Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 632 Shipbuilding School
Descartes nodded repeatedly when he heard the words, "So that's how it is!"

Suddenly Descartes was startled: "My lord, the dragon on this banknote overlooks the world, and you consider yourself to be the descendants of the dragon. Does that mean...?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Sir, I think too much. Money is the most contacted thing. The dragon is printed on the money to remind the people of Ming Dynasty not to forget that they are the heirs of the dragon. There must be a dragon." The momentum. It’s just self-encouragement.”

Descartes nodded again and again: "Using this method to motivate the people is indeed more useful than a lot of preaching."

Li Jing smiled and nodded.

Looking at the sky, Li Jing stood up and said, "I still have some business to deal with, so I won't accompany you all. If you need anything, you can find Master Yuan and Master Kong."

He also said to Tang Ruowang, Ai Julian and others: "You guys have to work hard, and I will serve as translators for you gentlemen during this time. And don't forget to write a letter to your Holy See. After writing the letter, let someone hand it over to Xiao Jiu."

Tang Ruowang and the others hurriedly said, "I will obey your lord's order."

Li Jingjing nodded, waved to everyone, and left with a group of officials.

Not long after returning to the cabinet office, Yuan Shu sent someone to deliver the letter written by Tang Ruowang and Ai Juliu. Seeing the speed of the two, it was obvious that the letter was written in Xianghe Tower.

Opening the letter, seeing that the letter was all in foreign languages, Li Jing pondered for a moment, and ordered Xiaojiu to go to Qintianjian to find a missionary who was proficient in Chinese and Latin.

After a while, Xiao Jiu brought a missionary into the house.

Li Jing handed the letter to the missionary and asked him to translate it for him.

The missionary did not dare to neglect, and translated it word by word.

In the letter, Tang Ruowang and Ai Julius basically explained what Li Jing meant, but their tone was much more tactful than what Li Jing said.In addition, the two introduced Li Jing's situation in detail in the letter, and described the situation of Daming's military strength. , this force may not hesitate to use force.

After listening to the missionary's translation, Li Jing nodded lightly. The letter was written in line with his own intentions, but his tone was a little humble. But it's no wonder that these two people are members of the Holy See after all, so they naturally have more feelings for the Pope in their hearts. Be respectful.

After thinking about it, Li Jing wrote a letter to the Pope, explaining his support for the mission of the Holy See in Daming, and asked the Holy See to cooperate and send more people like Tang Ruowang over.

Then, Li Jing wrote a letter to the kings of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and other countries, briefly stating that he was willing to conduct business and trade with other countries, and asked them to send envoys to Ming Dynasty for negotiations.

After finishing writing, Li Jing ordered Xiaojiu to send someone to take the missionary to Fujian quickly, and at the same time notified Liu Erling to immediately start mobilizing soldiers with the ship and preparing supplies for the voyage.

After finishing these things, Li Jing suddenly felt that he might have missed something.

After contemplating for a while, Li Jing suddenly remembered what he had overlooked.

Sighing lightly, Li Jing said to himself: "It seems that it is not a good thing for people to be too happy."

"How do you say this? We saw that the commander was happy, and we were also happy." Wen Qing continued with a smile.

Li Jing smiled and said, "Do you remember what I asked Tang Ruowang to go to Macau?"

Wen Qing said with a smile: "Can you not remember? Let him recruit experienced shipbuilders and scientific talents!"

Suddenly Wen Qing was startled: "It seems that those people the commander-in-chief met today don't have shipbuilding technicians!"

Li Jing shook his head and said: "It's not that there are none, but after I saw those scholars in front of me, I forgot about these people. Just now I thought about it for a while, and I always felt that something was wrong. No matter how powerful Tang Ruowang is, it is impossible to recruit more than 100 people." That is to say, most of these people should be shipbuilding technicians, but I didn’t ask them.”

Wen Qing said with a smile: "It's no wonder that there are more than 100 people. If you ask one by one, the commander-in-chief can't afford to ask! I guess Tang Ruowang will report this to the commander-in-chief when he turns around."

Li Jing shook his head: "After all, I am too complacent. It is not a good thing to get carried away with complacency."

Wen Qing said with a smile: "It's not a big deal, just arrange it later. Actually, if you want me to say, it's not bad to keep those shipbuilding technicians in the Academy of Sciences. Let's take it as a shipbuilding subject. Last year, I told the commander-in-chief When I arrived in Fujian, I found that our shipbuilding technology was passed on by word of mouth, without writing, so that if something happens, our shipbuilding technology is in danger of being lost."

Li Jingjing nodded and sighed: "It's not that there is a danger of being lost, but most of them have already been lost."

Then Li Jing said again: "You are right. A shipbuilding school should indeed be established. However, the school cannot be placed in the Academy of Sciences, but in the shipyard. We can teach while building ships, so that our people can learn better. Faster and more solid."

"The commander-in-chief is right." Wen Qing said with a smile.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing said again: "When Tang Ruowang was asked to recruit boatmen, we only built one shipyard in Shandong, and now a larger shipyard has been built in Fujian. In my opinion, let's build two shipbuilding schools. One south and one north compete with each other. When Daming's economy improves, we will open a few more shipyards and build more schools."

While talking, the guards came in and passed on Tang Ruowang asking to see him.

Li Jing beckoned, and the guard hurriedly brought Tang Ruowang in.

Waving his hand, Li Jing signaled Tang Ruowang to sit down, and ordered Wen Qing to bring Tang Ruowang a cup of tea.

After Tang Ruowang saluted and sat down, Li Jing asked, "Have the guests been arranged?"

"Mr. Ai Julius and Mr. Kong are making arrangements. The next official has something to tell the commander in chief." Tang Ruowang said hastily.

"Is it about those shipbuilders? I'm sorry, I was too happy. I forgot that the shipbuilders you recruited came here this time, and you arranged them as scientific talents." Li Jing said with a smile.

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "But it doesn't matter, you go back and tell them to take a rest these days, and go shopping around the city if you have nothing to do, and arrange them to go to the shipyard after a few days. As for the salary, let them Don't worry, I will pay them twice their original salary, and if they do a good job and achieve results, I will continue to give them a raise."

"The commander-in-chief is really refreshing. In fact, these technicians came for the high salary offered by the commander-in-chief." Tang Ruowang laughed.

Li Jing smiled and said: "Of course, if the salary is not high, who would leave their family and career to come to our Daming? Mr. Tang, you have done a good job on this errand, tell me, what reward do you want?"

Tang Ruowang hurriedly said: "Marshal, it is already the greatest reward for you to let the Pope confer me a cardinal. How dare you ask for another reward? Isn't that greedy?"

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "You have done your best for the mission of the Holy See these years. The Holy See should have promoted you, but I proposed it to the Pope. I reward you now on behalf of Daming. Mr. Tang, what you have done for Daming these years I can see many things, and we Daming will never treat foreign friends like you badly."

After thinking for a while, Li Jing continued: "How about this, Mr. Tang, you assisted Mr. Xu in compiling the almanac back then, and you are very accomplished in astronomy. Mr. Xu also valued you very much, so I will promote you to be the supervisor of the Qintian Supervisor. The rank is five grades."

Tang Ruowang was overjoyed when he heard the words, he got up and bowed to Li Jing and said, "Thank you, Commander."

Li Jing smiled and said, "I'm trying to give full play to my talents. But Mr. Tang, since you are an official of Daming, you have to do things for Daming. In addition to your own job, you have to continue to help Daming recruit talents. As long as you are a talent, everything The treatment is favorable, and it is not impossible to even be an official."

Tang Ruowang hurriedly said: "I understand, I must work hard to repay the Marshal's kindness."

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "I'm a little tired today, I'll talk to those technicians later."

"Yes! Then I will retire as an officer," Tang Ruowang said hastily.

Li Jingjing nodded, picked up a pen and wrote a letter of appointment and handed it to Wen Qing: "You take Mr. Tang to the Ministry of Officials to complete Mr. Tang's appointment procedures."

"Yes!" Wen Qing took the document and took Tang Ruowang straight to the Ministry of Officials.

After a while, Wen Qing returned.

Seeing Li Jing dazed in a daze, Wen Qing hurriedly poured Li Jing a cup of tea.

Li Jing took the teacup, looked at Wen Qing and said suddenly: "Respect, I'm so busy with the affairs of the equation, I'm afraid I don't have time to take care of the shipbuilding school. I want to entrust you with the errand of the shipbuilding school in Shandong."

"Marshal, the students have never done such a thing before, I'm afraid they won't be able to do this job well." Wen Qing hurriedly said.

Li Jing smiled: "As long as you put your heart into it, there is nothing wrong with it."

Wen Qing nodded emphatically when he heard the words.

Li Jing took a sip of tea lightly and continued: "Actually, the most difficult thing about setting up a shipbuilding school is the problem of students. It is a big problem for us to appoint barbarians as teachers to communicate, because there are too few people in Daming who can speak barbarian language, so the first batch As a student, I suggest that you go to Macau to recruit. Macau has been occupied by Portugal for many years. Many local Han people can speak Portuguese, and many of the technicians we hired this time are Portuguese.

Of course, we cannot limit ourselves to Macau. After all, Macau is located in the south, so we may not be willing to live in the north, so we try to recruit young students in the north.Not only let them learn the language of the barbarians, but also teach them mathematics, geometry and other subjects.After a few years, this group of people has become talented, and it will be easy to handle in the future.

In addition, another difficulty in setting up a school is money.It is not a small expense to build a school building, and it is not realistic for the students to pay for their studies in the shipbuilding school, so the recruited students have to be trained with the money from the state, and food and clothing are not a small expense.Now that the national treasury is empty, I can't give you much money for the time being, so I can only give you 10 taels first. You must keep an eye on the people below, and don't let them engage in fraud for personal gain. "

"Don't worry, Marshal, whoever dares to be greedy for a penny, the student will chop off his hand." Wen Qing said solemnly.

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "The construction of the school building will be done by people from the Ministry of Industry, you just need to keep an eye on the account, and put your energy on the barbarians and missionaries first, and let them teach the shipbuilders to build ships while teaching them. I have paid a high price for these people, and we cannot let them earn our money for nothing."

(End of this chapter)