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Chapter 10 - A White Book

Shi Dakai had never been so shocked in his life before, not even when he had attacked Tianjing City back then. The few thin pages of paper in his hands were actually like a heavy burden that weighed down on him like a thousand gold coins. He was unable to lift them up.

He never thought that the book Xiao Letian wanted to write would actually be … To think that it would be like this … It was so plain that Shi Dakai couldn't bear to look at it directly.

"In the west, in the southwest of Europa Continent, there was a weak country called the Portugal. There was a prince named Prince Enrique who first set sail with a fleet. He then discovered the island of Santos on the Madre Islands, and the following year, Madeira Island was discovered. "After that, the fleet he sent discovered the various islands in the Azores, thus opening up the European The Age of Great Navigation …"

The article that Xiao Letian had written had already exceeded the limits of what Shi Dakai could imagine. There were no ancient characters, no poems, and no neat lines. There was only straightforwardness, just like a big fellow at the pier telling you stories overseas.

But Shi Dakai knew that what he saw wasn't a legend, but a true history. Military Advisor Xiao Letian had already guaranteed this countless of times, the story here might be a little wrong on some numbers, but it was definitely true.

More importantly, how could he hold up such a simple essay like this? He had to read it all in one go before he felt satisfied.

The article begins with Yongle's sixteen years of adventure, when the European desire for Oriental porcelain, spices, and silk was vividly portrayed.

The article begins to show a completely different western world to the Chinese with the structure of Zhang Hui's novel. Before the discovery of geography, Europe was a terrifying Middle Ages, with poor people and very poor education. At that time, China was regarded by Europeans as a land of gold.

Following Xiao Letian's brush, it was as if Shi Dakai had experienced a journey through time and space. He knew that while Prince Enrique was desperately searching for the west coast of Africa, the Great Ming Dynasty's fleet was already heading towards the east coast of Africa. At that time, China's navigational technology was far more advanced than that of the West.

When the Portuguese's sailing career reached its peak, the Spaniard began to rise. In the first five years of the Ming dynasty, in the year 1492 of the Western calendar, Columbus, an Italian, under the support of the Spaniard, began exploring the Western Atlantic Ocean and finally discovered the New World, which is now the United States.

Then came Magellan's worldwide adventure, which began fourteen years ago in the Righteous Realm. It was Magellan's effort that the Europeans finally understood that the earth was indeed a sphere, and that the sea was much larger than the land.

In these stories, Xiao Letian did not only use these stories to preach. In the article, he even interweaved the grudges and disputes between different countries in Europe, and there were even some wild stories and anecdotes. The political, economic and cultural aspects of Europe at that time were introduced in detail.

Each chapter was made up of several stories, and at the end of each chapter, Xiao Letian would leave a burden. He would definitely not decipher the chapter before the next one. There were a few times when Shi Dakai saw the words' If you want to know what happened afterwards, please resolve it in the next moment ', he was so angry that he slammed the table and opened his eyes. He wanted nothing more than to tear off Xiao Letian's head and see the later part of the story ahead of time.

However, every time he saw Xiao Letian writing by the window, he would no longer be able to say anything.

What are there in the West? What is their origin, their development, and their present fate? This knowledge was recorded in Xiao Letian's book. Which countries in Europe were strong, which were weak, and which were strong? What was the reason for the weak?

Sometimes, Shi Dakai even wanted to write a novel for Xiao Letian. He felt that if such a shocking book was not written in noble Chinese, it would be a crime. But Xiao Letian's one sentence had repressed all of his thoughts.

"Your Royal Highness, are there many illiterate people in this world, or are there many literate people? "Since there are many people who can't read, it means that the strongest power lies in the masses. If you want to become strong in China, you have to make the lowest level of people wake up. Knowledge shouldn't be something that can only be found in the study of scholars …"

After listening to Xiao Letian's words, Shi Dakai's eyes filled with tears. Pity the heavens, the advisor was so generous. He could actually think of billions of illiterate citizens, and such magnanimity was already a higher grade than others.

How would Shi Dakai know? Xiao Letian didn't understand any ancient language at all, other than reciting a few ancient poems with two pairs of shoes on the floor and the bright moonlight in front of the bed, he couldn't even write properly. He looked like a child who had just opened his eyes.

Shi Dakai was now a Alone overseas. In order to make it easier for Xiao Letian to write his essays, he had actually used the secret methods in the capital, using gold ingots to buy pens, ink pens, pocket watches, toothbrushes, glass and other precious foreign goods for the Military Advisor. Just a small bag of foreign goods had cost him a whole ten taels of gold.

When Xiao Letian saw the bag of foreign goods, he was in a good mood and actually told the village soldiers the evaluation report, which was about the stories he had written. Who would have thought that the first lecture would be a success? The soldiers at the bottom of the sea listened to the stories from overseas and were as excited as if they were listening to Journey to the West, even more excited than if it were the new year.

Xiao Letian had lectured for a total of three days, but he could no longer endure the soldiers' enthusiasm. After dinner, they gathered outside Xiao Letian's hut with their stools, and looked at Xiao Letian with an extremely longing gaze. At that moment, Xiao Letian felt that not saying two chapters was like committing a crime.

From that day onwards, Xiao Letian worked part-time as a book critic in the mountain stronghold, very contributing to the amateur cultural life of the Taibai Top's bandit's nest.

It wasn't until more than half a month later when the spies at the bottom of the mountain brought the latest intelligence report to Xiao Letian that he was forced to stop the evaluation papers that he read every day.

"Your Highness, I must go down the mountain immediately. Now that the caravan's Manager Fan has met with trouble, I can't just watch without doing anything, right?" Xiao Letian said nervously.

"No rush, no rush. I already know what the Military Advisor said. Isn't that just 110 thousand silver?" Fan family doesn't care about it at all. The grand Jin Shang's top eight clans, if they could not even pay out 110 thousand silver, that would truly be embarrassing … " Shi Dakai didn't even know what Xiao Letian was planning, much less drinking tea with a relaxed expression on his face.

"Aiya, my lord, the Manager Fan is a very important part of my plan. Without his help, I wouldn't be able to utilize my plans, and now is the time to show my gratitude. Whether or not we can control the old shopkeeper will depend on this." Xiao Letian was so angry that the whole house was spinning.

Originally, Xiao Letian did not know about the danger old shopkeeper was facing. He had only taken some time out of his spare time to write two private letters, one for Manager Fan and the other was written in English specifically for Louis's Cleric.

When the spy from the Yi County gave the letter to Louis, not even two hours had passed, and this foreigner, who took all the pictures on the world, did not even bid farewell to the Manager Fan, but rode on his horse straight towards the Beijing with Sai Men. It seemed that the contents of the letter were extremely urgent.

After sending the message to the Americans, the messenger turned around and went to the Fan family's Guangde Station to look for him. However, once he arrived, the Guangde found out that the old shopkeeper was bedridden due to the cold. When Manager Fan finished looking at Xiao Letian's private message, the old man actually struggled to get up. In the end, Hu Niu forced him to stop.

"This humble one only understood the sequence of events from Miss Fan family's mouth. Right now, Manager Fan has almost been forced to death by his elder brother, the Patriarch of Fan family. Miss Fan family was at his wit's end. He told me to bring a message to the Military Advisor. She said that he was afraid that he would never be able to repay their kindness in this life … "I'll just wait for my next life to repay you then …"

Damn, Xiao Letian was already in an uproar, the first girl I hooked up with after I transmigrated, someone actually wanted to harm her? He was already on the verge of death? If I didn't come out, would I still be a man?

"Your Royal Highness, whether you agree or not, I must go down the mountain. Either you chop me to death, or send someone to protect me down the mountain. There is no other way …"

Shi Dakai looked at the indignant Xiao Letian and suddenly got angry. He slammed the table and stood up, "Sir, what are you saying? Since you are our advisor now, you enjoy your freedom, how can I stop you? Who do you think we are? "Do you really think we are useless bandits in your eyes?"

Hearing that, Xiao Letian blushed, but Shi Dakai did not say anything else. "If mister wants to go down the mountain, then everything needs to be arranged, how do you plan to enter the city? How do I hide in the Guangde? Why didn't they alert the officials? All of this needs to be prepared in advance. Please don't worry and give me one night's time, I'll arrange everything properly for you … "

Shi Dakai's sincere eyes obtained Xiao Letian's trust. After a sleepless night, when Xiao Letian pushed open the door the next morning, he discovered that there were more than 20 silver boxes in the courtyard. The soldiers were putting them on on the horses, while General gray beard Liu Lang was helping them on the side.

"General? What are you doing? " Xiao Letian asked in confusion.

"My lord, since the Manager Fan is of great use to the advisor's plan, then we should not be stingy. We should focus on kindness. "I don't want the village, send them back …" Previously, gray beard was still a little unconvinced towards Xiao Letian, but after hearing Xiao Letian's evaluation reports a few times and reading a few of the manuscripts, he could be considered completely convinced now.

Xiao Letian laughed bitterly: "Aiya, my prince! Silver is a good thing, how can you give it to me? Not only are you not giving it to me, you're also going to keep it in the village. Stop acting, and put it down …" After saying that, Xiao Letian immediately went to look for Shi Dakai.

"Your Royal Highness, open the treasury. We can give you gold, jade, or even pearl agate, but we can't give you silver taels. The future of our village lies in this pile of silver …"

Shi Dakai stared at Xiao Letian in puzzlement, but when he saw Xiao Letian's serious expression, he knew that Xiao Letian was definitely not joking, it seemed like the Military Advisor already had a detailed plan in her mind.

"Sir, can you give Little Wang some information first?" Good fellow! Shi Dakai even called out Little Wang, because he knew that this was the first time Xiao Letian had given a gift to him. A kind of excitement that came from the bottom of his heart caused him to inexplicably tremble.

"Let's go. We'll head to the treasury first. We can pick out whatever military advisors we need …"