it will become our own, continue to develop, and sooner or later one day do better than Xiyi, so what's so bad?

Don't always stick to one place and one thing, open your eyes to see the world, look at the vast world, there are many things that we have never been exposed to, we must understand them one by one, to contact, to penetrate, to learn, and to rest on our laurels. ”