Stark was well acquainted with the monks of the monastery, and an old monk in his sixties invited them in to speak.

This monastery does not look big, but the decoration inside is quite delicate and elegant, and it seems to be an old monastery that has been passed down for a long time.

Zhao Dagui saluted the old monk, and when he talked, he found that the old priest spoke humorously and was very familiar with China, which was a different style than missionaries such as Maddox.

The priest had heard the story of a very rich Chinese who came over and bought many shipyards, and after knowing that Zhao Dagui was the fat sheep, he looked at Zhao Dagui for a while.

After talking for a while, Zhao Dagui also donated a hundred yuan to the monastery, and the priest seemed very happy.

After the three of them talked for a while, Zhao Dagui admired Western scientific and technological civilization, and said that the current Qing Dynasty officials did not attach importance to science, and only knew it, which was really not a blessing for China.

Zhao Dagui's greatest impression on this trip to the south was that if the Qing State wanted to work hard to make the country strong, vigorously introduce Western technology and science, develop the economy, and improve its military strength, there was still a lot to be done, and the workers of the several shipyards he had acquired in Macao alone could greatly improve the naval strength of the Qing army if they were used well.

It's a pity that the Qing Dynasty officials did not have this awareness at all.

During the Opium War, Chinese intellectuals actually made many military and technological advances, such as improving the gunpowder making process, producing gunpowder that was not inferior to the British, and was several times more powerful than the previous gunpowder.

However, after the war, this technological progress was abandoned by the Qing government, and Daoguang even ordered the dismissal of scholars who had made a large number of contributions, and even ordered some scholars to return to their hometowns and not go out, and also ordered local magistrates to put these scholars under house arrest and surveillance.

Moreover, during the war, Qing officials still bought new muskets and artillery from the West, but no one did this after the war.

Although Zhao Dagui has a numerical history, he knows that it must be this situation, and he still feels very sorry to be there in person.

"Mr. Comprador is particularly interested in introducing Western technology and civilization to China?" asked the priest thoughtfully.

"Yes, it's just hard to do. The biggest difficulty is the distance between China and Europe, and it is extremely difficult to get some European science and technology books. Zhao Dagui couldn't help sighing.

"That's true, but our monastery can help somehow in this regard.

Do you know what our monastery is best known for in Canton?" asked the priest.

"You know, Major Stark told me that your monastery has the best rum in all of China. Zhao Dagui replied honestly.

Hearing this, the old priest just drank a sip of tea, and it squirted out directly.

"Stark, you're ruining the reputation of our monastery again. The old priest shook his fist angrily at Stark.

Zhao Dagui suddenly understood that he seemed to have been cheated by someone.

"The best thing about this abbey is of course not the rum, well, I admit that the rum of this abbey is good, but it is certainly not the greatest strength.

We are most famous for our rich collection of books, with many books from European countries, which can be called the largest in Guangdong.

Many Chinese gentlemen in Canton and Guangdong, who were obsessed with Western learning, often came to our monastery to borrow books. The old priest introduced.

"And such things, then I don't know if I can have the honor to look at the collection of books in your courtyard?" Zhao Dagui's curiosity was aroused at once.

"Naturally. The priest nodded and smiled, and got up to lead the way.

Western missionaries were the main force in spreading Western scientific and technological knowledge to China in the early days, and Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua in the late Ming Dynasty all obtained books such as Euclid's "Geometric Originals" from missionaries.

This Grimm Abbey must also be interested in introducing a large number of Western scientific and technological books in order to attract Chinese scholars of the Western School and expand its influence in China.

The three of them went to the library of the monastery together and found that there were two people inside, still two Chinese, reading intently.

"Mr. Xie, Mr. Yang, you two are also here, I will introduce you to two very good gentlemen. The priest greeted the two men politely.

After the priest's introduction, Zhao Dagui learned that these two Chinese, one named Sheldun, is said to be a famous local scholar of the Western School, who has written many mathematical books and is very famous in the scholar circle in Guangzhou;

Another person surnamed Yang, named Yang Willy, is also a scholar of the Western School, knowing that the monastery has a rich collection of books, he often comes to read books, and later helps to sort out the books in the library or something, and after getting familiar with the monks, he becomes the administrator of the library, so he can read more books here.

The librarian of the monastery, a very powerful hidden profession, Zhao Dagui secretly complained.

These two people are only twenty-one or twelve years old, similar to Zhao Dagui and Stark, with a special banner of combining young people and scholars, much like Zhao Dagui's college classmates, and very different from ordinary scholars in this era.

"It's good to kidnap two Western scholars by the way. Zhao Dagui made up his mind in an instant.

Zhao Dagui paid a little attention to the books in this library, and found that it was indeed quite rich, but most of them were dozens of years old books, and there were relatively few new books, which may be very novel to ordinary scholars in the Western academic circle, and it was of little significance to Zhao Dagui.

It was two young Chinese scholars who attracted his attention more than books.

When the five of them sat down to chat, they inevitably talked about topics such as Western science and technology and mathematics, talked about the academic development of the West, and mentioned more advanced issues such as calculus.

Zhao Dagui was curious for a while, so he searched the main god library in his mind, took out a few more classic questions from the book "Advanced Mathematics", and asked the two of them to do it, thinking that they could stump the two, but they didn't expect that the two of them would see the problem and their eyes would light up, and they could actually solve it.

These questions are very interesting and seem simple, but if you solve them carefully, you seem to be able to extend a lot of interesting conclusions. Stark, who had been watching for a long time, actually had a high level of mathematical literacy, nodded and commented.

"Of course, I know that these questions are interesting, and there are a lot of useful formulas that can be derived from them. Zhao Dagui complained secretly, but he was more and more surprised in his heart.

There are really masters in the people, I always thought that China had been exposed to the subject of calculus, only Li Xinlan and herself and a few other mathematicians, but I didn't expect to meet two masters in the library of a monastery, when did advanced mathematics be so bad.

If any Chinese could solve advanced math problems, then how could we be beaten by the British and beaten a long time ago.

"What do you think of these questions?" Zhao Dagui asked as he turned to the old priest.