Wanli Xinming

Chapter 299 Miracles
"Your Excellency, the Jeronimos Church was built by His Majesty Don Manuel to commemorate Da Gama's arrival in India. Look at those spires, aren't they beautiful?"

On the eighth day of September in the 12th year of the Wanli calendar, and on October 1584th of 10 in the Julian calendar, Xu Guangqi, accompanied by the Marquis of Denia, visited the places of interest in Lisbon.Jeronimos, a church that has been built for more than 11 years, is of course the first choice, because it is the most affordable building in Lisbon except for the Sintra Palace.

All exterior parts of the church are made of polished white marble, gothic spires, stained glass windows and solemn decorations, which perfectly combine luxury, sophistication and adventurous spirit, making this church highlight a strong Powerful impact.

Xu Guangqi sighed to Luo Mingjian: "Your Majesty once said, 'Architecture is frozen music', this church is really like a solemn 'symphony'." After speaking, he also gave Marquis Denia a thumbs up, The members of the mission beside him also nodded in agreement.

The Marquis of Denia could definitely see that the praises from Xu Guangqi and the Chinese mission came from the bottom of his heart.Facing Earl Siris' praise, he seemed to have returned with excitement.After all, from less than two days of contact, he already doesn't know how to win respect.

No matter the cost of food and clothing, or the philosophy of literature and history, the communication process with the Seris envoys has been hitting the self-confidence of the Marquis of Denia, making him think that the level of civilization of Europa is completely incomparable to Seris.

Therefore, after Xu Guangqi's first compliment from the bottom of his heart, the Marquis of Denia was like a young man who was just beginning to love.

Immediately he asked, "What is 'harmonious harmony'?" It turned out that Xu Guangqi did not find the right word when he said the word "symphony" in Latin - symphony was born in the seventeenth century and matured in the eighteenth century. .Therefore, he used the Latin word "harmonious harmony".

Luo Mingjian smiled and said in Latin: "The count means 'together'. This is Seris' elegant music, which requires a large number of instruments to play together. Your Excellency, if you have heard the wonderful music yourself, you will definitely know it. Think of it as the language of God."

"By the way, one of Sirius's princes used mathematics to prove the twelve equal temperament. I also met him in Beijing. He was a great mathematician and musician."

"Again, His Majesty Emperor Sirius has asked the court musicians to learn staves, and they are using staves to record and reproduce music from ancient times."

The Marquis of Denia first interrupted: "Your Excellency, if you look down on this church from the air, all the buildings will form a Latin cross. You can see it from the bell tower, it's beautiful!"

Immediately, he stared at Luo Mingjian with brown eyes, as if judging whether he became a "Sai Biao".

After all, judging from the situation described in the numerous letters from the members of the mission, they have been almost completely conquered by the civilization of Seris - that description is more exaggerated than "One Thousand and One Nights", and the details are terrifying. So full that it is impossible for the Europas to believe it.

According to yesterday's agreement, Xu Guangqi was going to give a speech proving the heliocentric theory at the Sintra Palace, but the Marquis of Denia thought the time was too hasty, so the speech was scheduled for the day after tomorrow so that scholars around Lisbon could get the news. Participate in this exchange.

This time the itinerary was disrupted - the Chinese mission originally planned to depart from Lisbon tomorrow to visit Felipe II in Madrid and stay in Madrid for about seven days.The mission would then travel across Spain to Valencia, where it would board the ship again until Rome.

But the Marquis of Denia was very determined to keep the Chinese embassy to stay for two more days so that they could fulfill the friendship of the landlords.In desperation, Xu Guangqi discussed with Luo Mingjian.Luo Mingjian was absolutely unavoidable, so he sent a priest from the Holy See to receive the mission to Madrid to inform the mission of the latest changes in the itinerary.

On September 12th of the 500th year of Wanli, the authorized Marquis of Denia opened the gate of the Sintra Palace and arranged the venue for Xu Guangqi's speech in the King's Hall.This Sintra Palace was originally the royal palace of Portugal, and now it is the residence of Felipe II. Its king hall is spacious and bright, and can accommodate more than [-] people-invitations are hard to come by.

Because of the arrival of the Chinese embassy, ​​a large number of top scholars and noble nobles from the entire southern Europa gathered in Lisbon. These people filled the houses of the nobles in Lisbon, and some scholars who had no way had to live in hotels. Point sin.

But everything was worth it. When they entered the King's Hall of Sintra Palace, they were attracted by the podium full of Seris style.I saw a wooden podium on the north side of the King's Hall, with a simple table and a chair on it - all the Seris furniture removed from the ship.

A cup of tea on the table, a stick of Zen incense, coupled with the simple style of Ming-style furniture, renders the unique ethereal artistic conception of the East to the extreme.In particular, the six-fan Su embroidered screen behind the chair, on which the plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemums are slightly freehand and sparse, immediately caught the audience's attention.

This screen was brought by the embassy thousands of miles to prepare for gift-giving. Now, it was unpacked for Xu Guangqi's lectures and used first. Lectures are very popular in Daming Private School, and this pomp is a regular configuration.

But the Europa people who were present had never seen such a tone. They were shocked by the "Oriental Minimalism" style of the [-]th century, and immediately felt that their home's porcelain paintings full of flowers, birds, fish and insects and luxurious and gorgeous decorations were a grade lower.

When they left Daming, the imperial court and the embassy thought that they would have academic exchanges with Europa, but they never imagined that they would come up with a form of lectures, so no one thought of bringing a statue of a saint.No way, Wang Jiaping had no choice but to draw a picture - fortunately there was a large rice paper on board, otherwise there would be nowhere to find it in Lisbon.

It was definitely too late for the framing, and there was no craftsman who did it.Ma Jinglun's suggestion was adopted - take out a framed painting, smear the portrait of Sage Kong with a little paste and stick it on the back of the scroll, plus a banner of the most holy teacher, even if it is even live.

After the nobles and scholars arrived, they could not help but tell each other all kinds of gossip about the Seris mission, and there was a lot of noise in the king's hall.In order to give everyone a place to sit, the Marquis of Denia was ingenious and moved the benches in the church to the King's Hall - if you are dissatisfied with Lisbon, you may not be able to collect [-] high-grade wooden chairs of similar styles.

At this time, Europe was very particular about seat order, and it might easily lead to a duel.As the boss of Lisbon, the Marquis of Denia is exhausting and aching for the nobles to cut off their lawsuits. This job is really hard to do without years of training in aristocratic lineages and family crests.

After finally waiting for everyone to sit down, the Marquis of Denia delivered a speech. After maintaining the order, Xu Guangqi, the pig's feet today, was invited.

As soon as Xu Guangqi appeared on the stage, everyone saw that he was not wearing the earl's costume, and his appearance changed completely - wearing a square scarf on his head, a jade-colored slanted lapel with wide sleeves and straight sleeves, and a soap-edge straight-fronted crane cloak. High air.

Countess Anna Flecka said to Tycho who was beside her: "Oh, I think this body is too beautiful, you know, Brahe, the Seris don't need to adorn themselves with jewels and embroidery-because the most precious jewels are Not as noble as their demeanor."

Tycho Brahe: "."

For better teaching effect, Xu Guangqi made his opening remarks in Latin.He first introduced the most holy teacher on the hanging statue, showing his status in China, and then gave a high-level overview of Confucianism with "benevolence" as the core.

The aristocrats and humanities scholars who first came into contact with Confucian culture were fascinated, but Xu Guangqi couldn't talk too much today - this is not the theme.After returning to the theme with the short story of "Two Children Debating the Sun", Xu Guang inspired the servants of the Marquis' family to close the curtains.

As the King's Hall fell into darkness, another servant moved the square box with metal cylinders to the side of the podium, and then lowered a white curtain over the screen.

The nobles and scholars in the dimness did not know why, and they did not make loud noises out of politeness, but it was inevitable that they would whisper to each other, and there was a humming sound in the King's Hall.

Xu Guangqi said: "In order to better demonstrate the heliocentric theory, I brought the machine I used in my university lectures, please wait a moment."

As his voice fell, Xu Guangqi's assistant twisted the gear and turned on the light source of the whale oil lamp inside the square box.Converged by the curved reflector, a snow-white beam of light immediately shot out from the cylinder equipped with the convex lens group and hit the white curtain.

The assistant slightly adjusted the advance and retreat of the cylinder, and the model of the solar system with the five planets rushed directly into the eyes of all Europas!

70 years earlier than the original time and space history, the appearance of the slide projector, whether in the Imperial University of Ming Dynasty or in the King's Hall of the Sintra Palace, is a huge impact on human understanding!
In fact, the principle of the slide projector is extremely simple, and it is not difficult to manufacture at this time.Later in 1654, when Kircher, a German Jewish scholar, invented this thing, he didn't use anything sophisticated at all - the light source inside was still candles.

Zhu Yijun loved to use PPT when reporting his work before crossing the road, and he also played with slide projectors when he was studying in middle school.He talked about his needs and ideas, and it was easy for the Ming craftsmen who broke through the manufacture of glass and lenses to invent this thing.

But to everyone in the King's Hall, Xu Guangqi was simply casting magic—one counts as one, and none of the people present didn't cry out in surprise.Marquis Denia didn't expect Xu Guangqi to let him arrange someone to block the curtains to play so much, and shouted "God!"
Luo Mingjian, who was sitting in the middle of the front row, whispered to Perez, the special envoy of the king beside him: "This is not magic. In fact, the principle is very simple. After the earl finishes speaking, I will demonstrate it to you."

Perez said with a wry smile: "I don't think he has to prove anything. People who can perform miracles, will anyone not believe what they say?"

(End of this chapter)