C26 All the People Tried to Urge Him to Change the Situation

"Divine! Divine!" To have such a rare talent appear in my Daqing, this is a blessing from the heavens, a blessing from universal population … Heavens, I, ancestor, bless you! So it turns out that the foreigners had gone through so many hardships to conquer the sea? "

"Damn it, damn it!" How can this book not be known by the early? It's also better for us to know the details of the foreigners. How can we let the foreigners bully us like this? But why was it printed before it was finished? "What about the rest of the article?"

"Shameless, shameless!" This guy called Xiao Letian was too shameless. Why did he want to print the book before finishing it? And just by looking at the quality of the printing, it could be considered cheap? What happened after that? What happened to Inca Empire after they met Spaniard … Eunuch, you damned eunuch! "

On the second day of the second month in the fourth year of Tongzhi, when the dragons were about to rise, the old and young men of Beijing would eat spring cakes and the children who were ready to be enlightened would also shout a few words: "The second day of the second month, dragons rise, dragons don't raise their heads."

However, a strange thing happened on the second day of this year. A book called "Journey to the West" suddenly appeared in every bookstore in the Northern Capital City. The author was not famous, and his name was really vulgar. Xiao Letian? Look, the literati of the Daqing Dynasty didn't write their own names, at the very least, they had to use their own words, but they had never heard of using their own names, not to mention such a rustic name.

However, this person called Xiao Letian had a very big tone. He had actually placed a wooden board in front of every bookstore in Capital City. The big words on it almost made all the scholars go crazy.

"I will be the best student of the West for twenty years. "Who can make a mistake? Five thousand taels of silvers."

What big words, this stupid book actually dared to say he was the strongest in Western Studies? Of course, at that time, there were only a few people who were willing to read these books that introduced knowledge about the West, and they did not take the Imperial examinations, so they would not be able to use the cocktail party or the poetry meet. Thus, in the Daqing at that time, there were very few people who were willing to learn Western Studies.

However, there were always exceptions. In the inland provinces, where people did not have a direct perception of Westerners's power, people would definitely not care about studying in the west. But in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin... In these cities that were forced to switch, book reader was deeply aware of the strength of the foreigners. In their hearts, they looked forward to studying in the West.

For example, the Northern Capital City. The tragic scene of burning the Yuan Ming Yuan four years ago was still fresh in everyone's mind, and people urgently hoped to get the secret of the powerful foreigners. Unfortunately, the Daqing back then did not have a single book that could systematically introduce the politics, economy, culture, history and even customs of the West.

It was not that the Western Priests did not want to interact with book reader of the Daqing, but the East and West were two completely different cultural systems, each with their own origins. That was the reason why Wei Yuan's Atlas of the Ocean Country was not valued.

To explain the thousands of years of development in the West with the values of the East would always have the feeling of being forced into a corner. This made the Daqing scholars who only knew Sage's words confused.

Xiao Letian had already considered this question. Why would he use the form of a book review novel and a story to describe the entire modern western history? His goal was to repair the most important part of the ring, to at least let the people from the Qing Dynasty understand.

However, in the epoch, the literati did not even want to use punctuation marks. Their goal was to hide their knowledge in the pavilion and focus it into their small circle. Comprehension had become an extravagant hope instead.

Xiao Letian's tone was extremely arrogant, because he himself firmly believed that the ruling class of the Daqing would never ignore this book, even more so for those scholars with a bit of foresight, they would never give up on this book. Therefore, Xiao Letian wanted to use an extremely arrogant tone to advertise himself. He wanted to use the gimmick of five thousand taels of silver to thoroughly stir up the literary spirit in the Northern Capital City.

Xiao Letian had shamelessly stolen the copyright of the famous Journalists Ciro in USA and seized the title of the book《 Journey to the West》 beforehand. In this book, Xiao Letian described himself as Chinese who was born and raised overseas, a hero who was born and bred in the Home Country, Chinese.

Five thousand silvers, exactly five thousand silvers. In the Northern Capital City, he could definitely buy a courtyard house with a garden. Don't look at how tall and noble those sour scholars were everyday, most of their pockets were even cleaner than their faces. In any case, this book was sold very cheaply, he could buy one at ten bosses.

But these literati fell into the trap, they fell into Xiao Letian's elaborate trap is unable to extricate oneself. When they turned to the first page and started reading again, they were unable to get rid of Grand Master of Western Studies's influence for the rest of their lives.

Under Xiao Letian's instructions, a Europa that Chinese had never seen before appeared, and there were even Maps s amongst them. The story started with the great adventure called Prince of Enrique, from the original Blacks tribe on the west coast of Africa, to the distant North America Indians, South America Inca Ancient Empire … The great picture of westerner conquering the world appeared in front of Reader.

It was undeniable that Xiao Letian's writing was straightforward, vulgar, and heavily colloquial. Moreover, he was not refined at all. However, this kind of writing that was like a cover story gave everyone a sense of reality.

Ever since February 2, the North Capital City's scholars had collectively lost their voices. Even the business of the eight alleys had become quiet over the past few days, and the top players could not come to a conclusion no matter how much they thought. In the end, they asked around and found out that the North Capital City had produced a strange book that made book reader in the city go crazy.

book reader was talking about the same thing in private. "Did you see it today?" Within three days, every word they were discussing had changed to "Where does this damn eunuch live?". "Let's hurry up and finish our research …"

All of the Northern Capital City's scholars were in an uproar. Everyone's mouth was full of "Journey to the West" and their mouths were full of Xiao Letian's name. There were very few people talking about mountain in the teahouse, so when a few Master Eight Flag gathered, they could discuss whether the earth was round or not.

The old masters in the eight alleys could no longer smoke anymore. Lying in the arms of the leading card, they were all thinking about how thin the waist of the western women was, how high the breasts were, and how they looked like when other people were stealing from other men.

Of course, some of the corrupt scholars were jumping around as they read through the pages of the Classics of Sage to find a reason to refute Xiao Letian. Who knows if they were really here to defend Sage's words or to give their all?

In just ten days, the Northern Capital City was completely shaken. Even the recent Tianjin was in an uproar, following the Grand Canal and the Daqing's network of relay roads, the divine book started to spread in all directions.

Until this moment, only then did people collectively discover the question, "Who is this Xiao Letian?" Where does he live? Why is it that not a single person in the entire Daqing's literati system knows about him? "

They only got a few clues from the bookseller. It turned out that this book was published by the Jin Shang's Fan Sai Manager, and if they wanted to know who Xiao Letian was, they had to find Old Manager Fan Shang first. However, when everyone rushed to the Guangde to investigate, they found out that Fan Lian had already separated from his brother a few years ago.

"Let's go, I've already found where Fan Sai Manager's house lives, it's right in Great Willow Lane, I'm going with him, we need to prepare …" The group of scholars gathered at the Guangde did not ride their horses nor sit on palanquins, and instead, they walked straight towards the Fan family.

Right now, the Great Willow Lane just so happened to be having a meeting with Xiao Letian here, and the people he met was either an outsider or Reverend Lewis, who had already left the mountain.

"Reverend Lewis, is everything alright?" Am I big enough to give you the house? I think I can build a small church, "he said.

"Thank you for your generosity. The Lord will bless you. However, what I am talking about today is not that, but the 'divine enlightenment' that you gave me, where did you get that information from? " Liu Yisi stared at Xiao Letian.

Xiao Letian smiled, "This question is really hard to answer. I can only tell you that it's divine enlightenment. You only need to know that this news is not a prank."

They were talking about an important piece of information, because Xiao Letian still remembered one thing that happened in 1865, and that was the assassination of Lin Ken.

If Xiao Letian's memories were not messed up, if the history of the USA was not changed by his Traveling Butterfly, then in November 1864, Lin Ken would be re-elected as the USA's President. However, his plan to reform and abolish slaves had already offended too many people. On April 14, 1865, in the Ford Theatre in Washington, a lunatic was about to end his life.

Xiao Letian didn't want this tragedy to repeat itself. On one hand, he admired Lin Ken and on the other hand, he was taking into account his own practical interests. If he wanted to establish a true cooperation with a foreign power, he must have a springboard.

Reverend Lewis was to be believed, not only because he was a cleric, but also because of the equal attitude he had towards Blacks Reverend Lewisson, Jr. Liu Yisi was definitely a supporter of the abolitionist cause. He belonged to the same faction as Lin Ken, and the information given to him should be credible.

Liu Yisi pondered for a while, "Right now there are already a small number of telegraph in the east and west of USA sending out a few, plus the Cross is choosing the fastest scissor boat, I think it is still possible to send the information over at the time you said. But, Shaw... Is it really good to gamble like this? "

Liu Yisi seemed to be in a dilemma, and thought for a long while before replying, "If this is a fake intelligence report, then I and Hua Ruhan and Minister will become the laughingstock of the political world in USA. Frankly speaking, Minister is not a kind person. I think he will definitely take revenge on you. I hope you can be mentally prepared … "

Xiao Letian smiled bitterly as he thought to himself that Liu Yisi was not bad at all. It was already a sign of loyalty to be able to inform him in advance. But he did not know Xiao Letian's difficulties. He had already clearly seen this Daqing from history. His own career was not very obvious at the start, but once the power grew, Manchu would definitely not reason with Xiao Letian and would definitely eliminate him at the first possible moment.

"You don't understand my difficulties. The danger I face is much greater than you can imagine. In my eyes, the threat of Hua Ruohan is incomparable to the danger I face … Forget it, you should help me think it over. If this matter is true, will USA agree to the conditions that I hope for? "

Xiao Letian's question put Liu Yisi in a difficult position. Just as he was frowning and pondering, a commotion suddenly came from the direction of the door.

"We want to see Mr. Xiao. How dare a little gatekeeper like you block me? Get out of the way …"

"Don't think that I'm lying, I just came from the Guangde. Fan Lian only has this house right now, where else can he go?"

"Mr. Xiao, come out, we want to see Mr. Xiao …"

Manager Fan only entered three of his courtyard, and it was one of the smaller ones. study could clearly hear the commotion outside the main gate. At first, these passionate scholars were just buzzing around like fly, but before long, they heard a roar from outside.

"Update... Update... "Update..." At that moment, they shouted out the thoughts of the entire Capital City's book reader.