Chapter 803 The Age of Small Voyage II
"Wu Chongdao, where did you and Gao Shiyan play?"
As soon as he came out of the Qionglin Palace, Wu Haogu was caught by Su Dongpo's second son Su Hui. Su Xi's current official position is the Longtu Pavilion and the attendant of Chongzheng Hall, while the Wensan official rank has been promoted to Tongzhilang from the sixth rank. However, the real dispatch is the same as before, and he is responsible for explaining the Confucian classics to Zhao Ji in Chongzheng Hall every day. Recently, he is explaining the "Theory of Reason" and "Motology" to Zhao Ji. Su Xi participated in the writing of "Theory of Reason", so he can explain the key points clearly.
"Motography" is actually a knowledge of geometry. It was compiled by Wu Haogu, Zhang Zeduan, Mi Youren and Du Wenyu and others while writing "Theory of Reason", and was used to verify "Theory of Reason". The book "Motography" not only contains a lot of geometry knowledge that originated from China, but also some geometry knowledge brought by Wu Haogu from later generations. It is particularly profound in geometry perspective. When Wu Haogu was imparting painting, he imparted a large amount of geometry knowledge together, so these people can participate in the compilation of the book "Motography".
In this book "Motology", Wu Haogu also introduced a large number of geometric terms from later generations, such as points, lines, straight lines, parallel lines, angles, triangles and quadrilaterals. At the same time, Wu Haogu also included some of the ruler drawing tools from later generations into the book "Motology", including compass, triangles, T-shaped rulers (rules), scales, etc., all of which were drawn and sized.
Because Zhao Ji also learned a lot of Wu Haoqiu's painting knowledge, he also had a certain foundation in geometry. He mastered the knowledge in the book "Motology" faster than Su Xi himself, and he had reached the point where he could teach Su Xi in turn.
However, today Su Xi did not come to Wu Haogu because of geometry, but his father Su Dongpo's instructions that Su Dongpo wanted to meet and have a secret conversation with Wu Haogu.
"Zhongyu, you mean..."
Wu Haogu looked at Su Xi and didn't understand what he wanted to say for a moment.
"Tell me while you walk, my father invites you." Su Xi waved his hand, and one of his long sushi led a horse over.
Wu Chengjiu, who was guarding the palace gate, also brought Wu Haogu a mount. Wu Haogu's 19th uncle is now an official, not young! He is a military officer at the level of an ambassador. However, he has no actual position, so he still follows Wu Haogu as a follower.
Wu Haogu and Su Hui both got on the horse and walked north along the Yu Street outside the Qionglin Palace. Now it was when the officials of the two governments came home from get off work, and people came and went on the Yu Street, all of which were the followers of officials and officials. There were also many small business vendors carrying various snacks and selling along the street. There were no commercial stores on both sides of the Yu Street near the Qionglin Palace, all kinds of yamen and several royal palaces. However, vendors were not prohibited from setting up stalls, so every morning and evening, all kinds of snack vendors were doing business along the street, which was very lively.
Su Xi asked, "Chongdao, why did Gao Shiyan create another Taohua Stone Khan? He also asked Zhao Qianshun for the Protector of Anxi?"
"The Peach Blossom Stone Solder was not created by Gao Shiyan," Wu Haogu shook his head and said, "It was there in the early years of this dynasty, and Gao Shiyan did not ask Qianshun for the Great Protector of Anxi."
"Since the peach blossom stone sweat has been around for so many years and has not caused any trouble, why bother to stab this hornet's nest?" Su Xi said, "And there is no one in Jiehe to mention the affairs of the four towns of Anxi. Gao Shiyan suddenly mentioned Qianshun's memorial to ask for Anxi... How can it not be suspicious? Now many censors are participating in him, and he is still so careless. Maybe someone will soon participate in his collusion with the vassal state!"
"That's right." Wu Haogu nodded in agreement, "The charge of colluding with the vassal states can indeed be detained on Gao Qiu's head... But he can't go back to Beijing! Zhao Zhongcheng was involved in his crime of inviting the Sanzhi army to buy the morale of the army two days ago. It is probably even more reassuring to go back to the capital."
"Oh, he is more troublesome than Di Wuxiang this time!" Su Xi shook his head repeatedly.
"Just let him stay in Lingzhou." Wu Haogu sighed, "Chunger was born outside, Shen Sheng was died inside. As long as he did not return to Kaifeng Prefecture, will the Censorate really dare to go to Lingzhou to get people?"
"Why do you say this?" Su Xi shook his head repeatedly, "Dalang, what were you planning? I really want Gao Shiyan and Zhao Ganshun to expedition Anxi? This is a military force!"
"What can I plan?" Wu Haogu smiled bitterly, "This matter has nothing to do with me, and I don't know what Zhao Ganshun was thinking? Maybe he felt that Hexi's territory was cramped and could not support so many people, so he thought about going to Anxi to grab the territory.
By the way... the Peach Blossom Stone Khan and the Chinese Governor didn't seem to claim to be themselves, but the Caliph should be the Caliph. Their Tianfang Sect is ****, and the Caliph is the largest, so he needs to seal it."
"Ha...Lifa?" Su Xi became more and more confused as he heard it. "Who is he? How can he be the Khan of China? Is it too arrogant, right?"
"The Caliph is... a respectful title," Wu Haogu explained, "The leader of the Tianfang Sect and the officials of the Great Food Kingdom are called the Caliph. The territory of their Tianfang Sect is ****, the leader is the official family, and the official family is the leader. Anyone who believes in religion must listen to the Caliph."
"Then this caliph cannot enfeoff our Chinese Khan, and we don't believe in his religion." Su Hui shook his head and said, "Can this great food country want to go to war with our Great Song Dynasty?"
"There is no war," Wu Haogu smiled. "The Great Shi Kingdom and the Tianfang Sect were strong when it was prosperous, and it was the Tang Dynasty. Now it has long declined. Their caliphs have become puppets of the Turks."
"How come the Khan who dares to enthrone the Chinese khan?"
"I guess someone bought the official who bought it with money, right?" Wu Haogu thought for a while and said seriously, "This matter needs to be investigated clearly. If it is true, he should send an envoy to the Great Food Kingdom to ask their caliph to cancel the appointment of Taohua Shihan and the Governor of China."
Wu Haogu had long wanted to send an envoy to the Dashi Kingdom! Of course, he was not trying to ask Taohua Shihan or something, but wanted to obtain the results of the century-old Arab translation movement from the Philosophical University in Baghdad. This is the essence of ancient Greece, ancient A San, ancient Rome and ancient Persian scientific culture. If he could be absorbed into the Yuntai Academy, he could build a huge scientific system based on positivism and rationalism.
Although Confucianism, which has positivism and rationalism, has the ability to develop a scientific system by itself without these two tools, it is impossible for you to develop a scientific way of thinking by examining the "nature, principles, and human desires" to develop science, but absorbing the essence of Western civilization can greatly accelerate this process.
If you want to send an envoy, you must have a famous name that sounds very well, and it is best to be able to scare the Caliph at once.
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"You want to send someone to the Great Food Kingdom to question the crime!?"
The question was about the sickly Su Dongpo. He leaned against a soft couch, holding a copy of "Motology" in his hand while reading it while listening to Wu Haogu telling him about his plans. When he heard that Wu Haogu was about to send someone to Baghdad, he was shocked and was not in the mood to study geometry.
"Ask a crime?" Wu Haogu thought for a while, "I have to ask! The Caliph's title of the Chinese Governor and the Taohua Shihan was an invasion of our Song Dynasty! If they did not ask about their crimes, their Tianfang Sect would have thought that there was no one in China!"
Su Dongpo pressed his forehead and said that there were enough troubles, and now there was a more Luo Shi Caliph!
"What should they do if they ignore it or even seize the mission? Should they launch an army to attack?"
Wu Hao Ancient Road: "Then let's seal the Tianfang Temple and prohibit the Tianfang merchants from coming to the Song Dynasty to trade. By the way, we should send a navy to the Three Buddhas Kingdom!"
Su Dongpo rolled his eyelids. What's wrong with his student being addicted to war now? He really wants to fight with the Caliph!
"Teacher," Wu Haogu looked at Su Dongpo, "Don't worry, these are all used to scare the merchants of the Great Food Kingdom... The Great Food Kingdom is established by business and cannot do without sea trade. As long as our navy masters come to the three Buddhas, they will act as a stance to interrupt trade, they will admit their mistakes.
Besides, the Caliph was wrong, indeed! How could he block the Chinese Khan by talking to himself? Isn’t this a provocation?”
Su Dongpo had already heard something wrong, "The navy entered the Three Buddhas? Chongdao, what do you want?"
The navy entered the Three Buddhas, of course, to attack the Great Food Kingdom... But this was just pretending. The Great Food Kingdom was so far away, how could it be attacked? Even if it was to ask for guilt, it was just a meaning. The real purpose was to force the Caliph to hand over all the knowledge in the Wisdom Hall to "appoint" the blame.
In fact, the Caliphs now have no army, while the Seljuk Turks were busy fighting civil wars and also going to war with the Crusaders. They would not go to war with the Song Dynasty for the title of Taohua Stone Khan sold by unknown caliphs more than a hundred years ago.
Therefore, as long as the ambassador condemns righteously, the Caliph will most likely admit defeat and will not be astonished as the Three Buddhas Straits blockade.
But Wu Haogu had already wanted to get into the foot!
"Teacher, these three Buddhas are more than ten thousand miles away from the Central Plains, but they are nominally my vassal of the Song Dynasty. They have sent envoys to Kaifeng Prefecture to pay tribute many times. Do you think they have to travel thousands of miles to pay tribute?"
"Of course I admire Chinese cultural scenery!"
Chapter completed!