"Da Ming is so powerful, why do you need the knowledge of our hometown?"

"Who knows, maybe it's out of curiosity."

"Hurry up and write, if you can't finish it, these Ming people will kill people again."

In a large mansion outside the palace, dozens of 'surviving' Europeans began to work day and night, but where did they use the usual brushes, the first drafts were completely like ghost drawings, and even the translators could not understand them.

Stacks of translations of records of the current literature, society, and political systems in Europe were sent to the Imperial Palace, and Zhu Yunwen began to devote himself to the work of summarizing and reasoning.

From these fragmented anecdotes, the whole picture of Europe at this time can be deduced!

This is by no means a light project, even if Zhu Yunwen spends almost six or seven hours a day on this work, it took him nearly a month to work hard and write hundreds of memos before he can roughly find out part of the content of Europe at this time.

First of all, in terms of political structure, with the end of the Crusades, a large-scale military campaign in Western Europe, the power of the pope began to decline, while the secular power began to increase, and the prison of Avignon lasted for nearly seventy years, which led to the Great Schism of the Catholic Church.

The Pope is no longer the most popular figure in Europe.

In Western Europe, the Holy Roman Empire was already in a state of decline, and the Byzantine Empire was even more moribund, dying, and there was no powerful empire in the whole of Europe, which could exist as a single empire, and the overall balance of power was at the level.

Britain and France have ceased war, signing an armistice that has lasted for twenty years, and both sides are looking for a gap to breathe.

As the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula drew to a close, the Spanish and Portuguese fought several small naval battles at sea, culminating in a Spanish victory, which five years earlier had taken the first steps towards global colonization by the Spaniards in their leather boots on the Canary Islands.

Economically, the trading port of Venice flourished, merchants became the most popular group in the northern Apennines, and the limelight even faintly surpassed the traditional aristocracy, and mercantilism (i.e., capitalism) began to rise and flourish.

Merchants of the Republic of Venice became second-hand dealers, buying large quantities of silk, porcelain, pepper, cinnamon and other goods from the Ming Dynasty from Arabia, and then reselling them to Western and Central Europe at high prices, grabbing a lot of wealth.

Relying on this wealth, a large number of commercial banks have been established, insurance systems and lending systems have been established and gradually improved, relevant laws have been promulgated one after another, and commercial activities have tended to be stable and orderly.

Culturally, in the south-central part of the Apennine Peninsula, there was a strong literary and artistic atmosphere, and the emerging bourgeoisie in many cities began to carry out anti-feudal struggles, they hired workers and peasants to rebel against the old aristocratic system, ideologically raised the banner of freedom and equality, they put forward the imprisonment of emancipating the mind, and called on more people to come out of the shackles of religious theology.

And their weapon is the life-like, secular classical culture that is opposed to Christian theology.

The latter is more in line with life, and can better express or be more in line with the worldview and outlook on life of this group of emerging bourgeoisie.

The Renaissance movement in Europe had already begun for decades!

And in all these aspects, two names are mentioned repeatedly:

Republic of Venice and Republic of Florence.

Isn't this the Italy of later generations?

The Apennine Peninsula became the cradle of the birth of modern European society.

Bourgeoisism was born long before the Netherlands, which only carried forward bourgeoisism.

Zhu Yunwen squeezed his temples with a headache, and the thing he was most worried about still appeared.

In Europe, like the Ming Dynasty, it had begun to challenge the old system in an all-round way, and opened its minds, bourgeoisie began to sprout and be born, and European businessmen even began to think about how to obtain greater productivity at less cost.

In other words, capital is supporting and promoting the progress of science and technology!

And right now, there are still a group of people in Daming who comment on the ridiculous words of the imperial court that the pace of the court is too big and careful.

Saying that he should not let the landlords be beaten and the traditional scholar class should not be beaten, but he did not see that Europe was about to be completely anti-feudal.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, be prepared for danger in times of peace.

Do these people have the slightest sense of distress?

I always feel that Europe is just a younger brother now, and Daming can lie in bed and continue to enjoy the blessings of decades in peace.

Lie down, when you lie down and your limbs are degraded and terminally ill, people's cannons will be set up at the door of your house!

The Spaniards had taken the first steps towards the Spanish Empire's global colonization, and although they would eventually be defeated by John Bull, their experience was exactly what made John Bull.

An empire on which the sun never sets, his predecessors have already begun to pave the way for him.

In addition to this knowledge, Zhu Yunwen is eager to get the relevant basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and chemistry through the mouths of these craftsmen and painters, although there is no advanced knowledge, but one of the craftsmen in charge of firearms research and development has just begun to research, ready to conquer arquebus technology!

Unlike the Ming Dynasty, which took one step at a time and solved one problem at a time, the European firearms maker named Roland Pellier (apocryphal) made a large number of written and data records for the development of new firearms, and these disorganized things are precisely the basis for the leap in science and technology.

What surprised Zhu Yunwen was that steam had been discovered in Europe as early as 1,400 years ago and a thing called a steam ball had been developed.

A mathematician from Alexandria named Hiro came up with such a thing, but he kept treating it as a plaything.

At the same time, the mathematician named Hiro even invented a vending machine that only had to put in a coin, so you could take a container and pick up the water from the exit of the machine.

The discovery and application of steam, the use of wind energy, and the mechanics, physics, and gas mechanics involved in various inventions have been completely preserved in the form of manuscripts.

What is cross-era, this is the real cross-era.

Spanning more than a thousand years!

Zhu Yunwen only had one feeling after seeing these rumors, that is, he was happy!

Fortunately, the Europeans took this Hiro's research and development as a useless plaything, and did not continue to study it in depth along the manuscript left by Hiro, otherwise, if the Europeans had traveled around the world on a steam ironclad ship a thousand years ago, would Comrade Li Er's great ability be able to stop it?

Dimensionality reduction is still a fart.

"The craftsman who wrote this called me."

Zhu Yunwen looked down at the signature, it was called Kimpson.

"By the way, there's the one named Pellier, call them both."

One had seen Hero's manuscripts at the Library of Alexandria, and the other was working on his own arquebus.

These two people, one is more valuable than the other.