Shuai Jiamo came to the imperial court in the envious eyes of bureaucrats and scholars, and bowed his head to receive the imperial edict personally delivered by Zhu Yijun.
He was originally from a military household and only worked as a small official among the people. He never expected that one day he would be awarded a knighthood because of his love of studying mathematics and physics, and even be rewarded with such a high amount of money.
This made him unable to believe what he was seeing.
But this is indeed a fact. Zhu Yijun now has too much money and can't spend it all, and he also wants Ming technology to advance faster, thinking that it would be best to have new technologies such as film and television technology and game technology emerge as soon as possible to satisfy him in this era. He still couldn't get the enjoyment, so he kept spending money on things that promoted academic progress.
Like Shuai Jiamo, Galileo, who was ordered to attend the Huangming's highest mathematics award ceremony together with the Confucian scholars in prison, could not believe what was happening before him.
Having been in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, he also knew what half a million silver dollars was.
It is precisely because of this that Galileo could not believe that the Ming Empire in the East would pay so much attention to people like them who studied science and technology. Once they made contributions, they would be awarded honors and huge sums of money.
But Galileo had to admit that this was indeed the case.
After all, he now saw with his own eyes that the Ming Emperor was granting a favor to a person who studied mathematics.
So he couldn't help but start writing to his friend Glasius, who specialized in mathematics:
"My friend, you really should come to the East and see. The emperor here attaches great importance to the study of truth, and even uses a lot of money and noble titles to encourage it!"
"This is something I've never seen before, and I'm sure you've never seen it either."
"It is precisely because of this that the nobles here do not reject the exploration of the real world. Here, you can research freely without any restrictions and raise any questions. What a free country this is!"
"You really should come here! Otherwise, you will undoubtedly come to this world in vain!"
After Galileo finished writing the letter, he saw Matteo Ricci looking at him and asked: "What do you think I do?"
Matteo Ricci asked him very vigilantly: "What are you writing?"
"I am writing to my friends who like to explore all the truths of this world, urging them to come to the east and see. I even hope that they can settle here and accept the rule of their emperor here."
Galileo replied at this time.
"You are really crazy!"
After hearing this, Matteo Ricci bared his teeth and said something to Galileo. His heart was filled with anger and he almost bit his steel teeth into pieces.
"Originally, their emperor has now given up even the last royal palace, which means that he no longer has the need for excessive direct exploitation of the people in his country, and even because his inner court's products have completely become mainly for external profits, and also It is even more necessary to open up the wisdom of its domestic people and not hesitate to let its country master the most knowledge and skills in the world in order to benefit the world."
"And now you actually want to persuade us Europa and other intelligent people to come here."
"But you must also know that the reason why His Majesty the Ming Emperor attaches so much importance to people who study knowledge is because he can obtain a lot of money through foreign aggression, right?"
As Matteo Ricci spoke, he looked at Galileo and said, "Are you really willing to see them gain more strength to invade other countries in the future and make more people become slaves of the Ming Dynasty?"
Galileo said: "You know my attitude. I would like to see the Ming Dynasty unify the world. The entire human civilization should be led by people from the East."
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Galileo added: "And you are really blinded by your narrow-mindedness, and you also mistakenly believe that the Ming Dynasty will unify the world and will be as bloody and cruel as we Europeans deal with pagans, and even turn them into slaves."
"But in fact, you are speculating on Akito with your own thoughts."
"If the Ming Dynasty can truly unify the world, it means that its civilization is advanced enough that it does not need to slaughter and kill to unify the world. And when they rule a region, they are not destroying the civilization of a region, but helping To make a region more civilized, rescue their people, and make their people freer and smarter, so rather than invading other countries, it is better to save other countries!"
"As the Ming Emperor's imperial edict stated, the purpose of raising troops to conquer the barbarians is to educate them, not to destroy them."
"In my opinion, if the West wants to be as free and prosperous as the East, it must be educated by the East for hundreds of years, so that we may accept freedom of religion and academic freedom."
"So, I don't resent what they are doing in the north. Those primitive Tatars thousands of miles away from the north might be able to wear warmer cotton jackets and cover themselves with thick quilts because of the arrival of the Ming Dynasty. You can also use antibacterial medicine and receive many mature vaccines to avoid the pain caused by many diseases."
Galileo continued to speak, and as he spoke, he glanced outside with a look of fascination and said:
"Just like what we saw when we passed by Dhaka and Mubang, we saw the natives kneeling down to the statue of Duke Ji in gratitude for the help from the Orientals, and the pious way they knelt down to His Majesty the Ming Emperor."
"You are so crazy!"
"I should have refused the Ming Emperor's request and brought you here."
Matteo Ricci only responded.
As Galileo said, most of the original Tatars in the Yenisei River area in later generations were indeed not so disgusted with Zhong Changdong and other Ming troops.
Except for a small number of upper-class Tatar nobles who refused to pay taxes and were bloody suppressed and massacred by Zhong Changdong and others due to dissatisfaction, most of the original Tatars did willingly accept the management of Zhong Changdong and others, because in this way they could Many important but cheap goods and medicines can be obtained from Akito.
Especially after the antibacterial drugs and vaccines brought by Zhong Changdong greatly reduced their disease mortality, they truly regarded Zhong Changdong and others' rule as God's will.
This allowed Zhong Changdong to establish his dominant position in the Yenisei River area. He also used local manpower and material resources, coupled with the concrete purchased from Daming and some technicians hired, to also establish a dominant position in the Yenisei River area. A prismatic fortified city was built in the most important place to facilitate military defense and economic management.
After building such a prismatic fortified city, Zhong Changdong and his comrades and mercenaries regularly crossed the Yenisei River and went to the Ob River Basin, a basin controlled by the Rakshasa Kingdom, to snatch people back to the city in order to Grow the population around your town.
This made the Rakshasa Kingdom very dissatisfied.
Moreover, the behavior of Zhong Changdong and other Ming royal partners in Siberia soon aroused the ideas of the tsar and nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom.
"This is a group of bandits from the East! They are very brave and good at fighting, the weapons they use are also very sophisticated, and their tactics are very flexible."
"So, although there are not many of them, they have repeatedly suffered losses for the Cossacks. We need to send the main force to destroy them, and then let them know that the territory of our Siberian Khanate is sacred and inviolable!"
The Kremlin.
Tsar Vasily IV was listening to his minister’s report on the Ming Dynasty royal partners’ westward march. After hearing what his minister said, he couldn’t help but frown:
"These hateful orientals, we haven't conquered them yet, they came to provoke us first, they really deserve to be slaughtered all!"
With that said, Basil IV stood up and said: "Pass my decree, immediately prepare for a large-scale conquest of the Yenisei River, and formulate a plan to destroy the entire East!"
His ministers immediately agreed.
As a result, the tsar's nephew Skopin Shuisky became the commander-in-chief responsible for commanding troops to conquer the Yenisei River Basin in later generations, and led 50,000 troops to the Yenisei River.
At that time, in the Yenisei River Basin, the city built by Zhong Changdong had just been named Yanming City by His Majesty the Ming Emperor.
The reason why Zhu Yijun named it "Yanming" was to encourage the city to continue the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty, and also hoped that the Ming Dynasty could use this as a starting point to continue to make progress.
Because the word "yan" itself has the meaning of progress.
When Skopinshuiski led an army of 50,000 to Yanming City, the total population of Yanming City was less than 3,000, and the number of combat troops was only 500.
Therefore, the gap in military strength between the two sides is still very large.
Therefore, Skopinshuiski was determined to win Yanming City.
After Zhong Changdong learned that Rakshasa Guoxing soldiers were coming to challenge him, he immediately sent people back to his country to deliver a message asking for support.
He believed that the Ming Emperor could not ignore it.
In any case, this place was the private property of the Ming Emperor after all, and they were just ministers who contracted the power to govern and collect taxes here.
The imperial court soon learned about the Rakshasa Kingdom's conquest of Yanming City.
Historically, the Rakshasa Kingdom began to expand in the Yenisei River Basin in later generations during this period, but the Ming Empire did not pay attention to it and was too lazy to pay attention to it.
But in this life, this place has become the private property of the Ming Emperor, and it has begun to be known to the Ming subjects through various channels.
Therefore, many people are still a little concerned about the behavior of Rakshasa Kingdom.
The prince could not accept the Rakshasa Kingdom's infringement of his royal territory, so he said:
"I will destroy the Rakshasa in the future! That place is already the private property of my Zhu family, and it will be the foundation for my descendants to maintain in the future. The hateful Rakshasa people don't know how to take the initiative to surrender, and dare to seize it!"
(End of chapter)
