Galileo, who came to Dhaka with Matteo Ricci, heard him say this, and then said: "You are right, along the way, there are cries everywhere, but this Ming ruling area is full of laughter, which really makes people have to admit that this place is indeed more civilized." ”

As he spoke, Galileo walked up to Chen Changyan, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty to the West, who was looking at the statue of Qi Jiguang, and Fan Qian, the deputy envoy of Hanlin, and asked:

"Dare to ask the two nobles, why did you expand your country and make it obey the king of your country without frantically slaughtering the local chieftains?"

Every time the Ming Dynasty builds a port, it will build a statue of a general, mainly because it has been doing this for decades to get nothing at sea, so as soon as a new port is built, the statues of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou will be molded.

"Because of the new rites, we respect people's desires, and recognize that people's desires often change, so we should always follow the reality and innovate the etiquette of governing the country."

Chen Changyan replied with a smile after Galileo asked.

Chen Changyan was originally the younger brother of Zhu Yijun's mother, and it stands to reason that his son does not need to be knighted except for the queen's father himself, but because he invited himself to the West, Zhu Yijun also specially ordered him to inherit the title of Earl of Gu'an again to praise his bravery.

After all, there are not many nobles who dare to cross the ocean these days.

At this time, after Chen Changyan said, Galileo, who had studied Chinese for several years, also understood a little, and couldn't help but sigh:

"What kind of country is this! How wise you are! ”

As Galileo spoke, he asked again: "I don't know how long it will take to get to your country?" ”

"There is still half a year."

Chen Changyan replied.

Galileo opened his mouth and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"You don't have to be surprised, this Ming Empire is indeed very vast, and it takes a year and a half to go to a certain place to become an official, which is a very common thing in this country."

Matteo Ricci explained Galileo when he was alone with him the next.

Galileo said: "I know that the territory of this Ming Empire is very vast, but I am surprised that this is not even near their national capital, nor is it their hinterland!" ”

Matteo Ricci said: "It's not, it's just their indoctrination area!" ”

Galileo also knew that the Ming Dynasty now divided the area under his rule into a native area and an indoctrination area.

So, after Matteo Ricci said this, Galileo immediately understood.

But this made Galileo shake his head even more and said: "It's unimaginable, it's really unimaginable, as far as I can see, to rule a very vast area, especially this kind of area that spans tens of thousands of miles, it must be very difficult to rule, basically you can only do strong and weak branches!" ”

"And the monarch of such a country may only use heavy taxes to maintain a good life for the nobles and citizens in his capital, and it is impossible to take care of the people in the remote places, and will only try his best to plunder everything in the remote places, and make the remote places very bad."

"So, when I saw that this place was so prosperous and orderly, I thought that this place was not far from their country, so I asked Nagu Amber this question."

"But who knows that this is just the indoctrination area of the Ming Empire, and it is a remote place."

"And how did they manage to make the indoctrination districts in the outlying areas so prosperous, prosperous and orderly?"

Galileo said, "And even here is this, how prosperous must their kingdom and hinterland be?" ”

"You'll find out when you get there!"

"And now, I can only tell you, in their oriental language, the current oriental country is changing with each passing day!"

"So, I've been away for a few years, and it's hard to say what the current Daming Jingshi is like."

"But in any case, even the Ming Kingdom Jingshi I saw before is more majestic and even rich than Florence, you can't imagine how gorgeous those people are dressed and how elegant their manners are, they are simply heavenly!"

After Matteo Ricci said this, he smiled coldly and said: "It's ridiculous that the pirates of Franc Machine were arrogant enough to think that they could enslave such a country!" He also wanted to slaughter the Ming people in his colonial area several times to test the bottom line of this country, wondering if the Ming Kingdom was really huge, but it was just a herbivore without fangs, and it could be eaten away step by step? ”

"As a result, they were wiped out by the Ming Kingdom first because of the massacre of the Ming people!"

When Galileo heard Ricci say this, he was even more fascinated, and he couldn't help but say, "I wish I could get to their homeland soon." ”

"Master Li, there is an order for you to prepare to change ships, and you will take a steamship to Burma later."

At this time, Gu Anbo Chen Changyan's family born a slave came over and gave Matteo Ricci a command.

Matteo Ricci nodded.

Galileo couldn't help but ask, "What is a steamship?" ”

The slave replied: "I don't know about this, you will understand when the time comes." ”

Following.

Galileo and Matteo Ricci saw the Ming steamer with auspicious clouds on its hull.

The huge two chimneys towered into the sky, emitting thick smoke, and the height of the iron-hulled ship was even more neck-breaking.

Matteo Ricci and Galileo stumbled up the railing to the deck, and then they looked around, as if hoping to see the iron-hulled ship able to exercise its mysteries on the ocean.

Not only Matteo Ricci and Galileo were very curious, but even Chen Changyan and Fan Qian, who were the nobles and bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, were also very curious about this, and then these four people were staring at the master who was adding coal in front of the boiler with eight eyes.

"I didn't come back for a few years, but I didn't expect the dynasty to change to this point with each passing day, and there was this kind of iron-hulled ship that could fly fast on the sea by eating charcoal."

Chen Changyan couldn't help but say a word to Fan Qian at this time.

Fan Qian also nodded, and couldn't help muttering, "How the hell is this done?" ”

At this time, the deputy superintendent on the side said: "It is said that it was invented by the steamship manufacturing bureau under the Daming Central Commercial Bank based on the steam engine built by the second son of the Jiguo family. ”

Chen Changyan said after hearing this: "I have always heard that the second son of the Jiguo family and the nephew of Zhao Dutang have been developing steam engines in Jiangzuo Temple, but I didn't expect that in the past few years, I didn't see the steam engine, but I saw this big iron ship that eats coal." ”

Galileo couldn't help but whisper to Matteo Ricci at this time: "What is a steam engine?" ”

"It is said to be a machine that can do work on the power generated by steam."

"This involves thermodynamics, which they already know about in the Ming Dynasty, and I am preparing to translate this knowledge, and I am ready for us Westerners to master this knowledge as soon as possible."

Matteo Ricci said.

Galileo asked, "Are they willing?" ”

"When it comes to basic theories, they don't limit them, they say it's for the sake of human progress."

Matteo Ricci replied.

Galileo said, "What an enlightened and far-sighted country! It is no wonder that they are more advanced in their grasp of the truth than in other kingdoms. ”

……

"Electricity does generate magnetism, and magnetism does generate electricity."

"The magnetic field generated by electricity is indeed conducting like a wave, and it is conducting very quickly, I think that this can be used to realize the downwind ear function in Journey to the West, that is, people can immediately know the news thousands of miles away through this electromagnetic effect."

At this time, Qi Xingzuo, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, was sharing his latest research ideas with Zheng Wang, Zhu Zaiyu, Cheng Dawei and other powerful and scholar-type bureaucrats.

These powerful bureaucrats listened very carefully.

Because the Ming Dynasty is now too rich and powerful, the benefits obtained from a large number of foreign expansions have made the price of subscription coupons rise all the time, and the powerful bureaucrats are all very rich and idle.

Because their wealth growth is no longer dependent on land rent and the use of power for personal gain, or even by hard work to get rewards for silver and more money brought by the promotion of officials and knights, but by the dividends brought by the Ming Dynasty's external expansion, many powerful bureaucrats are now very indifferent to fame and fortune, and are more obsessed with exploring all the objective laws of this world.

Even if years or even decades of research are fruitless, they don't care.

In particular, due to the implementation of new rites by the imperial court, the personality status of ordinary Han people has been promoted, and the economic status of ordinary Han people has also been greatly improved, making it difficult for them to gain the support and respect of the majority of Han people, that is, the whole world, by taking out the most basic materials.

Therefore, they can only win greater spiritual satisfaction through the refinement of these knowledge, that is, the so-called greater support and respect of the people of the world.

As a result, they are now very obsessed with studying various basic theories.

It's not just them.

Even many ordinary Han people are indulged in the study of various studies and the pursuit of various arts because of the reduction of the degree of exploitation and the improvement of welfare security.

Zhu Yijun was very happy to see this phenomenon, and also took the initiative to participate, and invested gold and silver in it, which also contributed to this trend.

In a word.

Today's Ming Dynasty is the luckiest to belong to two kinds of people, one is a person who is obsessed with the study of science and technology, and the other is a person who goes to sea to make contributions to the country or work hard for himself.

On the contrary, those who are conservative and would rather only do some ordinary work in China than go to sea, let alone study seriously, suffer the most!

They are in vain as Han Chinese, and they are still humming and snorting on major infrastructure construction sites to repay the money.

But Zhu Yijun and his ruling ministers did not give up on them because of this, and they will continue to favor them because of the governing program of benefiting the people.

After all, they are Han Chinese, and they have the right to choose their jobs freely from the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, every time the income of the Ming treasury increased to a certain scale, Zhu Yijun would still issue an order to increase wages and medical and pension benefits for these Han people who chose to exchange manual labor for income.

As a result, these Han people also supported Zhu Yijun even more.

"You're also a military household, so you shouldn't be short of money, right?"

"Even if you can't get out of the house, why do you continue to work so hard?"

Ren Yonggang of Xingzhou Zhongtunwei was on his way to Nandu that day, and he asked an old military household he knew who was unloading stones with a few companions.

The old soldier replied with a smile: "I can't be raised by the state in vain, I can contribute a little bit, anyway, I don't need money." ”

(End of chapter)