Shuai Jiamo came to the imperial front under the envious eyes of a group of bureaucrats and scholars, and bowed his head to accept the holy decree handed by Zhu Yijun personally.

He was originally from a military family and only worked as a small official in the people, but he did not expect that one day he would be awarded a lord because he liked to study mathematics and physics, and he was even rewarded with such a high amount of silver.

It made him a little incredulous about what he was seeing.

But this is indeed a fact, Zhu Yijun has too much money now, and he can't spend it all, and he wants Daming's technology to progress faster, thinking that it is best to quickly appear new technologies such as film and television technology and game technology to meet the enjoyment that he can't get in this era, so he is spending money on things that promote academic progress.

And Galileo, like Shuai Jiamo, who was ordered to attend the ceremony of the Emperor's highest mathematics prize with the great Confucian scholars in the prison, could not believe all this in front of him.

He has been in Daming for a long time, and he also knows what the concept of 500,000 silver dollars is.

It is precisely because of this that Galileo can't believe that the Ming Empire in the East will attach so much importance to those of them who study science and technology, and once they make a contribution, they will be awarded medals and huge sums of money.

But Galileo had to do this.

After all, he now saw with his own eyes that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was giving a decree to a person who studied mathematics.

So he couldn't help but start writing to his friend Glarcy, who specialized in mathematics:

"My friend, you should really come to the East to see, the emperor here attaches great importance to the study of truth, and even does not hesitate to use a lot of money and noble titles as encouragement!"

"I've never seen it before, and I'm sure you've never seen it either."

"Because of this, the nobles here do not reject the exploration of the real world, here, you can study freely, without any constraints, and you can ask any questions, what a free country long!"

"You really should come here! Otherwise, you will undoubtedly come to this world in vain! ”

When Galileo had finished writing his letter, he saw Matteo Ricci looking at him and asked, "What do you think I do?" ”

Matteo Ricci asked him warily, "What are you writing about?" ”

"I am writing to my friends who love to explore all the truths of this world, urging them to come to the East, and even hoping that they will settle down here and accept the rule of their emperor here."

Galileo replied at this point.

"You're really crazy!"

When Ricci heard this, he bared his teeth at Galileo, and his heart was full of anger, almost crushing his steel teeth.

"Originally, their emperor has now even given up the last imperial estate, which means that there is no longer a need for excessive direct exploitation of the people in his country, and even because the property of his inner court has completely become mainly for foreign interests, it is even more necessary to open the wisdom of his domestic people, and do not hesitate to let his country master the most knowledge and skills in the world, so as to benefit the world."

"And you're still trying to persuade us Europa and other wise people to come here."

"But you must also know that the reason why His Majesty the Ming Emperor can attach so much importance to people who study knowledge is because he can obtain a lot of money through foreign aggression, right?"

As he spoke, Matteo Ricci looked at Galileo and said, "Do you really want to see them have more power to invade other countries in the future, so that more people will become slaves of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Galileo said: "You know my attitude, I would like to see the Ming Dynasty unify the world, and the entire human civilization should be led by the people of the East." ”

Then.

Galileo said: "And you are really blinded by narrow-mindedness, and you also mistakenly believe that the Ming Dynasty will unify the whole world and will be as bloody and brutal as we Europa people deal with the infidels, and even turn them into slaves. ”

"But in fact, you are speculating about Mingren with your own thoughts."

"If the Ming can really unify the world, it means that his civilization is advanced enough that he does not need to unify the world through slaughter and killing, and their rule over a region is not to eliminate the civilization of a region, but to help a region become more civilized, to rescue their people, to make their people more free and wiser, so it is not so much to invade other countries, but to save other countries!"

"As the Holy Decree of the Ming Emperor said, raising troops to fight for razor is all for education, not for elimination."

"In my opinion, if I want the West to be as free and prosperous as the East, I must be educated by the East for a hundred years, so that we may accept freedom of religious belief and academic freedom."

"Therefore, I am not disgusted with what they are doing in the north, those primitive Tatars who are thousands of miles away in Saibei may be able to wear warmer cotton jackets, cover with thick quilts, and use antibacterial miracle drugs to inoculate many mature vaccines, so as to avoid the pain caused by many diseases."

Galileo continued, and as he spoke, he glanced out with a look of fascination and said:

"Just as we saw when we passed by Dhaka and Mubang, we saw the pious appearance of those natives bowing down to the statue of the Duke of Ji and His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty because of the help of the Orientals."

"You're crazy!"

"I should have refused Emperor Ming's request to bring you here."

That's all Ricci could say.

As Galileo said, most of the primitive Tatars in the Yenisei River in later generations were indeed not so disgusted with Zhong Changdong and other Ming troops.

Except for a small number of upper-class Tatar nobles who refused to pay taxes and were bloodily suppressed and slaughtered by Zhong Changdong and others because they were dissatisfied, most of the primitive Tatars did willingly accept the management of Zhong Changdong and others, because in this way they could exchange many important but cheap goods and medicines from the Ming people.

Especially after the bacteriostatic drugs and vaccines brought by Zhong Changdong reduced their disease mortality rate a lot, they really regarded Zhong Changdong and others as ruling over them, and it was really God's will.

This allowed Zhong Changdong to establish his dominant position here in the area of the Yenisei River, and also used local manpower and material resources, plus the concrete purchased from the Ming Dynasty and some technicians hired, and also built a prismatic fortified city in the most critical place of the Yenisei River that was convenient for military defense and economic management.

After establishing such a prismatic fortified city, Zhong Changdong and his comrades-in-arms and mercenaries regularly crossed the Yenisei River to the Ob River Valley, that is, the river basin controlled by the Rakshasa Kingdom, to snatch the population back to the city, in order to increase the population around his town.

This made the Rakshasa Kingdom very dissatisfied.

Moreover, the behavior of Zhong Changdong and other Ming royal partners in the Siberian region soon aroused the ideas of the Tsar and nobles of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

"This is a bunch of robbers from the East! They are very brave and good at fighting, and the weapons they use are very good, and their tactics are very flexible. ”

"So, although there are not many of them, they have repeatedly made the Cossacks suffer, and we need to send the main forces to destroy them, and then let them know that the territory of our Siberian Khanate is sacrosanct!"

Kremlin.

Tsar Vasily IV was listening to the report of his minister about the westward advance of the Ming royal partner, and after listening to his minister, he couldn't help frowning and said:

"These hateful Orientals, we haven't conquered them yet, they actually came to provoke us first, and they really deserve to be slaughtered all!"

With that, Vasily IV got up and said: "Deliver my decree to prepare at once for a large-scale conquest of the Yenisei River, and draw up a plan for the destruction of the whole East!" ”

His ministers immediately surrendered their hands.

As a result, the tsar's nephew, Skopinshuysky, became the commander in charge of the next army to conquer the Yenisei River valley in later generations, and commanded 50,000 troops to the Yenisei River.

At that time, in the Yenisei River Valley, the city built by Zhong Changdong had just been named Yanming City by His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

The reason why Zhu Yijun gave the name "Yanming" is to encourage the city to continue the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, and also hopes that the Ming Dynasty can take this as a starting point and continue to forge ahead.

Because the word "extension" itself has the meaning of enterprising.

When Skopinshuysky led an army of 50,000 to Yanming City, the total population of Yanming City was less than 3,000 at this time, and the number of troops that could fight was only 500.

Therefore, the gap in the strength of the two sides is still very large.

Skopinschuysky is therefore determined to win Yanming City.

After Zhong Changdong knew that the Rakshasa Guoxing soldiers were coming to ask for it, he immediately sent someone back to China to deliver the message and ask for support.

He believed that it was impossible for the Ming Emperor to ignore it.

In any case, this place is the private property of the Ming Emperor after all, and they are just courtiers who have contracted the right to govern and collect taxes here.

The imperial court soon learned of the news of the Rakshasa Kingdom's conquest of Yanming City.

Historically, the Rakshasa Kingdom also began to expand in the Yenisei River Valley in later generations during this period, but the Ming Empire in history did not pay attention to it, nor did it bother to pay attention to it.

But in this life, this place has been the private property of the Ming Emperor, and it has also begun to be known to the subjects of the Ming Dynasty through various channels.

Therefore, many people still have some minds about this kind of behavior of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The crown prince was most unacceptable to the Rakshasa Kingdom's encroachment on his royal territory, so he said:

"This palace will destroy the rakshasa in the future! It is already the private property of my Zhu family, and my palace will maintain the foundation of my descendants in the future, and the hateful Rakshasa people dare to come and seize it without knowing how to take the initiative to join it! ”

(End of chapter)