What happened to the falling out? What kind of reaction is this? Look at the weird expressions of the third and fourth princes, who almost popped their eyes out. That's the right reaction, right? Eunuch Liang, what's with your expression of wanting to agree with him? And you're saying that the emperor, a crazy admirer of Taizu, also thinks so
Zhang Shou only felt a faint sadness in his heart. He wanted to be reprimanded for this, so that people would have less expectations of him. After all, he was too far away from the turbulent era of Emperor Taizu. Unless he was immortal or traveled through time again, there was no chance for them to meet. He actually had no interest in reading this annoying note.
Therefore, after a long while, he smiled bitterly and said, "I thought you would be furious and scold me, Eunuch Liang!"
"When I first proposed this view to the emperor, he was so angry that he almost skinned me alive." Speaking of the past, Liang Jiucheng still looked very calm, as if it was not him who almost lost his head at that time. Seeing that the Crown Prince, who was praised by everyone for his calmness and stability, also dragged the Fourth Prince, and the two brothers looked at him curiously, he coughed lightly.
"I can't say I understand much about the small country that uses this kind of writing. Moreover, because we are too far away and we don't speak the same language, I can't say I know much about their language. The West is too far away, the land route is difficult, and the sea route is dangerous. Even if the fleet occasionally brings a few people from their side, nine out of ten don't understand the writing. Those who do understand the writing are often not used to the life in our dynasty, and their lives are short."
"At the most important time, the emperors such as Gaozong and Sejong were no longer so enthusiastic about the old things of Emperor Taizu. Even Emperor Yingzong was no exception. Most of the royal ships only sailed in Goryeo, Japan and the Southeast Asian countries. It was not until the late emperor and the emperor that the old system was gradually restored. So the samples were not enough. It was only when I compared it with a book about that small Western country that I felt that Emperor Taizu did not learn well."
Zhang Shou watched as the man turned around and headed for a nearby bookshelf. A moment later, he returned with a book. He almost couldn't hold back his expression after glancing at the cover. It was a Bible... a Bible!
Thinking about the distant West, and the fact that it was the Dark Ages before, the most easily accessible book was indeed the Bible. He could only suppress the weirdness in his heart and secretly calculate how likely it was that Eunuch Liang Jiucheng was just being modest.
Could it be that the fleet had already kidnapped a missionary who knew English from the west, and that the eunuchs in the palace who had a very strong learning ability had already translated the corresponding text? Although Britain was considered a remote area in Europe at that time, and the status of English was far inferior to Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, etc., this was not necessarily impossible!
"I painstakingly studied the words and sentences in this book, and compared them with many words and sentences in Taizu's handwritten notes. In ten years, I sorted out dozens of boxes of notes. Finally, I confirmed that the words used in it are very similar to some of the words used by Emperor Taizu, but the sentence structure is very strange. This is also because the people brought back from that small country died too young and could not learn our language well..."
Hearing Liang Jiucheng talking seriously about the differences in vocabulary and sentence structure... he almost mentioned the differences in tenses - after all, it is impossible for someone who has never actually come into contact with Indo-European languages to go so deep - Zhang Shou was still overwhelmed with emotions, and felt as if he had returned to the time when he first started learning English in advance and was completely in the dark.