When Newton and others were full of various visions for the future, they were looking forward to the future life. More than a dozen loaded wagons brought goods from Europe along snow-covered roads into the capital, many of which were so-called novelties.

In fact, for the five years of the Ming Dynasty, now has long passed the initial preference for those new things in the West, in the past few years, with a group of Western craftsmen or technicians were introduced into the Ming Dynasty, now the Ming can manufacture from astronomical telescopes to microscopes, not only can be manufactured, but also has better performance, after all, the Ming has the world's only optical glass production technology in this era.

As for those exotic paintings, sculptures and handicrafts, these things are also not new in the eyes of the Ming gentry, and even in Qinghe Academy, there are foreign teachers teaching Western painting, in short, the Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of Xingqian is open, taking the initiative to learn from the West their strengths, learning from each other's strengths without the slightest scruples.

But even so, when the twenty-three carriages were loaded into the palace, they surprised the well-informed officials, not only because of the abundance of relatively fresh scientific instruments, but certainly not because of the dazzling array of European specialties.

It is an important task that Zhu Mingzhong specially advised. At this time, in the imperial study of the imperial palace, dozens of boxes were placed, and a large number of books were placed in the boxes without exception. For this kind of scene, everyone is a little surprised, but thinking of the past four years, the special entry conditions of the Ming Customs - ships from various countries must hand over a few books from their own countries when they enter, it is in this interest that the royal library of the Ming Dynasty will have tens of thousands of books from various countries, and many of them have been translated into Chinese by the Tongwen Museum, less than 10,000 copies, more than tens of thousands of copies, in addition to being sold in bookstores, will also be sent to local libraries for the people to borrow.

It was with the circulation of those Western studies in the Ming Dynasty that Western studies, which tended to die out under the enslavement of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, became popular in the Ming Dynasty again, and complemented the imperial court's emphasis on practical learning, so that not only the Western studies that were biased towards practical studies were increasingly valued by scholars and academies, but even Western philosophy was also influencing the Ming Dynasty. While broadening people's horizons, it also injected a new vitality into Confucian philosophy.

"These are all books that the lower officials specially collected from Europe on the orders of His Majesty. Sixty percent of the books were purchased from libraries in France, Britain and other countries, and forty percent were purchased from private booksellers or scholars, and the contents of these books involved Western politics, philosophy, law, art, architecture, economics, physics, chemistry, botany, geography and many other aspects, totaling more than 136,000 volumes. Your Majesty, please take a look. ”

Chen Zhijian held the wat and bowed, his expression was quite proud, but he was in his thirties, and the purpose of this trip to Europe was to buy books, and unexpectedly, these books were obtained very smoothly - as long as you have money, you can buy any books you need.

"This ...... These books are all in the collection of the Western Atlas Museum? ”

Zhu Daxian said slightly, his eyes were full of disbelief, after all, it was impossible for Daming's library to sell books at will.

"Indeed, Jifu, when Xia Guan first arrived in Europe, he thought that the Westerners might not want to sell the book to me, but who would have thought, but after a little temptation, the Westerners immediately agreed to sell, of course, as long as we can provide enough silver, in the eyes of the Westerners, as long as there is money, there is no reason not to sell."

Chen Zhijian's answer made Zhu Mingzhong say with a smile.

"Well, that's good. Westerners are so greedy for money and profit that they will never be reluctant to sell these books. ”

Looking at these books, Zhu Mingzhong nodded with satisfaction.

"That's not all, after all, there are hundreds of thousands of copies!"

That's enough to open a library!

Of course, there is also a Ming Imperial Library in Zhongdu, which is extremely large - there are no less than a million volumes, and the number of Chinese books that have not been banned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty is far greater than Zhu Mingzhong imagined, and the number is constantly increasing - many private book collectors have donated their collections, and of course, unless they say so, the books will be reprinted and returned to their owners.

The reason why private book collectors are willing to donate books is precisely because after the books they donate are reprinted, they will print on the pages of the book "**Province**Prefecture**County**Voluntary Dedication of this Book". Because these books are distributed to the royal libraries all over the country, it is only natural that the donors will become famous all over the world.

This kind of good thing, which can get fame for almost no penny or money, will naturally make people all over the world rush to it, so that they have to take out their family collections, and of course, Zhu Mingzhong has also seen the richness of the folk book collection, and how amazing the savings of thousands of years of Chinese civilization are.

However, compared with those books, these books from Europe are undoubtedly more precious, after all, these books contain scientific knowledge from the West and Western philosophy that is completely different from Confucianism, which is a more powerful supplement to Chinese civilization.

"Your Majesty, although the culture of my Celestial Empire is broad and profound, I never thought that the same is true of the West, the mission to Europe is only a few months in a hurry, and it has brought back hundreds of thousands of books, if it is when the mission returns, I am afraid that there will be no less than hundreds of thousands of books stored in this royal library, so from this point of view, I am really arrogant in the past!"

When Gu Yanwu, who has not been exposed to Western knowledge for many years, said this sentence, his tone was full of heartfelt admiration.

For thousands of years, the Chinese scholars and doctors have always believed that the Celestial Empire is the Celestial Empire and the center of the world. Even if scholars and scholars are full of interest in the introduction of Western scholarship and do not have the slightest resistance, it is inevitable that in their hearts, there is still the idea that all the feudal states outside the "Celestial Empire" are barbarians, even if they are actually good at learning, but they are only the left way, but who would have thought that now it is only a few months, and they have brought more than 100,000 books of various kinds from Europe, how is this not surprising.

This is the real Han doctor!

Looking at those ministers who admired Western civilization, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of those "scholars" in the late Qing Dynasty, who stole China's Manchu Qing Dynasty and chose a science that was more conducive to their rule, and the already declining science was carried forward again under their admiration, while under the alien literary prison, scholars could only choose to study the evidence, and did not dare to ask anything else, which eventually created an extremely conservative atmosphere of scholars, which even rejected change and change. What is even more ridiculous is that the people of later generations actually thought that this kind of conservative and rejection of foreign civilization was Confucianism, that is, the image of ancient scholars, and they completely ignored the century-long "eastward expansion of Western learning" in the late Ming Dynasty, completely ignored the popularity of Western studies in the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, and ignored the fact that scholars took pleasure in talking about Western learning.

"Why can I, the Han people, live in the world for thousands of years and stand proudly in civilization?"

Zhu Mingzhong raised his chin slightly, looked at everyone proudly and said.

"It is precisely because since the pre-Qin period, our Han people have continued to learn from outsiders, learn from their strengths and make up for their weaknesses, so that there is the reality that the Han civilization is ahead of Zhuyi. Arrogance, arrogance...... It's never my Han problem! Only by learning can we make our Chinese civilization stand proudly in the world! This was true in the past, and it is true today! ”

"Your Majesty is wise, and there is no end to learning from the sea. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was still "Hufu Cavalry Shooting", even if it was a feudal barbarian, it also had its merits, not to mention that it was a Europe with the same civilization that was almost not inferior to my China. ”

With the emperor setting the tone, and the cabinet assistant agreeing, the other ministers around all nodded their heads. Of course, they did not nod their heads and say yes, but agreed with this from the bottom of their hearts, because they all knew very well that the Ming Dynasty could not have today's ZTE, which was inseparable from practical learning and Western learning, and Western learning did have its merits.

In the past few years, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty have also been learning from the West, and even the proudest statecraft is also not minding to learn from Europe, of course, they will never admit that the West is ahead of the Ming Dynasty in this regard, at most it is only a limited learning.

Of course, this is indeed true, after all, at least until the Manchu Qing replaced the Han "nine prostrations" with the "three kneels and nine kowtows", enslaving China and pushing it into the dark abyss, Europe was far behind China in many ways.

The approval of everyone made Zhu Mingzhong immediately change the conversation and say.

"But as the so-called orange in the south and orange in the north, one side of the water and soil raises one person, our so-called learning, we must take its essence and remove its dross according to the actual situation. For example, among the books brought this time, there are civil laws of European countries, and I can learn from them to fill in the gaps in civil and commercial law, after all, we have indeed encountered some problems in commercial law in recent years. ”

Even if you don't want to admit it, compared with Europe, which advocates mercantilism, Daming's commercial law is just in its infancy, and in this case, it has become a shortcut to learn from and absorb European commercial law, promote the development of domestic commercial law, and standardize commercial law.

His Majesty's instructions made the ministers of civil and military affairs present feel reasonable, and they were deeply touched by the lack of commercial law and even civil law in the Ming Dynasty. So Gu Yan Wudang even came out of the queue and held the wat arch his hand.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Justice will organize personnel to translate and study Western laws with the Tongwenguan as soon as possible."

"Well, in addition, we have also invited a lot of talents from Europe this time, including legal talents, and I believe that having them will also help me to improve commercial law."

When mentioning those talents, Zhu Mingzhong naturally thought of one of them, Newton, hundreds of years later, Galileo, Newton and Einstein were regarded as the greatest scientists of mankind. Now that he has come to Daming, what kind of great deeds will he create in the future?

Thinking of this, Zhu Mingzhong even secretly looked forward to his arrival......

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