Tong Lao Wu and Tao Hei were originally craftsmen at the lowest level of the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't have much concept of court clothes, if they were given python robes, they might not know how valuable they were when they wore this clothes, but they knew what it meant to wear this flying fish suit when the emperor went out on patrol.

Therefore, they were all very energetic at the moment, and even felt that they were dreaming, their hands were stiffly hanging in the air, and they were afraid of touching the precious flying fish suit on their bodies, and their smiles were also stiff, and they were even a little trembling, for fear of being laughed at by the officials and men present.

After all, it was the first time for them to be in front of Fengtianmen with so many officials who they didn't dare to look at.

Fortunately, standing in the first place to receive the award together was Wang Shouren, the secretary of the Ministry of War, basically what Wang Shouren did, they also learned how to do it.

Tong Lao Wu never thought that he would be so valued by His Majesty the Emperor just by developing a musket that could be loaded with bullets without an ignition rope.

Therefore, he had never been so proud of the cause he had carried out as he was now, and he could not help but secretly swear that he must make the rifled gun that His Majesty expected with his heart, otherwise he would be sorry for His Majesty the Emperor.

Tao Hei is the same, he looked at his hand that was accidentally broken because of ironmaking, he still felt that he could be so valued by the court and the emperor now, even if he lost his life to go in.

"Great healing governs the country, Your Majesty attaches so much importance to my doctor, and even gives it to me with a book, it can be seen that Your Majesty is a benevolent king, and the people of my Ming Dynasty are blessed!"

Li Yanwen sighed in his heart, he was not as excited as Tong Lao Wu and Tao Hei, but now Zhu Houzhao valued him so much as a doctor, which also made him more respectful of Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

Xu Jing didn't expect that he would one day become a second-rank official in the court, which reminded him of the murder of himself in the twelfth year of Hongzhi, and he couldn't help but sneer in his heart:

"Back then, the villain intended to block my Xu Mou's road to Qingyun, but I, Xu, have to meet the master after all! If those villains knew about it back then, they didn't know if they would be angry! ”

The Cabinet University Shi Kanghai held the medal, Zhu Houzhao personally awarded it, and the seven people thanked them one by one.

10,000 taels of silver is also a huge amount of money, and the significance of this huge amount of money is also quite large, even the powerful people in the DPRK and China are envious of it when they see this.

Even some of the nobles of the court couldn't help but secretly think that it was naturally difficult for a family like themselves to establish martial arts, but it was better to work on these miraculous skills, maybe they could also invite the holy favor and get the respect of His Majesty to revitalize the family.

Zhu Houzhao did not expect that because he set up this royal highest science and technology award, all the powerful people in the DPRK and China began to pay attention to their academic careers.

Even Wei Guogong began to spend a lot of money to find people to develop flying machines, and even Cheng Guogong also had a whim to recruit Qing guests to build ironclad ships.

Leonardo da Vinci, who had come to Daming for the first time, also learned about this event from Pires, and he was very surprised and very happy that Daming could attach so much importance to secular learning.

"This empire called the Ming Dynasty, as the legend is so luxurious and elegant, she is like an oriental beauty who has just come out of the bath, exuding a sunny-like charm, even more fascinating than the legend, the streets here are orderly, there are garbage bins every hundred steps, the garbage bins have artistic characteristics, and the streets are as clean as the surface of a shelled egg, but the texture is very hard, listen to the adults of the Ming Dynasty, it is cement, a kind of adhesive that can be quickly solidified."

"And what amazes me even more is that the people here are rich, the commoners and nobles are dressed in expensive silk, and even the learned, and they have more schools than churches and temples;

This is really a secular world, a humanistic world, not a world of worshipping gods, I really like it here, even their kings did not spend their excess wealth on religion, but gave rich rewards to some engineers and artists, and even made them nobles! For the first time, I began to feel a little unfortunate that I was unfortunately not born in such a country! ”

"And in this country, religious belief is indeed free, and even some nobles are willing to listen to me tell them Bible stories, and I have begun to learn to accommodate Taoism and Buddhism here."

Leonardo da Vinci took great care to record his feelings after coming to Daming, and even recorded them with Western paintings.

And Raphael and Michelangelo are no exception, and even Michelangelo began to carve the Ming Dynasty in a carving way.

At this time, Pires found them: "Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, His Majesty the Ming Emperor wants to summon you, remember to follow me to the Royal West Garden tomorrow." ”

"It's great that even the Emperor is willing to see us!"

Leonardo da Vinci and the others were about to jump for joy, although they were very well-known in later generations, but in the current era, even in Florence, they were not valued by the Medici family, a Florentine nobleman, and now they were naturally happy when they heard that the rich Ming Emperor wanted to see them.

Leonardo da Vinci hurriedly began to rummage through his paintings, wanting to give Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, a painting that he was most satisfied with.

Raphael, too, rummaged through his piles of Madonna, fearing that the paintings he had presented at that time would not please the Ming Emperor.

Michelangelo held his sculpture and looked at it carefully, wondering if he would make His Majesty the Ming Emperor happy if he offered it.

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After Zhu Houzhao saw Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, he didn't expect these three to give gifts.

This made Zhu Houzhao very happy, after all, he also knew that the works of these three people would be absolutely valuable after hundreds of years, so he was also very happy to accept them, and even couldn't help but say: "I didn't expect that they were quite sensible, and they knew that giving a gift would also avoid the trouble of asking for it in person." ”

"Pires, you tell the three of them that I respect their freedom of creation and research, but Daming can't tolerate lazy people, they can tell me what they want to do in Daming, and I can help them," Zhu Houzhao said to Pires.

Pires translated Zhu Houzhao's words to Leonardo da Vinci and the others.

Da Vinci and the other three people were very happy after hearing this, what they wanted most was freedom, so they heard the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao say this, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Your Majesty the Ming Emperor, I Da Vinci now just want to know everything about your country." ”

Michelangelo and Raphael didn't say the same either.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and said busily: "In this case, I allow you to go to Beijing Normal University for further study first, and learn my Han language first." ”

While Zhu Houzhao was talking, Leonardo da Vinci pointed to the astronomical telescope behind Zhu Houzhao (invented by Galileo in 1609, which appeared here in advance): "Dare to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, what is the iron cylinder behind you?" ”

"This is the astronomical thing that I observed, called the astronomical telescope", after Zhu Houzhao said, as soon as Pires translated, Leonardo da Vinci and others became curious, and hurriedly begged Zhu Houzhao to allow them to use the astronomical telescope.

Zhu Houzhao didn't refuse, and hurriedly asked Liu Jin to teach them to use it.

As soon as Leonardo da Vinci put his hands on the Great Tomorrow Telescope, he said in amazement, "My God! Guess what I saw, it turns out that the Milky Way is composed of stars in the sky, Jupiter, that should be Jupiter, there are celestial bodies around Jupiter nearby, isn't the earth the center of the universe? My God! How is this possible! ”

Leonardo da Vinci left the telescope in horror and muttered in despair: "The knowledge of this empire is only very shocking!" ”

At this time, Michelangelo and Raphael, who also looked at the sky with astronomical telescopes, were also so shocked that they said to themselves stupidly like Leonardo da Vinci: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, it turns out that the universe is like this!" ”

Seeing this, Liu Jin couldn't help but ask Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, these three Xiyi are like a flower girl getting on a sedan chair for the first time, it's really unseemly!" Do you want to reprimand them? ”

"No need, after the officials of Qin Tianjian saw such an astronomical scene for the first time, their reaction was not much weirder than theirs, let Pires, remember to take them to Beijing Normal University to learn the language", Zhu Houzhao said and flipped up the painting presented by Leonardo da Vinci, and saw that a Western painting was very large, so he gave it to Tang Bohu: "Lend it to you back and take a closer look, maybe it can help you to paint, their Xiyi paintings are different from the East, take a good look." ”

Hearing Zhu Houzhao say this, Tang Bohu hurriedly took over the words, opened his eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned all of a sudden, and hurriedly whispered to Zhu Houzhao:

"Your Majesty forgives your sins, the minister is presumptuous, this Xiyi person is really bold, he dares to send your Majesty 0 spring 0 palace map, and this scale is too big, and it is very realistic, there is no subtlety, if you let the Taoist people know, maybe they will sell them is lucky."

"This is not 0 spring 0 palace map there for them, but humanism, you know, understand it well", Zhu Houzhao said with a smile and asked the eunuch to take two other works, a sculpture of Michelangelo and a statue of the Virgin of Raphael, to Cining Palace.

Seeing that the birthday of the Empress Dowager Zhang is approaching, and the Empress Dowager Zhang is depressed because her two younger brothers have not returned to Beijing since they went to sea, so Zhu Houzhao felt that when Da Vinci and others presented Xiyi paintings and Xiyi sculptures, they gave the Xiyi paintings and Xiyi sculptures to the Queen Mother, and said that they were brought back by their two uncles to give to the Queen Mother. As for Michelangelo's sculpture and Raphael's statue of the Virgin, Zhu Houzhao felt that it should be acceptable to the Empress Dowager Zhang.

After Empress Dowager Zhang learned from Zhu Houzhao that it was a gift brought back by her younger brother from the West, she was indeed interested, and hurriedly asked people to open it to take a look, but as soon as she saw Michelangelo's sculpture, she couldn't help waving her hand and said:

"Take it away, take it away, a man without clothes, what's so good-looking, these barbarians are really uncivilized, your two uncles are still so mindless, they dare to send it to the palace, why don't you give an order to reprimand and reprimand."