Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 140 Conditions that are hard to refuse

"Okay, I won't play such nonsense with you anymore, let's get straight to the point."

Chongzhen said: "It's no problem to renew the trade agreement, but I have two conditions."

"Your Majesty the Emperor asks for instructions." Bumijia's expression subconsciously tightened upon hearing this.

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 [-] gun engineers from the Bucarao Gun Factory to serve Daming, and these [-] gun engineers must be the best."

"That's okay." Bumijia nodded and asked again, "What about the other condition?"

Chongzhen also said: "My second condition is that the Macao defenders of the Kingdom of Portugal must send ten of the best artillery and shooting instructors to serve for Daming."

Bumijia's heart was already in ecstasy, on this condition?

But on the surface, he remained calm: "Does His Majesty pay a salary?"

Chongzhen saw Bu Mijia's tricks, but he didn't bother to think about it: "Of course, the monthly salary is 2 taels! Three times the battle!"

"Oh, God!" Bumijia couldn't pretend anymore, and couldn't help crossing his chest, "I think those gun engineers and artillery shooting instructors will definitely praise His Majesty the Emperor for your generosity."

Chongzhen chuckled and said, "Father Bumijia, if you have no objection, can you renew the agreement?"

"Oh, I have no objection." Bumijia nodded happily, "Macao 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 Bumijia, and then let the naval guerrilla Zheng Cai send three bird boats to escort Bumijia back to Macau. Going north, take the sea route directly from the Yellow River to Xuzhou, and the gunnery engineers let them go north by land!"

"Yes." Wang Chengen replied, and arranged for the little eunuch to go to the Ministry of Rites.

Chongzhen smiled again and asked Bumijia: "Have you ever studied mathematics?"

"Of course." Boymi nodded and said, "Mathematics, astronomy, physics, medicine, painting, etc. are compulsory courses for each of our monks. If you can't get good grades in the exam, you are not eligible to be promoted from a monk to a priest. Yes, oh, by the way, and speaking of painting, I even made a sketch of my own."

As he spoke, he took out a sketch from his satchel.

Chongzhen took the painting and took a look. It was the ceremony of presenting the captives that day, and the painting was really exquisite.

However, no matter how good a sketch is, it is useless to the Ming Dynasty. Only mathematics, astronomy, geography, physics and chemistry are useful to the Ming Dynasty.

What the Ming Dynasty lacked the most was the knowledge of these natural sciences.

Immediately Chongzhen asked again: "You just said that you studied physics, but have you heard of Galileo?"

"God, oh God." Bumijia asked back in surprise, "His Majesty the Emperor has heard of Galileo?"

"Of course." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Don't forget that Tang Ruowang, the Qin Tianjian of our Ming Dynasty, was from Cologne."

"Oh yes, damn it." Bumijia said embarrassingly, "I actually forgot about that."

Chongzhen smiled and asked again: "Since you also know Galileo and have studied physics, can you tell me in detail about Galileo's three major discoveries in physics?"

"Galileo's three major discoveries in physics?"

Bumijia was stunned immediately when he heard the words, is there such a thing?
Seeing this, Chongzhen's face collapsed, well, this is just two knives.

The so-called compulsory subjects of astronomy, geography, medicine, mathematics, and painting are nothing more than superficial learning, but this is actually reasonable. If any missionary from Europe is proficient in all subjects, it will be called a ghost , How can it be so easy to be proficient in all subjects, after all, a person's energy is limited.

Chongzhen could only change the subject and asked, "Do you know any mathematicians, physicists or chemists? Of course, when I say mathematicians, physicists and chemists, I mean 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." Bumijia smiled awkwardly, and then said, "Your Majesty, I really don't know famous artists like Galileo, but I have a good friend who knows many famous contemporary artists. I can write to him A letter, let him convey His Majesty's will to those famous people."

After a pause, Boymijia continued to ask: "However, what is the purpose of His Majesty asking about these famous experts? Is it to invite these famous experts to Daming to give lectures and spread scientific knowledge?"

"Yes." Chongzhen nodded happily, "Tell your friends that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire loves natural science very much. His Majesty not only respects scientists, but is also willing to provide these scientists with the best treatment and the most luxurious science." Research conditions, they will be able to conduct scientific research without distraction!"

Boymijia's eyes lit up, and he asked, "May I take the liberty to ask, how luxurious is the research condition?"

Chongzhen tapped his finger on the table and said, "A yearly fund of more than [-] taels of silver, plus more than [-] students from the highest universities in the empire to follow him to do scientific research!"

"God, one hundred thousand taels of silver a year?!"

Bumijia's mind crashed in an instant, and there are more than a thousand students?

God, which scientist can refuse such a condition?
While speaking, Wang Chengen had already returned with the official letter from the Ministry of Rites and handed it over to Bu Mijia.

Chongzhen finally said: "Bumijia, as long as you recruit famous people of the same level as Galileo from Europa, 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 confer the title of earl on you, and allow you to freely preach in Daming!"

"Your Majesty, are you telling the truth?"

Bumijia's face instantly turned red.

I have to admit that the conditions offered by Chongzhen are really irresistible.

One thousand taels of gold plus Earl, this is still second, what Boymijia couldn't refuse the most was free preaching!
If he is really allowed to preach freely in Daming, and if hundreds of millions of people in Daming are converted to Christianity, then he will definitely be promoted to the Cardinal of the Daming Diocese!

God, he might be a cardinal!

Thinking of this, Boymega trembled with excitement.

Regarding Bu Mijia's reaction, Chongzhen just smiled.

He would not tell Bumijia that it is no problem to preach freely in Daming, but Christianity needs to be reformed first. Positions such as bishops, archbishops, and cardinals, but these positions are only symbolic, and there is no subordinate relationship between them, let alone economic attachment.

To put it bluntly, Christianity must be on par with Buddhism and Taoism before it is allowed to spread freely in Daming territory, otherwise, don't even mention it.

But Chongzhen would not tell Bu Mijia these things.

Instead, Chongzhen smiled and said, "I can swear in the name of God that everything I just said is true."

"God!" Bumijia could barely control his body just now, but after hearing this sentence, he couldn't control it anymore, his whole body really began to tremble slightly, and even his voice was out of tune.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty the Great Ming Emperor, who is wise, kind, and radiant, I am deeply admired for your wise decision! History will remember this great moment!" Bu Mijia said without hesitation. He gave Chongzhen a high hat, and then left Nanjing excitedly with the official letter from the Ministry of Rites.

At the first moment of boarding the Sailor Bird, Boymega put the suitcase in the cabin, spread the letter paper on the suitcase, and then picked up the quill pen and began to write letters to his friends.

"My dearest friend, Dadalni, I am on the boat from Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Empire, to Macau, and I am writing to you with great excitement. You must read every word I write carefully, because you have no I can't imagine what kind of emperor I met in Nanjing, it was really an incredible journey..."

……

At the same time that Bumijia was heading south on a naval warship, Kang Wanwan also entertained Fang Wenzhen, Zhang Han, Zhan Ningzhi and other business friends in Meixianglou.

This time, Meixianglou dared not refuse the door again.

Now Kang Wanwan has become the uncle of Ming Dynasty.

[Note: The emperor's father-in-law is the head of the country, and the prince's father-in-law is called the country's uncle]

Zhan Ningzhi is also one of the well-known Anhui merchants, engaged in iron smelting.

Before Kang Wanwan asked Chongzhen, it was actually for Zhan Ningzhi.

"Come on, let's respect Uncle Guo first!" Fang Wenzhen suggested.

"Yes, we should respect Uncle Guo!" Zhang Han and Zhan Ningzhi echoed.

"Don't, don't, don't." Kang Wanwan waved his hands again and again, and said, "Brothers will be divided if they do this, and we will get along as before, otherwise I will get up and leave now."

Seeing this, the three of Fang Wenzhen laughed and sat down one after another.

Fang Wenzhen said: "Brother Kang, tell me the truth, what about the food?"

A few days ago, the gentry and merchants in the 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 going all out to eat the grain. More than half of the grain sold by the gentry and merchants in the south of the Yangtze River was eaten by the four of them Eat it, now the four of them have used up all the storage they can use, and the grain purchased and hoarded has exceeded five million shi!

But fortunately, the five million shi of grain was bought at a low price of [-] qian per shi, and the four families shared it equally, so the financial pressure was actually not that great, but hoarding so much grain was also troublesome.

"Brother Fang, don't worry, there is no problem with the food." Kang Wanwan said.

"The Holy Majesty has made it clear that he will buy as much as we have."

[Kneeling for a monthly pass]

【Ask for a recommendation ticket】

(End of this chapter)