An Dehai blinked his eyes and felt a little impressed by Fuhui's godson, his new apprentice. The Empress Dowager wanted a picture of the universe, but why didn't she think of bringing the globe that foreigners could turn? You should know that foreigners' things are much more accurate and intuitive than the Qing Dynasty.

Damn, I am really a pig-smart, and I am less and less able to serve. After cursing in my heart, An Dehai quickly said with a smile on his face, "Report to the Empress Dowager, when I was moving the Universe Picture, I suddenly thought that a foreigner had paid a tribute to a globe. I thought it was collected in the gold utensil room. The slave was the decision without authorization, so please don't blame me..."

The eunuch group had no face at all. An Dehai, the credit for Ermao, took it for himself in a light sentence. However, Ermao, who had ideals, cared about this. He smiled embarrassedly and retreated behind Eunuch An without saying anything.

It seemed that it was the first time Ci'an met Ermao. After thinking carefully, he asked, "Your name is Ermao? I heard that you are Fuhui's godson?" When Ermao heard the question from the Empress Dowager of the East Palace, he quickly knelt down on the ground. "Master Jixiang, the slave is Ermao, the godson of Fucha's aunt Fuhui..."

"Well, it's a smart child. An Dehai, you have found a good apprentice!"

"Thank you, Master, for your praise. Ermao, this kid, dare not say anything else. He is diligent and clever, but he has the best one..."

Ermao's sudden appearance made the little emperor Tongzhi also interested. The nine-year-old Emperor Tongzhi and the fourteen-year-old Ermao naturally felt a sense of intimacy. The so-called mature and steady eunuchs selected by Cixi, such as Zhou Daoying and others.

However, children are naturally close to their peers, and they are always with a group of adults and are inevitably depressed. However, in the Forbidden City, young eunuchs are at the bottom of the food chain. They are still at the age of learning and have no chance to get in touch with the emperor at all. Adult eunuchs cannot give them this opportunity, so Emperor Tongzhi's childhood was very lonely.

It was precisely because of this loneliness that he looked at Ermao for a long time and even nodded and said, "Fuhui should be my cousin by seniority? Didn't you hear that she is going to marry Xiao Letian? You little eunuch, you have to follow your surname Xiao, but it's better that Xiao Letian is an overseas orphan. There must be a lot of fun around you. You will be blessed if you go..."

Huh, after talking for a long time, I still wanted to play, but Cixi frowned. "Your Majesty, you should learn more government affairs and don't always worry about playing. Sooner or later, you will be in charge of the government, why are you still like a child?"

Emperor Tongzhi was afraid of his mother's nagging and quickly walked to the globe by order. At this time, the velvet covered with the globe had been taken off, and the gilded gem-inlaid globe was presented to everyone.

When the round globe appeared in front of everyone, this was the first time that many people saw such things. The hall exclaimed, "Oh, it's really a ball? Is it said that the books written by Xiao Letian are all right? The earth is actually round, but why is it still crooked?"

The eunuchs such as An Dehai could kill people with all their eyes. These little guys who forgot the rules turned around and stripped them up and hanged them up. It was too unruly. Fortunately, the Queen Mother and the Emperor were all on the globe, and they forgot the rudeness of their servants for a while.

The earth is round. Although ordinary people do not accept this concept, the top leaders of the empire have to accept it. The Westerners beat him twice in a row. If they still shrank and refused to recognize these basic knowledge, they would not be far from the destruction of the country.

But admitting is to admitting, Kangxi has long known that the earth is a ball, but who will make a big publicity? Sometimes, if you admit a new thing, you will admit more, and these new ideas are harmful to the rule of the empire. Update it as soon as possible.

Therefore, the ultimate fate of things like globe in the Forbidden City is to be sealed in the warehouse. If he hadn't wanted to know Ryukyu Kingdom this time, he would probably have no chance to see the light of the sky again.

Several leaders of the empire circled around the half-man-high globe, among which Emperor Tongzhi looked carefully and asked questions constantly.

"It's round, it's really round. Mr. Xiao is right. The earth is just a ball, but why didn't the people below fall? This is the Qing Dynasty and this is Tianzhu, where is this?" It's hard to believe that this is the first time that the nine-year-old Emperor Tongzhi saw the globe.

The Japanese Liu Yi could explain to the little emperor at first, but after the emperor asked more and more, Yi could not answer.

"Uncle Emperor, why is this globe crooked? Is it bad for tribute? Are the foreigners humiliating our Qing Dynasty?" Tongzhi's question made the Japanese Liuzhi scratch their heads and couldn't tell a reason. "No way? No matter how bad the foreigners are, they will not bring defective products, right? This is not a valuable thing..."

Just when Emperor Tongzhi looked regretful because he couldn't get the answer, a voice suddenly came from the eunuch group, "Your Majesty... I heard that Ermao had studied Western learning for a few days at Master Qing San's house, maybe he knew the answer!" The person who spoke was Li Lianying, the eunuch who had collected nearly 200,000 taels of silver from Fuhui in pieces, finally started to work. Updated at the first time

"Oh? Come on, tell me..." Emperor Tongzhi quickly waved to Ermao, and at this time Ermao's excited legs were a little floating. Ermao knelt on the edge of the globe with a jealous gaze and said tremblingly.

"Your Majesty... This is called the inclination of the earth. The earth is indeed not positive!"

With a bang, everyone in the hall was shocked. Ermao was so brave that he actually said that the earth was not right, which was too rebellious. An Dehai wanted to get angry on the spot, but when he saw that the emperor had no intention of being angry at all, he swallowed the words.

At this time, Ermao also took the initiative to "Your Majesty, the so-called tilt of the earth is just relative to the sun... The earth seems to be still, but it is actually rotating constantly. It is precisely because of the rotation that there are day and night... and the effect of inclination is to give the earth all year round..."

"Your Majesty, you can imagine that if the slave's fist is the sun and the earth, just turn around like this... By the way, your Majesty is so smart. Our Qing Dynasty is daytime, the United States is night... In winter, it is because the sunlight shines on the ground less, so there is not enough heat..."

Ermao was not old at all, so he and the nine-year-old Emperor Tongzhi were able to communicate effectively. The heliocentric theory was so easy to understand under his explanation. Please come to more and faster chapters.

Ermao is not the same now. Due to his improvement in status, he doesn't have to do anything on weekdays. He has enough time to read books and learn Western learning. In addition, Fuhui recognized him as his godson, so he would go to see this godmother every holiday. Under Xiao Letian's arrangement, there were always some masters teaching Ermao some new knowledge, and even Ermao could have a simple conversation in English.

All preparations are valuable. When the opportunity came, Ermao immediately gained the favor of Emperor Tongzhi with these brand new knowledge. The two children actually played together. Natural science is indeed more interesting than the Four Books and Five Classics.

The two empress dowagers, princes and the eunuchs were all stunned, especially Empress Dowager Cixi. He had never seen his son be so studious. Although he was learning the Western learning she hated now, his mother didn't like this kind of focus.

Ci'an and the Japanese looked at each other, and everyone could see the incredible things in each other's sight. But Ermao gave everyone much more surprises.

"Ermao, where did you learn these things?"

"Your Majesty, I go to my godmother's house every time I take a vacation. My godmother is very kind to me. Sometimes she teaches me personally, sometimes she asks me to teach me, and I read some books myself..."

"Okay, okay, then I'll ask you, what is the relationship between Ryukyu and Japan and our Qing Dynasty? Do you know this..."

Emperor Tongzhi was a joke, but Ermao's face turned pale, but in the end the insistence in Ermao's heart allowed him to overcome his fear. Eunuchs's political discussion is a death sentence, everyone knows this, but don't you have to bet in life? If God is blessed to pass this pass safely, his status in the Forbidden City will rise. Updated at the first time

For the sake of my benefactor's career, I don't want this life today.

"Report to Your Majesty, if you want to understand the story of Ryukyu, you must first tell the history of Japan. I wonder if Your Majesty knows whether the dynasty campaign was in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty? At that time, Japan had just ended a century of chaotic civil war. Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the world. For more land, they turned their attention overseas..."

Nimao really took the initiative. If a person is not afraid of death, is he still afraid of speaking? He talked from Toyotomi Hideyoshi to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and from Japan's political situation to Japan's barrenness. Why did the Shimazu family secretly control the Ryukyu royal family? How did the right to kamyoji trade affect the economic layout of East Asia? He even understood the reforms that are very fierce in Japan now.

Originally, everyone in the hall looked at Ryukyu in a dark way, and even Lifanyuan couldn't understand something, it actually said in the mouth of the fourteen-year-old eunuch. The atmosphere in the Yangxin Palace became more and more serious and strange. An Dehai was too familiar with this taste, and he had practiced throughout his life and was almost subconsciously sensitive to this taste.

"I'm going to kill someone, but today I'm going to die. I can't deceive anyone. Today Ermao is dead!" An Dehai's palm was sweating. He was organizing language in his stomach. He must find a way to break up with this brat later.

The other eunuchs also smelled the smell, looking at the nose one by one, and not saying a word about the nose one by one. Only Li Lianying looked at Ermao with relief, nodded in her heart and said, "Good boy, I really dare to sacrifice my life to gain wealth. I am worthy of Xiao Letian's cultivation of you."

Ermao was originally an extremely smart child. The battle before entering the palace gave him a bit of maturity that was inconsistent with his age. Coupled with Xiao Letian's careful cultivation, this child's knowledge was far beyond ordinary people. In this era when Manchu literati closed their eyes and became ostrich, a child could already discuss the world by relying on his knowledge for several months. It can be seen that the literati indifference to the outside world in the late Qing Dynasty.

"I think this matter will definitely be resolved peacefully in the end, because the Shimazu family is unwilling to make a big deal, and Ryukyu is not willing to make a big deal, and Ryukyu is a small country, so I dare not make a big deal. As for what Xiao Letian made, the Ryukyu prime minister is like a farce. The gentleman would not be the prime minister of a small Ryukyu country. It is not enough for a county. Even if the Ryukyu King gives him it, it is just a country village..."

"I think Mr. Xiao will definitely resign before returning to China. His nominal status as prime minister is at best just a nice time during negotiations... Of course, the above are all guesses by the slave, so I'd better ask the Holy Prison!"

Quiet, as quiet as death, you can hear a needle falling from the Palace of Peaceful Heart. After a long time, Cixi's cold voice came from the imperial throne, "Talent! I really didn't realize that there are such powerful talents hidden in this Forbidden City. So, Xiao Letian is your master?"

Listening to Cixi's uneven and uneven voice, almost all the eunuchs and palace maids were so scared that their feet were weak. There was even a weak palace maid who actually felt dizzy and fell to the ground.

"Drag out!" Cixi roared angrily, and her tone changed. An Dehai rushed up in person, grabbed Ermao's arm and pulled out, "Little bastard, you are so upset, the eunuch dares to discuss politics, you are alive..." After saying that, he dragged out desperately, pinching Ermao's skin and twisting it into the dead.

"Baoshi, I said to drag that bitch out. The Ai family hasn't finished asking, why are you dragging him?" Cixi cursed at An Dehai in anger. Today was really unhappy. Why can't even an old slave be obedient?
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