The Lion set sail, and after a brief renovation, the British warship, which smelled of lime water, said goodbye to Qiongya Road.

Although many sailors and wounded guards had to leave the Lion and recuperate in the Maritime Hospital, the crew of the Lion and Hindustan was not less than ever.

There were three navigators dispatched by the Xisha Coast Guard, one squad of guards sent by the Qiongya Road Pacification Mission, and even the Yunjiguan on Qiongya Road sent two young Taoist priests to the Hindustan.

These two are the outer disciples sent by Zhu Mingdan Tianfu to Qiongya Road to teach, and during the three years of teaching in the Gewu Academy opened by Yunjiguan, they obtained a class B general education license in English and French by the way. In Qiongya Road, there are very few professionals who have obtained the qualification of Class B general affairs like this, and the Qiongya Road Pacification Envoy even released a word, if these two are willing to transfer to the Foreign Trade Section under the Pacification Envoy, the Pacification Envoy will be willing to help them move to a right path to a civil official future.

However, Zhu Mingdan Tianfu was not slow to pass the order from Yun Jiguan, and directly skipped the procedure of returning to Guangzhou to report on his work, and directly promoted the two to the next level, becoming the outer deacon disciples of Daohai Zongyuan. Becoming a disciple of the deacon of the outer gate, he has the qualification to be promoted as a Taoist official, and the speed of this line of fire is like a big meat bun falling from the sky, smashing a big surprise.

However, it is not so easy to eat this bun, and at the same time as the promotion, the task is also assigned:

As deacon's disciples, I hope that the two of them will use their three years of experience in teaching on Qiongya Road to conduct preliminary Chinese education for the visiting British mission. With the appointment, Yun Jiguan has prepared a full set of Chinese teaching materials from the library cabinet, including textbooks and reference books such as "Thousand Character Text", "Pinyin Training and Reading", and "Chinese-English Dictionary", and even "A Brief History of China" and "Records of Land Pioneering", which are the latest historical books published by the Tianjin Commercial Press.

The meaning of Zhu Mingdan Tianfu is very clear: an ambassador like Macartney, who was awarded the title of earl by George III and addressed as "my cousin" in his national letter, is no longer in a hurry to learn Chinese. Moreover, although Macartney is now in the golden age of a diplomat, the average life expectancy of the British in the eighteenth century is rarely more than 60 years, and after completing the important mission of establishing diplomatic relations between China and Britain, Mr. Macartney can resign from public office and return to the Irish estate to enjoy a peaceful and brief retirement.

But the others who came with him included their adjutant, secretary, general officer, and the son of the lieutenant envoy George Staunton, now a twelve-year-old knight squire Jr. Staunton. As long as these members of the British diplomatic corps return to the British Isles, there is a great possibility that they will become intellectuals or even pro-China among British diplomats in the future, and it is not a bad thing that there will be a group of British officials who advocate friendship with China in the next 10 years or so.

It's just that the Daohai Sect Source Sect Master who sits in Zhu Mingdan Heavenly Mansion has a few words that he didn't say.

It was the members of this mission, such as George Staunton and Little Staunton, father and son, such as John Barrow, who liked to gossip and did not hide the arrogance of the white race, that their various experiences of meeting the Qianlong Emperor in another time and space allowed these keen diplomats to accurately peek into the various shortcomings of the "Huanghuang Qing Dynasty" from top to bottom, including the ignorance of the government, the hostility and defense of the Manchus against the Han people, and the system that was frozen to the point of stinking under the glossy cloak of the prosperous Qianlong era......

As a result, the Europeans who originally looked up to the big countries in the East, just like the tiger who met the donkey in the fable "The Donkey of Qian", changed their mentality from "shocking gods" to "but Erer". And Xiao Si Dangdong, the young man who met the Qianlong Emperor, became a well-known sinologist who independently translated the entire "Laws of the Great Qing Dynasty", and was praised by later generations as the "father of British Sinology".

But it was also this well-known sinologist, after re-contacting the Manchu officialdom during the Qianjia period as an adult, that he made this analysis of Downing Street before the First Opium War - only through war can Britain win the respect of the Manchu court and be willing to listen to the wishes of Britain!

But these things probably won't happen in this era.

The only minor episode occurred during the short voyage to Canton, where the special British salted jerky stored on the Jackal became a favorite of the guard squad.

This hard jerky, which was hated by British sailors and nicknamed "salt bones", used a lot of salt. Of course, the British merchants who contracted the food processing refused to use expensive table salt, but took poisonous, cheap industrial salt, which, even if boiled in water, emitted a smell of rotting corpses soaked in formalin pools.

However, in this era, the average life expectancy of human beings in the world is not high, and even if the British Navy used this kind of salted jerky with the smell of chemical waste as a supplement every day, many people would not survive to die of poison. And these inferior poisonous jerky made and purchased in large quantities in the 18th century have been stored by the British logistics department, and have been eaten by naval soldiers for 200 years, which can be regarded as a pioneering achievement in food storage.

The members of the guard squad were all normal people, and of course they would not have a brain cramp to eat such a hard stone and suspicious-smelling thing. What's more, in the process of the Xisha Coast Guard's quarantine of the British fleet, these salted jerky were directly included in the foreign garbage of the grade of "toxic waste", not to mention that people eat it, Song Ning, the Taoist officer of the Coast Guard, said directly and unceremoniously: "According to the newly promulgated civil law of this dynasty, the guy who makes this kind of toxic waste should be sentenced to death for intentional murder." ”

But the salted jerky, which is so terrible to humans, has a high temptation for the shark-like fish-people, who are scarcely distributed in the coastal areas. In just two days, the guard squad used the salted jerky on the Jackal to attract and annihilate two shark-like fish-man tribes, and won commendations from their superiors.

This was followed by a brief message: "Is there a technical patent for such a decoy? Can the British East India Company produce such a decoy in the vicinity of Calcutta, etc.? How can a long-term trade co-operation mechanism be negotiated with Great Britain for such a decoy? If possible, raise this issue with the Special Envoy at an appropriate time." ”

Sir George Staunton had to devote a great deal of time to the fatal attraction of dried meat to shark-men in his journal of his mission, and to successfully extend the promotion that "no such dried meat shall be carried on ocean-going cargo ships" to the British ocean-going shipping industry.

After losing a major customer in the shipping industry due to the threat of shark fishmen, British food merchants who produce highly toxic foods such as "salt bones" had to spend more energy and more money to select those relatively milder chemical wastes to marinate salted jerky, making an indelible contribution to the development of British food additives.

It's really gratifying.

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May 5 Duanyang Festival is approaching, Guangzhou Port.

It was the second day of the British mission's arrival in Canton.

But Li Ruilin, the prefect of Guangzhou, had no intention of paying more attention to these Britons at the moment.

There is no other reason, at this time, it is the day when the first provincial examination begins after the recovery of Guangzhou.

is different from some of the new dynasties in the history books, it does not mean that you can just draw up a topic casually, and then get a large group of half-connected and incomprehensible talents and movers together to be finished.

In the former Qing Dynasty, from Shunzhi to the early years of Kangxi, the so-called imperial examination was purely foolish. As long as there are scholars who are willing to take the exam and are willing to be the obedient people of the Qing Dynasty, that is the identity of showing off talents and lifting people. Even if you don't understand the eight strands of text, you still have the opportunity to mix with a fellow Jinshi.

However, at the beginning of the new dynasty, he held the idea of preferring shortage to abundance, and would rather spend years educating talents than let these winter roasters and autumn wind blunt talents fool things.

This first incident is the abolition of the eight shares.

For the eight shares, Li Ruilin himself was tested all the way through the township examination, the provincial examination, the general examination, and the palace examination. To tell the truth, people in Shilin, especially people like him who have been in the office for many years, just regard Baguwen as a stepping stone to the office. The knowledge of being an official has never been on the eight-strand text.

For the scholarly family in the world, whether it is to abolish the eight shares or use the strategy, it is not the point, as long as the imperial court still holds the imperial examination, and everyone's road to progress is endless, then there is no problem with the test.

Only those old talents and old prisoners who have held "Zhu Zi's Quotations", "Zhu Zi's Four Books Annotations" and all kinds of science field model texts all their lives, but there are a few people who feel that the sky is falling apart and hang themselves into the river.

In addition to a few great Confucians howling in science, there are also those who jump into the West Lake, those who jump into the Qiantang River, and those who go on hunger strike, and there is not much trend in Shilin.

Now it is the two saints in the dynasty, one south and one north, both of whom are Taoists, and they still do not plan to respect Zhou and worship Confucius. But except for the confusion of the current generation of Yan Shenggong in the Confucian Mansion in Qufu, smart people really don't want to be anxious about such things.

The great Confucians want to be martyred for Confucianism and Taoism, but the gentry's house is just for the four words "study to be an official", and now it is still a study to be an official, but a set of scriptures and meanings have been changed, why is this?

Of course, the wise people among the gentry can understand it, and it is inevitable that there will be those who cannot understand it.

If the former Ming Dynasty is changed, such a matter of life and death related to the "Holy Sect and Taoism", there will be groups of Xiucai carrying the tablet of the Holy Ancestor to knock on the Ya Ya to ask for their lives.

The party struggle in the former Ming Dynasty, coupled with the fact that the Xiucai people organized the club and created such an opposition force as the Fushe, which is known as "Donglin Houxue" and has great energy, Xiucai Gong has become a boot-breaking party, and he is very arrogant and proud for a while.

However, when the Qing army entered the customs, everything was based on the death of the Ming Dynasty, and the article "scholars discussing political affairs" was summarized by Shunzhi to Qianlong as the most important object of prevention. In the literary prison, these talented children who dare to talk about the government have always been the most ruthless - who cares what you discuss, is it a royalist who brings its own dry food, and a red heart is towards Lafayette, Long Live Lord, and the emperor of the Qing Dynasty......

There are few remnants of this kind of suppressive atmosphere, and everyone is talking about it by themselves, and not many people really dare to form a large group of people to post unveiling posts and petitioning for incense.

However, the new dynasty opened the imperial examination, but the fame of the former Qing Dynasty was not recognized, whether you are a showman, a prisoner or a lifter, the fame does not count. If you want to continue to study and become an official, then you didn't say it, pack up the dinner guys, as well as the sandwich inkstone and micro-carved pen barrel prepared back then, and come out again for the exam.

Of course, at this time, there will be no eight-share test, but where will everyone prepare the cheat sheet?

Therefore, the eyes of people with a heart are either aimed at Tianjin or Guangzhou.

Soon, a notice was posted in the Guangzhou government.

Unlike the notice next to it, which is only aimed at small people and is simple and easy, this notice is directly aimed at readers:

"The clearest and most imperative thing in the world is now the old law that will be the new law. However, what will happen first?

The husband is not self-capable of harming the country, and the harm is that there are no talents in the world. I said: There is great harm, and the harm is said: Wisdom.

The weeping boy, the eyes do not know the difference between the corn and the corn, and its admission must first be taught in "Learning", "Yong", "Language" and "Meng", the beginning of the Ming Righteousness, Mingde Xinmin, talk about it can not be passed, and the recitation is in vain. If it is a few years later, the line will be simple and simple, learning is the meaning of the scriptures, Mr. taught him to grasp the death method, and the disciple is qualified to plagiarize to form a chapter. I don't know what to say when I ask myself. The husband watched the wind coming, the group of rabbits, wrapped in bait, team by team, bowed to the case, did not violate the merit order, all enough to sell, the fallacy spread, Qiang is not one. If so, if it is prosperous, its glory can be praised in the township, and if it is recommended by the township, its effect can be coveted by the people's society. As for Cheng Gongshi, when he enters the word forest, the more glorious his name is, and the greater his self-esteem. Out of the slaughter of a hundred miles, into the master of Cao Si, Erbi ascended to the dynasty, the secretary of state stepped, thinking that the people of heaven and earth are called Confucianism. After the court's bingxing, the emperor's personal policy, it was the court that ordered me to be Confucian. Tens of millions of journeys, everyone is full of feathers, I am a dragon, I am a ghost and god in the underworld, and I am allowed to be a Confucian. The ghosts and gods of the court all regard me as Confucianism, I am really Confucian, and I am really Confucianism of heaven and earth. From now on, the affairs of the world have been governed by half of the Analects, and there is no doubt about it! What is it difficult! There is nothing that cannot be done when you are a showman, and there is nothing that you cannot do when you are a prime minister. Foolish and confused, what is it weird?

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Eight strands of scholars, so that the world to spend time in useless places, degenerate ambition in the dark, the long man is arrogant, faint people, not enough to assist the country, not enough to help the animal. Destroy talents, and the country will be poor and weak. If this is not removed, it will make up for the leaks in vain, and the emperor will be faint and useless. If there is no talent, then the number of things will be abolished. Licking chaff and rice will eventually lead to death. ”

This article is brilliant in thousands of words, scolding eight shares, and only two words: Yan Fu.