Tomorrow

Chapters Four and Five Attila and Genghis Khan

The money that originally belonged to Little Descartes belonged to the Inquisition after his maternal grandfather, Mr. Descartes, entered the Inquisition.

In the past year, Mr. Descartes has suffered like hell.

Before entering the Inquisition, Descartes had been imprisoned in the Bastille.

This is a Bastille that was built two hundred and seventy years ago. The architectural style is a castle, and it was used to fight the British.

And this fortress has witnessed countless Yongxiong figures, among which the most famous is the French Joan of Arc.

This fortress witnessed Joan of Arc being sentenced to fire by the Inquisition controlled by the British for heresy and witch crimes, and it also witnessed the rectification of her name by the French Inquisition.

No matter what you did, in the end, the woman Joan was burned alive, near the Bastille.

With the cessation of the Anglo-French War and the expansion of the city of Paris, the Bastille became an urban building and lost its military function.

This military facility, covering an area of ​​four acres and eight towers, is surrounded by deep trenches and suspension bridges.

Its walls are very thick, it is still the commanding height of Paris, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Therefore, Qiao Yong deliberately spent sixty thousand silver dollars to buy this place, divided into four towers and gave it to the cardinal of the French diocese to imprison important prisoners.

When Mr. Descartes was imprisoned in the Bastille, his life was very generous. He could drink fresh milk and bread every day. Every ten days, he could see his beloved grandson, little Descartes, and Granddaughter Emily.

Even in some special times, he could even continue to discuss the obscure mathematical problems with the little Descartes who stayed with him in the Bastille.

Mr. Descartes is a strong-willed man.

In the face of the various temptations of the Inquisition, he still maintained his integrity, insisting that the new discipline is a progressive discipline and the future of mankind, and insisted not to bow to the Inquisition.

If it weren’t for the two ties between Descartes and Emily outside the prison, Mr. Descartes even thought that his life in jail would not be a bad thing, and that he would allow more people to be inspired by him and stand up. The chest attacked the barbaric and ignorant Inquisition.

In his view, the Inquisition is the cancer of the world. If this cancer cannot be removed as soon as possible, the new discipline will not have the soil for survival.

Qiao Yong still admired Mr. Descartes' morality very much. He could even see the shadows of the ancient sages of Ming Dynasty from Mr. Descartes' body. Perhaps this is a common place for mankind.

When a person's vision becomes higher and farther, he turns a blind eye to the disaster in front of him.

In this Bastille, Mr. Descartes completed the first long-term thinking in his life, and through this long-term thinking, he once again established the philosophical proposition he had put forward several years ago-I think, therefore I in!

At the same time, he believes that humans must have a fixed reference when thinking about problems, otherwise it will be biased and incomplete. He often said: When we dream, we think we are in a real world, but In fact, this is just an illusion.

This trend of thought is similar to that of Zhuang Zhou's Mengdie.

He likes to think about problems in a comparative way, which constitutes a new insight in the philosophical system-dualism.

He believes that since there is a God, there must be a devil, there must be a new life if there is death, and there must be a bad if there is good... This kind of argument is actually very extreme, and there is no dialectical way of looking at the world.

Similarly, I have not learned to use the Confucian doctrine of the golden mean to explain some gray areas.

For this reason, there is a great antagonism in his character.

He claims to be a devout Roman Catholic, and the purpose of "meditation" is to maintain the Christian faith.

But in his own real performance, Descartes was accused of preaching secret deism and atheism.

His best friend Blaise Pascal said: "I can't forgive Descartes; he wants to leave God alone in all of his philosophy.

However, he couldn't ask God to touch it lightly in order to make the world move. Other than that, he didn't need God anymore. "

The envoys of the Ming Empire such as Qiao Yong and Zhang Liang believe that Mr. Descartes is at the most important moment in his life-epiphany!

After the epiphany passed, it was the highlight moment when he became a saint.

Just like Mr. Wang Yangming of Daming was practicing Qi in the military camp, he suddenly let out a long roar, the sound shook ten miles...

Mr. Descartes thought that when he arrived in Rome, he was on the stake, but he did not expect that he was admitted to the Inquisition in Rome, and the pope who ordered him to come to Rome to be sentenced suddenly died.

Then, on a sunny morning, he left the cell and saw his grandson and granddaughter who had been waiting for him for a long time.

When leaving, Mr. Descartes did not deliberately thank Pope Alexander VII.

He simply believes that Alexander VII, who has received the most advanced education in the world, is definitely a person with a broad vision. There is no need to thank him. On the contrary, the pope should thank him-Descartes is still alive.

He thinks that his head no longer belongs to him, it should belong to all of France, and even all of mankind...

Although the prison did not harm him, his weak body still cannot allow him to leave Rome and return to Paris immediately. Therefore, he chose to live in sunny Rome and fix it here for a period of time. By the way, let people go to the Pope to claim back the flute. Carl and Emily’s fortune.

In two years, Little Descartes has grown into a handsome boy, and Little Emily has grown a lot taller, but Mr. Descartes’s most proud part is that Little Descartes seems to have inherited his appearance. He just entered the boyhood. After the period, little Descartes had some freckles on his face, which was very similar to his youth.

It's just that the hair colors of the two of them are different. Mr. Descartes's hair is black, while the hairs of Little Descartes and Emily are golden.

Both the maid and the footman stayed in Paris, France, so the only people who can take care of Mr. Descartes are little Descartes and Emily.

After a long night, Mr. Descartes woke up from his deep sleep. After opening his eyes, he immediately thanked God for allowing him to live another day.

However, after Emily was waiting to wash, Mr. Descartes saw the rich breakfast on the table.

Especially the two roasted golden turtledoves made him even more happy.

But when the old gentleman put the turtledove meat he thought into his mouth, little Descartes said: "This is pigeon meat."

Mr. Descartes laughed immediately, and pointed to little Descartes breathlessly, "Those pigeons on the square?"

Little Descartes didn't smile, and said coldly: "The Pope doesn't need those pigeons."

"This is not the pope's fault, the last pope is at fault."

Little Descartes picked up a piece of pigeon meat with a fork and said, "I also ate the pigeon of the previous pope."

Mr. Descartes laughed and said, "This should make sense."

After breakfast, the two Descartes began to go for a walk. This was requested by Little Descartes. He believed that this would allow his grandfather to live longer.

Mr. Descartes saw the book in the hands of little Descartes and frowned, "Are you interested in the East?"

Little Descartes said: "Yes, grandfather, I heard that there is still a powerful, prosperous, and civilized country in the far east. I really want to visit it there."

Mr. Scale nodded and said: "From the mouths of those businessmen and missionaries, I also know some rumors about the East. I heard that there are also many great people in the East.

If you like, I can make an appointment with Father Tang Ruowang for you. He has just returned to Rome from the far east, and I heard that he has been teaching for many years at the most famous university in the east, Yushan Academy. I think from his mouth, he should Can get the most detailed and accurate information about that empire in the east. "

"Is it really possible? I mean, can you take me when you go to see Father Tang Ruowang?"

Mr. Descartes squeezed his grandson's immature face and smiled and said: "We have made an appointment in the evening two days from now. At that time, there will be a large group of people, all the big people you mentioned.

At that time, remember to take out your favorite tea and entertain them with little Emily’s biscuits. "

While their grandparents were talking about Tang Ruowang, in the Apostolic Palace, Alexander VII was also summoning Father Tang Ruowang.

Alexander VII, who was leaning on a high-backed chair, did not like this neat and overly neat preacher. Although these preachers were the most indispensable people in the Vatican, he did not have a good view of Tang Ruowang, especially in his When infinitely exaggerating the Eastern Empire.

"My Majesty, the area of ​​the Lantian Empire has surpassed all of Europe. They have already occupied the most fertile land on the Asian continent. Their army is extremely powerful, their courtiers are incomparably smart, and their emperors are wise. fear."

Alexander VII lazily looked at Tang Ruowang, who was standing below generously speaking, and did not stop him from continuing to speak. After all, there were still many cardinals present.

It is not the pope himself who really manages the church, but these cardinals.

These cardinals have fallen into the introduction of Tang Ruowang.

They have no way to imagine what an empire larger than the whole of Europe looks like, what a country with a population of nearly 200 million, what a country that can eat and wear even the common people. .

"Your Majesty, I don't believe that there will be such a country in the world. If there is, their army should have come to Europe. After all, from the description of Father Tang Ruowang, their army is very strong, their fleet is very strong, and they Country is very rich."

A cardinal did not wait for Father Tang Ruowang to finish speaking, so he roughly interrupted Tang Ruowang's report.

Another old archbishop in red said: "They have been here twice."

The Swedish Cardinal who refuted Tang Ruowang frowned and said, "Why don't I remember?"

The old cardinal sighed and said, "It looks like you have forgotten "Attila" and "Genghis Khan"."

The cardinal of the Swedish diocese immediately asked Tang Ruowang: "Is it them?"

Tang Ruowang shook his head and said: "Attila was called the "Hun" in the Ming Dynasty. It was driven to Europe by the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty~www.wuxiahere.com~ Genghis Khan was a dynasty before the Ming Dynasty. The end of the dynasty.

Your Majesty, the current Ming Dynasty is far stronger than "Attila" and more ferocious than "Genghis Khan".

I have seen their army with my own eyes. It is a well-disciplined, well-equipped, and invincible army. Among them, the strength of their army cannot be resisted by our European dynasties.

Your Majesty, if you don’t call for Europe to end the war like internal friction and reunify with the outside world, I think those who call themselves Han will come to Europe soon. "

The cardinal of the British diocese said in a low voice: "They have come, but they are messengers and merchants. The British marine titans, Earl Nelson, has already confronted the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and ended in our disastrous defeat.

At the same time, Earl Nelson also introduced the war in detail in the letter. In that war, all the elite regiments of the British Empire were killed on a small island..."

Chapter One

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