"Okay, I won't play nonsense with you anymore, let's get straight to the point."
Chongzhen said: "There is no problem in renewing the trade agreement, but I have two conditions."
"Your Majesty, please give me your permission." Upon hearing this, Bu Mika's expression tightened subconsciously.
Based on his experience in dealing with people from the Ming Dynasty over the years, these two conditions may be very harsh.
Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "Macau must transfer 20 gun engineers from the Bugalao Artillery Factory to serve the Ming Dynasty, and these 20 gun engineers must be the best."
"That's no problem." Bu Mika nodded and asked, "What about the other condition?"
Chongzhen added: "My second condition is that the Portuguese defenders of Macau must send ten of the best artillery shooting instructors to serve the Ming Dynasty."
Bu Mika's heart was already ecstatic. Is this the condition?
However, he remained calm on the surface: "Will His Majesty the Emperor pay me a salary?"
Chongzhen saw Bu Mika's little trick, but he was too lazy to care about it: "Of course, the monthly salary is 2 taels! Three times the battlefield!"
"Oh, God!" Bu Mika couldn't pretend any longer and couldn't help but cross his chest, "I think those gunnery engineers and artillery shooting instructors will definitely praise His Majesty the Emperor for your generosity."
Chongzhen laughed and said: "Father Bu Mika, if you have no objection, then renew the agreement?"
"Oh, I have no objection." Bu Mika nodded happily, "Macau welcomes the renewal of the trade agreement with the Ming Dynasty, and is also very happy to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty in all aspects."
Chongzhen ordered Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, you send someone to the Ministry of Rites to ask for an official letter from Bu Mica, and then ask Navy guerrilla Zheng Cai to send three bird boats to escort Bu Mica back to Macau. Immediately after receiving the Portuguese artillery instructor
To go north, take the sea route directly from the Yellow River to Xuzhou, and the gunnery engineer will let them go north by land!"
"Yes." Wang Chengen responded and arranged for the young eunuch to go to the Ministry of Rites.
Chongzhen smiled and asked Bu Mijia: "Bu Mika, have you ever studied mathematics?"
"Of course." Bu Mika nodded and said, "Mathematics, astronomy, physics, medicine, painting, etc. are compulsory courses for every monk. If you cannot get good results, you will not be qualified to be promoted from a monk to a priest.
Yes, oh, by the way, speaking of painting, I also drew a sketch of the prisoner-offering palace."
While talking, he took out a sketch from his bag.
Chongzhen took the painting and took a look. It was of the prisoner presentation ceremony that day. The painting was indeed very exquisite.
However, no matter how good you are in sketching, it will be of no use to the Ming Dynasty. Only knowledge in mathematics, astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry and other subjects will be useful to the Ming Dynasty.
What the Ming Dynasty lacked most was also the knowledge of these natural sciences.
At that moment, Chongzhen asked again: "You just said that you had studied physics, but have you heard of Galileo?"
"God, oh God." Bu Mika asked in surprise, "His Majesty the Emperor has actually heard of Galileo?"
"Of course." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Don't forget, Tang Ruowang, the imperial eunuch of our Ming Dynasty, was from Cologne."
"Oh, yes, damn it." Bu Mika said embarrassedly, "I actually forgot about this."
Chongzhen smiled and asked: "Since you also know Galileo and have studied physics, can you tell me in detail Galileo's three major discoveries in physics?"
"Galileo's three major discoveries in physics?"
When Bu Mika heard this, he immediately froze there. Is this happening?
Seeing this, Chongzhen's face dropped. Hey, this is just two swords.
The so-called compulsory subjects of astronomy, geography, medicine, mathematics and painting are just a superficial knowledge, but this is actually reasonable. If any missionary from Europe is proficient in all subjects, it would be called a ghost.
, it is not so easy to be proficient in all subjects, after all, a person’s energy is limited.
Chongzhen could only change the topic and asked: "Do you know any mathematicians, physicists or chemists? Of course, the mathematicians, physicists and chemists I am talking about refer to famous people similar to Galileo.
Priests and monks like you who graduated from your church’s seminary don’t need to mention it to me.”
"Ahem." Bu Mijia smiled awkwardly, and then said, "Your Majesty the Emperor, I really don't know famous people like Galileo, but I have a good friend who knows many contemporary famous people. I can write to him.
A letter, asking him to convey His Majesty the Emperor's will to those famous people."
After a pause, Bu Mika then asked: "But why does His Majesty the Emperor ask these famous people? Do you want to invite these famous people to come to the Ming Dynasty to give lectures and spread scientific knowledge?"
"Yes." Chongzhen nodded happily, "When you tell your friends, just say that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire loves natural science very much. His Majesty the Emperor not only respects scientists, but is also willing to provide these scientists with the most generous treatment and the most luxurious science.
With the research conditions, they will be able to conduct scientific research without any distractions!”
Bu Mika's eyes lit up and he asked: "Can I take the liberty of asking how luxurious the research conditions can be?"
Chongzhen tapped his finger on the table and said: "More than one hundred thousand taels of silver a year, plus more than a thousand students from the highest universities in the empire to follow him to do scientific research!"
"God, one hundred thousand taels of silver a year?!"
Bu Mika's brain suddenly shut down, and there are more than a thousand students?
God, what scientist can refuse such a condition?
While they were talking, Wang Chengen had already returned with an official letter from the Ministry of Rites and handed it over to Bu Mika.
Chongzhen finally said: "Bu Mika, as long as you recruit a famous person from Europe who is on the same level as Galileo, I will reward you with a hundred taels of gold. If you can recruit ten famous people like Galileo, I will reward you with a thousand taels of gold."
, will also confer you the title of count and allow you to preach freely in the Ming Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty, is everything you said true?"
Bu Mika's face instantly turned red.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! I have to admit that the conditions offered by Chongzhen are really irresistible.
One thousand taels of gold plus the earl, and that’s not all. What Bumika couldn’t refuse the most was the freedom to preach!
If he is really allowed to preach freely in the Ming Dynasty, and if hundreds of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty are allowed to convert to Christianity, then Bu Mika will definitely be promoted to the cardinal of the Ming Dynasty diocese!
God, he could be a cardinal!
Thinking of this, Bu Mika was so excited that he trembled all over.
Regarding Bu Mika's reaction, Chongzhen just smiled.
He will not tell Bu Mika that it is okay to preach freely in the Ming Dynasty, but Christianity must be reformed first. The first is depoliticization, which means that secular political power cannot be interfered with, and the second is decentralization, allowing establishment of institutions in the Ming Dynasty.
Positions such as bishop, archbishop and cardinal, but these positions have only symbolic meaning and do not have a subordinate relationship with each other, let alone realize economic dependence.
To put it bluntly, Christianity must be on par with Buddhism and Taoism before it is allowed to preach freely within the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, it is not even mentioned at all.
But Chongzhen would not tell Bu Mika this.
Instead, Chongzhen smiled and said: "I can swear in the name of God that everything I just said is true."
"God!" Bu Mika could barely control his body just now, but after hearing this sentence, he couldn't control it anymore. His whole body really started to tremble slightly, and even his voice was out of tune.
"Dear His Majesty the Emperor, His Majesty the Ming Emperor, the great, wise, benevolent and shining light all over the world, I feel deep admiration for your wise decision! History will remember this great moment!" Bu Mika said without hesitation.
He presented Chongzhen with high hats, and then left Nanjing happily with the official letter from the Ministry of Rites.
The first moment he boarded the navy bird ship, Bumicha placed his suitcase in the cabin, spread the letter paper on the suitcase, then picked up a quill and started writing a letter to his friend.
"My dearest friend, Dadarni, I am currently on a ship from Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Empire, to Macau. I am writing to you with infinite excitement. You must read every word I write carefully, because you simply cannot
I can't imagine what kind of emperor I met in Nanjing, it was really an incredible journey..."
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At the same time that Bu Mijia was sailing south on a naval warship, Kang Wanwan was also hosting a banquet at Meixiang Tower with several business friends such as Fang Wenzhen, Zhang Han and Zhan Ningzhi.
Meixianglou did not dare to turn away the door again this time.
Now Kang Wanwan has become the uncle of the Ming Dynasty.
[Note: The emperor’s father-in-law is the father-in-law of the country, and the prince’s father-in-law is called the country’s uncle]
Zhan Ningzhi is also one of the famous Huizhou merchants, engaged in the iron smelting industry.
When Kang Wanwan asked Chongzhen before, he was actually asking for Zhan Ningzhi.
"Come on, let's give Uncle Guo a cup first!" Fang Wenzhen suggested.
"Yes, we should respect our uncle!" Zhang Han and Zhan Ningzhi agreed.
"No, no, no, no, no." Kang Baiwan waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Brothers will get estranged if they do this. Let's just get along as we did before. Otherwise, I will get up and say goodbye now."
Fang Wenzhen and the other two laughed loudly when they saw this, and sat down one after another.
Fang Wenzhen said: "Brother Kang, please give me some real information. What do you think about food?"
In the past few days, the Jin gentry merchants in eight prefectures and one state in the south of the Yangtze River were selling grain to raise money, but only the four of them were trying their best to eat the grain. More than half of the grain sold by the Jin gentry merchants in Jiangnan were eaten by the four of them.
Now that the four of them have used up all the available storage, they have purchased and stockpiled more than five million dan of grain!
But fortunately, these five million shi of grain were purchased at a low price of eight qian per shi, and they were equally divided among the four families, so the financial pressure was not great, but hoarding so much grain was still a problem.
"Brother Fang, don't worry, there is no problem with the food." Kang Wanwan said.
"The Holy One has made it clear that He will buy as much as we have."